you believe you can have relationships as meaningful on the internet as in real life
just because you believe that doesn't mean it is actually possible
a simple logical examination of the range of possible interactions in the real world, as opposed to the much smaller range on the web, and the fact that our social lives evolved over millions of years to exist in the real world, simply reveals that social life on the web is and always will be a pale imitation of the former. there is no equivalency. one is, by logical cold hard fact of the range of possible interactions, simply a smaller subset of the other
the web is wonderful for managing acquaintances. but its not possible to have real friendships over the web. at best its a supplemental tool to enable real world friendships. it is not a replacement, unless you dial down the definition of "friendship". which is the source of the dichotomy you think you elicit in my statement above about friends and family in another country, when my point remains solid: whatever happens over the web is supplementary and orthogonal to real relationships, and not a valid replacement for anything in the real world. if your friends or family are in another country, you have a shadow flimsy replacement of actually living with them. i don't see how you think arguing with that simple fact has any weight
you are defining the word friend downward towards what you are really describing: an acquaintance
either you've never really had a friend, and all you know are acquaintances, or you've simply forgotten what a real friendship is like, or you are a little bit of shallow empty fluff yourself, and this is all you aspire to
facebook turns people into public relations departments. this is not true friendship. of course, you can still call it "friendship", but only in the lamest, shallowest sense of the word
likewise, your "friendships" on the internet are nothing at all like those in real life
yes, you can have family and friends in other countries. but they are in other countries. you honestly want to assert that that is anything like living with them or next door to them?
as for opinion versus fact, no: what i am saying is not an opinion, it's an objective fact of the much larger span of what is possible in reality, versus the much smaller span of what is possible on the web
of course you can interact socially on the web, but your social interactions on the web will always and forever more be nothing but a shadow of what is possible in the real world. that's a simple hard truth
the movie is a set piece of horrible violence and tragic cause and effect, including a psychopath, around nothing more than a drug deal gone bad
the movie starts with the sheriff whining about how everything is going to hell
Ed Tom Bell: I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time; him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough'd never carry one; that's the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one up in Camanche County. I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how theyd've operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville Hill here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. "Be there in about fifteen minutes". I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this world."
he whines about the world inexorably changing for the worse a few other times in a few other ways, how every day there's some new act brutality like never before that all points to things going horribly bad in the world, commiserating with another sheriff after one set piece of violence about how everything is changing for the worse, clucking about some awful news in the newspaper, etc. he whines about this all movie
finally, at the end of the movie, after constantly whining about things are changing for the worse, he finally meets his match:
Ellis
I sent Uncle Mac's badge and his old
thumbbuster to the Rangers. For their
museum there. Your daddy ever tell
you how Uncle Mac came to his reward?
Sheriff Bell shrugs....Shot down on his own porch there
in Hudspeth County. There was seven or
eight of 'em come to the house. Wantin
this and wantin that. Mac went in and
got his shotgun but they was way ahead
of him. Shot him down in his own doorway.
Aunt Ella run out and tried to stop the
bleedin. Him tryin to get hold of the
shotgun again. They just set there on
their horses watchin him die. Finally
one of 'em says somethin in Injun and
they all turned and left out. Well Mac
knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't.
