Confession is invalid.* (respectfully)

I envy your political and ethical understandings…

Long-winded product of a quick brainstorm session incoming…

So, Americans will have two options:

1. Wait it out passively. Corporate infrastructure/services will become more prevalent and take the place of governmental agencies as they default due to debt and mismanagement (a position they’ve been put in through the decades thanks to defunding, with Elon’s DOGE being the latest of villains in this story). Get ready for corporate cities, and conglomerates being the de facto rulers of America. As governmental power wanes and after the eventual American balkanization, you’ll be part of the Amazon Republic of Arizona or whatever. Idk what happens after that.

2. Somehow, Americans fight both corporate and governmental power, through the creation of alternative supply chains, alternative (labour based, for instance) currency and become more self sufficient. Americans are heavily armed as well and, while incapable of fighting an army of drones, it should be enough of a deterrent (especially if the power structure collapses and infighting amongst oligarchs happens but these post American cooperative societies stand by each other). Communities with immigrants that still have connections to the civilized world might help bring foreign aid and intervention. However, this requires trust, empathy, prosociality, generosity and critical thought. You and I both know Americans are famous for lacking in all of those attributes so I don’t really see how they’ll get it together quickly (and no, American Christian dogma, which is even more cursed and against the actual teachings of Jesus than the Catholic dogma, cannot offer a solution).

God willing something will happen to snap Americans out of their white ethnonationalist, imperialistic fantasies and into love for humanity, and God does do miracles, but I’m not very optimistic. It might just be the new Sodom and Gomorrah, NGL.

Finally, there’s a reason the Western mind can only picture Mad Max when the government collapses: even they know they’re completely amoral and uncivilised, the only force holding society together is fear of legal repercussions/getting killed by the cops. By themselves, for the sake of being good and prosocial and to have some self respect, they won’t do shit.

Yes, of course, it’s Russia/China/NK and not the USA the great destabiliser of nations, lol.

Somehow I would be stopped, I feel it. And regardless, they’d corrupt my writings even if I was careful and entirely honest, and the lumpen would eat it up. Oh well. 🤷😅

I’m not immune to propaganda and I make mistakes like everyone else. Again, all I said is that it’s more complex than “America and Western Europe good, Russia and China bad” and people are throwing tantrums…

I’d check out and record all of the Biblical/Qur’anic big moments at a prudent distance, probably (barring the times of Noah, lol). Then I’d die in the time machine as I try to come back to my time and share with others cause God wants belief in the unseen and through uncertainty, maybe. 😅

It is, but it kinda is low on the list of things that Americans should consider as massive moral failings and indictments on their society. I mean, most people give Trump shit cause he’s the seemingly incompetent head of the empire, not because he’s leading the nation that has caused the most death and sorrow in the world for the last 75 years and that openly oppressed, until not too long ago, the same people they enslaved and dehumanised many years prior. The list is gigantic, NGL.

Fair enough, my bad. And here I thought geopolitics were complex affairs, I should’ve just hated Eurasia and Oceania like daddy told me to.

It was founded on lies and for political reasons. Remember: Jesus was a Jew, a God fearing man in the vein of Abraham and Solomon, he never meant to create a new religion (“I didn’t come to break the law, I came to enforce it”) but Rome had to ride the Jesus wave or get trampled underneath it so they added their semi OG anthropomorphic polytheism to make it palatable to the European masses and bam, Catholicism was born.

Imagine thinking you could sin recklessly, tell it to some dude in a funny hat/robe and that God is somehow okay with it. Imagine keeping the identities of child abusers secret because of that stupid line of thought (or because you can relate to the person touching kids).

America will finally be the Germanic/Western European ethnostate it was always meant to be. No wonder the US and Israel are so alike, lol, they share the same DNA!

I got the year wrong BECAUSE it hasn’t been drilled into my head, lol. I just believe it’s more complex than simply “Russia bad”, especially in the face of NATO expansionism. I’m not emotionally attached though, which is why I can actually freely learn about it, unlike others who can’t conceive anything outside of “Russia bad, China bad, West good”…

I don’t believe that, I believe that the terms stop having meaning when tyranny overpowers ideology.

Anyone here understands geopolitics and the cornering of Russia by NATO (read: the US plus European vassals) or are you just talking out of vibes? Anyone here remembers the 2011 US coup on Ukraine and what it led to? It’s a bit more complex than what the commenters here believe, lol.

So, was this always just the best possible narrative spin for Trump to do some open market manipulation and make him and his peers even richer or is Trump stupid enough to believe the nonsense he was fed and regurgitated to his followers?

Thank you for your concern, honestly. I’ll still try and see how insufferable they are, although they asked me about animal liberation and GSM (?) on the application so I have a feeling you’re right to warn me, lol.

Then maybe my understanding of “leftism” as a term is wrong. Just a little question, what political party would you consider “liberal”?

I’m sorry, I’m new to Lemmy. Thank you for taking the time to check, lol. Time to check them out and see if I’m annoying enough to fit in! 😅

Ehhh, the American administration has singlehandedly wrecked the world for their own gain pretty much since WW2, either directly through the murder of hundreds of thousands or indirectly sponsoring coups and sowing instability overall. I mean, even the invasion of Ukraine happened because of an American coup in Ukraine in 2011 (that, eventually, ended up with the actor in office) and Russia understanding this as the precursor of an American mobilization in Russia. And whilst the Chinese human right abuses are also monstrous and unethical, at least they’re localised? It’s a mishandling of internal affairs, not an external invasion and utter destruction. I’m sorry, but they’re not even comparable. You could say “if China had carte blanche like the US did through military supremacy they would’ve acted the same way” but I doubt it, because I’ve seen and lived around Chinese people and around Americans/Westerners and the cultures couldn’t be more different… Regardless, if we take away the maybes, you have to objectively admit the American admin has been a blight on this world, through leaders on “both sides” of the American political spectrum, moreso than anyone in recent history.

You can hate all three, or you can hate the American admin and give more leeway to those who haven’t yet shown they’re entirely Godless and immoral, and you can certainly prefer the Chinese and Russian admin for the same reasons, I guess.