humanoidlord
ce3 researcher
i am gonna start giving everyone that mentions a obscure ufo case, a awesome from now on
Is the entire world currently in Civil war?
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nivek
As Above So Below
To me the soul is another 'body' for consciousness but of a different resonance, place, and lifespan...
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pepe
Celestial
Yes the entire world is warring with itself.
I don't care for those of you that dismiss the current state of demagoguery we witness in this twisted moral state that we have only just grown the backbone to speak on. It is a plain fact that illegal immigrants in America are being protected in order to snatch back the power they have lost to the Don. Migrants war with other migrants, bringing their wars with them. The media never shows pictures of white children killed by terror but all show a drowned migrant child on the shore. It has become impossible to be white and offended, enforced by other whites. Black people are killing black people in white society and white people feel guilty . England allows failed Jihadis to re enter as British citizens. London is run by a demagogue who ignores statistics. Children are being taught to resist and protest. The left is fucked all across the world, the liberal won't stop fighting for the anonymous above their own. I can be what ever sex I like. The lies, false news, the propaganda all want to say what you want to hear because you will buy it. Social media is breeding a generation of narcissistic nobodies. The Jew is under persecution by default. The social warriors are offended by truth.
Tucker Carlson is a legend.
I don't care for those of you that dismiss the current state of demagoguery we witness in this twisted moral state that we have only just grown the backbone to speak on. It is a plain fact that illegal immigrants in America are being protected in order to snatch back the power they have lost to the Don. Migrants war with other migrants, bringing their wars with them. The media never shows pictures of white children killed by terror but all show a drowned migrant child on the shore. It has become impossible to be white and offended, enforced by other whites. Black people are killing black people in white society and white people feel guilty . England allows failed Jihadis to re enter as British citizens. London is run by a demagogue who ignores statistics. Children are being taught to resist and protest. The left is fucked all across the world, the liberal won't stop fighting for the anonymous above their own. I can be what ever sex I like. The lies, false news, the propaganda all want to say what you want to hear because you will buy it. Social media is breeding a generation of narcissistic nobodies. The Jew is under persecution by default. The social warriors are offended by truth.
Tucker Carlson is a legend.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Well that's a hot potato.
I'm a middle aged white American man. I never bring up politics, religion, sex as a general rule - because that's just being polite. Never wear hats, shirts or anything else with logos other than "Ford" or "Harley Davidson" or something similar. The only adornment on my pickup truck - yes if I didn't buy one I would probably be issued one - is a small American flag on the back. It's a souvenir from a visit to a Mom & Dad flag & map store we happen to like. As a result
people take one look and assume they know my politics. I have been subjected to verbal diarrhea from both sides of the equation. In one instance I was wondering if a pretty large group of people were going to be a problem - and all I was doing was my job. Quietly. People with strong convictions require me to either fist-pump agree with them on the spot or apologize for some offense I have no part in. Yes, we live in a catshit rancid environment and I don't need it on me.
I still don't think it has reached the level of say, 1968 here in the States. We have become softheaded to think it has. People's attention spans are measured in minutes and nobody bothers to read and understand history.
Living in the highest tax rate state in the nation I am greatly tired of mandatory largess. Those who advocate the loudest are usually least likely to be the ones to foot the bill. Half my pay disappears before I see it. Just one small example - I break my ass to obtain and maintain a commercial driver's license, pay insurance out the ass and keep hearing about handing driver's licenses out to illegals. I have a problem with that so apparently I'm insensitive - oh, and racist. We are a nation of immigrants and I truly do see it as a strength, but lets' all play by the same rules. No line cutting. If emigrated here legally and worked to obtain citizenship imagine the feelings I'd be harboring.
Can't speak for any other country's politics but know for a fact that several decades of piss-poor American foreign policy from both sides of the aisle has everything to do with the current state of affairs.