to keep up with your friends, they aren't really your friends
facebook is for ACQUAINTANCES, not true friends, even if the word you use for an acquaintance is "friend" (which makes sense to promote the word "friend" to the realm of the more dispersonal, for the sake of corporate level public relations, which is how some people run their lives)
the point is that a true friendship is its own reward. you actually commit real work and maintenance to see them because you want to do that. if it feels like a lot of effort to do that with someone, then in emotional honesty, they aren't really a true friend anymore. as soon as someone is unimportant enough to you that you slag them off to your fake corporate public relations face, aka, facebook, they have ceased to be your friend. just admit it and move on
all facebook is is a giant mask, a bit of fakery, that requires you to constantly maintain it, as long as having a fake public face is important to you for whatever reason. facebook is turning our social lives into emotionally dead corporate facades of shallow fakery
so for a little bit of genuine, psychologically healthy friendship, stop running your private life the same way a corporation runs a public relations department. facebook users, try this: the next time you make a new friend, someone you sense could be or you want them to be a close friend, make a pact with them to "keep it off the radar"
off of facebook, off of tweets, etc. when you want to socialize with them, socialize with them directly. make your emails and phone calls terse things to actually just arrange meet up times in which real socialization actually takes place
then you will know what it is like to actually have a friend
i'd rather have two or three friends like that than 200 to 300 acquaintances on facebook, that you dutifully and exhaustively maintain a corporate mask for. but inside, no one knows you and you don't know anyone else. for those of us addicted to facebook, life has become an emotionally unsatisfying slog through fake masks of constant shallow empty cheerfulness
go off the internet, make a real friend, lose the corporate pr department
i can live with some students with shallow term papers. but aren't some books and movies, like the ones linked to above, nothing more than the condensation from a late night session of following wikipedia links? worse than bookwriting/ screenwriting by committee of frat boys
truth is, violence has gone way down, and literacy has gone way up, on a number of time spans
food has gotten safer (food spoilage kills way more than whatever trace chemicals scare you this month), new and different media has increased social skills
watch tv and play video games: both can be used for your personal growth and enjoyment, and this makes us far smarter, happy, and wealthier than past, more brutal, dumber generations
look: if you make it public, its public. it can be abused. if you don't want it abused, don't make it public. and anything going over a wire to a wide open internet and not encrypted, is public
its really that simple. do you expect corporations or governments to act virtuous? it is YOUR job to protect your privacy. if your privacy is violated, its YOUR fault. no, really. the alternative is that, for whatever reason, you actually trust the sharks and wolves to protect you
why do people not realize this obvious concept? why does slashdot continuously post such stories and then the same tired characters are shocked, SHOCKED i tell you, that sharks act like sharks and wolves act like wolves?
i find it highly objectionable that my government's employment agency won't let me skin my victims and hang them on trees or spit acid in their faces
plus i am REQUIRED to fight with the alternate of my form to the death. the police should get this memo and stop harassing me in my lawful pursuit of my religion
at how people are shocked! shocked! that the government doesn't protect your privacy for you!
isn't that a logical contradiction? the GOVERNMENT protecting your PRIVACY?
we frequently see laughter on this website at the "think of the children" tired meme: the refrain frequently heard here is that "it's not government's job to raise your children, its your job"
if you understand that, why do you not understand that protecting your privacy is YOUR job, not the government's?
encrypt it! if you don't, tough shit
its that simple
what the law says about the issue is completely besides the point: if you honestly care that much about your privacy, be proactive and protect it yourself. don't trust the government or some ISP, no matter WHAT the law says (the law is going to stop them?)
and this guy whips out this fat roll of cash and drops a $100 to pay for a 25 cent newspaper. while the attendant was yelling at the guy that he couldn't take anything that large, i whipped out my iPhone and snapped a quick pic of the guy's cash wad, and 25 seconds later i had $5,230 in my checking account! woohoo!
