Divide And Conquer

[TimFitz]

I’m fine with no SS or Medicare. If I were able to take all the money i sent in for those and invest in my own I would be much better off.

Next?

you would have undoubtedly spent it.

 

[IM2]

I expect I will be seeing responses involving "free stuff", "systemic racism", and "stop calling me a racist". Not that I'm trying to poison the well or anything.

Struggling white people are told by their "news" outlets it is all the blacks and browns' fault. They are shown regular episodes of Black Behaving Badly to feed their confirmation bias. They are shown misleading and carefully edited clips to strengthen the false narratives. They are told blacks and browns are given unfair advantages in the workplace. They are told most blacks use welfare money to buy steaks and wine. Ripple? Malt liquor? The jokes write themselves. Highly questionable anecdotes abound. (Anecdotes are useless, by the way.) They are told their misdirected patriotism, and their hypocritical religiosity, make THEM the minority in America.

Most importantly, whites are carefully trained to avoid any other sources of information lest they be exposed to harsh truths.


Struggling black people are told by their "news" outlets they are the victims of the white man. If a black man is shot in the act of committing a violent crime, he is martyred. The result is that those black men who are shot while NOT committing a violent crime become indistinguishable and meaningless. It's like overusing the word "holocaust" to define the absence of toilet paper in the supermarket. Black people are not only told these things from their TVs, much of the misguided messaging about martyrs comes from the pulpit.

Most importantly, blacks are carefully trained to avoid any other sources of information lest they be exposed to harsh truths.


Regardless of the validity or merits of these narratives everyone is being fed, the purpose behind all of it is to provide both financial and political gain for the pushers of misinformation.

They own your mind.



Here's the thing.

You are a commodity. You are the golden goose.

The internal communications which were revealed by the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News revealed the Fox hosts didn't believe a word they were pushing on the air. They were worried their golden geese would fly away to another network if they were told the truth.

The truth would kill their golden geese. They understood this and acted accordingly.

Think about that. Think about what this means about what these propagandists think of you. They have made the deliberate decision to not tell you the truth and to tell you whatever will keep you coming back and being a good consumer of what they are peddling.

IF you have any sense of dignity, you would think real hard about what they think about you and your demands to be lied to.

You are a commodity.

From the top of your ballcapped head down to your emblazoned T-shirt right down to your golden sneakers.


Human growth hormones.

Ballcaps.

Gold-plated commemorative coins.

Sloganeering flags.

Magical thinking pills, potions, and powders.

Watches.

NFTs.

T-shirts.

Summons to rallies where you can buy no end of merch.

They own your body.



Most importantly, while preachers and politicians pay lip service to Jesus, they wield their false prophecy to inculcate nothing but hate against the opposition. They incite violence. They use every logical fallacy in the book to deceive their followers and lead them astray. Far, far away from the teachings of Jesus.

They own your very soul.



The last thing any of these vile creatures wants is for struggling white people and struggling black and brown people to band together and wake up to who the real enemy is.

Divide and conquer.

Everyone can feel it. They can feel someone else's hand in their pocket. This provokes a visceral emotion. But understanding the complex causes of this theft against the common man is a difficult task. And that's on purpose.

This provides a wide open field for demagogues who simplify things for the mob. It's those Jews! It's those freeloading negroes! It's those illegal immigrants! It's the entire racist white race!

Send money! Buy my gewgaws. My private plane needs fuel. My trophy wife wants more jewels.

But whatever you do, don't listen to anyone else but me. I am sole proprietor of Truth.


Am I exempt from these influences? Hardly. I'm just as guilty as the next guy. I carry a lot of hate in my heart. I have allowed my mind, body, and soul to be conquered.

I hope to change that.

The problem with what you are saying is that history and the present show evidence of the very things you want not to be discussed. For example explain this:

Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation

The United States must reckon with the racism built into its housing system in order to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to build wealth.

www.americanprogress.org

This is not the news telling blacks we are being victimized by the white man. These are actually policies put in place by white men that create the problems we have now. This is why you cannot try making this kind of comparison. Blacks have not created policies preventing whites from succeeding, and the things whites are blaming blacks for are caused by what whites have done. Then when policies were made to try fixing the damage caused, whites started complaining about how unfair that was for them using the same kind of amnesia you have used here. We cannot get past things if whites continue pretending everything has been the same or now everything is the same and all are equal when the damage created was not fixed by a president signing a piece of paper.

It is illogical to believe that you can treat people like whites have treated blacks in this country and that blacks will not be pissed about it. It is illogical to think that the animosity white racism has created will not end up in some people committing acts of violence. Whites have committed acts of violence against us because they believed a lie taught to them through generations. Blacks commit acts of violence against whites based on what they have seen whites do to us over these generations. Neither is right, but I think it is time many whites started to understand that if 2 wrongs do not make a right, then how about recognizing the wrongs whites commit that causes the reaction.

