We started out as communists and we're going to end up as communists - but it's not something you can mandate.

Non- mandated communism!

You are not.. It's just that you know what is important.
You fight every day to survive but you have one hell of a good kid and friends.
I see your son's spirit!That is something. .. wish I could say the same.
We barter everyday for life in some form.
It is what we do.
Rated with hugs

BTW- I have never heard of these people before and I think we must have one of every song here..:)

Barter is alive and well here in the hills of Mayberry Trig. We need to do more of it. I would much rather dig in a garden than sit on my ass wearing panyhose and heels typing and talking on the phone. Too bad we cannot return to a time of simpler community.

Dang if that don't look like the gal that got foot-stomped by Rand Paul's goons!

I first heard this song just the other day. I loves it.

Why you gotta be a commie?

I'm going to end up in a Bell Tower picking off little Corporate Executives! Teeheehee!!

Oops, I mean, I'll be on CNN soon!! Teeheehee!! :D

**huge hug**

Rated my friend. I'm a Socialist. I believe everyone should give me stuff. :D

L.. what is IMPORTANT is our REAL friends and FAMILY. I count you as IN. Yes, it is in no small way that my son's spirit that keeps me passionate.

Barter will be the next NEW thing Mission. You know. I know

Tom C. Thanks much for the read and listen. WE will not continue to be stomped...

Nanatehay, I just gottabe... seems more important at this juncture

Awww. You gotta be what you gotta be, and it's good you got peoples to be it with.

The only thing I ask of communists is that they refrain from confiscatory redistribution of wealth and otherwise be fiscally responsible.
The only thing that I ask of capitalists is that they quit being so damn greedy and start being socially responsible.
Do you see a pattern here?

PS: I guess that rules out offering you green paper to go read my post.

bruddah t-

I was in Berkeley recently and the barter economy is very robust already and continuing to gain momentum. Barring system collapse I don't see it ever reversing- it is evolution and these folks are waaaaayyyy ahead, but lets make fun of them cuz they're hippies!

Once solar and EVs take hold, and they are ALL OVER Berkeley right now today, everywhere, and lots of the infernal combustion vehicles are SmartCars and CityCars and by the minute cars, (I wonder how many teen agers with credit cards are taking advantage of these advancements?) anyway once transportation costs are low enough AND everyone is self-employed, which everyone should consider, you can tell THE MAN to take a hike and hang out where the good music is!

Peace Signs!

I am a societal cast off in government terms. I no longer participate. I realize that this makes me ripe for pruning, but give a fark less. Who cares? The 'society' I once knew doesn't.

Tink... As we have discussed, I will build the caskets, for trade...

HL you are sweet and I count YOU as part of my peoples... for better or worse!

Hallman ... YES

Surfer... the times, they are a changin'

Hey.



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was it the 'hippie' part of this post that inspired larry to change his avatar back? inquiring minds want to know. ;;

whoooo, trig, you pinko!!

OMG, freaky hippies make me so happy.Thanks for sharing, comrade trig!

My computer freaks when I delete spam comments.

It is the quietest system I've ever .. had the privilege to NOT listen to.

But delete comments put's her into freak out... She ramps up, amps up.. to the point of making me want to get nervous, like an impending crash is coming.

expect to be called before the House Committee of True Americans
tomorrow for your attitude.
Things indeed are changing,
as long as we change em daily.
Good vibes
are the only currency left,
now that the capitalistWhoreBitch is being burned
per book of revelations
(by MY reading, ha)
and the Kingdom
is ushered in. Inside. In the head. In.

Love a hippy chick tonight, for the Cause, baby.

Leapin'! goood to see ya back in form!~

femme~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Larry has reverted.. consequences yet to be seen.

D Diva!

Sunshine, I could never be a true American of as in " the House Committee of True Americans... expect they could care as much less about me as I do of them!

except, expect ... these confuse me

Equal love here.

You are a good egg, Trig. You and that lovely son.
I can onky hope for us all things get better. But I fear a long cold winter with a bitter wind blowing. I will be glad if we all stay warm and fed here. No matter how we do it. Barter what we can to survive here.

Poor Sinner you non-ratin' Kansan!

PS.. my apologies.. will accept your rate, though non-commercially. Will take it as a pure love rate.

Nothing makes an old hippy happier than watching the kids in cheesecloth dancing to the tune - thanks trig.

... the tune of love, that is.

sloppy pants.

"I may be a communist"

welcome to the party.
hope ya brought some booze.

Hippy is from the Wolof language of Africa. The Wolof word Hipi means aware, eyes wide open.

Guess what hippies do on weekend nights when other people spend an hour getting dressed up to go out and criticize the way other people look? Same thing they do on weeknights when other people are fretting over investments and if their neighbors have better appliances.

Trust me, they aren't worrying if they should buy burgundy washing machines, they are making crazy love. It's how you're supposed to relax after working all day then having dinner with family. Duh.

We make simple stuff complicated. It's all excess bullshit.

Trig:

Now I'm a commie music fan. Thanks. Really. Cool song. Great comments.

Stack o' green, line o' digits, line o'credit.... money is just another form of energy, but its value isn't constant or particularly additive. Keep up the good trade karma, and sometimes you will get that back, sometimes money, but almost always more than you started with.
I traded for a beautiful bed this year.

unamerican! ;)

good morning... off to chase the green paper.

SIGH!!

I agree with everything you've written here . . . I've learned most of it the hard way, too . . . hang in, bro . . .

I agree - the faster we withdraw our labor and money from the US dollar economy the faster the whole thing will collapse. This, combined with the foreign sanctions, is what brought the apartheid regime down in South Africa.

I just wanted to stop in...I'm keeping zipped up on comments on political topics today, which is nothing new. Peace and love.