Industrial scale hunting with the “convenient side effect” of destroying the primary food source for the native population - thus making it easier to expand and occupy the land.

Not even close, but it’s a start…

You should not talk around anything really. Phones don’t stop recording you just because you put it in a farraday cage…it holds temporary files and uploads them once it’s back online. This goes for Tv’s, doorbell cams, your gaming systems, your kid’s playpad, a lot of modern cars,…all of it was leveraged to record your behavior and it never stops doing it.

Join your military so you can go crush the regime? That’s how the world solves its dictator problems. Other countries agree to come kill a lot of them and cripple their ability to express power. Then your country can power broker after the war, advance all their interests, start a culture of exceptionalism to compensate for their looted wealth. Then later on will find out your country started importing Americans as they sold company/state secrets left and right for their own safe passage. .ow they’re slowly starting groups that spread hyper-capitalist ideology through out your police departments and draw in the heads of industry in your country. They advance their power by demonizing your most vulnerable groups and steadily gain a diseased momentum in your politics. No matter how much you point it out to others… no one understands you. They’ve slowly deamonized critical thinking and history lessons start to leave out more and more context so you can’t actually talk to other members of your country about what’s happening because their literal ability to interpret and evaluate what is happening has been specifically crippled. Now you’re intellectually alone, in physical danger from persecution, and none of it was your fault because you genuinely tried to highlight the downfall around you and push movements to change the pattern.

Then when you go online you realize pathetically sad people exist everywhere…and they’re all prepared to watch your country burn while high fiving each other for “Not being you”.

Diasgree. With no federal apparatus to guide the force of all 50 states they are weaker on their lonesome and calling aid from one to another is far more burdensome. Besides, red states rely on federal funding from taxes in blue states and would collapse without them. Red states are major crop producers that the blue states consume. Balance of powers is the best bet. It’s not perfect but it’s far superior to dissolving the federal government which would undoubtadly start inter-state and civil wars. Unfortunately, the human propensity for conflict is best utilized in keeping each other in check and is best coupled with rewarding those who suppress suppression and are prepared to employ violence against the violent.

That is one method to achieve the above, but the problem is we keep making more of them and always will. They don’t just go away because you killed the strongest ones, it signals out to the others that a vacuum is available for them to inhabit. The system has to change to invalidate them or we just end up playing Psycho/Sociopath Whack-a-mole until eternity.

You’d hope. But with that list naming anti-capitalism as a marker for “terrorism”, it could end up being a mechanism they use to remove those threats if they garner too much support. That’s not in their best interests if they want to maintain power after the election but they’ve been enormously brazen with their behavior that it can’t be ruled out.

Ensure the venture isn’t profitable.

Was never about drugs. It was pretense to attack minorities groups the government didn’t like. There is literal memo evidence of the people who enacted the policy admitting that was the purpose. They are skipping the pretense now. <insert Always Has Been meme>