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"And people are going to go, 'That land's not yours, prove that it's yours,' and the only thing you have to prove it's yours is on an electric file. Then it's like, 'What's the value of currency, and whose food is whose?' People's alarm systems at their homes will no longer work. Neither will our heating, our garbage disposals, hot-water heaters that run on gas but depend on electricity - what happens when all our modern conveniences fail? I'm going to be ready to take myself and my family to a safe place where they don't have to worry."
So what's a soothsaying star supposed to do when he sees the end of the world? Kutcher is stocking up on guns and spending hours and hours running the canyons near his home, pushed on by visions of being chased by wild boar. He's also taking daily bikram yoga sessions, and learning Krav Maga, a deadly Israeli combat technique taught to high-powered special ops.
"All of my physical fitness regimen is completely tailored around the end of day.
Ashton Kutcher is preparing for Armegeddon.
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Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
According to Lenin,
Let me just stop you right there.... Lenin did not live in a time where there was constant forms of distraction and entertainment...
he also lived in a time where people wanted to follow the herd... where they didn't have their own sense of entitlement and hierarchical power...
He didn't even live in a capitalist society where money was much more decentralized than in Czarist Russia...
Lenin can say diddly squat about today... He's old, dead, and way past his prime
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
reply to post by HunkaHunka
You are so wrong that it's not even funny.
We were still human, 100 years ago. Technology has jack all to do with it. It is all about human will, to control or be controlled.
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
reply to post by HunkaHunka
You are so wrong that it's not even funny.
We were still human, 100 years ago. Technology has jack all to do with it. It is all about human will, to control or be controlled.
So you think human will is constant? You don't think that it's changed by the parameters of what that mind believes to be possible?
How does technology have jack all to do with it? Technology brings so much more to the psyche of the contemporary man than it did in Lennins time.
A revolution is known not by how it organizes, but what it changes.
I've yet to see anything like this from either of the two you mention....
Could you remind me again as to what country either the Zapatistas or Anon have successfully taken over?
Whoa... wait a minute... "what must be done about it"... you have an agenda...
You see nothing must be done about anything... except to those who sense insecurity and have a fear to drive them to "what they must do about it"....
I'm perfectly happy with my current situation ;-)
Because history will teach us nothing.... Especially if you think about it as some sort of linear trajectory... which it is not...
Race riots, class warfare, urban vs. rural. The views of the urban dwellers and the country people are so completely different that I can't see it not leading to conflict in the end. And of course there will be the have-nots versus the haves. That's the bottom line, anyway, isn't it?
Originally posted by TrueBrit
reply to post by sara123123
If your nations citizens cannot see that thier petty and frankly meaningless biases are tools that the powerful use to control them, then perhaps survival just isnt on the cards for them. In all honesty survival, and the retaking of the power by the people , for the people is dependant on people realising that regardless of dogma and political leaning, we are one , and stronger together than we are apart.
That goes for every group in any given nation. Insisting that there are just two groups who deserve some slice of the land pie is insane! Theres way more happening than left and right, way more than consitutional and globalist. For one thing, being a fan of the constitution of the USA does not preclude one from believing that the world works better when everyone works toward common goals. It may set rules about how far one can go down that road, but it does not make it mutualy exclusive.
Next you will be saying there should be a collection of towns in the South where only white folks can go, just so the Klan have somewhere to be ! Ridiculous and utterly superfuous.
What the people of the USA need to do is realise that thier very political leanings are the tools by which they are controled, and they need , just like the people of every nation , to rise up, to take down the banners of thier overlords, and together lay foundations for a new method of political function, which allows the people to prevent things being done in thier name, or to them, which they disagree with, without delay, and without lawyers and lobbies and crucialy without money being involved in the process.
Thats something which you dont need to like a person in order to help bring about. You do it because it needs doing, not because you agree with the person standing next to you. You do what you do because you DONT agree with the men in the suits who make the choices for you, and get it wrong every time.
Basicaly where individual political concerns are involved, prioritise . Prioritise or die from inaction. Its a simple choice.
Originally posted by sara123123
There is a tad bit of difference than "dogma" between a constitutional Republic and a socialist centralized government. That is what tears apart the United States which you as a Brit, have little understanding about.
We have the majority of our society yelling "back off, quit spending our money, quit social engineering, leave us alone, obey the rule of law (the constitution)" and we the elite and a minority of society begging "give us free stuff, take the other guy's money from him, control his behavior and mind..." The two are not reconcilable. You are either free or you are not free. You are either enslaved by the elite who run an all powerful government or you are not enslaved to their power and will.
In Europe people are in the streets angry because they want more "free" stuff than the socialist government can afford to give to them at the moment. We will have some of that in the cities and a lot among the corrupt internationalist elite (only 15% of Americans name themselves liberal/socialist/progressive), but generally, Americans are not socialists. The unions in the US are largely government employees and they can be easily busted and have little support from the taxpayers.
So you are not going to see us lining up behind a socialist movement for more free stuff - more government spending and more government power over us. You have a whole different tradition of serving as angry peasants demanding stuff from an all powerful royalty. We have the tradition of cutting the royality off from centralized power over us through war - not protest.
You are right that it does not matter what the US people do versus what Europeans do. We are different than Europeans although we care about Europeans as friends. We don't want to be you and no doubt, you don't want to be us. That is the problem with globalism - the elite work to dissolved National idenities and cultures pretending that everyone is like everyone a stupid peasant with no history like everyone else.
And really, comparing the constitutional Republic to the KKK in the South is the height of history revision's ignorance. The consttituion was violated to make segregation possible by the same idiots that are violating it today in the name of socialism, globalism and the war on "domestic" terror.
Originally posted by whaaa
Generalities don't cut it when you talk of revolution. Who will be the leaders? Beck, Rush, Savage.... What's the plan?