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Since I had to block a bozo who defends the hate of Russian civilians, (redjaybathood), here is proof of anti-Russian sentiment towards civilians, it's not propaganda and you ain't a tankie for calling it out.
OK, so I have to respond. Firstly, my criticism doesn't mean "I think Putin's behaviour is the right thing."
Let me ask you something. Why don't you lame Chinese civilians for their government? Why don't you call them names? Their leader is also a communist who threatens other countries. Why aren't Chinese civilians considered tankies? Why don't North Korean civilians get treated like they're part of the problem? Cherry picking.
Next, you're literally doing what the OP and many other people are calling out. Hating the civilians for existing and living in a dictatorship.
And since you freaked that I didnt send the links even though you can look it up yourself (meaning you're lazy), fine. Here we go. Now let's see if you try to accuse me of lying. This is the sentiment that lead to the Japanese internment camps which everyone agrees were wrong, but I know people would cheer for Russian ones. There's a LOT of Russia-bashing, believe it or not.
And serious actual hate crimes and attacks. All called "propaganda" by bigots.
That's arson if you don't speak German.
If a foreign minister needs to call you out, it's not propaganda.
NOTE: Dubs being put on hiatus, Russian non politial products like snacks and drinks being removed or given WARNINGS in stores, none of that happens to other "evil" countries like China. Selective outrage? I'd say so. And literal paragraphs about hate from the Wiki page.
All of these are civilians who are being treated like shit on the ASSUMPTION that if you're Russian, you must hate peace. Dictators are not the people. People are brainwashed. You don't have the right to judge the peopleof a dictatorship because they aren't born evil, they're taught to obey the dictator. It happened with Hitler. It happened with Stalin. It happened with Mussolini. It happened with Pol Pot. It happened with Milosevic. It happened with Hirohito. It happens with Xi. It happens with Kim Jong Un. Why is it that when it happens with Putin, and ONLY with Putin, are the civilians suddenly just as problematic as the leader? You can't judge an entire nationality based on a select number of people you've seen who agree (or pretend to agree, as many may not actually agree but pretend. If all you view them as is cowards, but you don't hold the same values to other citizens of dictatorships, you are in fact, a BIGOT and it's not problematic or propaganda or false to say so. I made myself very clear. If you still disagree that's your problem and you are a toxic person. Jesus fucking Christ)
Tell me again how being Russian automatically makes you a bad person and how civilians aren't victims just because they are living in a corrupt country. You judge the entire population based on what fringe nationalists and some brainwashed people say. Blanket statements about an entire nationality or race are NOT okay. Peoplewho criticizes this aren't automatically pro-tyranny. Not that you care or believe that.
As a bonus, let's talk about how America and Canada (my country) used to HATE UKRAINE, and they had Ukrainian internment camps.
Your reaction to this should NOT be "I don't think Ukrainians deserve peace". BOTH RUSSIA AND UKRAINE DESERVE PEACE AND TO BE FREE FROM HATE. THE HATE GOES IN ALL DIRECTIONS. THAT'S THE REASON WAR IS A THING. PUTIN NEEDS TO STOP FIGHTING. PEOPLE NEED TO STOP JUDGING CITIZENS OF A DICTATORSHIP FOR BEING FROM A DICTATORSHIP. THE MORE RUSSIANS THAT CALL OUT PUTIN ANY WAY THEY CAN THE BETTER. ALL OF THESE STATEMENTS CAN AND SHOULD CO-EXIST AND I YOU DON'T THINK SO, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. "BUT THEIR LEADER!" "BUT I'M UKRAINIAN" "BUT LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE SAY" "SHUT UP TANKIE" "ORC/RUZZIAN AREN'T SLURS THEY'RE TRUE". ARE NOT EXCUSES. The orcs and Ruzzians are Putin and his lackeys, not the people who live in said tyrant's cities. Obviously people should help Ukraine, that's absolutely fine. But people should not do or say anything the people above have said. It's pretty easy to find out of touch comments on Twitter and Quora that blanket the entire population as the same "evil commie tankie orc zombies". People calling out this stuff aren't trying to make a competition of "who has it worse" when in fact war harms EVERYONE.
