There’s this aspect of this moment where I almost want to share that meme of the guy being hanged sayin “first time, eh”.
So many people who have never faced the US government being opposed to their existence are finally understanding what it feels like.
So many people who have never faced the US government being opposed to their existence are finally understanding what it feels like.
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But here’s the thing. Authoritarianism is what happens when one party has so much power that they can both create rules and then ignore their own rules.
I am truly grateful for the world order established in the 1950s.
We survived wild global power transfers relatively peacefully for 80 years.
And that power gave the US gov permission to do whatever it wanted.
That. Was. A. Mistake.
And the genocide in Gaza laid bare the consequences.
And I can’t help but wonder, if all of Europe wasn’t dependent on the US for security guarantees, would they still have let Gaza’s genocide happen?
Hitler 2.0 now has access to the world’s largest and most powerful military.
Whatever we build past this moment, we cannot make this mistake again.
I truly am sad for broken treaties and relationships. But, this moment of re-alignment needed to happen. (Should have begun under Biden honestly).