SabinStargem

I distrust Google and the mainstream media. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they simply ally with the Trump Regime, and remain silent about ICE death squads seeking out Democrats or something along those lines.

The only reason why I started to doomscroll social media, is because I want to keep tabs on how close my nation is to having a civil war. If it is to happen, I don't want to be completely surprised, and have some agency at my level.

The Congress of today likely won't. But the people who takes their vacated seats? Possibly.

I think centralization has merit...IF there are deliberate regional blocs, with the national figurehead elected by popular vote or if the heads of the other blocs agreed on that representative. Of course, the regional heads themselves are voted by popular election. As with the US Constitution, the concept is to divide up power - but in this case, the branches are multiplied by the number of blocs.

A national judiciary and parliament refines and creates national laws for all regional blocs, but only after representatives of each bloc or their constitutes have agreed for those laws. This creates a backbone of common law and policy, but also prevents any one region from dictating what should be.

Examples of hypothetical EU Regional blocs: A Mediterranean region for all nations who share a coastline with that body, a Black Sea region of the same, a Balkans Bloc, A Baltic Sea bloc, and so forth. Those spots have commonalities in what places they deem to be important, thus they would be focused on creating frameworks that allow for effective trade and practices within their region.

Whether this sort of division would work is the big question. Unfortunately, we will be exposed to political upheavals of what does...and more importantly, DOESN'T, work.

I personally believe that the US will become an social experiment of great and terrible proportions, that all other powers will pay close attention to.

I think you can see the more open signs of shying away from American products, with Europe starting to officially adopt FOSS software like Linux or LibreOffice. That is a relatively easy change to make, since there is less physical logistics involved with the transition.

Material things, like shipments of manufactured goods for the F-35 program, would become evident in a decade or so, IMO.

Got it, the EU should buy Congress!

...that might be an improvement, considering how dumb our political animals are. 🤔

Uh-huh, I sure will trust the word of Captain Bonespurs and his spawn about the "corrupt" rich of a country in a war with Russia. 🙄

A world with one less dictator.

I hope Putin is discovered while fleeing, and promptly suffers the divine plight of kings...

Really, all dictators should end up this way.

I like Lobotomy Corporation. It is basically a SCP-roguelike, where you manage a facility full of monsters. A 100% playthrough will take over 150 hours, probably closer to 300. It is a difficult game that demands your full attention, else you will hear trumpets.

I hope that Europe and other powers blacklist American billionaires, so that they can't sink their stinking talons deep into the economies of democratic nations. These wealthy parasites should be forced to lie in the bed they shat in.

Considering that we may have WW3 started by the United States, I very much approve of Europe and friends cutting out America. It would be preferable if they had fully vetted and stockpiled arms, rather than makeshift drones made out of bedframes.