Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
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I like all those things too Dani. And I like the rule of three. But there might have been a few other factors involved - and not all of them so shiny and pretty
Russia and our other adversaries have known that the United States could never be defeated militarily. This was the only plan. Putin started it in the 80’s with Trump. We’re seeing it play out today.
It feels like the US was in a war, lost that war, and the conquering nation is now dismantling our government so that it can never offer resistance to the conquering army again. As an added bonus (to them), the country still has assets and wealth they are gleefully plundering for their own benefit.
I've seen it said several times that the ultimate result of the Civil War was that Union won the war but lost the peace; the politicians at the time lacked the requisite motivation/desire to fully execute the Reconstruction. Washed their hands of it too soon after the military action was finished.
I don't disagree, but I think this current regime is worse than in the past; it's a powerful coalition of the worst "conservative" ideologies of the last 100 years.
OFC, but IMO the current regime is the SYMPTOM of the actual disease. Our current SNAFU can largely be traced back to things like the Daughters of the Confederacy & the like in the decades after the Civil War; our forefathers allowed the Confederacy & its cause to be glorified rather than shunned 1/
between that & basically ceding politics in the south back to the plantation owners responsible for the war in the 1st place were the first bits of the disaster dominos leading to the "States Rights/Small Government"protests against the gov doing anything useful &ongoing racism issues we still fight
OFC a lot of that AND our current SNAFU is bc of the imperfections of our constitution. Between the 1st amendment & our implementation of Federalism, it's rather difficult for the US federal government to take the actions that would actually be NEEDED to stamp out those issues.
The ones who are gleeful is China, Russia, Trumps, Billionaires, & Elon & the tech bros. All of us can eat sand. Oh sure, they voted for one yr child tax credit that'll go down the next yr, when all of them voted NO when Biden wanted the child tax credit. They won't touch medicaid & medicare BS!
So close! He and his cult *are* enemies of America, they took over with a plan to destroy America because they want a different country entirely, and that's what they're doing.
I don't find it remarkable, but then I wouldn't because I'm of the opinion that Trump is Russia's guy and doing exactly as much as he possibly can to destroy the USA because he's operated by a longstanding, Cold War, enemy of this country.
Just sayin'
He isn't even coming up with his own stuff to do
It's simpler than that. I figure they might have that, but they've also got tapes of Kremlin goons beating him up and throwing him down the stairs over and over, and that's the sort of thing he cannot abide anyone knowing. He went to Russia to rip them off, and found otherwise. So he's an agent now.
Interesting. I think you're on to something, but I think a more realistic proposition is the Russians filmed him being raped. I can't think of anything that wd flip Trump out more than being emasculated by being raped. He's so insecure abt his masculinity that he'd likely do ANYTHING to "protect" it
It’s almost as though there are intentions of enemy nations manifest directly through the actions of this administration. Gosh, that would mean treason.
He is lashing out at everyone who ever looked at him the wrong way since his childhood. The MF hasn't figured out he will NEVER feel his father's love, nor his mother's and he's making the world pay for his hurt feelings.
The democrats are spineless industry cowards who for the most part, benefit just as much as anyone in this administration. Very few even come to mind who are “fighting” this. Most just say shit for optics.
no truer words were ever spoken! wish we could get even the liberal media to focus more on that than on djt. he's just their agenda's logical conclusion. the plummet from nixon is pretty revealing. and yeah, he was the high point of the decline; ike was the last decent R. all rich crooks since.
well, it's all relative, innit? MSNBC is certainly more liberal than fox. & there are progressive news groups popping up every day. medias touch is killin' it, so many great writers & journalists, like tim snyder, HCR, jane mayer, & josh marshall have brought their wisdom to substack, for free!
most of these have addressed the corrosive role of the GOP, but we really need that to become a focus, imho. their power in congress provides him both a foundation & cover for his corruption. we need to expose & destroy them. again, imho.
hm, wouldn't go quite that far. i mean, he's so self-serving, he's getting (or hopes to get) all manner of goodies for his "services" to heritage & putin & mbs & that ilk. there are times when it's a bit difficult to tell who's wagging who, who's the dog & who's the tail.
