Yeah, I mostly listen to death metal so I’ll just see myself out.

Nah man. The democratic party is billed as left wing. Some Americans believe that. A ton of us know that is false and are actually left wing but don’t have great options to vote for.

If Madami invites Vanilla Ice to perform the Ninja Rap he will become the most important politician in American history.

That’s it, we’re moving to Syria.

I agree with all of that in its entirety, the world was a much different and considerably smaller place.

To play devil’s advocate though, there is potential for the right person or persons to harness social media to draw historical attention to one. I don’t think this will happen, and it would turn into a giant mess of a media shitstorm, but it is an interesting idea to think about.

That’s a good question but there’s a lot of mythos behind it that I’d have to write a paper for.

An easy example is that Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of Christianity and worshipped as God’s incarnation on Earth. Muslims and Jews categorically refute this in its entirety, meaning the only thing they share is the Abrahamic god.

There are some pretty big ones that did work though. The Women’s Suffrage movement in the US successfully used a hunger strike to force Woodrow Wilson’s hand and he was put in a position where he had no choice but to cave to the movement.

That’s incorrect though. Catholics, Protestants, Methodists, etc are sects of Christianity, the broader body of the religion. Judaism and Islam are their own religions (albeit Abrahamic in origin), with Sunni/Shia being sects of Islam for example.

These ideas still work in smaller nations, but the idea of the American public toppling the US government in 2025 is absurd. Even if you ignore that we’re completely incapable of finding commons goals as a nation, you’re still being turned to pink mist by a drone while you’re waving your assault rifle you bought at Wal-Mart around on your front lawn.

And if you add in what I ommitted, its impossible. We can’t even get over half our population to stop supporting pedophilia, there’s no way they’re coming together for a revolution.

This would just turn into a years long, brutal, violent inaurgency with probably several civil wars occurring at the same time as fighting the government.

Yeah see, I wouldn’t do that. I would just be visibly irritated and dissociating about beating that person up.

But that would be fucking stupid and unjustifiably mean, so I have the responsible wherewithal to keep my jerk ass at home lmao

One of the terms of marrying my partner and buying a home together is we’d be pragmatic about responsibilities. I fucking hate paperwork and am bad with money, so the wife handles all the bills. She hates labor and we want to save money, so I perform basically 100% of the physical duties around the house, from construction projects to small shit like monthly deep cleans. It’s a bit old fashioned, but it works great for us.

One of my terms was that she did all of our grocery shopping (she wanted it anyways, she likes it). I can’t stand the lack of situational awareness from people in stores. It drives me fucking nuts.

This was really interesting. Thank you.

The real play is to become a billionaire, and have a state of the art vaporizor capable of holding a metric ton of weed tied into your ventillation system. Add a simple PLC to measure oxygen levels and electronically engage solenoids to keep the environment habital.

Spend millions, be high for one day, develop most expensive weed tolerance in human history.

YOU’LL NEVER CATCH ME ALIVE ICE

That’s sort of the problem with… reality, man. Both you and this kid are right, life isn’t black and white and there are a lot moving parts.

You’re 100% right that nobody should be getting political information from social media. This kid stating that is showing his age. Social media is a cess pool to become politically informed.

But he’s also right that this sort of thing can be a slippery slope.

I just want some skateboarders to head this way man. And some death metal folks to show me new music.

If this had come out a decade or two ago, we could have arranged international tournaments where veterans of WW2 played COD at like 90 years old against each other. It could have been an insensitive mess in regard to PTSD, and I’m not going anywhere with this as that just dawned on me while writing this, haha.

It’s been largely forgotten that the Russian invasion at the start was an absolute diaaster, and their entire armed forces literally broke down on a road for like a month. The entire Russian empire could have been knee capped for generations right there if just one nation had bombed that road.

To be fair, I would argue most people, especially younger people, are totally unaware that news outlets pick up articles from other papers and organizations like Reuters.

I’m American and I agree that nothing short of a catastrophic collapse is going to solve our own problems domestically, as well as put a stop to the laundry list of horrors we commit abroad.

Are you European or American?