YOUR EFFORTS ARE ALL IN VAIN!!!

[IHOPsbiggestfan]

Well, You are the man, I'm glad your touching ideas that I have been talking about for years.

[joyell222]

I love that flag behind you that says it all. This is a good video by the way.

[JUSTOAST]

I really ♥ your message, but...is that GUM IN YOUR MOUTH, or WHAT?! You really ARE a Punk!!

[ankharris]

The populist movement, beaten down by Nixon in the 70s and Reagan in the 80s, is now growing in size due to the educating influence of the internet and the generation now internet-savvy. I think it will continue to grow larger until a critical mass is reached and we will see people taking our government back here in the US as well as worldwide; in fact this is already starting to happen in the middle-east.

[evolawonder]

i think this guy exists but what we are watching IS A REAL GOOD MAX HEADROOM....like i get this eerie feeling this guy ORIGINALLY existed as a VideoBLOGER but his questions led him to be taken over by George Soro...and we are seeing something like how the sound board prank calls work but with political prisoners and the Re Tell out STORIES that were causing attention to their ABSTRACTION STATES OF VIRGINIA

[OneforEating]

5:20 Nothing really mattress! LMFAO

[metashifter]

@Lamaddussa The actions of "The System" exist entirely within the confines of an abstraction. Its constructs may present concrete objectively observable entities but the entity itself is an abstraction derived from human interpretation and interaction with them. Speech is objectively observed but affectively an abstraction. No doubt you are amongst the rank and file conspiracy theorist who hold themselves as soldiers of the gospel of freedom. May Moloch eat your soleus.

[metashifter]

it took ten years for the movement to progress but food is no longer taxed in SC, and it only took so long because it was a very quiet movement. Now people find the idea of taxing food repulsive. Its a narrow example but a definite one.

[lamaddussa]

hey punk. just stopping by your page to see what's up. haven't been here in a while. but...

haha... i just listened to the first minute so far, but, "the system," i.e. the entrenched relationships between corporate entities, politicians, & the media is not an abstraction. it's a reality.

maybe i'll listen to the rest & have something more to say later on.

[synn1980]

@lamaddussa Your reality...

[lamaddussa]

@synn1980

haha... no, this is not something happening within the confines of my imagination. this is an objective reality.

[trakkaton]

Good description of collective delusions, but there is no justification of power. There is no underlying devision of labor that leads to "legislative leadership". The ballot box is a scam, if it would change anything, it would be forbidden. The government is as much "legislative leadership" as the mafia is. All new personal that enters the mafia or the government is selected, filtered, corrected, pressured, corrupted, reprogrammed, threatened, scandalized, financed, and so on...

[ThePunkPatriot]

@trakkaton that whole argument about "if it changed anything, it would be forbidden" is such bullshit. It does change things, and it has changed things.

Study history.

[trakkaton]

@ThePunkPatriot

Name examples.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@trakkaton Are you f**king kidding? Get out a history book. 1) Labor Rights 2) Minimum Wage 3) Segregation 4) Ending Segregation 5) Voting rights for women 6) Voting rights for blacks 7) The start of Prohibition 8) The end of prohibition 9) The Works Progress Administration 10) The entirety of US history, modern czech history, soviet history, post-revolution french history, modern british history, modern ukrainian history, etc etc etc

[trakkaton]

@ThePunkPatriot

YOU are the one who needs to pick up a history book, but not the one the government gave you at school. One where the "Orange Revolution" is a CIA coup to shift the NATO border, not some fancy democracy movement with heavy funding out of nowhere. Labor rights and minimum wages are fought for and won outside of any parliament, on the streets, in the factories, by strikes and riots. Any parliament can only make concessions if the REAL balance of power in the class war demands it!

[ThePunkPatriot]

@trakkaton You and Noam Chomsky should make out.

If everything is controlled by unseen powers in a vast conspiracy, and the elite's control is so complete, why don't you just go lay down and die? There's clearly nothing you can do.

[trakkaton]

@ThePunkPatriot

Now you give up. A strawman fallacy. Stop putting words in my mouth, OK?

Plus false dilemma fallacy. Plus wishful thinking fallacy.

LEARN - TO - READ.

And once you've read my comment, and once you've choosen to be specific, I will gladly prove you wrong.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@trakkaton You're hilarious.

[trakkaton]

@ThePunkPatriot

Your reasoning: "Ripe apples are red. Therefore, if one paints apples with red color, they become ripe." In reality, eat green apples - as long as they are ripe. You haven't figured out the causality nor reflected on the necessity to do it. Tons of historical evidence to back that up. If you've got a crowd that votes, and doesn't fight, you get dead Kennedys, punk. If you've got a crowd that fights without voting you get South Africa, or the Securitate running for their lives.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@trakkaton I'm sorry, you're not making a lick of sense.  I'm not sure what the hell your point is.