Not republicans, oligarchs. They bought the republicans & have been pulling their strings on a propaganda pysop campaign 2 end democracy through various media outlets, the GOP, which allowed them 2 buy SCOTUS, using gerrymandering, voter suppression and electoral college to win without 50% of voters
Yup this is the culmination of a 40+ year GOP plan
And they got lucky being able to appoint a far right Supreme Court, and got lucky with the self inflicted collapse of the Democratic Party all happening in exactly the right timeframe to launch their authoritarian oligarchy
Agreed that this is the culmination of a long-term GOP plan.
But gaining control of SCOTUS wasn't luck - Mitch McConnell's refusal to let Obama bring his nominee to the Senate was a HUGE break in tradition & protocol & paved the way, culminating in their outright ditching of rules altogether.
Certainly true about the Rs.
They give lip-service at best then promptly betray whatever vows they pretended to swear.
Agreed that Senate Dems need to fight way harder -- not necessarily as dirty, but far more creatively and loudly.
Chris Murphy is saying what needs to be said, but more is needed.
Actually, what he hates is being isolated. NY society shunned him, so Jared bought the NY Social Register. Obama mocked him, so he ran for the presidency. He’s just a schoolyard bully perfectly happy to burn everything down to get even. He’s never been popular even as a kid. This is his revenge.
Trump is almost completely disinterested in anything/one he can’t somehow fuck. He’ll only pay attention as long as he can sadistically exploit it (and/or there are tits involved) *cue video of him motorboating Rudy Giuliani in drag*
🎯Trump hates America, he likes dictators and oligarchs. In the end he’ll flee the country now that he’s a real billionaire (he’s been a fake billionaire before he cleaned up this term) and live like a oligarch. Mar-a-Lago is a dump, he’ll leave.
Sure. But. All three of the factors cited here directly contributed to our victory in World War II and our ability to lead the international rebuilding effort following the war.
Jim Crow apartheid was in full effect during WWII, so can't really say there was rule of law. Same goes for openness to international talent, immigration was limited to western Europeans. Chinese Exclusion, and other racial quotas limited the immigration of Jewish people, and those from global south
Regarding the “Manchurian Candidate”…if Putin wrote a plan to destroy America, this would be it.
He helped install T****.
I’m not one for conspiracy theories but…
Why would ANY American want to destroy it?
The whole idea and operating model of the current administration is to destroy the concept of the United States. The voters knew this fact and elected the people who would carry out the plan. We got what we voted for.
The guy with only 49% of the popular vote thinks he has a mandate. And I guess with Putin's backing, he has all the support he thinks he needs to destroy America.
Don’t forget to factor in the non voting adults—a larger number than supported either major candidate. (Just to say he doesn’t have as much support as he wants us to believe.)
I guess all that matters is that every one of the Republicans in office thinks he has either the power or “mandate” to do whatever he wants. I remained stunned that they have capitulated so completely.
lol. I guess if I studied economics I would believe this too. The things that made America powerful and rich were empire,military might, slave labor and the subjugation of anyone not white. “ rule of law.”
lol. Just the whitest fucking take in the world man.
this isn’t even shutting down a neolib take it’s just cynically oversimplying something as complex as global power to dunk on someone. like i’m a full commie, i agree with all the bad things dude said about the US, but it’s not an accurate descriptor of how america built its global dominance.
Disagree. Spend some time (or more time) at the Smithsonian- - all of it - - and before the Christo-fascist whitewash starts under DT. Our accomplishments are so many, so meaningful, so comprehensive and so actively vibrant, so protean that your list of horribles could not be responsible.
Sure, that’s why when I was living in central Africa everyone wanted to come here & spoke highly of Americans & complained mostly about the French, who had actually colonized the country & still held immense influence over their economy.
Oh wait, that’s the opposite of what you were saying
Yeah, even though Reagan began much of what is only now being fulfilled, at lea back then he had to pretend to ascribe to what we were taught were US ideals.
Reagan was the right man for the job. He was able to convince conservatives to be evil-lite because he knew we needed to throw a symbolic bone to the people who handle our food and take care of our children.
I thought the Beatle were the Great Satan who hypnotized our youth into becoming long haired communist girly men. And they destroyed American music. Trump hasn't destroyed our music.
Did you miss his attacks on Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, and the DOJ investigating Beyoncé and Oprah for daring to appear at the Democratic National Convention?
To be fair, a lot of what made America rich and powerful was on the back of enslaved people. But despite all he is taking away, it appears Trump wants to reinstate that.
Something about the cultural revolution they have undertaken reminds of Cambodia and Pol Pot. The hostility toward intellectualism and education, the idea that current culture and tradition must be wiped out.
