Zalatix
Zalatix's JournalSince Free Traders believe America should lower its standard of living to help the rest of the world
I guess you believe this kind of thing is necessary?
This is the end result of America losing its jobs to other countries. Face the results of your belief system. And don't even bother talking to me until you've communicated this necessary drop in our standard of living, to these 1.5 million homeless kids.
I know why GW Bush's waterboarding tactics aren't being pursued as war crimes.
Instead of waterboarding these people, now the Government sends drones to kill them. Democrats used to protest waterboarding. Now it seems they support using drones instead. How the hell did we get there?
The poor killing themselves - just what the Plutocrats want.
These suicides in Greece are bad enough in that people are killing themselves, but when you realize that this fulfills the power elite's desire to cull the 99%, it makes it even more nauseating.
At least in Tunisia it evolved into a revolution.
When do we see a revolution in Greece?
What's the difference between Anwar al-Awlaki and Jane Fonda?
Anwar al-Awlaki was accused of training terrorists to attack America. But that's about the only difference. Both of them are/were U.S. Citizens. Both of them were accused of spreading anti-American propaganda overseas. Both of them were unarmed. Both were accused of being a danger to US troops. Neither were convicted of the crimes they were accused of.
What would stop a Republican successor to President Obama from sending a combat drone to kill the next Jane Fonda... abroad or in America?
Women of America have you sent your thank-you letter to the GOP today?
You owe the GOP a great deal and a simple thank-you note would be just the start of recognizing their contribution to your standard of living.
(That's because the GOP have jolted many women into putting down the GOP Kool-Aid and voting Democratic, thus defending their standard of living... in case no one gets the punch line! )
H1bs? Perhaps we should engage in a HUGE letter-writing campaign to President Obama
over the latest effort to discriminate against American workers.
Will he listen?
Yes, white men are being oppressed.
So are black men, gays, white women, straight people, black women, religious folks, Hispanic men and women, atheists... in fact, all of America's working class, 99% of our population, is being oppressed.
How? We're all being turned against each other. We fight amongst ourselves while the Plutocrats laugh at us and tell us "get a job!!!" even though the jobs don't even exist. They breathe a sigh of relief when a Greek man shoots himself instead of a Plutocrat. They even go so far as to rip off police pensions while they send them out to fight protesters who represent the 99%. The Plutocracy has got Hispanics killing blacks in Los Angeles, black voters turning on Hispanics in Georgia, Christians obsessing over atheists and gays, they've got women threatening to withhold sex from men over what a handful of rich fucks did to women, men calling women sluts for using birth control, low paid overworked Americans hating on union workers, straight people freaking out over gay marriages that don't affect their lives at all...
Think of all the battles that are being fought between all these different groups. If they all win their crusades, they STILL LOSE, because the Plutocrats have succeeded in keeping them divided against each other. The worn out victors will find themselves without health care, livable wage jobs, social safety nets or even, finally once all the jobs have been automated or shipped out of America, access to the bare necessities for survival. You'll win your little factional conflict only to find yourself starving and when you finally decide to fight back they'll send in the drones and finish you off for good.
Or you could ditch all this bullshit and realize it's the Plutocrats who started this shit and unite against them.
That means stop caring about gays and lesbians because their lifestyle will never infect you. Stop hating on Mormons. Atheism is not contagious. And like the aforementioned groups, Christianity is not the problem - duped fools who serve the Plutocracy's policy of division, however, are. Different racial groups need to recognize their common ground in their pursuit of economic justice for all. Christians need to remember what Jesus said about greed and poverty. Men and women need to stop knocking heads over who is the most oppressed and realize that the logic behind unequal pay for equal work is a two-edged sword that can be used to impoverish either gender. Women get the lower-paying jobs one day because of sexism, but the next day men are swept out of employment in droves because of mass redundancy. Then the next day Government cuts throw women out of work, too. See how that goes? Both sides lost out because you didn't see the big picture... the Plutocrats have you at war with each other and in the end they screwed you both. Non-union workers strive to destroy unions and union workers harass people who cross picket lines to their favorite store... in the end the unions get destroyed and the non-union workers get to work overtime for free, or they get unpaid internships instead of paid work. American citizens battle illegal aliens and fight to get them out of farm work, so the illegals leave - but the farm corporations refuse to make farm work safer, so what few Americans who do take those jobs, face a greater risk of dying; when what should have happened is American workers joined with the migrant farm workers and haul the farmers out and whip their asses in court and in Congress over their shit wages and deadly working conditions.
So we get back to the age-oldest question: how in the world do we get all these different groups to realize that working together is better than waging war against each other?
I had to post this because I JUST learned... this is the ultimate lesson of the Hunger Games. Why fight each other for the Plutocracy's benefit when we could be fighting them?
Edited to add: No, the oppression is not equally shared between the races and genders, etc. White Christian men are not as discriminated upon as other groups. But that's the whole point - when you are dividing and conquering a populace favoring one group over another is inherent in your strategy. Plutocrats in the West are mainly White Christian Men so that's who they favor. But when they decide to cash out, 99% of White Christian Men will get flushed down the toilet along with everyone else. We're all in the same boat.
President Obama hinted as much in his speech on race: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-race-speech-read-th_n_92077.html
So, fans of free trade, how does shipping jobs out of America create jobs for America?
And how are you supposed to pay for cheap Chinese goods on $0 an hour?
Wait, let me guess, they should just live on the dole until, somewhere over the rainbow, a flood of low paying jobs comes to their rescue?
Just a few more questions you should ask your friends who support free trade.
Here's another issue for the racists of America to tell us to STFU about
America's missing black girls. There's a lot of them and they're getting NO coverage in the mainstream "liberal" media:
http://madamenoire.com/79158/no-one-misses-the-missing-black-girls/#
I remember the headline on MSNBCs homepage when I opened my web browser yesterday morning: Baby Lisas mom: I was drunk when she vanished. The article told the story of Lisa Irwin, the white Kansas City mother of a 10-month-old baby who went missing on Oct. 4.
Then today, as I casually searched for news on black women, I just happened to come across a couple of articles about two black girls who are missing. The pieces were small, ran on local news sites, black websites, or blogs. There has been no national attention, nothing that would make you stop and pay attention to these stories, or more importantly to one of these girls if you happened to come across them, because in all likelihood you probably wouldnt even know they are missing.
Since racists are tired of Trayvon Martin: How about Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos?
I haven't seen this mentioned on the DU...
http://tylerperry.com/messages/trayvon-martin/
And in another case that I have been screaming at the top of my lungs about, also in Florida, is the case of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos, a young black man and a young Mexican man. Eight years ago, in Naples, FL, they were both put in the back of Deputy Steve Calkins' police car and never heard from again.
They were never arrested, never brought to jail. They were put into the back of Deputy Calkins' car and never heard from again. And to this day Deputy Steve Calkins is a free man.
I guess it's time to march in Naples now.
RACIAL PROFILING SHOULD BE A HATE CRIME INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI!!!
That way local government cant make the decision on whether or not these people get punished.
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