Won’t indict the American system of genocide, racism, and zealotry because
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It’s too big.

Would rather blame a single generation because
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It’s easier.

That’s a weird claim to make. Either way, your little strawman can’t distract from what you’re actually saying by ignoring the truth. You’re not limiting your scope to make fixing things easier.

Either you are having a little limited scope tantrum at your parents or grandparents or whatever because you can’t see past your own childhood anger at them. Or you genuinely want to get back to the way things were going for poor whites in “the good old days” before the most recent changes.

Do you have any evidence, or even an outline of an idea of how trump is personally enriching himself from the conflict?

Insider trading and offshore payments from the industries benefiting from all this. Are you seriously asking me how he is being corrupt? trump? the trump trump? He’s mostly just doing it in public now. People have been pointing it out his entire second term.

You mentioned a bunch of the “business ideas” he’s talked about and other things he’s said in public. You are watching the show on stage and believing all the actor’s motivations and the stage settings.

If you think the con man who successfully and consistently walks away unscathed and with obscene amounts of money, is just a dumb loser, there is nothing I or anyone alive can do to rescue you from that belief. I can only ask you to pull yourself back and look at the facts, and that belief, from a meta position. Because all through that belief is the fact that it simply can’t be true.

Ahh, so the genocides and slavery and concentration camps and everyone in jail and the racism and misogyny and queerphobia and all that for two centuries was just “on fire”?

Women couldn’t have a bank account on their own till 1978, but that was just “on fire”? Somehow who? The boomers? turned 200 years of “on fire” into “ashes” but then gave women the right to bank accounts and the ability to hold higher offices beyond secretary? Or the civil rights act? Or were those just fanning the flames?

Somehow, what? When, in all the oppression and suffering, did it cross your imaginary threshold?

I’m not defending the selfish fucking white boomers. I’m not defending X or the “greatest” or the silents or whoever. But if you want to genuinely change things, you have to see the whole two century shitfest for what it is. If you believe it is the fault of anyone you remember, you will fail at bringing about real change.

I’m sorry, maybe I misspoke. You seem to believe I’m pro America or think America is full of ubermench or something. Please see my original statement “there are no good guys here”.

trump isn’t “playing 4d chess” he’s just doing the simple routine he always does, destroying the company country on purpose, while distracting from it and pretending he’s not doin it on purpose, to avoid legal culpability in the ensuing court battles. It’s literally all he’s ever done, why would this be different?

You mention Vietnam. The huge money sink that made trillions for defense contractors at the expense of American and Vietnamese lives? The one that worked the already organized youth back home into fruitlessly attacking a situation instead of the government and corporate structures they set out to change in the first place?

America hasn’t won a war since WWII, and this is on purpose. They are just replaying that time in WWII when they got addicted to all the money they could make through chaos and terror. This isn’t because America is a genius who could totally win if they wanted. It’s because they are an addict stripping copper from every building they come across, and sleeping in a dumpster.

These aren’t excuses. These are the base motivations of America.

Anyway, I’m not going to argue with you about Iran’s intentions. If you think they’re being altruistic, that’s beyond my abilities to convince you otherwise. I would love you to see America’s real face though.

Bullshit. If Israel gets pissy enough they’ll drop a nuke. Iran cannot remain defensible if they let either Israel or America destroy the countries around them.

The only reason Iran wasn’t beaten into submission by the US is because trump’s whole thing is to pretend to lose accidentally so he can wash money through the system and siphon it out. He’s been doing this his entire life, and the fact that people think this is anything but that, is startling.

trump and the boyz are skimming billions off this thing every single day. Keeping it on the edge like this “win-lose-win-lose” allows those in the know to siphon off a country sized chunk of money every single breath.

No, it’s totally possible. Not with any technology we’ve ever built, maybe not with any technology we can build, but physics doesn’t preclude it outright.

Your point still stands though. It’s a promise that’s impossible to meet within the lifetime of the investors.

Iran only cares about those because they know if they let Gaza and Lebanon fall to Israel unopposed, Iran is next. It’s complete self interest.

So it can cover, cane, and oppress them.

There are no good guys here. Mommy and Daddy are fighting to see who gets to fiddle the kids.

