Is General Chat worth joining?

[RandomGuyUK]

Pretty sure if that Oklahoma City thing happened in UK or Australia, there’d be a Royal Inquest and heads would definitely roll. In America, it seems to be. ‘Whoops. Sorry. Well, not really sorry, but … oh well.’


He will cause a lot of rage too. And a lot of fences to mend around the world.

Oh, and Imma special ****. That’s why.

Oklahoma city bombing? Timothy Mcveigh? I think that did cause a lot of self reflection in America, at the time ...

 

[RandomGuyUK]

But uh, moving on. General Chat, adult chat, they can be nice to join.
Well I've only chatted in adultchat and gaychat. Maybe generalchat is nice?

 

[BlackLivesMatter]

"He lies like a pig in ****". I cant argue with that.
(why are you allowed to say sh it, but I'm not !)

My main issue is that the lefty hand-wringing brigade were like " ohhh no, trump will cause WW3". did that happen? No.
And will it happen now? I doubt it. ... the guy is a moron, but its not the apocalypse

What is scary and ignored is the history of tariff happy presidents in the U.S. and the fact America never learns.
The last such tariff happy president was Herbert Hoover, who signed in his wonderful tariffs in hope it would invigorate the economy by bring more jobs to America but it hastened the U.S. to the Great Depression which was not all that great according to my grandparents.
Hoover's tariff's sunk the U.S. into a trade war that led to a global economic downturn.
On a good note, Tesla board is meeting to discuss terminating Elon Musk. That would be so funny.

 

[RandomGuyUK]

What is scary and ignored is the history of tariff happy presidents in the U.S. and the fact America never learns.
The last such tariff happy president was Herbert Hoover, who signed in his wonderful tariffs in hope it would invigorate the economy by bring more jobs to America but it hastened the U.S. to the Great Depression which was not all that great according to my grandparents.
Hoover's tariff's sunk the U.S. into a trade war that led to a global economic downturn.
On a good note, Tesla board is meeting to discuss terminating Elon Musk. That would be so funny.

Humans rarely learn. We can try, but we personally, and as a species, rarely 'learn' from our mistakes.
Although we try to learn; We arent good at doing so lol.

The Great Depression was way more complicated than one President's actions re tariffs. Maybe it hastened it? I don't know a lot about that era in history. (Actually I do know a lot about that, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt).
Hoover's 'tariffs' may have contributed, but it was mostly due to the vengeful French reparations inflicted on the German economy. "the consequences of the peace" - eg that book by JM Keynes.

My understanding is that the Great War, and its ramifications, sunk the world into a massive economic downturn.

Also, America behaved like bitches and took all England's money, and global strategic and economic bases, and demanded to be paid back in full for everything. --- In prior conflicts, the winning allied team didnt demand that their allies pay back the war debts. They were like 'it's cool', 'no worries'. eg Napoleonic Wars - when England funded all of Europe to defeat Napoleon's France.
America are such bitches - the UK only paid off our 'war debts' from the 2nd world war, in 2006.
What kind of way is that for a nation to behave?

That said, I still kind of love the American nation though.

 

[RandomGuyUK]

perhaps this should be in the 'history and discussion' thread.

maybe we could make one?

 

[NavyWings]

What is scary and ignored is the history of tariff happy presidents in the U.S. and the fact America never learns.
The last such tariff happy president was Herbert Hoover, who signed in his wonderful tariffs in hope it would invigorate the economy by bring more jobs to America but it hastened the U.S. to the Great Depression which was not all that great according to my grandparents.
Hoover's tariff's sunk the U.S. into a trade war that led to a global economic downturn.
On a good note, Tesla board is meeting to discuss terminating Elon Musk. That would be so funny.

Already debunked your MSNBC talking points in the other thread.

 

[NavyWings]

What is scary and ignored is the history of tariff happy presidents in the U.S. and the fact America never learns.
The last such tariff happy president was Herbert Hoover, who signed in his wonderful tariffs in hope it would invigorate the economy by bring more jobs to America but it hastened the U.S. to the Great Depression which was not all that great according to my grandparents.
Hoover's tariff's sunk the U.S. into a trade war that led to a global economic downturn.
On a good note, Tesla board is meeting to discuss terminating Elon Musk. That would be so funny.

You really need to stay away from those conspiracy sites.

