Why is there so little outrage about an Asian being beaten and dragged off an airplane? It's racist

[Rustic]

The airline was obviously wrong, but I do have to say the behavior of that guy after he got back on the plane... he is a bit off in the head.

 

[deannalw]

I have outrage, but not as much for this fella Cuz everyone's insisting I be outraged about 147 other things as well. I think I may have a limited supply. Damaged goods, I guess.
I can't riot Cuz my rage riot outfit is in the wash.
Plus folks have been outraged in several other threads for days.

 

[Boss]

So they should be allowed to use force.

I think this is a lesson in Capitalism vs. Socialism. The policy used was Socialist. That's exactly how things work in a Socialist system... the Authority decides what amount will be paid for the seats and if you don't like it, you are forcibly removed. In a Capitalist system, the airlines would have continued to up the ante until someone was willing to sell their seat. Capitalism is always preferable to Socialism.

 

[Fenton Lum]

The airline was obviously wrong, but I do have to say the behavior of that guy after he got back on the plane... he is a bit off in the head.

We should all be resisting like that, americans will accept anything leveraged by corporate power while they squeal about an overreaching govt as if concentrated corporate wealth and power had no relationship to their government. They are one in the same now.

 

[leftwinger]

Why aren't there riots?

Aren't Asians the same as blacks and hispanics?

All the professional protesters are marching to protest Trump not releasing his taxes...go figure.

And you're not about to get involved yourself.

Yea, not really concerned about either issue. Trump's tax returns, who cares. United Airlines, they will be paying a huge price, not only to the doctor. Guessing they won't be having an overbooking problem anytime soon.

They already upped their ceiling for paying bumped passengers from $1350 to $10,000.

I have heard from seasoned travellers that UNITED does this more than any other airline.

So they should be allowed to use force.

All the answers are in the other threads. But of course you knew that.......its' all about you and your post count EH?

 

[Fenton Lum]

So they should be allowed to use force.

I think this is a lesson in Capitalism vs. Socialism. The policy used was Socialist. That's exactly how things work in a Socialist system... the Authority decides what amount will be paid for the seats and if you don't like it, you are forcibly removed. In a Capitalist system, the airlines would have continued to up the ante until someone was willing to sell their seat. Capitalism is always preferable to Socialism.

Pffffffffffffffffffft, bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, it just worked that way in a capitalist society hon, get real.

 

[Care4all]

To knock out 2 teeth takes a lot of force. I call bull. Asian nose is flat already....not buying that either. Sounds like lawyer talk.

Did United return the teeth? Don't resist Police orders and cause everyone else inconvenience.

fyi, they were not the police, they were the Airport security forces, they do not work for Chicago Police....

They, according to their contract duties, are NOT ALLOWED on to airplanes.... they broke the rules by boarding the plane.

 

[Fenton Lum]

All the professional protesters are marching to protest Trump not releasing his taxes...go figure.

And you're not about to get involved yourself.

Yea, not really concerned about either issue. Trump's tax returns, who cares. United Airlines, they will be paying a huge price, not only to the doctor. Guessing they won't be having an overbooking problem anytime soon.

They already upped their ceiling for paying bumped passengers from $1350 to $10,000.

I have heard from seasoned travellers that UNITED does this more than any other airline.

So they should be allowed to use force.

All the answers are in the other threads. But of course you knew that.......its' all about you and your post count EH?

Always love your in depth analysis.

 

[Rustic]

The airline was obviously wrong, but I do have to say the behavior of that guy after he got back on the plane... he is a bit off in the head.

We should all be resisting like that, americans will accept anything leveraged by corporate power while they squeal about an overreaching govt as if concentrated corporate wealth and power had no relationship to their government. They are one in the same now.

See that's the problem, the federal government is much, much worse than this airline. They want to get their tentacles into every aspect of the American life. Like I've always said collectivism is evil

 

[Fenton Lum]

The airline was obviously wrong, but I do have to say the behavior of that guy after he got back on the plane... he is a bit off in the head.