You're still hilarious though, so you've got that going for you.

[trakkaton]

@ThePunkPatriot

Are you an idiot?

The ball is in your court, and "not making sense" is hardly specific.

Grow a brain.

[NoLongerDelusional]

yeah, I guess *thad* is saying that our fake democracy has finally become our real fake democracy ;o)

You've got a functioning brain. So glad some of us still do. I'm with you, bro.

[zaynzaynzayn]

Say it. Reification of political parties. "They" are not real--we make them real! Preach it bro.

[ProgressiveAudio]

Wait, when did that happen in Maine?

[ProgressiveAudio]

Is that the same Thad Allen from the coast guard?

[ThePunkPatriot]

@ProgressiveAudio I have no idea. Probably not.

[ProgressiveAudio]

@ProgressiveAudio Oh, just stunned me since its the name of the guy who used to head the Coast Guard. Thought you were talking to him...

[ONEbailout]

al gore posted your video!

[ThePunkPatriot]

@ONEbailout what? where?

[ONEbailout]

@ThePunkPatriot at current

[ONEbailout]

@ThePunkPatriot al gore sent you 268 views so far

[ONEbailout]

@ONEbailout actually like 290

[057sandyclaws]

My major disagreement here is that ALL governments govern by consent. If an entire country's population decide their king isn't a king, he's not a king. Death is always an option, so it comes down to the alternatives. Would I rather die or be governed by the man with the spear. If I choose life, I give my consent to be governed. Of course it's rarely this black and white. It's a matter of what people are willing to sacrifice or accept and for how long.

...But I agree with your overall argument.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@057sandyclaws I agree with what you've said here 100%.

The point I was making is that our government doesn't pretend to draw it's power from anything OTHER than the consent of the governed, such as God, etc

[ThePunkPatriot]

@Beadbud5000 Are you talkin' defeatism?

[Beadbud5000]

@ThePunkPatriot I deleted the comment. It didn't come out right. Love the video!

[ThePunkPatriot]

@Beadbud5000 hahahahah

[Beadbud5000]

Love it however over Thad's head is my bet!@

[imjustagirl776]

Most excellent :o)

[brokendave]

Teacher seeks pupil, must have a strong desire to save the world.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@brokendave great book

[KidOmniMan]

@brokendave Call me Ishmael.

[SuperSmashDolls]

It's amazing how many people try to tell third parties to just give up. And it's not even within a larger context of saying that it would be better to refocus efforts outside of reform, it's literally just trying to get you to shut up.

[GuiMarquito]

it is important to say passivity is consent on an empirical level, not on a moral one. Otherwise passive resistance would be immoral and the only acceptable way to change things would be through going to the people that oppress you and suggest them to end the oppression.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@GuiMarquito Passive acceptance is consent, not passive resistance.

[Iker888]

Ya, the US system is well prevised for situations like these. The best way to change it is to redirect it from within.

[SoldierCyfix]

the legendary Alexander the great controlled most of the known world at the time, that too was impossible.....very impossible

i think we can also do great things when we are united.....we just need a great uniting force

[honestskeptic]

It is important to understand the Gandhi had literally NOTHING to to do with India gaining independence. The entire British Empire collapsed all around the world, not just in India. The British pulled out of India because they were pulling out of everywhere. British imperialism was no longer sustainable, and the UK made a conscious decision pull out of India because what was happening on the global stage.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@honestskeptic Uhm, I really don't know how you can say that with a straight face. Having studied history, I can tell you, you are wrong. Certainly Gandhi didn't do it single handedly. But to say that he had nothing to do with it is just ignorant of history.

[honestskeptic]

@ThePunkPatriot Gandhi actually channelled all the anti-imperialist sentiment in India into very "safe" forms of expression. He was completely anti-revolutionary, The British would have pulled out of India with or without Gandhi, he simply slowed revolutionary energy and ensure the transition was smooth for elite interests. Even George Orwell noted that Gandhi was very popular among the British officer class, because he helped prevent any actions which would have actually made a difference.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@honestskeptic That is complete and utter bullshit, sorry.

[honestskeptic]

@ThePunkPatriot Your overstated estimations of Gandhi's role in the decision of the British to pull out of India is what is bullshit, sir.

[ThePunkPatriot]

@honestskeptic According to your alternate version of history, sure.

[brokendave]

@honestskeptic There was also an armed resistance that was taking place as well. However, I think you made Punk's point for him before he even responded. If the violent uprising had not occurred the UK would have continued on, and without Gandhi there wouldn't have been a moderate to negotiate with.

[marniespeaks]

well said

gather your tribe

[mrkurt13]

i love you

[gapingmaw20]

the only objective reality is that reality as humans interpret it is subjective... sorry if that doesn't make concise logical sense, I'm a little stoned right now.