The Nation of Hamsters: A Love Story.
Trained to Run the Wheel, Conditioned to Love the Cage, and Programmed Never to Ask for a Key.
Pull up a chair, sweetheart, but don't get comfortable. Comfort is not on the menu. Comfort is for the people upstairsāthe penthouse crowd with their silk smiles and steel bootsāwhile the rest of us are told to be grateful for the crumbs and call it character-building.
Youāve been sold a bedtime story. Liberty. Choice. Opportunity. A darling little fairy tale, read nightly by well-paid anchors with perfect teeth and vacant eyes.
They croon it so smoothly you don't notice your wallet missing, your future pawned, your brain gently wrapped in bubble wrap and labeled fragileādo not think too hard.
Let's stop pretending this circus is run by clowns. The clowns are the distraction. The ringmasters donāt wear red noses; they wear tailored suits and invisibility. They don't campaign; they commission. They don't argue in public; they decide in private.
The elected puppets are just there to wiggle and smile, to give you the adorable illusion that your little X on a ballot means something. It means as much as clapping during a pre-recorded show.
Education? Please. Education is kept on a strict dietājust enough calories to keep the workforce upright, never enough to make it dangerous. You are trained, not taught. Conditioned, not enlightened.
The goal is not curiosity; it's compliance. Ask fewer questions. Memorize more nonsense. Sit still. Ring the bell. Repeat. Graduate with debt and gratitude. Perfect.
They don't want thinkers. Thinkers are messy. Thinkers ask why the ladder keeps getting taller while the rungs keep disappearing. They want operators. Box-tickers. Button-pushers. People exhausted enough to confuse survival with success and burnout with virtue.
And while youāre busy running faster on a treadmill bolted to the floor, the vault is being emptied. Your wages shrink, your hours grow, your safety nets quietly develop "administrative issues." Benefits evaporate. Promises expire.
Retirement becomes a charming antique concept, like pensions or honesty. And somehowāmiraculouslyāthe money always ends up back where it started: in the hands of people who already had too much of it.
Media, bless its heart, is the lullaby. Donāt call it news; call it mood management. You're told who to fear, who to mock, who to blameāand never, ever who's actually picking your pockets. They keep you fighting your neighbor over scraps while the banquet disappears behind velvet ropes.
Here's the punchline, darling, and itās not funny: the system works exactly as designed. The problem isn't that it's broken. The problem is that itās brilliantly effectiveāat extracting, exhausting, and anesthetizing.
And the most tragic part? The decent, overworked, underpaid peopleāgood peopleāare coaxed into defending the very arrangement that's squeezing the breath out of them. Loyalty to a myth is a powerful sedative.
Itās an exclusive club, all right. Very chic. Very closed. And youāre not a memberāyouāre the product. The audience. The resource. The punchline.
Smile for the cameras. Go back to work. And whatever you doādonāt wake up.
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One of these people has spent two years murdering innocent children in #Gaza.
The other has chronicled his war crimes and is seeking justice for his victims.
Guess which one gets standing ovations in the #US?
Guess which one is banned.
#GazaGenocideā
Intervening in a fake genocide while supporting a real one. To remind: Yes, there are Christian victims of the ISIS-linked groups in Nigeria but there are more Muslim victims of the same groups. There is no genocide.
This is just playing to a gallery at home.
Grateful @TheIFS@IsaacDelestre answering my question (upvoted to most popular) on their view on ridiculous tax cliff edges such as £100k & AA taper
Answer from the IFS - "we hate them"
And a clear message to @RachelReevesMP they would like her to address them
RT if u agree!
@annalandre Jesus that is awful. Anna. Next level, P45 awful. Perhaps youāre not so vindictive, but I would rain down fire on these petty, cruel, patronising muppets.
@rustyrockets Russell. I know youāre smarter than this, so are you disingenuous. Your readers may not be as smart, they may believe you, with consequent avoidable death and disability. Do you want that on your conscience? Great power = Great responsibility. Use your powers for good.
@elonmusk Musk and Carlson. Two more disingenuous fascists you will struggle to find. Listen to a white male (reportedly adds credence) adding some much needed context to the state of āpost-apartheidā South Africa.
https://t.co/RFhEk5DwIn
HOW APARTHEID MADE WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS RICH
According to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), 64 per cent of Black South Africans are living in poverty. However, only one per cent of their White counterparts are poverty-stricken.
The anomaly is not just in the numbers; the reality on the ground also shows that South Africa is still a country of two different societies existing side by side, one rich and primarily White, and the other, poor and Black.
This glaring inequality between the two demographics has been a source of intense debate for decades. One question that is often asked is why this situation remains unchanged even after the fall of the apartheid system in 1994. Could White people be more prosperous because they are more hardworking? South African media personality Dan Corder has got the answer to this question. It is an answer that most racists might not like. In this video clip, Corder explains the different racist policies and laws that the apartheid regime put in place to give White people a head start - one that theyāre still profiting from today.