How about someone makes a database that lists everyone in every one of these movies they sue over and boycott any works by those studios, the actors, even down to the crews that work in them. If any of those people are in a movie or related to it in anyway; it's boycotted. The real power is in the consumer, not the courts, not the studios.
I failed to decipher that, unless you are implying I am a bit loony. Considering the old rhyme: "Bird of a feather flock together, so will pigs and swine. Rats and mice will have their choice, and so will I have mine", you are probably right.
Let me explain why. But first, I think this part of the tread has been modded into some/. hell, either that or my browser is enjoying a malfunction. I tried looking at the original article and thread and this entire section of the thread for me is about 5 posts. I know we have left the reservation of the topic, but damn I hate sneaky moderators/admins. Yes, I turned my browsing all the way down to see -1.
Anyway, the irony, at least from my perspective: Telling people how dumb they are is a "left handed" way of telling them how smart you are. The apparent anger, evident in the aggression of the "you are so blah blah blah stupid" gist, stems from a subconscious fear or identification with the subject. The identification part brings out an internal conflict; identification clashes with self image. Anger is a product of the conflict, hence the tone of the "you are so blah blah blah stupid."
Hence I come to the irony of the post coupled with your sig. Which by the way, seems like a way of saying "I'm smart, because I have an insight, but I don't want to say I am smart, because it would counter this insight I have." Note also in your reply post, you put in a path of least resistance with "or at least had a seriously stupid moment." This gave us both an "out" so that further "conflict" both internal and in posts doesn't have to happen.
Given that evident "out" the real question then is "why the fuck am I harping on this STILL?" Frankly I think it's me dodging both my engineering homework, and psychoanalyzing a nightmare I just had while taking a nap. It was some disturbing shit (the nightmare), that probably gives me some insight into myself and possibly some closure with a personal issue. You see, you are the lucky one; you just deal with me for a post or two. I have to live with me..lol.
Or, I could be entirely wrong; you just thinking I am a retard of sorts.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and shoots bullets like duck....wait.
The guy was politically motivated there is no doubt about it to me. He had asked her a question one before at a previous encounter, "How do you know that words mean anything?" I know, lol huh? But when you start digging into his psychological make up, look at his favorite reading list, you will know he has political. He also showed remorse to his friends before the event so he knew the consequences of his action. My guess is he is extremely cognitive in some aspects, probably too much so. This smacks of an obsessive person who thought this act out. This wasn't a "derpy durr" retard who stumbled on a gun one day it was raining guns and bullets from the sky and skipped off to go shoot a random person for giggles.
His friends interview said he believed in nothing, mean literally "nothingness". If you couple that with a philosophy gleaned from the books in his favorite reading list, and his government conspiracy theories you get something akin to Libertarian, but skewed more into Anarchy. Of course everyone will correct me that Anarchists are Leftwing, and they are classically. But you have to adjust that to American reality, where the Left is "big government" and the Right is less government, Libertarian is even less government and Anarchists are No government. Anarchists go so far left they start circling around to the right. (the universe is circular, look at any soap bubble.)
My guess is he knows the fallout of his actions so he has the motivation not only to prolong his time from the death sentence, but to compartmentalize the damage he has done to just himself. I am not sure if this is to protect the side of the political coin that he identifies with primarily or to "own" this deed as his own signature into history. Not to mention people with any sense know that we have a foam-at-the-mouth public over the incident and politicizing such things are the stuff nightmares are made of; AND Arizona is a Right leaning state just with their predominate support of pro gun issues and pro "kick the illegals to the curb" stance which has garnered them some serious flack. If I was a Judge I would be cooling him off in a "nut hut" and denying him a platform if by some chance he wanted to exploit it. Once in psychiatric care, the chance of the public getting their mitts on his "motivation" are seriously thinned down due to patient privacy and judicial orders to keep the environment pure so they can get to "WTF???" It's all "win" to keep this one under lock and key away from the public.
Anyway, you shake a nut tree, and nuts will fall out of it if they are ripe. This one if you really want to argue the fine points and details isn't the stereotypical and obvious Rightwing clocktower garden variety of lunatic. It's complicated. BUT, the jazzy rhetoric of the Right concerning several issues, and you get Tea Party and their MILF cheerleader/figurehead railing against the Left, combine that with our nut job subject's teetering mental state, and his previous history with said Congress Critter and TADA, you have a shooting.
This is just the band tuning up their instruments in the orchestra of crazy. It's not even a warm up, its pre-warm up. We are into the months of "warm up" and next year, the band will strike up and play their asses off.
BTW, no I am not high. I would definitely puff puff pass if I was into that. Not that I have anything against it, we should be legalizing it for several economic reasons alone. Not to mention the massive boost to the economy of opening up a new industry: Hemp related products.
