It’s because it’s centralized with an absolute authority.
They might not control the pope now, but if they do they control all Catholic priests.
It’s full circle back to “a centralized system is the most easily corrupted”. Just like this “new EU”. Even if the far right doesn’t control it from day 1, they want it centralized because that makes it easier to take over eventually.
At a joint news conference on Sunday, Col Perez said investigators did not think the person detained was the same person identified in CCTV footage of the suspect that was released on the day of the attack. The BBC has chosen to stop naming the person who has now been released.
In the footage, the suspect can be seen walking away from the scene wearing all black clothing.
Following the release of the footage, FBI director Kash Patel had said that a person of interest was detained at a hotel in Coventry, Rhode Island in the early hours of Sunday morning based on a lead from Providence Police.
Col Perez had then confirmed that officers were not looking for anyone else and were working with prosecutors to collect evidence.
Sooooo…
They don’t have any evidence, but they’ve already made up their minds this person is guilty and they aren’t looking for any other suspects?!
How the fuck are we gonna get to post scarcity when a couple thousand individuals are hoarding all the wealth?
We could live in a post scarcity society right now, hell, we could be decades deep in it by now.
But regardless of when we get there, before we do we’ll have to claw all the wealth from the gluttonous human personifications of dragons first.
It’s not just gonna happen some day, because all the wealthiest humans are fighting against it. So we need to actually fight for it
They want to say and do anything they want.
It’s human variation, some people will keep taking until there are consequences. As soon as there is consequences, they want to take a step back to where there was no consequences. But they’ll always take another step forward eventually.
We can’t tolerate the intolerant, because they’ll always see being tolerated as an attack and persecution, they won’t be happy till everyone agrees with them, and by then they’ll be more extreme than anyone else and the cycle keeps moving.
Yep, centralization isn’t a good thing.
If you read the article long enough, they go mask off and eventually admit the movement has two major factions: “centrists” and outright racists who want a white Christian empire.
Seems everyone supporting this wants it as a vehicle to move the EU to the right, which is why they want it centralized. It’s easier to buy off one leader than 27 different ones at the same time.
Don’t have to get very far to get to the part where it’s far right douches trying to slow walk people to racism…
Indeed, federalists are far from being a politically homogenous group. Several meme warriors told me that there is an ideological battle ongoing in the dank recesses of federalist Reddit subgroups and chatrooms between broadly centrist people who believe in boosting the power of existing Brussels institutions, and far-right people who hate Brussels but nonetheless want Europe to assert itself on the world stage. The big divider is identity politics and migration policy: far-right groups tend to envision Europe as a culturally and ethnically homogenous “empire” — read, white and Christian, preferably Catholic — that keeps foreigners out.
Saying “only white Christians are European, and everyone else shouldn’t be here” is not, and has never been, just “identity politics”.
It sounds like neoliberals and racists are both fighting over who gets to be called “center right”…
It even comes with a fucking pop up ad:
We want you to us AI!
Shits so fucking ridiculous
From a different comment in this thread:
The big country always wants to make it look plausible they’d lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.
Why are you taking trump and kegsworth word?
They’re fear mongering
An Aegis missle can knock it down tho…
They cost 4.7 mil a pop, which isn’t much to the US military. And don’t even need launched by the carrier, it’d be launched by ships between the middle and the carrier.
Apparently China claims they have hypersonic rockets made out of concrete for the low low price of 99k each, but that’s not exactly believable. Especially since they’re claiming 99k and not 100k. I mean, even that they’re using “round” US dollars.
That’s pretty common propaganda to claim something is cheaper and more widely available than it really is. It’s why we split our uranium into two bombs in WW2. Because a country might use all of it at once as a bluff. But only idiot would make just two and then use them both days apart. It made it look like we could have a bunch. Not enough to keep up the pace, but how many? 5, 12?
It was more psychological warfare than anything. So is China claiming these are so cheap and mass producible when if that was true we’d see the same cost savings in commercial spaces.
No other country would be able to compete
These war games are bullshit and the US and other powerful countries intentionally tie one hand behind our backs as a reason to increase the defense budget.
Like, US subs will have a bunch of people literally banging on the inside of the hull so enemy radar picks them up and “destroys” them too.
The big country always wants to make it look plausible they’d lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.
At the end of the day no country can counter our nuclear powered subs with nuclear interballistic missiles. Sinking a carrier would be responded to like attacking a US city, it’s just not a risk China would take.
Eh, a carrier is a whole nother thing.
One carrier with a flight detail would be in the top ten most powerful Air Force’s on the planet, and we’ve got like 7 of them?
And that’s not counting all the support in a carrier group.
There are certain types of drone attacks that might have some effect on a carrier, but it would take an insane amount of preparation and be inconceivably expensive.
At most theyd have 1-2 attempts, it would be the modern equivalent of the WW2 nukes if someone could sink a modern US carrier, even in a surprise attack to start a war.
It’s amazing how money tends to attract and concentrate the worst of humanity.
No, this is what wealth does to the vast majority of people. Because never being satisfied is a near universal human trait.
We prevent it, by preventing wealth/power imbalances to this extreme level.
If we don’t understand why a terrible thing keeps happy, well never stop experiencing it.
Seems like a good time for some Bob Vylan honestly…
Fuck that, let’s go dig up Maggie
Let’s go dig up Maggie’s grave and ask her where that milk went
Down to storm those Downing doors, run inside and **** them
Eat the rich, eat the rich before they turn and eat your children
England’s ending, death’s still pending, burn those fucking buildings
The important part, is Britian bitched out on their threat…
The wealthy and powerful make empty threats constantly, because if/when it works, it’s a free victory.
We can’t negotiate with the wealthy, which should be obvious by 2025 to anyone that can remember the past twenty years.
Itamar Ben-Gvir became Israel’s security minister.
Fun fact:
In the days leading up to the attack, that guy was spending his time giving interviews about how spitting on Christians is a harmless tradition that needed to be protected rather than discouraged
He was such an extremist at 18, that he was banned from joining the IDF even though they force people to join.
And that’s not even getting into his connections to assassinations and car bombing…
Fucking stupid to do this shit while trump is still in power…
Wait till their gone, then when you co trol the material, you can do an actual investigation.
Edit:
Pretty wild people think we should get the people who edited the Epstein files to audit the Epstein files to see if they’d been edited…
Because, and this should be obvious, if they find any evidence, they’ll destroy it
Wait till they’re out of power, and there’s the possibility of accountability, then look for the evidence.
If they look now, we’ll never find anything they find.
The only thing that could have stopped Mamdani, is trump endorsing Mamdani…
We’re going to keep seeing it play out, Trump’s endorsement when he’s not on the ballot has always been negligible at best, often detrimental.
trumpers don’t vote unless they can also vote for trump. And the reliable Republican voters don’t like maga candidates.
It’s why I hope red state redistricting goes thru, they’ll overshoot what’s plausible and end excavating the coming progressive wave.
Great post OP…
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I mean, way before Biden too tho
We wouldn’t even need to do that…
Money is an abstract concept that would fundamentally change in a post scarcity world.
If enough people said money doesn’t matter, the number tied to bank accounts stop mattering.
Musk could have 50 trillion dollars, but those dollars are only worth what we agree they are. We could just say their worth zero and Musk doesn’t have rights to anything he “owns”. It’s literally that easy.
The wealthy don’t abide by the social contract, yet you’re so stuck on it you don’t understand the only thing binding us to the parts the wealthy exploit, is ourselves and we can just fucking stop.