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Overhearing Americans is like listening to children that miraculously always grow stupider as time passes (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Eww I stepped in .ml

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

Yaay tankie logic... As usual rooted outside of reality.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

The main issue is the use of FPTP for so long that it does what it was designed to to, cause an unbreakable duopoly

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

republicans keep repeating this strawman but no, the democrats want all of them arrested. it doesn’t matter what party they were affiliated with.

although this connection is a reach.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 hours ago

Democratic voters do. The party leadership doesn't seem to care.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 3 hours ago

Eh, the Democrat party leadership does not. I've heard plenty of Democrat voters say arrest em all, sure. But those are not the party, they are the dupes supporting it.

It's pretty blatantly obvious the Democratic party is controlled opposition. I mean, it was pretty much fucking confirmed when they tried to say they only take money from "good" billionaires...

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Then why aren't numerous law enforcement agencies in the state of NY working overtime to unmask and mercilessly prosecute Epstein and his associates? Epstein committed crimes across many jurisdictions, many of them in solidly blue areas. And NY comes to mind. Even if Trump won't do anything at the federal level, and even if Republicans in Florida won't do anything, what about the Democrats in New York? We're talking about a class of people that have committed serious enough crimes to get life sentences in prison...in numerous separate jurisdictions. Any of the states his network operated in could nail his associates and clients to the wall.

[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

AIUI, double jeopardy - if a state prosecutes for something, then after the court case is over the federal govt can't prosecute over it as you can't be sued on the exact same thing twice. And states don't have jurisdiction on most places outside their state.

IANAL

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamble_v._United_States

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

And maga be like, yo, where the kids at.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

If anyone at the DNC cared I’m sure they’d be very upset.

But vote blue no matter who.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

If you think Democrats should be the worst we can do, we have to stop doing so much worse.

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

fun fact: the average IQ has gone down over time to 98

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

POV: You don't know how IQ works.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 hours ago

Say, on a related subject, is it possible to not just block the .ml instance but also every user from there?

[+] 1dalm@lemmings.world -10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This is completely delusional by the way. Europe and Japan are key outposts for US extraction. You don't understand the postwar financial system (asset bubble containing Nazi + imperial Japanese + Southern plantation wealth) at all lol this is why your people are doomed to slide into hell now

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Make no mistake. We're taking y'all with us.

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In my vicinity you are at best getting Thailand, which is like if Japan was also Pakistan for some awful reason.

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, you're from Southeast Asia. Never mind then. Y'all gonna be vassals of China.

[+] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml -6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

We already are that's why things are going so well

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 hours ago

Heh. Don't make the mistake of conflating stability with prosperity. For a long time we thought things were going well too...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I guarantee you this is already a global problem. I'm deeply ashamed to see the country I grew up in spearheading it, but it's been fermenting worldwide for a long time, I'm afraid.

However, that said, I wish you and everyone on that side of the world the best! Fuck do I hope I'm wrong, too. But either way, the only path towards human society healing from any of this is if us common folk find some solidarity.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If that was true, Vietnam would have high-speed rail and Hanoi's metro would be more than 1 line.

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml -5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If China was making vassals, you wouldn't see the kind of development I get to participate in with my work here. You would see Bulgaria. The only people who will ever buy this shit are people who somehow forgot about the colonial era (westerners). When brother Laos emerged from French occupation there were people in villages a hop skip and a jump away from each other that had little trade activity and no family visits.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Guess it depends on the purpose of the vassal. Japan/SK were developed by the US, because their primary purpose was security rather than resource extraction, while South America gets coups and tons of military aid to keep the resources and cheap labor flowing.

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 hours ago

This would be a sprawling discussion to commence under a twitter screenshot tbqh, but to nutshell it, blood cannot be squeezed from a stone. Western Europe (+ Scandinavia etc) and Japan (including N.Zealand and Australia) are fellow imperialists with the US. The deal is just getting worse. Neocolonialism makes sense for former colonialists that have these huge military and extractive logistics spread worldwide, but only in the sense that it benefits their ruling class (international bourgeoisie). China is not pursuing imperialism because mutual development is more stable. Even India mirrored some of these mutualistic foreign policies for this reason. If an Indian politican were to actually serve the national interest they would focus on that rather than turning it into Rhodesia 2. You do not have to believe the US economic dogma that there is one development path, which is based on comparing statistics without taking account of the whole situation lol. Hence the endless collapse predictions and surprise comebacks. The west is fundamentally opposed to capital controls, your govt can't even boost military industry because subsidies are converted directly into price increases more than half the time. The subsidies are essentially handouts to rentier capitalists who have no obligation other than to maximize returns.

China just doesn't pursue the agenda you're talking about which goes like, build a mine + port + railway, leave it stagnant for 80 years, run militias to keep the govt minimized and extractive industries completely deregulated.

I probably left some stuff out idk it's a twitter screenshot thread man