We should all be resisting like that, americans will accept anything leveraged by corporate power while they squeal about an overreaching govt as if concentrated corporate wealth and power had no relationship to their government. They are one in the same now.

See that's the problem, the federal government is much, much worse than this airline. They want to get their tentacles into every aspect of the American life. Like I've always said collectivism is evil

No. Your government and economic system are presided over by concentrated corporate wealth and power.

At this point I look to the system for nothing, the american political and economic system is based upon corruption and societal wealth extraction and the democratic party is just as involved and compliant as the republican party, sans the religious zealotry. Bear in mind that the Wall Street bailouts occurred under both “conservative” and “liberal” administrations despite 90% of the population being opposed; “the people” are irrelevant and the only thing exceptional about america is its penchant for denial, illusion and theater. The majority of the american population also supports a single payer healthcare system and opposes these endless wars of occupation, who the fuck cares, the substantial people will handle this, go back to your shopping. The system is nothing but a theater of the absurd at this point. America is what it has always been, a colonial wealth extraction enterprise, and this is all we have used our glorious military for post WWII; the economical colonization and subjugation of other lands.

There has indeed been a vast redistribution of wealth over the past half century, by design, just not in the direction the substantial people are always blathering about; that those poor darkies took all your shit. Sure, the poor and disenfranchised folk with no voice in the system must have fucked everything up. But the power structure requires and runs on orchestrated divisions among the masses. This goes all the way back to Bacon’s Rebellion in america which led to the power structure’s redesigning of a nascent slavery institution into one more strictly based upon and organized around “race” which is a fictional concept anyway, the human genome has been fully sequenced for fuck sake; six genes out of some 26,000 or so genes code for the three phenotypic traits we define “race” by (skin tone, hair texture, facial features). This was also the point of all the Cointellpro infiltrations of social movement organizations in the 50s-70s; create doubt, suspicion, anxiety, and confusion among the members of any organization opposing the power structure. Our society is awash in orchestrated divisions amongst the masses; guns, abortion, “race”, “libs-vs-cons”, religion, gays, wars; anything that will afford a distraction such that the economic cannibalization of the wealthiest society on the planet may continue unabated. One of my favorite talk show hosts at a privately owned black am radio station when I was in Nashville used to say, “Some of you folks better figure out we all niggra’s now”. But our “exceptionalism” belief system gets in the way of that, just as it was designed to.

We have returned to profiteering from bondage with privatized prisons whose stock is traded on Wall Street complete with a return to convict leasing and the unsubstantial people can be openly murdered, unarmed, on the streets by militarized state power goon squads which is in turn openly cheered on by vast segments of the population. The power structure decided we were no longer required for production, now we are no longer required for consumption, the “capitalist’s” opportunities lie elsewhere. The system can turn $40-50K per hominid per year in a prison cell, there’s your “bringing the jobs back” program. Anyone who opposes the system can easily be dispatched with; no William Kunstler is available to check the state on its own shyte any longer. All this results in a profit motive complete with prison industry lobbying for higher societal crime rates, more draconian sentencing, higher rates of recidivism, and more criminalized behavior of the masses.

As with all empires in decline, the violence and oppression projected outward eventually comes home to roost upon the subjects of the empire. As with all empires in decline, society becomes economically cannibalized to continue an obscene glorification of military might and every international issue is an opportunity for war. The US will be at constant war until it goes tits up now; war is just business and our illustrious generals end up in the multitrillion dollar “defense” contractor industry. Those 59 missiles lobbed at Syria were $1.4M each. Raytheon stock surged. The shot callers, I refer to them in that manner because they’re no different than shot callers in our growth industry prisons, own stock in Raytheon, Don included. “We” decided some time ago that we required another govt in Syria in order to get a natural gas pipeline built. And now we’re in the bogus run up phase just like we saw with Iraq, ‘course that miraculously escapes any talk of “fake news”, but the objective reality is that america has always been fake; from its very creation mythology onward.

