• @Jeffrey
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    22 years ago

    Wishing for the country to burn is wishing for the suffering of hundreds of millions of people. Most people in the US are in favor of significant reforms, Much of the struggle we are witnessing is the disagreement about which changes should be made, and obstructionism to prevent reforms from being enacted.

    You’ll be more helpful through compassion and solidarity with those Americans who are working to change things for the better.

    • @pimento@lemmygrad.ml
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      22 years ago

      Think for a moment about the hundreds of millions of people who were murdered, tortured and starved by the United States throughout its history. No amount of reform is going to stop these crimes. The only way it will end is when the country finally collapses. Luckily that is already happening at an incredible pace.

    • ghost_laptopM
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      02 years ago

      I know innocent people are going to suffer, but I think the collapse of the US means less suffering for people in the global South/third world countries, so the question here is: Do I choose the suffering of Usonians or do I choose the suffering of the people whom the US government has been massacring over the last century? The choice is pretty easy.

      Most people in the US are not in favour of significant reforms, they want a more leftie form of neoliberalism, that’s all, antiwork means shit, it’s simply capitalism coopting leftists movement and it’s not going to change anything. Even the Communist Party of the US is against communist parties elsewhere, that tells you about the local situation in that country. Furthermore, it doesn’t matter what the US citizens want, but what the government does, and they will literally kill the entire world and its own people before resorting to any amount of effective change.