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longship

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5. First time I've had the bandwidth to watch this.

Sat Sep 5, 2015, 08:04 PM

Sep 2015

Thanks, bonobo!

This is the TED talk that TED dared not post on their site for some time. It was apparently too controversial for typical TED attendees who pay thousands to listen to 20 minute talks by smart people.

Not to malign TED. They produce a lot of good stuff, for instance Pamelia Kurstin.

Some geeky jazz musical divergence for the holiday weekend for my DU friends.

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"The pitchforks will come for us" [View all] Bonobo Sep 2015 OP

I've seen that and read the transcript. hifiguy Sep 2015 #1

According to him he's not smart at all... ion_theory Sep 2015 #39

Right On - No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go cantbeserious Sep 2015 #2

As they should PowerToThePeople Sep 2015 #3

great video.....needs to be watched repeatedly by conservatives. bbgrunt Sep 2015 #4

First time I've had the bandwidth to watch this. longship Sep 2015 #5

Wow! JoeOtterbein Sep 2015 #12

proper. navarth Sep 2015 #41

Arrogance is a natural outcome of great power. zeemike Sep 2015 #6

The "It'll never happen to me" syndrome. jwirr Sep 2015 #7

I wish I remembered where I read this. SusanCalvin Sep 2015 #11

Agreed. I think we are king of born thinking we are jwirr Sep 2015 #17

I'm sure all other plutocrats thought the same thing. ion_theory Sep 2015 #40

Yes I am sure they did. zeemike Sep 2015 #42

Hey Nick: Chasstev365 Sep 2015 #8

"Bastille Day" DissidentVoice Sep 2015 #9

John Vanderslice "Pale Horse." alfredo Sep 2015 #14

How to control the peons salimbag Sep 2015 #10

Pitchforks torches and rope, Oh My!!!!!!!! (NT) The Wizard Sep 2015 #13

I bet they track how many pitchforks are sold. PADemD Sep 2015 #15

Guns are the modern pitchforks... hay rick Sep 2015 #16

I have also been surprised that no one has made any jwirr Sep 2015 #18

Are you forgetting how many gunowners this country has? smirkymonkey Sep 2015 #26

No I am not forgetting the guns but as you said many jwirr Sep 2015 #30

Yes, I agree. I would not put it past our government to use every means smirkymonkey Sep 2015 #32

I honestly believe the plutocrats and PTB have serious doubts hifiguy Sep 2015 #34

I sometimes wonder. I have family and know people who are high smirkymonkey Sep 2015 #35

I do know that the military has changed a lot in the jwirr Sep 2015 #46

Totally agree. Of course my point is that a revolution jwirr Sep 2015 #45

JFK: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”. LongTomH Sep 2015 #44

I agree. Nick Hanauer is dead on, but do you think the sociopathic Republican corporatists Cal33 Sep 2015 #19

"The current trend cannot continue." < America is great enough to contain millions jtuck004 Sep 2015 #20

Circumstances Beowulf42 Sep 2015 #21

Thus the militarized police forces. Plutocrats will not allow bastille part deux. yodermon Sep 2015 #22

In that video flobee1 Sep 2015 #23

In Christopher Reeves' third "Superman" movie, Robert Vaughan played the villain who wanted tblue37 Sep 2015 #24

A great man, Attila the Hun Babel_17 Sep 2015 #38

So I guess Bernie Sanders is right too then egh? lonestarnot Sep 2015 #25

It is going to happen. It's just a matter of time. Societies, governments and civilizations RKP5637 Sep 2015 #27

Your final sentence, RKP. Exactly. Hard truth, unavoidable. senz Sep 2015 #31

Thank you for this, Bonobo. senz Sep 2015 #28

When will the tipping point come? smirkymonkey Sep 2015 #29

I think we are getting close to that ... jimlup Sep 2015 #33

Republicans are idiots.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #36

"Trickle Down" KansDem Sep 2015 #37

Elections are rigged so there is no revolution coming from the ballot box. That leaves two choices. Hoppy Sep 2015 #43