Shows of solidarity are important, however they are expressed. Only expressing it through social media doesn't do much, but any awareness it raises is a hell of a lot more productive than being a little bitch and pretending that you're too superior to use social media to express yourself.
Jews have been in the area for thousands of years; they're not colonists.
In 1917, there were 60,000 Jews, 70,000 Christians, and about 500,000 Palestinians. In 1948, there were less than 2,000 Jews outside of the original partition. Now there are 500,000. If that's not evidence of colonialism, I'm not sure what would be.
Are Hezbolah and Hamas stockpiling rockets and mortars for peace? They fire indiscriminately at Israel, dancing in the streets when a Jew gets killed.
Is the IDF stockpiling nukes and receiving fighter jets and helicopter gunships for peace? When they lob shells at Gaza, are they not firing indiscriminately?
You think that Israelis have a right to arm themselves and wage war, but you don't think Palestinians have that right. I'm pretty sure it's because you're a racist, but maybe you're not that bad. Maybe you're just fucking stupid.
No, I see the Israeli state having to deal with a population more militarily capable as a way to solve the conflict. If they keep taking Palestinian land and breaking international law without consequences, there's no reason for them to stop.
Despising the Israeli state does not make me anti-Semitic. It makes me anti-colonialist.
Your statement was that giving the Palestinians more and greater weapons would lead to peace. All that would lead to is dead Jews, lots of them. We've seen what happens when Muslim governments have weapons or what they feel is superior force - they invade Israel.
Oh, that's right. Israel has never, ever, ever invaded Lebanon or Palestine or Egypt, and never killed anyone with their bounty of military technology. Wait a second, let me check with reality:
Israeli Casualties: 1505 (143 children) Israelis Displaced: a few thousand if you count abandoned settlements
Palestinian Casualties: 8023 (1596 children) Palestinians Displaced: in the millions
Hey look! You're full of shit. For some reason I am not surprised.
You may want to remember that Christians have killed far more Jews than Arabs have in the last 500 years, even if you don't count the holocaust and just look at the centuries of pogroms across Russia and Europe. I know this reality will be unsettling for people who are deeply invested in racism against Arabs, but the reality remains.
So you think that would turn out better than when the surrounding Arab nations and the Arabs in Palestine went to war with Israel? '48, '56, 67, '73?
I didn't say arm all the Arab states. I said arm the Palestinians. If the tanks and bulldozers that cross into Palestine to destroy homes were confronted with tanks and bulldozers, I'm sure there would be more productive dialogue once Israel stopped being able to ignore Palestinian will.
Don't be ridiculous, it has nothing to do with the IDF - it is about killing and terrorizing Jews. Why do you think they sent suicide bombers into pizza parlors? Couldn't find an army patrol?
It has nothing to do with terrorizing Jews. The Jews were far more terrorized by Christians in Europe than by Arabs in the Levant. That's why for hundreds of years before the formation of Israel, Jews, Christians, and Arabs lived together in relative peace.
And yes, if the Palestinians had a fighting chance at meeting IDF forces and killing them, they would much rather do that than blow themselves up in pizza parlors.
The Arabs living in Palestine would be better off if their leaders would give up two things: 1. Kleptocracy as a governing and organizing principle. 2. The fantasy of trying to destroy Israel.
Yes, the Palestinians could use better leadership. But Israel should know, as it is completely predictable by now, that when you destroy Arab Nationalism you will end up with Arab Fundamentalism. It happened in Lebanon, it happened in Iran, and after sixty years of occupation in Palestine, their insistence on stealing Palestinian land under the false pretense of security can only lead to more violence.
The Israeli government does not want peace. They want more land.
The solution is to arm both sides equally. I'm sure negotiations would be much more productive if the Palestinians had helicopter gunships, tanks, jet fighters, and billions in military aid every year instead of barely enough food to eat. It would also stop the suicide bombing, since they would be able to target what they really want to hurt: the IDF.
You're too fucking stupid to understand why nations who tax progressively have a middle class and a vibrant economy, and why places like Brazil and vast parts of Africa resemble pre-Revolutionary France.
Stop wasting my time, and get back to mowing that lawn so you can buy more overvalued gold coins.
The natural resources and shared infrastructure of a nation belong to everyone in that nation, not just the latest generation of robber barrons who benefit from it.
To disprove that point, name 20 CEOs and their amazing contributions to American life in the last 20 years.
