Freedom Will Win

 It's a wonder the lengths progressives will have to go through to explain their beliefs. To have to explain that Zionism does not represent Judaism to every god-fearing soul who wants to believe that what's happening in Gaza is an act of Jews defending themselves from a hateful, terroristic people, who, in reality, are people just like the Jews who live ordinary lives in Israel and in the rest of the world. Equating Zionism to Judaism is like equating Isis or the Taliban or even Saudi Princes to Islam. Yes, those terroristic examples use Islam in the same way Zionism uses Judaism. All that is not to say that religion itself, in all it's various forms, has not been the main harbinger of not always hate but a disguise for oppression, war, and the renunciation of freedom everywhere. 

Let's face it. All the problems, worldwide, relating to the status of non-believers, the status of women, the status of freedom are connected to religious beliefs, which, of themselves, are merely the mistaken belief that god intervenes on behalf of some people and not others or that god Itself (or in the case of most religions) HE cares enough about what true believers are doing, to actually condone mass murder whenever necessary, usually in revenge, or furtherance of some sort of "political" or personal necessity.

The problem with Zionists murdering Gazans for what Hamas did on October 7th is much akin to the mass murder and demolition of Iraq and Afghanistan for what happened on September 11th.  Although both those countries probably deserved some sort of retribution ( like every nation probably does), it was Saudi's who drove planes into the towers and pentagon. And their main man was son of a wealthy saudi family. Nevertheless, none were Iraqi nor Afghani, besides those people were in the same boat as Jews in Israel, with their governments being weaponized and controlled by oil and resource corporate interests, protected by western guns.

It's all very westerny, like in cowboys and indians, working out who is going to control the world.

Let me get back to religion though because I do fear that this anti-semitic thing is, of course, going to get out of hand. One thing I do know for sure is all of this chaotic sentiment about how politics uses the confusion of people to manipulate even further makes the fascist job so much easier. If you look at the great fascist representatives of the modern age (Hitler, Mussolini, Netanyahu, Assad, Trump) and their weak counterparts (America in general, Capital, in general, Anti-freedom, in general) you find some religious stimulus, whether it be hiding behind some god to justify their dirty work. Both Hitler and Mussolini were so called Christian, Netanyahu is so called Jewish, yet they adhere(d) to extreme viewpoints brought up from the dark ages of history and pre-history. Interestingly, Trump has never professed faith in anything but himself, he just uses the insinuation that he moves and is protected by something bigger than himself (even having his followers believe he was "saved" from the assassination.)

Freedom isn't revenge, it isn't fear, it isn't greed, it isn't war and in converse it isn't the defense of itself. That's all sociopathology, that's all insanity, and that's all-anti-freedom. Defending yourself or your community or your nation, believing that a higher power is justifying and protecting you, those are the thoughts of an insane person when what you've done is control, oppress, murder, rape and pillage or take what's not yours, all that is sociopathology.

THINK ABOUT IT! 

Unfortunately, we, in the western world, are now going to be driven and hounded by the backward, unintelligible minds of insane and ill personalities who are going to, and have already, not just since Trump, but throughout history, provided us, the people, with war, torture, rape, murder, and NO HOPE, NO FUTURE, where ordinary religious beliefs, where a person simply exercises their freedom to believe in something higher than themselves, which is a form of freedom, will be swept under the rug along with the rest of us who believe in freedom as a condition for living, not as a condition for murder. It is the ordinary Jew, ordinary person of faith who will be punished now for the actions of their extremist dictatorial ill-chosen leaders. Ordinary Jewish-Israeli citizens have to make the same decisions about themselves as ordinary Americans and others have to make. Will we stand up, will we have the patience and strength to resist?

Yes, but some of us will probably try and meet the enemy with firepower, forgetting Freedom does not come from the barrel of a gun but from the power of the people resisting, building, loving the freedoms we have and taking back the freedoms, we will sometimes lose but have to find again. There will be plenty of opportunity for us to protect our families, friends, neighbors, and communities from what's going to happen next. Plenty of opportunity to exercise your freedom, not suppress it. This is where the rubber meets the road, so to speak.

PEACE! Do Not Hate. Fight without murder, Resist with your mind, heart, and body. Speak it, Shout it.