All the repliers saying "You left out slavery" are the dumbest and worst people on this website. America was a poor country in 1860. And do these idiots even realize what they are saying? That if we brought back slavery, it would make us richer and more powerful???
It definitely helped us get where we are, and both the UK and Norway argue otherwise. Arguably Chile too in the longer sense. The resources extraction trap is definitely real, but not inescapable or universal.
It is, however, what Trump imagines for the U.S. He would very much like us to be an American gulf state dictatorship - with he and his family on top & normal Americans like the slaves that the Saudis and other Gulf countries import from poorer countries.
South Africa subjugated black people, Southern Europe oppressed the poor, Brazil had slavery, the USSR had empire and military, etc. None of these countries had great wealth, thus these factors are insufficient explanations for the US’s great wealth. Other commenters pushing back on OP by citing…
…these issues need to study economic history without the ideological lens. OP is absolutely right about the true engines of America’s economic power. It happened in spite of, not because of, such negative factors as slavery and imperialism.
The majority of US voters enabled him. What does this tell about the US? Only certain people are rich in the US, many are homeless, drug addicted, poor. What does this tell about US?
Putin is literally creaming in his jeans at what Trump is doing to destroy America and our influence in the world. Trump's actions are far beyond what Putin could have ever hoped for. Trump is the secret hidden insider plant that Putin and Russia always wanted.
Not Putin. That's the short, very short game. His Russia lasts for exactly how long he might still live. It's how that place tics. Look to China which will step in across the globe to take over every inch of influence we had, including in Europe. Send your kids to learn Chinese, not Russian.
I don't disagree about the Chinese in the long term. But Putin and Russia have had kompromat on Trump for a while and it is now starting to show up in Trump's behavior.
My $$ says the St. Pete troll farm screen you're sitting behind explains your rather obtuse historical slant. If not, a bit of serious study in re rise - and whatever this "Turning" epoch is for Russia, China, South & Central America, Middle East & Africa - should give you a broader perspective.
I was a history major, Uklonchivyy [уклончивый] prior to switching to business half way through college; and I continue my passion for it. My prior response is predicated on it. BTW... natives also enslaved Africans; and clear as day that Trump hasn't taken a sledgehammer to slavery or land grabs.🤫
Except that was the white people who made slavery a state policy, not the native americans. The white people who kill thounsands of indigenous lifes for the sake of the "conquest of the Wild West".
The whites who segregate and turn black and latina people into second class citizens. Be honest, USian
Every empire in history, including the russian chinese and british, stole land and compelled labor. Chattel slavery was especially nasty but not more profitable than the serf system.
What pushed America ahead was per OP.
Yes darling, every empire did this, but especially the british and USian empires have consequences that affect negatively the life of millions people until nowadays.
Because of the men in power in your country, several countries of Latin America still suffers politically.
You forgot "being the only major industrial power with its infrastructure intact after WW2" all the things you mentioned are good, but also the US was just very fortunate as well.
It's 100 years since the UK lost it's Global leadership role (similar secret sauce: a headstart in the Industrial Revolution & ruthless colonial exploitation) and they still haven't entirely accepted their fate (see Brexit).
Might be impossible to turn that supertanker.
Russia is also sitting on massive amounts of land taken from native people, and also had centuries of slavery. Same is true of Brazil. Neither country is as rich as the U.S.
I would argue that in the 20th century, those three factors allowed us to maximize and maintain a level of wealth and power we had already acquired through less salutary means.
Historically, we were neither a great power military nor a great economy until after WWII. Our growth since has been exponential. The head start that accumulated wealth (from all that evil that has been mentioned) that we had obtained and the safety of our geographic position were obviously factors.
All true, but also I don’t think that’s at odds with what I said. The USA had fully half of the entire world’s manufacturing capacity as early as 1900. The post WWII rise as a hegemonic world power was built upon a head start.
The biggest reason that the US became a super power is that after WW2, the only industrialized nation that wasn't bombed to shit. We had vast amounts of natural resources. Openness to foreign talent was snapping up scientists during and after WW2. Ironically Jewish during, and Nazis after.
Both cases, people that didn't have much of a choice.
The US became the "leader of the Free World" because of this. People sided with this, globally because they found one reason or another to not like the USSR and USSR dominated world.
