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Originally Posted by Briks
I love how American patriots go on about "freedom" and "liberty", when they live in a military state with a kinda corrupt democracy and surveillance of its citizens. I almost hope for a revolution in the USA, not to enforce a new government in any way (that'd be undemocratic and counterproductive), but to open up for a truer democracy in which all candidates are treated equally, and voted for by enlightened individuals (by this I don't mean that the range of voters should be limited in any way, but that the people should be made more politically educated in general, so that they know exactly what they're voting for).
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i love it too cause it means the propaganda is working
but i'm honestly fine with our security state and enjoy reaping the causal benefits of living in the world's number one military empire
i don't understand most people really because they seem to shy away from that sort of thing but if you pay close enough attention you'll see that pretty much every country is out for its own, strategizing against one another etc. there are countries that are pretty geopolitically irrelevant and get to bask in the wealth of western civilization by proxy of being harmless to our ambitions and useful to trade with. and that's nice for them.
but any country with a hope at some sort of geopolitical clout tends to take these things a bit more seriously and will continue to compete for strategic leverage against each other
so the whole let's just be pacifist nice morally upstanding people approach to geopolitics/politics in general is really kind of silly when you think about it cause it relies on the assumption that if x power wasn't currently running the world and tipping the scales in their favor then everyone could just get along and deal on an even playing ground
when the reality that history has taught us again and again is that if you take away the current regime you get a power vacuum and you open new opportunities for other ambitious nations to exploit