It is rotten and dismal that a world of so many hundred million people should be
CJKent_band
The truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
Title couldn’t possibly say it all.
“It is rotten and dismal that a world of so many hundred million people should be ruled by a single caste that has the power to lead millions to life or to death, indeed on a whim...
This caste has spun its web over the entire earth; capitalism recognizes no national boundaries...
Capitalism has learned nothing from recent events and wants to learn nothing, because it places its own interests ahead of those of the other millions.
Can one blame those millions for standing up for their own interests, and only for those interests?
Can one blame them for striving to forge an international community whose purpose is the struggle against corrupt capitalism?
Can one condemn a large segment of the educated Stürmer youth for protesting against the greatest ability?
Is it not an abomination that people with the most brilliant intellectual gifts should sink into poverty and disintegrate, while others dissipate, squander, and waste the money that could help them? …
You say the old propertied class also worked hard for what it has.
Granted, that may be true in many cases.
But do you also know about the conditions under which workers were living during the period when capitalism “earned” its fortune?”
~ Letter to Anka Stalherm (14 April 1920)
~ Quoted in Ralph Georg Reuth, Goebbels (Harvest, 1994), pp. 33-34
“It is rotten and dismal that a world of so many hundred million people should be ruled by a single caste that has the power to lead millions to life or to death, indeed on a whim...
This caste has spun its web over the entire earth; capitalism recognizes no national boundaries...
Capitalism has learned nothing from recent events and wants to learn nothing, because it places its own interests ahead of those of the other millions.
Can one blame those millions for standing up for their own interests, and only for those interests?
Can one blame them for striving to forge an international community whose purpose is the struggle against corrupt capitalism?
Can one condemn a large segment of the educated Stürmer youth for protesting against the greatest ability?
Is it not an abomination that people with the most brilliant intellectual gifts should sink into poverty and disintegrate, while others dissipate, squander, and waste the money that could help them? …
You say the old propertied class also worked hard for what it has.
Granted, that may be true in many cases.
But do you also know about the conditions under which workers were living during the period when capitalism “earned” its fortune?”
~ Letter to Anka Stalherm (14 April 1920)
~ Quoted in Ralph Georg Reuth, Goebbels (Harvest, 1994), pp. 33-34
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Be honest.
My over/under for you is 5
Capitalism has lifted billions out of extreme poverty.
“The money pigs of capitalist democracy…
Money has made slaves of us…
Money is the curse of mankind.
It smothers the seed of everything great and good.
Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.”
~ Quoted in The Nazi Party 1919-1945: A Complete History, Dietrich Orlow, New York: NY, Enigma Books, 2012, p 61.
~ Goebbels’ article, “Nationalsozialisten aus Berlin und aus dem Reich”, Voelkischer Beobachter, February 4, 1927
The undeniable reality is:
“Capitalism Has Not “Lifted Billions Out of Poverty”
Nor Has Economic Growth “Benefited The Environment”.”
You are welcome.
No one cares about the environment when they can't eat.
Did you just quote Goebbels, one of the most notorious members of the Nazi regime, as a source in trying to prove your point???? Cuz Nazis are the moral compass we all use to determine our most important ideologies, right?
This fucking guy is off his meds.
He (Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels) is not rong...
You should decide whether something said, written or quoted makes sense by its content, not by the person who writes or says it...
Regardless of the letters after his or her name, title or position in society, age, nationality, physical or mental disabilities...
No matter when or where it was said or written..
Pragmatically speaking, quotations can also be used as language games (in the Wittgensteinian sense of the term) to manipulate social order and the structure of society
“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
~ Austrian-British philosopher
~ Born: April 26, 1889, Vienna, Austria
~ Died: April 29, 1951, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ludwig said it all...
Some people, you know who you are, use “Selective Memory”, to preserve a favorable view of themselves, particularly in Western cultures and Colonial-Imperial-Capitalist societies.
To maintain positive self-imagine, people “forget” unflattering or troubling “memories” and try to deny undeniable facts.
Americans looked for an origin story that wasn’t soaked in the blood of Native Americans or built on the backs of slavery, the humble, bloodless story of the 102 Pilgrims forging a path in the New World in search of religious freedom was just the fairytale they made up.
