"You know what they want? They want..." - Quote by George Carlin
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
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“They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!”
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“No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.”
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