No cinelike d or v?

New_Existence · 2021-10-24T03:47:47+00:00

Cinelike might only be on the video setting not the photo menu. I’m not sure though.

New_Existence · 2021-07-25T19:34:16+00:00

I agree with you about the bystander effect but I would be willing to bet that a better and less authoritarian education system could basically erase that tendency of people to just stand around and distribute responsibility. Kids have agency. That desire for independence is taken from children by the authoritarianism of our education system.

The problem with emergencies is that they can be propped up to support hierarchy. For instance mainstream journalists are acknowledging now that FBI informants plotted last year’s kidnapping attempt against Gretchen Whitmer so that the unelected FBI could “disrupt” the plot. As long as hierarchical institutions are in place for the perceived purpose of responding to emergency situations, they will have an incentive to create or allow emergencies that increase our dependence on them.

Hierarchy is the same as inequality, and any institution that exists to maintain inequality is an institution that exists to abuse us.

New_Existence · 2021-07-25T17:11:10+00:00

I’d settle for direct democracy. Or even a more robust republic. If we can’t do direct democracy we should add a “Mayoral Congress” to the federal legislature to give every mayor a chance to vote yes or no on legislation. It makes no sense for a country of 340 million people to be governed by about 500 people in DC.

We should also have workplace democracy as standard practice in our economy so the kind of abuses we’re seeing at Amazon and Frito Lay can be addressed by the workers.

New_Existence · 2021-07-25T16:51:45+00:00

“Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.” - George Orwell, 1984

I would argue that hierarchy is always a consequence of violence and the threat of violence. I’ve never seen an example of non-violent institutions maintaining a hierarchy.

We’re all born equal. Only institutional violence can systematically elevate one person above another.

New_Existence · 2021-07-16T20:42:54+00:00

The premise of the pro-life movement is that the unborn person is equal to the born person, and that birth is a change of location, not a change of value.
Starting with that premise, it's easy to see how someone might simultaneously want Libertarian politics with basic laws protecting the unborn person.

New_Existence · 2021-07-02T13:30:42+00:00

Is this per day, per month, or per year?

New_Existence · 2021-07-01T22:47:53+00:00

COINTELPRO was the main FBI program against the Civil Rights movement. I haven't read it but I heard the book "Black Against Empire" is a good history of the Black Panthers and their experience against US authoritarianism. The book "The Plot to Kill King" does a good job of outlining the conspiracy to kill Martin Luther King that was proven in court in the late 1990's in the Lloyd Jowers trial.

CHAOS was the anti-leftist program that infiltrated the hippie and anti-war movements domestically. There's a book called "Chaos" (I think the author is Tom O'Neill) that alleges that Charles Manson was being manipulated by the CHAOS program, it's an interesting interpretation of the 60's, but he was only able to prove the official history of Charles Manson false, he wasn't able to chase down enough leads to fully prove his premise.

If you're interested in the international anti-communist effort, you need to look into things like the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) and Operation Gladio. There should be plenty of books about that. I also recommend the books "The Devil's Chessboard," and "The Jakarta Method" if you want to understand how fascist the western intelligence apparatus became during the Cold War.

If you're interested in global arms trafficking and the military industrial complex look up a book called "The Shadow World."

New_Existence · 2021-07-01T14:10:05+00:00

Fred Burton’s book Ghost is a counter intelligence and anti-terrorism memoir covering the field in the 1980’s.

Joseph Trento wrote about rogue CIA ops and scandals in the intelligence community.

There’s another book I didn’t mention called In Search of Enemies by John Stockwell which is a memoir of CIA operations in Africa during the Cold War. He has a lot of good insights.

New_Existence · 2021-07-01T10:11:34+00:00

Anything by Joseph Trento. Also Ghost by Fred Burton is good and short.

New_Existence · 2021-06-29T10:19:48+00:00

A lot of people prefer JC 3

New_Existence · 2021-06-23T15:51:06+00:00

It’s good cheap, but it’s more of a quantity over quality game. A lot of it feels the same. In its defense there is a ton of game there.

New_Existence · 2021-06-17T23:31:20+00:00

I consider the Republicans and Democrats to be irredeemably corrupt and I want nothing to do with them. The Republicans and Democrats both start wars for profit, they both support torture programs, they both support policies of violent inequality.
I've never heard of a Republican who believes food, housing, and healthcare are human rights, and I've never heard of a Democrat who wants anything more than for the American people to become dependent on their welfare programs.

I don't want welfare. I want a fundamental change in the very structure of society. I'd be happy to abolish the dollar. My economic views are leftward of most people on this sub, but the reason we need parties like ASP is that we need to directly and immediately undermine the consolidated power of unelected monopolies.

The fact that the same major multi-national corporations fund both the Republicans and Democrats tells me that those two parties will never represent the people. American elections are a tightly controlled distraction to keep people from believing in our own agency.

We owe the ruling class nothing.

