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Maybe you should care about kids in Africa/South america/Asia and their quality of life. Even as an american reading that it really comes off so tone deaf. You're complaining about your kids dealing with shit? Wow. You know what they've been dealing with in Türkiye? Price of a candy bar going up 50% in a few months. For YEARS with EVERYTHING. Get over yourself. Do you think your kids are going to starve? Go to a foodbank lol
Long term the American empire getting knocked down a peg so they're not the only game in town is going to be a good thing for the world. We just get to deal with people's quality of lives going down when they've been filled with plastic and lead... We all saw people fighting over toilet paper in America during covid. Frankly it's karma for us purposefully knee capping a lot of the rest of the world. Ala our policy of keeping the middle east destabilized, crushing South American socialists, etc.
Which btw, considering lead poisoning was so widespread because of our mass use of vehicles, kinda had it coming. Glad I don't have kids :D have fun with the voucher system, your kids are going to be fuckwits if stability and long term collapse is better to you than short term collapse and maybe picking up the pieces.
You assume I don't know how the world works... lololol lololol. This fear and anxiety you feel towards change you should channel towards......
Organizing :O wild concept. You know how we get a party that's not dem or repub? By shit hitting the fucking fan. Or you don't want to take that risk because of your crotch goblins? :| ok boomer. At this point whatever happens is what the tech oligarchs say happens, because they control the flow of information. But yeah sorry not sorry, I have far less sympathy for American kids than kids in poorer countries. And China DOES have the whole "lifting the most people out of poverty in the last 30 years by a huge margin" track record.
I care about my kid's future, so therefore I don't care about kids in the global south? LOL Wut? I'd love to see you walk through the logic on that one.
Well, that kind of depends on who takes America's place. Right now it looks more likely to be China or India instead of local control. Local control is what I'd like to see, but I don't see that as any more or less likely if SHTF in America. If anything, the people who just took control are going to go even harder at extracting every bit of wealth from the globe as they possibly can.
So much to parse here. On the topic of lead levels, it would have to be me (and you) who are the "fuckwits", since atmospheric lead levels have fallen by over 97% since 1977. The choice between long term and short term collapse is a false one, and America has chosen reform in the past and can do so again.
Is that the objective? Your goal is a change of branding? My goals are related to policy, and I don't give a flying fuck about political parties. How exactly do you think you can prevent the replacement party from becoming just as corrupt as the Democrats and Republicans are? I don't even think you can perfectly vet an alternative presidential candidate, never-mind the thousands of offices you would need to take at both the state and federal levels. We've moved on here from a SHTF strategy to a third party strategy, but that's hardly a move towards sanity.
There is no shortcut for organizing and educating voters. If you can do that, then you can fix the existing parties. If you can't do that, then even a replacement party will end up controlled by oligarchs. Both organizing and educating are significantly more difficult under autocratic regimes, which is why your "let it burn" type strategy has never worked anywhere.
Well, they did shift from being a developing country to being a middle-income country. Falling poverty rates are what happens in every country when it becomes industrialized. China industrialized quickly, so their poverty rate fell quickly. Still, it was a big accomplishment, but I don't think it says what you want it to say. Their poverty rate of 13% is still higher than the US rate of 11%. China ranks better than the US in overall wealth inequality, but isn't nearly as good as it used to be when poverty rates were higher.
Ok. I appreciate the response. & I think that you prioritizing your own kids futures over that of kids more in need is shitty. Full stop. Makes you a bad person. I know that's how people work, doesn't change that it is shitty. Secondly, you sound like you are naive. You think the policy debate matters anymore with our soon to be christened God Emperor trump? :| Seriously? There is a lot more I could respond with, buuut there's no point. Grow up.