+ Reply to Thread
Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 1 2
Results 21 to 34 of 34

Thread: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

  1. Link to Post #21
    Scotland Avalon Member Ewan's Avatar
    Join Date
    24th February 2015
    Location
    Ireland
    Age
    62
    Posts
    2,424
    Thanks
    51,361
    Thanked 18,844 times in 2,378 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    Constance, someone else who would gain immediate membership to our group of 'People who get it.' ?

    Quote Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa to Sky Sports: "This doesn't surprise me. The most superior teams have managed their superiority through competition. When they no longer need them to win money they discard what they no longer need. This is a very common thing, not only in football. It shouldn't surprise us.

    "The fundamental problem is the rich always aspire to be more rich without considering the consequences for the rest. As they gain more power they start demanding more privilege over the rest.

    "The most powerful are powerful because of what they bring but the rest are dispensable. What makes competition great is the possibility for one of those weak teams to develop, not the big teams playing each other. But the logic of the world at the moment and in football is not outside this - that the powerful become more rich as a consequence of the weak becoming more poor. If this was is what guides the world at the moment why is there such astonishment. This shouldn't surprise us. It was something that was coming."
    99% of you won't know - why should you! In England today, well yesterday, at 23:15 the so called big 6 in the Premier League, (Football, Soccer), announced their intention to form a breakaway group for a European Superleague. Everyone immediately saw it for exactly what it was, a money grab - whilst killing competition. Guess what, 5 of the 6 have American controlling interests and the other is basically owned by an Investment Fund!

    Their plan is plain and simple. Ring fence the money and cement their gravy train in perpetuity without fear of ever losing.

  2. The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Ewan For This Post:

    Bill Ryan (20th April 2021), Constance (19th April 2021), Dennis Leahy (28th August 2023), Hym (31st August 2021)

  3. Link to Post #22
    Scotland Avalon Member Ewan's Avatar
    Join Date
    24th February 2015
    Location
    Ireland
    Age
    62
    Posts
    2,424
    Thanks
    51,361
    Thanked 18,844 times in 2,378 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    Copied from here:

    We can't have that nor free energy because that would free people from slavery and the insane economic system would be rendered obsolete. The oil companies need their money too you know. How could the likes of Jeff Bezos buy his seventh hundredth gigantic yacht if the pyramid scheme wasn't there to benefit him? They want slaves to know their place in the system which is based on a scam. People eat up that stuff and consider it as normal, because maybe, just maybe that wealth will trickle down.

    "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."



  4. The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to Ewan For This Post:

    Bill Ryan (28th August 2023), Bluegreen (31st August 2021), Dennis Leahy (28th August 2023), Hym (31st August 2021), Wind (31st August 2021)

  5. Link to Post #23
    United States Avalon Member Bluegreen's Avatar
    Join Date
    18th July 2014
    Location
    Ø
    Language
    ¿
    Posts
    10,796
    Thanks
    45,802
    Thanked 52,058 times in 10,080 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World



    Why Capitalism is Killing Us (And The Planet)

    In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at why capitalism is killing us (and the planet) by causing climate change. Specifically, I look at how capitalism's multinationals like ExxonMobil and BP are responsible for increased emissions and ultimately the climate crisis we are living through today. Capitalism's growth-at-all-costs paradigm runs counter to the material realities of the Earth we live on. Paradigm change needed.

    Published 7th May 2021 (13:46)


  6. The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to Bluegreen For This Post:

    Bill Ryan (28th August 2023), Dennis Leahy (28th August 2023), Ewan (31st August 2021), Wind (31st August 2021)

  7. Link to Post #24
    Scotland Avalon Member Ewan's Avatar
    Join Date
    24th February 2015
    Location
    Ireland
    Age
    62
    Posts
    2,424
    Thanks
    51,361
    Thanked 18,844 times in 2,378 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    RELATED

    Very much worth watching.

    Was just saying to my son that the energy companies will absolutely hate this. Which just shows the absolute insanity of our planet and is another example pointing out - as long as capitalism is the goal there can be no hope for a sustainable future.