That's all I can say. Don't like this? Then you should really think.
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You can't say The Simpsons didn't warn us.
#the simpsons#russia#soviet union#ussr#global politics#ukraine#fucking putin is just looking to be the next stalin
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I wasn’t expecting Russia to invade Ukraine until after their next election in 2024, but it looks as though things may kick off sooner rather than later.
In 2014, a pro-Russian candidate “won” a very dubious election, and the people ousted him from power. Russia subsequently invaded and annexed the Crimean peninsula under the guise of “providing military aid” to the ethnic Russians in the regions. It’s kinda like if the United States took over southern Ontario to protect Americans living abroad.
Shortly after this, pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine (Donbass) rose up against the government and have been fighting a civil war ever since. Russia hasn’t directly gotten involved in the conflict, they just give supplies and funding to the rebels; imagine if the US started selling guns and tanks to pro-American rebels along the rest of the border.
While Russia could plausibly justify annexing Crimea because it had once been part of Russia and ceded to Ukraine in the 50s, there’s no way to justify taking a big chunk of eastern Ukraine. The war in Donbass has been raging on-and-off for years; there have been dozens of ceasefires, but none of them have lasted long. Russia is now building up troops along the border, signaling their intent to actually invade and help the rebels directly. This would be an inexcusable act of open war in Europe, which NATO would not stand for. Ukraine isn’t part of NATO, so they’re not technically obligated to respond, but they’re not going to just let Russia expand its sphere of influence by taking land from a strategically significant sovereign nation.
But Putin’s not stupid. He’s not going to start a war he doesn’t think he can win. NATO can’t really do anything to stop him unless the entire alliance commits to it, and there are at least three major obstructionists; the US, the UK, and Turkey (together the three largest militaries in NATO).
American foreign policy is all over the place, flipping back and forth depending on which political party controls the presidency; under Trump, the US would not only have allowed a Russian invasion, they would have encouraged it. Under Biden, he’ll take a more hardline stance (“hardline,” which like Obama in 2014 means sanctions and a strongly worded letter). Congress won’t want America to get involved in another foreign war; Republicans support Russia, and Democrats support Ukraine, but neither side will sign off on American interference because there’s no oil to be had. We’ll fuck around in the Middle East, sure, but Ukraine? Not gonna happen. And we’re so close to leaving Afghanistan, the longest war in American history, there’s no way Biden could commit troops to another war so soon after this one; it would be political suicide, even if it would help the Ukrainians.
UK foreign policy largely shadows the US, though the Conservative party (analogous to American Republicans) are staunchly Eurosceptic. They want to distance themselves from the continent as much as possible; they left the EU and will almost certainly try to leave NATO if the only other alternative is going up against Russia in a proxy war. Trump wanted to withdraw the US from NATO, and if some other Republican president follows through on this threat in the future, the UK will absolutely follow suit.
Turkey is backsliding towards authoritarianism; Erdogan was democratically elected, but has hijacked the executive branch to consolidate power and become a new Ottoman Emperor. Turkey is the second largest military in NATO behind the United States, and in recent years has been becoming closer to Russia then the rest of Europe. Erdogan and Putin are, for the moment, buddy-buddy; kindred dictatorial spirits. Turkey will likely withdraw from NATO to side with Russia in the Ukrainian conflict because they control the only straits connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean. Russia needs to be in Turkey’s good graces or else they’ll be landlocked (save for Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg, but we’ll get to them later). Like Hitler and Stalin, they have an uneasy truce of convenience, but will almost certainly turn on each other later.
Putin has a blank check to do whatever he wants in Ukraine because Western Europe doesn’t want to start another Cold War. I thought for sure Russia would wait until 2024, then call the results of the election fraudulent as pretext for invasion. They very well still may, but given the troop buildup it’s possible the rebels are going to be getting a lot more support in the coming months.
