SoylentBlake @ SoylentBlake @lemm.ee

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I likes you. Imma read them books now. Thank you for the recommendations.

If someone has the financial means to assert themselves or their rights, then they are obstacles to the oligarchies goal of enshrining their wealth and having the government, that we pay for - they don't pay taxes, protect their wealth for them, from us. Why else usurp regulatory control?

We pay for our own oppression then. This is, no hyperbole, the face of Slavery, Inc. and the 100% guarenteed, as immoral as inevitable, end of corporatocracy (late stage capitalism). Correcting course won't be easy, how to won't be shared thru media, and the doing so absolutely will not be legal. But what choice are we left with? Live on your knees or die on your feet?

Your point is valid.

Mussolini described fascism as the merger of the corporation and the state, his entire cabinet was staffed with the heads of industry no less.

Now, a technocracy, where the smartest people, the experts, have the seats of power sounds...logical. Assuming the CEOs, whose only skill is having access to capital (kowtowing with the rich, its about who you know, etc) are the experts is exactly what the media sells us everyday and as the only thing Elon Musk has genuinely done on his own is show us that, boy oh boy, we do NOT live in a meritocracy. And he bought his way into that one as well, staying true to character.

Corporations are an accountability shield that enable atrocity. It used to be that it took religion to convince man to compromise his moral self and commit evil (...look at Israel right now). In the modern world we have streamlined the process, no faith required. Giving the morally jettisoned power is such a horrible horrible idea.

If Trump wins, not only will we all face down his fascist regime (Immigration and Border Patrol brown shirted) but I worry the solidifying of corporate statemanship into the permanently entrenched (our own taxes fund our oppression) would mean reform, thru voting or any other peaceful means, rendered impossible.

I consider that likelihood at 100%. The same as declaring war on the cartels, under public safety over fent, to climatize people to the military operating in our borders, before they're ordered to illegally act against us. That probability, mark my words, 100%

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine. Gawd.

I'm with you. If the RNC blows it's load on the main attraction then there's nothing left to help anyone down ticket.

I'm here, what'd I miss?

We all knew that was part of the endgame, c'mon now. This will probably only surprise them, since, y'know, they don't know anyone who's ever served before.

What you say...and your conclusion

Do not meet in reality.

Biden has moved the Dems left. He's more left than Clinton or Obama were. He walked a picket line for fucks sake, first president ever.

Does he have more room on the left to move too? Shit, he's got as far as the eye can see, but hes panned further left than he even campaigned on. Saying otherwise is disingenuous, so much so, that I don't think you voted for him at all.

To my knowledge, New York can seize assets in NY and lien everything else.

I could be wrong tho.

CNN cut Bernie off at a rally to show 45min of an empty podium, until Trump started. Trump was on time btw, CNN just thought an empty podium was better for democracy than Bernie's campaign.

I haven't watched, or clicked on anything CNN since. I hope their pundits and their CSuite all end up homeless.

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

• Hank the-one-man-think-tank Thoreau

They'll have just invested in the newly expanded private prison system then.

Things gonna be a money maker, all that free labor...and if you refuse to work they tack on YEARS extra.

Man that's gonna make for some spicy prison riots.

Sanders would've beat Trump in 2016, could've done it in 2020 and could do it now.

He's the most liked politician in America, respected across the aisle, and gets standing ovation from Fox News Town Halls, because even if they disagree with his ideas, even your rank and file Republican can see he means well and is genuine.

2016 Bernie got sandbagged. Elites thought Status Quo would stem off populist rage, never looking at any cause of why there's so much populism on all sides. It must be the candidates right? Its definitely not that 80% of the country still hasn't bounced back from 2008, the news lies to us everyday and half the populace wants to fix it (left, which is in reality, center right) and the other half are a mix of accelerationists whive lost faith in change (justifiably) and want it to all burn down and opportunists (neo-nazi's, fascists, and authoritarian theocrats - one big group that collectively, to the shame of their mothers, needs to learn to mind their own fucking business and stop trying to tell people what to do). 2020 was performance for Bidens cabinet from the start, it was suuuuuper obvious by the media's handling he came pre coronated. I say this as someone who likes Biden. He's been a stand-up family man his whole life and he's pivoted away from corporate interests towards the people's, not as much as I'd like, and it's about 40 years late, but I like that it's happening.

I wouldn't mind Shawn Fein for 2028, especially if he pulls off a general strike on mayday, mid campaign. He'd be a fucking LEGEND then.

The DNC, liberals, have got to look around and realize that the status quo is a tough pull to swallow. Both sides of the aisle HATE corporations, those in the center work for them and politicains on both sides are bought and paid for by them. The dip shits who make up the WEF, who think we'll all be happy not owning anything, from the outside, seem to want to incite a real life purge. I don't think they actually mean too, I think they're too far removed from normality, that they think they're better and smarter than us rubes, and that if violence broke out, they'd survive it.....in a country with more bullets than IVs, and full of veterans who watched their friends die for rich greed. I think the rich are preeeeetty fucking detached from how precarious their situation is. Jamie Dixon and Larry Fink have both been squawking, on record, that profits before people isn't working and the business class needs to pivot, but it doesn't seem like many are listening.

