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Yes, this is totally unacceptable: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/109541948219045987 The US federal gov't rules a failed empire and is a moral vacuum.
How many people in the US are actually aware this is happening or understand that every $$ that goes on military spending is $ less on public services and helping people.
@zleap I think most people in the US are 'America, Fuck Yeah' types, who believe the myth of US exceptionalism and in the US' self-appointed global policing role. As an ex-yank, the feel-good glow of the US kids learn about in school there has been shown to be a bad joke, and any perceived lustre has well and truly worn off.
@lightweight So basically there is little going back, or forward to a better way of getting the US to see the world.
@zleap and it's completely heart-breaking.
Indeed, we are seeing similar in the UK where people in the six richest country in the world have to choose between heating and eating, people are still being subject to no fault evictions (despite promises to make that illegal)
Education is certainly the key here, but who comes up with what is taught in schools, ?
@zleap who knows. Apparently a lot is determined by the state of Texas for weird historical reasons. There, the weight of influence in the US seems to be with ignorant, poorly travelled, white Christian right folks. So, basically, the worse influences possible.
@zleap unfortunately, in my opinion, the dominant capitalist practices, systemic corruption, and momentum in the wrong directions, combined with the crushing lack of useful education in the US means it's not going to be remediated without massive civil unrest.