On the contrary, it exposed that the closest thing we have to this is just rich people trying to go back to feudalism before too many people catch on that aristocrats are merely authoritative parasites, and force them into their luxury bunkers

They have to work so hard at just propping up their biases (on penalty of hell in many cases) that it’s hard to conceive of a world where other people aren’t also secretly doing that.

But guuuuuys, everybody’s supposed to lie and make less money and become slaves :( if you don’t do that, what’s this last 50 years of political gamesmanship and duplicity and propaganda been for??

American courts ARE a cartoon, and their role is Wile E. Coyote, whereas the Roadrunner is played by the 1%.

“Ooh, almost got him! Maybe next time.”

so happy for liberals on the internet to finally have their own thought terminating cliche in “tankies”, the jealousy for “woke” must have been overwhelming

insomuch as USAID was a tool for exerting soft power by lifting up global communities and spreading goodwill for America through humanitarian effort, I support what it was, I didn’t want to see it gutted. insomuch as China is exerting soft power by building infrastructure and investing in industry, it’d be nice to see the US exert a little soft power against us citizens from time to time.

In practice they have been pretty hands off as they develop the global south afaik.

They’re also only doing it for its resources, I think you could realistically assume, but it can’t be denied that their approach has brought much better results than America’s so far.

What I hope happens is we oust him and do some serious work on our systems that prevents stuff like this.

Though the track record of our leaders is pretty depressing, maybe they’re starting to wake up now that we get to see Endgame Capitalism

All he has succeeded in doing is violently ripping the US away from its place at the center of the global hegemony.

Which is not great for those of us in the US, but honestly had to happen, the rest of the world clearly cannot depend on us. Our entire political system is built on honor systems and pinky promises, the rich can do whatever they please and never see accountability.