Forum Post: Bleak Future Prospects for the 99
Posted 11 years ago on April 12, 2013, 6:36 p.m. EST by elf3
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The economy is in a bubble - it will not last and all those hard working souls out there are going to feel it worse that the CEO with his diversified investments in different currencies. But you dear reader will be stuffed fucked and hung on the wall as a sort of trophy to the man in his Wall Street suit to the Wal-MArt family, to the Bankster CEO's to the SENATORS and JUDGES who had their money on the inside track, to Ben Bernanke sipping martinis in New Zealand or on some beach laughing as we all struggle to eat. There is no future for we the working people, there is only work: work harder faster longer for less - your life isn't for you - it's to make someone else rich. You are a cog that turns the wheel - that's it. You are debt, you are a chess board, you are a monopoly piece, you are a social security number and a credit score, and a tax base. You are a worker bee. And anything you think you have is artificial. And in the end just like we could not all believe we were giving our hard earned money to corporate America, or that war lasted as long as it is, or that Katrina victims were left out in the cold by our 'artificial' saviors we will be equally as stumped when the bottom falls out of the economy and our government ensures the wealthy are on the lifeboat first while we all freeze solid and sink to the bottom. Watch it happen... fail to get out there on the street and get this thing done, and you'll be stumped at yourself for wondering how you could have stood by and allowed this to happen.
Make them feel the heat. Do something today to make them feel the heat. Everyday we signal our cooperation in a Thousand Ways called Socialization.
I got a call from a marketing company today wanting me to take a survery. I live way out in the middle of nowhere, and I got a call from a fucking marketing company. I said to the nice lady that marketing companies can go fuck themselves. We are too compliant, everyday in every way.
It is the little things that signal compliance. It is the ways we keep giving to those who take and never give in return - all of those who take and never give! You know who I mean - all the selfish little asshole takers in life!
Just Stop Giving, in every way you can. Make them feel the heat. If they expect free care-giving without so much as a "thank you," tell them to fuck themselves, if they like to lord it over on you 'cause they inherited money, or screwed everybody to give it to them, they can fuck themselves. If they bully their family to give, give, give, with nothing in return, tell them to fuck themselves, if they work for a corporation then they are responsible, and they need to feel the heat! Tell them to fuck themselves! Non cooperation is a state of mind, and it's contageous! It starts right here, right now. Tell them to fuck themselves.
It's All about givers and takers baby, and if the givers stop giving then the takers are fucked!
People, quit waving the flag, and think about your situation. Think about the situation your kids will be in. And, do something about it before it's too late.
The 'flag' has just become a symbol of blind patriotism to me
I do wish that weren't so though
~Odin~
True as long as Americans fail to define constitutional intent. By defining constitutional intent at an Article V convention, American citizens become "the rightful masters of the congress and the courts" (Lincoln 1859).
To define constitutional intent requires freedom of speech which is robust. To get that, amendment of the constitution is required. To have limited amendments as an agreed, limited group, each lending to the nations preparations for ART5, the abridging of free speech can be ended, Americans can define constitutional intent AND KNOW IT, then proceed to complete preparations, lastly continue to a general convention completely informed.
From a link Shadz posted;
Fascism, anyone?
A look at former fascist regimes in many different countries and ethnicities reveals 14 common themes. Are we there yet?
Wow, it's amazing, isn't it?
~Odin~
Terminology seems to be the only thing separating us from reality, Odin.
Sadly I know Builder. If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and walks like a duck, it's a duck.
~Odin~
Looking back, it's probably close to a decade that I've been warning American friends on blogs and BB's and forums about the coming of fascism.
It's no consolation that I've been proven correct.
Was just saying to GSW that we (as in #ows) need to coordinate and push our own agenda, and be just as relentless and steadfast as the opposition.
It's all we've got, really.
I'm heading off to the Kimberley for a couple of months. Leaving the puter behind. Gonna get my head around a few issues, and this will be one of them.
How do we get this message out there, without getting the tinfoil hat / thruther / conspiracy nutter shite thrown in the mix.
