197 sats \ 14 replies \ @orangecheckemail_isthereany 29 Oct \ on: Do People Actually Believe the Election Result will Result in Positive Change based
Not entirely sure about what you're trying to get at but I'll say this:
It would be foolish to think elections or election results can solve everything.
It would be foolish to think elections or election results can solve nothing.
There will in fact be differences depending on who wins.
Some of these differences seem like they might be quite important ones like:
a more diplomatic approach towards the conflict on Russia's borders and Russia's security concerns under Trump and his appointees
versus
escalating the conflict and potentially triggering a nuclear war and or world war 3 under Harris / "the blob" / MIC / the machine / the deep state
or
bolstering of the first and second amendments under Trump
versus
erosion, circumvention, abolition of the first and second amendments under Harris et. al.
little things like that
I don't know who needs to hear this, if anyone, and whether I'm attacking straw men here but there's my 2 cents
Do you think it matters much who wins?
Are there genuine forks in the road? Where we go one way under Trump and another very different way with Harris?
Or will things turn out generally the same regardless of who of those two gets the presidency?
You make valid points. What I am saying is that no matter who wins the other side remains and becomes even more hostile and frustrated. I'm not saying both sides are the same or that I do not have opinions on which direction is better. The point is elections do not fix the deep divide in direction. Winning the election isn't some sort of mandate or agreement to just give in.
I suspect violence will follow. I didn't even mention how both sides have/will suspect the election is rigged or not fair. So many will reject the result.
To me it seems we spend far to much time thinking about how we are right vs why others might disagree.
Does that make sense?
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This is different but related: the unhinged reaction to Jeff Bezos, his decision to endorse no one and make content and editorial changes ... hilarious yet disturbing
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This is a great example.
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Its hard for Americans to accept that the US empire is in decline.
That China is rising and challenging your hegemony and the days of Americans consuming far more than they produce simply by virtue of printing more USD$s is almost over.
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The Age of Kali, Kali Yuga, or The Age of Quarrel began 5,000 years ago. Stating that someone's 400 year party may be over is inconsequential. Men of good character and God service must be cultivated. Until that happens it is just one quarrel a after another.
This time is also a time when good men and women will cultivate their spirits for the Golden Age that will follow:
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Bhāgavata Purāṇa)
अथासौ युगसन्ध्यायां दस्युप्रायेषु राजसु । जनिता विष्णुयशसो नाम्ना कल्किर्जगत्पति: ॥ २५ ॥
athāsau yuga-sandhyāyāṁ dasyu-prāyeṣu rājasu janitā viṣṇu-yaśaso nāmnā kalkir jagat-patiḥ
Thereafter, at the conjunction of two yugas, the Lord of the creation will take His birth as the Kalki incarnation and become the son of Viṣṇu Yaśā. At this time almost all the rulers of the earth will have degenerated into plunderers.
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Here is another foretelling of the advent of Lord Kalki, the incarnation of Godhead. He is to appear at the conjunction of the two yugas, namely at the end of Kali-yuga and the beginning of Satya-yuga. The cycle of the four yugas, namely Satya, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kali, rotates like the calendar months. The present Kali-yuga lasts 432,000 years, out of which we have passed only 5,000 years after the Battle of Kurukṣetra and the end of the regime of King Parīkṣit. So there are 427,000 years balance yet to be finished. Therefore at the end of this period, the incarnation of Kalki will take place, as foretold in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The name of His father, Viṣṇu Yaśā, a learned brāhmaṇa, and the village Śambhala are also mentioned. As above mentioned, all these foretellings will prove to be factual in chronological order. That is the authority of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
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Its hard for Americans to accept that the US empire is in decline.
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Right now?
China.
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They rise and then fall.
China is not in decline relative to the US.
The US has not enjoyed a trade surplus since the 1980s.
China is building its global trade and infrastructure- bullet trains across Asia and Europe- shipping ports globally, expanding its military forces, updating its submarines with Russian help.
The CCP poliburo is composed of over 80% engineers.
Russia, Iran and N.Korea now come under Chinas new e-Yuan CBDC international trade payments protocol and BRICS is looking like following.
China is reverse engineering the wests banking trade payments hegemony that was originally imposed upon it via HongKong.
Iran and Russia, selling discounted oil to China are mounting attacks on Europe and the Middle East.
Meanwhile the USA is squabbling over woke and reactionary factions within and falling further into chaos.
I think the key here is the Republicans tend to believe that there's a lot of self responsibility. Democrats believe that there's a lot of state responsibility.
I know a lot a small business people who are Republican. Very few are Democrat. That's just the way things are. But the Republicans still believe in the state and they still fed the mechanism that swallows liberty. Democrats tend to express wanting liberty but they want to be libertines who are sanctioned by the state to be legally amoral.
This is an over generalization. To the original post here I see the individual Americans as great and in spite of the loyalty to party are mostly decent. It's the blindness that allows evil to flourish.
Personally, I need to be the perfect man for all of this to work and so far I'm far from perfect. Over and over again I have to realize that I'm responsible for my behavior and bad behavior is no excuse for righteous behavior.
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