The Problem is Clear, Billionaires Beware, We're Coming for You

Submitted by Big Al on Thu, 09/28/2017 - 10:25pm

Billionaires are the symbol, but the real problem is this out of control capitalist economic system. It's changed since the good old days of normal American style inequality to a runaway, literally, psycho global style of capitalism creating billionaires hand over foot and heading unabated to the era of trillionaires. We'll probably have trillionaires before our non-representatives actually pass a higher national minimum wage.

Check out the trajectory. Straight up. And as far as I know, there has been zero conversation by our government leaders, i.e., Congress and Senate, about the incredibly expanding wealth inequality. Certainly not from President Billionaire. (Good grief!) Absolutely nothing is being done to address this crucial issue let alone even acknowledge it. And with the sheeple, it's like war, most continue to slobber over movie stars, pro athletes, and British royalty, or play video games and watch Dancing with the Stars rather than stretch their little minds to realize this shit has got to stop.

When lotteries became popular, the hook was that anyone could be a millionaire. Now the national lottery is approaching ONE BILLION dollars. People have accepted this level of inequality, they've accepted that there a large number of people who can afford to live far more extravagantly than any king, queen or ruler from human history. Somehow it's become normal and accepted and authenticated by the masses who idolize and/or envy the lives of the rich and famous.

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But a fire can be lit. The gap will continue to grow, which can only mean more will be kept down, more poverty, more wars will be waged, more imperialism will be conducted, the police state will continue to grow and this country and the world will become even more fucked up than it is now.

Because there is nothing to stop it. Sooner or later most of us will have no choice but to fight back.

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Submitted by Song of the lark on Thu, 09/28/2017 - 11:37pm

The exiting Equifax CEO

Just got a 90 million dollar golden shower. Heh!

Submitted by Big Al on Thu, 09/28/2017 - 11:40pm

The amounts have to keep getting bigger and bigger,

@Song of the lark because how else could it work?

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 12:26am

Don't worry

@Song of the lark

the exuctives of Equifax have been called to testify about this to congress. The republicans are going to hold them accountable for what happened. Right? Right?

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 4:40am

Correction

@snoopydawg It is VERY rare that I catch an error in your comments, but this time I gotcha! LOL

the exuctives of Equifax have been called to testify about this to congress. Our elected officials ~~The republicans~~ are going to hold them accountable for what happened. Right? Right?

Are there any honest people left in Washington?

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 8:38am

Any honest people? Maybe Bernie,

@gulfgal98

but the rest of them are partially or totally corrupt, most of them all the way to the bone.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 1:12pm

Nice catch, gulfgal

@gulfgal98

You are right about this of course. Doh, how could I be so stupid to forget that this is going to another dawg and pony show put on by our elected ~~the master's puppets~~ officials?
The Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals game tickets will go on sale at a time to be determined or when our interests are being distracted by another made up social fabric tearing event such as the current one involving the NFL player ~~protesting the police getting away with murder~~ protests that are about disrespecting the flag and the national anthem.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 1:50pm

Snoopy,

@snoopydawg Your comments are always so good and on point, I could not resist catching that minor little glitch.

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 6:00pm

So far no one has caught my spelling errors

@gulfgal98

Some of my comments make it look like I didn't learn how to spell. I cringe at this when I re-read them and hope that no one has noticed them.
Or they are too polite to bring them to my attention.

One thing I have noticed about this site is that everyone adds their own thoughts to their comments, we aren't just an echo chamber and parrot the same type of wording that they are commenting on.
Well done

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 10/01/2017 - 2:41pm

Snoopy, congratulations on a fine comment

@Song of the lark @snoopydawg But doesn't this unmasking of Politics as a dawg and pony show upset you? I know, my relatives and I have been taking a lot of heat for being swamp creatures. What's your reaction?

Submitted by Citizen Of Earth on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 1:37pm

$90 Mill for screwing 143M people

@Song of the lark

Hell they didn't even give him a dollar per person. What a Gip.

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

Submitted by Big Al on Thu, 09/28/2017 - 11:46pm

A quote from over two thousand years ago.

"Few Men desire Liberty; most Men only wish for a just master." Sallust

Updating that to rightfully include all humans, men and women, it's still true. Sure does make it difficult to achieve true liberty if most people don't even want it.