  8. The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to Ewan For This Post:

    Bill Ryan (28th August 2023), Bluegreen (26th September 2021), Dennis Leahy (28th August 2023), Johan (Keyholder) (20th September 2021), Orph (19th September 2021)

  9. Link to Post #25
    United States Administrator ThePythonicCow's Avatar
    Join Date
    4th January 2011
    Location
    North Texas
    Language
    English
    Age
    76
    Posts
    28,565
    Thanks
    30,489
    Thanked 138,348 times in 21,474 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    .
    Throughout recorded human history, power has gone to, been taken by, those organizations that had better internal communication.

    Whenever such an organization was formed that (1) controlled and provided some particular, essential, capacity of civilization and (2) had better internal communication than the "deplorables" (to borrow Hillary Clinton's infamous use of that word) who depended on that capacity, then that organization could acquire monopolistic control of that capacity, essentially setting up a "toll booth" and extracting energy, power, wealth, and control from civilization.

    The sociopaths and psychopaths amongst us have an eagle eye for such monopolistic opportunities, and strive to rule over them, and by dint of providing something essential, over humanity. Thus food, energy, money, weapons, agriculture, trade, technology, science, healing, religion, politics, finance, mining, transportation, communications itself, and so forth have been monopolized at various times and in various ways.

    These monopolies tend to become parasitic, extracting more than they provide. Like most parasites, they seek to "blend in", to wear a velvet glove over their iron fist, as a curtain to hide the would-be tyrant, to appeal to the "greater good", in order that their parasitic drain on humanity goes unnoticed, even as they grow more powerful.

    Consider as a counter example the "organic" structures of a healthy human body. Several "systems" provide essential capabilities to our bodies, such as those in the following image:



    Each of these systems provides essential capabilities, each has an intricate system of internal communication, and none dominates at the expense of the other in a healthy body.

    Without this internal "communication" that each subsystem uses to maintain its vibrant health, and with all aspects of our physical, chemical, electrical, mental and spiritual beings preserving their own robust nature, no significant aspect of our beings can "rule" over any other aspect, at its expense. When this harmony breaks down, we consider ourselves to be sick, whether of mind, body or soul.

    "Capitalism" is one of these velvet gloves. It is worn by corporations that achieve control over some resource or capability that is essential to our civilization.

    === ===

    We are now entering a new phase in our civilization, in which the global Internet provides radically improved communication between humans and their various cooperative endeavors. Such healthy communication has long been available at the family and local community level. (Not always attained, but long available.)

    The tyrants and their monopolistic organizations are being exposed, like never before.

    === ===

    I personally lived through and worked in one particular industry, the computer system software industry, as it was reshaped by the Internet. In the first few decades of my educational and professional career, from the late 1960's through into the 1990's, such giants as IBM, Oracle and Microsoft dominated. Linux and other "open source" software grew out of the shared labors of programmers, sharing their work, on its own merits. Now most computers, from mobiles to super computers, run open source operating systems, or derivatives thereof. I saw how, in the 1990's in particular, the Internet enabled such a grass roots effort to blossom forth, overwhelming the giants of system software.

    It might be rather like mammals overwhelmed dinosaurs, in some earlier time on this planet. The higher mental and communication capabilities of warm blooded mammals enabled what might have started as some small furry critters scurrying about in the underbrush to dominate over far more powerful beasts such as the tyrannosaurus rex and brontosaurus.

    === ===

    Big federal governments, big pharma, big ag, central banks, big tech, and some other such globally spanning power houses are now collapsing, under the pressure of ordinary people, in touch with what they personally know and can now share fluently, over the Internet.

