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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instea
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“People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.”
~ Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy aka Leo Tolstoy
~…
4 commentslast: 3 yrs ago(san_jose_guy)
Politics
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities int
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The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital.
The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the…
18 commentslast: 3 yrs ago(san_jose_guy)
Politics
How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock,
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How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a…
8 commentslast: 3 yrs ago(san_jose_guy)
Front Room
No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you trea
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No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.
7 commentslast: 3 yrs ago(san_jose_guy)
Politics
“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to t
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“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
~ Heinrich Karl Bukowski
~ German-American writer
~ Born August 16, 1920 Andernach, Prussia, Germany
Died March 9, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Politics
When the rich rob the poor it's called business. When the poor fight back it's c
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When the rich rob the poor it's called business.
When the poor fight back it's called violence.
~ Mark Twain
45 commentslast: 3 yrs ago(gobstopper007)
Politics
"The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the o
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"The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed."
~ Simone de Beauvoir aka Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
~ Born 9 January 1908 Paris, France
~ Died 14 April…
7 commentslast: 3 yrs ago(CJKent_band)
Politics
Will the Pope revoke the 15th-century ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ used to justify “c
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Will the Pope revoke the 15th-century ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ used to justify “colonizing” and the genocide of Indigenous peoples all over the world?
21 commentslast: 3 yrs ago(CJKent_band)
Politics
It is rotten and dismal that a world of so many hundred million people should be
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“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…
94 commentslast: 3 yrs ago(Tetradon)
Politics
In the USA; to be male, poor, and either African-American or Native-American is
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In the USA; to be male, poor, and either African-American or Native-American is to confront, on a daily basis, a deeply held racism that exists in every social institution, since the beginning of the Nation.
38 commentslast: 3 yrs ago(skibum609)
Politics
"Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral
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"Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions."
~ Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy aka Leo Tolstoy
~ Born 9 September 1828 Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire
~ Died 20 November 1910 Astapovo,…
