Stand with Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan -- with democracy and civilization against tyranny and barbarism
posted by Infidel753 at 9:01 AM
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
US out of UN, UN out of US
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
4 Comments:
These days, I feel like there is a giant hand shaking the world like it was a snowglobe, and everything is going to look different when the snow settles.
I was here browsing some if the link round up that I didnt get through yesterday, and some pretty good reads too. But seen this piece ... I been following some of this myself, I expect to see more of this in our so called free societies and elections in other countries too. This neoliberalism on steroids now (or what I see as corporate/ banking communism, even though this is about government, it's all connected), is working the clock like a football team in the forth quarter 2 minute drill, trying to make that comeback (at least that's how I describe this stuff in some of my postings), and you see the voting challenges, gerrymandering and related stuff in our country, austerity in countries, banks burning citizens, etc. I know as well the resentment is going to grow and a much stronger resistance ... in time (I mean, people have no choice, they are under attack ... resistance in various forms is justified already). A little more pressure from oligarch action will strengthen the reaction/ resistance ... right now, they are using economics to frighten people, such as in America, many folks are scared to lose their jobs or what they do have and keep their mouths shut, but with enough pressure and as people lose more (such as back during all the labour resistance early 20th century, when most was lost), they will reach a point of resistance that will be much heavier/ stronger ... long story. Enough from me ... Thanx for the reads.
What's bizarre about this is that there's an easy way for the Spanish government to have dealt with a plebiscite it considered illegal: And that is, very simply, to ignore it. Let it take place, refuse to take up the results, and only then engage in litigation to prevent it from having any real effect. To litigate it in advance, then have courts send out police to beat people up over it (among other things) is just plain foolish, given that alternative. It will make enemies they'd never have made otherwise.
That would have been a much better way of dealing with it. I almost feel like the government wanted a confrontation to put the Catalonians "in their place".
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