The reality is, The USA is in the arms business, and so the endless wars, which are financed by those paying for laws.

There used to be

@@rafaelvargas1011 yeah…before there were 50 states

@@rafaelvargas1011 when lol

@@CaytonicCox before income tax ya momo

@@rafaelvargas1011 You mean when there used to be slavery? When Life expectancy was 40?

Jefferson himself for all his flaws even said the Constitution should be redrafted every 19 years or else you have a dictatorship of the dead.

And more money than most country's GDP's.

Abolish private property

​@@northuniverse This person gets it ☝️

In capitalist economies, might is right. Or rather, morality has zero part in the equation.

I just read that and didn't get that interpretation. It looked more like it was saying that if individual states mandated the criminalization of slavery it would force all slave owners to leave their states to others where it was legal, and if the senate agreed to use force it would cause a secession. It sounded more like he was pointing to a very real dynamic that turned out to come true with the Civil War, and how it was dangerous to the country as a whole. In fact, the end says the opposite of what you claim: "Amidst this prospect of evil, I am glad to see one good effect. it has brought the necessity of some plan of general emancipation & deportation more home to the minds of our people than it has ever been before. insomuch that our Governor has ventured to propose one to the legislature. this will probably not be acted on at this time. nor would it be effectual; for while it proposes to devote to that object one third of the revenue of the state, it would not reach one tenth of the annual increase. my proposition would be that the holders should give up all born after a certain day, past, present, or to come, that these should be placed under the guardianship of the state, and sent at a proper age to St Domingo. there they are willing to recieve them, & the shortness of the passage brings the deportation within the possible means of taxation aided by charitable contributions. in these I think Europe, which has forced this evil on us, and the Eastern states who have been it’s chief instruments of importation, would be bound to give largely. but the proceeds of the land office, if appropriated to this would be quite sufficient." He's talking about the "general emancipation and deportation" of slaves as a good thing to come from the dynamic, and since it would not really be effectual if done a certain way, he proposed another which would "wean them off" of slavery by giving up all slaves born after a certain date (past, present or future. The date would be decided by the government) and put them in the care of the state, to be sent to Santo Domingo (from what it looks like with a quick search, they would be sent there probably as slaves, since slavery was established or re-established around 1809. Basically "end slavery here but push our newly emancipated slaves onto someone else"). He rightfully blamed the Easter states and Europe for making slavery a thing...but that doesn't excuse participation by everyone else who did. I know I'm bad at interpreting things at times, so maybe there's something I'm missing. I don't see your accusation pan out in that letter. I see a warning about the consequences of doing it in certain ways, and a suggestion for how to do it more safely (for national unity), but not an "existential need" to maintain it. Please show me what I'm missing if you think I'm just not seeing it. Full disclosure, Jefferson was an aristocrat who was very much against the concept of democracy, which is one among many reasons why I am not a fan. The slavery aspect (including one of his slaves being his wife's half-brother or some other relation) was despicable and doesn't need to be argued as such (I reject the argument about relative morality because it's just apologia for being bad when the entire history of slavery was full of people calling for its end and being openly against it). My only issue is with your interpretation of that letter, not how bad Jefferson was.

You'd have done a lot better I'm sure. Wait, there wasn't social media to write about your self righteousness to build your ego.

You'd have done a lot better I'm sure. Wait, there wasn't social media to write about your self righteousness to build your ego.

@@rafaelvargas1011 That's such a nonsense of a comment. You didn't say anything, you merely indulged in excoriation without substance. Utterly meaningless drivel. There is a lot that could be said on the topic, why don't you actually do so?

@@rafaelvargas1011 I wouldn't have betrayed the crown, might have even saved the world if I stopped that nation from being formed.

@czarkusa2018 an online Benedict Arnold and an online theoretical time travel scientist!? Yo momma mist be bragging!

yeah, crazy, huh?

And there were abolitionists in the 1700's as well, so even then, they knew it was wrong. The excuse of "That was just how it was back then" is total hogwash.

