https://szymczyks.com/ Recent content on Szymczyks.com Hugo en-us Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:41:09 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/people-seem-ok-with-corporate-rule/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:41:09 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/people-seem-ok-with-corporate-rule/ I’m surprised how many people think that corporations can do whatever they want. If you don’t like it, tough. Read the following Reddit thread about publishing ebooks on Amazon. For some background information, if you sell an ebook on Amazon and price the book in the range of $2.99 to $9.99, you get 70 percent of the book price and Amazon gets 30 percent. If you charge less than $2.99 or more than $9. https://szymczyks.com/places-to-find-criticism-of-trump-and-republicans/ Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:38:43 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/places-to-find-criticism-of-trump-and-republicans/ In a blog comment, a commenter named Hugh stated the following: I get a little tired of seeing 6 paragraphs on the evils of the Democrats who have not controlled the Senate or Presidency for the last 4 years and one short sentence or none on Trump and the Republicans. I know it’s difficult to find media outlets that criticize Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but I will provide a short list of places for Hugh and others like him to find criticism of Donald Trump and Republicans. https://szymczyks.com/cleveland-fans-most-valued-sporting-events/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:58:06 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/cleveland-fans-most-valued-sporting-events/ Many people who live under corporate rule use sports as a coping mechanism. They follow professional and college sports as a way to unwind. I live in the Cleveland metropolitan area, and the following list shows the sporting events Cleveland sports fans value the most: Fake Browns playoff game Fake Browns regular season game NFL Draft Fake Browns preseason game Cleveland Indians World Series game Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Finals game Any other sporting event involving Cleveland teams As you can see by the list, Cleveland fans prefer NFL football to any other sport. https://szymczyks.com/just-doing-my-job/ Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:49:59 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/just-doing-my-job/ A perk of living under corporate rule is that you can get away with doing awful things if you do them as part of your job duties. Some examples include the following: Drone operators killing people overseas Police officers killing unarmed people Debt collectors harassing poor people unable to pay debts Telemarketers annoying people with unwanted phone calls Payday lenders charging exorbitant rates to borrow money The standard defense for the awful acts is “I’m just doing my job. https://szymczyks.com/youre-angry-at-the-wrong-people/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 20:23:17 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/youre-angry-at-the-wrong-people/ When you live under corporate rule, there’s a lot to anger you. The problem is directing the anger at the wrong targets. If you are angry at any of the following groups, you are angry at the wrong people: Democrats Republicans Trump supporters Anti-vaxxers Environmentalists Socialists Blacks Jews Immigrants Transgenders Homosexuals NRA members Evangelical Christians People who won’t fear face masks https://szymczyks.com/free-speech/ Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:47:56 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/free-speech/ Most people’s view of free speech. I can say whatever I want. People I like should be able to say what they want. People I don’t like should shut up. https://szymczyks.com/the-difference-between-education-and-indoctrination/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:14:50 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/the-difference-between-education-and-indoctrination/ Education is teaching children something that I agree with. Indoctrination is teaching children something that I disagree with. https://szymczyks.com/speaking-out/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 19:26:17 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/speaking-out/ Our corporate overlords want to keep us talking. Talking is the most important thing. For every issue we should talk about it, have a debate about it, have a national conversation if necessary. Words matter. Speak out. Currently in the United States we’re supposed to speak out about police officers killing unarmed black people. If you don’t speak out about this, you condone the killing. I am a white person living in the United States. https://szymczyks.com/ways-to-spot-a-partisan-hack/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 02:40:52 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/ways-to-spot-a-partisan-hack/ The United States is teeming with partisan hacks so your chances of encountering one are high. The following are signs someone is a partisan hack: Blames everything bad that happens on one party. Points out everything bad one party does and ignores the bad things their party does. Thinks Barack Obama’s presidency was great and George W. Bush’s and Donald Trump’s presidencies were terrible. This will identify a Democratic Party hack. https://szymczyks.com/pornographic-democracy/ Sat, 11 Apr 2020 01:27:33 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/pornographic-democracy/ Remember the following quote from Linh Dinh’s Pornographic Democracy article when you see people get worked up over the 2020 presidential election: Pornography multiplies frequency, duration, angles, positions and sexual partners, an endless and eternal sexual buffet, except that none of it is really happening. Similarly, American democracy gives the appearance of boundless participation by all citizens, for they can’t just vote in caucuses and elections, but cheer at conventions, march in protest, write letters to newspapers, comment on the internet and follow, blow by blow, the serial mud wrestling between opposing politicians. https://szymczyks.com/people-forget-how-bad-george-w-bushs-presidency-was/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:48:21 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/people-forget-how-bad-george-w-bushs-presidency-was/ In the constant hysteria about Donald Trump, people need to remember how bad George W. Bush’s presidency was. Take a look at the following list of Bush’s accomplishments: Installed to the presidency by the Supreme Court in 2000 Sept. 11 attacks Patriot Act Afghanistan War Guantanamo Bay Torture Suspension of habeas corpus Lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq Iraq War Tax cuts for the wealthy No Child Left Behind Clean Skies Initiative Healthy Forests Initiative And Bush did all of these things in his first term. https://szymczyks.com/nuclear-program/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:13:56 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/nuclear-program/ Have you noticed when the American news media talks about Iran, they always use the term “nuclear program” and not “nuclear weapons program”? Why does the news media always use the term “nuclear program”? The news media knows Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, but they want people to think Iran does. By not including the word weapons, they avoid lying. The reader (print) or viewer (television) assumes they’re talking about nuclear