And don’t even get me started on Belarus. Right now, there’s no indication that Belarus is involved with the Ukrainian situation, but the second they back Putin, it’s all over for Ukraine. Ukraine borders Russia to the east, and Belarus to the north; Kiev is within striking distance of the Ukraine-Belarus border, so if Belarus sided with Russia, then Russia could march troops directly on the Ukrainian capital, toppling the government and turning it into a pro-Russian satellite puppet. Belarus has been run by the same dictator ever since becoming independent from Russia in 1991, and the two countries share close personal ties, having joined the Union State in 1999. The Union State is a pact of Russian-Belarusian brotherhood, calling for economic and military unification.
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia want to join the Union too, as does Moldova in Europe.
That said, the Belarusian dictator is a hardcore nationalist who wants to maintain independence from Russia rather than be annexed. He wouldn’t just let Russian troops occupy his country and march on Kiev; it would be like Belgium during the World Wars, with Germany (Russia) using them as a stepping stone to take France (Ukraine). We need to watch Belarus carefully to see how they respond to Russian interference. If they stand back and let it happen, Ukraine will fall without a fight, but if they try to maintain independence then it will trigger a full blown European war (quite possibly a prelude to WWIII)
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are part of NATO, so Russia can’t touch them without inviting total war. But do you notice that purple spot between Lithuania and Poland? That’s Kaliningrad, and though separated from the rest of the country, it’s part of Russia. Just north of Estonia, off the map, is St Petersburg, which along with Kaliningrad represent Russia’s only two port cities in the Baltic Sea. They both freeze over in the winter, rendering them unusable, which is why Russia cared so much about taking Crimea with its warm water ports in the Black Sea.
If Turkey and the UK and the US were to leave NATO, the entire alliance would pretty much collapse, giving Russia another blank check to do whatever they want with Eastern Europe. If Russia annexes Belarus, they could very likely annex Lithuania to reconnect Kaliningrad with the rest of the country.
The closest thing to a super power Europe has that could butt heads with Russia is Germany, but they’re dealing with their own internal struggles right now; the Alternative For Germany party (neo-Nazi party) is the fastest growing party in their parliament, and though they have nowhere near a majority it’s terrifying to think they could assert influence over the other right-wing parties and form coalition governments.
This is all just rampant speculation; Putin knows more than I do, he’s not an idiot, and I don’t claim to understand the inner machinations of the Red Army, but I can see the writing on the walls. There may not be a direct war, but whatever the conflict, it will look very similar to the events posited above.
In the unlikely event that Russia marches on Kiev, the Ukrainian government may fall back to a national redoubt (secondary capital) in the west, perhaps near Lviv or in the Carpathian Mountains along the border with Romania. If this happens, I could see Ukraine being split in two like Korea or Germany; East and West Ukraine, though both sides would claim sovereignty over the entire country.
#Russia#Ukraine#war in Donbass#Donbass#war#Crimea#Turkey#nato#Europe#Belarus#politics#political#speculation
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What would be nice is if Mueller stopped spending millions of taxpayer money chasing shadows, Kaity. Jack Sullivan Quora
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Putin has Duck Ass Don by the balls, which would be a good thing if the Nixon Haters and warmed over neo-cons in the Obama State Department hadn’t fucked up the Sovereign Democracy agenda he and Putin inherited from Nixon Breznev by way of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. But, before he was Potus, Donald Duck Ass has been engaged in the Sovereign Democracy agenda since he started trying to do business with the Soviets in 1986.
I have been engaged in what has become the Sovereign Democracy agenda since 1975 in a US-Soviet venture capital project organized to bring a Soviet commuter airframe design into production in Youngstown Ohio to fill a mission requirement for Nixon’s design for airline deregulation. I was in the project to get filthy rich and become the next Armand Hammer, but it also satisfied my purposes for going to Vietnam as defined by de oppresso liber.
