Militarism at the Heart of US Gun Violence

From February 2018:

Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."
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"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.

"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.

"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.

"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.

"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.

"It is a capitalist crisis."

A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.

Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.
Nice photoshop job.

This is absolute nonsense.

The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.
The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.
How many mass shooters are university graduates?
How many are raised in a gun culture that worships hired killers?
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As usual, you fail to address the issue. You simply want the guns, but the symptoms point to teaching young people to be wholly intolerant of anyone's opinion but the one they are given by the progressive narrative.

A person who can think critically would come to the realization that not everyone would be affected to the point they would go to extremes to silence those they disagree with, but there are enough that will.

All of that is being normalized by our left-wing institutions. That bleeds over to the other side when they are targeted and find no recourse to stop the abuse that is heaped upon them. Now we have two sides, hell-bent on silencing the other side.

Take note. No one anymore is saying, "They are wrong but they have the right to say it and I intend to fight them with how I think the world should be."

They are saying that the other side cannot be allowed to speak, talk, demonstrate, or debate. They are saying, "Shut the fuck up or we'll shut you up!".

That is the real culprit in all the increases in mass shootings.

Now, I'll leave it to you as an exercise to see how all of this applies to why we did not have all these mass shootings in the past and in fact, guns were open and prevalent the entire time.

Have a nice day.
As usual, you fail to address the issue. You simply want the guns, but the symptoms point to teaching young people to be wholly intolerant of anyone's opinion but the one they are given by the progressive narrative.
There's nothing progressive about white nationalist gun pussies:

Eco-Fascism: the Racist Theory That Inspired the El Paso and Christchurch Shooters


"A far-right philosophy dubbed 'eco-fascism' has been increasingly gaining steam in white nationalist circles online.

"On Saturday, for at least the second time this year, the racist tropes associated with that philosophy translated into real-world violence.

"Before the El Paso shooter targeted Latinos shopping at Walmart on Saturday morning, he posted a four-page screed accusing immigrants of destroying the environment.

It’s a conspiracy theory shared by the white nationalist who killed 51 at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year. Both shooters posted manifestos on 8chan that blamed immigrants for the woes of the modern world — including environmental problems."
You Progs make more names and things up and have no guilt about it. You make a mess and won't clean up your own shit so blame it on the citizens you hate by accusing them of hating and blaming people from other nations. The tragedies we see ar 95% on your side of political thinking and you keep bringing up the ones that were not. I have evolved. I have seen crimes and not reported them. I do not care. I know you must be dealt with and I am not a violent person or great street fighter. You are dangerous and if you do win will not like the results once your leaders have to make the real decisions of life and death in a a small economic pie environment.
I know you must be dealt with and I am not a violent person or great street fighter. You are dangerous and if you do win will not like the results once your leaders have to make the real decisions of life and death in a a small economic pie environment.
I think you are underestimating the economic threat posed by parasites like Trump and his billionaire brethren:
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In 33 Years The Rich Could Own All the Wealth in America

"According to new data from the federal reserve, if current trends of the rich getting richer and the middle class getting poorer continues at their current rate, in 33 years the top 10% of Americans will own one hundred percent of all American wealth.

"Everyone else will be in poverty and in debt.

"Right wing billionaires like Donald Trump are cheering this on, calling for more tax cuts on rich people and less power for working people through the continuing destruction of unions and fighting the minimum wage."
 
What's eco-fascism?
Apparently, the definition is broad enough to span "blood and soil" with the Green New Deal; as I understand it, white nationalists in the US have decided migrants are to blame for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions?
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One suspected driver of the 'caravan': climate change - CNNPolitics



"Environmental historian Michael E. Zimmerman defines 'ecofascism' as 'a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states
.'[3]

"Zimmerman argues that while no ecofascist government has so far existed, 'important aspects of it can be found in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was 'Blood and Soil'.[3]

"According to environmentalist David Orton, the term is pejorative in nature and has 'social ecology roots, against the deep ecology movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear.'[7]

Ecofascism - Wikipedia

It's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
t's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
Or we could impeach one useful idiot?
lenin-useful-idiots.jpg

"Furthermore, EPA data found there were significantly more polluted days each year of Mr. Trump's than in any year of President Obama's second term, according to the AP.

"And the worst of the bad days jumped even more than the 15 percent rise in unhealthy air.

"On average, there were nearly 140 times, in 2017 and 2018, when a city's air pollution reached 'very unhealthy' and 'hazardous' levels with the air quality index greater than 200.

