• runsmooth@kopitalk.net
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    22 hours ago

    Also another point to make, in cynical fashion, Trump remains in power as because he brings profit to all of the correct gate keepers in American politics. If enough disruption to that petro-state to US loop occurs to shake the rattle the US economy, will the US voter finally awaken to its own self-interest and engage the system of checks and balances that the Americans are so fond of mentioning? Even outside readers can see that the US Justice system is corrupted, the use of dark money and the rise of the US billionaires are uncontrollable, and the power within that country is out of balance.

    I’ll point out the obvious that the “average” American voter is actually poor, lower class, and on the verge of financial ruin on a day-to-day basis. Will a multipolar world order, a group of states, have the audacity to re-ignite this mentally beat down US public. I think the world, and even Iran, can benefit from that scenario.

    Can they succeed?

    If the status quo continues, US dysfunction with its out of control billionaire classes will continue to lash at the world itself with their excesses.

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      12 hours ago

      I’ve certainly felt pretty fuckin ignited these last few days. I feel alive and full of hope

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        6 hours ago

        These do seem to be weeks where decades should happen, and I don’t see how we could ever go back to status quo ante.