I'm too old for this. The this being the evisceration of free speech.
When I was in high school, college students a few years older than me were demonstrating, occupying college administration buildings, and getting shot by the National Guard to protest the involvement of the United States armed forces in Vietnam.
These cohorts of mine now condemn legitimate, and in fact, righteous protest of the outrageous atrocity of Gaza and the West Bank. Will drafting their grandchildren to be the boots on the ground to subjugate all of West Asia be the catalyst for protest finally being OK?
To see university presidents cower before Congress and to adhere to the dictates of war criminals is the latest of a long list of American travesties.
Like Orwell, I will ever rue the abuse of language that prevails in our discourse. To call antisemitic those who justifiably protest the mass murder of semitic people
May I post your comment on my Facebook page with Nate’s article if I quote you? What you stated is my biggest annoyance with my liberal friends. I love how you expressed it. I mentioned the Viet Nam protests back at the beginning of all this, and all they could say was, “Well, that was different!”
We are seeing the results of neoliberal politics in the realms of health, education, mass media, everywhere.
This is the end of the pretense that capitalism works for all of us.
It no longer protects our health, our environment, the oppressed peoples of the world, our employment.
Of course, capitalism only cared about our health to a very limited degree (immigrants can replace a sick and aging workforce, benefits can be slashed to prevent their costs rising).
They never stood up for oppressed peoples of the world unless it was in their interest to do so.
The mass media have always lied to us but some truth used to be in the mix.
Saying all this though you remain right that there has been a qualitative change!
The system is in permanent economic crisis, geopolitical crisis (decline of US power), and a crisis of legitimacy. In chorus the capitalists now sing a different tune. It's a war song.
I’ve been experiencing the cavernous systemic void for years. Silenced, financially devastated & traumatized from Family court, let down by the systems that are supposed to protect children & DV survivors, unable to receive adequate medical care for Long COVID but left with the thrill of endless medical bills, battling the company that handles FMLA, and not knowing how to get support from my employer without losing my job. Even putting all this out there is risky. I’m sick of being told I’m strong & resilient. I just want to rest in order to reserve energy to take care of my kids, home, health, and job. I have no idea how to do that anymore. There are no resources. Our society is a shell corporation. How do we come back from that when we’re focused on silencing the vulnerable rather than supporting?
Just...wow. This is a vitally important exposé. As a Canadian, I read your words with horror, saying to myself: "Thank God, it's not quite as bad here." But it well could be. Because that disease that has been germinating in the neoliberal West is now destroying America; however, as you say, we're all falling victim to it. I think we have a chance, here in the Great White North, thanks to the fact that your demoniacal leader has all but declared war on us. A Canadian philosopher once argued that Canadians are in love with their institutions. Watching what's happening to our neighbour, we're starting to understand what happens when institutions collapse because they've been hollowed out from within. It's terrifying to see -- and it's serving as an important wake-up call to many of us. Our institutions matter to us because they were built on our values, and they must always reflect those values. Thanks to you, we are now remembering what those values are and why they matter. The test for us is coming very soon, in the up-coming federal election. If Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives win, then the US might as well annex us, because Trump will have spoken true when he said that Canada is not a real country.
I will pray that the conservative side does not win! That is a horrible thought for you all! Just thinking about that brings tears to my eyes, what is happening!!??? How could that happen there with everyone watching what is happening here?? 🤬🤬🤬🤯🤯😤😫😫
Because we're so strongly influenced by American culture here. There are a good number of Canadians -- we call them the Maple MAGA -- who support Trump and his ideas (if he can be said to have "ideas"). They make up about 25% of Conservative supporters, but they are also the most vocal, and Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is playing to that extreme right-wing base. It shouldn't be all that surprising considering how many right-wing parties have formed government all over the world...but it's really not in our DNA, and I hope we can fight off a Conservative win. The Prime Minister/Liberal leader, Mark Carney, is a very strong candidate with an impressive record of leadership during crises. If Canada wants to survive and thrive, Carney should be our choice as PM. But of course Canadians don't vote directly for our Prime Minister -- we vote for the party candidate in our riding. Only voters in the riding Carney is running in get to vote for him.
I see ABCV-SARS2 BrainBodys on TV. Anchors. Talking heads. Actors. Actresses. All of sudden people look gaunt and OLD. Airborne Blood Clotting Virus SARS2 is a vascular disease FIRST. It AGES systems as they try to keep up with infection after infection of ABCV-SARS2. Wear an N95. Love your BrainBody or you will lose it. 😷
I think you’re nuts to wear an N95 all the time. There is no way that is good for your lungs and your brain long term. Contractors who need to wear those regularly for their work have lung and brain issues earlier than the average person.
Stephan, I don't need to know about "science and viruses and brainbodys". It's called common sense. I just needed to wear an N95 for one day in 2020 to see how it made me feel... Claustrophobic, panicky, lightheaded, fuzzy thinking, nauseous, heavy-unnatural lung breathing, my covered facial skin getting red and raw from lack of exposure to the air... that was definitely not healthfully protecting my brainbody. I know plenty of contractors with all kinds of health challenges stemming from their work, including from their N95 masks worn properly. It's not a lifestyle to strive for; it's a necessary harm if they want to do that work to feed their families.