"Tesla chair Robyn Denholm on Thursday denied a Wall Street Journal report that said board members had reached out to executive search firms to find a replacement for CEO Elon Musk."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/business/tesla-board-elon-musk-ceo-search/index.html

 

[Bumblebee1]

Personally I hate Trump and @Mr. Jose knows this. Trump is a racist moron who’s turning into a dictator.

These are, however my own views and I believe in peoples’ rights to express their views without resorting to breaking the rules.

And I’m certainly not one to hate someone or dislike someone because their views don’t align with mine. He’s never given me any reason to dislike him. He always allows me to express my opinions within the bounds of the rules and has always given his opinion respectfully and graciously.

He’s not the Antichrist, I’ll admit, but he’s definitely not the best president in American history, that’s for certain.

There are genuine cultists out there who believe he’s been ‘ordained by God’ and even Jesus himself. The man is barely a Christian. He lies like a pig in **** and has done more damage in the last 100 days than Sleepy Joe did in 4 years. He ignores judges, flaunts the constitution, intimidates congress and lawyers.

I mean, that poor mother and her little girls in Oklahoma City that were left in the rain in their underwear while ICE agents robbed them and looted their house in a case of mistaken identity. These were US citizens. Not even illegals.

The only kinda response they got in the end was, ‘sorry you had a rough morning. You can get all your money and belongings back in a few months maybe. Tough luck. That’s what you get for moving into a house that unbeknownst to you, had illegals in it a few weeks before you moved it.’

Damn it sucks to be American. Seriously.

I’m therefore thinking you either secretly lik e him or you just don’t know how to express yourself within the rules of the chat.

P.S. I’m a leftist and Australian, so furtherest from a ‘MAGAT’ as you can get.

Well then i guess you approve of that pic he liked from Babydolla that had Trump running after 2 Haitians

Personally I hate Trump and @Mr. Jose knows this. Trump is a racist moron who’s turning into a dictator.

These are, however my own views and I believe in peoples’ rights to express their views without resorting to breaking the rules.

And I’m certainly not one to hate someone or dislike someone because their views don’t align with mine. He’s never given me any reason to dislike him. He always allows me to express my opinions within the bounds of the rules and has always given his opinion respectfully and graciously.

I’m therefore thinking you either secretly like him or you just don’t know how to express yourself within the rules of the chat.

P.S. I’m a leftist and Australian, so furtherest from a ‘MAGAT’ as you can get.

Well i guess you approve of that picture posted by Babydolla awhile back ago with Trump chasing after 2 Haitians that were holding cats running down the sidewalk?

 

[ban active]

You really need to stay away from those conspiracy sites.

"Tesla chair Robyn Denholm on Thursday denied a Wall Street Journal report that said board members had reached out to executive search firms to find a replacement for CEO Elon Musk."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/business/tesla-board-elon-musk-ceo-search/index.html

Dude it was a joke and you fell for it hook line and sinker

 

[Pinky]

Well then i guess you approve of that pic he liked from Babydolla that had Trump running after 2 Haitians

Well i guess you approve of that picture posted by Babydolla awhile back ago with Trump chasing after 2 Haitians that were holding cats running down the sidewalk?

Never even seen said pic, so can’t comment. I do like cats though. They’re cute.

 

[BlackLivesMatter]

Humans rarely learn. We can try, but we personally, and as a species, rarely 'learn' from our mistakes.
Although we try to learn; We arent good at doing so lol.

The Great Depression was way more complicated than one President's actions re tariffs. Maybe it hastened it? I don't know a lot about that era in history. (Actually I do know a lot about that, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt).
Hoover's 'tariffs' may have contributed, but it was mostly due to the vengeful French reparations inflicted on the German economy. "the consequences of the peace" - eg that book by JM Keynes.

My understanding is that the Great War, and its ramifications, sunk the world into a massive economic downturn.

Also, America behaved like bitches and took all England's money, and global strategic and economic bases, and demanded to be paid back in full for everything. --- In prior conflicts, the winning allied team didnt demand that their allies pay back the war debts. They were like 'it's cool', 'no worries'. eg Napoleonic Wars - when England funded all of Europe to defeat Napoleon's France.
America are such bitches - the UK only paid off our 'war debts' from the 2nd world war, in 2006.
What kind of way is that for a nation to behave?

That said, I still kind of love the American nation though.