however, the most idiotic crowd i see are actually those with a pathological distrust of government
in a democracy, the government is yours, it is your representatives. all paranoid schizophrenic fantasy life and hypernegative ignorant cynicism to the contrary
as such, you afford it a certain amount of trust. too much, and you're a moron. but also true: too little, and you're also moron, to the same degree
a society with a rabid unintelligent hostility towards its own democratically elected government is just as stupid, useless, and, most importantly, POOR, as a society of blindly trusting fools
trust is a funny thing in life: you can trust too much, and you can trust too little. its a highly sensitive balance. to a large degree in life, the amount of trust you ascribe to certain entities: your family, your spouse, your friends, your government, and even yourself, largely determines how successful you will be in life, and i don't mean just financially. the amount of trust you give each of these entities is determined by your character, and the exact amount to give is always changing, depending upon new info
but in addition to those broadly overarching trust issues, you also see in some people either a constant overabundance of trust, and, also, a constant low ball amount of trust. the people who pathologically distrust have replaced intelligence with a sort of hypernegative ignorant cynicism. and the result is they lead impoverished lives. and i don't necessarily mean financially impoverished, although that also figures, but also impoverished in term of their happiness, and in terms of the richness and strength of their social bonds. such people, when they whine about the evil gubmint, are speaking more of their own failed pathology and bad character, not any intelligence on the matter
i see no lessons learned from history in their deep distrust, i only see a pathological type of character who works hard to redefine the trust threshold of our government unintelligently downward. if we let such inevitably loudmouth people hold sway, then the entirety of society is impoverished for the sake of their mental errors, not because of any higher grasp on truth
i think that richard marx is one of the most underappreciated 1980s soft rock acts in the history of mankind
his softly gravelly voice and his touching soulful lyrics have captivated me since a young age
he tugs at my heartstrings whenever i hear his silky refrains, and i can hide my marxist passions no longer, whatever the cost to my self-image!
Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line, but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never, how can we say forever.
Chorus: Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks, I will be right here waiting for you.
I took for granted all the times that I thought would last somehow. I hear the laughter, I taste the tears, but I can't get near you now. Oh can't you see it, Baby, you've got me going crazy.
Chorus: Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks, I will be right here waiting for you.
I wonder how we can survive this romance. But in the end if I'm with you, I'll take the chance.
Oh can't you see it, Baby, you've got me going crazy. Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks, I will be right here waiting for you. Waiting for you.
the government is supposed to be an extension of your will. whatever rules they have and enforcement is done is done in your name. through your representatives, you can make those rules and those enforcers work for you
but to the extent the government makes rules against your interests, or to the extent enforcers don't work for you, is directly due to the extent of corporations warping governments to serve their interests instead. corporations have no loyalty to you or your government or your country
and somehow they have convinced you to fight not them, but to fight the only tool you have to use against them: your own government
in the way you think about YOUR government, is encapsulated the downfall of this country
fight FOR your government AGAINST corporations. don't fight AGAINST your government FOR corporations
for the majority of those 100 years, ibm was an american company. of course they had field offices from the start, but the brains and brawn was american
and there's nothing wrong with going international, and there's nothing wrong with having international staff. but there's something wrong with betraying your roots as completely as ibm is now, all the while being coddled by the government of the people they are shafting
i mean the I in IHOP stands for "international" too, but that's not a statement of fact, its just good marketing (what exactly is supposed to be appealing about international pancakes, i don't know, but it obviously works). plenty of two bit outfits of 3 or 4 guys in pasadena or des moines or paramus put "international" in their company name out of aspiration. stop being dazzled by the shiny plastic
and demagogues tell them its the government's fault
the government is here to protect the people. the government is an extension of their will. the real enemy are the completely unpatriotic corporations that warp the government to represent them instead, at the expense of the people
the real battle should be between the people and the corporations over who owns the government. the corrosive influence of corporate dollars on the government that enrich entrenched corporate powers at the expense of the people is the real problem
but instead, the professional propaganda outlets successfully redirect the people's anger against the very edifice which is their only tool against corporations: their own government. and so the government remains squarely in the hands of corporations, because the people don't fight OVER the government, they fight AGAINST the government
and so they wind up only destroying themselves: middle class america, the future poor america
corporations have successfully robbed and impoverished the middle class in the usa, and successfully convinced them to defang and turn hostile against the only tool they have against corporations: their own government. and then the corporations leave, for greener pastures to rape abroad, their devastation of the usa nearing fulmination
its an insane betrayal against the self that makes no sense, for reasons beyond my understanding: that the people should blame THEIR government for what corporations do. but it works, probably because the corporations have enough cash to pay for this war against the american people
you hear it in the healthcare industry funded propaganda on tv: they frame the issue in terms of increased taxes and loss of decision making. as if a profit making healthcare corporation has your better interest than your own government! as if the money you pay them for shoddy healthcare is cheaper than the money you would pay to a single payer system with pricing power!