No, I have not been getting sicker by the month since then. No, I haven't been sick on and off since then. No, I don't look gaunt and old since then, though of course I have aged five years since then. I do not have, nor want, the secret to the fountain of youth. I am aging gracefully and enjoying it.
My life has been as healthy as ever. I've been following my usual organic home-cooked eating, spring water drinking, walking in the sunshine daily and enjoying my friends and family lifestyle... life is good and great and whatever flus and viruses come around do not ever affect me. I am the one bringing them my homemade garlic soup and fire cider tinctures and other homemade organic remedies to help them get over it quickly.
This life could be yours as well, without wearing an N95 mask in public at all times. And yes, I go out in public on a regular basis in one of the largest, most diverse, cosmopolitan, suburban regions in America with people who travel from every corner of the world to my doorstep daily... Silicon Valley.
No thank you to your mask science, Stephan. Don't bother watching over me. I will be just fine until it's my time to die. I wish you the best and the best of health. Cheers.
Exactly. This is an excellent article. Neoliberal capitalism is slowly poisoning us, yet we are seeing the collapse of society/its institutions in real-time. The people are sick, angry, and mentally ill, yet they are being told that "everything's normal, everything's fine." when nothing is fine. But, on a side note, thankfully more and more people are waking up to the atrocities that Israel is committing, as that country's support is plummeting.
"It was funny: An avowed Trump voter who’d been vocal in my class about his support was now worried about what Trump might do to our system — now that he’d been elected and had the ACTUAL POWER." More at TGM: https://tinyurl.com/mvmpevwf
Quick, before Kennedy’s deadly foolishness discontinues them, get up to date on your vaccinations. Sick people make sociopathic, corporate Republicans wealthy. When we finally get rid of Trump and the other corporate criminals, we will have to democratically problem resolve to rebuild our collapsed institutions and seriously control the infestation of corporate crime.
One inclusive alternative that can help build an anti-fascist future is the Confucian alternative. 2500 years of refinement. Now with added democracy. The world's most popular political system.
I'm too old for this. The this being the evisceration of free speech.
When I was in high school, college students a few years older than me were demonstrating, occupying college administration buildings, and getting shot by the National Guard to protest the involvement of the United States armed forces in Vietnam.
These cohorts of mine now condemn legitimate, and in fact, righteous protest of the outrageous atrocity of Gaza and the West Bank. Will drafting their grandchildren to be the boots on the ground to subjugate all of West Asia be the catalyst for protest finally being OK?
To see university presidents cower before Congress and to adhere to the dictates of war criminals is the latest of a long list of American travesties.
Like Orwell, I will ever rue the abuse of language that prevails in our discourse. To call antisemitic those who justifiably protest the mass murder of semitic people
May I post your comment on my Facebook page with Nate’s article if I quote you? What you stated is my biggest annoyance with my liberal friends. I love how you expressed it. I mentioned the Viet Nam protests back at the beginning of all this, and all they could say was, “Well, that was different!”
Absolutely!
Great, thanks!
I fear for my grandchildren, especially my grandsons who may be drafted to fight in wars started for no reason. 😔
Great article Nate!
We are seeing the results of neoliberal politics in the realms of health, education, mass media, everywhere.
This is the end of the pretense that capitalism works for all of us.
It no longer protects our health, our environment, the oppressed peoples of the world, our employment.
Of course, capitalism only cared about our health to a very limited degree (immigrants can replace a sick and aging workforce, benefits can be slashed to prevent their costs rising).
They never stood up for oppressed peoples of the world unless it was in their interest to do so.
The mass media have always lied to us but some truth used to be in the mix.
Saying all this though you remain right that there has been a qualitative change!
The system is in permanent economic crisis, geopolitical crisis (decline of US power), and a crisis of legitimacy. In chorus the capitalists now sing a different tune. It's a war song.
I’ve been experiencing the cavernous systemic void for years. Silenced, financially devastated & traumatized from Family court, let down by the systems that are supposed to protect children & DV survivors, unable to receive adequate medical care for Long COVID but left with the thrill of endless medical bills, battling the company that handles FMLA, and not knowing how to get support from my employer without losing my job. Even putting all this out there is risky. I’m sick of being told I’m strong & resilient. I just want to rest in order to reserve energy to take care of my kids, home, health, and job. I have no idea how to do that anymore. There are no resources. Our society is a shell corporation. How do we come back from that when we’re focused on silencing the vulnerable rather than supporting?
Right now we are
Living in a horror film with no ending! I have trouble sleeping and I really hate to leave my house!!
Same.
Just...wow. This is a vitally important exposé. As a Canadian, I read your words with horror, saying to myself: "Thank God, it's not quite as bad here." But it well could be. Because that disease that has been germinating in the neoliberal West is now destroying America; however, as you say, we're all falling victim to it. I think we have a chance, here in the Great White North, thanks to the fact that your demoniacal leader has all but declared war on us. A Canadian philosopher once argued that Canadians are in love with their institutions. Watching what's happening to our neighbour, we're starting to understand what happens when institutions collapse because they've been hollowed out from within. It's terrifying to see -- and it's serving as an important wake-up call to many of us. Our institutions matter to us because they were built on our values, and they must always reflect those values. Thanks to you, we are now remembering what those values are and why they matter. The test for us is coming very soon, in the up-coming federal election. If Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives win, then the US might as well annex us, because Trump will have spoken true when he said that Canada is not a real country.