I'm a middle aged white American man. I never bring up politics, religion, sex as a general rule - because that's just being polite. Never wear hats, shirts or anything else with logos other than "Ford" or "Harley Davidson" or something similar. The only adornment on my pickup truck - yes if I didn't buy one I would probably be issued one - is a small American flag on the back. It's a souvenir from a visit to a Mom & Dad flag & map store we happen to like. As a result
people take one look and assume they know my politics. I have been subjected to verbal diarrhea from both sides of the equation. In one instance I was wondering if a pretty large group of people were going to be a problem - and all I was doing was my job. Quietly. People with strong convictions require me to either fist-pump agree with them on the spot or apologize for some offense I have no part in. Yes, we live in a catshit rancid environment and I don't need it on me.
I still don't think it has reached the level of say, 1968 here in the States. We have become softheaded to think it has. People's attention spans are measured in minutes and nobody bothers to read and understand history.
Living in the highest tax rate state in the nation I am greatly tired of mandatory largess. Those who advocate the loudest are usually least likely to be the ones to foot the bill. Half my pay disappears before I see it. Just one small example - I break my ass to obtain and maintain a commercial driver's license, pay insurance out the ass and keep hearing about handing driver's licenses out to illegals. I have a problem with that so apparently I'm insensitive - oh, and racist. We are a nation of immigrants and I truly do see it as a strength, but lets' all play by the same rules. No line cutting. If emigrated here legally and worked to obtain citizenship imagine the feelings I'd be harboring.
Can't speak for any other country's politics but know for a fact that several decades of piss-poor American foreign policy from both sides of the aisle has everything to do with the current state of affairs.
Sheltie
Fratty and out of touch.
I can just barely remember the rioting after Martin Luther King was murdered even though I was too young to understand it all. We lived in the suburbs but my father had to drive through an inner city neighborhood to get to and from his job. He came home one day and said black people were throwing bricks through car windows and entire city blocks were on fire. Even though I was very young, it's one of those memories that's permanently etched into my mind.
Today people bemoan how they think America is on the verge of a full blown civil war because they believe Target restrooms have an unfair policy regarding transgender people. Things are so utterly ridiculous right now I try not to pay attention to it.
Today people bemoan how they think America is on the verge of a full blown civil war because they believe Target restrooms have an unfair policy regarding transgender people. Things are so utterly ridiculous right now I try not to pay attention to it.
I don’t think that the average citizen understands what’s happening, because the corporate news media refuses to mention it.
Right now the economic inequality in America (and most of the world) is worse than it was during the Gilded Age when the Robber Barons were exploiting the labor class like slaves and people were rioting in the streets.
That’s why our civilization is a powder keg waiting to go off. Well that, and the fact that the US military has expanded two insane wars abroad to eight, and the wholesale slaughter and mayhem that we’ve wrought all across the Mideast has created a global terrorism epidemic and the largest refugee crisis since WWII. While costing trillions of dollars that we can’t afford.
And the deindustrialization of this nation has forced all of the money, which is in the hands of the very few instead of the many, into a stock market bubble that’s doomed to burst very badly, along with a real estate market that’s now so bloated that few can afford a home for their families.
These are the fundamental issues that drive the collapse of civilizations. All of that other crap about immigrants and which bathroom you can piss in and wearing pussy hats to protest the outcome of a legitimate but historically disappointing election – that’s all diversionary, aimed at pitting one side against the other, so they don’t take notice that the real problems of this country and the world are at the top.
America is now basically a corporate/billionaire oligarchy, and 99% of our politicians are nothing more than their eager spineless little sycophants, because they need their money to win elections aka auctions.
Hopefully both sides of the political spectrum will realize that the oligarchy is the real problem for all of us, and we’ll finally get around to taking our power back from them. Because right now, we’re basically a modern version of the feudal serf class of the Dark Ages, and that’s the antithesis of the free society that our founding fathers had intended for us.
Right now the economic inequality in America (and most of the world) is worse than it was during the Gilded Age when the Robber Barons were exploiting the labor class like slaves and people were rioting in the streets.
