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 !!
I wouldn't worry about India. It hurts me to say it, but they're going exactly the same way - profit driven and authoritarian. With such a young population, who are smart and inventive, they should already be doing well, but the corruption is endemic. In my opinion partly caused by a dual system of doing business - the Western model imposed by the British on top of the old Indian system which, as in most countries with no welfare state, operated through local and familial connections and trust. Either system can work, and the old system did for millenia. The Western one is apparently more fair/equal than the other, but we can see now that was always an illusion since the rich and powerful always manipulate things in their own favour. Both together is a disaster because there is no clarity about how anything works, bureaucracy is impenetrable and corruption is everywhere.
It is debatable about whether the “Western” system is more fair or equal than the one operated through local family connections. Real advancement in the Western system is still based upon familial and “old school” connections and true meritocracy is a myth.
The USA established a welfare system, nine decades ago, to forestall a pending revolution that may have rivaled the one in the USSR. Capitalists have been striving to eliminate that welfare system.
The people of China succeeded in their revolution, circa 1949. The oppressed people of India may soon join them. Thus far, the “business model” of the Chinese government has been working toward the longterm benefit for all of China. The Western model has been working in favor of the wealthiest Capitalists at the expense of the poorest people in the world.
"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! 😂😂😂
As someone who has voted for Jill Stein 3 times, I appreciate your comment. In defense of ordinary Americans, though: In 2016, the BBC listed her along with Trump, Clinton, and the Libertarian candidate. However, CNN mentioned Trump, Clinton, and the Libertarian. They did not mention Stein. I mention this as an example of why Americans did not vote for her: many did not know about her
It is another case of peace voices being silenced. I had quit watching TV by the 2024 election and so I don't know what the networks did then.
Just as with Dr.Ron Paul who won in several states. The powers that be will never allow a 3rd party. The uniparty of Dem Rep are the only choices. The correct 3rd choice is to abstain in numbers that delegitamize the corrupt voting system. That and remove Foreign and domestic lobbying and their money. AIPAC in particular
Imagine thinking Americans abstaining from voting would make a bigger impact on US politics and society than Americans voting for Jill Stein. lol Of course the establishment would fight it, and us non-coward Americans would expose it and resist it further and fight for the changes they wanted. It would have elevated her platform and brought her diplomatic foreign policy, demilitarization, housing/healthcare etc conversations to the mainstream. If more people didn't vote, you think THAT would have a bigger effect on the powers that be? The real problem is that Americans WONT vote 3rd party because they're either too supportive (complicit) and dependent on or too scared to challenge the duopoly and powers that be
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.
I'am a European and find it difficult to blame the ordinary Americans for their votes in this kind of two-party system, based on donations in millions. In France, that is impossible, donations are very limited. Money gives means for publicities, vidéos, meetings, i.e. means for persuasion.
As an American, I find it easy to blame them. It was easy to find Jill Stein during the voting process. Yes, she didnt get mainstream media air time, but Americans who aren't critical of the two party system and trying to make any effort at all are literally complicit in their governments actions. Its their tax money the Trum admin weilds. Of course I blame the Trump admin, but the American people dont get the criticicm that i assure you, as an american, they deserve.
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.
Yes...for some personally. Always voting for the lesser of two evils takes a spiritual tow I will NO LONGER accept....after a long life of doing so...genocide and oligarchy vs genocide and Naziism and oligarchy.. Wow. What a profoundly sick, deformed choice. I'm DONE. And will no longer feel guilty nor justify my MORAL choices. I will NO LONGER tolerate or vote FOR evil of any stripe.
There are different opinions about Jill Stein's responsibility for electing Trump. One opinion is the one you mentioned. Another is this: that if Stein had not been on the ballot, her voters would have done the following: 1. Stayed home. 2. Voted for Clinton, or 3. voted for Trump because Clinton is a war hawk. In this view, Clinton would not have gotten enough votes to win even without Stein.
As with Ron Paul and all manner of other topics the media will and does silence any mention of things repulsive to their agenda. How much live coverage have you seen of the Holocaust in Gaza? The daily murders of people in West bank? The corruption of Zion controlled US Congress and President? I liked Stein , and Ron Paul but you are dreaming to believe, anti war, free trade, advocacy will ever be allowed in the US regime.
