doesnt mean you should!Because I can.
I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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There are plenty of things we all do that we shouldn’t. Next point....
I try to leave this forum but you keep pulling me back in!
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
Because she is not a stupid little punk!
youre never getting off this boat youre never getting off this boat youre never getting off this boat
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
... alive!
popular youtube comments on joker trailer:
Annoying Gamer 3 days ago
Film maker 1: put him in acid
Film maker2: no put him in Society!
Reavere 2 weeks ago
1962: Man turned into villain by being thrown in vat of toxic waste
2019: Man turned into villain by being thrown in the toxic SOCIETY
Annoying Gamer 3 days ago
Film maker 1: put him in acid
Film maker2: no put him in Society!
Reavere 2 weeks ago
1962: Man turned into villain by being thrown in vat of toxic waste
2019: Man turned into villain by being thrown in the toxic SOCIETY
north america and other countries have suffered an inflation and decline in standard of living with increase of housing prices.
Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff Oct 5
The US housing crisis results from a mismatch of prices and rents versus wages and salaries from a dysfunctional capitalist system. #HowCapitalismWorks
Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff Oct 5
The US housing crisis results from a mismatch of prices and rents versus wages and salaries from a dysfunctional capitalist system. #HowCapitalismWorks
Peter Joseph
@ZeitgeistFilm
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Oct 6
4.5% of all U.S. deaths due to poverty. (2011 study) 2,813,503 deaths in 2017 = 126,607 dead prematurely to the systemic structural violence of being poor. That's quite the genocide if you ask me, given the billionaires could reallocate and end it now.
How Many U.S. Deaths are Caused by Poverty, Lack of Education, and Other Social Factors?
mailman.columbia.edu
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i only recall the slave part of this quote:
@ZeitgeistFilm
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Oct 6
4.5% of all U.S. deaths due to poverty. (2011 study) 2,813,503 deaths in 2017 = 126,607 dead prematurely to the systemic structural violence of being poor. That's quite the genocide if you ask me, given the billionaires could reallocate and end it now.
How Many U.S. Deaths are Caused by Poverty, Lack of Education, and Other Social Factors?
mailman.columbia.edu
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i only recall the slave part of this quote:
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
Addiction!
just watched joker movie. reading youtube comments and videos.
"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth" - African proverb
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
I remember Hillary - It takes a village to raise an idiot
it takes a pillage in her case.
Michael Moore
October 5 at 7:13 AM ·
On Wednesday night I attended the New York Film Festival and witnessed a cinematic masterpiece, the film that last month won the top prize as the Best Film of the Venice International Film Festival. It’s called “Joker” — and all we Americans have heard about this movie is that we should fear it and stay away from it. We’ve been told it’s violent and sick and morally corrupt — an incitement and celebration of murder. We’ve been told that police will be at every screening this weekend in case of “trouble.” Our country is in deep despair, our constitution is in shreds, a rogue maniac from Queens has access to the nuclear codes — but for some reason, it’s a movie we should be afraid of.
I would suggest the opposite: The greater danger to society may be if you DON’T go see this movie. Because the story it tells and the issues it raises are so profound, so necessary, that if you look away from the genius of this work of art, you will miss the gift of the mirror it is offering us. Yes, there’s a disturbed clown in that mirror, but he’s not alone — we’re standing right there beside him.
“Joker” is no superhero or supervillain or comic book movie. The film is set somewhere in the ‘70s or ‘80s in Gotham City - and the filmmakers make no attempt to disguise it for anything other than what it is: New York City, the headquarters of all evil: the rich who rule us, the banks and corporations for whom we serve, the media which feeds us a daily diet “news” they think we should absorb ...
But this movie is not about Trump. It’s about the America that gave us Trump — the America which feels no need to help the outcast, the destitute. The America where the filthy rich just get richer and filthier.
Except in this story a discomfiting question is posed: What if one day the dispossessed decide to fight back? And I don’t mean with a clipboard registering people to vote. People are worried this movie may be too violent for them. Really? Considering everything we’re living through in real life? You allow your school to conduct “active shooter drills” with your children, permanently, emotionally damaging them as we show these little ones
that this is the life we’ve created for them. “Joker” makes it clear we don’t really want to get to the bottom of this, or to try to understand why innocent people turn in to Jokers after they can no longer keep it together. No one wants to ask why two smart boys skipped their 4th-hour AP French Philosophy class at Columbine High to slaughter 12 students and a teacher. Who would dare ask why the son of a vice-president of General Electric would go into Sandy Hook Elementary in
Newtown, CT and blow the tiny bodies apart of 20 first-graders. Or why did 53% of White women vote for the presidential candidate who, on tape, reveled in his talent as a sexual predator?
The fear and outcry over “Joker” is a ruse. It’s a distraction so that we don’t look at the real violence tearing up our fellow human beings — 30 million Americans who don’t have health insurance is an act of violence. Millions of abused women and children living in fear is an act of violence. Cramming 59 students like worthless sardines into classrooms in Detroit is an act of violence.