That’s why our civilization is a powder keg waiting to go off. Well that, and the fact that the US military has expanded two insane wars abroad to eight, and the wholesale slaughter and mayhem that we’ve wrought all across the Mideast has created a global terrorism epidemic and the largest refugee crisis since WWII. While costing trillions of dollars that we can’t afford.
And the deindustrialization of this nation has forced all of the money, which is in the hands of the very few instead of the many, into a stock market bubble that’s doomed to burst very badly, along with a real estate market that’s now so bloated that few can afford a home for their families.
These are the fundamental issues that drive the collapse of civilizations. All of that other crap about immigrants and which bathroom you can piss in and wearing pussy hats to protest the outcome of a legitimate but historically disappointing election – that’s all diversionary, aimed at pitting one side against the other, so they don’t take notice that the real problems of this country and the world are at the top.
America is now basically a corporate/billionaire oligarchy, and 99% of our politicians are nothing more than their eager spineless little sycophants, because they need their money to win elections aka auctions.
Hopefully both sides of the political spectrum will realize that the oligarchy is the real problem for all of us, and we’ll finally get around to taking our power back from them. Because right now, we’re basically a modern version of the feudal serf class of the Dark Ages, and that’s the antithesis of the free society that our founding fathers had intended for us.
ChrisIB
Honorable
Totally agree but not sure of the prognosis.
Is it not an update of the Marxist position that capitalism would fail due to money concentrating in fewer and fewer hands. The poor would then not have the income to buy the products produced leading to collapse? Didn't happen, central intervention provided stabilization.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Hence the piss-poor foreign policy.
Human nature is consistent.I can't speak to global conspiracy but have plenty of opinions about what affects my daily life.
ChrisIB
Honorable
I believe the next crisis will be due to ageing populations. My Chinese language partner said it was a huge problem there due to the previous one child policy. When he was young his village had 1000 people, now 200 due to migration to cities.
He said the West could throw money at the problem but not an option for third world countries.
Perhaps Dr Pete Peterson was right, there are much safer alternatives to chlorine and fluoride, they are used to limit life expectancy (he may have been right about the Mir space station as well)
He said the West could throw money at the problem but not an option for third world countries.
Perhaps Dr Pete Peterson was right, there are much safer alternatives to chlorine and fluoride, they are used to limit life expectancy (he may have been right about the Mir space station as well)
There are various levels of collapse, to be sure. The Great Depression was a pretty major collapse, but we eventually recovered for a variety of reasons, including the diverse economic systems around the world at the time, and the strength of our industrial sector at that time. Today with globalization I'm less confident in the resilience of the system - the 2007 crash should've been a wake-up call because that showed us how widespread the effects of a financial meltdown can be. And it looked pretty touch-and-go there for awhile. The bubble today is larger, and the fundamentals are weaker. It's only a matter of time before the psychopaths on Wall Street and their puppets in Washington precipitate an irrecoverable global economic catastrophe, imo. It'll probably happen in series of progressively crippling stages, like the fall of the Roman Empire.
I still hold on to a fading spark of hope that a populist political revolution will ignite around the world, so the people can wrest back control of their governments before it's too late. And there's always a chance that some dramatic technological breakthrough could trigger a much-needed new industrial era to give the global economy a big shot in the arm. But I worry that if neither of those happen soon, the system will collapse before it can be saved, and it could take centuries to rebuild, perhaps longer if we slip into another Dark Age.
I'm not sure that I catch your meaning. But I think that most of us are blithely unaware that the quality of our daily lives has plummeted in recent decades as the corruption in the political and economic systems has spiraled completely out of control. We're the frog in the pot and the water has been gradually coming to a boil.
The world is so deeply leveraged with debt now that I can't help but wonder how much debt is sustainable. I guess we'll find out, probably sooner than later.
The problem of aging populations could be ameliorated with medical advances to give people longer productive lifespans. It's too bad that we spend all of our money on the death machine, instead of investing in human life extension R&D.
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ChrisIB
Honorable
Have to differ. Many of the cleverest people on the planet are involved in the financial world, and the influence of oligarchs is not certain.
