Yes - agree - especially the point about China. Although born in Australia, I’ve lived in China for 10 years now. The Chinese people have now made it through 1. 100 years of humiliation at the hands of western powers from roughly 1839-1949, including 2 brutal opium wars after which they were forced to allow the Western powers to import opium and millions of their people got addicted. 2. Then the Long March and the fight against Japan, from 1931-1945. For the Chinese people their Second World War lasted 14 years and they lost over 30 million people. 3. Then the long rebuilding of their society/economy - including lifting 800 million people out of poverty and supporting developing countries. The western media and ruling class continue to smear and slander the Chinese people and many people in the west believe their own media - just look at the campaign of fear, hatred and suspicion that many Australians bought and which lead to their support for the perverse idea of spending 360 Billion on nuclear powered submarines. The Chinese people have shown great resilience and their country is now a shining beacon of hope - for a multipolar world, for economies serving people not profit, for environmental sustainability, for help for developing countries. They are not perfect, but they are moving in good, hopeful directions!!
Bill Blackwood, From many thanks to Caitlin and then to you. In a world looking more and more like dystopia come to stay, China gives us hope. For all that you have said and more. It is a pity that Australia is enmeshed in a Trumpian world.
And China never start wars, they only defended themselves. Trump says China is a danger as does the U.K. They only say this because socialism is a threat to their ivory tower lifestyle so don't want any form of socialism and attack it with all they have. The future is only bright if more of us see what's happening and realise our power. We should be fighting for a universal income and a better welfare system for those who can't work. Unemployment is going to rise rapidly through automation,robotisation and AI so capitalism will implode unless we have money to spend.
You are either not a genuine person or under deep mind control. Nothing you typed comes close to an independent thought, these ideas were programmed in to you by the exact system you are supposedly railing against
OMG that would be sad but can you tell me the difference between Universal income and dole money and pensions as concerns these matters ? IMHO there are just two ways of forcing filter down economics…higher taxation or a U.I. A UI is, in effect what several pensioners, including myself get. Are they going to exterminate us. Maybe Matt Hancock & Boris Johnson might well have done but hopefully, they will face prosecution for their acts.
I think the reason the technocrats put out the idea that some of them are for a UBI is to cause the kind of division you got in your comments. That's one of their reasons, anyway. The other is that they're generally afraid of us. There are a lot more of us than there are of them. A UBI would be a good thing. It would enable those of us who don't give a damn about being "rich" and who want time to write and dream and do art, to do it without having to go off to some soulless slave every day. As I did, raising my kid as a single mom. Destroyed my health.
I'm a disabled person. I had to get a lawyer to get my disability, and then when I won, I had to wait forever and get my congressional representative's office involved to get my back disability. It was late past statutory dates! In any country, when this sort of thing starts happening, that country is one push away from being a failed state. Money will become meaningless in that instance, cash or otherwise.
The digital cage thing - we're already *in* it. You can't really avoid it if you live in a country and you need access to medical care. What are you going to do if they do away with cash money - not that that's going to happen anytime soon, but just say they did - how will you buy food, pay rent? Some kind of barter? I know what my landlord would say to that! Ha!
The USA does NOT have a supportive Healthcare system. The Technofascist are FASCISTS- GET IT? In the USA, Stephen Miller- raging Z10 Fascist- wants to end Disability in the USA.
UBI in the USA is a great way to get Digital ID - and to give away your rights to your OWN Money. UBI is a great way to FORCE experimental jabs (like MRNA Gene therapies) on a Caged public.
You are Pro Fascism.
Congratulations on surviving the Eugenics programs the USA & Mizz Izzy EPSTEIN come up with.
You ate advocating SLAVERY - NOT "freedom to do art & write." That is BEYOND naive. What do Capitalists and Fascists do when YOU give up control to them? They DELETE those who They cannot Use or Profit from.
Yes, any policy, whether helpful or not, addressing poverty, inequity, access to porn or the climate crisis, is part of a plan to trap us in digital gulags and stop us using oil and eating other animals. Any idea which industries opposed to regulation might have started these rumours?
I'll tell you; it's big US based oil, porn, pharma and animal ag (pharma's biggest client). They're throwing data centres under the bus to distract from the damage done by current western lifestyles and they used the corruption over the 'covid' response and mandates (that also made a lot of money for them) to give the conspiracy a boost.
