https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REFsYsMa31g

Honestly the conciseness of this argument is heartwarming to me. 🥰

Here’s one: study insurgencies that managed to hold off and/or beat the US and get ready to apply those tactics because that time is coming. Best get to networking too.

They have to win elections and they have to fight from within.

Wait everyone! Don’t you see? If we join the Nazis we can change them from within!

Great hero of the people: Neville Chamberlain

To be fair, that’s pretty much the ancestry of West Germany. Well, that and all the Nazis who got a great big beautiful American bailout.

Obama drone struck that 16 year old American kid, and when someone in his administration was asked about it, he said that he should’ve had a better father

Oh boy the irony

That’s why it’s so important to learn these things, at least whenever we have the opportunity to do so.

While it may be taught in school nowadays if it wasn’t when they were in school then it would be hard to imagine them hearing about it otherwise unless they pay very close attention to the media.

Indeed, how can anyone pay attention to something they’re never informed of?

Fucked if I know 😂 I’m studying it on my own from textbooks and online resources, not in a classroom setting taught by scholars much much smarter than me. I assume the reduced complexity of simplified characters makes it more accessible though, which is why I understand the PRC makes Pinyin required on road signs as well.

I’ve been enjoying studying Mandarin. The tones are a bit weird but the grammar seems surprisingly simple, everything can be written pretty universally in pinyin, and Hanzi characters are great for condensing information.

It sounds like your high school was better than most. That’s hope-inducing.

Civic engagement is always good. Some high schools will have some things in the textbooks but class curricula never get that far, preferring to leave off around WWII or the second red scare at latest if they even touch the 1900’s.

Most Statesians lose their faith in cops/country in a similar way. There’s a reason US high schools don’t teach recent history. If it’s far enough back like the early 1900’s or 1800’s then you can rationalize it with platitudes like “it was a different time back then” or “we hadn’t evolved as a society yet”. Lot harder to rationalize away when it was only 40 years ago.

I didn’t invent clinical depression but my god have I innovated it

Thanks! 😃

That’s a debate since authoritarianism to libertarianism is a spectrum so there is no official “normal” and its generally used qualitatively on individual polices

So, essentially, it’s subjective?

Notable Lines:

“Attention MOVE: This is America. You have to abide by the laws of the United States.” They were given 15 minutes to come out.

Police used more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition. At 2 p.m., Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed.

Ramona Africa said that police fired at those trying to escape.