{"id":25009,"date":"2023-02-02T12:26:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25009"},"modified":"2023-02-02T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:26:30","slug":"monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"MONOPOLY!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cBut there\u2019s a reason. There\u2019s a reason. There\u2019s a reason for this, there\u2019s a reason education sucks, and it\u2019s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It\u2019s never gonna get any better. Don\u2019t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don\u2019t want that. I\u2019m talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don\u2019t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They\u2019ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I\u2019ll tell you what they don\u2019t want: They don\u2019t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don\u2019t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They\u2019re not interested in that. That doesn\u2019t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don\u2019t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they\u2019re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don\u2019t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they\u2019re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They\u2019ll get it. They\u2019ll get it all from you, sooner or later, \u2019cause they own this fucking place. It\u2019s a big club, and you ain\u2019t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it\u2019s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people \u2014 white collar, blue collar, it doesn\u2019t matter what color shirt you have on \u2014 good honest hard-working people continue \u2014 these are people of modest means \u2014 continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don\u2019t give a fuck about them. They don\u2019t give a fuck about you. They don\u2019t give a fuck about you. They don\u2019t care about you at all \u2014 at all \u2014 at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That\u2019s what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that\u2019s being jammed up their assholes every day. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it\u2019s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.\u201d \u2013 \u2015 George Carlin<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Capitalism Keeps On Going Until It Needs Socialism To Bail Out The Wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Rules For Me, But Plenty Of Rules For Thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Have Been Duped. \u2013 Gwyllm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Courtesy of Gwyllm Llwydd)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Capitalism Keeps On Going Until It Needs Socialism To Bail Out The Wealthy. No Rules For Me, But Plenty Of Rules For Thee. We Have Been Duped. \u2013 Gwyllm (Courtesy of Gwyllm Llwydd)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25011,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25009\/revisions\/25011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}