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After a summer of Black Lives Matter protests The System offered us the author of the Crime Bill and a Cop as the answer to Trump. Our system appears broken, but it's actually operating at peak efficiency.

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I love seeing the same shit the hippies were saying in the 80's and 90's coming from a new generation of heads in these "Whoring Twenties" . Keep at it Cait, but watch your six and thanks for lightening up on American activists. We're not all complacent corporate tools, complicit in the genocidal racketeering of the predator class. . They shot me in 1987 for publishing things in public they didn't want the public to know at the height of Contragate.

You want some real simple arithmetic? Since 1999, the Pentagon, which has never passed an audit, has misplaced $21 trillion , about 2 trillion of it disappearing from the WTC a day or two before the attack. $21 trillion is about the same amount the predator class stashed offshore during that period. The numbers are simple and the truth behind the numbers , also pretty simple. Digging through the mountain of disinformation obfuscating the truth with pure shit is what will be nearly impossible. If you've never read it, Mark Lane's "Plausible Deniability" gives a lot of insight into how the "Big Lie" is crafted.

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What most people on the left engage in is what Chris Hedges calls hopeless hope. There is no solution. The problem is us, all of us...George Galloway believes in Parliamentary democracy because that's all he has. That's the best he's got. Rule of law...and what was something called 'democracy'; a flawed but 'best we got' system and it is in free fall with all the major players are in control will remain so having their mandates secured by the powers of military, banking and corrupt religion. The 'extraterrestrials' are our only hope...how hopeless is that?

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I'll try here instead of Medium. The world started unraveling for reals in 1784 with the patent on James Watt's steam engine that could...with coal. It's been going faster every century since then. In 1945, on July 16, the real acceleration to the end began in earnest(The A-bomb followed by the H-bomb in '52, I believe). That's the last time humans had to halt their imminent destruction. We're now on borrowed time. It's beyond human, or governmental control. Sorry. Peace, The Ol' Hippy

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People get rid of God...and start believing in the scientifically proved wrong 'spontaneous generation of life' nonsense and then realise how messed up we all are and how screwed the planet is and then pray that little green men from another dimension will save them...or miraculously, our consciousness will be raised in a couple of decades and we'll all come to our senses just in time and create My Little Pony la la land for all humanity.

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“If there are ETs visiting us they probably already treat this planet more like a home than we do.”

I feel this statement to my core. The psychopaths that make the biggest horrific impact on our Earth, our Home, sadly would give ET’s the false impression that the reat of us don’t deserve to live here. Those psychos don’t deserve to be here on this beautiful planet, maybe they’ve internalized this and that’s why they’re tryna escape to Mars.

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Joe Biden adopted a "contrite" "man o' the people" demeanor as part of his presidential communications theme and strategy. The "contrite" look is ....to say "sorry" to the madcap Trumpers for stealing "their election" from them, and.....to say "sorry" to his plural Democrat base for knowing he won't deliver on a single thing! I'd say the "contrite" look fits his presidency!

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I don't much like Caitlin's reference to "black on black crime." Nobody's trying to use that as an excuse to bomb Minneapolis back to the stone age. They just want that crime investigated and cleared. There are 3 kids (10 years or less) in Minneapolis hospitals with gun shot wounds to the head.

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While a bit overamplified, most of Caitlin's characterizations are fair. However, proposing scorning our service personnel is begging for a military coup. The US military continues to strive to stay as apolitical as circumstances allow. Trump was a real test, and DOD passed - maybe not with a B+, but they passed. Yes, we get the occasional General Flynn's. However, if you look at the insurrectionist line-up, CNN reports than only 1 in 10 had any military background at all. Only one retired senior officer (a LtCol) was involved. A handful were active duty, the rest were reservists (weekend warriors) with brief, if any, active military experience past boot camp. Then there were a few retired enlisted career people. Most people with military backgrounds of any kind were from out of state. As the event was in DC, which is swarming with career military and the highest-ranking officers, that puny turnout is noteworthy.

That is not to say that white-supremacy, misogyny, racism, and support for insurrection is not present in the active ranks. Until the mid-1970's, systemic racism was woven into military regulations which limited various races and ethnicities (e.g., Filipino's) to supply, food service, and laundry work. Black officers were extremely rare. Women were barred from field and shipboard combatant roles. Today, that is all changed. We even have females captaining warships and serving as admirals and generals.

If civilians start disrespecting our service personnel, it will be like herding sheep into the arms of the KKK and militia groups. Believe me, an armed insurrection supported by the military will succeed. Just like in Myanmar, baseball bats and slingshots are no match for rifles and tanks and jets. Belarus, Egypt, parts of Africa and S. America are already military dictatorships. It is likely that eventually Iraq and Libya will devolve into military dictatorship after the US moves on. So perhaps focusing antiwar animus on uniformed service members should be carefully considered.

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Remember that even Spielberg's "ET" was all about shipping him back to where he came from.

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This is your best ever, quite sharable. I have been saying this for over 50 years, all Americans do is re-invent the monarchy with their array of celebrity aristocrats. Commercial capitalism makes this possible. Manufactured consent.

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"In 2016 the most corrupt and murderous government on earth" That's definitely true in shear numbers, but I wonder per capita who the winner might be. And where do these murders occur and to whose benefit. Then also factor in hardcore systemic racism and a delusional superiority complex. Strike at the root.

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