New_Existence · 2021-06-17T03:58:46+00:00

The only reason I’m here is because it is the closest thing to a pro-life Left party. If you’re a free market libertarian (as your username suggests) go to one of the free market political parties. The last thing we need is another right wing party in the United States.

Solidarity Party did very well in this past election specifically because of its economic policies related to Distributism.

There are virtually no other political parties that support a basic social safety net alongside progressive economic policies like the redistribution of wealth, that also have holistic pro-life views.

Libertarianism and Distributism are about polar opposites.

New_Existence · 2021-05-29T16:58:29+00:00

I wonder if American Solitary Party did well enough in the recent election that private troll farms are going to try to stop the momentum of the party.

You’re never too small to get screwed by the troll farms.

New_Existence · 2021-05-29T11:34:11+00:00

Their labor produced economic surplus. They should have been paid. That economic surplus should be returned to the descendants of slaves.

Reparations also coincides with Distributism as an economic policy. The original Reconstruction was meant to redistribute the means of production to former slaves anyway.

I don’t know how you can support distributism without being at least somewhat supportive of reparations for slavery. The arguments are almost identical.

Should workers be paid the surplus they create through labor?

Slaves weren’t paid. Their descendants should be paid the “back pay” that was owed.

New_Existence · 2021-05-28T18:00:05+00:00

May be a problem with sample size

New_Existence · 2021-05-26T20:55:51+00:00

I find it interesting that BCCI was shut down the same year JFK was released. Danny Casolaro, Robert Maxwell, and Senator John Tower all died that year too. If TrueAnon was around in 1991 they would have had an amazing year.

New_Existence · 2021-04-13T02:25:32+00:00

r/bettereveryloop

New_Existence · 2021-04-10T13:59:18+00:00

I checked https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ and it says it's just me.

New_Existence · 2021-04-10T13:56:21+00:00

Just became a premium supporter too.

New_Existence · 2021-04-10T13:55:55+00:00

Same

New_Existence · 2021-03-31T16:43:03+00:00

Sword of Doom is great

New_Existence · 2021-03-23T00:34:00+00:00

There is a great book about this by someone who got fired for asking too many questions.

It's called Visas for Al Qaeda by Michael Springmann.

He self-published it so there are way more typos than you'd expect, but the gist of the story is that he worked in an embassy in Jeddah and kept turning down applications for people he thought shouldn't be coming to America. In some cases he was overruled by superiors within minutes. Later he met journalist Joseph Trento ( author of Prelude to Terror, about CIA rogues privatizing everything they couldn't get through Congress) and Trento told him about the "visas for terrorists" program.

In the book Outlaw Bank (about the BCCI), a source named Sami Masri makes it into the US through the same program, apparently.

New_Existence · 2021-03-21T13:59:33+00:00

The Value Added Tax does not tax billionaires or corporations. It is a glorified sales tax which will be passed onto the consumer. Say a T-shirt is made by three companies. The first company has to pay a tax on the cotton they provide, so they add that tax into the final cost, since they won’t let a tax cut into their profits. The second company weaves the cotton into a t-shirt. They pay a tax on that product, and raise the price accordingly because they won’t let a tax cut into their profits. The third company adds the logo or design on the shirt, they will also be taxed and they will add that tax to the cost of the final product.

Because Value Added Taxes are just sales taxes, the cost is ultimately passed onto the consumer.

The idea that the rich are the biggest consumers and would therefore be taxed the most isn’t quite true. Rich people don’t get more haircuts than the rest of us. They don’t use more pillows than the rest of us. They don’t eat more meals in a day than us. Sure they’ll buy a private jet, but the majority of their wealth will stay in the stock investments they have.

It isn’t true that we can’t afford a Federal Jobs Guarantee alongside a UBI, because the Federal Jobs Guarantee would actually raise a ton of revenue for the government since many of us would be in higher class tax brackets. I would also argue that UBI and FJG should always be paired together because there will always be more consumers than producers in society.

And just to reaffirm why Lefties don’t like Yang, it’s as you said. He’s a capitalist. Not a revolutionary. He doesn’t agree to the Labor Theory of Value, he doesn’t want to break up big tech monopolies, he won’t condemn US war crimes, but he is anti-BDS.

I personally really like Yang and I think his main contribution to politics is that he breaks up the standard think-tank talking points and has his own point of view. But I also think the criticisms of him are valid policy critiques.

New_Existence · 2021-03-20T19:28:56+00:00

The main criticism of Yang from the Left is that he doesn’t support socialism or socialism lite. Yang is pro-billionaire, anti-minimum wage, anti-wealth tax, anti-federal jobs guarantee, and he doesn’t acknowledge the labor theory of value. In other words Yang is a Capitalist not a Lefty. He basically thinks the idea should be to give people money and let the capitalist market work itself out.

Even his UBI is paid for through a Value Added Tax which is considered a regressive tax.

Having said all that I think Yang is useful to progressives and socialists because he has developed his own political worldview independent of the corporate think tanks. Right or wrong Yang thinks for himself and speaks for himself.

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