The gun versus anti-gun stuff in Arizona at the time was heated stuff. Couple that with the immigration issues and you got some angry people on both sides. This is the kind of stuff that tips crazy people over the edge. I'm not saying she was whispering in his ear "sic 'em". I am saying she is vainglorious idiot bitch who pumped out jacked up rhetoric to a seething mad element for the "cheers". WTF, she isn't running, why is she rabble rousing?
Considering how high strung people are these days, it's a wonder people are as well restrained as they are. I don't think it's going to hold though. We have tent cities popping up, it's starting to look like "The Grapes of Wrath." I think it's only a matter of time before someone has enough and says "fuck you" to it all and goes batshit insane. Flip a coin and call which side it will be.
Sportsmanship, and the lack of it. I can remember when a political party lost, they STFU and offered up some obstructionism here and there for their political gains, a filibuster here and there. The Right went nuts on Clinton, with plenty of good cause. Clinton was a blizzard of scandals and what I found amazing was HE appointed Ken Star. Ken Star then did the Monica investigation which was in my opinion the greatest red herring in the history of red herrings. Sweet Jesus, we had Chinese spies all over the fucking place. Then when they tried to round them up, they vanished into thin air. The whole damn mess was barely a blip on any media radar. By the time we got through with Monica, we didn't give a damn about anything else Clinton did. That's just part of the laundry list of crap that went down.
But even then Fox wasn't too bad. Hannity hadn't feel deeply in love with himself yet, and O'Reilly was hardly noticeable. Then Bush happened. O'Reilly made his bones covering the goofy hanging chad debacle in Florida. But when Obama got elected, they frankly snapped and went balls out, full blown Right wing partisan. Their "left wing" commentators reminded me of the puny guy in the wrestling ring with the fancy super star, you know he was toast before it started. It graduated from "intellectual profession wrestling-like debate" to just plain partisanship. This is when they really launched Ann Coulter into high gear, and O'Reilly starts turns into the epic tool, and Shawn starts his crusade to "Hanitize" America. Spare me.
It's all like making "live frog stew", putting the live frog in a pot of room temp water, then applying the heat. The goofy frog doesn't notice. What helped me was a "news fast", where I took a long break from watching any news, especially watching cable. After a while, your head clears and you can ask questions of yourself like "WTF are we still doing in Iraq and Afghanistan?" Seriously, WTF? Then tune in for a bit of news and holy shit, they have moved even further to the Right than the last time you watched them.
As if things weren't polarized enough, Fox goes all out with this Tea Party thing of theirs. People are pissed off and want some cause to identify with. Tada, here is the Tea Party and here's an axe for you undereducated fuckers to grind. They pick it up and grind away and don't stop. Sara Palin decides she's bored in Alaska or what the hell ever she was thinking and jumps on the bandwagon. She loves the attention it seems. I was hoping her and Trump would have made a run together. But anyway, she's all gung ho, (no pun) and the rhetoric starts to heat up. Things start getting messy with some incidents. Then the liberals start their anti-gun crap, which all things considered is retarded to start when things are this heated already. The tone is set and someone snaps and shoots people. Things cool off for a short while until it blows over and then we are all back to full throttle polarization.
Enter the budget crisis with the need to up the debt. Nobody likes it, but it has to be done, but the Tea Party decides this is the time to make a power play and end up holding us all hostage. So Fox realizes I think that they have to keep dancing with the date they brought to the party and they start playing the "lets blame the poor for being poor" with lots of sexy propaganda guaranteed to inflame "the working man", terms like "entitlements" and "Obamacare". By keeping on the offensive, they keep the liberals off balance and from remembering that "hey...Fox, you fuckers invented these Tea Party assholes that held us all hostage." Not to mention they really need to put on some kind of song and dance considering their big boss man has his nuts in a vice in England over a whole bunch of bribery and phone hacking charges against his entire organization there. Let's gloss over that please, they say.
In the mean time, the Tea Party is feeling their oats. Republicans are wondering WTF to do with them, as they watch the polls show how people are really starting to hate them. (the Te
We can both play the youtube vid game back and forth until the cows come home on this one. At this point it's tit for tat, action, and reaction. But I know who started this shit. This crap is ratcheting up exponentially and I watch Fox News throw gas on the fire every day. I particularly marvel at how they have harped on "entitlements" for about two weeks now. It's quite the buzz word, and has all the right connotations to fit the bill for marginalizing an element of society. It would not surprise me that violence against the poor/homeless, or those on welfare will be on the rise in the coming months.
By all means though, keep defending Fox and the Tea Party and ignore the elements in it that are violent. When both sides collide neither will win, the trap will slam shut on everyone as we move into the "domestic terrorist" phase of the police state. If you don't think they aren't geared up to deal with insurrection, check out the economic summit protests and how they were "handled".
You have to look at the big picture and the political rhetoric being generated. I know you don't want to believe this can happen here. But we haven't seen the last of it by far. It's only warming up.