People have tried to insert a third party into America's national-level politics for more than 100 years, going back to the Bull Moose Party of Teddy Roosevelt (aka the Progressive Party). Roosevelt ran for a second presidential election in against incumbent Republican William Howard Taft, and actually received more votes than Taft (27.4% to 23.2%). This resulted in the election of Woodrow Wilson, who received only 41.8% of the vote.
Wilson went on to drag the US into WW1, which led directly to WW2, which led directly to where we are now.
So, yes, voting 3rd party can make a real difference. Just be careful what you wish for.
I don't like our two-party system. But I don't see a path toward changing it, short of a complete Constitutional overhaul. The current system defies improvement.
To be fair, Wilson's campaign slogan of 1916 was "He Kept Us Out Of War!", the Republicansof 1916 being even more war-horny. A couple weeks after his second inauguration, Wilson changed his tune.
Nope. I'm old. All my life I voted for the lesser of 2 evils. It got us....here. Nope. No more. I blame dems for making Fuhrer Stinky Butt possible. No blue for me - zilch - unless it's Mamdani, AOC, Crockette, Sherrod Brown...or others similarly minded. No more evil, lesser or otherwise. Dems in office care about ONLY 3 things: raking in corporate money, engorging their investment portfolios, and insider trading. I have earned the right to vote my conscience. No blue if it's Newsome or Harris. Nope. It will be 3rd party time. Dems? Worthless. Craven. Feckless.
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.
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 😉
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!
"we will have to rely on the young people coming through and taking up positions of power." Back in the 1960's that's what we thought would happen, causing things to get better. How wrong we were.
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.
Yes, and the latest in the UK: "Our weapons are old and need replacing. We can't fall behind. And really we need to use up the old ones first. Can't waste them."
Even though they are supposed to be a deterrent and could still kill millions of people. Boys' toys indeed.
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.....
Yes, We would be far, far worse off elsewhere, and that is precisely what they want...
every single thing thrown at us from birth, from vax, to Pharma, to education, entertainment, fluoride, chems, 5g, climate change, war.... all of it makes us feel this "World" is done...
they are all meant to make us loosen Our commitment, belonging, attachment to This "World"
When taking over a "World" its important to provide an alternative for those annoying reincarnate beings from whom You intend to steal the "World" otherwise they just keep on coming back...
and when Folk grasp this then the battle proper can start, but until such time were just pissin in the wind, but hey, let them explain it themselves:
Hard to believe people are betting on life and death. Shameful, and an indication of the moral state, or lack of same, of our society. Fuck the big men. Or the tiny, little minds like Netanyahu who think they can escape their own shit. There are so many more of us little people. And we have the power - if we don't weaken and cop out. War profits only the rich and greedy: China, India, Iran, Eurasia, South America, Russia, etc., they have much better things to do, and choose life, not death. Sharing is part of their culture. Let our voices for peace and cooperation be heard, and echo throughout the universe.
I'm on some pest of an email list trying to drum up support of Republicans in the Senate. One bullet point caught my eye. It was how Chuck Schumer's recruit "Mary Peltola" is running in Alaska for Senate. Naturally, I looked at her wikipedia page to see if it is the usual suspect. Not quite, BUT one of the tags is "American Zionists." And you know the Republican candidate will be a Zionist, too ("American" is not that important.)
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".
"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!
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.
Markets worldwide dropping. Surround the WEF and lock them up!
I wouldn't worry about India. It hurts me to say it, but they're going exactly the same way - profit driven and authoritarian. With such a young population, who are smart and inventive, they should already be doing well, but the corruption is endemic. In my opinion partly caused by a dual system of doing business - the Western model imposed by the British on top of the old Indian system which, as in most countries with no welfare state, operated through local and familial connections and trust. Either system can work, and the old system did for millenia. The Western one is apparently more fair/equal than the other, but we can see now that was always an illusion since the rich and powerful always manipulate things in their own favour. Both together is a disaster because there is no clarity about how anything works, bureaucracy is impenetrable and corruption is everywhere.
It is debatable about whether the “Western” system is more fair or equal than the one operated through local family connections. Real advancement in the Western system is still based upon familial and “old school” connections and true meritocracy is a myth.
The USA established a welfare system, nine decades ago, to forestall a pending revolution that may have rivaled the one in the USSR. Capitalists have been striving to eliminate that welfare system.
