Irrelevance of liberal, socialist and communist ideals in the modern world.

[Skarekrow]

I agree with you on so many of these points. I definitely agree with you on socialized medicine, Obamas plan was dysfunctional at best and a change will only feed more money into the system of distribution rather than into the hands of physicians who are doing the work and need resources to perform those functions. My significant other is an MD and we have had this discussion many times. Personally, I believe the problem is a supply and demand issue. The medical schools can only turn out so many physicians and other medical professionals. This creates a low supply with the demand for services already high, growing higher with everyone on insurance. Then there is a requirement to treat at a rate that is reduced by policy. I've already started to see some physicians stop taking patients and reducing the number of insurance providers they will accept. Cash pay is becoming more of a demand by the medical community. I have to say that controlling a market of professionals that have committed such a high level of effort to education in this manner will eventually start to have a detrimental outcome. These professionals will eventually decide to go to other areas of the world if they continue to be manipulated.

Oh for sure.
I have worked in the medical field my whole working life...as an EMT, Paramedic, CNA, Home Health Care, Coast Guard, in the ER and the in the OR for the last 12 year working as a scrub nurse, the past 6 first assisting with open heart surgery.
I think that we should subsidize those who wish to go to medical school...and even more for those who will commit to working a set amount of years in needed fields like family practice.
So long as the model is for-profit the prices will continue to rise, and people will continue to pay more and more and get priced out.
Showing up at the ER for cancer isn’t a viable solution...as suggested recently by a Republican Congressman...he literally said for those who have no insurance to go to the ER for cancer...what an idiot...or the other guy who said - “Maybe they should invest in their own healthcare and forgo the new iPhone this year”
Really?
Does this guy have any clue how much medical care costs?
Medical bills being the number one reason for bankruptcies in the US.
Going back to the way it was before the ACA, only 10x worse - is not going to help anyone...physicians included.
*sigh*
I think medical professionals should be paid what they are worth which many are not...and a Doctor shouldn’t have 6 digit + student loans to have to repay.
I guess you can tell I’m leaning toward a single payer system...at least make a public option available, then if you have the money and want the Cadillac plan, by all means, purchase it.
But to destroy all the patient protections is going to be very harmful and is inhuman and inhumane.
Of course...Congress doesn’t have to get their insurance from this bill - we pay as taxpayers for their own Cadillac plans that they will continue to keep while others in the US can’t afford their medication to keep their heart from dangerous arrhythmias.
Sick in the head.

 

[t56hg2bv]

Oh for sure.
I have worked in the medical field my whole working life...as an EMT, Paramedic, CNA, Home Health Care, Coast Guard, in the ER and the in the OR for the last 12 year working as a scrub nurse, the past 6 first assisting with open heart surgery.
I think that we should subsidize those who wish to go to medical school...and even more for those who will commit to working a set amount of years in needed fields like family practice.
So long as the model is for-profit the prices will continue to rise, and people will continue to pay more and more and get priced out.
Showing up at the ER for cancer isn’t a viable solution...as suggested recently by a Republican Congressman...he literally said for those who have no insurance to go to the ER for cancer...what an idiot...or the other guy who said - “Maybe they should invest in their own healthcare and forgo the new iPhone this year”
Really?
Does this guy have any clue how much medical care costs?
Medical bills being the number one reason for bankruptcies in the US.
Going back to the way it was before the ACA, only 10x worse - is not going to help anyone...physicians included.
*sigh*
I think medical professionals should be paid what they are worth which many are not...and a Doctor shouldn’t have 6 digit + student loans to have to repay.
I guess you can tell I’m leaning toward a single payer system...at least make a public option available, then if you have the money and want the Cadillac plan, by all means, purchase it.
But to destroy all the patient protections is going to be very harmful and is inhuman and inhumane.
Of course...Congress doesn’t have to get their insurance from this bill - we pay as taxpayers for their own Cadillac plans that they will continue to keep while others in the US can’t afford their medication to keep their heart from dangerous arrhythmias.
Sick in the head.