Submitted by irishking on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 6:14am

" A dog in search of a collar "

@Big Al

Alexander on a disloyal subject of Darius. (?)

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 1:35am

Good description of how the capitalist system has grown

and is now out of control. You are right that people will eventually rise up against them and that the militarized police are going to be ready for them.
The PTB have set this up very well and the window for us to do something is rapidly closing before anything we try to do is going to fail.
People have watched while the police brutality has continued to get worse after each protest or event.
It's not just what happened to the OWS, BLM and DAPL protests when their brutally continued to get more violent. It's what happened after the Boston bombings when SWAT went into people's homes without a warrant because they said they were looking for the Tsarnaev brothers. This was a trial run to see how people would react to martial law. They failed. Spectacularly.
A mercenary company was in charge of the DAPL protests and they didn't bother with our rights. They were allowed to spy on people's social programs and other unconstitutional actions.
Wasn't it during the OWS protests when police arrested people before anything happened because they were leaders?
This happened and people yawned about it.

Another good essay, Big Al

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by Meteor Man on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 12:56am

Capitalism The Nightmare

Over at Common Dreams by Paul Street. A couple of short excerpts from an excellent summary:

This is ecocidal petro-capitalist madness on steroids.

Madness brought to you courtesy of Inclusive Capitalism:

According to one British media report, the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism’s opening conference boasted a “guest-list … estimated to hold one-third of the world’s investable assets, around £18tr [nearly $25 trillion].”

One of the coalition’s leading speakers and champions is the great arch-neoliberal, former U.S. President Bill Clinton (with a net worth of $80 million)—a right-wing Democrat who did every bit as much to advance the Wall Street “free market” and globalist agenda as Ronald Reagan.

The solution:

Can environmental catastrophe be averted under capitalism? Not likely. Shifting from fossil fuel reliance and other unsound environmental societal habits and practices—built-in obsolescence, mass consumerism and the endless pursuit of quantitative economic growth, accumulation and “cheap nature” resource appropriation—requires a level of coordinated social and public intervention so extreme that it is incompatible with continued capitalist control of the means of production, investment and distribution. It requires an empowerment of ordinary people and a radical rehabilitation of the concept of the natural and social commons—things that very likely cannot be attained under the continued rule of capital. Stark as American activist Joel Kovel’s formulation may sound, I suspect he is right: “The future will be eco-socialist, because without eco-socialism there will be no future.”

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/21/capitalism-nightmare

Thanks Bill/Obama/Hillary.

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 1:48am

The word 'socialism' was made into a bad word on purpose

@Meteor Man

I am constantly seeing people saying that they don't want any part socialism because they have been told that it leads to communism. This has been pounded into their brains since grade school.
They don't understand how it even works, but they have been told over and over that they don't want any part of it.
I have explained that social security, Medicare, police, fire departments and other agencies are considered socialism, but their minds have been made up.
This is something else that we have to get people to understand. I have no idea how to do this, but it's a good place to start.

Yep. Bill was able to get republican legislation passed that no republican could ever do. Obama followed in his footsteps and did the same things. Bush got feedback on his domestic and foreign policies, but Obama rarely did. Figure this out.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by Daenerys on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 7:32pm

More socialism, less sociopathy!

@snoopydawg They whine about "Tax and spend Democrats". Well yeah, taxes are how we get those things you mentioned. They just don't get it.

I just don't understand what they think they'll accomplish by killing off the rest of us. Rich fucks can't do anything for themselves so they'd probably just end up burning their own houses down trying to cook or do laundry.

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This shit is bananas.

Submitted by Ellen North on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 10:29pm

@Daenerys

@Daenerys

They're counting on replacing us with robots. Which can glitch or short out or whatever and are tech/power-dependent, among other things.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by Ellen North on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 10:21pm

@snoopydawg

@snoopydawg

...I am constantly seeing people saying that they don't want any part socialism because they have been told that it leads to communism. This has been pounded into their brains since grade school.
They don't understand how it even works, but they have been told over and over that they don't want any part of it.
I have explained that social security, Medicare, police, fire departments and other agencies are considered socialism, but their minds have been made up.
This is something else that we have to get people to understand. I have no idea how to do this, but it's a good place to start. ...

