Double Whammy
The "double whammy" is a situation when two unpleasant things happen at the same time or in short succession. It might surprise some of you that we're living the double whammy. We're screwed, not once, but twice over.
source: YouTube
"Last Saturday the New York Yankees faced the double whammy of multiple injuries and a surprisingly strong opponent." That's an example of the use of this term. Two unfortunate things coinciding to make life miserable for a while. The double whammy that's the subject of this post however is a permanent one, and one that's here to stay for the foreseeable future. That is at least until we dismantle capitalism, the socioeconomic system in which all fortunes flow in one direction, and it's never in your direction. Everything in our world is rigged in favor of capitalists. "The best slave is the one who thinks he's free." I can think of no better description of the 99 percent than slaves who think they're free, as capitalism constitutes a genuine class-dictatorship in which the capitalist class extracts nearly all the wealth created with the labor of workers from the natural resources on the planet.
Looking at it this way, we're actually living a double double whammy; first our labor is exploited, the labor that creates products, then those products are sold back to us at a price that's a lot higher than what we were paid for that labor, and then we pay taxes that's for the most part gifted to our exploiters. We pay for our products not once, not twice, but three times at the very least. Billionaires will say that they're against government subsidies, but we all know that's a lie. As an example I'll mention Elon Musk again, who earned that right by being a chief liar among liars, who speaks out against government subsidies, but whose companies have received billions of dollars in government subsidies: Elon Musk is speaking out against government subsidies. Here's a list of the billions of dollars his businesses have received.
I could have mentioned your average tech company, oil company or agricultural business; they're all funded by the government, with public money coming from our taxes. And that's after we've already paid them with our time and labor. If you still believe that you're paid a wage, that your boss is your benefactor, I'd ask you to wake up. If you're paid $10 an hour, you made the boss $20 an hour; he robbedyou of $10 an hour every hour you've sacrificed to make him money. And on top of that your tax dollars go into his pockets as well, through subsidies, bailouts and other gifts with fancy sounding names. That is if you're working for one of the large companies, like Elon Musk's. And while they've got this sweet deal going on, they'll oppose higher taxes for the rich, and say the government shouldn't control "capital." Because that would be bad. The world would fall apart if the rich were asked to pay their fair share, of course.
As if this isn't enough, let's remind ourselves that capital doesn't like to take risks. They won't invest unless there's a good chance for a quick return on that investment, and a profit after that. That means that most of the modern technologies used to make our lifes more comfortable have been developed through research paid for by public money. Almost nothing in your Iphone was invented by Apple. Almost nothing in your Tesla automobile was invented by Musk or Tesla; almost everything, from GPS to Wifi and from the internet to DNA sequencing has been developed with public money, mostly in universities. All funded by our tax dollars. Here's an especially aggravating snippet from the above linked article:
Like many other wealthy Americans, Musk has spoken out against a proposed "billionaires' tax" from Sen. Ron Wyden, writing on Twitter in October that "eventually, they run out of other people's money, and then they come for you."
source: Business Insider
That should make your blood boil if you have even the slightest understanding of how our world functions. A few months ago someone on Twitter suggested to Elon Musk that he should buy Twitter. Musk responded with a short and casual "How much is it?" If someone can say that, and then go on to buy a platform that's vital for public communication, that someone clearly has way too much power. It's as if someone suggested to him he should buy the democracy... Anyhow, watch the below linked video that was the direct inspiration for this short rant if you want to know more about the double whammy caused by Musk and his billionaire peers.
There Are No Good Billionaires (and why you're paying for their wealth)
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Are any of you people going to fucking say or do anything about what the scum in this place did to palikari. Its just so fucking pathetic to think he spent all him time here with all of you, and nobody bothers to help against this rot of scum. The amount of pure fucking hatred these people have to build an entire network of filthy scoundrels and bullies who protect criminals and fraud, over a persons life is despicable. Its a disgrace, that they are now targeting his family members to hide the rot by doing everything they can to silence and intimate us, as well as make sure they can do everything possible to wipe him from existence and not have any access to services and the right to speak openly anywhere about any of it. Look at what they did to all his accounts, to hide the fraud. The insider theft and cheating at splinterlands. The people who bullshit everyone about freedom of speech, are the worst anti-free speech hypocrites of all. These are the people who are responsible for shutting him and now us, down everywhere. There is nowhere to go. They control everything. And everyone protects the fraudsters and their insider ponzi.
The 'insider ponzi' persists because nobody has laid out a coherent set of facts proving it exists.
Mostly we get emotional outbursts, name calling, and very little in the way of facts.
