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Shimmer.Fade said:
The last one I watched was with all the deported central americans along the US boarder with Mexico living in some river basin having their shanties being constantly destroyed by the federales. Pretty sick what some people can do with a smile on their face.
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It really is.. Vice 'hosted' the docu "this is what winning looks like" which, after having watched the (vice)Phillippine's election season, was crazy-uncomfortable culture shock, to put it mildly :/
/thnx, I'm basically 100% now!
 
I was just thinking about why people have an addiction to wealth (or extreme wealth in some instances), and about how it sometimes must play out in elite circles. It started with the word ousted.

Many of these people work at a company for quite a few years before reaching the top at a specific company, only to receive enormous pressure from below to get out of the way so that someone else can bank. This leads to older, wiser people oftentimes eventually being ousted.

So the older, wiser dude was at the top for a bit, and he liked being super rich as opposed to just rich (just as a rich person likes being rich as opposed to just middle class). Sure, he is still rich and wealthy, but not extremely wealthy. He looks around him and sees his peers, some of which are still super rich. Feelings of envy begin. Older, wiser dude, not taking humanity into account so much, comes up with pretty decent a strategy to attempt to use remaining wealth to forcefully inject himself amongst the super rich (this is where his addiction becomes bad at a global scale). Older, wiser dude might be successful, or he might lose damn near everything (only a few million left ya know).

So, I would think what is really driving this search for more when one has enough is the transiency involved with the vast majority of extremely wealthy people (and the fact they are allowed to gain such power as an individual in the first place...). It is not uncommon for people to be gunning for the top dog in the form of an ouster. So, it is pretty much like any serious addiction. They experienced something so great that after losing it they wanted it again so bad they would do damn near anything.
 
So I've got the greenlight for a state house of representatives internship. I applied for fun, thinking my application would just be passed along and forgotten about, but I'll be working with the representative or committee of my choosing over the summer. It's going to get tough once classes begin though. Full time classes, close to full time work and an internship on the side. It should be worth it though, even just to see the legislative process for what it really is firsthand.
 
Bardeaux said:
So I've got the greenlight for a state house of representatives internship. I applied for fun, thinking my application would just be passed along and forgotten about, but I'll be working with the representative or committee of my choosing over the summer. It's going to get tough once classes begin though. Full time classes, close to full time work and an internship on the side. It should be worth it though, even just to see the legislative process for what it really is firsthand.
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Bring a barf bag.
 
Bardeaux said:
So I've got the greenlight for a state house of representatives internship. I applied for fun, thinking my application would just be passed along and forgotten about, but I'll be working with the representative or committee of my choosing over the summer. It's going to get tough once classes begin though. Full time classes, close to full time work and an internship on the side. It should be worth it though, even just to see the legislative process for what it really is firsthand.
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Dang that is great! I feel like Michigan politics will be right up your alley.
 
Droppersneck said:
I feel like Michigan politics will be right up your alley.
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Backhanded compliment? ;)

And, yeah, good stuff Bardo - sounds like a hell of an experience. Although, kind of like working at a sausage factory, once you've seen how they're made you don't want to eat sausages anymore. But I'm sure you of all people aren't under any illusions about how toxic the political process really is. Good luck, man. Let us know how it goes.
 
bit_pattern said:
Although, kind of like working at a sausage factory, once you've seen how they're made you don't want to eat sausages anymore. But I'm sure you of all people aren't under any illusions about how toxic the political process really is. Good luck, man. Let us know how it goes.
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Thank you sir

I'm sure there's plenty of pork in these particular sausages too. 8o
 
Would love to post this in the Gaza thread - can't you guys just ban his IP?

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We really need a forum to air these events... Just sayin'

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/operations-palestinians-ambulances.html

Israel’s ground invasion began last night at 10 pm with extensive blasts in the north of Gaza causing thousands to flee south. Since then, at least 27 Palestinians have been killed, bringing the total Palestinian casualties since “Operation Protective Edge” began ten days ago to 267 deaths and over 2,000 injuries.

Those civilian casualties included three children aged four to 12 who were killed in their beds while sleeping last night. Peter Beaumont of the Guardian reported, “What I am most struck today is that the casualties I am seeing are largely children.”
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are you guys referring to that nutjob in the (closed)gaza thread? Trust me, there is nobody paying for that shit, if you read b_p's article you'll see there's more qualified israelis ready to do so for free.
 
bit pattern said:
If he wasn't so laughingly unsophisticated I'd be wondering whether our Israeli friend was in one of these rooms

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/governm...717-ztvky.html
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Ah Rachamim...his raw verbosity suggested to me that either that's just what happens when you take massive amounts of morphine all day and sit at the keyboard or he really was getting paid to post (if not at bluelight, then elsewhere). At least he could write coherently and provide facts (if often misleadingly so).

ebola
 
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