RE: SHOCKING! Girl Pees On US Flag on Holy July 4th!
The USA is not perfect, and this is her right to free speech to piss on her property if she wants. The death threats are way overboard, but that still doesn't make her any less pathetic. Just because you care about your nation doesn't automatically make you brainwashed. Right now it is trendy to shit on anything establishment (critical theory), and that's all this is, this girl riding a trend wave for attention. You don't like the way the USA is? BUILD A BETTER SYSTEM. You remove a bad system by displacing it not by burning it down. Pissing on flags and tearing the existing system down will not serve anyone but the elites who already run things. That's why this is sad, in her mind and in others this is a revolutionary act, but in reality she is serving those who she thinks she is resisting.
Correct, you walk away from the tyrannical system, and you do not replace it. If there's a system, oligarchs will take it over. This is freedom of expression. We used to respect that in the USA. These days expressing your opinion is very dangerous. Funny, there's a long list of tyrannical nation states in the past where that was also true. How did things work out for those people?
Would you say the same for the system of cryptocurrency for example? It is a decentralized system that will change the financial industry forever. Of course they elites are working their tentacles into it, but is that a good reason to not try to built better systems to displace the bad ones? Good systems displace the bad ones and operate under their own momentum, that's why they win. Bad systems need to be propped up by force, which means they are constantly fighting inertia. If we build enough good systems eventually the resources to suppress them will become exhausted.
By system I only meant systems of government.
I definitely support replacements such as crypto for currency and Steemit for social media.
Well it is exactly those types of displacing of systems that force government to change for the better :) I can't say I am overly fond of the state, but it does serve a purpose, even if its purpose is like an alcoholic trying to quit drinking cold turkey. It could kill you, it is best to wean off of the poison not just stop it in its tracks.
If you provide a system that can be taken over by oligarchs, they will eventually take it over. As soon as the smallest minority, one person, is being subjected against their will by others, it is a tyrannical system that needs to be rejected.
The absolute horrors it has committed far outweigh the small potential benefits people may suggest it has provided. We don't need to have our property stolen. We do not need licenses to do what we wish to do as long as it harms no other person by doing it. We do not need mass murder to secure resources and defend failed economic systems.
Oligarchs need us to have those things though to maintain their power.
You are totally missing my point. We agree completely. Except on one point. Burning the system down is not the solution. Displacing it with a better one is.
I never said I was in favor of burning it down. The only way I would go that far is if they moved to take away military style rifles. Then there would be a hot revolution.
I think we are in more agreement than you realize... but IMO a world without government is a fantasy. One to be striven for, but a fantasy nonetheless. Also a primary point I am trying to make is we must avoid the "hot revolution" if at all possible because those are the favorite tools of the elite to usher in their Hegelian dialectic. Then in the end who suffers most and at best keeps their previous status? The people. This is why I argue for displacing bad systems instead of overturning them. Let the bad systems tear themselves down from lack of sustenance while the good systems grow under their own momentum. Those systems can become a liability for the controllers instead of us while they try to cling to them.
I like your style finnian!
Clapping, you took the word out of my mouth