Tag: Greed
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It Ain’t Black People That Need To “Get Over Slavery”, It’s The White People Who Keep Trying To Bring It Back!
Slavery is a terrible thing on every conceivable level. Its persistence is a permanent stain on humanity (and it’s lack of same). But, let’s be clear, it does persist. The desire of one group of people to enslave another group of people in this country did not end with the Civil War and the Emancipation…
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Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Fleas; Lie Down With Republicans…
There’s a great line from “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” about Americans “…always overdressed and for the wrong occasions”. That’s your basic Republican yahoo. Wearing masks as they storm the capitol because they’re hiding their criminality. Meanwhile, in Naples, Florida, white privilege will NOT be masked! Republicans are what happens when greed convinces you that…
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America Has To Reimagine Its Democracy — And How Its News Media Reports On It
When history looks back at the Trump era — asking how the hell it could have happened — after they compile a massive list of all the Republican Party’s corruption, they’ll compile a similarly massive list of all the ways our news media normalized, spread and profited from the GOP’s corruption. Journalism is the only…
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Capitalism Doesn’t Have To Crush People — Only CRONY Capitalism Does That
Like all ideas, capitalism itself is neither good nor bad. It’s just an idea — a foundational notion of how a society might live, using capital as a motivator for innovation. Capitalism, by its nature, looks to the future. It depends on tomorrow being better than today — it needs new ideas, new inventions, new…
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We’re ALL Greedy In One Way Or Another; Our Obligation — Keep “Our” Greed In Check
[NOTE: This blog post is being shared with our sister site “The Faitheism Project“] Not everyone is greedy for money. Some people are greedy for love and couldn’t care less about money. Some of us are greedy for credit. We’ll take ownership of work and labor that we did not do. Some are greedy for…
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The Reason Both Sides Don’t “Do It” Is Because Both Sides Aren’t The Same
Our news media insists (all evidence to the contrary) that the only difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the letter next to their name. No, they’re not the same. Of course they’re not. Republicans, being conservatives, want to CONSERVE. Being as you can’t conserve the future, conservatives want to conserve the present but…