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revolution in the us of a?

62 durable postsStarted 2014-11-02Latest 2015-03-17
#149615Post 1 of 62

when do you think America will have one? when will the inequality be so blatant that people organize and demand changes?

[video=youtube;JTzMqm2TwgE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE[/video]

#1732483Post 2 of 62

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People won't organize and stand up, thev're to busy ridding the subway in their pants to do anything meaningful.

[video=youtube;yF9FM6KqCu4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF9FM6KqCu4[/video]

#1732563Post 3 of 62

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will it be televised?

On free to air?

#1732609Post 4 of 62

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the birth and embracing of consumerism was the death of us, in my opinion. also, making and treating one of our own creations, the inanimate Corporation, as if the thing or it is a person effectively creates an Artificial Intelligence, in its own right, certainly is not helping matters.

we wont do shit.. as long as we have coffee, alcohol, and drugs (of which the former two are inclusive and also includes pretty much everything we consume apart from healthy organic foods), we will only complain about it.

#1732652Post 5 of 62

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I think we will, not sure when, but I do think the time is coming. Things can't continue the way they are in terms of the inequality and the inability to represent the will of the people in Washington.

#1732653Post 6 of 62

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[QUOTE=floridaorange;1145440]I think we will, not sure when, but I do think the time is coming. Things can't continue the way they are in terms of the inequality and the inability to represent the will of the people in Washington.[/QUOTE]

certainly hope you are right my friend

#1732659Post 7 of 62

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That's certainly one version of the truth (concerning the cause of ballooning deficits and a shrunken middle class). What's deafeningly clear is the historical shellacking that was just levied against the 6 years of malaise overseen by the progressives (it took the apathetic bastards long enough!). My only regret is that dinosaurs like McCain, McConnell, and Graham are a part of that group. They'll likely squander it and continue to push for Middle East interventionism and rubberstamp Barack's every unconstitutional EO. I suspect this place will go quiet in mourning for a week.

#1732660Post 8 of 62

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[QUOTE=floridaorange;1145440]I think we will, not sure when, but I do think the time is coming. Things can't continue the way they are in terms of the inequality and the inability to represent the will of the people in Washington.[/QUOTE] Yea, I wonder if they'll listen to the will of the people rejecting the statist notion that they must buy health insurance from a private insurer or else. ;) Fat chance. Another fascist edict with which we're stuck until the revolution comes.

#1732661Post 9 of 62

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Don't you believe this so called 'gap' is expanding, not contracting? I certainly believe there are greater households making much more money/deriving incomes from investsments/work than ever before ([url="http://spectrem.com/Content/Millionaire-Households-Back-to-Pre-Recession-Levels.aspx"]Millionaire Households Back to Pre-Recession Levels [/url]).

They tried and tested continually this whole revolution/evolution crap for a certain periods of time; last I remember was this whole 'Occupy' movement. Unfortunately, it is people like me who despise this so called short term parabola of trying to radicalise the overall monetary/economic systems.

Take a look at the current mid-terms as an example, Obama is about to be inundated and so is the democratic approvals; supposedly he was meant to be the 'change' or the face of equality. That only lasted 1.5 terms.

#1732673Post 10 of 62

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[QUOTE=floridaorange;1145440]I think we will, not sure when, but I do think the time is coming. Things can't continue the way they are in terms of the inequality and the inability to represent the will of the people in Washington.[/QUOTE]

What a scary place to be..sorry

You'll have ethnic tensions and everyone seems to have guns.

#1732685Post 11 of 62

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[QUOTE=vinnie97;1145452]Yea, I wonder if they'll listen to the will of the people rejecting the statist notion that they must buy health insurance from a private insurer or else. ;) Fat chance. Another fascist edict with which we're stuck until the revolution comes.[/QUOTE]

lol

#1732689Post 12 of 62

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[QUOTE=nelinho;1145467]What a scary place to be..sorry

You'll have ethnic tensions and everyone seems to have guns.[/QUOTE]

yep.

#1732691Post 13 of 62

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[QUOTE=Illuminate;1145453] ([URL="http://spectrem.com/Content/Millionaire-Households-Back-to-Pre-Recession-Levels.aspx"]Millionaire Households Back to Pre-Recession Levels[/URL][/QUOTE]

If I was in wealth management, I certainly would want my clients to believe the time is NOW to get rich. Doesn't mean the poor aren't getting poorer.

[URL]http://www.newsweek.com/janet-yellen-bill-gates-economy-microsoft-world-bank-morgan-stanley-world-282096[/URL][FONT=arial][SIZE=2]

[/SIZE][/FONT][QUOTE][COLOR=#d3d3d3][SIZE=2][FONT=arial]The report’s takeaway: “At extreme levels, income inequality can harm sustained economic growth over long periods. The U.S. is approaching that threshold.”

