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In reply to the discussion: We are in a war for our lives. The war is between the 1% elite and the 99%. You are hopelessly [View all]woo me with science
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These corporatists are just getting started here. But they have already impoverished and killed masses of human beings all over the world, for profit. We are not special to them.
Under corporate rule, this government is already assaulting us and thumbing its nose at us, over and over and over again...and they are just starting here. Vast majorities of Americans want to protect SS and Medicare. Both parties want to cut them. Americans overwhelmingly oppose austerity. Both parties shove it down our throats. Americans want to scale back military involvement. Our government bangs the drums on Syria and Iran and starts proxy drone wars all over the Middle East. Virtually nothing coming out of this government bears any resemblance whatsoever to what the people have said we want and need, for quite some time now.
Secret trade deals. "Supercommittees." Fake crises. Closed door deals. Attacks on whistleblowers. Attacks on the free press that is supposed to be our primary check against government abuse. Attacks on peaceful protesters. Dismantling of the Constitution. All under a common theme of profit for corporations.
And now a surveillance infrastructure whose capabilities dwarf that of any totalitarian state in history.
This may be our last chance to save ourselves. Thank you, Edward Snowden. Keep in mind that states that build surveillance infrastructures also build propaganda infrastructures. We will hear incessant reassurance that everything is all right.
It isn't.
This may be our last chance.