Yes, a single pay system does seem to be in the best interest of everyone at this time (have also had that discussion many times). I also believe that a for profit system is mandatory if you want to have the best system possible. The pricing of service should always be based on supply and demand. The more physicians that are available the greater the competition, and that will prevent price gouging for services.That just leaves the price cost ratio to the market and in doing so it will create a natural equilibrium. Subsidies for doctors would be very wise at increasing the number of doctors. I would be curious to see the economic projections when subsidies are implemented for education over a 20 or 30 year span.

And destroying the patient protection doesn't get rid of the problem. It only shifts it to another area. Insurance companies are a cancer to the medical system. No company should have so much control over patient care and make such a high profit by doing it.

 

[Skarekrow]

Yes, a single pay system does seem to be in the best interest of everyone at this time (have also had that discussion many times). I also believe that a for profit system is mandatory if you want to have the best system possible. The pricing of service should always be based on supply and demand. The more physicians that are available the greater the competition, and that will prevent price gouging for services.That just leaves the price cost ratio to the market and in doing so it will create a natural equilibrium. Subsidies for doctors would be very wise at increasing the number of doctors. I would be curious to see the economic projections when subsidies are implemented for education over a 20 or 30 year span.

And destroying the patient protection doesn't get rid of the problem. It only shifts it to another area. Insurance companies are a cancer to the medical system. No company should have so much control over patient care and make such a high profit by doing it.

We will discuss this more later!
Thanks for the great conversation and insights.
I agree with you...I even agree that a free market can exist and their still be a public option available with patient protections included.
Otherwise, like you said, you just shift the cost.
Yes...insurance companies are the “death panels”.
It’s strange to me how few people realize that.
TTYS!

 

[t56hg2bv]

We will discuss this more later!
Thanks for the great conversation and insights.
I agree with you...I even agree that a free market can exist and their still be a public option available with patient protections included.
Otherwise, like you said, you just shift the cost.
Yes...insurance companies are the “death panels”.
It’s strange to me how few people realize that.
TTYS!

BTW, I have also worked in the health care industry. Though it was in IT, I did see much of the inner workings and had access to the people who were making all of the decisions. Also some very good conversations.

 

[Eventhorizon]

Caught on tape: Dem official says he's 'glad' Scalise got shot
Published June 23, 2017


Liberal media pile on Scalise, GOP after shooting

A Nebraska Democratic Party official was removed from his post on Thursday after an audio recording surfaced of him saying he's “glad” House Majority Whip Steve Scalise got shot last week.

Phil Montag, now-former co-chair of the state party’s technology committee, was recorded saying he wishes Scalise, R-La., were “dead.”

“His whole job is to get people, convince Republicans to [expletive] kick people off [expletive] health care. I’m glad he got shot,” Montag said in the audio recording. “I wish he was [expletive] dead.”

 

[Stu]

I wonder if it is really that "Movement Conservatism" is the thing that is actually losing traction in America

The bill [the BCRA] also comes at an awkward political moment for movement conservatism. The candidates who ran on those ideas, such as Sen. Marco Rubio, flamed out badly in the Republican primaries. Instead, Donald Trump won. But the ideas in the health care bill also aren’t very compatible with Trump’s populism. Trump ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare, but he promised to replace it with “something terrific,” said he’d protect the “lower 25 percent” even if it defied Republican orthodoxy, and repeatedly criticized other Republicans who said they’d cut Medicaid. McConnell and Ryan have co-opted Trump’s mandate — narrow as it was — and tried to turn it into their own, at considerable risk to both themselves and Trump.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...ng-13-dimensional-chess/?ex_cid=story-twitter

 

[Billy]

Much like unions, some ideas are past having any relevance in the modern world. Though where unions had their time and place, liberal, socialist and communist ideals never have because they simply have never been able to stand on their own in the real world.
Liberal motivation collapses under its own weight. "We want this but we don't know how to make it work. You work for us and figure it out. Do as we say not as we do..." and so on and so on.
In the face of failed ideals such as these, why do the associated irrelevant groups continue to thrive like a festering wound in society? What steps are needed to cauterize the wound and disinfect it so that the world may heal and move on?

