Comments by "Al Loomis" (@alloomis1635) on "Katie Halper" channel.

  1. if you have some smarts, they'll send you to tech training, likely to be transferable to civvy life. combat infantry is dangerous, and you will find yourself doing things that are crimes. think twice.
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  2. if you don't like be being shot at in someone else's country. leave. there is no excuse for usa presence in the middle east, beyond greed supported by brutality.
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  3. so you are presented with a choice of a biden, or a trump. and that's ok. a nation of zombies.
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  4. the joy at turfing trump out was always misplaced. biden may actually be more dangerous. face reality: your political system is hopelessly obsolete, your people terminally ignorant, and declining income is creating a demographic of desperadoes looking for a dictator. there may be no answer, there certainly is no public acknowledgement of the depth of the dilemma.
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  5. france ruined haiti, but usmc ground up the remains and sold it for animal feed. the only reason the marines left was there was nothing left to steal. but usa has no moral debts, having no moral anything. besides, they showed what they could do in vietnam. haiti may say 'it could have been worse, they didn't sow the land with poison.'
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  6. don't see why putin was wrong. nato has advanced across europe, and he decided to fight now, rather than wait to see them advancing on moscow. the aggressor is usa. as iraq will attest.
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  7. jews were never entirely comfortable in europe, but it's worth remembering that the jewish invasion of palestine began around 1900. not so much because of prejudice and the occasional pogrom in very backward christian nations but in large part because the collapse of the turkish empire created an opportunity for jewish conquest. it began quietly, buying up bits of land as they came on the market. but by 1925 the jewish national army, irgun, was strong enough to tell muslim palestinians to run or die. what might have been a secular nation where both religions flourished in peace, was the ulcer on the face of humanity that seems likely to bleed until the nukes start to fly.
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  8. as long as you let politics be something done by an elite, it will be done for the elite. if you want politics to be done for the people, the people must stand up, and demand to be masters in their nation. but democracy needs a high percentage of citizen quality people, and they do not grow in the poison land of the usa.
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  9. yer way too late. aristotle boiled politics down to 2 words: "who decides?" when the people decide, through referendum and initiative, you live in a democracy, and are citizens. but you don't decide, it's not a democracy, and you are only civilians. you should know this, but you don't. no accident, your schools are training camps. worse yet, you don't have the community spirit that would bond you together to overthrow the elite. that's no accident either. freedom! freedom! freedom! if you worship freedom, you are alone, and alone you can do nothing in politics. the greeks called such people 'idiots'
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  10. not a coup. just 'happening.' coups have planning, and organized dying. this was just a frolic by good ol' boys.
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  11. leave eric alone. with donald for a father, neither appearance nor character can possibly be appealing. he was born crippled, have pity.
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  12. i simplified my view of international affairs long ago. the process took time, but can be encapsulated by a quote from the vietnam war[crime]. "we had to destroy the village in order to save it.' and then there was mylai.... along about then, i realized that the land of my birth was ruled by sociopathic monsters. so i left. since then, the rule is, 'usa evil, the other side less evil.' it works well, apply it, and you will be on the side of the [often soiled] angels. we only have homer sap to work with, but encourage the less bad.
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  13. nobody's listening.
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  14. understandable, as long as you are 'comfortable.' but if you want change, you must find a compelling argument. national rulers have never heard a good reason to give up power. but they may have change of heart when confronted with would-be citizen militia.
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  15. a sane and ethical jew! who knew?! the original invaders, with ben gurion and jabotinsky, were clear about what they were doing. "we're strong, you're weak, flee or die!" in order to do that, you have to re-classify your victims as sub-human, not entitled to life or property. from there, only hatred can arise, in response to contempt and oppression. once you are on the tigers back, it is dangerous to get off, or so it seems. that hatred is a wound spring. it's been done, in south africa, in the usa, with mixed results. but israel has a special problem, widespread sympathy for the nazi crime, and usa support as a base in the middle east, makes apartheid seem viable, long after other conditions would have compelled some equitable settlement. 'equitable' is perhaps too kind, israel should not exist. but it does, so let's move on, as best we can. i recommend the creation of a secular state of palestine, directed by a u.n. agency, charged with unwinding property and building a workable administration. human tights violations have to be ignored. otherwise no hope of peace. this would entail the dissolution of israel. however well deserved, seems unlikely. but what else will cure the israeli situation.
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  16. madison examined 'democracy' in his proposal to the constitutional convention, and pointed out that it would lead to the many extracting taxes from the rich. he assured the delegates that his constitution would prevent democracy from occurring. and he delivered.
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  17. if you are willing to settle for the lesser evil, you will live in an evil society. for instance. usa. if you are too dim, or too ignorant to appreciate the virtue of democracy, or too cowardly too fight for it., then you must tolerate the standard of government evil rulers will deliver. much worse will certainly come, human history makes that clear. i'm inclined to say 'serves you right,' with a little added pity because of the education you got.