    === ===

    So in my better moments, I do not focus so much on whether "capitalism", "communism", "federalism", "socialism", "theocracy", or such is the "better velvet glove" for the failing monopolies of our time to wear. Rather I focus on sharing and nurturing such real, honest, healthy developments as I might have the energy, talents, and interest to engage myself with and to openly share with others similarly interested ... just as I did in the last decade or two of my professional career in the "Open Source Software" work.
    My quite dormant website: pauljackson.us

  10. The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to ThePythonicCow For This Post:

    Bill Ryan (28th August 2023), Blastolabs (5th October 2021), Bluegreen (11th October 2021), Dennis Leahy (28th August 2023), Ewan (5th October 2021), gord (5th October 2021), Harmony (6th October 2021), mountain_jim (6th October 2021), Peace in Oz (6th October 2021)

  11. Link to Post #26
    United States Administrator ThePythonicCow's Avatar
    Join Date
    4th January 2011
    Location
    North Texas
    Language
    English
    Age
    76
    Posts
    28,565
    Thanks
    30,489
    Thanked 138,348 times in 21,474 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    .
    Using a quite different vocabulary, sufficiently so that it risks being even further off-topic for this thread, Jean-Claude and "Quantum Healer" Sherri Divband say, in the first 16 minutes or so, what sounds to me to be just what I was saying, in my previous post just above.



    Summary of my take on this, trying to tie back to the topic of this thread:
    Capitalism has been destroying the world, for as long as any part of the current "global system" chose to label some of their institutions and structures with that word.

    Capitalism, like all such institutions and structures, is dying.

    Humans are connecting to their own inner awareness, and connecting to other humans directly.
    Last edited by ThePythonicCow; 5th October 2021 at 23:04.
    My quite dormant website: pauljackson.us

  12. The Following 6 Users Say Thank You to ThePythonicCow For This Post:

    Bill Ryan (28th August 2023), Dennis Leahy (28th August 2023), Ewan (6th October 2021), Harmony (6th October 2021), leavesoftrees (6th October 2021), mountain_jim (6th October 2021)

  13. Link to Post #27
    Avalon Member Gemma13's Avatar
    Join Date
    25th May 2011
    Location
    Western Australia
    Language
    Australian
    Age
    59
    Posts
    2,568
    Thanks
    8,947
    Thanked 17,554 times in 2,528 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    Paul where did your theMooster.net link go. I only spotted it today. Impressed you are putting you out there.

  14. The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to Gemma13 For This Post:

    Bill Ryan (28th August 2023), Dennis Leahy (28th August 2023), Harmony (6th October 2021)

  15. Link to Post #28
    United States Administrator ThePythonicCow's Avatar
    Join Date
    4th January 2011
    Location
    North Texas
    Language
    English
    Age
    76
    Posts
    28,565
    Thanks
    30,489
    Thanked 138,348 times in 21,474 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    Quote Posted by Gemma13 (here)
    Paul where did your theMooster.net link go. I only spotted it today. Impressed you are putting you out there.
    It's still there ? ... https://themooster.net/

    Not very active however; I'm currently more active elsewhere, in a small private group and here.
    My quite dormant website: pauljackson.us

  16. The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to ThePythonicCow For This Post:

    Bill Ryan (28th August 2023), Dennis Leahy (28th August 2023), Gemma13 (6th October 2021), Harmony (29th August 2023)

  17. Link to Post #29
    Scotland Avalon Member Ewan's Avatar
    Join Date
    24th February 2015
    Location
    Ireland
    Age
    62
    Posts
    2,424
    Thanks
    51,361
    Thanked 18,844 times in 2,378 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    A little quote lifted from Wade Frazier's post today, here.

    Quote Few in the West can even begin to imagine the awesome cost that capitalism has inflicted on humanity and the world, as sociopathy is exalted into some kind of wondrous virtue.

  18. The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to Ewan For This Post:

    Bill Ryan (28th August 2023), Dennis Leahy (28th August 2023), happyend (31st August 2023), Harmony (29th August 2023), shaberon (30th August 2023)

  19. Link to Post #30
    United States Avalon Member
    Join Date
    1st April 2016
    Posts
    4,332
    Thanks
    16,231
    Thanked 21,169 times in 3,982 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    I would agree with this outlook rather strongly.

    Wade Frazier's posts certainly have a lot to do with capitalist forces shutting down innovation and a more efficient way of obtaining our creature comforts.