"That's more than two-and-a-half times the average of nearly 55 from 2013 to 2016, the APreported."

U.S. Air Quality Is Headed the Wrong Way

Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
 
There are more murders in Baltimore and Chicago every weekend in the summer. Is this perhaps an example of left wing militarism?
What are the motives for those big city murders, racial hatred or property disputes? In one sense, the racially-inspired homicides we saw recently in El Paso and black-on-black killings in major cities trace to the same source:
counter-protest-charlottesville-rtr-img.jpg

White supremacy - Wikipedia
 
What's eco-fascism?
Apparently, the definition is broad enough to span "blood and soil" with the Green New Deal; as I understand it, white nationalists in the US have decided migrants are to blame for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions?
181208165340-20181208-soth-america-drought-1950-2000-v4.jpg

One suspected driver of the 'caravan': climate change - CNNPolitics



"Environmental historian Michael E. Zimmerman defines 'ecofascism' as 'a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states
.'[3]

"Zimmerman argues that while no ecofascist government has so far existed, 'important aspects of it can be found in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was 'Blood and Soil'.[3]

"According to environmentalist David Orton, the term is pejorative in nature and has 'social ecology roots, against the deep ecology movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear.'[7]

Ecofascism - Wikipedia

It's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
t's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
Or we could impeach one useful idiot?
lenin-useful-idiots.jpg

"Furthermore, EPA data found there were significantly more polluted days each year of Mr. Trump's than in any year of President Obama's second term, according to the AP.

"And the worst of the bad days jumped even more than the 15 percent rise in unhealthy air.

"On average, there were nearly 140 times, in 2017 and 2018, when a city's air pollution reached 'very unhealthy' and 'hazardous' levels with the air quality index greater than 200.

"That's more than two-and-a-half times the average of nearly 55 from 2013 to 2016, the APreported."

U.S. Air Quality Is Headed the Wrong Way

Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
What's YOUR carbon footprint?
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World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions, says Oxfam
 
Militarism at the Heart of US Gun Violence
From February 2018:
Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

“Violence” is literally forcible rape.

How many women are seriously claiming to have been raped at gunpoint?

There is something about the logistics of that which makes the weapon of choice somewhat irrelevant.

The Bible says that “the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. … The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.”

Sons of God? They were monsters who took wives by force! That is the definition of violence. The U.S. military is not getting away with violence on duty or in uniform by any stretch of the imagination.

Some men are, of course, but they are not the ones being punished by the whores of our corrupt system of crime & punishment.
 
What's eco-fascism?
Apparently, the definition is broad enough to span "blood and soil" with the Green New Deal; as I understand it, white nationalists in the US have decided migrants are to blame for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions?
181208165340-20181208-soth-america-drought-1950-2000-v4.jpg

One suspected driver of the 'caravan': climate change - CNNPolitics



"Environmental historian Michael E. Zimmerman defines 'ecofascism' as 'a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states
.'[3]

"Zimmerman argues that while no ecofascist government has so far existed, 'important aspects of it can be found in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was 'Blood and Soil'.[3]

"According to environmentalist David Orton, the term is pejorative in nature and has 'social ecology roots, against the deep ecology movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear.'[7]

Ecofascism - Wikipedia

It's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
t's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
Or we could impeach one useful idiot?
lenin-useful-idiots.jpg

"Furthermore, EPA data found there were significantly more polluted days each year of Mr. Trump's than in any year of President Obama's second term, according to the AP.

"And the worst of the bad days jumped even more than the 15 percent rise in unhealthy air.

"On average, there were nearly 140 times, in 2017 and 2018, when a city's air pollution reached 'very unhealthy' and 'hazardous' levels with the air quality index greater than 200.

"That's more than two-and-a-half times the average of nearly 55 from 2013 to 2016, the APreported."

U.S. Air Quality Is Headed the Wrong Way

Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
What's YOUR carbon footprint?
4d8525a5-be37-4d04-a275-ccdbd30c98b7-620x431.jpeg

World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions, says Oxfam

What's YOUR carbon footprint?

I've never cared enough to calculate that meaningless bullshit statistic.

Can we count on your help to deport a couple of million illegals?
 
There are more murders in Baltimore and Chicago every weekend in the summer. Is this perhaps an example of left wing militarism?
What are the motives for those big city murders, racial hatred or property disputes? In one sense, the racially-inspired homicides we saw recently in El Paso and black-on-black killings in major cities trace to the same source:
counter-protest-charlottesville-rtr-img.jpg

White supremacy - Wikipedia


black-on-black killings in major cities trace to the same source:




End white supremacy, or the nigga gets it!!!
 
