I think we would want to if people were adequately educated and aware of their power. The trick is how to accomplish that in a country which is actively hostile towards education and working class empowerment. Unfortunately, the only answer I’ve found is, “slowly and gradually.”
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The difference, imo, is that the US was trending upward in terms of influence and had no meaningful competitors on the global stage after WWII except the USSR, which collapsed.
With the slow death of US dollar dominance and the rise (and much smarter politics) of China, I don’t see how that trend will reverse itself.
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I personally love him for being the same guy all this years.
My point was not necessarily that he needs to be excommunicated from humanity, but that they might want to reconsider whether him “being the same guy all this years” is a good thing
(I do not actually give a single shit about Pewdiepie in any fashion positive or negative)
Allegedly they cared about Jesus
at some point
before I was born
their retconned Jesus, anyway