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felix_numinous

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25. What is crazy to me

Tue May 28, 2013, 08:45 PM

May 2013

is that 'the 99%' honors this rigged money system instead of just turning our backs on it.

Why can't we walk away from the idea that money is more valuable than life? Start printing our own, start growing our own food, re-planting the forests, making our own power, and demand accountability of corporations and banks?

Is it a crazy idea to walk away from a sociopathic system that is not working out for ANYONE? Have we all been brainwashed into giving all of our power away to a few people? We outnumber the minority, yet they are screwing us and the planet?

We play this rigged game as if it isn't, and like Charlie Brown, the football gets pulled away before we can punt every damn time. Americans must be the most gullible people on the planet, compared to many other countries who don't stand for this bullshit.

Having one of those days, trying to imagine sanity.

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