When people have made their money, most spend even more effort working out how to keep it.
There is that wonderful quote of a financial dealer advising another about meeting the head of their bank,
'It doesn't matter how clever you are, it won't be clever enough'.
About the progenitor of change, personally I believe it won't be a crisis, protests are for students, change will only come from the inside.
A really interesting question is if religious radicalism ever reached destabilizing proportions, would government make alien disclosure to reduce religious power? and might that be part of an unseen dialogue between governments and religion?
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
I do have a few comments but to be honest I had a really good day out having fun and maybe that's another time. Shadowprophet had the right idea in the Relaxation thread, but I happen to catch this on my way home and thought it might be appropriate here
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Pepe’s post triggered my response. From direct personal experience I have been categorized and filed based my physical appearance and subjected to verbal abuse of one form or another. Go pick some other demographic to do that to and tell me how that goes over – but it’s just fine for me. You can toss in the anti-Semitic horseshit my wife has to listen to for good measure. We live in a time when it’s OK to gratuitously spew vitriol because well, we’re so damned correct about one thing or another and it’s someone else's fault so there is no responsibility for poor behavior. That is something I have noted on the rise and see it as a disturbing trend. I attribute it to what I have said before, the immediacy of communication.
In general I agree with what you have said but take a long view of things. Human nature means the strong prey upon the weak and conspiracies are part and parcel of our sociological makeup. The world has a vastly larger population than ever and these inherent issues are accordingly magnified. As for the last two decades of foreign policy, Ike’s warning about the military industrial complex was quite real but has been reduced to cliché. It’s a major factor to why we were in Iraq and just about everywhere else, and why Europe has been inundated with refugees. But, the Romans would understand it and so would William Randolph Hearst. It’s the scope and scale at play not the basic concepts.
From my experience I don’t agree with “the quality of our daily lives has plummeted in recent decades”
Self-reliance has been a hard earned lesson for me and starting at level zero I have found that many opportunities are there for those who seek them. Still are. I’m talking about real, live and in person experience with education, health care and employment. I haven’t seen the quality of daily life degrade, in many cases I see improvement to those willing to work and not expect something for free. Again, my response to Pepe was from a personal level and so is this – I’m not blind to the ills of the world. I don’t speak to global conspiracy because – and please, I really mean no offense here – it sounds extreme to my ear and just the sort of thing that real extremists i.e. doomsday preppers, militias etc. base a lot of their rhetoric on.
I see a dearth of decency and civility online, for sure. You may be right; it could be the immediacy of online communication and the knee-jerk-response online culture that’s arisen over the last 20 years. Especially with platforms like Twitter and facebook that treat all of the content as a fleeting stream of consciousness with no enduring meaning or value, flowing into oblivion every day as new content buries it – I think that the inherent architecture of those types of platforms encourages people to see their own words as inconsequential – lost in the flotsam of chatter, so many people often just spout whatever garbage floats through their mind, and then move on to comment on the next thing, just as impulsively and thoughtlessly. I think that the indirectness of this medium contributes to that; if people had to look each other in the eye in person when they were communicating, instead of hitting a button and sending their words through a large network of machines from one screen to another hundreds or thousands of miles away, they’d consider their words and ideas far more carefully. Most people would, anyway; there's always been a minority of people willing to say stupid and ugly things to others in person. But in the past, those people were shunned, which limited their reach. Now that kind of person can spread filth all day and night on multiple social media platforms, often anonymously, and basically without any consequences whatsoever. The final result is an often ugly, vapid, and inflammatory new form of culture frequently dominated by the lowest form of human being.
That sounds eerily similar to animal nature. Granted, humans are animals too, but in my perhaps naïve view, I think we should do better than that.
And I’m troubled by the meaning of “strong” and “weak” in this context. Because today in America, “strong” means “rich” and “weak” means “poor,” and I’ve noticed that far too often those who are rich are deeply inferior to some of the poorest people I know, in terms of intelligence, capability, and character. That seems backwards to me. I’m seeing the rise of a vapid and entirely self-gratifying aristocratic class, and an alarming percentage of them have inherited their fortunes and power from earlier generations. Simultaneously I’ve seen America’s production industries move abroad, forcing the most capable and ingenious people to take steep pay-cuts, if they can find work at all. This is a recipe for disaster, imo.
