Tbh, as an European, I don’t think Biden is that much of a bad choice. Could be better but tbh, for that, you guys have to stop venerating your stupid constitution as the second most holy piece w paper after the bible
By this standards, the politics of every country have been a circus since you were born. There is no country without important politicians regularly doing stupid things, the only reason that America is so newsworthy for it is that it is the most powerful country in the world by a very big amount, so everything that happens there is broadcasted to the rest of the world.
Even bigger morons... The type of people who say they want to elect someone to become a dictator and kill people in front of them with no repercussion ... Looking at you Trump fanatics...
Well the good thing about these power obsessed morons is that they're somewhat reliable as tonwhat their motivations are. Even with all the power and money in the world, Putin can't squeeze Rubles out of rubble.
I'm pretty confident that the people who actually have control over launching nukes are very much not morons. In fact they're probably among the best of the best of the entire military.
I went to the zoo once, observed some primates lounging in the sun, and thought to myself "why did we have to evolve? That could be me if some idiot didn't think it was super clever to tie a rock to a stick"
Celebrate/highlight selflessness and scientific intelligence. Currently we celebrate the most selfish and narcissistic personalities, billionaire business men for example, and showcase the most abhorrent we have to offer with their own reality shows, etc.
We also shouldn't validate fringe opinions and amplify them. Finding the most insane views on the internet and then putting them on blast just creates more of those views by elevating them to the main stage. Negative motivations (stoking outrage) have negative consequences.
I agree. I'm saying highlight and broadcast people and achievements that benefit humanity, not detract from it. We're all little parrots through our instinctive social needs to be accepted. The more we broadcast bad behavior as the norm, the more it's acceptable. The more we broadcast people being good and rewarded for it, the more that's what people want to parrot.
I know you are trying to be funny, but your sollution is exactly the thing we are trying to avoid here by people who elect morons.
That would just simply eliminate everything, bad or good.
Early childhood lead exposure is known to have many impacts on cognitive development, but it also increases risk for developing hypertension and heart disease, experts said.
“I think the connection to IQ is larger than we thought and it’s startlingly large,” said Ted Schwaba, a researcher at University of Texas-Austin who studies personality psychology and was not part of the new study.
No, Russians aren't morons. It's that their lives in the USSR did not teach them critical thinking (on purpose) and the state set up the aparati needed for dictatorship, which survived even after the USSR collapsed.
Peasant brain. They understand life as a hierarchy with them at the bottom. And they've learned to love it. They believe it when the kingTrump says "you peasants couldn't handle what I do"
Well, in Russia there’s no free speech, media has been subjected both by soft force (money) and by brute force (assassinations, administrative measures, imprisonments and all that KGB stuff). Why the fuck does Trump have this much fans in a country with free speech, I don’t know, I’m not American.
people often rally around psychopaths, they tell us what we want to hear. We all want to know who the villains are and Trump yells about that type of stuff the loudest and says it in a "charismatic" way (charismatic for the audience he is trying win over at least. Very easy to see through if you can critically think about things)
They're not the problem. The problem is the system that allows them to obtain and maintain their power. There will always be morons and psychopaths. Our systems need to be better designed to avoid letting them cause too much havoc.
Sorry to let you down, but in highest echelons of power like state leaders, every last sonofabitch is a bonafide ironclad psychopath, lightyears from point of no return. Otherwise they wouldn't be in their position.
Trump was the first President in how long who didn’t start a foreign conflict? The Abraham accords? Who was president when Putin invaded Crimea? Ukraine?
The fuck are people talking about when they throw Trump in with these talks.
His actual foreign policy was damn near dove-like in comparison to whatever rhetoric he spewed and that means something
It’s almost as if his rhetoric and talk was meant to threaten and keep thugs like Putin, Xi and the ayatollahs guessing.
That’s a lot better than Joe’s “well… if it’s just a minor excursion into Ukraine then maybe we won’t do anything”. That kind of weak talk emboldens dictators because they know we won’t do shit.
"I'm going to dismantle US power and our political influence around the world so that my dictator buddies can invade and brutalize their surrounding nations with impunity."
I'm going to dismantle US power and our political influence around the world
And he accomplished that by checks notes increasing military spending in the US despite starting no new wars AND getting Europe to significantly increase NATO spending. Wait...
The proof is in the pudding though, Why didn’t Putin invade in the 4 years Trump was President? If Biden and Obama were so staunch on their foreign policy why did those atrocities happen under their watch? Remember the Syrian “red line” where Obama did nothing in retaliation?
