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Logician's avatar

YESSS! A wonderful article so full of truth, I rejoiced in reading every single word of it! He is a man, a real man, and after my own heart! When I saw the title, for a moment I thought about my own paper I wrote several years ago with the same name, and very close in the message!

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Courageous Lion's avatar

I know that you and I are pretty much on the same page. The problem is how do we get a change for the better without putting their heads on a silver platter? Maybe it won't have to be so drastic with modern communication. Ever read "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross?

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Sharine Borslien's avatar

Brilliant, thank you for sharing, CL! I would add only two things:

One, that all elections are bogus; they are "selections" and the winners have all been chosen well in advance of the campaign parade/charade; and

Two, that it seems quite likely that China-bootlicker and Commiefornia Dear Leader Gavin Newsom has been selected to bring four years of extra-extreme torment to the Republic, which no longer *stands* as intended but will surely entirely crumble under the enhanced torture methods of the next administration.

I say that if we haven't done so already, we take on the full armor of The One True Creator of Life and Love, and sharpen our swords. What will happen to the sleeping masses, I cannot say, but it seems tragically obvious that some will awaken and some will not. If the CovAin't didn't shock them awake, I don't know what will!

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Courageous Lion's avatar

About bogus...here is what the sage of our generation had to say...

But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed.

It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.

Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want:

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests.

That's right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that!

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fucking place! It's a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club. ~George Carlin

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Steve Martin's avatar

Sighing. The same here in Japan. Public education and news is a kabuki show, and while most people are just trying to make a living for their family, the more narcissistic sociopaths are attracted to institutional concentrations of power like moths to a flame ... with similar results.

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Joe Van Steenbergen's avatar

Seems a populace accustomed to voting, and believing they had a choice, was ripe for the brainwashing that accompanied covid. My guess is that the crowd that wore 2 masks inside their vehicles while driving alone also voted the hardest.

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