/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
A universal global currency isn’t a bad idea, necessarily, but putting all that power in the US’s hands was always bad. Any time anyone tried to do anything the US didn’t like they’d get slammed with structural readjustment and sanctions and blockades and regime change. It was always a tool of underdevelopment and imperialism.
Ask Cuba how great it was that the dollar was the reserve currency.
It was never deserving of being the reserve currency.
Depends on if they’re going in whole.
“That’s the secret, I play both sides so I always come out on top!”
Doesn’t matter anymore, elections are over.
My side failed to get Democrats to stop supporting genocide, your side failed to get Democrats elected. We both lost. I blame you for assuring Democrats that they didn’t need to stop supporting genocide to win, you blame me for not being a loyal voter, but it doesn’t really matter anymore because we both lost and elections are over. Probably forever.
It’s time to get over it and do something else.
If you would stop eating shit for even one election cycle the Uncommitted Movement would have been able to force the Democrats to break with Israel. Democrats love Israel, and genocide, but if they knew for sure that they could never win any elections by supporting Israel they’d stop doing it.
Presuming they actually want to win, of course.
But because voters keep eating shit the Democrats were assured they could ignore the Uncommitted Movement and still beat Trump. And then they lost. And now elections are probably over forever and we’ll have to do something else now, so this argument is pointless.
Well, yeah, the US did coup Australia’s government that one time.
What I mean is, why are you commenting on voting? You know basically nothing about it. For instance, did you know Trump only won 49.9% of the vote this time? And the Republicans are calling it a mandate!
It’s never Democrats fault that they lose, it’s only the voters fault for not being loyal enough.
Democrats can never fail, they can only be failed.
Why are you even here?
We got here because Harris cared more about continuing the genocide than beating Trump. It’s Democrats’ fault for choosing to lose. He only got 49.9% of the vote, after all.
So you’d better make sure Musk doesnt make Liz Cheney the next Democratic nominee or I’ll vote PSL again, because I’ll choose to die before I vote for fascism.
Yes, I too saw that episode of South Park.
I’m sorry, I will not vote for any Democrat that takes money from a fucking Nazi.
I already said? It’s clear that Biden never gave Ukraine enough military assistance to win, we all seem to agree on that, and there’s only a couple explanations for that.
Either I’m supposed to believe the US was too afraid to go all-in for Ukraine… or the US never cared if Ukraine won.
There’s things people have said. Lloyd Austin said; “we want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.” The Security Council said they wanted, “to make this invasion a strategic failure for Russia.”
And then there’s the arms trade. The US has used this war as an opportunity to pull countries away from Russian arms trade and into the US/NATO sphere instead, switching over supply lines to benefit Western arms manufacturers. This war has the arms trade booming. Why would they ever want the war to end?
And then they blew up the Nordstream pipeline to keep the war going and make Europe more dependent on US gas.
But I’m sure the US are the good guys and they’re just trying their best! 😇
The federal debt isn’t real, deficits aren’t the source of inflation, shut the fuck up.
They weren’t “afraid”
The plan was never for Ukraine to win and Biden’s actions make that very clear. The plan was to get Russia stuck in a quagmire and drain them of blood and treasure fighting an unwinnable war.
They wanted to turn Ukraine into Iraq.
Recognizing that religion had an important place in the historical development of society (culture, government, labor, ownership, law, family, etc) and that being religious has a material basis that exists outside of our own ability to choose our beliefs.
Atheism isn’t a choice. Theism isn’t a choice. They are just products of our material conditions.
So, I don’t try to convince anyone about atheism; I’m honestly somewhat jealous that religious people can still believe in anything.
I just don’t want to bother anyone. Being given permission to talk? For me, instant anxiety cure. I love actually knowing you want to hear what I have to say (or at least, you opened yourself up to it)
Clearly the problem is they were too woke 😔
I’m into decolonization of Christianity, and one thing that’s really interesting is how saints were used by conquered peoples to preserve their gods and cultural practices i.e. syncretism. That’s one of the reasons Catholicism has remained more prominent than Protestantism in Latin America.
Catholicism outside of the Vatican is peganism and animism and ancestor worship with the labels scratched off.
And I’m mature enough in my atheism (really, post-atheist) to think that’s actually really cool.
In a multipolar world there is no one country that gets to be in charge.