I would make the argument that our species resorting to violent conflict over shareable resources is a pretty damning indictment of human nature.
Tribalism exists, it’s a scientific fact. You can overcome the biases it imposes through cognitive effort, but at a baseline we are predisposed to hate anyone who we believe “doesn’t belong.” That’s not inherently evil, but it is asshole behavior.
sorry full of valuable resources? what, corn? dataservers? pedophiles?
the U.S. is not some piggy bank waiting to be cracked. Realistically, the current US military exists to defend America from all the nations it’s pissed off by invading them in the past. It’s a self-fullfilling system.
actually, from a historical perspective, it’s been the Dems who have accelerated ICE. Biden and especially Obama were much more instrumental in the agency coming into more and more power. Trump’s getting to play with the toy now, but it was bought by Dems.
the civil rights movement has been incredibly whitewashed in US education. Americans were overwhelmingly against de-segregation, there was tons of violence against black Americans, and that violence was not solely committed by police officers.
The Klan might seem like a relic of the past now, but the KKK was incredibly powerful during the 50s and 60s, to the point where in my home state, 1/3 of men were Klansmen and were a significant political bloc. They weren’t just voting in politicians that supported their vile views though, they were lynching people and burning crosses on lawns and shit.
I’m finally at a place where I can aim for a 1.0 ratio, but I’ve noticed that a lot of the stuff I torrent just uh…is not very popular lol. Some of them haven’t had a single peer in months! It’s kinda fun keeping an eye on it, sorta like a popularity contest.
it’s so wild that she never wants to eat them. I’m eating them! I know it’s yummy! oftentimes it’s stuff with fish or chicken, which she knows the taste of! but never even goes for a nibble, just a sniff.
Honestly quite happy that she’s very stupid. The only way she knows what food is, is if it is in her bowl.
yeah I don’t interact with people who clearly aren’t interested in first-hand accounts that don’t fit their narrative
If you’re interested, I’d recommend reading through the works of José Peirats, especially The CNT in the Spanish Revolution: Volume 3 which details the numerous different ways that the Soviets suppressed and terrorized the syndicalists, going as far as imprisoning and torturing anarchists and anti-fascists.
a big part of it was people seeing first hand the Soviet’s sabotaging the CNT-FAI’s efforts, which I imagine was part of what turned Orwell against communists later in his life.
I still contend that if the Soviet’s supported the Syndicalists as much as the Nazis supported the Nationalists, CNT-FAI would have won the war.
yeah people don’t realize just how insidious advertisement really is.
your phone isn’t “reading your mind,” advertisers have such a comprehensive model of you that they’re able to predict your thoughts with an incredibly high degree of accuracy before you even have them. There’s also obviously a bit of confirmation bias in play, you only remember the times they got it right as opposed to the times they guessed wrong.
how many bottoms have to participate to ensure enough non-top participation?
I dunno if glee is the right emotion. America is going to lash out hard in it’s death throes and cause a lot more pain and destruction. There’s also no guarantee that what comes next will be any better; if anything, I’m expecting powerful corporations to carve up her corpse.
The rest of the world can breathe a sigh of relief when it’s done, but an animal becomes most dangerous when it’s backed into a corner.
There’s a reason why the U.S. has so many international students
uh…this isn’t exactly accurate anymore lol. International enrollment has fallen off a cliff. I dunno if numbers have been officially released yet, but chatting with my friends in admissions offices for some pretty big universities, they’re seeing reductions of 70-80%
American football
obviously soccer is for metrosexual eurocucks /s
I mean, people look back fondly on the Nazis. It just makes them shitty people.
The only difference is that the US was way more successful. It’s literally identical to what Putin tried with Zelenskyy in the opening days of the Russo-Ukraine war.
Unfortunately, I think most Americans would lose a memory contest against a goldfish, so they can’t recognize the parallels.
why? they won’t do anything, which is the reason why a majority of women don’t.
The police won’t stop you now.
The actual thing that’s preventing you is your fear of violent consequences, and I can assure you that those consequences will still exist without police intervention.
I think anyone who seriously wants to defend society as we know it needs to have their brain examined. Studying it could help us prevent future generations from becoming so stupid.