This is a blockchain, if what you say is true it is recorded in the chain, you only have to point us to it and plenty of people will jump on the bandwagon.
You must be joking. Please don't insult me with that regurgitated crap that comes from the mouths of the very same people who did this in the first place. This is the exact kind of useless response they have given all of us from day one. They control everything. They control all communication channels. I JUST TOLD YOU THERE IS NOWHERE TO GO, BECAUSE WE ARE BLOCKED EVERYWHERE. THIS IS COLLUSION FROM EVERYONE FROM THE TOP DOWN, AND RESTRAINT OF TRADE BECAUSE THEY ALSO COLLUDED TO REMOVE HIS ACCOUNTS FROM SERVICES. THEY HAVE BLOCKED US FROM MESSAGING THEM DIRECTLY FROM THE VERY TOP. ALL THE MODERATORS AND STAFF MEMBERS AT SPLINTERLANDS HAVE DOME THE SAME. THEY ARE PAID TO DO EXACTLY THAT. BE CORRUPT LAPDOGS. THEY CONTROL THE GAME. THEY CONTROL ALL THE CHAT ROOMS. SO HOW THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT ME TO HAVE ANY CHANCE OF TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT IT.
Most of the evidence has nothing to do with the "blockchain", so why bother giving me that bullshit. We are talking about splinterlands, not the blog site.
Theyhave private channels, they have private databases. Then all you clowns sitting around talking about peace love freedom and transparency. ITS ALL BULLSHIT, and id hidden from the top colluders that run the whole show on here.
You all sit around talking and complaining about your rights and free speech day in and day out. You all sit around crying like babies about the evil governments taking your rights ways. But here you are now, being vague and protecting a real conspiracy right under your own noses. AND ALL BECUSE OF FUCKING GREED AND PURE HATRED.
These people are behaving like true dictators, and do the exact opposite of what you all preach. You are all full of shit in this place, so I don't why I even bothered trying to reason with anyone. You are all on the payroll, obviously, which is why nobody says a fucking word about any of it.
Not only are we blocked everywhere, but all evidence that was in their chat rooms has been scrubbed because they control it all. They use their power and control to harass, intimidate, and completely shut down anyone they fear might call them out. They have also have the ability to scrub all the evidence from the game of all the cheating, because they can removed all the games from database that proves the collusion, fraud and direct insider involvement. Its a private database. SO much for "transparency", so shove the blockchain crap where it fits. Its all hidden.
WHAT A WASTE OF FUCKING TIME IT IS TALKING TO ANY OF YOU. WHEN YOU ARE ALL DOING THE SAME THING. WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE IT IS THAT ALL OF YOU SIT AROUND LIKE SPECTATORS AND PEDDLE THIS BULLSHIT THAT COMES FORM THE BIGGEST FRAUDS ON THIS PLATFORM
I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO HAVE AN EMOTIONAL OUTBURST AS WELL. THESE MOTHER FUCKERS DELIBERATELY TARGETED SOMEONE HO THEY KNEW WAS IN A FRAGILE STATE WITH THEIR HEALTH. IT WAS FUCKING HATRED AND DELIBERATELY DONE TO DESTROY THEM AND THEY DID. CONGRATULATIONS ARSEHOLES, KEEP DEFENDING SCUM AND PRETEND THAT THIS IS ALL ABOVE BOARD. THEY HAVE DELETED ALL AND ANY REFERENCE TO THEIR HIDEOUS CRIMES IN THEIR CHAT ROOMS, BECAUSE THEY ARE FILTHY ANIMALS AND TOTAL SCUMBAGS.
THEY HAVE PERMANENTLY BANNED ME FROM THE SPLINTERLANDS CHAT ROOM FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN PURE HATRED AND SPITE, JUST LIKE THEY DID TO PALIKARI. THIS IS A DISGRACE. FREE SPEECH COCKSUCKING HYPOCRITES. ONLY FRAUDSTERS FEAR PEOPLE TALKING OPENLY ABOUT THEIR ACTIONS.
THEY HAVE ALL COLLUDED, SO DONT GIVE ME THIS BULLSHIT. LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT THEY GO TO, TO COMPLETELY SILENCE US BY DESTROYING HIS ACCOUNTS. AND THE COWARDS WILL NOT EVEN TALK ABOUT IT LET ALONE RESPOND.
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This is how desperate they are to shut me up about it all. To think you fucking arseholes were part of the same community that now openly silences our voices. TOTOAL FUCKING DISGRACE.
Can't even show you the image of me being MUTED, by the same moderators who believe in "FREE SPEECH".
YOU ARE ALL A FUCKING JOKE IN THIS PLACE. FUCK OFF.
FUCKING COWARDS
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