I don’t know what to do for you if you think the government that genocided a thousand nations just to exist, enslaved a whole chunk of the planet by skin color, then wink wink “got rid of slavery” while keeping it firmly entrenched in society for over a century, and has gone through several concentration camp phases, was “an unburned cake”. It was certainly “burned” in the 50s or 80s or whatever your silly, arbitrary timeframe is.

Romanticizing the past, when you had no control, ain’t going to help you if you’re searching for truth. It will help if you’re looking to feel better, but in the process you’ll ostracize allies who do recognize the “burn” I have mentioned, and be unable to genuinely create anything that is beneficial to all.

Oh god, he’s listening to yud?

Bernie, my man, you’re too old for this one. Your discernment breaks in this basin. Get out and find some youths you know and trust for reasons outside politics and tech.

If they could have fixed it, that means you can fix it too

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Kerker? I hardly know her!

Ping?

I never said it was an empire. It was probably just early people really good at building on land so they tried and succeeded building on water, and they happened to be at a daily caloric intake and a generationally coastal diet that made long voyages easier.

Then they just sailed around the world over a few thousand years or ten. Probably on what we would consider boats far far to primitive and small to do it, but nevertheless they did it.

The fact that you needed to build a strawman, the very familiar tones dripping off your words, and that you assumed my race and belittled me for it, speak volumes about your personal isms and beliefs. You are a shining example of how and why this information, when it appears in the geologic and oral record, is treated poorly and promptly discarded.

Theys easy to find. Opinions make you cry when you cut them.

For your lay: the government puts a significant fraction of the coins into these boxes and can use the statistical information gained from this to deobfuscate transactions. If you put enough money in, either at once or slowly over time, they can figure out who you are.

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There is very little information on them, but they left evidence and stories all over. Off the top of my head

The native Hawaiians maintain that there were people who lived there already when they themselves got to Hawaii. They called them the Menehune. Most modern descriptions label them as an ancient, mythical people but the original Hawaiian descriptions did not portray them this way. They firmly maintained that people lived there before them and they all shared the island for untold generations.

The Olmec colossal heads in Mexico are likely depictions of these people

The Ishak and the Uma, two native people from the Louisiana Coast were tiny, and very very dark to black skinned people who did not share cultural or physical similarity with the taller native groups throughout the rest of North America. I know at least one of their stories comes from a time of dramatically different ocean levels. They passed down that when the ocean rises and won’t stop, you have to walk to San Antonio essentially. Compared to elevation maps of a full melt, they are right. They also have stories of the entire bottom half of Louisiana disappearing and eventually showing back up.

One of the oldest stories passed down by the Gunditjmara people of Australia that can reliably be dated and located in Australia, is from 40k years ago. They have older stories, the oldest being 100k years. But they deal with the sky so scientists say they were in Africa at that time. Though they maintain they were not. There are also native Australian stories of tiny seafaring master builders, just like in Hawaii.

Everywhere I’ve mentioned had very ancient, giant structures. In some places, only the foundation remains. Everyone always remembers how deft these people were at building. They were always remembered as being small. They had black skin and African features. They are from so very long ago that they must have come from Africa.

It makes sense that the first successful sailors were tiny. They would need dramatically less space and less food. We already know Africa has an ancient, genetically destinct line of tiny people.

You can’t just Google up any information on any of this unless you already know specifically what you are looking for. Colonized history absolutely will not abide information about a powerful, ancient Africa. The whole of the European historical record is now and has always been, overtly hostile to it, but the proof is everywhere.

You can find it in first accounts, ancient depictions and stories, and absolutely beyond ancient foundations. I mean, even giant Greek and Roman buildings, themselves ancient, have been found to be built on foundations that make the current structures seem young, and the current giant marble works, seem small. There was a people doing great works all over, a long time ago, and Europe would rather deride it as “ancient aliens”, than the simple, evidence based truth.

OMG! Thank you! I’m eager to see people stop doing this, just as soon as capitalist propaganda stops pretending it’s the solution to every problem. It’ll be so nice not to have to fight again those trillions wit my widdle voice that’s apparently more overbearing than the captured media and school system propaganda.