It's like people are just getting dumber and dumber.

They do things like protest art for being "racist." They protest great movies, and even fairy tales.

History is being censored and removed.

We're entering a new age of puritanism.

Meanwhile, people willingly give away their privacy. They don't care that the government spies on them. They buy televisions with always on microphones that send everything you say back to their data centers.

People don't mind having advertising in everything they do... just so they can save a couple of bucks for software that should have been free anyway.

The Reddit fiasco has exploded and every single media outlet vets the same lies and bias... that it's about nothing more that sexist boys trying to keep out anyone with a vagina. The bullies call their victims the bullies and everyone listens.

Everyone talks about "rape culture" as if it exists but nobody bothers to consider why there is no "murder culture."

No one cares about the truth anymore. No one.

I do none of those things. My TV is an old CRT TV I got for free. No computers in it, no microphone, not even widescreen. I have also never owned a cell phone in my life, I don't believe guns kill people, people do that, I don't think flags are racist, people are etc..

Oh, up here in Canada, we had murders yesterday in Toronto with an illegal firearm, and multiple murders in Montreal, same comment, illegal firearms. Gun control sure works up here eh? We also have people protesting a new solar farm to generate electricity cleanly, we have people who constantly protest the wind generators... it's like everyone took a stupid pill. (Oh, and the firearm used wasn't stolen from a legal owner because it was the type not allowed in Canada, period)

I don't encounter any of this kind of nonsense anywhere except the Internet, and even then, it's only when I go looking for it.

If you're truly encountering this stuff in your day-to-day life, then you could try watching someone like Sargon of Akkad for some comfort. He and his followers are a reminder that most of the world is, in fact, united against all that.

The most of that insanity is in the poor countries. Look at India. They have lowered the prices for cotton, so that 25.000 cotton farmers made suicide in the last years. There are areas you can see people hanging in the trees frequently.

Now we are awaiting the big financial collapse. The governements have printed 400 times more money than real values existing. Better put a few gold bars under your pillow.

Here's what I predict:
When uncontrolled capitalism farts its (seemingly) last fart (it will never die for real because people are stupid (or really smart and in-human depending on judgement and point of view)), the poor will revolt.

It will be a puny revolt though because they will be full of fear and most will already be dead anyway. Their spirit and not unlikely their physical shells too, killed by a ridiculous system which values fictional numbers(money) higher than human needs, in an age where human workforce is less and less needed to produce anything essential and those who are still needed look disgruntled at all the "freeloaders"(the irrational hatred against unemployed people feels pretty strong).

The remaining few who are willing and even capable of starting anything like a revolt will be severely under-equipped and thus be promptly executed by the private armies of the Megacorps or even by "regular" armies as countries have no sovereignty anymore and are fully controlled by the Megacorps as well.

They're not taking prisoners for slaves because they don't need 90% or an even higher percentage of the population anymore to produce the goods needed for their lives. Robots, machines, computers have taken over the production and those who own and control them will be unwilling to share with the rest of the world and keep demanding that everyone goes to work 9 to 5 in some meaningless system subsidized bullshit job... "to do their part... carry their weight... contribute" (contribution my ass... like slicing murdered animals on a conveyor belt for a few bucks an hour contributes shit to the development of mankind).

What the world needs, what the people need, is a global unconditional base income for everyone. Anything short of that is anti-social considering the radical changes which happened through the continuous technical progress. But then again, I believe that on a global scale, people ARE anti social, so this development is apparently WANTED by the majority of people. At the very least, tolerated and/or ignored.

When someone is born today. That someone should not owe anyone else shit. He/she should (if the concept of ownership should at all be kept alive) OWN an equal share of EVERYTHING which exists. It should be a birthright in a modern artificial world to get granted free food and shelter for life. It should not be everyone's damn duty anymore to sell their labor until death takes 'em away. Those times should be over by now.

The struggle for survival as fought by our ancestors has essentially been abolished (at least in theory, in practice, the financial imbalance and the lack of insight or mere unwillingness/ignorance of those in control prevents it from being practiced). The struggle for survival that we see today with the unemployed in first world countries is an artificially upheld struggle which is not really necessary, because their labor is not needed anyway.

In summary: mankind is fucked but some will always survive no matter what, the "poor" are expendable and those who could in theory do something about it don't want to change anything because they like their power and those who could also in theory change something about it also still don't because they are controlled by fear (and that fear is exactly as it is intended by those who control everything)

Oh yeah, end of rant.

A personal note: I'll soon have to succumb to capitalism and find a way to generate income as the system forces a mandatory contract upon me which I could not pay otherwise (and which on top of that is completely useless to me as I don't trust doctors/psychologists/etc. so will never even use any of the services that stupid so called "health" insurance provides... on the contrary that shit just makes me more miserable and furious... need to pick up Yoga and meditation again).

In case it is not obvious: My opinion is that forced labor totally sucks and that no one really needs to be forced to work and the system would still function (and people would be happier and less stressed out and less cut-throat competitive) and everyone would still not go hungry or be homeless.

And if you're asking yourself what any of this has to do with the OP... well DERP, it's the internet for fuck's sake. People (myself including) use it to vent the crap out of their minds. If you want to be happy, ignore peoples online rants, including this one and search for answers inside your self.

Everyone needs to find their own truth(s) and yes, you can have multiple truths, even ones which seem to contradict each other.

Socialism is destroying our countries and here we have someone blaming capitalism which made our countries strong in the first place. Lots of ignorance and brain washing happening with the youth it seems.

What we need is a history test you need to score 90% on in order to vote. That would probably improve things.

Don't worry, capitalism is collapsing, socialism is taking over, and THAT is what is causing all the problems. Expect them to get worse.

When people are punished for working hard by having their money taken away and given to someone who is rewarded for not working. The person not working has no incentive to work, and the person who does work has no incentive to improve or even keep working.

Socialism is self defeating. It always has been. Under socialism small businesses generally fail first as they cannot handle the increased tax burden, and when they fail, social programs take a bigger hit and the tax burden increases. It's a vicious cycle that ends in self destruction and poverty.

"Sooner or later you run out of other people's money to spend" - Margret Thatcher

Well, history disagrees with you.

I'm not certain if I was just insulted or complimented.

Anyhow, I have another GIF I like.

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It's funny, people don't recognize socialism when it stares them in the face.

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Well, you can't seem to carry on a civilized discussion without liberal amounts of swearing. I merely mentioned that socialism is destructive and the next thing you know I am killing and starving helpless people. Wow... that's quite the leap of logic.

Anyhow, I can see you are not someone that can discuss anything without getting angry and cussing out those that oppose your opinion, so I'll end this here. Believe what you wish.

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