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Oligarchy.
We're no better than Russia.
By design.
We lost the cold war folks.
Gulag for you, comrade.
Maybe the US needs more political prisoners so we can be up to par from the minority parties. The hatred is almost there amongst the loyalists to the billionaire elite. Just check out a fox news comments section, they'd love to shoot some democrats up. They don't even consider them human anymore.
I can't believe how mass media is turning people into monsters who cheer for the death of hard working working class families while the billionaires get bigger and bigger handouts from tax dollars.
The Cold War is still going on, the goal is to destroy America from the inside because a frontal assault is impossible.
Yep. I saying we've lost.
Not that it isn't ongoing, we've just been position with our pants down, wrists chained to our ankles, bent over a barrel.
Well, that’s how Americans like to take it. Bent over and told everything is fine.
yeah but every four years we vote with or without lube. Looks like everyone got sick of lube this go round and wanted something rougher.
Never heard it said better
Hah! Love it.
2A time
Bringing guns to a drone fight, I see. Brilliant.
https://www.droneshield.com/
Wonder how duck guns do against drones?
There are 10ga shotguns designed to shoot high brass loads to lead and take down fast moving waterfowl. Market hunters back in the day also had what were basically shot cannons they used.
They'd have to be close in from the Ukrainian footage I've seen. Some of the drones could have been taken down by shotgun with a good shot.
Higher drones would require flack, I guess.
According to some Russian, all you need is a spear. They even commemorated it.
I've seen that video! That shit was fantastic.
Lmao that has to be Pennsic.
Somewhere in Russia is all I'm managing to find
https://youtu.be/QRmhdQB8YRw?si=21n4hl7jJ_8k__a_
😂
Eh, to have a constitutional convention, think we need things to collapse first :\ unfortunately. The powers that be are too entrenched.
Edit: does that make me an accelerationist? Absolutely yes lol
You think billionaires and their private armies and vast disinformation networks won't come up with even more control from a constitutional convention or violent revolution? Fucking delusional.
Ok. So you aren't someone that wants change. Got it. Fucking conservative LMAO. That's why Trump won. Even if I disagree with a lot of the proposed changes, I think having things shaken up is better than letting the sludge just flow. Dibshit. If it takes increased pressure to burst the pipes so be it
Go take a long walk off a short pier. I promise your day will change!
You have no clue how bad this can get, or how uncertain the outcome is. Historically speaking, the change that comes from a societal breakdown is almost certain to be entirely bad. He's just removing what little restraint there was on billionaires and corporations.
The pipes don't burst. Look to modern Russia if you want to know where we are accelerating to. We're already halfway there and moving fast.
Yeah we are hurry up and get it over with lol
Maybe enough of you will start taking risks instead of being so... Docile. By you I mean Americans not Lemmings. Why I was pro Trump after Bernie got ratfucked by the DNC until he actually was president for a day. Lying about the crowd sizes was an "ah fuck" moment. January 6th 2020.. well, glad conservative extremists TEND to be incompetent. Not always ofc but on avg
Damn that's some incoherent nonsense.
Conservative extremists definitely tend to be incompetent, but they are also nearly impossible to dislodge without outside help. Revolution is nearly impossible to pull off in the modern age without the aid of an external military. What military do you think is coming to liberate the US?
Fuckwits like you are so quick to risk everything without even bothering to learn how the world works. Well, that's fine if your just risking your own necks, but my kids have to live in this world. You want revolution because you think that's the easy path and you are too fucking lazy to do the actual work of organizing. But without the organizing, the new world you might be able to create will be ruled by even worse people than today, and you will deserve it.
Maybe you should care about kids in Africa/South america/Asia and their quality of life. Even as an american reading that it really comes off so tone deaf. You're complaining about your kids dealing with shit? Wow. You know what they've been dealing with in Türkiye? Price of a candy bar going up 50% in a few months. For YEARS with EVERYTHING. Get over yourself. Do you think your kids are going to starve? Go to a foodbank lol
Long term the American empire getting knocked down a peg so they're not the only game in town is going to be a good thing for the world. We just get to deal with people's quality of lives going down when they've been filled with plastic and lead... We all saw people fighting over toilet paper in America during covid. Frankly it's karma for us purposefully knee capping a lot of the rest of the world. Ala our policy of keeping the middle east destabilized, crushing South American socialists, etc.
Which btw, considering lead poisoning was so widespread because of our mass use of vehicles, kinda had it coming. Glad I don't have kids :D have fun with the voucher system, your kids are going to be fuckwits if stability and long term collapse is better to you than short term collapse and maybe picking up the pieces.