I’m a bit confused by this statement, because here you seem to be saying that conspiracies are real and inescapably part of human nature, but later on you seem to deny them.
But I’m not talking about a conspiracy; I’m talking about the return of the "aristocracy vs. peasantry" economic and political dynamic.
The Romans would understand it, but look how that turned out. Decades of unchecked imperialism, which comes with a steep price tag in mangled human bodies, deep and lasting outrage, and trillions of dollars, strikes me as the surest and historically well-tested method to collapse a civilization.
All of the large-scale socioeconomic data refutes this viewpoint. Sure, within your own personal sphere, you may see a pocket of opportunity and a correlation between hard work and success (and the healthcare industry is one of the few that we can't export, so that's doing uncommonly well these days). But nationally, and all across the Western world, that’s not what’s happening. Today, the US is the wealthiest nation in human history, as it has been for many decades. But over the last half century the middle class has been hollowed out as many if not most of our industries have been exported, to exploit the cheap labor abroad. This has shifted the money from the many to the very few: the economic inequality in the US today ranks 23 out of 30 nations on the “inclusive development index,” which factors in data on income, health, poverty, and sustainability:
"The index comes from the World Economic Forum, whose annual summit is taking place in Davos this week. It is a rather comprehensive measure of inequality, and the fact that the U.S. ranks so poorly is a sign of the country’s dramatic wealth concentration.Of all the factors in the index, the U.S. performed worst in what the WEF calls the inclusion category, which measures the distribution of income and wealth, and the level of poverty. Additionally, the country received particularly low marks in the areas of social protection—defined as efficiency of public goods and services and robustness of social safety nets—and employment and labor compensation. The U.S. joins Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Africa as countries with inclusive-development rankings that fall below their GDP per capita rankings, a sign that their economic growth is not being shared, the report says. The U.S. had the largest gap between the two measures."
WEF: U.S. Ranks 23rd Out of 30 for Inequality - The Atlantic
Income inequality, specifically, has skyrocketed in the United States since 1980, and is now comparable to income inequality levels in Mexico and Turkey, according to the OECD and every other credible economic analysis:
“Over the past few years, income inequality levels have remained at historically high levels. Across OECD countries, the average Gini coefficient of disposable household income reached 0.318 in 2014, compared to 0.315 in 2010. This is the highest value on record, since the mid-1980s”
Inequality - OECD
Here’s a chart that shows the imbalance more explicitly:
How economically unequal is the United States?
Nationally, we were doing quite well from about 1945 to 1980. But now we’re back to where we were in 1929 when the stock market collapsed and triggered the Great Depression. And globally, 82% of all wealth is in the hands of 1% of the population:
82% of the World's Wealth Went to the Richest 1% in 2017
Americans are increasingly aware of the problem, which is why millions of people on both sides of the political spectrum filled stadiums for their anti-establishment candidates in 2016, and why Hillary Clinton (the establishment candidate) couldn’t beat the faux-populist Donald Trump even though she outspent him 2:1 (but on the upside, she's a bloodthirsty warhawk who wanted to implement a no-fly zone in Syria, so we'd probably be in the midst of WWIII if she'd won). The nation is increasingly anxious, struggling, and frustrated that our political system no longer represents them, as the labor class now pays a higher tax rate than billionaires like Warren Buffet, and corporations like Amazon and General Electric pay no taxes at all.
I never used the word conspiracy and that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the natural historical trend of all civilizations whereby wealth and political power tends to increasingly accrue at the top, until that civilization collapses. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s simply greed + the tendency of the plutocrat class to rig economic and political systems in their favor.
