How do think a ground invasion of Iran, the famously impossible to invade area for literally thousands of years, would go? Do you think that it would be like Iraq where the USA blitzkrieged with tanks through to the capital? Not likely. The entire region is mountains. Rock slides would be a disaster in waiting (and able to be triggered via artillery or drones) at every turn.
There was reporting that they were going to charge in yuan exclusively.
No more dollar as the world reserve currency. Death of the petrodollar.
Glorious.
In the USA, if they try to force me, I will chew our their jugulars and be shot on the spot. I will not die alone though I promise you.
Over my rotten corpse.
To be perfectly frank, with the system we had set up, that was inevitable. It would have been better if it happened 40 years ago, better to happen now than in another 40 years.
Clearly, if one point of failure causes it to collapse within a month, the system was not stable. There was no other path but collapse of the global economy.
We have different meanings of the word country, is all
The United States is dead. The people where it once stood could make a good society again, it will just not be anything like the one before.
If that were to happen, the laws that govern this nation would need rewritten entirely. The regulations that govern business need rewritten. The foundations of our social contract must be renegotiated.
I don’t want to live in a nation populated by Nazis or their supporters. If there is no punishment for them, the nation remains dead permanently. Nazi Germany did not go far enough in punishing the perpetrators. Japan did not go far enough in punishing the perpetrators.
I don’t think it is safe for society to allow them to simply duck their heads and be folded back in. These are dangerous, selfish, hateful people who will do everything in their power to undermine society and to teach their children to do so after them for decades after this.
Everything happening now is directly trackable to the civil war and the sabotaged/failed reconstruction that allowed hatred, racism and resentment to fester. It was never dealt with in government, in fact, the government often encouraged it.
I do not want to repeat history. I want a society of people who want to be a part of that society. Not forced into it by exploitation and coercion. I don’t want society to be more akin to a back alley mugging where most of us are unable to leave, despite desperately wanting to.
I have been saying for months the laws are dead. The social contract has been incinerated. Our nation is dead, irrecoverable.
It’s a real shame they are so far from me. Wish I could hand deliver a gift basket.
I’m not convinced we won’t hear about similar done in Israel. If they had any scientific incentive to do so, I have little doubt they would be willing to.
You do not need to replace your entire diet with home grown produce. Supplement the food you buy from the store with whatever you can grow in the small area you have. You can get a surprisingly good haul from 25ft².
Plant the 3 sisters (beans, corn, squash/pumpkin) together in a small area to maximize shelf stable production. You will need to do a small amount of research on planting times but the times are fast approaching.
Have you seen it? The play?
Have you seen it?
When I have talked to them about some of these things, they largely agree that we need to reign in big business when you explain it to them. They don’t like banks. They do like billionaires or think they are smart.
Basically, they would most likely be, in part, in favor of it. We just need to ensure that they do not have an outsized influence on the decisions that would come after.
Also they were too stupid to realize they were voting for the swamp itself. We won’t achieve this through voting.
I explicitly do not want to fix this system. To attempt to fix this system, within the system, would take literally a century. It is inconceivable to me that we could get past the blatant corruption and bureaucratic rot that is at every level of our government.
The only answer is to strip it to the foundation, and then dig that up as well. We need a new constitution, a new Congress of states, perhaps the states should go as well, to be restructured for the new world that we are entering. Florida could be literally underwater year-round by the end of the century. The southwest will be out of water as the Colorado river dries up. The midwest could very easily slip into another dust bowl due to heat stress on grasses. We need to account for these things when we design the new social contract, because this one is dead.
It’s this timelines Double-Speak.
Doubleplus ungood, citizen.
Is it the god of an organized religion? Do you call yourself a believer in that religion even if you don’t “support” it?
Which God? There are thousands. Judeo Christian God? Yeah you support the degradation of society. Doesn’t matter which denomination. You want to tell me how you can have a personal connection with someone else’s hallucination?
Your belief in the organization legitimizes dangerous and corrosive beliefs. It legitimizes the power structure that oppresses. It legitimizes the act of turning off your brain. Your adherence to its rules legitimizes even it’s more rabid and extreme flanks.
You cannot participate in organized religion without harming society.
But those do not include organized religions that have holy books written about ancient hallucinations.
Spiritualism is fine (generally) but it can still lead to delusional thinking. As in, verifiably false conclusions.
Oops I mined the runway. Oops a drone hit the runway. Oops the air defense isn’t actually all out and now 300 American paratroopers are dead.
If we bent our entire economy around it, yeah maybe. We’re not doing that and that wouldn’t be a “success.” It would be a phyrric victory AT BEST.