Spanberger is literally CIA

Winsome was such a terrible candidate

He has a video talking about how awesome a town is in China and how there’s nothing as nice in America because of old infrastructure and homeless/drug addicts everywhere. He’s just a dude with a travel YouTube channel. I’m sorry China isn’t perfect.

How do you know he’s lying?

The other guy speaks fluent Mandarin. There’s more of what I mentioned in the rest of his Uyghur videos. Plus he was detained by police and told not to film anything or talk to anyone lol. That’s totally normal I guess.

Yeah crazy right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpZQEPpCJM

“Small-brained American” YT channel went to the uygher part of China. It’s definitely a police state. He was tailed the entire time. They are tearing down the older uygher ruins and building Disneyland equivalents for tourism. The whole history and culture is being commodified in the same way America is like “Mexicans wear sombreros LOL”. The only difference is it’s 2025. It’s definitely presented as “We are Chinese and people that weren’t Chinese lived here at some point but we’re all Chinese now”. No one answers any political questions either.

I wish I could just not show up for work and still have a job.

There is no way out of the situation we’re in without immense sacrifice by the average person. It doesn’t matter who is president. We have to pay the boomers credit card bill. The gambit of selling paper dollars for real world goods started in the 70s and is at the end stages now. We are left with a gutted US economy that produces no material goods. It’s going to get worse before it gets any better.

The US economy has been running on funny money for decades at this point. It’s like a game of musical chairs for who’s going to get stuck with the fallout from a debt-laden service economy driven by speculation and increasingly nefarious financial instruments.

I never asked you where you’re from out of respect for your privacy and for the ideological nature of the conversation. It follows however that I wouldn’t consider the myriad of things in your border because I don’t know where you live. However I wholly reject your dismissal of the overarching importance of geopolitics which has not only created structure throughout history but particularly at this stage in the 21st century. We are witnessing a polar shift and if you are not one of the countries I mentioned then you are a chess piece on the board. Liberalism is on the ropes. The US, China and Russia are reverting to neo-imperialist strategies to carve the world into fiefdoms. Maybe your government voted to have subsidies for auto workers. Great. You can enjoy your democracy but only if you can either A) defend yourself or B) have another country defend you. If you have a “democracy” you are almost certainly in the latter category because 50% of your public funds arent being dumped into the military and you’re ostensibly not being ruled by an unelected bureaucracy devoted to geopolitical interests in lieu of the domestic.

what we have now clearly isn’t working?

How do you know that? If we can all vote then things should be working as intended, right?

If things aren’t working then it’s either… A) We not a “real” democracy due to x,y,z B) Democracy doesn’t work

If A then how is it not just proof of B?

You granted I might be right. So I asked (first) what our options are if this is the case. You’re evading the question.

Liberal is culturally interchangable the term “progressive”. Intellectually the “progress” inevitably leads to socialism. This guy is someone who is unashamedly taking that next step. I suppose we agree that he’s being intellectually and spiritually honest in doing so. Most of the time the socialism/communism talk is simply used to entice the masses and drum up votes. He seems earnest in that from what I know.

If democracy isn’t real which government do you propose?

Both Spain and Australia are within the United States sphere of influence and that’s just two countries. There are really only a handful of countries with actual sovereignty. The US, China, Russia, India, Israel and to a far lesser degree Iran and maybe Brazil. Even if all other countries were perfectly functioning democracies they would fall under the influence of one of these hegemons. This means there are things you can’t vote for and more often than not your democracy is only tolerated and often defended by a larger power that is a democracy in name only. You are a mock congress in a civics class. Power always wins out. That’s not a political opinion it’s a fact. Votes have little to no power. Hordes of enraged peasants DO have power which is why they are placated with activities like voting. Artificial agency.

You’re just playing word games. You know what I mean.

I’m saying voting for class president isn’t the same as voting for the leader of a sovereign hegemon. Maybe Belgium, for example, has a “democracy” but ultimately Europe is a footstool for the United States. It can act ‘independently’ only as long as it pays tribute to the regional power. This is same for countries in Asia, the Middle East, Eurasia etc What use is your democracy if it functions within a false paradigm? The political equivalent of “playing house”.

It’s not like I’m hiding those comments. I didn’t delete them.

Who are you responding to?