If you haven’t been wearing an N95 you have Airborne Blood Clotting Virus SARS2 damage.
Oh, Lord...that's awful news.
Never too late to start protecting your BrainBody! 😷
"Demoniacal." There's a word I haven't seen in a long time, my Canadian friend.
Canadians aren't as placid as some may think -- we're quite capable of hyperbole when roused! :)
I will pray that the conservative side does not win! That is a horrible thought for you all! Just thinking about that brings tears to my eyes, what is happening!!??? How could that happen there with everyone watching what is happening here?? 🤬🤬🤬🤯🤯😤😫😫
Because we're so strongly influenced by American culture here. There are a good number of Canadians -- we call them the Maple MAGA -- who support Trump and his ideas (if he can be said to have "ideas"). They make up about 25% of Conservative supporters, but they are also the most vocal, and Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is playing to that extreme right-wing base. It shouldn't be all that surprising considering how many right-wing parties have formed government all over the world...but it's really not in our DNA, and I hope we can fight off a Conservative win. The Prime Minister/Liberal leader, Mark Carney, is a very strong candidate with an impressive record of leadership during crises. If Canada wants to survive and thrive, Carney should be our choice as PM. But of course Canadians don't vote directly for our Prime Minister -- we vote for the party candidate in our riding. Only voters in the riding Carney is running in get to vote for him.
I see ABCV-SARS2 BrainBodys on TV. Anchors. Talking heads. Actors. Actresses. All of sudden people look gaunt and OLD. Airborne Blood Clotting Virus SARS2 is a vascular disease FIRST. It AGES systems as they try to keep up with infection after infection of ABCV-SARS2. Wear an N95. Love your BrainBody or you will lose it. 😷
The news anchors and actors look old recently because they have Ozempic face.
https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2024-11-02/a-devastating-cocktail-for-the-face-is-ozempic-aging-us-prematurely.html
I think you’re nuts to wear an N95 all the time. There is no way that is good for your lungs and your brain long term. Contractors who need to wear those regularly for their work have lung and brain issues earlier than the average person.
😂😂😂 you know NOTHING about Science and viruses and BrainBodys. Oh good lord, watch over this one. 🤣🤣🤣
@Love
Stephan, I don't need to know about "science and viruses and brainbodys". It's called common sense. I just needed to wear an N95 for one day in 2020 to see how it made me feel... Claustrophobic, panicky, lightheaded, fuzzy thinking, nauseous, heavy-unnatural lung breathing, my covered facial skin getting red and raw from lack of exposure to the air... that was definitely not healthfully protecting my brainbody. I know plenty of contractors with all kinds of health challenges stemming from their work, including from their N95 masks worn properly. It's not a lifestyle to strive for; it's a necessary harm if they want to do that work to feed their families.
No, I have not been getting sicker by the month since then. No, I haven't been sick on and off since then. No, I don't look gaunt and old since then, though of course I have aged five years since then. I do not have, nor want, the secret to the fountain of youth. I am aging gracefully and enjoying it.
My life has been as healthy as ever. I've been following my usual organic home-cooked eating, spring water drinking, walking in the sunshine daily and enjoying my friends and family lifestyle... life is good and great and whatever flus and viruses come around do not ever affect me. I am the one bringing them my homemade garlic soup and fire cider tinctures and other homemade organic remedies to help them get over it quickly.
This life could be yours as well, without wearing an N95 mask in public at all times. And yes, I go out in public on a regular basis in one of the largest, most diverse, cosmopolitan, suburban regions in America with people who travel from every corner of the world to my doorstep daily... Silicon Valley.
No thank you to your mask science, Stephan. Don't bother watching over me. I will be just fine until it's my time to die. I wish you the best and the best of health. Cheers.
Exactly. This is an excellent article. Neoliberal capitalism is slowly poisoning us, yet we are seeing the collapse of society/its institutions in real-time. The people are sick, angry, and mentally ill, yet they are being told that "everything's normal, everything's fine." when nothing is fine. But, on a side note, thankfully more and more people are waking up to the atrocities that Israel is committing, as that country's support is plummeting.
"It was funny: An avowed Trump voter who’d been vocal in my class about his support was now worried about what Trump might do to our system — now that he’d been elected and had the ACTUAL POWER." More at TGM: https://tinyurl.com/mvmpevwf
Quick, before Kennedy’s deadly foolishness discontinues them, get up to date on your vaccinations. Sick people make sociopathic, corporate Republicans wealthy. When we finally get rid of Trump and the other corporate criminals, we will have to democratically problem resolve to rebuild our collapsed institutions and seriously control the infestation of corporate crime.
One inclusive alternative that can help build an anti-fascist future is the Confucian alternative. 2500 years of refinement. Now with added democracy. The world's most popular political system.