Last days of Rome . The powerful big men in the world who are supposedly representing the so called free world are itching for a big war . All we have on the tv in the UK are violent film usually about war . So obvious the media are pushing it because news certainly sells. We are in the longest period of peace in the history of Europe. Germany is rearming in time for the far right to get voted in . Maybe the French will be braver but normally they go along with whoever is the strongest . The UK will be finished in no time and the fucking zionists are waiting in the wings. Yep . Brave New World ... just pray for a pandemic !!
"In this dystopia, Americans are never given the option to vote for a president who won’t bomb foreign countries in wars of aggression." Who was jill stein going to bomb? Americans had a choice. They chose duopoly. Theyre complicit
There's always a choice, but so many fall for the propaganda that voting Green is "throwing your vote away." I could argue that voting for the duopoly is "throwing your vote away and keeping us on a permanent war footing."
"can" yes, "will" no. They're duopoly supporters. They're worse than Zionists. Not only do they support Zionists, they support all the rest of the US deep state neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, military/economic global and domestic tyranny
1. The duopoly are Zionists. and then there's the US neo-colonial neo imperial global and domestic economic and military tyranny. So yes, they're literally worse.
2. It doesnt matter what it would take. Voting is free. Anyone chosing duopoly is complicity and worse than Zionists.
Ask the native americans, hawaiians, libyans, iraqis, afghanistanis, vietnamese, etc etc etc global south whos worse, zionists or Americans
Where did I say I supported the fucking duopoly, shitforbrains?
What don’t you get about s real, actual, physical revolution? I’m locked, loaded and ready. SOME people here call themselves “revolutionary” and think we can talk or vote our way outta this motherfucking mess! 😂😂😂
In a two-party system, any third party will draw away votes from the party to which it is closer. That happened in 2016, when the Green Party drew away enough votes from the Democrats to put the Republican candidate into the White House.
Donald Trump is Jill Stein's gift to America.
You can bitch all you want about the two-party system, but you won't break it by pushing a third party. Ralph Nader gave us eight years of Bush Jr. Jill Stein (and Kamala Harris) gave us eight years of Trump.
We didn't choose duopoly, but that's what we have and we're stuck with it.
Everyone who voted duopoly chose duopoly. Everyone who voted Jill Stein voted 3rd party. You can try to spin it all you want. But each vote for Trump was support for Trump and complicit in Trumps admin. Every vote for Biden was support for Biden and complicity in Biden's admin. Every vote for Jill Stein was a vote against Biden(or Harris) or Trump.
I don't know that making peace profitable is the solution as some suggest. I think we have to get beyond the desire to make huge profits.
What do people actually do with billions of dollars? Are they happier people for all that money? What about the joy of being a good global citizen, or of living in a way that's altruistic and doing what we can to make life better for everyone and the planet healthier?
It's odd that the happiest countries are the poorest, where the people have "enough" and that it is all we really need to have, like the old saying "enough is sufficient".
In my childhood we played peever(hopscotch to you), your peever could be a round tin, usually with something inside to give it weight, or it could be a rounded, flattened stone, the best peever was marble shaped round and flat. We could play that all day and it cost parents nothing except shaping a good peever for their child, some children made their own. Of course we had skipping ropes as well, individual ropes, washing line ropes for group fun, or hide and seek, so many ball games, marbles, tig. We didn't need expensive toys or electronic games, we had each other, we had roly poly down the grass hills or at parks and, books, where I could be found most of the time, unaware of the world around me.
How the world has changed so that some few people can own all the wealth yet still not be happy, and instead work at killing, destruction and encouraging wars.
Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything. Expensive toys seem like one more money generating commodity. Sure, some of them are nice, but I don't know that kids actually need them.
It seems that so many things some people consider essential are unnecessary, and strong communities bring joy to their members.
There's something so far from our humanity when we see people so greedy that they're willing to have people killed, or hollow out their own societies where people become homeless, hungry and unable to get quality care in order for a certain class of people to become increasingly wealthier. It's a sickness.
Reminds me of the child who loved to bang sticks on pot lids. His parents ought him a toy drum set for his birthday, he played with it for half an hour then went back to banging on the pot lid - he did use the little drumstick though 😉
More important than ever! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable. Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.
Unless there is a massive shift in consciousness, which is possible, I suspect we will have to rely on the young people coming through and taking up positions of power. They are having their eyes opened much earlier than most and showing a commitment and maturity beyond our present day sand pit politicians. Trump is actually doing us all a favour. His behaviour is so outrageously bizarre, we can't really ignore it. It is looking like peaceful mass civil disobedience is the only answer🤷Power to the people who haven't succumbed to insanity!