Militarism at the Heart of US Gun Violence
From February 2018:
Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

“Violence” is literally forcible rape.

How many women are seriously claiming to have been raped at gunpoint?

There is something about the logistics of that which makes the weapon of choice somewhat irrelevant.

The Bible says that “the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. … The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.”

Sons of God? They were monsters who took wives by force! That is the definition of violence. The U.S. military is not getting away with violence on duty or in uniform by any stretch of the imagination.

Some men are, of course, but they are not the ones being punished by the whores of our corrupt system of crime & punishment.
The Bible says that “the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. … The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.”

Sons of God? They were monsters who took wives by force! That is the definition of violence. The U.S. military is not getting away with violence on duty or in uniform by any stretch of the imagination.
military-sexual-assault.jpg

The U.S. Military's Sexual Assault Problem Is Not Getting Better | Tech To Combat Campus Sexual Violence
 
Apparently, the definition is broad enough to span "blood and soil" with the Green New Deal; as I understand it, white nationalists in the US have decided migrants are to blame for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions?
181208165340-20181208-soth-america-drought-1950-2000-v4.jpg

One suspected driver of the 'caravan': climate change - CNNPolitics



"Environmental historian Michael E. Zimmerman defines 'ecofascism' as 'a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states
.'[3]

"Zimmerman argues that while no ecofascist government has so far existed, 'important aspects of it can be found in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was 'Blood and Soil'.[3]

"According to environmentalist David Orton, the term is pejorative in nature and has 'social ecology roots, against the deep ecology movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear.'[7]

Ecofascism - Wikipedia

It's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
t's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
Or we could impeach one useful idiot?
lenin-useful-idiots.jpg

"Furthermore, EPA data found there were significantly more polluted days each year of Mr. Trump's than in any year of President Obama's second term, according to the AP.

"And the worst of the bad days jumped even more than the 15 percent rise in unhealthy air.

"On average, there were nearly 140 times, in 2017 and 2018, when a city's air pollution reached 'very unhealthy' and 'hazardous' levels with the air quality index greater than 200.

"That's more than two-and-a-half times the average of nearly 55 from 2013 to 2016, the APreported."

U.S. Air Quality Is Headed the Wrong Way

Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
What's YOUR carbon footprint?
4d8525a5-be37-4d04-a275-ccdbd30c98b7-620x431.jpeg

World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions, says Oxfam

What's YOUR carbon footprint?

I've never cared enough to calculate that meaningless bullshit statistic.

Can we count on your help to deport a couple of million illegals?
Can we count on your help to deport a couple of million illegals?
I think I'll "deport" the source of the problem
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Care to make a donation?
 
It's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
t's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.
Or we could impeach one useful idiot?
lenin-useful-idiots.jpg

"Furthermore, EPA data found there were significantly more polluted days each year of Mr. Trump's than in any year of President Obama's second term, according to the AP.

"And the worst of the bad days jumped even more than the 15 percent rise in unhealthy air.

"On average, there were nearly 140 times, in 2017 and 2018, when a city's air pollution reached 'very unhealthy' and 'hazardous' levels with the air quality index greater than 200.

"That's more than two-and-a-half times the average of nearly 55 from 2013 to 2016, the APreported."

U.S. Air Quality Is Headed the Wrong Way

Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
What's YOUR carbon footprint?
4d8525a5-be37-4d04-a275-ccdbd30c98b7-620x431.jpeg

World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions, says Oxfam

What's YOUR carbon footprint?

I've never cared enough to calculate that meaningless bullshit statistic.

Can we count on your help to deport a couple of million illegals?
Can we count on your help to deport a couple of million illegals?
I think I'll "deport" the source of the problem
lgdKylP.png

Care to make a donation?

20 million illegal aliens emit much more CO2 than Trump.

Why do you hate the planet?
 
Or we could impeach one useful idiot?
lenin-useful-idiots.jpg

"Furthermore, EPA data found there were significantly more polluted days each year of Mr. Trump's than in any year of President Obama's second term, according to the AP.

"And the worst of the bad days jumped even more than the 15 percent rise in unhealthy air.

"On average, there were nearly 140 times, in 2017 and 2018, when a city's air pollution reached 'very unhealthy' and 'hazardous' levels with the air quality index greater than 200.

"That's more than two-and-a-half times the average of nearly 55 from 2013 to 2016, the APreported."