By 1975, after being bled white, economically, by their material support of the godless commie cocksuckers in Hanoi’s invasion of the Republic of Vietnam, the Soviet governing elite realized that Marxism really doesn’t work and they needed to modify their ideology by reversing Marx’s moral position that Free Enterprise is evil and property is theft. That’s what Sovereign Democracy was all about: how do you unwind violent revolution as the essential economic engine of a culture? Nobody knew how to do it. Today, thanks to Vietnam’s evolution from Soviet-Maoist Marxism to a unique Ho Chi Minh Social Marxism, people like Chairman Kim Jung-In know it can be done with out the expedient of “regime change by liberal intervention” such as our complete cluster fuck in Iraq, but by purposeful transformation.
So, in 1986, Duck Ass Don’s Casino Empire went belly-up as a direct result of Bob Dole’s 1986 Tax Reforms, which prevented the Atlantic City Renaissance from getting any traction and he, Duck Ass Don, ran out of banks he could scam on this side of the pond and he went to Moscow looking for deals and, apparently, to Germany for the cash flows he needed to sustain the illusion he’s a certifiable billionaire and not a paper airplane based on a variation on the basic Ponzi design but limited to high-stakes players who can afford to ante with Donald Duck Ass.
And that’s why Putin has him by the balls and it’s a good thing, because, in order to do business in Moscow in 1986, everybody had to do business with the Kremlin. Even Armand Hammer, who was in a position with the Leninist elite that Stalin found convenient, to do side deals, still basically did his deals through the Soviet Elite.
I never came close to that status, although my boss/partner had access Trump has never had. It’s just the way it worked.
Until Yeltsin’s de-socialization agenda after he faced down the tanks sent by what has become the Russian Kleptocracy to crush democracy allowed international business men such as Paul Manafort and Bill Browder, who were perfectly happy doing business with the Russian Kleptocracy.
Now, Russia has always been an enigma to itself since before Rasputin, but things over there now are especially murky. If you factor out “blat” from all relationships. it becomes clearer in a very broad, sociological sense. The essential existential anchor for me has always been who controls the nukes and Putin is the contitutional authority I was doing business with in 1975 and Spanky was trying to deal with in 1986 and was tryng to do business with as late as July 2016, when Michael Cohen went to Moscow to see if he could shake something loose in terms of a Trump property and the Kremlim, the same people I continue to provide personal inside the Beltway analysis of current events. I’m a known quantity to the Kremlin and tell them exactly the same thing I post everywhere I post anything.
I’ve never been to Moscow, but I was raised in the Army when COIN was the sexy career path and the sort of intelligence analysis George Smiley does in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is just another day in paradise. I mean, the reason why I was in the IPO in 1975 was because I sensed an opportunity from all the data I had accumulated after getting back from Vietnam and trying to put together Plan B for the rest of my life. I look at Russia entirely differently from Condeleeza Rice and that whole Stanford-Hoover Institution crowd that currently dotes on Victor Davis Hanson and helped implement Bill Kristol’s and Bob Kagan’s Project for a New American Century that ran us over a cliff and into Iraq. We occupy entirely different space-time continuums. They are a big part of why Obama fucked up the Sovereign Democracy he and Putin inherited from Nixon Breznev Detente. They are part of the Powell Manifesto commited to destroying Nixon’s Peaceful Structures and I have bet the ranch on it.
Which is why your opinion is crap, Jack Sullivan, nothing personal, of course.
The Russian Kleptocracy conspired with the elements in the GOP Deep State most closely associated with Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon, Newt Gingrich and Bill Browder to sabotage the Clinton campaign and corrupt the election. Putin had nothing to do with it. As I say, things are very murky in Russia, but he’s not part of the Russian Kleptocracy but in the same existential struggle Yeltsin engaged when he faced down the tanks that were sent to crush democracy.
