Greetings good citizen, as usual the news is confounding, just take a peek at today's headlines:
It's that last bit which I highlighted that is the topic for today's discussion. 18 years of war and what do we have to show for it? A burgeoning Police State with an increasingly militarized police force, trillions wasted in an overall situation that hasn't done either 'side' any good.
Proof in the pudding, there STILL isn't a justifiable reason why we're even there and NOBODY knows what VICTORY looks like.
Well, that's not true...puddin head knows. We'll win when all of the Muslims are dead.
Never mind nobody being able to define the 'goal' of the GWOT, it's been 2 DECADES and you can't name a single victory. We throw them out of here and they pop up again over there. Is this war or a never ending game of 'whack-a-mole'?
It's not war, it's the average capitalist workplace writ large : The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Just as you have no control over your work environment [if you don't like it quit.] nor can you do anything if your government decides to gas your dissenting ass. [Now there's something that never crossed half of you unblemished minds...what would you do if the planets largest terrorist organization decided to exterminate (gas) YOU? Call your congress critter?
The reason we aren't seeing rioting in the streets is because we have little control over the 'reaction' civil unrest might provoke.
We all know the illusion of civilization is a veneer that's only as thick as a hair. Underneath the veneer is a savage beast...something we are reminded of with every TV show we watch.
[Sort of stricken last night with just how violent the 'popular' films are...and naturally, the central character is either the luckiest stiff on the planet or he is being shot at by the blind because with that many bullets flying S/he was bound to get hit by a stray.]
But no, in all theater the hero can only get 'wounded' while still being capable of superhuman feats of both strength and endurance! (Damn those magic pens!)
But I preach to the people that believe in an all-powerful and all knowing entity that looks the other way when THEY lie, cheat and steal their way through their wretched existence.
Or should we double down here and point to the elephant in that room, all believers have unshakable faith that their 'loving god' will forgive them, no matter what!
Walk that one back and where does it leave you? [Can you say psychopath?] Didn't someone suggest this is some races floating mental institution?
Don't walk that one backwards because you REALLY don't want to know the answer. Bad enough the inmates are running the asylum.
[Full Stop]
Forgive me good citizen but it seems every topic we explore leads to the same place/conclusion [our society is being run by the insane and we are powerless to stop them...naturally left to your imagination is the daunting task of sorting the rational from the batshit whackos [although the political divide accounts for 25% of em, all conservatives are whackos that believe in 'magic/nonsense'.]
Of the remaining 75%, 50% are too cowardly to take a stand and the remaining 25% isn't smart enough to lead us to victory.
See how we end up with one tenth of one percent running things by 'rote'? [They don't know what to do either, all they know is how it worked before. Thus do they keep squishing the round peg into the square hole, making it fit.]
This is a pretty frightening path, one that leads to a cadre of the freakishly selfish whose only goal is to remain 'on top', which is to say they have zero interest in 'the public good'.
Look at what 40 years of conservative rule has done to this nation (and the rest of the planet!) It's no secret that conservatism (famous for it's unyielding commitment to dogma that has zero basis in reality [Cheaper there anyone?] If you aren't smart enough to understand that 'money' is a cheap parlor trick and YOU are the 'mark/dupe' well, you've been 'getting it' from the beginning...what you fail to appreciate is WHAT.
Now reflect upon what has come of nearly two decades of 'war' [with a huge unemployed contingent in the wings] and think what the employment picture would be if those few hundred thousand soldiers, living on Uncle Sam's dime were mixed back in to the labor situation...
Thinking really ain't your strong suit, is it?
We could solve this without another needless death but them insane folks running things have taken the now ancient point of view that the only 'good peasant is a dead peasant'.
Just a little cognitive exercise here but when you watched Hunger Games did you wonder where all of the Striker armored personnel carriers came from or were you like me and wondered where they all WENT after the film was shot?
Are YOU paying attention? That's the first step. Thing have gotten where they are because you aren't seeing what's happening right under your nose...and the Bozo they appointed POTUS to keep us 'entertained/terrified' declaring 'mission accomplished' is just as clueless as W was when he said the same thing.
Does the Mission accomplished declaration by El Trump have the same meaning as it did when W said it? Sure does if you look at it from the 'fooled those stupid suckers again' point of view!
Um, there isn't a nice way to back out of this so I'm just going to thank you for visiting and urge you to help yourself to all of the free mind-food I have put out for you!
Thinking makes your mind grow...something we could all use more of.
Gegner
Top News
Pentagon Says Syria Strikes Hit ‘Heart’ of Chemical Weapons Program
By HELENE COOPER and BEN HUBBARD
Warplanes and ships from the United States, Britain and France launched more than 100 missiles at three chemical weapons storage and research facilities near Damascus and Homs, officials said.
