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Egalitarian Thug

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10. K&R Not just the jobs but the helpless hopelessness and dissatisfaction their loss brings.

Reply to Javaman (Original post)

Wed May 29, 2013, 02:15 PM

May 2013

The inhuman system that threatens deprivation for any that resist or refuse to conform.

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The corporate epidemic and meth. [View all] Javaman May 2013 OP

When platitudes and Newest Reality May 2013 #1

Very interesting and informative! Thanks!!! n/t RKP5637 May 2013 #2

"over the past few years, the major meth labs have been broken up" KamaAina May 2013 #3

Here in Texas at least, people need a script for it. Javaman May 2013 #5

I'd heard there was a way to make the product nearly impossible to use in a meth lab KamaAina May 2013 #8

you don't need a script for it in Texas arely staircase May 2013 #31

I needed a script for it when I got it last year. Javaman May 2013 #32

maybe it has changed but i have a friend who made a very arely staircase May 2013 #33

Dang, that's rough. Javaman May 2013 #34

22 months arely staircase May 2013 #35

more business for the prison industrial complex phantom power May 2013 #4

Yup. It's all connected. nt Javaman May 2013 #6

+1 freshwest May 2013 #7

kr. it's been my belief for a while that areas of high unemployment are deliberately HiPointDem May 2013 #9

Yeah, she's Tom Arnolds half sister. nt Javaman May 2013 #20

interesting. i looked up the book & found you can read excerpts online. hells angels/california HiPointDem May 2013 #21

K&R Not just the jobs but the helpless hopelessness and dissatisfaction their loss brings. Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #10

The USA oligarchs have moved on from havesting forests... hunter May 2013 #11

They maintain a well diversified portfolio of exploitation. Half-Century Man May 2013 #14

Great book. I read it awhile ago. Highly recommend. My home state of Montana was hit hard by meth LiberalLoner May 2013 #12

Legally, what is the standard.. Half-Century Man May 2013 #16

Great post! SalviaBlue May 2013 #13

Excellent post! JNelson6563 May 2013 #15

Another region that has been hit is one that never had the infrastructure you mentioned loyalsister May 2013 #17

'ghettoization'. it's not just for the inner cities anymore. HiPointDem May 2013 #18

It never was loyalsister May 2013 #24

a bit different. small-scale moonshining always existed in backwoods locales, for local use, & HiPointDem May 2013 #25

My bootlegger great grandfather died in prison loyalsister May 2013 #26

and in what year was he imprisoned? HiPointDem May 2013 #28

Sometime during the Depression loyalsister May 2013 #29

precisely. HiPointDem May 2013 #30

k&r Starry Messenger May 2013 #19

Support your local Los Pollos Hermanos. Initech May 2013 #22

1 Helpful factor in those hard-hit places could be cannabis legalization nikto May 2013 #23

Your post also explains every inner-city, predominantly African American communities as well Yavin4 May 2013 #27