Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Hey, maybe humanity will finally see the pitfalls of petty tribalism and defer to subject matter experts!
It's not that simple. Experts aren't magically more moral than anyone else. Everywhere from the bottom of the street to the president or top scientist is all the same human animal, the good and evil.
Not to mention when pressure gets worked into and someone's life is threatened to show them the decision they "need" to make.
Reality is chaos even under our governments. In fact I think that chaos is real life, living within that chaos is the real "game".
I think that's a problem. We have 'regular people' thinking reality is the privileged life they see and live in the safety nets and security... But the truth is, not to sound like an asshole, but the truth is that's like a toddler being placed in a play pen while the adults do real work, in the real world which is above nations. The security and safety nets are only for those who are willing to only live life within the play pen, and life inside that play pen is not an honest, natural or authentic human life. Even living that life the security and safety is largely just illusion and psychological comfort.
We are hidden from reality, we are assets to be used by people that are playing the real game. This actually goes way back to Jesus.
Jesus' lessons were about understanding and dealing with the chaos I talk about. But people feared what that means, and feared the fact not everyone can mentally deal with with true reality... So instead of allowing Jesus' gnostic lessons in each individual having a direct connection to god, they created priests to be middle men. The nation is like the priest in the modern day. They mask and separate our humanity from true reality. Also this is supposedly why the "lost" gospels found in the 1940s were hidden.
Alright this was meant to be a quip more than anything else. However, agreed that even experts can be corrupted. The only real weapon we have is an educated populace and it's not totally effective but it's the best weapon we have along with decentralized power structures.