j reacts to mechanization as being the process in which capitalism will destroy itself

and, what percentage of his customers does he suppose work in the service industry?

see, i'd be foolish to argue for the tremendous foresight of capital, though. just because it's stupid - from their own perspective - doesn't mean they won't do it. that's how we got into this mess in the first place.

let's be real about the choices. we can maintain the status quo, where people do shitty work for shitty wages while the bosses get rich. or, we can let the ceos destroy the economy through automation, then figure out how to deal with 40% unemployment caused by overwhelming automation. i have an idea about that, too: maybe we could take ownership of the machines in common. then, instead of some boss owning the productive capabilities and handing us out a wage, we could just set the machines in motion and enjoy being unemployed.

i know. that's crazy. what do you think, that it's a fifth of the way through the twenty-first century, or something? we'll have to wait until the future, after the year 2000, for something like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ9H5fIx0js

j reacts to the democratic party nomination process (final analysis) (section 1)

let's sum up what i think about the results.

media narrative: clinton managed to squeak through tough win after tough win by dominating the older, black vote.

smartass response: yeah. they're so old that they're DEAD!.

media narrative: what?

smartass response: hillary clinton has won the primary by dominating the dead, black people vote.

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let's cut to sanders, he's having a press conference.

media narrative: what could you have done to better appeal to the african-american zombie vote?

sanders: well, i've still got a foot out of the grave, i guess. but, i don't think anybody was expecting the zombie apocalypse to be overly black.

j reacts to anonymous' attack on trump [the first truly orwellian election cycle]

i've got a great campaign slogan for hillary. and, get ready for this, because it's what we're about to be subjected to. this is the first truly orwellian election cycle.

VOTE HILLARY - SHE'S BETTER THAN FASCISM*

* note that hillary supports the tpp, global military intervention, mass deportations and strong restrictions on free speech.

if you think that hillary is going to stand up for anybody except her handlers, you are sadly mistaken.

18-03-2016: more reactions, while pushing forward on editing

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1

j reacts to basic income as a part of maximizing freedom in a post-industrial economy

i'm bitchy about it sometimes, but i do love this country.

if we're post-industrial, now, this is the right way forward.

meanwhile, it looks like they're having an election about free trade in the united states.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/03/13/ontario-will-test-idea-of-a-guaranteed-minimum-income-to-ease-poverty_n_9451076.html

j reacts to the media giving hillary a free pass on being responsible for trump

this may be a dark and dangerous place to be, but i really want to push back very hard against the idea that we should be blaming it all on trump. here's the reality: a healthy society would be able to listen to what trump is saying and just shrug it off as a lot of nonsense. the questions we need to be asking ourselves and drawing attention to really have nothing to do with trump at all. they are:

(1) what are the economic factors that have led to this scenario, and who is responsible for them?
(2) what are the educational factors that have led to this scenario, and who is responsible for them?
(3) broadly, what are the cultural factors that have led to this scenario, and who is responsible for them?

when you just mindlessly blame it on trump, you're giving hillary a free pass - and upholding the status quo by avoiding substantive analysis.

that said? this is what we're going to see for the next eight months. the media is going to point at scenario after scenario that has been caused by the economic and social policies that clinton has supported, then suggest she's the antidote to it.

again: this is right out of orwell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEs6iCrymD0

something else i need to point out about trump v hillary, though:

hillary looks frighteningly like my maternal grandmother [i haven't looked into it, but i promise you that hillary has finnish-irish ancestry]. trump looks a lot like my maternal grandfather, which is where my screen name of 'murray' originates from. they were divorced, i believe, before i was born. but, it's like the fight between my maternal grandparents that i never saw. making it sort of creepy.

my nana is far more liberal than hillary, though.

fwiw, i am basically the same age as chelsea. but, my grandmother is only a couple of years older than hillary.

shit hillary said vol 3

“There can be restrictions in the very end of the third trimester, but they have to take into account the life and health of the mother.”

j reacts to the republicans failing a prisoner dilemma on trump (as surface analysis)

"The longer Kasich stays in the race, the more it benefits Donald Trump," - ted cruz

see, if you had any doubt that this guy is an idiot....

ted. listen. if marco hadn't dropped out, he would have probably beat you in new york. and in new jersey. connecticut, as well. and in many other places, too. there are states on the calendar that you have absolutely no chance of winning.

what kasich does in these states is take trump down from 75% to 50%, or maybe a little lower.

the fact that kasich is splitting the anti-cruz vote is just about the only thing that cruz has going for him at all, at this point. even with that said, i don't really see anywhere where he can split enough of the vote to let cruz win. it's even a stretch in the rust belt (where cruz may very well poll third, and be ranked third by most kasich supporters).

it's bad enough that trump got a 5% bump from rubio dropping. at least kasich should be able to prevent him from clinching.

if kasich drops, at least half of his support will move to trump and trump will sweep the remaining contests. well, maybe cruz can win in wyoming or something, but the outcome will no longer be in doubt.

but, the republican establishment is not very smart. i said this a few days ago. can they win a prisoner's dilemma? cruz is failing over and over again, which is not surprising. he's a dolt. but, i really hope kasich understands the math well enough to know that dropping out is handing it to trump.

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i didn't post this here, either.

they seem to be really cracking down on my foreign policy perspectives. it's really pretty standard chomsky-lite, it's just that i'm....well, they wouldn't be going after me if i wasn't on to something, right?

you hear a lot of nonsense on these topics thrown around. propaganda. disinformation. counter-propaganda. it takes a combination of intelligence and education to get it right.

*this* is what they're actively trying to shut down - what they *actually* don't want you to hear.

claims to be opposed to fascism. votes for tpp-loving, carpet-bomb glorifying, anti-speech crusader hillary clinton.

La Berlinoise
nope. we vote bernie. bye felicia

jessica
+La Berlinoise
this is a setup. we're walking into an orwellian reality, where a fascist system is manufacturing consent of it's fascist policies by working people up against a paper strawman.

trump is an idiot. but, to claim that he is a fascist would suggest that he has an ideology, and that would be giving him too much credit.

the only fascist running in this election is hillary clinton.

the proper activist choice is to avoid co-operation by not voting. if the choice is hillary v trump, and the narrative is to vote for clinton to stop fascism, the only meaningful message you can send is that you refuse to take part in the charade.

and, that's all it is - a charade.

i'm a data analyst, and i want you to understand what i'm about to type. the only thing that bernie can accomplish within the democratic party over the next few months is to generate enough data to prove that the nomination process is rigged. i actually think he's already done this. i do hope that he runs as an independent, but, given the narrative that's developing, i'm not sure the process is going to be any more honest.