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Now I did want to say before I get into

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this actually, I did

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want to bring up a certain point,

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which I posted on our Instagram. And

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if you don't follow us on Instagram,

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go check it out. It's at RevLeftRadioOfficial.

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You know, when I'm not posting, when I don't have

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time to come to the recording studio, I'm pumping out

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my thoughts in real time, often on

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the stories of RevLeft, but sometimes also on

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the main page. But

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what I posted today, and this is sort of relevant, is, you

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know, just imagine if Russia,

0:29

China, Iran, or the DPRK, or,

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you know, fill in the blank

0:33

Venezuela cube, any country that America

0:35

thinks is bad, that America doesn't

0:37

like, that America dehumanizes and tries

0:40

to delegitimize, etc. Imagine

0:42

that they were doing what Israel is doing to

0:44

the Palestinians right now. What

0:46

would American corporate media coverage be like?

0:50

How would Joe Biden be talking about it?

0:52

How quickly and easily would the

0:55

US ruling class admit that it

0:57

was genocide and demand the regime

0:59

doing it be dismantled? It

1:02

wouldn't even take a second. They have

1:04

already called Russia's and Ukraine's war a

1:06

Russian genocide of Ukrainians, right? They've

1:08

already called the

1:11

Chinese treatment of the Uyghurs as

1:13

genocide, right? They throw

1:15

around the term willy-nilly when

1:17

it suits them. And I made a

1:19

point that, okay, let's just take one of those

1:22

examples. Russia versus Ukraine. That's a genocide, according to

1:24

the US ruling class. Well, if that's

1:26

a genocide, then literally every war in history is a

1:28

genocide. The Brits, what the Brits did to the Germans,

1:30

what the Germans did to the Brits is

1:33

a genocide during World War II, right? Because it's

1:35

just a war between two countries. It's

1:37

not anything like what Israel is doing

1:40

to the Palestinians. Ukraine

1:42

has a government. They have a military.

1:44

They have a separate independent

1:46

economy. They have the backing of the

1:49

largest, richest, most powerful countries in the

1:51

motherfucking world. And Russia

1:53

is a global superpower. Them going to

1:55

war With one another is not by any stretch

1:57

of the imagination, by any stretch of the imagination. The

2:00

stretch of the definition. A.

2:02

Genocide. It's a war and it's

2:04

brutal and known. Does this to

2:06

not called a genocide is under

2:08

Say It's fine with terrific the

2:10

people that are dying. And.

2:13

Being murdered. I'm of course with that

2:15

that that is a war with Israel

2:17

is doing. The Palestinians is a genocide.

2:19

Israel has all the weapons, all the

2:22

money. All. The backing, All

2:24

the power, All the control with

2:26

the largest and richest country in

2:28

military to ever exist in human

2:31

history, The United States descending it.

2:33

I'm in the Red Sea, defending

2:35

it on the international stage, defending

2:38

and at the Un. funding arming,

2:40

facilitating the ongoing. Genocide.

2:43

And. Palestinians don't have a

2:45

state. They. Don't have a military,

2:47

They don't have an independent economy. They

2:49

do not have the backing of the

2:51

any of the most richest or most

2:53

powerful militaries in the world. That is

2:55

a genocide, you know? And and that

2:57

the the conclusion that I have to

2:59

say and I want to scream of

3:02

from the Fuck and Rooftops is America's

3:04

evil. It. Is pure

3:06

hypocrisy. It stands for

3:08

Absolutely. Nothing but raw.

3:11

Power and Profit. Far

3:13

from standing for democracy and

3:15

freedom. The Palestinians don't have

3:17

democracy. The Palestinians don't have

3:20

freedom. They can't even leave

3:22

their concentration camp without the

3:24

approval of there's really guards.

3:26

I'm so to talk about

3:28

freedom and democracy while you're

3:30

supporting a country destroy of

3:32

people's very chance at having

3:34

anything like that is despicable.

3:37

Or the United States as

3:39

anti human is empty democracy.

