Joe Segal

enjoy your tedious brainwashed life making other people rich while you grow old. good for millions... yeesh!

this was me playing around with being creative. lol

Spectacular sunset tonight!

I like to stop and just let it soak in.

Well written. Thank you.
I agree we are awakening. We the people are in such a heavy trance that we can only be roused from it by the force of the brutality of a fascist boot which is now on our throats.

I have a theory however, not mine alone. But, never the less its a nice theory of how we rise.

How do we get past the DNC Schumer, Jefferies and the "Moderate" Dems who have been taking "donations" from the people & companies who profit off of our suffering and deaths with the current system?

The wealthiest few at the top will never agree to pay more in taxes than they are forced to; even then, they'll hire accountants & lawyers to evade any new laws. Therefore, as I see it, we must stop giving them our money. Stop working for them & buying their stuff.

I think the biggest problem with the Democratic Party is they take money from the very economic forces that exploit us and want the problems we face to persist. You can't serve two masters. Either you serve the voters or your donors. They chose the big donors so now we have fascism.

We could live in paradise if not for the greedy assholes of the world.

Precisely so!

The ruling class has successfully brainwashed millions into thinking that the Nordic model of capitalism is the dreaded socialism or communism. Most dont understand what these terms even mean. They are weaponized to keep us enslaved.

wow. I just realized what I was seeing was not what I was seeing. I've played around with creating an avatar of myself, just so I can remove my ums and ahs and be more fluid in my speaking. But its me writing it.

Maybe Max, we need to regain control or even access to our hearts & spirits. We were misled into believing happiness and success myths about home ownership and financial freedom in a system designed to make those nearly impossible. We have few human connections, to community, & collective mission.

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I LOVE it! :)

How can we make kindness a daily habit here on BlueSky?

A dream worth dreaming!

I suspect a high % of BlueSky'ers are committed voters now.

The United States of America is frequently referred to as the wealthiest nation on Earth. Yet, we have one of the highest poverty rates among advanced economic nations, according to the OECD.

If we were to use our wildest imagination, what could we achieve together using this platform?

Thank you for being you.

My movie ~What is Normal? ~ is about several Madison WI. Disabled children who were placed in Wisconsin State Institutions as young children & weren’t allowed in school because they were disabled & when they told me there stories I was determined to tell the world about the horrific abuse!

boo!

People worked farms, ranches, owned shops, fixed things, hunted. Then the commons were enclosed causing scarcity. It was created as a myth to coerce people to work at unrewarding jobs for factory owners and other owners of resource assets, mines, mills, etc to avoid starvation, homelessness & death.

they were a much more versatile band than people realize.

Abolishing poverty should be our bottom line.

I think music can be and is magic.

and The Everly Brothers! :)

YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning From the archives: Metallica, heavy metal rock royalty

one of the best shows I saw in the 70s was the Black n Blue tour featuring Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult. A truly great pairing.

Here's a very cool report showing how Metallica realized they were taking themselves too seriously. youtu.be/jDmn4qvYewc?...

wow! amazing! :)

Energy vibration is life.
We are waves in motion
drops in the ocean and
the ocean in a drop, as Rumi said.

Okay, really serious question. 😜

Metallica or Black Sabbath?

Hard work is its own reward is an insidious bit of propaganda espoused by people who make all their income off of other people's labor and stocks & bonds inflated by periodic infusions of trillions of dollars by the FED.

The "dignity of work" can't exist without democracy at work.

From the sociology community on Reddit: Matthew Desmond - Poverty, by America and What it Takes to Close the Poverty Gap Explore this post and more from the sociology community

A recent book Poverty by America shares a view of America spending 60% of public welfare on the wealthy and 40% of it on people without wealth and means. That must change; even the wealthiest few now realize this will soon mean the end of the order they value, of capitalism itself.

Hard work is its own reward is an insidious bit of propaganda espoused by people who make all their income off of other people's labor and stocks & bonds inflated by periodic infusions of trillions of dollars by the FED.