"I hold out hope because Gen Z proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is morally superior to any generation which came before it with its forceful and uncompromising opposition to the genocide in Gaza."
My generation, the Vietnam, cold war generation, brought the Vietnam war to an end by demonstrating, marching in the streets, getting teargassed, being followed by police, and generally treated like pariahs by our parents' generation. We marched and fought for civil rights along with Martin Luther King, Jr. We actively sought alternative ways of living cleaner and more honestly.
I am really sick and tired of my generation being smeared by young people who act as if nobody ever challenged the capitalist system before. I'm happy that today's young are finally stepping up, as they should. But it makes me very angry whenever I see a comment like this. We survived the fucking cold war, damn it.
Unfortunately our generation wasn’t a monolith. Many never were involved in bringing about the end to the Vietnam war, nor were they impassioned to make a better world. Some of our generation changed course and joined the capitalist arena as they aged. Those without a conscience in the first place rose to the top or raised children motivated only by greed and the capitalist lifestyle.
True, but neither is Generation Z a monolith. The most conservative, throwback people I worked with as a civil rights attorney were the younger lawyers. For most of them, it was about the money. They thought they’d discovered racism because they knew little if anything about history.
Agreed. And finally, cutting off the funding. Like it or not, we’re still dependent on what Congress does or doesn’t do. Now, they can’t even get a floor vote on cutting off funding for continuing attacks on Iran. And they’re going to continue to arm Israel no matter what. Cutting off the funding was ultimately what ended the war in Viet Nam.
Agreed, XK. I'd feel a great deal more hope if it were not for the sleaze-brained, scum-tongued, ordure-stuffed, god-bothering turds with their hands on the levers of power and influence.
A “contrarian” who just happens to be pushing the “China is great” multi-polarisim op on her readers just like approximately 75% of alt media are doing in lockstep
They had brutal lockdowns and injected their population just like almost every other country on earth! For anybody not in a coma 2020 proved we already have a one world government. There is no utopia
Yes - agree - especially the point about China. Although born in Australia, I’ve lived in China for 10 years now. The Chinese people have now made it through 1. 100 years of humiliation at the hands of western powers from roughly 1839-1949, including 2 brutal opium wars after which they were forced to allow the Western powers to import opium and millions of their people got addicted. 2. Then the Long March and the fight against Japan, from 1931-1945. For the Chinese people their Second World War lasted 14 years and they lost over 30 million people. 3. Then the long rebuilding of their society/economy - including lifting 800 million people out of poverty and supporting developing countries. The western media and ruling class continue to smear and slander the Chinese people and many people in the west believe their own media - just look at the campaign of fear, hatred and suspicion that many Australians bought and which lead to their support for the perverse idea of spending 360 Billion on nuclear powered submarines. The Chinese people have shown great resilience and their country is now a shining beacon of hope - for a multipolar world, for economies serving people not profit, for environmental sustainability, for help for developing countries. They are not perfect, but they are moving in good, hopeful directions!!
Bill Blackwood, From many thanks to Caitlin and then to you. In a world looking more and more like dystopia come to stay, China gives us hope. For all that you have said and more. It is a pity that Australia is enmeshed in a Trumpian world.
And China never start wars, they only defended themselves. Trump says China is a danger as does the U.K. They only say this because socialism is a threat to their ivory tower lifestyle so don't want any form of socialism and attack it with all they have. The future is only bright if more of us see what's happening and realise our power. We should be fighting for a universal income and a better welfare system for those who can't work. Unemployment is going to rise rapidly through automation,robotisation and AI so capitalism will implode unless we have money to spend.
You are either not a genuine person or under deep mind control. Nothing you typed comes close to an independent thought, these ideas were programmed in to you by the exact system you are supposedly railing against
And your answer to my comment was a waste of my time even reading it. Now go back to sleep.
You want UBI so people can be TRAPPED in a Digital Cage.
Once your total income and survival is strapped to a UBI, tell me WHY the Govt needs you around? Medical experiments, to test new MRNA gene tCultists?
Are you a Peter Thiel cultist?
You sound PRO AI Technofascist.
NO THANK YOU.
