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“annex” in the sense of “🥺️👉️👈️”

what people get from foreign invasions is a change of government, so they often even support this. but i doubt canada would be up for it, considering how much stress it could bring to them.

just like animals need to keep circulating blood to stay alive, so does the economy need to continue circulating consumer goods and products. without it, it’s dead and becomes worthless rather rapidly.

basically, the economy has a stark interest in keeping consumerism running. that’s in fact such a large interest that it even justifies taxing the rich and redistributing money sothat it can flow in circles (from bottom to top, from top to bottom).

Make no mistake, a civil war is coming, trump is building his own private army (ICE) and now he’s getting his intelligence services ramped up. this can’t be good.

It’s not so much the import tariffs (I’m all for import tariffs, but the money the government raises through them should be re-distributed to the people.)

It’s the fact that the government and the rich keep siphoning wealth off the consumer class, through taxes (import tariffs) and as company profits. Obviously, the consumer class has less money that way, so consumerism stalls. And that’s what damages the economy.

In other words, the government needs to redistribute the tax money to the consumers. Consumers should get handouts so the economy can keep running.

[The USA has always had] a perennial problem with violent crime. […] And the reason it cannot be stopped is that the people, both the population at large and those who are supposed to be in charge, do not want it to stop whatever they may claim.

If they sincerely wanted to put an end to it, they could do so in a moment of reasonable consensus. […]

100% exactly. This is all an expression of the people’s will, at least of those people who are even active at all. I’ve written a comment recently that a large part of the US see themselves as warriors who would rather die on the battlefield than rot away in Hel, the place of eternal boredom where nothing ever happens.

The same is happening in the US today. People lose a sense of vision for the future, and without that vision, people are left to rot in their own non-meaningful life. We need to find a new vision for the future, and fast.

All power comes from the people. All constructs of law and money are effectively paperwork, just inventions by humans because they were considered useful at the time of implementation.

Just like paper has no real power and depends only on the one who interprets it, the same is true for the law and even for money. It’s all based on our collective will to recognize and acknowledge these concepts.

Any way, the paperwork we’ve done (including the books we’ve written) is the actual American dream. The american dream isn’t to buy a house or sth, but to do so in a certain state of mind. I.e. you want to adhere to a great system that makes sense somehow, and be a part of it. That’s why we need to develop new systems, new paperwork, that inspires the people, like a dream, they want to be part of it. That is the key to making a system last.

I don’t mean kill the person or assassinate them

Killing them won’t do any good, if you kill one, another one takes their place. You gotta tax them, because that affects them all equally, so it’s not just “pop one, another appears” game.

The UK is a dumpster fire. The UK is literally mini-US, it’s all neoliberals hard-working “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” guys. (And by “guys” i don’t just mean biological men, this is not a gender issue.)

is NE north east?

No, i don’t think you get what i meant, let me explain again:

If the democratic areas want taxes to be at 50% for the rich and the republicans want them to be at 0%, then a middle way would be to set them at 25%. But this way, everyone is discontent.

A better system would be to set them to 50% in the democrat areas and to 0% in the republican areas. For which you would have to have two distinct legal regions.

edit: tax rate was a bad example. i should have chosen something else.

Just give us the tools to get real, fair representation

that won’t solve the problem. people just have very different views of how the path should continue forwards. you’re not going to unite that. if you represent fairly, you might end up with a federal government that is 50% democrat and 50% republican, but that just means that everybody only gets half of what they want.

Christians are anti-racist BY NATURE

well, this much at least used to be true historically. back 2000 years ago, when christianity was invented, it was normal that each ethnic group had their own religion. i.e. a god represented an ethnicity, instead of an idea.

zoroastrianism, later judaism and christianity tried to change that by making god represent an idea, instead of an ethnic group. you could say it’s the transition from ethnics to ethics.

they welcomed everyone who shared the same ideals as them, (including strangers and foreigners), and that changed the world. it was basically an anti-racist movement and one that tried to focus on intellectual insights and deep convictions instead of birthplace and color of skin.

it is in this context particularly funny that white nationalists are using christianity as a reason for their racism. because that’s literally the opposite of what christianity was invented to do.

i’m well aware that christianity has enshittified a lot in the modern age and that it’s nothing but an empty, hollow word now. just saying.

This is such an interesting article, thanks for sharing :)

In general, i’m pro-balkanization mostly because i don’t see a common future for the people in the US anymore, and splitting up the region into smaller communities might have the advantage that people can hold their representatives more directly liable, because they live closer-by.

There’s lots of paternalistic Daddy talk these days that centers on the need to “protect the American people.”

It would be good if the government actually protected the american people from economic hardship. A quarter of americans can’t find jobs who cover life’s needs, and the situation is gonna get much worse over the next 10 years due to automation and AI.

In that sense, implementing a universal basic income would be good, though i’m not sure what the conservative speakers had in mind with that.

According to most reports, his underlying message was reflected in a reckless refrain heard throughout the conference: “You can just do things!”

You might have to.

smaller countries have an easier time getting better government because in smaller countries, things are closer by, and it’s easier to just walk up to your prime minister’s house and set it on fire if he misbehaves. in the US, which is a thousand kilometers across, you can’t just walk there.

I’m actually in favor of bringing political responsibility back to the local level. That means, communities largely organize themselves, with only few interactions with the federal government.

but … it would be very un-American to fight corruption and listen to the demands of the people.

just look at this. this is such a fascinating image. it’s so surreal. how did we get here?

I still have this tab open from 5 days ago: Wife of Ex-Nepali PM Burned Alive, Gen Z Revolt Engulfs Country: Live Updates

I go back to it every day to check whether it’s still there because it feels so surreal that i think it’s somehow just a dream and i’m going to wake up every moment now and the news story will have disappeared.

understandable. I would celebrate with them if i was in brazil.