OT: Socialism as a Millennial religion
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
"... Think of all the traits and characteristics, most of them negative, associated with the Millennials in the popular mind. They are said to be unrealistic and have both the inflated expectations of life and the inflated perceptions of selves. They think the world owes them a living – a good one too – though without necessary too much effort. Things came very easily to them when they were growing up; when that suddenly stops – when the reality finally intrudes – they get angry, frustrated, lost: the world is deeply unfair and is conspiring against them. They are narcissistic, self-possessed and self-obsessed. They expect instant rewards and instant gratification. Having been told their whole lives how special they are, they tend to be over-sensitive and find it difficult to cope with criticism or obstacles. They’re lazy, flighty and easily distracted. Remember: these are all generalisations, but stereotypes stick because they ring true ..."
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Today its like Buckminster Fuller said, we already produce enough to let every person live better than royalty had in past centuries. But the reason we don't see this is that we demand that everyone prove that they can earn a living.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_P…
Everyone should feel entitled to a good life, as this is the benefit of peace in an advanced industrial democracy. But if we don't claim this and if instead we let the forces of Capitalism rule, then they will bring us more war in order to consume the gross excess.
The End of Work and the Case for Universal Basic Income
Andy Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKzNBXFn…
And notice the date, Nov. 18, 2016, repudiating the neo-liberal Democrats in the wake of the total disaster of the 2016 election.
SJG
Alec Baldwin: Trump's 'SNL' Attack May Be 'A Threat To My Safety'
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/alec-bald…
Kim Kardashian
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kim-…
Thierry Mugler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Mu…
https://www.muglerusa.com/
http://www.livingly.com/The+Most+Beautif…
Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him -- New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/po…
Aug 8, 1974 GOLDWATER, SCOTT, AND RHODES, SPEAK TO PRESS AFTER VISITING NIXON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsMxzORF…
Venus, Shocking Blue, actually live, with only what you see on stage, and not hamming for the camera, quite good, a coffee house grade performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWb8_DH8…
LOS BRAVOS-Black Is Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=060KBHse…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_mac…
SJG
Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB6OlJqV…
SJG
And busts are caused by over production and over consumption. The Busts are caused by the Booms.
And UBI is just a minimum floor, nothing more.
SJG
So then because of this we have all kinds of stupid stuff going on, gutting labor, consumer, and environmental protections to try and create more jobs. Bullshit industries which support the middle-class family by medically abusing children. Industries designed to abuse the poor with "Work Readiness Programs", and then just the vast expansion of our prison complex.
It is not quite like this in the developing world. But yes, in the end this does play out in the entire world, and this is where we have to look to solving the problems.
Like we cannot solve economic and social problems which are starting in the United States, by building a wall on the border of Mexico, or by scapegoating immigrants, or by scapegoating our own poor.
SJG
The End of Work and the Case for Universal Basic Income
Andy Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), author of Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream, and Senior Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKzNBXFn…
How Ayn Rand Became a Hero to Right Wing Nerds -- Thom Hartmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY1ik8bu…
Thom Hartmann: Atlas Shrugged - bizarre philosophy at work -- Thom Hartmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHnnnmuY…
Alec Baldwin: Trump's 'SNL' Attack May Be 'A Threat To My Safety'
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/alec-bald…
Kim Kardashian
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kim-…
Thierry Mugler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Mu…
https://www.muglerusa.com/
http://www.livingly.com/The+Most+Beautif…
Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him -- New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/po…
Venus, Shocking Blue, actually live, with only what you see on stage, and not hamming for the camera, quite good, a coffee house grade performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWb8_DH8…
Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB6OlJqV…
JEFF BECK -Brush With the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqyLqDt…
Joe Bonamassa - I'll Play The Blues For You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Jzcu5S…
Joe Bonamassa - "Breaking Up Somebody's Home"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DxaVOeu…
Joe Bonamassa - The Thrill Is Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD1CYMPN…
This is due to the spread of the free market economy which not only ends poverty but makes some people wealthy. I can live with that.
Those in greatest need are those who have zero money to pay.
