Unfortunately, ideology is like halitosis: it’s always someone else’s problem. Showing how a position is “allowing you to participate in your own oppression” (my definition of ideology) can seem impossible or require great skill.

Emotionally, a lot of people seem to need a leader not a representative. I wonder how much is culture and ideology, and how much is evolutionary.

We like sweets, too, and learn to do without. I believe we can do the same by suppressing leaders and thus managing the Sociopath in Power problem.

Oh, how disappointing, I thought leftists crossed a broad spectrum of thinking and many were annoyingly, mutually, critical.

Which semi-fictional political segment generalization is self-reflexive then?

Sometimes I go look at r/conservative just to take temperature, and on returning to political communities on lemmy I find the same ad hominem insults and dehumanizing efforts as over there, certainly less of it and less virulent, but just as spiteful and aggressive.

I’m all for being upset when it’s appropriate, but I am afraid that political affiliations are no guarantee of sanity or reasoning.

Not me, I am a damn dirty ape.

Yep, occupied territory doesn’t have much opportunity for holding defectors, because it can be hard to prevent infiltration. Behind front lines is different though.

You don’t know that, and Project 2025 states that foreign affairs must be subject to national interests. The GOP is prioritizing access to strategic minerals as a long term goal. DT has stated the annex desire repeatedly and consistently.

At the least, the economic assault is not a distraction, and it is obviously the initial stage in an escalation. People are already affected, and pissed.

He’s not going to get distracted from colonial geopolitics. He’s been primed for it for a while which is why he popped the rhetoric first thing. There are other forces in his tyrant cabal who want it too, or at least want the regional destabilization of North America.

We can’t ostrich this one away. Show resolve.

No one threatens the sovereignty of another nation in a credible way and gets away with it. Pushback is necessary.

Yeah, should have clarified, meth can cause narcissistic behaviour, not hate. Other substances, no. All the alcoholics and heroin etc. addicts that I know or am related to or have worked with, were not fundamentally changed in character or even personality by the addiction. But chronic meth use, yeah. Big difference.

I guess you have never watched a family member descend into meth abuse then.

Permanent personality changes such that trust is pointless, redemption is merely a faint hope, all motivations are underlaid with a new narcissistic set of delusions and denials.

Since I have watched this happen to three family members of distinct lineage and personality types, all of whom were pleasant and acceptably kind beforehand, my small sample size is nevertheless very convincing.

September 11, 2001, all planes were grounded in North America, and Gander has an airport under flight routes.

Yeah, a reminder to Canadians that our blueshirts (equivalent to brownshirts etc) were rounded up and interned during WW2. They got back to work somewhat right after because the country was still freakin racist, but it took until recently for actual fascism-with-Skippy to pop up again.

No worries folks, any infiltration violence in resistance isn’t likely to be directed at random civilians.

A lot of vandalism, though. And some judicious sniping would be likely.

A lot of us grow up around long guns. Handguns are relatively rare.

Isn’t that the relationship Russia had with Ukraine when Putin took over?

Yeah if you meet JT he’s just another confident politician in public and seems a bit shallow and kinda cringe, so whatever.

But everybody hates Skippy, the person. He’s a dick IRL and emptier than his résumé. The PP parade will just hold their noses and march anyway.

The Revolution requires many Fronts, comrade pardner dude.

Wait didn’t MEC collapse into / get bought by a regular corporation?

I’m here for the performative human part of the testing. Exposing AI is human generated content.

Some parts of the culture are smoothbrained. Diversity is things like ‘black white latino asian’ whereas in more wrinklybrained cultures it’s more like ‘somali finnish trini chilean thai’. Economics is freedom vs communism instead of reality etc. And geography, well, good luck.