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  18. don't complain about the quality of politicians. they have been shaped by the law and culture of the nation. and so have the people. they are raised to be 2nd class, ignorant and passive.they have revolutions in other nations, never in usa. perhaps something in the water? fluoridation? gravel means well, but talking good sense to cattle will never get them on their hind feet. maybe not never. around 1900, the middle class got tired of corruption and incompetence in some state governments, and established democracy with a new constitution. california would be the best democracy in the world, if independent. but the progressive movement didn't get far or last long. now faux-progressives are people who hope for a kind master.
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  19. every time i listen to hedges, i like him more. but liking won't fix it. if you won't fight, you will be the slave of those who will.
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  20. congressional politics is mainly shadow play. kabuki for chumps. if you were citizen quality, you would demand democracy, 'or else.' but you aren't, and political 'discussion' is just an emotional support service.
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  21. this is not news. one reason the evil empire prospers is by keeping its people ignorant and fearful. 'but we'll take care of you...' the visit to saudi is almost good news: usg is getting nervous. they used to send for saudi, now they visit, and beg, and are insulted. otoh, who knows what they'll do if it becomes panic...
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  22. xjp is in no hurry. but he can look into increased trade, with mexico, and cuba. nicaragua and venezuela might appreciate closer ties. if he can establish a mutual defense pact in that region, usg will have some incentive to back away from taiwan.
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  23. the most successful 'leftist' of our times had different view: "power grows out of the barrel of a gun." revolution is necessary. power must be transferred from politician to people. it can be done without shooting, but if democracy is the goal, the people must be prepared to shoot. it is not a co-incidence that the only democratic nation defends itself with a national militia.
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  24. no politicians were harmed by this regime change, this is normal parliamentary practice. it's not democracy, but neither is the usa. the absence of elections may puzzle you, but when you have empty elections, to replace one politician with another, you are only fooling the public. this saves time and money.
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  25. you complain about your masters, but it never crosses your mind to replace them with democracy. you are frozen in political childhood, submitting endlessly to the big people.
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  26. not really, but they do like the idea of a little buffer zone between the usa navy and china mainland. gives a minute or two to counter rocket attacks.
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  27. the usa has a comparatively long and stable history, and has no need for the word 'fascism.' it is and has been from birth, 'elective aristocracy.' elective monarchy would not be wrong, but the monarch had little power before ww2. even now, when executive orders are common, the senate can over-ride. it is not a democracy, and never was. elections do not establish democracy, they are an evolved form of the civil war that used to re-set aristocracies- more votes replacing more warriors.
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  28. you have to do this sort of thing, in order to maintain your budget. it's why democracies might have to get along without clandestine attacks. if ever there is a democracy within human society. we're not there yet. if vlad decides uk got heavily involved, he might also decide uk is weak enough to attack. clandestine operations are not unknown to russian governments.
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  29. i suppose chris would have counselled ho chi minh not to resist, as the enemy was strong. and chris would have been right, usa won every battle. but uncle ho had a different view, widely applicable: free, or dead.
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  30. You need democracy
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  31. calm down people. real lefties plot in secret, and maintain a serious mien before the public as the overthrow of the aristocracy is difficult and deserves maximum effort, no laughing allowed.
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  32. usa myth is much weakened in recent years, and people emerging from it often sound as if they entered a time worm-hole in barsoom which put them here. not only are they dis-oriented, they have no background information with which to process events around them. i believe their case is hopeless, you can't get anywhere good starting from where you are. the best you can do is retreat to the country, acquire a plot of land and live by subsistence farming. evidence? i recommend the careers of chomsky and hedges. two persons who broke in to reality and reported that usa has no clothes. i proffer great respect to both these people, many years of dedication to enlightenment of people in dire need of it. to no visible avail. it just doesn't work, crying out "no clothes! no clothes!" only revolution can change the course of usa decline, and consequent impoverishment of the people. and revolution does not look possible, even to initiate. some societies just die, from some genetic weakness.
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  33. why is there never any suggestion in usa political chat, that democracy is necessary and how to get it? instead, there is only passive recounting of the crimes of your masters. i suppose the simple answer is that you are raised to submission. even slaves complain about the quality of the food. democracy is possible. during the 'progressive era' [early 1900's] about half the states got some or all of the functions, except the vital one, of independence. and then the character of the people changed. perhaps the water was drugged?
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  34. he doesn't have solutions. given the quality of homer sap, likely there are none.
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  35. so yer saying, 'socialism is a good idea?' strange, no one has thought of it until now. there is a level of dumb which does not respond to education. widespread in the usa., either the water is doped, or the schools are rigged.
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  36. i do like mr hedges' analysis of gun ownership, certainly much truth in it. but the second amendment was written to protect the people from oppressive government, and was useless in that aim. only democracy can protect the people, and that was written out of the constitution. the total refusal of usa people to acknowledge this reality makes all resistance to government oppression futile. the usa elite, of wealth and political office, rule by law and culture. the people, even mr hedges, simply can not imagine a usa with a democratic constitution. so there is no possibility of a good future for that declining empire.
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  37. no, not over. not even close. a few more lefties recruited. almost all usans pay little attention to foreign affairs, having no power to affect, and no reliable information. this is the normal consequence of being cattle in an oligarchy, instead of citizens of a democracy.
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  38. if you agree with hedges, stay home. biden will fix nothing. when trump is elected, with 35% of the vote, organize the 'no' voters to demonstrate for real democracy if the political class won't comply, start shooting them. that is the purpose of the second amendment. put it to good use.
