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raouldukelives

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15. If we support, work and invest more in them maybe we can change their ways?

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Original post)

Wed Sep 3, 2014, 11:36 AM

Sep 2014

I remember as a kid yuppies saying things like that. "Were gonna change it from within!" I kinda believed them. It seemed convincing to me at the time.
I remember watching Reagan and all the evil, old guys and thinking to myself "It is gonna be so great when they are all gone and we can start really fixing things! It is being changed from within!"
Then I start seeing a whole new group of evil, old guys. WTF? I feel like instead of changing it, they just expanded it. They were assimilated, as we are assimilated as our children will be even more so. We are what we work for.

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Militarizating US Police is NO accident: "I can hire half the working class to kill the other half" [View all] 99th_Monkey Sep 2014 OP

You bet it isn't. The Capitalists/Fascists know it's a fabulous tool Triana Sep 2014 #1

This is exactly what I've been preaching. Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #2

I drove around with that shit on my car trying to warn people during the first bushiter election. lonestarnot Sep 2014 #7

I remember a conversation from several years ago when people were wondering if our own soldiers sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #3

I think that Bob Altemeyer found 70% of 70s Canadian soldiers would illegally dissolve Parliament MisterP Sep 2014 #5

The police are ready just in case JEB Sep 2014 #4

There will not be a revolution of lower classes vs. the American Aristocrats. There will only rhett o rick Sep 2014 #6

I don't claim to foresee any future battles, but it's pretty clear what the poor are tolerating now. lonestarnot Sep 2014 #8

There have been a couple of minor skirmishes so far. rhett o rick Sep 2014 #11

Great Post! cer7711 Sep 2014 #9

This USED TO BE a nice country� more or less world wide wally Sep 2014 #10

No, not really. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2014 #12

I won''t argue that point, but I will add that everything is relative. world wide wally Sep 2014 #16

Gangs of New York tiredtoo Sep 2014 #13

Very good points in your post. LisaLynne Sep 2014 #14

Thank you. 99th_Monkey Sep 2014 #17

If we support, work and invest more in them maybe we can change their ways? raouldukelives Sep 2014 #15

K & R Quantess Sep 2014 #18