The people of China succeeded in their revolution, circa 1949. The oppressed people of India may soon join them. Thus far, the “business model” of the Chinese government has been working toward the longterm benefit for all of China. The Western model has been working in favor of the wealthiest Capitalists at the expense of the poorest people in the world.
The Technofascists are trying to create the 3 Superstates in 1984, so we are more easily controlled.
Oceania- USA+Trump's wishlist
Eurasia- Russia + Europe
Eastasia- China+
... and the Trumper & Shitlib Peasants who love Endless War and being subservient to Mizz Izzy will HELP the Lords of the Earth do it.
Its not RvL or DvR.
JOIN TOGETHER ✌️
great point, Mr. Orwell's words in 1984 prove increasingly prescient with each passing day
A brave new world indeed, for all the wrong reasons and one where things get worse than ever for the majority of people. Dark days ahead
"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! 😂😂😂
''voting is free.'' It's also rigged.
Austraila wants to buy back guns from citizens. Only Zionist supporters can have them ?
Absolutely not.........way too far gone.
No.
As someone who has voted for Jill Stein 3 times, I appreciate your comment. In defense of ordinary Americans, though: In 2016, the BBC listed her along with Trump, Clinton, and the Libertarian candidate. However, CNN mentioned Trump, Clinton, and the Libertarian. They did not mention Stein. I mention this as an example of why Americans did not vote for her: many did not know about her
It is another case of peace voices being silenced. I had quit watching TV by the 2024 election and so I don't know what the networks did then.
Just as with Dr.Ron Paul who won in several states. The powers that be will never allow a 3rd party. The uniparty of Dem Rep are the only choices. The correct 3rd choice is to abstain in numbers that delegitamize the corrupt voting system. That and remove Foreign and domestic lobbying and their money. AIPAC in particular
Imagine thinking Americans abstaining from voting would make a bigger impact on US politics and society than Americans voting for Jill Stein. lol Of course the establishment would fight it, and us non-coward Americans would expose it and resist it further and fight for the changes they wanted. It would have elevated her platform and brought her diplomatic foreign policy, demilitarization, housing/healthcare etc conversations to the mainstream. If more people didn't vote, you think THAT would have a bigger effect on the powers that be? The real problem is that Americans WONT vote 3rd party because they're either too supportive (complicit) and dependent on or too scared to challenge the duopoly and powers that be
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.
I'am a European and find it difficult to blame the ordinary Americans for their votes in this kind of two-party system, based on donations in millions. In France, that is impossible, donations are very limited. Money gives means for publicities, vidéos, meetings, i.e. means for persuasion.
As an American, I find it easy to blame them. It was easy to find Jill Stein during the voting process. Yes, she didnt get mainstream media air time, but Americans who aren't critical of the two party system and trying to make any effort at all are literally complicit in their governments actions. Its their tax money the Trum admin weilds. Of course I blame the Trump admin, but the American people dont get the criticicm that i assure you, as an american, they deserve.
Yes! 👍...in your tribe. Fuhrer Stinky Butt is the result of "lesser of two evils" voting.
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.
Your opinion...which holds no greater weight than mine. I guess we agree to disagree.
According to you, our alternative votes carry a very great weight.
Yes...for some personally. Always voting for the lesser of two evils takes a spiritual tow I will NO LONGER accept....after a long life of doing so...genocide and oligarchy vs genocide and Naziism and oligarchy.. Wow. What a profoundly sick, deformed choice. I'm DONE. And will no longer feel guilty nor justify my MORAL choices. I will NO LONGER tolerate or vote FOR evil of any stripe.
When more Americans understand your motives and mine then we can move forward and bring down the corrupt system that has destroyed America.
Make that "toll"...
There are different opinions about Jill Stein's responsibility for electing Trump. One opinion is the one you mentioned. Another is this: that if Stein had not been on the ballot, her voters would have done the following: 1. Stayed home. 2. Voted for Clinton, or 3. voted for Trump because Clinton is a war hawk. In this view, Clinton would not have gotten enough votes to win even without Stein.
As with Ron Paul and all manner of other topics the media will and does silence any mention of things repulsive to their agenda. How much live coverage have you seen of the Holocaust in Gaza? The daily murders of people in West bank? The corruption of Zion controlled US Congress and President? I liked Stein , and Ron Paul but you are dreaming to believe, anti war, free trade, advocacy will ever be allowed in the US regime.
