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Robert Billyard's avatar

We are all Palestinians, we are all Ukrainians! People fail to realize the world in 2024 is so highly populated, so highly integrated we are all affected directly or indirectly. If wars ended at midnight tonight we will still be dealing with consequences for decades. If we only knew the true costs and hidden costs of wars would they would have been banished long ago. Peoples of the West just can't bring ourselves to recognize we are slave states to the Empire's despotism and with each day our futures become grimmer.

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Adam Frank's avatar

I'm with the Palestinians and with the Russians protecting the Eastern Ukrainian Russian speakers. So basically, to hell with Zelensky.

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@smokygirl2006's avatar

I’m with you on that.

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gypsy33's avatar

Me three.

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Susan T's avatar

Robert Billyard, we may recognize that we are slave states, but recognition is one thing and changing the situation is another. In any case, even people who are not rich often think that being rich is the goal and rich people are better or smarter or something. We need to undertake the enormous job of changing that thinking.

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karl pomeroy's avatar

I bought a wild piece of land nobody wanted, made it beautiful, and live on next to nothing. Am I rich or poor?

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Mike Fish's avatar

I think that you are both fortunate, and mistaken.

You can’t really own a part of the earth.

The inventor never actually offered any of it for sale.

The terms “bought” and “live on next to nothing” seem to imply a monetary bent.

Why ask if you’re rich or poor?

Only you know that, based upon your experience, and how you feel about your life.

I hope that you are happy.

Does anyone else’s opinion really matter?

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Susan T's avatar

you are a smart human being. And lucky.

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Claude Lord's avatar

Are you content & joyful?

Then I would consider you rich.

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Heinrich Dahms's avatar

Wealthy beyond words.

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JennyStokes's avatar

You are fortunate.

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gypsy33's avatar

You are rich beyond gold, Karl.

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karl pomeroy's avatar

Have you ever owned any?

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karl pomeroy's avatar

I have 16 feral cats. Does that count?

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Paula's avatar

Vast empty areas? Like Palestine to the 1948 Zionists? Humanity is destroying the living space & resources of hundreds, or thousands of non-human creatures. Yes, I mean animals. Humans now occupy one third of Mother Earth & is leaving less & less of the tiny third left for all the other living (for the moment) creatures.

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Paula's avatar

My error. Humans now occupy TWO THIRDS of Mother Earth, leaving only one third to the rest of Creation.

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