Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?

• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  thier propaganda machine mostly is working better than thier military. backed right wing governments into supporting things russia wants to happen(anti-immigration, wokeness, racism,etc)

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• z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sure. I’m not trying to say the US and Russia are equivalent in the volume nor nature of how they implement imperialist and domestic violence (though there are increasingly more similarities as of late). But I perceive the US as a crazed madman with as many arms as Shiva and has amassed more weapons than anyone else, with a gun pointed at the head of everyone in every direction, including at it’s own head. I also view other imperialist nations as having a similar psychosis going on, just with a few less arms and very different origin stories as to how they got there.

  I’m just saying telling everybody it’s solely up to the nation to clean up its own mess is, while correct, way too simplistic. I admittedly don’t know how we solve it though, and I’m cynical enough to believe most of us don’t have an answer, and even if we did, we wouldn’t have a strong enough consensus and momentum to pull it off. Hence why I believe nothing will be done.

  We, the citizens in these imperialist nations are both slaves and skavemasters, with guns pointed to our heads, by both nation states and corporations, they don’t just control whether we live or die, they hold our hearts in their hands, ready to squeeze out our humanity and empathy at their discretion until we look in the mirror and mistake the monsters we have become as the best humanity has to offer.

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  • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks. I appreciate simple, correct solutions and I understand why emotional investment and habit makes those solutions difficult to accept and implement.

    If you take a step outside of your situation, it will quickly become apparent that the grip you believe others hold you in is largely insubstantial and based on empty proclamations and threats. Magnates can plead for your attention, but you don’t have to give it to them(climb a mountain, play video games), your government can scream for your taxes and you don’t have to hand them over(IRS form 2555, foreign earned income exclusion).

    The world is huge and no matter how important someone demands you think they are, they’re wrong.

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    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Look, I wish I had your viewpoint, but truth be told I have no plan of leaving my homeland. Imperialist fascsism comes for us all eventually, and that’s kind of my point. You, me, all of us, actually have got nowhere to run. You either fight or succumb. But my take on life is that I live solely to spite my enemies, not because I believe I can beat them, but because I refuse to make victory easy for them. Perhaps I’m wrong, perhaps we can win this fight and solve the climate crisis, but I’ll not get my hopes up. Only spite remains that stirs me from my bed in the morning now.

      In this way, my enemies control me, they define me. I am nothing without them now. Such is the horror of imperialist fascism, they do not relent, they are never satiated, and they do not ignore any corner of the world. And so it consumes me.

      Eventually the world’s problems end up at your doorstep, whether you had a hand in creating them or not. I just refuse to look away.

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      • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I hear you and understand your resignation; tender despair is very common and the result of those whirlwind insubstantial threats and proclamations.

        You don’t have to leave your spite behind, most don’t, and I’m not telling you to; I’m letting people know that if they want to live for themselves and others rather than dying for their enemies, it’s possible and I’m here to help.

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