The first “Thanksgiving” “celebration” was in 1637, after the “colonists” massacred an entire Pequot village, they “celebrated” their “victory”.
“Thanksgiving” is part of America’s origin, soaked in the blood of Native Americans and built on genocide and slavery.
Capitalism's undeniable history of violence is far from just history – it is a continuing nightmare from which humanity has yet to awake.
The Native American scouts for the U.S. Calvary were the ones seeking revenge and usually initiating the wholesale slaughter of children and squaws as retribution for some atrocity their tribe suffered. It was their reason for working with the Calvary.
Read “Empire of the Summer Moon”. Educational and entertaining.
Yeah, basically the same thing you do every time you post here Xgay.
Just like your 'UN'inspirational plagiarized thoughts, we're not interested in either you HOMO TROLL!
Right wing morons in this country and on this board have been doing the same thing for a long time, usually calling them Liberals.
That seems to go back to the 1988 Republican National Convention when Pat Robertson said that Michael Dukakis is a "L-I-B-E-R-A-L" and a "Card Carrying Member of the A-C-L-U".
This means the same as what the Nazi's meant.
SJG
Pretenders, My City Was Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thu8DWsi…
Jane, School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWq4w8D…
SJG
Pretenders, My City Was Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thu8DWsi…
Jane, School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWq4w8D…
“The undeniable fact is that American Capitalism was built on the genocide of the natives and the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor people, of any color, here and abroad."
“It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.”
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
~ Born: 3rd January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden
~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist
Awards:
~ Fritt Ord Award (2019)
~ Rachel Carson Prize (2019)
~ Ambassador of Conscience Award (2019)
~ Right Livelihood Award (2019)
~ International Children's Peace Prize (2019)
~ Time Person of the Year (2019)
~ Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity (2020)
“Denying the Truth Does Not Change the Facts.”
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but he is not entitled to his own facts.”
“No amount of denial can change one undeniable fact.”
You are welcome.
SJG
Jane - School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWq4w8D…
Vanilla Fudge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QLapo3r
SJG
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
- P.J. O'Rourke
SJG
The so called Capitalism you defend was built and continues to be maintained by conquest, ecological ruin, slavery, state terrorism, sexism, racism, exploitation and immiseration.
The global and domestic handmaidens of capitalism continue to subordinate and destroy all who dare to resist its asphyxiating grip.
Capitalism was historically constructed by viciously subordinating and annihilating other ways of life.
Those other ways of life are constantly heroically working, all over the world, to put an end to the Capitalist history of violence and subjugation.
Capitalism allows people the luxury of caring about the environment and the worker. Those who struggle against it want control of the system themselves, to give out the spoils according to what benefits them rather than the value they create. It's funny how America needs to build walls to keep people _out_ rather than _in._
You are the spoiled child O'Rourke talks about.
The undeniable reality is that Capitalism allows people the luxury of NOT caring about the environment and the worker.
Those who justly and heroically struggle against it want control of the system themselves, to give out the spoils according to a fair and just process that benefits the people justly accordingly to the value they create for the benefit of everyone.
It's funny how America needs to build walls to keep people _out_ rather than _in._ to protect the rich that get richer, and subjugate the poor that get poorer in the American western capitalist society as a result of their Feudal, Monarchical, imperialist and colonialist past were the wealth flows from poorer to richer hands…
TIFFY you are welcome.
“The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim.
To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.”
~ Aldous Huxley
It's so hard to be poor in America that the world's poor pour over the border for the chance. Why don't you tell them this is such a land of exploitation and racism to go back where they came from? Lol.
I know I don't want the radishes I worked so hard to grow to be taken by the government and I'm given only pennies to live off of. Really de-incentives me to want to keep making surplus since there's no good outcome for myself or my community. Hope the future is ok for socialist.
“White liberals (or not) have zero value without taking advantage of the poor and keeping them down.”
~ @skibum609
~ Massachusetts July 27, 2022
~ Husband, Son, Sibling, Friend, Skier, Gambler, Swinger, Golfer, Foodie, Traveller, but most of all I smoke Ghost Train Haze
SJG
Grove Blue Organ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucUFxVA1…
Well it's understandable that you'd take stance since you officially came out of the closet...
https://tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=8026…
BTW, did cj share any dick pics with you?
