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the failure of the occupy movement was chiefly a function of their not adopting clear demands in a timely fashion

the protest movement currently afoot will quickly met the same fate and end unless it does

rather that wait for the protesters to develop their own clear demands

outsiders need to do this which the protesters can then align with

but times running out

and even a democratic win of the presidency and both houses in november WILL NOT produce even close
to a just step towards resolve of the glaring deficits we are currently subject to as a national society...



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JUNE 11, 2020

The Beginning of the End for Unearned Authority

by KATHLEEN WALLACE


At last glance it looks like we are up to almost 600 documented episodes of police violence during the George Floyd protests. An attorney and mathematician have compiled a google doc titled “GeorgeFloyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter”.

Greg Doucette and mathematician Jason Miller have all the receipts, doing the massively time-consuming work to locate these depraved videos all in one place. Undeniable and powerful, there is no room left for anyone sane and decent to deny this is happening. This is the resource to provide to any dim stragglers, those claiming ignorance or any of the other forms of denial some older white Americans seem keen to continue with. A haunting fact being this is simply what has been caught on video—the violence stretches like grains of sand in our culture—unending and vast. Those who continue to deny this reality are simply entrenched in their own racism and authoritarianism. Logic, proof, and empathy are not what those lost souls are about. But those who can still be reached—perhaps this will spark life into their seemingly dead cardiac tissue.

Our entire mode of modern “civilized” life has been predicated on certain professions and distinct wealth classes having the first, and often only, say in the direction of our lives. The vast population being subjected to their whims as well as their sociopathic tendencies. This moment in time is not simply a protest of one murder, but the beginning of the end for the unearned entitlements in our society. The bravery of the Black Lives Matter movement cannot be overstated and their willingness to plunge forward and demand systemic dismantling is a watershed moment in history.

There is no way those of us who are white can ever comprehend living life with this kind of default fear or how terrifying it would be to anxiously see our sons and daughters go outside, worrying that they will get on the wrong side of someone steroided up and looking for a feeling of individual supremacy.

It is for us to aid and support and to dismantle in any way we can. Any success that may come in terms of bringing George Floyd’s murderer and accomplices to justice cannot be viewed as an end point. Breonna Taylor still has no justice. And you can insert literally millions of names into the statement “______” has no justice. The heinous individuals who have skated by on the lightness of their skin will need to have a worth as a human in the future by caring for others. The simple lack of melanin won’t cut it any longer. This is how it should always have been, but the lowly and honorless found ways through history to enslave others. They succeeded simply because the decent were too quiet and tacitly accepted the perversion as normal. We have all seen in a small way how the outrageous can become normalized (just watch the mainstream media dissect a Trump press conference as if any response beyond “that fucker is batshit crazy” is appropriate). This is how we get to a place like this. All minor injustice needs to be met with a mountain of opposition.

The only fitting response to the horror is to honor those who have been victims is through the wholesale restructuring of society. Until this sickening and toxic framework is gone, there will always be the need for an “other” to harm. This must be the beginning. The moment in time of the great unraveling, not an unraveling to fear, but one that pulls apart the confines and limitations that bind.

I’ve been writing and considering these needs for societal overhaul for so long with a grim feeling that the changes would never come to pass. We all talk and commiserate, but truly don’t know how to bring about change. BLM and their associated activists are discarding the notion that these changes cannot occur. I believe they will be viewed as the liberators who delivered the paradigm earthquake.

This younger generation of activists has restored my sense of the possible.



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Id suggest that useful demands
Can only proceed from
A concise presentation
Of what an abject sellout
Obama was
And is...

yeah if I got this right we strip everything down and rebuild
no more slave labor forced economy
no more oligarchy fascism

Simply: cooperation trumps competition. Duh

We build/rebuild for that

We need a reformer.


I'm pretty sure that's why the virus is here if there's a reason that's it.

I babble it's always nice to have a good wrench.

not a move has been made at addressing the holes in our national security
which covid 19 has revealed

and

we could have ANOTHER seriously deadly one show up tomorrow

before covid even gets a chance at a second wave...

We are going to need more pitchforks and torches.
Unfortunately I don't see that happening...the thieves that steal the resources will kill you first.

This past weekend I poised a question to my brother...
If the economy collapses, and you lost your job, what would you do?...how would you survive?
He said he has enough put away (stocks/bonds/cash), and could just retire. I guess he missed the first part of the question.
He does not understand many folks are already in that position.
He does not understand his "savings" is in someone else's hands.
He does not understand countries are big plantations, and we are free-range slaves.
He does not understand the construct of the system that is in place.
...just like 99% of the populous. Good luck waking them up.

The solution is really quite simple...my grandmother, who lived through the depression, knew it...
Don't owe any debts.
Own some land...outright, no mortgage.
Have the knowledge to produce something that people need.
And own the tools to produce it.
The more types of things you can produce, the better off you will be.
Nobody NEEDS a manager, a salesman, or a laborer....these are slave roles...they are the roles we are taught to fill.
Own some resources, produce food/clothing/shelter, and you are golden.
But an overwhelming portion of society has moved away from that philosophy.

^^Excellent post

Butcher Bob wrote:We are going to need more pitchforks and torches.
Unfortunately I don't see that happening...
...just like 99% of the populous. Good luck waking them up.

There are more forces in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in our philosophies. - paraphrasing Shakespeare.

The panendemic pandimensional virus. Cooperate or die

Look at the coronavirus death charts. Countries that cooperate New Zealand, Australia, South Korea virtually unscathed. The UK, US based on competition.
I am not just saying.

The hand of God is everywhere
If you look

That stone mountain
Hope they run with my idea
Hang some giant curtains over the thing

Open them once a year
Say on the annaversary of the souths defeat...

We do not need
Circumstance
Where i feel

Free to act...