To day as americans we blindly trust everything we’re exposed too, not because we’re dumb but were inadvertantly trained to. We live in a world now where ticks chase people, broccoli literally makes you 💩 yourself to death, and a phone cost $2k. The cost of living since 1982 excluding inflation has rose 247%, cars cost about 60k on average, food cost about $500 per person per month, and the average wage is about 61k per year. This has been driven by fractional banking (0% now), money stagnation through billion dollar companies, and the intentional inflation and planned degration of products. We have old cars running better then new one’s and for a fraction of the price, ai controlling pricing at grocry store, and so much more. Some parting thought i’ll leave you with, what do YOU think about all this? how much are YOU willing to allow? What will YOU do about it?
Thank you, for your time.
The TRUE state of “America” (the US) is as follows: you have two choices, a capitlalist party and another capitalist party.
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
We know things are bad - worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’
Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot - I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!..You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it! Is that clear? You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!
You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU… WILL… ATONE!
Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that… perfect world… in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
I remember back in the 2000s listening to those old soundboard prank call recordings. One used this diatribe. At the time, it was quite amusing and anachronistic to hear someone complaining about “the Russians.” How times change, or perhaps how the wheel turns.
Wdym? Oceania was always at war with Eurasia.
I vote.
I’m not a data prostitute. I have removed my data from big tech, closed all social media and cut all ties. They cannot monetize me to the highest bidder to buy out politicians.
I support small local business.
I don’t listen to the propaganda that is mainstream media.
I donate to companies who work and fight FOR us, and try to preserve our humanity; like EFF, Calyx institute, archive.org, Wikipedia, other nonprofits and foundations doing things to better people.
I/we garden and have planted fruit trees to offset food expenses.
I have energy independence with electric having gone solar, have a battery backup, and generator.
I have stocked up on munitions, first aid, and/or personal protective equipment
Feel free to give me more ideas to break down the system.
Edit: to do list:
- Gain financial independence from banking institutions who keep you in revolving debt
- By land
yeah thats what the american public voted for.
maybe the country should have actually done something about it before it got to this point.
inadvertently
it was intentional and you all voted for it
This is quite rude, honestly. In 2024, I was a seventeen-year-old closetted trans girl.
I had constant dread and anxiety because I knew he was going to be elected, and I couldn’t even vote.
I was scared to death. I still am. I need to get out. I wish I could get out.
You can get out… You’re just making a choice not to… And I say this as someone who left.
Who would it help for me to get out of here? Not the country I’m leaving, and not the country I’d be going to, either.
you all voted for it
You may not be an American, but you count like you went to one of our public schools…
First eu isnt any better, 2nd i didnt vote for any of that. We have a system called lobbying which allows companies to publicly contribute funds to elected officials and they pass laws and bill that the american people never asked for, for money. Where do you think copyright extenstions came from? Thank disney for that onewhich the eu made even worse in 2019, german eeg, eu trade secerts directive, Not to mention France tried to intercept grapheneOS downloads to install spyware, and my favorite, chat control which ireland is the main one pushing for it. I can keep going but i believe ive made my point by now.
you all voted for it
Did you get an American education?
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To day as americans we blindly trust everything we’re exposed too, not because we’re dumb but were inadvertantly trained to.
The rich are conditioning us to accept our abuse. Some of it is inadvertent, though it can be impossible to tell.
Personally, my parents hit me if I did not obey and accept whatever they said. I was physically conditioned to be a delusional narcissist like them. I still did not vote for Trump, but they did. I am trying to apply more critical thinking in my life. It is difficult when my foundation is broken and I had so many bad habits for so many years.
Did my parents intend to abuse their children, or was it inadvertent?
