I’m sorry to disappoint! Those pics aren’t on this platform, and probably not available to people who don’t already have them.

Freedom was never there, what people called freedom was the freedom to stand atop the bloody backs of others and we’ve always been okay with that. That’s the society we live in and that will always continue, just today this time it is on your front lawn.

Elaborate. There are a couple things I think you could be saying, but I’m not sure which if any it might be.

I will also say that I was very imprecise with that sentence. I should’ve said “… which is why we have always lost or gained freedom.” There are many ways to understand freedom, but regardless of the specifics, people have had more or less of it at different points in time.

The freedom to exert state control on society through voting, or the enforcement by anyone of informal social agreements in a non state system are restrictions on absolute freedom. That absolute freedom to our self determination. Societies can and have restricted some freedom to prevent it from taking freedom from others, but they often only maximize the freedom of very few at the expense of everyone else’s.

Your understanding of freedom is unclear to me, so I can’t really agree or disagree.

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This is why you only post pics of your naked body :3

In this context, it was a system of the latter which promised it could change into more. It’s really spanned the spectrum over the years, with more or less input from peasants within the last century, but now even that system is gone, and only those with the power of feudal lords have any meaningful influence.

We have a temporary dictatorship that will devolve into feudal infighting after the king’s death. Not really a good situation unless we can weaken the entire system enough to carve out localized independence.

Non-voters never helped, but in this latest election, the responsibility really is on the party who had a strawman of an enemy to run against, yet couldn’t support popular positions due to corruption of special interests. They made so many tactical blunders it’s like they wanted to lose. Simple corruption cannot be understated as a cause for our current fascist era.

No, we literally just lost every institutional right. The only right we have is the right of nature to do what we want. Not even oligarchs can rely on private ownership beyond the knights they can employ, and that can always be overridden by fascist state.

Nothing is permanent, which is why we can and have always lost freedom. People will live on, but there is no guarantee you or everyone that matters to you won’t be systemically exterminated through genocide.

History is not a tale of “progress,” but evolution in new directions. That evolution can be towards chattel slavery when you had freedom, or out of it towards an equitable coexistence. We’re heading into slavery and genocide rn, so buckle up buttercup.

US democracy being dead isn’t a problem because it never worked by design. It’s not lost on me that while danger is more real, at least we aren’t bound to controlled opposition anymore. I really want people to realize that.

Or chopped into pig food 😊

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The US vice president. He was picked specifically because he’s a charisma black hole that nobody really likes. Trump prefers weaklings who know their place.

It doesn’t need to become a democracy again, but a democracy at last. The Democrats are as much an enemy as the Republicans, the "good cop/bad cop* strategy. We don’t need to vote out Republicans, but ignore the Democrats as allies and build something new.

Democracy in the US never really existed. It’s just the “democracy” we had that no longer exists. The system is fully mask off now.

Many people aren’t willing accept that America is already a fascist dictatorship; acting like I’ve “given up” when all I want is for us to get past fantasies so the real work can begin.

I wish liberalism failed on its own without descending into fascism. People are already calling for a return to the system that got us here in the first place.

The liberal system has proven to be too unstable for those elites to maintain it. Populism will always rear its head in this system, and that requires you either pass popular reforms, or redirect towards bigotry. Rich fascists thought this wasn’t good enough, so they decided to bring us back into feudalism.

You’re not wrong, but the American liberal incarnation is done for. If anything similar will ever arise, it’ll be a near complete rebuild.

Yeah, a temporary swing into concentration camps and unmitigated natural disasters. Knowing the fascist phase will end does not prevent thousands of real people from dying before that happens. I take no solace in the well being of a “country” beyond the well being of its people. The forest is not the trees, and these trees fucking matter.

Besides, this country has not had “Democracy” for most of it’s people for most of it’s history.

Only his original theories. By the time he’s discussing boob implants, you know reality is in the rear view mirror.

Ah yes, politically justified selfishness