Watch this.
EDIT: But now I’m finally going to get around to asking this: do any of you, living in the US, vote?
Would you ever consider voting DSA/Socially democratic, even if your views are to the left of them and you are anti-capitalist? What if voting for the PSL is not an option where you are? Would you ever vote for someone like Trump just to make things intentionally worse in the hopes of sparking off a revolution? Not sure if I will ever vote again at this point…
i voted PSL and all it got me was yelled at online by people who can’t count
I looked it up a while back so forgive me if I didn’t get it right but I believe there have been two cases in history of a peaceful transition from fascism to democracy. Anyway, I’m hoping for that.
Portugal and Spain in the 1970s?
There are several other examples of a more or less peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy.
Fix what exactly? Hard to answer, when the question isn’t clearly defined.
Not denying, that there’s a lot to be fixed. But regarding the means, that depends on what exactly you’re talking about.
Well, it depends on what you mean by “fixing it”. Could things be reformed to meet a status quo similar to pre-1970 without violence? Sure. Reform like that would be difficult, it would take decades, and it would take a lot of political will. Reform like that would be akin to a house of cards, all it would take is a single Republican majority for a single term to knock it back down. I also think reforms like that are completely inadequate to resolving the underlying problem that has put us in these times: capitalism. Assuming reform is successful, we’ll be right back in the same spot about 80 years later. For things to be truly fixed, we need to overthrow capitalism. This will be violent and tumultuous.
Is reforms from Democrats enough?
Lol. Lmao. Definitely not. Democrats have no solutions.
Nothing will change until we group together and stop exploitation. This includes how America has propagandize that all violence is equal. Nothing is going to change unless some bricks go through some windows and I think we are past even that. Not a single person in power is on our side.
The degree of the chaos between current governmental state and a better government is the concern i always wonder about. One thing we know is that the rich dont want it to fundamentally change. Even the dems. When biden was comforting a group of megawealthy donors and assuring them that ‘nothing would fundamentally change’ with him in charge, he was speaking for the party. And they havent budged from there. They are not friends of the common people but they are somewhat closer to us than the gop.
I would like to see the “United States of America” burn to the ground and cease to exist entirely as a political and military entity.
Anything else on your wish list? Just curious.
I guess that you have to live outside the US to see what a scary man-baby it is. If a country has all the power in the world, and then decides that rules don’t apply to them, it quite a short step to wishing that they would fail and leave the rest of us alone. The delusion is that they have adopted the world cop role. The reality is that they are the world bully.
If the petrodollar fails that’s exactly what’s going to happen. The rest of the world won’t miss the opportunity to hamstring the US during their moment of weakness and ensure they turn into an insular, regional isolationist power. It’ll be well deserved too…
when*
The petrodollar will fail. It’s a certainty now that it will happen soon, historically speaking.
Yeah I agree with you there. It’s going to be a free for all once that happens…
I agree with you, the Democrats aren’t going to reform anything, even if they wanted to (and they don’t).
A financial collapse seems inevitable at this point, Balkanization may be a very good thing. There’s no need for a civil war, we’re nicely divided already and have functioning state governments that will quickly replace the Federals. That’s best case scenario.
Worst case scenario? Civil War II, but really, “The South” has even less of a chance of winning now. This seems unlikely. Best to just cut them off and stop propping up their miserable states, within a generation or two they will learn that they need us (coastal cities) far more than we need them.
Jesus isn’t going to come save the day, no matter what The Christian Broadcasting Network says.
Nothing will change until the pedophile class lives in fear. We need a revolution
The US needs to be dismantled. There’s no such thing as fixing a settler colonial state. Everything about it is very young and paper thin, from its philosophies to its narratives to its borders to its laws to its “culture” to its religions. None of it will withstand the slow and inexorable resistance of the world’s people.
I think you’re right
It’s not a matter of ‘fixing it’. The USA is transforming itself from a liberal democracy to a christian theocracy. Evangelical leaders have been working on this since the 1980’s. They want to change the constitution to remove the separation of church and state. This is what Project 2025 is all about. They are about 60% there. The first act of the new Christian Nationalism will be the American Genocide of trans, gays and lesbians. This is what ICE is being groomed for. They must be willing and able to execute women and children in the camps they are setting up. Renee Good was the test case. Get ready, the program has been copied from Nazi Germany, look it up.
Sounds right, but the brand of christianity being pushed is not the usual tension between liberal and conservative brands of the same religion like you see with judiasm and islam. Its more a grifter christianity that hardly ever talks about christianity at all.