And then there’s N Korea. Turns out we sold N Korea nuclear reactors a mere two years before we placed them on an “axis of evil” list. Sold from a company Don Rumsfeld had once sat on the board of directors of. Under a plan initiated during the Clinton administration and completed under the Bush administration. And Bush ponied up US taxpayer funding to aid N Korea in completion of the deal. Utterly bipartisan. We do this a lot. Saddam? Osama? The US is the planet’s most ferocious purveyor of arms and violence, hands down, good thing we only do this for righteousness and the good of others.

Then there’s this “exceptionalism”. Much of what ails the US is the same thing that ails the thinking of groups such as ISIS; you’ll note we’re both always at war with evil, evil just happens at the moment to be each other. A core parallel is this notion of a belief system based upon the notion of a male dominator God who rules over a following (and the universe, virgin births, including eternal life, no really!), who in turn rule over everyone else; earth, all its resources, nonbelievers, sinners, pagans, savages, hookers, homosexuals, anyone who thinks abortion is only their business if it’s theirs, pot smokers, heavy drinkers but a “moderate” amount socially is ok, anyone who enjoys getting laid and whatnot. It’s all a patriarchal system of authority that of course presides over the economic system such that money/success, religion and power all become knotted up together. And so if you don’t have any of that money/success, religion and power, it must all go back to original sin, that business whereby you as a human being are damaged goods just for a successful arrival into life. And worse yet now, you apparently have not devoted yourself enough, submitted enough, to this male dominator God, you are the problem, there is something wrong with you, so you will be presided over by others. For your own good mind you, can’t have you loping around like that on your own, suffering is the way back into the fold. Seriously psychologically fucked up shit, but a wonderful tool of control and the colonization of others for resource extraction.

This virus, this perceptual reality made its way to this land mass, and has sodomized humanity ever since and humanity will eventually evolve away from “capitalism” just as it did from feudalism, and for pretty much the same reasons; they both wind up in the same place. As did Soviet style communism. And all a “liberty or death!” demanding feckless american public can muster is watching corporate state television and voting over who will allow Goldman Sachs back into the white house. Some of us would have felt better about Hilary being the one, but we would have wound up in the same place.

At this point, I see no answer working within the system, it got bought out just like the media machine did once the FCC was deregulated under Clinton.

This will now require a perturbation that cannot be ignored; bodies are going to have to pile up, it’s Parchman Farm all over again.

 

[Rustic]

The airline was obviously wrong, but I do have to say the behavior of that guy after he got back on the plane... he is a bit off in the head.

We should all be resisting like that, americans will accept anything leveraged by corporate power while they squeal about an overreaching govt as if concentrated corporate wealth and power had no relationship to their government. They are one in the same now.

See that's the problem, the federal government is much, much worse than this airline. They want to get their tentacles into every aspect of the American life. Like I've always said collectivism is evil

No. Your government and economic system are presided over by concentrated corporate wealth and power.

At this point I look to the system for nothing, the american political and economic system is based upon corruption and societal wealth extraction and the democratic party is just as involved and compliant as the republican party, sans the religious zealotry. Bear in mind that the Wall Street bailouts occurred under both “conservative” and “liberal” administrations despite 90% of the population being opposed; “the people” are irrelevant and the only thing exceptional about america is its penchant for denial, illusion and theater. The majority of the american population also supports a single payer healthcare system and opposes these endless wars of occupation, who the fuck cares, the substantial people will handle this, go back to your shopping. The system is nothing but a theater of the absurd at this point. America is what it has always been, a colonial wealth extraction enterprise, and this is all we have used our glorious military for post WWII; the economical colonization and subjugation of other lands.

