Does the Captain of the Mother Ship agree with Trump?
PS. Armenia is in West Asia. Does she agree with TRUMP when he claims that Armenians are destroying the fabric of life in our country, and "WE GOTTA GET RID OF THESE PEOPLE!"
“They’re coming from the Congo, they’re coming from Africa, they’re coming from the Middle East, they’re coming from all over the world, Asia… and ya gotta get rid of these people!”
— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) September 21, 2024
Dude is racist AF. pic.twitter.com/LChyPn1qmV
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The single most beneficial thing America can do for itself anfmd the world would be to send Trump packing and never mention his hideous name again.
The Armenian people, as well as all people of Asia, are far finer people than Trump has ever been or ever will be.
I think that the American continent's labour pool should become MUCH more commodified. Don't you?
Diversity is a strength because it commodifies labour! It removes all that nasty cultural and religious content that stands in the way of corporate culture, and makes workers unavailable to do what they're told.
Explain, please.
Madeira 1420...
The Portuguese had come across the island of Madeira in 1420. It was a genuinely uninhabited Island. There weren't many, but this was one. And they named it after the resource which they rather fancied ,which covered the island Madeira, or wood, Timber. They were very short of Timber, they couldn't build the battleships they wanted because they didn't have enough of it, so they were delighted to find this. And so to begin with, they just did what they had been doing on the mainland, they cleared some forests, they ran a few pigs and cattle in it, they shipped out the Timber. And then someone realized that this was a great place for growing sugar, perfect climate, perfect soil, Etc.. And sugar did very well there. And then they realized, well, we're in an unusual position here because there's no constraints on how we use the land. There's no church here, there's no land owners, there's no custom, there's no culture, there's no Society. We can just do exactly what we want on this land!
So, they could fully commoditize the land, just turn it into an object for making money! And then they thought, "well, where are we going to find the labor? Oh, we can just bring people in to work." And who are the cheapest people to bring in? Slaves. So they started importing slaves, first from the Canary Islands, then from Africa. And of course, slaves are fully commoditized labor. You've stripped away everything that gives them their Humanity, stripped away their social context, their cultural context, their religious context (a whole lot of it). And it's pure 100% commoditized. Labor is what slavery is. Then, they needed money to finance the operation. Previously on the mainland, you would have gone to the landowner or someone, and being charged extortion at rates of Interest. But no, they could shop around, and they could just say, "We just want money. We don't want any attachments to that money. We'll just pay the lowest rates of Interest we can get. And so, they went to Flanders and Genoa to get their money. So they'd commoditize the money as well.
Maybe we should send them all to Ukraine to <a href='https://politicaltealeaves.blogspot.com/2024/09/why-us-is-really-in-ukraine.html">fight 4 democracy</a>... @@
...commodify them all into canon fodder to liberate the Ukrainian peop... oil and gas!
Joe, are you seriously equating colonialism and slavery with immigration? Current immigrants haven't been subjugated and brought here. They come willingly looking for a better life.
No, we can't take in everyone, but we could have a sane immigration policy. We could if Trump hadn't sabotaged the bill. What is wrong with workers commoditizing their labor for a fair price? Who's standing in the way of unions, fair labor laws, increasing the minimum wage? Do you think anything through?
JC is JC. Deluded and loving it.
@Craig
Yes. Capitalism is "creative destruction". The white middle class is "out", the brown proletariat is "in".
And what happened was a very rapid rise in sugar production. I mean this, you know if you're trying to make a lot of money, this system works very well. But alongside it was a remarkably rapid rise in ecological destruction. And the reason for that was that this great sugar industry, which had created so quickly, absolutely devoured Madeira. You need 60 kilograms of wood to refine a kilogram of sugar. And what that meant was that as the slaves used up the timber in in the surrounding areas, they had to go further and further to get it. And suddenly, productivity fell off. By about 1470, Madeira was the top producer of sugar on Earth. The sugar industry on this tiny Island, by 1500, had collapsed by 80%. It was a very sudden boom, and a very sudden bust. And then, and this is an absolutely crucial component of it, they did what Capital has gone on to do all over the world. They left. Boom - bust quick.
