• Mantzy81@aussie.zone
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    16 hours ago

    I’d not say they’ve not gained anything. They’ve gained the reputation of a bad partner, a despotic state, authoritarianism, the failure to abide by their own constitution, and they’ve become a greater negative influence on the world. Oh, and it’s now an open secret that they are actually run by Israel, not the other way around and that US citizens won’t do anything about their government, and that the current administration doesn’t care about the 1st, 4th, 6th, 14th, 15th, (19th probably) and 22nd amendments and will actively breach them with zero repercussions. And that the people/congress won’t use the 2nd and/or 25th when it is actually appropriate to do so.

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      Israel doesn’t have enough money to own us, it’s the same people who have always owned us. The investment companies that have been around since the slavery days, those very same financial interests (now much more massive and interconnected, they have grown like a cancer).

      They’re international, they’ll just as likely turn on Israel as the USA. I think that Beijing, China is going to be their next capital.

      We agree that they don’t care about any of amendments, ; but I think the “they” is the Ds also.

      “The People” aren’t a few million unified comparably-homogeneous colonists any more; it’s now like the Roman Empire with many fractured interests, all in decline as our debt grows exponentially and inflation spirals.

      We’re not hungry enough for prole revolt yet, but every year it ratchets up a notch. I am voting Democrat in a couple weeks, but I don’t think they can fix it at this point. How? They can’t even self-audit, the most basic of tasks that they should be able perform.

      If a company can’t pass an audit, you charge the executives with crimes and dissolve the company.

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        If you do everything someone (Israel) says, no matter who has the finances, you are their bitch. Yes, the US has more money and is more powerful but you’re the bottom in this relationship.

        And yes, the whole US electoral system needs a complete overhaul. You don’t even have a full democracy yet, it’s pathetic.

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      2nd only works with large numbers, and people are either too apathetic or scared to organize.

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        15 hours ago

        Which renders the whole amendment pointless doesn’t it. At least you can now safely justify that there’s no reason to have all the guns so you can hand them and at least stop school shootings.