    How to prevent it takes a few sound principles.

    Contain FIRE, that is:


    Finance

    Insurance

    Real Estate


    Along with mortgage, and non-productive taxes such as income and real estate.

    Such things were done without for millions of years until someone invented them and gave it to us.

    So, no, it is not necessary, or the only way.

  20. Link to Post #31
    United States Avalon Member thepainterdoug's Avatar
    Join Date
    27th November 2013
    Age
    70
    Posts
    3,203
    Thanks
    10,980
    Thanked 33,066 times in 3,146 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    Hi Ewan / I like your questioning here. Im not sure I have much to add but your question reminds me of many other questions i ask myself.
    For example, and this is from a heterosexual male//
    What if lets say, all women were stunning 5' 10 inch Swedish women. All perfect and beautiful in a symmetry traditional sense. It actually doesnt matter the particulars.
    Now what? Whats next? would it produce or create any new level of satisfaction and happiness? Would boredom increase? Would Jealousy decrease? How would this scenario play itself out over time?

    Why are we here in the first place? Whys do we exist? The NDE people teach us its to experience. So we need the jealousy, the diversity, the winners and losers, the love, the hate and all.

    Capitilism is another of these questions. Why ?? Well why not? it has surfaced and has evolved for lack of a better term as the most fair.
    You're big and strong and take the chance to slay the lion, you do and there is food and resources for yourself. So you earned it.
    Is the next logical thing to allow a band of others to swoop in and take it? And now you are without again and are back to repeating what you needed to do to get it again?

    Regardless of my questioning, I live a life believing we need to change things. I guess its the concept and the desire that is the point. Perhaps it provides us with a dream to attain, something to do and a way to see our own collective oneness.
    we are just here to experience and to grow the universe.
    All is as it should be, until its not

    hey write the book.
    " its got to be the goin , not the getting there, thats good" harry chapin/ taxi

  21. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to thepainterdoug For This Post:

    Ewan (31st August 2023), shaberon (3rd September 2023)

  22. Link to Post #32
    Avalon Member
    Join Date
    26th May 2010
    Location
    Albuquerque, NM, USA
    Age
    73
    Posts
    2,447
    Thanks
    11,291
    Thanked 22,014 times in 2,416 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    I disagree with the premise of this thread. So do may others, not the least of which is G. Edward Griffin.

    It’s not the “ism” that is at the core the determining factor. It’s factors such as the wholesome quality, unwavering honesty, impeachable integrity, and the like, or not, of the people in back of and promoting the “ism” that determines whether an “ism” is a force for good or for evil. Constructive or destructive.

    But, if were to point a finger at an “ism”, it would collectivism; in its narrowest to its broadest sense and everything in between.

  23. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Satori For This Post:

    Ewan (31st August 2023), shaberon (3rd September 2023)

  24. Link to Post #33
    United States Avalon Member
    Join Date
    1st April 2016
    Posts
    4,332
    Thanks
    16,231
    Thanked 21,169 times in 3,982 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    Quote Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
    Capitilism is another of these questions. Why ?? Well why not? it has surfaced and has evolved for lack of a better term as the most fair.
    You're big and strong and take the chance to slay the lion, you do and there is food and resources for yourself. So you earned it.
    Is the next logical thing to allow a band of others to swoop in and take it?


    This seems a bit of a hasty conclusion to determine that something has evolved to be the "most fair".

    It does not seem to bear out versus discontent with the ".01%" or Capitalist class.

    They are pretty far from lion hunters. Has anyone ever seriously practiced this as a form of food supply?

    And yes, most hunter societies were so because the successful hunter was a provider, not hoarding for himself.


    If it may help, one could perhaps say, "capitalism = collectivism". This means a type of State-ist view that is only interested in the population in a given box, i. e., state boundary. This results in the food surplus simply being passed around, as if we did not want or care about many of the "others" having anything. They are fed to shut up and continue being exploited.

    In the non-capitalist hunter society you related and depended on others and had this sense of duty and belonging, which makes a culture.