It's not as if the rich are paying their fair share of taxes, and they haven't really since 1980. The United States has the same tax collection rate as Romania. So, you would expect it to have social services on par with Romania.
Once you get to the actual civilized world, like England and France and Germany, you see the rate in the high 30s or low 40s, because that's what it costs to build and maintain a civilization that takes care of the elderly, the disabled, and the mentally ill.
If you want to live in a place like Romania or Moldova, where the disabled and elderly are helped to die or filed away at the edge of town languishing until they are dead, that's fine. That's the road America has chosen right now. The wealthy have spent billions convincing the middle class that low taxes are great, but now we are seeing the results of that policy. They (the top 1%) have lowered their own tax rate from 34% to 23% between 1980 and now.
But they're not willing to budge on the military they use to forcefully open markets. They're not willing to allow the middle class to have a public option to lower the cost of health care. They're not willing to improve free access to education to make our economy stronger and our population more employable.
They want to keep depriving the US government of money until it breaks down, and then accept a much lower standard of government service so they can go for the 10 million dollar yacht instead of settling on the 7 million dollar model.
They are worthless fucks who don't care about their countrymen, and I'd rather them emigrate to Romania before they rob America of the rest of it's wealth. Not after.
While no fan of Apple, some of my family is involved in helping to educate children with special needs and they have found the iPads to be invaluable. But for kids who have trouble articulating more than one or two fingers at a time, or for people who are in fact missing fingers, adding too many multi-finger gestures as a requirement would suddenly make the device less usable.
the return of the hardware orientation lock for iPad, a feature that upset many when Apple suddenly removed this feature with no software option to re-enable it
If there's one thing an Apple user needs, it's the ability to take things lying down.
"Mac is the awesome old grandma, whose kids (iPhone & iPad) have left home," Atebits' Loren Brichter said. "Not dead; not really dying. But it's our job to keep her comfortable until she's gone."
iOS devices outsell OS X devices 7 times over. OS X also doesn't provide further revenue for Apple in App Sales. Today's release is market research to see what happens when an App Store is present on a desktop system. If it's at all successful, 10.7 will be the last operating system in which a user has the option to legally install their own software without going through the app store.
Steve will present it as a future free from viruses and crashes, and 99% of the user base will nod their little domes in approval and buy it.
When our way of life actually was in danger during WII, we immediately raised taxes to pay for the cost of saving our country, and those rates lasted throughout the 50s, which was one of our best economic periods in history. Our national debt dropped, and continued to do so through 1980. Then an actor named Ronald Reagan decided to hand the nation's wealth to the wealthy, and hope they wouldn't blow it all on coke and hookers and stupid investments. He was wrong. Then he passed deregulation that led to the S&L crisis, just like Clinton passed the regulation that would eventually lead to the derivatives crisis that's still boning our economy. Reagan also raised military spending but dropped taxes, and that shit didn't work back then either. Bush I and II continued the same idiot policies, and people complain that Obama hasn't fixed the economy yet. Well, when you've had some fucking frat brats with sledgehammers renting a place for the better part of 30 years, it tends to take more than 20 months to fix.
Anyway, Bush II got kicked out for doing the sensible thing and raising taxes to cover our debt. Clinton raised the top rate again to 39.6%, reduced military spending, and our national debt dropped. McCain even ran in 2000 on protecting Social Security to fulfill our promise to "the greatest generation" with the extra money we had lying around. But that sad sack of shit has sold out along with the rest of the Republican party, pandering to some illiterate backwoods fuckwits called "Evangelical Christians" who believe that Obama is a Nazi Socialist Muslim born in Kenya.
But you need a certain type of idiot to vote against their own interests and ignore common sense and hard data for thirty years running. They're the same idiots who give Jesus $5 hoping for a $10 return. They think the GOP will give them the same deal, and they don't know how fucking right they are.
let me guess those same sources say the USA government also planned 911, and has anti gravity engines too.
Red herrings are absolutely delicious.
If you understand the simple fact that no government can be anything but reactionary to events things make a lot more sense.
And if you understand that the United States is motivated by the exact same values as any other empire - hegemony and maintaining geopolitical stability - everything makes sense.
You can't prevent another 9/11 you can make it harder to do so, but you really can't prevent it.
Total bullshit. Al Qaeda targeted the United States because of our military presence in the middle east. If we hadn't been manipulating governments in the middle east since we divided up the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, 9/11 would have never happened.