Fwd: Two state solution

Two state solution

Well, Gazans are the ones living in dangerous times but not us. We have the choice and no matter how many choose the two-state solution over the last seventy years, no one here did enough to make that possible. It's always been dangerous times there. Always been evident that there would not ever be a two-state solution. Zionism believes in Israel and Palestine for Jews, and not anyone else. All americans have been suckered into the idea zionism is judaism, and have fallen even further to believe anti-zionism is anti-semitism. The Holocaust was only an anomaly because it happened in the history of the modern western nations who have always ruled the world wherever they found it with slavery, genocide, ethnic cleansing, immigrant hating. It's a culture of violence, patriarchy, oligarchy that is prevalent in every corner of the world. It is the "evil" of which we all speak. It's controlled by profit and greed and manufactured by the people who have been stripped of all of their natural instincts of cooperation, self-reliance, determination to be free, by authoritarian utilitarians.

Yes, we are like corralled sheep while Gazans, Sudanese, and billions of others are already in the slaughterhouses of greed and supremacy.

It's always been dangerous times, believing in the two-state solution. It is like believing in santa claus, easter bunny, or werewolves. And if anyone still believes in it, they are truly absurdist. There will be no freedom from pain in gaza.

This election demonstrates the weakness of the great democratic dream. We are a third-rate country. We just have big guns, just like all the militias, terrorists, cartels, police that control people in the third world with threats, murder, and civil war. We have Big Mouths stuffed with riches obtained from the resources and abundance of the world's plenty at our expense.

Remember, no matter who won, the racist and hateful rhetoric that comes out of the republican lexicon comes with tens of millions of votes but also remember so does the slow change, no change, soft rhetoric of so called progress, justice, equality, two-state solutions of timid, passive junk ideas dealers who allow economic survival of the fittest continue and war against brown people around the world carry on for the sake of their ( or our) own security.

It's always amazed me how feminists opted for the ambition of the capitalist class while over the centuries women worldwide have suffered at the hands of the very class modern women want to join. Did we really want a woman president gun owner who seemed like she had that manly glint in her eye, to get the opportunity to pull that trigger. Aren't we tired of gun collectors, pussy grabbers, pedophiles, ignorant loud mouthed women, lawyers, tyrants, wanna be dictators, all the people who think their nation has the right to not just defend itself but defend itself against the people who they say, don't have the right to defend itself.

I hate nationalism. Nationalism is when americans, both liberal and conservative decry still the iranian revolution, the cuban revolution, palestinian lives because religious or political doctrines in those areas of the world are anti-capitalism, anti-women, anti-zionist.

For seven decades the western nations left the "palestinians" (originally arabs, muslims, jews, christians) out to dry, allowing and justifying and with their permission, zionists to divide, separate, murder, throw off the land, and now indiscriminately, slaughter in the name of God and It's Old Testament promise.

Americans are like supermarkets, their politics are all alike.

Two state solutions, immigration reform, political, sexual equanimity, and social justice reforms, economic parity, tax reform, climate change solutions, all these "policies" will never see the light of reality in the dark world those issues were created in. They've put freedom out there only to entice us to the snare, the capture, the meat grinder.

I am not neutral and the lessor of two evils we're always getting for politics is still evil and not a choice. If you don't know who your friends are or aren't, your trip is almost over because when americans stop and look around and it looks alot worse everywhere else, you should know your cage is secure and complete.  All your values, knowledge, common sense and FREEDOM has been effectively erased. I just wish everyone who tries to tell me about what conditions are like in Iran, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, China, India in lieu of what the real conditions are in whatever Nationalist, neo-fascist nation they live in, would just SHUT-UP. Isn't Genocide in your time enough to accept your passive acceptance of it all?

The only real change is inside your head, heart and mind. the real change is where you draw the line. what you will no longer do or accept. The only power anyone has is the refusal to do what you dont want to do. 

Conscription was the law of the land in the early sixties but men started refusing to comply with orders to serve at the same time as they started dying in Southeast Asia. The draft was taken away but what you, everyone now, men, women, will be conscripted when any real land war breaks out. And it is inevitable bigger wars will break out, possibly limited to non-nuclear like in Ukraine and Russia, two countries experimenting with weapons and strategy in a limited war, like Israel, experimenting in a limited war upon a stateless ethnic cleansing.

