So, basically you want to cut out the middle man and let corporations rule us directly. No thanks.
>> ^blankfist:

As government grows you cannot have a government of, for and by, because it becomes an apparatus for violence and force at that point. Even Obama has labeled government as the monopoly on force. And it just so happens to be force that we all pay for and only the privileged get to use it. Sounds a lot like how kingdoms worked.
When's the last time we had a politician in an important role that was 'one of us'? They're all CEO fat cats or corporatists. The politicians themselves ARE the plutocracy. You seem to think you have a voice in that, but you simply do not. You vote maybe once every 2 to 4 years, and the politicians that win get to do whatever they want for the next four years with no say from us.
But, you're right, corporations are part of the problem. But they didn't do it on their own. Why won't you lay blame on the government as well? Why is that monolithic beast always devoid of scrutiny from the Democrats except when Republicans do something bad with it?

@dystopianfuturetoday, as government grows you cannot have a government of, for and by, because it becomes an apparatus for violence and force at that point. Even Obama has labeled government as the monopoly on force. And it just so happens to be force that we all pay for and only the privileged get to use it. Sounds a lot like how kingdoms worked.

When's the last time we had a politician in an important role that was 'one of us'? They're all CEO fat cats or corporatists. The politicians themselves ARE the plutocracy. You seem to think you have a voice in that, but you simply do not. You vote maybe once every 2 to 4 years, and the politicians that win get to do whatever they want for the next four years with no say from us.

But, you're right, corporations are part of the problem. But they didn't do it on their own. Why won't you lay blame on the government as well? Why is that monolithic beast always devoid of scrutiny from the Democrats except when Republicans do something bad with it?

To blame this scenario on teacher's unions is fucking ridiculous. To blame the quality of public education on the teacher's or their unions (which, like all unions these days are weak) is also fucking ridiculous. Don't blame the teachers who are trying to educate our society, blame the system that they are forced to operate under.

What is that system? Neoliberal policies that deny basic funding, the support of pedagogical practices that operate (as we have seen from this video) under power hierarchies. I would recommend reading Althusser's piece "Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatuses" http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm

In it, he describes how the most power ISA is the public education system. It is here that children are indoctrinated 5 days a week, 8 hours a day in an ideology that reinforces the relations of production (exploitation of the Proletariat). To assume however, that if we had private institutions that we could avoid this is missing the point. Private education represents a continual push to prevent the Proletariat from having any sort of commons. Private education is the latest attempt to exploit the people even further and deny people their human needs. It also shows, and this is frightening, that in order to make up for the current economic crisis, there is a push to permenantly restructure the way people are educated. Private education will deny access to marginalized communities...I'll stop this rant.

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This is ridiculous and has nothing to do with privatization. I know a couple others have already pointed this out, but I think it needs another post. If I live in a city and my taxes go towards my city's FD, I don't want them going out of city limits (unless it's a mutual aid agreement call) to provide service to people who don't help fund them. You can't live out in the county and expect the nearby city's taxpayers to pay for your fire protection and utilize that city's personnel and apparatus when you haven't contributed any funds yourself which pay for all of that. If this "victim" wanted fire protection he should have moved within city limits or paid the $75 fee, or even organized a volunteer department.

And, wow, Keith Olbermann. He pays county taxes, NOT the city taxes which pay for the department that wouldn't respond.

>> ^Bloocut:

Ask most people outside of the U.S. if they believe 9/11 to have been perpetrated by a cabal within the MIC and some high level arm(s) of the intelligence apparatus, and guess what they say?

"No"

>> ^Bloocut:

^Perhaps the sentiment he's trying to convey is one of frustration at the energy involved in having to think about anything so hard that it creates tension or frustration in any way.
For example, how after 9 years this event has yet to be revisited in such a way a to eliminate all doubt surrounding the perpetrators of the same?
How pundits from all major media continue to resort to insults and derision to guests presenting alternative views to official reports?
How long has it taken for world citizens to forget JFK and his brother Bobby's offings and the more than apparent conspiratorial nature of these events?-Took about 30-
It's only taken 9 years for most to comfortably retreat into somnambulism or entertainment/information saturation. People are a lot more easily led today.
Ask most people outside of the U.S. if they believe 9/11 to have been perpetrated by a cabal within the MIC and some high level arm(s) of the intelligence apparatus, and guess what they say?
People simply don't want the responsibility of having to know what actually happened on that day. Easier to stay fucking asleep.


I'm outside the US and I think you are fucking looney who somehow thinks he knows the inner workings of the worlds most secretive cabal...