3:41

It's anti freedom. At

3:43

home and abroad. You

3:45

know, for all the talk of

3:47

freedom in this country, maybe we

3:50

are marginally more free than we

3:52

would have been as medieval monarchists

3:54

peasants. right? Maybe

3:56

Liberal capitalism offers a couple

3:58

extra freedoms. That we didn't

4:01

have under medieval monarchism and

4:03

feudalism made is in many

4:05

ways the lives of an

4:07

average peasants or or surf

4:09

and certain times of certain

4:11

places a certain period of

4:13

history might have been more

4:15

communal, more in line with

4:17

our evolutionary it's impulses a

4:19

social creatures than modern capitalist

4:21

techno alienation is. On. But

4:23

even if you wanted to admit that there

4:26

are some gain in general free don't like,

4:28

You know, the ability for me to talk

4:30

shit like may Maybe he'd medieval Europe? Depending

4:32

on as a society I lived in, I

4:34

would just be executed for talking like this.

4:37

So I guess there's a marginal improvement in

4:39

freedom compared to that. But. In

4:41

a vacuum is America freeze? Off.

4:44

Your Rich? Yeah, If you're rich, America's

4:46

your playground. If you're rich you

4:48

can hop on your private planes, you

4:51

can jump on your yard, you can

4:53

go across the were all the best

4:55

food, all the best experiences you can

4:57

possibly imagine. All of life's comforts and

4:59

opulence and luxury is yours. You are

5:01

free or than any human being has

5:04

ever been in human history. Spare for

5:06

maybe a couple kings right? who had

5:08

everything but even the with technology technological

5:10

an economic development the life that a

5:12

wealthy rich American lives is going to

5:14

be by any comparison better than even

5:17

the most luxurious. Kings live in five

5:19

hundred a thousand and fifteen hundred years

5:21

ago, so yes may be compared to

5:23

that we have in some areas while

5:25

we've lost it and others. With.

5:28

The enclosure of the Commons you know

5:30

in the so many other things that

5:32

that were that were destroyed up with

5:34

the advent of of liberal capitalism. You.

5:37

Know maybe we'd game somewhere, but in

5:39

a vacuum, Is America free? Absolutely not.

5:41

For the vast majority of American citizens,

5:43

we are not free. We can talk

5:45

shit because they know it doesn't impact

5:47

of them. They'll let me sit here

5:49

and say whatever I want into the

5:51

microphone because they know my voice is

5:54

not big enough to impact them. to

5:56

intact their money to impact their power.

5:58

The moment people set or organizing in

6:01

a way that might impact their power,

6:03

might impact their money. Those people are

6:05

cracked down on and killed. As

6:07

Malcolm X ask Martin Luther King Jr.

6:10

Asked. Fred Hampton. Real. Threats

6:12

to the system precisely because they were

6:14

able to organize and mobilize large amounts

6:16

of people. But they'll sit back and

6:19

say, oh, America's wonderful, We have Freedom

6:21

of Speech Freedom of Speech becomes even

6:23

in the slightest, a threat to the

6:25

status quo. Freedom of speech will be

6:27

tossed out. Every single right and freedom

6:29

you think you have as an American

6:32

is conditional on that right or freedom,

6:34

not interfering with the rights and freedom

6:36

of the ruling class to amass more

6:38

profits and dominate people around the globe

6:40

and build up. The American Empire.

6:43

The moment any of your so

6:45

called bullshit freedoms begin to. Think.

6:49

About threatening that system. To be able

6:51

to gesture to the possibility of threatening

6:53

their system. You'll find out real quick.

6:56

You. Have no mother fuckin freedoms

6:58

at all. And even in

7:00

the day to day life of a

7:02

poor and working class American, what freedom

7:04

do we have? We have the freedom

7:07

to go to work and be mercilessly

7:09

exploited for our for our labor and

7:11

waste away the vast majority of our

7:13

waking life by handing over our life

7:15

to are rich asshole who already own

7:17

absolutely mother fuckin' everything. so those ass

7:20

holes can get richer. What we barely

7:22

strive to get by? So what freedom

7:24

do we have? Oh yeah, Democracy. You

7:26

can choose between two fucking pieces of

7:28

shit every four years. Who represent a

7:30

class that as hostile an antagonistic to

7:32

your very existence? you can? You can.

