What are America's interests?

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UPDATED: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 17:48
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Right now, I'm not worried about external threats to our country and our Democracy.

I'm worried about the enemy within.

Not only the powerful, mostly within the Democrat ranks and media, but the easily brainwashed half of the country that is giving them their power.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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Well, yes, I agree with you.

But I'm grnding on this bc I don't want to miss assumptions.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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This is NUMBER ONE. Period.

It's not even worth discussing how we even start fixing the country until this gets dealt with because any forward progress would be immediately overwhelmed by the ceaseless backsliding we've been doing with Democrats in charge of things.

It'd be like trying to plug holes in a dam with your finger while everybody ignores the giant crack that's about to burst right down the center of it.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Right now, I'm not worried about external threats to our country and our Democracy.

I'm worried about the enemy within.

Not only the powerful, mostly within the Democrat ranks and media, but the easily brainwashed half of the country that is giving them their power.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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Well, yes, I agree with you.

But I'm grnding on this bc I don't want to miss assumptions.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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This is NUMBER ONE. Period.

It's not even worth discussing how we even start fixing the country until this gets dealt with because any forward progress would be immediately overwhelmed by the ceaseless backsliding we've been doing with Democrats in charge of things.

It'd be like trying to plug holes in a dam with your finger while everybody ignores the giant crack that's about to burst right down the center of it.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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If you think it's just "democrats" you're missing the point. Most Dems AND most Republicans have been corrupted by money. But they're just the public face of corruption. If you want to know who the real enemies are, follow the money, all the way across the globe. And the alphabet agencies.

What I've heard alluded to is that according to the Panama papers (Mossac Fonseca) Zelensky got a whole lot of money laundered thru shell corporations. And those papers were leaked many years ago. Everybody was looking for Hillary's name in there. Nobody thought to look into Ukraine. The corruption is deep, wide, and longstanding.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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Just to tie into a previous thread I created (How society is like an organism) I used to think each society was like an individual organism: it is born, it grows, feeds, shits, transports food and waste internally, maintains itself, and even colonizes other areas etc. It has specialized units (cells, individuals) that do different things: some produce energy, some turn resources into useful items, some transport food or waste, some carry information, some are cancerous and grow out of control and don't return anything to the whole. But if it doesn't respond appropriately to changes in its surroundings (the political, economic and physical environment) it dies.

In some ways, societies do function like an individual living thing. OTOH, societies evolve in ways that an individual being can't. A plant, for example, can't turn itself into an animal. A deer can't turn itself into a mouse.

So in some ways, a society is more like a species. And since each species has its own survial strategy ... rabbits breed like, er, rabbits... birds are temporarily pair-bonded... some are primary producers, some are herbivores, mesopredators, predators, parasites, symbiotes etc it's probably useful to pay attention to how species adapt or fail to adapt, how they survive in a complex web of other species etc.

For example, our (USA) environment has changed since WWII. At the end of that war, the USA was by default the sole industrial survivor. But by now, many other nations have re-developed. I wonder whether the neocons' goal is to revert the world back to post WWII status.

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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Just to tie into a previous thread I created (How society is like an organism) I used to think each society was like an individual organism: it is born, it grows, feeds, shits, transports food and waste internally, maintains itself, and even colonizes other areas etc. It has specialized units (cells, individuals) that do different things: some produce energy, some turn resources into useful items, some transport food or waste, some carry information, some are cancerous and grow out of control and don't return anything to the whole. But if it doesn't respond appropriately to changes in its surroundings (the political, economic and physical environment) it dies.

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It would be in America's interest to recycle its waste, but does it do it? A little. Here is an article on sewage, but mostly sewage gets buried in landfills and flows into the sea rather than being recycled because, you know, the dumbest way is the cheapest:

When you next go grocery shopping, check where your food comes from. Most hails from the bread baskets of our planet, often places with warmer weather. As that food grew, it extracted nutrients from the land. But, as we consume it, we don’t return these nutrients back to the earth that fed us. That’s a problem. When we grow our food in location A, but eat and excrete it in location B, we create what scientists call “the metabolic rift.” Even Karl Marx warned us about this problem. The prominent 19th century philosopher and economist, who most famously focused on critique of politics and political economy, also understood the issues of soil fertility, organic recycling, and sustainability.

