“I no longer [sound of US missile destroying boat off the coast of Venezuela,] feel an obligation to think purely [sound of US guns murdering survivors] of Peace”
Didn’t the Nina, Pinta , and Santa Maria just land on the US a couple of hundred years ago?
Mayflower
I would imagine there are some written documents, not that that is what decides what territory belongs to whom, but still
He’s insane.
holy… do they not have proof-readers? I find it nuts that theres millions of people and that is who makes it to run the country, absolutely insane.
I mean it’s by design right? Our government was made by oligarchs to protect oligarchs from the unwashed masses from the very beginning. We had some progress over the years and most notably after WW2 but this shit has overall been rotted to the core from day one and its only gone into hyperdrive since the 80s in the post Reagan era.
Donald Trump being president is frustratingly not an aberration to this system we live under but rather is the outcome you’d expect from a society that only cares about enriching like 5 pedophile billionaires at the expense of literally every citizen in the country AND at the expense of the freedom and sovereignty of a significant portion of the global south and middle east.
While there’s plenty to criticize about the founding of the US, eg the northern colonies having to compromise with the southern colonies on slavery, the reality is that expanding voting power to all white land-owning men was a pretty revolutionary concept at the time, where prior to that, power in European culture almost universally derived from birthright. The US Constitution also set us on a course where voting power has continually been expanded and now encompasses all US citizens.
Unfortunately, forces are trying to consolidate power for a small group again, and our system of voting has been continually undermined for about 40 years through the rolling back of voting rights and severe gerrymandering, to where the general public is losing power over our government.
Don’t get me wrong, they definitely put some good things in the Constitution. I think they are mostly concessions to keep the average person (who this is has changed over the years as we’ve amended things to ostensibly expand voting rights) FEELING like they have a way when the reality is our Constitution contains tons of purposefully anti democratic structures in it.
The Senate, the electoral college, the supreme court, and the independent presidency need to be done away with. We should instead have a unicameral parliamentary system where power comes from the people and is truly representative of their will.
i think bicameralism has a place IF we actually learn from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy instead of just half ass copy their homework like we did last time. we gotta do it right and actually build anti-authoritarian systems into our ways of being. our founding fathers were a bunch of oligarchs who were still pretty sure an enlightened autocrat might be the way
I find it nuts that theres millions of people and that is who makes it to run the country
Hundreds of millions…
“I deserved an award from some group semi-adjacent to you, but since I didn’t get it, you have to appease me personally with something else. And that will actually be good for America, because I am president of that country. Basically what I’m saying is that my personal feelings dictate global politics as long as there’s some vague pretense of a connection that I can make between the two unrelated things. Or not, I’m doing you a favor here by inventing such a connection.”
*appease me personally with something else that a different country, as well as a federation (that your country isn’t a part of) are in charge of.
fucking hell, I really thought it was a satire, but what’s really scary is how many absolute morons are ready to get behind it.
Yea, I read this as satire too, it’s insane
Good grief!
Is this real? I keep having to ask this…
Edit:
Lately I’ve just been assuming that the more crazy it sounds, the more likely it is to be true…