The movie that personifies and 'makes' Christmas for me is the old 'A Christmas Carol', with Alistair Sim, and to a lesser extent, despite it not being Christmassy, Oliver Twist.

Since many people may have never grown up with or even seen these movies or read any Dickens at all, this may not work, but what sprang to my mind was the question: you prefer a Dickensian society to a socially responsible one?

But some people might have cheered the alternative ending of Tiny Tim dying from lack of good food and medical care, his father perishing of overwork and the family starving on the streets, as the prospect of Americans dying from lack of money for medical care was so notoriously cheered by some other Americans.

And that of the survival of The Poors being dependent upon charity whenever disaster struck, rather than aid being provided so that 'no bird could fall' unnoticed and unaided in an uncaring, pathological society wired the draining of all for the few.

Of course, they'll be assuming that they'll never be in any such vulnerable position themselves...

Ask them, perhaps, if they'd appreciate a helping hand from the Coast Guard to save them from drowning if their yacht foundered or a rescue by policeman saving them from being mugged. Some dramatic example of socialism in action in some area that they can see might potentially happen to them.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 1:26am

Mitt Romney is wrong

Corporations aren't people because if they were, then they would be charged with murder which they haven't been even though their actions murdered dozens of workers after a "superfund site full of toxic metals and chemicals. The list was long even in the early days after the spill: arsenic, beryllium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc, cadmium, selenium, thallium, antimony, silver and vanadium oxide. It would grow longer."

Workers weren’t warned of the dangers, though. In fact, they were told the coal ash was perfectly safe.

They ate atop it with only bottled water to clean themselves. Their only decontamination unit at the end of the day was a bucket of water and a brush for their boots. When they asked for dust masks, they were denied, and when they complained of health problems, they were mocked.

Now, more than 50 sickened workers and workers’ survivors are suing Jacobs Engineering, the $12 billion-a-year California company that handled the cleanup for TVA, in federal court. The case is set for trial in 2018.

This should be a no brainer that this company deliberately lied to these workers and they should pay for their medical treatment. It should be. It's not.

Then there is this:
The rescue workers at ground zero were told by Christine Whitman, Bush's head of the EPA that the toxic air that they were breathing was safe. So they took her word for it and continued breathing the toxic air. When they started getting sick and then dying, they asked congress to set up a fund for them so they could get medical treatment because they were dying from the toxic air. Congress told them no. These were the "heroes" of the 9/11 terrorists attacks and they worked round the clock for weeks looking for their coworkers. Or some sign of them.
Congress finally set up the funding for them, but not until many of them had already died from respiratory disorders and other illnesses.
They were treated the same way that congress treats the veterans of their illegal "corporate special interests' wars.

This is another issue that should have had people in the streets for. They weren't.
Our leaders must be laughing at how they have gotten away with all the things they do to us without barely any objections from us. But when a small group of Americans do want to tell them that this is unacceptable, our government sends their goon squad to break it up while the majority of us cheer them on. Or when people protest against the cops that continue to murder us because "they were in fear for their lives". There is something very wrong with this.

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by k9disc on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 4:42pm

I'll Believe Corporations Are People When Texas Executes One

Wasn't that an Ann Richards quote?

Man she'd be mighty pissed off these days, I think.

@snoopydawg

Corporations aren't people because if they were, then they would be charged with murder which they haven't been even though their actions murdered dozens of workers after a "superfund site full of toxic metals and chemicals. The list was long even in the early days after the spill: arsenic, beryllium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc, cadmium, selenium, thallium, antimony, silver and vanadium oxide. It would grow longer." Workers weren’t warned of the dangers, though. In fact, they were told the coal ash was perfectly safe. They ate atop it with only bottled water to clean themselves. Their only decontamination unit at the end of the day was a bucket of water and a brush for their boots. When they asked for dust masks, they were denied, and when they complained of health problems, they were mocked. Now, more than 50 sickened workers and workers’ survivors are suing Jacobs Engineering, the $12 billion-a-year California company that handled the cleanup for TVA, in federal court. The case is set for trial in 2018. This should be a no brainer that this company deliberately lied to these workers and they should pay for their medical treatment. It should be. It's not. Then there is this: The rescue workers at ground zero were told by Christine Whitman, Bush's head of the EPA that the toxic air that they were breathing was safe. So they took her word for it and continued breathing the toxic air. When they started getting sick and then dying, they asked congress to set up a fund for them so they could get medical treatment because they were dying from the toxic air. Congress told them no. These were the "heroes" of the 9/11 terrorists attacks and they worked round the clock for weeks looking for their coworkers. Or some sign of them. Congress finally set up the funding for them, but not until many of them had already died from respiratory disorders and other illnesses. They were treated the same way that congress treats the veterans of their illegal "corporate special interests' wars. This is another issue that should have had people in the streets for. They weren't. Our leaders must be laughing at how they have gotten away with all the things they do to us without barely any objections from us. But when a small group of Americans do want to tell them that this is unacceptable, our government sends their goon squad to break it up while the majority of us cheer them on. Or when people protest against the cops that continue to murder us because "they were in fear for their lives". There is something very wrong with this.