The militaries (including all the intelligence agencies) control what happens in all the "White Houses" whether it be in Washington D.C., Jerusalem, Kyiv, Moscow, and everywhere else.

We have to draw the line. The hardest change is the only real change. Our wants, desires, everything we consume, and use, and throw away, addicted to, and close our mind to, that's what's killing us. Little by little. 

We have to build an army of resistance, a society of what we want, how we want it. We can't waste time decrying what was done already and patch it back together the same way. We need cooperatives, communes, communities of resistance not based on money, acknowledgement of the state, not vulnerable to all the condemnation of preachers, spies, politicians, and any authoritarian system that refuses to stand by us. We need to do it our way.

Remember the Alamo or Troy because that's all that's going to be left of the Gaza Strip. It's over, it's done.

There will not be a two-state solution, wealth equity, economic reform, gender equanimity, affordable housing for the poor, and they say climate change is essential and existential, there will never be a solution to anything based on principles of capitalism and immorality.

You and we do not have two choices, we and you only have each other and ourselves.

Those who could lay down, went to sleep,

those who could fight, died in the street,

those who could work, dream together, build as they see,

those ones, live and die, reborn free.

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Fw: Maybe the biggest question progressives ask themselves

Maybe the biggest question progressives ask themselves while also failing to deal with whatever answers they come up with, is what is it that prevents many people from exercising their moral prerogative or the dissonance between what they see happening in the world and what they feel should be changed.

Most people feel powerless when it comes to making real social, cultural, or even personal change in their lives.

Two simple examples are riding a bike and eating healthy. Those two examples are practically revolutionary in a society dependent on cars, lack of space and time, and the devastating effects it produces in a society that entices one to eat "filler" food, food that essentially has no nutritional value at all. The rise of type two diabetes, and other worldwide food and water-based issues, is tantamount to a pandemic. 

No, i'm not going to get into all the overriding and coinciding factors of why we are where we are, but if people rode bikes instead of their cars to go short distances and bought nutritional, natural food for their diet, we'd be on our way to changing from a system reliant on rampant brainwashing consumerism to politicking essential services. Cars will become obsolete and before they do, the entire road/transportation/car infrastructure will be more and more unusable.

Just yesterday one lone car with one crazy driver who refused to surrender shut down busy I-80 in both directions for several hours, this in addition to normal heavy traffic all day long in urban areas.

Theres an old saying -you're within walking distance from everything you need. Or everything you need is within walking distance from HERE. Or right now. Besides, you see and meet your community that way. And you don't need a gun. Think small, forget big.

More questions than answers...

 ... but answers are what we need to start working on. Forget National Politics, forget national political figures, celebrities. If they aren't coming to your local, community BBQ, then they don't matter, do they?

I wrote in an earlier article, "I was not afraid of Donald Trump." I've thought about that since the election, and it still holds true. I said it in the same way I can say, "I'm not afraid of nuclear war." 

The reason for both statements is basically the same. No one, especially billionaires and businessmen, wants Uncertainty. It's the Uncertainty Principle and believe it or not, we, as the people, should feel Certain that for them to bring the House down means worse for them than for us. Yes, they'll say they are going to, but do or can they really mean it?

Yes, those in power, those who have wealth, political power, will make you think the worlds is coming to an end. (Read 'We're Still Living Out the Old Testament'). History has shown us that there are strong beliefs out there about apocalyptic scenarios but, ironically, those beliefs initially began with the common Hope that God did truly represented and protected common, ordinary true believers who were at the mercy of guess who, power hungry people, infidels, kings, generals and wealthy people- basically, sinners.

Nowadays, of course, with the emergence of nation states and the supposed guaranteeing of protections, security, and wishful thinking, the state tries to emulate the gods from whom they've usurped those "powers' of protection, security." In fact, they've gone even further with the Age of Reason thinking about equality, democracy, justice for all rather than some.

But, as we know, it isn't about All, it's about them, so over the course of the last few centuries, they've built their own nation state system that surrounds and protects them from such evils as socialism, communism, while they continue to desire and support the monolithic political spectrum of dictators, oligarchs, and the principles of genetic superiority of one form or another. brought to you by the mistaken scientific usurpation of racist, culturist ideologies that have been institutionalized within their legal and cultural definitions. .