There has indeed been a vast redistribution of wealth over the past half century, by design, just not in the direction the substantial people are always blathering about; that those poor darkies took all your shit. Sure, the poor and disenfranchised folk with no voice in the system must have fucked everything up. But the power structure requires and runs on orchestrated divisions among the masses. This goes all the way back to Bacon’s Rebellion in america which led to the power structure’s redesigning of a nascent slavery institution into one more strictly based upon and organized around “race” which is a fictional concept anyway, the human genome has been fully sequenced for fuck sake; six genes out of some 26,000 or so genes code for the three phenotypic traits we define “race” by (skin tone, hair texture, facial features). This was also the point of all the Cointellpro infiltrations of social movement organizations in the 50s-70s; create doubt, suspicion, anxiety, and confusion among the members of any organization opposing the power structure. Our society is awash in orchestrated divisions amongst the masses; guns, abortion, “race”, “libs-vs-cons”, religion, gays, wars; anything that will afford a distraction such that the economic cannibalization of the wealthiest society on the planet may continue unabated. One of my favorite talk show hosts at a privately owned black am radio station when I was in Nashville used to say, “Some of you folks better figure out we all niggra’s now”. But our “exceptionalism” belief system gets in the way of that, just as it was designed to.

We have returned to profiteering from bondage with privatized prisons whose stock is traded on Wall Street complete with a return to convict leasing and the unsubstantial people can be openly murdered, unarmed, on the streets by militarized state power goon squads which is in turn openly cheered on by vast segments of the population. The power structure decided we were no longer required for production, now we are no longer required for consumption, the “capitalist’s” opportunities lie elsewhere. The system can turn $40-50K per hominid per year in a prison cell, there’s your “bringing the jobs back” program. Anyone who opposes the system can easily be dispatched with; no William Kunstler is available to check the state on its own shyte any longer. All this results in a profit motive complete with prison industry lobbying for higher societal crime rates, more draconian sentencing, higher rates of recidivism, and more criminalized behavior of the masses.

As with all empires in decline, the violence and oppression projected outward eventually comes home to roost upon the subjects of the empire. As with all empires in decline, society becomes economically cannibalized to continue an obscene glorification of military might and every international issue is an opportunity for war. The US will be at constant war until it goes tits up now; war is just business and our illustrious generals end up in the multitrillion dollar “defense” contractor industry. Those 59 missiles lobbed at Syria were $1.4M each. Raytheon stock surged. The shot callers, I refer to them in that manner because they’re no different than shot callers in our growth industry prisons, own stock in Raytheon, Don included. “We” decided some time ago that we required another govt in Syria in order to get a natural gas pipeline built. And now we’re in the bogus run up phase just like we saw with Iraq, ‘course that miraculously escapes any talk of “fake news”, but the objective reality is that america has always been fake; from its very creation mythology onward.

And then there’s N Korea. Turns out we sold N Korea nuclear reactors a mere two years before we placed them on an “axis of evil” list. Sold from a company Don Rumsfeld had once sat on the board of directors of. Under a plan initiated during the Clinton administration and completed under the Bush administration. And Bush ponied up US taxpayer funding to aid N Korea in completion of the deal. Utterly bipartisan. We do this a lot. Saddam? Osama? The US is the planet’s most ferocious purveyor of arms and violence, hands down, good thing we only do this for righteousness and the good of others.

Then there’s this “exceptionalism”. Much of what ails the US is the same thing that ails the thinking of groups such as ISIS; you’ll note we’re both always at war with evil, evil just happens at the moment to be each other. A core parallel is this notion of a belief system based upon the notion of a male dominator God who rules over a following (and the universe, virgin births, including eternal life, no really!), who in turn rule over everyone else; earth, all its resources, nonbelievers, sinners, pagans, savages, hookers, homosexuals, anyone who thinks abortion is only their business if it’s theirs, pot smokers, heavy drinkers but a “moderate” amount socially is ok, anyone who enjoys getting laid and whatnot. It’s all a patriarchal system of authority that of course presides over the economic system such that money/success, religion and power all become knotted up together. And so if you don’t have any of that money/success, religion and power, it must all go back to original sin, that business whereby you as a human being are damaged goods just for a successful arrival into life. And worse yet now, you apparently have not devoted yourself enough, submitted enough, to this male dominator God, you are the problem, there is something wrong with you, so you will be presided over by others. For your own good mind you, can’t have you loping around like that on your own, suffering is the way back into the fold. Seriously psychologically fucked up shit, but a wonderful tool of control and the colonization of others for resource extraction.

