Listen to a reading of this article: Every time there's a mass shooting in America with an AR-15, high-level Democrats line up to proclaim that those weapons should only ever be used to kill impoverished foreigners. The latest example of this ongoing phenomenon was Illinois Senator and Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth
Although it chills me to say this, I think that the vein of violence that is rooted in indigenous genocide and African slavery also circulates the blood supply that nourishes both empire energy and capitalist entrepreneurship. As such, the depth to which both domestic and international violence are ingrained and interwoven into the fabric of US society is terribly unlikely to suddenly unravel and modulate itself. This makes both gun violence and neocolonialist imperialism almost inevitable as symptoms of the late-stage neoliberal capitalist experiment. Am I a pessimist or a realist? I can't quite decide.
This: "It presents the facade of humanitarianism and democratic ideals, but underneath the performance it's just as savage and bloodthirsty as any other empire in history."
More reasons to shut down the empire once and for all!
I'm sure they would be okay with those weapons being used to kill Americans. As long as it's the State doing the killing and they stick to the hoi polloi, and only the ones who could be painted as "traitors," "terrorists," or "insurrectionists."
It is amazing, really it's not, that for years, decades even before the rehabilitation of the history of the Vietnam War, Vietnam War vets walked around in shame after that conflict. It was perceived largely as a shameful conflict and those associated with it, namely the vets, were tarnished and stigmatized by it. Not so with the Iraq War and yet it was every bit as illegal and egregious. Both wars were a war crime and yet Iraq is and has always been viewed in a much more favorable light than Vietnam. Where have all the Walter Cronkites gone?
If the democrats still had an anti-war left, AOC and her squad would have been ostracized for their votes backing Biden's insane $60 billion giveaway to Ukraine for high-tech weapons. Not ONE democrat voted against that travesty. They are a herd of lemmings, following senile Biden off a cliff toward nuclear war.
On a different note, Boris Johnson was just forced to resign as Britain's PM as he had lost the support of the people. Why don't we have a similar parliamentary system in the US? How can this country stand 2 &1/2 more years of Biden wrecking the nation?
Hypocrisy is the favorite product of liberals and Democrats: "You can't protect yourself, give your guns to foreign countries we (pretend to) care about".
Also, George Takei has yet to say anything close to sane.
You'll find they all sing the song of the pied piper and it goes like this
"My Mind goes like the wind... anyway it blows I vote... money is my master....the endgame is disaster... 30 shilling silver coins...for that I lay the world in Ruins..."
You will find the producer is George Soros published by the WEF and financed by the devils own brood... the Jewish Occult.
The AR-15 is not a weapon of war! It is a semiautomatic rifle. That means one shot per trigger pull— just like a semiautomatic pistol. The war version can be fired in full automatic mode. That means that if the trigger is pulled and held to the rear, the gun fires repeatedly.
I am pretty sure it was Obama's administration that re-purposed Military hardware and gave it to Police Departments nation wide (may have been Bush2). That act, along with fast-tracking former soldiers into the Police Services have terrible consequences. Soldiers are trained to be an occupying force in a hostile environment and protect themselves from "the Enemy" - Now they are coming home with that training & Hardware to be "Peace Officers" - the very notion is absurd at face value & we are now seeing the results of dead wrong policy against the best interests of the American People.
Hypocrisy is the favorite product of liberals and Democrats: "You can't protect yourself, give your guns to foreign countries we (pretend to) care about".
Also, George Takei has yet to say anything close to sane.
Although it chills me to say this, I think that the vein of violence that is rooted in indigenous genocide and African slavery also circulates the blood supply that nourishes both empire energy and capitalist entrepreneurship. As such, the depth to which both domestic and international violence are ingrained and interwoven into the fabric of US society is terribly unlikely to suddenly unravel and modulate itself. This makes both gun violence and neocolonialist imperialism almost inevitable as symptoms of the late-stage neoliberal capitalist experiment. Am I a pessimist or a realist? I can't quite decide.
This: "It presents the facade of humanitarianism and democratic ideals, but underneath the performance it's just as savage and bloodthirsty as any other empire in history."
More reasons to shut down the empire once and for all!
Thank you !!!
Also -- OUTSTANDING:
Scott Ritter: 'Two-Front War: Biden's Mouth is Writing Checks the US Military Can't Cash'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIoyh2LdCo – July 4, 2022
So, when people talk to me about gun control, I say "Let's start at the top."
I'm sure they would be okay with those weapons being used to kill Americans. As long as it's the State doing the killing and they stick to the hoi polloi, and only the ones who could be painted as "traitors," "terrorists," or "insurrectionists."
It is amazing, really it's not, that for years, decades even before the rehabilitation of the history of the Vietnam War, Vietnam War vets walked around in shame after that conflict. It was perceived largely as a shameful conflict and those associated with it, namely the vets, were tarnished and stigmatized by it. Not so with the Iraq War and yet it was every bit as illegal and egregious. Both wars were a war crime and yet Iraq is and has always been viewed in a much more favorable light than Vietnam. Where have all the Walter Cronkites gone?
If the democrats still had an anti-war left, AOC and her squad would have been ostracized for their votes backing Biden's insane $60 billion giveaway to Ukraine for high-tech weapons. Not ONE democrat voted against that travesty. They are a herd of lemmings, following senile Biden off a cliff toward nuclear war.
On a different note, Boris Johnson was just forced to resign as Britain's PM as he had lost the support of the people. Why don't we have a similar parliamentary system in the US? How can this country stand 2 &1/2 more years of Biden wrecking the nation?
Yep. Nailed it again. Keep it up!
Hypocrisy is the favorite product of liberals and Democrats: "You can't protect yourself, give your guns to foreign countries we (pretend to) care about".
Also, George Takei has yet to say anything close to sane.
There is nothing Democratic about politics...
They are all actors non excluded.
You'll find they all sing the song of the pied piper and it goes like this
"My Mind goes like the wind... anyway it blows I vote... money is my master....the endgame is disaster... 30 shilling silver coins...for that I lay the world in Ruins..."
You will find the producer is George Soros published by the WEF and financed by the devils own brood... the Jewish Occult.
What goes round comes round, is all I can think of at the moment. And that's all anyone needs to know: the rule of the universe.
Let’s not forget that police shoot and kill ~1000 people/yr.
The AR-15 is not a weapon of war! It is a semiautomatic rifle. That means one shot per trigger pull— just like a semiautomatic pistol. The war version can be fired in full automatic mode. That means that if the trigger is pulled and held to the rear, the gun fires repeatedly.
I am pretty sure it was Obama's administration that re-purposed Military hardware and gave it to Police Departments nation wide (may have been Bush2). That act, along with fast-tracking former soldiers into the Police Services have terrible consequences. Soldiers are trained to be an occupying force in a hostile environment and protect themselves from "the Enemy" - Now they are coming home with that training & Hardware to be "Peace Officers" - the very notion is absurd at face value & we are now seeing the results of dead wrong policy against the best interests of the American People.
Hypocrisy is the favorite product of liberals and Democrats: "You can't protect yourself, give your guns to foreign countries we (pretend to) care about".
Also, George Takei has yet to say anything close to sane.
Very profound writing, Caitlin
With apologies to Doris Day........
".....America, please take this advice
I hand you, like a brother
Or are you not seeing things too clear
Are you much too "exceptional" to hear
Is it all going in one ear and out the other."......
But keep trying, Caitlin. A respected voice of reason.