Lots of work needs doing, but it is not paid work.
SJG
SJG
But then Nixon unveiled his Southern Strategy pandering to racism, and then the Republican Party started investing in Christian Fundamentalism, to get us back on the Right as we are today.
Western Europe on the otherhand had continued moving to the Left.
SJG
We aren't like Europe for a lot reasons, many of them good reasons.
It is the American Empire, which needs this hugely overblown military, and always works so hard to manufacture new enemies.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080508…
SJG
And there are immigration tensions, as there always have been, but no crisis.
Germany in an interesting case, both good and bad, and Germany has its own negative history which still rears its ugly head.
SJG
The net result of this is negative for everyone.
SJG
As Michelle Goldberg calls it, "Christian Nationalism".
They have their abstinence industry, and they have their intelligent design industry.
And all of it is used to say that the poor deserve to be poor.
So I disagree with you.
The I AM A CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT is total bullshit.
SJG
Everyone agrees Boomers are the worst right? So lucky, so entitled.
LMFAO ;))
DC, I am involved in stuff on the ground. The abstinence and intelligent design industries are alive and well. The I AM A CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT has created its own god, by a literal and prescriptive reading of the Bible. Its purpose is to claim superiority and dominion over the rest of us.
SJG
You cannot hermetically seal the US. We have to cut down the demand for drugs.
SJG
SJG
I am not saying that their women are totally unfuckable. But what is more important is that they believe that they are superior to other Americans.
SJG
>But what we have in terms of upwards social mobility and ease of starting a business are directly at the expense of other people.
The net result of this is negative for everyone.<
You're free to move elsewhere, good time for you to start that business you yammer about in Mexico, if you move quick you'll get there before that wall is finished and you won't have to sneak across the border south bound.
Jackass
Fucking Millenial retards.
Christianity improves sex? How? By making married couples dedicate a day to fuck to reproduce? SJG is right about the whole mega church culture, its far from sex positive.
It doesn’t take too much intelligence to figure out SJG was the kid out on the
Playground walking around alone with his hands in his pockets entertaining himself because he had no friends. Arguing with him is pointless because no matter what amount of sense you make, he has too many emotional wounds from his past that he anchors to that he will never see the truth. He’s fucking crazy, just like all extreme liberals!
@Meat and you were the kid who said and did repulsive things for negative attention but was happy to get any attention at all coz your parents ignored you.
@DC you don't like promiscuous girls, yet love seeing escorts...okay. Promiscuity does lead to more people getting laid, they're having more sex. But go for the Christian girl. If she doesn't know if she wants to date, its up to you to make her want to. Girls like that expect the guy to make all the moves. Also, just coz a guy says she likes you doesn't make you closer to having a girlfriend.... ask her out, etc.
Don’t worry about who likes you or not, online it means less than nothing, and trust your first instincts about liking people, those that you dislike at first and try to overcome are trying to use you for their own reasons, the rest are just kidding around for the most part.
If your first instinct is to steer clear, don’t be so forgiving, you won’t get used so easily.
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Families-v-Bl…
Where as those young women slated for high income careers practice hook ups, and have contraception and the back up of abortion. These authors did not come to this position easily, coming from conservative backgrounds. But abstinence indoctrination does contribute to an economic divide.
The I AM A CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT is a political domination movement, trying to turn poverty into a cause for repentance and salvation seeking.
People make the pledge, because it gets them approval. Such people have a character defect.
SJG
Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQBgRPtL…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IHG…
NOLO, Bourbon Street
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=131772
AZTECA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9WVbQT…
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Families-v-Bl…
Where as those young women slated for high income careers practice hook ups, and have contraception and the back up of abortion. These authors did not come to this position easily, coming from conservative backgrounds. But abstinence indoctrination does contribute to an economic divide.
The I AM A CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT is a political domination movement, trying to turn poverty into a cause for repentance and salvation seeking.
People make the pledge, because it gets them approval. Such people have a character defect.