No there were several things about the 1930s that led to the depression. Hoover hoped this would stimulate the economy and bring American jobs back and WW1 had depleted economies globally. The tariffs were the final nail in the coffin so to speak. Throughout history the U.S. has tried to strong arm other countries only to have this backfire.
I don't like America right now. It is over crowded and the population needs thinned out some.

 

[RandomGuyUK]

Never even seen said pic, so can’t comment. I do like cats though. They’re cute.

cats are cute. They are ultimate predators, and cause lots of damage to wildlife and birds (so say the lefty green people), but they are very cute. lovely cats.

 

[Pinky]

cats are cute. They are ultimate predators, and cause lots of damage to wildlife and birds (so say the lefty green people), but they are very cute. lovely cats.

Only damage my cats cause is furniture and my legs sometimes.

 

[RandomGuyUK]

No there were several things about the 1930s that led to the depression. Hoover hoped this would stimulate the economy and bring American jobs back and WW1 had depleted economies globally. The tariffs were the final nail in the coffin so to speak. Throughout history the U.S. has tried to strong arm other countries only to have this backfire.

Maybe, lots of reasons yes.

I don't like America right now. It is over crowded and the population needs thinned out some.

Dude, really?

 

[RandomGuyUK]

No there were several things about the 1930s that led to the depression. Hoover hoped this would stimulate the economy and bring American jobs back and WW1 had depleted economies globally. The tariffs were the final nail in the coffin so to speak. Throughout history the U.S. has tried to strong arm other countries only to have this backfire.

Maybe, lots of reasons yes.
I dont think you comment is accurate. The founding fathers tried to make America a land of free people, without all the baggage of the religious wars of Europe. The US only started strong-arming other nations after WW2. Eisenhower coined the phrase - "the military-industrial complex". You could say that it goes back many more years, eg Teddy Roosevelt and America's forays into colonialisation.

- what really makes me laugh about America, is the self-righteous sanctimonious spiel about 'anti-colonialism', and yet the USA has various 'non-incorporated territories', which have NO voting rights, and are colonies in all but name. EG puerto rico.

I don't like America right now. It is over crowded and the population needs thinned out some.

Dude, really?

 

[Seraphim]

- what really makes me laugh about America, is the self-righteous sanctimonious spiel about 'anti-colonialism', and yet the USA has various 'non-incorporated territories', which have NO voting rights, and are colonies in all but name. EG puerto rico.

👏👏👏💯
And you know what’s most bizarre about all this? The empire that claims to defend human rights is the same one funding and supporting genocide in Palestine — and it’s been doing so for centuries, always under the banner of “freedom” and “human rights.” But this didn’t start now. It began with the very founding of the empire: when they massacred millions of Indigenous people during the westward expansion, or when they stole rare earth lands from Mexico.

As soon as they discovered that California was rich in oil and gold, they pulled the same trick the British Empire used: divide and conquer. That’s how they stole Mexico’s rare earth resources. Like every empire, stealing from Mexico wasn’t enough — they needed to loot the rest of the world through economic liberalism and globalization. And God forbid any country tries to protect its own economy — no to protectionism, no to state-owned enterprises, no to sovereignty for anyone else.

With this worldview — freedom, human rights, and free-market economics — they supported every dictator in Africa willing to privatize national resources for American corporations and open markets to be flooded with American products, even if that meant more poverty in already poor nations. How can a country invest in infrastructure or improve its people's lives if all its wealth is flowing to the American empire?


Hail globalization, right? Industrialized goods to sell, global markets to dominate — long live the WTO and the free market. But men who opposed this model were labeled dictators and assassinated by the CIA. Meanwhile, dictators loyal to the American empire — in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America — who committed genocides were welcomed with open arms at the White House.

Remember Panama? Trump recently said he wants it back, but it was never the U.S.’s to begin with. It always belonged to Panama. Back then, Panama had a democratically elected president, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, who refused to let the U.S. use the Panama Canal for free. “If the canal is ours,” he said, “you must pay a fair price.” What did the U.S. do? They backed a military coup in 1968, overthrew a democratically elected leader, and installed a dictator who killed many Panamanians. And the U.S.? They used the canal for free for 20 years and then paid a miserable, insulting reparations fee when they returned it.

What about Brazil? Same story. We lived under a U.S.-backed dictatorship for 20 years that killed thousands of Brazilians. We never harmed the U.S., but they wanted our resources and access to our market. The result? Brazil was buried in foreign debt to the IMF, had its resources looted, and they even tried to get their hands on Petrobras, our state oil company. This happened all over Latin America. Argentina never recovered. Every Latin American country touched by American intervention became poorer, more unequal, and more violent.

