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The following are some wild, wild, incendiary statements, arguments and claims that I've made at various points while in various states of caffeine-induced excitement. They're downright inflammatory, I dare say, and perhaps that is why I'm entertained by them. They may be completely inaccurate, or perhaps right on target, it's hard to say. My only hope is that they will entertain you.

Narcissistic superficial money culture

Greed masquerading as virtue

America for 100+ years has had a culture of greed, thinly covered by a false mask of respectability and bogus morality. The biggest con-men are deemed winners.

Wealth is just no matter how gained

The psychology of meritocracy is such that any means to get money is considered acceptable and just, because talentless American narcissists believe they are worthy of unlimited wealth and have been unjustly deprived.

Personal property and boundaries

Americans are neurotic about their property and boundaries. Don't touch their stuff, walk across their lawn, knock on their front door or look at them cross-eyed.

Entitlement leads to debt and sabotage

Americans think they deserve success w/out effort. Then they settle for the image of success paid for on credit, and sabotage those with natural ability/talent.

Avoidance of bad feelings

Americans use many mechanisms to avoid bad feelings. This is where alcohol, drugs, television and religion come in, as well as avoidance of political activism.

Mutual sabotage and loss

Americans work against one another's rights. This is why we don't have universal health insurance. They say, "Can't let my taxes go to help those people!".

Precious corporate jobs

Self-centered, greedy Americans and immigrants compete to get the lucrative corporate jobs, not caring one bit if corporations are polluting, undermining democracy, killing people etc.

Narcissism of the ugly

Self-loving Americans ignore their own lack of looks, talent, or intelligence. Their self-esteem is disconnected from reality so they are loud, fat and pushy.

Narcissism of minorities

Some minority leaders act to mislead their fellow minority members into believing their group has relevance and importance; that their insular subculture offers revelation and strength. It's a scam.

Sadistic competition

Social Darwinism prevails

Americans actively repress their social instincts for sympathy, cooperation, and support while undermining and sabotaging competitors. Result: Survival of the cruelest.

Most Americans are pathetic losers

Americans spend much time trying to "win" in their careers (e.g. through slavish hours, pettiness) and by consuming, and little time living, learning and reflecting. Few have wisdom, most do not.

Sadism toward "losers" but praise for select "victims"

From an early age, Americans are taught to despise "losers" and be sadistic with anyone so-labeled. This causes guilty feelings so they praise certain "victim" groups.

Giddy authoritarianism

Many Americans enjoy plotting to get others arrested and imprisoned. Petty sadists use the police as a weapon to sabotage whatever enemies they cannot defeat.

Blaming "losers" and kicking them while they are down

Americans and immigrants alike repeat a lie: If you aren't winning, you aren't trying. In truth, many people work long and hard, and even excel, while remaining poor year after year.

Socioeconomic profiling

Americans dislike when cops "profile" people (discriminate) based on race but Americans do support the more common profiling by businesses based on socioeconomic status.

Diabolical pettiness

Shallow people in the USA go to lengths to harm ex-spouses, coworkers, political opponents. Example: cops at the G-20 meeting used LRAD sonic cannons on utterly harmless protesters.

Sure-fire formula to keep the poor down

If you get the poor to idolize gangstas, by consequence they will admire or approve of rich white gangstas who run society. They'll enjoy their own captivity. Stockholm Syndrome.

USA is one big organized dog-fight

At the top, cruel rich masters set Republicans against Democrats, immigrants versus natives, minorities against whites, suburbs against cities, women against men. The peasant masses fall for it, hook line & sinker.

Fake meritocracy

Everyone is lying

Everyone knows that competition is rigged in America but the prevailing lie is that it's fair (Conservatives), or can be made fair (Liberals). Both sides are lying. The rich have rigged the game from above.

False victory and false failure

Our "meritocracy" is rigged: Those at the top often do not merit their gains and those at the bottom often do not merit their failures. But it is frequently implied in the media that each group does.

Social Darwinism and failure

The sadism against "losers" is typically morally justified by saying that they deserve their fate because they didn't fight hard enough. This is a pretty way of saying their are less fit and should die off.

Few are "fit" enough for handouts

The US government embraces Social Darwinism's key tenet that the poor deserve their failure because they are less fit, so it is government policy to quibble ad nauseum over who is fit enough to get meager handouts.

Whites have no advantage

Racist Liberals preach that whites have a special advantage even though evidence shows otherwise. As a result, poor whites are blamed twice: First for "failing", second for "refusing" to exploit advantages.

