Just another day in this Evil Empire

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SIGNYM

Monday, July 9, 2018 8:39 PM

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Once again 6ix....thanks for the informed third grade response. Have nothing intelligent to say...it's GIF TIME! - WISHY

Your thread title is spot on, btw. I can't for the life of me figure out why SIGGS and KIKS aren't high-fiving you... GSTRING

I high-fived WISHY for the reaction, but pointed out that our Evil Empire didn't begin with Trump.

Do you know HOW LONG this infant-formula v breast-feeding issue has been going on? I first heard about it forty five years ago. That might have even been before either one of you were born.

Nestle (yes, THAT Nestle) was publicly castigated for having its African infant-formula sales force show up in nurse's uniforms at villages, explaining the benefits of infant formula. Well, because they were wearing nurse's uniforms and the babies on the labels looked so chubby and happy, the mothers thought they were getting sound medical advice that formula was special, that it had something, or more of something that breast milk didn't. Of course, the water that they used to make up the concentrate was often contaminated with bacteria, viruses, and parasites. And the infant formula was expensive, so it was over-diluted. The whole move to infant formula led to an outbreak of sick, undernourished babies. A boycott was launched in 1977; here's the info so you know that I'm not just blowing smoke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott I think didn't eat Nestle chocolate for over ten years.

There have been a lot of American Presidents during the forty-five years since this first became an issue. But heck, Nestle made a lot of money off its infant formula sales ... just like they make a lot of money today, over-extracting groundwater and causing local wells to go dry, and selling the water in bottles for lots of money. To this day, I refuse to buy bottled water.

I can point to instance after instance of transnationals making a crap-ton of money exploiting the poor and uneducated (including those here in America), with the tacit or active support of American Presidents.

But then, I can point to a lot of American Presidents who have outright killed tens, if not hundreds of thousands of children, and not just by passively allowing exploitation but through active warfare. It's been a horror-show for a long time.

Yes, we should be better than Russia. So, why aren't we? (Please don't say "Trump", that's a dishonest answer, and you know it.) If we were to do some real thinking about WHY American Presidents, both Democratic and Republican, have supported exploitation and warfare for decades and decades with nary a pause to recognize the destruction and death that we leave in our wake, then maybe we might have a prayer of stopping it.

But if you think that getting rid of one President, or flipping the political party in the WH/ Congress will fix things, you're sadly mistaken.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 9, 2018 11:29 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Once again 6ix....thanks for the informed third grade response. Have nothing intelligent to say...it's GIF TIME!

It's a JPG, by the way.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 10:21 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Do you know HOW LONG this infant-formula v breast-feeding issue has been going on? I first heard about it forty five years ago. That might have even been before either one of you were born.

through active warfare. It's been a horror-show for a long time.

Yes, we should be better than Russia. So, why aren't we? (Please don't say "Trump", that's a dishonest answer, and you know it.)
But if you think that getting rid of one President, or flipping the political party in the WH/ Congress will fix things, you're sadly mistaken.

Must be a slow night if yer breaking out the whole "I'm OLDDD" spiel...

Everybody take a shot every time she types the word "WARFARE"

Wait a consecd, I'm outta booooze, dammit.

Ok, I won't say Trump....It's... Rethuglicans, right???

IT'S BECAUSE WE'RE HUMANS, right?? That's the right answer, right?? With zero power or energy or say in how we live our lives because protesting... UGHHH.

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 10:25 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

It's a JPG, by the way.

Everyone drink a shot every time 6ix posts a GIF OR a JPG...

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 10:31 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

But if you think that getting rid of one President, or flipping the political party in the WH/ Congress will fix things, you're sadly mistaken.

Wait, did you just advocate for overthrow of the gov't???

LUCY, YOU GOT SOME S'PLAININ TO DO!

Except that was literally one of the first things I posted about a lot around here.... HUMANS...RULED BY HUMANS....IS A BAD IDEA. EVERYWHERE.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 11:17 AM

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Wait, did you just advocate for overthrow of the gov't???

No

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LUCY, YOU GOT SOME S'PLAININ TO DO!

No.

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HUMANS...RULED BY HUMANS....IS A BAD IDEA. EVERYWHERE.

But say, did YOU just advocate for exterminating the human species??

For the life of me, I can't imagine how you go around thinking you're so smart.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 12:19 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

But say, did YOU just advocate for exterminating the human species??

Yes, that's 'ZACTLY what I meant...Oh wait, I mean that other thing.

I think we oughtta make EVERYONE take what is basically a FREE year long Ethics and Governance course and if you pass, you get a super encrypted voting device...one person, one vote... on EVERYTHING. Retina scan, thumbprint, voice ID...the WORKS... Make voting and being a citizen something that has to be studied for and worked for and you have to prove yourself a human being...not just memorizing who did... whatever... in 1798. Murder someone, lose your Voter permanently. Go on a racist rampage, lose your Voter for a year. Drunk Driving? 10 years. Having NO say would make people feel powerless and discourage crime at the same time. And because they actually had to work to get it, they might think twice before doing something that takes it away.

Actually, I think we ought to call the super encrypted voting device "The Mark of The Beast" and therefore automatically rule out the stuporsticious and illogical. We would already be a 1000 steps ahead in being a better place then.

I never said I was smart at everything...in fact, I'll say it again...EVERYONE is smart about something and ignorant about somethings...but at least I'M trying. Come stand at a local PTA meeting and tell me these people have EVER tried.

WISHIMAY

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 12:21 PM

Oh, and like I've also said a million times...the human species WILL wipe itself out without immediate action. And that's not going to happen. I'm not advocating it, but it will happen nonetheless.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 3:22 PM

Meh

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JO753

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 3:54 PM

We're suppozed to deflect the next big asteroid first, then we get wiped out or sink back down to ape level, Wishy.

It must be near, kuz the sinking haz started alredy and Gaia can hardly wait to get rid uv us. There'll be a hand full uv jenius sientists in a NASA bunker hurrying to launch the deflector missile wile hordez uv Christian Republicanz jibbering about Godz Will are trying to break in & stop them.

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