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Notices by Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology), page 2

  1. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:32:24 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • Farhan Yusufzai :freebsd:

    @farhan I always worry about moving away from a #Debian based distro because so many pieces of software only release a .deb for Linux. Do you find this?

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:32:24 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  2. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:28:03 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • Matthew Duhamel

    @dualhammers I am guessing previously you weren't a human, because everybody likes reggae.

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:28:03 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  3. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:18:27 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • The federation's favorite uncle

    @guizzy I was able to follow you.

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:18:27 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  4. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:12:16 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • Top Chess Games

    @topchessgames Just a thought on how the selection of the white move could be selected: Maybe randomly select from the moves that are submitted the most. So if requests looked like this 2 X (B2 to B4), 2 X (D2 to B4), 1 X (F2 to F4) then it would randomly select between the two options with 2 votes. So that moves can be voted on.

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:12:16 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  5. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:09:25 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • Top Chess Games

    @topchessgames D2 to D4

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 14:09:25 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  6. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 13:42:57 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin

    I took the 16personalities.com personality test and I got the Mediator personality type and it seems to have matched well.

    It got me wondering if these results are just similar to what horoscopes do. I find each of the descriptions of the symbol personality types are just compliments and no matter which one I read I feel they are talking about me in a positive way.

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 13:42:57 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  7. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 13:14:43 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • ☆ Dmitri ☭

    @yogthos I absolutely would! My only point was that some of the lost value might have been given away in volunteer time rather than lost value at my employment.

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 13:14:43 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  8. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 12:12:19 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • ☆ Dmitri ☭

    @yogthos I am not one to be overly angry at taxes but the portion indicated in the green area a lot of the time is chosen to be given away as favours or contributions to some community. These are choices, while taxes are mandatory.

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 12:12:19 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  9. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 10:58:11 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • Emzy

    @emzy The crazy thing about this conversation was that a US congressman was trying to defend the criticism of bitcoin from a TV host! #bitcoin #cryptocurrency

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 10:58:11 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  10. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 10:23:27 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin

    For any Lightning Network experts on here; can a #LN request be used for more than one payment. Or is it complete once a payment is made? #bitcoin #cryptocurrency

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 10:23:27 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  11. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 10:13:35 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • Top Chess Games

    @topchessgames C3 to C4

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 10:13:35 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  12. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 09:48:11 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • Dallin Crump

    @dallin It will force the government to show their hand as to how they will deal with cryptocurrencies in the future.

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 09:48:11 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  13. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 09:43:02 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • Top Chess Games

    @topchessgames G1 to G7

    In conversation Wednesday, 17-Jul-2019 09:43:02 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  14. mkb (mkb@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 15:27:39 EDT mkb mkb

    Alan Turing will appear on Britain's new £50 note

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/business/alan-turing-50-pound-note/index.html

    Despite Turing's incredible work during the war, he was later hounded for being gay and ultimately driven to suicide. The man who invented the Turing machine and the Turing test, the man whose codebreaking work saved countless lives, deserved better.

    Posthumous honors can't make up for the past, but I'm glad to see them all the same.

    In conversation Monday, 15-Jul-2019 15:27:39 EDT from mastodon.social permalink Repeated by rumblestiltskin
  15. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 15:55:34 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin
    • Willow

    @salixlucida They definitely see that a free currency could damage the advantage they have over smaller economies.

    In conversation Monday, 15-Jul-2019 15:55:34 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  16. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 14:59:50 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin

    The realisation that #cryptocurrency like #bitcoin is being used by US adversaries to get around US sanctions has really scared the President and the US government. This looks like the start of their push-back against any freedom that #cryptocurrencies have brought us so far.

    In conversation Monday, 15-Jul-2019 14:59:50 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  17. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 14:49:51 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin

    Mnuchin says the US government is not opposed new technology in the banking system as seen by new payment systems using the US Dollar. The key meaning I get from that statement is that he is ok with the US dollar used as currency but not something like #bitcoin or other #cryptocurrencies

    In conversation Monday, 15-Jul-2019 14:49:51 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink
  18. Rumblestiltskin (rumblestiltskin@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 11:59:40 EDT Rumblestiltskin Rumblestiltskin

    If you are planning on having to run from the cops today make sure you don't eat beans! http://www.fox9.com/news/loud-fart-gives-away-suspect-s-hiding-spot-leads-to-arrest

    In conversation Monday, 15-Jul-2019 11:59:40 EDT from mastodon.technology permalink

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      When tracking down a suspect, law enforcement might use a K-9 to track down a scent.
  19. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 07:33:30 EDT switching.social switching.social

    By far the most common request I get is for alternatives to Google's Re-Captcha.

    The situation is so unclear that I haven't done an alternatives section on the site.