The Tea Party is a creation of Fox News. I remember their creation while many seem to gloss over this fact. They are just another element of how we are goosestepping towards Fascism ever so quickly these days. We have our modern version of the Gestapo with a strong police state/prison industry to enforce whatever mandates are handed down to us. Both sides of the political coin are corrupt as can be; it's a matter of how you want screwed over, not if you will be screwed over.
If you monitor Rightwing web traffic and comments, you can see a major spike in the angry tones. We aren't even into the official election year or it's cycle and the political rhetoric is turned up on 11. Imagine how this is going to play out when this election doesn't play out the way these people want. I will be shocked if we don't see outbreaks of political violence before the election. It's all classic fascism in play; a quick study of the definition of it and it's history will chill your bones. Once you understand this element, things really start crystallizing clear. You have to step back, clear your head of preconceptions and look at the big picture.
These 24 hour news channels are epic propaganda outlets. If you look at the history of propaganda, and its modus operandi you will find disturbing similarities with these current propaganda outlets. Fox News has shifted into high speed, low drag with theirs, and their impact has been impressive. I have followed them since their creation, for it was interesting to see a Rightwing perspective after years of CNN's far Leftwing propaganda. Obama though has frankly made them snap. I have watched them go from "Fair and Balanced" to "Fairly Unbalanced" since his election. Their objectivity, trying to present a "balanced" approach to news has crumbled to dust, taking with it a huge audience down the Rightwing path.
Now they tote far Rightwing talking points and methodically craft their propaganda to suit a target audience. The Tea Party was their creation. It was incredibly partisan of them to create them, now they step back from it as if it wasn't something they created; as if this was some "movement" created out of thin air. It wasn't, they nurtured it, broadcasted it, provided web support and still keep them in the limelight.
People seem to forget about the shooting in Arizona, where a Rightwing nut job shot up a Congresswoman and part of a crowd. People forget how Sara Palin had "Gun Cross hairs" literally on her web site that had that Congresswoman targeted. Her people made changes to that site immediately after the shooting. The Tea Party has a history of violence to it that isn't making national news yet. Here is a local news cast about some on youtube.
Tea Party violence is amazing to research. I watched one video of a woman getting her head stomped on at one incident. Only blind political partisanship will ignore the signs of where this movement is going. It's symptomatic of a bigger picture though; which is a serious step towards Fascism. All the piece of this puzzle are here if you look.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." -Steinbeck
"Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times." -Vonnegut
"It is a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”"-Vonnegut
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.-Albert Einstein
I think weapons development is the highest form of public service. The herd needs thinned. I am an engineering student myself, and I pondered trying to make things to "help humanity". I thought of alternative energy solutions, but after taking a look around, I changed my mind. FUCK humanity. We suck, we over populate, we fuck each other over for the slightest bit of anything. We slaughter other species for pleasure, we maim species, we frankly piss all over everything.
So I my goal is to be in weapons development and or surveillance technology to help big brother crush this species under it's corporate thumb like the bug it is. I want to build my own robot/drone army and rule the world, then have my minions rule it after I am gone. Or put my brain in a jar and keep running things. I want to be the evil rich mad scientist engineer and give everyone something worthwhile to bitch about.
Ha ha, not really, I just want to get through school and not end up living in the weeds, homeless.
Of course, and they are chief of said liars and bullshit artists themselves. Have you ever taken a look at the incredibly predatory system that we call "law enforcement?" Of course there are monsters out there they have to deal with. But sometimes, when you hunt monsters, you become one yourself. It's amazing the insight one can get when one lives next to a police center and they come over for coffee and hang out. They can become really cynical and need grounding now and then. Most are really great people, but some, well some are worse than the criminals they hunt. What is amazing is the naivety they have about each others behaviors. Most of it is willing sadly.
Actually this is kind of exciting for if it seriously takes off, that means one can do some gaming in a linux platform. Especially if it's a pay to play thingy which I would imagine that is where they are going with a browser based game. Or free to play but be plagued with ads, or its a pay to win situation. That means the whiny Mac people could play as well. Face it, games is what is keeping Windows around. At least in my opinion.
Shooting Hellfires at civilians would be fucking retarded and set the whole country and probably world against whomever did it. They have plenty of tech for dealing with riots and demonstrations that doesn't involve blatantly setting off a civil war.
Well do we really have to ask? Hasn't the Federal Gov of the United States proven time after time to be extortionists acting as lackeys for corporations? Heaven forbid we get medicine from some place other than the Health Nazis of America. Sweet Jesus, someone save us from these fuckers.
Once upon a time, when our founding father set up this country, they determined that the only way the Federal Government could raise money was through tariffs. I believe they had the wisdom to protect the environment and ecology of America's economy. Enter a world war and the need to raise more revenue, hence along came income tax. It was suppose to be a temporary measure, and the fact of the mater is, its never been fully ratified as a constitutional amendment. Hence the "voluntary" tag on it, but that is voluntary at the end of a gun.
