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7 August 2023 Jun A US comedian that often discussed deep political subjects and very often hit the mark.
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| − | |text=Governments don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. That’s against their interests. 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 the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. | + | |text=Governments don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that... that doesn't help them. That’s against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they are getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don't want that. 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 the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. |
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Revision as of 00:14, 22 December 2017
 George Carlin      (comedian) | |
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| Born | George Denis Patrick Carlin 1937-05-12 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 2008-06-22 (Age 71) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Children | Kelly Carlin |
| Spouse | Brenda Hosbrook |
| Interests | Politics |
George Carlin was a comedian who happened to get interested in politics towards the end of his life, and whose attention to detail and rhetorical flare meant that his remarks about deep politics were both well delivered and very close to the mark. He has been called "one of the greatest political pundits in American history".[1]
Quotations
“It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.”
George Carlin [3]
Quotes by George Carlin
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| "State of emergency" | “Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away, They're privileges.” | |
| Corporate media/Logic | “Now, to balance the scale, I'd like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. 'Cause that's all you ever hear about in this country. It's our differences. That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about—the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That's the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different—that's what they're gonna talk about—race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs.” | Wikiquote |
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7 August 2023 Jun A US comedian that often discussed deep political subjects and very often hit the mark.
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