How in the world do you or anyone else expect changes to take place from the actions, behavior and proposed policies of either side!? There is but one solution to this debacle, and that is to starve the overlords until everyone realizes that the government works for the people or it will not work at all... exit the existing financial and…
How in the world do you or anyone else expect changes to take place from the actions, behavior and proposed policies of either side!? There is but one solution to this debacle, and that is to starve the overlords until everyone realizes that the government works for the people or it will not work at all... exit the existing financial and political system. Do not keep your money in USD. It is collapsing... learn to use the lightning network for payments and strip those who dominate the payments infrastructure like Visa who rape everyone for no less than 3%. It's going to be a brutal transition, stop arguing and pretending things will change with the next president.. every single one of them is a crook. Take your life into your own hands, nobody will save you. Democracy is smoke and mirrors.
Socialism. Right. That murderous ideology that never works. Name one country historically or today that exemplifies your model of a working socialist system. You cannot. So you are a hazardous fool with a vote.
OK, so now you are making claims. Socialism is a murderous ideology.
Then you reverse the question posed to you, in my last post, attempting to squirrel out of a burden to produce evidence for your claims by asking me a question.
No, no no. Basic argumentation. You make the claim, you give the evidence.
but deflection is what you have been taught in the defunded schools that line the blighted neighborhoods where little music or laughter can be heard and instead the typing of the imperfect human attempting to announce his or her existence without supporting their claims. That, my friend, is uncritical thinking.
You went full circle and with your own words and narrative have defined the ver uncritical thinking you accuse Hedges of.
I will not have the time to respond to future posts by you. So I will leave you the words and thoughts of Big Bill Haywood, a man you probably never heard of:
''The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy - all the gold belonged to them! If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.''
~ Big Bill Haywood, Miner, founding member & leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
It is hard to think critically. Birds brought up in cages think flying is insane.
Don't let me forget you and thanks for allowing others to see your thoughts and a critical analysis of its shortcomings.
FDR implemented socialist style policies and they were wildly popular. Hmmm. Maybe it is the balance between capital's needs and the social needs that were so successful for 40 years after the great depression?
This all or none style of thinking is so ignorant. This version of capitalism at present in the US is more corporate socialism or socialism for the rich. And it speaks to the nature of the question you ignore with your labels of "socialism", such that socialism will be a part of our overall system in some respect no matter what and the same with capitalistic undercurrents. The real question is qui bono, who benefits from these policies. And all the grown ups know the answer to this question.
Capitalism evolves into corporatism naturally without regulation and strong social state apparatus that does not bend to the will of finance, intelligence or the military.
And power seeks a vacuum and fills it. It is like you missed the entire neoliberal period from 1976 to present, and are talking about a fictional concept. Our tallest buildings in this country are corporate banks - our national debt is over 34 Trillion dollars, and covertly, we have been in secret wars in the last 15 years to overthrow anyone we did not like (PNAC 1998).
So, I am not here to answer your questions. I am here to say that the US does whatever the fuck it wants to, and then justifies it later. Tony Benn, someone I admire would say that if you can find money for war to kill people, then you can find it help people. FDR is not a bad model for balancing the social needs of a society while putting a check on finance and corporations.
But there was also the business coup with old Smedley Butler - group of businessmen who want to take Roosevelt out. There always is.
We can elect leaders that do the work to benefit the citizens if we stop being duped idiots voting for the same career politician plastic clones with their deep establishment connections to enrich themselves at the expense of the citizens.
You're not categorically wrong about needing a different sort of leadership, but of course the problem runs deeper where the system has virtually all politicians answering to funders over constituencies. That's a generic problem that we need outside the box thinking to deal with.
No one has ever seen that happen to date. Hold your breath long enough and you will die waiting. Not until the incentives structure is made permanently aligned with doing good will that even have a chance. The fiat currency system incentivizes theft via debasement cause through printing. This is not possible under a fixed supply money that is controlled by no one and everyone simultaneously. Bitcoin is the answer.
"but one solution" isn't felicitous. Slapping right and wrong back and forth isn't the way to progress. You can express that as an opinion -- and I'm all for expressing opinions that we should be doing more of -- but it doesn't work as a directive.
If the solution is the solution, will you ignore it because you didn't like the hair color of the person who brought it to your attention? It matters not to me if you utilize the exit valve... save yourself or not.. the fiat currency system is what enables all of this theft to take place.. even if I'm not smiling when I write
How in the world do you or anyone else expect changes to take place from the actions, behavior and proposed policies of either side!? There is but one solution to this debacle, and that is to starve the overlords until everyone realizes that the government works for the people or it will not work at all... exit the existing financial and political system. Do not keep your money in USD. It is collapsing... learn to use the lightning network for payments and strip those who dominate the payments infrastructure like Visa who rape everyone for no less than 3%. It's going to be a brutal transition, stop arguing and pretending things will change with the next president.. every single one of them is a crook. Take your life into your own hands, nobody will save you. Democracy is smoke and mirrors.