This virus, this perceptual reality made its way to this land mass, and has sodomized humanity ever since and humanity will eventually evolve away from “capitalism” just as it did from feudalism, and for pretty much the same reasons; they both wind up in the same place. As did Soviet style communism. And all a “liberty or death!” demanding feckless american public can muster is watching corporate state television and voting over who will allow Goldman Sachs back into the white house. Some of us would have felt better about Hilary being the one, but we would have wound up in the same place.

At this point, I see no answer working within the system, it got bought out just like the media machine did once the FCC was deregulated under Clinton.

This will now require a perturbation that cannot be ignored; bodies are going to have to pile up, it’s Parchman Farm all over again.

I get it, you're a hippie at heart. Now just leave the rest of us alone

 

[Boss]

So they should be allowed to use force.

I think this is a lesson in Capitalism vs. Socialism. The policy used was Socialist. That's exactly how things work in a Socialist system... the Authority decides what amount will be paid for the seats and if you don't like it, you are forcibly removed. In a Capitalist system, the airlines would have continued to up the ante until someone was willing to sell their seat. Capitalism is always preferable to Socialism.

Pffffffffffffffffffft, bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, it just worked that way in a capitalist society hon, get real.

Yeah but they didn't practice Capitalism... that's what went wrong.

 

[Rustic]

The truth about why the doctor was dragged off a United Airlines flight has made people even angrier

The airline definitely was in the wrong, but this guy is definitely off in the head.

 

[Fenton Lum]

The airline was obviously wrong, but I do have to say the behavior of that guy after he got back on the plane... he is a bit off in the head.

We should all be resisting like that, americans will accept anything leveraged by corporate power while they squeal about an overreaching govt as if concentrated corporate wealth and power had no relationship to their government. They are one in the same now.

See that's the problem, the federal government is much, much worse than this airline. They want to get their tentacles into every aspect of the American life. Like I've always said collectivism is evil

No. Your government and economic system are presided over by concentrated corporate wealth and power.

At this point I look to the system for nothing, the american political and economic system is based upon corruption and societal wealth extraction and the democratic party is just as involved and compliant as the republican party, sans the religious zealotry. Bear in mind that the Wall Street bailouts occurred under both “conservative” and “liberal” administrations despite 90% of the population being opposed; “the people” are irrelevant and the only thing exceptional about america is its penchant for denial, illusion and theater. The majority of the american population also supports a single payer healthcare system and opposes these endless wars of occupation, who the fuck cares, the substantial people will handle this, go back to your shopping. The system is nothing but a theater of the absurd at this point. America is what it has always been, a colonial wealth extraction enterprise, and this is all we have used our glorious military for post WWII; the economical colonization and subjugation of other lands.

There has indeed been a vast redistribution of wealth over the past half century, by design, just not in the direction the substantial people are always blathering about; that those poor darkies took all your shit. Sure, the poor and disenfranchised folk with no voice in the system must have fucked everything up. But the power structure requires and runs on orchestrated divisions among the masses. This goes all the way back to Bacon’s Rebellion in america which led to the power structure’s redesigning of a nascent slavery institution into one more strictly based upon and organized around “race” which is a fictional concept anyway, the human genome has been fully sequenced for fuck sake; six genes out of some 26,000 or so genes code for the three phenotypic traits we define “race” by (skin tone, hair texture, facial features). This was also the point of all the Cointellpro infiltrations of social movement organizations in the 50s-70s; create doubt, suspicion, anxiety, and confusion among the members of any organization opposing the power structure. Our society is awash in orchestrated divisions amongst the masses; guns, abortion, “race”, “libs-vs-cons”, religion, gays, wars; anything that will afford a distraction such that the economic cannibalization of the wealthiest society on the planet may continue unabated. One of my favorite talk show hosts at a privately owned black am radio station when I was in Nashville used to say, “Some of you folks better figure out we all niggra’s now”. But our “exceptionalism” belief system gets in the way of that, just as it was designed to.