A Hard Lesson in Syria: Assad Can Still Gas His Own People
By DAVID E. SANGER and BEN HUBBARD
The conflict in Syria has demonstrated a larger truth: While it is easy to blow up its chemical facilities, it is also relatively simple for the Assad government to reconstitute them elsewhere.
‘Mission Accomplished!’ But What Is the Mission in Syria?
By PETER BAKER
The strike on chemical arms sites reflected President Trump’s competing impulses: an effort to demonstrate strength countered by a view that involvement in the Middle East since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has been a waste.
It's that last bit which I highlighted that is the topic for today's discussion. 18 years of war and what do we have to show for it? A burgeoning Police State with an increasingly militarized police force, trillions wasted in an overall situation that hasn't done either 'side' any good.
Proof in the pudding, there STILL isn't a justifiable reason why we're even there and NOBODY knows what VICTORY looks like.
Well, that's not true...puddin head knows. We'll win when all of the Muslims are dead.
Never mind nobody being able to define the 'goal' of the GWOT, it's been 2 DECADES and you can't name a single victory. We throw them out of here and they pop up again over there. Is this war or a never ending game of 'whack-a-mole'?
It's not war, it's the average capitalist workplace writ large : The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Just as you have no control over your work environment [if you don't like it quit.] nor can you do anything if your government decides to gas your dissenting ass. [Now there's something that never crossed half of you unblemished minds...what would you do if the planets largest terrorist organization decided to exterminate (gas) YOU? Call your congress critter?
The reason we aren't seeing rioting in the streets is because we have little control over the 'reaction' civil unrest might provoke.
We all know the illusion of civilization is a veneer that's only as thick as a hair. Underneath the veneer is a savage beast...something we are reminded of with every TV show we watch.
[Sort of stricken last night with just how violent the 'popular' films are...and naturally, the central character is either the luckiest stiff on the planet or he is being shot at by the blind because with that many bullets flying S/he was bound to get hit by a stray.]
But no, in all theater the hero can only get 'wounded' while still being capable of superhuman feats of both strength and endurance! (Damn those magic pens!)
But I preach to the people that believe in an all-powerful and all knowing entity that looks the other way when THEY lie, cheat and steal their way through their wretched existence.
Or should we double down here and point to the elephant in that room, all believers have unshakable faith that their 'loving god' will forgive them, no matter what!
Walk that one back and where does it leave you? [Can you say psychopath?] Didn't someone suggest this is some races floating mental institution?
Don't walk that one backwards because you REALLY don't want to know the answer. Bad enough the inmates are running the asylum.
[Full Stop]
Forgive me good citizen but it seems every topic we explore leads to the same place/conclusion [our society is being run by the insane and we are powerless to stop them...naturally left to your imagination is the daunting task of sorting the rational from the batshit whackos [although the political divide accounts for 25% of em, all conservatives are whackos that believe in 'magic/nonsense'.]
Of the remaining 75%, 50% are too cowardly to take a stand and the remaining 25% isn't smart enough to lead us to victory.
See how we end up with one tenth of one percent running things by 'rote'? [They don't know what to do either, all they know is how it worked before. Thus do they keep squishing the round peg into the square hole, making it fit.]
This is a pretty frightening path, one that leads to a cadre of the freakishly selfish whose only goal is to remain 'on top', which is to say they have zero interest in 'the public good'.
Look at what 40 years of conservative rule has done to this nation (and the rest of the planet!) It's no secret that conservatism (famous for it's unyielding commitment to dogma that has zero basis in reality [Cheaper there anyone?] If you aren't smart enough to understand that 'money' is a cheap parlor trick and YOU are the 'mark/dupe' well, you've been 'getting it' from the beginning...what you fail to appreciate is WHAT.
Now reflect upon what has come of nearly two decades of 'war' [with a huge unemployed contingent in the wings] and think what the employment picture would be if those few hundred thousand soldiers, living on Uncle Sam's dime were mixed back in to the labor situation...
Thinking really ain't your strong suit, is it?
We could solve this without another needless death but them insane folks running things have taken the now ancient point of view that the only 'good peasant is a dead peasant'.
Just a little cognitive exercise here but when you watched Hunger Games did you wonder where all of the Striker armored personnel carriers came from or were you like me and wondered where they all WENT after the film was shot?
Are YOU paying attention? That's the first step. Thing have gotten where they are because you aren't seeing what's happening right under your nose...and the Bozo they appointed POTUS to keep us 'entertained/terrified' declaring 'mission accomplished' is just as clueless as W was when he said the same thing.
Does the Mission accomplished declaration by El Trump have the same meaning as it did when W said it? Sure does if you look at it from the 'fooled those stupid suckers again' point of view!
Um, there isn't a nice way to back out of this so I'm just going to thank you for visiting and urge you to help yourself to all of the free mind-food I have put out for you!
Thinking makes your mind grow...something we could all use more of.
Gegner
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