Okay, so where does that leave us in the world of Certainty? Donald Trump merely represents the total panorama of snide politicians and power-hungry people who "know" how far they think they can go but will not take us to the edge but not make the plunge because the edge means their own destruction. Right now, they have it made. They have the petty conflicts to fuel their demand for our fear of their destruction, they have institutions to protect not only their assets but their own freedom to do what they want. But what they can't know, just like we all can't know, is what happens when it does all break down, when one of them breaks their own oath, and brings it down on, not only us, but themselves.

Right now, there is one man who has more potential to break it, all those entrenched mechanisms that they've used to further their own hubris and that's Netanyahu, with his reckless military adventure in the middle east, the adventure based in Old Testament beliefs. 

Look at Iran, look at Russia, or China, or any number of nations intent on making belligerent statements, they understand that their desires for standing up to america militarily will be short lived but they also understand that America is entrenched in contradictory themes- global, worldwide cooperative, capitalist monetary economy AND in the refusals of all nations, including America, wanting to make the ultimate sacrifice, which is, mutually assured self-destruction. It is all for one and one for all when it comes to them. Thats one reason why the major powers now engage in proxy wars, manufacturing and weaponizing smaller countries while hiding behind a symbolic peace process. They adapt and it's time we do too.

Mutually Assured Self-Destruction is our guarantee that they won't gain but will lose everything they've profited by. Think about it. During the pandemic, while we suffered, especially here in the US, their worldwide system was weakened just over the course of a couple of years. Why did America become the hardest hit of the pandemic countries? Because our system beyond the surface of things is the most entangled of all the so-called civilized societies. Not much for us to go on but neither has indirect, nationalized politics, institutionalized racist and culturalist (which includes religious intolerance), fear of immigrants, fear of social and economic change really brought us closer to our realizations. All of those things have been the source for tyrants to create fear and hatred over the centuries. If anything, our fear has been so infested with their creation of an environment safe for them (making wealth and money the only "real" assurance for security and safety).

There is a problem. An old Pogo cartoon states, "We have met the enemy, and it is us." Our differences are pettier and more trivial than real. Imagined grievances, traditional nuances, religious biases not based in anything except a belief in scripture written thousands of years ago, and an inability to break down the language we use to define what's good and what's bad. Is democracy bad, is equality good, how about "respect", how about "self-control"?

( more on this later)

I wish i could be more optimistic

 

The apocalypse or I wish I could be more optimistic

I feel like americas gonna blow.

I wish i could be a little more optimistic

You’d probably like to see more also.

Optimism that is.

I feel america’s gonna show itself

To be the false illusion it always strived to be.

I wish i could be more optimistic.

It’s not my friends who lack, nor poets, nor black lives matter,

Who forsake that Peace,

But we're talking about america, can’t be anything other than a unexploded munitions just sittin there, waiting for you or me.

Like a ups gift, amazon, prime delivery.

I wish i could be more optimistic but it’s not in my blood,

I’m sore battered and bruised from trying to believe the mean and evil will one day see the light. 

Bulb, 

We live in a world of make believe. 

The end times. Man, will my illusions be shattered when the horned Beast takes down the crowned bitch of heaven with seven bells, horns and trumpets sounding for a whole Millenium that’s yet to come, When will it end? When will it begin?

it starts all over again and again with a fortnight slaughter

Upon the wicked, forsaken, and derelict.

Someone will be left to rot on the street. And that will be sign of something to come, to end, to be manifested

Will it be you? Will it be me?

Goddamned i wish i could be more optimistic.

I’ve gone from black power to black lives matter.

Transformed from Roman Catholicism, authoritarianism to free thinker contrarianism,

From power to the people to power in the streets,

From red scare wars to military defeats.

Damn, i wish i could be more optimistic

No one cares, no one matters

We're all left standing waiting for the next step to take, shoe to fall, make the right call, but we’re on a one way street, going backwards. Against the grain

I don’t feel as if i can do much and feel as if i don’t want to try if i could,

I wish i could be more optimistic,

Maybe even be a little funnier.

Forget about the numbers in front of the washington monument, the ones washing their feet in the long pond of the Lincoln Memorial, the ones who will go home and eventually get murdered in their sleep, run down in the streets, sleepless under their sheets,

Voiceless in their screeds, chopped up, crushed, by the surrounding drumbeats and chants of kill, murder, maim, put them all in chains, secure the cages, fill the jails, and even with all that, I see, this prose fails to complete.