    There is not really a single fitting word for what we, or at least I, am trying to get at, perhaps Establishment. But then one would be accused of trying to destroy civilization. But no, it refers to a specifically-crafted form of government and a benefitted or privileged class thereof. Of course we know there are those who disagree with it. But this is not a satisfactory explanation. It is in the position, for example, of explaining to some of those African generals why they should not have moved forward recently.

    Stems from the tradition of Whitewashing the Boer War:


    The Boer War exemplified everything horrible about humanity, about imperialism, about the British Empire, about Canada, about Halifax, and about the boys and men who fought it. It was shameless slaughter conducted by vile people for despicable reasons.







    That would be Capitalism.

  25. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to shaberon For This Post:

    Ewan (14th September 2023), thepainterdoug (4th September 2023)

  26. Link to Post #34
    United States Avalon Member
    Join Date
    1st April 2016
    Posts
    4,332
    Thanks
    16,231
    Thanked 21,169 times in 3,982 posts

    Default Re: How Capitalism will Destroy the World

    Going to add a bit to the previous post.

    Above, you have the Boer War, the first use of mass media to psychologize a population in support for a Capitalists' war that they otherwise had no interest in.

    So, consider the timing. Due to the Industrial Revolution, the 1880s were actually rather prosperous and expansive. This was mis-managed into oblivion, by forces which had not clearly assembled, and emerge as the Capitalists.


    In England, one could perhaps say the first five years or so of what would become the Fabian Society were benign or even progressive. This rapidly changes when it, too, becomes a hand of vested interests who then opened the London School of Economics:


    Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw...



    In the U. S., Thomas Jefferson had clearly warned us about going neck deep in mortgages so we would be homeless in a land where blood was spilled to prevent this. Nevertheless, over the 1800s, Mortgage ate Independence:


    In early nineteenth-century America, “landed independence”—a way of life characterized by freehold ownership, command over household labor, and control over agricultural resources—helped farmers to become proprietors rather than members of the expanding class of dependent wage laborers. Freeholders resorted to “mixed farming” to meet their families’ baseline subsistence needs and sell their “marketable surplus” for a profit. At mid-century, American farming evolved into a commercially oriented endeavor with built-in hedges against the vicissitudes of an expanding market system. The ideal of landed independence was filled out by old-age security provided to farmers by their accumulation of landed wealth. Land ownership offered a uniquely autonomous form of commercial life. After 1870, “mortgage-backed securities” emerged in the American market. Capital flowed westward while staples such as corn and wheat flowed eastward. Western farmers turned to the mortgage market both by choice and out of necessity.



    So that is quite similar to what happened in Germany. As railroads improved the flow of goods, farm businesses changed into something that had to "enter the market". You had to produce a higher volume of goods more cheaply. And because the numbers just don't work, farms and railroad businesses both failed massively.


    One consequence is found in this report:


    The decline of the gold reserves stored in the U.S. Treasury fell to a dangerously low level, forcing
    President Cleveland to borrow $65 million in gold from Wall-Street banker JP Morgan in order to support the gold
    standard.


    For perhaps the first time, and of course not known to the average citizen, this becomes part of an international chain as shown from a more detailed report:


    Debt payments and low prices restricted agrarian purchasing power and demand for goods and services. Significantly, both output and consumption of farm equipment began to fall as early as 1891, marking a decline in agricultural investment. Moreover, foreclosure of farm mortgages reduced the ability of mortgage companies, banks, and other lenders to convert their earning assets into cash because the willingness of investors to buy mortgage paper was reduced by the declining expectation that they would yield a positive return.


    In addition to monetary stringency, the collapse of extensive speculations in Australian, South African, and Argentine properties; and a sharp break in securities prices marked the advent of severe contraction. The great banking house of Baring and Brothers, caught with excessive holdings of Argentine securities in a falling market, shocked the financial world by suspending business on November 20, 1890.

    Panic in the United Kingdom and falling trade in Europe brought serious repercussions in the United States. The immediate result was near panic in New York City, the nation’s financial center, as British investors sold their American stocks to obtain funds.


