Tag: capitalism
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Provacateur’ing and a-riling
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Seasonal Reminder
Low-cost, cheap, poorly-made junk is made from fossil fuel products. Mostly, the manufacturing process includes the use of slavery. Workers around the world aren’t paid fair wages, and their quality of life is dismal. If these global free-trade agreements were not allowed in the first place, more local jobs would be available closer to home.…
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Hicks quote about tv
“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye” – Bill Hicks I’ll extend this thought to mean television programming. Networks have an interest in programming what you think – even beyond the obvious consumer objective. Sure they want you to buy those things, but moreover they want you to think you…
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War is obsolete
Syria.
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Syria today
Chemical attack. My heart goes out to the families of those 11 children who were lost and to everyone else who survived or had loved ones who perished in #Syria today. I feel like my anonymous white tax dollars have paid to make those rebels in one way or another. I am so ashamed, and…
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They
The “they” I imagine whenever I reference a “they” are usually the global financial and industrial elite. The (proven, actually real, completely true) capitalist oligarch families who have ruled in favour of profits over life for centuries. For example, western arms of colonial monarchies, the unfathomably rich families and all of the industrial ties in…