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Fact Or Fiction: The Hunger Games
One is a dystopian society of haves and have-nots (favored or disfavored) controlled from The Capitol by a totalitarian 'big' government and entertained by reality TV shows... the other is a fictional movie entitled "The Hunger Games"...
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Most will never see the connection
Life imitates art which imitates life which....
Just more opiate for the masses.
After all, dystopia is entertainment.
Sure glad we don't live there, ma!
How the fuck much Blue Pill need you have before....
I know this is slightly off topic. But, I watched all of two minutes of Obama speaking to a San Fransisco crowd of backers today and I had to turn the page out of disgust. I'm amazed at how far our expectations for success in our country have fallen. I just wonder what it will take for the rest of this country to stop nodding there head like zombies for this guy.
Near total economic collapse or a lost war. Anything else will be ignored or explained away.
Life imitates art ... art shits on life.
Entertainment is the opium of the masses.
What I find so amusing is the same liberalist's who fawned over OWS are telling their readers to ape the styles of the 1% in this star-gimmick.
This is on par with people clapping like trained seals for Chaplin's 'the dictator' and musing on it's comedic irony while a world war was brewing.
what is ows?
nevermind. just figured it out. occupy wall street?
nothing wrong with aping one's betters.
when the lower classes emulate the upper classes, one has a society in ascension. when the upper classes emulate the lower classes (marshall mathers, anyone?), that is a society in decline.
I was at the 99 cents only store the other day. The price of eggs just keeps going up. For the needy families who would come in and buy 3 or 4 dozen eggs for 3 or 4 dollars, now they are paying $1.80/dozen. My rich friends do not see this as a problem, but when people rely on eggs to feed their family, this really hurts them a lot.
Are things fucked up enough yet? Yep. And its raining poor people.
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One million playbox type gizmos sole in one night pretty much confirms your premise. Milestones
"...or a lost war."
Do Afghanistan and Iraq count?
No. As long as conscription isn't involved, Americans seem happy to ignore losing guerrilla wars. One of the expensive tub toys in the Persian Gulf being sunk after attacking Iran may count though.
Don't worry. They'll explain away both of those too.
I see two sets of people. One who accept free money. The other who reject the idea of free money and are determined to stay poor.
Who's handing out free money? Where, when? Is it gold or silver? Hell, I don't care about which. Who, where, and when?
"... and are determined to stay poor."
I'd say determined to keep their dignity."
Ahh, the freedom to starve to death amidst the hope and change...
ehe... when you can still buy a 50000 calory hamburger for 5$, you can't speak of hunger games.
Visit Europe for the real expensive foodprices. You'll cry your eyes out.
I can assure you that's not hamburger
pink fuckin slime..........
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You wish, it's probably horse.
That was running around in Britain a while back. I mean horseburgers. The horses were burgerfied on the continent.
I'd rather eat the horse than the shit that's being served.
Other than sentiment, is there anything wrong with eating horse? I mean, is it any worse than beef or chicken?
Hungy no however,malnutrition yes. American food is almost completely devoid of nutrition leading to a population that is both overweight and lacking in nutrition.
Fat sick people with bags of pills.
I have never heard anyone explain what nutrition is. The way people use the word makes me think it means something other than proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
Vitamins, minerals, etc. Store bought vitamins help but you don't get the small amounts of trace v&m that your body also needs to be healthy.
Processed shit in general is just a glob of calories and chemicals that slowly poison you instead of nourishing.
Only 'cos it's a 1200 calorie burger and it costs you $9 or so.
I'm gonna sneak outside the fence tonight and buy some gold.
Feeling a mite peckish?
Stop confusing me with all this stuff about reality resembling fiction. I've given up, and besides, I've got a few past episodes of Dancing with the American Idle Survivors to watch.
Wrestling for snap cards.
Killing for KitKats
Leggo my eggo or I'll rip your fucking face off.
Leggo my SNAP card !?!
Global Debt Crisis - The greatest private fraud of human history
Who are the great fraudsters who are becoming the murderers of the human kind?
How does the economy "illness" threaten Democracy and the freedom of people?
http://eamb-ydrohoos.blogspot.gr/2012/01/global-debt-crisis.html
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World rulers, who, when they lose their jobs, go straight to the “garbage”, have never existed not even in the years of Genghis Khan.
Authored by PANAGIOTIS TRAIANOU
It's Criminal system all based on Fraud. It's been USA, Corp & the Corp. fictional self since. We are all securitized through the Federal Reserve via our birth certificates & traded on the worlds markets. The whole Criminal system/s are based on Criminal Fraud.
Everyone born Unknowingly Into a Criminal System of Debt Bondage & Enslavement. All tied back into the Bankster City of London. Is it ever a wonder why all Attorney's hold a London title of Nobility recognized as Esq.
Chupa, did you see this guy from Montana who said that to a judge?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/24/i-am-the-living-man-protected...
You are right on. Time to break free...
