The reason we got here wasn’t “rugged individualism”. It was part of a large, long effort, to find a better path to india. We weren’t even the first Europeans that made it here. The reason we kept coming here is because aristocrats demanded people go there, and colonize to expand their empires. The reason the US and Canada aren’t in a state more like Israel, is that the people we colonized had little defense to the diseases we brought. In fact, Desoto’s campaigns to find more precious metals in the Appalachians, where he killed, raped, and enslaved his was through the region, in the name of Spain, happened long before the first solid colonies developed here, and this triggered an apocalyptic event to the people living their from the disease that the Spanish spread.

This bully theory is horseshit, and reducing reality down to a binary of you are either a bully or a pacifist is fucking stupid. Bullying is how to garner thin, short-term, control. People get tired of the bully, and turn on them, and the bully finds out it is now all alone when everyone is turning on them. That or everyone else grows and progresses their lives, while the bully stays as they are, and just fades into irrelevance.

You keep saying you, as If I am European.

Get off your fucking high horse and recognize that the US didn’t just valiantly roll in with a superior military force and win WW2. Russia was a much larger contributor to the collapse of the Nazis. The US’s primary front wasn’t even the one the Nazis were on. The US got fucking lucky that it was geographically extremely difficult for otherwise occupied forces to attack, and therefore didn’t get bombed into rubble, and due to that had all it’s industrial infrastructure intact at the end of the war so it could immediately turn it around to rebuilding all these places, and thus having a massive influx of economic activity by virtue of placement on the globe. The military we built was based on the French, however the thing our culture did inform was the Nazis, we were a wonderful case study on how to execute an ethnostate, and genocide.

Jesus fucking christ it is like you took the movie Team America: World Police as a historical reality.

Please be satire

There is an old quote -

“The plight of the oppressed ends with the oppressor. Mussolini found this to be true, as will others.”

Then stop talking, come over, and do something. If it’s the whole world, which I agree with, then you are in the same boat. Do something and stop telling others to do something.

You only feel less pain through addictive drugs! No corrective surgery, or therapy, for you!

There was that guy in colorado who shot a mass shooter, then the cops killed him

Doh…

I have bones spurs though!

Good news! Our new control systems track your eyes, and electrical impulses in your brain!

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was enough to not matter if some aren’t

yeah, the waltons are pissed about the handling of the tariffs

Anytime you discuss a single action of a person, you must also bring up every bad thing they have done, or you are “covering” for them. There are a 1000 articles posted about Newsom that have comment sections that lay all that shit out, repeatedly. Everyone knows he is corrupt, and sadistically trying to make being homeless criminal, and more.

We aren’t discussing that in this thread. At the moment we are specifically discussing him being the only congress member to be actively standing up to a far more corrupt president. Post one of the million articles about the awful shit Newsom has done, and then talk about it there.

In real life if you see people having a discussion about something, would you then butt in with something off topic, just because it relates to an aspect of their conversation?

oh, certainly not out of the question. However their own playbook determines the cultural divide between them and others is at an impasse, and they will have to make people conform, or get rid of them.

Yeah, they want a civil war

You can call anything terrorism at this point.

you know, except a white, right wing, man, who commits mass murder, for ideological reasons

Those are lone wolves, and tragically mentally ill, of course

however, just like the severity of punishment, after a point the more police you have see diminishing returns, and in serious over policing cases you start to get more crime because they start looking for reasons to hand out fines and smaller charges to justify/fund their job. However, prosperity reduces the amount of crime more than anything, in a given population.

yes, it is so relieving that this right wing populist trend seems to be failing in our closest neighbor. Hopefully the failure of this administration will wake a lot more places up, and create a greater push back against this trend to the far right.