Not only is the national economy now rigged in favor of the new aristocratic class consisting primarily of billionaires and multinational corporations, but they’ve completely rigged the political system as well. This was empirically proven by the 2014 Gilens and Page study from Princeton on policy-making in the United States. They found that the general population had no statistically significant influence on the policy-making process in Washington, even when we amass into large political lobbies, whereas the elites – the political donor class consisting mainly of billionaires and large corporations - had all of the impact on the political policy-making process:
“Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.”
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites...testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
In common parlance, that says that we’re no longer a representational Republic – the United States is now an oligarchy. We’re past the point where we have to fight to prevent it from happening: it’s already happened. Now we either have to fight to take back our government, or submit to the inevitable descent into neofeudalism and the tyrannical rule of the aristocrats, which is precisely what our founding fathers fought against 250 years ago.
I’m trying to come up with a third option, because the corporate news media has very effectively crippled the capacity of the American people to identify the structural problems of our nation and to organize to fight for crucial political reforms, but it’s a long-shot at best. So it looks to me like we’re facing a decent into a new Dark Age, and it’ll probably take a few centuries for people to get tired of essentially being neofeudal wage slaves while the wealthy bloodlines throw parties and take vanity trips to the Moon on luxury spaceliners.
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pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
pepe
Celestial
Former Soviet Union, China, Venezuela and North Korea.
United States ? Name the guys who are pulling the strings there. Cash for questions and large donations I will grant but to say that there is a secret elite power running democracy is grotesque.
Funny how the countries known to have been or are under this oppression are on the target list of your own nation in one way or another.
We the people have the word on who represents us, not a mystery organisation. The power struggle is all about keeping or giving. It has been up for grabs for decades and know the keepers, who remained silent for purposes of dignity, said enough is enough. The shocking and poinient fact that shook it up was the lack of boundaries concerning freedoms. There were none as fear of being viewed as prejudice ( Trump ) was infectious.
I am a street level person who goes by my gut.
Promise lands have manifested from our freedom and those who have lived under it have become as pigfarmer mentioned, soft headed. It's why we are firming up.
Large media organisations in advanced countries who massage emotion by choosing the theme have more oligarchial qualities than government.
United States ? Name the guys who are pulling the strings there. Cash for questions and large donations I will grant but to say that there is a secret elite power running democracy is grotesque.
Funny how the countries known to have been or are under this oppression are on the target list of your own nation in one way or another.
We the people have the word on who represents us, not a mystery organisation. The power struggle is all about keeping or giving. It has been up for grabs for decades and know the keepers, who remained silent for purposes of dignity, said enough is enough. The shocking and poinient fact that shook it up was the lack of boundaries concerning freedoms. There were none as fear of being viewed as prejudice ( Trump ) was infectious.
I am a street level person who goes by my gut.
Promise lands have manifested from our freedom and those who have lived under it have become as pigfarmer mentioned, soft headed. It's why we are firming up.
Large media organisations in advanced countries who massage emotion by choosing the theme have more oligarchial qualities than government.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Agreed. Sometimes getting what you think you want doesn't always work out the way you had hoped but I make a point to exercise my right to vote and speak my mind to my representatives as I see fit and can do so without fear of anything.
Also agreed, to a point. Much of what I was saying in response to your initial post was based on bad-breath level experience not from sitting in front of a computer.
Okay: the major corporations and billionaires pull the strings here. Political campaign donations buy influence over the politicians, and the politicians in turn control the policy-making decisions.
This is so well-known and obvious that it always stuns me when anyone is oblivious to the complete corruption of the United States government. Most of it is publicly known:
Mega-donors lead parties' search for early edge in US election
Top Organization Contributors | OpenSecrets
Top Individual Contributors: All Federal Contributions | OpenSecrets
Meet the wealthy donors pouring millions into the 2018 elections
Where do you and pigfarmer get the idea that we’re talking about a “secret” and/or a “conspiracy?” It’s neither. The corruption is right out in the open; it’s not a secret and it’s not a conspiracy – it’s just graft, plain and simple. And that’s as old as human civilization itself.
