• Nakoichi [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I’m not sure our institutions even could be properly redeemed given many of them were designed to further the goals of imperialism and exploit other countries.

    That's pretty much my take and why I'm of the total reset mentality. Everyone's all scared that some other super power would swoop in and take control of the US but that's magical thinking. We're the most/best armed civilian population on the planet. Foreign occupation of the US is just not possible.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        True but most of what we rely on from China is labor that could be done by people currently working in bullshit jobs that don't produce actual material value here in the US. My favorite example is all those tanks we just paid for that the pentagon doesn't even want. There's a massive untapped labor force in the US that just needs the corporate rug ripped out from under them.

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Yep, it's a massive make-work program that is only supported because the people that represent the constituencies that rely on those jobs can't imagine any alternative.

            Not to mention shit like the F35 project