i am so perplexed: why are so many americans so hellbent on making they get shoddy healthcare FROM A HEALTHCARE COMPANY rather than their own government!? its simply amazing, how wound up and fooled some americans have become. its the doom of this country
590 madison avenue will always be well-staffed, but only 590 madison avenue
they will of course all disappear like a fart in the wind should the tax code stop coddling the ultrarich
hamilton bermuda or the cayman islands then
the middle class of the usa is becoming an endangered species, and, perplexingly, some of those soon to be former middle class support policies that enable their own doom
it used to be a major employer in hudson valley towns like kingston, poughkeepsie, fishkill, westchester, and new york city, and all the rust belt cities along the thruway corridor to buffalo
but this started shrinking as it went international, and accelerated as the political center of gravity within the company has shifted to bangalore. hey, it makes sense economically, and its good for india. but ibm has shafted its birthplace, and as someone from the area, so i say fuck them for the betrayal
as a historical major and influential employer, it has developed relationships with new york state and the feds for decades. therefore, the story of ibm is a shining burning example of how corporate money destroys my country
if you want to start your own ibm hate machine, and you should, start here:
stop listening to your demagogues who redirect your rightful anger at your government. the people robbing you blind are corporations, not your fellow poor citizens who just need healthcare. money influence in our government and our congress is destroying our nation. stop focusing your hate at your poor brothers and sisters. focus your righteous anger at the corrupting influence of corporate dollars that pay for the propaganda that fools you, all the while stabbing you in the back with a smile
stop hating your fellow man who just needs healthcare, your anger's direction is paid for by healthcare companies and their demagogues for hire
don't focus your anger on your government. focus your anger on the assholes in your government who are supposed to represent you but instead sell you out to the highest bidder. you need to reform government, not destroy it
and finally, focus your anger on the corporations themselves, who take away your job, defy your rights, and destroy your country with their special interests, all the while paying demagogue assholes to tell you that it is your poor neighbor who is to blame, because he needs healthcare and unemployment benefits, that they deny him
if this is too michael moore for you, recall that what motivated him to initially make films like roger and me was hatred for gm for destroying flint michigan. dear tea party right winger: you get poorer, and you get angrier, and they get richer, and they take your lifeblood out of this country. you want to talk patriotism? go ahead and hate michael moore for his left leaning beliefs if you want, but don't hate him because he fights for YOU: the future third world residents of the formerly great country known as the usa
know the real villain: corporations, not the government. the government is only the villain insofar as corporations have paid them to be
if you send me down the path of that subject matter, i'll turn into a rabid epileptic fit. for my own mental health, i'm not going to comment on what you just wrote, as the sheer tidal wave of anger that would well up inside me would turn me into travis bickle
that the usa supreme court should so blatantly sell the principles of this country to the highest bidder... they deserve...