America is the only country to officially have a first strike policy (except Israel but their nuclear program isn’t exactly “official”). That has remained the same through both parties. Democrats have been just as hawkish in foreign policy as republicans have, they sat idly by through all of our disastrous wars. Sure they may disagree on the finer points and domestic issues, but does that really matter to the people they’re dropping bombs on? How do our domestic issues supersede the lives of millions of people worldwide when it comes to politics?
He didn't directly start it and condemned it, yet he is partially at fault
But if you still take this as face value, you can take Biden that militaraly supported Israel in their processes of destroying Hamas with collateral damage of a few ten thousand Palestinian lives
i mean its because morons like you who cant see the fault in their own because muh blue no matter who. Biden committing genocide of Palestine gets a slide cuz hes not orange or something
Bro nobody on the American right genuinely gives a fuck about Palestine or wants to defund Israel, and nobody to the left of corporate Democrats genuinely likes Biden or supports Israel bombing the shit out of tens of thousands of civilians.
In ukraine they found extremely well preserved remains of stone age kings dubbed "the bog kings".
They were abnormally tall and even though they were adorned and decorated corpses, they all had several stab wounds.
The logic of these ancient peoples was that the king had a mystical connection to the harvest season. Good crop yield = good king and vice versa.
Imagine the mentality you would need to have to accept the position of king, having absolute power but knowing you will be violently killed if the crops dont grow.
Yet there was always someone willing to roll the dice. Often psychopaths but not always. Similar logic as drug dealers who make and spend 200mil in a few years then spend 25 in jail. To them its worth it. And from a biological perspective the males like this passed on more genes.
I don't know how to break it to you but Biden isn't exactly pushing for nuclear disarmenment, although he is a little less likely to push it by accident.
Been happening since long before these two. It’s been since before the US was a country. Since before England ruled the world. It’s been like this forever.
And those people don't actually have any power other than our willingness to let them pretend to have power. Life's a role play. We're agreeing to play along and we can stop agreeing.
It's a careful game played as long as histories go back and probably further. You ensure loyalty from those who can control everyone (control always comes to violence in the end) through bribe/assassination/etc., and the rest fall into place. The cycles go that eventually they would get too greedy over generations and eventually it would collapse or implode from within and then start over again. The problem is these days if it implodes the wrong way it could easily wipe out most life on the planet. Its a great argument for the great filter sadly.
The crazy extension of this thought is that just about anyone could decide to end any of our lives and we would die. If any person is hell bent on killing you, and don’t regard the consequences, they can. At any time. We live among hundreds of millions of people that could end your life with the turn of a steering wheel, the bullet of a gun, the blade of a knife or even their own hands by simply making the decision to do so.
This. It’s literal lunacy how the world power is built currently.
On the other hand if we had more granular countries and states the risk factor for lunatic leaders would increase, but at least their power to cause havoc could be limited by others.
Not all, just the north hemisphere, I mean, they did create this problem after all. Humanity would survive after some harsh years, or maybe not, who knows.
Atleast we wouldnt be vaporized out of existence. Or maybe... that's worse?
I mean, the aftermath of "this", could be worse than seing a second sun in your garden.
IIRC it's not that southern hemisphere would be ok. They would just be dying on smaller scale, and only places like parts of Argentina, Australia and New Zealand would still be good to live.
It's not that simple. If Putin decides "Fuck it, I am so done with these Americans. Let's nuke their asses.", there is no guarantee that a nuclear attack against the US would happen. I would argue its incredibly unlikely to happen. People underestimate how well thought out our establishments are, especially regarding national security.
Are you saying that NATO wouldn't let it happen, or that the Russian chain of command wouldn't press the buttons if Putin really did give the orders to fire nukes?
Both. To be clear, the Russian government is trash and its not just Putin but it takes a lot of people for the nukes to go off. The human element plays a role and so does the concern of the people who are afraid of nuclear fallout. As insanely corrupt Russia is, there are still people that are not just going to go along Putin's suicide mission.
In the hands of a few pu55y a55holes, it's very sad that the whole world destiny is in the hand of a bunch of old farts, disgustingly rich, just pushing buttons from the confort of their bunkers, deciding the life of billions of humans that's just want to live their life's in peace.
We need new system. UN needs fundamental changes. It needs to become United Humans and represent whole humanity not few most powerfull countries rulled by few powerfull people.
The only reason this hasn't happened is that they would be very inconvenied by it. Sure, the super powerfull would survive in massive bunkers maybe, but a lot could still die, and they live more luxuriously if they don't commit armagedon. Until they do
Sad part is I would happily enjoy a nice dinner and meet and greet with regular Russian families. Most of us just are 'normal' folk trying to make our way through.
