Of course you vote for the viable non fascist candidate. What else to do, if you do not intend to be a fascist enabler?

I think they just seek to create controversy. They don’t care for young people or people at all.

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Fuck them. It doesn’t matter what they have to say.

That’s true. I was more talking about regular people defending such behaviour.

Just because a system is designed a certain (amoral) way, doesn’t mean you HAVE to use it in that way.

Trump and many others may think it’s smart to not pay taxes because of the immediate advantage of having more money. But I’d argue, it’s actually a stupid thing to do. Especially for wealthy people. They profit more from government services like a well equiped police force, good infrastructure, health services that keep their employees healthy, etc. They are just to stupid or shortsighted to factor all variables in.

Also I think societal norms and individual identity plays a big role in such decisions. I mean, why are you on lemmy and not on reddit? Isn’t it smarter to use reddit since there is more content, more users who read your comments? Maybe reddit just banned you and you have no viable alternative. But there is also the possibility that you are aware of the shortcomings of reddit and arrived at the decision that it’s actually smarter to use lemmy.

In the end, it’s your descision who you want to be. Do you want to be they guy who doesn’t pay taxes and brags about it? Or the guy who thinks it’s so smart to bribe the president? Do you want to be the guy who reads bot comments on reddit all day and gobbles up their rage bait? Even if society deems certain descisons as smart, they are very often not.

It isn’t their fault this was the smart thing to do.

Oh my, the shit Americans people say. Reminded me of this.

Picture needs more germs.

Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal by Chris Hedges

Team Foucault all the way. Chomsky folded like a cheap chair. /s

Elbows up, Canada! I’m really happy to see that there is at least one nation that pushes back.

I only wish the European Commission would take note and grow some balls.

Well, obviously you did not read my comments. Or maybe it’s my bad english. I wasn’t alive back then, but my grandparents. And yes, they were guilty too. Also I’m part responsible for my shitty government. Even if I never voted for them. But my stupid country doesn’t start wars, we don’t run torture prisons or bomb schools.

Americans are like fish who don’t know what water is.

Better an asshole then a bloody American. The whole world is sick and tired of your shit.

I mean if you American, then you did in fact send us the bill. You flattened our cities and convicted our leaders, literaly Nuremberg style. I think we deserved it back then. For me that’s not hard to see.

Why is it so hard for you guys to take a look in the mirror?

USA starts war after war and I’m the asshole because I can tell that’s not right? You call yourself “Land Of The Free” and all I ever hear from you guys is: “There is really nothing we can do about it”.

You get all defensive and butthurt all the time. But yeah, I listened to a lot of David Foster Wallace yesterday. I think I learned something(1). Maybe you give it a shot? There’s some stuff on youtube.

Yeah. That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Carbrained psychopaths look a people crossing the street and think: How dare they make me wait a few seconds longer. I’ll fucking hit them with my car.

And they think that’s a proportinal response. It’s just deeply sick and twisted.

Oh poor fellow, I’m sorry I made you a victim of my linguistic violence here. Land of the free, home of the brave, right? Just be glad my country never bombed one of your schools. But then again, we really don’t have to, since you guys shoot those little bastards yourself.

But I could tell you a lot about WW2 Germany. Concentration Camps were an open secret. For example, in my own home county, there was one of those camps. In 1945 there was a big escape. Civilians from all around came together to hunt and kill the escapees. From 500 escapees 11 survived. I would call that evil.

Now this flame of evil has passed onto you guys. And you carry it with pride and ignorance.

Yeah, I guess I’m a litte bit accelerationist(1) with my take here. But the situation will not change if drivers have it more comfortable.

There is so much violence in driving a car, and you argue against me because I make them stop for 20 seconds. (Inner)Cities should not be build for cruising. They should be build for pedestrians. If you want to cruise, drive on the Autobahn or some Umfahrungsstraße.

Nah, you got it all wrong. I don’t punish them, I do them a favor. They mabe don’t know it, but it’s good for them if they stop occasionally.

On the other hand, they punish me, every day of every week. They punish me with pollution and noise and concrete and traffic accidents and oil consumption and heat radiation.

They elected him twice. It hurts me to say it, but (most) Americans are evil as fuck. It’s just this deeply toxic culture, which gets reproduced in every aspect of their lives.

They are obsessed with violence, their cars a basicly tanks, they have more guns then people, no maternity protections, mass surveillance, they worship their celebrities like drones their queen. They start war after war, build torture prisons around the world, destroy the environment, they bomb schools then turn around and say shit like: Thank you for you service. But don’t blame the soldiers, they have no choice. They call it “Land Of The Free”, “A shining city upon a hill”, they say “Make America Great Again”.

Every half decent thing they monetise until it’s hollowed out, they poison, cheat, scam, torture, kill, then lie about it. Most of all they lie to themselfs. They are vampires of the soul, ghouls of the heart, monsters in human form. And their fucking culture expands like a virus.

And I speak with the pain of a disappointed lover, I loved their music, their artistic brilliance as shown in movies, musicals, theater, literature, journalism, hell even tec. But it’s all a big scam, designed to amass power. Designed to enslave and exploit every last corner of this earth.