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  39. it's just yer garden variety megalomania. usa got used to being the big dog, and making money from it. but times have changed. prc is already a credible threat to usa primacy, and some client states are moving to hedge their bet. way too soon to say 'game-over,' but there is clearly a great game in play. i rather hope prc wins. they are no better than the usual naked ape, but usa is much worse.
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  40. just the usual. the evil empire has real agents, some are tricky, many just shoot. it's a living, for sociopaths. some danger involved, but less than civilian life. there, pimping, thuggery and drug commerce pays better, in principle, but death rate much higher, and long prison terms also possible.
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  41. pertinent question. the speaker can cause big trouble for biden, and his position is already weak.
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  42. i like monarchies. when you have a monarch and say yer 'democratic,' immediately i know yer an idiot. but when yer ruled by politicians and say yer 'democratic,' you could either be an idiot, or a cynical hypocrite. then you got to find out which, a great waste of time.
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  43. it is wrong to look for logic or justice in politics. getting and holding power are the only parameters.
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  44. when you owe a little money, you do what you are told. when you owe a lot, you do as you please. it's likely usa will never pay, and each day usd is worth less, the debt melts.
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  45. relax. the generals like to have an answer if the politicians panic. i hope the answer is, 'we will win, but politicians will die.'
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  46. still not talking about the absence of democracy, still not talking about the submission of public intellectuals to the rule of wealth. not all, of course, but most of the others are gathered in this 4-window zoom. the fact that public education has created a nation of lumpen-consumers' is disquieting, but not necessarily fatal. but the fact the cream of the 'resistance' can not come up with an action plan, that is depressing. the beginning of the communist party of china was if anything faced with more difficult conditions, but they stood up and started action, 100 years later prc is flourishing, in spite of all usa has done to strangle it. don't like 'communism? me neither, but right now prc is a better place by far than usa.
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  47. chomsky's memory is failing. protest became widespread and active when the college students lost their immunity to the draft. later, when the draft was ended, they went back to sleep. usans don't care about foreigners, in line with their contempt for anyone who lives on the other side of town. those in the country despise all who live in town. most usans get an education, but much of it is lies and selective silence. my respect for chomsky is considerable, even so. he has been saying the truth, as he sees it, when it was not fashionable.
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  48. 'faintest clue' is the problem, alright. '1984' was pointed towards ussr, but it turned out usa was worse, and much more successful.
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  49. usg thought it could seduce prc into compliance with offers of trade. prc took the money and laughed. usg hates to be laughed at.
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  50. joining others in saying the obvious, uk polies have nailed the nation's flag to the usa pole. at a suitably lower position. and a judge could be found to say assange is guilty [usa smiles ] but in ill health [ usa frowns, mildly ] but it ain't over till he's free and hiding as deeply as he should have been when he was swanning around sweden enjoying the local groupies. if you ever have an attack of whistleblower's disease, think about julian deeply, as the usa wants, before you decide to be a hero. no amount of swedish maidens prepare you for what ja got, and more to come.
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  51. not spoiled children. thugs working for bigger thugs, who can't be touched or else the whole degenerate facade will collapse. they have become the neighborhood mafia, working in public view because the international mafia, chiefly usa, finds it very convenient to have a neighborhood 'enforcer' to divert attention. there is no saving of israel, or usa, both must remain on top, to avoid revenge.
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  52. one of the good things about democracy, is that public activity must be done in public, through referendum, so that the citizens can give/withhold assent, or issue a veto with initiative. result is honesty and sanity tend to characterize decisions. it's hard to be crooked or stupid when you are watched. 'democracy' is constantly heard in the west, but never seen. the word has been gutted, because of the necessity of using the word while doing theft or murder. nowadays it just means, 'we have elections!' which have zero effect on gov activity. there is very little actual democracy among nation states, the swiss used to come close, but i suspect the embrace of the e. u. is proving to be irresistible. the rest of you zombies don't even come close. nato politicians are politicians. they do what profits their career. for many, it's 'shoulder-to- shoulder' with equally corrupt and much more powerful usa politicians. those that are 'out-of-step' are equally corrupt, but happen to see more power/money in resistance. you would think all of humanity, minus politicians and plutocrats, would stand up and demand democracy. it is currently necessary, not merely desirable. politicians are driving humanity off a climate cliff.
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  53. if you don't have the brains, or courage or endurance to get democracy, you have to put up with being laughed at by your masters. 'just you wait..' might satisfy children, but adults will realize that his replacement is equally unresponsive. you don't have democracy, folks, and you don't have what it takes to get it.
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  54. left authoritarian? what's an example?
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  55. suppose for a moment that usa was run by a caste of quasi-sociopathic thieves and murderers. now look at the actual ruling group? can you tell the difference? i can't. i participated in yer real live genocidal war crime, usually called 'the vietnam war.' some canadian complained about what he saw in a place called 'mylai,' and nobody went to jail, although the field commander did a couple of years in barracks while they waited for the blaze to subside. 'saint' jimmy carter actually spoke up on his behalf, presumably because he saw some votes in it. about 350 women and children, machine gunned in a ditch. i began planning to leave, at that point, i don't know how you can endure the shame. the thing is, the government has always been evil, and it shaped the whole nation to be complicit. fortunately, while the nation is capable of any crime, the people in it are incapable of much planning, beyond divvying the loot. we can reasonably expect collapse will be sudden, and not long in coming.