The United States government has only once invaded a nation to protect their sovereignty since WWII. And according to many sources, the USG allowed Iraq to invade Kuwait in order provide a pretext for war to balance power between Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia after the end of the Iran-Iraq War (which we helped Iraq wage.)
The USG has never invaded a country solely to support a democracy.
The reason aspirin pills are $10 in hospitals is because of massive inflation of prices to cover the high ratio of emergency room visits that cannot be paid for by the person in the emergency.
Single payer healthcare of course costs money. It's your choice to decide if some person in an accident needs to 1) have health insurance and 2) prove that before they are allowed to be treated. It's your choice to deny someone health care for some treatable illness that is not life threatening until it is life threatening enough to warrant an emergency room visit. Basically, you'd like people without insurance to be put down like dogs, that's fine. Just remember being patriotic used to mean giving a shit about your fellow citizens, not throwing their lives away to reduce your taxes slightly.
Hopefully you will lose your job, run out of savings, and get into a car accident and die in a hospital parking lot. It's too bad that sort of awesome justice doesn't happen very often.
That maybe, just maybe, there are times when making something public is *worse* than keeping it secret.
For any American to believe that the US cares about democracy in Zimbabwe, all you need to do is read the CIA report, now declassified, about its first election:
The newly elected government in Rhodesia will press the US and the UK to recognize it and lift economic sanctions. It will argue that the election meets the demands of the US and UK for a transfer of power to a black government on the basis of one man, one vote. Recognizing the new government and lifting sanctions certainly would strengthen it. There would be greater white resolve to support the black-led government and a greater willingness among whites in themilitary to defend it. Government prospects for attracting large numbersof guerrilla defectors could also be enhanced if the economy improved sufficiently to allow the government to improve social services for the blacks.
The lifting of sanctions would improve the chances of stemming Rhodesia‘s economic decline and would provide substantial economic benefits and give a major psychological boost to the internal regime. Worldwide demand has been increasing for many goods produced by the Rhodesians such as copper, gold, and chrome.
At the same time, such a decision would seriously erode the "special relationship" the US has fostered with black African leaders -- particularly Zambian President Kaunda, Tanzanian President Nyerere, and Nigerian President Obasanjo. They would conclude that the US and the UK had chosen to support the "enemy" and thus would come under increasing pressure from the guerrillas and the Soviets to pursue a military solution in Rhodesia. Such a basic policy shift would also weaken the credibility of western support for the UN transitional program for Namibia in the eyes of both the Africans and the white government in Pretoria. In fact, the South Africans probably have already interpreted moves to send US observers to cover the Rhodesian elections as evidence of a general weakening of US determination to pursue the UN transition program for Namibia, giving them more room to push a final settlement on their own terms. While some African leaders might support lifting sanctions if it were followed by US and UK efforts to include ZANU or ZAPU in the new government, the frontline African leaders would be further antagonized by such a strategy. A call for a new constitution -- providing for a more rapid transition to full black rule and approved by both blacks and whites--might dispel some of the frontline president's resentment but it would still leave the US and the UK very much in disfavor.
Unsurprisingly, the principle of supporting a democracy doesn't seem to appear in their analysis. And maybe some part of the State Department - not the part that pays public lip service for PR purposes - did support democracy. Unless Assange is successful in helping to usher in a new era of government transparency, I will never know what my government did on my behalf with my money.
But yeah, you're right, I'm sure wikileaks is completely innocent... they can't *possibly* fuck up.
Sure, they can fuck up. But they would have to kill millions of people and subvert dozens of democracies to start to match the misery caused by secret dealings by the State Department and the Executive Branch.
There's some parable involving removing the speck from someone else's eye while you ignore the log in your own, but since most Americans are Christians, they've probably never heard of it.
Too bad all of the "anti-government" Tea Party wusses don't have the balls to actually fight government corruption. Perhaps one day they will step outside of the propaganda they swallow up willingly (even pay for) and actually do some good for the common man. But until the cycle of corporate-generated propaganda is broken, there will have to be Nazi-style crackdowns for there to be a chance of the US populace putting down the remote and going outside.
While they are raking in record profits and bonuses as the rest of the nation sinks further into poverty, they aren't going to willingly give up the police state that allows their quarterly reports to look so good.