🚫ALL DATA CENTERS ✌️
OMG that would be sad but can you tell me the difference between Universal income and dole money and pensions as concerns these matters ? IMHO there are just two ways of forcing filter down economics…higher taxation or a U.I. A UI is, in effect what several pensioners, including myself get. Are they going to exterminate us. Maybe Matt Hancock & Boris Johnson might well have done but hopefully, they will face prosecution for their acts.
I think the reason the technocrats put out the idea that some of them are for a UBI is to cause the kind of division you got in your comments. That's one of their reasons, anyway. The other is that they're generally afraid of us. There are a lot more of us than there are of them. A UBI would be a good thing. It would enable those of us who don't give a damn about being "rich" and who want time to write and dream and do art, to do it without having to go off to some soulless slave every day. As I did, raising my kid as a single mom. Destroyed my health.
I'm a disabled person. I had to get a lawyer to get my disability, and then when I won, I had to wait forever and get my congressional representative's office involved to get my back disability. It was late past statutory dates! In any country, when this sort of thing starts happening, that country is one push away from being a failed state. Money will become meaningless in that instance, cash or otherwise.
The digital cage thing - we're already *in* it. You can't really avoid it if you live in a country and you need access to medical care. What are you going to do if they do away with cash money - not that that's going to happen anytime soon, but just say they did - how will you buy food, pay rent? Some kind of barter? I know what my landlord would say to that! Ha!
The USA does NOT have a supportive Healthcare system. The Technofascist are FASCISTS- GET IT? In the USA, Stephen Miller- raging Z10 Fascist- wants to end Disability in the USA.
UBI in the USA is a great way to get Digital ID - and to give away your rights to your OWN Money. UBI is a great way to FORCE experimental jabs (like MRNA Gene therapies) on a Caged public.
You are Pro Fascism.
Congratulations on surviving the Eugenics programs the USA & Mizz Izzy EPSTEIN come up with.
You ate advocating SLAVERY - NOT "freedom to do art & write." That is BEYOND naive. What do Capitalists and Fascists do when YOU give up control to them? They DELETE those who They cannot Use or Profit from.
UBI is the same as Smiling at the Butcher.
NO THANK YOU.
Yes, any policy, whether helpful or not, addressing poverty, inequity, access to porn or the climate crisis, is part of a plan to trap us in digital gulags and stop us using oil and eating other animals. Any idea which industries opposed to regulation might have started these rumours?
I'll tell you; it's big US based oil, porn, pharma and animal ag (pharma's biggest client). They're throwing data centres under the bus to distract from the damage done by current western lifestyles and they used the corruption over the 'covid' response and mandates (that also made a lot of money for them) to give the conspiracy a boost.
Lol! I see you
Nonsense propaganda
You are amazing- I needed to hear this! Let's spread hope and peace and goodness so these sickos sink in their own mud
The hope I believe in.
Free Palestine. Fuck israel.
🎯
I agree with you except for this:
"I hold out hope because Gen Z proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is morally superior to any generation which came before it with its forceful and uncompromising opposition to the genocide in Gaza."
My generation, the Vietnam, cold war generation, brought the Vietnam war to an end by demonstrating, marching in the streets, getting teargassed, being followed by police, and generally treated like pariahs by our parents' generation. We marched and fought for civil rights along with Martin Luther King, Jr. We actively sought alternative ways of living cleaner and more honestly.
I am really sick and tired of my generation being smeared by young people who act as if nobody ever challenged the capitalist system before. I'm happy that today's young are finally stepping up, as they should. But it makes me very angry whenever I see a comment like this. We survived the fucking cold war, damn it.
Unfortunately our generation wasn’t a monolith. Many never were involved in bringing about the end to the Vietnam war, nor were they impassioned to make a better world. Some of our generation changed course and joined the capitalist arena as they aged. Those without a conscience in the first place rose to the top or raised children motivated only by greed and the capitalist lifestyle.
True, but neither is Generation Z a monolith. The most conservative, throwback people I worked with as a civil rights attorney were the younger lawyers. For most of them, it was about the money. They thought they’d discovered racism because they knew little if anything about history.
Amen!
These snowflakes today can’t even handle getting out of bed in the morning. They want a participation trophy for breathing oxygen.
