Americans when a dictatorship with no free elections invades another country: “It’s the people’s fault! Just revolt and take him down!”

Americans when their democratically elected leader commits the worst imaginable atrocities for the 50th time in a row: “It’s- It’s not our fault. We voted for the other, slightly less fascist candidate! What else can we do?”

All the freedom. Zero responsibilities. That’s what 200 years of no public education does to a nation.

Well, I don’t think this makes any difference. Half of US soldiers’ and their families’ lives depend fully on the money from their service. The other half are sadists and psychopaths, either from the start or became so during their time in the military. How many of them realistically want to and/or are able to refuse orders?

Furthermore, I’m curious how many soldiers even realize they are legally protected if they refuse illegal orders, and would be prosecuted for following them. I wouldn’t be surprised if this topic was conveniently skipped or covered very briefly during new recruits’ training and classes.

Instructions unclear, all courtrooms have been demolished.

It’s the year 2025. The democratically-elected president of the world’s leading superpower is telling people to work for free or they’ll be fired.

It’s insane that attorneys general and governors have to prove that the supposedly-richest country on the planet can in fact afford some food for its citizens. How do you look at considerably poorer countries that don’t have problems feeding its people and go “Yeah, I’m not sure we can do that.”

I mean, wouldn’t you be depressed after slaughtering several clearly unarmed families?

There’s exactly 0 politicians opposing Israel in all of USA. Which one do you think should run for president?

3.5% participation is required for a population to reach a Tipping Point, and start a trend that leads to change.

Do you have a source for this? I was recently wondering about specific numbers and would happily read something on the topic.

You can easily combine this with yt-dlp to quickly get a local library. Obviously not great quality, but it’s a good start.

First of all, I’m not an American. As much as I despise the American Empire, I hold no ill feelings towards the American people. They are as much victims here as the rest of us.

A lot of media outlets worldwide are ignoring these protests or covering them very briefly when nobody’s watching. Most likely due to influence from the US.

“To make the proof”…? You’re supposed to be finding proof, not making it. Ideally before making a big announcement.

I don’t have an issue with having an issue with all existing countries

Fair. I was just unsure whether you really did mean all countries.

Some places are better, some are worse.

And some places are better for some people, while being worse for other people. Not necessarily always, but sometimes it’s a matter of preferences. One person may choose to live in a country with fewer liberties due to preferable climate. For them that would be a good choice, but for you it may not be.

But the argument indicates that we should treat an unknown as better than a known, and that the red flags are just flags.

Personally I didn’t get that impression.

So, are things bad there or good there?

Real life is never so simple as to be either good or bad. Are things good in the country you live in? Are they bad? Can you really pick one or the other, when it highly depends on personal views and priorities? For you it may be good, and for others it may be bad. Especially considering we know so little about countries like DPRK.

I think the main point here is that, whatever it’s currently like inside DPRK, it’s being actively made worse by outside entities, notably the American Empire. And the information we have available is extremely unreliable.

Like, I dunno, man. Any country that does military parades is immediately kind of a red flag for me.

So basically all countries on the planet?

As far as I can tell, Newsom is just a ‘fascist, but not too obvious, so people won’t protest’ kind of candidate. A perfect pick if you want to salvage what remains of the empire and delay its inevitable collapse. But then again, it’s not like Americans have any reasonable candidates. And we’re also going on the assumption that there will be another election, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Would he be an improvement for the American people? And for other countries? At the very least, minorities in the USA would be [mostly] safe for a few years.

It’s mostly just a trend in the USA and Russia. Other than these two no country really sabotages the UN to a major degree. It’s a sad state of affairs that they hold veto power. It’s generally a silly concept in an institution that aims to create a fair and peaceful global society. However, stripping just these two hellholes of their veto power would go a long way.

WHO and ICC are a bit different. WHO doesn’t have any actual power, so it cannot do anything by itself. Only suggest actions based on their data.

The ICC is problematic, because the major global powers - the countries, who are the most likely to commit crimes and be prosecuted for them - aren’t even a part of it. Both China and the USA voted against the establishment of the ICC (note that not even Russia voted against). If they’re not members of the ICC, they don’t have to cooperate with it. As clearly displayed by the USA putting sanctions on ICC prosecutors for targetting Israel (that also voted against its creation).

Furthermore, even some countries that have legal obligations to the ICC simply ignore them. Hungary and Mongolia both ignored the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin when he visited them personally, due to close ties to Russia. Poland was perfectly willing and prepared to host Benjamin Netanyahu, despite being legally bound by his arrest warrant too. Similar incidents all over Northern Africa, too many to list individually.

It’s by no means a perfect institution. There seems to be a clear focus on African and Asian countries when it comes to pursuing responsibility for potential crimes. So perhaps China had a good reason to vote against. Or perhaps, as a then emerging global superpower, they didn’t want to be held accountable by anyone. In any case, the vast majority of the world seems to be cooperating in good faith. This is not a widespread issue.

True. That is indeed very interesting. Although not limited to comic books. You can spot a similar pattern in movies too. Somehow, in America, the films to become the most popular (or most successful) mostly featured themes portraying powerful people in a positive light, directly or indirectly. While in Europe this trend never really took root.

In a classic, underdeveloped autocracy, the answer would surely be blatant censorship and prosecution of authors portraying different views. However, the American mechanisms for accomplishing the same goals are considerably more complex and intricate. That is, assuming there was or still is such a mechanism, as I’m not sure we can say that definitely. Perhaps it was all just a natural process of people preferring the easier, more convenient narratives?

So they just built a lof of universities and accepted women free of charge. So generous! We should follow their example.

Just because I’ll hold my nose and do the necessary thing doesn’t mean everyone else will.

The ‘necessary thing’ is voting for a fascist multi millionaire? He may be slightly better than the current guy, since the bar to pass is so low, but he’s very far from an actually valid candidate.

I understand different people have different situations in which the ‘necessary thing’ may vary. However, he’ll only solve a handful of current issues plaguing the USA, if even that. From whefe I’m standing (which arguably is quite far away as I’m a European) you’d achieve much more by protesting. Especially given that there may not be another election in your country. Though I’m also aware protests in the USA may come with serious risk of injury or loss of life.