As Bertolt Brecht asked in 1935:
“How can anyone tell the truth about Fascism, unless he is willing to speak out against capitalism, which brings it forth?
Bertolt Brecht, Galileo (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1966), 137–38.
All over the world capitalism is failing. I am afraid the answer is not as individualistic as you state.
One has to see the class struggle and organize with others to fight fascism and struggle for socialism.
Only socialism can beat fascism.
United we stand, divided we fell!
Socialism. Right. That murderous ideology that never works. Name one country historically or today that exemplifies your model of a working socialist system. You cannot. So you are a hazardous fool with a vote.
OK, so now you are making claims. Socialism is a murderous ideology.
Then you reverse the question posed to you, in my last post, attempting to squirrel out of a burden to produce evidence for your claims by asking me a question.
No, no no. Basic argumentation. You make the claim, you give the evidence.
but deflection is what you have been taught in the defunded schools that line the blighted neighborhoods where little music or laughter can be heard and instead the typing of the imperfect human attempting to announce his or her existence without supporting their claims. That, my friend, is uncritical thinking.
You went full circle and with your own words and narrative have defined the ver uncritical thinking you accuse Hedges of.
I will not have the time to respond to future posts by you. So I will leave you the words and thoughts of Big Bill Haywood, a man you probably never heard of:
''The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy - all the gold belonged to them! If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.''
~ Big Bill Haywood, Miner, founding member & leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
It is hard to think critically. Birds brought up in cages think flying is insane.
Don't let me forget you and thanks for allowing others to see your thoughts and a critical analysis of its shortcomings.
FDR implemented socialist style policies and they were wildly popular. Hmmm. Maybe it is the balance between capital's needs and the social needs that were so successful for 40 years after the great depression?
This all or none style of thinking is so ignorant. This version of capitalism at present in the US is more corporate socialism or socialism for the rich. And it speaks to the nature of the question you ignore with your labels of "socialism", such that socialism will be a part of our overall system in some respect no matter what and the same with capitalistic undercurrents. The real question is qui bono, who benefits from these policies. And all the grown ups know the answer to this question.
You did not answer the question other than a case to revert back in time to Make America Great Again.
Capitalism is fine, but corporatism... what we have today.. is not.
Capitalism evolves into corporatism naturally without regulation and strong social state apparatus that does not bend to the will of finance, intelligence or the military.
And power seeks a vacuum and fills it. It is like you missed the entire neoliberal period from 1976 to present, and are talking about a fictional concept. Our tallest buildings in this country are corporate banks - our national debt is over 34 Trillion dollars, and covertly, we have been in secret wars in the last 15 years to overthrow anyone we did not like (PNAC 1998).
So, I am not here to answer your questions. I am here to say that the US does whatever the fuck it wants to, and then justifies it later. Tony Benn, someone I admire would say that if you can find money for war to kill people, then you can find it help people. FDR is not a bad model for balancing the social needs of a society while putting a check on finance and corporations.
But there was also the business coup with old Smedley Butler - group of businessmen who want to take Roosevelt out. There always is.
We can elect leaders that do the work to benefit the citizens if we stop being duped idiots voting for the same career politician plastic clones with their deep establishment connections to enrich themselves at the expense of the citizens.
You're not categorically wrong about needing a different sort of leadership, but of course the problem runs deeper where the system has virtually all politicians answering to funders over constituencies. That's a generic problem that we need outside the box thinking to deal with.
"Don't change life, change leaders."
Situationist International, Paris 1968
No one has ever seen that happen to date. Hold your breath long enough and you will die waiting. Not until the incentives structure is made permanently aligned with doing good will that even have a chance. The fiat currency system incentivizes theft via debasement cause through printing. This is not possible under a fixed supply money that is controlled by no one and everyone simultaneously. Bitcoin is the answer.
Bitcoin is the psyop.
"but one solution" isn't felicitous. Slapping right and wrong back and forth isn't the way to progress. You can express that as an opinion -- and I'm all for expressing opinions that we should be doing more of -- but it doesn't work as a directive.
If the solution is the solution, will you ignore it because you didn't like the hair color of the person who brought it to your attention? It matters not to me if you utilize the exit valve... save yourself or not.. the fiat currency system is what enables all of this theft to take place.. even if I'm not smiling when I write
Fiat currency is a product of the capitalist economy. You are dealing with the symptom not the problem.