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  56. oh, good! politicians are protecting you from lies! if you allow politicians to rule you, you are not entitled to the truth.
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  57. there is a chance the bungle-on-the-capitol was a cynical exercise in preparation for drastic collapse of civil 'rights.' in favor is the obvious lack of brains involved, it was not meant to achieve anything but fear in the easily disturbed. against, is the consistent lack of intelligence throughout the trump interregnum. take yer choice, because it doesn't matter. the usa government is evil, but so corrupt that it is evil out of character rather than plan. they bite themselves, often. the usa constitution was written to keep the rule of the nation firmly in the hands of the 'betters.' it is consequently not responsive to the state of the nation, for the rich are the last to suffer. and the national education has been drawn to support this goal. the people are cattle, capable of the 'bungle,' incapable of citizenship, much less revolution. i wouldn't give a damn, but the aristos who direct that ship of state make war for profit and plunder the environment for profit, and are a danger to us all. the usa should be blockaded, all trade stopped, no visas issued.
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  58. what's in a name. italians, like other sane people, don't like their government. so they try them out for awhile, and get sick of it, and flip a coin for something new. it's often done peaceful, nowadays, that's encouraging. unfortunately, it's never new - it's just another gang of politicians. the 'get sick of it' part happened over-night in limey-land, and my guess is this lot will be on the nose in a year as well. won't do any good, though. homo sapiens is just too stupid to see the use of democracy. it's genetic - several hundred thousand years of selecting for survival by saying "yessir!" to alpha males has marked our genes. the situation is not quite hopeless. there are sparks of proto-democracy here and there, although the continual use of the word for non-democratic societies is a deep worry. extinction is on the horizon, we may get a temporary reprieve from mere civilization collapse, whether from climate or war. should be lifting our game, but it's more of the same.
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  59. aristotles book on politics was exhaustive, and had one conclusion that is very relevant today: 'democracy is the best that humans can do.' he was well aware of the limitations of homer sap. he also made an observation that modern writers fail to appreciate: it doesn't matter what label you put on the political system, what matters is the answer to one question. 'who decides?' when the people don't make the decisions, it is not a democracy. and saying it is pollutes the language, making it difficult to get democracy. 'the people's democratic republic of korea' is the leading example. but usa not far behind. people who publicly decry the 'loss' of democracy are not being helpful. you never had it, how can you lose it? i don't know why people keep worrying about the decay of american democracy, some i believe do it for money. there is no income arising from saying, "revolution is necessary!" that scares people.
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  60. difficult to argue with mr hedges, but what tyrants love to hear is "give peace a chance." i estimate that this conflict has begun because of the expansion of nato, which has rolled over the former members of the ussr, one by one. nato is an imperial organ of usa foreign policy. it's nice that they use bribery instead of bullets, but usa is extending an empire, even so. and they promised not too, many years ago. liars to the core, everyone. finally, putin feels threatened, the wolf is at the door, so he starts shooting think of it as a much-battered wife, unable to fend of with muscles, so she picks up a gun and makes a winning argument, for a change. putin is no fool, unlike recent usa presidents, and i suspect he struck back reluctantly. but the di is cast, and we all wonder how this turns out. since falling into the hands of billionaires, ukraine has become the poorest nation in europe. there should be a lesson there, but homer sap is just too dim to understand the need to get democracy, at any cost. no shame in that ignorance, it is general, and the usa suffers from it. as a result, their masters have license to harrow the planet to feed their greed. there is no virtue on either side of this conflict. johnny, don't get yer gun.
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  61. keep in mind, the western roman empire unravelled for about 200 years, and eastern staggered on for a 1000. we can't wait for a natural death.
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  62. you don't have democracy. you don't know it. your 'political discussion' is whining in the slave quarters, or dancing for quarters on the sidewalk, with electronic amplification. what passes for education, in the youessay?
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  63. not strange at all. lies 'r us! is usa tactics.
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  64. the second amendment has a purpose: an armed populace can frighten politicians. but guns are useless, without organization and courage. how many people in usa want democracy? 10%? less...? if you are not willing to be a citizen, you must expect to be a serf.
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  65. what you should be talking about is why the usa tolerates oligarchy. the nation has heard about democracy, some states have it, notably california, but you blindly submit to a constitution written by a slave plantation grandee whose guiding motive was ensuring the rich ruled. are you never going to stand up?
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  66. in a democracy, the citizens decide major issues through referendum and initiative. without democracy, major issues are decided by elites, frequently in secrecy. once you have grasped this reality, political discussion not focused on getting democracy seems pointless, even childish.
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  67. sorry, humanity is a 3 y.o. child playing with daddy's spare pistol. 'left-authoritarian'? [insert laughter here.]
