> denounces escalation

> escalates further.

I think he was admiring how quickly it escalated and wanted to help out.

"Is the thread on fire?"

"... it could be more on fire."

> I mean some people in us gov now are literaly evil and want to harm others. Thats never a good sign.

Now? Wow. That is incredibly naive.

How do you see individualism as a problem? Our courts have generally upheld free speech rights pretty rigorously, and we a have a pretty strong capitalist ethos, i.e., a right to property.

The worst symptoms of individualism, in my opinion, come mostly from a general American distaste for public programs, like, say, single-payer (government) health care.

Generally, I feel like America has the most problems with a representative democracy. Our winner-take-all system naturally leads to two parties, and public opinion doesn't actually influence policy. Money influences policy. I see that as the big problem, not individualism.