i've been doing a lot of thinking lately about ideals and ideas and memes and how they become cancerous after they outgrow the parameters that made mandated thier necessity to begin with. Liberalism, Individualism, libertarianism etc, is the idea that won out the 20th century. It defeated communism, socialism, and fascism. but as it was said in I think Batman, that the good guy will live long enough to become the bad guy, as the world around him changes. The idea of individualism, progressive liberalism etc, has run its course and is now gone nose first into pure degeneracy. This is why you will see the rise of ethno nationalism, socialism, etc in these societies, because the cancer is leading humans towards oblivion or replacement. This is why we have the phrase "first world problems" Ohhh no, Timmys Obamacare is being taken away, now he wont be able to get his free hormone injections anymore... people in Africa wouldn't even be able to comprehend something so ludicrous. So as I said, you see things like the Alt Right rising, Trump ran largely on an Alt Right platform, and it won. That should be ringing huge alarms for most people that progressive liberal individualism is over. Now people are hungry for Identity... we want to know who we are. We are growing up in a sterile, bureaucratic corporate HELL. Devoid of the most important sources of identity. (biological identity) Now Freedom, and Muh Rights are considered real, but gender and race are "social constructions"...people want their identities back, we dont want to just be passive law abiding undifferentiated consumerist cells, devoid of meaning and beauty and difference. There is no life there, there is no "there" there. We want heritage, family and tradition... things "individualists" spit on. Humanity is ping ponging back, the memes are changing, cultural evolution is occurring. We are having a new "60s cultural upheaval" right now... but this time we pivot back to the right, with each swing from left to right being more extreme. I dont know how far right we will go this time. I bet you there is some unknown algorithm that could track cultural fluctuations between collectivism and individualism that would show that the fluctuations form an ever expanding wave which will eventually violently spiral out of control

 

[Eventhorizon]

Rather than create another thread for it, I just really wanted to say how glad I am both Rice and Lynch are going to end up where they belong.

 

[the]

Do Racism, Conservatism, and Low I.Q. Go Hand in Hand?
Lower cognitive abilities predict greater prejudice through right-wing ideology.

Low IQ perhaps, but these people obviously have a very high EQ.

 

[Darc]

I think a lot of liberals are just really removed from those that they say they are trying to help.

They are often also I have seen in practice, kind of hypocrites who do not seem to know where their true motives lie. I have come to the conclusion that if the liberals and conservatives could understand each other, then there would be more success with their theories. The problem is that, the liberals don't even get what they're doing half of the time I think, no offense to them, but I look at their actions and often times they don't really make sense. I think often times most of them just want any excuse to get this huge centralized state out of some notion of superiority and self righteousness (that often times, is petty or arbitrary) and live above everyone else. But that way just is not conducive or supportive of life.
They also need to stop demonizing conservatives so much, they are actually right about some things. It's mostly leftist propaganda that is ironically to blame for this though.

I don't want to say who or what I think it is sometimes, but I mean come on, the communist manifesto? I think Marx was right about some things, but there's other things out there. People treat that thing like the bible. But I guess that's the thing, I mean so many people don't realize how often they are just being used as pawns and are either completely oblivious or in denial to this fact.

I think exploitation is wrong though, amongst other things. But then it's hard not to think it is all just human nature all of the time, especially when hardly any progress gets made, and everyone is always just trying to back stab, or get everyone else and "win" some imaginary competition. The thing too is that liberals always point out what is wrong with capitalism or when it goes wrong but they seem completely blind to all of the times their social programs or attempts at progress have failed as well. They hardly even acknowledge them.

So, argh, human nature being what it is. I've had a hard time finding anyone these days on the left that I can have an honest and transparent conversation with and they seemingly cannot see past their own dogma so I don't even know anymore. I've met so many terrible people who consider themselves liberal. I mean I look at how they're rising the living standard all of the time and I think that's awful, but then part of me laughs I think because people are not as motivated for capitalism anymore so they're just making it harder, and yet somehow this suffices. So now we are in a sense poorer, everything is more expensive and we have to work harder, just to keep whatever this is going.

I think that's what it is with liberalism, all of these greedy, cunning, and opportunistic people always trying to use it to gain their own advantage and that's what I see a lot with the left (even though) it's more obvious in the right, it's a well known fact. The fact that the whole voting system is rigged at this point and hardly anyone cares is not altogether that much of an optimistic fact.