We have returned to profiteering from bondage with privatized prisons whose stock is traded on Wall Street complete with a return to convict leasing and the unsubstantial people can be openly murdered, unarmed, on the streets by militarized state power goon squads which is in turn openly cheered on by vast segments of the population. The power structure decided we were no longer required for production, now we are no longer required for consumption, the “capitalist’s” opportunities lie elsewhere. The system can turn $40-50K per hominid per year in a prison cell, there’s your “bringing the jobs back” program. Anyone who opposes the system can easily be dispatched with; no William Kunstler is available to check the state on its own shyte any longer. All this results in a profit motive complete with prison industry lobbying for higher societal crime rates, more draconian sentencing, higher rates of recidivism, and more criminalized behavior of the masses.

As with all empires in decline, the violence and oppression projected outward eventually comes home to roost upon the subjects of the empire. As with all empires in decline, society becomes economically cannibalized to continue an obscene glorification of military might and every international issue is an opportunity for war. The US will be at constant war until it goes tits up now; war is just business and our illustrious generals end up in the multitrillion dollar “defense” contractor industry. Those 59 missiles lobbed at Syria were $1.4M each. Raytheon stock surged. The shot callers, I refer to them in that manner because they’re no different than shot callers in our growth industry prisons, own stock in Raytheon, Don included. “We” decided some time ago that we required another govt in Syria in order to get a natural gas pipeline built. And now we’re in the bogus run up phase just like we saw with Iraq, ‘course that miraculously escapes any talk of “fake news”, but the objective reality is that america has always been fake; from its very creation mythology onward.

And then there’s N Korea. Turns out we sold N Korea nuclear reactors a mere two years before we placed them on an “axis of evil” list. Sold from a company Don Rumsfeld had once sat on the board of directors of. Under a plan initiated during the Clinton administration and completed under the Bush administration. And Bush ponied up US taxpayer funding to aid N Korea in completion of the deal. Utterly bipartisan. We do this a lot. Saddam? Osama? The US is the planet’s most ferocious purveyor of arms and violence, hands down, good thing we only do this for righteousness and the good of others.

Then there’s this “exceptionalism”. Much of what ails the US is the same thing that ails the thinking of groups such as ISIS; you’ll note we’re both always at war with evil, evil just happens at the moment to be each other. A core parallel is this notion of a belief system based upon the notion of a male dominator God who rules over a following (and the universe, virgin births, including eternal life, no really!), who in turn rule over everyone else; earth, all its resources, nonbelievers, sinners, pagans, savages, hookers, homosexuals, anyone who thinks abortion is only their business if it’s theirs, pot smokers, heavy drinkers but a “moderate” amount socially is ok, anyone who enjoys getting laid and whatnot. It’s all a patriarchal system of authority that of course presides over the economic system such that money/success, religion and power all become knotted up together. And so if you don’t have any of that money/success, religion and power, it must all go back to original sin, that business whereby you as a human being are damaged goods just for a successful arrival into life. And worse yet now, you apparently have not devoted yourself enough, submitted enough, to this male dominator God, you are the problem, there is something wrong with you, so you will be presided over by others. For your own good mind you, can’t have you loping around like that on your own, suffering is the way back into the fold. Seriously psychologically fucked up shit, but a wonderful tool of control and the colonization of others for resource extraction.

This virus, this perceptual reality made its way to this land mass, and has sodomized humanity ever since and humanity will eventually evolve away from “capitalism” just as it did from feudalism, and for pretty much the same reasons; they both wind up in the same place. As did Soviet style communism. And all a “liberty or death!” demanding feckless american public can muster is watching corporate state television and voting over who will allow Goldman Sachs back into the white house. Some of us would have felt better about Hilary being the one, but we would have wound up in the same place.

At this point, I see no answer working within the system, it got bought out just like the media machine did once the FCC was deregulated under Clinton.

This will now require a perturbation that cannot be ignored; bodies are going to have to pile up, it’s Parchman Farm all over again.