Every nation on this planet knows to protect its own economy, only through manipulation from corporations of governments have we seen nations protectionism drop. Some of this is for the better, but frankly not for us. We have been running a trade deficit for decades now.
What has happened is big business and corporations have learned over the decades they can move manufacturing off shores to to cut labor costs. Yes, Unions have been a problem, but instead of addressing this problem head on, they did an end run around the situation by just moving offshore. Our politicians have let them get away with this and it's been a slippery slope.
Now the chickens have come home to roost. There will be no jobs for people in America, because the system in its current status isn't going to allow it. They will always be undercut by cheaper labor. Until we slam the door shut on this cheap labor loop hole, the entire country is going to keep sliding down the slippery slope.
First thing, people like yourself need to establish a sense of loyalty to your own neighborhoods, your own state and your own Country. Globalization is a hat trick of the corporations to con the public into letting them cut their throats with these labor loop holes. This propaganda ties in with "capitalism is our religion" and not only have we been pumping this lie to our own people but we have been pumping it out to the rest of the world. This is all fine and dandy until the system at last collapses from being sucked dry.
You can't expect to sell to people when they don't have jobs, but we have. We have run up debt to keep sustaining this lifestyle. Not because we have some delusions of grandeur of our own self worth, but because we have been robbed of what should be ours by liars and thieves. We have been conned into thinking that we shouldn't look after own interests first, that the "Free Market" is a good thing, and those cheap deals aren't cheap at all, they are costing us our country.
We have been suckered into some unrealistic La La Land dream of Political correctness. We have collectively been brainwashed with "white man's guilt" at the plight of poor Ping or Juan. This is a dog eat dog world, over populated, violent, greedy and if you don't watch out for your own with a vengeance, the Pings and Juans will take the food from your table and you and your children will starve due to your stupidity. Big business and corporations have capitalized on this ignorance and have moved the jobs that feed OUR people away, or let them be usurped by those who will work under the table for scraps. They have gotten rich from this situation, not caring about the damage its done to our people, our communities, and now the entire country. They have taken their ill gotten gains and paid these vermin in Washington to watch their backs, give them tax loopholes, allow them to move the jobs away with impunity, or to let our southern border be overran with a silent invasion of cheap labor.
While you set here and pontificate to me the propaganda dogma of these villains, your jobs, your culture, your heritage that all of your forefathers worked so hard for you to have is slipping away into the hands of vermin. Yes, vermin. When you and your children are laying in a ditch or in some tent city, it will be far too late to snap out of this la la land daydream you have been lulled into. The cold realities of this world will have raped your country raw.
You need to wake the hell up and get angry. You need to fig
Ah, yeah, it did happen. The Teabag Party held the entire economy hostage so their rich masters could skate. That's what happened, it's history, I was watching it the entire time, you can't convince me what I seen with my own eyes didn't happen. Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining.
If teachers are some how unfit to communicate with students online, then shouldn't they be unfit to communicate with them IN PERSON AT SCHOOL?
It seems that it would be intelligent that teachers should welcome a chance to be let into the social circles of students online. This is where they could influence them in a positive way. For example the case of cyber bullying. If there is a teacher in the circle of friends, wouldn't this hamper cyber bullying? Don't we have enough disconnect from the youth of the country as it is? We have both parents trying to work 2 jobs each trying to pay the bills, this leaves kids disconnected to a point of being criminally negligent.
It's ok that we we let kids be influenced by Rap music, MTV, and free run of the Internet with all the filth involved in these elements, but we balk at a teacher being around? It sounds like we need drug testing for politicians.
Yeah, Detroit is really a bustling industrial town, it's really the "party line" that makes us think other wise. The manufacturing that left my home town, yeah, it's really still there, being ran by invisible people, producing an invisible product; Casper the Friendly Ghost is running it. What was I thinking? Oh yeah, it's the "party line."
When I go shopping, all those "made in China" stamps and tags, they really read "made in the USA", I am just that brainwashed that I can't read. As far as people losing their homes. They really just want to go on extended camping trips. Jobless people? They are just lazy, I get it now. It's all the party line.
Our money is worth about half of what it was in the 90s due to inflation. So if people are counting our manufacturing by the dollar amount, they are high as a kite.
You can't take the low end, low ticket manufacturing jobs out of the economy equation without messing up the ecology of the economy. This is all part of the fallacy of "free trade". Trade is war, and we need "fair trade". When politicians are mere lackeys for multinational corporations, we will never have "fair trade", only loopholes that create wealth at the expense of others and those "others" happen to be the working class of America.
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How about someone makes a database that lists everyone in every one of these movies they sue over and boycott any works by those studios, the actors, even down to the crews that work in them. If any of those people are in a movie or related to it in anyway; it's boycotted. The real power is in the consumer, not the courts, not the studios.
Let me get this straight; you are complaining about NOT being able to hear women and children?