Darwinism falsely applied

Executives who by chance hit upon successful methods or happen to hire talented workers who help them succeed like to pretend that they are the most "fit" executives or company. It's a lie.

175+ years

Our rigged meritocracy was first documented by Alexis de Tocqueville in his classic 1835 book De la démocratie en Amérique (On democracy in America).

Immoral moralism

Bogeymen galore

Americans need their villains to justify their bogus claim of morality. The 1980s had gays and date-rapists. In the 1990/2000's we had terrorists and atheists. Copycat killers seek to become bogeymen.

Membership through sadism

At the local level, Americans and immigrants assert their membership in local society by "dumping on" some harmless local group e.g. Goths, hippies, atheists, poor whites, etc. collectively rejecting and abusing them.

Moralistic sadism

Moralistic Americans of all races don't merely frown on non-conformists, they actively conspire to punish them until they go away. The 1960s did not end such sadism.

Small town sadism

In small towns, outsiders and the poor are preyed upon with price-gouging, police harrassment, rent hikes, bounced paychecks, dangerous jobs, unsafe housing, covert pollution, etc.

Small town villification and slander

Small-town Americans are eager to malign one another's character, attempting to creating legends out of harmless people. It's like when primitive Africans accuse one another of witchcraft.

Religion

Christians who are not Christians

Many American Christians don't turn the cheek, forgive others, or help the poor. They're petty authoritarians who justify arbitrary hate with bogus theology.

Must have faith to get elected

While there are some atheists in public office, Americans retain the bigoted view that religious politicians are more ethical, even while abundant proof shows otherwise.

Immigration

Ruinous foreigners

America attracts two types of people who are making its problems worse: (A) Shallow greed-heads and (B) intolerant religious freaks. Too many migrants are both.

Disposable workers

Businesses consider both immigrants and American workers to be disposable. Businesses want more immigration to ensure worker dispoability and reduce wages.

Mass importation of Mexicans

NAFTA harmed both poor Mexicans and poor Americans, and sent millions of Mexicans north, providing another means to pit one poor group against another, thereby protecting the rich.

Praise the slaves and condemn the free

Cold-hearted business partisans praise exploited, disposable immigrants as noble, family-oriented heroes and repeat the mantra that Americans are lazy and incompetent.

Children

Kids running wild

Educated and uneducated American parents alike inconsiderately let their kids run wild in public places, as though doing so is a peasant celebration of parental incompetence and boorishness.

Undermine the talented kids

Schools spend tons of cash on bolstering the self-esteem of dumb "at risk" kids whose parents are abusive or incompetent while abandoning bright talented kids.

Marriage

$20000 weddings

Competition and status-seeking transform weddings into monstrous, inordinate, ruinous spend-fests costing $20k, paid for on credit. Americans are eager debt-slaves.

High divorce rate

Women are encouraged to be selfish and to think of men as commodities: No need to understand or sympathize with men. Result? Perpetual adolescence, divorces aplenty.

Shopping

Black Friday

Americans' response to economic disaster is not to express outrage over rich bankers getting free handouts, but to concentrate on getting rare deals on crap.

Rise of Walmart

Snobs belittle Americans for shopping at Walmart, yet other big-box stores treat customers and workers worse while having higher prices and less variety.

Economics

Neo-Feudalism

The USA is a country in which even the poor oppose socialism because they despise their fellow poor and consider only the rich brutes to be worthy and wise.

Our casino/gulag economy

The often-jailed poor dream of winning in lotteries/casinos while crooks at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan grab billions of taxpayer dollars via Uncle Tom Obama.

Two types of casino

Non-rich people walk into pointless slot-machine, poker casinos. Rich people play the speculation game: Gambling with real estate, stocks, derivatives, business ventures.

Injustice system

Culture of punishment

Hippies in the 1960's reacted to America's authoritarian culture and tried to replace it with love, open-mindedness, and questioning. They almost completely failed.

Satanic careerism

Americans in law enforcement get raises and promotions if they can "catch" "bad people" doing bad things. This makes them eager to scapegoat and even entrap innocent people for personal advancement.

Criminalization of homelessness

Cities here criminalize activites of homeless people. Worst ones: San Francisco, LA, Las Vegas, St. Petersburg FL. If you feed the homeless, you go to jail too.

Malign the powerless; forgive rich criminals

Americans let rich people perpetrate huge crimes but rarely protest. Yet if a poor man steals a penny, or trespasses, everyone joyfully calls the cops on him.

Corrupt judicial system

Police, judges, officials exist to (A) protect property not people and (B) boost profits of privatized prisons by fabricating excuses to create new prisoners.