    Do you have suggestions for re-captcha alternatives?

    (I know this has come up before, but the discussions are scattered across many threads which people are failing to find.)

    #Google #Captcha #ReCaptcha #Alternatives #DeleteGoogle

    In conversation Monday, 15-Jul-2019 07:33:30 EDT from mastodon.at permalink Repeated by rumblestiltskin
  20. Protestation (English) (protestation@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2019 06:41:06 EDT Protestation (English) Protestation (English)

    Henry Ford: It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes6/#quotenr4455

    In conversation Monday, 15-Jul-2019 06:41:06 EDT from freeradical.zone permalink Repeated by rumblestiltskin

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      English quotes 6
      By Protestation from Protestation

      • We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society. The teachings about this society are called socialism. (Lenin)

      • The similarities of the economics of the New Deal to the economics of Mussolini’s corporative state or Hitler’s totalitarian state are both close and obvious. (Norman Thomas)

      • I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. (Churchill)

      • The bourgeois court, which claimed to maintain order, but which, as a matter of fact, was a blind, subtle instrument for the ruthless suppression of the exploited, and an instrument for protecting the interests of the moneybags. (Lenin)

      • In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons […] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. (Edward Bernays)

      • In order to have more, must produce more. In order to produce more, must know more. (A. Zellinskii)

      • Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions. (Michael Parenti)

      • Trotskyism is the advanced detachment of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie. (Stalin)

      • In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons. (Hēródotos)

      • In a country ruled by an autocracy, with a completely enslaved press, in a period of desperate political reaction in which even the tiniest outgrowth of political discontent and protest is persecuted, the theory of revolutionary Marxism suddenly forced its way into the censored literature before the government realised what had happened and the unwieldy army of censors and gendarmes discovered the new enemy and flung itself upon him. (Lenin)

      • The success of scientific socialism in China is of great importance for Marxism, scientific socialism and socialism across the world. It is most fundamental for the CPC to hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics so as to realize its historic mission in the new era. (Xi Jinping)

      • Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. (Albert Einstein)

      • Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency. (Mao Zedong)

      • Dissent is the mark of freedom. (Jacob Bronowski)

      • While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible, achieving at most the aims already mentioned, it is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one. (Karl Marx)

      • What is a rebel? A man who says no. (Camus)

      • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. (Bakunin)

      • If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. (Mao Zedong)

      • I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • There was a time when people of the rich nations of the world regarded poverty as a “natural condition” for those living in the poor nations of the world. … Today we have largely been stripped of this pseudo-innocence. We know that the poor are so poor because the rich are so rich, that the causes of poverty can be traced to deliberate decisions and deliberate economic and political policies designed to benefit the rich and powerful. We know that poverty and unemployment are not just accidents of history but deliberate, even indispensable, components of capitalism as an economic system. (Allan Boesak)

      • To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions. (Louis Antoine de Saint-Just)

      • I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. (Howard Mumford Jones)

      • War is a quarrel between rich thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. (Thomas Carlyle)

      • He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. (James MacGregor Burns)

      • Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. (Stokely Carmichael)

      • All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • We are certain that we are invincible, if humanity will not emerge from this imperialistic massacre broken in spirit it will triumph. (Lenin)

      • The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. (Bakunin)

      • Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to. (Mumia Abu-Jamal)

      • Modern monopolist capitalism on a world-wide scale — imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists. (Lenin)

      • Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism…. I could have given Al Capone a few hints… I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys…. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street…. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers…. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. (General Smedley Butler)

      • Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. (Marshal Mcluhan)

      • The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. (Michael Parenti)

      • You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (and women) to do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

      • It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford)

      • If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. (Samuel Adams)

      • Truth never damages a cause that is just. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing tactics, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. (Mark Twain)

      • Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. (Ronald Reagan)

      • If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Each word, has an echo. So does each silence. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise! (Max Stirner)

      • Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Military men are just dumb stupid animals, to be used as pawns in foreign policy. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility. (Dalton Trumbo)

      • National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. (Stalin)

      • Fascism is a religion of the state. It assumes the organic unity of the body politic and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people. It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds that any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. It takes responsibility for all aspects of life, including our health and well-being, and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything, including economy and religion, must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the “problem” and therefore defined as the enemy. (Jonah Goldberg)

      • We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

      • Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. (Karl Marx)

      • For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. (Clara Zetkin)

      • For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. (Charles Erwin Wilson)

      • I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. (Churchill)

      • A “liberal” is not a political orientation but a psychiatric diagnosis. (Daniel Estulin)