Joe Biden means doing business, like selling 60 billion dollars worth of advanced military technology to the country that funds the vast majority of the world's active terrorist groups: Saudi Arabia. It means keeping it a secret that oil companies have infiltrated African governments so the oil companies can continue to rake in money while they avoid paying for environmental damage, or indeed even taxes in the United States. It means that the market is warped all over the world to benefit people who are already rich at the expense of the people they are driving into poverty.
So, as I am so fond of saying, go fuck yourself. If your wife is a whore and she's spreading lupus and crabs, the only people the truth hurts are the people who deserve to be hurt.
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Shows of solidarity are important, however they are expressed. Only expressing it through social media doesn't do much, but any awareness it raises is a hell of a lot more productive than being a little bitch and pretending that you're too superior to use social media to express yourself.
Jews have been in the area for thousands of years; they're not colonists.
In 1917, there were 60,000 Jews, 70,000 Christians, and about 500,000 Palestinians. In 1948, there were less than 2,000 Jews outside of the original partition. Now there are 500,000. If that's not evidence of colonialism, I'm not sure what would be.
Are Hezbolah and Hamas stockpiling rockets and mortars for peace? They fire indiscriminately at Israel, dancing in the streets when a Jew gets killed.
Is the IDF stockpiling nukes and receiving fighter jets and helicopter gunships for peace? When they lob shells at Gaza, are they not firing indiscriminately?
You think that Israelis have a right to arm themselves and wage war, but you don't think Palestinians have that right. I'm pretty sure it's because you're a racist, but maybe you're not that bad. Maybe you're just fucking stupid.
No, I see the Israeli state having to deal with a population more militarily capable as a way to solve the conflict. If they keep taking Palestinian land and breaking international law without consequences, there's no reason for them to stop.
Despising the Israeli state does not make me anti-Semitic. It makes me anti-colonialist.
Your statement was that giving the Palestinians more and greater weapons would lead to peace. All that would lead to is dead Jews, lots of them. We've seen what happens when Muslim governments have weapons or what they feel is superior force - they invade Israel.
Oh, that's right. Israel has never, ever, ever invaded Lebanon or Palestine or Egypt, and never killed anyone with their bounty of military technology. Wait a second, let me check with reality:
Israeli Casualties: 1505 (143 children)
Israelis Displaced: a few thousand if you count abandoned settlements
Palestinian Casualties: 8023 (1596 children)
Palestinians Displaced: in the millions
Hey look! You're full of shit. For some reason I am not surprised.
You may want to remember that Christians have killed far more Jews than Arabs have in the last 500 years, even if you don't count the holocaust and just look at the centuries of pogroms across Russia and Europe. I know this reality will be unsettling for people who are deeply invested in racism against Arabs, but the reality remains.
So you think that would turn out better than when the surrounding Arab nations and the Arabs in Palestine went to war with Israel? '48, '56, 67, '73?
I didn't say arm all the Arab states. I said arm the Palestinians. If the tanks and bulldozers that cross into Palestine to destroy homes were confronted with tanks and bulldozers, I'm sure there would be more productive dialogue once Israel stopped being able to ignore Palestinian will.
Don't be ridiculous, it has nothing to do with the IDF - it is about killing and terrorizing Jews. Why do you think they sent suicide bombers into pizza parlors? Couldn't find an army patrol?
It has nothing to do with terrorizing Jews. The Jews were far more terrorized by Christians in Europe than by Arabs in the Levant. That's why for hundreds of years before the formation of Israel, Jews, Christians, and Arabs lived together in relative peace.
And yes, if the Palestinians had a fighting chance at meeting IDF forces and killing them, they would much rather do that than blow themselves up in pizza parlors.
The Arabs living in Palestine would be better off if their leaders would give up two things: 1. Kleptocracy as a governing and organizing principle. 2. The fantasy of trying to destroy Israel.
Yes, the Palestinians could use better leadership. But Israel should know, as it is completely predictable by now, that when you destroy Arab Nationalism you will end up with Arab Fundamentalism. It happened in Lebanon, it happened in Iran, and after sixty years of occupation in Palestine, their insistence on stealing Palestinian land under the false pretense of security can only lead to more violence.
The Israeli government does not want peace. They want more land.
Yes, as long as Palestinians die in greater numbers, we will have peace. Right? RIGHT!
Actually, if you read your history, you'd know that they were driven out or forced into dhimmitude when Mohammed conquered Jerusalem.
And if you really knew your history, you'd know the Jews reveled in genocide just as much as any other tribe of their day.