Duck Ass Don’s problem, in terms of Mueller, is that he has a foot in both camps, one in the Kremlin, one in the Russian Kleptocracy. Donald Duck Ass never did a deal with the Kremlin for the same reason he won’t do a deal with either Korea in terms of a DPRK-ROK reproachment or a PRC trade deal because: nobody takes him seriously. He publically declared in front of the PRC trade representative that he doesn’t like the Memorandum of Understanding contracting process of the zero-sum business philosophy of the Kremlim, prefering to go straight to the contract. The Soviets considered his “Art of the Deal” the perfect illustration of the 19th Century Oligarch capitalism Marx proposed to reform and Putin recognizes the inherent con of the 58th Floor element in a Trump deal. The Soviets didn’t care how much you made, but you got paid for performance after the fact and not as a front-loaded feature of the project.
In order to do the Miss Universe Pagaent in Moscow, Duck Ass Don did business with the Russian Kleptocracy, which is where Paul Manafort comes in, while Michael Cohen represents Spanky’s Kremlin contact.
Cohen didn’t do shit for the Miss Universe Pagaent in Moscow.
Putin can prove to Mueller’s satisfaction that all things Trump were fully engaged in the Sovereign Democracy agenda and establish the distance from Manafort Eric and Junior need to avoid RICO penalties for all things Trump.
The problem for all things Trump is that it is up to its eyeballs with all things connected with Roger Stone on this side of the pond and the friends of the Russian Kleptocracy in the GOP Deep State, the vast right wing conspiracy that the America MSM has refused to believe exists in spite of Hillary’s 1993 discription. It goes back to why Nancy fired Donald T. Regan, who was running the Powell Manifesto from the Oval Office as national policy.
Now, of course, Duck Ass Don is running the Powell Manifesto from his Twitter account.
And that’s another reason why your opinion is crap, Jack Sullivan. The Powell Manifesto is what happens when you create an action plan to implement John Galt’s Manifesto from Atlas Shrugged, That’s the nature of Steve Bannon’s agenda to dismantle the administrative state and the goal of Grover Norquist’s “Starving the Beast” to the point where you can drown the federal government in a bath tub.
Donald Duck Ass still has some options, but, unless he exercises them by Memorial Day, history will demonstrate that he lost his re-election when he returned from Hanoi without a deal because he refuses to keep a promise to Chairman Kim Jung-Un to do business the same way Armand Hammer did business with Lenin and Stalin.
And, of course, he will go to jail for the business he was doing with the people in the GOP Deep State associated with Roger Stone and Paul Manafort.
The business he is doing with Steve Bannon is treason. Even Eric Prince is getting out of that business.
And that’s another reason why your opinion is crap, Jack Sullivan. The million$ Mueller is spending will earn America billion$ in RICO seizures.
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Setting the Cat Among the Pigeons
Article in full- 'Setting the Cat Among the Pigeons'
Frank Zappa was quoted as saying ‘jazz isn’t dead; jazz just smells funny.’ The same can now be said of capitalism, as the free market becomes a stagnant monopoly of corporate giants feeding a host of leech-like shareholders and impotent bureaucrats. Capitalism has been working well for the past century of economic and technological growth; so why is it not working now? Why is an entire generation looking down the barrel of a future completely lacking in the opportunities that previous generations enjoyed? The answer may be found in the lack of a truly liberal approach to business; as our enlightened society clings to antiquated forms of aristocratic privilege alongside the radical ideologies of freedom that came to light during the French Revolution.
Many alternatives to Capitalism have been floated, outvoted and sunk in the past hundred and fifty years, but we all know that the Marxist cure for Capitalism is worse than the disease... don’t we? Why are we even talking about a system of totalitarian programming where every facet of society is controlled by a ‘democratic leader’ who can have you and your family shot by the secret police for writing anti-government poetry on a wall that nobody owns? The fact that people are talking about it is an indication of how badly our capitalist system is failing to provide the average person with an equal opportunity to share in the rewards of our exceedingly rich society.