god, i can't write anymore. if i do, nice government agents will be knocking on my door
ibm gets obscene special favors in the midhudson valley politically and economically on the national, state, and county, and city levels
and all the while ibm slowly moves everyone out
so its getting special treatment to TAKE AWAY jobs. how the hell does that work? i know new york politics is fucked up, but come on, this is blatant, long standing and insanely obvious
ibm is getting special treatment, and it serenely smiles while it stabs new york in the back
i have nothing for ibm management except burning hatred. i spit on ibm. as for new york politicians, they're so fucking retarded and dysfunctional, hate has no use
the entire company, middle management and upper management, is moving to india. they have an internal timeframe for this, sped up and slowed down by economic and political influences. of course they will retain a toehold here, but it will be a shell of its former self
good for india. bad for the usa. ibm has betrayed the usa
Slashdot Mirror
doesn't mean i can actually do it
you believe you can have relationships as meaningful on the internet as in real life
just because you believe that doesn't mean it is actually possible
a simple logical examination of the range of possible interactions in the real world, as opposed to the much smaller range on the web, and the fact that our social lives evolved over millions of years to exist in the real world, simply reveals that social life on the web is and always will be a pale imitation of the former. there is no equivalency. one is, by logical cold hard fact of the range of possible interactions, simply a smaller subset of the other
the web is wonderful for managing acquaintances. but its not possible to have real friendships over the web. at best its a supplemental tool to enable real world friendships. it is not a replacement, unless you dial down the definition of "friendship". which is the source of the dichotomy you think you elicit in my statement above about friends and family in another country, when my point remains solid: whatever happens over the web is supplementary and orthogonal to real relationships, and not a valid replacement for anything in the real world. if your friends or family are in another country, you have a shadow flimsy replacement of actually living with them. i don't see how you think arguing with that simple fact has any weight
you are defining the word friend downward towards what you are really describing: an acquaintance
either you've never really had a friend, and all you know are acquaintances, or you've simply forgotten what a real friendship is like, or you are a little bit of shallow empty fluff yourself, and this is all you aspire to
facebook turns people into public relations departments. this is not true friendship. of course, you can still call it "friendship", but only in the lamest, shallowest sense of the word
but its not like real sex, now is it?
likewise, your "friendships" on the internet are nothing at all like those in real life
yes, you can have family and friends in other countries. but they are in other countries. you honestly want to assert that that is anything like living with them or next door to them?
as for opinion versus fact, no: what i am saying is not an opinion, it's an objective fact of the much larger span of what is possible in reality, versus the much smaller span of what is possible on the web
of course you can interact socially on the web, but your social interactions on the web will always and forever more be nothing but a shadow of what is possible in the real world. that's a simple hard truth
i'm reminded of the film "no country for old men"
the movie is a set piece of horrible violence and tragic cause and effect, including a psychopath, around nothing more than a drug deal gone bad
the movie starts with the sheriff whining about how everything is going to hell
he whines about the world inexorably changing for the worse a few other times in a few other ways, how every day there's some new act brutality like never before that all points to things going horribly bad in the world, commiserating with another sheriff after one set piece of violence about how everything is changing for the worse, clucking about some awful news in the newspaper, etc. he whines about this all movie
finally, at the end of the movie, after constantly whining about things are changing for the worse, he finally meets his match:
to keep up with your friends, they aren't really your friends
facebook is for ACQUAINTANCES, not true friends, even if the word you use for an acquaintance is "friend" (which makes sense to promote the word "friend" to the realm of the more dispersonal, for the sake of corporate level public relations, which is how some people run their lives)
the point is that a true friendship is its own reward. you actually commit real work and maintenance to see them because you want to do that. if it feels like a lot of effort to do that with someone, then in emotional honesty, they aren't really a true friend anymore. as soon as someone is unimportant enough to you that you slag them off to your fake corporate public relations face, aka, facebook, they have ceased to be your friend. just admit it and move on
all facebook is is a giant mask, a bit of fakery, that requires you to constantly maintain it, as long as having a fake public face is important to you for whatever reason. facebook is turning our social lives into emotionally dead corporate facades of shallow fakery
so for a little bit of genuine, psychologically healthy friendship, stop running your private life the same way a corporation runs a public relations department. facebook users, try this: the next time you make a new friend, someone you sense could be or you want them to be a close friend, make a pact with them to "keep it off the radar"
off of facebook, off of tweets, etc. when you want to socialize with them, socialize with them directly. make your emails and phone calls terse things to actually just arrange meet up times in which real socialization actually takes place
then you will know what it is like to actually have a friend
i'd rather have two or three friends like that than 200 to 300 acquaintances on facebook, that you dutifully and exhaustively maintain a corporate mask for. but inside, no one knows you and you don't know anyone else. for those of us addicted to facebook, life has become an emotionally unsatisfying slog through fake masks of constant shallow empty cheerfulness
go off the internet, make a real friend, lose the corporate pr department
when screenwriters use it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Treasure:_Book_of_Secrets
or bookwriters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Symbol
i can live with some students with shallow term papers. but aren't some books and movies, like the ones linked to above, nothing more than the condensation from a late night session of following wikipedia links? worse than bookwriting/ screenwriting by committee of frat boys
"we're getting more violent, we're dumber, etc."
