rivermonster

Proportional representation, like virtually ALL new democracies. Nobody uses our broken and flawed two party system. It was cool and neat when democracy was newer and novel, but it's super outdated.

I'm sorry you want to bluster about how uneducated you are on the subject. It's pretty cringe. That you resort to name calling just backs up and reinforces the angry, uneducated, cringe look.

I hope you feel better, touch some grass, and learn that better methods of managing a democratic republic are available and have been developed. I'll even start you off with some low effort reading:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

Apologies for skimming, and thank you for helping me read. LOL. #selfFacePalm

What are they reforming into and were? This type of domestic terrorists don't just suddenly get educated, and find ethics, and morals.

The roaches scurry when you turn on the light, but they're still there breeding and growing in numbers. Gotta get an exterminator and actively root them out.

Placating the Chinese is a failed strategy. It only gives them time to build up a stronger military for the upcoming conflict. It is worth calling their bluff on Taiwan and recognizing it.

Hopefully, tensions don't escalate to anything other than skirmishes, but the longer the US waits, the more casualties it will incur from false hope this will get resolved diplomatically.

You're going to get a LOT of reductive and low effort answers from Lemmy radicals. But this is a super complex question, and there's not a 5-second ELI5 answer if you really want to understand.

Also, when the radicals scream at you, there's going to be a core of truth. They're going to yell about colonization and empires. That's a major factor, but not an exclusive one. However, for getting radical and rabidly furious its all they'll bother posting to you.

Things to investigate, because answering this for yourself in a meaningful way is going to take a while and require study. Here are some topics but NOT an exhaustive list:

1. Colonization

2. Resources (natural and otherwise)

3. Schooling, education, etc.

4. Stability, politically and otherwise (note this will have overlap with colonial and non-colonial powers destabilizing things intentionally for geopolitical gain)

5. Infrastructure (transportation, economic, water, medical, etc.)

6. Medicine as regionally practiced, traditional vs based on the the scientific method.

7. Geopolitics (isolationism, etc)

8. Geography (i.e. the US's greatest asset is its location, it neighbors no enemies and its main enemies are separated by an ocean. One of the key reasons the US focuses on the ability to project force)

9. Religion

10. Corruption (politically and non politically)

11. Crime and non-military/nation based violence (also could get grouped under personal safety and security)

And again, honestly, a lot of these topics will overlap, but that's what I mean by there isn't a quick, easy answer.

And the reductive stupid answer is just yelling colonialism.

There's a reason people get PhDs in this subject. It's not a quick, easy question.

Control the flow of information and you control the masses. Old lesson, but relevant.

This post was a great laugh, I'm thankful for you OP!

Its not that people have missed the joke, it's that the joke is poorly formed and not hyperbolic enough to be funny, instead it's rather a half joke and brings up a larger issue (intentional or not), that undermines the attempt at absurdist humor.

I find Dunning-Kruger to be funny.

Again, I hope there are a lot. And I suspect you're right. Except that advertising it ultimately becomes important, though as you point out, it is risky because the alt-right is filled with LEO.

It's important to encourage other liberals and non-fascists to deplore violence and be firmly against the collapse of the union, but also ready for it.

Humans are herd animals. When they hear that people they identify with are preparing for a worst case, it destigmatizes it.

So do groups like SRA and Iron Front, which spend much of their time doing community service. But in that they provide a community and a sense that, wow, when the radical right in this country says they want a war and their lead candidate says he wanrs to kill us all, and they're constantly buying guns, ammo, and armor... maybe they aren't kidding.

100% agree.

Worldnews terrorists and terrorist sympathizers have driven off a ton of people. I see your comment echoed regularly. A lot of people who reluctantantly have returned to Reddit have said the same thing. And they drive more people off Lemmy than anything else.

The WorldNews group specifically is a hot spot for terrorist recruitment. I genuinely hope that there's serious intelligence gathering going on and flagging these radicals. I regularly file reports when they're advocating terrorism and other illegal activities.

These nutters are dangerous, and the group continues to get worse all the time. Their trajectory is literally a case study in indoctrination, then ultimately becoming active terrorists or providing material support to terrorists. When you see the really off the deep end shit, be sure to report it.

They regularly debate that there's no such thing as terrorism. Which is a screaming red flag.

I'm glad and wish there were more of you!