Sound like leavit. Puritan shaming division because cultural war don’t seem to work as much as before
What ended Vietnam was not the protests,but the breakdown in discipline in military units, beginning around 1970 and spreading rapidly.
That's also why the peacetime draft was ended.
Both. Protests and military breakdown.
Agreed. And finally, cutting off the funding. Like it or not, we’re still dependent on what Congress does or doesn’t do. Now, they can’t even get a floor vote on cutting off funding for continuing attacks on Iran. And they’re going to continue to arm Israel no matter what. Cutting off the funding was ultimately what ended the war in Viet Nam.
The protests could be and were kept under control.
When officers could not enforce orders, or had to bargain with openly mutinous troops, that gave the generals the willies.
Yes. Protests fail to radically move energy in sorry world.
The only thing that matters is that the security services will follow orders.
Kudos to you.
Pessimists/realists like me need people like you!
Thank you for this💐
"I hold out hope because I’ve seen too many miraculous and inexplicable things in this life to believe revolutionary change is impossible."
That's just it (for me). It's those inexplicables that are the fly in the ointment for the nihilists of our time. So, some hope remains.
Any change starts slowly and then suddenly, totally, and catastrophically. We are close.
THAT is exactly the dialectical process, in Nature and in political developments
I am not sure the young people hold out too much hope!
They need to read more books then.
"I hold out hope because I refuse to give them the satisfaction of bending my will toward hopelessness."
That's all it takes. We just have to "follow the arc of the universe" because it bends towards justice.
Radical hope and joy just because is something I believe in. Thanks for reminding us that hope is resistance.
I hold out hope for the children of Palestine. And because people can do this:
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https://youtu.be/WBmrT3uqmeM?si=ITeidLSgM5wrjw_0
I hold out hope because there are immutable laws that govern this universe and the evolution of human consciousness is an inevitability.
Or, karma is a bitch. ✌️
Karma is make believe …
It’s the law of reaping and sewing.
Both have the same result but only one is grounded in reality.
Yes, I’m not Hindu and “reaping and sowing is a bitch” doesn’t quite have the same ring.
The Hindus had to invent reincarnation, because there is no justice in this life.
Im referring to the law of reaping what you sew.
You don't, not as far as I can tell.
Sadly this does not work. Laurie
I've known thousands of hideous people who manage to go through life without any repercussions.
EPSTEIN
Thanks. I needed this today.
Shukran Caitlin, we, in Gaza hold out hope for humanity because of brave benevolent people like you.
Please stay strong Caitlin,
Salute
"I hold out hope because fuck ’em, that’s why."
Most convincing reason of them all in my estimation. I'd just add "Long, hard, and deep. Repeat as necessary" to the above sentence.
In the interests of full disclosure, I'm obligated to admit that since I gave up hope, I sleep a lot better. ;-)
Agreed, XK. I'd feel a great deal more hope if it were not for the sleaze-brained, scum-tongued, ordure-stuffed, god-bothering turds with their hands on the levers of power and influence.
And you're being charitable in your descriptions of them... ;-)
I hold out hope because of relentless contrarians like you. Do Not Stop.
A “contrarian” who just happens to be pushing the “China is great” multi-polarisim op on her readers just like approximately 75% of alt media are doing in lockstep
I wonder Deenzy have you ever been to China. I have about 6 times from 1993 - 2010. In that short time the changes were incredible.
To get to Beiijing (from the airport) the first time took approx 4hrs on a bumbly train. Next time 1hr Airport to centre.
Love the people/it is clean everywhere/great choice of food and completely safe for women to travel on their own.
They had brutal lockdowns and injected their population just like almost every other country on earth! For anybody not in a coma 2020 proved we already have a one world government. There is no utopia
Yes. CoNvid is pure technocracy in action in china and elsewhere.
Begone with your vaccine fearmongering troll.
NO Utopia.....yes I agree.
I suspect if you asked young people in the West if they have hope, you may get a different answer?
Thank you for your relentless optimism ❤️
I hold out hope because I have seen a tiny flower, but laden with seeds, grow in the middle of the harsh asphalt. 🌹
I hold out Hope for seeds of Watermelons to root for Palestine Again.
i share that hope mr naismith