On a serious note, I am curious why we haven't augmented hearing with surgical implants.
Grr..you beat me to it.
I failed to decipher that, unless you are implying I am a bit loony. Considering the old rhyme: "Bird of a feather flock together, so will pigs and swine. Rats and mice will have their choice, and so will I have mine", you are probably right.
Let me explain why. But first, I think this part of the tread has been modded into some /. hell, either that or my browser is enjoying a malfunction. I tried looking at the original article and thread and this entire section of the thread for me is about 5 posts. I know we have left the reservation of the topic, but damn I hate sneaky moderators/admins. Yes, I turned my browsing all the way down to see -1.
Anyway, the irony, at least from my perspective: Telling people how dumb they are is a "left handed" way of telling them how smart you are. The apparent anger, evident in the aggression of the "you are so blah blah blah stupid" gist, stems from a subconscious fear or identification with the subject. The identification part brings out an internal conflict; identification clashes with self image. Anger is a product of the conflict, hence the tone of the "you are so blah blah blah stupid."
Hence I come to the irony of the post coupled with your sig. Which by the way, seems like a way of saying "I'm smart, because I have an insight, but I don't want to say I am smart, because it would counter this insight I have." Note also in your reply post, you put in a path of least resistance with "or at least had a seriously stupid moment." This gave us both an "out" so that further "conflict" both internal and in posts doesn't have to happen.
Given that evident "out" the real question then is "why the fuck am I harping on this STILL?" Frankly I think it's me dodging both my engineering homework, and psychoanalyzing a nightmare I just had while taking a nap. It was some disturbing shit (the nightmare), that probably gives me some insight into myself and possibly some closure with a personal issue. You see, you are the lucky one; you just deal with me for a post or two. I have to live with me..lol.
Or, I could be entirely wrong; you just thinking I am a retard of sorts.
Ad hominem attack is ad hominem.
The irony of this post with your sig is funny.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and shoots bullets like duck....wait.
The guy was politically motivated there is no doubt about it to me. He had asked her a question one before at a previous encounter, "How do you know that words mean anything?" I know, lol huh? But when you start digging into his psychological make up, look at his favorite reading list, you will know he has political. He also showed remorse to his friends before the event so he knew the consequences of his action. My guess is he is extremely cognitive in some aspects, probably too much so. This smacks of an obsessive person who thought this act out. This wasn't a "derpy durr" retard who stumbled on a gun one day it was raining guns and bullets from the sky and skipped off to go shoot a random person for giggles.
His friends interview said he believed in nothing, mean literally "nothingness". If you couple that with a philosophy gleaned from the books in his favorite reading list, and his government conspiracy theories you get something akin to Libertarian, but skewed more into Anarchy. Of course everyone will correct me that Anarchists are Leftwing, and they are classically. But you have to adjust that to American reality, where the Left is "big government" and the Right is less government, Libertarian is even less government and Anarchists are No government. Anarchists go so far left they start circling around to the right. (the universe is circular, look at any soap bubble.)
My guess is he knows the fallout of his actions so he has the motivation not only to prolong his time from the death sentence, but to compartmentalize the damage he has done to just himself. I am not sure if this is to protect the side of the political coin that he identifies with primarily or to "own" this deed as his own signature into history. Not to mention people with any sense know that we have a foam-at-the-mouth public over the incident and politicizing such things are the stuff nightmares are made of; AND Arizona is a Right leaning state just with their predominate support of pro gun issues and pro "kick the illegals to the curb" stance which has garnered them some serious flack. If I was a Judge I would be cooling him off in a "nut hut" and denying him a platform if by some chance he wanted to exploit it. Once in psychiatric care, the chance of the public getting their mitts on his "motivation" are seriously thinned down due to patient privacy and judicial orders to keep the environment pure so they can get to "WTF???" It's all "win" to keep this one under lock and key away from the public.
Anyway, you shake a nut tree, and nuts will fall out of it if they are ripe. This one if you really want to argue the fine points and details isn't the stereotypical and obvious Rightwing clocktower garden variety of lunatic. It's complicated. BUT, the jazzy rhetoric of the Right concerning several issues, and you get Tea Party and their MILF cheerleader/figurehead railing against the Left, combine that with our nut job subject's teetering mental state, and his previous history with said Congress Critter and TADA, you have a shooting.
This is just the band tuning up their instruments in the orchestra of crazy. It's not even a warm up, its pre-warm up. We are into the months of "warm up" and next year, the band will strike up and play their asses off.
BTW, no I am not high. I would definitely puff puff pass if I was into that. Not that I have anything against it, we should be legalizing it for several economic reasons alone. Not to mention the massive boost to the economy of opening up a new industry: Hemp related products.
The gun versus anti-gun stuff in Arizona at the time was heated stuff. Couple that with the immigration issues and you got some angry people on both sides. This is the kind of stuff that tips crazy people over the edge. I'm not saying she was whispering in his ear "sic 'em". I am saying she is vainglorious idiot bitch who pumped out jacked up rhetoric to a seething mad element for the "cheers". WTF, she isn't running, why is she rabble rousing?
