in4apenny @ in4apenny @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Are you asking Americans to step up for their own safety and the safety of the world? We really are fucked.

No I wasn't but you bring up a good point, even fascists have more backbone and community spirit than centrists do.

Nature is poetry.

Never underestimate the stupidity of a pawn. Yet here we are, being forced to make the chess pieces and chess board for minimum wage.

The 'based' part wasn't that they showed up to protest. It was that they potentially sacrificed their job, endangered their own comfort and security, to stand up for a moral code and take a side. Something that escapes centrists/fascists.

I wonder what happens to people who piss off oil and military contractors.

But he hasn't stopped.

I'll believe it when I see it. Anything short of most Americans not showing up to work and grinding the economy to a screaching halt won't be enough. And that's the best case scenario.

Those were all closed door dealings that boomers children could've only learned from hindsight. This was a public display of WTFery that rewrites the last century of geopolitical history, something like this hasn't happened since... Oh god.

You could draw it on an etch-a-sketch.

That's the real kicker, everyone is not powerless. On the contrary, as a matter of fact, everyone is powerful. America could change tomorrow if Americans wanted it bad enough.

You said "enlighten" which reminds me of something. This is a copy/paste of a comment i've posted before:

"How did we overthrow Kings again? Something about us becoming ahem “Enlightened” during some sort of era or period? What can we learn from the successes and failures? Where did Europeans get ideas of freedom, autonomy, equality, and question of authority from when all they knew about was Kings and Divine Right? Did they perhaps go to some kind of ahem New World with a matchcoat and musket to live and trade amongst the natives for 200 years?! Perhaps there was some sort of ahem Indiginous Critique on European Culture that sorta blew the minds of the French, English, and Dutch alike? Perhaps they wrote some plays about this! That they could disobey or :gasps: impeach their leaders? That pursuasion and reason might be more important? Perhaps over some coffee and pipe tobacco? Oh right, next thing you’d think i’d say is they didn’t trade or so much as look at silver? How they MUST have had a “Market” how else could goods or heirlooms possibly trade hands? Certainly not gifts, quests, or gambling! Jeez, I wonder if we still have something to learn from these ideas that were just too darn complicated for Ben Franklin and Jean Jacque Rousseau!"

If you would like to learn more teachings from a culture that inspired the LITERAL FUCKING ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD, allow me to "enlighten" you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondiaronk#Oratory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzWj9ZORv8E - Immortal Technique (2001)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/russell-means-for-america-to-live-europe-must-die - Speech dictated by the american indian Russel Means.

https://environicsindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/socialism.pdf - Albert Einstein (bonus reading)

"B-but the Free Markets" their head twists erratically and sparks fly, a spring pops out of their neck. "Capitalism... Vote with your wallet... Extremism in any form is wrong..." they say, buzzing with malfunctioning word salad and CNN talking points like a radio skipping through stations.

They're cowards who have never been in a scuff or even so much as a play-fight in their whole lives. They prefer the protection of isolating themselves in a brick chimney as opposed to protection through rationale, reason, and community.

Nah they hold the "balanced and nuanced perspective" of shutting their eyes, plugging their ears, going "Lalala Free Market Lalala Free Market..." at the top of their lungs where their children can see them.

White tech-bro liberals have as much soul as a laptop. I've noticed that almost every tech bro Free Market Liberal-tarian i've met has aphantasia, they can't even produce images in their heads to think.

The only reason Europe refrained from being a weapons powerhouse was part of our ally with America after WW2 was that they would do it and profit. Now Europe can be like "🤷 Oh well, guess we'll be the MIC now" and shady weapons dealers will be like "Sorry America, better business elsewhere where they don't skimp on materials and safety inspection." Also people don't remember just how much more dependent America is on the rest of the world than anyone is dependent on America. Putin is glad not because he's gonna win Ukraine, but he managed to hop over Europe entirely and headshot America successfully. I think Putin could die happy of his mysterious health problems knowing he successfully carried Russia to victory vs the USA.

These Americans can't use their 2nd ammendment rights to defend themselves and suddenly that's now other countries problem? No thank you, let Americans clean up their own mess. They can either work on their own country or apply for asylum like every other refugee, so long as they're triaged long after the countless millions of refugees already displaced by Americans, or the ones culturally developed enough to have already moved out to Europe and contributed to our society can stay but the ones who fuck up their country and bail? Fuck off. No matter, most Americans don't even have a passport anyway (their object permanence only extends from LA to Boston.)

CIA and America as a whole are no longer a viable way for that small group of people to get a lot of money. What you're seeing is the MIC divesting from America to a more productive country, like Ukraine or China.