I feel like we already did this disaster experiment with Kamala Harris. We know how that went. I don’t see Newsom doing any better. It’s possible Trump or a hypothetical proxy would do worse than previously, but I can’t imagine Newsom doing better than Harris.

Every time I hear centrism stuff from somebody, I can’t help but ask if they’ve been paying any attention at all to the world beyond the reach of their limbs.

It’s gone now, but this is a post about how Governor Cox is the worst.

Balkanisation isn’t really a viable option for a post USA. If the US is ever going to be a normal part of an international forum of nations it must have a robust system of laws with which to hold people accountable for their actions. We currently don’t have that. 3-4 smaller USA’s won’t fix that.

For example “9.8 deaths per 10M” is not a statistic to be proud of.

While American policing is uniquely bad, that doesn’t make other police admirable by comparison.

American education on the history of our country is almost pure propaganda. Those folks you mentioned aren’t a part of the narrative that is frequently taught here. A younger American might have some exposure from Liberty’s Kids, but that’s probably about as far as it goes.

Considering the anti-slavery movement in Britain had trouble moving off of the home isles, I would be surprised if there were any significant number of Americans who knew about it.

And when I say this, to clarify, it has been like that my whole life. All 3 decades of it.

This is likely because many “pro-democracy forces” are not progressive or leftist. There is a difference of goals there. The right excels at joining together so long as their particular nationalist interests do not conflict. As soon as that conflict exists they typically kill each other.

The Kentucky valley was colonized without initial state effort by the USA. Settlers just moved in. They fought the native people out to take footholds. It was only later that government forces were involved. This is a pattern of how colonization can happen. USA, South Africa, Israel, all the same.

I think that if I am understanding the post I saw charitably, they don’t see Jewish (or as I suspect, in particular, Jewish/Israeli) colonization as having occurred because it wasn’t an independent state initially. I cannot stress enough how that is not a necessary part of colonialism.

The British Empire was constantly using violence in their attempts to control their colonization projects and extract wealth. Both the Boers and Israelis are examples of settler populations who fought native people and the British to take territory. It’s violence and colonization, all the way down.

That seems a little extreme to me. Idk how they voted. Idk where they live. That makes a big difference here in the states. I’m not denying the ACA helps, I don’t think anyone is. If you’ll excuse the metaphor, it’s just that the ACA is a band aid and I need stitches.