It's good to get away for a while and think, and the Kimberlys should be a great place to do it
You were warning people about facism ten years a ago? You were far ahead of me
PERSEVERANCE will have to be the key for us
Getting our message out to a bigger audience is important, but we cannot discount outreach in our everyday lives too, and in social media as there the power of exponential growth comes into play
I run into so many people who know things are fucked up, but feel helpless to do anything about it, or just blame the dems or repubs for it
~Odin~
Yes, I introduced Shadz's fascism list to some American friends this morning, and they're still locked into the blame game.
Perseverence is the key. If at first you don't succeed, buy the whole company. Oh, hang on, wrong text book.
On my cell now. People's lack of awareness, or their servility in taking what is dished out to them can be really frustrating. All we can do is hone out outreach skills and support and build on our successes
Odin
Okay, the suspense is killing me.
What's #14?
Oh, I missed one?
That's number 13, ya wildman!
"I'll have what he's havin'."
heheheh
One was missing from the middle
Okay, that's more like it. ;-)
And on a more serious note, every one seems to have become a reality here.
We're talking about the use and abuse of words on another thread somewhere here. The old story of the frogs in a pot of boiling water comes to mind.
Fascism is the new democracy, it would appear.
Vote for the lesser of two evils.
Banks need your money, so we have to give it to them.
Healthcare will be universal. If you can afford it.
No child left behind. But their schools will be closed.
It's a comedy of errors, if it wasn't real life.
I was just on that thread talking about the abuse of words. Good quote from Confucius, by the way.
And, yep, it's a comedy of errors, all right. It'd be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
The real tragedy is that we are conditioned to believe that someone else is responsible for our fate.
Well, depending on individual circumstances, sometimes it's true. A lot depends on one's options.
I'm seeing it with people I've known all my life.
A kind of listlessness, almost defeatist, or profound negativity.
It troubles me. I've not escaped totally from the web of deceit, but I'm certainly more aware of the little things that I do, that are directly attributable to the way I was educated, and "primed" for life as a middle-class artisan and builder.
It's when you buck the system that you realise how other people have been conditioned (brainwashed) into their mindsets, probably without a thought to how it happened to them.
The "system" is not inherently evil. But it clearly is a system that is designed to allow a select few a life of total luxury, while the rest of us fight tooth and nail to climb the shortest of ladders the architects of our misery could imagine, while still allowing us a hope of climbing.
This worries me.
I think a lot of people can't take the overload. The sheer volume of shit that people are getting hammered with nowadays from all directions is too much for some of them to handle.
And you have a good reason to be worried, about society in general anyway. It seems you have the skills to take care of yourself if SHTF.
Thanks. I do get paranoid though.
That was a very heart-felt comment builder which saddens me, and as you can probably imagine most of us here feel the same
~Odin~
We need to break the chains, Odin.
The Matrix was closer to the truth than I could get.
A prison has been made of our minds.
Thanks, I'll check it out
Anyone who is a critical thinker as you are is well on the way to being "de-programmed"
Odin
We definitely are conditioned into obedience and submission
I missed the Matrix tho
~Odin~
We need to deprogram, I guess.
Free our minds. (more matrix one-liners)
The first movie was really good.
Here's the link, if you've got the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8k9EJxrplM
HMMMMM, I'll copy the lot again then.
indeed the situation is dire but i feel no need to take any particular action at this time. i know the end game. i also know people are too busy or lazy with their own shit till something seems like it is going to directly affect them in a meaningful way for them to react. so here we sit i watch them watching me watch them try to position themselves into their desired position. not that it matters particularly cause i know the end game. now once the ball starts rolling on that, well then all bets are off.
CHRIST!. Do you liberals EVER quit whining? Nothing but a group of shrieking little bitches, blaming the world for all their troubles. Demanding Government make it right. and just give them more FREE stuff.
