And fuck those who fuel the USA beast, like practically every nation in the EU!
They enable the USA for a cut of the pie, some with a larger slice than others…
Being the world’s top arms dealer does wonders for profits, their customers are world wide and business is booming. USA has tripled production of firearms alone since 2000, and odds are good that they arm your police and/or military.
Not one of them “stands for democracy”
Really? I never heard of him shutting down anybody, but I haven’t read absolutely everything on Earth, maybe I missed it.
Companies shut down for employing illegal workers repeatedly and even employing children?
Zero.
(we wouldn’t want our chicken baron to make only 10 billion a year, would we? He can’t afford any more cuts! Did you know he only owns six cars and ONE raggedy old 2022 jet and some yachts? Did you know his house staff is now less than a DOZEN people to take care of him and his needs like making snacks and cleaning up his pee and stuff? He just pees on the floor so what)
Of course! That’s the good cop/bad cop pattern that is US politics.
Party A makes a horrible mess and makes intractable changes that are never reversed.
Party B “saves” the people with landslide election, making small temporary concessions to much fanfare whilst leaving all of the actual nightmare machine built in the prior decade untouched (example Patriot Act, Citizens United, more).
“We were so close!”
“Just a few more votes!”
“We can’t make these changes overnight”
Stagnate for a generation or so and rake in immense treasures.
“Oh no we’ve printed too much money”, “help all of our manufacturing went to Mexico”, et al spiraling problems and out of control mess.
Party A, the same party that 10-20 years ago wrecked absolutely everything, is here to save the day! Finally! This is the last election! They have had to collect only “significant treasures” for some time, we have to switch it up again so they can now make “immense treasures”.
Parties then actually change and/or eliminate their “platform” and even switch places completely here and there. The “donors” and political elite remain the exact. same. people. The Fed keeps on working, and somehow even with the Fed keeping a firm hand, the banks make record profits. Oh no! they will collapse from their own profiteering fraud, we need to give them tax money so they can make money with the money they already made money with for 20 years. They will pay us back, of course… but only AFTER they “print” all of that money that costs them nothing to print to pay us back with. Wait, they don’t even bother to “print” it, it’s just a number in a server. It’s even easier, the rug pull is so simple. Somehow, every year the banks/corps/robber barons own more land and gold and the actual people own less.
Rinse and repeat from 1970s until today! We will be saved from the villains who saved us from the villains who saved us from those other villains! We’re a democracy, see?
(I hope I’m wrong and instead they have a constitutional convention and SAVE THE WORLD and universal healthcare and “chicken in every pot” New Deal politics and firm corporate control and monopoly busting and separation of church-state cemented and banks removed from banking regulation and so much more. but I don’t think so.)
I think he is the canary in the coal mine and could never be elected in an actual functioning “democracy/republic”; the mere fact that he is in office means we’re just in the beginning stages of an absolute shit show heavily influenced (perhaps controlled completely) by the heritage foundation/council of foreign relations and their financial backers (it’s actually a pretty fascinating rabbit hole)
I 100% hope that you are right and I am wrong. Maybe we could even get union membership over 10%, CRAZY
The FEDS don’t even follow FEDERAL warrants, subpoenas, etc.
That’s just for the proles, silly goose
Narrator “they turned the cameras off”
Because, you know, we don’t want the cameras to always be on. What if something happened and they need to shoot a sassy mom in the face for driving at less than 5 mile per hour?
Happens every day, that is why our agents fear for their lives. Have YOU ever seen a car going 5 miles an hour? I doubt it, hippy
Sadly, the means for organizing is ALSO the surveillance state.
Organizers are infiltrated almost immediately. Turncoats who are mad over the latest “issue” differences insure that any remaining cells are always attended by “observers”.
Patriot Act made this all “legal” decades ago.
Good luck, they will get to you, too. When you try to “donate” to the USA you’ll find out those Hellfire missiles you purchased don’t work when fired at their makers (and so on).
(“you” being a pronoun meaning those who oppose the USA that would use copper, lead, and other means to “donate”)
The world’s number one arms dealer, banker, and super surveillance state is not limited to the USA by any means
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I’ll use it, but I know that doing so will put me on some sort of asshole list and you will fuck me over.
And I’m fine with that DO IT put me in the alligator camp or whatever, I’m done and done
It is “one person one vote”, but sadly, Amazon is the biggest person so they have the one vote.
(corporations are people! Supreme Court, USA)
It’s not that people don’t care, ever. Tens of millions of people care.
Unfortunately, their combined “donations” can’t keep up with corpo/billionairie “donations”, because most of us don’t have generations of wealth acquisition to “donate”
Sadly, corporations are people and money is free speech, so what can you do? Supreme Court was “court of last resort”, it’s over.
Clarence got a new motor home though, so that’s nice. Every cloud has a silver lining
Where has there been peace lasting centuries? Seriously.
Our waves of violence are practically generational , we get brief breaks in between the horrors.
If there are exceptions I am not familiar. Certainly never a century of peace, to my knowledge, or even close
I am not familiar with the history of all of the Earth, I would certainly be interested in any centuries long peace anywhere.
I don’t need a magical land where people lived undisturbed since the beginning of time to consider it’s possible to peacefully coexist.
Of course it’s POSSIBLE.
It’s just rare and temporary
“I want to live in most expensive city in the USA, and I want it to smell like urine, I want to smell urine everywhere I go every second of every day”
I don’t get it. I’m not saying it should be illegal or anything, but… yeah.
I wonder how much longer Americans will have dominion of America?
five years, tops
I don’t think it’s ethical either, we agree on that!
But I do think being a “colonizer” is practically everyone in the last few millennia, excepting the Sentinel Island natives perhaps and other very rare exceptions to the rule.
The Japanese were colonizers of Japan (supplanting the prior native population), Americans were colonizers of North America, Aztecs were colonizers of South America, English were colonizers of the UK, Romans were colonizers of Italy and most of Europe and North Africa, and so on forever
Never trust a man in his 70s wearing a new shiny leather coat.
Everybody knows this, right? It’s a general rule, like never accepting a ride in a white cargo van.
I’m not claiming that the land wasn’t stolen by “us”, but I’ve looked even deeper into history than you, and know that the exact same land that they lived on was stolen from another population. Repeatedly. It was far from a war-free utopia before “our” arrival.
‘Us’ and ‘our’ being pronouns to represent the colonizers of most modern countries, not meant to include you or I specifically.
I’m native. My ancestors were very brutal, not as brutal as the Spaniards, but still.
I’m also Spaniard, womp womp
p.s. thank you for book recommendation I am interested! Currently reading about Incans/Aztecs/Mayans etc., just finished Popal Vuh and recommend it
This is happening right now in SA, and for the same reasons now that we used centuries ago (we need money!).
Who will stand up for the tribes, or for that matter the jungles they live in? Nobody
All we’ve learned since slavery days is a change in semantics with occasional apologies.
The one exception being that island of “hostile” (i.e. wise) natives in the Indian ocean. Our one tiny exception to the rule.
I wish we could learn more about them without ruining it all. Sorry for tangent
Okay, then why are they financing the evil USA and buying billions of dollars worth of weaponry every year?
That’s the EXACT OPPOSITE of “standing for Democracy”
Kinda weird.
And that’s just the start… financially, they’re even worse.
I can’t keep track of every country’s evils, but I know for sure the USA is un-Democratic, and I know for sure that EU countries all enable the USA to do so.
So yeah, if it’s “fuck the USA”, it’s “fuck the EU and NATO”, too. Sorry
If you sit at the table with Nazis, you’re a Nazi, right?