Sundiata wrote:How the poor are so mistreated.
Is it the actual treatment, or the underlying belief that poverty is a choice and that poor people are merely "temporarily inconvenienced millionaires" that permeates US society ?
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by The Alma Mater » Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:17 am
Sundiata wrote:How the poor are so mistreated.
by The Lone Alliance » Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:49 am
by A-Series-Of-Tubes » Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:56 am
by A-Series-Of-Tubes » Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:07 am
The Lone Alliance wrote:The fact that it doesn't have a biggest threat is in fact the US's biggest threat.
Washington Post 1988 wrote:Georgi Arbatov, the Soviets' leading U.S. expert, once told an interviewer that the Kremlin had a "secret weapon" to use against the United States. "We'll deprive America of its enemy," he said. The Soviets would thus cleverly force Americans to turn their attention inward, toward those internal problems from which they had been distracted by decades of international tension.
by Adamede » Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:18 am
The Lone Alliance wrote:The fact that it doesn't have a biggest threat is in fact the US's biggest threat.
It seems the only thing gets America to stop shooting itself in the foot is to have a bigger greater threat to focus itself on, without that, the country tries to eat itself as all the various competing groups in the country seek to dominate.
by Lost Memories » Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:53 am
Kandorith wrote:None of the above. The largest threat to the USA and it's allies, is the USA itself. We've seen this happening during the past administration more than enough.
by -Astoria- » Sat Jan 16, 2021 7:23 am
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by The Lone Alliance » Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:37 pm
Adamede wrote:The Lone Alliance wrote:The fact that it doesn't have a biggest threat is in fact the US's biggest threat.
It seems the only thing gets America to stop shooting itself in the foot is to have a bigger greater threat to focus itself on, without that, the country tries to eat itself as all the various competing groups in the country seek to dominate.
I’m not so sure about that. I wasn’t alive for it but America didn’t seem more United in the 60’s or 70’s at the height of the Cold War.
by A-Series-Of-Tubes » Sun Jan 17, 2021 2:47 am
The Lone Alliance wrote:Despite it being the height of the cold war by that point in the war the threat of the Soviets invading the country was almost non-existent, once MAD was in place and the Cold War just became endless proxy wars that ended the threat of Russians roaring across the sea became part of the problem.
by Chan Island » Sun Jan 17, 2021 2:59 am
Conserative Morality wrote:"It's not time yet" is a tactic used by reactionaries in every era. "It's not time for democracy, it's not time for capitalism, it's not time for emancipation." Of course it's not time. It's never time, not on its own. You make it time. If you're under fire in the no-man's land of WW1, you start digging a foxhole even if the ideal time would be when you *aren't* being bombarded, because once you wait for it to be 'time', other situations will need your attention, assuming you survive that long. If the fields aren't furrowed, plow them. If the iron is not hot, make it so. If society is not ready, change it.
by Suriyanakhon » Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:32 am
Washington Resistance Army wrote:Donald Trump.
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by -Astoria- » Sun Jan 17, 2021 6:09 am
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by Chan Island » Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:19 am
Suriyanakhon wrote:Washington Resistance Army wrote:Donald Trump.
To be fair, Donald Trump is powerless without the people who put him in power, and I would argue that the craziness he represents was already in the Republican Party well before he switched sides (moderate Republicans used to be terrified of Rush Limbaugh for instance). He just knew how to manipulate it for the votes.
Conserative Morality wrote:"It's not time yet" is a tactic used by reactionaries in every era. "It's not time for democracy, it's not time for capitalism, it's not time for emancipation." Of course it's not time. It's never time, not on its own. You make it time. If you're under fire in the no-man's land of WW1, you start digging a foxhole even if the ideal time would be when you *aren't* being bombarded, because once you wait for it to be 'time', other situations will need your attention, assuming you survive that long. If the fields aren't furrowed, plow them. If the iron is not hot, make it so. If society is not ready, change it.
by The Archregimancy » Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:59 am
by Adamede » Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:16 am
The Lone Alliance wrote:Adamede wrote:I’m not so sure about that. I wasn’t alive for it but America didn’t seem more United in the 60’s or 70’s at the height of the Cold War.
Despite it being the height of the cold war by that point in the war the threat of the Soviets invading the country was almost non-existent, once MAD was in place and the Cold War just became endless proxy wars that ended the threat of Russians roaring across the sea became part of the problem.
Part of the internal war of the 60s and 70s was that one half of the country didn't believe there was an external enemy and that it was all a scam to keep the status quo versus the other half who believed the first half were working for said external enemy.
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The Alma Mater wrote:Is it the actual treatment, or the underlying belief that poverty is a choice and that poor people are merely "temporarily inconvenienced millionaires" that permeates US society ?
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