Immigrants play such an important part in our country. 28% of the American recipients of Nobel Prizes awarded in physics, chemistry, and medicine have been immigrants to the USA. Remember, without immigration of a 5-year-old Irving Berlin, there would be no "God Bless America".
However, there is another thing for US power: the reserve currency status of the dollar. Foreigners sell stuff to US and buy treasuries for the small yield. Govt. gets ample money for different projects and power projection. No other nation can have so much money.
The rule of law ensures property rights, which form the base of civilized society: no strongman can take your stuff just because he can. This leads to profitability of long-term investments, including science and innovation, and forms the motive to acquire foreign talent.
Trump is destroying our Constitutional Republic. His MAGA Republican base includes millions of Nazi sympathizers who loath Jews, and hate all People of Color. These racists are working with life-long racist Donald Trump to make America a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy.
Exactly. It is Domestic Terrorism. Intentionally inflicting brutal harm on tens of millions of people. The irreversible demise of generations. Sabotage, impoverish, eliminate civil rights, spread disease & sickness, force social upheaval. End education. All this & more is the equivalent of bombs.
What happened to The American Dream? We used to love stories of immigrants coming here with a mere $300 or the shirt on their backs and succeeding. This place was a beacon of hope, dreams and possibility. Come here to worship or live how you choose or not at all. What the hell happened?
Granted the “American Dream” is really “bust your ass, maybe step on some folks back and get all you can and use every loophole”. I get the history isnt pretty. This country was built on the backs of slaves and they didnt get much out of it. I know the history if Chinese and the railroads.
Very well said! Thank you! The science innovations are already being hamstrung by the NI H grants that have been stopped! U. Mass Medical school sent out notices to students who have been accepted to their school that unless something changes, they can’t come there in September! This is a disgrace!
You see, liberals think of genocide, slavery, warfare, imperialism, submission and domination of peaceful nations and so on, as examples of "innovation"...
Plenty of other countries also conducted slavery and genocide and are in the the 21st century impoverished and poor, therefore, slavery and genocide are not the reason the US is powerful and wealthy today.
Obviously true, but not really helpful to what the OP is trying to convey. "Trump is destroying these three things and that's bad, but of course we also did very bad things, so nevermind."
That's not what I'm saying either. But Trump's racism, Presidential despotism and corporate corruption didn't come out of nowhere either. They're also part of what made America powerful... for it's rulers
I think these toxic behaviors are in our genetics, so maybe nothing matters. We're just a biological stain on a green planet circling an average star in the universe ...
Chattel slavery ballooned our GDP by nearly 40%, which then flowed through North-owned banks and overseas to England's textile plants, made famous by Charles Dickens' prose about its abject poverty. It's impossible to take any one of your three points seriously.
The more I think about this the more infuriated I get. Post WWII Marshall Plan, the end of Bretton Woods and the subsequent reversal of creditor-debtor paradigm following that change. The US' hegemony has been based on economic brutality, not freedom or rule of law.
All of which is based on the expansion of colonial settlements rife with hyper violence and documented imbalanced and broken pacts with indigenous populations followed by centuries of chattel slavery that we still refuse to acknowledge let alone remunerate.
What Trump is doing is not new, nor un-American. It's what we've been doing to other nations, particularly Latin America and the global south, for centuries. It's now turning inward because we've reached the edge of the planet in our expansion and there's nowhere left to go but within.
I get the point you're making about economic imperialism, but here at home, rule of law for the affluent few definitely existed before 2025. Now it's being undermined by a kinglike POTUS whose lackeys attack his enemies because they see it as good politics that energizes the MAGA-R voting base... 1/
... but there's a problem: They have to keep ratcheting up the cruelty to keep their MAGA cult followers enraged and engaged. What's coming next? Likely more special privileges for the right kind of religious dogma in public policy. Not from Congress. By fiat. Without meaningful judicial review. 2/
OPINION: They're trying to "starve the beast" to justify gutting our federal government. All for spite and political gain. Owning the libs justifies the means, right?
Their voting base in the heartland of America *loves* it. After all, they weren't getting cushy R&D jobs. Why should anyone else?
I see that far more on the right than the left. Not saying no one says it, but I’m confused what circles and what context you’re seeing the “slavery was/is efficient” on the left?
As far as I’m concerned and know via history, it was one of the least efficient means imaginable.
Trump truly does not understand economics or business. Most of what he has tried has failed and he has underperformed the market with his return on his inheritance. What he does understand is how to shape opinion. He is like a truffle pig for grievance.