 

[Darc]

I think if the left had a better business sense too, then thing would work out in their favor and they'd gain the support they want, because many of them just think it's pointless so they don't bother trying to understand and they seemingly just want to be full on communist all of the time and want some huge state weighing everyone down, like Atlas carrying the earth or something, the state just sits on our shoulders, ha ha ha.

 

[Darc]

Low IQ perhaps, but these people obviously have a very high EQ.

The conservatives are a lot smarter then you think, I have discovered that it just takes the ability to read between the lines. I suppose they will not outright say or explain where their views originate from are surmount to, but it's all their. It takes deliberate study, and awareness, not to mention a slew of mandatory life experiences, ones that might not always be the most comfortable or satisfying.

I think the right has a philosophy behind it though, it's just not that altogether obvious.


I mean do people even? look at Atlas Shrugs and how big all of her books are, so are all considered to be associated with "conservatism" plus, all of the stuff that took place in the enlightenment period and romantic period are all considered to be conservative to our countries (a host of philosophy and the like) which now days, is all just completely ignored in favor of, I don't know, Marxism and Marxism only. I mean please

Another thing too (which is a problem with left) "liberalism" in terms of what you vote for, is still in support of capitalism largely and is not all that removed from conservatism and I think many consider themselves on the left but only in that sense, and that's the majority of people I think. So often times they don't even care. They make the wrong people into enemies.

 

[SuperManda]

1) "Too big to fail" is not capitalism. Between bank bailouts, the war machine, and the HMOs who profit off of having sick people, there are constantly people at the top who rob us all of our money. We're living in a corporate fascist state, where the banks, corporations, and gov't are all one entity. Our whole economy is based on war and the decrepitude of our health. As the middle class is destroyed, it'll lead to a situation where we are all treated equally as badly-- and many call that communism or socialism. Already, home ownership is at all-time lows. Just wait until they take away car ownership with the release of autonomous vehicles (which nobody can afford).
2) The food supply is tainted by sugar substitutes, high fructose corn syrup, MSG (hidden under about 50 different terms on food labeling), etc. People get diabetes (50% of Americans are pre-diabetic or diabetic) and get nerve damage... then they take the pharmaceuticals. Diabetes, cancer, and MS are the most expensive diseases to treat, and people are getting these diseases left and right. The wrong people are procreating also... statistically, the poor have all the children, so it's just a merry-go-round of madness, with Medicaid paying for the births of 51% of babies nationwide. Most of those 51% of babies are finished before they even get started with the competition of life.
3) With a huge Baby Boomer generation retiring, we have a demographic mismatch in society, which will not end well for our Social Security, pensions, etc. The Millennials and Generation X people will then be robbed again in their late adulthood by having a reduced retirement allowance, after we were already hit on the head with the hammer of student loans as we entered adulthood.
4) After Generation Z grows up, they may be able to get by on their parents' inherited wealth, but at some point-- maybe 2 to 4 generations from now, everyone will just be poor and have a medium-complected skin color. Statistically, whites are already a minority in the latest generation. We will have no choice but to import immigrants to pay into our failing "Ponzi scheme," further leading to an erasure of white people. (I'm not saying that it's positive or negative; merely identifying trends that the US will have to adapt to). Most of the immigrants in my state are doctors, business people, or engineers, so they're definitely keeping the US Ponzi schemes alive, and I believe that trend will continue.

The irony is that society will become even more pseudo-communist in the sense that no native-born American will have ownership and will be treated equally terribly by the government; but yet, individuals will be marching to the tunes of their own particular culture, taking selfies, and leading a cocooned/autistic lifestyle through the computer/Internet. The government uses technology to keep people cocooned, lest they start protesting on Wall Street or sticking HMO providers in the neck with their insulin needles.

Until the Federal Reserve system is abolished, there will be no thriving economy, regardless of what form of government we have.

Anarchy is looking better and better, huh?

 

[Darc]

Is this what the liberals are trying to do to the West and all of the other European countries right now?

Correct me if I am wrong, I have tried to stay open minded and understand both sides, but I get a sense that they are trying to get the working class to submit to the state, so they'll finally become more "liberal" and keep voting for welfare and social programs until all those countries are liberal and the West/and Europe is stopped from "oppressing" the world; but the problem being is I just don't think that is safe, and I think will only end up in the East coming into power and relatively little of else, and thus, the world is split in this way. And also, I do not see them returning the favor, no matter how nice we are, as there is just too much ancient grudges between us all.