U.S. Air Quality Is Headed the Wrong Way

Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
Deporting illegal aliens will actually reduce CO2 emissions in meaningful amounts.
We could deport commie idiots like you to reduce CO2 even more.
What's YOUR carbon footprint?
4d8525a5-be37-4d04-a275-ccdbd30c98b7-620x431.jpeg

World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions, says Oxfam

What's YOUR carbon footprint?

I've never cared enough to calculate that meaningless bullshit statistic.

Can we count on your help to deport a couple of million illegals?
Can we count on your help to deport a couple of million illegals?
I think I'll "deport" the source of the problem
lgdKylP.png

Care to make a donation?

20 million illegal aliens emit much more CO2 than Trump.

Why do you hate the planet?
20 million illegal aliens emit much more CO2 than Trump.

Why do you hate the planet?
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Why Not?
 
Ok, post #234 defines eco-fascism.

Zizek's definition of fascism:

'Fascism is the obscene in so far as it perceives directly the ideological form as its own end, as an end in itself -- remember Mussolini's famous answer to the question 'How do the fascists justify their claim to rule Italy? What is their programme?'; 'Our programme is very simple: we want to rule italy!' The ideological power of fascism lies precisely in the feature that was perceived by liberal or leftist critics as its greatest weakness; in the utterly void, formal character of its appeal, in the fact that it demands obedience and sacrifice for their own sake. For fascist ideology, the point is not the instrumental value of the sacrifice, it's the very form of the sacrifice itself, 'the spirit of sacrifice,' which is the cure against the liberal-decadent disease. It is also clear why fascism was so terrified by psychoanalysis: psychoanalysis enables us to locate an obscene enjoyment at work in this act of formal sacrifice.'
(The Sublime Object of Ideology)
 
'Wannsee, where the final solution was laid out as the government's program in 1942, was a "cozy little social gathering." Eichmann was secretary to this Conference of the Undersecretaries of State, and it it resolved all his doubts. Arendt quotes Eichmann's deposition:

'Here now, during this conference, the most prominent people who had spoken, the Popes of the Third Reich.' Now he could see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears that not only Hitler....but the good old Civil Service were vying and fighting with each other for the honor of taking the lead in these 'bloody matters.' At that moment....I felt free of all guilt' Who was he to judge?

Arendt comments, "Well, he was neither the first nor the last to be ruined by modesty"; but when such modesty was a function of what Eichmann himself termed a "death whirl" his failure to "judge" becomes obscene. His modesty instead indexes a different posture: Eichmann as the one who sacrifices his personal judgment, desires, and emotions to serve the will-to-jouissance of Hitler.
....
The psychoanalytic "principle behind the Law" in Eichmann's case is, Zizek argues, the obscene ("Maternal") will-to-jouissance beyond the regulation of the signifier....To resume, then, the need for a written Law specifically prohibiting genocide. (1) It should by now be evident that "the pleasure principle" needs its ethical mandate, beyond the "reality principle" of a social field that can no longer be considered homeostatic and nonconflictual. The fantasmatic character of human pleasure must not only be accounted for in an ethic today, it must take primacy. Fantasy formations grows ever more central in our lives, fantasy is the support for our "reality." (47)* '

*(47) Note that Euro-Disney in France is restricted to only one of the "Lands" Disney's company devised for the Anaheim Disneyland: "Fantasyland."
(McCannell JF, Facing Fascism: A Feminine Politics of Jouissance, in Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics)

The recent violence at Disneyland interrupted this will-to-jouissance.
 
Ok, post #234 defines eco-fascism.

Zizek's definition of fascism:

'Fascism is the obscene in so far as it perceives directly the ideological form as its own end, as an end in itself -- remember Mussolini's famous answer to the question 'How do the fascists justify their claim to rule Italy? What is their programme?'; 'Our programme is very simple: we want to rule italy!' The ideological power of fascism lies precisely in the feature that was perceived by liberal or leftist critics as its greatest weakness; in the utterly void, formal character of its appeal, in the fact that it demands obedience and sacrifice for their own sake. For fascist ideology, the point is not the instrumental value of the sacrifice, it's the very form of the sacrifice itself, 'the spirit of sacrifice,' which is the cure against the liberal-decadent disease. It is also clear why fascism was so terrified by psychoanalysis: psychoanalysis enables us to locate an obscene enjoyment at work in this act of formal sacrifice.'
(The Sublime Object of Ideology)
Would Mussolini be welcome on Wall Street?