He was too good for this world, and we are all lesser for his absence.

Them guys and their final solutions, amirite?

Oh. And I am. Right, that is

By summery judgement no less, cuz these guys are most definitely NOT right

Exactly. There's no way either A. Texas secedes handing Democrats an insurmountable lead in all federal elections or 2. Texas secedes and every other red state, knowing they'd be forever in the minority, secedes with them. USA laughs. Confederates said fight wasn't fair after artillery shelled their positions from 900 miles away. "But mah shotgun.."

Cuz legally "compact" isn't a thing and they know it, their language is intentional. If it was a real judicial thing you bet yr ass they'd be calling it that. This is all smoke and whistles. Testing the Overton window with pre-secessionist speak.

I am not against taxation. Tho, I am against taxation when my government doesn't represent me; and until I see studies, and enacted legislation that show public support influences policy than I will continue my position that our government has been coopted by an unfriendly occupying force. It's as if at the macro level, we're quartering the soldiers of our own oppression.

I hate throwing good money after bad, absolutely. And where do you live that spends money on their roads? Firefighters are famously and shamefully volunteer services and health care..that's an institutionalized shell game to grift your life saving away from you. You didn't think they'd let you keep that did you? Back to work, prole.

It helps when you acknowledge that the 3.7% tells us nothing.

The government changed the way unemployment is calculated in 1994, so it doesn't count full time seeking people out of work for more than 3 months - the 'chronically' dispossessed. They put the onus on the individual, absolving their system of any defect. "Clearly" they aren't applying enough or trying hard enough, otherwise they wouldn't be unemployed

Do you ever get the feeling that these definitions are written by people whove never experienced what they're defining? Some admins child/nephew/hush money babysitter dropped into a government stipend, by right of birth, or access to those with capital.

Unfortunately when the data gets crunched the old fashioned way, real unemployment is hovering around 24.6%

Which is much more likely, imo, as inflation has made large swathes of lower pay work unteneble for anyone not hyperlocal. Pair this with the pandemic training on financial subsistence living, of those who are sidestepping the system.

We live in an era of income inequality greater than at any other known in modern western history. It was easier to buy a house during the great depression. One set of facts seems in line with that, and one doesn't. I wonder why that would be..

Don't stress over debt to a faceless entity. Stress causes your body to age double time. Does that payment of double time lower you interest rate? Cut into your balance? No? Then stop spending currency they aren't taking.

Imo if they have no face, they're just make believe anyway. I could care about credit, but I don't think credit will still be around in 7 years, not in any way that would be meaningful to me at least.

I did what both y'all did. I got some undeveloped and bought a van. I buy tools and equipment used and fix it when it breaks. Or if I need or want something else, I make it myself.

I want a tattoo (one of the easier things one could want actually)? I make a tattoo gun, collect some lampblack and mix it into tincture and get going. If you don't know how to do any of that, you are aware of what you are holding in your hands, right?

Buying off Craigslist or marketplace means I pay as little to tax as humanly possible. Starve the beast. Grow your own food. You CAN still grow some spice walls and put em up behind yr windows. Fucking herbs cost a pretty penny. Do all the repairs on your van yourself. The learning is the point, not some resale value (which, if you've learnt well on good enough would prob increase). Self reliance today is rebellion. Independence in punk rock. Gardening is punk rock.

Besides stealth camping that van, you can always park on BLM land or off the side of the road in a national forest, just so you know you have that option. I've found stealth camping is easier street parking suburbia then attempting a business lot. You know your town so you make that call urself. But if the sheriff ges real harrass-y, just haul yr ass-y to Sherwood.

Life adrift in a van is an acquired skill all its own, and let me tell those of ya that don't know, those vanlife influencers on YouTube and tiktok? Yea almost all of them come from money. They've never known a day of actual financial distress in their lives. They can't. If you're able to make a call and get help from family, you don't know life on the outs. Pretending like they built their van off their wage as an orderly is so shameful, we all essentially have a free pot shot to their chin. "Slumming" with the poors for credibility. It's fucking stolen valor, is what it is. They should try stealing some valor in the military, see what that gets em.

It's impossible for a wealthy person to make quality art. Impossible. They are no longer relatable, and no matter how much Tay Tay or Selena might act "Normal", they aren't. They have teams if people who make their decisions for them. Decisions that are focused grouped on how relatable they are. Gross.

Keep on keeping on, my fellows, and for whatever it's worth, their definition of a good life doesn't leave them fulfilled, wise or happy, so what good does holding ourselves to their, basically lazy, measure do us?

Fuck em.

Fact. The body only has objective on the day; survive. Everything else is what we add on top of our imperitive.

You woke up. You started your day as a winner. That's been gifted to you, and unfortunately some people go out of their way to make you forget, and after enough abuse, sometimes we just do that part for them, for efficiencies sake.

In the end, entropies always going to win. If nothing else, I'll keep winning as long as I can, and do my part in our collective chorus "Not today, Entropy, not today".

If I could not be me, then I would be Diogenes. All y'all can get out of my sun.