@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 0:24

Are we headed for civil war?

Hey, you know, there's been a lot of talks lately, a lot of chatter about, you know, this country possibly going into a civil war due to the elections coming up in November. What do you all think about that? Do you really believe that our country is that close to civil war? Give me your thoughts

#areweready

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@MassiveStack
Joshua Stackhouse
@MassiveStack · 2:29
And you look for a technology and you think, how can this change things? So it's only natural for you to begin thinking about how one thing affects another in a domino fashion, starting around the time when Occupy Wall Street was there, the 2007 crash. That's when I started to look around and realize that historically speaking, we seem to be repeating the patterns of the early 20th century
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 1:55
We have a large group of people who adore him, who are willfully ignorant. They love the conspiracy. If it was going to happen in our lifetimes, we're about as close as it's ever been. And there's a podcast called I Believe it's called It Could Happen Here. And it's a journalist who has spent his career studying civil wars in other countries. And he outlines how it begins, how it happens now
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@Brooke415
Brooke C.
@Brooke415 · 1:25

A nation divided can't stand

That's a good question. I just saw an article I think In The Nation or somewhere where the headline read was a book written by somebody saying that the nation was founded on disunity like that's the actual foundation. And I don't agree with that at all. And I don't want that to be or if there's disagreement over the election either. I don't think that's productive anyway, I don't support that
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@Brooke415
Brooke C.
@Brooke415 · 1:14

Civil war or ....? Who is fighting whom? Besides Trump v media, lose-lose.

One of the things I don't think it's going to be like a polarizing war. I think there is a lot of frustration that will boil over, possibly obviously and understandably. And I don't think it's going to be between, like or Republicans or Democrats or hopefully not racial or anything. I think it's a class war, if anything, that is where the frustration is coming from
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 4:18
So it just occurred to me that civil war, although tragic, is going to be tragic. But maybe it's needed because let's face the facts, the Civil war we had back in the 1800s, it was very tragic. But I think we're all in agreement that it did help the nation develop. It helped in our development. Long run. It helped or maybe not so long run. But it did help
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:47
If there is nanotechnology like he projects, when we reach Singularity and all that stuff, the wealthy will have those nanobots running through their bloodstreams first. And then when machines can work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, they don't need benefits, they don't need vacations, they don't need anything. The lowest, uneducated humans are not even worthy of being a slave at that point. So what happens then?
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 3:45
I see it like it's going to be more racially driven right now because that s*** should have got purged out a long time ago. But people just didn't want to make that hard choice because that is a hard choice. War is always hard. It should always be a last resort. But it's always a hard decision to make. But sometimes you just got to make that decision because to do something outside of that, you can best believe nature is going to correct itself
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 2:36
Unfortunately, what he is doing right now, as mentioned in the other slow this morning, as how he's undermining the USPS and completely trying to suppress mailing ballots. With this pandemic raging for the first time, I really fear that he's going to successfully rig the election and retain onto his power unless the Democrats retain the House and take over the Senate with enough margins. I don't see this going anywhere in such a scenario
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 0:37
I agree with the things Xiaomi just said, but I also just wanted to chime in one last time to say that I had to stop an interview with Xiaomi to listen to a comment from Xiaomi. That's an odd situation that I find myself in. But so far, man, I'm digging the code right play interview. You did. You're a pretty interesting fella. Even though you like Dirty Dancing, I'm willing to look that now that's the kind of guy I am anyway
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:08
As in, there are ways to make the most of this and still come out on top. Regardless. I think this warrants another swell by itself, but I'm going to continue over here. The way I look at automation is when automation does take over. Yes, we are going to lose a lot of jobs and it is going to be extremely painful
@York
York Campbell
@York · 2:26

War is not the answer

There is a common ground, and we have to find that again. Or you guys have to search for that again, rather than labeling one group as the heroes and the other one as the villains. That's my two sense of this. I think there is another way of going about this. Americans still don't need to destroy each other. You don't need to arise from the Ashes. So that's it. For now. This is York from the Poetic Earthlings podcast
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 4:48
Whatever you want to call it America, the more I think about it, a Civil War is inevitable, and it's necessary right now because look at the way things are, things that did not get resolved from the last Civil War. Things never fully got resolved. People are stealing their feelings about that. I live in the south right now. I live in Georgia, so I'm privy to it. I see it every day
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 0:50
And and just one more thing I wanted to say, I forgot as far as those who think that we've made all this great progress, you know, the narrative by a lot of you know, is that you guys shut up because you made all this tremendous progress. Let me share this with you. In 1860s, 98% of black people worked for white people. In 2020, 98% of black people worked work for white people. So Where's the progress
@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 3:31

