That's actually a great analysis, thanks for that!

I think we're living in a highly individualistic society and what little high trust remains is outside of the logic of markets.

You should have seen the dark age... if everyone fended for themselves there we wouldn't be here now. You know how much you depend on your peers without any of the affordabilities of today's age?!

they'll be more afraid of terrorism, black people and muslims than ever. and lets not get started about socialists!

however you spin this it is going to deteriorate your average job opportunity at least in the us. the us will be where China was 50 years ago: worse workers rights, worse political participation, more low income jobs working for "miltech superintelligence corp".

what hegseth does to your military, amazon-ifying it is what is also happening within your political system stripping you of your civil rights.

at least china had an economical goal furthering the nation state. maga has... what? sucking up to elons, zucks, bezos and other super rich weirdos in the hope of resurrecting the big american empire again. it's devastatingly stupid, really.

Either you're an American which would prove the "most Americans are ignorant about their imperialism and their own militarized society" or you aren't and aren't watching that many news the last 10 years... either way that's not a very... thoughtful comment.

nuclear has its role currently but it's not the future.

Is there actual politics? Or is it all for show?

(This is relevant to corruption because I think a populace is a lot more receptive to ignoring corruption if the politics is emotionalised and people are entrenched and you don't talk about stuff that actually would benefit you but you have to decide on how to act on it)

stop drinking the tech kool aid and start with degrowth.

The US is waging wars far from their borders (of which they all lost since about 50 years) while the topic in the EU is self defence within their borders, that's a different ball game.

A third of the US economy is propped up by waging wars. That's not even being imperialistic that's just a very costly and damaging social service program that costs a lot of lives.

That's just not how any of this works and I think you know it. You're just being obtuse, although I don't know why.

2. That's also measurable by crime stats and Switzerland is really tough in re-patriating people that broke the law.

3. That is something you cannot measure and where you cannot guarantee freedom or fairness in a society. What if I were to deem you too stupid to vote because you're advocating for a fascist mindset that might overthrow the democratic fundamentals? You wouldn't want that, I suppose.

So there's nothing to be done that's not already been done.

And that's exactly where all of this thinking falls apart: in an equal, democratic society no group should be able to decide who's a good or a bad citizen. There's only the laws of the country that should count and everyone has to obey.

You should soften up your idea of "migration" because there is no inane biological quality in humans that make them good or bad.

99% of "immigration problems" are because of poverty and inequality (both too little or too much money can influence behaviour) and not because of some sort of gene that makes human behave badly.