It's not communism they're supporting, though; no one is talking about levelling the classes and abolishing private property. Very few are even so much as talking about employee-owned businesses as an example of expanding socialism. No, those Americans who shock you want authoritarianism of the "Christian", "White" and male variety. America was great when it was Christian and White, you see. (And then there's a few—it's always just a few—who want to ram libertarianism down Americans' throats, since they've never had the "good sense" to vote for it.)
This isn't a republican/democrat debate though. How many lives? Give it's Ukranians fighting for their own country, don't you think they've got a right to say if they want to give up? Imagine the USA being invaded, you fight back hard, and China steps in and tells you to give in and give up your land. It's exactly the same. And it's the least patriotic, most un-American stance I've ever, ever seen. USA epitomises freedom and the right to self-determinacy, and now Trump not only cuts off aid without warning, he withdraws all military intelligence to Ukraine too. That is not brokering peace, it's working for Putin. There's a ton of threads around here about the effect of tariffs; it's way, way, way worse than that. The damage Trump has done to the USA standing worldwide is incalculable. De-dollarisation was already happening prior, but this has accelerated it at warp speed because trust is being eroded at record speed. I never thought I'd see the day USA voted with North Korea, China and Russia but here we are: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7435pnle0go
The US, thanks to the self-entitled left-behinds, and excessive inequality, is going into a "lifeboat ethics" time.
Nailed it. In the UK, such is USA's influence we end up following US trends - political, economic, social... with a lag of a year or two. I hope to God we can swerve this one.
Right. But it's still six of one and half dozen of the other. Even in "official" communist countries, present or past, some comrades were far more equal than others. The top tier comrades lived in luxury and exercised absolute rule, while the rest were put upon and had to make do. Pretty much like any other dictatorship than went by any other name. A Soviet era communist would know actual socialism if it hit him in the face.
We will have an federal election here in Canada this year. I hope that Pierre Poilievre, "Trump North," doesn't get voted in.
You can't avoid it, for another reason. Thanks to human ecological overshoot (see my thread in the science & tech forum), all H. sapiens is in grave danger. All the chaos we see everywhere is in one form or another manifestations of that frightening but bedrock reality. Teach your kids 17th century life skills right now.
It's nearly a coin flip at the moment, but becomes less likely the more Trump's puppeteers "succeed" in their agenda.
Despite Musk's claims, no cyber attack which took down X/Twitter occurred yesterday. Even Fox News and CNN are now mocking Elon's claims.