Post B5ETAbHuqHtQpafAoa by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5ETAZSpcjR7ArkrYG by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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       Either US democracy is not functioning, in which case it should end, or it is functioning and this it what it wants, in which case it should end.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ETAaYBaJJUXlGeXI by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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       There are a lot of people, including many anarchists, who think that one has to keep positive vibes about the people around you no matter what they are doing.  This is just as much an imposition of duty on the individual as anything else.  You're allowed to feel whatever you want and you're allowed to perceive reality as you see it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ETAbHuqHtQpafAoa by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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       It's also just not a good analysis of what's going on.  The US is like Nazi Germany in the late 30s.  Will the people rise up?  Historically the people in a society going fascist hardly ever do.What stops fascist states is that they can't stop aggressively attacking other states and then run into one which can stop them, as Trump pretty much just did with Iran and its oil supply crash.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5ETAcCzQ5XxgbMkm8 by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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       Does that mean that other countries are going to have to declare WW III?  No it does not.  The oil supply shock is going to kick the pins out from the US order.  Not every imperial overreach has to look like every other.But in the US this will look like people voting in the neoliberal party because they are angry about gas prices, not because they are angry that we killed a school full of schoolgirls.  Because 2/3rd of US voters already voted for genocide so they don't care.