@JakeKb @benroyce @Pine_Affinity @Netraven @mcnado Americans aren't exceptional in the sense that humans are the same wherever and whenever they are. They react to the same material conditions the same way.

Americans (and Westerners in general) are exceptional in the sense that we currently live under material conditions that apparently prevent the vast majority of people from taking anything seriously. That's unprecedented in history. The solutions that worked for other people in the past will therefore not work.

You can't organise a general strike in a country where at least 95% of the people in each city are ruthlessly committed to doing the bare minimum of everything. We'll have to figure out something else.

@JakeKb

You don't care which president sends the bombs? If you think Palestine would have suffered as much under Harris, you're delusional. She wasn't the one who wanted to turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East. She also wouldn't have attacked and threatened numerous countries in less than a year and a half. And screwed Ukraine.

Adults frequently have to choose between bad options. Pretending that you don't literally makes everything worse.

@roger @benroyce @Netraven @mcnado

@Tofu_Golem

Sorry mate, but it is you who have this backwards, and you also have the power dynamics wrong. The core of democracy isn't the behavior of politicians, but the behavior of VOTERS ie the DEMOS

The demos choose, and if the demos refuses to choose, the worst candidate usually gets in, because they will have the most money and the least scruples