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  68. the masters of usa are blinded by many years of dominance, at home and in foreign affairs. they seldom hear 'no,' and assign no value to the word. the people of usa are ignorant, passive and doped by national myths. they have no control over their masters, or themselves. i think this will result in nuclear war, since neither putin nor xi resembles chamberlain, and both have the means to hurt usa severely. putin is much more likely to shoot first, since usa is ruled by people that want to live, while he is a genuine desperado. putin's best move is to tell zelensky publicly to evacuate kyiv, within a week. threats from usa should be publicly met with a list of usa cities targeted by missiles. i think this will result in usa backing down. they are ultimately ruled by money.
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  69. you watch the politicians with unease, or actual horror, and never ask, "why do we put up with this?" democracy is possible, even easy if usa people want it. but you are uniformly conditioned to submission. superficially capable of political opinion, but without the motive power of character to turn discussion into action. truly pathetic. unfortunately, your masters command great power and are utterly without ethical sense. a danger to the world's people. they are currently trying to suppress both russia and china. putin, in particular is likely to respond with any combination of military means necessary. while usa media are actively stirring up war fever. does no one in usa understand the likely result?
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  70. should be done? how about, ignore it? elon has pushed ev production significantly, homer sap owes him for that.
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  71. what's wrong with americans? you've heard of democracy, some states have democratic constitution, and yet you accept the rule of politicians like they were god's messengers, or backed by the gestapo.
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  72. it's not just jews vs muslims, israelis vs palestinians. it's also the evil empire maintaining a client state in the middle east. vietnam, iraq, afghanistan, and currently ukraine are all part of empire-building, lately with money rather than soldiers. they are trying to include taiwan in the program, but that could really blow up. usg doesn't care, they are just cynical careerists who will be far away and richer when things get bloody. i feel a little sorry for young people. they are a generation who will watch human society collapse, painfully. plenty of blame to go around, but the top of the list should be the usa. khomeini was laughed at when he characterized usa as 'the great satan,' but he saw clearly, even if his language was unfashionable.
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  73. you don't have to put up with lying politicians. except if you are too lazy, ignorant or dim to organize to get democracy. the public service could run the nation, in public, under direction of referendum and initiative. but i guess that's too hard?
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  74. i just call the usa 'orcland,' it saves time.
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  75. nato is a military pact, aimed at ussr, and now, russia. it has advanced by buying governments, simply bribing officials to sell their nations to usa commercial interests. this commercial war has rolled up to russia border. putin finally decided 'too far,' and went for the gun. think of him as a much-beaten wife, who decided to shoot the bastard. will he succeed? quien sabe? but unlike the last two usa 'leaders,' he appears to be sane and well-informed. would ukraine, the whole society, be better off as an independent buffer state? very likely. since it came under the control of billionaires, ukraine has become the poorest nation in europe.
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  76. no erosion, the establishment of israel was a process of 'buy, frighten, shoot.' from the beginning. the intent was to build a jewish state, current occupants, largely muslim would have to leave. with near-success, the jewish bandits have started to white-wash their elders. 'this was always israel, we just took it back." if this principle was followed everywhere, the last human standing would feel he had to shoot himself in the head. and it suits the usa to assist. for no cost, in principle, the politicians get large chunks of usa jewish money for their election expenses, and their grandchildren's university fees. it was an invasion, it is an invasion, and israel has located itself on a bomb-sight. no immediate danger, middle east nations have been too busy dealing with cia plots, ethic hatred and historical violence, and no one is capable of troubling israeli military..
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  77. politicians are not your friends. they are parasites,, hanging on from the men in iron suits day. you want a society run for the people? it's easy: get a society run by the people. make politicians extinct. manage affairs by the public service through referendum. control activity by the citizens through initiative. really, it's easy. but only if you are citizen-quality people. if you are willing to let politicians rule, then you deserve what you get. slaves will find masters.
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  78. they are politicians. if you let them rule you, you are complicit. allowing any elite to rule you is immoral, it corrodes their character and leads to widespread anger. the second amendment was explicitly passed to put the means of expressing discontent in the hands of the people. if you are unwilling to fight, you will be the slave of those who command soldiers. usa is a nation of the unwilling to fight. they are also mortal dim: they think they have democracy, they think politicians are doing democracy for them. dim!
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  79. vogue, kanye? i just finished a rant involving the usa bubble of fantasy [elsewhere] and here you are suggesting something similar. the american dream is all too real, maybe i should have watched 'matrix' after all. see if you can get a p.r. visa to oz or enzed, folks- that ship is sinking.
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  80. the 'american revolution' was chiefly motivated by actions in britain to end the african slave trade. slave plantation grandees [ "give me liberty, or give me death" ] were the major motive power, and in the north- the ship-owners whose business was chiefly concerned with delivering the slaves were also eager to continue the trade. remember that in colonial 'america' only male property-owners had any voice in the management of the colony. except rhode island, they were quite democratic. war fever was whipped up in the lower class with indignant reminders of taxes and tariffs, even so, half or more of the colony residents were in favor of remaining 'british.' if there is a second 'american revolution,' it too will serve the rich. and it may happen: the mask of 'democracy' is slipping off, some usans are at least puzzled at the vast distance between the label and reality, but the effective' revolutionaries will be the 'bubbas' and 'bucks.' the country folk have the guns and the attitude of contempt for city socialists to make them an easy foil for left unrest.