Who do you I think I was paraphrasing? He's The Mountain Man.
He's the living man, no caps. I fucking love that guy.
We have the happiest debt serfs that ever existed. A utopian feudalist society. And people on here are bitching about it, jeeez....
Perhaps it is lost on most, but notice how in the Hunger Games series there was no mention of a world outside of Panem. So what was going on in the world beyond?
Likewise, in most preppers doomdays scenario TEOTWAWI, no thoughts on what's happening in Singapore,Dubai, Panama or Sydney.
How U.S. centric.
FYI, there's a world outside of the USSA and there's a good chance it will not go down as dramatically. It might even prosper.
Are you OK with:
-your SS confiscations going into the general fund to be spent on arming the DHS
- the Fed and all it entails
- constant warmongering
- spy agencies spying on YOU (funded by your own tax dollars)
- ObamaCare
Don't let yourself get caught by the USSA event horizon.
Expand yours.
Here is a great place to avoid being caught by the USSA event horizon:
http://yourescapetoecuador.com/retirement/expat-retirement-communities-i...
If you can't supply something meaningful .... then DON'T TAILGATE ME.
spammer asswipe
"Expat communities" hahaha .... if you're the type that can't learn another languge and mingle with locals .... then stay in Panem. Your place is among sheeple.
Can I bring my extensive firearm collection with me to Ecuador?
Edit: Just looked it up. Ecuador is as repressive as NJ or NY. Fuck Ecuador!
"dollar centric" not US centric. as an American i cannot go to the ATM and convert my dollars into another another currency. i only get dollars. that could change muy rapido in the world of bitcoins. this is not to say "buy bitcoins" (i'm thinking a drop of 90% is in order once Wall Street money shows up)...just saying they could IN THEORY be used as a valuation metric relative to ALL fiat currencies. i'm still trying to figure out who equated "private transactions" with criminal activity...obviously that "equation" has been great for the bit coin market however.
Currently you can go to an ATM (outside the U.S.) and get local currency.
Make no mistake, the window on this is closing. Expect (and plan) for this to change.
If your intention is to get out of Dodge, then you should do it .....yesterday.
It's logical to expect U.S. gov to go full retard in it's death throes. Being within its swinging radius is foolhardy. The best way to avoid trouble is not to be there when it happens.
I am held in place by the people I love. There is no running for me. All of you who can leave, leave. Take three friends with you. In a world of scarcity, more people are not a blessing.
Best thought on getting out - I heard long ago...
It's better to try to get out 3 months early than be 1 second too late
Teenage girls may be the only demo thus far spending MAOR of M&D's disposable income entering the holiday season.
When this group starts to hunker down and stops going to the malls and those teen shit shops like Abercrombie, American Eagle, Forever 21 (all same stuff from Bangladeshi fire houses) than we may have hit the outer limits of consumption.
The popularity of the hunger games series actually has me kind of delusionally hopeful for the future, beats twilight.
I saw the original with my kids and explained that it is real. They said NO WAY DAD! They are young. They will get it. There is hope.
I wish some aspiring documentarian could capture time-lapse videos showing how the price of a Sirloin steak (or any other cut you prefer) has changed since 2001, and have a running bar below it showing real wages of the average U.S. family (excluding the mega-rich). Maybe have that Miley Skankus twerking her grotesque skinny frame in a thong to keep the viewers interested.
Well, even if such a documentary were made, it ain't getting any airtime on any of the boob toob channels. Corp owned and no way the sheeple are actually interested in a utube viral event nor would utube allow such a Doc to go viral and stay up. Owned by Googly, commies thru and thru.
I'd say today's society is a three-headed monster of 1984, Brave New World, and Atlas Shrugged.
Clones, drones and shudda knowns; Big Brother be good to me!
NSA, ....you don't say! listening to me?? to you too?? Their threat assessment teams must be smokin' LSD like hippies do, 'er sumpthin' even worser! Us Okies are pure as the driven snow.
It ain't funny anymore, how fiction does imitiate Life.
Turns out drones don't encrpyt their positional signals obtained from GPS. So, with a little directional spoofing from "hobbiest" expect lots of crashes when they "mistake" down for up. And, of course, lawsuits form the guy whose house they crashed into. Who says they have to be actively armed to destroy stuff?
Drones, good for deserts, citiies, not so much.
Read that trifecta one summer 30 years ago.
Been a libertarian ever since.
I think you should add "Lord of the Flies" as well. No low numbers of those who would pike the heads of patriots and "real" conservatives alike.
Animal Farm? It's been 50 years since that one so I'm not sure.
And clearly, some animals are more equal thank others. Just ask John Corzine
Add one more head for the creature from jekyll island!
I walked out of the theater announcing to my son "this entire story is about a government with too much power and it is already here" Should have seen the looks from the crowd waiting to get in.. Maybe it will inspire one or two..
Donald Sutherland said publically he hopes it inspires a revolution.
