TRUMP - Some people think......... How do you feel?
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I'd be wary of anywhere where they wear the ware.
Where'er the wearer of the ware be, beware.
Actually, there's nothing wrong with red baseball hats, really. It's too bad they've come to be associated with Trump. There might be some baseball teams who are a little disappointed - and some who might be happy about it, I suppose.
GeoFee
I am who I am becoming...
I do not know much about Bernie, or political details in general. My focus is on the historical role of power in the destiny of nations.
I am aware that Bernie is respected by youth in America. These see in Bernie an alternative imagination. Rather than concede the field to capitalism, Bernie seems determined to set in motion change bringing forward an economy based on the common good. This in stark contrast to the prevailing emphasis on private interest.
I may be unlike Bernie in that I refuse politics as the means to change. I suspect that what he hopes to achieve within the realm of politics is consistent with what I hope to achieve as an anarchist; one who is not conformed to the rule of law. In the company of increasing numbers of persons, we keep pressure on the way things are in the hope of bringing forward things as the may be.
The information paradigm is so isolated from the paradigm of physical power (brute force) and monetary force as blind hyperbole ...
Haha! Weird.
blackbelt1961
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Pontifex Geronimo 13
#walkaway
chansen
Had a point all along
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Blackbelt, I know you're not responding to me, and that's totally cool, but nobody else will say this to you, and you should know that the vast majority here think less of you for the media you consume and share here. A lot less.
Not PG-13 and not unsafe, I understand. But almost everyone else. If I'm wrong about that, they can tell me.
You are effectively being radicalized into thinking these are legitimate biases and disagreements you have with political figures. This sort of cult-like thinking is something you are prone toward.
Not that you will agree at all. So watch all the people who will go to bat for you and disagree with me. It will be a short list.
Not PG-13 and not unsafe, I understand. But almost everyone else. If I'm wrong about that, they can tell me.
You are effectively being radicalized into thinking these are legitimate biases and disagreements you have with political figures. This sort of cult-like thinking is something you are prone toward.
Not that you will agree at all. So watch all the people who will go to bat for you and disagree with me. It will be a short list.
Pontifex Geronimo 13
#walkaway
You mean like the Russia collusion cult?
Pontifex Geronimo 13
#walkaway
No. Not like that. There was a legitimate investigation (which the right made all kinds of conspiracies about but then all of a sudden when it turned out that their dear leader wasn't indicted they we like "Oh. Hey. Mueller's legit now." Russia did influence the US election. If Mueller says Trump didn't collude with them, most of us can accept that. People should know more of what's in that report though. Hopefully Barr will be fairer, and release it. People want to know why Barr himself says that there's not enough evidence to convict Trump, but that the report "does not" exonerate him either.
Trump and his hired circle are now the 'deep state' by the way. Obama and Hilary are not in charge of s**t. And Fox is Trump's 'state' media arm, still.
Ben Shapiro and the IDW are not worth listening to about anything.
Trump and his hired circle are now the 'deep state' by the way. Obama and Hilary are not in charge of s**t. And Fox is Trump's 'state' media arm, still.
Ben Shapiro and the IDW are not worth listening to about anything.
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chansen
Had a point all along
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There is so much smoke there it's difficult to assume there is no fire. So many lies told about the Trump Tower meeting, just for starters. So many versions of the story. And we still have not had a good look at the Mueller Report. So much left for the public to learn.
And even if no illegal cooperation with a foreign power for the purposes of election help, it's difficult to like a president who strikes out at people below him. And yet his fans love it. We are approaching cult-like levels of disassociation from normal behaviour, and it's that sort of thinking that makes me say that blackbelt is effectively being radicalized by this sort of media.
The stupid thing is, no one else will say it, but we're all thinking it. Blackbelt is a symptom of a greater problem, and I don't have the solution. All I can do is point out that by others not rushing to blackbelt's defense, they are thinking the same things I am. Blackbelt won't listen to what I say. Maybe there's a small chance he'll consider what others do not say.
Ritafee
Is Being Human
I thought you did not support 'Deep State Conspiracy Theory'.
In plain language then:
The global elite manages human governance systems for its benefit with no concern for ordinary people or the planetary biosphere.
The most important function that international agencies and governments perform, from the elite perspective, is that they appear to have control over certain jurisdictions and matters so that relevant constituencies focus their efforts, for example, on ‘changing government policy’ or changing the party in government.
By having activist effort focused on lobbying governments or changing the party in government, this effort is absorbed and dissipated; hence, nothing of consequence changes because the elite has significant control over all major political processes, parties and their policies.
Of course, I should add that the elite is smart enough to make it look like something has changed occasionally, perhaps by allowing a small concession after years of effort (invariably on a ‘social’ issue, such as gay marriage, that doesn’t adversely impact their power, profits and privilege), so that most activist effort remains focused on governments and international governmental agencies.
