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You know what? I agree. I guess what I meant to say was that the US stopped being too open about our evil doings. Usually we mask things...the war on drugs, the civil rights movement acceptance. The Vietnam war was much more out in the open. Shock and awe and fucking 20 years of combat in civilian cities and encampments. The USA hasn't really every been real nice. We just haven't been evil openly. But now we're doing it. We just had our coming out president. Hello world! You guessed it! We're evil!

You don't understand that it has always been the hyper capitalist agenda, after Soviet fell since then Russia has chosen capitalism and now it's a super hyper capitalist union where corporations are worshipped as post human entities and is governed by their demonic rage fueled consumption that supports the exponential growth. It will always attack when exponential growth seems impossible and eat something new. Both superpowers are fully enslaved by these entities and no one person or even billionaire is its master. As soon as someone doesn't comply, the megacorp "restructures" and swaps out the used up humans replacing them with new human puppets that are oh so eager to prove they are loyal only to the growth and not to humanity. No one lasts. But the entity is timeless and has no other directive than to grow mercilessly and without compassion. It chooses only the most psychopathic humans to do its more important biddings. This is the model that has scientifically ruined the happiness and standards of living for anyone living in close proximity to the host state, and several orders of magnitude worse for the states that control the resources the entity requires. Where policy has made people improve in happiness and welfare, a complicated propaganda machine relentlessly works to entice the population that the capitalist model is prevailing. Its main weapon becomes apathy and subjugation via hypnosis, bathing the children and young adults minds in dopamine, creating an imbalance where the will to act or improve gets overshadowed by the immediate injections of entertainment at any time of leisure until they should work again in the morning. The megacorps needs humanity only to serve and reproduce in an orderly fashion while longing for the next flush of seratonin they are allowed. We seem to be unable to resist this most of us, some know intuitively we shouldn't because we get sick and die, but we have no biological mechanism to defend ourselves with, it's easy to hijack the mind of someone that is not struggling. A pacified mind is easy to abuse. But when struggles begin, if it doesn't happen in designated war zones, it's terrorism. Most men that cannot take this conveniently travel to the nearest proxy war and participate in slaying like minded boys and girls. The entities have since long ago been ascended to have more rights than humans, and their acolytes that keep it impervious are called lawyers and lobbyists, whose sole purpose is to secure the consumption of the planet so nothing can stop it. The most zealous and ruthless are promoted so they can feel responsible for the exponential infinite growth. It is the working class, the pacified masses, that are the biggest threat to them. When they decide to strike or boycott, they can topple entities in one stroke. Often the officers will abandon the entity and merge or plant new growths as the ecosystem is perfect for them right now.

I think they carefully calculated when the sofa apathy had ripened into a fully paralysing inability to protest or act due to deep hypnosis. They don't need to be afraid. Nobody is reacting. They test what they can get away with and made this plan. The oligarchy has been installed now

Roger Ailes happened. Mark Zuckerberg happened.

Fox News and social media have rotted this country to the core.

Same story for my family.

I guess some people never learn from past mistakes.

Maybe a controversial take on Lemmy to defend religious people but here goes. I don't think it's fair to place the blame on these people. I think for the most part, they are doing the best they can with the skills and capacity they have. None of these people, who you are denigrating by comparing them to literal animals, are born terrible people.

So ask yourself, who is to blame. Is it the fearful, working class person to the left of you in the store? Is it your neighbor who is fearful of transgender people because they don't understand them? Or perhaps the family down the road struggling to make ends meet and don't have the capacity understand the real cause of their struggle.

Or is it the media culture that constantly instills fear and hate into them. And the church that no longer preaches godly values, but is instead filled with grifters and charlatans. The rednecks are not the cause of the US turmoil, they are not your enemy. What is the difference between a redneck and someone with a successful career? Opportunity. Care. Support. Anyone can be successful with support.

It is the capital class that seeks to sow fear, hatred, and division because thats the only way they can retain power. A united working class is an existential threat to their existence. The "dumb rednecks" are vulnerable and hurting and they have been exploited. Place your hate where it is deserved, the ultra wealthy, who for decades have been allowed outsized influence to manipulate the people of the US.

I mean, whats the alternative? Unconditional surrender?

As I see it, here's the 3 options:

Bend the knee to trump, give up your resources, and keep your country with no security guarantee worth a damn, just to lose your country later. And not just the lack of credible security guarantees, but specifically agreeing to never join the one alliance that would give such a guarantee.

Bend the knee to Putin, and just let Russia annex Ukraine fully, therefore avoiding a war in the unspecified future.

Go at it with or without US support.

If you were the leader of your country, how much of your land and resources would you give away in the pursuit of temporary peace, knowing that it is only temporary?

I never had the U.S. switching sides on my bingo card. I thought at most they would stop providing aid and support. Trumps policies were very isolationist in his first term.

It's crazy how people keep ignoring the troll issues and it's driving me insane.

We know for a fact that there are ruzies going to office 9-5 to spread online propaganda and we kinda accept it as not a big deal? That's straight up terrorism and no one's talking about it.