A good troll would have been a junction between the fact he has an autistic child and he can't get her gender right. It was like shooting fish in a tank, no? No sport in it. Well played, I don't know if I would have the restraint. Obviously not, I suppose.
Ha ha! That is some funny, but warped stuff. Welcome to Earth, kids, it's a tough planet, will you help us survive and thrive? If not, there is the door.
Human resource management, it smacks of irony sometimes due to the proximity it's to being an oxymoron.
Gee, I wonder why? Israel seems to kill lots of them, so it's shouldn't be a shocker they are the way they are. Look at the attitudes toward Palestinians of those posting here. If you can't get by attitudes, you will never succeed in diplomacy. You become a liability to the situation if you can't keep your emotions in check as an outside agent.
Isn't there bigger fish to fry than this petty bickering between these parties? Do you know how much money we could save if we didn't have to keep these brat kids from killing each other? There is some nasty history around Israel and the USA. Check out the USS Liberty incident. Try looking under the rug for it, because that is where it's been swept.
Don't get me wrong, I love Israeli people. They make great innovations to our crappy weapon systems that we sell/give them. They are great buddies of ours, and could whip most of the region themselves. That is all great, but we are seriously in economic trouble here in the USA, and peace is far cheaper than war.
We are hitching rides to space with the Russians and Chinese. I find that disturbing. War needs to become quickly obsolete so we can get off this rock and have fun in space. Trust me, we will all be happier and get a long much better once we have the universe for elbow room. 7 Billion of us now. Think about it.
Pointless? Not really. If we are going to do it, we should do it and get it over with. Think of it as a big game of Risk, someone has to go after the game eventually.
Alaska to Kamchatka, I am rolling with 3 Dice, defend.
We've been attacking for some rounds now, do we have enough cards to turn in? What's a set worth at the moment? We want to turn in.
We have three cannons. We have these territories so lets get armies on each of them. Do we have something for makers? I need to turn in some towers or something. OK, D20s are worth 100, D8s are worth 50, D4s are worth 25.
Ok, I am dumping all this in the Middle East, lets have some fun.
The Draft. We haven't started it yet. We will, any takers on that bet? My money is on 2012 on being the year for it. Oh yeah, elections are coming up. Dangerous time of our 4 year cycle to cross us. We are ready to fight each other. Now if someone was stupid enough to aggro us all, we are seriously primed to rock n roll. Hell, I might end up out of Retirement. I can't run, but give me wheels and guns, and I can do stuff still. Load me up with a vehicle and let me have some toys, nothing big, something quiet please. Where I live, we call that "go'in' huntin' "
On a more sour and surreal note, lets roll South, all the way to the Canal, take it the fuck back. We should have gave away Carter and kept the Canal. You see, Jimmy lost his fucking mind and started chopping up all the military hardware, right in the middle of the Cold War. Sweet Jesus, we about all shit. Then he gave away the Canal that WE FUCKING BUILT. WTF?
Anyway, we do that and we get 5 Bonus Armies a round.
We seriously should. We could vastly improve the lives of everyone from here to there. Right? Hugo, STFU or your next. Ok, so you are next. Oil, bitches. Brazil as well, these fuckers have to stop cutting down the Rain Forrest. Global fucking Warming, you ignorant dicks. Not to mention all the flora you have slashed and burned that have unique genetic coding that we need to unlock with a big fat clue from it growing here. Not now, you cunts cut it down.
3 Dice Bitches, Defend!
FYI: This is my Republican, Risk: World Agenda Policy. Vote for me and we will win this fucking game or at least move it along.
One questions such apparent insanity upon our behalf, as to why we offer up such resistance to Palestinian progressives. Here we have a golden opportunity to support peaceful elements in the Palestinians who wish to just peacefully exist, and hold them accountable for their groups like Hamas. Hamas can thus be isolated with world pressure, as they run counter to the established, supported leadership which has Statehood. It's a golden opportunity for real progress in the region, but instead, we are adamant obstructionists. One has to ponder the motives of such actions.
First thing to question is why the seemingly blind and fanatical support of Israel when they have been countless found the aggressors and violating human rights. The history of creation of Israel as a state has plenty of bloodshed and corruption surrounding it. There is a displaced people involved. Let me elaborate on that in a compare and contrast situation if I may.
Ponder if you may if the UN decided that Mexico was cheated out of their land that we have, such as Texas and California. They in turn with a major superpower that dwarfed us, decided to force us out of said States and give them back to Mexico. The people that built homes, businesses, everything there, were force-ably removed. Imagine if there were incidents of massacres and murder, and brute squads harshly enforcing this decree. Could you imagine the anger that we would harbor? Some would fight, but they would be crushed. And if Canada tried to come to our rescue they would be defeated and pushed back until their lands were threatened.
This is akin to what has happened to Palestine, and I use this metaphor to try to give human understanding to their mentality and their condition. Now understand that we are the super power that has backed them with weapons and money constantly for decades to allow Israel this position. Now factor how we have been allowing Israel to continue to treat the Palestinians. We have in this country a mindset that these Palestinians are animals, and deserving of being slaughtered. This isn't a logical mindset, but we have been fed it for decades.
Consider now our actions as these Palestinians seek to regain Statehood, and to be recognized on the world stage instead of a displaced people. There are "reservations" set aside for them, but like we have done in the past to our American Natives, these lands are seen to be something to be gained by the Israelis. They just move in and start building, and if the Palestinians don't like it, they have to look down the barrel of American made tanks.
Of course there is a violent and resistive element to this whole process. If it was us, we would be just as violent if not more. But there are peaceful elements that are trying to just survive and live decent normal lives. These have a hard time gaining power in the Palestinian ranks because the people of course feel deeply wronged and the violent elements are very strong and frightening.
What we are missing here is the opportunity to prop up these peaceful elements as the whole of humanity, and disarming the situation between these two warring factions. This can be done by out powering the violent elements with outside support from the world. But there are problems, and not only with the violent elements of the Palestinians. Israel has "hawks" in power at the moment, old warhorses that hold a grudge, and thrive on the US/Israel war machine. Israel is aggressive with settlements into Palestinian "reservations".
Now this is where it gets weird. You would think that we would be trying to iron out peace and capitalizing on this opportunity. But we aren't. We are obstructing it at every phase and we are losing massive political capital in the process. It appears that we have an irrational, blind, fanatical support of Israel, turning a blind eye to whatever shenanigans that it perpetrates. This doesn't go unnoticed in the entire Middle East region and is part of how we fail diplomatically across the board there. Now the question one needs to ask
Now, now, GW as a fine puppet. He did as he was told.
Stereotypical American intelligence, you have a point there. Stereotypes do have their uses, camouflage for example. Backfire? You imply the U.S. and I presume you mean the Government's involvement. They couldn't get involved if they wanted to, nor would you want them. Just American opportunists, adrenalin junkies, perhaps some with an ax to grind, some that just have a need "get it on" and of course, the allure of money.
