Yeah well the US might have been founded as a colonial nation, but that doesn’t mean it has to stay that way forever.

Similar to how when there’s a new virus around, you might fall sick once or twice, but you’re expected to eventually recover and develop immunity to this particular virus. Similarly, the US immigrant population has literally overrun the country 300 years ago, but that does not mean that the mindset and the attitudes of that times are expected to stay around forever. Because honestly, they are a disease in many ways, if one considers many of the symptoms and side-effects.

Democracy is inherently tied to progress.

For a more elaborate explanation, see below.

I am considering that progress on Earth is slowing down or halting long-term, and only continued progress could sustain Democracy.

Democracy is tied to progress because progress creates demand for workers, and as such gives them a say in the direction things go. Progress is what “free people can do” or sth. Without progress, there is neither a demand for workers or freedom, and both are at risk.

The way i understood it was that at the time Jews did own a lot of wealth, much more than other people, and saw themselves as some kind of “better” or “elite” class. Many people did not like that, and that is the major reason why it was so easy for Hitler to find a lot of people to follow him.

Democracy is inherently tied to progress.

I’m considering that progress on Earth will slow down or come to a halt in the long-term, thus taking away Democracy with it.

I believe that Space Flight is the only viable option for long-term progress, and that it will bring Democracy with it. That is actually the major reason why i’m looking forward to Mars Settlement projects.

A lot of people really have difficulty with maths and programming.

The way i imagine it, programming is something non-real, something metaphysical, or how you want to call it. And a lot of people even plainly reject that such a thing meaningfully exists. Think about how many people reject the existence of “spirits”, “demons”, or “god”, based on nothing else but the argument that it is not tangible. Something similar is going on with maths and programming.

I always thought it was about power. Maintaining power structures requires a clear dividing line, somewhere. The line between women and men is artificially upheld, to create the illusion that there’s “naturally two categories in everything”. If people got the idea that you could “transition”, that would overthrow a whole lot of the artificial divides that we have in our society today.

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What you’re describing is to abolish “intellectual property” rights. I’m all for it.

The “right” aren’t right though, they’re wrong. They should be called “far-wrong” instead of “far-right”, imo, as their stances on many things show.

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yeah but if you give out civilized healthcare, how will you bully your people into working hard so they don’t end up in the trench abandoned?

Anytime I talk about these things to folks outside the US, it’s always some reply about “your country chose this!” And how, regardless of how I voted, I still somehow let this happen. It’s super frustrating and disheartening.

The way i see it, the current disasters unfolding were predictable as far back as the 1960s. Unhinged greed is a disease, and letting it run free and calling it “progress”, “economic liberalism”, and channeling it to make it your main way of doing economy, is a disease. What’s angering me personally is that it seems to me that Americans are so extremely short-sighted, that as long as it worked for them, everything was ok in their eyes, and now that they’re hitting the wall, they suddenly want to get off the vehicle. Good planning takes a long time, and even if we wanted to help you, we couldn’t, because there’s not enough preparation time.

Now, it is the cool thing to be super anti-American.

This isn’t news. Different than what americans might think, they’re not necessarily looked at as the “big heroes” everywhere. There’s a lot of countries who have made a lot of bad experiences because of them, and really, the USA isn’t popular, on average, world-wide.

Yes, this is what NATO is for. It is an alliance meant to prevent fascism from taking hold. Just because it’s only ever been used in non member countries doesn’t mean it can’t be used on us, especially if Trump continues to threaten allies. Talking about this leading to WWIII is a strawman argument. You don’t know that will happen and it is not a good reason to not be asking for help from our allies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

The way i see it, America has gone very angry at anyone in the past who was accused of “interfering with American internal politics” for many years. That is why nobody wants to meddle in American internal politics anymore.

It is, in some sense, the fate of the tiger. When you’re a gazelle or zebra, and you’re sick, you can hope at least that a Tiger will come by and eat you, thus shortening your suffering. When you are the tiger, there’s nobody predating you, and if you fall sick, it could take a very long time before you die.

The problem isn’t the boarder!!!

I agree with you on that. Unfortunately, it’s more complicated than that. Owning guns doesn’t necessarily lead to bad things happening, but it often does, because people are mentally stressed and exhausted. The problem is the poor living conditions many people are forced to live under. What would really help is some sort of social welfare. But i guess, the US has a lot of work to do before it gets there.

the government can go into unlimited debt if it is willing to cause a hyperinflation at some point later in the future to eliminate all of that debt.

we need more working powers to keep our wealth and our standard of living up. obviously, as things are crumbling around us, this means we don’t put in enough effort to maintain things, and more hands would help.

that is a false thought. The labor market is regulated by supply and demand. That means, fewer workers lead to higher wages and a higher quality of life. It might seem paradoxical, but having a smaller workforce means people in the country will be able to afford more stuff.

That is especially important as people discuss the birth-rate, and immigration, in all countries, also in the US and in Europe. People say things such as “women have 1.6 children on average, which means our population is declining, and obviously that is the reason why our quality-of-life seems to be going down as well”. However, the opposite is true. As automation takes over and well-paying (and meaningful) jobs are eroded, having fewer people around doing all the work actually drives wages up, and leads to an improved quality-of-life.

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and now I’m imagining being required to take an exam to join a subreddit. Stupid idea but it would probably restore that sort of tone.

I think it’s because some people are naturally calm and considerate, instead of seeking rage-bait.

I think this isn’t learned behavior, or something you can change through education/exams. This is just how some people are. I guess it has something to do with being intellectual/Taoist/gnostic, whatever you call it. I think this is just because a lot of people here are technically inclined, have AuDHD, or something similar.

Apart from that, i guess lots of ragebait, advertisement, and “preferring user numbers over quality content” is why reddit (and many other platforms) are taking this course. Let’s make sure that the Fediverse stays a place that is ad-free, and turn rage-bait to a minimum.

I think, maybe we could meaningfully rebrand Lemmy to Feddit? And change the direction accordingly (away from politics/tankie views, and towards general-purpose, meme content)? Maybe that would be a solid and sound approach to social media.

If we want to attract more users, then like Bluesky, we need to do better at meeting the desires that users actually have, rather than like Mastodon simply complain why nobody wants to come here. PieFed, Mbin, and Sublinks are attempting to do that, so there’s hope, but we are still a long ways away yet.

I disagree.

It is more important to stay true to yourself, than open the gates to the flooding of new content. That is the only way to satisfy existing users and avoid that the platform loses it’s “core” or soul in the long term. It might be unpopular, but if you prefer the PieFed or Mbin approach, you know, you can always just go there? What’s stopping you? Everybody should try to find the platform that’s best for their personal approach to things, i think.