But the problem of dark money has grown to epidemic proportions, on top of the total domination of our government by corporate interests and billionaires – which I’ve already shown to be a proven empirical fact. Here’s an overview of dark money:
Dark money - Wikipedia
You’re oversimplifying a wide range of individual issues – the US targets a lot of countries through policy, sanctions, and warfare, for a whole lot of different reasons which generally boil down to exploiting foreign resources and protecting the PetroDollar system. We don’t really care if a nation is oppressive as long as we’re making a profit off of them – that whole “spreading freedom and democracy” BS is just PR. If we had a problem with oppressive nations, all of our presidents and representatives wouldn’t bow before the Saudis, for example. They just publicly beheaded a young woman for participating in a peaceful protest, btw.
Haha – that’s funny. I guess you’ve never studied US politics. The two parties pick who runs in the primaries, and they fund the candidates that their donors want them to fund, so those candidates (from both parties) run against each other, and so about 99.9% of the time, one of those two donor-selected candidates wins the election, and then goes on to represent the donor class at the federal or state level.
The donor class. Not “the people.” Our only choice is which corporate/plutocrat puppet we like better. It’s been that way for decades, but it’s gotten worse in recent decades, for a variety of reasons like the Citizen’s United and McCutcheon v FEC rulings by the Supreme Court.
Do you guys know the meaning of “aristocracy?” It’s not an organization, and it’s not a mystery. It’s a class of people who have the wealth and political power to control the legislative process.
The Princeton study that I cited above proved that our government is controlled by the elite class. That’s why Amazon and General Electric pay no taxes to the IRS, but working people like us do. And it’s also why the government keeps deregulating Wall Street, and why we keep seeing major tax cuts for the donor class – they buy those policies through campaign donations.
I don’t know what you’re talking about here. I’m talking about politics and economics. It’s spelled “poignant,” btw.
The gut reaction is the primary tool used to manipulate the public – by simply framing issues in either a favorable or unfavorable light – often through the choice of language used, people respond emotionally the way that the corporate news media wants you to respond.
It’s better to be informed and educated. And anyone can do that via the internet now. Sadly, few people bother.
I have no idea what you’re talking about here. Lots of nations have freedom. And if Americans have become exceptionally “soft-headed” (whatever that means), I would think that it has more to do with the comparatively poor quality of our educational system and the poor quality of our corporate news media.
In any case the major problems today are structural, and primarily economic and political in nature.
The first part of that is correct, but you haven’t realized yet that those large media corporations/organizations act essentially as the megaphone of the government, aka, the Deep State, which is in turn predominantly controlled by the donor class. All of the major corporations and the government work hand-in-hand now; the oligarchy of the United States consists of media corporations, defense corporations, banking corporations, etc., and the billionaires who own them. The politicians are basically just their employees.
The interests of the common people have no representation in Washington anymore; that’s an incontrovertible empirical fact.
You don’t have anything to fear, other than the fact that they’ll ignore you. Your representatives don’t represent you; they represent their donors.
You shouldn’t knock the computer – the internet is the most powerful library system ever built, if it’s used that way. But I also grew up in a political family because my father was a politician, and that's a helpful way to get a clear view of the playing field.
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Shadowprophet
Truthiness
That's interesting, While my ideas are different. You consider the soul to have its own lifespan, So the soul is not eternal? in your view?
pepe
Celestial
How can it be corrupt if it is part of out nature. Secret as in not being identified as what it is recognised as. Kind of makes it secret.
I don't need to study your system. It's the same here with donor influence on the vote, never has it been any different. Money for influence.
Of course many nations share freedoms. Your country and mine are viewed as the goal in terms of freedoms given. Common knowledge. Has a grading to it and not the same across the board. I wasn't being rude by saying softheaded. Funny how the softest are targeted by migration, both our nations hold top spots. Poor quality of media no, I think it is swayed itself by donation and promotes one or the other by not reporting where it goes against the grain.
And the donors have a line that represents a people. No agenda is hidden, just has degrees of backing.
You must be a revolutionary Thomas. I respect that.