Welcome to the Third World.

Meanwhile, halfway across the world, there was a man who stood out: Muammar Gaddafi — the armed revolutionary once supported by the U.S. in a 1969 coup that overthrew the Senussi monarchy, which had threatened U.S. interests. So, why not back the young revolutionary in Libya? Gaddafi rose to power, built a prosperous Libya, and eventually sought to stop selling oil in U.S. dollars.

That didn’t sit well with the American empire. So the champion of human rights, the hero of Black America — Barack Obama — dropped bombs, killing thousands of children alongside the same tyrant leader who was once their ally. Sound familiar? The freedom fighters supported by the U.S. eventually become dictators and enemies once they refuse to be robbed. Let me think... Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein?

Black Lives Matter — but a round of applause for Barack Obama, the Black hero of the American people who destroyed Libya and left behind a legacy of misery and hunger. Today, Libya is one of the countries with the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world. But who cares? As long as American kids have hamburgers and Coca-Cola until they grow into morbidly obese adults — who cares?

The empire's greed didn't stop there. Why not loot Iran too? Let’s just overthrow the democratically elected president Mohammed Mossadegh and install a dictatorship so we can steal their oil. It worked in Latin America, in Africa — it’ll work here too, right?

It didn’t. It backfired. Iran went from a democracy to an Islamic republic, still giving the CIA headaches — poetic justice, since they created the monster.

But the American empire didn’t learn. They still don’t understand that it’s unwise to mess with civilizations rooted in deep history. Just like the Persians resisted American colonization, so too would the Chinese. Globalists thought, “Easy — we’ll just move our companies there. They have child slave labor, Apple gets richer, they’re poor, they’re overpopulated — it’ll be like Africa or Latin America. What could go wrong?”

Just like Portugal traded all its gold to England for industrial goods, the U.S. handed over its industries to China for cheap child labor. What a disgrace for an empire that preaches human rights and freedom.

But it all went wrong. China has existed for 5,000 years. A country with profound historical and cultural roots. No matter how hard Hollywood tried, it couldn’t colonize them with mass culture. Hollywood failed — and so did the Color Revolution in Hong Kong. China survived and used American capital to deliver what the entire Global South dreams of: dignity.

But that didn’t please the American empire. No other nation is allowed to be rich and developed — only them. Dictatorship! Wait, that’s not working anymore. No one believes in your “freedom and human rights” propaganda.

If we can’t stop China, why not go after Russia? Let’s flood Ukraine and Russia with our industrial products and steal their rare earth resources. Let’s fund separatist movements, neo-Nazis, coups — anything. Forget China and Iran for now. Let’s destroy Russia.

Putin said “no” — “you will not rob my people.” Dictator! Freedom fighters! Oh really? whispered Russia. “Aren’t you the ones funding ISIS in Syria to overthrow Bashar al-Assad?” The same ISIS that throws gay people off rooftops? Get out of here, hypocrites. Russia resisted.

So out go the Democrats, in come the Republicans. They thought, “If we keep attacking Russia, we’ll just push them closer to China. And if destroying China alone is hard, imagine China and Russia together?”

Let’s redraw the global order — no more multilateralism, no more free trade. Let’s protect our interests. Let’s tax everyone except Russia. That way we get closer to Russia and isolate China.

But the American empire forgot to check in with China, Russia, and the Global South. The plan backfired. The tariffs didn’t stop China. They actually brought the Global South closer together, strengthening trade ties between those countries. More and more nations want to join the BRICS. In ten years, the United States as we know it may no longer exist.

The collapse of the empire began long before Trump or Biden. It began when the U.S. decided to use its military-industrial complex, the CIA, its bombs, and its currency to change the rules of the game and intimidate the rest of the world.

Only a third world war could stop China now. And considering the American empire has already killed over 30 million people — including children — in defense of its interests since its founding, I wouldn’t be surprised if this psychopathic empire was willing to destroy the entire planet with nuclear bombs to defend the interests of the billionaire elite who truly rule it.

 

[RandomGuyUK]

👏👏👏💯
And you know what’s most bizarre about all this? The empire that claims to defend human rights is the same one funding and supporting genocide in Palestine — and it’s been doing so for centuries, always under the banner of “freedom” and “human rights.” But this didn’t start now. It began with the very founding of the empire: when they massacred millions of Indigenous people during the westward expansion, or when they stole rare earth lands from Mexico.