No. Voters were. The mainstream media, for all its flaws & pettinesss, & repeated decision to elevate tiny $1 level Democratic scandals to the same level as $1,000,000,000 Republican scandals (or increasingly even larger Trump scandals), still reported facts & voters who relied on it voted Dem.
The problem is that even more voters have rejected mainstream media for Fox News propaganda, even worse talk radio, and worst of all social media algorithms that are owned & manipulated by foreign enemies & billionaire fascists. And those voters will believe any cruel lie the algorithms show them.
And without a peep from Republicans and just navel gazing by the media. Who is hard at work focusing hours of coverage to the key story of 2025, Joe Biden is old.
The White House has been sold to the highest bidder, as of the party at mar-lar-go last night. Thank you, ultra MAGA fascist neo-Nazis followers, you really do hate America. Many tariffs and the big, bad, beautiful bill put you walking the streets broke and bagging. You deserve it all.
I hope you do not believe that I am a MAGA or worse. I was expressing the fear of many, that indeed Trump is sold to someone. Perhaps to Putin? Or to the petrostates in general? Who knows.
Bc all three thrived only BC of kidnapped Africans that were brought here. Science thrived BC of Black Blood & sacrifice, innovation thrived BC of Black sacrifice, the blood, sweat & tears that made this country great lie squarely on Black&Brown people. This country was not great BC of white people!
Slavery was awful, but there is a reason nobody thinks of Alabama when contemplating American wealth. It made a few people relatively wealthy in very poor surroundings, but had very little contribution to the national wealth bc it is an awful system.
“Slavery was awful, but…” Are you telling me cotton and sugar and tobacco were not the biggest exports and drivers of national wealth? Are you telling me all of the above didn’t depend on and thrive off of “free labor” aka enslaved Black humans?
You have no idea how anything works. That zero-cost labor crippled the South to the point that it had no chance of winning the war it started with the free North.
"Although gradual abolition emancipated newborns since the late 18th century, slavery was only abolished in New York in 1827, and in Connecticut in 1848.
It's a fucked-up system, and still grinds the poorest of us, but freedom and capitalism have lifted more people out of poverty and into a semblance of their potential than anything else ever devised. [insert Churchill quote here]
It’s neither freedom nor capitalism when th slave labor force 100% responsible for the competitive advantage that 100% led to the key period of capital formation was neither free nor paid. Absent slaves there is no US economy as we now know it. So how exactly do I not know how this works??
And now in the blink of an eye the wanna be “king” is tearing down all that made our country GREAT and all the republicans are following like minions…and most of the democrats aren’t much better…😡
Obviously this is the result of years of work coming into fruition (in large part with the stipulation of project 2025) and the legislative and judicial branches falling in line with the executive power of the president, which as we have seen is UNLIMITED. 1/2
In addition to fatal faults of our political system where a simple majority vote in the Senate and in the House is sufficient to pass subversive budget and legislation. It's THE END. No other way of putting it.
It's remarkable people were treating the fact that Putin was pushing for Trump's election as a side note at best and not a warning sign. Russia preferring a "strong American leader"? Of course not. They wanted incompetence, they got it.
Also: It's a very large landmass with abundance and diversity of natural resources, and more temporally didn't get wrecked in WWII. I don't think Trump can do anything about those but I honestly expect him to try.
Sure, but I’d say those things have only helped America become more rich and powerful. The top three are abundant natural resources, semi-isolation from other great powers, and bigness. America would likely go on being rich and powerful without your items. And that’s the real nightmare.
Also slavery, unions and a huge internal market. Just because we're fighting fascists there's no reason to start redefining everything in some happy talk way.
It's abuser tactics wrought on a whole nation. Destroy your finances so you are dependent, destroy your friendships so you are isolated and alienate everyone else so nobody will help you.
Yes, most are busy with their daily lives, and don't realize what's going on. We have to do everything we can to make them wake up... https://opip.lol/wake-up-america/
And Trump & his cohort are spending that wealth like drunken sailors... Wealth that generations of Americans & immigrants have created. It’s not theirs to waste. But. Nonetheless waste they will—until stopped.
While those three factors are important there are others that are also important. Stepping into the economic vacuum after Europe's industrial base was destroyed in WW2 and becoming the reserve currency for the world were significant factors.
