So you realised that “success” in freer market conditions tends towards monopolistic exploitation.
Question is, what are you going to do about it?
Did you enjoy simply venting your complaints or are you going to join a left wing party that needs numbers to do something about it?
Clearly you missed the point. This isn’t about the economy. What that Janet Napolitano dyke bitch is saying is exactly what the Gestapo police state regime implemented. This is not about security.
What am I going to do about it?
Resist! I’m sharing that video virally and commenting relentlessly.
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As much as I dislike Wal-mart’s business practices and the video speech, I equally dislike homophobia and hatespeech. These are all part of an oppressive package.
Calling someone a ‘dyke/butch’ is not the same thing as homophobia. That’s actually a distinguishing term between lesbians who are femme and masculine. The majority of femme lesbians greatly dislike overweight/crew cut wannabe men.
I don’t have a problem with the overall message. I’d certainly hate it for things to get taken over the top with respect to people spying on one another with great concern for the commission of innocuous crimes, (such as marijuana possession) but somebody reports someone because the dude’s wife always seems to have weird bruises, yeah, maybe someone should check into that. Some guy’s daughter is acting strange in a way that just feels unusual, runs away crying at the slighest provocation, seems afraid of men, maybe someone should take a look into that and figure out if there’s anything to it.
Although, I find it interesting that Wal-Mart is the one supporting watching out for suspicious activities/people. It seems that there are plenty of suspicious people in Wal-Mart parking lots all the time, especially where I live! I can barely name a time I’ve gone to Wal-Mart at night and there hasn’t been at least one car with people passing around a crackpipe, and this is a low-crime area!
I still get the feeling you’re totally missing the point while being taken in by the horse and pony show. That, or you’re here for argument’s sake.
This isn’t like reporting domestic abuse or whatever. DHS is asking for info on quote suspicious activity at shopping centers. What, shoplifting? Is it suspicious if I open a package to verify that there’s no broken seal, or to test a scent etc? Is it suspicious if I look at you wrong? What?
How many frequent shopping terrorists do you see in your neighborhood?
If you have drug deals going on in your parking lots, fine, cool, call the cops but does Olga the ogre need to be plastered on a fuckin screen inside the store requesting, in a patronizing manner, that you report anyone who makes you feel uncomfortable?
I mean look at how creepy these campaigns get. They treat people like they’re infantile.
It would be pretty suspicious if you were a middle-aged dude spending hours in the little girls’ undergarments section. Of course, that would actually require someone to have watched this guy in the little girls’ undergarments section to verify that he’d been there for hours, which is equally weird, unless it’s caught on camera…
Actually, would a guy in such a section by himself be enough to qualify as weird? I hope not, because I think I used it as a shortcut from the juice aisle (grocery side) to the sunglasses area (not groceries side). Although, what could you say, maybe five minutes would be weird?
There could be some guy that seems like he’s casing the parking lot, waiting for a kid to stray too far from his parents or something like that. Some guy spends two hours sitting in his car at Wal-Mart watching passerby, I think someone should probably be alerted to it.
Other than that, I don’t know. I see campers and rigs and shit parked in the back to sleep all the time and I don’t really see a problem with that, it’s a public lot and they are in the back. Some people might consider that weird, but I don’t think there’s ever been a night I’ve went to Wal-Mart and seen any less than five or six such vehicles.
That’s probably about it, of course, if someone gets too rough with their kid getting pissed off and jerking them hard by the arm or giving them a smack across the face, that should probably be reported as well.
So, you’ve got domestics and you have kidnapping. I’m sure somebody somewhere has been kidnapped from a Wal-Mart, probably more than once.
I’d also consider it suspicious if someone bought Marmite, that shit is gross.
For my final Advocatus Diaboli effort, prior to 9/11 we never thought that this country would fall victim to terrorist attacks in any way, shape or form, and now the country (as a whole) is more watchful. I don’t see any reason that a local Wal-Mart could not fall victim to a small-scale terrorist attack, especially if they’re just going for numbers with respect to casualties.
Why should anybody care if there’s a drug deal or not, just as long as they keep that shit towards the back of the lot where I don’t have to smell it. Ever smell crack? It’s awful.
Secretly I agree, I just felt like Debating. I do think a few of my points have some validity, though.
That’s not really resistance. Joining a left wing party that needs numbers to do something about it is resistance. Organised action, not internet spamming (as if there isn’t enough of that already to drown you out).
So what is this awesome organization called that you’ve been urging me to join? Websites? Mailing lists?? Give me links or give me death. Bring me to your LEADER.
Depends on what you believe will move the entirity of society away from its current, undesirable tendencies.
I find it’s much more productive to think it through as far as you can before deciding what movement you join.
The point is that actual action is taken away from these potentially horrific outcomes that seem more and more likely - perhaps you can think of a better holistic way to do this than me. But so far, your impotent indulgences in complaint are putting me ahead.
I can tell you what movement I think is best suited toward these ends, but wouldn’t your following me make me your “LEADER”?
What happens with too many Zeitgeists such as yourself is that for every crisis in the current system, too many are waiting for the change to just “happen”.
And it doesn’t happen, because nobody took any action or thought about/committed themselves to an alternative.
The failing system just falls to gather its pieces back together again to repeat its same failures once again in a different way.
I’m no Zionist either, I don’t believe in a final solution - I have a love for the continual refinement of things. Even if the goal is just an illusion, the process toward it is not. In doing so, I know that taking part involves you in life rather than makes you into a spectator who just lives by accident. I actually really want these changes to happen.
