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Stinky The Clown
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:12 PM Original message |
Is the shit in which we're standing today deeper than it has been in the past? |
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bemildred
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. Historically speaking, we are just warming up, IMHO. nt |
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lumberjack_jeff
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yes. In every imaginable sense, worse than anyone alive now has ever seen. n/t |
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Newest Reality
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. Looks pretty bad |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. read The Jungle, and compare today to those times.. |
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Missy Vixen
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Could one survive during the time "The Jungle" was written |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. they had a hard enough time affording food and not freezing to death in the streets. |
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redqueen
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Jobs where they had to work 10-12 hours a day. |
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Missy Vixen
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Anyone who works for a startup in the software industry works those hours, too |
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redqueen
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I was referring more to factory workers. |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:45 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. thats JUST like working 16 hours shifts in a foundry or slaughterhouse! |
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Missy Vixen
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:32 PM Response to Reply #27 |
48. Yeah, you're funny, aren't you? |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:36 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. if you're comparing office work to risk of getting crushed to death by livestock or heavy machinery, |
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Missy Vixen
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. I get the OP's point |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:43 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. you've bought the OP's bullcrap hyperbole, is all you've done... |
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newspeak
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
34. come on, you're going to make some modern corporate robber baron |
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LanternWaste
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:52 PM Response to Reply #22 |
57. How many six-year olds are getting maimed by the slaughtering machines in these new start-ups? |
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Romulox
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:36 PM Response to Reply #57 |
64. Child labor is still legal in America's fields. Please educate yourself. |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. and job with a very high likelihood of a crippling or fatal injury. |
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redqueen
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:52 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. I have to say... |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. +1 |
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Missy Vixen
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Maybe you might want to research the spike in hunger and homelessness since 2008 |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:42 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. be that as it may, it's foolish to equate the two eras. zero social safety net. |
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WildNovember
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:55 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. There actually was a safety net at the time if 'the jungle'. Home relief, settlement houses, |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:08 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. comparable to modern day subsidized housing, food stamps, unemployment benefits? |
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WildNovember
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:11 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. you said "zero safety net". just clarifying the record. |
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redqueen
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. +1 |
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TheWraith
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #4 |
46. Yes indeed, and thank you for that. |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:46 PM Response to Reply #46 |
55. we sure got problems, but for people typing on computers to claim they have it worse, |
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TheWraith
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Wed Nov-30-11 06:48 PM Response to Reply #55 |
70. Agreed. The world could be better, but it WILL be better, and was much worse before. |
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Romulox
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
59. *You* should read about the bubonic plague. Those meatpackers didn't know how good they had it! |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. is there a point in that post, anywhere? i can't seem to find it.... |
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Romulox
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:33 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. It's the same point *you* made: somebody else had it worse, so shut your mouth. nt |
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dionysus
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:40 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. i see. you must be confused, or haven't read the OP correctly... |
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Romulox
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. Nonsense. Your small imagination simply put an artificial time limit on "the past". |
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Missy Vixen
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. We have the technology to avoid some shit |
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PETRUS
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Looking at the lowest rungs of the ladder. |
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PETRUS
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. It seems awful. |
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The2ndWheel
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. Prisoners of history, slaves to the future |
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librechik
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. i'm just blown away by the correctness of your grammar |
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hifiguy
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
11. It's worse than it has been in my lifetime, by a long shot. |
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Major Hogwash
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
12. Are they serving shit sandwiches along with that shit soup? |
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stellanoir
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
13. Just past the critical mass stage I'd guess & |
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kenny blankenship
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
14. So deep that it is now reaching the fan, which it shall soon be hitting. |
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Kermitt Gribble
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
33. That's a great point! |
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DirkGently
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Wed Nov-30-11 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
15. The cumulative results of money-over-people policies are reaching crisis, is all. |
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MADem
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
18. No. |
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pacalo
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
19. Considering economic problems plus ideological divisions, it's worse than centuries past. |
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Amonester
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
21. As time goes by, the overall population expands, while the resources |
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CrispyQ
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
28. Climate change will intensify all other issues. |
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XemaSab
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
31. Here are the things that freak me out the most: |
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woo me with science
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Wed Nov-30-11 05:54 PM Response to Reply #31 |
69. Good post. |
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Octafish
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Wed Nov-30-11 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
32. Much deeper because most people can't smell it. |
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hifiguy
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #32 |
40. Indeed. |
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woo me with science
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:17 PM Response to Reply #32 |
58. Well said. We are becoming slaves of a system that is in many ways inescapable, |
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Huey P. Long
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
38. The outer edges of the shitstorm is just now making itself known. |
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Yavin4
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
39. It's The Same Shit |
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bvar22
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
41. The really bad part... |
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Fire Walk With Me
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
42. We have some problems to solve. They've become obvious so we CAN solve them. |
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PassingFair
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Wed Nov-30-11 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
43. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... |
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PufPuf23
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
44. A mass die-off of the human species is a certainty because |
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Blue_In_AK
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
45. Um, I think it's pretty deep. |
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Vanje
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
47. Thats not shit! |
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Angry Dragon
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
49. YES |
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Aerows
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
53. It has been piled higher and deeper |
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AngryAmish
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
54. By almost all respects people in the US live in the greatest time ever |
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LanternWaste
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Wed Nov-30-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
56. The "deep shit" from years past turns into an entertaining academic lesson |
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Blue Owl
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
60. Not to mention we're standing on our heads |
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Aerows
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:46 PM Response to Reply #60 |
68. +1 Biggest problem |
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MilesColtrane
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
62. We've got it great compared to those who had to live through the... |
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Romulox
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Wed Nov-30-11 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
67. The empire is unwinding, and the PTB are fighting with all of their energy against the inevitable. |
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EFerrari
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Wed Nov-30-11 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
71. Stinky, would you check this out? I posted it late last night. |
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