For that reason I go by naval deckspace since military history is basically the history of who’s the best at building boats. If we go by military expenditure, we would assume that America’s military is 4x more powerful than the next most powerful military (China). If we go by deckspace, however, America and China are peers in military power. It gets even more complicated when you take into consideration that America’s latest weapons platforms (The F-35 and the Gerald R Ford class carriers) are designed around logical fallacies, and you have a situation where the world’s seas are patrolled by a paper tiger.

Add to this that American military doctrine is built entirely around either facing a peer nation like Russia or China or a non-peer colony like Nicaragua, and that the military is suddenly sizing up near-peer nations like Iran, and things could be about to get very spicy fast.

Here are some things people outside of the United States that people can advocate for to reduce America’s military influence:

• Take to the streets and demand your governments divest themselves of the American Military Industrial Complex. F-35 diplomacy is America’s strongest ties to other nations
• Get a movement going to teach your youths not to fight. Here in the states conscription is spinning up because no one is coming willingly to the recruitment centers anymore. More and more people are seeing the US military for what it really is, a giant slush fund and exploitation scheme. This is a new wrinkle I’ve never seen before in my life.
• Have some grace for the people who fell for the propaganda schemes of the last 40-80 years that convinced them military service was about keeping nations safe and not about the continued rape of the global south
• Create mutual aid projects that help people from being so desperately poor that they feel military service is the only way for them to eat. The strength of the labor movement has always been our ability to feed the people, and when we’ve failed it’s always been because people were too hungry to see that we wanted what they wanted: peace, dignity, and a life worth living

All the posts are gone now. This was about 9 months ago so I haven’t kept any records. I don’t know how that fits into any timelines. Again, I’m sorry about this genuine misunderstanding

Hey, sorry about that. The account I’d interacted with was the exact same set of interactions I’ve come to expect from “well meaning” straight white men who as soon as you say they’re perpetuating something harmful go full obliteration mode because they expect you to exist in service of their own perfect self-actualization path instead of as human beings with thoughts and feelings. I’m sorry I promoted falsehoods about you thinking it was the real you. I assumed I knew what you were like based on a simulacrum intentionally created to distort my and others’ perceptions of you. I will open my eyes to you and see you with my observing eye and my assessing eye, and determine who I think you are afresh from here.

Thanks! Just unblocked

probably was a spin up troll account then. it’s also something i take very seriously since i come from a similar training and background. i just assumed it was the genuine article since it was the first interaction i had. if you can tell me which UMs are the real ones i’ll unblock

he an account was posting everywhere saying i was a nazi telling me to kill myself. i went and blocked all his accounts because i don’t need that in my life

EDIT: Apparently I was getting mass stalked by a bot meant to give a negative impression of UM and we’ve never actually interacted

in my estimation it’s more than “knows” just like Ghislane more than “knew.” Given 47’s relationship to Vince McMahon, we know that more than one of his best friends was running a sex trafficking ring. given that it seems an awful lot like Epstein’s relationship to trump was more a B2B relationship than a business to client/customer relationship

it all starts with half assing copying the Haudenosaunee’s system in 1789

“MAP” “pride” flag. they try to co-opt it into the real LGBTQIA+ flags

if you’re looking for something else to recommend people, i’d point you to Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire

the hell? how’d this end up in this thread!?

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Andrewism is the king (in street art terms, no kings no masters) of cornbreadtube, and cornbreadtube is the best of breadtube

UM, PJ, JL. First three users I noticed making me have a negative experience on the threadiverse. Pretty much in that order.

Which I’m realizing now in my head I imagine them as the three straight white dudes of this experience

EDIT: I’ve apparently never interacted with the real UM, just a troll account

One of the first people I ever blocked and someone I’ve been side-eyeing ever since he switched from lemmy to piefed. He’s generally been doing a better job, but this is definitely inline with original recipe PJ.

Marxist-Leninist are the most active IRL leftists. i know this to be true because they’re always saying that. i find this to be odd given that all the IRL leftists i’ve ever known are anarchists or Trotskyists. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because all the leftists i’ve ever known have been feds. i’ve always found this odd, too, since the only ML i ever knew in real life was an IRS agent who turned Trotskyist after her brother was killed by a soviet agent. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because i’m a fed. i find this odd, too, since so many of my friends are in hiding, in jail, or out on bail awaiting trial and i’m powerless to use any of my fed connections to do anything about this. i wish i knew what we were ivestigating. until i find out i suppose i’ll keep working to build a better world where i am however i can

can we please stop relitigating 2024 all over lemmy right new? everyone’s being just as inneffective and useless rn 2026 as they were two years ago. if you’re actually interested in doing something about all this awfulness get out into the streets, go to mutual aid projects, train with community defense groupsg and actually do something useful. this is like the 5th fucking thing i’ve seen on lemmy, from either side of what action should have been taken 2 years ago (ie: vote for Kamala, don’t vote for Kamala) and i’m fucking sick of it.

just like i didn’t encounter anyone with lemmy’s “vote 3rd party, it’s the only way forward” political stances out in the real world, i’m not encountering anyone who’s still thinking this hard about a day 2 years ago who’s actually doing anything to address these problems

The cuyahoga was only just declared safe to swim in last year. the bill that led to its eventual cleaning was passed in 1972. it was probably at its absolute nastiest in September of 1972.

thank god for mathematitians

also the 1970s weren’t some magical time for living a naturalist/naturist life. in the northern empires, lead based paint and lead based fuels were in common use. in the global south, genocidal dictators carried out brutal violence to impress whichever northern empire they were affiliated with.

the fact that she wants to revisit the 1970s speaks to a great degree of access to privilege within capitalism, white supremacy, and even the patriarchy despite her presented gender.