@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
I don’t remember signing on to letting the constitution apply to me, but it works because Americans agree it does, the exact same way as delegated powers to the government, the exact same way this very website is used for political commentary and news rather than gaming and casual conversation, because we AGREE it does at a wide enough level to make it so. That’s how nations operate, that’s what a social contract is, it’s everywhere and unspoken, so yes, the social contract is legit, because you’ve been operating on it for ages.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
Can you cite this coming-together of Americans agreeing do delegate vast and unchecked powers to government?
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
We call those constitutional conventions and the precedents set by governmental bodies like the Supreme Court, congress, and the executive branch. Their power is also not unchecked, if it was, there’d be no anti-corruption law, and literally anything would be allowed. America’s government is a rather average sized one on the global stage, though its influence by corporations surpasses that of most others.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
No, America's government is actually the biggest government in the history of the world – it's an international empire and welfare-warfare state that plunders its people of their wealth, wages endless wars resulting in the deaths of innocent people, and censures the right to free speech of those who criticise it, and is now entangling itself with Big Tech and Big Pharma to create a fascist system of government-infused corporatism hell-bent on destroying what little liberties we have remaining.
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
That’s the United States as a nation itself, with the largest military on earth that enforces national decisions. The government on the international scale is massive, but back here in America, it’s at an average size. We have large amounts of reach, but we are not some massive authoritarian state with dictatorial amounts of power. If you wish to speak of a massive INTERNATIONAL government, then yes, you’re right, our department of state is ginormous, but pulling out now is just a really horrible plan. My greater worry about the US is its international capacity and the consi… Read more
stent exploitation of its host nations, alongside corporate power taking hold of government. You think it’s government in corporations, but corporations are fine with either t power or small government, because whatever makes money is all that matters. The wars are largely the work of the military industrial complex, a creation of corporate America rather than the government. As I’ve stated before, government is a tool, and right now those at its head are the corporations maneuvering it. Honestly, what I find funny is that your thoughts are actually rather close to mine, but your solution is backwards from the real issue. Instead of worrying about exploiting others, you’re worried about government taxation here. Instead of trying to enforce anti-trust laws to stop Big Pharma, you want government to be smaller, which would just allow them to exploit others even more. Instead of being mad at corporate theft, you’re angry at government theft. Instead of fighting fascism with leftism, you’re fighting government, which truly does just make the issue worse in the long run. Where you should’ve been moving left, you just went more anti-government and failed to address the issues of the system you live in.
