Holy shit, a Shavepost in the wild?!
Maybe if you were white and rich. All the good shit in America from the progressive labor reforms to the civil rights act were the result of things being so terrible that people risked their lives to change things. The government, private goons, and community bigots have done some the most heinous, genocidal shit in history.
Company towns where people were killed for trying to unionize. FDR deporting hundreds of thousands of Hispanic American citizens. Black neighborhoods that saw success getting annihilated for daring to try to carve out a good life. Supporting authoritarian governments and their death squads. Horrific experimenting on poor people and minorities. Persistent cultural genocide, mass displacement, and ethnic cleansing of Native Americans that puts Israeli efforts in Palestine to shame. Creating our current policing system to enforce fucking chattel slavery!
The US has not been "somewhat better than autocratic dissent genocides." The Soviet Union did horrible things, China does horrible things, yet America can match every single fucking atrocity they've ever committed. We inspired Nazi Germany, helped any authoritarian regime that opposed communism, and created an inescapable system of global neoliberal capitalism that rapes weaker nations and calls it fair.
You're right, it's usually not a fascist state that will burn anything for fuel; it's usually something far more insidious. It's a imperial republic that people like you think is some shining city on a hill. It uses your faith in it to turn you into a good little patriot for a country that is recognized worldwide as THE evil empire.
The fact that he doesn't work for ICE probably means he's such a major fuckup that not even the Gestapo want him
Nobility of the 21st century. Things never really changed.
Good thing (not really) we're barreling towards economic catastrophe and potential rising geopolitical danger. I'm not gonna pretend it will make things better, but I think people consistently lack imagination for how things can actually suck. People can imagine extinction or the status quo, but actually conceptualizing a middle ground is far more difficult.
This is really good for being made with ML models.
I'm so glad to not be using Windows 11. Saving $100 on the license alone is worth it.
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Maria, if I lived in Germany I would be showing up every week. You're fun and deserve some quality relationships.