As soon as they discovered that California was rich in oil and gold, they pulled the same trick the British Empire used: divide and conquer. That’s how they stole Mexico’s rare earth resources. Like every empire, stealing from Mexico wasn’t enough — they needed to loot the rest of the world through economic liberalism and globalization. And God forbid any country tries to protect its own economy — no to protectionism, no to state-owned enterprises, no to sovereignty for anyone else.

With this worldview — freedom, human rights, and free-market economics — they supported every dictator in Africa willing to privatize national resources for American corporations and open markets to be flooded with American products, even if that meant more poverty in already poor nations. How can a country invest in infrastructure or improve its people's lives if all its wealth is flowing to the American empire?


Hail globalization, right? Industrialized goods to sell, global markets to dominate — long live the WTO and the free market. But men who opposed this model were labeled dictators and assassinated by the CIA. Meanwhile, dictators loyal to the American empire — in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America — who committed genocides were welcomed with open arms at the White House.

Remember Panama? Trump recently said he wants it back, but it was never the U.S.’s to begin with. It always belonged to Panama. Back then, Panama had a democratically elected president, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, who refused to let the U.S. use the Panama Canal for free. “If the canal is ours,” he said, “you must pay a fair price.” What did the U.S. do? They backed a military coup in 1968, overthrew a democratically elected leader, and installed a dictator who killed many Panamanians. And the U.S.? They used the canal for free for 20 years and then paid a miserable, insulting reparations fee when they returned it.

What about Brazil? Same story. We lived under a U.S.-backed dictatorship for 20 years that killed thousands of Brazilians. We never harmed the U.S., but they wanted our resources and access to our market. The result? Brazil was buried in foreign debt to the IMF, had its resources looted, and they even tried to get their hands on Petrobras, our state oil company. This happened all over Latin America. Argentina never recovered. Every Latin American country touched by American intervention became poorer, more unequal, and more violent.

Welcome to the Third World.

Meanwhile, halfway across the world, there was a man who stood out: Muammar Gaddafi — the armed revolutionary once supported by the U.S. in a 1969 coup that overthrew the Senussi monarchy, which had threatened U.S. interests. So, why not back the young revolutionary in Libya? Gaddafi rose to power, built a prosperous Libya, and eventually sought to stop selling oil in U.S. dollars.

That didn’t sit well with the American empire. So the champion of human rights, the hero of Black America — Barack Obama — dropped bombs, killing thousands of children alongside the same tyrant leader who was once their ally. Sound familiar? The freedom fighters supported by the U.S. eventually become dictators and enemies once they refuse to be robbed. Let me think... Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein?

Black Lives Matter — but a round of applause for Barack Obama, the Black hero of the American people who destroyed Libya and left behind a legacy of misery and hunger. Today, Libya is one of the countries with the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world. But who cares? As long as American kids have hamburgers and Coca-Cola until they grow into morbidly obese adults — who cares?

The empire's greed didn't stop there. Why not loot Iran too? Let’s just overthrow the democratically elected president Mohammed Mossadegh and install a dictatorship so we can steal their oil. It worked in Latin America, in Africa — it’ll work here too, right?

It didn’t. It backfired. Iran went from a democracy to an Islamic republic, still giving the CIA headaches — poetic justice, since they created the monster.

But the American empire didn’t learn. They still don’t understand that it’s unwise to mess with civilizations rooted in deep history. Just like the Persians resisted American colonization, so too would the Chinese. Globalists thought, “Easy — we’ll just move our companies there. They have child slave labor, Apple gets richer, they’re poor, they’re overpopulated — it’ll be like Africa or Latin America. What could go wrong?”

Just like Portugal traded all its gold to England for industrial goods, the U.S. handed over its industries to China for cheap child labor. What a disgrace for an empire that preaches human rights and freedom.

But it all went wrong. China has existed for 5,000 years. A country with profound historical and cultural roots. No matter how hard Hollywood tried, it couldn’t colonize them with mass culture. Hollywood failed — and so did the Color Revolution in Hong Kong. China survived and used American capital to deliver what the entire Global South dreams of: dignity.

But that didn’t please the American empire. No other nation is allowed to be rich and developed — only them. Dictatorship! Wait, that’s not working anymore. No one believes in your “freedom and human rights” propaganda.