weapons. https://szymczyks.com/the-united-states-government-is-not-accountable-to-voters-by-design/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 20:37:59 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/the-united-states-government-is-not-accountable-to-voters-by-design/ The federal government of the United States is massive. Off the top of my head I can think of the following entities: President Congress Supreme Court Military CIA FBI NSA DEA FCC EPA State Department Treasury Department (which includes IRS) Justice Department Department of Labor Department of Agriculture Department of Education Department of Energy Department of Transportation Commerce Department The federal government is huge, with tens of thousands of employees. A voter in the United States had a say in the selection of four of these employees: President, one member of the House, and two senators. https://szymczyks.com/fluff-propaganda-and-partisan-shills/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:02:06 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/fluff-propaganda-and-partisan-shills/ Television news is a combination of fluff, propaganda, and partisan shills. Local news is mostly fluff with some propaganda mixed in. National news is a combination of propaganda and fluff. Cable news adds partisan shills to the mix because they have 24 hours to fill instead of 30 minutes. A huge problem in the United States is that people get their news from the TV and assume it’s true. Good luck trying to convince someone that what the TV told them isn’t true. https://szymczyks.com/who-is-a-whistleblower-and-who-isnt/ Sun, 10 Nov 2019 20:59:16 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/who-is-a-whistleblower-and-who-isnt/ If you are trying to determine if someone is really a whistleblower, take the hint from the following blog post: Hint – if what the whistleblower is saying is exactly what his or her employer wants to have said, he or she is no whistleblower! https://szymczyks.com/what-the-ruling-class-really-thinks-of-soldiers/ Sun, 10 Nov 2019 20:53:17 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/what-the-ruling-class-really-thinks-of-soldiers/ On this Veterans Day weekend when people fawn over veterans and the military, let’s not forget what the ruling class really thinks of our brave troops. Remember the following quote from Henry Kissinger: Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. https://szymczyks.com/a-hypothetical-deal-for-anti-trumpers/ Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:47:32 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/a-hypothetical-deal-for-anti-trumpers/ I’m testing a hypothesis on why people dislike Donald Trump. Suppose someone offers you the following deal: Donald Trump leaves office in January 2020. You get to choose his successor. His successor must be a Republican. His successor will serve until at least January 2025. You have to live with a Republican president for five years, but you get to pick that Republican president. Do you take the deal? If so, who do you pick as Trump’s successor? https://szymczyks.com/labor-day/ Sun, 01 Sep 2019 16:43:50 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/labor-day/ As Labor Day approaches, let us thank our corporate overlords. They treat workers so well the workers have nothing to complain about and have no reason to form unions. You’re doing a wonderful job, overlords. https://szymczyks.com/the-liberal-replacement-for-confederate-monuments/ Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:21:16 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/the-liberal-replacement-for-confederate-monuments/ A dream of liberals is for Confederate states to replace their Civil War monuments with monuments that have the following message: The sole reason for seceding from the Union was to continue to enslave black people and mistreat them. Everyone who fought for the Confederacy was an evil racist. Their deaths should not be remembered in any way. Southerners are vile racists and terrible people. Thank you, Northerners, for pointing out the truth to us. https://szymczyks.com/a-list-of-untrustworthy-media-sources/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:13:49 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/a-list-of-untrustworthy-media-sources/ Read the addendum at the end of the following article: Good Job, Tim Pool If you don’t want to read the article, here’s the list of untrustworthy media sources. The Washington Post The New York Times The Atlantic Magazine CNN NBC/MSNBC ABC CBS Fox News Vox Media Vice Newsweek/The Daily Beast The Huffington Post Buzzfeed Salon Media Matters Slate USA Today National Public Radio The Guardian The BBC https://szymczyks.com/in-bed-with-dictators/ Tue, 07 May 2019 22:06:26 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/in-bed-with-dictators/ Anyone who opposes the wars the United States is currently waging or opposes future wars is accused of being in bed with dictators. If you want the United States out of Syria or don’t want them to invade Venezuela, you’re in bed with dictators. See Definition of a Dictator to know what a dictator is. https://szymczyks.com/definition-of-a-dictator/ Sun, 05 May 2019 18:51:33 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/definition-of-a-dictator/ A dictator is the leader of a country that the United States government does not like. Examples include the leaders of Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, and Russia. https://szymczyks.com/stop-blaming-global-warming-for-everything/ Thu, 02 May 2019 22:14:37 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/stop-blaming-global-warming-for-everything/ Human economic activity causes great environmental destruction. It spews poison in the air and in rivers, lakes, and oceans. It destroys forests, wilderness, and other species. The environmental destruction is a small price to pay for our corporate overlords to increase their profits every year and accumulate more money. But environmentalists turn people away from their cause when they blame every weather event on global warming. They blame global warming for the following weather events: https://szymczyks.com/tv-news-needs-a-warning/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 18:39:42 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/tv-news-needs-a-warning/ Television shows that have things that aren’t suitable for children, such as graphic violence and foul language, have a warning at the start of the program. The warning helps parents shield their children from viewing inappropriate material. Television news needs a similar warning, but not about violence or profanity. They need a warning that they are providing disinformation. The warning should be the following quote from former CIA director William Casey in 1981: https://szymczyks.com/why-isnt-the-nra-supporting-sebastian-telfair/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 18:53:31 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/why-isnt-the-nra-supporting-sebastian-telfair/ Sebastian Telfair is a former NBA player. He is facing a prison sentence of up to 15 years for possessing a firearm. According to the NRA, possessing a firearm is a right guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution. Where’s the outrage for someone being sentenced to prison for exercising their constitutional rights? https://szymczyks.com/my-job-is-hard-your-job-is-easy/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:53:21 +0000 https://szymczyks.com/my-job-is-hard-your-job-is-easy/ The title of this post is the mantra of the American worker. The corporate overlords love this mantra, as it keeps the workers divided.