@York

Interesting discussion. York. I had a couple of points to make. You mentioned that all you see when you turn on your TV is the radical Left burning down US cities. So I have a question for you on that. Is that what you really, really see? Or is that what they want you to see? Or is that what you really want to see? I think if you answer all these three questions truthfully, you'll find an answer a clarification on just that specific topic
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@Brooke415
Brooke C.
@Brooke415 · 2:46

@shammi since Swell has strange archive system, why not?

The last thing you said that I heard was people afraid of change. The reason that they are afraid of change because they don't want to lose their position of power. And in response to that, my answer is that not that they shouldn't be taken down a peg or two, but that we change the system of hierarchy and power as we understand it because I'm a big thinker and I think outside the lines of reality sometimes, but I definitely genuinely believe that
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@dzakyem
Dzakye M
@dzakyem · 3:25

@York a late respose / balance - consensus

And you can have your convictions that somebody either in his or her way of doing things is wrong or in his or her convictions is wrong. That is how they propose to lead a country. Is it to foster to motivate industrial growth or give all the leeway to bosses? And if they exploit people, it doesn't matter. When do you start saying that socialism is going to kill America or some defense of workers and working class people is important
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@York
York Campbell
@York · 2:37
Good morning, Zachiim. Thank you so much for your response. In the past few days in the States, what we've seen is an outcry. There is a lot of socalled, peaceful protesters that are creating tremendous violence. They're burning down buildings. They're even intimidating residents in their home. There is changes that needs to be made in the States. There is. But this is just not the way to go about it. And the news media doesn't help
@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 2:59
That's real life, not utopia. And some fantasy where people think the only way to respond to non violence or the only way to respond with violence is with non violence. That's how they want us to keep responding, shoot us in the back, kill us in the streets. But then you n***** need to react nonviolently. That's what they want. And then we got people coming through telling us that's not the way to go about it
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 3:31
And on the flip side, Rachel Maddow isn't going to twist my mind. I'm going to examine the situation. I'm going to see what I think about it. And that's pretty much how it goes. And so I don't buy into this idea that we hear constantly. I hear Trump supporters say it all the time. Oh, the media taxes President like no other. But I will read his tweets. Did the media do that? I see what he's saying
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 1:42
And that goes to whoever is responsible for deciding what's going to be newsworthy for that particular station or not, because that's another aspect of the news that a lot of people aren't aware of, because they wonder, well, why is this type of story on the news as opposed to that story? That's because you have a group of people who sit around in that company and decide which stories are going to be relayed on the news
@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:32

https://bit.ly/2EGBEd5

Here's the article link. I think you were referring to Robin. There is a 75 character limit on the text you post for replies and I think your link is getting cut off. We are going to be working on that in the coming release. It's already something I think the product team has picked up for the coming release, but until then what we've been doing is using any shortening service to shorten the URL we post in a reply if it exceeds the length
@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 3:55
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Robin, I'm not saying the media doesn't do their job. I'm saying that the desire for their product is there. First, let's take the two examples that you cited the war in Iraq and Donald Trump, the war in Iraq. Now what did the media do?
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@Mtwadamela
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 2:34
But I have seen where they had on their own created a couple of times. I can really recall where they created a narrative, whether it was true or not. And everybody ran with it. One I recall I recall when 911 1st happened, and I may be wrong, but I was 100% on the coverage all day. Who was it? It was on every channel, all day, every day. For the first two weeks, there was no way to escape it
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@AverageJoe
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 0:32
Man, if I'd had known that Zen saying I would have had a better economy of words with my post cuz. That sure shortened it up with a nice bow on it because, yeah, that's exactly exactly what I'm saying. When the student is ready, the Master appears. And in these cases, the Masters are Fox News and MSNBC. Trump. And whoever your desired master, they're there waiting for you
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