I wish I could be more optimistic.

We're Still Living Out the Old Testament

Do we really want to believe that judaism is god's message to the world, or Islam is way to peace, or Christianity is Love and Understanding, or America is the Defender of Freedom, or we are the center of the Universe?

Here's a brief script I borrowed from wikipedia not wilileaks illustrating the fact we are still living in the middle ages where all this became a reality rather than a story, just a story that Men used to rape, kill, and maim.

1500 B.CE  (approx.)

Zoroaster 

Many historians trace the apocalyptic world view back to 

                        the Persian prophet Zoroaster, who spoke of a cosmic 

                        battle between good and evil ending in a new, perfect 

                        world for humanity. The Zoroastrian tradition survives 

                        today in Iran and as the basis of Parsiism in India. 

 592 BCE to 586 BCE

The Book of Ezekiel, one of the major 

                        prophetical books of the Old Testament, is written in 

                        response to the invasion and capture of Jerusalem by the 

                        Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and the subsequent exile 

                        of the Jews to Babylon. The Book of Ezekiel foretells 

                        the return of the Jews to their homeland and the violent 

                        destruction of future enemies. The book ends with God's 

                        admonition to the Jews reminding them that their 

                        suffering and exile resulted from their lack of faith 

                        and trespassing against Him, but foretells that after 

                        the return to the homeland, proper worship will resume 

                        and God will no longer turn away from them. 

485 BCE 

Probably inspired by the sack of Babylon by 

                        Xerxes, the Book of Isaiah is a prime example of the 

                        pre-apocalyptic Jewish prophetic tradition. The prophets 

                        were professionals who spoke to contemporary problems 

                        through poetry, often including a small amount of future 

                        prediction to enhance their authority. With its cosmic 

                        symbolism and introduction of the resurrection of the 

                        dead, Isaiah reveals important elements of the 

                        apocalyptic world view falling into place. 

250 BCE 

The series of books collectively called First 

                        Enoch, written during a period when the Jews were under 

                        the rule of the Greek Empire, see a further shift from 

                        the ancient prophetic tradition to a new apocalyptic 

                        tradition. The books take as their subject Enoch, the 

                        seventh patriarch of the Book of Genesis who, as a 

                        visionary, was reputed to have received secret knowledge 

                        from God. Many of the standard elements of the distinct 

                        literary genre of Jewish apocalyotic first emerge in 

                        these texts. The "Book of Watchers" provides the first 

                        example of the judgment of the dead in the Jewish 

                        tradition; the distinctively historical "Apocalypse of 

                        Weeks" is the first to envisage the end of the world in 

                        a literal sense. Within the series, the perspective 

                        shifts from the cosmic to the concretely historical. 

                        167 BCE 

                              The Book of Daniel 

                        The Book of Daniel is written as a product of the Jewish 

                        Maccabean revolt agaisnst persecution by the Syro-Greek 

                        dynasty of the Seleucids. After the New Testament Book 

                        of Revelation, it is the scripture most often studied 

                        and cited by contemporary prophecy believers. Daniel's 

                        dream holds that Israel will inherit "the greatness of 

                        the kingdom under the whole heaven" when God has 

                        overthrown the last of the four evil kingdoms, first 

                        represented by four metals, then by four beasts. In many 

                        ways, Daniel represents the emergence of revolutionary 

                        eschatology. In it, the world is dominated by an evil 

                        power, and the suffering of its victims--the intended 

                        audience--becomes increasingly intolerable. But at some 

                        appointed time the saints of God will rise up and 

                        overthrow the oppressor, and the sufferers will inherit 

                        the earth. 

                        63 BCE 

                              Romans capture Jerusalem 

                        With the capture of Jerusalem, the Romans make Judea an 

                        outpost of their empire. Their oppressive rule makes 

                        Rome the locus of evil in apocalyptic literature until 

                        the conversion of Emperor Constantine in the early 4th 

                        century A.D. 

                        4 BCE 

                        Jesus Christ is born in the area of Nazareth. 

