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
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.
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Nations that cannot defend themselves against foreign attacks have no right to exist, while we may lament those invasions to which they might be subjected. If you do not have a powerful enough military to defend your homeland from invasion, it has for millennia been known by all civilisations, you won't live long as a nation. This isn't rocket science. If I could stretch out my hand and cure the world of war I would, I can tell you – but I can't. I'm not a starry-eyed dreamer, I'm a down-to-earth realist – these little weak nations have their priorities… Read more
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They do however have a right to fight back with everything they’re worth, and if they have no right to exist, then there are no restrictions upon how they fight to protect themselves, correct? That immediately justifies Palestine fighting against Israel since no country has a right to exist, and therefore, all countries are justified in fighting against those they view as a direct threat to themselves. That thought process lacks sound reasoning, and, ironically enough, the only Darwinism you seem to support is the social Darwinist form, one of the most historically repulsive forms of… Read more