The US has been a nation no-one should treat as a serious entity since 2024-11-05, and can not be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election, and concluded the Nuremberg-a-Lago trials.
The US has been a nation no-one should treat as a serious entity since 2024-11-05
Bzzt, wrong answer.
July 4, 1776
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”
We had, and still have, slaves. Even modern California just can’t say no to prison slaves.
We’ve been torched from day 0.
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The US imprisons more of its people than the height of the Soviet GULAG, than anything China has ever done, and has held the top spot for 50 years. Recently Cuba and El Salvador became the top spots, but that’s not the whole picture. El Salvador is hosting US deportees in concentration camps at the behest and in collaboration with the US. Cuba’s prisons are integrated with the community and are sites of rehabilitation and not slave labor as in the USA . But most damning is that the USA is the only country that charges prisoners hundreds of dollars a day to be in prison, and saddles them with that the debt when they leave as a condition of their parole. The parole system in the US is twice as big as the prison system, meaning our criminal justice system is managing and surveilling the lives of 3x as much of our population as literally any other country on the planet and getting some of the absolute worst outcomes.
And in addition to that, this “difference” you speak of is not the difference you think it is.
Prior to the 13th Amendment the US prison system was 90% white. 10 years later it was 90% black. The exception for prison slavery created an incentive to write all new laws that only targeted behaviors of newly freed black folks. Those folks ended up prison and enslaved all over again. The state used them as free labor for a time, but they caught too many of them so they created a leasing program and they leased the slaves to their former masters on the plantations. Does that sound like a difference between being enslaved for the color of your skin versus being enslaved as punishment for a crime?
Many of those laws are still on the books and still inform what we think of as “civil society”. Loitering, vagrancy, sleeping on park benches, public intoxication all things you think of as normal all started to catch black folks and turn them into state slaves.
And now? You think the situation is so qualitatively different now? Black folks living in ghettos defined by banks using red lining and states determining where to place industry and dump waste? Black folks overrepresented in prison, poverty, and state violence? Black folks getting lynched by vigilantes every year?
Really? You think it’s somehow different now instead of just the same fundamental shaped through adaptation?
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Lmao there was no hopping whatsoever, what the fuck are you talking about?
That comment was highly focused and directly addressed yours. You just don’t know shit lol
There’s a difference between a prisoner and someone who simply just existed with a different skin color. Come on now, I would’ve expected you to have enough intelligence to decipher the difference.
I just skimmed and found nothing worthwhile to respond to.
And this is how people maintain their cognitive dissonance.
always has been
No, plenty of us believe it. I didn’t recently purchase 10+ different guns and a ton of ammo because I think things will work out.
Unfortunately, more people think diplomacy and peaceful protest and waiting until the next time to vote will be enough.
It’s fucking dumb.
If my plan to leave the US permanently fails, I’m prepared for literal civil war.
10+ guns sounds pretty dumb ngl, 2-3 is fine. rest is better spent helping build some kind of network of support with your local neighborhood.
Need extras for those around me that didn’t buy.
Guns are pretty stupid. You’re building a society of individualism, distrust and violence. Not one where a decent human being would live happily.
This attitude is naive. Why do guns build a society of individualism distrust and violence. That’s non sensicle. And if demonstrates you haven’t thought through any of this.
Ha ha ha. Good one !
Found the bot/troll.
What makes you say that? Just because someone has a different opinion then you doesn’t make them a bot or a troll.
Decent human beings are a myth until proven otherwise. Now, in the era of unprecedented abundance, we mistreat people by withholding the basic necessities of life from them.
There is no place to live happily until we make it happen. If this other person wants to be wrong, let em.
Nobody’s going to be wearing uniforms. Who ya gonna shoot?
I’ve always believed that we were living through the collapse of the American Hegemony, but I could never describe the system until I read about the Imperial Boomerang and the Five Phase Lifecycle which captures the US’ expansionist policies post WW2. Except we never needed war, we had the petrodollar.
The problem when you have a system that centralized, you have one major factor, and then the inability to grow leads to the empire turning within with its expansionist policies towards its people. Its the perfect system to have an incompetent boob turn cruel. And once that happens, everyone senses something wicked on the horizon. And the most defensive behavior is to protect your own interests – which accelerate the inevitable collapse.
The US is a very big country, and any future shape will have it more like a confederation – either officially in its successor states, or more likely by Balkanization. Whether or not its the New America we want, well, I’m not that clairvoyant.
I hope this makes sense, i’m not a political expert. All I am certain of, in my gut, is that Trump is the final manifestation of the decline phase, and that’s ultimately the ending. We aren’t coming back from this.