I get it, you're a hippie at heart. Now just leave the rest of us alone

Always enjoy your in depth analysis and discussion.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Asians would surely riot over this civil rights denial by UNITED AIRLINES...but they are too busy fucking working and being good citizens and taxpayers.

 

[Fenton Lum]

So they should be allowed to use force.

I think this is a lesson in Capitalism vs. Socialism. The policy used was Socialist. That's exactly how things work in a Socialist system... the Authority decides what amount will be paid for the seats and if you don't like it, you are forcibly removed. In a Capitalist system, the airlines would have continued to up the ante until someone was willing to sell their seat. Capitalism is always preferable to Socialism.

Pffffffffffffffffffft, bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, it just worked that way in a capitalist society hon, get real.

Yeah but they didn't practice Capitalism... that's what went wrong.

Yes, they most certainly did. But this is the first season of Reality America, so we don't have to deal with objective reality.

 

[Rustic]

The airline was obviously wrong, but I do have to say the behavior of that guy after he got back on the plane... he is a bit off in the head.

We should all be resisting like that, americans will accept anything leveraged by corporate power while they squeal about an overreaching govt as if concentrated corporate wealth and power had no relationship to their government. They are one in the same now.

See that's the problem, the federal government is much, much worse than this airline. They want to get their tentacles into every aspect of the American life. Like I've always said collectivism is evil

No. Your government and economic system are presided over by concentrated corporate wealth and power.

At this point I look to the system for nothing, the american political and economic system is based upon corruption and societal wealth extraction and the democratic party is just as involved and compliant as the republican party, sans the religious zealotry. Bear in mind that the Wall Street bailouts occurred under both “conservative” and “liberal” administrations despite 90% of the population being opposed; “the people” are irrelevant and the only thing exceptional about america is its penchant for denial, illusion and theater. The majority of the american population also supports a single payer healthcare system and opposes these endless wars of occupation, who the fuck cares, the substantial people will handle this, go back to your shopping. The system is nothing but a theater of the absurd at this point. America is what it has always been, a colonial wealth extraction enterprise, and this is all we have used our glorious military for post WWII; the economical colonization and subjugation of other lands.

There has indeed been a vast redistribution of wealth over the past half century, by design, just not in the direction the substantial people are always blathering about; that those poor darkies took all your shit. Sure, the poor and disenfranchised folk with no voice in the system must have fucked everything up. But the power structure requires and runs on orchestrated divisions among the masses. This goes all the way back to Bacon’s Rebellion in america which led to the power structure’s redesigning of a nascent slavery institution into one more strictly based upon and organized around “race” which is a fictional concept anyway, the human genome has been fully sequenced for fuck sake; six genes out of some 26,000 or so genes code for the three phenotypic traits we define “race” by (skin tone, hair texture, facial features). This was also the point of all the Cointellpro infiltrations of social movement organizations in the 50s-70s; create doubt, suspicion, anxiety, and confusion among the members of any organization opposing the power structure. Our society is awash in orchestrated divisions amongst the masses; guns, abortion, “race”, “libs-vs-cons”, religion, gays, wars; anything that will afford a distraction such that the economic cannibalization of the wealthiest society on the planet may continue unabated. One of my favorite talk show hosts at a privately owned black am radio station when I was in Nashville used to say, “Some of you folks better figure out we all niggra’s now”. But our “exceptionalism” belief system gets in the way of that, just as it was designed to.

We have returned to profiteering from bondage with privatized prisons whose stock is traded on Wall Street complete with a return to convict leasing and the unsubstantial people can be openly murdered, unarmed, on the streets by militarized state power goon squads which is in turn openly cheered on by vast segments of the population. The power structure decided we were no longer required for production, now we are no longer required for consumption, the “capitalist’s” opportunities lie elsewhere. The system can turn $40-50K per hominid per year in a prison cell, there’s your “bringing the jobs back” program. Anyone who opposes the system can easily be dispatched with; no William Kunstler is available to check the state on its own shyte any longer. All this results in a profit motive complete with prison industry lobbying for higher societal crime rates, more draconian sentencing, higher rates of recidivism, and more criminalized behavior of the masses.

