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Ootheca's avatar

This piece punches up. Well done.

Max Murphy's avatar

Thank you! It’s the only way dictators will learn—we are done with this shit! ✊

Jim's avatar

This also points to the need for a public education that demands students master skills and read difficult ideas in difficult books to take their empty minds and create open minds that entertain an idea without accepting it.

bluePNWcats's avatar

Excellent piece, Max.

teri Gray's avatar

I recall that Hitler’s niece lived with him for a time, the committed suicide.

lr's avatar

I’m so sorry you wrote a good piece, and then used it to carry water for the Democrats/liberals. I think (hope) everyone knows that anyone pushing parties right now is just taking a cut of the pie, pretending to help while reaching up a skirt.

Fitzgerald lay in a paupers grave because he had the courage of his art and the consequences of speaking truth…he didn’t use it to sell clearly corrupt politics.

Max Murphy's avatar

What is your solution?

lr's avatar

We need to build networks amongst ourselves that keep out their system. We need to be able and willing to start identifying the groups, business practices, political practices that have caused this level of corruption in society, and start shutting them down and out of society.

Cash is no longer power. Our ability to keep them from influencing us is power, for now. They have bought out all traditional media and are now coming after social media. They want our minds, so cutting off their access is a start.

But then starting with local levels we need to change legislation towards total transparency. We need active ongoing forensic (and transparent) investigations of corruption, with penalties that are truly deterrent.

We need to stop doing and believing all of the things the uniparty has trained us to do and think over the past few decades, and give intellectual space to people who sound like crazy conspiracy theories, because so many of them have turned out to be true. An English modern philosopher said ideas need a safe space through which dissent can pass before truth gradually becomes seen.

Truth is always iterative (as is science). It is never finished. Any attempt to make truth or science sound black and white is someone working consciously or unconsciously for this cancerous power that seeks to consume and destroy us.

Max Murphy's avatar

I agree with you but I think that also means working within the system as it exists today to some extent (voting democrat, unions, etc.) I’m just as disappointed in Dem leadership as the next person, but the alternative is well.. in office right now.

lr's avatar

And he’s better. Because he’s revealing what is being done is ways that Biden was not able to do. He’s waking Americans up to truths that they really resent being woken up to.

Americans are like dependent babies who really need to story that they’re good people, and good things will happen in their futures. Well ICE is our own IDF, waiting to do to us what they’ve done to the Palestinians. They trained with IDF. There are actual ICE employees that are ex-IDF. That happened under Biden too.

In my view, anyone who is trying to make this about parties instead of shedding a light and spreading awareness that Israel has guns held to the heads of both parties, is part of the problem.

Lux's avatar

Brilliantly said.

Wendy Cockcroft's avatar

I'm cool with bashing the men you bashed but can we please stop pretending that perversion is partisan? Deepak Chopra, Bill Clinton (in a dress and heels, no less!), Noam Chomsky... the list goes on. This is not "Look over there and let my side off the hook." Oh, no, they can swing. This is "Don't let your side off the hook because blue." No one gets a pass.

Max Murphy's avatar

I agree that no one gets a pass. Crime must be punished—especially crime of this nature.

But to claim this isn’t partisan… I mean, which party is illegally keeping the Epstein files concealed? Sometimes one side actually is the bad side.

Wendy Cockcroft's avatar

Fair point, but I guarantee you that, if t'other party was in power we'd be in the same boat. It would be more colourful and have more glitter, but the situation would be the same.