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Ponygurl

And how many boys had to die for Peace on D-Day? War is not Peace.

Just because war is not happening in your backyard may be peace for you, but that doesn't negate the fact that young men are routinely sent off to battle and sacrifice their lives for old men lusting power. Death is not Love.

iuventus

All true.

Ponygurl · Post edited by Ponygurl at 2019-06-08 16:23:37

So why all this drama and horror and sacrifice of youth through war by old men?

I believe everyone knows, but it is so deeply ingrained into societal culture, it just hasn't been named or studied. I will call it my 'desperatis sanatio' theory.

My theory on the root of patriarchal war is that old men can no longer compete with young men in areas of strength or sexual attractiveness.The older man learns he must compensate somehow.

The only way to still remain attractive and powerful to the younger female is by the accumulation of wealth. In a last ditch attempt to validate himself, he will sacrifice his youthful male competition as a means of doing it. By creating a false war..he has killed two birds with one stone.

By simply grooming the youth, the patriarchy succeeds in having that youth conquer the false enemy. The lives of young men are sacrificed and accumulation of the wealth goes to the older patriarchy. Two birds, one stone.

Ponygurl

On a side note- just look at that fat disgusting, porn-star fucking while your wife just gave birth to your child, pig named Trump. No woman in her right mind would ever be with that thing without money. That's why he had to get a billion dollar loan from a corrupt european bank to keep his wealth charade going.

Gross old fat men. Wait, let me correct that- Gross, old, fat, philandering, broke men. The only way they know how to survive is by using fraud. Truly dis gust ing

whispered · Post edited by whispered at 2019-06-12 07:24:45

It's tragic how we have taken the phrase 'alpha male' from studies of chimpanzees to mean that leaders are the most aggressive, unempathetic and conniving individuals. In reality, the most stable troupes of chimps have alpha males who excel at conflict resolution and de-escalate intra-group conflict.

If a particularly aggressive male comes to head a group, they rarely reign for long and once deposed are victimised by the troupe - in captive groups, deposed aggressive males have to be removed to prevent the troupe killing them in retribution.

whispered

Ponygurl

@whispered hahaha! Hilarious! (Not for the one hitting the ground though)

Ponygurl · Post edited by Ponygurl at 2019-06-12 15:53:33

whispered said:
It's tragic how we have taken the phrase 'alpha male' from studies of chimpanzees to mean that leaders are the most aggressive, unempathetic and conniving individuals. In reality, the most stable troupes of chimps have alpha males who excel at conflict resolution and de-escalate intra-group conflict.

If a particularly aggressive male comes to head a group, they rarely reign for long and once deposed are victimised by the troupe - in captive groups, deposed aggressive males have to be removed to prevent the troupe killing them in retribution.

@whispered Just think if those chimps evolved a bit more. The alpha male would be sending it's son/daughter to the Middle East to guard an oil pipeline.

Ponygurl

One just has to wonder what ‘deal’ Trump made with Deutsche bank, in return for billions of dollars in personal loans. Now that Thomas Bowers has committed suicide, I really hope the D.O.J. re-visits William S. Broesmit’s suicide and VTB bank. Look’s like it’s happening.

whispered

Hard to feel upbeat with everything that is happening in the world. From the jaw-dropping cynicism of the Australian governement pressing ahead with the world's largest coal mine whilst their own citizens are fleeing huge bush fires to the spectacle of the Rapist-in-Chief attempting to start World War 3, it's a grim picture. Part of the plan, though, is to convince us that there is no other way. As a matter of principle, therefore, my New Year's Resolution is to be more optimistic about changing things.

Urban_Tribesman

As much as I am the first to call out the corruption in current Govts at home and around the world; somehow, when the people are given the chance to take a different path, they fail to do so.

I like to think that it’s the due to the manipulation and lies of the politicians concerned, backed up by a corrupt media owned and dominated by billionaires and their views that refuse to call these lies out; even magnifying them to a greater extent but I wonder if it simply comes down to the fact that voters don’t like change and continue to vote for the system they know, albeit corrupt, rather than take the risk on something different?

In the recent UK election, nearly 14M voted for the Conservatives, despite 10 years of Austerity measure, massive underfunding of public services such as the NHS & Schools. Just over 10M voted for Labour and around 5M voted for all the other parties.

16M people of voting age didn’t vote at all!

As Plato once said: ‘The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men’

Urban_Tribesman

That all said, I remain highly suspicious of the 2019 GE results.