New data continue to raise eyebrows: development nonprofit Oxfam International, in an October 29 report titled “Even It Up: Time to End Extreme Inequality,” said the number of global billionaires has more doubled since the financial crisis, to 1,645 individuals. Those people, including Gates, now have as much wealth as do 3.5 billion people, or half the planet, OxFam said, adding that “the gap between the rich and the poor is spiralling out of control.”

But it’s not just left-leaning ideologues who are concerned. In a blurb on the Oxfam report, Andrew Haldane, chief economist for the Bank of England, said that “there is rising evidence that extreme inequality harms, durably and significantly, the stability of the financial system and growth in the economy.” Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz had his own blurb: “The extreme inequalities in incomes and assets we see in much of the world today harms our economies, our societies and undermines our politics.” [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/QUOTE][FONT=arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=#a9a9a9] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

#1732693Post 14 of 62

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[QUOTE=nelinho;1145467]What a scary place to be..sorry

You'll have ethnic tensions and everyone seems to have guns.[/QUOTE]

I do think this fear is a bit overblown. The Republican sweep (just like 2010) is due mostly to voter apathy in non presidential year elections. Mostly old white people voted yesterday which is why this happened (again). Minorities, women and young people didn't vote, so the small vocal minority made things happen again.

We'll see what happens in the next presidential election and it will be interesting to see if the sustained gridlock idiocy will continue for the next two years, or like some are predicting and Rand Paul even said yesterday: send a bunch of stuff to the President we know he will hate and make him sweat. I think if your main goal is to fuck over the other guy vs. trying to meet somewhere in the middle you are part of the problem...

#1732706Post 15 of 62

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lol indeed, always the other guy's fault. We just didn't bamboozle enough of the low-infos to get them on our commie progressive bandwagon. We blameless! NC had a record turnout and dumped that Obama clone on her ass.

Enjoy your "free" healthcare:

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#1732708Post 16 of 62

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And I'll gladly take the 2nd Amendment over groveling about someone having a gun.

#1732710Post 17 of 62

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I'm gonna be honest Vinnie. You scare me.

#1732712Post 18 of 62

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[QUOTE=vinnie97;1145511]lol indeed, always the other guy's fault. We just didn't bamboozle enough of the low-infos to get them on our commie progressive bandwagon. We blameless! NC had a record turnout and dumped that Obama clone on her ass.

Enjoy your "free" healthcare:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]11940[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

You really need to lay off of the internet blogs and get back out in the real word.

Premiums for non-group coverage rose according to that graph yeah...the majority of americans are covered by their employer insurance, so cherry picked stats can look scary. Overall the uninsured rate has fallen and the healthcare industry is doing fine.

Slightly less cherry picked reporting as of last week [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/27/us/is-the-affordable-care-act-working.html?_r=0#/"]Log In - The New York Times[/URL]

#1732718Post 19 of 62

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[QUOTE=vinnie97;1145513]And I'll gladly take the 2nd Amendment over groveling about someone having a gun.[/QUOTE]

Too bad you couldn't have one without the other.

But you never think that far ahead, do you?

#1732723Post 20 of 62

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Funny and probably realistic truth is - half of the Obama haters - if they spent 1 week shadowing the president. Seeing things from the inside. I can pretty much guarantee, the one's who had any intelligence to them, would most likely really like the guy and support him.

Wonder if that would go for Bush, for the Bush haters. I think probably not :lol:, but it's possible.

The more inequality, the more divisive the 2 parties become.

#1732754Post 21 of 62

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I know for a fact (besides any blind hate nutjobs) if any of us were to see how gray things are in the real world and what happens at the White House there would be a lot less jackass Fox / MSNBC talking points being thrown around....The real world is not black and white.

#1732785Post 22 of 62

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there is just as much shit being flung the other direction too, though. like john said, a revolution......... more a question of when, not if. and when it happens, lets hope there's a legitimate reason and not something the media conjures up. kill the biased media and maybe we could all get along.

and I find this very amusing on several levels... an 18 year old elect? really? things must be pretty shitty in WV. [URL]http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/11/05/18-year-old-freshman-elected-to-w-va-house-of-delegates-becomes-youngest-state-lawmaker-in-us/[/URL]

#1732821Post 23 of 62

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[url="http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/decadence_decline_of_the_western_world_2011/"]Decadence: Decline Of The Western World (2011) | Watch the Full Documentary Online [/url]

#1732859Post 24 of 62

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[QUOTE=floridaorange;1145538]Funny and probably realistic truth is - half of the Obama haters - if they spent 1 week shadowing the president. Seeing things from the inside. I can pretty much guarantee, the one's who had any intelligence to them, would most likely really like the guy and support him.
[/QUOTE]

If you spend a week shadowing anyone you are a stalking cunt, who should be locked up and not be allowed your favorite condiment or frappe.