One of the leading proponents for democratic change in Australia is Helen Razer, who makes a very good argument against Capitalism in her book ‘Total Propaganda’ (2017); only once making the mistake of implying that a fictional ‘state’ can be trusted with the administration of law, health, equity and education- without being corrupted by the human vices of greed, apathy, lust, fear or spite. Historically speaking, socialists have proven themselves to be just as prone to corruption as the capitalist next door; from trade union leaders to church raffle-ticket sellers, but so long as the capitalist door keeps falling off its hinges, the ugly head of Marxist class-warfare will continue to raise itself above the level of healthy debate. And while the likelihood of Marxist revolution is slim, a situation such as this allows the dominant ideology of conservative wealth accumulation to continue unabated, while the divide between rich and poor is filled by sectarian politics and would-be authoritarians.
The real test of left wing liberalism versus right wing authoritarianism occurred almost a hundred years ago in Spain, when King Alfonso XIII gave up his right of absolute power and allowed a moderate government to be formed in place of his bumbling efforts to modernise the Spanish nation in the early 20th century (Beevor, 2006). This experiment in democracy was torn apart by the democratic process which saw Communist, Socialist and Anarcho-Syndicalist factions pool their resources to beat the Monarchists (who wanted King Alfonso back on the throne) and also the moderate government that represented the rest of Spain (who just wanted a fair share of what could be produced by Spanish industry and agriculture).
What followed was a war of Nazi-supported fascists and Kremlin-supported communists. The fascists eventually won but not before the communists had annihilated most of their comrades who helped them to win the last free election to be held in Spain for half a century (when General Franco, the winner of the civil war, died in 1975). The Wikipedia entry for General Franco actually differentiates between ‘fascist’ and ‘conservative authoritarian’ governments which adds another twist to the political wrangle that resulted in the second World War between France and Germany (and their respective allies) only a year after the war in Spain ended.
George Orwell wrote a first-hand account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War (1938), having arrived to fight with the international volunteers who supported the Marxist battle against fascism; fleeing for his life when the Spanish communists began purging their own army for suspected traitors. He also wrote ‘Animal Farm’ (1945) and we seem to be in the same predicament now as Orwell’s cows, horses and sheep were when the pigs moved into the big house and let everyone else do all the work.
Would it even be possible that capitalism could lead to the same situation as Orwell depicted for the inhabitants of Stalin’s Soviet Socialist Republic? Is there any similarity between Russia in the 1940’s and America in the 2010's? The Communists didn’t need to own land to control the lives of the Russian people; they had a political mandate that gave them absolute power over the land, resources and industry. So too did the kings and queens of Europe; before the signing of the Magna Carta which was the first legally binding document that gave some guarantee that those in a position of power would be accountable for their actions.
So what guarantee do we have today that the people in power will use it responsibly? Is your boss going to pay your super? Is your landlord going to fix that leaking tap? Is there a modern-day William Randolph Hearst (aka Citizen Kane) who makes casual phone calls to the U.S. President to suggest changes to American foreign policy? Maybe all bets are off now that China and Russia have successfully converted to capitalist economies run by totalitarian dictators/conservative authoritarians?
Capitalism actually worked pretty well for Western nations during the 20th century, enabling the working classes to step up to a standard of living that almost equated to an egalitarian society- with middle class standards- during the 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s, but under closer inspection, it might have been the socialist demands of trade-unions that gave the average person enough money in their pocket to support the global economy; before the trade unions got so powerful that a state of emergency had to be called by the British Government to avoid a financial collapse.
So… can Capitalism and Socialism work together to avoid the situation of a stagnant market and shrinking economy wherein conservative factions consolidate their positions as shareholders, board members and real estate tycoons? Or do we need to remove the last vestiges of ‘noble birth’ as indicated by hereditary title for this to become a reality for the next generation of landless serfs/empowered consumers? Does anyone have the right to exact payment on land or property that they have ceased to occupy? And can the English Crown really be used today to enact the same injustices that occurred during the Enclosures of the English common lands (Fairlie, 2009) some five hundred years ago?