The official postal vote turnout is yet to be confirmed, but independant polls have indicated that it could be as high as 38%. Of every 100 votes cast, 38 were cast by postal vote. If true, that’s more than doubled over the 2017 election. Now that could be due to it being the first Winter election since the 1920’s but factor in the fact that Postal votes were coordinated by a company with ties to the Conservative Party and the issue with comments made by our current Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and the BBC’s Chief Political editor Laura Kuenssberg, both of who suggested prior to the vote that ‘postal votes that have come in do not make good reading for the Labour Party’, when the postal votes are meant to remain unopened until polling day and anyone disclosing any information about the level of postal voting ahead of polling day is breaking the law which is punishable by a custodial sentence, you see why many people are unhappy with the result.

Put onto this that the Trump family have ties with people that manufacturer and maintain the electronic voting machines in the US and the idea to make voter identification by photo ID mandatory, which poorer people ar else’s likely to have, thus suppressing their vote, we should all be worried about our democracies!

whispered

Urban_Tribesman said:
...when the people are given the chance to take a different path, they fail to do so.
I like to think that it’s the due to the manipulation and lies of the politicians concerned, backed up by a corrupt media owned and dominated by billionaires and their views that refuse to call these lies out; even magnifying them to a greater extent but I wonder if it simply comes down to the fact that voters don’t like change and continue to vote for the system they know, albeit corrupt, rather than take the risk on something different?...Plato once said: ‘The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men’

Yes, in the UK and US, people are voting for parties that will actually deliver more of the same shit. At the same time, they are being told that these parties will deliver something different. The Brexit vote went against not only Labour, but against Cameron and the Tory establishment. Boris and Trump took power on the basis of promises that they would break with "establishment" bureaucracy and inertia. That this is a grotesque untruth is part of the problem. But the will to change remains.

I think the wider problem is that we have been duped into believing that the current system of capitalism is the only "realistic" option. That the national and international economy operates just like a household (if you max out your credit cards, you have to economise to pay them back"). That the banks and the markets must be protected from the consequences of the risks they take to make profits. That the only alternative to the heedless, neoliberal consumerism that is eating the Earth itself is some form of crushing Soviet style dictatorship. That despite the huge potential of technology, we must all work in a way that makes us permanently insecure and anxious about the future.

None of these is true. The capital, finance and trade systems are artefacts. The economic models that are held up as objectively true are in fact nothing but convenient screens to mask the greed and self interest of the class of super-wealthy capitalists. There are lots of alternative ways to organise society. We have ample technological means to provide everyone in the world with a decent, secure life.

Here in the UK, you're right about the dishonesty of the BBC these days. Their much vaunted premier political commentator, Andrew Neil, was a long-time editor of Murdoch's Sunday Times. Their main Political Editors are nick Robinson - Chair of Oxford University's Conservative Association and Laura K, the daughter of senior establishment figures. They are saturated with the ideology of "capitalist realism", and this time round, they made hardly any attempt to demonstrate this bias.

Er...so...that might be too much of a rant :) but that's why I've decided to try and resist their narrative of "there is no alternative"

Low

Like sticking my head into a bucket of water and just screaming

Urban_Tribesman · Post edited by Urban_Tribesman at 2020-01-08 07:43:52

I’ve made a contact on Twitter who goes on there under the name of Duncan Poundcake (for anyone interested, that was one of the aliases that Ian Drury went under; along with Arnold Chickenshorts!). He is a blogger who writes columns about financial matters and a huge supporter of the concept of Modern Money Theory, which is a direct challenge to the current theories of how countries economies are financed (as you say, the concept that they are like a household budget is ridiculous). It is based on the concept that a sovereign fiat currency issuer (so only that country prints and issues its own currency, so the British Pound, the American Dollar but NOT the Euro), can never go bankrupt in it’s own currency, so there is no practical limit to the ability to finance infrastructure and wages that are paid for in that currency. It also argues that the Govt does not raise finance by taxation but that complete opposite in that Govt investment into the economy is what drives the health of that economy and that the initial investment is then destroyed by taxation. This is why austerity is a failure as it requires staunching the investment into the economy by the Govt, in turn reducing the output of businesses, reducing the GDP, lower wages, less private investment, closing shops, proliferation of food banks and homelessness etc.

I’m no expert but this is a link to one of his blogs and it’s fascinating stuff. There a few on the site if you want to dig. https://duncanpoundcake.wordpress.com/2019/12/07/rethinkmoney-the-greatest-lie-ever-told-probably-taxspend/

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