Apparition of Jack

Frankly no one should be using tiktok in the first place but I digress

This is true.

The “free speech” party; ladies and gentlemen!

I got them on this thread. Some of them may be fake, I have no way of verifying where the OP got these screenshots, but it’s also possible a lot of them are real too. https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/s/5Lz8svJ1ne

Saturday’s killing of Alex Pretti was so brazen, so unconstitutional, so beyond the pale that many in the MAGA cult are finally starting to wake up. I hate that it took a brave, kind man’s life to come to this, but people are finally starting to see Trump’s evil for what it is.

There was a time when the vast majority of the world accepted slavery was a fact of life, sometimes even “necessary”, but advances in technology, social thought, trade, living standards etc made it impossible to sustain. Nowadays, slavery is one of the most abhorred institutions on the planet, regulated to obscure black markets and completely eliminated in developed countries. The world changes. Times evolve. Don’t get me wrong, I love my own country, I love its unique culture and way of life and everything, but there’s nothing about increasing global integration that threatens that (no more than when the US united after revolution Carolina uniting with Pennsylvania threatened those two state’s unique characteristics.) And again, the billionaire class already lives in a de-facto international world, it’s just unlike everyone else they see it as a tool to be exploited and harvested for their own perverse needs, not a living place to be nurtured and curated. This is a frightening prospect, unity, I understand that, but at some point it’ll become inevitable. Things are just way, WAY too interconnected for it to be otherwise.

The internet itself is the genesis of global civilisation.

And you are failing to see the bigger picture. Nation-states as an idea are dead. Europe will be federalised within a few decades, if not sooner. Africa will likely start forming regional blocks. As it stands, nation-states only exist to protect the interests of tyrannical corporate interests, which as we can all see are rapidly resorting to killing to protect themselves. I’m not the crazy one for pointing out that is unsustainable for human survival and flourishing. EDIT: Again, the Internet created all this. I, someone 10,000KM away from the US, have as much knowledge and insight to America’s political chaos (often more) than countless Americans themselves. I would encourage anyone who’s interested in Australian politics (or German, or Japanese, or Indian) to do the same. We’re not strangers anymore. Physical borders only determine what the weather is like in your location. The internet is omnipresent; something no Roman, or Brit, or Mongol ever had to contend with. It’s the silver bullet for particularism and nativism.

So long as I’m rambling: the mistake that MAGA and all different stripes of American nativists make is assuming they’re seperate or above the global community. They’re not. Like I said, the internet has all but ensured global governance and connectivity is an inevitability. Whether people like or not humanity is going to look a lot more like a single civilisation in a few decades (rather than dozens of competing, self-interested civilisations.) In many ways MAGA is the last desperate attempt for the US to assert its individuality and supremacy on the world stage, but you can’t fight gravity. We all exist on the same planet. We all share the same ideas. We all know thousands of people around the world. We’re not separated anymore. We are, increasingly, one entity. “Humanity” as a collective is no longer the domain of theologians or wide-eyed idealists, but an actual, growing lived reality for billions of people around the globe. Particularism will not survive the future.

I’m not even sure we disagree here then lol. Im getting ahead of myself.

There is, functionally, no difference between your average person from New York, London, Rome, Tokyo or Melbourne at this point (no, superficial cultural markers like NY pizza don’t count.) We do, legitimately, live in an actual global civilisation. The internet created that. It exists. The only question is whether we’re going to be honest about this or whether we’re going to keep pretending we’re cavemen out for blood. We’re not. It’s time for us to unite.

Says who? We’re entering an unprecedented age of global interconnectedness. The difference between New York and Warsaw is only a fraction of what it was even just a century ago. Who’s to say we can’t genuinely start uniting as a species? Make no mistake, I still understand nations like China, Russia etc will resist this for their own reasons, but let’s be real, WW3 is never going to happen. Nukes alone make war between major nations a thing of the past. Are we going to keep playing this dogshit game of geopolitical cynicism (for the betterment of the Epstein class, I might add), or are we going to unite?

Was it “undemocratic” to put the Nazi high leadership on trial, despite them being democratically elected? Even though doing so set the precedent for the next 75 years of global democratic security and prosperity? There are certain norms that the world adheres to for the betterment of everyone, and when a state actor breaks those norms, it’s only prudent the world steps in to once again enforce them.

The only other option to this is for American kleptocrats, businesses, military leaders, corporate politicians to voluntarily cede power. If Trump, Miller, Elon etc all voluntarily stepped down and handed power over to the American public, all of this insanity would end overnight, and reason would be restored. But I’m not holding my breath.

Frankly, I believe the last election was tampered with. We also know for a fact that the 2016 election was tampered with (Russiagate actually happened.) There is, again, HIGHLY illegal activity keeping Trump and his fascist goons in power. This is nothing to say of the, AGAIN, highly illegal corruption US corporations engage in on a daily basis to suck the life of out civic society and impoverish its own people. America is, again, a corporate mafia state protecting its own cynical interests. Hitler was also democratically elected, but that didn’t stop the world coming together to put an end to his madness. Targeted humanitarian intervention can and has been used as a tool to restore democracy and enforce the rule of law, especially when dictators start killing their own people.