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  81. btw: communist revolution? doesn't anyone want democracy in the land of the free?
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  82. aristotle was smarter than you. he wrote a book about politics, classical hellas was chock-full of politics, and he came to several important conclusions: the fundamental question to ask about any society is, "who decides?" depending on 'who decides,' various labels appear, 'aristocracy' is rule by the best. monarchy is rule by a king, timocracy is rule by the generals, autocracy is rule by one, and democracy is rule by the citizens. usa is an aristocracy, although many would argue that politicians are not the best of humanity. others would contend that they are, particularly when they are, or seem to be 'the people's choice.' regardless of your opinion on this matter, the president, congress and supreme court rule the nation. certainly not the people. so the usa is not a democracy. consequently, when you hear someone say, "we need to do away with the electoral college," or "they should limit the term of justices," you are listening to a child dressed in his parent's clothes, or a fool, or a cynical liar intending to fool you into believing your opinion is valuable, when it is not. you have no formal input into the management of your nation. politically, aristotle would call you one of several disparaging words, but a not a 'citizen.' among those various kinds of political society, aristotle came to the reluctant conclusion that democracy was best. only because the others were worse. democracy is not unknown in the usa, several states have democratic constitutions and use them. but most of the people in the usa are simply not citizen quality. elites always rot, usa aristocracy is typified by donald trump. thing won't get better, the materials are not there.
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  83. being a bell wether is not a good thing. they work for the station master, and have no balls. chris gives you his view of what is wrong, but he has little to say about fixing it, because he thinks revolution is a bad thing. and there is no fixing usa without revolution.. it might be bloodless, but only if the people have over-whelming strength, and frighten resistance. revolution is the transfer of power by force or threat of force. no one hands over power in response to a 'please?'
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  84. brought to you by the good folks at cia. they are defending usa from attack all around the world, generally in a proactive way, before the enemy even thinks to be rude. the only visible solution is for decent people to move to states with a democratic constitution, and then secede from the usa. go on, you know you want to do it! the roe vs wade decision might be the turning point. turn that anger to useful action. shouting at tv cameras is not gonna do it.
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  85. have you been to china?
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  86. what was the invasion of iraq labelled by the eu parliament? but i summarise by saying that politicians are a criminal element of human society. if we were capable of democracy we could make them extinct. but we aren't, so we are ruled by this mafia class.
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  87. 'should.' that encapsulates the fundamental flaw in the usa constitution. since it is not a democracy, the people do not have the mechanism of power in their hands. without initiative, they can suggest or beg, but not command. worse, they are taught that they have democracy, an improved version, 'done for you' by superior people called 'politicians.' there can be no hope for a populace of ignorant cattle.
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  88. politicians are your enemy. they are predators and parasites. get rid of them, and run the nation by the public service, under the control and direction of the electorate. [it's called 'democracy'] how to get rid of them? present them with a document establishing democracy, and offering the choice of submission or death. pretty sure the document will pass through house and senate rapidly. the new constitution can be short and simple. it only needs to establish the power of the electorate to direct the nation through referendum and initiative.
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  89. so, throw a few dollars to venezuela now, because usa is embarrassed, screwing europe to get ukraine, what a tangled web we weave.. i hope maduro charges a very high price, to sell out to a nation that has a visible intention to destroy his own nation. if maduro ever needs anything from russia, or prc, the price may be too high. but maduro is hurting, and putin won't mind, so long as the price is high enough. europe can resolve the situation by simply washing its hands of nato. i wonder if this idea is present in any members. surely some can see their present danger is from usa?
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  90. waste of money. with luck, they'll have a joke on the bulletin board at langley. i'm pretty sure cia directed the murder of jfk, why not start there.
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  91. if you are willing to let politicians rule you, you deserve to be cattle. it's genetic, really - african savannas, alpha males and beta side-kicks, homer sap began by letting the big guys have their way while the rest scurried around picking the left-over berries. hey, it worked. doesn't look like it will go on working cuz the alphas and betas are destroying the environment, but keep yer eyes down and hope for a miracle.
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  92. chomsky put together a list of usa meddling in other nation's rule, more than 100 examples, many involving mass murder. for me me, vietnam made me realize i wanted to live elsewhere, as being usan and not devoting my life to assassination of politicians would have been morally intolerable.
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  93. eventually everyone will realize trump is a dimwit. but there are lots of them, they recognize one of their own nature, and he will be able to command some attention for many years to come. usa public education is necessarily crap, it is a vital tool of plutocracy. blunts a lot of young minds. so 'progress' is nearly impossible. madison built a stable political culture, on the model of georgian england, and usa can not escape its heritage. try not to blow up the world, on the way down.
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  94. usa is hopelessly obsolete. silly fools are still letting politicians run the place.
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  95. usa is not a democracy, so you don't have rights. you have privileges, offered as bribes when some politicians needs more votes, and withdrawn when he doesn't need them. ignorant, passive people will be ruled by some elite, whether born aristocrats, military junta, or political gang. in the usa, it's the gang. if you want a better life, you have to be part of the ruling group. for most people that group can only be as the citizens of a democracy. but how to get democracy? you can't get it by voting for politicians. the transfer of power must come outside the laws of the nation. the laws maintain the power of politicians. revolution need not be violent, but it does require a lot of people willing to say, "or else!"
