The northwest territories were north and west of the original thirteen colonies, more or less. They are not more north east of the country as a whole, because westward expansion continued.

If I know it’s me, “mine some Bitcoin” if I don’t necessarily know it’s me? “You transitioned… Me”

Good job finding secure employment.

The prices won’t come down when the bubble bursts, you will just lose your job.

Hard disagree. Their base will believe anything.

If we set up gas chambers in Florida some people would be insisting they were harmless showers while they were being forced into them.

Yep, there is no organization capable of staging armed opposition to the government. A series of mass shootings and maybe some explosives is all we are going to get.

Given the number of incidents, I wouldn’t be shocked if historians decide later we are already living through it. Political assasinations in Minnesota, the attempted murder of pelosi’s husband, attempted trump shooter, charkie Kirk, the car bomb in Memphis that didn’t go off a few years ago. The United Healthcare CEO hit. Attempted kidnapping of Gretchen Whitmer.

There is plenty of violence to go around, but nothing that would rise to civil war.

I have imagined a scenario where a debt crisis degrades the capacity of the federal government and polarization leaves citizens and national guard more loyal to their state than the federal government, but we are a long way away from that.

Both. Definitely both. Our minds can experience two emotions at once.

That’s a calculation each of us has to make personally. If you are white, a citizen, have people that rely on you, and are wealthy enough that they can fight a legal battle for you, maybe don’t resist and hope for the best. If you are none of those, and you think you might get sent to a concentration camp or Africa, maybe defend yourself as best you can.

Good luck to everyone.

They teach them to be paranoid and shoot first and ask questions later.

World leaders are doing things. Europe has committed large sums of money to building out their defense industries, China has been building out it’s military capabilities for decades, Canada has used tarrifs to strategically punish the US for it’s tarrifs on Canadian goods and joined the European defense partnership, presumably to gain access to the aforementioned defense industry build out in Europe. Japan is increasing it’s military spending and moving to amend it’s constitution to remove the restrictions on military force.

Sanctions against the US like those on Iran are possible, but for a country as large and wealthy as the US with such a diversified economy, even if the entire world sanctioned the US it would plunge them into desperate poverty.

It would wreck the US economy, no doubt, but most world leaders are not willing to even suggest their people should endure that level of hardship over Nicolas Maduro. And the US would still have most of the world ability to project military power, so driving us into a corner like that would be incredibly dangerous.

Make no mistake, every world leader and especially every head of state in Latin America is considering the chance that delta Force could pull them out of bed at 3 AM, I imagine Sheinbaum in Mexico, Lula in Brazil, have a few new grey hairs and especially Cubas head of state is sweating bullets. They don’t have the power to prevent it.

I am personally reviewing my options for how to protest this action.

Yeah, Israel was able to launch a shit ton of Missiles into Iran, and some of the Iranian Missiles hit Israel, even through the Iron dome, the tightest missile defense system in the world.

Thank you for explaining honestly.

I didn’t engage because I don’t see any evidence of a good faith argument.

They put effort into their possessions and want to keep them. Fine, socialism is workers owning the means of production, the only thing you can’t own under socialism is a business that employs other people in a hierarchical fashion. You can still own a business where you are self employed. You can still own property, goods, purchase services, etc. you can even hire contractors to help your business.

But this poster seems to be operating on the less well defined “socialism is when the government does things to help people.” I think being against that is cruel to the point of psychopathy. But you can’t reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into, so instead I made a sarcastic comment.

Thisnis why you have to go after the assets directly, wealth tax on fortunes over 10 million.

It’s only a strawman if it’s fiction. Capitalism as a system is doing real harm every day.

There are exceptions even here in Texas. My city has no toll roads and has a publicly owned power company.

We don’t have private power companies in this county. What are they gonna compete on? Price? They would buy the power from the public company. Service? The service is honestly good.

I dream of moving to a different. State but I thank my lucky stars I grew up in this city.

It makes sense if you don’t think the billionaires can ever lose, so anyone else getting more means some other poor person has to get less.

Ah yes, the biblical “human nature is flawed so we can’t ever make the world better” argument.

Ignoring the 1000’s of years of humans making the world better.

We used to have child sacrifice and we don’t anymore. We used to have chattel slavery and we don’t anymore.

Our economies can get better and if someone tells you otherwise they are lying to preserve their own power.

“we need socialism like Nordic countries!”

“Nordic countries are Capitalist they just have robust social welfare programs!”

" Then let’s implement those programs!"

“No! That’s socialism!”

If you think your church is doing good work, you give.

The church I grew up in closed for lack of funds. The preacher never lived large, they weren’t taking more than people wanted to give.

I would never give money to a mega church, but I have donated to UU churches as an adult.