ArgumentativeMonotheist

You can’t just depend on the villain du jour and bloodthirst for unity though. I mean, I guess you can as recent history shows, but you also cannot believe yourself and your country to be anything but a rabid dog and a danger to everyone else…

Fair enough, I made the adjustments. 🙏

Maybe I give up too easily. Let’s hope God heard ya and has some plans for the few (?, am I just too negative?) Americans that can still be saved/lay the foundations for a new society. I kinda feel they’ll need Him, lol.

Who’s holding anyone back, especially in something so morally neutral as this? Why do you think the unreasonable take is the common one? And if it were, who would you ask for it to be ‘normalized’? Shouldn’t we do what we think is right and avoid what we think is wrong regardless of whether it’s popular or not? Are people just afraid of calling out idiocy? You can do it kindly. Or are they afraid of confrontation with the stupids? And it’s always something shockingly silly like ‘normalize kissing your kids goodnight’ or ‘normalize talking about trauma with your parents who traumatized you’ like who the f told you not to and why would you ever take that person seriously?!

This is not something I particularly care about but this is where I come to e-shout my old man rants, thanks for reading! 🙏

Yeah, it would take a particularly competent, wise and self-sacrificial dude/tte or team to wrangle the masses of hateful morons, kindly direct them towards thought, morality and prosociality, and make something new out of country that was baptized in the blood of innocents (and loves taking blood baths!).

When freaking Germany offers a better sense of community than the USA, you really know Americans are cooked. Congrats on the move, I commend your brave spirit and I’m glad you’ve found your tribe/somewhere you’re comfortable in. 👍

Imagine meeting your Creator and when he asks you why you cheated on/abused your wife and destroyed your family and their psyches, or why you supported ideologically and financially the death and destruction of innocents around the world, or why you spread corruption in the land for coin, among other questions and you’re just “idk 🤷”.

The ‘I was just following orders!’ folks will burn in Hell forever, and the ‘but I didn’t know!’ when they could’ve easily known is definitely there in great numbers as well…

People who say “should be normalised” haven’t fully understood what free will entails, lol.

Constantine and Minority Report shouldn’t be on that list, IMO. The former in particular is very well executed and thoroughly enjoyable!

Words are the framework of ideas. That’s why it’s important to read good shit! 😅

Huh? Take your commie concerns somewhere else!

My parents caught me doing THE FORNICATIONS when I was 14 cause a great aunt died and they came back from work earlier to take the family to the vigil. I think I lost my Christmas presents that year because of it, lol.

You and the rest of the West, my friend, but there are only so many Congolese penises (ethically sourced, of course…) to go around!

Those are called enlightened centrists and moral relativists, friend.

Hopefully it sticks and it’s not just a phase from a person who doesn’t respect thought and does it sparingly…

Read the Qur’an, or Ecclesiastes and reflect upon it if the former scares you. 😁

Yeah, they’re chill, idk. If you enjoy arguments and can handle some friction without breaking down, you’ll fit right in, I think. The only main difference I’ve noticed is that they’re a bit gayer than folks here, or at least talk about it more, and they don’t use obvious American propaganda/party lines as the framework to understand the world.

“Fucking hate” for this situation? You’re gonna pop a vein if you ever have real problems!

Long-winded product of a quick brainstorm session incoming…

So, Americans will have two options:

1. Wait it out passively. Corporate infrastructure/services will become more prevalent and take the place of governmental agencies as they default due to debt and mismanagement (a position they’ve been put in through the decades thanks to defunding, with Elon’s DOGE being the latest of villains in this story). Get ready for corporate cities, and conglomerates being the de facto rulers of America. As governmental power wanes and after the eventual American balkanization, you’ll be part of the Amazon Republic of Arizona or whatever. Idk what happens after that.

2. Somehow, Americans fight both corporate and governmental power, through the creation of alternative supply chains, alternative (labour based, for instance) currency and become more self sufficient. Americans are heavily armed as well and, while incapable of fighting an army of drones, it should be enough of a deterrent (especially if the power structure collapses and infighting amongst oligarchs happens but these post American cooperative societies stand by each other). Communities with immigrants that still have connections to the civilized world might help bring foreign aid and intervention. However, this requires trust, empathy, prosociality, generosity and critical thought. You and I both know Americans are famous for lacking in all of those attributes so I don’t really see how they’ll get it together quickly (and no, American Christian dogma, which is even more cursed and against the actual teachings of Jesus than the Catholic dogma, cannot offer a solution).

God willing something will happen to snap Americans out of their white ethnonationalist, imperialistic fantasies and into love for humanity, and God does do miracles, but I’m not very optimistic. It might just be the new Sodom and Gomorrah, NGL.

Finally, there’s a reason the Western mind can only picture Mad Max when the government collapses: even they know they’re completely amoral and uncivilised, the only force holding society together is fear of legal repercussions/getting killed by the cops. By themselves, for the sake of being good and prosocial and to have some self respect, they won’t do shit.

Somehow I would be stopped, I feel it. And regardless, they’d corrupt my writings even if I was careful and entirely honest, and the lumpen would eat it up. Oh well. 🤷😅