If we can’t stop China, why not go after Russia? Let’s flood Ukraine and Russia with our industrial products and steal their rare earth resources. Let’s fund separatist movements, neo-Nazis, coups — anything. Forget China and Iran for now. Let’s destroy Russia.

Putin said “no” — “you will not rob my people.” Dictator! Freedom fighters! Oh really? whispered Russia. “Aren’t you the ones funding ISIS in Syria to overthrow Bashar al-Assad?” The same ISIS that throws gay people off rooftops? Get out of here, hypocrites. Russia resisted.

So out go the Democrats, in come the Republicans. They thought, “If we keep attacking Russia, we’ll just push them closer to China. And if destroying China alone is hard, imagine China and Russia together?”

Let’s redraw the global order — no more multilateralism, no more free trade. Let’s protect our interests. Let’s tax everyone except Russia. That way we get closer to Russia and isolate China.

But the American empire forgot to check in with China, Russia, and the Global South. The plan backfired. The tariffs didn’t stop China. They actually brought the Global South closer together, strengthening trade ties between those countries. More and more nations want to join the BRICS. In ten years, the United States as we know it may no longer exist.

The collapse of the empire began long before Trump or Biden. It began when the U.S. decided to use its military-industrial complex, the CIA, its bombs, and its currency to change the rules of the game and intimidate the rest of the world.

Only a third world war could stop China now. And considering the American empire has already killed over 30 million people — including children — in defense of its interests since its founding, I wouldn’t be surprised if this psychopathic empire was willing to destroy the entire planet with nuclear bombs to defend the interests of the billionaire elite who truly rule it.

oh god. is anyone supposed to read this essay?
I'll give you 5 minutes of my time.
I seriously cannot be bothered mate. BE CONCISE.

'Murica = bad. right, yes. No doubt.
ENGERLAND = bad, again, no doubt.

PALESTINE - woo woo, you hate Israel.
How am I not surprised by this information?
go and wank yourself off with black lives matter, mate.

SO - have you got examples of other countries which haven't done the same thing or been even worse than UK and USA?
Precisely; I thought not.

England forged the modern world, and America too.
For all our/their faults, the only reason you are able to type this is due to America, and her influence on the world.

 

[RandomGuyUK]

👏👏👏💯
And you know what’s most bizarre about all this? The empire that claims to defend human rights is the same one funding and supporting genocide in Palestine — and it’s been doing so for centuries, always under the banner of “freedom” and “human rights.” But this didn’t start now. It began with the very founding of the empire: when they massacred millions of Indigenous people during the westward expansion, or when they stole rare earth lands from Mexico.

As soon as they discovered that California was rich in oil and gold, they pulled the same trick the British Empire used: divide and conquer. That’s how they stole Mexico’s rare earth resources. Like every empire, stealing from Mexico wasn’t enough — they needed to loot the rest of the world through economic liberalism and globalization. And God forbid any country tries to protect its own economy — no to protectionism, no to state-owned enterprises, no to sovereignty for anyone else.

With this worldview — freedom, human rights, and free-market economics — they supported every dictator in Africa willing to privatize national resources for American corporations and open markets to be flooded with American products, even if that meant more poverty in already poor nations. How can a country invest in infrastructure or improve its people's lives if all its wealth is flowing to the American empire?


Hail globalization, right? Industrialized goods to sell, global markets to dominate — long live the WTO and the free market. But men who opposed this model were labeled dictators and assassinated by the CIA. Meanwhile, dictators loyal to the American empire — in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America — who committed genocides were welcomed with open arms at the White House.

Remember Panama? Trump recently said he wants it back, but it was never the U.S.’s to begin with. It always belonged to Panama. Back then, Panama had a democratically elected president, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, who refused to let the U.S. use the Panama Canal for free. “If the canal is ours,” he said, “you must pay a fair price.” What did the U.S. do? They backed a military coup in 1968, overthrew a democratically elected leader, and installed a dictator who killed many Panamanians. And the U.S.? They used the canal for free for 20 years and then paid a miserable, insulting reparations fee when they returned it.

What about Brazil? Same story. We lived under a U.S.-backed dictatorship for 20 years that killed thousands of Brazilians. We never harmed the U.S., but they wanted our resources and access to our market. The result? Brazil was buried in foreign debt to the IMF, had its resources looted, and they even tried to get their hands on Petrobras, our state oil company. This happened all over Latin America. Argentina never recovered. Every Latin American country touched by American intervention became poorer, more unequal, and more violent.