Those are the three components of capital; that is what capitalism does. And then they move the operation to another Island that recently stumbled across, did exactly the same... even quicker destroyed it, used it up with extraordinary speed. Boom-bust-quit. Moved across the Atlantic to the coast of Brazil, moved up the coast of Brazil, bang, bang, bang! Just taking out ecosystems, one after another. Moved into the Caribbean, by which time they've been joined joined by the Spanish, the English. And the model started to proliferate all over the world. Very profitable, but fantastically destructive. And what capitalism is, is a system of colonial looting which creates and destroys its' own Frontiers. It creates these highly lucrative Frontiers. It burns through them, literally or metaphorically, with extraordinary speed. And then, it has to move on to find the next one. And that's the product of bringing together these three Commodities at one and the same time.
And it's moved on to destroy Frontier, after Frontier, after Frontier. Ecologically, socially, culturally. It's a planet trashing machine.
@ Craig
I know that this is a very long video, but do yourself a favour and watch the parts dealing with Ukraine. The US is using "spreading democracy" as a cover for "spreading capitalism" of the destructive variety. The whole "green energy" hoax is a distraction. The war is over fracking Ukraine for European gas... and recovering the billions that western Companies invested before Russia called their bluff.
You are being played.
@ Craig,
Ask yourself this question... "If CO2 was REALLY going to destroy the planet, and we needed to wean ourselves OFF fossil fuels, why are we so desperate to gain control of the oil and gas fields of Ukraine? If you REALLY believed in global warming and transitioning to clean energy, wouldn't they be "worthless"?
As to predatory capitalism and American capitalist greed (Trump's specialty) I find little to disagree with.
The MIC of course is an institution so attached to weapons of war and feeding the arms manufacturers to keep the weapons of death flowing to "hot spots" and billions into arms manufacturers profit ledgers.
The war in Gaza, with over 40 thousand innocent deaths is Netanyahu's war time atrocities. The US should not be supplying them with mechanisms of death.
Nor should Russia have invaded a sovereign peaceful state that meant Russia no harm or danger. The US supporting allies who were invaded with the intent to subverting the independence and liberty of the Ukranian people demands a US/NATO response.
Russia is a threat to liberty and freedom in Europe just as Hitler was. Putin is salivating over thoughts of rebuilding the "Glory Days" of the old USSR.
You can accept the truth of the effects fossil fuels have on our environment or not. That being your choice. The wise and unfearful accept science over simple belief in "holy intervention" or " god has our back" delusions. And it is they who hold the future of the planet's survival in their hands. It is good they realize the eminent danger and are working hard to reverse the effects of humankinds basic ignorance.
Joe, try to stay on topic. `Immigration and deportation. I did not defend colonialism or laissez faire capitalism. I'm not interested in your Burisma, Hunter Biden conspiracies or your Global warming denial.
Since you brought it up, Ukraine ranks 61st in oil and nat gas production. We have no boots on the ground. If we wanted to pilfer oil and gas we could have stayed in Iraq. They got lots. We could have stayed in Afghanistan. They're sitting on trillions worth of mineral deposits.
You have nothing.
ps - Iraqi oil doesn't heat German homes or power the biggest economy in Europe, Russian gas does. There was an old saying in the 90's... Russia is a gas station with an army. NATO decided if you cut off the gas (Nordstream), the Russian army folds. THAT is what the Ukraine war is about... because all that Russian gas thet when through Ukrainian pipes is now headed south to India and southeast to China. The Russian army is here to stay. Russia will ALWAYS be a gas station with an arrmy.
The US is the largest producer of crude oil in the world.
What's the deal here?
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