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That’s exactly what I’m appealing to. Khashoggi got murdered brazenly, and nothing could be done about it. Hong Kong protestors get detained indefinitely, and n
by runawaybottle 6y ago
That’s exactly what I’m appealing to. Khashoggi got murdered brazenly, and nothing could be done about it. Hong Kong protestors get detained indefinitely, and nothing can be done about it.
The American imperative is that we must do something about it. Our failure is that we have a threshold that needs to be met, but we do have a threshold. In most of the world there is no threshold. You can do anything, indefinitely, with no change.
That’s why Putin is a multi decade President. That’s why China has a multi decade firewall. There’s no threshold.
We are imperfect, but we acknowledge the boiling points, an actual metric we can work with. A number we can improve upon.
- bigfudge 6y agoI think you underestimate how far down the road towards totalitarianism you have travelled in the last 20-30 years. There's nothing I can see that suggests you have a threshold which will spur change. Your voting systems are being more actively rigged than ever before to ensure the people most angry about police brutality will be most likely to be disenfranchised in November.
- runawaybottle 6y agoYour are describing a nightmare scenario.
- exclusiv 6y ago> Your voting systems are being more actively rigged than ever before This is simply not true. The only things that are rigged are the two party system that spit out bad candidates (seemingly more often than before), has mechanisms to suppress other parties, and no term limit career politicians that are bought out by special interests. But the voting system itself is not the problem.