| >They just found a "loophole" around the Convention Against Torture Colonial Outcasts on YT regularly makes the point that "Techniques of Imperialism used against The Colonies eventually rebounds back domestically in the form of fascism". Snatching people and sending them to questionable countries for imprisonment/intel extraction/torture is what the CIA was doing in conjunction with the help of the Assad regime(!!!). https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/comment-when-assads-horr... > I think it should be the goal of all goodly people to treat everyone as humans with dignity and ensure that the type of people who are incapable of believing that way are never allowed to taste power. I can agree with this sentiment, but: "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." -- Kosh, Babylon 5 It's why I displaced to Asia, where I'm supporting high trust, reasonably well-functioning societies, and can minimize my contributions to either America's domestic insanity or America's material support (intel, munitions, diplomatic cover, etc.) for the Gaza genocide. I'm trying to distance myself from shitbag regimes for a few more years until my retirement, and then reduce my family's relationship with The West to only being a source of hopefully-ancillary passive income thereafter. |
(Should have been obvious :p, you have been lovely to talk to)
Its horrific what the CIA has done and continues to do. So many of the world's evils can directly be traced back to them. And the colonisation project as a whole of course.
I also agree that its very unlikely we will be able to work our way out of a system that nobody can comprehend and seems to have evolved to trap and perpetuate itself.
Penelope Scott describes it beautifully in https://penelopescott.substack.com/p/what-does-mysteries-for... imo.
But I stand by that there seems to be some percentage of the world that takes pleasure in the suffering of others and the knowledge that they have something others lack. And their influence has made things much harder for everyone.
I still feel like I have the right to be frustrated and the people who seem to be deluded as to what's actually happening, and scornful of those who actively aid & abet the crimes against humanity going on around us.
For myself, I carry no stocks as it aligns myself with the corporations and investors who are a huge factor in our evil. I refuse to work for big tech or anywhere where the user is the product. I go to protests despite the futility of it. Probably I should move, like you, or find other ways to do more.
I don't fault people for drawing a different line on what's reasonable and practical to do in a society designed to make ethical behavior impossible.
I still take flights despite it killing the environment, pay taxes to the US despite it mainly going to genocide, eat meat, buy consumer products made with slave labor, hoard wealth past the worldwide median. So I know I'm on shakey ground.
But the people actively opposed and working against peace movements I can't find any love in my heart for.