Welcome to the Third World.

Meanwhile, halfway across the world, there was a man who stood out: Muammar Gaddafi — the armed revolutionary once supported by the U.S. in a 1969 coup that overthrew the Senussi monarchy, which had threatened U.S. interests. So, why not back the young revolutionary in Libya? Gaddafi rose to power, built a prosperous Libya, and eventually sought to stop selling oil in U.S. dollars.

That didn’t sit well with the American empire. So the champion of human rights, the hero of Black America — Barack Obama — dropped bombs, killing thousands of children alongside the same tyrant leader who was once their ally. Sound familiar? The freedom fighters supported by the U.S. eventually become dictators and enemies once they refuse to be robbed. Let me think... Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein?

Black Lives Matter — but a round of applause for Barack Obama, the Black hero of the American people who destroyed Libya and left behind a legacy of misery and hunger. Today, Libya is one of the countries with the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world. But who cares? As long as American kids have hamburgers and Coca-Cola until they grow into morbidly obese adults — who cares?

The empire's greed didn't stop there. Why not loot Iran too? Let’s just overthrow the democratically elected president Mohammed Mossadegh and install a dictatorship so we can steal their oil. It worked in Latin America, in Africa — it’ll work here too, right?

It didn’t. It backfired. Iran went from a democracy to an Islamic republic, still giving the CIA headaches — poetic justice, since they created the monster.

But the American empire didn’t learn. They still don’t understand that it’s unwise to mess with civilizations rooted in deep history. Just like the Persians resisted American colonization, so too would the Chinese. Globalists thought, “Easy — we’ll just move our companies there. They have child slave labor, Apple gets richer, they’re poor, they’re overpopulated — it’ll be like Africa or Latin America. What could go wrong?”

Just like Portugal traded all its gold to England for industrial goods, the U.S. handed over its industries to China for cheap child labor. What a disgrace for an empire that preaches human rights and freedom.

But it all went wrong. China has existed for 5,000 years. A country with profound historical and cultural roots. No matter how hard Hollywood tried, it couldn’t colonize them with mass culture. Hollywood failed — and so did the Color Revolution in Hong Kong. China survived and used American capital to deliver what the entire Global South dreams of: dignity.

But that didn’t please the American empire. No other nation is allowed to be rich and developed — only them. Dictatorship! Wait, that’s not working anymore. No one believes in your “freedom and human rights” propaganda.

If we can’t stop China, why not go after Russia? Let’s flood Ukraine and Russia with our industrial products and steal their rare earth resources. Let’s fund separatist movements, neo-Nazis, coups — anything. Forget China and Iran for now. Let’s destroy Russia.

Putin said “no” — “you will not rob my people.” Dictator! Freedom fighters! Oh really? whispered Russia. “Aren’t you the ones funding ISIS in Syria to overthrow Bashar al-Assad?” The same ISIS that throws gay people off rooftops? Get out of here, hypocrites. Russia resisted.

So out go the Democrats, in come the Republicans. They thought, “If we keep attacking Russia, we’ll just push them closer to China. And if destroying China alone is hard, imagine China and Russia together?”

Let’s redraw the global order — no more multilateralism, no more free trade. Let’s protect our interests. Let’s tax everyone except Russia. That way we get closer to Russia and isolate China.

But the American empire forgot to check in with China, Russia, and the Global South. The plan backfired. The tariffs didn’t stop China. They actually brought the Global South closer together, strengthening trade ties between those countries. More and more nations want to join the BRICS. In ten years, the United States as we know it may no longer exist.

The collapse of the empire began long before Trump or Biden. It began when the U.S. decided to use its military-industrial complex, the CIA, its bombs, and its currency to change the rules of the game and intimidate the rest of the world.

Only a third world war could stop China now. And considering the American empire has already killed over 30 million people — including children — in defense of its interests since its founding, I wouldn’t be surprised if this psychopathic empire was willing to destroy the entire planet with nuclear bombs to defend the interests of the billionaire elite who truly rule it.

you might have some valid points, but it's really way too long, and batshsit crazy in parts.

 

[-Luka]

careful that’s the second time you’ve disrespected it. Third time it won’t be so nice 😅

 

[Seraphim]

and batshsit crazy in parts.

Unfortunately yes.