The so called Capitalism of America does not work for everyone; it benefits a few and leaves the rest to scramble for the scraps.
Aside from increasing inequality, trying only to maximise profits encourages other problems too.
It can lead businesses to pay workers as little as
possible, even if that means workers remain in poverty and have unsafe working conditions.
Russia represents an immediate threat to Europe, not the U.S., with their invasion of Ukraine, yet these rich European nations contribute virtually nothing to the Ukrainian war effort while the American taxpayer gives billions. For what? The approval of the Washington Post?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Yes, the USSR was paradise, a land of benevolence and plenty where no one ever wanted for anything. No oppression either, nope, you were free to speak your mind and question the beloved system to improve it. No corruption either to get ahead, that was unthinkable.
Yeah. You can see the left already trying to trap everybody here. At any time they can declare a "pandemic"(i.e. covid) or "emergency"(i.e. global warming, gun violence) and the default solution is to give the state more power, of course. By the time the majority realizes whats happened, they have all the guns and control the border. You wouldn't be able to leave even if you wanted. Get out now if you still can...
SJG
“The so called capitalists know exactly what they are doing.
They know exactly what priceless values they are sacrificing to maintain business as usual.
The leaders are actively creating loopholes and shaping frameworks to benefit themselves and to continue profiting from this destructive system.
This is an active choice by the leaders to continue to let the exploitation of people and nature and the destruction of present and future living conditions to take place.”
“The undeniable fact is that American Capitalism was built on the genocide of natives and the exploitation and suffering of black slaves and the poor people of any color and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor people, of any color, here and abroad."
“It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.”
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
~ Born: 3rd January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden
~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist
Awards:
~ Fritt Ord Award (2019)
~ Rachel Carson Prize (2019)
~ Ambassador of Conscience Award (2019)
~ Right Livelihood Award (2019)
~ International Children's Peace Prize (2019)
~ Time Person of the Year (2019)
~ Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity (2020)
SJG
Seattle, also looking pretty good, much better than San Jose. The key is to get them in stripper shoes, strapped on, painted up, and in skirts or dresses. They they are the equal of strip club, Viet Coffee, or AMP girls. The rest of what they wear does not matter is it won't be staying on very long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB4mMG3A…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rTWaf-O…
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=10828
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=11206
Gimme Shelter - Rochester School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbSF5NbJ…
Jane - School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWq4w8D…
Funny, CJ, that sounds more like the USSR where everyone lived in equal misery except the well connected who carved out wealth for themselves. It speaks volumes that the Berlin Wall was meant to keep people _in_ the communist East and _out_ of the free capitalist West.
The USSR raped it's environment and used prison labor.
Capitalism feeds, socialism starves.
Capitalism starves.
Social Democracy feeds.
SJG
Seattle, also looking pretty good, much better than San Jose. The key is to get them in stripper shoes, strapped on, painted up, and in skirts or dresses. They they are the equal of strip club, Viet Coffee, or AMP girls. The rest of what they wear does not matter is it won't be staying on very long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB4mMG3A…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rTWaf-O…
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=10828
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=11206
Gimme Shelter - Rochester School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbSF5NbJ…
Jane - School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWq4w8D…
Grove Blue Organ Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucUFxVA1…
Corrosive racial inequality.
An erosion of democratic norms.
An escalating climate emergency denial.
Rampant economic inequality.
America is indeed the land of the opportunist/capitalist.
Those "social democracies" work because we've paid their defense bills for the better part of a century. They make it hard to become citizens and get their benefits.
In America, business profits in our system are in most cases result of collusion, history shows that big business and big government can collude to keep profits flowing to the former and contributions flowing to the latter.
Some in the system will benefit from this criminal form of profit and will defend the system because of it.
Nobody in their right mind would believe that the large fortunes and opulence of Robber Barons, Fat Cats, Capitalist Pigs etc. can be attained just by being an honest hard working person.
Capitalists have to prove their worth in a market without tenure, outside the womb of academia.
SJG
The USA capitalist/imperialist system is, and has been since it’s birth, producing excessive inequality all over the world.
“To him that hath, more shall be given; and from him that hath not, the little that he hath shall be taken away. The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism."
