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At risk? It seems like they never looked at that Princeton study that stated it had already taken place in 2014 [0]. Personally speaking it took the 2008 crisi
by Melting_Harps 6y ago
At risk? It seems like they never looked at that Princeton study that stated it had already taken place in 2014 [0].
Personally speaking it took the 2008 crisis to finally force me to accept this truth, the US is a corpo-facist State with a very well traveled revolving door between politics and certain 'Private' Industries that benefit the most of from favourable policy and legislation as their lobbying budgets reflects that--banking, schooling, pharma/medical, and most blatant of all military contractors spanning everything from fastfood chains that supply on base meals, to mercenaries for hire (Blackwater/Xe) to weapons manufacturing (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Ratheon et al).
When you look back at how every crisis before and after 2008 was handled in just my lifetime, be it the opioid epidemic, dotcom bubble before that in the 2000s to the wallstreet corruption and Iran Contra and crack crisis in the 80s their is very little consequence for their corporate and political affiliates, where as entire generations of the populace are let to their own devices.
I hate to to say this, as I wish we could just bypass it entirely already a logical decesion, but short of stopping the CCP expanding its far more dysfunctional form of tyrannical Imperialism and acting as a deterrent in South Asia the US has no real function anymore in anything that matters, and we would benefit from hastening the transition from this pointless archaic and clearly Oligarchical nation state model as soon as possible to a Global confederation so we can start solving real issues on the Global level that demand all of our attention: specifically pertaining to climate change and the fallout from just that alone.
It really fills me with dread that we can't figure this very obvious problem all while we are trying to tackle being a multi planetary species.
0: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
- jmnicolas 6y ago> while we are trying to tackle being a multi planetary species Don't worry, as long as we don't any better than fossil fuels, we're not going anywhere soon except a couple hundred of us maybe. Musk and the others are mostly selling dreams at this point. And I have yet to understand what's the point to live in a box on Mars, since you could always do it way more easily on earth if the need arose.