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Should we just... not?

If you live in a country with partisan democracy, you absolutely should.

What I advocate for and what is actually feasible atm are two different things. Like I'd possibly advocate for a world government, given some things were properly fixed. But since they aren't, and I don't see everyone getting suddenly enlightened, I realise national defence policies are still a thing.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

In other words, I'm a conditional pacifist. I advocate for peace, but I would also take up a gun if I deem it necessary for defending my country from invaders. (And I am actually a trained sergeant in the reserves, so that's not just me saying it, me doing that would be enforced by the MP's even if I didn't want to go)

I think the modern Republican Party has openly embraced fascist rhetoric in a country where liberals and conservatives alike have become all too accepting of fascist policy. The end result has been anti-fascists initially piling into liberal partisan organizations (particularly under Obama) only to discover them totally unresponsive to public pressure unless the person making demands was a mega-donor or corporate chief.

Which is very much why I condemn them. And from a European POV, even your left is pretty right a lot of the times, especially on social and economic policies.

The Philippines, its very hard to see where "the right" in this country ends and "real liberalism" begins.

Yeah well that's sort of the issue, and which is why I can't currently identify as a non-partisan. Even though I'm not even American, but like in general discourse, especially when a lot of it's happening online where American is a context usually.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

— Desmond Tutu