Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
This is like listening to the abused house wife who keeps running back to the same unapologetic violent husband.
“He’s changed and won’t do it again”
“I believe in him … it’s going to be different this time”
“I’ll give him another chance … again”
“He promised that it will be different this time”
“I know it will work this time”
It’s even more basic than that. I’m convinced its just a matter of controlling food. Every major revolution in history is most commonly initiated because people were just starving to death. They had no choice, either die starving or die trying to overturn the system … so many people opted to just try fighting because they knew they were going to die anyways. They literally fought for the next generation of people after them.
The dynamics are the same today but the ruling class know the lessons of the past so they control the food supply. They make food readily available and within the reach of everyone so no one ever truly is able to starve, at the very least no large segments of the population starves. This also isn’t to say that everyone eats like kings either … just enough food is made available and affordable to keep people from rioting. It’s also the population at play too … most of civilization will put up with shitty quality food, lack of food, low food supplies and inadequate food supplies for long periods of time before (or even if) they revolt.
It all doesn’t mean that people are happy or content … they just aren’t starving … as long as you keep them from starving, chances are high that they won’t have enough motivation to want anything to change.
Of course it works … the problem for corporations and all consuming controlling governments who want to control populations is that they are afraid of what people will think or do in their spare time. Problems for the owning and controlling class arise when large portions of the population have extra days to sit around and consider why things are the way they are in society.
Ukraine could ask the US for military aide to fight the US
It’s the other way around … we pick up a big greedy pig that enjoys gobbling up money and rest the microscope on its stomach, examine it’s skin in detail and wonder why everything in the world is being eaten up by some creature we can’t find in our microscope. Instead of stepping back, we keep building and buying ever more powerful microscopes to look at the cells of the greedy pig and never want to see the big giant creature we are working on.
What do you think is going to happen to these people who join the military? I just had one of my friends who is 22 join the US military in Georgia. I’m Canadian but I got to hear their story over the past six months.
Step one … 2 weeks of indoctrination and psychological training to push you physically and mentally to the point where you are programmed to just listen, take orders and don’t ask questions.
Then the rest of your military career is decided on the whims of those above you. You follow orders even if they are wrong. And even if you know they are wrong orders or that you don’t want to follow them, they make it so hard for you to gauge that decision that no matter what happens, the majority of everyone just follows orders like robots.
… and can’t do anything about it because the organization is hogtied by the countries who can blow up the entire world.
For me it was Indiana Jones or Star Wars … as a kid in the 80s, these two movies completely occupied our imaginations for most of the decade.
Honourable mention for me is … Commando … with Schwarzenegger … (every time we had a game pretending for war or shooting each other with toy guns, I did or someone in our group would mimic the suit up scene getting ready for battle)
Nice … now I need to learn more about Buddhism and use an ice pick to remove all the information I have about the Christian Bible.
If you build a more equitable society … then the elderly would be less likely to be in government. A more equitable society and civilization would have more opportunities for younger people rather than the elderly holding onto power until they died.
A better tactic for overall humanity to prosper is to enact ways of capping or limiting absurd levels of wealth and also providing a basic living income for everyone. A world where no one is allowed to completely fail to the point of facing death or an early grave as well as a world where no one is allowed to have so much power over others that they can literally destabilize the entire world.
What governments and corporations never understand and will never want to understand is that …
… it isn’t about the quantity of life … or even the quantity of people who are alive or are born
… it’s about the quality of life
If everyone lives a comfortable, safe and fulfilling life without risk of poverty or losing everything they have, then they are more likely to have children and raise them to become productive people who will contribute to society.
Otherwise if you don’t take care of people, they will either have no children or a bunch of children that will all grow up to become a burden to society.
The power of the Lord compels you … HE COMPELS YOU!!! (palm slaps you on the forehead)
Unsympathetic
If the people you talk to can’t / won’t or don’t acknowledge your existence or your experience, then they are just simply unsympathetic and have little or no empathy for others.
Imagine how abundant and cheap wood was back then to have the resources to build an entire race track deck out of lumber.
Reminds me of the murder dome
I think that’s more than Seven Seagulls
No … and stop following anything that stupid website says.
Whistleblowers always seem to conveniently commit suicide at the right moment.
Did the Canadian Weston family start selling bread in Syria?
Think of it as someone’s private house or warehouse. Everyone is invited in to hang out and talk. At first there is a lot of freedom and no one is really affected. It becomes popular and there are many different types of people and open conversations are happening everywhere.
A new owner takes over the place.
He decides that some people shouldn’t be allowed to talk. He has a bunch of loud mouth obnoxious friends with extreme ideas and he starts giving them a louder voice. Anyone that disagrees or challenges them are drowned out, pushed to the back or told to leave. It’s become their place and their hang out now.
It’s not a public space and you really have no rights to anything there because it’s all privately owned by someone else. Write, share and save as much as you want there but none of it is really under your control or ownership.
You can shout, fight, disagree and challenge them all you want but it’s their place. You have no power there because if you put up too much of a fight, you’ll be pushed out, told to leave and never come back.