                        30 CE Jesus is put to death by Roman officials. His 

                        followers--the first Christians--would use an 

                        apocalyptic framework to make sense of this unthinkable 

                        development, casting him in the role of Messiah and 

                        reasoning that he would return soon to finish his work. 

                        70 CE A Jewish rebellion against Rome ends in failure 

                        with the sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the 

                        Temple.

                        The Gospel of Mark is believed to have been written 

                        around this time. It includes the "Little Apocalypse" 

                        (Mark 13), Jesus' eschatological discourse to his 

                        disciples, in which he both fueled expectations of an 

                        imminent end ("This generation shall not pass, till all 

                        these things be fulfilled") and cautioned against date 

                        speculation ("But of that day and hour knoweth no man 

                        ... but my Father only."). 

                        mid-to-late

                        first century The Essene movement reaches its peak. The 

                        1947 discovery of their sacred library, known as the 

                        Dead Sea Scrolls, would reveal much about this highly 

                        apocalyptic Jewish sect. The Essenes called themselves 

                        the "sons of light," in opposition to the Jewish 

                        majority, or "sons of darkness." In texts like the 

                        so-called "War Scroll," they essentially recast the 

                        history of Israel in terms of a cosmic war between good 

                        and evil. Highly critical of all outsiders, the Essenes 

                        looked forward to the day of judgment, when they 

                        expected God to send an army to destroy their enemies. 

                        The Essenes demonstrate that the early Christians were 

                        but one of many Jewish sects animated by apocalyptic 

                        beliefs. 

                        90 CE 

                              The Book of Revelation 

                        Biblical scholars believe that around this time the 

                        Revelation of John, or the Book of Revelation was 

                        written. Destined to become the only apocalypse in the 

                        New Testament and the final Book of the Christian Bible, 

                        Revelation is the paramount source for Christian 

                        prophecy believers. Scholars are skeptical of the claim, 

                        made by those who argued for its inclusion in the canon, 

                        that the author is the same man who wrote the Gospel of 

                        John. Whatever its authorship, Revelation has had 

                        tremendous influence on our culture and history, not 

                        only motivating millions of believers but contributing 

                        vivid images and phrases to popular culture, from the 

                        "four horsemen of the Apocalypse" to the "mark of the 

                        beast." 

                        Borrowing much of its imagery from the Book of Daniel, 

                        Revelation is fairly typical of the revolutionary 

                        eschatology of the time. Addressing "the scattered 

                        Christians of Asia Minor in their hour of affliction," 

                        the author describes in vivid detail the means through 

                        which God will save his people from their suffering at 

                        the hands of Satan. "God shall wipe away all tears from 

                        their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither 

                        sorrow, nor crying; neither shall there be any more 

                        pain; for the former things are passed away." 

Patriarchy and Violence

 

Patriarchy and modern men's rights groups are notions that could only be acceptable in a world that still believes women are inferior.

Patriarchy is a belief system in the same way that earth centrists of the Middle Ages dominated the scientific community during the medieval ages. Then along came Galileo and the future and it was decided and accepted that the earth wasn't the center of anything, much like feminists have debunked, if nothing else, the notion that males are superior to females in any way whatsoever, except the artificial definitions men have imposed on all of us.

Men's rights groups then are an artifice of the belief that men somehow once they had been equalized by women, somehow got victimized by the equalization.

It's true that truth and science swing like a pendulum and in every regard has it's median to settle into but for scientists to argue that the earth is the center of the universe and for men to argue they haven't gotten a fair shake is tantamount to mass stupidity.

It's much like the recent "scientific" discovery that "modern" humans may have bred with Neanderthal types, who have always been regarded as a dead-end branch of the human species. It's probably because Neanderthals have always been considered brutish, unsophisticated, apeish, not the elegant, hunter and cave drawer, (what's better than that, the warrior artist), like Cro Magnon. So now science has supposedly proven that maybe these two branches of the human tree got together when anybody who ever looked at the "old" anthropology should have understood when it comes to sex, reproduction, and slaughter, humans do it better. Considering that Cro-Magnon wandered around Europe at the same time as the "extinction" of Neanderthal should give any good Sócio-anthropologist, such as myself, reason to believe that there's a good chance the upstanding Cro Magnon probably had a hand in the "extinction,” but not before taking the women and children for the purposes for which we all strive for.

