• @onlooker
    link
    42 years ago

    I am shocked, SHOCKED, that someone who believes in Jewish space lasers would say something so batshit insane.

    • @pingveno
      link
      32 years ago

      I’m generally just trying to ignore her. She’s the type that thrives from opposition attention.

      • @onlooker
        link
        12 years ago

        That’s a good point, actually. I should do the same.

    • @pingveno
      link
      42 years ago

      Nah, that wouldn’t work well at all. The divide mostly is by population density, not between the states themselves. You’ll often find that the mayor of the largest city in a state is a Democrat, even in the reddest of red states. That makes any sort of split nearly impossible.

      Ultimately, free movement of goods and residents between the states is extremely valuable on multiple levels. Europe recognized this when the EU created the single market and internal freedom of movement.

        • @pingveno
          link
          2
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          That’s nice dear. I want to be able to keep living in it myself.

        • @Jeffrey
          link
          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
            link
            fedilink
            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
            link
            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.