Slavoj Zizek: The Problem Is Capitalism

“The present crisis is not crisis [sic] of capitalism but the crisis of morality.”

"Let us recall the famous joke from Ernst Lubitch’s Ninotchka: the hero visits a cafeteria and orders coffee without cream; the waiter replies:

“Sorry, but we have run out of cream, we only have milk. Can I bring you coffee without milk?”

"Was not a similar trick at work in the dissolution of the eastern european Communist regimes in 1990?

"The people who protested wanted freedom and democracy without corruption and exploitation, and what they got was freedom and democracy without solidarity and justice.

"Likewise, the Catholic theologian close to pope is carefully emphasizing that the protesters should target moral injustice, greed, consumerism etc, without capitalism.

"The self-propelling circulation of Capital remains more than ever the ultimate Real of our lives, a beast that by definition cannot be controlled."
 
On Wall Street, Capitalism In Its Descending Phase

We wish to find more evidence of immature brains under 25 years of age linked to militarism, though there is a militarism of financial violence.

'It goes without saying that when history goes into a deep rut it becomes hard to alter the course of affairs. But even at this late date the sundown scenario could be avoided. The Fed's financial repression and Wall Street-coddling policies could be pronounced a failure and abandoned. Crony capitalism could be put out of business by constitutional writ. Likewise, corpulent warfare and welfare states could be put into a constitutional chastity belt and the rule of no spending without equal taxation could be made the modus operandi of a shrunken state. Eventually, the free market could regain its vigor and capacity for wealth creation and, under a regime of sound money and honest finance, the 1 percent could continue to enjoy their opulence by earning it the old-fashioned way; that is, be delivering society inventions and enterprise that expand the economic pie, rather than reallocate it.

The crucial steps that would be needed are few but large. They would never be adopted in today's regime of money politics, fast money speculation, and Keynesian economics, but they can be listed. They are compelling.

1. Restore Banker's Bank and Sound Money
2. Abolish Deposit Insurance and Limit the Fed Discount Window to Narrow Depositories
3. Adopt Super Glass-Steagall II
4. Abolish Incumbency Through Omnibus Amendment
5. Require Each Two-Year Congress to Balance the Budget
6. End Macroeconomic Management and Separate the State and the Free Market
7. Abolish Social Insurance, Bailouts, and Economic Subsidies
8. Eliminate Ten Major Federal Agencies and Departments
9. Erect a Sturdy Cash-Based Means-Tested Safety Net and Abolish the Minimum Wage
10. Abolish Health "Insurance" in All Its Forms
11. Replace the Warfare State with Genuine National Defense
12. Impose a 30 Percent Wealth Tax; Pay Down the National Debt to 30 Percent of GDP
13. Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment; Feed the Beast with Universal Taxes on Consumption.'
(Stockman D, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, 2013)

Stockman expounds on points 1-13....
11. The warfare state would be demobilized and dismantled, with budget resources reduced to the Eisenhower Minimum outside of a declaration of war. Foreign policy would be based on the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of all other nations coupled with the Eisenhower policy of massive nuclear retaliation. In other words, the nation's conventional forces would be reduced by perhaps two-thirds and be used solely to shield the continent from conventional military attack; the domestic police forces would be in charge of warding off and controlling terrorist subversion; and any foreign aggressor contemplating a nuclear attack against the United States would know with certainty that the consequence would be incineration of their own nation. At the present time the Eisenhower Minimum would amount to about 2.5 percent of GDP and would more than meet the legitimate defense needs of a nation that is broke and which was never elected policeman of the world in the first place.'
 
'The lesson is thus that one should resist the fascination of subjective violence, of violence enacted by social agents, evil individuals, disciplined repressive apparatuses, fanatical crowds: subjective violence is just the most visible of the three (Subjective Objective Symbolic). The notion of objective violence needs to be thoroughly historicised: it took new shape with capitalism. Marx described the mad, self-enhancing circulation of capital, whose solipsistic path of parthenogenesis reaches its apogee in today's meta-reflexive speculations on futures. It is far too simplistic to claim that the spectre of this self-engendering monster that pursues its path disregarding any human or environmental concern is an ideological abstraction and that behind this abstraction there are real people and natural objects on whose productive capacities and resources capital's circulation is based and on which it feeds like a giant parasite....This violence is no longer attributable to concrete individuals and their "evil" intentions but is purely "objective," systemic, anonymous.'
(Zizek, Violence: Six Sideways Reflections)
 
The first two paragraphs of your link should be required reading everywhere in the Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World:

"f you care about gun violence in the United States of America, I think you need to also care about militarism in the USA.

