What stage of capitalism is this?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 08/19/2022 - 12:45pmI've never been a Kayne West fan. I never considered him to be completely sane, but this is...let's say, out-of-touch.
I've never been a Kayne West fan. I never considered him to be completely sane, but this is...let's say, out-of-touch.
How are we divided? Let me count the ways.
Race, gender, economic class, religion, ethnicity, age, education, language, profession, geographic location, medical status, on and on and on. We have become so pigeon-holed and compartmentalized that a certain group wants to divide us further into human and trans-human entities. One is no longer able to just be "me", you must be labeled and categorized, many times over. Have we ever been so divided as we are now?
I purposely left out a big one on my list, politics, that which I think of as building "interpersonal walls", divisions which to me are a mental construct designed as a control mechanism. It has served psychopaths and sociopaths for millennia.
Here in the US politics boils down to a republican/democrat, red/blue dichotomy. Oh. sure, there are other subsets, but for intents and purposes, it is boiled down to the two party system. The system is rigged as such.
We here at c99 are at least trying to open discourse between the two factions with our nonpartisan discussion policy. In my humble opinion, we don't stand a chance unless we stand together and find common ground. I'll iterate again, the struggle is not horizontal, it is vertical. It's a class struggle.
The current political zeitgeist could make a person feel a bit schizo, no?
No one was a bigger supporter of America's regime change policy for Venezuela than Colombia's far-right government.
And then Colombia elected its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro, and everything changed.
As recently as January 2022, this was the story from that part of the world.
From the very get-go, something has rubbed me wrong about the plan to cancel student loan debt. At first it was the logical disconnect with which its advocates supported their position, but now I think its nefarious intentions are relying on people's selfishness to sneak through a massive money grab.
Garlic - Why Not?
I decided to 'relax' and write a bit about something we just harvested here in the last few weeks. Garlic.
This is why I’m leaning towards the raid on his home was politically motivated by democrats and just more of the same kabuki we’ve been subjected to for the last 6 years.
Donald Trump sounds increasingly like Bart Simpson.