In this dystopia where the only topic of conversation revolves around sports, trivia and Hollywood how can those who know the dismal situation they live in deal with this? You can pretend the Empire is OK and follow along with the zombies who don't know any better. But for those who have a clear view of the Empire's last days it could not be more depressing.....
It really is the case that to understand Amerika's endless appetite for war you need but ask two questions: "cui bono?" and "what's the bottom line"? That the country holds enormous stockpiles of weapons means they will be used. Beyond the profit motive, there is an institutional compulsion as well as a psychological predisposition embedded in close support. In parallel is America's exact same problem with domestic gun homicides and mass shootings: the weapons are out there and the little boys have been taught, and encouraged, to wield them.
"When it comes to doing anything that might eat into those profits by making the world a less violent place, there’s not even a viable option at the ballot box."
That's the world we live in--a world where profits of the oligarchs are more important that the common people's health and welfare. Why do we put up with such a dystopian society? Surely we believe we deserve better--don't we? If we don't believe we deserve better, it's time for us to get some therapy--and start a revolution!
Thank you Caitlin & Tim. We are still fighting the good fight. Nothing has changed, except everything has got nastier, more dangerous, more on the brink of a dystopian abyss.
It is timely to reflect on Martin Luther King day. I am quoting from Democracy Now:
"Today is a federal holiday that honours Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Beyond Vietnam” was the speech he delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4th, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated. In it, Dr. King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Life magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi.” The Washington Post said King, quote, “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people. Ho Chi Minh has watched as America has spoken of peace and built up its forces".
Last days of Rome . The powerful big men in the world who are supposedly representing the so called free world are itching for a big war . All we have on the tv in the UK are violent film usually about war . So obvious the media are pushing it because news certainly sells. We are in the longest period of peace in the history of Europe. Germany is rearming in time for the far right to get voted in . Maybe the French will be braver but normally they go along with whoever is the strongest . The UK will be finished in no time and the fucking zionists are waiting in the wings. Yep . Brave New World ... just pray for a pandemic !!
Keep watching China and India with nearly half of the world’s human population and an ever-increasing amount of advanced technologies.
"In this dystopia, Americans are never given the option to vote for a president who won’t bomb foreign countries in wars of aggression." Who was jill stein going to bomb? Americans had a choice. They chose duopoly. Theyre complicit
There's always a choice, but so many fall for the propaganda that voting Green is "throwing your vote away." I could argue that voting for the duopoly is "throwing your vote away and keeping us on a permanent war footing."
Do you actually believe AmeriKKKans can vote their way out of this?
"can" yes, "will" no. They're duopoly supporters. They're worse than Zionists. Not only do they support Zionists, they support all the rest of the US deep state neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, military/economic global and domestic tyranny
1. No one is worse than Zionazis.
2. You do realize that the majority of Congress would have to be shifted to third party as well?
We have two choices: armed revolution, or Russia nukes DC for us.
1. The duopoly are Zionists. and then there's the US neo-colonial neo imperial global and domestic economic and military tyranny. So yes, they're literally worse.
2. It doesnt matter what it would take. Voting is free. Anyone chosing duopoly is complicity and worse than Zionists.
Ask the native americans, hawaiians, libyans, iraqis, afghanistanis, vietnamese, etc etc etc global south whos worse, zionists or Americans
CAN YOU READ, PAL?
Where did I say I supported the fucking duopoly, shitforbrains?
What don’t you get about s real, actual, physical revolution? I’m locked, loaded and ready. SOME people here call themselves “revolutionary” and think we can talk or vote our way outta this motherfucking mess! 😂😂😂
In a two-party system, any third party will draw away votes from the party to which it is closer. That happened in 2016, when the Green Party drew away enough votes from the Democrats to put the Republican candidate into the White House.
Donald Trump is Jill Stein's gift to America.
You can bitch all you want about the two-party system, but you won't break it by pushing a third party. Ralph Nader gave us eight years of Bush Jr. Jill Stein (and Kamala Harris) gave us eight years of Trump.
We didn't choose duopoly, but that's what we have and we're stuck with it.
Please spare us your self-righteous cant.
Jill Stein is the only vote I've made in over 35 years that ever counted.
It's too bad you're so binary and afraid to get out of the cage they have you in.
Everyone who voted duopoly chose duopoly. Everyone who voted Jill Stein voted 3rd party. You can try to spin it all you want. But each vote for Trump was support for Trump and complicit in Trumps admin. Every vote for Biden was support for Biden and complicity in Biden's admin. Every vote for Jill Stein was a vote against Biden(or Harris) or Trump.
I don't know that making peace profitable is the solution as some suggest. I think we have to get beyond the desire to make huge profits.
