11 Replies to “Pick A Side”

  1. I’m reading One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb. She lays out the connection between organized crime and the government over the last century. Fascinating book.

    One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1 https://a.co/d/8wV1W0E

  2. Today the US military has recruitment issues.
    This is not caused by the embrace of homosexuality, the misguided use of women in combat roles, or the alarming uptake of all woke ideology. It is caused by the increasing obviousness of our disingenuous foreign policy, the shortcomings of the Veterans Administration exhibited by the constant demoralizing visual reminders of disabled veteran NGOs, and the very real doubt that America, as they know it, is worth dying for.
    In the current environment young people won’t “pick a side”; they’ll just choose not to play. “Making America great again”, despite all the good work of the Trump administration, has fallen short because it is, after all, just a platitude short enduring evidence. The swamp was never drained and in a very real way this is misguided metaphor. The swamp needs to be dried. Tributaries, (contributors) need to be routed.
    To that, and Mr. Oliver’s point, I offer that the real issue is corporatism and its worst form, clearly evident today, absolute corporatism (read corporate fascism).
    When elected officials become elected based on the comparative effectiveness of their campaigns (read corporately controlled propaganda) and cannot be effectively called out or held responsible for their deceptions because of corporate controlled media and judiciaries the people have no real representation.
    In recent decisions of the supreme court, based in part on long standing fallacy, we see that corporations are granted all the rights intended for individuals effectively allowing them to contribute to campaigns, disseminate propaganda, and offer endorsements. This series of misguided rulings allows the corporation to usurp the voices of the individuals within via the fruits of their own labor and further sensor their dissent as well as removing any external dissenting speech from their platforms. In short, everything goes their way.
    Giving the rights of an individual to a giant industrial military complex, big media, big pharma, and big tech renders real individuals speechless figuratively, literally, and terminally.
    Corporations are not people, I pick that side.

    https://www.alternet.org/2014/07/10-supreme-court-rulings-turned-corporations-people

    1. Want to know what conservaderps will believe/say in 20 years? Just listen to what leftists say/believe today.

      “Corporations are not people”

      But they are made of people, and have the same rights as any other organization of people.

  3. As Michael Corleone struggled to make the family business legit, the government found it much easier and lucrative to become criminal.

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