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yoyossarian

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3. Very astute.
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 01:56 AM
Oct 2013

There is a certain element of humor to the post... tho I think it's a valid point I'm making, that the very powerful are NOW so EXTREMELY removed from the mass of humanity that they treat most of us the way chickens get treated in a poultry factory... that indeed, the barbaric slave masters of the past were not NEARLY as cold and heartless and dispassionately cruel as these new masters are.
We see this in the cuts to food for children going on now. Hell, they don't even want to feed or house people anymore. They just want to use you til' you're dead.
The old masters were total assholes. Racism is idiocy, and slavery is insane.
But at least they weren't a bunch of totally power-mad narcissistic psychopaths bent on slowly but surely making ALL of society their slaves, like this new bunch.
And that seemed to me a comparison worth making.

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You’re kidding, right? Eom. 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2013 #1
Very astute. yoyossarian Oct 2013 #3
Well ... 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2013 #4
Hah! Interesting point. DireStrike Oct 2013 #6
Your final lines miss the point of my post... yoyossarian Oct 2013 #8
Oh man... That's um... something. penultimate Oct 2013 #2
You have to understand: they mean it's as bad as ENDING slavery. nt bemildred Oct 2013 #5
Here is the context (video) BumRushDaShow Oct 2013 #7
Thank you for providing this! yoyossarian Oct 2013 #9
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