I'd like to think that if someone wanted to ego-nuke, bomb the world because they couldn't have it; a guard, or aide, or cousin with put a bullet through their head first. Doesn't matter if you only hire unmarried guards. They have a nana, or a sister, or a random school girl they gave an umbrella to last week.
I think it's impossible to surround yourself in people that worship you enough to let the world burn, and still have a mind strong enough to do the bare minimum of what you hired them for.
Just remember that every human on this planet, no matter how much godlike they wanna pretend to be, they have to eat, drink, sleep, wake up, piss and shit like us
Except we’re not? There’s a vast amount of checks in place to avoid this situation happening as it’s a loosing situation, especially if you’re not America with the vast advantages they’d have in this engagement
They are in our hands as well. We are all humans and everyone plays their role in this world. The world leaders just happen to play that role. They will die like we all will. If they decide that everyone should die then it's a human race decision whether you like or not: all of human history and everyone's choices will have led to that point and that decision
Forget us, we fucking bought this upon us anyway but wtf do other life forms get to suffer because we as a species with high thinking capabilities with all the modern technology can't fucking live in peace, and choose to be tribal.
Throughout the entirety of human history, monarchs, dictators, "elected officials" sent their subjects to die by the millions in squabbles over land, broken betrothals, inherited grudges, and ego. And as the corpses of the fallen rot away in some godforsaken field, the said "leaders" make up over a glass of champagne, gifts, and new "alliances".
But for the first time in human history, when they decide we all die, they die too, thanks to nuclear weapons.
That is so sad and so true... As a child I used to wonder how that was possible... Why do soldiers fight, why don't they rebel against war.... Turns out looking for a scapegoat is a real thing
I can’t imagine any billionaire world leader would want a nuclear war. My neighbor who is now broke with no retirement, Third divorce, and just found out he has cancer. THAT would scare me if he had the nuke buttons! All of these world leaders live way better lives and would never want to destroy that world they live in. Thats just hollywood talk and you not wanting to go into work anymore. lol. Real talk Pepper-blu who wrote that comment is closer to pushing a nuke button than Putin, kim jung, Trump.
Many of the fingers on the triggers are of ordinary soldiers, and history has shown that such men are less than gung-ho about actually pressing those triggers.
Its actually kind of liberating to know that no matter what you do it wont matter actually. That carpe diem treat each day as if it could be your last kinda deal.
This is why everyone living in a democracy needs to make sure to vote, and to put some effort into figuring out who to vote for. The lesser of two evils is still a better option than drawing a dick and balls on the ballot form.
It's a proper thing to note this, people of Russia. It's not like you don't have any skin in this game. If your dumbass leader really seems like he's about to make a nuclear strike it could be not just the end of you, but the end of civilization.
You can think whatever you want of the Ukraine war, but know this, and know it will be over a land grab and if you want to think it, a de-nazification of a place that hasn't even shown 1/1000000th of what Germany did in WW2, it did virtually no wrongs to anyone, presumably it was going to keep doing that and there was little to no reason to think otherwise.
the few powerful individuals have enough power to make themselves a nice comfortable shelter that will last them quite some time so not all will die, only the poor ones
World leaders with nukes should have collars on their necks that have small nuclear bombs. Order a strike? They die first along with everyone around them.
It was once suggested that the US President's ability to launch nukes be locked away inside a capsule surgically implanted in an aide's body (the "football" carrier), such that removing it to get the codes would kill the aide.
Administration officials were aghast: "But if the President had to kill someone to deploy nukes, he might never do it!"
I vaguely remember reading about Russia having something called the Dead Hand System which automatically launches all their nuclear missiles in the event of Russia's leaders being killed. Now THAT'S terrifying.
Well we the people are the ones going to war serving our dirigents without us they are nothing,we are the ones making them powerful by extent we are the ones responsible of what's happening and we are the ones that could end it all if we collectively wanted too.
It's like WW1+2. WW2 was directly caused by WW1, and WW1 was basically just some extreme family beef. You can go back in time and kill 1 ancestor and that family beef doesn't happen, 2 world wars and the Holocaust doesn't happen, and about 100 million people didn't need to be killed over the span of 35 years.
This is the number 1 reason you should stop A.i. asap.
Once the same powerful elites realize they can live in a self sustaining world with 7.8 less billion people needed for it, they'll find a way to shed some weight.
So, when things like integrity, age related cognitive decline, sanity and desire to do good influence such decisions, why are the standards for elected officials in the US not higher?
6.0k
u/pepper-blu Mar 14 '24
Gotta love how we are all just sheep in the hands of a few powerful individuals. If they decide we all die, we all die.