SJG
Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQBgRPtL…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IHG…
NOLO, Bourbon Street
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=131772
AZTECA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9WVbQT…
your average millenial may not have or understand the full picture of how we got here or of the dark flipside of true socialism but they understand that the current arrangement has largely failed average americans in recent times and will continue to do so.
SJG
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/16/t…
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/18/w…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kdFkQ4w…
A truly inspiring vision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0ip…
Maybe finally the insanity of Reagan and Voodoo Economics and of Striving to Get Ahead is being challenged.
All of us who had lived through that era have been adversely effected.
SJG
Alice Smith -- House of the Rising Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2dthrNN…
http://alicesmith.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Smit…
Cry -- Doyle Bramhall II and Alice Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWey5olF…
Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights w/ Doyle Bramhall II, note the introduction of harmonic notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-h…
A Landmark Study on the Origins of Alcoholism
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-lan…
But yes, moving to the Left does mean becoming more like the UK.
People in the UK have access to medical care. That makes a big difference.
The Green New Deal ( concept originally from Van Jones in 2008, as I know ) means good jobs, instead of just following people like Rick Perry and trashing environmental and worker representation standards, and giving tax breaks to create jobs which are highly questionable.
SJG
25 is too smart to be a liberal. More a misguided conservative.
>25 is too smart to be a liberal. More a misguided conservative.<
No not misguided just not such a pessimist
You see a glass as half empty I see it as half full
Barring that, Socialism or the social welfare model could potentially function but only under the following conditions.
1. High IQ technocratic leadership
2. Authoritarian style government
3. No outside external threats
1 ensures competent leadership least suceptible to corruption and rent-seeking and 2 prevents the greedy masses from "voting" themselves more and more public benefits. 3 relieves public finances from large defense spending which can allow the funds to spent on social welfare.
3. Small homogeneous population
4. Restrictive immigration
3 prevents inter-group resentment and hatred due to perceptions of "leeching" off welfare and 4 prevents other countries from exporting their poverty by sending their poor to social welfare states where they will be taken care of.
The model seems to work in repressive Gulf monarchies and high IQ asian societies such as Singapore and japan.
Venezuela is a failure due to a low iq corrupt leadership aided by democratic mechanisms allowing the masses to vote themselves more and more free stuff.
The nordic countries could have sustained socialism - however their idiotic voting public and leaders demanded open borders and now those countries public finances are headed towards insolvency to support their new 3rd world guests.
All this to say, is that in our country with 300 million plus people of various racial and religious backgrounds at each others throats, middling IQ leadership easily suceptible to corruption, massive defense spending to police the world, and a large voting block with insatiable appetite for endless welfare spending AND completely open borders.....
Socialism in the US would be a utter and horrrific disaster.
‘clink’!!!
We will need to go to a UBI system. Either that or civil war.
The thing which is really holding us back in every way is simply that so many people believe in the Work Ethic.
Sometimes I'll refer to this as the Self-Reliance Ethic, to try and better show the full scope of it.
Either way it is completely nonsensical, and it creates national insanity. An advanced industrial society cannot operate with people believing that. Historically it has led to wars.
Seeing this is why Georges Bataille wrote "Accursed Share" in 1949, and envisioned a gift economy.
This also included commercial sex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accurs…
Like Buckminster Fuller wrote, we have the ability to take care of every person better than we did even royalty in past centuries. But the reason we don't see this is that we demand that everyone prove that they can earn a living.
SJG
"You see a glass as half empty I see it as half full"
But you see, my friend, a glass is only filled to empty it! Therefore one should endeavor to empty the glass.
What seems to cause so much human misery and pointless and misguided efforts is simply this Work Ethic. It is completely nonsensical.
SJG
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/teach…
SJG
They have made electric mandolins, even solid bodies. The eight strings are in 4 pairs. Makes more sense now how someone could play it.
When a Bf-109 spared a stricken B-17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpAJTURa…
Don't these two songs sound similar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxEJ74n9…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7rFYbMh…
Guess this is supposed to have an acoustic pick up installed in it?
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/…
And then
http://emando.com/
Sounds like both Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones have triple neckers
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attac…