Marx lamented that farmlands were depleted but didn’t pin down where consumed but undigested nutrients end up. Today, we know exactly what happens to them. As we eat, we take the nutrients, such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, out of farmlands and deposit them, by way of wastewater effluent, someplace else—usually in a nearby body of water. Our industrial treatment systems separate the so-called biosolids out of the sewage stream, purify the water, and release it back to nature, but they rarely extract these essential nutrients in the process. Instead of fertilizing the fields then, the nutrients fertilize the waterways—and wreak havoc in them.

The nutrients overfertilize the water, causing what scientists call eutrophication or nitrogen overloading, which fuels toxic algae blooms, destroys coastal marshes, kills mangrove forests, and smothers corals. What happens with the remaining biosolids—a euphemism for the malodorous, pathogen-infested black muck—is equally ugly. Sometimes it’s burned, releasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Sometimes it’s dried and landfilled together with trash, where it rots, and, as with burning, similarly ramps up greenhouse gasses.

Meanwhile, although unsightly and smelly, biosolids are full of the same essential nutrients—nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium—on which plants thrive. They are also full of undigested organic matter, so when processed properly to kill pathogens, biosolids make for rich compost. Applying biosolids to land has a slew of agricultural benefits, as a recent study demonstrated when it was applied to barren and sandy soils. Doing so perpetuates circular agriculture: we take food from the earth and we replenish its nutrients with our metabolic output.

Why then do municipalities burn or landfill such assets? Part of it is expense; converting biosolids to fertilizer that’s safe to put on the fields is costly. It requires specialized equipment that many wastewater plants lack. But there are societal reasons, too. For about 200 years we had been conditioned to think of sewage as an ultimate waste, epitomizing disease and as such it must be destroyed through burning or stashed as far away from us as possible in landfill. Taxpayers are willing to pay for clean water, but not processing sewage, which they misperceive

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There are at least three million caregivers under age twenty-five in America. The burdens they face are unprecedented.

I met middle schoolers, teenagers, and young adults who took on caregiving responsibilities. There was Abby, the high school sophomore in Delray Beach who did the cooking, cleaning, and shopping, injected her mother’s insulin as well as bathed and dressed her, and took on shifts at a grocery store to help cover costs. . . .

Most American health insurance plans, including Medicare, offer almost nothing for nonmedical long-term care at home—a fact that stuns many family members thrust into caregiving roles after a catastrophic event. The price tag for a year of in-home assistance is around $52,000 out of pocket; a year in a nursing facility averages $101,500. The vast majority of American families thus take the burden to provide care on themselves. This includes routine expenses—prescriptions, wheelchairs, retrofitting a home to make it accessible, personal-care items like incontinence supplies—that amount to $7,200 annually on average, as well as what the AARP estimates is $470 billion in unpaid care every year.

Abroad, that financial pressure on caregivers is not as acute as it is in the U.S., in part due to government support, a bigger safety net for long-term care, and more flexible work policies. In the UK, caregivers, especially those who reduce work hours to care for family members, are eligible for an allowance to make up for lost income. They are also eligible for respite services—paid caregivers who allow family caregivers to have time away—funded by the National Health Service. Youth caregivers have their own bill of rights, including a right to continue their education. Other countries, such as the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, and Taiwan, have compulsory and, depending on the country, publicly funded long-term-care insurance that helps cover the cost of paid caregivers, including in the home, for both medical and nonmedical services—everything from cleaning to preparing meals and doing laundry. In Germany, full-time employees who take time off to care for a family member can borrow against future wages to reduce their work hours for up to two years while retaining their position and their income. Such programs and services make our system—with no guaranteed paid family leave, no financial support for caregivers who forgo wages, and few options for in-home care that isn’t paid for out of pocket—seem especially paltry.

More at https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a42287580/gen-z-caregivers/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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That's alright. The Super Villains at the WEF are working on a cure for all of those problems.

They're going to kill at least half of us off in the next 7 years.

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What are America's interests?

POSTED BY: SIGNYM

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It's a question that I've asked over and over, that nobody has answered.

For the purposes of definition, "America" is the land inside the borders of the self-defined nation-state of the United States of America, and "Americans" are citizens of that nation.

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That is because it is too simple a question to bother with, answer. How about, to live in a world where every country is a democracy Polish Russian Collaborator signym.

Hey, how's Putins' war with Ukraine working out for you?

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The video shows a few of the many reasons America benefits when Ukraine wins.

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