truth is, violence has gone way down, and literacy has gone way up, on a number of time spans
food has gotten safer (food spoilage kills way more than whatever trace chemicals scare you this month), new and different media has increased social skills
watch tv and play video games: both can be used for your personal growth and enjoyment, and this makes us far smarter, happy, and wealthier than past, more brutal, dumber generations
look: if you make it public, its public. it can be abused. if you don't want it abused, don't make it public. and anything going over a wire to a wide open internet and not encrypted, is public
its really that simple. do you expect corporations or governments to act virtuous? it is YOUR job to protect your privacy. if your privacy is violated, its YOUR fault. no, really. the alternative is that, for whatever reason, you actually trust the sharks and wolves to protect you
why do people not realize this obvious concept? why does slashdot continuously post such stories and then the same tired characters are shocked, SHOCKED i tell you, that sharks act like sharks and wolves act like wolves?
i find it highly objectionable that my government's employment agency won't let me skin my victims and hang them on trees or spit acid in their faces
plus i am REQUIRED to fight with the alternate of my form to the death. the police should get this memo and stop harassing me in my lawful pursuit of my religion
at how people are shocked! shocked! that the government doesn't protect your privacy for you!
isn't that a logical contradiction? the GOVERNMENT protecting your PRIVACY?
we frequently see laughter on this website at the "think of the children" tired meme: the refrain frequently heard here is that "it's not government's job to raise your children, its your job"
if you understand that, why do you not understand that protecting your privacy is YOUR job, not the government's?
encrypt it! if you don't, tough shit
its that simple
what the law says about the issue is completely besides the point: if you honestly care that much about your privacy, be proactive and protect it yourself. don't trust the government or some ISP, no matter WHAT the law says (the law is going to stop them?)
and this guy whips out this fat roll of cash and drops a $100 to pay for a 25 cent newspaper. while the attendant was yelling at the guy that he couldn't take anything that large, i whipped out my iPhone and snapped a quick pic of the guy's cash wad, and 25 seconds later i had $5,230 in my checking account! woohoo!
we have libertarians and rabidly distrustful antigovernment tea party assholes
to save us, you know, from this evil socialism thing called economic progress
i mean, if we paid more taxes to build things like high speed rail, we might actually live in that horrible thing known as a better country
however, the most idiotic crowd i see are actually those with a pathological distrust of government
in a democracy, the government is yours, it is your representatives. all paranoid schizophrenic fantasy life and hypernegative ignorant cynicism to the contrary
as such, you afford it a certain amount of trust. too much, and you're a moron. but also true: too little, and you're also moron, to the same degree
a society with a rabid unintelligent hostility towards its own democratically elected government is just as stupid, useless, and, most importantly, POOR, as a society of blindly trusting fools
trust is a funny thing in life: you can trust too much, and you can trust too little. its a highly sensitive balance. to a large degree in life, the amount of trust you ascribe to certain entities: your family, your spouse, your friends, your government, and even yourself, largely determines how successful you will be in life, and i don't mean just financially. the amount of trust you give each of these entities is determined by your character, and the exact amount to give is always changing, depending upon new info
but in addition to those broadly overarching trust issues, you also see in some people either a constant overabundance of trust, and, also, a constant low ball amount of trust. the people who pathologically distrust have replaced intelligence with a sort of hypernegative ignorant cynicism. and the result is they lead impoverished lives. and i don't necessarily mean financially impoverished, although that also figures, but also impoverished in term of their happiness, and in terms of the richness and strength of their social bonds. such people, when they whine about the evil gubmint, are speaking more of their own failed pathology and bad character, not any intelligence on the matter
i see no lessons learned from history in their deep distrust, i only see a pathological type of character who works hard to redefine the trust threshold of our government unintelligently downward. if we let such inevitably loudmouth people hold sway, then the entirety of society is impoverished for the sake of their mental errors, not because of any higher grasp on truth
i think that richard marx is one of the most underappreciated 1980s soft rock acts in the history of mankind
his softly gravelly voice and his touching soulful lyrics have captivated me since a young age
he tugs at my heartstrings whenever i hear his silky refrains, and i can hide my marxist passions no longer, whatever the cost to my self-image!
