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I haven't and I'm watching it now. But so far I think I disagree with more than I agree with. People that this political vantage point are quite a long ways from where I am standing.

He seems in the first 10 minutes to imply he supports collective action revolutionaries, or at least that he was disappointed that they didn't rise up and overthrow... banks? Revolutions happen from time to time and the only good is that ossification is removed. Generally they don't represent the majority, cause a lot of instability and violence. For example in Ukraine 2014 those people yanked Ukraine out of Russia's orbit leading to the devastation of today. Great job, revolutionaries! The Russian ones in 1917 instituted socialism/communism that made Russia poor. Great job, revolutionaries! The recently one in Syria put ISIS in power.

I don't think banks wishing to collect on their investments represents a new form of political power. It is a very old form of power. It used to be normal to have indentured servants, people who couldn't pay you back that you got to control as slaves until they worked off their debt.

I'm more aligned with Aristotle. All we see today was understood by Aristtotle back in the day. Polity, democracy being a degenerate form; aristocracy; oligarchy being a degenerate form, etc.

I don't think we live in a "strange time". I think all times appear strange when you are living through them.

I'll keep watching.

Mike Dilger ☑️ 10mo ago

Weird. "Gaddafi promised that he would supply weapons to create a black army in America of 400,000 men. 'If white America refuses to accept blacks as US citizens` he told them, `it must therefore be destroyed.`"

I can't tell if this BBC presenter thinkgs blacks in America aren't citizens, or if Gaddafi thought that. Maybe they both did.

Black have been citizens in America since 1863. And from my personal experience with blacks from 1970-2005 when I lived in America, I saw far less mistreatment of blacks by whites than I did mistreatment of whites by blacks (the occasional street blacks, not the average blacks). So this whole recent woke black lives matter thing makes no sense to me. Blacks get jobs, they become actors, they get rich. They can get loans, buy houses, run companies. There is nothing holding them back.

And the dangerous thing of equivacating oppression of blacks in America with oppression of Palestinians in Palestine is that people will rightly disregard your concerns because they know you are lying about the former. Lefties gotta wake up to this.

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freemymind 🇨🇭 10mo ago

The black lives matter movement is not built on individual mistreating other individuals.

It is rather on racist policeforces, that violate Black people physically with no legitimation. And when it comes to court it is very hard with one voice to defend against two police voices.

As I understand the protesters only want to change this. That there is better police education, on what action of a citizen legitimates what reaction of the police. Since there is many cases, where Policemen are not reacting. But acting. And this can not be the will of a freedom aiming country.

nbyte 10mo ago

"The black lives matter movement is not built on individual mistreating other individuals."

While there are cases of this police abuse happening, the so called movement where mobs burn stuff and riot and take over city streets is orchistrated by globalist elites with an agenda of replacing dedicated police with diversity hires. In the long game, they are removing the people who support the rule of law, and installing mindless leftist drones as police and authorities, as they have similarly done thorughout the US in academia, medical science, government services... the list goes on.

Try some reasoning. It might actually free your mind.

freemymind 🇨🇭 10mo ago

You believe some story that is told blindly. Give some proof of demonstrations, that were organized by your "globalist elite"

And Demonstrations are not riots. It is getting on the street and being vocal about a problem in society.

https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/

"Over 10,100 of these — or nearly 95% — involve peaceful protesters. Fewer than 570 — or approximately 5% — involve demonstrators engaging in violence."

nbyte 10mo ago

"You believe some story that is told blindly"

I tend to be a little harsh in my comments for sure, but this is so funny, because nobody told me the 'story' I related. It is what I see happening. Orchistrated by agreeably a small number of actors. The police at publicised events were instructed to stand down to the point of allowing vandalism and arson. Politicians supported this, ranking officers and administrators enabled it, and the legacy media glorified it.

My reply was not really about you, rather a quip to contrast the well curated public narrative that prevails due to censorship and outright manipulation of the populace.

There is definately some police misconduct, and there is definately racism out there, but the 'movement' is an orchistrated, choreographed and curated evil.

My apologies for the quip in my response. fin.

Mike Dilger ☑️ 10mo ago

If you take any black person from America and drop them into Gaza and make them live in Gaza for a month, they will beg to go home. No rights, no right to have a lawyer, no government protecting you, military people bullying you, fucking you in the ass with sticks and the nearby Israeli population protesting for their right to fuck you in the ass with sticks, shooting kids in the head, starving you to death, all your buildings are rubble, the water is unclean, no humanitarian aid is allowed in most of the time. Every few years bombs are dropped for months killing another 5% of your people or so and you have to live in terror of that and live with the memories of all those dead family members and friends.