After living in very "multi-culturalism" places and being in close quarters and contact with a lot of Eastern people, I don't think they're more benevolent or fair-minded and wiser then at all.

I think what the problem with the world, is that both sides cannot see eye to eye or understand each other. I mean, of course it makes sense, it's human nature after all. But...

And then everyone just plays video games all day and watch stupid movies and are scared of everything and live in like a fake/imaginary world designed for them.

 

[Darc]

1) "Too big to fail" is not capitalism. Between bank bailouts, the war machine, and the HMOs who profit off of having sick people, there are constantly people at the top who rob us all of our money. We're living in a corporate fascist state, where the banks, corporations, and gov't are all one entity. Our whole economy is based on war and the decrepitude of our health. As the middle class is destroyed, it'll lead to a situation where we are all treated equally as badly-- and many call that communism or socialism. Already, home ownership is at all-time lows. Just wait until they take away car ownership with the release of autonomous vehicles (which nobody can afford).
2) The food supply is tainted by sugar substitutes, high fructose corn syrup, MSG (hidden under about 50 different terms on food labeling), etc. People get diabetes (50% of Americans are pre-diabetic or diabetic) and get nerve damage... then they take the pharmaceuticals. Diabetes, cancer, and MS are the most expensive diseases to treat, and people are getting these diseases left and right. The wrong people are procreating also... statistically, the poor have all the children, so it's just a merry-go-round of madness, with Medicaid paying for the births of 51% of babies nationwide. Most of those 51% of babies are finished before they even get started with the competition of life.
3) With a huge Baby Boomer generation retiring, we have a demographic mismatch in society, which will not end well for our Social Security, pensions, etc. The Millennials and Generation X people will then be robbed again in their late adulthood by having a reduced retirement allowance, after we were already hit on the head with the hammer of student loans as we entered adulthood.
4) After Generation Z grows up, they may be able to get by on their parents' inherited wealth, but at some point-- maybe 2 to 4 generations from now, everyone will just be poor and have a medium-complected skin color. Statistically, whites are already a minority in the latest generation. We will have no choice but to import immigrants to pay into our failing "Ponzi scheme," further leading to an erasure of white people. (I'm not saying that it's positive or negative; merely identifying trends that the US will have to adapt to). Most of the immigrants in my state are doctors, business people, or engineers, so they're definitely keeping the US Ponzi schemes alive, and I believe that trend will continue.

The irony is that society will become even more pseudo-communist in the sense that no native-born American will have ownership and will be treated equally terribly by the government; but yet, individuals will be marching to the tunes of their own particular culture, taking selfies, and leading a cocooned/autistic lifestyle through the computer/Internet. The government uses technology to keep people cocooned, lest they start protesting on Wall Street or sticking HMO providers in the neck with their insulin needles.

Until the Federal Reserve system is abolished, there will be no thriving economy, regardless of what form of government we have.

Anarchy is looking better and better, huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)

"autistic" lifestyle is a good way to describe it, I've noticed a similar thing. I think people are starting to act really weird, like they're losing their ability to emote or emphasize with each other, whilst the pharmaceutical industry is practically medicalizing the human condition.



Btw, I already have a medium complicated skin color : (

I am the future dredge!

 

[Darc]

If anyone doesn't know btw, communism is pretty much feudalism I think, I mean they say that's not what it is, but when you look at the theory, when you give everything to the centralized state, that's pretty much what you are left with. It's not anything different then feudalism basically, which, communists often compare capitalism to and say "even feudalism had better standards of living" and then, they say things like "the soviet union is not that bad"

So I just wonder what happened to the left. It's like you cannot have an honest conversation with half of them, but then, I guess that's the problem, it's a product of "free speech" and "democracy" and it's against their whole ideological slant or whatever. Either that or perhaps it's the way I speak, you must only use examples from recent history to prove any thoughts you may have, everything you must say has to refrain from anything seemingly moral or about meanings, motives. Just the facts, practical knowledge and such things, which, if history just repeats itself, doesn't it repeat itself because everyone thinks that it does? (which, seems to be what academia wants everyone to believe lol.)