Oh, BTW, Mohammed was also a fucking degenerate child rapist.
Shit, I didn't know he was a Catholic priest.
The solution is to arm both sides equally. I'm sure negotiations would be much more productive if the Palestinians had helicopter gunships, tanks, jet fighters, and billions in military aid every year instead of barely enough food to eat. It would also stop the suicide bombing, since they would be able to target what they really want to hurt: the IDF.
You're too fucking stupid to understand why nations who tax progressively have a middle class and a vibrant economy, and why places like Brazil and vast parts of Africa resemble pre-Revolutionary France.
Stop wasting my time, and get back to mowing that lawn so you can buy more overvalued gold coins.
The natural resources and shared infrastructure of a nation belong to everyone in that nation, not just the latest generation of robber barrons who benefit from it.
To disprove that point, name 20 CEOs and their amazing contributions to American life in the last 20 years.
It's not as if the rich are paying their fair share of taxes, and they haven't really since 1980. The United States has the same tax collection rate as Romania. So, you would expect it to have social services on par with Romania.
Once you get to the actual civilized world, like England and France and Germany, you see the rate in the high 30s or low 40s, because that's what it costs to build and maintain a civilization that takes care of the elderly, the disabled, and the mentally ill.
If you want to live in a place like Romania or Moldova, where the disabled and elderly are helped to die or filed away at the edge of town languishing until they are dead, that's fine. That's the road America has chosen right now. The wealthy have spent billions convincing the middle class that low taxes are great, but now we are seeing the results of that policy. They (the top 1%) have lowered their own tax rate from 34% to 23% between 1980 and now.
But they're not willing to budge on the military they use to forcefully open markets. They're not willing to allow the middle class to have a public option to lower the cost of health care. They're not willing to improve free access to education to make our economy stronger and our population more employable.
They want to keep depriving the US government of money until it breaks down, and then accept a much lower standard of government service so they can go for the 10 million dollar yacht instead of settling on the 7 million dollar model.
They are worthless fucks who don't care about their countrymen, and I'd rather them emigrate to Romania before they rob America of the rest of it's wealth. Not after.
While no fan of Apple, some of my family is involved in helping to educate children with special needs and they have found the iPads to be invaluable. But for kids who have trouble articulating more than one or two fingers at a time, or for people who are in fact missing fingers, adding too many multi-finger gestures as a requirement would suddenly make the device less usable.
the return of the hardware orientation lock for iPad, a feature that upset many when Apple suddenly removed this feature with no software option to re-enable it
If there's one thing an Apple user needs, it's the ability to take things lying down.
It's pretty obvious the Mac as we know it is going to be around for a long time.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/developers-expect-ios-and-mac-os-to-merge-over-time.ars
"Mac is the awesome old grandma, whose kids (iPhone & iPad) have left home," Atebits' Loren Brichter said. "Not dead; not really dying. But it's our job to keep her comfortable until she's gone."
...all OS X users are sincerely fucked.
iOS devices outsell OS X devices 7 times over. OS X also doesn't provide further revenue for Apple in App Sales. Today's release is market research to see what happens when an App Store is present on a desktop system. If it's at all successful, 10.7 will be the last operating system in which a user has the option to legally install their own software without going through the app store.
Steve will present it as a future free from viruses and crashes, and 99% of the user base will nod their little domes in approval and buy it.
About half of the discretionary budget is spent on the military.
http://www.warresisters.org/files/FY2011piechart.pdf
The reason the United States is dying is because we aren't collecting enough taxes to pay for our infrastructure. We started two wars and then dropped taxes. That shit doesn't work.
When our way of life actually was in danger during WII, we immediately raised taxes to pay for the cost of saving our country, and those rates lasted throughout the 50s, which was one of our best economic periods in history. Our national debt dropped, and continued to do so through 1980. Then an actor named Ronald Reagan decided to hand the nation's wealth to the wealthy, and hope they wouldn't blow it all on coke and hookers and stupid investments. He was wrong. Then he passed deregulation that led to the S&L crisis, just like Clinton passed the regulation that would eventually lead to the derivatives crisis that's still boning our economy. Reagan also raised military spending but dropped taxes, and that shit didn't work back then either. Bush I and II continued the same idiot policies, and people complain that Obama hasn't fixed the economy yet. Well, when you've had some fucking frat brats with sledgehammers renting a place for the better part of 30 years, it tends to take more than 20 months to fix.