"Pragmatic" defeatism paired with insults of anyone who thinks differently. So unappealing.
People have tried to insert a third party into America's national-level politics for more than 100 years, going back to the Bull Moose Party of Teddy Roosevelt (aka the Progressive Party). Roosevelt ran for a second presidential election in against incumbent Republican William Howard Taft, and actually received more votes than Taft (27.4% to 23.2%). This resulted in the election of Woodrow Wilson, who received only 41.8% of the vote.
Wilson went on to drag the US into WW1, which led directly to WW2, which led directly to where we are now.
So, yes, voting 3rd party can make a real difference. Just be careful what you wish for.
I don't like our two-party system. But I don't see a path toward changing it, short of a complete Constitutional overhaul. The current system defies improvement.
We need a new country.
To be fair, Wilson's campaign slogan of 1916 was "He Kept Us Out Of War!", the Republicansof 1916 being even more war-horny. A couple weeks after his second inauguration, Wilson changed his tune.
Nope. I'm old. All my life I voted for the lesser of 2 evils. It got us....here. Nope. No more. I blame dems for making Fuhrer Stinky Butt possible. No blue for me - zilch - unless it's Mamdani, AOC, Crockette, Sherrod Brown...or others similarly minded. No more evil, lesser or otherwise. Dems in office care about ONLY 3 things: raking in corporate money, engorging their investment portfolios, and insider trading. I have earned the right to vote my conscience. No blue if it's Newsome or Harris. Nope. It will be 3rd party time. Dems? Worthless. Craven. Feckless.
Crockett voted with the MAGAs to send shitloads more bombs and $$ to Israhell. Some alternative...
Will Mamdani arrest Netanyahu at the U.N. in Sept. at the U.N. or do a Obama "lets move forward"?
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
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.
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...
Did it ever end or just regroup.
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 😉
Yes. Every billionaire is a sick blight upon humanity.
If I vote in U.S. elections in Nov. it will be for Aaron Bushnell, or Hind Rajab. RIP
How 'bout Luigi?
Guy Faux/2026
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!
"we will have to rely on the young people coming through and taking up positions of power." Back in the 1960's that's what we thought would happen, causing things to get better. How wrong we were.
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?
"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'.
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.
Yes, and the latest in the UK: "Our weapons are old and need replacing. We can't fall behind. And really we need to use up the old ones first. Can't waste them."
Even though they are supposed to be a deterrent and could still kill millions of people. Boys' toys indeed.
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 could not be more depressing...'' just wait.
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??
Yes, We would be far, far worse off elsewhere, and that is precisely what they want...
every single thing thrown at us from birth, from vax, to Pharma, to education, entertainment, fluoride, chems, 5g, climate change, war.... all of it makes us feel this "World" is done...
they are all meant to make us loosen Our commitment, belonging, attachment to This "World"
When taking over a "World" its important to provide an alternative for those annoying reincarnate beings from whom You intend to steal the "World" otherwise they just keep on coming back...
and when Folk grasp this then the battle proper can start, but until such time were just pissin in the wind, but hey, let them explain it themselves:
https://nationalvanguard.org/2018/11/rabbi-jews-are-not-of-this-world-were-sent-to-conquer-it/
Once You see this You can never un-see it, and that aint no catchy line its the way it is
There is big money in wars but none of it is for you!
Hard to believe people are betting on life and death. Shameful, and an indication of the moral state, or lack of same, of our society. Fuck the big men. Or the tiny, little minds like Netanyahu who think they can escape their own shit. There are so many more of us little people. And we have the power - if we don't weaken and cop out. War profits only the rich and greedy: China, India, Iran, Eurasia, South America, Russia, etc., they have much better things to do, and choose life, not death. Sharing is part of their culture. Let our voices for peace and cooperation be heard, and echo throughout the universe.
I'm on some pest of an email list trying to drum up support of Republicans in the Senate. One bullet point caught my eye. It was how Chuck Schumer's recruit "Mary Peltola" is running in Alaska for Senate. Naturally, I looked at her wikipedia page to see if it is the usual suspect. Not quite, BUT one of the tags is "American Zionists." And you know the Republican candidate will be a Zionist, too ("American" is not that important.)
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".
"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?