Considering how high strung people are these days, it's a wonder people are as well restrained as they are. I don't think it's going to hold though. We have tent cities popping up, it's starting to look like "The Grapes of Wrath." I think it's only a matter of time before someone has enough and says "fuck you" to it all and goes batshit insane. Flip a coin and call which side it will be.
Sportsmanship, and the lack of it. I can remember when a political party lost, they STFU and offered up some obstructionism here and there for their political gains, a filibuster here and there. The Right went nuts on Clinton, with plenty of good cause. Clinton was a blizzard of scandals and what I found amazing was HE appointed Ken Star. Ken Star then did the Monica investigation which was in my opinion the greatest red herring in the history of red herrings. Sweet Jesus, we had Chinese spies all over the fucking place. Then when they tried to round them up, they vanished into thin air. The whole damn mess was barely a blip on any media radar. By the time we got through with Monica, we didn't give a damn about anything else Clinton did. That's just part of the laundry list of crap that went down.
But even then Fox wasn't too bad. Hannity hadn't feel deeply in love with himself yet, and O'Reilly was hardly noticeable. Then Bush happened. O'Reilly made his bones covering the goofy hanging chad debacle in Florida. But when Obama got elected, they frankly snapped and went balls out, full blown Right wing partisan. Their "left wing" commentators reminded me of the puny guy in the wrestling ring with the fancy super star, you know he was toast before it started. It graduated from "intellectual profession wrestling-like debate" to just plain partisanship. This is when they really launched Ann Coulter into high gear, and O'Reilly starts turns into the epic tool, and Shawn starts his crusade to "Hanitize" America. Spare me.
It's all like making "live frog stew", putting the live frog in a pot of room temp water, then applying the heat. The goofy frog doesn't notice. What helped me was a "news fast", where I took a long break from watching any news, especially watching cable. After a while, your head clears and you can ask questions of yourself like "WTF are we still doing in Iraq and Afghanistan?" Seriously, WTF? Then tune in for a bit of news and holy shit, they have moved even further to the Right than the last time you watched them.
As if things weren't polarized enough, Fox goes all out with this Tea Party thing of theirs. People are pissed off and want some cause to identify with. Tada, here is the Tea Party and here's an axe for you undereducated fuckers to grind. They pick it up and grind away and don't stop. Sara Palin decides she's bored in Alaska or what the hell ever she was thinking and jumps on the bandwagon. She loves the attention it seems. I was hoping her and Trump would have made a run together. But anyway, she's all gung ho, (no pun) and the rhetoric starts to heat up. Things start getting messy with some incidents. Then the liberals start their anti-gun crap, which all things considered is retarded to start when things are this heated already. The tone is set and someone snaps and shoots people. Things cool off for a short while until it blows over and then we are all back to full throttle polarization.
Enter the budget crisis with the need to up the debt. Nobody likes it, but it has to be done, but the Tea Party decides this is the time to make a power play and end up holding us all hostage. So Fox realizes I think that they have to keep dancing with the date they brought to the party and they start playing the "lets blame the poor for being poor" with lots of sexy propaganda guaranteed to inflame "the working man", terms like "entitlements" and "Obamacare". By keeping on the offensive, they keep the liberals off balance and from remembering that "hey...Fox, you fuckers invented these Tea Party assholes that held us all hostage." Not to mention they really need to put on some kind of song and dance considering their big boss man has his nuts in a vice in England over a whole bunch of bribery and phone hacking charges against his entire organization there. Let's gloss over that please, they say.
In the mean time, the Tea Party is feeling their oats. Republicans are wondering WTF to do with them, as they watch the polls show how people are really starting to hate them. (the Te
We can both play the youtube vid game back and forth until the cows come home on this one. At this point it's tit for tat, action, and reaction. But I know who started this shit. This crap is ratcheting up exponentially and I watch Fox News throw gas on the fire every day. I particularly marvel at how they have harped on "entitlements" for about two weeks now. It's quite the buzz word, and has all the right connotations to fit the bill for marginalizing an element of society. It would not surprise me that violence against the poor/homeless, or those on welfare will be on the rise in the coming months.
By all means though, keep defending Fox and the Tea Party and ignore the elements in it that are violent. When both sides collide neither will win, the trap will slam shut on everyone as we move into the "domestic terrorist" phase of the police state. If you don't think they aren't geared up to deal with insurrection, check out the economic summit protests and how they were "handled".
Keep sticking your head in the sand.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/08/5793248-after-rep-giffords-shot-in-arizona-palins-take-back-the-20-goes-down
You have to look at the big picture and the political rhetoric being generated. I know you don't want to believe this can happen here. But we haven't seen the last of it by far. It's only warming up.
