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   starfighter441 said, 6 months ago

   Uh-huh…not holding my breath waiting.
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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   The REAL 99% of America.
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   Stephanie McMillan said, 6 months ago

   We are starting at a disadvantage

   Overturning an established social order requires a tremendous exercise of power. If we started on an equal field, we could exert equal force and overcome our adversary. Since we are a majority, this should be easy. But we are starting with a grave disadvantage: the system’s boot is on our necks, and we are on the ground. We must first push it off us and get up on our feet before we can even throw a punch. But before we can do that, we must understand that this is possible. And even before that, we must perceive the boot on our neck as wrong, and that alternatives exist.

   The inertia, or forward motion, of a society — its economic mechanisms, political procedures, cultural mores and traditions — that are in place, push that society in a particular direction. Under global capitalism, the direction is toward continued and escalating exploitation and omnicide.

   The only thing that can stop that forward motion is greater power exerted in the opposite direction. We have to become more powerful than the system and all its accumulated methods of domination, its material wealth, armed forces and machinery of lies. Only then can we possibly prevail over it.
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   timrinaldo said, 6 months ago

   What do you mean, “we” ?
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   A_Dream4u said, 6 months ago

   If they’re boot is on MY neck, I ’ll just bite them in the foot!
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   Marc said, 6 months ago

   I’m curious. Does Stephanie ever reply to anyone’s comments here, or is she simply lecturing? If so, that’s her prerogative, but I’m starting to realize this feels so much like a college class with someone droning on in front of the room endlessly and half the room dozing off.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   If it was the real 99% we and the earth would be doomed very quickly but it obviously isn’t is it? Self deluded.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   @Redneck .45

   We ask the same things of you tree killers. Go away and find your own world to poison.
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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   @Marc

   zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz huh? Wha? Will this be on the test? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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    joe waskiewicz said, 6 months ago

    Someday………………….. ah don’t hold yer breath. The only way this could happen is the Zombie Apocalyspe. -10sp
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    Radish said, 6 months ago

    There is a new world comming, you are either for it or against it..
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    Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

    @Radish

    In the ‘new’ world there will be super rich, rich and the poor. There will be no middle class as the ‘non-revolutionaries’ will be the slaves to the ‘revolutionaries’ (just look at Cuba).
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    Radish said, 6 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    The future is not set in stone.
    Good may win over evil eventually.
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    Radish said, 6 months ago

    Cuba is not all bad, they have a better health system than we do.
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    Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

    @Radish

    Is that why so many Cubans risk death to boat to America? Because of their ‘better health system’?
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