What is the end game?

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

The government is the only one stopping me from buying a small patch of woodland and building a cabin there to live in. Get rid of that and suddenly I no longer have a reason to work more than a handful of hours a month.

[liamthebox@lemmy.ml]

4 channer said to not do that.

Also mentioned most business are fake or provide fake materials, probably why buildings are made of tofu in china

[emberleaf@lemmy.ml]

All Russia has to do (and by Russia, I mean specifically Putin and the KGB) is compromise our President. Which they have done. It's quite interesting how many pro-Russian decisions and talking points that are coming out of Trump's mouth. The size of our military, the amount of money we have or how much 'influence' we have (which is dwindling every day since Trump has alienated our allies and made us an absolute mockery on the world stage) - none of it matters if Putin has control of Trump, who has wasted no time in replacing the heads of government agencies with those loyal to his agenda. In this regard, Trump is a Russian agent.

You're wrong. Or you're a propagandist. Either way, time will tell.

[freagle@lemmygrad.ml]

That's utterly ridiculous, see my reply here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7141540/6029073

Essentially, Trump doesn't have that kind of power. I don't mean legally, I mean socially. The business community in the USA is organized well enough to take out presidents. Let's not forget that as early as the 1930s there was consciousness among veterans that the military was used to further business interests. Let's not forget that the CIA was founded by the Dulles brothers to advance US business interests abroad. Let's not forget that when FDR was trying to implement the New Deal the rich of the USA organized a criminal conspiracy to coup the US and install a dictator.

Let's also not forget that the US military intelligence community has been organized against Russia for the last 80 years. Everything it does is informed by it's early foundations as an anti-Russia movement. They know more about Russia than Russia knows about the USA. US military intelligence also didn't suffer a complete and utter rupture like Russia's did when the USSR was dismantled. The USA got access Russian internal documents during that time, the Russia received no such boon to its intelligence.

In short, the USA is the more powerful of the two countries by every single measure, and both countries are fully aware of this. Not only that, but the elite of the USA are capable of stopping any Russian agent from slowing down their gravy train. They were willing to coup FDR just for helping the working class. There's no way the Russophobes in power in the USA would allow a Russian agent to take the reigns. They've had AMPLE opportunities to neutralize the threat. They've done so much killing, so much maiming, so much disappearing for much smaller stakes. Why do you think know that the stakes are the highest they could be they just won't do anything about it?

Further, the billionaires have every reason NOT to become a vassal state of Russia. It affords them absolutely no benefit and makes things far far worse for them. The USA has a strong currency, stronger economy, more money, greater access to markets, better trading terms, more military power, more global domination, more tax revenue, more colonies, more slave laborers, essentially more of everything (except the ability to produce effective weapons, I guess). No power bloc in America benefits from subjugating themselves to Russia.

No. The real answer is just too emotionally difficult for you. You've grown up in a Russophobic culture. We played video games where they replaced the Germans with Russians as the primary enemy. We've been socialized to believe Russia is terribad and dank evil. But the geopolitical situation is not good for the USA and the camp that believed they could defeat both Russia and China has been shown to be incorrect. So now, the situation is that the USA needs an alliance with Russia in the hopes of peeling Russia out of BRICS, away from its alliance with China, and eventually have Russia's support in fighting against China. So Trump is the figurehead put in place to shift American policy towards an alliance with Russia.

And you and every other American, with so much indoctrinated Russophobia, can't imagine that the same people who told you Russia was evil are now seeking an alliance with Russia. The only way you can square that circle is to believe Trump is some "great man" who can single-handedly overcome the most powerful institutions in the history of world because a bunch of overtly racist morons voted the wrong way.

You're going to have to face the reality that the US government's policy regarding Russia has changed and that, like all presidents since WW2, Trump is the outward face of that policy.

[simon574@feddit.org]

Check out https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/
There is a list of books he wrote with free PDF and links to Kindle store. "Mencious Moldbug" is one of his pseudonyms.

[freagle@lemmygrad.ml]

All Russia has to do (and by Russia, I mean specifically Putin and the KGB) is compromise our President

The KGB hasn't existed since 1991.

And no, compromising our president is NOT the only thing that a foreign actor would have to do. They would have to outmaneuver the entirety of the CIA working to prevent EXACTLY that situation from ever occurring. They would have to somehow stop the CIA from stopping such an agent at every possible step of the way over the past 12 years. You are living in a magical sitcom fantasy land where the bad guys are trying to get the McGuffin and if they do - GAME OVER, MAN. That's not how reality works.

It’s quite interesting how many pro-Russian decisions and talking points that are coming out of Trump’s mouth.