(It's only in modern warfare where, not for humanist principals, do we leave the women and children dead on the battlefield just like the enemy. Warfare, of course, presents the perfect opportunity to rape and pillage, probably one of the reasons we love it so much. It stirs our inner Neanderthal, but like all victims, Neanderthals get the blame, I guess because they were ugly. 

Anyone who thinks that the world's population isn't more diverse than the "ugly" American simply hasn't been around it, or if they have, hasn't been paying attention. Americans are so hung up on guns, looks, and arrogance that it's hard to imagine any other culture as being so Neanderthal like. 

We all know that religion and culture make us what we are or at least what we are confused about. Despite the books women write, the media indulgence toward sexual equality in the workplace etc, from the looks at statistics, domestic abuse is still prevalent, women still earn less than men, (more unfortunate, and maybe more telling, is the fact women no longer want to realize the ambition to simply become plumbers, but supposed must reflect the more mundane ambition of childhood dreams of becoming president, more inclined to the hype that CEO or president makes things right), and mostly, women are still considered sex objects.

Yes, some women have discovered that having positions of influence, having money, makes the catcalls less cumbersome but nowadays when the media says women (or men) regarding certain middle class standards it thinks it means "all" much in the same way Jefferson meant "all" men but didn't mean it literally.

So, women, like Neanderthals have their work cut out for them. Scientists will meander, looking for some purpose in regard to Neanderthal while women will have to keep their heads low in a world that is always on the verge of decapitating anything that resembles thinking equality. 

Yesterday I was watching democracy now and there was an advocate for trying to convince the video gaming industry to limit the violence against women in video and other media venues. I'm torn whenever I see these sorts of advocates because it seems almost an overwhelming  attempt to stem violence against women in this society because this society is as violent as any Taliban controlled locale. In so many ways, it's nearly impossible to move forward toward any solution without a complete existential cultural changeover. The media just represents whatever reality already exists. 

The examples shown in the interview were clipped to demonstrate examples of violence against women but to me, it's almost incomprehensible trying to isolate the examples shown and the rest of the video, which is filled with violence, most of it men on men, a type of violence we seem to relish and embellish in American culture. How can anyone say that violence in America is one sided? It completely saturates just about every aspect of our culture. The problem is, it is mostly acceptable. Not only what we watch, it's what we believe. Our government uses such a typically abstract form of violence we can't find any reason to stop it. All violence is twisted up in security, fear, sexual mores, religious/legal restraints, and psychological/sociological myths. 

Over the course of centuries, religious beliefs have put us in the position of having to deny our sexuality, our independence, our existence in a real physical world rather than the made up one modern humans live in. We opted for the surreal and can't expect anything else except the surreal.

We look at primitive or agrarian people's way of life and we're so ingrained with "superior" that we see the way they exist as sexist, inegalitarian, ignorant. And yet, in most social groups that are independent on each other, solutions to problems come a lot easier than in the monster we've created for ourselves. In our heads and in reality.

One can't cleanse this society of the violence it loves. Rape is horrible, domestic violence is too. So is murder, corporate larceny, and the Prince of all violence, war, the basis of nearly all the other violence.

In the coming decades, long after I'm gone, the last of the Neanderthals, If drought continues, if revenge war continues, if economic hardship (both naturally created and politically motivated) continues, and if religious and cultural intolerance continues, the world will be even a worse place to try and live for even more people.

They say that when the last ice retreated out of Europe it left the Neanderthals exposed to the imminent migration of more "modern" humans who always relish the idea of going where the grass is greener. That's where two cultures clashed or maybe, contrary to our notions that culture clashes rather than integrates, and a new human was invested with different genes, different ideas. That's what it's all about. It's about us, not the invention of a new IPhone. We better start appreciating each other outside our own boundaries, especially the wall of violence we've erected.

No violence, anytime, anywhere. Believe me, the ones who knock us down, need us more than we need them.

 

Fwd: Where should we stand

If we say war is never justified in a truly humanitarian world where every human being is no more no less valued than any other, then we are on the side of history thats aligned with all the humanitarian, social justice ideals ever thought or believed.

That puts us in the bullseye of the rest who control us as well as control all the reasons for war, capitalism, and fascism.