Jail the opposition

Like in a banana republic, e.g. Iran, America's security services (FBI) use paid instigators to put anyone who might threaten the elite power structure in jail.

Jail the nonconformists

Increasingly, petty authorities are trying to boost their careers and get Homeland Security grants for their organizations by labeling innocent people as potential terrorists. Example.

The state as criminal syndicate

A citizen asking for his tax money back from the state in the form of welfare or unemployment benefits risks prison time if the state can find any omission or inaccuracy in his request.

Who goes into the gulag?

We are told repeatedly, it's the criminals who go to jail. But in truth, we are manufacturing criminals, the raw material for which is poor, discarded workers.

Crimes are only done by individuals

Americans eagerly form fantasizes about individuals committing crimes yet just as eagerly reject conspiracy theories, despite abundant evidence of conpiracies.

Politics

Who runs the USA?

International bankers and their American vassals mainly. That's when the Federal Reserve Act was passed through the scheming of bankers, then called "the Money Trust". Their scams were enshrined.

Any cabals to keep in mind?

The secretive Bilderberg Group runs the West, and its "legal mafia" partner the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is what runs the USA government and media. The Rockeller family is a major player.

What are the key concepts?

America is organized around (A) debt-slavery of consumers, (B) protecting the property of the rich from the public, and (C) corporate and CFR control of government partly via (D) rigged elections.

What do these conspirators seek?

In a word, rent. They want to do almost no work while you pay them what economists call rents, in the form of taxes, mortgage payments, interest payments, college loan payments etc. on things whose prices are purposefully inflated.

What about campaign contributions?

These are legalized bribery: The "front door" for controlling Congress. The "back door" involves promises of lucrative do-nothing corporate jobs and jobs for spouses.

How is corruption organized?

In the USA, corruption is broken down into bite-sized pieces that are ostensibly disconnected from each other. Each is deemed a tragedy or mistake by the media.

How badly are politicians in bed with corporations?

Lobbyists bribe politicians to pass legislation without review that corporate lawyers or lobbyists wrote.
Politicians appoint corporate executives and lawyers to head regulatory agencies and serve on courts.
Corporations give ex-politicians and/or spouses high-paying consultant or lobbying jobs e.g. Tony Blair at JP Morgan.

Do companies fear regulatory agencies?

No, because most regulators are "captured", meaning corporate executives from regulated industries are appointed to run them. SEC, FDA, DOE are fully captured.

What is a liberal?

"Liberal" is USA-speak for pro-corporate, pro-Zionist, pro-NAFTA, pro-military, pro-outsourcing, pro-captured regulators. Their pro-business approach involves importing and celebrating cheap, disposable labor.

What is a conservative?

"Conservative" in the USA means pro-corporate, pro-Zionist, pro-NAFTA, pro-military, pro-outsourcing, pro-captured regulators. Their pro-business approach involves union busting.

What Social Darwinism?

Social Darwinism is embraced in America by conservatives who say the poor deserve their fate (so don't help them); and by racist, classist Liberals view poor whites as repulsive and defective; and by some feminists who are taught that men are genetically inferior.

If liberals and conservative politicians are so similar what is the all fuss about?

It's about control the masses by whipping up their emotions, by dividing and conquering them, by continually making them feel powerless -- money and power. On any topic that's important to the overlords, liberals and conservatives are unified.

So is the USA not capitalist?

Oh, hell no. Although it depends on your definition of capitalism. Are rigged markets capitalism? Are cartels of corporations capitalism? Are captured regulators capitalism? Obviously not.

In the USA, corporations control Congress as explained above.
The markets are not free and fair because corporations do not want competition. "Competition is a sin" said John D. Rockefeller Sr.
Each industry is dominated by about 1 to 5 major corporations whose lobbyists write laws and regulations affecting them.
Corporate directors often serve on boards of several companies and these "interlocking directorships" establishing powerful cartels.
Corporations keep their profits but when there is a loss it is often the taxpayers and workers who pay for those.
States/localities give free land and tax breaks to corporations to woo them. This is unearned capital and creates unfair competition.
Corporations use loopholes to pay almost no federal taxes while small businesses and taxpayers still pay. CTJ analysis.

Abandon the poor but help the rich

Bill Clinton, on orders of the secretive Bilderberg group, attacked the US welfare system and dropped 9 million welfare recipients. Yet corporations get $billions in handouts annually.

Only two parties?