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  96. it's the wrong question. it does exist. it is reputed to have a significant nuclear strike, it's military has shredded objecting neighbors, they don't shoot anymore. and it seems to have a reliable grip on the usg. presumably usa jews buy allegiance from members of the government. so it's here to stay, for the foreseeable future. and it suits the usg to have a reliable attack-dog in the oilfields. recently, russia and saudi have announced they are good friends. this is a material blow to usa economy, and if it continues 'foreseeable' may be very short indeed. sbm may meet a 'lone gunman;' if he doesn't come to his senses. personally, i suggest the u. n. should supervise the creation of a secular state of palestine, including and terminating israel. that would be as close to justice as we can get. but homer sap rarely achieves justice, and israel is just another smelly spot on the pages of history.
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  97. don't blame the media - they do it for money. blame the people who are tolerant of plutocracy.
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  98. mr sirota is not looking at the big picture. all that is wrong with the usa is encapsulated in the constitution. it establishes elective aristocracy, from whence all kinds of evil flows. ms sinema is a trivial pimple on the face of a nation laboring under terminal cancer.
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  99. relax, comrades. the war is over, they won. emigrate if you can, retire to nowheresville and take up subsistence farming if you have no foreign languages. the war was lost when the constitution was established, slavery and ethnic cleansing poisoned the character of the nation from birth.
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  100. politicians are parasites, and much more dangerous to health nowadays. but homer sap decided to do what the big monkey wanted, long ago, and the habit persists when the fur is gone.
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  101. "the russia invasion is collapsing, and that's a good thing." easy to believe, because 'invasions are bad, except when usa does it.' and of course, usa invasions bring peace and prosperity to the fortunate nations. write yer own list of lucky nations. but i have a policy: usa speaks with forked tongue, and anything they say or do is probably evil. when you live in an era of mass lying, this policy generates reality in a world of illusion. and saves time.
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  102. the constitution was written to prevent democracy, and it continues to do so. the existence of politicians is meant to be a fire-wall between voter and action, and it works because politicians can be bought in sufficient number to ensure the rule of wealth, commercial and private. the only cure is a transfer of power from politician to electorate. 'transfer' is revolution. until you bite that bullet, nothing good can happen. when the electorate decides, it's called 'democracy.' usa has never had it, but thinks it does. no hope, really- a nation that dim can never thrive.
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  103. usa gummint is the usual sort, staffed by sociopaths and nudged by narcissist plutocrats. that's homer sap for you.. the plebs get on with their lives, however they can. it's getting harder lately, because the rich are maintaining or expanding their take from the national income, while the national income is under pressure from prc and other resistant nations, notably iran and russia. only an active, large and well-organized popular movement can shake the status quo, none in view. usa peeps are ignorant, cowed, genuinely desperado. whence the endemic crime and occasional mass murder. i wouldn't give a damn, except the looming climate crisis threatens every living thing on earth, and the orcs who run usa are making it worse. anyone who is remotely surprised by this bolton brag simply hasn't been paying attention. the classical greeks had a word for it, that's where we get 'idiot.'
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  104. your problem is not manchin, nor biden. your problem is that you accept rule by political grandees, much like georgian britain, when the constitution was written, and modeled on that society. on a deeper level, you accept the lie that usa is some kind of democracy. this ensures that you will never have democracy. i wish i thought some group was aware of the need for actual democracy and doing something to achieve it, but none in view.
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  105. if you had democracy, you could fix health care with initiative. but no one says, "let's get democracy, and fix health care, and a great many other problems as well." why is that?
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  106. usa is not a democracy. until you change that, the nation will be run for the rich, by their politician agents, with the connivance of the 'i'm doing good' middles.' is it possible to get democracy? not if you don't try.
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  107. when are usans going to admit that they do not live in a democracy. that's a rhetorical question, no question mark. never, appears to be the answer. so long as you submit to the rule of politicians, this is what you get, and deserve. democracy is possible. but it needs citizen quality people. they seldom occur, in an oligarchy. in an oligarchy, people grow up with a submissive character, never imaging that ordinary people can run a nation. a 'catch-22' situation, oldies would say. but, begging your masters for kindness never works, and they always fall farther into corruption of character, leaving behind any sense of fairness or duty. so finally there there will be brutal repression, because no one gives up power easily. this wouldn't matter, but this time over-population makes poor social management fatal. if you are young, you may wish to organize a revolution. the oldies aren't going to leave a livable space.
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  108. simple test of veracity: if anyone says or implies, that usa is a democracy, you are being lied to. 1. nowhere in the constitution does it say 'democracy.' 2. nowhere in the constitution is there any mention of rule by referendum and initiative. 3. there is zero co-relation between public opinion and government action, except with the top 10%, they have good response, i.e. plutocracy.
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  109. yer on the edge of enlightenment: one more step to making politicians extinct, and using democracy.
