Everyone hates the billionaires but they could easily become the most liked in America simply by giving up an insignificant (to them) amount of their wealth to fund much needed programs, but they don’t. How heartless can they be?
Their wealth was generated by the work that the rest of us do and we deserve to be treated fairly. Also, their…
Everyone hates the billionaires but they could easily become the most liked in America simply by giving up an insignificant (to them) amount of their wealth to fund much needed programs, but they don’t. How heartless can they be?
Their wealth was generated by the work that the rest of us do and we deserve to be treated fairly. Also, their fortunes were made possible by the infrastructure that we have that has been paid by all of us. Roads for Tesla and Amazon, Internet for Facebook, none of these businesses would be possible without the things provided by tax dollars.
America is sick and nearly on its deathbed. It’s time for drastic action.
How heartless indeed, Chris. The hatred from Trumplicans is reserved for a very different class of people. Take a look at the AP article titled "Thrust into Unemployment, Axed Federal Workers Face Relatives That Celebrate Their Firing".
If those fired federal workers voted for Trump and/or other republicans, then they deserve what they're getting. If they were stupid enough to side with the republican enemies of America, then I don't feel one bit sorry about them losing their jobs. You voted for this: now live with it. Next time don't be so damned idiotic. republicans are NOT your friends, you fools.
How heartless can they be? The delusion of dualism - me vs. all others - has so infected the psychopath class of 'murkan human artifacts that what Thom describes is the norm, and not the outlier. People are born with a set of genetic markers, inherited from past traumas that demanded strategies for protection from real or imaginary fears. Either via probabilities or the fresh set of traumatic experiences, these quickly set in motion the gene expressions of separation anxiety and fear-based paranoias, and the race to separate self from other is flying at warp speed. Our overworked cerebellums cannot begin to cope since they have no agency themselves, relying on the ancient and inadequate reptile brain to provide protection from real or imaginary dangers. No room for 'heart' in this equation.
Before agriculture we lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else. There was no surplus wealth and all work was for the common good. But with agriculture there was surplus wealth and the worst of us managed to seize it while meanwhile creating a system that secured their grip on wealth. Religion was key to this. It created the illusion that the usurpers were divinely selected to lead. And as you say, as the population grew to enormous numbers we became disassociated from each other so that anyone that you didn’t like was just a thing that could easily be discarded.
Some countries have begun to deal with this and put compassion back into their system of governing, providing support for all, but not the USA. Tragic that the once greatest and most successful nations on earth has sunk to the level where the only way to survive is take away from everyone else. It’s not a way that will end well.
Just yesterday I posted to some discussion group the deadly addiction to religious lore, in that case related to Putin's mental throwback to the elegance of Russian Orthodoxy. What could ever be more addictive to a human than the chemically influenced 'thought' of total omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. We live inside a biological being who is ill-equipped to resist addictions, and in truth uses them as mantras, swords of Damocles, and nursemaids substituting for mothers long gone.
Less anyone doesn't quite understand what you said. Epigenetics is genetics above what we (science) can document.
During WWI, the people of the Netherlands experience starvation. A subsequent population study found that the grandchildren of this population, lived longer than their parents. It seems counterintuitive, but if your grandparents suffered food insecurity as children, you have a longer life expectancy.
There is so much we don't understand about genetics, but the pharmaceutical and insurance companies do.
If you ever tested your DNA with 23andme, you get bombarded with so called "health questions" that have nothing to do with your health, like did your father live urban or rural. Questions about my parents or grandparents have nothing to do with me, but are important to 23andme, whose "partners" (investors) are PhRMA and AHIP, and so other DNA testing companies like Ancestry are following their lead.
For the most part, their wealth was also generated by tax policies that favor hoarding. Don't forget to thank Ronald Reagan and his successors for that.
But, I prefer to ask ''HOW SICK ARE THESE PEOPLE?!''
My favorite examination of the issue is in Jane Mayer's book, Dark Money.
She tells of how the patriarch of the Koch family, who built oil refineries for
Hitler, brought a German nanny back to Kansas to take care of his kids. The woman was a professed Nazi and among other things, she encouraged the four boys to beat on one another until they were bloodied. Their father was down with the plan and argued that it made his boys strong, and prepared them to deal with an evil, ugly world.
For many decades now the Koch brothers have dealt with our country and its citizens in an evil, ugly way.
Some of their fellow oligarchs like Musk are even more twisted.
They have little use for us, and since genocide is now the new normal the American people are likely in for some horrific times.
