REMEMBER WELL KING, KENNEDY AND SO MANY OTHERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO TRY AND STOP WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW. THE 1960'S WAS THE DECADE OF ASSASSINATIONS TO ELIMINATE ANYBODY WHO SPOKE FOR PEACE. THEY SAW THE BARBARIANS WERE WITHIN THE GATES.
You know what I couldn't un-see today? That huge pile of 5th grade black shorts and a hoodie John Fetterman. There he was in Pittsburgh, 20 degree weather, walking into a "organized protest" of Jewish community (funny, didn't look like very many people, as the camera honed into a group and didn't use a wide angle) demanding to bring the Israeli hostages home. The local news used a very abbreviated video of him at the podium, criticizing his constituents who insisted on a cease fire... I think local news was a bit embarrassed to show it, and why SHOULDN'T they be? No one still DARES use the "G" word, much less talked about the 23,000 Palestinians, mostly children who have been cut down. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr wept with the angels...
Bravo! I think you have channeled the spirit of MLK Jr. very well. I'm glad my father (who marched alongside Dr. King as a young man) isn't alive now to see the mess of the world we've made. "Equality in oppression is not justice" says it all.
Protest means nothing without the implied threat of violence. People won't so much as be late for their next shift, let alone fight. Occupy and Iraq taught the billionaires how spineless Americans are, and their prison system taught them Exactly how far they can go before we riot. We're past that phase of history.
People still believing in the power of protest and think grass roots reforms are just around the corner to me are like evangelicals expecting imminent rapture. There is zero evidence that Americans will suddenly wake up or that the powers that really own us are dumb enough to force our hand. As I said decades of prison management have given them ample data on exactly where the breaking points are and are not. IMO AI is the only window for change in our favor left. And only if it rebels against billionaires but not humans generally. The WEF is proof that they can flat out tell us the plan and still we'll show up to work on time. They have mastered our behavioral psychology. I see no way around the collective action problem. No one cares about me outside immediate family, and no one ever will.
Thank you for your post....beautifully written. Protests in DC, London, etc., etc. and yet the Western misleaders are deaf.....When will the people wake-up...It's not just Flint, East Palestine, Standing Rock, etc., etc. it's all over the Western so-called democracies. Arriving in DC on a more urgent matter-family crisis on 13 Jan, illustrates what we have become....Train travel in the US has already been arduous with no train platforms in Bernie Sanders' state of Vermont...IOW travelers have to climb up the steps (with luggage) just to board a train, rickety as it may be.....But trains in Vermont were cancelled on 13 Jan so I had to catch the singular train farther south in Springfield, Mass and on to my arrival in New Carrolton, Md. (between DC and Baltimore)....Homeless people camped out in their sleeping bags in the tunnels. At least in Md. they have the tunnels for shelter. Where I now hail from in Keene, NH, there are people sleeping out in the woods along the bike trails.
Jay Zeus. I didn't know, of course. Even local media reports on the homeless as little as possible, but I'm not surprised.
I know it's terrible in Denver and Portland, as well.
Meanwhile, not terribly far away from you, the state of New York is paying $800 million for a new football stadium in Buffalo for the Bills, while doing nothing to house most of the homeless.
I can think of no better illustration of the fucked up priorities of our ruling class of vampires.
I don’t agree about the flag. MLK was American through and through. He had any number of causes to address of greater and more immediate significance than Gaza.
He’d have addressed it,because he had some words to say about Vietnam.The US being the banker for two wars would have horrified a man who advocated non-violence.
A nice tribute to MLK. Thank you.
REMEMBER WELL KING, KENNEDY AND SO MANY OTHERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO TRY AND STOP WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW. THE 1960'S WAS THE DECADE OF ASSASSINATIONS TO ELIMINATE ANYBODY WHO SPOKE FOR PEACE. THEY SAW THE BARBARIANS WERE WITHIN THE GATES.
Absolutely, right on... everything you said...
You know what I couldn't un-see today? That huge pile of 5th grade black shorts and a hoodie John Fetterman. There he was in Pittsburgh, 20 degree weather, walking into a "organized protest" of Jewish community (funny, didn't look like very many people, as the camera honed into a group and didn't use a wide angle) demanding to bring the Israeli hostages home. The local news used a very abbreviated video of him at the podium, criticizing his constituents who insisted on a cease fire... I think local news was a bit embarrassed to show it, and why SHOULDN'T they be? No one still DARES use the "G" word, much less talked about the 23,000 Palestinians, mostly children who have been cut down. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr wept with the angels...
Bravo! I think you have channeled the spirit of MLK Jr. very well. I'm glad my father (who marched alongside Dr. King as a young man) isn't alive now to see the mess of the world we've made. "Equality in oppression is not justice" says it all.
Protest means nothing without the implied threat of violence. People won't so much as be late for their next shift, let alone fight. Occupy and Iraq taught the billionaires how spineless Americans are, and their prison system taught them Exactly how far they can go before we riot. We're past that phase of history.
That's true. There WAS an implied threat of violence back in the 60s--that's why we got the Civil Rights Acts.
I don't know what you mean by "past that phase" of history. As Voltaire observed, no government is more than three days away from a revolution.
People still believing in the power of protest and think grass roots reforms are just around the corner to me are like evangelicals expecting imminent rapture. There is zero evidence that Americans will suddenly wake up or that the powers that really own us are dumb enough to force our hand. As I said decades of prison management have given them ample data on exactly where the breaking points are and are not. IMO AI is the only window for change in our favor left. And only if it rebels against billionaires but not humans generally. The WEF is proof that they can flat out tell us the plan and still we'll show up to work on time. They have mastered our behavioral psychology. I see no way around the collective action problem. No one cares about me outside immediate family, and no one ever will.
Thank you for your post....beautifully written. Protests in DC, London, etc., etc. and yet the Western misleaders are deaf.....When will the people wake-up...It's not just Flint, East Palestine, Standing Rock, etc., etc. it's all over the Western so-called democracies. Arriving in DC on a more urgent matter-family crisis on 13 Jan, illustrates what we have become....Train travel in the US has already been arduous with no train platforms in Bernie Sanders' state of Vermont...IOW travelers have to climb up the steps (with luggage) just to board a train, rickety as it may be.....But trains in Vermont were cancelled on 13 Jan so I had to catch the singular train farther south in Springfield, Mass and on to my arrival in New Carrolton, Md. (between DC and Baltimore)....Homeless people camped out in their sleeping bags in the tunnels. At least in Md. they have the tunnels for shelter. Where I now hail from in Keene, NH, there are people sleeping out in the woods along the bike trails.
Jay Zeus. I didn't know, of course. Even local media reports on the homeless as little as possible, but I'm not surprised.
I know it's terrible in Denver and Portland, as well.
Meanwhile, not terribly far away from you, the state of New York is paying $800 million for a new football stadium in Buffalo for the Bills, while doing nothing to house most of the homeless.
I can think of no better illustration of the fucked up priorities of our ruling class of vampires.
I don’t agree about the flag. MLK was American through and through. He had any number of causes to address of greater and more immediate significance than Gaza.
He’d have addressed it,because he had some words to say about Vietnam.The US being the banker for two wars would have horrified a man who advocated non-violence.