The land of the free to own slaves. The home of the brave enough to commit genocide. Fought against England for charging merchants for escort against French privateers. French revolution was against the crazy taxes paid by the French people to fund the USA's revolution. Those French people went on to build a statue for the USA, Liberty was its name.

Never forget the way they were thinking was a massive progressive leap forward over the way things were, and that's why what they accomplished was so revered.

@@TheGreatAtario The abolitionists at the time were more progressive, as were the Haudenosaunee who served as the inspiration for the democracy that the framers would eventually set up. They weren't the first, just the most famous.

@@relaxlibrary4249 They also got progressive change to actually happen, at scale

The land of the free to own slaves. The home of the brave enough to commit genocide. Fought against England for charging merchants for escort against French privateers. French revolution was against the crazy taxes paid by the French people to fund the USA's revolution. Those French people went on to build a statue for the USA, Liberty was its name.

That’s not democracy; and we’re a democratic republic.

@adolfodias1681 ^*healthcare, never healthecare ^Wtf are “fair hages”?? ^*discrimination, never descrimination ^*directed, never directd ^*peoples’, not peoples ^*needs, not need ^*I’m, not i’m ^*sure, not shore ^*going, not goind ^*explain to me, never explaine me ^*what corporate capitalism is, not what is corporate capitalism Wt actual fuq is wrong with your brain?

Sounds like communism.

@@killerjase1 If Capitalism leads to the same dead end of greed, corruption, labor exploitation, monopolies, wealth inequality, corporatocracy and now price fixing eliminating a free market, what's wrong with Communism?

Don’t bring Palestine into this. Because I hear nobody talking about the greater Israel project.

It is indeed!!

The consensus of all governed, is best. That’s a basic tenet of leftism, so yeah. But anti-democratic ideology exists on both extremes of the political spectrum.

Left in the US means "rule by rich merchants," just like it did in France hundreds of years ago. Little piggies keep voting in the wolf to keep out the bear.

@@irenafarm Do you always talk yourself into tangled loops or are you currently stroking out?🙄🤦‍♂️🤡🤷‍♂️💩

@@CaptainSnackbeard👏👏👏❤️

The Majority Report : Left Is best! Also, The Majority Report : You're gonna vote for the corporate centrist warmongering zionist, and you're gonna have a big smile on your face while doing so. 😉

@heavymetalhomesteading It was someone else’s land before the natives. It doesn’t belong to anyone at all. Enough already.💩🤡🤦‍♂️

​@@spanqueluv9er Do you understand what native population means? Whose land was it then?

​@@spanqueluv9erAre you suggesting there was a previous, wide spread human inhabitation of North and South America BEFORE the peoples encountered by Europeans who came in the 15th Century? Is that your suggestion? And we simply have never found ANY evidence of this apparently? 😂😂😂 This is MAGA Goofballs level of thinking and is why people are dismissive of them. Do you even understand why what you stated was, not just silly and obtuse but just dumb?

​@@spanqueluv9erSoooo... You think there was a previous human occupation of North and South America BEFORE the peoples encountered by Europeans in the 15th Century? And... We just NEVER found evidence of this for centuries? 😂😂😂😂 MAGAS... Goofballs, every last one.

All land was "stolen", by the people who stole it before them. Goddamn leftists are stupid.

So let's get rid of the irrelevant 18th century gibberish then. The preoccupations of a COMPLETELY bygone time should not rule our lives in 2024.

@@john.premose Long live the corporate duopoly!

​@@john.premosenobody talks in 18th gibberish anymore. Stop gaslighting and lying

@@clifford7594 yeah, I think you actually mean that.

@@clifford7594 or in your case, the corporate monopoly is what you'd prefer.

Are you complaining about which form of language he uses to that end, or that he cannot extemporise at the pace you'd prefer? Because stalling mechanisms in speech are nearly universal, very few humans are able to extemporise rapidly, effectively and consistently while also being thoughtful. Certainly some can, but many simply opt to be less thoughtful as a substitute.

he learnt "sort of" from jordan peterson.....................sort of !