We had a movement in the US, one that was successful, was achieving goals. And then it collapsed and turned into an embarrassing joke because of a half-baked psy-op. It’s such a waste.
But why was the struggle against open borders and neoliberalism abandoned so easily in favor of childish fantasies about devolutions and global cabals led by the Rothschilds?
Because the happy pill mentality has conquered both the left and the right. Translunatics, BLMers and MAGAs are exactly the same. They are all into easy solutions and anti-hard work. They fantasize about magical pills that will solve everything and abandon the field of real action to people who despise them and who taught them to be dependent on the happy pill in the first place.
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Some level of devolution is definitely needed as it gives you a chance to establish yourself locally before going national. Otherwise you end up with a very brittle winner takes all system.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-06-24-mbalula-warns-western-cape-anc-you-are-fighting-for-nothing-and-yet-the-power-is-gone/?utm_source=top_reads_block&utm_campaign=maverick_news
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I should have explained. The word Devolution has acquired a new meaning in US politics. It’s a conspiracy theory according to which Biden was killed back in early 2021. Trump is the real acting president of the US, brought to power by a group of military generals who have overtaken the world banking system and are returning to the people the money that the global financial elites have stolen from them since the 19th century.
I’m sorry to respond to your intelligent, meaningful comment with this garbage but unfortunately that’s where we are.
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I did find calling devolution childish rather strange. Devolution and federalism are topics that are taken very seriously in SA since centralization and Balkanization both seem to be unworkable solutions.
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Americans can turn any serious topic into a comedy show, that’s for sure.
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Eh. Average IQ is 100. As much as I want to believe that most people can handle the idea of complex problems that require a lot of work, don’t have simple solutions… no, not really. Pretty sure that’s why CNN and FOX still exist.
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True. But how sad.
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Yes, but it’s the world we actually live in, not the world we wish we lived in, or the subset of the world we’ve self-selected ourselves into, and it’s better to figure out how to deal with the world that exists than it is to hole up in the corner of it we like best– the root of so very many problems, at least in the US. We self-segregate into neighborhoods, jobs, churches, and social groups rigidly by income and intelligence, and then we expect everybody in the whole country to think as we do, act as we do, and have access to the same resources we do… when that is seriously not the case.
Some days, I think Catholics are the only group in the US that has even a remotely balanced take on the culture as a whole, because they don’t self-segregate by income and intelligence to nearly the degree that everybody else does.
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Well, in SA self selecting into the corner you like best still means dealing with serious problems. I mean, my home town has more homicides than Chicago. Anyone who can make progress on this kind of problem would be well placed to solve national problems.
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Solutions that seem plausible to you are heavily filtered by your subgroup, because if you manage (like so many in the US) to come into contact only with people almost exactly like you… then you can only see solutions that work for people almost exactly like you. It is the “learn to code” problem writ large.
But yes. Probably one of the (multitude of) solutions is to focus on just one problem that affects a huge number of people– eg criminal violence– and try to make headway on that.
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A major part of the devolution of power in SA is that the mayor is responsible for the entire metro area. Crime is the most obvious problem, but yes, there is far more to it than that.
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Yep, two articles from the same day:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/26/eli-lilly-obesity-drug-helped-patients-lose-weight.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/26/novo-nordisk-says-high-dose-obesity-pill-leads-to-15percent-weight-loss.html
Never mind mind about getting the mental strength and fortitude to go out an exercise and eat healthier. Nope, just pop in a pill and make big pharma richer.
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People are even claiming this pill will cure them of their shopping addiction and their addiction to screens. I know somebody who is a lawyer, so not an idiot, yet she says this pill is curing her of all these things. It’s sad to watch.
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