i am marxist!
(sob)
you are not massively propagandized
you've independently arrived at a state of abject stupidity all by yourself
"Oh, you Marxists and your accusations..."
Marxist? LOL
the government is supposed to be an extension of your will. whatever rules they have and enforcement is done is done in your name. through your representatives, you can make those rules and those enforcers work for you
but to the extent the government makes rules against your interests, or to the extent enforcers don't work for you, is directly due to the extent of corporations warping governments to serve their interests instead. corporations have no loyalty to you or your government or your country
and somehow they have convinced you to fight not them, but to fight the only tool you have to use against them: your own government
in the way you think about YOUR government, is encapsulated the downfall of this country
fight FOR your government AGAINST corporations. don't fight AGAINST your government FOR corporations
they've convinced you to stab yourself
got it, you deluded fool?
for the majority of those 100 years, ibm was an american company. of course they had field offices from the start, but the brains and brawn was american
and there's nothing wrong with going international, and there's nothing wrong with having international staff. but there's something wrong with betraying your roots as completely as ibm is now, all the while being coddled by the government of the people they are shafting
i mean the I in IHOP stands for "international" too, but that's not a statement of fact, its just good marketing (what exactly is supposed to be appealing about international pancakes, i don't know, but it obviously works). plenty of two bit outfits of 3 or 4 guys in pasadena or des moines or paramus put "international" in their company name out of aspiration. stop being dazzled by the shiny plastic
and demagogues tell them its the government's fault
the government is here to protect the people. the government is an extension of their will. the real enemy are the completely unpatriotic corporations that warp the government to represent them instead, at the expense of the people
the real battle should be between the people and the corporations over who owns the government. the corrosive influence of corporate dollars on the government that enrich entrenched corporate powers at the expense of the people is the real problem
but instead, the professional propaganda outlets successfully redirect the people's anger against the very edifice which is their only tool against corporations: their own government. and so the government remains squarely in the hands of corporations, because the people don't fight OVER the government, they fight AGAINST the government
and so they wind up only destroying themselves: middle class america, the future poor america
corporations have successfully robbed and impoverished the middle class in the usa, and successfully convinced them to defang and turn hostile against the only tool they have against corporations: their own government. and then the corporations leave, for greener pastures to rape abroad, their devastation of the usa nearing fulmination
its an insane betrayal against the self that makes no sense, for reasons beyond my understanding: that the people should blame THEIR government for what corporations do. but it works, probably because the corporations have enough cash to pay for this war against the american people
you hear it in the healthcare industry funded propaganda on tv: they frame the issue in terms of increased taxes and loss of decision making. as if a profit making healthcare corporation has your better interest than your own government! as if the money you pay them for shoddy healthcare is cheaper than the money you would pay to a single payer system with pricing power!