The elite also allows a ‘genuinely progressive’ candidate to emerge regularly so that activists are again suckered into putting effort into electoral outcomes rather than building movements for broad-based social transformation based on grassroots organizing.
In managing their already vast and endlessly accumulating wealth the global elite siphons a staggering amount of financial resources out of the global economy every day and channels these resources through secretive tax havens to evade tax. Globally, $US10billion of wealth produced by the labor of ordinary people is ‘lost’ each week in this way and more than 10% of global financial wealth (which doesn’t include non-financial wealth ranging from racehorses and yachts to artworks and gold bars) is now hidden in these secrecy jurisdictions. See ‘Elite Banking at Your Expense: How Secretive Tax Havens are Used to Steal Your Money’.
A small proportion (but nevertheless significant amount) of elite wealth is used to create and manage the dominant narrative in relation to the state of the world by financing production of this narrative, generated by elite think tanks, and then distributed through education systems, the entertainment industry and the corporate media.
In short, we are bombarded with elite propaganda, given names such as ‘education’, ‘entertainment’ and ‘news’, that hopelessly distorts popular perception of what is taking place.
The work of C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic The Power Elite is the original scholarly effort of the post-World War II era to document the nature of this elite, how it functions and why it had total control over US national society.
Of course, despite scholarship of this nature, which has been added to routinely ever since ...
- Most people still believe the elite-sponsored delusion that international organizations, such as the United Nations, and national governments actually have some significant say in world affairs.
In this book, Phillips identifies the world’s top seventeen asset management firms, such as BlackRock and J.P Morgan Chase, that collectively manage more than $US41.1 trillion in a self-invested network of interlocking capital that spans the globe.
The seventeen Giants operate in nearly every country in the world and are ‘the central institutions of the financial capital that powers the global economic system’.
Why Activists Fail – OpEd - PopularResistance.Org
Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types have made insufficient progress on key issues, particularly in relation to...
popularresistance.org
blackbelt1961
Well-Known Member
So nice and very refreshing to see that someone eyes are openI thought you did not support 'Deep State Conspiracy Theory'.
In plain language then:
The global elite manages human governance systems for its benefit with no concern for ordinary people or the planetary biosphere.
The most important function that international agencies and governments perform, from the elite perspective, is that they appear to have control over certain jurisdictions and matters so that relevant constituencies focus their efforts, for example, on ‘changing government policy’ or changing the party in government.
By having activist effort focused on lobbying governments or changing the party in government, this effort is absorbed and dissipated; hence, nothing of consequence changes because the elite has significant control over all major political processes, parties and their policies.
Of course, I should add that the elite is smart enough to make it look like something has changed occasionally, perhaps by allowing a small concession after years of effort (invariably on a ‘social’ issue, such as gay marriage, that doesn’t adversely impact their power, profits and privilege), so that most activist effort remains focused on governments and international governmental agencies.
The elite also allows a ‘genuinely progressive’ candidate to emerge regularly so that activists are again suckered into putting effort into electoral outcomes rather than building movements for broad-based social transformation based on grassroots organizing.
In managing their already vast and endlessly accumulating wealth the global elite siphons a staggering amount of financial resources out of the global economy every day and channels these resources through secretive tax havens to evade tax. Globally, $US10billion of wealth produced by the labor of ordinary people is ‘lost’ each week in this way and more than 10% of global financial wealth (which doesn’t include non-financial wealth ranging from racehorses and yachts to artworks and gold bars) is now hidden in these secrecy jurisdictions. See ‘Elite Banking at Your Expense: How Secretive Tax Havens are Used to Steal Your Money’.
A small proportion (but nevertheless significant amount) of elite wealth is used to create and manage the dominant narrative in relation to the state of the world by financing production of this narrative, generated by elite think tanks, and then distributed through education systems, the entertainment industry and the corporate media.
In short, we are bombarded with elite propaganda, given names such as ‘education’, ‘entertainment’ and ‘news’, that hopelessly distorts popular perception of what is taking place.
The work of C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic The Power Elite is the original scholarly effort of the post-World War II era to document the nature of this elite, how it functions and why it had total control over US national society.
Of course, despite scholarship of this nature, which has been added to routinely ever since ...
Giants: The Global Power Elite. by Professor Peter Phillips ...
- Most people still believe the elite-sponsored delusion that international organizations, such as the United Nations, and national governments actually have some significant say in world affairs.
In this book, Phillips identifies the world’s top seventeen asset management firms, such as BlackRock and J.P Morgan Chase, that collectively manage more than $US41.1 trillion in a self-invested network of interlocking capital that spans the globe.
The seventeen Giants operate in nearly every country in the world and are ‘the central institutions of the financial capital that powers the global economic system’.
Why Activists Fail – OpEd - PopularResistance.Org
Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types have made insufficient progress on key issues, particularly in relation to...
You have to be careful, and examine words like "elite", these days, and where they're coming from and in what context they're used, because it is often seen as an anti-Semitic dog whistle word.