Paul CantrellJan 3

A request from somebody in the USA: if you live in another country, please start pressuring your government to institute sanctions against the US.

Diplomatic sanctions, economic sanctions, whatever is possible.

I do not expect this to happen quickly. Start laying the political groundwork now so that it can happen at all, ever, while it still matters.

Show threadPaul CantrellJan 3
Treating the US like a rogue state would be a seismic shift in international relations — a shift that slow-moving world will resist. But the US •is• a rogue state at this point, and other nations need to start treating it as such. Like…yesterday.
Show threadI AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑‍🔥Jan 3
@inthehands
I think it's been a rogue state since well before 2016. It just hadn't dawned on a lot of Americans.
Show threadIvan Sagalaev 

@xinit @inthehands dig further: Henry Kissinger's (and the rest of the establishment) view of the U.S.A. as the infallible moral authority, "the world's cop", has brought a lot of suffering on the world since the second half of the last century.

But there's a catch: unless we blow the next presidential election and become an entrenched dictatorship, we'd still have a claim on being a self-correcting democracy run by people.

Jan 4 at 12:22amWeb
Show threadMiro CollasJan 4

@isagalaev @xinit @inthehands One problem: the US isn't a democracy, never was, and wasn't designed to be. Single example: the electoral college.

And yes, it has been a rogue state for a long time. For instance, see
https://mastodon.social/@agitprop_n_absurdity/115832443621112122
and
https://mastodon.green/@SusiArnott/115830200349723415

Show threadIvan Sagalaev Jan 4
@Miro_Collas @xinit @inthehands I don't think it's correct to define democracy as an all-or-nothing thing. It's a continuum. There are democratic features — fair representation, term limits, separation of power — and U.S. checks some of those, while utterly failing on others (electoral college, the senate, lifetime supreme court). But it's still more democratic than, say, Russia. If we manage to not get rid of Trump, I'll consider us a failed democracy then.
Show threadMiro CollasJan 4

@isagalaev Isn't democracy supposed to be when a gvt represents the people? Using again the single example, the electoral college had the power from the outset to reverse the will of the people. And still does in some states.

I'll grant you "partly democratic", more than some places, less than others.

But when people suggest the US is, or was, a democracy, no. And it was never meant to be one. That's a myth.

@xinit @inthehands

Show threadTomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 4

@isagalaev @xinit @inthehands

"the world's cop"?!

https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/115834114116090539

TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image First, Venezuela. Next?.... I propose we organize a watch party of Team America: World Police ... for comic relief. As the theme song goes: America, fuck yeah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LasrD6SZkZk #Politics #USpol #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Venezuela #Strike #GeneralStrike #Colonialism

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