So no offense, but when I look at the 3rd world, I sometimes think that's what the majority of them want to stay like for whatever reason. Also, if one were to look up "neo-liberalism"
It's basically being mistaken for or used in exchange for actual "liberalism" which they stopped doing around the 1970s....

Which oddly, a lot of liberals seem to be siding with? they call it progress, but if it's on behalf of neo-liberalism, how could anyone of it be considered liberal?
I mean giving the state more and more power all of the time is feigning, and maybe a Soviet esque situation s all that is possible right now, mostly; but then the West has always been full of survivors. Everyone in my family is a survivor, and it's something that I am quite adept in.

 

[Darc]

So when you think about "globalism"


This is pretty much what neo-liberalism is. I mean, outsourcing everything, immigration, blah blah blah, it's all neo-liberalism, and an attempt merely to give the big corporations more and more power whilst whatever opportunities are stripped away.

So the thing that annoys me again, which things like political correctness, I find that a lot of people who act like they are on the "left" don't think there's anything wrong with this, so again, I am just left confused. Is the left seriously fucking daft or something?

I think everyone is seriously going to sleep and getting hypnotized, or abducted by aliens and taken away to fucking "mars" (lol, Matt Damon) or they have completely checked out because they cannot handle reality. I just encounter lots of cognitive dissonance with the left these days, (like wtf)


Either way, can we trust the state when the state is partially to blame for everything gone wrong and they are in bed with the corporations?

The West, lol:

Spoiler

I guess the only qualms I have with trusting the left anymore, and here's the kicker: the conservatives I do not think are wrong about everything. Sure, this whole situation is horrible, but what can be do about it? how can one say it's not the result of a facet of human nature? and thus, it's still survival of the fittest, and I just don't know if I have enough face in my countryman (the majority) to think that if we surrender, we'll be magically spared, and then one day we'll have that magical or fabled "workers revolution" no, I don't think so at all. In my experience in multi-cultural cities and in Canada (where there's tons of immigration) I experienced nothing but hostility, and even racism and all this other warped weird shit. I mean unfortunately, we're not all equal.

A lot of people are just...they're too submissive and/or mindless followers and they don't care enough about their lives or what happens to them, so why box yourself in a kennel with them? they won't even realize that's what it is until it's too late. So I just have no idea, even people in my own country are acting really freaking weird in general.

I think that many human beings are just so despicable, so greedy and selfish that no matter what, they'll just follow where ever the tit of capitalism goes and flows the most, and they can't fight the temptation. So what other solutions are there?

If anything, it'll just make everyone angrier at us all (LIKE THEY ALREADY ARE) I mean I think that's why I lot of people think immigration is good because: The "natives" are "bad" they're so unruly, and such and such, they won't listen, they won't be "liberal" "they're stupid"

(which, many people are outspokenly saying quite regularly, especially with Donald Trump as president now) so...what will change then? know feasibly, that's how people react and treat me. I mean I don't even know why they treat me with so much hostility, I am not the person with the problem here. So, human beings are stupid? I mean seriously ha, like you can trust most people.)SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST---then, as it always goes to this by default. Especially you know, the inability to see beyond your gratuitous and hedonistic tendencies=survival of the fittest.

Being a mindless follower=survival of the fittest.



So in all that being said, when I look at Canada, my country, and what's been going on here; this is what I think happened: It was an inside job.

It has nothing to do with liberalism and they could care less, so I mean if they're so hell bent on making us all dispear, and ruining our lives, when will it change? especially when these people are the ones in power and in the government running it. We don't have time to wait for a "workers revolution" and it's survival of the fittest in a sense that they're stupid for doing this to us, because it won't benefit them necessarily either. They still won't be satisfied and fulfilled and they will wonder why. THEY DON'T GET IT.

 

[Darc]

SORRY, I don't mean to post so much, but I felt like I had to re-post this, because it's so true.

 

[SuperManda]

Right. In my opinion, immigration is a function of the wars (people fleeing) but also of demographics and business. If (let's say), the most people in the world are born in Afghanistan, then it makes sense to put the overflow Afghani people into places with lower birth rates (ie: in Europe or North America)... oh, and they kill two birds with one stone if the Afghani guy also happens to be an opium-runner or a lithium miner... then they get "the movement of people AND goods" (famous Hillary Clinton slogan).