We all know how negative gearing works; you borrow money to buy a house and get the tenants to pay back the loan for you; alternatively, you can pay somebody else’s mortgage on the house you occupy while you try to save up for a deposit/equity-based bank loan on a home of your own. Whichever way you look at it, the banks are making a lucrative profit on the basic human requirement for shelter and security, which is fine if people are voluntarily partaking of the opportunity that banks provide, but when there is no other choice then it begins to look like a protection racket.
Protection rackets have worked very well in the past, with everyone from Pope Alexander XI to Al Capone making a tidy profit from being the baddest guy on the block, but do the ideals of a capitalist free-market allow for this kind of behaviour? Or do the democratic principles set out by the likes of Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Abraham Lincoln make this kind of graft and corruption unacceptable for a society that seeks to build a better future for their children?
Alas, this digression can only end in bitter and divisive arguments, so let us look for a solution that allows neo-liberalists and social democrats to profit equally as they work together to prevent Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping from creating a ‘panopticon’ that locks the world into a craggle-like state of Legomania. Needless to say, it would be unwise to nationalise the banks, media and mining companies at this stage of the game, but perhaps we could take one small step in the direction of economic prosperity for all Australians; and perhaps the rest of the world.
Public housing has long been seen as a saving grace for those who have failed to find gainful employment, but what if it was the first and foremost opportunity for first home-owners to purchase a modest dwelling for a minimal amount of interest? And what if these dwellings were designed, built and maintained by the next generation of young Australians who may have difficulty finding employment in other sectors? And what if these public housing projects not only incorporated green technology and urban-friendly recreational areas but also provided a sanctuary for the elderly, disabled and long-term unemployed?
This can only work if a mutual obligation agreement is, a) agreed to by tenants, and b) enacted by local authorities, thus ensuring that a harmonious environment is maintained wherein the values of peaceful coexistence and inter-generational prosperity can be cultivated. Which basically means that getting pissed and bashing your missus will get you, a) arrested by the police, and b) kicked the fuck out of the building. But just think of how much money people will have to spend if they don’t have to pay rent or an exorbitantly tailored mortgage!
Not only that, but the money saved on housing-crisis centres, emergency services and health/aged care will be phenomenal, and if people have a place to call their own then they will be that much happier spending their time redecorating the kitchen, rather than overdosing in the stairwell. We all just want a safe place to raise our kids. Let’s give our hardworking police, ambo’s and child welfare people a break from their routine of drugs, violence and verbal abuse; everyone knows the story about the unhappy rat and the cocaine-laced water bottle, let’s build a happy cage that people can move on from once they are ready to invest in the open real-estate market.
As the capitalist bubbles continue to burst, we just might need Milton Keynes to get us out of another Great Depression; the banks have made a very big profit over the past hundred years of continuous growth (they made enough out of the last housing boom to fund a national space program) and maybe it’s time for them to invest in the future of all Australians? And yes, there are terrible things happening all over the world but even if we can’t beat them all in one day, I still don’t think we need to join them.
References-
Razer, H 2017, Total Propaganda, Allen &Unwin, Sydney.
Beevor, A 2006, The Battle for Spain, Penguin, London.
Fairlie, S 2009, A Short History of Enclosure in Britain, in The Land Magazine, Retrieved 17/05/18 from http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain
Govier, T 1992, The Right to Eat and the Duty to Work, Chap. 8: Economic Justice and Welfare In Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy, edited by Thomas A. Mappes and Jane S. Zembaty, 372-83. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Levitsky, S & Ziblatt, D 2018, How Democracies Die, Crown Press, New York, 2018.
Orwell, G 1938, Homage to Catalonia, Retrieved 27/06/18 from http://www.george-orwell.org/Homage_to_Catalonia/index.html
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