The Tea Party is a creation of Fox News. I remember their creation while many seem to gloss over this fact. They are just another element of how we are goosestepping towards Fascism ever so quickly these days. We have our modern version of the Gestapo with a strong police state/prison industry to enforce whatever mandates are handed down to us. Both sides of the political coin are corrupt as can be; it's a matter of how you want screwed over, not if you will be screwed over.
If you monitor Rightwing web traffic and comments, you can see a major spike in the angry tones. We aren't even into the official election year or it's cycle and the political rhetoric is turned up on 11. Imagine how this is going to play out when this election doesn't play out the way these people want. I will be shocked if we don't see outbreaks of political violence before the election. It's all classic fascism in play; a quick study of the definition of it and it's history will chill your bones. Once you understand this element, things really start crystallizing clear. You have to step back, clear your head of preconceptions and look at the big picture.
These 24 hour news channels are epic propaganda outlets. If you look at the history of propaganda, and its modus operandi you will find disturbing similarities with these current propaganda outlets. Fox News has shifted into high speed, low drag with theirs, and their impact has been impressive. I have followed them since their creation, for it was interesting to see a Rightwing perspective after years of CNN's far Leftwing propaganda. Obama though has frankly made them snap. I have watched them go from "Fair and Balanced" to "Fairly Unbalanced" since his election. Their objectivity, trying to present a "balanced" approach to news has crumbled to dust, taking with it a huge audience down the Rightwing path.
Now they tote far Rightwing talking points and methodically craft their propaganda to suit a target audience. The Tea Party was their creation. It was incredibly partisan of them to create them, now they step back from it as if it wasn't something they created; as if this was some "movement" created out of thin air. It wasn't, they nurtured it, broadcasted it, provided web support and still keep them in the limelight.
People seem to forget about the shooting in Arizona, where a Rightwing nut job shot up a Congresswoman and part of a crowd. People forget how Sara Palin had "Gun Cross hairs" literally on her web site that had that Congresswoman targeted. Her people made changes to that site immediately after the shooting. The Tea Party has a history of violence to it that isn't making national news yet. Here is a local news cast about some on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pdwTQ4xA8
Tea Party violence is amazing to research. I watched one video of a woman getting her head stomped on at one incident. Only blind political partisanship will ignore the signs of where this movement is going. It's symptomatic of a bigger picture though; which is a serious step towards Fascism. All the piece of this puzzle are here if you look.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." -Steinbeck
"Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times." -Vonnegut
"It is a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”"-Vonnegut
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.-Albert Einstein
Get the drift yet?
Great! He can join me and we shall form a band of merry men and robots, living in the woods, robbing from the rich to feed the poor.
I think weapons development is the highest form of public service. The herd needs thinned. I am an engineering student myself, and I pondered trying to make things to "help humanity". I thought of alternative energy solutions, but after taking a look around, I changed my mind. FUCK humanity. We suck, we over populate, we fuck each other over for the slightest bit of anything. We slaughter other species for pleasure, we maim species, we frankly piss all over everything.
So I my goal is to be in weapons development and or surveillance technology to help big brother crush this species under it's corporate thumb like the bug it is. I want to build my own robot/drone army and rule the world, then have my minions rule it after I am gone. Or put my brain in a jar and keep running things. I want to be the evil rich mad scientist engineer and give everyone something worthwhile to bitch about.
Ha ha, not really, I just want to get through school and not end up living in the weeds, homeless.
First stop, the girls' shower room for a "deposit", second stop, the bank for a "withdraw."
Of course, and they are chief of said liars and bullshit artists themselves. Have you ever taken a look at the incredibly predatory system that we call "law enforcement?" Of course there are monsters out there they have to deal with. But sometimes, when you hunt monsters, you become one yourself. It's amazing the insight one can get when one lives next to a police center and they come over for coffee and hang out. They can become really cynical and need grounding now and then. Most are really great people, but some, well some are worse than the criminals they hunt. What is amazing is the naivety they have about each others behaviors. Most of it is willing sadly.
Yes, we know cops are the fonts of wisdom in our society.
Actually this is kind of exciting for if it seriously takes off, that means one can do some gaming in a linux platform. Especially if it's a pay to play thingy which I would imagine that is where they are going with a browser based game. Or free to play but be plagued with ads, or its a pay to win situation. That means the whiny Mac people could play as well. Face it, games is what is keeping Windows around. At least in my opinion.
Shooting Hellfires at civilians would be fucking retarded and set the whole country and probably world against whomever did it. They have plenty of tech for dealing with riots and demonstrations that doesn't involve blatantly setting off a civil war.
Well do we really have to ask? Hasn't the Federal Gov of the United States proven time after time to be extortionists acting as lackeys for corporations? Heaven forbid we get medicine from some place other than the Health Nazis of America. Sweet Jesus, someone save us from these fuckers.