#1732860Post 25 of 62

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Revolution is just a condiment & frappe away. Wearing badges is not enough, in days like these. LOL

#1732862Post 26 of 62

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[QUOTE=Zover;1145728]If you spend a week shadowing anyone you are a stalking cunt, who should be locked up and not be allowed your favorite condiment or frappe.[/QUOTE]

:lol: get a life junkie

#1732895Post 27 of 62

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Why do some people in the USA want a revolution? Where is life better than in the land of the free? ;) I don't completely understand.

And there's one important thing to ask yourselves: will things be better after a revolution?

#1732907Post 28 of 62

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[QUOTE=vinnie97;1145452]Yea, I wonder if they'll listen to the will of the people rejecting the statist notion that they must buy health insurance from a private insurer or else. ;) Fat chance. Another fascist edict with which we're stuck until the revolution comes.[/QUOTE]

[url="http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/10/31/key-study-on-obamacare-2015-premium-rates-is-out-and-you-wont-believe-whats-going-to-happen/"]Key Study On Obamacare 2015 Premium Rates Is Out And You Won't Believe What's Going To Happen - Forbes[/url]

[COLOR=#d3d3d3][SIZE=2][QUOTE][FONT=Georgia]So, if you are all about the politics of being anti-Obamacare, you’ll want to simply pretend you never read this article as any rational individual will find it hard to continue to terrify the nation with predictions of fewer policies, smaller competition, and double-digit increases in premium rates.[/FONT][/QUOTE][/SIZE][/COLOR]

#1733011Post 29 of 62

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[QUOTE=barski;1145780]Why do some people in the USA want a revolution? Where is life better than in the land of the free? ;) I don't completely understand.

And there's one important thing to ask yourselves: will things be better after a revolution?[/QUOTE]

Lots of issues. But here's one symptom of a larger problem:

[url="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=600492619983397&set=vb.112945508738113&type=2&theater"]https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=600492619983397&set=vb.112945508738113&type=2&theater[/url]

#1733020Post 30 of 62

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I thought we had discussed the problem of cops thinking their soldiers in the Ferguson thread; moreover law school dropouts can only get so far.

Having said that, I’m questioning the whole point of this thread, if not the motives behind it. So you believe America is slowly staging a revolution to overbear within that cynicism of the 1%? This 1% that steals your money, pays no taxes, and influences all government?

Go pitch a tent on Wall St. again.

#1733031Post 31 of 62

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[QUOTE=Illuminate;1145836] So you believe America is slowly staging a revolution [/QUOTE]

I think it's already happening. Just slowly. But I think it's been happening actually.

#1733043Post 32 of 62

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Had that illusion only increased post Ferguson?

#1733170Post 33 of 62

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'Land of the Free' ....?

The greatest achievement of Wikileaks, is that we ordinary people are no longer allowed to pretend that we don't know.

#1733251Post 34 of 62

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The revolution I speak of, is more along the lines of this:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/21tQVpb.png[/IMG]

#1733262Post 35 of 62

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[QUOTE=Illuminate;1144220]FO: [IMG]http://ejnord.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/watchtower_all-suffering-soon-to-end1.jpg[/IMG]

[/QUOTE]

Fuck, I wasn't far.

I actually lost brain cells reading the above, might OD on some fish capsules to realign perspectives, nor hemispheres. My liberal arts degree means I have to drive a Japanese car. Tough titties.

#1733268Post 36 of 62

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✌️

#1733288Post 37 of 62

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[QUOTE=Illuminate;1146254] I have to drive a Japanese car. [/QUOTE]

A fate worse than death.

#1733298Post 38 of 62

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[QUOTE=floridaorange;1145826]Lots of issues. But here's one symptom of a larger problem:

[URL]https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=600492619983397&set=vb.112945508738113&type=2&theater[/URL][/QUOTE]

I guess knowing his rights gets him into trouble.

#1733303Post 39 of 62

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[QUOTE=subterFUSE;1146293]A fate worse than death.[/QUOTE]

bought a 2015 wolfsburg edition passat tonight. bye bye Japanese, hello German

#1733342Post 40 of 62

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^Starts a thread on inequality, boasts on getting a new European car.

Fuck I don't understand you, nor your threads.

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