In Republican’s fever dream scenario, they’d consider splitting the nation up to be marooning 200 million people at gunpoint stranded to die standing room only on a military embargoed Puerto Rico. They’d call that perfectly fair and not mass murder.

Get your logic out of here as to why that isn’t possible.

Don’t give him that much credit, He was a lt colonel in the imperial navy at best.

But Im something of a rebel myself so…

Why would non Israeli Jews have to denounce the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians?

The conductor was Israeli.

Republican Fascists are the Neoliberals “esteemed opposition.”

The few leftists with power are spoiler candidates, because both parties only promote candidates on the basis of their ability to get bribe checks, and are the Neoliberals enemies.

If you want to see the Democrat party treat a President as a threat to the nation that must be resisted at every turn, just elect President AOC. They’re in a power sharing agreement with the Republicans.

As an American, I wish they won.

They outlawed slavery looong before we did.

Not like we have a left with any power to stop them.

Im sure the fascist light(D) party will have very furrowed brows though.

Oh so furrowed.

Just verification that they know their views are despicable at some level, even if they refuse to admit it to themselves.

Oh I think the capitalist “grown ups” as you say only concerned with quarterly GDP and their own individual hoards in charge are doing fine on their own. Don’t you?

They don’t need some idiot commie child as you say like me getting in the way of this great society’s trajectory. This bull is loose!

I lost, we leftists lost, and since the capitalists are destroying the very COMMUNal climate we rely on from one breath to the next, it’s too late for us to ever turn it around, as civilization hangs by a thread on the easy baby “just don’t shit where you sleep” climate mode we enjoyed and are eviscerating as we speak in the name of year over year metastasis.

What does winning feel like? Is it awesome? Do you feel victorious in your capitalist society?

(for me the main one are the tankie scum devs)

This right here is the crux of the problem and why the problem goes back so much further than the design and algorithms of platforms. We teach kids to focus on individual achievement, to celebrate the self, and we don’t teach empathy, something that needs to be taught young and can easily be taught but the west increasingly considers weakness and a dirty word.

When we fail to teach citizens of a society collectivism, because being a member of a society means you are part of a collective whether you decide to be a good collective that functions or one that operates against itself (herp derp competition!) that does not, you get communication between members like this.

“I hate these people fuck them they should me more like MEEEE” “their opinions suck because they aren’t more like MIIIINE” and we act as a bunch of petulant infants that resent each other’s very existence in OUR world.

If we were taught that it is our responsibility to lift one another up, if we rewarded people in society on the basis of who and how many others they’ve helped and not how much they hoarded for THEMSELVES, this wouldnt be as much of a problem. We could, now that we don’t have to survive in nature, orient our mindsets to the positive, which would have to be encouraged young. Instead we’re made to be like… This. A useful state for killing a rival in YOUR hunting area when there’s only enough game in the region for one tribe to survive the winter, not so much when trying to build a civilization up. And don’t get me started on the counterproductive mindfuck that is nation states and super serious imaginary lines between them, meant to protect hoards of INDIVIDUAL wealth of respective elites.

The problem is, how do you start such a virtuous cycle when everyone from the owners down are only concerned with “ME ME ME MINE MINE MINE?”

Then again you hate tankies, so go ahead and cuss me out for calling out the reality that capitalism, especially when it has effectively conquered the culture, turns people into selfish little gremlins more likely to shoot a stranger than help them.

Isn’t this like the quintessential Nazi skit to a T?

“He sot it vas funny. Iz it funny now? Vy aren’t you laffing?”

I mean, his voters will believe it.

They’d jump off the empire state building if the Administration told them it would pwn the libs.

“Dad why do you take pills?”

I have crippling neck pain.

“why?”

I’ll tell you when you’re older.

Good news, you’ll never have to feel the ick of an equitable economy or being part of a society that the wellbeing of its citizenry over quarterly GDP here in the west.

Phew amirite? Enjoy capitalist paradise!

Nah.

We think we’re that powerful, but there’s an entire domain of creatures we can barely reach that utilize geothermal energy that will just keep plugging away out of our sphere of influence.

Surface and shallow water life is and will suffer greatly until we burn ourselves out and are no longer a threat on the scale we currently are, but humans are even egotistical in this topic. We couldn’t come close to sterilizing this world, even if it magically became as important to us as fucking one another over for paper simulacra of supposed value.

We are a nuisance, but we aren’t the first evolutionary nuisance the earth has dealt with. We have no mastery over this world as much as many like to believe so. A nuclear detonation possesses a tiny fraction of the power of a volcanic eruption.

Hitler deserved to be murdered before he offed himself.

If you agree with the above, all that’s being discussed is degree of horribleness.

I’m going to respectfully disagree with your edit.

Just to be clear, respectfully to you, not the dead corpo slumlord CEO lady.

Hope they find happiness together!

Wow they stopped maybe 5 whole people from competing in games that were supposed to be about bringing the world together that’s turned into just another shouting match between petty assholes taking the entire concept to hell.

Sports are games, fun little doofy things primarily for children that adults can like too. The shouting matches about doping, the doping itself, “no fair no fair they’re cheating,” and the massive paychecks for professional level sports are why I don’t give any of the bullshit the time of day and never will.

Leave it to humans to remove from a concept the entire reason for that concept’s creation in the first place: fun.

Fuck competition for competition’s sake. Cooperation should have been our species business. The minute both teams/players aren’t smiling and laughing after the game, the game has lost all meaning and has become a shitty game that shouldn’t exist. That goes for you NFL, NBA, and yes, even the Olympics.

Come back when it’s about the world coming together again and not geopolitical medal count competition screeching.

As an American, good luck trying to offend me about how loathsome the US and it’s people largely are.

It’s wealthy people who think rules and laws are for their little peasant capital batteries.

The wealthy elite have always been largely pedophilic. Didn’t start and certainly didn’t stop with Epstein as just one of their facilitators.

Don’t like it? At least be and vote against capitalism and rampant economic inequity. Otherwise 78 choices of cereal are more important to you than children not being raped by rich people.

They’re bored, have infinite resources, and by the nature of their insatiable greed and sociopathic treatment of those they exploit feel the need to test their limits and taste that most consider forbidden.

Society should check, temper, and commit such people for everyone’s safety, instead they own the government, and freely fuck kids and teens when they aren’t being infused with their blood to try to live longer. Enjoy their “free market.” at least we aren’t socialists amirite?