Once upon a time, when our founding father set up this country, they determined that the only way the Federal Government could raise money was through tariffs. I believe they had the wisdom to protect the environment and ecology of America's economy. Enter a world war and the need to raise more revenue, hence along came income tax. It was suppose to be a temporary measure, and the fact of the mater is, its never been fully ratified as a constitutional amendment. Hence the "voluntary" tag on it, but that is voluntary at the end of a gun.
Every nation on this planet knows to protect its own economy, only through manipulation from corporations of governments have we seen nations protectionism drop. Some of this is for the better, but frankly not for us. We have been running a trade deficit for decades now.
What has happened is big business and corporations have learned over the decades they can move manufacturing off shores to to cut labor costs. Yes, Unions have been a problem, but instead of addressing this problem head on, they did an end run around the situation by just moving offshore. Our politicians have let them get away with this and it's been a slippery slope.
Now the chickens have come home to roost. There will be no jobs for people in America, because the system in its current status isn't going to allow it. They will always be undercut by cheaper labor. Until we slam the door shut on this cheap labor loop hole, the entire country is going to keep sliding down the slippery slope.
First thing, people like yourself need to establish a sense of loyalty to your own neighborhoods, your own state and your own Country. Globalization is a hat trick of the corporations to con the public into letting them cut their throats with these labor loop holes. This propaganda ties in with "capitalism is our religion" and not only have we been pumping this lie to our own people but we have been pumping it out to the rest of the world. This is all fine and dandy until the system at last collapses from being sucked dry.
You can't expect to sell to people when they don't have jobs, but we have. We have run up debt to keep sustaining this lifestyle. Not because we have some delusions of grandeur of our own self worth, but because we have been robbed of what should be ours by liars and thieves. We have been conned into thinking that we shouldn't look after own interests first, that the "Free Market" is a good thing, and those cheap deals aren't cheap at all, they are costing us our country.
We have been suckered into some unrealistic La La Land dream of Political correctness. We have collectively been brainwashed with "white man's guilt" at the plight of poor Ping or Juan. This is a dog eat dog world, over populated, violent, greedy and if you don't watch out for your own with a vengeance, the Pings and Juans will take the food from your table and you and your children will starve due to your stupidity. Big business and corporations have capitalized on this ignorance and have moved the jobs that feed OUR people away, or let them be usurped by those who will work under the table for scraps. They have gotten rich from this situation, not caring about the damage its done to our people, our communities, and now the entire country. They have taken their ill gotten gains and paid these vermin in Washington to watch their backs, give them tax loopholes, allow them to move the jobs away with impunity, or to let our southern border be overran with a silent invasion of cheap labor.
While you set here and pontificate to me the propaganda dogma of these villains, your jobs, your culture, your heritage that all of your forefathers worked so hard for you to have is slipping away into the hands of vermin. Yes, vermin. When you and your children are laying in a ditch or in some tent city, it will be far too late to snap out of this la la land daydream you have been lulled into. The cold realities of this world will have raped your country raw.
You need to wake the hell up and get angry. You need to fig
Ah, yeah, it did happen. The Teabag Party held the entire economy hostage so their rich masters could skate. That's what happened, it's history, I was watching it the entire time, you can't convince me what I seen with my own eyes didn't happen. Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining.
If teachers are some how unfit to communicate with students online, then shouldn't they be unfit to communicate with them IN PERSON AT SCHOOL?
It seems that it would be intelligent that teachers should welcome a chance to be let into the social circles of students online. This is where they could influence them in a positive way. For example the case of cyber bullying. If there is a teacher in the circle of friends, wouldn't this hamper cyber bullying? Don't we have enough disconnect from the youth of the country as it is? We have both parents trying to work 2 jobs each trying to pay the bills, this leaves kids disconnected to a point of being criminally negligent.
It's ok that we we let kids be influenced by Rap music, MTV, and free run of the Internet with all the filth involved in these elements, but we balk at a teacher being around? It sounds like we need drug testing for politicians.
Yeah, Detroit is really a bustling industrial town, it's really the "party line" that makes us think other wise. The manufacturing that left my home town, yeah, it's really still there, being ran by invisible people, producing an invisible product; Casper the Friendly Ghost is running it. What was I thinking? Oh yeah, it's the "party line."
When I go shopping, all those "made in China" stamps and tags, they really read "made in the USA", I am just that brainwashed that I can't read. As far as people losing their homes. They really just want to go on extended camping trips. Jobless people? They are just lazy, I get it now. It's all the party line.
Our money is worth about half of what it was in the 90s due to inflation. So if people are counting our manufacturing by the dollar amount, they are high as a kite.
You can't take the low end, low ticket manufacturing jobs out of the economy equation without messing up the ecology of the economy. This is all part of the fallacy of "free trade". Trade is war, and we need "fair trade". When politicians are mere lackeys for multinational corporations, we will never have "fair trade", only loopholes that create wealth at the expense of others and those "others" happen to be the working class of America.