You assume I don't know how the world works... lololol lololol. This fear and anxiety you feel towards change you should channel towards......
Organizing :O wild concept. You know how we get a party that's not dem or repub? By shit hitting the fucking fan. Or you don't want to take that risk because of your crotch goblins? :| ok boomer. At this point whatever happens is what the tech oligarchs say happens, because they control the flow of information. But yeah sorry not sorry, I have far less sympathy for American kids than kids in poorer countries. And China DOES have the whole "lifting the most people out of poverty in the last 30 years by a huge margin" track record.
I care about my kid's future, so therefore I don't care about kids in the global south? LOL Wut? I'd love to see you walk through the logic on that one.
Well, that kind of depends on who takes America's place. Right now it looks more likely to be China or India instead of local control. Local control is what I'd like to see, but I don't see that as any more or less likely if SHTF in America. If anything, the people who just took control are going to go even harder at extracting every bit of wealth from the globe as they possibly can.
So much to parse here. On the topic of lead levels, it would have to be me (and you) who are the "fuckwits", since atmospheric lead levels have fallen by over 97% since 1977. The choice between long term and short term collapse is a false one, and America has chosen reform in the past and can do so again.
Is that the objective? Your goal is a change of branding? My goals are related to policy, and I don't give a flying fuck about political parties. How exactly do you think you can prevent the replacement party from becoming just as corrupt as the Democrats and Republicans are? I don't even think you can perfectly vet an alternative presidential candidate, never-mind the thousands of offices you would need to take at both the state and federal levels. We've moved on here from a SHTF strategy to a third party strategy, but that's hardly a move towards sanity.
There is no shortcut for organizing and educating voters. If you can do that, then you can fix the existing parties. If you can't do that, then even a replacement party will end up controlled by oligarchs. Both organizing and educating are significantly more difficult under autocratic regimes, which is why your "let it burn" type strategy has never worked anywhere.
Well, they did shift from being a developing country to being a middle-income country. Falling poverty rates are what happens in every country when it becomes industrialized. China industrialized quickly, so their poverty rate fell quickly. Still, it was a big accomplishment, but I don't think it says what you want it to say. Their poverty rate of 13% is still higher than the US rate of 11%. China ranks better than the US in overall wealth inequality, but isn't nearly as good as it used to be when poverty rates were higher.
Ok. I appreciate the response. & I think that you prioritizing your own kids futures over that of kids more in need is shitty. Full stop. Makes you a bad person. I know that's how people work, doesn't change that it is shitty. Secondly, you sound like you are naive. You think the policy debate matters anymore with our soon to be christened God Emperor trump? :| Seriously? There is a lot more I could respond with, buuut there's no point. Grow up.
Aside from this just being normal human behavior, I never actually did this.
I think policy is everything important about politics. But no, I don't think it matters much under Trump, except as something to criticize him about. But Trump is your strategy, not mine. That's where accelerationism got us.
...says the guy who's "arguments" are almost entirely insults and hand waving.
The cold war was against the Soviets. We're losing to fascists.
Which is much worse (imo)
And willingly. I might be unfairly judging because I'm a non-American that has been watching this unfold from the outside. But this has been no master plan. There's been no deception or trickery. These people have repeatedly and loudly told us all what they're about. But Donald Trump could say "Hannibal Lector is a fine man" after half an hour of shuffling around onstage to golden oldies and his supporters were like "my hero! 😍"
Long before they were trying to 'protect the kids' from trans people, they were trying to 'protect the kids' from metal and punk and rap and calling everything satanic. But all along, we all knew that they were raging hypocrites that campaign for things like child marriage while claiming to actually give a shit about children.
The way I see it, not a single person over say 25 has the excuse of not knowing or not remembering. They don't get to use the "we were tricked" line later on. In fact, no one with the ability to read does. Southern Republican states have a global reputation for being full of kiddie fiddling preachers and politicians, for being run like 3rd world countries and for being incestuous motherfuckers. This is known. And this is why I'm going to press X to doubt wherever anyone tries to tell me that they thought the price of eggs would improve.
Agree 100%
The biggest reason we (the USA) are losing to fascists is because half of Americans are fascists, whether they realize it or not. And it's been that way for a hundred years (and they were proto fascists, aka Confederates, before that)
Traitors in the civil war should've been hanged and their lands confiscated and given to newly freed peoples.
That we let a bunch of traitors just go home with their heads held high was a massive mistake.
The Soviets lost to fascists first. Now we're falling to the Soviet fascists.