What I find interesting though is the topic of the original thread. Just WTF are some geeks like Anon doing getting involved in something like this? Did some idealistic Mexican geek step on his dick? I am wondering what Anon has to work with for any sort of leverage, or are they really just twisting in the wind? I just posted my original post because I think the landscape in those regards are due for some upheaval soon.
Here's a thought, if it's something they, Anon might have on them, the Cartel, it might actually be interesting. The case has been made that finding out information on them down there is kind of moot, but they do have operatives here. Exposure here isn't something to take so lightly. This is where the cash flows from.
Consider the crime element of it all. Domestic versus Mexican. We are about to get an influx of American elements that really aren't going to appreciate the invading competition. The meth situation is a real wild card here.
You have to look at American history, after each war, you end up with an influx of American gangs. It happened even after WW2, and the Nam. This era of them will be interesting. They are coming home to one seriously fucked up country, so I think the "gang factor" is naturally going to increase. I don't see them throwing their lot in with part of the problem. I see a more tribal reaction to this than a mercenary one.
Check down this thread. Did you notice the "fuck you" one from "the locals"? I was curious if they were paying attention. This is an unspoken war that we are balls deep in here at home. It's not only in our backyard but it's in our cities and even smaller towns as well. This is an embolden enemy that is pissed off, and feels entitled to fucking us over. Hell, some of them feel the entitlement to California and Texas back and by force. That's probably to say the least because it was obvious enough to make world radar.
What war is this? It's the "fuck you gringos, we will pump meth into all of you and your kids, take your money and watch you die". Now this sounds grim to some people, but there is that percentage that is crazy enough that this is a bountiful opportunity. I predict it will start with the Cartels getting rolled here in the States and rolled hard. That taste of blood and money isn't going to be enough, they will go looking for more. Say hi to American savagery when it shows up on your door step Mr "fuck you and the horse you rode in on".
I understand, you are looking at it from a conventional mindset. Of course that would never work. Did you not read what I wrote? Consider this, a decade of modern warfare. What do you think comes home from that? Not all of them, but what do you think are in those numbers? It's easy to take the soldier out of the war, but not so easy to take the war out of the soldier.
Look what we have waiting for them when they get home. We have plenty of jobs for them all, right? Of course they will not notice the meth epidemic that has sprang up over this last decade or so. Nothing like spending a decade on the other side of the world, to come home and see your country has turned to shit. Your streets and roads have fallen apart. Jobs are nowhere to be found. We live in a police state and there are drug gangs galore from Mexico in your home town. This is one big recipe for "pissed off".
Then there we have this fat cartel setting on the other side of the border. You know they are loaded with cash. Buckets of it. Ruthless? That's nothing new. We are talking about coming home from the war with the fuckers that will cut your heads off for giggles. Can you say "intimidation factor: nil"? I am just saying look at this big batch of ingredients we have coming together here shortly.
Get the popcorn ready, 2012 is going to be down right interesting to say the least.
My question is, why aren't you people hunting these fuckers down? Just how fucked up is it there that you haven't just collectively cut their throats in the night? Is your entire society too scared or afraid or just apathetic and stay away from the entire area? Without doubt I am sure we have something to do with it. We seem to have no problem burning our own society down with a different kind of ruthless cartel. Ours is on Wall Street and Washington DC though and play for higher stakes.
What policies have we created that have fucked you guys over into this situation? Mexico is like a black hole of information. It simply doesn't exist to us, save for the fact that we have lots of your people here illegally. Sad, I know, but that is the facts of the matter. I am curious though what is the problem? I know NAFTA had to have something to do with it. The whole thing stinks to high heaven, and I know we subsidize our corn production, that alone has probably put the crunch to you.
I have a gut feeling that Mexico is a little model of where we are heading. Vast amounts of poor and exploited people, fucked over by a higher class who have it all.
What I find fucking hysterically ironic is in spite of our fascist government and all their bullshit to "keep us free of terrorists", the Mexican Cartels have managed to move freely into our country and are in every major city and starting on the smaller towns. The fuckers are in a town about 50 miles from me, thanks to the fact they can blend in with all of the illegals working the meat plants. They have been putting the "mom and pop" meth shops out of business with their cheaper, better product. We are getting a lot of their weed too, you can always tell it's from there. We call it "chunk" because it's been hydraulically compressed, and you about need a pair of pliers to break it up. It's seedy which means its grown by people who are sloppy growers dealing with bulk amounts. This screams Mexico, no offense, it's just the logic of it. Growers here are more careful with what little they have to let it get pollinated.
We have serious issues dealing with this. We have cops who are a. stupid, b. crooked, c. both. Our system is controlled by politicians who will whore themselves out AND are too gutless to deal with "politically correct" issues. Let's not forget American nativity and stupidity. We are talking the Jenny McCarthy types that are everywhere and have been allowed to breed and multiply unchecked. It's down right comical. If you moved against these Mexican gangs, these idiots would be out protesting it as "racist".
It appears as we have been mucking around overseas, some serious weeds (no pun) have grown up in our backyard. I have to wonder if this is by design or stupidity? Either way, it really burns my ass. We grope old women at the airport to "make us secure", but our Southern Border and our Southern neighbor is seriously fucked. It would be so easy to move Middle East Operatives across that border into our infrastructure. But crooked Wall Street fucks want the cheap labor they can exploit in factories that they can't relocate overseas. Things that require fast processing and quick to market, like produce and meats need labor HERE and this is where they want to labor to exploit. If you think I am wrong, go check out any meat processing plant or any food processing plant in this country now.
So my Mexican friend, this looks like a seriously fucked situation for both you and I. I am assuming you are correct in your assessment of the situation because you are there, boots on the ground, so to speak. The one solution to this would be to legalize it here, tax it, regulate it and make it available cheap. But our politicians are far too stupid and corrupt to even consider it. It's been explained repeatedly to them how it would solve this problem, but again Wall Street interests override common sense, not to mention we have the "stupid people" factor here that would resist it out of some moronic sense of false morality that has been installed in the
Actually it's a sweet move. Let me explain. This is a drug cartel that is camped right on our border. They make tons of money, and chances are they are infected with the "need for high tech toys" that comes with that pile of easy money. Being that these are drug cartel people and not rocket scientists, this means they are probably exposed to the same technology holes in security that the rest of us are. These guys aren't Sony, and Sony got their ass handed to them in the tech security department. I doubt these cartels even have an "IT security" afterthought, let alone a department.
Unless they are operating with military grade encryption with everyone in their operation, they are just as vulnerable as the next organization. When you operate in such a high risk environment, even "script kiddies" can dig up dirt on you that can prove lethal. It could be a crumb of information that can put the "blood hounds" on your trail. Most people have no clue what an intelligence operation can come up with out of just the right tiny little morsel of information. Imagine handing them a platter of information?
Not to mention, these cartels have attracted the attention of people who can effectively send them back to the stone age of technology use. Meaning if they want to their operations to be secure, they will have to go back to basic "pen and paper" days. Until they can get their entire staff of thugs trained on proper security protocols and equipped right, they are setting ducks to intelligence operations that have them in their sights. Now American Government Intel Operations aren't the thing to worry about, because they can't release what they know to your competitors. But a rogue intelligence operation can, and by all means will if you don't pay the piper.
They seem to just want their friend or friends back. This is a cheap price to pay and should be capitalized on. Of course they will not. My money is on the stupid move being played, and this will escalate. Of course if I was a US Gov Agency, I would be eating popcorn, watching this and laughing my ass off. This is full of win for them. Two birds and you don't even have to throw the stone.
After December the wolves come home. Meaning this, our Military will be home, and there aren't a lot of jobs. But across the border are cartels, loaded with money and generally being a pain in the ass to the world.
This is where you take finely honed soldiers fresh from the combat zone, and start up some "private Black Ops". The combination of possibilities one can play here are limitless. You can make quick fast scores to finance bigger operations. Dig in, set up intel operations until you map out the players. Then it's a matter of figuring out the most elegant and effective low footprint means of eliminating them. Of course you capture their cache of money, dope, weapons, etc, but more importantly, you establish your own replacement system. You grease the right palms, don't abuse the locals, and bring everything back down under the radar, out of the news and everything becomes a ghost.
Too much attention has been brought to this region, and it's really bad for "the trade". It's sloppy management, as everything is a "management problem" if there is a problem. This is low hanging fruit for young mercenaries home from the dried up tit called Iraq. Any "mercenary operations brain" will recognize this as a golden opportunity. I don't think it's a matter if it will happen, but a matter of who will get the prize.
Personally, if I were conducting these ops, I would eliminate the meth production there and keep it eliminated. Frankly, it's rat poison for people, and America has been dosed enough with it. You would even put the squeeze on and shut down the sex slave traffic. Just focus on making money with weed. It's a cash crop that will make everyone more than enough money, giving you enough muscle in the region to keep things civilized. To make it really easy, you get the locals to farm it for you, and give them a taste of the pie. This keeps them at home, and from swarming across the border. It's a win/win/win situation except for assholes.
Of course this is very illegal and full of wet work, and it has to be done intelligently. Which makes it perfect for Americans. Well, the right kind of Americans that is. Usually this means the kind that not only survive, but thrive in war. Many of the dear gentle readers here have no clue what I mean or think I'm insane or creative. That's fine with me, they are right.
Voting is only useless because we don't exploit the system at the grass roots level. We are too lazy to organize, and send forth REPRESENTATIVES, (not politicians) and in mass change things. The Tea Party was a good idea, but it was in the hands of the wrong people and was instituted by those in power to manipulate this situation proactively from within. But you did see the effect it had on Congress. What we need is OWS to be as political in their voter registration and sending forth THEIR REPRESENTATIVES this next election.
What we do is set back and let the lame stream media, who is just a bought and paid for as the politicians spoon feed us whom to vote for. Our levels of trust in the media are misguided and ill placed. Thankfully we have the Internet and social media to exploit to bypass this massive propaganda machine that fights against us, polarizes us and we fight each other instead of the puppeteers.
We must be intelligent about this, we do after all have enemies in this world that would see us stumble and fall as a nation. I am reminded of what Isaac Asimov wrote; "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Violence will bring about damage and massive loss of human life. We can't afford these things. We need to be progressing forward as not only a people, a nation, but as a species. Our goal should be upward and that my friends is to space and to the stars.
Sadly though, and I have given this some thought. We have vast evil intrenched in our systems. I don't fear the violence starting with the average person, such as you or myself, or even our military, or even some fringe element like the most devout of militia. I fear the evil in the system, once cornered will bite like a cornered rat. Due to its inhumane nature, when pressed it will not shy away from draconian measures in order to preserve itself. It will not slink away into the night like a wounded, defeated monster that it is, it will bellow, roar and rage against the people.
The only silver lining in that horrible storm cloud is the righteous will no longer need to question their conscience when it comes to taking to battle against this darkness.
You can't just punch one of these little pigs out and go about your business. It doesn't work like that. The other little pigs will squeal and the big pigs will come running to help them. They are well armed, we aren't. They are organized, we aren't. They can roll in tanks, jets, the entire military if they need. They could nuke us, because their Pig in Chief has the "legal right" now to help enforce the police state ANYWHERE with the military to "restore order".
We have more people in prisons that any other country in the world. That equates into this is the biggest police state in the world, we have a polished system to deal with "resistance to authority". We also have a big, high tech military that is well trained via Iraq with dealing with "resistance to authority".
Why do you think they rip the masks off of the protestors in NY? So they can get pictures of them. They have us all on file. Our dumb asses posting here, I am sure is/will be on file.
You are seriously fucked if you try to use force to change this. Blunt application of force would not work. Our only hope is this charade of a voting system and by voting against these corporations pulling the puppet strings with our wallets. Good luck with that though, that deck is stacked against us as well and we are one seriously confused, stupid, clusterfuck of idiots as a collective of people. We fight each other while the puppet masters laugh at both sides of a divided people that they orchestrated.
Just shut up, take your bite of the shit sandwich and pass it over so I can take my damn bite and pass it on to the next idiot so he can have his.
I am with you, fuck these fucking fuckers. Seriously. I will not fly because of these assholes. Not that I need to fly or travel, because I don't, but if I did, this would turn tragic as hell in a heartbeat. "Do I seriously look like a fucking terrorist??" would be the first thing out of my mouth. Then I am sure hand to hand combat would be the next thing in order, because I will not tolerate being handled. I feel like it's my duty to beat these Nazi fucks down the second they try to lay their hands on me. I can't help it. I doubt I could even stand in line and watch them grope old women, children, women. It would be on.
It wouldn't last long, I am out of shape as fuck, and older and I hurt just moving around. Why didn't they try this shit 20 years ago when I was younger and could "run through the jungle"?
But sadly, you and I need to watch our mouths. They will round us up and stuff us in a dark hole if we are lucky. If we aren't lucky, who the fuck knows what becomes of political "problem people" these days if they can pick you off one by one in the night. America, home of the free? That makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time these days. It's not getting any better, and it will only get fucking worse.
It's a war we have already lost. They have been prepared for this for decades, and the American people are way behind the game. We are too little, too late. Our two sided political system is a joke, they are both bought and paid for. The main stream media has been pumping us full of propaganda for decades, crafting the American mindset to accept whatever they want to dish out to us.
Welcome to the American Nightmare. The dream is over.
Ok, thanks. I read the entire thing from top to bottom about 20 years ago. It seems that might have slipped through the cracks. Do I look like a damn lawyer?
Well. you got me then. Woohoo, thank God. I will bite the bullet on that one and take the "Retard of the Month" award.
With that aside lets get that show started. Where to we start the process? It's that or we put in a new Constitutional clause to up end this shit. We can poke fun of me after this shit is settled, I will buy the first round of drinks, and probably the last.
Seriously people, we have to get back to Industrialist Capitalism and put this Slash N Burn Capitalism to pasture. Too many people in finance playing it like a gambling hall. A poster on/. set it right. They play it like Vegas with better cloths. It's in the short term, nano second fast, in a day traders, the "quick flips", driving a "fire a bunch of people" right before a quarter market. Watch the stock go up, and play it like a lotto ticket. That is all fine and dandy, but when it becomes the only game in town, and you cook the golden goose, the entire house falls apart around you and the natives are on the drums, it's time to GET A JOB.
That means it time to produce, and in order to produce HERE, you have to have some brains. You have to be able to deal with labor, and deal with regulations. Which means you can't be a goof or a crook, or a crooked goof about how you do things. You have to be smarter than the door knob. One big thing, if you let Education become some ego contest, and drive the price out of sight, or worse, be corporately "bottom line" driven about it, education turns into the unachievable that our "challenged" kids aren't going to get. You seriously want these modern kids to make Ivy League or even a facsimile? One thing we shouldn't be last in is smart, we don't have the numbers for it.
In order to do that, we have to reset the rules of the game back to the house. Literally.
Of course, but what else do you call selling out your country to the corporations to this degree? They have wrecked our representative system, opening it up to corruption run hog wild, not to mention the influence of foreign entities. This is a lethal dose of poison to democracy. It may not be "treason according to Hoyle" but it damn sure is the highest of treason in spirit and effect.
It will take a Constitutional Amendment to undo this damage, and good luck with that. The politicians are already loaded against us versus passing one. It's a brilliant end game move. Consider if you will the implications of this action they have taken carefully. All the wars we have ever fought, none of them could have damaged us like this. No foreign enemy could have altered the very "genetic make up" of this nation like this. They could have beat us into the ground, or nuked us until we glowed in the dark, but they couldn't have twisted us into this. So you are right, this isn't treason. It goes beyond that garden variety of evil. Words to describe it escape me.
I have been pondering how to remove the SCOTUS without just putting a noose around their necks and giving them a good stretch. I think a Constitutional Amendment would do the trick just fine. Is there any other way to eject these seriously deluded people out of these positions of demigods of our State? There has to be a way to remove one if they go bad. If not then our founding fathers seriously dropped the ball on this one.
Those two acts, one of of declaring money speech and removing all limits to corporate spending to lobbying, are blatant acts of treason against the State. Our founding fathers are spinning in their graves like gyroscopes on that. Hasn't it been said, that once the law becomes unlawful, the people themselves will become a law of their own? Or something like that?
Effectively with the SCOTUS declaring this, has effectively removed all voice from the people in their government. Only the corporations will be served, and our country as we known it has been rendered extinct. You no longer have representation, because those elected will serve those who can dump mountains of cash in their pockets. Because it's free speech and corporations are free to speak because they are people.
Wow, that is so fucked in the head it's surreal. If you look at the history of corporations, you will see how they were only allowed with control, but they have been struggling to gain more and more power until at last they have it all. Sweet Jesus, we are seriously fucked. Someone tell the OWS people to pack it in and go home, the SCOTUS has sold us out, we can't change the laws now even if we wanted to.
Lets consider this big shit sandwich for a second before we all have to take a bite. Corporations are multinational entities. This means that we now have unknown foreign entities with unlimited influence upon our State. Do you think we will now have a prayer of stopping our labor/industry from being exported to whatever third world country that works for next to nothing? Nope, so give a big kiss and a wave goodbye to American jobs. Without American jobs, the 99% become quickly vagrants, no home, no vote.
This is now the land of the corporations. They will thin the herd. They don't need us any more. They are setting on their money, just waiting for us to starve out, die off, while their political lackeys will cut off any help to the bottom end. They will then proceed to shove everyone not in their service down through the meat grinder, no safety nets, just whirling blades of homelessness, no medical, no food, no voice. Say hello to the American Gulags, the concentration camps, and if you are lucky prison. If you are extra special, you can have the treat to serve in their jackbooted enforcement corps or as a thug putting their thumbscrews on the last of the free world.
The sad thing is, we deserve it. We have been stupid enough to just let them get by with creeping up on us. We watch "sports" when we should be watching these criminals against humanity and beating their asses down when they stick they heads out of whatever hole from Hell they crawl out of. We have fucked around with our own indulgences, while our slavery chains have been forged loudly right on our hands and feet. Forget "Bread and Circuses", we are mesmerized by Hollywood, fast food, cable TV, all the indulgences of the Internet. We have been reduced to gutless, spineless cowards who will just bow down and take whatever our Overlords decide for us.
Watch now as these foolish protestors who are a decade too late, are made examples of. They will be crushed, and you will set on your fat asses and make excuses for those who destroy them or why "you can't get involved". That sickly feeling you will experience in your gut, that is the soul of your once great nation dying, and the shame will be overbearing. How ironic! The great American, taken down, not with an epic fight or struggle, but handed over by a bunch of simpering, ignorant pussies, not worthy of being the descendents of the forefathers who bled and sacrificed, only so that their heirs could just piss their freedoms away.
R.I.P America
You deserved going out a more glorious and dignified way.
It's slash and burn capitalism. It's not about industrialism or anything resembling long term thinking. I think you hit the nail on the head. What are we building or producing anymore? I think it's all "creative financing", shuffling paperwork around. It doesn't help when we have trade policies that cut our own throats, leaving a back door for corporations to outsource everything from labor to call centers overseas. Our people need jobs, and if they don't have them, they can't buy our products or services. We can't survive as a nation if we don't have government thinking like one. They all pander to this "Vegas Wall Street" and we are sinking fast.
Settle down you dumb cocksucker. No one gives a shit for you or your fucking pig shit story. You are not smart. You are not clever. You are just another speck of geek filth. Dropnthe fuck dead, assmuncher.
I would agree with you, but I live in the ass end of the universe. I live in a dark corner of a State in the middle of "fly over land", I am sure natives living in huts on the Serengeti have more cell carrier selection than we do. We have two carriers to pick from, Bad and Worse and Verizon is the better deal.
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Way to pass on a chance to troll. Good show.
A good troll would have been a junction between the fact he has an autistic child and he can't get her gender right. It was like shooting fish in a tank, no? No sport in it. Well played, I don't know if I would have the restraint. Obviously not, I suppose.