In the East, China has eliminated their "one child only" policy for most people, so I could see WWIII happening if people in China begin to get overpopulated again. If it does, we'll probably make these refugees into soldiers in order to "let them earn their citizenship." We already use primarily mercenaries. It's pretty bizarre how exploitative this world is... everything goes around the war and saving the Ponzi schemes of Social Security and pensions. As a side issue, there are only 3 countries left in the world without a Central Bank. They are: North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. So if anyone is taking bets on where the war machine goes next, those 3 would definitely be on the hit parade. The petrodollar system is failing rapidly, wealth is being transferred to the East (plus the East has their own banking/world trade processing systems nowadays, as well as the world's top 3 supercomputers-- all that means reduced business for our banks because countries can bypass the US to trade amongst themselves). They're holding this whole world economy together with Silly Putty, the Plunge Protection Team, and negative interest rates. At some point, they'll probably go to a cashless system, but that's a story for a whole other day.

I think 97% of the media is owned by a particular group of people, many of whom may be liberals, so they control what can or cannot be said because they're like the "gatekeepers of communication" throughout society. People are afraid to speak their minds, sort of like in 1984 or The Giver. I personally left an elite college (I was one of a tiny percentage there for my brain) because they were forcing me to be a sell-out and become a pawn of the billionaires, and I refused to have my knowledge exploited. Long story short, I know these elites; I know their psyche and the worlds they live in; and they're all sickos regardless of liberal/conservative politics. I agree that they're pushing the envelope to test how much the citizens will "put up with" before they revolt. Some of these billionaires have brain implants. They don't even raise their own children, so a billionaire kid won't truly know his/her parents very well-- they just function as an investment vehicle for the parent-- it's like living in a parallel universe to be a billionaire, but I suppose I'm getting way off-topic. That was my experience of "going between the worlds" and you're correct when you compare it to aliens, because they are emotionless, psychopathic individuals in that sense... not to mention the ones with body-doubles...

The world is mad. ...Oh well. Back to my virtual fiefdom...

 

[Vigilance]

Right. In my opinion, immigration is a function of the wars (people fleeing) but also of demographics and business. If (let's say), the most people in the world are born in Afghanistan, then it makes sense to put the overflow Afghani people into places with lower birth rates (ie: in Europe or North America)... oh, and they kill two birds with one stone if the Afghani guy also happens to be an opium-runner or a lithium miner... then they get "the movement of people AND goods" (famous Hillary Clinton slogan).

In the East, China has eliminated their "one child only" policy for most people, so I could see WWIII happening if people in China begin to get overpopulated again. If it does, we'll probably make these refugees into soldiers in order to "let them earn their citizenship." We already use primarily mercenaries. It's pretty bizarre how exploitative this world is... everything goes around the war and saving the Ponzi schemes of Social Security and pensions. As a side issue, there are only 3 countries left in the world without a Central Bank. They are: North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. So if anyone is taking bets on where the war machine goes next, those 3 would definitely be on the hit parade. The petrodollar system is failing rapidly, wealth is being transferred to the East (plus the East has their own banking/world trade processing systems nowadays, as well as the world's top 3 supercomputers-- all that means reduced business for our banks because countries can bypass the US to trade amongst themselves). They're holding this whole world economy together with Silly Putty, the Plunge Protection Team, and negative interest rates. At some point, they'll probably go to a cashless system, but that's a story for a whole other day.

I think 97% of the media is owned by a particular group of people, many of whom may be liberals, so they control what can or cannot be said because they're like the "gatekeepers of communication" throughout society. People are afraid to speak their minds, sort of like in 1984 or The Giver. I personally left an elite college (I was one of a tiny percentage there for my brain) because they were forcing me to be a sell-out and become a pawn of the billionaires, and I refused to have my knowledge exploited. Long story short, I know these elites; I know their psyche and the worlds they live in; and they're all sickos regardless of liberal/conservative politics. I agree that they're pushing the envelope to test how much the citizens will "put up with" before they revolt. Some of these billionaires have brain implants.

The world is mad. ...Oh well. Back to my virtual fiefdom...

Virtual fiefdom?