Oh really? and hear I thought that our giving away land we stole from the indigenous population had a little something to do with it. Oh and public education. Oh and the freedom to worship as one is inclined to do…..
I would add robust widespread public health measures, which included childhood vaccination, which gave generations both good health and the optimism to take risks.
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Just sayin'
He isn't even coming up with his own stuff to do
Worse yet, are there pedophile tapes from the Epstein cache? Snuff films? Trump is so immoral that absolutely nothing would surprise me.
Yes, they are better than the other guys. But they take up the opposition space without really providing true opposition or viable alternatives.
One Century..
And they got lucky being able to appoint a far right Supreme Court, and got lucky with the self inflicted collapse of the Democratic Party all happening in exactly the right timeframe to launch their authoritarian oligarchy
But gaining control of SCOTUS wasn't luck - Mitch McConnell's refusal to let Obama bring his nominee to the Senate was a HUGE break in tradition & protocol & paved the way, culminating in their outright ditching of rules altogether.
The Senate Dems just don’t get it and don’t want to fight for Democrat voters compared to Republicans who do fight for things that the GOP base wants
They give lip-service at best then promptly betray whatever vows they pretended to swear.
Agreed that Senate Dems need to fight way harder -- not necessarily as dirty, but far more creatively and loudly.
Chris Murphy is saying what needs to be said, but more is needed.
On June 14th his solipsism will be on full display.
He helped install T****.
I’m not one for conspiracy theories but…
Why would ANY American want to destroy it?
He feels he should be able to do whatever he wants just like he has ever since he was born a rich bully.
The word mandate is just an Applause line
lol. Just the whitest fucking take in the world man.
I guess you didn't study economics or history.
Oh wait, that’s the opposite of what you were saying
I thought the Beatle were the Great Satan who hypnotized our youth into becoming long haired communist girly men. And they destroyed American music. Trump hasn't destroyed our music.
Too many things to destroy all at once.
Just too bad you're right on all counts.
It’s unbelievable.
Absolute Incompetent Administration.
Absolutely No Accountability.
Absolute Worthless Twats.
Fight Fascism with everything you have.
Freedom, Liberty,
and Democracy will Prevail.
#Fight #Fascism #usa
#Freedom #Liberty #Democracy
Hmmm...
https://bsky.app/profile/fvielfalt.bsky.social/post/3lqarust7nk2q
Kinda like there was a period where oceans made us safe...less so since the Soviets became a nuclear power.
He never said he couldn’t pillage the country while he was doing it!
MASETDIIAB!
Enjoy it.
Oh wait.
😐
Exploitation (Slavery, wage theft)
Importing Nazis
Luck
thanks.
The whites who segregate and turn black and latina people into second class citizens. Be honest, USian
What pushed America ahead was per OP.
Because of the men in power in your country, several countries of Latin America still suffers politically.
Elon too.
Might be impossible to turn that supertanker.
Trump following orders. Also Steven Miller!!
Trump is in dementia
Listen to his ramblings!
"99% of the difference in GNP/capita between Somalia and the USA is due to Trust." --World Bank official
The US became the "leader of the Free World" because of this. People sided with this, globally because they found one reason or another to not like the USSR and USSR dominated world.
And then I’d add genociding the indigenous people (conveniently /s empty land).
tell us more about this "rule of law thing"
we like to hear more
Oh wait.
He was smart enough to use an internal sledgehammer.
2. Genocide
3. Free labor
Like this.
Rule of empire?
.. brother....I..
I think these toxic behaviors are in our genetics, so maybe nothing matters. We're just a biological stain on a green planet circling an average star in the universe ...
Can we not unite in ways that are not exploitative?
Or should we just give up and bow down to our corporate overlords?
"Economist"?
I prefer Yanis Varoufakis.
Their voting base in the heartland of America *loves* it. After all, they weren't getting cushy R&D jobs. Why should anyone else?
As far as I’m concerned and know via history, it was one of the least efficient means imaginable.
Shit is easy with a whip and a gun.
Fuck this noise. America is done.
I swear.
The rest suffered &continue to suffer!
🥴🤨🤦♀️⚖💙⚖🤔
Though the U.S. Congress outlawed the African slave trade in 1808, the domestic trade flourished..."
https://www.history.com/articles/slavery
Do you mean slavery?
are you fucking high, slaver boi
Some complain on social media; a handful protest in real life.
The rest—tens of millions—either cheer on their fascist overlords or just stare at Netflix.