What do people actually do with billions of dollars? Are they happier people for all that money? What about the joy of being a good global citizen, or of living in a way that's altruistic and doing what we can to make life better for everyone and the planet healthier?
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
~ Smedley Butler
It's odd that the happiest countries are the poorest, where the people have "enough" and that it is all we really need to have, like the old saying "enough is sufficient".
In my childhood we played peever(hopscotch to you), your peever could be a round tin, usually with something inside to give it weight, or it could be a rounded, flattened stone, the best peever was marble shaped round and flat. We could play that all day and it cost parents nothing except shaping a good peever for their child, some children made their own. Of course we had skipping ropes as well, individual ropes, washing line ropes for group fun, or hide and seek, so many ball games, marbles, tig. We didn't need expensive toys or electronic games, we had each other, we had roly poly down the grass hills or at parks and, books, where I could be found most of the time, unaware of the world around me.
How the world has changed so that some few people can own all the wealth yet still not be happy, and instead work at killing, destruction and encouraging wars.
The world has seen few people owning all the wealth before this. The guilded age was not so long ago.
And that didn't end well...
Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything. Expensive toys seem like one more money generating commodity. Sure, some of them are nice, but I don't know that kids actually need them.
It seems that so many things some people consider essential are unnecessary, and strong communities bring joy to their members.
There's something so far from our humanity when we see people so greedy that they're willing to have people killed, or hollow out their own societies where people become homeless, hungry and unable to get quality care in order for a certain class of people to become increasingly wealthier. It's a sickness.
Reminds me of the child who loved to bang sticks on pot lids. His parents ought him a toy drum set for his birthday, he played with it for half an hour then went back to banging on the pot lid - he did use the little drumstick though 😉
More important than ever! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable. Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.
Find out what they’re doing here:
https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org
The least we can do is donate to help them:
Support the Hind Rajab Foundation
https://donate.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg
Thank You Caitlin
Unless there is a massive shift in consciousness, which is possible, I suspect we will have to rely on the young people coming through and taking up positions of power. They are having their eyes opened much earlier than most and showing a commitment and maturity beyond our present day sand pit politicians. Trump is actually doing us all a favour. His behaviour is so outrageously bizarre, we can't really ignore it. It is looking like peaceful mass civil disobedience is the only answer🤷Power to the people who haven't succumbed to insanity!
"You Can't Vote Against Wars But You Can Gamble On When They'll Start."
That is definitely a case of 'You win some, but you lose more'.
In this dystopia where the only topic of conversation revolves around sports, trivia and Hollywood how can those who know the dismal situation they live in deal with this? You can pretend the Empire is OK and follow along with the zombies who don't know any better. But for those who have a clear view of the Empire's last days it could not be more depressing.....
Please...stop the world and let me off,this isn't what I thought it was and I want off!!
Could we really do any worse elsewhere??
Heh. Since ziohag Miriam Adelson and her ( thankfully) deceased husband, Jabba the Hut, made their billions stealing the wages of gambling addicts:
Think she’s in on this?
It really is the case that to understand Amerika's endless appetite for war you need but ask two questions: "cui bono?" and "what's the bottom line"? That the country holds enormous stockpiles of weapons means they will be used. Beyond the profit motive, there is an institutional compulsion as well as a psychological predisposition embedded in close support. In parallel is America's exact same problem with domestic gun homicides and mass shootings: the weapons are out there and the little boys have been taught, and encouraged, to wield them.
Well said.
"When it comes to doing anything that might eat into those profits by making the world a less violent place, there’s not even a viable option at the ballot box."
That's the world we live in--a world where profits of the oligarchs are more important that the common people's health and welfare. Why do we put up with such a dystopian society? Surely we believe we deserve better--don't we? If we don't believe we deserve better, it's time for us to get some therapy--and start a revolution!
Uh huh.
What do you propose?
We have been betting on saviors the entire life of western civilization and the addiction to wars of occupation for dominance by empires.
Thank you Caitlin & Tim. We are still fighting the good fight. Nothing has changed, except everything has got nastier, more dangerous, more on the brink of a dystopian abyss.
It is timely to reflect on Martin Luther King day. I am quoting from Democracy Now:
"Today is a federal holiday that honours Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Beyond Vietnam” was the speech he delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4th, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated. In it, Dr. King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Life magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi.” The Washington Post said King, quote, “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people. Ho Chi Minh has watched as America has spoken of peace and built up its forces".
"In the future, anything that can be done will be done." - attributed to F.N. Dostoevskii
"Only if somebody somewhere can make a buck off of it." - me
Cats are smarter than Dostoevsky.