Most of the US military have zero qualms about obeying illegal orders.

Reference: Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and most other U.S. instigated wars for their entire history.

As wealth becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, we know the oligarchs will soon be fighting over the last of the scraps.

Unfortunately, we are those scraps.

I have decided to go all “glass half full” and enjoy the fact that tRump has done more to destroy the US Empire than any outside adversaries have ever been able to do in its entire putrid existence. The world will be much better when the genocidal slave-owning oligarchy tears itself apart.

That was my first thought… please have a kill switch! A hypersensitive one.

Genocide is a crime against humanity according to the United Nations.

Protesting genocide is a hate crime according to the USA (and a sadly growing number of other complicit states).

We all knew eventually the oligarchs would start fighting each other over scraps.

What we forget is we and everything we still have are the scraps.

Gonna party like its 1929!

the U.S. was facing a moment of “extraordinary danger”

Good, the sooner it is gone, the better off the planet will be.

Good. tRump has done more in 2 months to bring down the US Empire than any of their real or imagined enemies in the last 80 years have. Time to let it die.

International law: Conducting and Support of Genocide is Illegal.

U.S./Germany law: Protesting Genocide is Illegal.

If you have the opportunity and resources to get out, go. Things are only going to get worse.

Millions protested against the invasion of Iraq, the USA invaded Iraq anyway. Mass protests are ignored by the oligarchs.

Now if the USians grew spines and organized a general strike, that might get the ruling class’s attention.

Land of the Free that excluded blacks and women

As well as the indigenous and non-landowners.

U.S. oligarchs HATE competition. They conned the rubes of 1776 to fight the British monarchy so they could have a monopoly on graft in the colonies, the U.S. finally got pulled kicking and screaming into WW1 and WW2 because they hated the competition from Germany et al, and not out of any love for Europe. The support for Hitler among the U.S. ruling class was high and well documented, including Prescott Bush.

more reliable indicator of low intelligence

I would add inability to use proper punctuation to that criteria.

I seriously doubt the intelligence of anyone still traveling to the USA. I hope whatever project he is working on is not critical.

The US electoral system is broken and has always been broken.

Oligarchy was built into the US electoral system, it is not broken but operating as designed. Only rich white males had any rights in the beginning, and every change since then was window dressing that could easily be taken away, as we are seeing now. The masks have dropped, the world is seeing the true USA. Genocidal, imperialistic, slave owning, bigoted and patriarchal. Nothing new to anyone with eyes and a brain.

The oligarch owned media/government/education system wants the working class fighting each other rather than going after the real parasites (the oligarchs). They use 24/7 cradle to grave propaganda to convince people that the threat comes from “others” instead of the bosses. Easier to get people to punch down.

December 4th 2024, the day shit rolled uphill.

Oligarchs are not bulletproof.

I put this into my hosts file a couple years back:

127.0.0.1 *reddit*

fuck reddit.