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
~ Born 4 August 1792 Field Place, Warnham, West Sussex, England
~ Died 8 July 1822 (aged 29) Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
I bet you couldn't even name what I do for a living, shit-for-brains. But I'll tell you this, I can afford a device to access the internet off hours and during a pandemic.
"The USA capitalist/imperialist system is, and has been since it’s birth, producing excessive inequality all over the world."
A side effect of producing so much wealth is that it doesn't flow equally.
You are a Keyboard Koward.
The US capitalist economy produces stuff. And now we have too much stuff. That is not wealth, that is a system which leaves much of the population with very little, except for the stupid insults of the sorts of Tetradon.
SJG
Get VIP and read my reviews. You'll see I can afford to visit strip clubs.
You might also see I'm selective with the information I divulge here. Which is how adults protect their F2F life. Not making threats like bellowing retards.
And you see this in our cyclical labor down turns and in the general low market power which labor has.
You can afford to visit strip clubs, but that is because you don't have anything more important to do, and because you are by nature a troll.
I don't make threats, but I do protect my f2f life and its privacy, because online is loaded with bellowing retards like Tetradon.
SJG
SJG nobody believes a word you write when you claim to be building an organization of women that look like this.
Bacon!!
Wow. Glad we asked you who is failing at every aspect of life, who somehow knows what's best for America.
"You can afford to visit strip clubs, but that is because you don't have anything more important to do, and because you are by nature a troll."
Like spend 35 hours a week on a strip club website threatening people and seeking attention and validation. Won't someone talk sex magick with me, pweeeeeeze?
Whatever you think about the rest of us, you're seeking our approval for the equivalent of a full time job in hours.
Everyone else on this board is, by any metric, better at life than you.
And reading a lot of your posts, I see no reason to conclude that you are anything except a retard. Nothing I admire about you.
I am not a person who goes around picking online fights, but you don't seem to know how to do anything but that with your personal attacks and venom.
SJG
Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u8BSk13…
You wrote, and I quote:
“A side effect of producing so much wealth is that it doesn't flow equally.”
Care to answer why?
“Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural.
It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”
~ Nelson Mandela
We are trashing the natural environment just to keep the Work Ethic Squirrel Cage going, and to fatten the financializers.
SJG
Tijuana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twnLACRf…
Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJ9S1UT…
LOL. No, your life is just that boring. I'd sooner fly out to San Jose to patronize a specific Wendy's than to interact with you in any capacity.
"Nothing I admire about you."
Yet somehow my life will go on. In fact, of you admired anything about my life, it would trigger some serious self examination in that area.
"I am not a person who goes around picking online fights"
HAHAHA! All you do is attack people, insult the common hobby, and make threats that you don't have the balls let alone the money to follow up on. Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion need to write a spinoff song about you called "Broke Ass Pussy."
You've even admitted you won't fly east to follow up on one of the many threats you've made towards me. You haven't followed up on any threat you've made towards anyone here. Impotent little bitch.
See you when the library opens tomorrow.
Because we are not equal in talent, intellect, capability, etc.
Mandela is rong. Poverty is the natural condition of humanity and was for millennia. Starvation, infection, and violent competition for scarce resources thinned the herds.
Recognition of enlightened self interest has been nothing short of a miracle, bringing billions out of extreme poverty.
Your little addle-pated buddy doesn't realize no one gives a fuck about the natural environment when they don't know where their next meal comes from. You have capitalism to thank for that.
But that only continues for as long as people allow it.
SJG
Your precious revolt of the working class is more likely to come from conservatives tired of being dictated to by tech and political magnates than loser video game-addicted stoners in their parents' basement.
All Occupy Wall Street figured out how to do was cover public parks in feces and sexual assault.
SJG
No one mentioned race here. Pay attention.
You are a Keyboard Koward, shitting on this board because you have nothing better to do.
SJG
You're a leech on society and a big fucking talker.
I burn such siege scaffolds down with kerosene.
And no one would tolerate you f2f, I certainly wouldn't.
SJG
You know the nearest big city to live, and where I club. See how I am F2F. Test your theory. I'll even give you several hundred to test your organization's theory with the women of New England. If you can swing an FRMOS, I'll get it notarized.
We know that won't happen, because you know I'm right. Library closes in a few minutes. Get your last retort in with a threat you'll never fulfill.