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CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
21. I hear you...
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 11:22 PM
Aug 2013

You wonder if these people are intentionally trying to harm the general population. I've always thought that, until my husband said to me, "Honey, they don't want you dead. They just don't care if you die."

That was chilling.

They don't care enough about us to put any effort into doing us harm. They don't have time to think about the unwashed masses. They're too busy making trillions for themselves, amassing power and clinking cocktail glasses with each other as they wheel and deal their way to the top .00001 percent . We are truly inconsequential to them.

If per chance, some of us happen to die along the way--well hey--sorry. Ooops, their bad! Think about their actions and what they do. They start wars and kills hundreds of thousands of people--in an attempt enrich war-profiteering companies and plunder the resources (oil) of their target countries. They turn our food supply into disease-producing junk that causes diabetes, heart disease and cancer. They allow dangerous drugs to be foisted on us, that have horrendous side effects. They plunder the ground with fracking and destroy our drinking water. They prevent solar/wind from getting traction so their planet-destroying fossil fuels can be top dog and rake in the trillions for them. They're just having fun--making money and becoming powerful. Killing us, poisoning our water, destroying the planet, giving us cancer and other diseases--yeah, whatever.

They aren't behaving this way *because* their actions harm us. They behave this way because this gets them money and power--and if people are harmed along the way---whatever.


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The news gets worse and worse. HooptieWagon Aug 2013 #1
and they have not attempted this yet questionseverything Aug 2013 #2
... move it TO where? Myrina Aug 2013 #20
to a safer situation. the structure they are in could easily collapse magical thyme Aug 2013 #24
Is there such a place, though? I'm asking seriously? Myrina Aug 2013 #25
obviously there is no place safe enough. magical thyme Aug 2013 #26
Obviously TEPCO can't control the situation. Why is the world snappyturtle Aug 2013 #3
It doesn't affect rich people. They live in their own little bubble. If it doesn't valerief Aug 2013 #9
But it is affecting the rich fasttense Aug 2013 #17
Right, but it doesn't affect them until they think it does, so it's not affecting them. valerief Aug 2013 #19
Because... CoffeeCat Aug 2013 #12
Thanks so much for the link....I, too, think it is disgusting that snappyturtle Aug 2013 #14
I hear you... CoffeeCat Aug 2013 #21
It all comes down to greed. Greed that knows no bounds and snappyturtle Aug 2013 #22
You know what I think the saddest element of this is? CoffeeCat Aug 2013 #27
You're so right. I married a sociopath...we're not married snappyturtle Aug 2013 #28
snip... CrispyQ Aug 2013 #4
Perfect! Meant to comment on this when I read it the first snappyturtle Aug 2013 #23
Thank you Duane. Fukushima is a topic that deserves more attention. saidsimplesimon Aug 2013 #5
Unless of course you like glow-in-the-dark sushi. calimary Aug 2013 #10
+1 daleanime Aug 2013 #11
K & R !!! WillyT Aug 2013 #6
Post removed Post removed Aug 2013 #7
Hey I live in Oregon, 60 miles from the Pacific ocean 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #8
No worse than the state of denial for residents in Tokyo (n/t) Moostache Aug 2013 #15
K & R n/t glinda Aug 2013 #13
K&R! blackspade Aug 2013 #16
"9,640 Fukushima plant workers reach radiation level for leukemia compensation – The Asahi Shimbun" bananas Aug 2013 #18
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2013 #29
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