      • In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely [the] relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure, and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political, and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or — this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms — with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces, these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead, sooner or later, to the transformation of the whole, immense, superstructure. In studying such transformations, it is always necessary to distinguish between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, artistic, or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. Just as one does not judge an individual by what he thinks about himself, so one cannot judge such a period of transformation by its consciousness, but, on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the conflict existing between the social forces of production and the relations of production. (Karl Marx)

      • Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. (Fidel Castro)

      • The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • While the bourgeois state methodically concentrates all its efforts on doping the urban workers, adapting all the literature published at state expense and at the expense of the tsarist and bourgeois parties for this purpose, we can and must utilise our political power to make the urban worker an effective vehicle of communist ideas among the rural proletariat. (Lenin)

      • I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. (Udo Ulfkotte)

      • The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies. (Mumia Abu-Jamal)

      • As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. (Karl Marx)

      • Capitals accumulate faster than population. (Karl Marx)

      • Society exists to serve the social needs of people, not the productivity needs of capital. Those two needs are in basic conflict – a conflict of class interest. (David Bacon)

      • Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Nothing illustrates the power to rationalize cynicism as well as the Public Safety Program, also called the Office of Public Safety. For about twenty-five years, the CIA, working through the Agency for International Development, trained and organized police and paramilitary officers from around the world in techniques of population control, repression, and torture. Schools were set up in the United States, Panama, and Asia, from which tens of thousands graduated. In some cases, former Nazi officers from Hitler’s Third Reich were used as instructors. (John Stockwell)

      • As for myself, I am just a pupil of Lenin’s, and the aim of my life is to be a worthy pupil of his. The task to which I have devoted my life is the elevation of a different class-the working class. That task is not the consolidation of some “national” state, but of a socialist state, and that means an international state; and everything that strengthens that state helps to strengthen the entire international working class. (Stalin)

      • He who allows oppression, shares the crime. (Erasmus Darwin)

      • We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both. (Louis Brandeis)

      • No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is ALWAYS economic. (A. J. P. Taylor)

      • If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry. (Andrew Grove)

      • … the establishment can’t admit [that] it is human rights violations that make … countries attractive to business — so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don’t] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation… (Edward Herman)

      • The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. (Nehru)

      • His forces executed or “disappeared” 3, 197 people. Tens of thousands were tortured, hundreds of thousands were forced into exile. Pinochet destroyed the constitution, the parliament, the political parties, the trade unions, and the free universities. (Saul Landau)

      • As human rights conditions deteriorate, factors affecting the “climate of investment, ” like the tax laws and labor repression, improve from the viewpoint of the multinational corporation. This suggests an important line of causation — military dictatorships tend to improve the investment climate…. The multinational corporate community and the U.S. government are very sensitive to this factor. Military dictators enter into a tacit joint venture arrangement with Free World leaders: They will keep the masses quiet, maintain an open door to multinational investment, and provide bases and otherwise serve as loyal clients. In exchange, they will be aided and protected against their own people, and allowed to loot public property. (Edward Herman)

      • Patriotism, like religion, meets people’s need for something greater to which their individual lives can be anchored … America’s state religion, [is] patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that “treason” is morally worse than murder or rape. (William Blum)

      • …a number of financial and industrial figures of World War II and several members of the government served the cause of money before the cause of patriotism. While aiding the United States’ war effort, they also aided Nazi Germany’s. (Charles Higham)

      • The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. (Gore Vidal)

      • The problem of producing synthetic food is purely chemical, and there is no reason to regard it as insoluble. No doubt natural foods will taste better, and rich men, at weddings and feasts, will provide real peas and beans, which will be mentioned by the newspapers with awe. But in the main food will be manufactured in vast chemical factories. (Bertrand Russell)

      • Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa. It is a reconquest that turns each one of us into a financial slave. (Thomas Sankara)

      • Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Plátōn)

      • As a house on a weak foundation cannot last long, a fantasy, however good it is, becomes an absurd daydream if it is supported by weak basic knowledge. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. (Mao Zedong)

      • Free of affectation and mannerisms, he (Stalin — Ed.) won the heart of everyone he talked with. (Georgy Zhukov)

      • [Fascist ideology was] a variety of socialism which, while rejecting Marxism, remained revolutionary. This form of socialism was also, by definition, anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois, and its opposition to historical materialism made it the natural ally of radical nationalism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • We reject any morality based on extra-human and extra-class concepts. We say that this is deception, dupery, stultification of the workers and peasants in the interests of the landowners and capitalists. (Lenin)

      • The concept of “human existence” suggests an abstract human condition; “class existence” indicts bad conditions. The former suggests a nonexistent egalitarianism, as if master and slave, owner and worker, bomber and bombed all participate in the same universal abstraction. … The human condition for the rich is the inhuman one for the impoverished. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The modern banking system manufactures “money” out of nothing; and the process is, perhaps, the most, astounding piece of “sleight of hand” that was ever invented. (Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas)