^Perhaps the sentiment he's trying to convey is one of frustration at the energy involved in having to think about anything so hard that it creates tension or frustration in any way.

For example, how after 9 years this event has yet to be revisited in such a way a to eliminate all doubt surrounding the perpetrators of the same?

How pundits from all major media continue to resort to insults and derision to guests presenting alternative views to official reports?

How long has it taken for world citizens to forget JFK and his brother Bobby's offings and the more than apparent conspiratorial nature of these events?-Took about 30-

It's only taken 9 years for most to comfortably retreat into somnambulism or entertainment/information saturation. People are a lot more easily led today.

Ask most people outside of the U.S. if they believe 9/11 to have been perpetrated by a cabal within the MIC and some high level arm(s) of the intelligence apparatus, and guess what they say?

People simply don't want the responsibility of having to know what actually happened on that day. Easier to stay fucking asleep.

If you take power away from the people, who do you think will usurp that power? .....and once you've taken voting and democracy out of the equation, what tools do you use to stop the tyranny of powerful individuals?


>> ^blankfist:
But your idea of democratic liberty, if that's what you believe, would seem to be a very focused and extremely arbitrary freedom to be democratic. But, subjectively speaking of course, that would mean you use the apparatus of government as force to influence others violently. Your system of 'liberty' is not freedom at all, because you only have the freedom to democratically vote, but if you disagree with the majority then you have no freedom to go against their will, which is coercion and morally wrong.

We have discussed this ad nauseum, yet I still feel miscategorized. I believe in free markets, yes, but that's not to mean my flavor of liberty is free market liberty. It sounds to me like you're trying to shoehorn my politics into a nice neat label so you can pick apart a particular aspect of it: particularly the free market approach to business.

Liberty to me is the freedom for people to voluntarily engage in activities and consensual agreements without coercion. That's pretty much it. My only caveat, which I agree is a modification of pure freedom, is that your exercise of liberty cannot aggress against other people. That makes it subjective, I agree. It's subjective because it adds an arbitrary parameter to an otherwise pure ideology.

But your idea of democratic liberty, if that's what you believe, would seem to be a very focused and extremely arbitrary freedom to be democratic. But, subjectively speaking of course, that would mean you use the apparatus of government as force to influence others violently. Your system of 'liberty' is not freedom at all, because you only have the freedom to democratically vote, but if you disagree with the majority then you have no freedom to go against their will, which is coercion and morally wrong.

It was because of majority rule, or democratic liberty if that's what you want to call it, that the US has experienced intrusive acts of aggression against minorities, the working class, the poor, women, etc. It was this monolithic process of growing government that created the corporation as it stands today. It was this process that is systematically squeezing the small business entrepreneur into nonexistence and shrinking the middle class.

err, there are plenty of touchscreens near food and on cooking apparatuses in the food industry.

Just like big pharmy hates marijuana for obvious reasons, big dairy hats raw milk. Unpasteurized means uncontrolled. The cops are simply doing their simpleton jobs: enforcing the control apparatus.

How many thousands of years have humans consumed unpasteurized dairy?

>> ^LarsaruS:

>> ^westy:
he just coppied this of a tv show , any idiot child could make this. granted at least he is learningm about phisics in the process and its probably more constructive than playing football , but its not worthy of a news story.

You mean this one?


yeps lol ,

Whats anoying is im all for educational TV but the presenters on Bang goes the theory are complete twat heads.
tomorrows world was so much better I mean mithbusters is prirtty good but they could do a bit more on the science aspect of it , all-so the editing of myth-busters makes it hard to watch for me.

>> ^westy:

he just coppied this of a tv show , any idiot child could make this. granted at least he is learningm about phisics in the process and its probably more constructive than playing football , but its not worthy of a news story.


You mean this one?

I can't recall spiderman using hoovers as climbing apparatuses.

>> ^Chinspinigcra:

Anybody else annoyed at the fact that some people think this is real? Learn about what happens to the human body while quickly rising and lowering in deep water. Look up human body density and how close it is to water. Then you simply must say eureka as you uncover the workings of flotation. Honest to god, just being afraid of swimming in water, at all, is complete nonsense. That is like a bird being afraid to hop around on the ground.


Um, have you SEEN actual free diving, people ACTUALLY do stuff like this. People DO dive to stupidly deep depths unaided by and breathing apparatus, just look at the records 124 Meters is the record for a dive with no use of adding and then removing weights... They DO do things like this.

As he said, this isn't real, you can tell by the watch and the weight on his back that is there sometimes and not in others.

But it's still showing REAL descents and ascents here.

Learn about reality before spouting off shit next time.