    Seen from Chicago:

    As would be repeated a century later, the financial crisis was precipitated by an unexpected event, when Baring Brothers, a financial house in London, defaulted on 21 million English pounds of debt which had been collateralized by its heavy investment in Argentina. To cover the default the Bank of England borrowed from the Bank of France which borrowed from the Bank of Imperial Russia, and in November of 1890 there were numerous bank failures and run on currency in Europe.

    The financial crash of 1893 would have come sooner to America had there not been a bumper crop of wheat in the face of European famine, and thus gold temporarily poured into the coffers of United States banks. Then there was a political revolution in Brazil, followed by a banking crisis in Australia. And the economic depression in France and Germany depressed the price of silver. This further increased the immigration to the United States, and to Chicago.




    Whatever the British were doing in Argentina and Africa suddenly had a big impact on the United States, mainly due to further British financial enterprises.


    As this begins to utterly shape what we are doing, ISGP has added some earlier details on Managed Democracy, which only has partial nineteenth-century representation; President Grant was also a founding partner of the Peabody Education Fund, i. e. the operation of J. P. Morgan's father.

    After him, things are fairly quiet or unnoticeable, since prosperity was robust enough for politics not to be such a scathing issue. This turns like a page with Jennings Bryan against McKinley in 1896 which was a clear win for financial forces of Cleveland.


    Even from a more normative favorable view of this president:


    It was at this time that the business interests of America took a decided stand in relation to public affairs under the leadership of Marcus A. Hanna. He organized the campaign which nominated McKinley at the first ballot, on a platform which declared for protection and the gold standard.

    Taking up again the work of Hamilton and Clay, because commercial problems necessarily had been laid aside for the solution of the more fundamental problems of freedom, McKinley re-established their principles, and under his leadership the government readopted their policies.


    Or, similarly to the Boer War posters, with this rhetoric, one finds Cleveland and McKinley as founders of the modern Political Party President.

    In other words, those both suddenly became "normal" in the 1890s.

    You could probably say, once installed, you can track its revolutionizing sins such as the Entente, the Federal Reserve, and the World Wars, but none of those had started anything, because they were simply its work in progress.

    The outcome of the 1896 election was consolidation and more extensive control by financial forces.

    In their own words, it was a reprise of Hamilton, who at first pressed for "consolidated government" in the interests of Wall Street, and there happened to be enough popular resistance that the country would not totally go for it. You see the success of Andrew Jackson in that regard. Then many states rebelled against legal and financial entrapment. That outcome was a National Bank holding Treasury Notes which has remained ever since. But this more powerful epoch is like corporations seizing upon the term "person" from the 1871 Organic Act. This did not create a de jure second government. It created a de facto shadow government of mostly unelected financiers.

    This is before medical tyranny, or indoctrinated education, or other subsidiaries, it is almost entirely the subjugation of Agriculture by Finance. It has come true most places in the world, except, for example, Russia.

    The point of the title "Managed Democracy" means that Capitalist factions use both the "left and right" and even criticisms and attacks against themselves. You may be offered the relieving outlet of a "failed rebellion", while others are herded into professional death squads.

    The ISGP site will also show at this time that the main "faction of merging" between British and American industrialists was The Pilgrims' Society.

    This backbone clearly loves to use Zionism as a cover and fall guy, which is the strategy from Oliver Cromwell.

    Mankind has the capacity with only horses and hand tools to establish a civilization based on agricultural surplus. We have found a way to artificially ruin that. Even though the second consequence of the Boer War was that the military found that industrialized English city kids failed the physical fitness requirement at a high rate. This became the catalyst for all sorts of new improvements.


    Something that had never been present rapidly coalesced in the 1890s. It has its local antecedents, but suddenly an industrialized, international operation. This has fairly continuously sat in power with hardly any interruption.

    It may not take all of humanity or ultimately destroy the whole world, but it does describe the western system, or Liberal Democracy, etc.

  27. The Following User Says Thank You to shaberon For This Post:

    Ewan (14th September 2023)

+ Reply to Thread
Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 1 2

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts