Fascinating

On the other hand, Hitler was able to steal power on 40% of the vote, and here in Czechia the communists pulled off a putsch with 30%. I’m not sure how many of the checks and balances they had already compromised by that point though.

That’s true. Much like Brexit in the UK stopped other countries’ appetite for their own brexits.

Oh, thanks for the heads up. That’s good to know.

subsequently, raking the global market (including the US) for weapons that come loose for money

Ultimately they will have to come round to producing their own, no?

buying the weapons Turkey and Greece have in reserve for each other

Ok, this one amuses me

Honestly 0.7 US defence budgets is quite an impressive sum of money for the EU to be able to cough up overnight.

Just curious, how can a right wing-green coalition be viable? Don’t they clash on many major issues? Or to they succeed at walking the narrow tightrope of compromise?

Hofreiter (Greens) put it quite well … something like … not our ideals have changed, but the world has changed, brutally so.

Now that’s the kind of Greens I like to see.

The sooner the rest of the civilised world decouples from that insanity, and hopefully bands together around the common ideals that the US used to (at least pretend to) represent - the better.

The problem is that I feel the rest of the civilized world is going down the same path, and is just several big steps behind…

This is great but IMHO they really need to start building industrial capacity to produce millitary stuff as well. Money’s no use when nobody wants to sell you weapons for it…

And I have no idea what should I be doing.

Imo:

1. Finding other people who feel the same way
2. Organizing/structuring your common discussion and research. I feel like I’ve seen 100 comment sections like this one where people see the problem, the commenters then speculate about the causes/solutions, and then the convo fizzles out without a deeper conclusion being reached. Every day under a new post, again and again. There is clearly manpower and a will to do something, it is just IMHO suffering from structurelesness. The conversation needs to be had once and thoroughly, in some central location that everyone can then be referred to. This way, people can specialize their research efforts, instead of everybody doing superficial research for themselves in isolation.

One centralized discussion I have seen is about the democratic side of the problem and it’s over at https://plurality.net/ (it is a crowd sourced work co-written using github). I think the political/economic side of the debate would benefit from piggybacking off of an existing centralized platform devoted to the cause, like https://generalstrikeus.com/ or some trade union.

Now that is a good quote

Hmm, good idea. In my case it was a career that would allow me to move back to my home country (which I had to leave when I was a child). I’ll have a think about alternative ways to reinforce the identity that this path gave me.

not the other way around which is how this kind of feels.

Agreed.

In some ways it strike me that you seemed to see yourself as the future state person that you wanted to be rather than who you are.

Yeah, that seems to be the way my brain has been hard-wired to look at it rn :-( I will try to take a step back and reassess. I just have to find a way to detach myself from whatever my future plan will be which is hard.

Yes, it was a career with moving back to my home country (which I had to leave when I was a child) attached to it.

Thank you, this reply helps. You’re right, my post was quite vague, and I didn’t want children or found I was sterile, but the advice given to those people would actually perfectly fit my (completely different) situation too.

Hmm, I suppose it is quite vague. I just thought the problem was quite generic (and so would be its solutions) and thought the specifics would be a distraction.

Good insight

Hmm ok, I’ll have a look at it