Baroness? Seriously? Let's find some pics.
Just how far up on the scale of stupid is she?
Strip mining is for Asteroids. Are we there yet?
Ha ha! That is some funny, but warped stuff. Welcome to Earth, kids, it's a tough planet, will you help us survive and thrive? If not, there is the door.
Human resource management, it smacks of irony sometimes due to the proximity it's to being an oxymoron.
That must be some fine agriculture that you are smoking. Or you're extremely objective, like the far zoomed out perspective on Google Earth.
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Not really, it's just an old snarky saying.
Zionist Death Cult, seriously?
Gee, I wonder why? Israel seems to kill lots of them, so it's shouldn't be a shocker they are the way they are. Look at the attitudes toward Palestinians of those posting here. If you can't get by attitudes, you will never succeed in diplomacy. You become a liability to the situation if you can't keep your emotions in check as an outside agent.
Isn't there bigger fish to fry than this petty bickering between these parties? Do you know how much money we could save if we didn't have to keep these brat kids from killing each other? There is some nasty history around Israel and the USA. Check out the USS Liberty incident. Try looking under the rug for it, because that is where it's been swept.
Don't get me wrong, I love Israeli people. They make great innovations to our crappy weapon systems that we sell/give them. They are great buddies of ours, and could whip most of the region themselves. That is all great, but we are seriously in economic trouble here in the USA, and peace is far cheaper than war.
We are hitching rides to space with the Russians and Chinese. I find that disturbing. War needs to become quickly obsolete so we can get off this rock and have fun in space. Trust me, we will all be happier and get a long much better once we have the universe for elbow room. 7 Billion of us now. Think about it.
Pointless? Not really. If we are going to do it, we should do it and get it over with. Think of it as a big game of Risk, someone has to go after the game eventually.
Alaska to Kamchatka, I am rolling with 3 Dice, defend.
We've been attacking for some rounds now, do we have enough cards to turn in? What's a set worth at the moment? We want to turn in.
We have three cannons. We have these territories so lets get armies on each of them. Do we have something for makers? I need to turn in some towers or something. OK, D20s are worth 100, D8s are worth 50, D4s are worth 25.
Ok, I am dumping all this in the Middle East, lets have some fun.
The Draft. We haven't started it yet. We will, any takers on that bet? My money is on 2012 on being the year for it. Oh yeah, elections are coming up. Dangerous time of our 4 year cycle to cross us. We are ready to fight each other. Now if someone was stupid enough to aggro us all, we are seriously primed to rock n roll. Hell, I might end up out of Retirement. I can't run, but give me wheels and guns, and I can do stuff still. Load me up with a vehicle and let me have some toys, nothing big, something quiet please. Where I live, we call that "go'in' huntin' "
On a more sour and surreal note, lets roll South, all the way to the Canal, take it the fuck back. We should have gave away Carter and kept the Canal. You see, Jimmy lost his fucking mind and started chopping up all the military hardware, right in the middle of the Cold War. Sweet Jesus, we about all shit. Then he gave away the Canal that WE FUCKING BUILT. WTF?
Anyway, we do that and we get 5 Bonus Armies a round.
We seriously should. We could vastly improve the lives of everyone from here to there. Right? Hugo, STFU or your next. Ok, so you are next. Oil, bitches. Brazil as well, these fuckers have to stop cutting down the Rain Forrest. Global fucking Warming, you ignorant dicks. Not to mention all the flora you have slashed and burned that have unique genetic coding that we need to unlock with a big fat clue from it growing here. Not now, you cunts cut it down.
3 Dice Bitches, Defend!
FYI: This is my Republican, Risk: World Agenda Policy. Vote for me and we will win this fucking game or at least move it along.
One questions such apparent insanity upon our behalf, as to why we offer up such resistance to Palestinian progressives. Here we have a golden opportunity to support peaceful elements in the Palestinians who wish to just peacefully exist, and hold them accountable for their groups like Hamas. Hamas can thus be isolated with world pressure, as they run counter to the established, supported leadership which has Statehood. It's a golden opportunity for real progress in the region, but instead, we are adamant obstructionists. One has to ponder the motives of such actions.
First thing to question is why the seemingly blind and fanatical support of Israel when they have been countless found the aggressors and violating human rights. The history of creation of Israel as a state has plenty of bloodshed and corruption surrounding it. There is a displaced people involved. Let me elaborate on that in a compare and contrast situation if I may.
Ponder if you may if the UN decided that Mexico was cheated out of their land that we have, such as Texas and California. They in turn with a major superpower that dwarfed us, decided to force us out of said States and give them back to Mexico. The people that built homes, businesses, everything there, were force-ably removed. Imagine if there were incidents of massacres and murder, and brute squads harshly enforcing this decree. Could you imagine the anger that we would harbor? Some would fight, but they would be crushed. And if Canada tried to come to our rescue they would be defeated and pushed back until their lands were threatened.
This is akin to what has happened to Palestine, and I use this metaphor to try to give human understanding to their mentality and their condition. Now understand that we are the super power that has backed them with weapons and money constantly for decades to allow Israel this position. Now factor how we have been allowing Israel to continue to treat the Palestinians. We have in this country a mindset that these Palestinians are animals, and deserving of being slaughtered. This isn't a logical mindset, but we have been fed it for decades.
Consider now our actions as these Palestinians seek to regain Statehood, and to be recognized on the world stage instead of a displaced people. There are "reservations" set aside for them, but like we have done in the past to our American Natives, these lands are seen to be something to be gained by the Israelis. They just move in and start building, and if the Palestinians don't like it, they have to look down the barrel of American made tanks.
Of course there is a violent and resistive element to this whole process. If it was us, we would be just as violent if not more. But there are peaceful elements that are trying to just survive and live decent normal lives. These have a hard time gaining power in the Palestinian ranks because the people of course feel deeply wronged and the violent elements are very strong and frightening.
What we are missing here is the opportunity to prop up these peaceful elements as the whole of humanity, and disarming the situation between these two warring factions. This can be done by out powering the violent elements with outside support from the world. But there are problems, and not only with the violent elements of the Palestinians. Israel has "hawks" in power at the moment, old warhorses that hold a grudge, and thrive on the US/Israel war machine. Israel is aggressive with settlements into Palestinian "reservations".
Now this is where it gets weird. You would think that we would be trying to iron out peace and capitalizing on this opportunity. But we aren't. We are obstructing it at every phase and we are losing massive political capital in the process. It appears that we have an irrational, blind, fanatical support of Israel, turning a blind eye to whatever shenanigans that it perpetrates. This doesn't go unnoticed in the entire Middle East region and is part of how we fail diplomatically across the board there. Now the question one needs to ask
Now, now, GW as a fine puppet. He did as he was told.
