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Assuming the links you provided are 100% correct (a stretch) and in every way the west is morally correct... ...What are people like this Snyder man going to do when Ukraine is no longer a country ?

Zelensky had literally every day to give in and surrender, very likely keeping territory that has no natural resources and a population that Russia does not want to manage - so lets not be childish and say Russia wants to wipe Ukraine off the map or annex all of it. They don't.

But the thickness of this propaganda that is pro Ukraine and not for one single second considers the perspective of Russia or Putin is hysterical and not practucal.

Even if you are 100% correct, Putin is an evil monster who makes no sense and has no interests to appeal to (this is a dynamic of lazy propagandists) the fact that everyone is being so hard headed about this is going to literally destroy Ukraine and to be frank it will be just as much the fault of the west, its propaganda outlets and the people who blindly follow along as it will be Putin's.

But really I just want to know when the war is over and the news isn't in your face - if Ukraine no longer exists, are these people just going to move on to the next thing ? Are they going to devote their lives to helping Ukraine after all of this ? All of this Marvel VS DC comics framing from afar while a country is destroyed and untold violence afflicted.

Maybe people should grow up and not self destruct just because they have (or think they have) the moral high ground.

Maybe the practical thing (if having a country and being alive is 'practical') is to negotiate and yield when able to for forces stronger than you.

The cold and disappointing truth is that the only institutions with the power to actually do something about human rights are all captured and steered to acquire wealth & power under the auspices of human rights & 'saving the earth'.

And yes, if you ask me, making whole swaths of populations more poor and less powerful is the same as increasing the power and wealth of this group of usurpers.

This is all possible because most people are good and support human rights because (to me, and us commenting) to do otherwise is ghoulish. So through social manipulation & constant reinforcement of what is good for human rights and telling the public who is doing all this good for humans is critical to grift I described above in the abstract.

So clearly, even though twitter human rights dept has little to no actual power to improve human rights, this department is critical to shaping the narrative to the public that the institutions who DO have power to help 'human rights' are actually doing so.

Look at the world today and you know in your heart things are getting worse but watch with a keen eye at how viciouly the levers of propaganda are fought for.

The more interesting issue here that is not mentioned is that when you include the most conservative estimates on unfunded liabilities (medicare into the future, future medicaid, future social security, other legislated obligations into the future) with this current budget mentioned in the article, you arrive at totals that put the debt load above the total federal tax receipts inncomung. Luke Gromen has done the math on this and like many things with the USA govt you won't find this specific number but based on other specific govt given numbers you can do the math yourself but basically we've past the point where you need to take out debt to pay previous debts on the federal level.

And if one ponders this dynamic for long enough, one realizes that there is not enough money in existence to pay all of the debt in existence. Or in other words, a pressure cooker type system of infinite growth is created. By no fault of their own, a certain number of debtors are guaranteed to default on their loans - the pressure cooker rat race. And in practice the next traunch of currency created through debt in say, a 10 year period, is necessary to pay off the previous 10 years of debt that otherwise would not have enough currency to pay off - the 'infinite' growth dynamic.

In this system the only thing worse than creating more debt (currency) is to not create more debt (currency).

The interest paid on debt is not destroyed but the principal is destroyed.

Your replying to someone who is very far removed from the realities of productive life on a large or small farm. 250+ pickup trucks are literally just a (very valuable) tool and people like your parent's commenter think that someone who just dropped off a trailer and goes to Walmart afterwards are worthy of giving shitty looks at. Every american should drive across the country and look at all the maintained rural land being worked and realize the founding stock of america are yeoman farmers. They may be busy and their voice actively suppressed but go ahead and start legislating what they can and can't do with their necessary tools and see what happens.

If by consumer you mean only residential households then yes I agree. But if you enjoy consuming the products of or enjoy the benefits from the many wonders of German industry and manufacturing then underestimate no more.