Everyone hates the billionaires but they could easily become the most liked in America simply by giving up an insignificant (to them) amount of their wealth to fund much needed programs, but they don’t. How heartless can they be?
Their wealth was generated by the work that the rest of us do and we deserve to be treated fairly. Also, their fortunes were made possible by the infrastructure that we have that has been paid by all of us. Roads for Tesla and Amazon, Internet for Facebook, none of these businesses would be possible without the things provided by tax dollars.
America is sick and nearly on its deathbed. It’s time for drastic action.
How heartless indeed, Chris. The hatred from Trumplicans is reserved for a very different class of people. Take a look at the AP article titled "Thrust into Unemployment, Axed Federal Workers Face Relatives That Celebrate Their Firing".
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-federal-layoffs-c41ae32800a7f170484de79572543da2?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
If those fired federal workers voted for Trump and/or other republicans, then they deserve what they're getting. If they were stupid enough to side with the republican enemies of America, then I don't feel one bit sorry about them losing their jobs. You voted for this: now live with it. Next time don't be so damned idiotic. republicans are NOT your friends, you fools.
Just read this. Wow, family can be so cruel. I don’t think that the division in our country will heal.
Geeez
How heartless can they be? The delusion of dualism - me vs. all others - has so infected the psychopath class of 'murkan human artifacts that what Thom describes is the norm, and not the outlier. People are born with a set of genetic markers, inherited from past traumas that demanded strategies for protection from real or imaginary fears. Either via probabilities or the fresh set of traumatic experiences, these quickly set in motion the gene expressions of separation anxiety and fear-based paranoias, and the race to separate self from other is flying at warp speed. Our overworked cerebellums cannot begin to cope since they have no agency themselves, relying on the ancient and inadequate reptile brain to provide protection from real or imaginary dangers. No room for 'heart' in this equation.
Before agriculture we lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else. There was no surplus wealth and all work was for the common good. But with agriculture there was surplus wealth and the worst of us managed to seize it while meanwhile creating a system that secured their grip on wealth. Religion was key to this. It created the illusion that the usurpers were divinely selected to lead. And as you say, as the population grew to enormous numbers we became disassociated from each other so that anyone that you didn’t like was just a thing that could easily be discarded.
Some countries have begun to deal with this and put compassion back into their system of governing, providing support for all, but not the USA. Tragic that the once greatest and most successful nations on earth has sunk to the level where the only way to survive is take away from everyone else. It’s not a way that will end well.
Just yesterday I posted to some discussion group the deadly addiction to religious lore, in that case related to Putin's mental throwback to the elegance of Russian Orthodoxy. What could ever be more addictive to a human than the chemically influenced 'thought' of total omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. We live inside a biological being who is ill-equipped to resist addictions, and in truth uses them as mantras, swords of Damocles, and nursemaids substituting for mothers long gone.
Less anyone doesn't quite understand what you said. Epigenetics is genetics above what we (science) can document.
During WWI, the people of the Netherlands experience starvation. A subsequent population study found that the grandchildren of this population, lived longer than their parents. It seems counterintuitive, but if your grandparents suffered food insecurity as children, you have a longer life expectancy.
There is so much we don't understand about genetics, but the pharmaceutical and insurance companies do.
If you ever tested your DNA with 23andme, you get bombarded with so called "health questions" that have nothing to do with your health, like did your father live urban or rural. Questions about my parents or grandparents have nothing to do with me, but are important to 23andme, whose "partners" (investors) are PhRMA and AHIP, and so other DNA testing companies like Ancestry are following their lead.
For the most part, their wealth was also generated by tax policies that favor hoarding. Don't forget to thank Ronald Reagan and his successors for that.
Reagan and Republicans---the gifts that keep on taking away!
Yep! I can see a whole series based on this theme, like "Reagan and Republicans -- the gifts aren't for you."
Heartless? Very much so.
But, I prefer to ask ''HOW SICK ARE THESE PEOPLE?!''
My favorite examination of the issue is in Jane Mayer's book, Dark Money.
She tells of how the patriarch of the Koch family, who built oil refineries for
Hitler, brought a German nanny back to Kansas to take care of his kids. The woman was a professed Nazi and among other things, she encouraged the four boys to beat on one another until they were bloodied. Their father was down with the plan and argued that it made his boys strong, and prepared them to deal with an evil, ugly world.
For many decades now the Koch brothers have dealt with our country and its citizens in an evil, ugly way.
Some of their fellow oligarchs like Musk are even more twisted.
They have little use for us, and since genocide is now the new normal the American people are likely in for some horrific times.