Stereotypical American intelligence, you have a point there. Stereotypes do have their uses, camouflage for example. Backfire? You imply the U.S. and I presume you mean the Government's involvement. They couldn't get involved if they wanted to, nor would you want them. Just American opportunists, adrenalin junkies, perhaps some with an ax to grind, some that just have a need "get it on" and of course, the allure of money.
What I find interesting though is the topic of the original thread. Just WTF are some geeks like Anon doing getting involved in something like this? Did some idealistic Mexican geek step on his dick? I am wondering what Anon has to work with for any sort of leverage, or are they really just twisting in the wind? I just posted my original post because I think the landscape in those regards are due for some upheaval soon.
Here's a thought, if it's something they, Anon might have on them, the Cartel, it might actually be interesting. The case has been made that finding out information on them down there is kind of moot, but they do have operatives here. Exposure here isn't something to take so lightly. This is where the cash flows from.
Sweet Jesus, if you are going to put that much effort into a troll, do it anon. Entertaining though.
Consider the crime element of it all. Domestic versus Mexican. We are about to get an influx of American elements that really aren't going to appreciate the invading competition. The meth situation is a real wild card here.
You have to look at American history, after each war, you end up with an influx of American gangs. It happened even after WW2, and the Nam. This era of them will be interesting. They are coming home to one seriously fucked up country, so I think the "gang factor" is naturally going to increase. I don't see them throwing their lot in with part of the problem. I see a more tribal reaction to this than a mercenary one.
Check down this thread. Did you notice the "fuck you" one from "the locals"? I was curious if they were paying attention. This is an unspoken war that we are balls deep in here at home. It's not only in our backyard but it's in our cities and even smaller towns as well. This is an embolden enemy that is pissed off, and feels entitled to fucking us over. Hell, some of them feel the entitlement to California and Texas back and by force. That's probably to say the least because it was obvious enough to make world radar.
What war is this? It's the "fuck you gringos, we will pump meth into all of you and your kids, take your money and watch you die". Now this sounds grim to some people, but there is that percentage that is crazy enough that this is a bountiful opportunity. I predict it will start with the Cartels getting rolled here in the States and rolled hard. That taste of blood and money isn't going to be enough, they will go looking for more. Say hi to American savagery when it shows up on your door step Mr "fuck you and the horse you rode in on".
I understand, you are looking at it from a conventional mindset. Of course that would never work. Did you not read what I wrote? Consider this, a decade of modern warfare. What do you think comes home from that? Not all of them, but what do you think are in those numbers? It's easy to take the soldier out of the war, but not so easy to take the war out of the soldier.
Look what we have waiting for them when they get home. We have plenty of jobs for them all, right? Of course they will not notice the meth epidemic that has sprang up over this last decade or so. Nothing like spending a decade on the other side of the world, to come home and see your country has turned to shit. Your streets and roads have fallen apart. Jobs are nowhere to be found. We live in a police state and there are drug gangs galore from Mexico in your home town. This is one big recipe for "pissed off".
Then there we have this fat cartel setting on the other side of the border. You know they are loaded with cash. Buckets of it. Ruthless? That's nothing new. We are talking about coming home from the war with the fuckers that will cut your heads off for giggles. Can you say "intimidation factor: nil"? I am just saying look at this big batch of ingredients we have coming together here shortly.
Get the popcorn ready, 2012 is going to be down right interesting to say the least.
My question is, why aren't you people hunting these fuckers down? Just how fucked up is it there that you haven't just collectively cut their throats in the night? Is your entire society too scared or afraid or just apathetic and stay away from the entire area? Without doubt I am sure we have something to do with it. We seem to have no problem burning our own society down with a different kind of ruthless cartel. Ours is on Wall Street and Washington DC though and play for higher stakes.
What policies have we created that have fucked you guys over into this situation? Mexico is like a black hole of information. It simply doesn't exist to us, save for the fact that we have lots of your people here illegally. Sad, I know, but that is the facts of the matter. I am curious though what is the problem? I know NAFTA had to have something to do with it. The whole thing stinks to high heaven, and I know we subsidize our corn production, that alone has probably put the crunch to you.
I have a gut feeling that Mexico is a little model of where we are heading. Vast amounts of poor and exploited people, fucked over by a higher class who have it all.
What I find fucking hysterically ironic is in spite of our fascist government and all their bullshit to "keep us free of terrorists", the Mexican Cartels have managed to move freely into our country and are in every major city and starting on the smaller towns. The fuckers are in a town about 50 miles from me, thanks to the fact they can blend in with all of the illegals working the meat plants. They have been putting the "mom and pop" meth shops out of business with their cheaper, better product. We are getting a lot of their weed too, you can always tell it's from there. We call it "chunk" because it's been hydraulically compressed, and you about need a pair of pliers to break it up. It's seedy which means its grown by people who are sloppy growers dealing with bulk amounts. This screams Mexico, no offense, it's just the logic of it. Growers here are more careful with what little they have to let it get pollinated.
We have serious issues dealing with this. We have cops who are a. stupid, b. crooked, c. both. Our system is controlled by politicians who will whore themselves out AND are too gutless to deal with "politically correct" issues. Let's not forget American nativity and stupidity. We are talking the Jenny McCarthy types that are everywhere and have been allowed to breed and multiply unchecked. It's down right comical. If you moved against these Mexican gangs, these idiots would be out protesting it as "racist".
It appears as we have been mucking around overseas, some serious weeds (no pun) have grown up in our backyard. I have to wonder if this is by design or stupidity? Either way, it really burns my ass. We grope old women at the airport to "make us secure", but our Southern Border and our Southern neighbor is seriously fucked. It would be so easy to move Middle East Operatives across that border into our infrastructure. But crooked Wall Street fucks want the cheap labor they can exploit in factories that they can't relocate overseas. Things that require fast processing and quick to market, like produce and meats need labor HERE and this is where they want to labor to exploit. If you think I am wrong, go check out any meat processing plant or any food processing plant in this country now.
So my Mexican friend, this looks like a seriously fucked situation for both you and I. I am assuming you are correct in your assessment of the situation because you are there, boots on the ground, so to speak. The one solution to this would be to legalize it here, tax it, regulate it and make it available cheap. But our politicians are far too stupid and corrupt to even consider it. It's been explained repeatedly to them how it would solve this problem, but again Wall Street interests override common sense, not to mention we have the "stupid people" factor here that would resist it out of some moronic sense of false morality that has been installed in the
Actually it's a sweet move. Let me explain. This is a drug cartel that is camped right on our border. They make tons of money, and chances are they are infected with the "need for high tech toys" that comes with that pile of easy money. Being that these are drug cartel people and not rocket scientists, this means they are probably exposed to the same technology holes in security that the rest of us are. These guys aren't Sony, and Sony got their ass handed to them in the tech security department. I doubt these cartels even have an "IT security" afterthought, let alone a department.