7:34

You can choose a me, Your vote

7:37

doesn't matter as be as be honest

7:39

but let the little child with a

7:41

fake steering wheel in the in the

7:43

back seat of the car you can

7:45

pretend like you're driving isn't not fun.

7:47

You see how Americans are intellectually and

7:49

morally infantilizing by our system that were

7:51

told where the freest, most democratic people

7:53

to ever exist went everywhere we'd turn.

7:55

We are neither free nor do we

7:57

have democracy. You see this How small.

7:59

It makes the average American who buys

8:01

in his own the Fox News or

8:04

the Msnbc and Cnn of the democrat

8:06

verse side of the corporate media. how

8:08

how small and child like it makes

8:10

them. How how much cognitive

8:13

dissonance you have to have somebody who was

8:15

at all invested in the spectacle of the

8:17

status quo is what? When I look around

8:19

at my several Americans who are like I'm

8:22

on the blue team, I'm on the red

8:24

team, I picked Trump, I picked by the

8:26

and I see fucking children. Toddlers.

8:29

And adult bodies. People that don't

8:31

have the intellectual and moral sophistication

8:33

to be able to even be

8:35

an independent, unique individual. It's

8:38

actually something frightening. Or

8:40

to to see just how little. The

8:43

average American because they've been

8:45

conditioned and propagandize since birth

8:48

and since their parents birth

8:50

and their grandparents birth. How

8:52

little actual independent critical thought

8:54

they have for a people

8:56

that fancy themselves independent, frontiers

8:58

men and mavericks Rates for

9:00

the for the very people

9:02

that fancy themselves these rugged

9:04

individualists with with with incredible

9:06

freedom they are the most

9:08

subordinated, mentally and ideologically caged

9:10

in human beings on the.

9:12

Face of the fucking Earth to

9:15

the point where as the system

9:17

crumbles those who continue to buy

9:19

into it. I can't relate to

9:21

them anymore. Like, like, like their

9:24

seat. They're treating their humanity. For.

9:26

This system. To. The

9:28

point where like a is talking to them as

9:31

like you're new to this is what have you

9:33

talking to somebody? A Colt. You're.

9:36

Talking to somebody in the Colt my

9:38

get the exact same sensation, the exact

9:40

same feelings. When I'm talking

9:42

to a hard core blue maggot were read mega

9:45

wrote the book Blue no matter who are the

9:47

or that the trump is my god king people.

9:50

I. Get the exact same sensation that I would get.

9:52

False. Talking to a person. The Charles Fucking Manson

9:54

cold or the next, The And Cold or whatever mother

9:57

fucking call you can think of. And

9:59

so. Though you know I don't ask

10:01

people what party they belong to, I'm

10:03

going to start asking people what faction

10:05

of the American Deaths called. do you

10:07

identify with and see that ruffles some

10:09

plucking feathers? I mean it's it's scary.

10:11

But on the other hand of course

10:13

there is reason for optimism because while

10:16

a lot of especially older people are

10:18

just complete, their brains are Swiss cheese

10:20

with the an American Flag in print

10:22

on and right like there. There's no

10:24

coming back for some these like and

10:26

people for young people who aren't have

10:28

not been invested in a system. Who?

10:30

Their entire lives, they've experienced nothing

10:32

but the abject failures of this

10:35

system. Who arm a are internet

10:37

savvy and media illiterate in ways

10:39

that older cohorts of Americans aren't

10:41

My optimism comes there because things

10:44

are breaking down you can't hide.

10:46

Sit. From Us you can infantilizing morally

10:48

and intellectually. We don't fall for your

10:50

fucking propaganda. We don't believe your bullshit

10:52

politicians. We don't believe your bullshit court

10:54

corporate media apparatuses, right? We can see

10:57

the fucking shit with their own eyes.

10:59

We have our own voices, we have

11:01

our own communities online, we can talk

11:03

to each other, and I do think

11:05

that that bodes well for the future.

