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  1. #Money, the interesting thing about it is if you #exist in #poverty, you desperately need it for your day to day survival, then if your on the opposite end as in being a multi million or billionaire in reality money means nothing, because everything you own and do is leveraged off of debt that you one don't actually own and second can never actually satisfy, and the rules of the game are very different for those in poverty, and the rules are slightly different if your in the middle, but if your on top, the rules don't apply to you unless somehow your generation and hoarding of wealth imposes upon another top income holder, basically if your in poverty all the way to the bottom end of double digit millions, your beholden to the entire state if it where, and beyond that the entire state apparently is beholden to you and your ability to leverage debt, it is a rigged system of epic inequality and strongly embraces prejudice against the rest of us whom simply would appreciate the basics in life to be readily available without so much turmoil, and stress to our mental and physical wellbeing, money is an illusion of power and has left far to many of us going hungry, literally;

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    #Austerity #Awareness #BrokenSystem #Capitalism #Change #ChronicPoverty #CorporateGreed #CriticalThinking #DailyStruggle #DebtSlavery #DisabledVoices #DisabilityJustice #EconomicInequality #EconomicJustice #EconomicViolence #Economics #Education #ExistentialThought #Financial #FinancialTrauma #FinanciallyDistressed #FoodInsecurity #Hunger #Homelessness #HumanCost #IllusionOfWealth #Inequality #Justice #LateStageCapitalism #MarginalizedVoices #MentalHealthMatters #MutualAid #Neoliberalism #Oligarchy #PhilosophyOfMoney #Plutocracy #Politics #PovertyAwareness #PowerAndControl #PowerDynamics #RealTalk #Reform #RiggedSystem #SocialCommentary #SocialEconomicWarfare #SocialJustice #Society #Solidarity #SpeakTruth #StatusQuo #SupportDisabled #Survival #SystemicOppression #SystemicPoverty #TaxTheRich #TruthBomb #TruthToPower #WakeUpCall #WealthGap #WealthInequality #WorkingClass #WorkingPoor

  2. A quotation from Henry Commager

    It is easier to say what loyalty is not than to say what it is. It is not conformity. It is not passive acquiescence in the status quo. It is not preference for everything American over everything foreign. It is not an ostrich-like ignorance of other countries and other institutions. It is not the indulgence in ceremony — a flag salute, an oath of allegiance, a fervid verbal declaration. It is not a particular creed, a particular version of history, a particular body of economic practices, a particular philosophy.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-07), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 4, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #acquiescence #ceremony #conformity #flag #ignorance #loyalty #loyaltyoath #nationalism #patriotism #statusquo #xenophobia

  3. A quotation from Henry Commager

    Who among American heroes could meet their [loyalty] tests, who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson, who wrote that all men are created equal and whose motto was “rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips, who spoke for the underprivileged everywhere and counted himself a philosophical anarchist; not Seward of the Higher Law or Sumner of racial equality. Not Lincoln, who admonished us to have malice toward none, charity for all; or Wilson, who warned that our flag was “a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty”; or Justice Holmes, who said that our Constitution is an experiment and that while that experiment is being made “we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death.”

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-07), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 2, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #conformity #conservatism #history #loyalty #loyaltytest #obedience #patriotism #rebellion #statusquo #unAmerican #huac #redscare

  4. A quotation from Henry Commager

    What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo

  5. A quotation from Joseph Addison

    When Men are easy in their Circumstances, they are naturally Enemies to Innovations.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1716-05-16), The Freeholder, No. 42

    More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83076…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddison #circumstance #comfort #conservative #ease #statusquo #situation #satisfaction

  6. #60sPsych

    #StatusQuo's first album is really really good if you ignore the first track which is like "Pictures of Matchstick Men" with a few notes swapped. Shame they just rehashed boogiewoogie/12bar for the rest of their careers. I wonder what fresh stuff they could have done if they had continued down the progressive pop route?

  7. A quotation from Henry Steele Commager

    What threatens our security is not change but the inability to change; what threatens progress is not revolution but stagnation; what threatens our survival is not novel or dangerous ideas but the absence of ideas.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Speech (1971-04-10), “The University and the Community of Learning,” Kent State University, Ohio

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #change #conservatism #progress #stagnation #statusquo #survival #inflexibility #ideas #security

  8. "Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different." — Dr. Frank Crane — — — #DrFrankCrane #quote #quotes #reality #success #circumstances #materials #statusquo # #imaginary #goals

  9. "I apologise that this is not a typical graduation speech, but there is nothing typical about the times that we are living in. There is nothing typical about 15,000 children's live-streamed deaths being watched."

    A #Palestinian #LawStudent from #University of #Toledo gave a powerful #graduation #speech, questioning #StatusQuo in the US, and why they are sending billions of dollars to #Israel, a state convicted of #WarCrimes and on trial for #genocide.

    youtu.be/bLmUrq-QlZY?si=7s4ODC

    #StudentSpring

  10. #Microlino - some amazing effects and relevant upgrades needed to flourish
    It really is a #headturner
    It really shows how small „enough“ can be
    It challenges a #statusquo
    It is fun and energy #efficient
    It feels astonishing #solid on roads
    It has a much bigger #trunk as you would expect
    and it needs upgrades: #recuperation #startprocess #charging #motornoise #price

    … resume acter 600 km with my #Pioneer

    flic.kr/p/2oSbCf6

  11. #Microlino - some amazing effects and relevant upgrades needed to flourish
    It really is a #headturner
    It really shows how small „enough“ can be
    It challenges a #statusquo
    It is fun and energy #efficient
    It feels astonishing #solid on roads
    It has a much bigger #trunk as you would expect
    and it needs upgrades: #recuperation #startprocess #charging #motornoise #price

    … resume acter 600 km with my #Pioneer

    flic.kr/p/2oSbCf6

  12. #Microlino - some amazing effects and relevant upgrades needed to flourish
    It really is a #headturner
    It really shows how small „enough“ can be
    It challenges a #statusquo
    It is fun and energy #efficient
    It feels astonishing #solid on roads
    It has a much bigger #trunk as you would expect
    and it needs upgrades: #recuperation #startprocess #charging #motornoise #price

    … resume acter 600 km with my #Pioneer

    flic.kr/p/2oSbCf6

  13. #Microlino - some amazing effects and relevant upgrades needed to flourish
    It really is a #headturner
    It really shows how small „enough“ can be
    It challenges a #statusquo
    It is fun and energy #efficient
    It feels astonishing #solid on roads
    It has a much bigger #trunk as you would expect
    and it needs upgrades: #recuperation #startprocess #charging #motornoise #price

    … resume acter 600 km with my #Pioneer

    flic.kr/p/2oSbCf6

  14. #Microlino - some amazing effects and relevant upgrades needed to flourish
    It really is a #headturner
    It really shows how small „enough“ can be
    It challenges a #statusquo
    It is fun and energy #efficient
    It feels astonishing #solid on roads
    It has a much bigger #trunk as you would expect
    and it needs upgrades: #recuperation #startprocess #charging #motornoise #price

    … resume acter 600 km with my #Pioneer

    flic.kr/p/2oSbCf6

  15. Can we charge an ex-POTUS for being useless, because he surrounded himself with #establishment figures, bent on maintaining the #statusQuo?

    Also he spent way too much time defending himself against #Russiagate and #impeachment garbage, and allowed himself to be distracted by the #stockMarket, #mainstreamMedia, #securityState, #warPigs and the "#executiveBranch".

    Everyone knows that when you're #POTUS you ignore all that trash.

    Also #tradeRules are #rascist and cheap meds from #Canada suck.