Unless they are operating with military grade encryption with everyone in their operation, they are just as vulnerable as the next organization. When you operate in such a high risk environment, even "script kiddies" can dig up dirt on you that can prove lethal. It could be a crumb of information that can put the "blood hounds" on your trail. Most people have no clue what an intelligence operation can come up with out of just the right tiny little morsel of information. Imagine handing them a platter of information?
Not to mention, these cartels have attracted the attention of people who can effectively send them back to the stone age of technology use. Meaning if they want to their operations to be secure, they will have to go back to basic "pen and paper" days. Until they can get their entire staff of thugs trained on proper security protocols and equipped right, they are setting ducks to intelligence operations that have them in their sights. Now American Government Intel Operations aren't the thing to worry about, because they can't release what they know to your competitors. But a rogue intelligence operation can, and by all means will if you don't pay the piper.
They seem to just want their friend or friends back. This is a cheap price to pay and should be capitalized on. Of course they will not. My money is on the stupid move being played, and this will escalate. Of course if I was a US Gov Agency, I would be eating popcorn, watching this and laughing my ass off. This is full of win for them. Two birds and you don't even have to throw the stone.
After December the wolves come home. Meaning this, our Military will be home, and there aren't a lot of jobs. But across the border are cartels, loaded with money and generally being a pain in the ass to the world.
This is where you take finely honed soldiers fresh from the combat zone, and start up some "private Black Ops". The combination of possibilities one can play here are limitless. You can make quick fast scores to finance bigger operations. Dig in, set up intel operations until you map out the players. Then it's a matter of figuring out the most elegant and effective low footprint means of eliminating them. Of course you capture their cache of money, dope, weapons, etc, but more importantly, you establish your own replacement system. You grease the right palms, don't abuse the locals, and bring everything back down under the radar, out of the news and everything becomes a ghost.
Too much attention has been brought to this region, and it's really bad for "the trade". It's sloppy management, as everything is a "management problem" if there is a problem. This is low hanging fruit for young mercenaries home from the dried up tit called Iraq. Any "mercenary operations brain" will recognize this as a golden opportunity. I don't think it's a matter if it will happen, but a matter of who will get the prize.
Personally, if I were conducting these ops, I would eliminate the meth production there and keep it eliminated. Frankly, it's rat poison for people, and America has been dosed enough with it. You would even put the squeeze on and shut down the sex slave traffic. Just focus on making money with weed. It's a cash crop that will make everyone more than enough money, giving you enough muscle in the region to keep things civilized. To make it really easy, you get the locals to farm it for you, and give them a taste of the pie. This keeps them at home, and from swarming across the border. It's a win/win/win situation except for assholes.
Of course this is very illegal and full of wet work, and it has to be done intelligently. Which makes it perfect for Americans. Well, the right kind of Americans that is. Usually this means the kind that not only survive, but thrive in war. Many of the dear gentle readers here have no clue what I mean or think I'm insane or creative. That's fine with me, they are right.
Voting is only useless because we don't exploit the system at the grass roots level. We are too lazy to organize, and send forth REPRESENTATIVES, (not politicians) and in mass change things. The Tea Party was a good idea, but it was in the hands of the wrong people and was instituted by those in power to manipulate this situation proactively from within. But you did see the effect it had on Congress. What we need is OWS to be as political in their voter registration and sending forth THEIR REPRESENTATIVES this next election.
What we do is set back and let the lame stream media, who is just a bought and paid for as the politicians spoon feed us whom to vote for. Our levels of trust in the media are misguided and ill placed. Thankfully we have the Internet and social media to exploit to bypass this massive propaganda machine that fights against us, polarizes us and we fight each other instead of the puppeteers.
We must be intelligent about this, we do after all have enemies in this world that would see us stumble and fall as a nation. I am reminded of what Isaac Asimov wrote; "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Violence will bring about damage and massive loss of human life. We can't afford these things. We need to be progressing forward as not only a people, a nation, but as a species. Our goal should be upward and that my friends is to space and to the stars.
Sadly though, and I have given this some thought. We have vast evil intrenched in our systems. I don't fear the violence starting with the average person, such as you or myself, or even our military, or even some fringe element like the most devout of militia. I fear the evil in the system, once cornered will bite like a cornered rat. Due to its inhumane nature, when pressed it will not shy away from draconian measures in order to preserve itself. It will not slink away into the night like a wounded, defeated monster that it is, it will bellow, roar and rage against the people.
The only silver lining in that horrible storm cloud is the righteous will no longer need to question their conscience when it comes to taking to battle against this darkness.
You can't just punch one of these little pigs out and go about your business. It doesn't work like that. The other little pigs will squeal and the big pigs will come running to help them. They are well armed, we aren't. They are organized, we aren't. They can roll in tanks, jets, the entire military if they need. They could nuke us, because their Pig in Chief has the "legal right" now to help enforce the police state ANYWHERE with the military to "restore order".
We have more people in prisons that any other country in the world. That equates into this is the biggest police state in the world, we have a polished system to deal with "resistance to authority". We also have a big, high tech military that is well trained via Iraq with dealing with "resistance to authority".
Why do you think they rip the masks off of the protestors in NY? So they can get pictures of them. They have us all on file. Our dumb asses posting here, I am sure is/will be on file.
You are seriously fucked if you try to use force to change this. Blunt application of force would not work. Our only hope is this charade of a voting system and by voting against these corporations pulling the puppet strings with our wallets. Good luck with that though, that deck is stacked against us as well and we are one seriously confused, stupid, clusterfuck of idiots as a collective of people. We fight each other while the puppet masters laugh at both sides of a divided people that they orchestrated.
Just shut up, take your bite of the shit sandwich and pass it over so I can take my damn bite and pass it on to the next idiot so he can have his.
I am with you, fuck these fucking fuckers. Seriously. I will not fly because of these assholes. Not that I need to fly or travel, because I don't, but if I did, this would turn tragic as hell in a heartbeat. "Do I seriously look like a fucking terrorist??" would be the first thing out of my mouth. Then I am sure hand to hand combat would be the next thing in order, because I will not tolerate being handled. I feel like it's my duty to beat these Nazi fucks down the second they try to lay their hands on me. I can't help it. I doubt I could even stand in line and watch them grope old women, children, women. It would be on.
It wouldn't last long, I am out of shape as fuck, and older and I hurt just moving around. Why didn't they try this shit 20 years ago when I was younger and could "run through the jungle"?
But sadly, you and I need to watch our mouths. They will round us up and stuff us in a dark hole if we are lucky. If we aren't lucky, who the fuck knows what becomes of political "problem people" these days if they can pick you off one by one in the night. America, home of the free? That makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time these days. It's not getting any better, and it will only get fucking worse.