"We're not going to solve the domestic problem until we solve the global one.

"It can't be a coincidence that the most weaponed-up nation in the world also suffers regular epidemics of gun violence in schools, colleges, movie theaters, shopping malls, parking lots.

"We're talking about gun control and getting nowhere, and this is because we're not discussing the root cause.

"Domestic gun violence and militarism are co-dependents.

"They enable each other."

Some days I wonder if a two degree Celsius temperature rise over pre-industrial levels or three hundred million guns will end US civilization first. I suppose the latter will be marketed as an antidote to the former?
 
The first two paragraphs of your link should be required reading everywhere in the Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World:

"f you care about gun violence in the United States of America, I think you need to also care about militarism in the USA.

"We're not going to solve the domestic problem until we solve the global one.

"It can't be a coincidence that the most weaponed-up nation in the world also suffers regular epidemics of gun violence in schools, colleges, movie theaters, shopping malls, parking lots.

"We're talking about gun control and getting nowhere, and this is because we're not discussing the root cause.

"Domestic gun violence and militarism are co-dependents.

"They enable each other."

Some days I wonder if a two degree Celsius temperature rise over pre-industrial levels or three hundred million guns will end US civilization first. I suppose the latter will
On Wall Street, Capitalism In Its Descending Phase

We wish to find more evidence of immature brains under 25 years of age linked to militarism, though there is a militarism of financial violence.

'It goes without saying that when history goes into a deep rut it becomes hard to alter the course of affairs. But even at this late date the sundown scenario could be avoided. The Fed's financial repression and Wall Street-coddling policies could be pronounced a failure and abandoned. Crony capitalism could be put out of business by constitutional writ. Likewise, corpulent warfare and welfare states could be put into a constitutional chastity belt and the rule of no spending without equal taxation could be made the modus operandi of a shrunken state. Eventually, the free market could regain its vigor and capacity for wealth creation and, under a regime of sound money and honest finance, the 1 percent could continue to enjoy their opulence by earning it the old-fashioned way; that is, be delivering society inventions and enterprise that expand the economic pie, rather than reallocate it.

The crucial steps that would be needed are few but large. They would never be adopted in today's regime of money politics, fast money speculation, and Keynesian economics, but they can be listed. They are compelling.

1. Restore Banker's Bank and Sound Money
2. Abolish Deposit Insurance and Limit the Fed Discount Window to Narrow Depositories
3. Adopt Super Glass-Steagall II
4. Abolish Incumbency Through Omnibus Amendment
5. Require Each Two-Year Congress to Balance the Budget
6. End Macroeconomic Management and Separate the State and the Free Market
7. Abolish Social Insurance, Bailouts, and Economic Subsidies
8. Eliminate Ten Major Federal Agencies and Departments
9. Erect a Sturdy Cash-Based Means-Tested Safety Net and Abolish the Minimum Wage
10. Abolish Health "Insurance" in All Its Forms
11. Replace the Warfare State with Genuine National Defense
12. Impose a 30 Percent Wealth Tax; Pay Down the National Debt to 30 Percent of GDP
13. Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment; Feed the Beast with Universal Taxes on Consumption.'
(Stockman D, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, 2013)

Stockman expounds on points 1-13....
11. The warfare state would be demobilized and dismantled, with budget resources reduced to the Eisenhower Minimum outside of a declaration of war. Foreign policy would be based on the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of all other nations coupled with the Eisenhower policy of massive nuclear retaliation. In other words, the nation's conventional forces would be reduced by perhaps two-thirds and be used solely to shield the continent from conventional military attack; the domestic police forces would be in charge of warding off and controlling terrorist subversion; and any foreign aggressor contemplating a nuclear attack against the United States would know with certainty that the consequence would be incineration of their own nation. At the present time the Eisenhower Minimum would amount to about 2.5 percent of GDP and would more than meet the legitimate defense needs of a nation that is broke and which was never elected policeman of the world in the first place.'
In other words, the nation's conventional forces would be reduced by perhaps two-thirds and be used solely to shield the continent from conventional military attack; the domestic police forces would be in charge of warding off and controlling terrorist subversion
Closing hundreds of US military bases around the world could help reduce the defense budget.
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Imho, we should take a page from FDR's New Deal and enlist the US military to manage a 21st Century Green New Deal. Millions of US civilians could join active duty troops and perform some genuine national defense.

Base Nation - U.S. Military Bases Worldwide - The History Reader
 

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