11:07

Now there's always exceptions that ruin as

11:09

such as a it's a generalization is

11:11

not true for everybody. But I do

11:13

think as I've said many times in

11:15

a million different ways, I do have

11:18

some optimism changes coming. Change. Is

11:20

inevitable. And this comes not from

11:22

some utopian idealism, but from my

11:24

dialectics. From my understanding that changes

11:26

the only constant from my understanding

11:28

of how change occurs and the

11:30

and the sort of stages that

11:32

that that things go through. And

11:34

right now we're in the completely

11:36

deliver the legitimising stage of the

11:38

powers that be. We have to

11:40

go through this prolonged period in

11:43

which every single mask is is

11:45

pulled down. Where every single

11:47

facade of American life crumbles so

11:49

that enough people. Can. Finally

11:51

see it for what the fuck it's. Always

11:53

been a decrepit vampiric. The

11:56

zombie system men to enrich

11:58

and in power. A. Tiny

12:00

tiny handful of the ruling class

12:02

elite at the expense of everybody

12:04

else in the country and in

12:06

on the fucking planet. That's.

12:09

The truth behind the system is stands

12:11

for nothing. Does not stand

12:13

for freedom. It does

12:15

not stand for. Democracy

12:17

is stance for Roth

12:19

base tower greed and

12:21

profit for a few.

12:24

Come what may set everybody,

12:27

they'll burn the fuckin' planet.

12:30

If it means increase in their profit margins,

12:32

a couple percentage points. This.

12:34

Entire global system. Serves.

12:37

Not humanity. Not

12:39

the vast majority of. Human beings On The

12:41

fucking Planet. But a small

12:43

handful of the global elite who

12:45

actually benefits from the rapacious exploitation

12:48

of the capitalist system and from

12:50

the power empire building games of

12:52

imperialism which are of course deeply

12:54

dialectic lee and inexorably connected with

12:56

one another. How want

12:58

much longer? Can. Humanity be

13:00

infantilizing by living in the system.

13:02

In not having objections, To it. Humanity

13:05

at We as a species, We

13:07

want to grow the fuck up

13:10

as a species, some deep inexorable

13:12

movement within us. As a species,

13:14

we want to get beyond. as

13:16

Einstein called of this predatory sais

13:19

of human development. we call it

13:21

class society. From ancient slaves societies

13:23

to medieval futile this monarchy societies

13:25

to modern day alienated capitalist societies,

13:27

The thing that ties them altogether

13:30

is a class system in which

13:32

he tiny handful rule. and on

13:34

the. Backs of the masses.

13:38

And we want to get beyond. We

13:40

understand that the people that are rich

13:42

in this fucking country aren't risk of

13:44

their better people. They're not rich to

13:47

their fucking smarter than us. They're not

13:49

rich. Could they worked harder than us?

13:51

All those lies are lies. That's all

13:53

bullshit. We don't. We're in sample his

13:55

buddy system. We want to grow up

13:57

beyond it. And people like hopefully me.

14:00

Certainly like you who feel these

14:02

feelings, who feel this rage, who

14:04

can see through the bullshit with

14:06

extreme fucking eagle eyed clarity. Or

14:09

on the cutting edge. Of

14:11

that movement, out of our

14:13

species adolescence and into a

14:15

much more mature adulthood. And

14:18

in order to get to

14:20

that adulthood and out of

14:22

our species adolescence, it's going

14:24

to in sale the complete

14:26

transcending of class society. And

14:28

it's barbaric brutalities. It's needless

14:30

tragedies, his gut wrenching inequality.

14:33

And is anti human

14:36

anti planet logic. That

14:39

everything is expendable. Everything is there

14:41

to be exploited. Everything is there

14:43

to be extracted from until there

14:45

is nothing but a fucking dry

14:47

husk, a tumbleweed rolling through the

14:50

baron fucking sand dunes of us

14:52

post World War Three ravaged planet.

14:58

And. He was looking to this article. On

15:01

the substance is for his. Oh

15:04

man, I don't know much longer can do this

15:06

Folks at a site on Oh man, I'm

15:10

I'm be in the fuck down by the sheer. Like. The

15:13

seems like the horrors will never stop me. know.