You think the decaying capitalist military empire with a nuclear first-strike policy who's upper military ranks are all Christian fundamentalist psychos is less worrying?
America is on the downswing, hard, and China is pulling further and further ahead as it is. Who do you think has more to gain by doing something crazy to distrupt such an arrangement? America, like all empires before it, has never taken well to humiliation, and is already halfway through going fash. I don't think you give enough credit to just how ugly we get when the illusion of fineness becomes impossiboe to maintain.
When was the last time you voted on whether to invade another country, or double the price of food, or to turn something as simple and basic as health care into a luxury commodity until people can't afford to have teeth? I don't remember voting to let covid rip, or give tanks and murder robots to the cops, or to ignore climate change for decades. I was never consulted on if we should have the world's largest system of prison slavery.
All of these decisions were made for us, at our expense, because they made the donor class more money, and we live in a dictatorship of the rich.
"The United States is also a one-party state, but in typical American Extravagance, they have two of them."
The DNC is literally just a corporation and there is absolutely no future for left politics within it's hostile structure. As the rate of profit continues to fall, they will continue to follow the republicans in implementing fascist policies because those are the short-term profitable policies their corporate owners demand.
The success of mild democratic socialism in some western countries was a historical anomaly that owed it's existence to two conditions that no longer exist: the presence of a colonial economic bounty, and the need to complete with the Soviet Union.
I'm realizing this comes off terse and hostile, sorry, im just typing in a hurry because my battery is dying lol
Because companies make money off it, which means they have incentives to push people into suicide instead of looking for ways to make their lives better
I love living in the freedom country, not like those other, nonfreedom countries where shady unnacountable secret police organizations spy on you all the time.
What do you mean, I'm sure the industry whose standard practices include having the self-driving function turn itself off nanoseconds before a crash to avoid liability is totally motivated to spend the time and money it would take to fix the problem. After all, we live in a time of such advanced AI that all the news sites and magazines tell me we're on the verge of the Singularity, and they've never misled me before.
My early childhood was spent listening to all the "reasonable, smart grownups" turn into wretched war hogs who would snarl that we need to glass the entire middle east, and now nobody talks about the genocidal invasions we carried out after that, everybody pretends they didnt cheer it on. And now that its politically convenient, now that one lone Christian fundamentalist psycho can make shit up and have the entire state apparatus repeat it, now they're pretending to care about muslim people, because it gives them a reason to snarl that we should glass China. These bloodthirsty freaks have no real values other than the voyueristic thrill of watching our war machine grind people to paste on their screens. Ask them what their "solution" would be for this "problem" and watch the Hitler particles start to glow as they suggest a coup, an invasion, bombings. Yet they're the ones who think they have any footing to lecture communists about humane treatment. As far as I know they're still forcibly sterilizing women in our many ICE concentration camps.
Was saying a few days ago, scattering bomblets all over your own farmland in a defensive war is so obviously a bad idea that the fact that theyre doing it now feels like a tacit admission that theyre never getting that land back.
Listen pal, Ukraine is Dumbledore's Rebellion Army and Russia is goddamn Dark Vader and the Nazis (bad) all rolled into one. Now are you gonna wise up and support the Nazis (good) against the bigoted slavic hordes, or am I gonna have to write more vague masturbatory screeds in the cadence of a West Wing monologue I half-watched once?
You think the decaying capitalist military empire with a nuclear first-strike policy who's upper military ranks are all Christian fundamentalist psychos is less worrying?
America is on the downswing, hard, and China is pulling further and further ahead as it is. Who do you think has more to gain by doing something crazy to distrupt such an arrangement? America, like all empires before it, has never taken well to humiliation, and is already halfway through going fash. I don't think you give enough credit to just how ugly we get when the illusion of fineness becomes impossiboe to maintain.