Anyway, Bush II got kicked out for doing the sensible thing and raising taxes to cover our debt. Clinton raised the top rate again to 39.6%, reduced military spending, and our national debt dropped. McCain even ran in 2000 on protecting Social Security to fulfill our promise to "the greatest generation" with the extra money we had lying around. But that sad sack of shit has sold out along with the rest of the Republican party, pandering to some illiterate backwoods fuckwits called "Evangelical Christians" who believe that Obama is a Nazi Socialist Muslim born in Kenya.
But you need a certain type of idiot to vote against their own interests and ignore common sense and hard data for thirty years running. They're the same idiots who give Jesus $5 hoping for a $10 return. They think the GOP will give them the same deal, and they don't know how fucking right they are.
let me guess those same sources say the USA government also planned 911, and has anti gravity engines too.
Red herrings are absolutely delicious.
If you understand the simple fact that no government can be anything but reactionary to events things make a lot more sense.
And if you understand that the United States is motivated by the exact same values as any other empire - hegemony and maintaining geopolitical stability - everything makes sense.
You can't prevent another 9/11 you can make it harder to do so, but you really can't prevent it.
Total bullshit. Al Qaeda targeted the United States because of our military presence in the middle east. If we hadn't been manipulating governments in the middle east since we divided up the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, 9/11 would have never happened.
The United States government has only once invaded a nation to protect their sovereignty since WWII. And according to many sources, the USG allowed Iraq to invade Kuwait in order provide a pretext for war to balance power between Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia after the end of the Iran-Iraq War (which we helped Iraq wage.)
The USG has never invaded a country solely to support a democracy.
WikiLeaks can never be responsible for the actions of the State Department.
The reason aspirin pills are $10 in hospitals is because of massive inflation of prices to cover the high ratio of emergency room visits that cannot be paid for by the person in the emergency.
Single payer healthcare of course costs money. It's your choice to decide if some person in an accident needs to 1) have health insurance and 2) prove that before they are allowed to be treated. It's your choice to deny someone health care for some treatable illness that is not life threatening until it is life threatening enough to warrant an emergency room visit. Basically, you'd like people without insurance to be put down like dogs, that's fine. Just remember being patriotic used to mean giving a shit about your fellow citizens, not throwing their lives away to reduce your taxes slightly.
Hopefully you will lose your job, run out of savings, and get into a car accident and die in a hospital parking lot. It's too bad that sort of awesome justice doesn't happen very often.
For any American to believe that the US cares about democracy in Zimbabwe, all you need to do is read the CIA report, now declassified, about its first election:
http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs.asp?doc_no=0000462682
Unsurprisingly, the principle of supporting a democracy doesn't seem to appear in their analysis. And maybe some part of the State Department - not the part that pays public lip service for PR purposes - did support democracy. Unless Assange is successful in helping to usher in a new era of government transparency, I will never know what my government did on my behalf with my money.
But yeah, you're right, I'm sure wikileaks is completely innocent... they can't *possibly* fuck up.
Sure, they can fuck up. But they would have to kill millions of people and subvert dozens of democracies to start to match the misery caused by secret dealings by the State Department and the Executive Branch.
There's some parable involving removing the speck from someone else's eye while you ignore the log in your own, but since most Americans are Christians, they've probably never heard of it.
Too bad all of the "anti-government" Tea Party wusses don't have the balls to actually fight government corruption. Perhaps one day they will step outside of the propaganda they swallow up willingly (even pay for) and actually do some good for the common man. But until the cycle of corporate-generated propaganda is broken, there will have to be Nazi-style crackdowns for there to be a chance of the US populace putting down the remote and going outside.
While they are raking in record profits and bonuses as the rest of the nation sinks further into poverty, they aren't going to willingly give up the police state that allows their quarterly reports to look so good.
I always get them confused. Long story.
Joe Biden means doing business, like selling 60 billion dollars worth of advanced military technology to the country that funds the vast majority of the world's active terrorist groups: Saudi Arabia. It means keeping it a secret that oil companies have infiltrated African governments so the oil companies can continue to rake in money while they avoid paying for environmental damage, or indeed even taxes in the United States. It means that the market is warped all over the world to benefit people who are already rich at the expense of the people they are driving into poverty.
So, as I am so fond of saying, go fuck yourself. If your wife is a whore and she's spreading lupus and crabs, the only people the truth hurts are the people who deserve to be hurt.