America - The Official Thread

[Exorcet]

How does right-libertarianism get the US out of that?

Any system that respects individual choice is going to rely on people willingly participating and understanding how the system works. It's not exclusively a libertarian problem. A large part of the US population is lacking understanding about many things and have become part of a culture that doesn't care to learn. That's a major concern by itself without considering what approach to government should be taken.

 

[Keef]

1. Believing in the inherent will of individuals to act in their own best interests.

Believing in the inherent will of individuals to act in their own best interests strongest desires, more like. The entire concept of a New Years resolution is a satire on how weak-willed and unmotivated humans are, particularly Americans who live comfortably.

 

[DK]

I feel like that with the other Big Tech CEOs lining up to join Trump's Kiss My Ass Club was the green light for the USA to turn into early 2000s Russia. There's still the surface-level appearance of a democracy, but now the social media tycoons are in lockstep with the Republicans like the media barons of Russia being in lockstep with Putin. The opposition is either discredited establishment neoliberals who are blamed for petrol/gas costing >$4 per gallon and getting entangled in Iraq, or European-style social democrats like Bernie who'll never get a look in thanks to the almighty Algorithms.

 

[FuriousDemon]

I feel like that with the other Big Tech CEOs lining up to join Trump's Kiss My Ass Club was the green light for the USA to turn into early 2000s Russia. There's still the surface-level appearance of a democracy, but now the social media tycoons are in lockstep with the Republicans like the media barons of Russia being in lockstep with Putin. The opposition is either discredited establishment neoliberals who are blamed for petrol/gas costing >$4 per gallon and getting entangled in Iraq, or European-style social democrats like Bernie who'll never get a look in thanks to the almighty Algorithms.

Having lived through that personally, this is what it feels like to me as well. Pretty ****ing ironic that we got away from this situation to end up in the same place a few decades later. I guess it’s still better than what’s going on in Russia for now.