The Trump Presidency brought many libs to the left; it made apparent that the concrete institutions of the United States are made of paper, and can be torn up by anyone close to them. It also pushed those on the right further; they felt empowered to be more reactionary, far right leaders thought that they had more popular support than they did. It may be that they don't think that everything will be normal if they act like everything is normal, but by acting like this is the way that the structures of power are meant to operate, fewer people will lose faith in them and seek alternatives.

Pictured: the walls finally closing in on Trump

sacre bleu

But Israel is not a democracy, they're a settler republic.

I love it!

A little over 3 years

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Who?

we do a little trolling

I'm surprised it lasted longer than the Halo 3 servers for 360

In an ideal world where there was a good-faith international actor or organization who could take the role of moderating a referendum, and the outcome be respected by all parties, that would be ideal. However, no such organization exists. The institutions of the so-called "rules based international order" serve the interests of western hegemony. That is why, for example, Catalonia is not able to have an effective referendum for independence from Spain, and that is a perfectly fine state of affairs; just the way things are. Maybe a diplomatic complaint gets filed somewhere, maybe someone calls out how awful it is that police were interfering with the referendum in 2017, and they're not wrong. But ultimately, nothing fundamentally changes, and that is the point.

Should people just accept the way things are until an ideal situation allows them to improve their lives in a way everyone finds acceptable? What should people do if things are only getting worse, and there are no effective, good-faith actors to mediate the best possible solution?

The cut of their jib

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