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America Lost the Mandate of Heaven

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Re: America Lost the Mandate of Heaven

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

direwolf20 wrote: post #17
oezi wrote: post #14

The article is certainly firebranding, but the core tenet strikes a valid point: how has the US lost the plot within such a short time? How did it go from the flag bearer of freedom and progress to isolationist bully that wants to invade Greenland and become best friends with Russia? From the outside it is really hard to comprehend. Was it FoxNews that poisoned the American mind or the social media brainwashing? How…

America has never been that. With everyone having access to apps like TikTok, the brainwashing stopped working as well and people can see that it isn't.

> with everyone having access to apps like TikTok, the brainwashing stopped

The ad-powered social media addiction stopped brainwashing?

Re: America Lost the Mandate of Heaven

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Post by direwolf20 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #21
direwolf20 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

America has never been that. With everyone having access to apps like TikTok, the brainwashing stopped working as well and people can see that it isn't.

> with everyone having access to apps like TikTok, the brainwashing stopped The ad-powered social media addiction stopped brainwashing?

TikTok was a Chinese app that had no qualms against showing Americans what their country does.

Re: America Lost the Mandate of Heaven

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

direwolf20 wrote: post #22
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> with everyone having access to apps like TikTok, the brainwashing stopped The ad-powered social media addiction stopped brainwashing?

TikTok was a Chinese app that had no qualms against showing Americans what their country does.

> TikTok was a Chinese app that had no qualms against shooting Americans what their country does

If one wanted deeply pessimistic takes on America and Americans, there has been a media market for that since at least the advent of cable news. Mistaking TikTok, one expression of a phenomenon, for the general trend is mistaking a tree for a forest.

Re: America Lost the Mandate of Heaven

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Post by forgetfreeman »

direwolf20 wrote: post #17
oezi wrote: post #14

The article is certainly firebranding, but the core tenet strikes a valid point: how has the US lost the plot within such a short time? How did it go from the flag bearer of freedom and progress to isolationist bully that wants to invade Greenland and become best friends with Russia? From the outside it is really hard to comprehend. Was it FoxNews that poisoned the American mind or the social media brainwashing? How…

America has never been that. With everyone having access to apps like TikTok, the brainwashing stopped working as well and people can see that it isn't.

America has absolutely been all of that and more within living memory. The problem is it's getting to the point where you need to be pushing 50 to remember a time when this was the case.

Re: America Lost the Mandate of Heaven

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Post by expedition32 »

Providing healthcare isn't your employer's job it is something that comes from the government.

It is the original sin of the American healthcare system.

America was on the road to socialism from the 1930s to the 1950s but it all went to shit and here we are: back in the Gilded Age.

Re: America Lost the Mandate of Heaven

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Post by roncesvalles »

The Chinese are not worried about AI taking anyone's job. In fact they're excited by it.

For some reason, there is this unbelievably thick air of paranoia in America where everyone is just waiting for the day when their job will go away. To a point where I think it should be classified as mass hysteria and looked into by public health authorities.

We should all introspect why so many of us perceive America as this very delicate thing that is hanging on with borrowed time and will fall apart at any moment. Because I don't think it's actually like this.

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