It's a war we have already lost. They have been prepared for this for decades, and the American people are way behind the game. We are too little, too late. Our two sided political system is a joke, they are both bought and paid for. The main stream media has been pumping us full of propaganda for decades, crafting the American mindset to accept whatever they want to dish out to us.
Welcome to the American Nightmare. The dream is over.
Ok, thanks. I read the entire thing from top to bottom about 20 years ago. It seems that might have slipped through the cracks. Do I look like a damn lawyer?
Well. you got me then. Woohoo, thank God. I will bite the bullet on that one and take the "Retard of the Month" award.
With that aside lets get that show started. Where to we start the process? It's that or we put in a new Constitutional clause to up end this shit. We can poke fun of me after this shit is settled, I will buy the first round of drinks, and probably the last.
Seriously people, we have to get back to Industrialist Capitalism and put this Slash N Burn Capitalism to pasture. Too many people in finance playing it like a gambling hall. A poster on /. set it right. They play it like Vegas with better cloths. It's in the short term, nano second fast, in a day traders, the "quick flips", driving a "fire a bunch of people" right before a quarter market. Watch the stock go up, and play it like a lotto ticket. That is all fine and dandy, but when it becomes the only game in town, and you cook the golden goose, the entire house falls apart around you and the natives are on the drums, it's time to GET A JOB.
That means it time to produce, and in order to produce HERE, you have to have some brains. You have to be able to deal with labor, and deal with regulations. Which means you can't be a goof or a crook, or a crooked goof about how you do things. You have to be smarter than the door knob. One big thing, if you let Education become some ego contest, and drive the price out of sight, or worse, be corporately "bottom line" driven about it, education turns into the unachievable that our "challenged" kids aren't going to get. You seriously want these modern kids to make Ivy League or even a facsimile? One thing we shouldn't be last in is smart, we don't have the numbers for it.
In order to do that, we have to reset the rules of the game back to the house. Literally.
Of course, but what else do you call selling out your country to the corporations to this degree? They have wrecked our representative system, opening it up to corruption run hog wild, not to mention the influence of foreign entities. This is a lethal dose of poison to democracy. It may not be "treason according to Hoyle" but it damn sure is the highest of treason in spirit and effect.
It will take a Constitutional Amendment to undo this damage, and good luck with that. The politicians are already loaded against us versus passing one. It's a brilliant end game move. Consider if you will the implications of this action they have taken carefully. All the wars we have ever fought, none of them could have damaged us like this. No foreign enemy could have altered the very "genetic make up" of this nation like this. They could have beat us into the ground, or nuked us until we glowed in the dark, but they couldn't have twisted us into this. So you are right, this isn't treason. It goes beyond that garden variety of evil. Words to describe it escape me.
I have been pondering how to remove the SCOTUS without just putting a noose around their necks and giving them a good stretch. I think a Constitutional Amendment would do the trick just fine. Is there any other way to eject these seriously deluded people out of these positions of demigods of our State? There has to be a way to remove one if they go bad. If not then our founding fathers seriously dropped the ball on this one.
Those two acts, one of of declaring money speech and removing all limits to corporate spending to lobbying, are blatant acts of treason against the State. Our founding fathers are spinning in their graves like gyroscopes on that. Hasn't it been said, that once the law becomes unlawful, the people themselves will become a law of their own? Or something like that?
Effectively with the SCOTUS declaring this, has effectively removed all voice from the people in their government. Only the corporations will be served, and our country as we known it has been rendered extinct. You no longer have representation, because those elected will serve those who can dump mountains of cash in their pockets. Because it's free speech and corporations are free to speak because they are people.
Wow, that is so fucked in the head it's surreal. If you look at the history of corporations, you will see how they were only allowed with control, but they have been struggling to gain more and more power until at last they have it all. Sweet Jesus, we are seriously fucked. Someone tell the OWS people to pack it in and go home, the SCOTUS has sold us out, we can't change the laws now even if we wanted to.
Lets consider this big shit sandwich for a second before we all have to take a bite. Corporations are multinational entities. This means that we now have unknown foreign entities with unlimited influence upon our State. Do you think we will now have a prayer of stopping our labor/industry from being exported to whatever third world country that works for next to nothing? Nope, so give a big kiss and a wave goodbye to American jobs. Without American jobs, the 99% become quickly vagrants, no home, no vote.
This is now the land of the corporations. They will thin the herd. They don't need us any more. They are setting on their money, just waiting for us to starve out, die off, while their political lackeys will cut off any help to the bottom end. They will then proceed to shove everyone not in their service down through the meat grinder, no safety nets, just whirling blades of homelessness, no medical, no food, no voice. Say hello to the American Gulags, the concentration camps, and if you are lucky prison. If you are extra special, you can have the treat to serve in their jackbooted enforcement corps or as a thug putting their thumbscrews on the last of the free world.
The sad thing is, we deserve it. We have been stupid enough to just let them get by with creeping up on us. We watch "sports" when we should be watching these criminals against humanity and beating their asses down when they stick they heads out of whatever hole from Hell they crawl out of. We have fucked around with our own indulgences, while our slavery chains have been forged loudly right on our hands and feet. Forget "Bread and Circuses", we are mesmerized by Hollywood, fast food, cable TV, all the indulgences of the Internet. We have been reduced to gutless, spineless cowards who will just bow down and take whatever our Overlords decide for us.
Watch now as these foolish protestors who are a decade too late, are made examples of. They will be crushed, and you will set on your fat asses and make excuses for those who destroy them or why "you can't get involved". That sickly feeling you will experience in your gut, that is the soul of your once great nation dying, and the shame will be overbearing. How ironic! The great American, taken down, not with an epic fight or struggle, but handed over by a bunch of simpering, ignorant pussies, not worthy of being the descendents of the forefathers who bled and sacrificed, only so that their heirs could just piss their freedoms away.
R.I.P America
You deserved going out a more glorious and dignified way.
It's slash and burn capitalism. It's not about industrialism or anything resembling long term thinking. I think you hit the nail on the head. What are we building or producing anymore? I think it's all "creative financing", shuffling paperwork around. It doesn't help when we have trade policies that cut our own throats, leaving a back door for corporations to outsource everything from labor to call centers overseas. Our people need jobs, and if they don't have them, they can't buy our products or services. We can't survive as a nation if we don't have government thinking like one. They all pander to this "Vegas Wall Street" and we are sinking fast.
Settle down you dumb cocksucker. No one gives a shit for you or your fucking pig shit story. You are not smart. You are not clever. You are just another speck of geek filth. Dropnthe fuck dead, assmuncher.
You must be a Fox News pundit, no?
I would agree with you, but I live in the ass end of the universe. I live in a dark corner of a State in the middle of "fly over land", I am sure natives living in huts on the Serengeti have more cell carrier selection than we do. We have two carriers to pick from, Bad and Worse and Verizon is the better deal.