As with all empires in decline, the violence and oppression projected outward eventually comes home to roost upon the subjects of the empire. As with all empires in decline, society becomes economically cannibalized to continue an obscene glorification of military might and every international issue is an opportunity for war. The US will be at constant war until it goes tits up now; war is just business and our illustrious generals end up in the multitrillion dollar “defense” contractor industry. Those 59 missiles lobbed at Syria were $1.4M each. Raytheon stock surged. The shot callers, I refer to them in that manner because they’re no different than shot callers in our growth industry prisons, own stock in Raytheon, Don included. “We” decided some time ago that we required another govt in Syria in order to get a natural gas pipeline built. And now we’re in the bogus run up phase just like we saw with Iraq, ‘course that miraculously escapes any talk of “fake news”, but the objective reality is that america has always been fake; from its very creation mythology onward.

And then there’s N Korea. Turns out we sold N Korea nuclear reactors a mere two years before we placed them on an “axis of evil” list. Sold from a company Don Rumsfeld had once sat on the board of directors of. Under a plan initiated during the Clinton administration and completed under the Bush administration. And Bush ponied up US taxpayer funding to aid N Korea in completion of the deal. Utterly bipartisan. We do this a lot. Saddam? Osama? The US is the planet’s most ferocious purveyor of arms and violence, hands down, good thing we only do this for righteousness and the good of others.

Then there’s this “exceptionalism”. Much of what ails the US is the same thing that ails the thinking of groups such as ISIS; you’ll note we’re both always at war with evil, evil just happens at the moment to be each other. A core parallel is this notion of a belief system based upon the notion of a male dominator God who rules over a following (and the universe, virgin births, including eternal life, no really!), who in turn rule over everyone else; earth, all its resources, nonbelievers, sinners, pagans, savages, hookers, homosexuals, anyone who thinks abortion is only their business if it’s theirs, pot smokers, heavy drinkers but a “moderate” amount socially is ok, anyone who enjoys getting laid and whatnot. It’s all a patriarchal system of authority that of course presides over the economic system such that money/success, religion and power all become knotted up together. And so if you don’t have any of that money/success, religion and power, it must all go back to original sin, that business whereby you as a human being are damaged goods just for a successful arrival into life. And worse yet now, you apparently have not devoted yourself enough, submitted enough, to this male dominator God, you are the problem, there is something wrong with you, so you will be presided over by others. For your own good mind you, can’t have you loping around like that on your own, suffering is the way back into the fold. Seriously psychologically fucked up shit, but a wonderful tool of control and the colonization of others for resource extraction.

This virus, this perceptual reality made its way to this land mass, and has sodomized humanity ever since and humanity will eventually evolve away from “capitalism” just as it did from feudalism, and for pretty much the same reasons; they both wind up in the same place. As did Soviet style communism. And all a “liberty or death!” demanding feckless american public can muster is watching corporate state television and voting over who will allow Goldman Sachs back into the white house. Some of us would have felt better about Hilary being the one, but we would have wound up in the same place.

At this point, I see no answer working within the system, it got bought out just like the media machine did once the FCC was deregulated under Clinton.

This will now require a perturbation that cannot be ignored; bodies are going to have to pile up, it’s Parchman Farm all over again.

I get it, you're a hippie at heart. Now just leave the rest of us alone

Always enjoy your in depth analysis and discussion.

So what you're saying and we're all in this together? Bullshit… LOL

 

[Fenton Lum]

The truth about why the doctor was dragged off a United Airlines flight has made people even angrier

The airline definitely was in the wrong, but this guy is definitely off in the head.

Corporate power must always be excused in some fashion.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Asians would surely riot over this civil rights denial by UNITED AIRLINES...but they are too busy fucking working and being good citizens and taxpayers.

That's how capiltaism in america works, we require busy little subjects, not free citizens.

 

[initforme]

Why didn't united immediately offer a sweeter deal like 4 grand p!us hotel stay. Instead they get what they deserve. Dummies. 4 grand is less than zero for them. Incompetent.