Unthinking Majority wrote:Anyone who thinks they would want less control than what the US has now is insanely naive. Just look at how much control they exert over their own people. Look at their social credit system. They also have 54% of the world's security cameras in order to watch and control the population in the CCP's interests. They show up to your house to intimidate people, or they throw people in jail without trial or rights. To assume they would somehow be nicer to the global population if ridiculous.
The CCP already silences Chinese who live abroad by threatening their family members who still live in China. Anyone who isn't worried about what China is going to be a few decades is a fool. Anyone who wasn't worried about Nazi Germany in 1937 was an idiot.
Assange, Snowden, etc all talk about the internal spying going on within the USA and so on. I really don't care what you defend Unthinking. I grew up with political suppression in my family by the USA government. The FBI admitted it freely to Jose Serrano and sent him tons of documents. Nothing different and gentler about the USA's style of violent suppression. John Perkins discusses "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and all the stuff they did in Latin America. It is very very long Unthinking. Do you need a list and the specifics? These are the neighbors. The people they are trading with and are supposedly friendly with.
You go nation by nation? Killing, interfering in free elections, deposing legit governments to replace them with 'yes' people to their dirty shitty greedy ideas and agendas....the list is LONG. Since the USA is in Latin America's side of the world guess where they do the worst of the worst and then LIE about it to the world? Yes, this side of the world.
They don't allow dissidents that are a threat to them. Not inside of the nation and definitely not outside either.
I don't believe in the kinder better American style of Imperialism. It is time to set aside the imperialism and try to keep the planet from going into drought, water contamination, and species extinction mode on overdrive and stop trying to be the Greediest people on Earth with the most expensive cops and military to enforce the rip off of other people's resources. It is time to stop lying about just how bad all of these Empires have been in the last 600 years of human history and start working on repairing the damage.
Some more bullshit about how much more civilized the American Empire is? Is for pendejos who never got the short end of the stick in the Empire wars of greed and death.
Most of Latin America have constitutions and have republican forms of government. But if the wrong nationally minded group of people come to power the USA decides not to respect the choices made.
The PRC never went for two parties humpty dumpty basically clones as a smokescreen for state sponsored capitalism. The USA is a sham because it is run by corporations. By lobbyists and black funding and PACs with no accountability, Citizens United SCOTUS rulings and bullshit. No one believes that the USA magically always gives in to democracy and justice. It has been bloody fights for centuries to get anything even remotely decent for working people passed. It is fought against and undermined.
All nations have to struggle to get anything remotely just passed in their nations. Justice is not handed to people by corrupt governments and swollen head elites used to dominating all over the world. It is a common thread of human struggle. I think thinking that somehow the USA is above the fray is a deep and grave mistake. The USA set itself up to fail.
You know in the insurance industry they tell you "Promise much less than what you can actually deliver. That is how you retain the customer." If you over promise and underdeliver the entire customer base gets
angry.. That is what happens with the USA. Too many broken promises and no deliveries with the actual goods delivered or services rendered.
No one expects governments who never promised a rose garden to deliver the roses. So? They don't expect that. They prepare for no delivery. But the ones promising the rose garden and delivering weeds and bullshit that is not good for planting because there is no shit in it for roses to grow out of? Those are the ones that piss everyone off the most.
Beware of not delivering on "We the People." And staying with 'We the greedy and the plutocrats in order to form a more perfect union of inequality and exploitation....do hereby and establish....the United Intent to Keep People without any Opportunities and false promises of prosperity or prosperity to a tiny fraction of the society. After promising a whole lot of shit that everyone has to fight to the death to get....
If you have to fight to the death to get? Why the hell make the boat trip over. Stay in the old nation and fight it out in your own culture with more of a hope of true change. Don't go somewhere where you are bombarded with racist shit, your nation is a shithole, you are from inferior stock, we only want the easy ones to assimilate and we want some other country to educate people, teach them a lot, and be talented to come in then in their productive years and pilfer them from the societies that did all the investing in those fine, educated, flexible thinkers and hard workers. Theft of the labor of other nations. For the benefit of some lazy people in the USA who never wanted to work with the people they had all along...why? Because of bad values. Some really really bad values.
Greatest country on Earth? You should hear this monologue that rebutts that bullshit in this monologue. He is right you know.....
cue it up there:
9:30...the man is right (I don't agree with him but his stats are right). Lol.
No one understands just how bad it has gotten.