Government is the problem - corporate America and Congress have mergered. You call protest whining because the corporate propagandists have paid good sums of money to label protest a dirty word. In my opinion labeling protest a dirty word is to label democracy a dirty word. We see this done in fascist and Communistic regimes where protesters are shot dead and jailed and taught to keep their mouths shut - here in America we all serve the greater good of the monopolies who have infiltrated our government and taken over our democratic process as well as our airways and media. Free stuff? I'm confused, Didn't I pay to have a library, didn't I pay to take care of the elderly, didn't I pay to see that no one would starve on the street before me? You prefer to pay for war so your 401k will go up and your diversified funds that are invested in corporations that pay Congress for a big fat contract will pay you a return - ? So then don't I pay you too? That doesn't sound free to me either but you never want to talk about that end of it...do you? My personal investment / debt for your windfall gain? We pay taxes too (probably more than the wealthy) though the propagandists would have you believe the highest tax base in the nation - the middle class - doesn't pay a dime that somehow they have escaped the IRS... unlike you, with all your write offs - see middle class people can't afford accountants and there aren't many loopholes written into the tax law for them. Maybe we prefer our money going to feed the elderly and house homeless children before we pour it into Exon mobile subsidies or banker CEO's pockets. Since the middle class do, in fact pay the most, perhaps they should have a say in where it goes. Perhaps they should protest if the corporate government boot licks refuse to carry out the will of the populous.
My husband put it best this weekend. "The more rich people you have in a country then the more poor there will be because in order for someone to become a millionaire they have to scrape from the middle class to get there. I would far rather see a country where everyone has enough to live a nice little life and spend time enjoying their families and a bit of time to do the things they enjoy. I don't want to see people clamoring to work 80 hours a week to hang on barely surviving...while others sit around and collect on a lazy investment that requires little brain power, and little effort become millionaires on the backs and labor of those who work. It just seems that what made America great was not that you'd become some boomingly rich aristocrat, but that we could all partake a bit of the American dream having enough to keep us comfortable and not dripping in riches; And that no matter were we start, we can all have the mobility to arrive at a level of decency and dignity."
So if you call Democracy "whining" then I say whine louder and louder until their ears bleed and if that doesn't work - then scream... and if you still refuse to hear us - Revolution!!!! - it all begins when the elite ignores and trivializes the plight of the underclass by calling them "whiners" - we shall see who is whining in the end - we're not demanding government make it right - we would never dream that people involved in the situation are going to suddenly reverse themselves.. we have to force them - demand democracy... in any democracy where you are no longer permitted to protest, if you don't rebel, if you don't whine (where you are simply giving up freedom so you don't appear "negative") then the propaganda and those seeking to take away freedom - have won. They have kept you in line. We are not taking away "their stuff" our taxes paid for all this stuff, our taxes pay for quite a lot of elite corporate "stuff" as well. We are demanding our "stuff" back - the share the corporate and government elites stole and continue to steal, to steal from the common good, and put into private coffers of their own wealth and private personal gain. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY: we are WHINING about the fact that they have used our own money to bribe our government to fix the markets and laws on their own behalf to the detriment of an entire society for the gain of ONE PERCENT (Some of whom are not even headquartered in this nation - a corporation from India or China can lobby our own politicians and pay them off). We are told to worship corporate America as job creators - North Koreans are told their leaders are looking out in their best interest too - and if they want to whine about that there are plenty of work camps where they can go and starve. "You see, it could always be worse, so stop bitching and enjoy what you have peons...the government didn't create your troubles, nor did corporate America oh no wasn't us that sent all your jobs to China and brought down the whole economy, flattening wages, and putting up barriers to become your own boss or an entrepreneur, giving employees no rights or power to negotiate their conditions, nor livable wage that would allow a nest egg or savings or investment...you just keep turning that cog and be grateful for what you have, you could manufacture using slave labor too, it's not our fault the banks won't lend you the money to take advantage of some slave labor or to become a rich slumlord - you just didn't have the fortitude like we do, you just need to work harder and faster and longer and one day, you can try to compete against us while we drown you out with red tape and rental rape, and the power of our combined conglomerated wealth and purchasing power - haa haah haah haa."
Corporate America has bribed Congress to fix the markets to the benefit of one percent of society and we are scared of being called whiners? Yeah that's going to stifle this REBELLION.
some are being paid to whine, others have volunteered to do it. doesnt matter,. all are being used and in the end will thrown away.