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Archie1954's avatar

Instead of spending 13 billion dollars on a couple of new planes, how about spending the same amount on ensuring WWIII never happens?

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Raphael's avatar

I really don’t think they’re gonna take President Biden anywhere they might put some other people on the plane but not president imposter Biden

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Jim Davidson's avatar

"Mr. President, we cannot allow a mine shaft gap!"

~George C. Scott as Gen. Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strange love or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb"

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Bill.K's avatar

Beat me to it! 🏆

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Sarah's avatar

click bait fear bs. live in your own personal power and thrive. ignore the negative news, your attention feeds this beast. Starve it. Simple. But it takes a majority....

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Crapp's avatar

Ok, there is something in that. And it is good to be cautious about how much horror you consume.

But how does living in your own personal power stop the flow of state and corporate power and wealth ever upwards towards the total inhuman degradation and destruction of all things that are decent...

horrific shit is done with our

-acquiescence

-money

-and in worst cases, active support

So given our privelegded position on this precarious global pyramid scheme of our own imagining, don't we have the responsibility to put our own sense of calm with the world to one side sometimes and stare at what we're unleashing?

If everyone lived in community power, then I think we'd be talking. I'm so over this whole memememememememememememe business (I'm not presuming that is you or what you are saying) - fuck the You do You thing.

Let's us do us. together. Against this prepostorous system of extraction to the few. And all of the horrors it is unleashing or will unleash upon this beautiful home.

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Sarah's avatar

same message from me with a different (fedup) approach.

You raise good and skeptical questions to my position. No doubt, you cannot ignore the child having a tantrum in the room but you can choose to focus on growing your own tribes to do exactly what you say, to build your own communities.

The more we focus on the negative the more we stay there. That is not my goal. I want out of this dystopian nightmare not really diff thans others so I am choosing every minute, every day, every week to building my community and supporting those that wish to do the same.

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Crapp's avatar

And that's great.

But the dystopian nightmare exists in places where those kinds of choices don't necessarily mean that much - because of war, famine and generally being at the bottom of the pyramid. Much of all of that is caused by our system, the one that we´re fortunate enough to be on the more pleasant floor of. That has to be acknowledged and fought - and one of the ways to fight it is to do as you say, but in a more concrete fashion. Financially, production methods, reclaiming natural resources, utilities etc. That can be done whilst also keeping an eye on the horror side. Otherwise you run the risk of people on the other side of the world being chucked in the grinder while you are off in community land.

And that, I am not down with. But you, naturally, don't have to agree.

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Dx's avatar

At least it's made by Boeing, so can we get Biden, Trump and all the other genocidal US politicians* up there for a test flight right away? It would be such a shame if a few doors or wings fell off ...

* I think we're going to need a bigger plane.

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Bill.K's avatar

“Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!”

General "Buck" Turgidson

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Crapp's avatar

Slow thighs slouch in expensive as fuck shoes, don't ya know.

That's some rough beast business right there.

Er,

Overdoing the Yeats reference?

maybe.

fuck it.

I will arise and go now....

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