Definitely. But I do worry about many parts of Europe that seem to think they can watch the American empire turn to fascism and think they can simply observe it from afar. European fate is very much interwoven with the American Imperialism it relies upon for its economic power.

It’s why you hear mostly about Iran and the strait and nothing of Lebanon until it influenced the ceasefire.

Israel has displaced around 1M people from Lebanon and are repeating the tactics of terror it enacted in Gaza. But I’d bet that the majority of people paying attention to the Iran war every day had no idea Israel was even invading Lebanon.

Unfortunately, most people of the world are trained to not care about anything until they can see a direct material impact on their lives personally. But, that means we have a real powerful method of getting people to care.

I don’t care if the masses are directed to the right conclusions because of a moral framework or if they are directed to that same conclusion because of a material impact on their lives. They just need a means of understanding where to correctly place blame when they are inevitably impacted.

That’s the difficult part. Because historically that blame is misplaced through xenophobia, racism, gender persecution, etc.

Even now, the reactionary forces in America have anchored their outrage to the correct criticisms of Israel. However, they all seem to be using Israel as a means to ignore the same crimes of the American empire. It is interesting. It seems to be a desperate move to let American politicians and the rich capitalist off the hook and place all blame solely on Israel as if American Oligarchy is not also to blame.

It’s similar to the liberal Zionist that would blame Netanyahu as the problem and attempt to wash away the sins of Israel with him being the sole problem. But, that ship has sailed. There is no way to repair the image of Israel.

My worry through this is that the right wing narratives around Israel will be much easier to spread than the more complicated but accurate left wing reality. I worry as the right wing movements (like Tucker Carlson) become more popular the left will struggle.

The left either agrees with the right that “it’s Israel controlling America” and lose the narrative by being seen as “weak” against Israel. This will come from many in the Democratic party remaining as loyal Zionist while the Republican party will quickly label their own Zionist as “RINO” but keep them around.

I think it’s very important the left (1) Purges and shames any liberal Zionist. They should be seen as Nazis. And (2) does not give the right wing the power of the narrative they want. It is not “Israel controlling America”. It is more than that. It is the crimes of the entire ruling (Epstein) class and those in Israel and those in America need to brought to answer for their crimes.

Because capitalism is not designed around planning for events like this. Global trade is meant primarily for profits of the capitalist class. This means they remove redundancies that would provide stability to maximize profits.

This is a very simple explanation. But it’s why there is nothing in place prepared for this.

“Adapting” just be further capital consolidation as the working class suffers all of the losses and the capitalist class is protected in their bubble. They don’t plan for events like this, because they are able to whither the storm.

Their wealth is not measured in dollars. Their wealth is a reflection of how much more power they have over the working class of the world. Events like this only serve to solidify that power unless the working class of the world fights back.

They still do to an extent but as their power and influence gains they are able to take more of the mask off. But that mask is only coming off for people like you and me. Its an inverse relationship to that of the uninformed or distracted masses. They are, in reality, better able to control what is seen and not seen by the masses too impoverished or overworked to see past the mask they have built.

They DO care what people think because that gives them power and control. They just only care to the extent that that power and control is maintained.

If they didn’t care what people thought they wouldn’t spend billions to buy platforms like Twitter or to further consolidate the media we consume into what has essentially become a fascist state media of two different flavors.

Don’t think that because they are convincing the public that pedophiles and war criminals are not actually pedophiles and war criminals that they “don’t care what you think”. They do. They just have enough power and influence to make the public misinformed or (for you and me) informed but in a state of hopelessness.

Their power comes from keeping the public misinformed, distracted, or feeling hopeless. They care what you think because what you think keeps you in one of those inactive states.

Parenti is someone to read or listen to on this subject of ruling class control.

The ONLY thing they care about you is what you are thinking

https://youtu.be/-4TunaXwprQ

The dude owns a platform that actively generates nude photos of real people on the platform. Then proceeded to put the child porn generating feature behind a paywall when shamed publicly.

At what point will people realize that laws do not apply to the capitalist (Epstein) class. Shame is literally the only (non violent) weapon we have left and they are actively working to stop that as well.

The only way they will see non vigilante justice is at the hands of a revolution.

Ugh, just reminds me of so many awful 2 way stops that should be 4 way stops in my area.

Driving around is so random on whether it’s a 4 way stop, you stop but other road doesn’t, or you go but other road stops.

I live right next to one of the worst ones. Have witnessed literally 4 accidents at it, and almost had a car hit me while walking once. Just blew through the stop sign that’s not very visible when cars are parked there.

Worst part. This whole area is hilly and filled with cars parked on the road. So, if you DO stop on the 2 way stop, you have to inch forward to see, and hope a massive SUV doesn’t come speeding down the hill when you inch long enough to see if it’s safe.

All of this solved by, say it with me, CONSISTENCY. Make everything a 4 way stop. There is nowhere near enough traffic to justify anything else.

I just don’t understand who decides this shit. Recently they decided to add some traffic “circles”. Not roundabouts. Just a little circle in the middle of the old intersection.

Cars don’t slow at all with them though. Our roads are far too wide. Bonus, now they can’t see pedestrians crossing because puting large bushes in the middle of them was apparently a good idea.

Good idea. I should get a Luigi shirt and I’ll get dual fandoms.

I live near Seattle. We don’t get snow much. But when we do people avoid driving in it because they lack experience and a lot of roads just don’t get cleared.

So, those couple days are like a car free paradise. It’s so quiet. I can walk around with my kid and not worry about cars. Seriously, hang out with a two year old for a day and you’ll realize how much of our world is literally just a death trap. When it snows and no one is driving it’s just so peaceful.

I’m that guy that always forgets what shirt I’m wearing when someone says “nice shirt”. Gotta look down at my chest. I do like how universal this types of quick interactions are with strangers. Something wholesome about it.

Read a comment from OP that sounds like Nazi eugenics shit. Check their profile and this is their most recent post. Yikes. No OP. Please direct your frustration for not having sex elsewhere.