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  110. replace 'usa' with 'evil empire' and no apology to reagan's ghost. the evil empire is not uniquely evil, quality is just ordinary evil. but since it's big and rich and heavily militarized, the evil is magnified past what other governments can aspire to.
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  111. so hard to pin a label on human beings, they keep having independent ideas. worse, they change their minds as they go.
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  112. there are no democracies, although helvetia came close for awhile. they had a referendum about resisting nazi occupation! voting for people is not democracy.
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  113.  @nergispaul9022  madison and jefferson were back and forth in letters about the 2nd amendment, with never a mention of slavery. a touchy subject for men who profited from slavery while being public advocates of liberty. but state 'national guard' military units were the result of the second amendment.
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  114.  @johnriverdavis3497  the principle of democracy is that public activity goes on in public, and is directed by the citizens through referendum and initiative. there is literally no 'government,' only public clerks working openly and without power until directed by the citizens. currently that is only happening in the confederation of helvetia, among nation states, and not an ideal democracy even there. the swiss were notably independent during ww2, shooting in both directions, as required. but i suspect the embrace of the eu may have more effect than the nazis, the swiss have had to bend a bit more than their grandfathers did. the swiss evolved into democracy, and retained politicians. so not a perfect demonstration of democracy. we only have homo sap to work with. the important point in the beginning of any discussion of political systems, is that electing politicians to rule you is not democracy, not even close.
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  115. calm yourselves, however it turns out, you will have colluded in putting a politician in power. civilized people vote for and against, referendum and initiative. this system is called democracy, and apparently you have been mis-informed, as many people think ennobling politicians is democracy. a little hint: 'democracy' is from a greek phrase, which means, "citizens rule.' not "politician rule."
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  116. actually, it was nation-building.but that was a lie useful in the day, new day, new lie. i know how usa peeps live with the reality of being labor units in a society made for the rich, just keep your eyes focused on the day's gig. if you are lucky enough to have one. pearl buck sketched out the life and character of shanghai rickshaw pullers in the 30's, they looked like martians when i read the book in the 50's, but now there is a universal quality. think uber driver and you've got it. the trouble with real revolutionaries is that they must be clandestine, right up to 'now!' so live in hope, however unreal that may seem.
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  117. putin's grip on power may be illusory. the recent resurgence of ukraine, with whatever base, has to stress the regard of generals, and putin himself. unless the battle starts going russia's way soon, a change of leadership is very possible. but who could replace him? his reserve strength is simply that the whole government has been publicly committed to the war. his successor would have to preside over massive reparations.. something like this situation kept the nazis and japanese fighting long after success was possible.
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  118. so usa and stooges visited on a mission of mercy?
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  119. no legitimacy? putin is doing on a small scale, what usa does on a grand scale. but usa does murder for profit, putin is afraid russia will be nibbled to death using salami tactics. usa/cia took pride in installing a billionaire president in ukraine, since then the rest of ukraine has fallen into poverty. well done, cia, making the world submit to wealth. i am not surprised usa is 'shocked' at putin's action, but it has nothing to do with affronted morality, you are only surprised that someone would dare to confront the evil empire in arms. putin has gambled the farm on saying "no mas." to usa. if it goes badly, he'll be dead, one way or another. but it appears he has won. like north korea, he has put his pistol on the table, and it's a much bigger gun. usa/nato has folded. words will continue to be said, and the nazis of ukraine will go on fighting for awhile, but ukraine has been saved from the dark side, again.
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  120. she despises the press, many are despicable. usa political machinery was despicable from birth. there were some moderately lofty claims in the constitution, but all were despicable hypocrisy. "all men are created equal...." from a man made wealthy by the labor and sales of black slaves. but i learned to despise usa during the vietnam war, when villages were wiped out with napalm and machine guns, to save them' from communist infiltration. don't despise psaki, if your hands aren't clean.
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  121. the mask has been off usa for a long time now, and the blatant use of power in search of profit, with anything from murder to war of occupation in continual use. and it doesn't seem to matter. my view is that without democracy you cannot engage the interest of the people in controlling the orcs that float to the top of society. and homer sap doesn't naturally demand democracy - too busy finding a meal, for self and kids. he can maintain it, perhaps, but cannot get it from elite control. this will be the death of us.
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  122. 'and in other news....'
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  123. the monarchy is a problem. its mere existence means the management of the nation is done to please the monarch. but getting rid of the monarch does not bring democracy. the power to rule just moves from monarch to politician, or dictator, or military junta. getting democracy is much harder, than shooting a king. you have to get a populace to stand up and announce, "we are now citizens, and rule our nation with referendum under the control of initiative." look around you. do you see a nation capable of being citizens of democracy? it is too hard for homer sap. the tribe is raised in submission to alphas, from days on the african savanna right up to today. that's not just habit to break, that is genetic inclination. it's not impossible. the swiss still have some kind of proto-democracy, many usa states would be similar, if independent. but that similar is 100 years old, without further progress, and impotent against the power of the federal nation. so the hairless ape is going to let the alphas destroy the planet. fermi wondered why the radio spectrum was not filled with communication from the stars. it's because critters that can make radios destroy themselves with powers beyond their control.
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  124. what a surprise. but don't worry, be happy. your benevolent and ethical politician-masters will look after you.
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