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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 6:09pm

She would be pissed indeed

@k9disc

However, can you imagine what Molly Ivins would be writing about our government if she were still alive?
Gawd, I might be able to tolerate Trump if she was writing about him.
Anyone remember her Texas dildo laws take down?
This should cheer us up:)

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There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?

Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.

Submitted by Ellen North on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 10:41pm

@snoopydawg

@snoopydawg

Polluting industries do this sort of thing continually, knowing full well that each instance is sickening and killing workers, consumers, breathers, drinkers of water, eaters of food, the ecology. Much of the cost-cutting-for-them hazard is avoidable/reducible, but it adds to profits and they know that they routinely get away with murder and have the protection of complicit government officials and agencies with much of the established evidence destroyed/officially replaced by industry 'science' (also performed by once-protective agencies)/removed from easy access, so, no worries there.

Corporations aren't people because if they were, then they would be charged with murder which they haven't been even though their actions murdered dozens of workers after a "superfund site full of toxic metals and chemicals. The list was long even in the early days after the spill: arsenic, beryllium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, zinc, cadmium, selenium, thallium, antimony, silver and vanadium oxide. It would grow longer." Workers weren’t warned of the dangers, though. In fact, they were told the coal ash was perfectly safe. They ate atop it with only bottled water to clean themselves. Their only decontamination unit at the end of the day was a bucket of water and a brush for their boots. When they asked for dust masks, they were denied, and when they complained of health problems, they were mocked. Now, more than 50 sickened workers and workers’ survivors are suing Jacobs Engineering, the $12 billion-a-year California company that handled the cleanup for TVA, in federal court. The case is set for trial in 2018. This should be a no brainer that this company deliberately lied to these workers and they should pay for their medical treatment. It should be. It's not. Then there is this: The rescue workers at ground zero were told by Christine Whitman, Bush's head of the EPA that the toxic air that they were breathing was safe. So they took her word for it and continued breathing the toxic air. When they started getting sick and then dying, they asked congress to set up a fund for them so they could get medical treatment because they were dying from the toxic air. Congress told them no. These were the "heroes" of the 9/11 terrorists attacks and they worked round the clock for weeks looking for their coworkers. Or some sign of them. Congress finally set up the funding for them, but not until many of them had already died from respiratory disorders and other illnesses. They were treated the same way that congress treats the veterans of their illegal "corporate special interests' wars. This is another issue that should have had people in the streets for. They weren't. Our leaders must be laughing at how they have gotten away with all the things they do to us without barely any objections from us. But when a small group of Americans do want to tell them that this is unacceptable, our government sends their goon squad to break it up while the majority of us cheer them on. Or when people protest against the cops that continue to murder us because "they were in fear for their lives". There is something very wrong with this.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:09am

Thanks for the essay, Big Al.

This needs to be repeated again and again: "Sooner or later most of us will have no choice but to fight back." Revolution will come - I feel it is inevitable to bring about change.

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Submitted by Snode on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 8:52am

I worry that

@Raggedy Ann when the revolution comes there will be nothing to fight over but wreckage.

Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 4:48pm

It's a mystery.

@Snode
Quien sabe lo que va a pasar - only the universe knows what will happen.

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Submitted by dkmich on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 7:41am

In the stratosphere where the .001% resides,

one million dollars is lunch. I don't resent success, but I sure as hell resent gluttony.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 8:44am

Gluttony is one of the Seven Deadly Sins

@dkmich
and Avarice is another. (Pride is a third, and possibly the root of them all.)