Being that he is a hollywood actor, I wonder what type of government he hopes the revolution will bring.
The very fact you got "looks" instead of applause shows how sick and propagandised the general public is. But I guess this is always the case before major global crisis hits, just look at the population of Europe on the eve of WW1, or even the general public in the American states before April 1861.....again, it was all war lust and "it won't last long".
Ultimately the only thing that gives money value is people dying simply because they don't have any.
This is always disguised as a political issue or social issue to give everyone plausible deniability but everyone understands harsh reality.
The greater the threat to the value of the $ the more people must die.
Indeed.
Ghandi hit the nail on the head when he said poverty is the worst kind of violence.
the japanese movies, 'battle royale' versions 1 and 2 are way better than this.
That wasn't quite the point but thanks Roger..
This is up there with the Twilight crap and the zombie craze.
I find it interesting that soccer moms and teenage girls have dropped the vampires for a dystopia that depicts a world of universal surveillance, with a vast gulf between the starving producers and a frivolous upper class all kept in place by a tyrannical police state.
While I was waiting to get in the theater, I had a long conversation with Amy, one of my former students who suffers from M.S. She has been confined to a wheel chair since I have known her. She has been in the same theater collecting tickets from movie goers for the last eighteen years.
She was worried about her job and lamented that she could make more money on welfare than she could working. She believes that the political dysfunction combined with an unraveling economy is evidence of a collapsing system.
Should it all come crashing down, I have a life expectancy of a year, she has even less. I admire her. She is a brave little soul that has turned her back on the handouts.
Listening to her and others, I am convinced that we are not alone. Others see what is coming. The fact that this movie is so popular indicates to me that the middle class is starting to play out the scenarios of collapse and revolution
in their minds.
It's how we little people get by ... what are we supposed to do, do something?
Hide and watch. The least of us may find himself at the point of the fulcrum and by adding the tiniest bit of pressure one way or the other tip the balance. Choose well because the choice you make very will set the future for the yet to be born.
In their minds flash the psychologically polluted commercial media interpretations, perceptions, and values.
This is sure to end well.
Strap yourself to the tree with roots (pick a tree, any tree). You aint goin' no-where.
In USA, mob starts robbing shops when the light goes off for a few hours. I'm sure they will all gallantly care for their neighbor when TSHTF.
Jennifer Lawrence wants me inside her. I just know.
Food stamps on steroids!
Just got done watching "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" about 45 minutes ago. On the way out of the theater, I made a $5 bet with my fourteen year old Granddaughter that they wouldn't make a 3rd Movie in the Series. She took the bet and then asked my why I thought that. I told her that within a year the conditions described in the movie would be too close to reality for the DC Scum to allow it to be made. Might stir the people up too much and get them to thinking.
Let's see who wins the bet.
Have you seen the movie "Bad Grandpa"?
[spolier]
In end of 3rd book hero kills "the good" president when she's leaning towards restoration of tyranny in new colours. How's that for mainstream media?
There is no "United States". The law is only what evil men say it is since domestic enemy of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama , was installed as the "Puppet of Panem", or what ever the name is of the now deceased United States of America. Most likely, after US citizen sovereignty was abrogated by the installation of an illegal non natural born British born subject, the United States has been repatriated to Britain. I guess it is now called "Newer Brittania".
The passage of Obamacare, NDAA, the desecration of mariage, our borders, our money, all prove that there is no "United States", only a rotting corpse being violated by criminals, who's necrophillic (sp.?) lust knows no bounds. We are now being shown our future. They think it's funny. Will there be an awakening by the critical mass necessary (most will remain asleep, "grazing in the grassland away") to water the tree of liberty? Step one is to drag that criminal domestic enemy puppet from the White House. Then all bets are off.
These books are a class lower than 1984 or Brave New World, but there are 2 really good things about them.
- Sacrifice of children is in the front. After all it is the adults that have the power in here and now, yet somehow they will find ways to drop burdens on youth. Be it conscription or debt. You can't vote on draft when you're 12, 14, 16 and aging towards draftable. You can't vote on balanced spending when adults go in debt with a collateral of your future productivity.
- There's a great ending. While the story starts collapsing in 2nd and especially 3rd book it is salvaged by it. Mentality of the opposing team is shown as just a bit upgraded version of the same thing, with more and more features emerging as they're closer to obtaining power. And the hero acts against this in an individual way. She shoot's "her own" president. Leader of the home team. Our man/woman in power.
It's great that it's a hit, with a line of movies in the making. Forget 1500 pages over 3 books, just the line justifing shooting your own president who's eyeing new tyranny is worth it. And a bunch of blue pill people are going to see that next year.
I believe they'll watch it for it's violence, awe inspiring cinematography and drama, and will entirely miss it's correlation to today's society.
The majority of society is pretty frigging stupid and ignorant. But they're really good texters. So they've got that going for them, which is nice.
MOVIES ARE MENTAL RAPE!!!!