i am so perplexed: why are so many americans so hellbent on making they get shoddy healthcare FROM A HEALTHCARE COMPANY rather than their own government!? its simply amazing, how wound up and fooled some americans have become. its the doom of this country
590 madison avenue will always be well-staffed, but only 590 madison avenue
they will of course all disappear like a fart in the wind should the tax code stop coddling the ultrarich
hamilton bermuda or the cayman islands then
the middle class of the usa is becoming an endangered species, and, perplexingly, some of those soon to be former middle class support policies that enable their own doom
the usa is a multicultural country. there's nothing wrong with multiculturalism
don't hijack this subject matter with your retarded ethnocentrism, maggot
under my grandparent comment, from actual ibmers, verifying my description of their action plan to simply leave the usa
additionally, i am a good friend of midlevel manager who used to work for ibm in the hudson valley. he actually still does work ibm. he's in bangalore
ibm is gutting itself in the usa and reconstituting itself in india
good for india. but how is that not a betrayal of the usa in your mind?
binghampton, to be exact
it used to be a major employer in hudson valley towns like kingston, poughkeepsie, fishkill, westchester, and new york city, and all the rust belt cities along the thruway corridor to buffalo
but this started shrinking as it went international, and accelerated as the political center of gravity within the company has shifted to bangalore. hey, it makes sense economically, and its good for india. but ibm has shafted its birthplace, and as someone from the area, so i say fuck them for the betrayal
as a historical major and influential employer, it has developed relationships with new york state and the feds for decades. therefore, the story of ibm is a shining burning example of how corporate money destroys my country
if you want to start your own ibm hate machine, and you should, start here:
http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00434
dear frothing at the mouth tea party morons:
stop listening to your demagogues who redirect your rightful anger at your government. the people robbing you blind are corporations, not your fellow poor citizens who just need healthcare. money influence in our government and our congress is destroying our nation. stop focusing your hate at your poor brothers and sisters. focus your righteous anger at the corrupting influence of corporate dollars that pay for the propaganda that fools you, all the while stabbing you in the back with a smile
stop hating your fellow man who just needs healthcare, your anger's direction is paid for by healthcare companies and their demagogues for hire
don't focus your anger on your government. focus your anger on the assholes in your government who are supposed to represent you but instead sell you out to the highest bidder. you need to reform government, not destroy it
and finally, focus your anger on the corporations themselves, who take away your job, defy your rights, and destroy your country with their special interests, all the while paying demagogue assholes to tell you that it is your poor neighbor who is to blame, because he needs healthcare and unemployment benefits, that they deny him
if this is too michael moore for you, recall that what motivated him to initially make films like roger and me was hatred for gm for destroying flint michigan. dear tea party right winger: you get poorer, and you get angrier, and they get richer, and they take your lifeblood out of this country. you want to talk patriotism? go ahead and hate michael moore for his left leaning beliefs if you want, but don't hate him because he fights for YOU: the future third world residents of the formerly great country known as the usa
know the real villain: corporations, not the government. the government is only the villain insofar as corporations have paid them to be
don't even get me started
i'm frothing at the mouth enough as it is
if you send me down the path of that subject matter, i'll turn into a rabid epileptic fit. for my own mental health, i'm not going to comment on what you just wrote, as the sheer tidal wave of anger that would well up inside me would turn me into travis bickle
that the usa supreme court should so blatantly sell the principles of this country to the highest bidder... they deserve...
god, i can't write anymore. if i do, nice government agents will be knocking on my door
good god, i'm biting my hand in rage
please god, don't turn me into the unabomber
ibm gets obscene special favors in the midhudson valley politically and economically on the national, state, and county, and city levels
and all the while ibm slowly moves everyone out
so its getting special treatment to TAKE AWAY jobs. how the hell does that work? i know new york politics is fucked up, but come on, this is blatant, long standing and insanely obvious
ibm is getting special treatment, and it serenely smiles while it stabs new york in the back
i have nothing for ibm management except burning hatred. i spit on ibm. as for new york politicians, they're so fucking retarded and dysfunctional, hate has no use
the entire company, middle management and upper management, is moving to india. they have an internal timeframe for this, sped up and slowed down by economic and political influences. of course they will retain a toehold here, but it will be a shell of its former self
good for india. bad for the usa. ibm has betrayed the usa