Israel along with its torturing ally, the united states, have redefined warfare in the past seven decades. The imperial arm of the us over the decades by cia sponsored guerrilla operations throughout the world, the weaponization of "friendly" terrorists (such as al queda, taliban, shite, shia) in order to further world wide resistance to any other national aggression, and the state authorized development of torture and black sites to coerce information. 

The weaponization of allies has now become an outed foreign policy supported by nearly all politicians, as well as citizens.

Progressive politics has become a straw dog, a mere ideological paper tiger, to provide the semblance of balance in american politics.

The fact that kamala harris has the support of moderate republicans (those are the ones who, along with right minded democrats have masterminded the decades long slow, rightward and obstructed democratic legislative process) and support from former right wing, fascist republican officials like dick cheney, simply means we are already locked in to another four years of backward thinking.

There are only two choices. Those who will vote for either one of the major candidates will get the same result from either one and those who make the choice to not support either of these candidates not only will stand together but also will remain strong in solidarity with humanitarian interests rather than nationalistic ones.

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Fwd: Im not afraid of donald trump

I'm not afraid of donald trump.

I do believe he won't be elected nov 5 2024 but if he is, the implementation of Plan 2025, which seems to be the main fear of progressives and liberals in america these days, and who seem to be willing to vote for kamala harris, plugging their israel-hamas genocidal war from their mind, in order to save themselves from the fascist master plan, 2025. I'm sorry ladies and gentlemen of that leisure class, we, americans, already had slavery, native genocide, cointelpro, the Patriot Act, the media exposure of iraqi war lies, pentagon papers, wikileaks, and now actual support for atrocities and mayhem in the middle east, putting us on the edge of another war we, as americans, will feel guilty about but do nothing about. Fear and guilt is the mainstream american nightmare. Despite all that, is it truly worth wasting a vote on that fear. I'm only saying that if you can't vote your conscience, then why vote at all. Let the ignorant win, if that's what's going to happen, but time won't stop there nor will the willingness to fight on, and if you're one of those who has always voted the lessor of two evils and got the lessor of two evils, but were still unhappy, just break that pattern

So here we are, america land of the free and home of the brave, once again, will not be careful what you ask for, and will get exactly what we deserve, a national trend of monolithic domestic and international policies from which we will not emerge unscathed.

Yes, it's true. America is at a crossroads, once again, i must add, but now the crossroads is not about principles, morality, or hubris but a crossroad of whether or not we truly become a nation of immoral, fractious, unrepentant, uncivilized killers, murderers, and genocidal

Donald trump is a stupid, ignorant representative of the stupid and ignorant, a tool of the wealthy sycophants, and is only as dangerous as the weak american system that produces a candidate who represents nothing america says it represents. 

And, unfortunately, neither does the other party.

So, if you're willing to put your eggs in one basket, the ballot basket, to save yourself from what you think might happen, you've  already forfeited your universal right to be free and/or brave.

No matter who wins, must be fought with fang and claw, not with the passivity of the ballot. Resist.

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Lessor of Two Evils is NOT a choice anyone should have to make

Two state solution

Well, it seems whoever we got, the threat remains the same. Progressive people say we're living in dangerous times. Even regular people say it.

Why? It appears that gazans are living in dangerous times but not us. We have the choice and no matter how many chose the two-state solution over the last seventy years no one here did enough to make that possible. It's always been dangerous times there.

It's always been dangerous times, believing in the two-state solution is like believing in santa claus, easter bunny, or werewolves. And if anyone still believes in it, they are truly absurdist. There will be no freedom from pain in gaza.

This election will demonstrate the weakness of the great democratic dream. We are a third-rate country. We just have big guns, just like the militias, terrorists, cartels, police that control the people in the third world with threats, murder, and civil war.

Remember, no matter who wins, the racist and hateful rhetoric that comes out of the republican lexicon comes with tens of millions of votes but also remember so does the slow change, no change, soft rhetoric of progress, justice, equality, two-state solutions of timid, passive junk dealers who will allow economic survival of the fittest continue and war against brown people around the world carry on for the sake of their own security.

Americans are like supermarkets; their politics are all alike.

Two state solutions, immigration reform, political and social justice reforms, economic parity, tax reform, climate change solutions, all these "policies" that will never see the light of reality.

I am not neutral but not lessor of two evils is still evil and not a choice.

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