It is interesting. It's almost as if US policy has shifted its position regarding Russia and the president is aligned with that policy.

how much ‘influence’ we have (which is dwindling every day since Trump has alienated our allies and made us an absolute mockery on the world stage)

You have no idea how influence works, do you. Sure, Trump is a laughing stock. You still can't buy oil from OPEC without USD. Most nations still have billions of dollars in the US economy, and particular in US bonds. Most nations operate under USA-favorable conditions dictated by treaties with USA back with credible threats. US intelligence still operates the 5 Eyes, still runs the terrorist networks all over the world, still educates and trains the world's most deadly death squads. Yes, Trump is a laughing stock and the USA still dominates the globe and EVERY SINGLE NATIONAL LEADER has to consider the USA when choosing their words and their actions.

The size of our military, the amount of money we have or how much ‘influence’ we have - none of it matters if Putin has control of Trump

Pure young adult novel fantasy writing. It's just so incorrect and all the evidence of history shows how incorrect it is. You just can't imagine any other way that US foreign policy would suddenly change and desire an alliance with Russia the only thing you can come up with is a paper doll fantasy.

Trump, who has wasted no time in replacing the heads of government agencies with those loyal to his agenda

You do realize that the reason the CIA has a dozen different classifications for information is so that no single person or group ever has 100% of the information required? The agency is organized to survived the constant change of president. It couldn't serve its function otherwise. So yes, Trump has chosen a cabinet of "loyalists". Do you think all of those people are compromised by Russia? Or do you think that they all believe they can get more power if they turn the USA into a vassal of a smaller nation? Or do you think every single one of them is stupid?

By the by, how did Trump find all these loyalists? What did he offer them and how did they meet? Did Trump's real estate dealings and golf outings put him in touch with these people? Or is there just a huge pool of power brokers out there just waiting to take the world's richest and most powerful country and try to gain more money and power by subjugating such a country to a smaller, weaker, poorer country?

It's very easy to dismantle your fantasy by considering that other people also have agency and aspirations and asking yourself why anyone would be loyal to Trump if Trump is acting out of complete desperation because he's been compromised and if his choices lead to a worse outcome for the business community and the intelligence community, both of which are communities who assassinate people for far less urgent reasons on a regular basis.

[emberleaf@lemmy.ml]

More propaganda. Blocking you, now. Tell your Kremlin overseers that you failed to convince at least one person. Have a horrible life, tankie fuckwit.

[bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml]

End game is to go on yet another settler genocidal war to appease the imperial core working class.

[yumpsuit@lemmy.world]

[droplet6585@lemmy.ml]

The rate of profit continues to decline because of overcapitalization. Factions are aligning to decapitalize rivals in order to increase their own rate of profit.

Also, they're all manic and dissasociated.

[droplet6585@lemmy.ml]

Its fascinating that millenarians have now latched on to software developed for fraud and generating non-consensual pornography.

[kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml]

When an empire can't expand, by means of territory, knowledge, or other means; it turns inwards on its own people and territories as it races towards its collapse.

[azzu@lemm.ee]

How is the government stopping you?

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Paranoia can tell you anything you don't control is a threat - whether it's another country, a race, a personality type, lack of web privacy, whatever. The MAGA leaders are so drenched in that paranoia, there's really no limit to what they might do to squash anyone and anything they see as a possible threat to them.

[korhaka@sopuli.xyz]

It is illegal to do so. You cannot live on your own land for more than 28 days of the year unless they give you permission to live on it. Which of course a house comes with that permission, a patch of woodland does not.

[havocpants@lemm.ee]

Can you live in a tent, yurt, van or other non-permanent structure?

[j4k3@lemmy.world]

I wrote some long explanation but accidentally clicked on a link and lost it. Oh well. You are still doing the thing. It might be beneficial for you to learn about the range and types of functional thought that exist in various personalities.

Someone that is very abstracted in functional thought can be one of the outliers that is difficult for some to understand. I'm driven by curiosity, but comfortable relying on intuition heavily. I think in something like a statistical space without absolutes of right and wrong, just probabilities and contexts. I'm motivated by curiosity and exploration in many contexts. My emotions are disconnected from this space of curious exploration.

When I put the pieces together to state WW3 is very likely, I'm in a mindset like watching Magnus Carlson play a game of chess and making educated predictions about how he will play the next 3 moves. I am not playing the game and I have no emotional investment like the opposing player. You could ask me how I feel, but that is not part of my default thought process.

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

Why would it waste resources doing these unnecessary tasks?

[f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz]

"Abortion debate" and all other culture warfare is only to keep the masses busy fighting each other so they don't engage the rich in class warfare.

[tankovayadiviziya@lemmy.world]

President Muskrate is an accelerationist; who believes that societal collapse should come sooner rather than later. Some speculate that his plan is to capitalise on burgeoning AI along with the billionaire class to control people once the dust settles.