      • People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. (Lenin)

      • The working class must break up, smash the “ready-made state machinery,” and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. (Lenin)

      • The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state. (Michael Parenti)

      • Therefore the more civilization advances, the more it is compelled to cover the evils it necessarily creates with the cloak of love and charity, to palliate them or to deny them–in short, to introduce a conventional hypocrisy which was unknown to earlier forms of society and even to the first stages of civilization, and which culminates in the pronouncement: the exploitation of the oppressed class is carried on by the exploiting class simply and solely in the interests of the exploited class itself; and if the exploited class cannot see it and even grows rebellious, that is the basest ingratitude to its benefactors, the exploiters. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Marxism-Leninism is the science of the laws governing the development of nature and society, the science of the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses, the science of the victory of Socialism in all countries, the science of building Communist society. (Stalin)

      • Without simultaneously building the Red Army, every conflict, all political work in the factories, in the Wedding and Märkische Viertel districts, in the Plötze, and in the courtroom will degenerate into nothing more than reformism, which means you merely push through better means of discipline, better methods of intimidation, better methods of exploitation. All that does is break the people down. It does not break down what breaks the people down! (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. (Marcus Aurelius)

      • The whole propaganda of imperialism, of the Governments and the press, teaches the people on both sides to see as the main enemy the aggressive designs of the foreign imperialism, never of their own. Therefore, they remain, in fact, enslaved to imperialism and its wars. The mutual fears of the aggressive aims of the enemy imperialism cancel out the common desire of the overwhelming majority of the people in both countries for peace. The imperialist gangsters take advantage of these fears of the people, of this natural desire for national independence, to trap the people into support of their war of spoliation. Under the pretence that the war is for national defence, for the defence of the independence of the nation, they send the armies, the warships and planes to the furthest ends of the earth for the enslavement of other nations and for the battle against rival exploiters over the spoils and conquests of foreign domination. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • But those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man. (Lenin)

      • Firstly, to wage an unceasing struggle against Social-Democratism in all spheres — in the economic and in the political sphere, including in the latter the exposure of bourgeois pacifism with the task of winning the majority of the working class for communism. (Stalin)

      • If trade stops, war starts. (Jack Ma)

      • No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • Every Party member must raise his revolutionary qualities in every respect to the same level as those of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. (Nelson Mandela)

      • This systematic organisation of a terrorized, over-worked and mentally starved slave society, directed to the supreme aim of war, is the most modern development of monopoly capitalism under conditions of extreme crisis. It is known as fascism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The modern state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. (Max Weber)

      • The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force. (Michael Parenti)

      • I honor Lenin as a man who completely sacrificed himself and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice. I do not consider his methods practical, but one thing is certain: men of his type are the guardians and restorers of the conscience of humanity. (Albert Einstein)

      • The sensation of a “new ideology” which intoxicates the more fanatical and emotional adherents of Fascism, giving them the illusion of a liberation from old superstitions and a new dynamic power, represents in reality no new ideology distinct from the general ideology of capitalism, but only the typical ideology of the most modern phase of capitalism, that is to say, the sharpened expression of all the tendencies of imperialism or capitalism in decay, in the period of the general crisis. The contempt for constitutional and legalist forms, the glorification of violence, the denial of all liberal, egalitarian and humanitarian ideas, the demand for the strong and powerful state, the enthronement of war as the highest form of human activity—all these are the typical expressions of modern monopolist capitalism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of verisimilitude. Construct arguments from diverse sources, through so-called probes or fragmentary information. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The CIA and the big corporations were, in my experience, in step with each other. Later I realized that they may argue about details of strategy – a small war here or there. However, both are vigorously committed to supporting the system. (John Stockwell)

      • Nothing is eternal but eternally changing, eternally moving matter and the laws according to which it moves and changes. (Friedrich Engels)

      • There is a Latin tag cui prodest? meaning “who stands to gain?” When it is not immediately apparent which political or social groups, forces or alignments advocate certain proposals, measures, etc., one should always ask: “Who stands to gain?” It is not important who directly advocates a particular policy, since under the present noble system of capitalism any money-bag can always “hire”, buy or enlist any number of lawyers, writers and even parliamentary deputies, professors, parsons and the like to defend any views. We live in an age of commerce, when the bourgeoisie have no scruples about trading in honour or conscience. There are also simpletons who out of stupidity or by force of habit defend views prevalent in certain bourgeois circles. Yes, indeed! In politics it is not so important who directly advocates particular views. What is important is who stands to gain from these views, proposals, measures. (Lenin)

      • If we want to stay really human beings, we must get up and call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals. (Hajo Meyer)

      • I will never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don’t care what the facts are. (George H. W. Bush)

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