I wish that meant this doesn't apply to me, but facts take precedence over Republicanism.

Mitt Romney said so, so it must be true. He almost seems like a positive influence now compared to trump and company.

Bankruptcy followed by liquidation.

That’ll kill them:…goodnight:

... that malignant phrase was uttered on the fly at a campaign event, "Corporations are people, my friend!" It was as if he was chastising the questioner for ever having doubted it. But then, old Mitt's private equity firm, Bain Capital, borrowed its business model from the Mafia, so it's not like he gave a happy rat's ass about the harm corporations inflict on the American public on a daily – shit, on an hourly – basis. SO I would cut "Mittens" zero slack; he's still a fucking Republican.

Billionaires are destroying both.

Racists, women-haters, and those who reject everyone and everything that do not conform to their myopic views.

I saw that on FB a few weeks ago & it's been haunting me. Star Trek or Mad Max & we choose Mad Max.

Yes, so many people are drawn to cruelty and violence. I hate futuristic dystopian movies and TV, they unnerve me as I know they could come true. That is believable now more than ever.

which roles many of them would play. So many thrive on the violence.

I am really tired of being locked in a room with the slow learners and stupid people.

"Idiocracy" comes up these days, though the characters in the movie are much nicer than the MAGA we know in real life. And President Dwayne Camacho was a far better person than our current president.

I knew in my heart it was a foreshadowing of what was coming towards us. And I was right. There are just certain movies I refuse to watch because of the cruelty and the gore, or because they could act as Instruction Manuals for a dictatorship like we have now.

I've never watched any of those movies. What a truly horrible concept for a movie. I am so tired of movies about people hurting and torturing one another. We see the same old cruel plots over and over again.

You're probably right, there are those who are undoubtedly inspired by such films and see them as manuals.

I recently decided to haul out the old DVDs of M*A*S*H. What I found both hysterically funny and poignant years ago I gave up on after a couple of episodes. These guys were sex pests. It just didn't seem funny any more. They were persistent, ignored refusals and harassed the nurses continually.

I found this funny in the past; today not at all.

So I had no idea. It would be one of many TV shows that did not age well. I've been watching reruns of Boston Legal and as much as I appreciate the political statements and quirky characters, I find myself cringing over the constant sexist behavior. And it wasn't really all that long ago that I was oblivious to the crude behavior.

I suppose that we've evolved in some ways, even though it often doesn't feel like it.

That is what makes post-scarcity possible in Roddenberry's created universe.

we're kind of in the Star Trek mirror universe.

The older I get, the more inclined I am to believe that.



"Common good!? What in sam-hell is a "common good"!? Gimme 100 pushups, maggot!"

They think the planet is too crowded so they want to do something about it -i.e. murder. Trump killed a million via COVID, Musk has killed at least 600,000 via cutting off food and medical aid to the poorest among us.

Eff them all

I haven't been keeping track, but isn't that in the millions by now? That muskrat fucker's hands must be dripping blood by the gallon.

Meanwhile, he keeps recruiting white women to have his white babies, in order to spread around as much of his "superior" DNA as possible. He's reported to have at least 14 kids by now among 4 different mothers.

I loathe him at least as much as I loathe Trump. His utter coldness and indifference toward other human beings is creepy af and at least as profound as Schlump's; his rhetoric is just less overtly violent.

Boomers were the "love generation", they protested the Vietnam War, started the environmental movement, preached about love and freedom of expression. Now I am embarrassed by most of them. I don't get it, I just don't.

I'm not sure of the demographics today, but some time ago there was a poll on here asking what age group we fell in and it was majority boomers. I'm actually even more liberal at 77 than I was at 20.

We fought the yuppies back in the day, and we fight them now in anyway we can. The fight just takes on a different form when you're talking about 70 yo vs 20 yo. Today, those of us still fighting, marching, protesting, and boycotting are hard pressed to do even those things, and most of us think they're pretty useless against this administration. This is the time for the younger generations to pick up the movement and run with it just as we did...or even moreso... We were fighting for a world where everyone was treated the same... with human dignity and rights. Today, we're fighting for people just to be allowed to live. How much greater the fight. And how ill equipped we hippies and Rainbow children were against the big monied yippies and yuppies of their day. The Bush's hated us with all their might, and rigged every election and law against us. Still, we wouldn't go away. Take away our food or ability to earn a living? We didn't go away, we got right back into their faces.

I'm 70. Thanks to the yuppies we fought then and the billionaire corporate "persons" they enabled, I have both lupus and fibro. These are, near as I can tell, genetic possibilities that stay dormant until kicked off due to some environmental issue. The fact they hit women more often than men is a feature, not a bug to these people. They are terraforming this world against living, human beings, IMO. And they're doing it on purpose. They'll have ways to continue in this brave new world of unbreathable air, undrinkable water, and soil that won't grow good food. They're AI masters will find a way.

I say this only in part via /snark. I am incensed that all we tried to do back when we were in our heyday has come to nothing. But I blame "incrementalism" more than anything else. The fact we were duped into believing by our people to be satisfied with change that comes little by little, instead of striking for the common good of all. And I'm fearful of good people falling for it once again. Go along to get along speaks of tolerance, and it goes to the very heart and soul of most of us. But there are a LOT of people who don't deserve tolerance of any kind. Maga is one of those groups, IMO.

and depends on one's definition of intelligence. By the definition above, intelligence for the common good, individually, yes, sometimes. But as a species, absolutely not. We'll consume every resource until we crash and then flirt with extinction, just like any other species that expands beyond their environment's carrying capacity. We may just be a novel evolutionary experiment that turns out to be a dead end long term. A super tool maker. That's really all we are. But regardless of where Homo sapiens end up, biological life goes on because that's how our universe works.

To be clear, "greed and billionaires" certainly play their part. However, every single person* could make choices that collectively would greatly reduce the three things mentioned in the OP without invoking Elon Musk's Magic Checkbook. They simply choose not to. I could state the obvious, but I won't. Because it's obvious.

I'll say it again: they simply choose not to.



*Medically, financially and geographically excused notwithstanding.

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Because most of the world thinks that billionaires and autocrats still have our best interests at heart.

The programming worked.

Way better than expected.

and the oligarchy

it doesn't have to be this way.

so true

Hell awaits.

even better than "Affluenza"! I think I"ll hang on to that one.. thanks pwb!

Affluenza. Definitely a disorder.

of us human beings right now, and we're fighting like hell to turn it around.

Call to Actions, Bengs!

Mahalo, Swede

Earth doesn't stand a chance if the human species continues to thrive on this planet. Humans destroy everything and that will never change. The entire species needs to be destroyed (like with the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs). Nothing else will save the planet. We need to start over from scratch and never allow another species such as humans to exist ever again. Humans destroy!

I'm convinced we would have had a cure for some time now.