America has many political parties, but since there is no Proportional Representation only two of them -- Democrats, Republicans -- ever gain important offices, in sharp contrast to Europeans democracies.

Two parties? Actually there is only one.

The same corporations fund and demand favors from candidates of both parties. Congress members usually later work at those corporations or as lobbyists.

Does the USA have free speech?

Citizens cannot speak freely through media or in academia. They can't post signs in most places. Protesters are suppressed, surveilled, slandered. Internet speech is free but monitored.

Divided and conquered

Elites have divided the masses into squabbling greedy tribes: By race, gender, religion, citizenship, age, politics. The masses cannot unify to do anything.

Fake protesters

I have encountered actors who were paid $30+ per hour to pretend to be protesters. There are also police acting as violent infiltrators and FBI agent provocateurs.

Death of civilized debate

Public debate has ended in America. People scream at and even assault those who disagree. They backstab opponents at work and in academia just to shut them up.

Silencing of opponents

In America, corrupt politicians and corrupt media use a simple tactic to shut up any opponents: Accusing them of being anti-Semites, racists or conspiracy nuts.

Racism and tribalism

Liberals despise poor whites

Liberals believe that being white is such a huge advantage that perpetually poor whites must be defective, worthless, disposable. Liberals rationalize bigotry.

Origin of term "white trash"

The racist term "white trash" was invented by blacks to describe white competitors as poor as themselves, but was widely popularized by snobbish middle-class whites.

Who are the racists?

Movies and TV provide a constant drum-beat lie, that Caucasians are most racist. Yet hate crime statistics show whites are numerically the most frequent victims of hate crimes.

Elites encourage minority racism

Elites (through media, academics, pressure groups) encourge racism in minorities, because minorities will subsequently self-segregate and lose opportunities.

What function do racist minorities serve?

It is the same function for which European elites employ Muslim extremists in the UK, France, Sweden et cetera. Like in Orwell's Animal Farm, they are essentially attack dogs.

Race-baiting liberal locusts

Often the same people who encourage minority racism also insist (without end) that whites are racist (but never white Jews). These locusts are not liberals as they claim, but are either race-baiting bullies or vicarious racists.

Blacks fail to protest slavery

Most blacks make absolutely no fuss about present-day slavery and only marginally about their ancestors', but researchers say there are more slaves in the US today than in 1860: Sex slaves, indentured farm workers, household slaves.

Zionist carpet-baggers

The parasitic influence of Zionists on Democrats and Republicans is apparent in each party's actions and talking points. They badly damage the USA while bolstering Israel.

Gender equality

CIA long ago infiltrated the feminist movement, transforming it into a callous, subjectivist, supremacist mess whose sexism, like minorities' racism, erodes gains.

Security services

FBI infiltrated hate group

Under the COINTELPRO domestic political spying program, the FBI infiltrated the KKK and became 20% of its membership, encouraging acts of terror against blacks. Video.

COINTELPRO intended to divide and conquer

It is reputed to be a goal of the FBI's COINTELPRO (counter-intelligence program) to divide/conquer populist groups to prevent their unifying against the rich.

Obama worked for the CIA

Obama's first job out of Harvard was at CIA front company Business International. His mother and grandmother also worked for the CIA. Obama later worked for war criminal Henry Kissinger.

CIA is major narcotics trafficker

CIA drug shipment planes periodically make news e.g. when crashing in Yucatan. CIA also drop-shipped drugs into Mena, Arkansas. CIA was caught supplying the LA region.

Army protecting opium Afghanistan

US Army soldiers have been reported to be protecting the opium crops in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai and his brother are tied to the opium trade.

CIA has assassinated leaders

Like a kind of mafia, CIA has assassinated elected leaders who weren't friendly enough toward US business interests. Mosadeq in Iran, Allende in Chile, JFK etc.

World Trade Center was demolished with tons of nanothermite

On 9/11 three buildings collapsed at World Trade Center. WTC building 7 was not hit by any plane yet fell at free fall speed just like a controlled demolition. WTC dust was found to contain explosive particles, some unexploded. More info.

Financial disaster

Presidents trying to bankrupt USA

George W Bush did his best to waste money on two useless wars. On Dec 15th 2006 the Treasury declared the US bankrupt. Obama is spending 7 times more than Bush. Source

Army preparing for martial law

Military exercises around the US involving taking over towns, demanding papers, training kids to snitch, combined with FEMA detention camps. National media dismiss the evidence. Source

No accountability

Obama privately does whatever the bankers at Goldman Sachs wants while he publicly claims to be tough on bankers. The numbers show bankers are getting much richer.

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