The TV has not shown me the instances of racism I have faced from whites. Life has. And you cannot equate the reaction to hate with hate. And I do appreciate what you are doing by taking the right wingers to task.

 

[TimFitz]

Lies. People went back to work.

Next talking point lie?

False agsin!

Robust job growth continued long after everyone was back to work.

You like this talk radio lie. You keep clinging to it..

 

[IM2]

you would have undoubtedly spent it.

Unfortunately for nostrels, he hasn't sent any money for anybody's Medicare or SS but his. That's how it works.

 

[MarcATL]

All this copy and pasting for nothing... we are not told all of our problems are because of black and brown people... we have problem because of uneducated libs who don't think with their heads they think with their hearts and hate anyone different from them..... that's where all of our nations problems come from... stupid people voting for democrat crooks and liars...

So deep red states are the most successful in the country huh?

 

[Rogue AI]

Over 200 years of US history says we can't balance a budget to save our lives.

Again, only a fool believes tariffs can replace the personal income tax.

The Founders were not fools. If you think that, this isn't the place for.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Blacks are being told immigrants are taking their jobs.

I'd lke to know exactly what jobs belong to Blacks.

 

[justoffal]

I expect I will be seeing responses involving "free stuff", "systemic racism", and "stop calling me a racist". Not that I'm trying to poison the well or anything.

Struggling white people are told by their "news" outlets it is all the blacks and browns' fault. They are shown regular episodes of Black Behaving Badly to feed their confirmation bias. They are shown misleading and carefully edited clips to strengthen the false narratives. They are told blacks and browns are given unfair advantages in the workplace. They are told most blacks use welfare money to buy steaks and wine. Ripple? Malt liquor? The jokes write themselves. Highly questionable anecdotes abound. (Anecdotes are useless, by the way.) They are told their misdirected patriotism, and their hypocritical religiosity, make THEM the minority in America.

Most importantly, whites are carefully trained to avoid any other sources of information lest they be exposed to harsh truths.


Struggling black people are told by their "news" outlets they are the victims of the white man. If a black man is shot in the act of committing a violent crime, he is martyred. The result is that those black men who are shot while NOT committing a violent crime become indistinguishable and meaningless. It's like overusing the word "holocaust" to define the absence of toilet paper in the supermarket. Black people are not only told these things from their TVs, much of the misguided messaging about martyrs comes from the pulpit.

Most importantly, blacks are carefully trained to avoid any other sources of information lest they be exposed to harsh truths.


Regardless of the validity or merits of these narratives everyone is being fed, the purpose behind all of it is to provide both financial and political gain for the pushers of misinformation.

They own your mind.



Here's the thing.

You are a commodity. You are the golden goose.

The internal communications which were revealed by the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News revealed the Fox hosts didn't believe a word they were pushing on the air. They were worried their golden geese would fly away to another network if they were told the truth.

The truth would kill their golden geese. They understood this and acted accordingly.

Think about that. Think about what this means about what these propagandists think of you. They have made the deliberate decision to not tell you the truth and to tell you whatever will keep you coming back and being a good consumer of what they are peddling.

IF you have any sense of dignity, you would think real hard about what they think about you and your demands to be lied to.

You are a commodity.

From the top of your ballcapped head down to your emblazoned T-shirt right down to your golden sneakers.


Human growth hormones.

Ballcaps.

Gold-plated commemorative coins.

Sloganeering flags.

Magical thinking pills, potions, and powders.

Watches.

NFTs.

T-shirts.

Summons to rallies where you can buy no end of merch.

They own your body.



Most importantly, while preachers and politicians pay lip service to Jesus, they wield their false prophecy to inculcate nothing but hate against the opposition. They incite violence. They use every logical fallacy in the book to deceive their followers and lead them astray. Far, far away from the teachings of Jesus.

They own your very soul.



The last thing any of these vile creatures wants is for struggling white people and struggling black and brown people to band together and wake up to who the real enemy is.

Divide and conquer.

Everyone can feel it. They can feel someone else's hand in their pocket. This provokes a visceral emotion. But understanding the complex causes of this theft against the common man is a difficult task. And that's on purpose.

This provides a wide open field for demagogues who simplify things for the mob. It's those Jews! It's those freeloading negroes! It's those illegal immigrants! It's the entire racist white race!

Send money! Buy my gewgaws. My private plane needs fuel. My trophy wife wants more jewels.

But whatever you do, don't listen to anyone else but me. I am sole proprietor of Truth.


Am I exempt from these influences? Hardly. I'm just as guilty as the next guy. I carry a lot of hate in my heart. I have allowed my mind, body, and soul to be conquered.

I hope to change that.

Division has always been the death of a culture.
Sadly it continues.