They're called the Seven Deadly Sins because they are soul-killers and,perhaps even more importantly, because they make civilized society impossible.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

Submitted by Ellen North on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 1:20pm

@dkmich

@dkmich

I don't so much mind gluttony myself, what I mind is the wealth, health, freedom and future of all humans and the life-blood of the natural life support system being drained and poisoned for increased profiteering by those who already have most.

Nobody has any 'right' to harm/kill/oppress people and/or the ecology whether for thrills or for increased profit and power stolen for themselves or their paymasters.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by Snode on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:15pm

Yes

@dkmich it's a lunch they are entitled to, but one that we should pay for.

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 8:42am

Don't tell this to the jagoffs at PragerU.

They practically worship the almighty dollar.

Hell, their latest screed says the British Empire gave us freedom and that they brought 'civilization' to 'lesser races' (Okay, they didn't use those words, but that's what they were telling people). But hey, what else should we expect from the same assholes who worship Pinochet, Mussolini and other crapitalist dictators?

This guy has a pretty good response to that nonsense.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFMG1vmVkTo]

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 9:00am

To fight against this enemy, we must no longer want to be them

I'm actually quite content with my very simple life.

I don't dream of more things, just more opportunities. I try to find joy in my simple activities. And I dream of everybody having the chance to have a good life.

If I must destroy the paradise on earth that the rich have in order to give us all a good life, I would make that choice without hesitation.

For some reason I keep remembering "Escape From L.A." Horrible movie, but has one of the best endings ever. At least from my independent, live my own life, make friends with neighbors and pull together perspective...

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHUqNCDwQj4]

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Submitted by Strife Delivery on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 10:53am

The problems are glaringly

The problems are glaringly obvious, the solutions are simple.

But yet, people still won't see it. They refuse to see it.

Flag protests, taking a knee, bathrooms, War on Christmas. It is so easy to manipulate people.

The world is dying due to greed. Pure and simple. People willingly obey a system that will kill them. In fact, this system demands that they die. And yet they are just peachy with it.

I have no hope people will actually revolt. They might revolt against whatever they are ordered to do, but will never go towards the actual power structures. Those in the towers will watch Rome burn, laughing as people burn cars over soccer games and frivolous garbage.

The problems are obvious, but people willingly gouge out their own eyes.

Submitted by fight2bfree on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 12:38pm

The Invisible Hand of the “free market”

has been gving a middle finger to the 99% since the Reagan years.

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Fighting for democratic principles,... well, since forever

Submitted by doh1304 on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 1:19pm

Believe it or not I actually see a ray of hope.

I was visiting a friend in a nursing home recently with a hillary supporter friend (not a bad guy, just listened to the lies) when he suddenly started talking about "revere income tax" as if it was the latest, greatest idea. Imagine that, a hillary supporter willing to follow a good idea rather than just saying "it'll never happen".

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On to Biden since 1973

Submitted by k9disc on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 4:37pm

I Don't Think Drumpf is a Billionaire. I Think He's Conning

everybody.

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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu

Submitted by lizzyh7 on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:49pm

Me too, I've thought that

@k9disc all along. And with his refusal to release his returns, to me that's the yuge-est tell of all.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

Submitted by Ellen North on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 10:48pm

@k9disc

@k9disc

Oh, but he'll become one, thanks to the the power of the Presidency. Look at how rich the Clintons and their Fundation got from Bill's Presidency and Hill's Sec of State gig!

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by Lenzabi on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 6:36pm

Oh the Billionaire Parasite

Oh the Billionaire Parasite class is both a symbol, symptom and in many cases, cause for the inequality. As symbols they were held up as the position to aspire to, worshiped, and made popular by TV shows like "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"

Symptom as you stated, they are popping up or have grown richer under the rampant Capitalism.

Cause for it as they do get greedy and acquire more wealth, as well, as the inspiration for others to try and become rich no matter where they can get that wealth from.

I say it is time to demonize the wealthy as much as they have demonized the poor, and people should learn to accept that they, and others all need to have enough to be comfortable and live like a human being, not some piggy greedy parasite that due to their excess, forces others to live like shit, and go without and not have a comfortable or decent life.

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So long, and thanks for all the fish