I mean yes but also fuck the draft. Vietnam was a hellscape and a travesty. Daniel and Philip Berrigan were fully justified in burning down a draft agency with no one inside. The draft was a terrible and horrid concept which killed and injured tens of thousands of young men.
Just leave out the ethnic part and you're right. White billionaires will happily work with Chinese and Russian and Arabic billionaires to fuck over everyone else. Yes, most billionaires are white and there is absolutely an aspect of deep white supremacy to the system in the West, but they just don't give two fucks about color of skin as long as you have money and power.
I don't have kids but why the fuck would I want the state propagandizing my kids with their national, Christofascist myths? Teaching revised history, imperialist messianic stories of the US' greatness in the world and at home. Teaching kids that capitalism and colonialism are just fine and maybe just need a few tweaks here and there, certainly not that white supremacy is the cornerstone of this empire.
And BTW, a lot of progressive black people do homeschool their kids exactly for some of the same reasons. Even if they aren't anticapitalist, they're still against white supremacy and white saviorism.
Not to mention the horrid administrations in many schools fucking over teachers and children alike. Abuse and manipulation are rampant, policies like zero-tolerance are idiotic as best and outright malicious at worst. Queerphobia is rampant at schools, critical thought is suppressed, and imagination/creativity are crushed. The institution of organized education in the US was created by Rockefeller to create obedient little factory workers, and frankly, I haven't seen any foundational improvements to suggest its anything else now.
Some other things: the food is downright nutritionally deficient and is awful in terms of quality. Children are required to use garbage Chromebooks with software meant to continue the mindless droll, while the programs and curriculums center around these uninspired and centralized computers. The kids no longer learn how to use real world (complicated but creative) software, let alone how to use it responsibly. Every year creative courses get cut and funding reduced, while recess and gym get shorter and less involved. There is no room for risk, no room for failure, no space to be a child anymore.
And I want to end all of this by saying one very importany thing. Most of these awful decisions and my complaints are not against working class people trying their best, and simply surviving. This is against government decisions, it's against high level adminstration like superintendents getting paid hundreds of thousands a year. It's against the system itself.
They will ban open source and privacy technology eventually. Desktop Linux, privacy ROMs, encrypted chat apps, and a bunch of other items not approved by the glorious state.
And yet it has some of the best fingerprint randomization techniques. Down to some insane details. And before you say, just use the Tor browser for that... I do. But that is a different type of resistance, uniformity. Which is great for some use cases, but randomization also works even better in other situations... Eg, personalized browsers with a few extra extensions and customizations.
They'll get couped and subterfuged by the imperialist powers. Here is the thing, there are no American billionaires, there are no Chinese billionaires, there are no Russian billionaires, there just are billionaires who see the whole world as their footstool and see all of us as pesky slaves and pests.
They will not hesitate to make money and gain power over every single human being they can. And no government or organization will stop them. Only we can, the people who are also all one. And we better get cracking...
Oh I absolutely agree. Fuck the US. I wasn't arguing for an invasion, screw that idea so much. I just don't think that their protesting is a color revolution or a CIA opp, at least most of it. But yeah... Screw Trump, fuck this fascist/imperialist empire, but also fuck the regime in Iran and I wish nothing but solidarity to those fighting for freedom in all places.
Yes but not because she has psychopathic tendencies. We cannot allow ourselves to villainize people based off their birth conditions. There are a good chunk of people who due to no fault of their own were born with these tendencies, and a lot of them try very very hard to live a good and kind life, even without emotional connection.
If we start demonizing people who struggle connecting to emotions, either fully or partly, we will condemn many autistic and other neurodivergent people who happen to also struggle with expressing emotions, perhaps not as greatly as those with psychopathic behaviors.
On the front of empathy, yeah it's understandably scary to think about people without it. But again, we cannot decide that they are doomed to be cruel and malicious people without allowing them to learn and forge their own paths.
All this so say, Bondi is absolutely a despicable pile of garbage because of her actions and the role she has played in this regime. And I am absolutely never going to defend anyone even closely related to this administration. But, we must be careful not to simply decide someone's fate because of who society says they are, otherwise we form self fulfilling prophecies.
No but tearing down the system is