I have the equivalent level of sympathy for the profits over people crowd, as they have for me and mine.

[onecaliberal]

Sorry, not sorry.
They are working us to death.
We are all indentured servants, working for crumbs. Most of us don’t understand where we are.

[Woodycall]

1. This was posted by another DU poster

Last edited Tue Dec 10, 2024, 06:52 PM - Edit history (1)

I liked it so much I saved it.

"In a 1845 publication Engels called it social murder

When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offense is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.

When the rich kill the poor, it's capitalism. When the poor kill the rich, it's a crime...

That's what living in late-stage capitalism has taught me."

[Magoo48]

8. Not to put too fine a point on it but, Fuckin' A.

[Woodycall]

10. Unregulated Capitalism,

especially when blatant political corruption goes unpunished, rapidly devolves into what can only be described as - Organized Crime...

[erronis]

2. Nicely and concisely stated.

We can send those rich bastards "thoughts and prayers" because they are worthless.

[Clouds Passing]

6. I send them prayers of an explosion of awakening instantaneously....

They couldn’t handle that.

[leftstreet]

3. DuRec

[Hellbound Hellhound]

4. Deny. Defend. Depose. n/t

[Rebl2]

5. If you

think about it, it’s been that way for many years.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. waaaay too many

[Rebl2]

9. Yep!

[applegrove]

11. Someone somewhere said fascism (authoritarianism) is colonializing your own country (people).

I can't remember the exact words or where I saw them.