According to former United States general Ben Hodges, the withdrawal of US troops from Europe is only a matter of time. In an interview with SonntagsBlick, he advises Switzerland to prepare for war.

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    6 hours ago

    Most are ok. It’s the spoiled nepo babies who’ve grown into privileged assholes that are the problem.

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        Plus the morons that keep voting them into power.

        Nobody voted Schmusk into power.

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          But everybody who wanted to could have known that Trump was going to appoint the most comically unqualified people.

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        electoralism is not the root cause of this particular problem

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          I don’t get what happened here. Did you really said “electoralism is not the root cause of fascism”, meaning that power would end up corrupted no matter what, and people actually downvoted you on .world, meaning they would think that electoralism IS a problem ? That’s not at all the cliché I have for either .ml and .world folks.

          Or, since your original comment was edited later than its reply, did you edit it to make it say something else ?

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            electoralism. sorry for using hard words, didnt know you were a ‘hurr ml’ person.

            it means that fascism would get to power anyway, regardless of you scribbling on a paper in favour of diet fascism or not.

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              So how do you decide who gets to govern, if not through elections? And yes, I am very much a “hurr ml” person. I’ve rarely seen such an accumulation of blockheads outside r/thedonald, back in the day.

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                its not so much about deciding who to govern. burgeois elections in a burgeois state will only elect people aligned with their agenda, which means you will keep walking towards fascism regardless of who wins an election, and none of the alternatives will actually enact your will, even when they have a majority. democrats and their warmongering are especially bad to us in the periphery of the planet

                as for solutions, join a leftist political organization. it will involve talking to people around you, helping and building community and participating in direct action with systemic change in mind. the more people get involved, deeper gets the change we can enact. it doesn’t have to involve capitalist institutions at all. in most socialist/anarchist systems they chose their leaders, yes, by debating and voting in a council but that assumes the system is not rigged against us, which pretty obviously is in capitalism for the reasons mentioned above and more.

                you think us as blockheads because you probably read no political theory beyond liberalism, if that. be more open minded towards leftists, and do a bit of studying and you will notice our ideals are close to the left-leaning liberals. we think you as blockheads because you keep trying to change things in a misguided or misinformed way that is pretty obviously not solving any problems.

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      5 hours ago

      Most

      Are you sure?

      In any event, its probably a game of tug of war, and the decisions we make as a society depend greatly on how society’s parents were raised.

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        Yes I’m sure, because most people are not psychopathic, sociopathic or super-rich assholes.

        In fact only a few are at least 2 out of 3 there. The problem is they’re also the ones with the most power.

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          4 hours ago

          The question at hand is stupidity. I’m not sure why you invented different problems to discuss.

          This type of discourse is pretty common around here though…