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TomDaisy

(1,828 posts)
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 07:25 PM Sep 2021

A war is not coming. It is here. It is here now.

The billionaires and the fascists are making their move and they do not intend to lose. They intend to destroy us.

Read the beginning of the The Testaments by Margaret Atwood which I think pretty much describes how they think it will go down.

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A war is not coming. It is here. It is here now. (Original Post) TomDaisy Sep 2021 OP
+1 myohmy2 Sep 2021 #1
The billionaires think they can control the fascists. Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2021 #2
Once upon a time the billionaires of that time thought they were in charge pulling the strings... Dakota Flint Sep 2021 #5
In a different time in another country Dakota Flint Sep 2021 #9
"The More's and The Have More's"? czarjak Sep 2021 #3
"The empire never ended" ymetca Sep 2021 #4
American was not won BidenRocks Sep 2021 #6
The billionaires won when Reagan was elected FakeNoose Sep 2021 #7
👍 Joinfortmill Sep 2021 #8

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,271 posts)
2. The billionaires think they can control the fascists.
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 08:07 PM
Sep 2021

They think they can use the fascists for tax cuts and less regulation and things won’t go too far.

 

Dakota Flint

(219 posts)
5. Once upon a time the billionaires of that time thought they were in charge pulling the strings...
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 09:16 PM
Sep 2021

How wrong they were with Adolf Hitler. The cycle of history never ends apparently.

 

Dakota Flint

(219 posts)
9. In a different time in another country
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 01:06 AM
Sep 2021

They thought they could also control the strings of a fascist...Adolf Hitler. How wrong they were

ymetca

(1,182 posts)
4. "The empire never ended"
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 08:59 PM
Sep 2021

- Philip K. Dick

The concept of the modern nation/state was concocted as a conspiracy between the Royals and the wealthy merchant classes, unleashing an interminable series of turf wars that continues to this very day.

This is nothing new. Just the latest chapter in the ongoing "Fool's Journey" of the individual soul wrenching freedom and personal autonomy from the grips of the greedy and corrupt --i.e. the "Magicians".

Eons of individual want and deprivation are psychologically difficult genetic "imprints" to overcome. Humanity's "adolescent phase" appears to have started with the pyramid builders and currently is ending with, perhaps the billionaire rocketeers. A point of mass indulgence prior to starting to collectively begin "putting away childish things" (worshipping excess).

"Fire all of your guns at once | And explode into space" --Steppenwolf

Crowley termed this phase as "The New Aeon", or a sort of "Horus Child" era, with lots of "babies" exercising with enormous powers, but little control. "Chapel Perilous", as Robert Anton Wilson, and Timothy Leary suggested, in their book The Game of Life.

Hopefully, as many of us as possible will survive this anxious transformational "Dawn of the Anthropocene", and the emerging of the Noosphere, as Teilhard de Chardin, and others surmised --i.e. the dawning of planetary self-awareness.

Well, thinking this way gives me some hope.. and I'm not even stoned anymore! Thanks, Mr. Zappa!

BidenRocks

(813 posts)
6. American was not won
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 09:56 PM
Sep 2021

because we defended the airports!

Truth be told, We won by ambush tactics. Yep, we were snipers and hidden warriors.

It wasn't the big battles, but the constant harassment of the Redcoats.

I only have a pistol, but I also studied history!

This sucks!

FakeNoose

(32,328 posts)
7. The billionaires won when Reagan was elected
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 10:01 PM
Sep 2021

I hate to tell you. It all came together in 1980 - for them!

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