As the news media stands by for the next mass shooting, you and your neighbors and co-workers have already been shot numerous times, shot straight through all of your hearts and hopes and dreams. Your pension is long gone. You’re in debt for the next 30 years because you committed the crime of wanting an education. You have actually thought about not having children because you don’t have the heart to bring them onto a dying planet where they are given a 20-year death-by-climate-change sentence at birth. The violence in “Joker”? Stop! Most of the violence in the movie is perpetrated on the Joker himself, a person in need of help, someone trying to survive on the margins of a greedy society. His crime is that he can’t get help. His crime is that he is the butt of a joke played on HIM by the rich and famous. When the Joker decides he can no longer take it — yes, you will feel awful. Not because of the (minimal) blood on the screen, but because deep down, you were cheering him on - and if you’re honest when that happens, you will thank this movie for connecting you to a new desire — not to run to the nearest exit to save your own ass but rather to stand and fight and focus your attention on the nonviolent power you hold in your hands every single day. Thank you Joaquin Phoenix, Todd Phillips, Warner Bros. and all who made this important movie for this important time. I loved this film’s multiple homages to Taxi Driver, Network, The French Connection, Dog Day Afternoon. How long has it been since we’ve seen a movie aspire to the level of Stanley Kubrick? Go see this film. Take your teens. Take your resolve.
October 5 at 7:13 AM ·
On Wednesday night I attended the New York Film Festival and witnessed a cinematic masterpiece, the film that last month won the top prize as the Best Film of the Venice International Film Festival. It’s called “Joker” — and all we Americans have heard about this movie is that we should fear it and stay away from it. We’ve been told it’s violent and sick and morally corrupt — an incitement and celebration of murder. We’ve been told that police will be at every screening this weekend in case of “trouble.” Our country is in deep despair, our constitution is in shreds, a rogue maniac from Queens has access to the nuclear codes — but for some reason, it’s a movie we should be afraid of.
I would suggest the opposite: The greater danger to society may be if you DON’T go see this movie. Because the story it tells and the issues it raises are so profound, so necessary, that if you look away from the genius of this work of art, you will miss the gift of the mirror it is offering us. Yes, there’s a disturbed clown in that mirror, but he’s not alone — we’re standing right there beside him.
“Joker” is no superhero or supervillain or comic book movie. The film is set somewhere in the ‘70s or ‘80s in Gotham City - and the filmmakers make no attempt to disguise it for anything other than what it is: New York City, the headquarters of all evil: the rich who rule us, the banks and corporations for whom we serve, the media which feeds us a daily diet “news” they think we should absorb ...
But this movie is not about Trump. It’s about the America that gave us Trump — the America which feels no need to help the outcast, the destitute. The America where the filthy rich just get richer and filthier.
Except in this story a discomfiting question is posed: What if one day the dispossessed decide to fight back? And I don’t mean with a clipboard registering people to vote. People are worried this movie may be too violent for them. Really? Considering everything we’re living through in real life? You allow your school to conduct “active shooter drills” with your children, permanently, emotionally damaging them as we show these little ones
that this is the life we’ve created for them. “Joker” makes it clear we don’t really want to get to the bottom of this, or to try to understand why innocent people turn in to Jokers after they can no longer keep it together. No one wants to ask why two smart boys skipped their 4th-hour AP French Philosophy class at Columbine High to slaughter 12 students and a teacher. Who would dare ask why the son of a vice-president of General Electric would go into Sandy Hook Elementary in
Newtown, CT and blow the tiny bodies apart of 20 first-graders. Or why did 53% of White women vote for the presidential candidate who, on tape, reveled in his talent as a sexual predator?
The fear and outcry over “Joker” is a ruse. It’s a distraction so that we don’t look at the real violence tearing up our fellow human beings — 30 million Americans who don’t have health insurance is an act of violence. Millions of abused women and children living in fear is an act of violence. Cramming 59 students like worthless sardines into classrooms in Detroit is an act of violence.
As the news media stands by for the next mass shooting, you and your neighbors and co-workers have already been shot numerous times, shot straight through all of your hearts and hopes and dreams. Your pension is long gone. You’re in debt for the next 30 years because you committed the crime of wanting an education. You have actually thought about not having children because you don’t have the heart to bring them onto a dying planet where they are given a 20-year death-by-climate-change sentence at birth. The violence in “Joker”? Stop! Most of the violence in the movie is perpetrated on the Joker himself, a person in need of help, someone trying to survive on the margins of a greedy society. His crime is that he can’t get help. His crime is that he is the butt of a joke played on HIM by the rich and famous. When the Joker decides he can no longer take it — yes, you will feel awful. Not because of the (minimal) blood on the screen, but because deep down, you were cheering him on - and if you’re honest when that happens, you will thank this movie for connecting you to a new desire — not to run to the nearest exit to save your own ass but rather to stand and fight and focus your attention on the nonviolent power you hold in your hands every single day. Thank you Joaquin Phoenix, Todd Phillips, Warner Bros. and all who made this important movie for this important time. I loved this film’s multiple homages to Taxi Driver, Network, The French Connection, Dog Day Afternoon. How long has it been since we’ve seen a movie aspire to the level of Stanley Kubrick? Go see this film. Take your teens. Take your resolve.
@Old Man Jingles i am the first communist youve ever developed feelings for
Best thing you've ever posted!
ill be the judge of that.
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https://nypost.com/2019/10/11/did-a...-nyc-women-reveal-what-they-pay-at-the-salon/
Okay @rickyb this is one instance where I agree with you about Capitalism. There is no reason a woman should have to pay $260 to get her hair done. It’s highway robbery. And that’s really not uncommon. I’ve paid over $300 to have mine done and I’m still in shock three years later. Lol.
Okay @rickyb this is one instance where I agree with you about Capitalism. There is no reason a woman should have to pay $260 to get her hair done. It’s highway robbery. And that’s really not uncommon. I’ve paid over $300 to have mine done and I’m still in shock three years later. Lol.
sometimes its useful to pay attention to things;
ive been walking my dog on this route for over a year at least and i only noticed recently a salon that offers big discounts on tuesdays.
its also good to ask places "what day of the week is the discount" or whens the discount because i used to get my mohawk done for $15 and normally they were $20 or whatever. i forget to do this myself.
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