Their role is entirely dependent on maintaining the cult of personality and calling for the blood of those who are accused of dysloyalty.

You’re not looking at this from a systemic perspective.

Their role is winning their own elections. Everything else must be secondary, since if it wasn’t they’d be replaced by someone else who does.

I’m talking about the people who run the machinery of the evil empire that turns the suffering and continued immiseration of billions into profits for the shareholders of the most destructive companies, I’m not under any impression that these people have morals I can recognize.

The US party system is extremely effective at keeping threats to capital out of power.

The country is 3 corporations in a trenchcoat. If Trump threatened the corporations those same republicans campaigns need to get elected, those republicans would have to either lose their seats or get rid of Trump.

How many of those senators depend on MIC lobbying to keep their seats?

There’s lines a president can’t cross, threatening the jobs 50+ senators is one of them.

Lotta scratched liberals around these days.

So are battery trains expensive in the long run and have worse performance, and only being used because they’re immediately cheaper than electrifying more rail?

Successfully removed from office, not the ceremonial bullshit the dems do for the aesthetic.

Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before?

In the US? The closest you’d get is JFK, if you think Allen Dulles was behind the assassination, and not just the coverup.

Outside the US? Constitutional coups after a country goes against US interests happen so frequently that it’s not even noteworthy.

What would that do, exactly?

Replace Trump with JD Vance, who I’m sure will be more amenable to the interests of the capitalist class.

Trump would be impeached if he tried. You think Raytheon and Boeing can’t buy enough congressmen to impeach him?

Did the UK not electrify their rail network??

No not at all, hence why I’m not antidemocratic. Democracy didn’t give us Trump, the dictatorship of capital did.

Apparently it’s too subtle for anyone who didn’t interpret it as antidemocratic.

The joke is how unfortunately prophetic it is.

Do you think the US is meaningfully democratic? When’s the last time any leader did something that favored the people over capital?

It implies that the people are too dumb to govern themselves; that as they get get closer to a perfect democracy, the choose dumber leaders.

We are analyzing why Musk would get his business out of Taiwan. One possible reason is that Elon expects Trump to defend Taiwan, since either China not attacking or a very quick Chinese victory leave businesses largely intact.

It states that in a perfect democracy, the masses would elect morons because they themselves are morons.

What kind of antidemocratic horseshit is this?

The purpose of the western allies handing Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany and Poland was to enable Hitler and Poland to go after their stated enemy, the USSR.

This is why none of the western powers all broke or were unwilling to sign mutual defense pacts with the USSR, and France and the UK tried to join the winter war on the side of the axis, but were only stopped by Sweden denying them passage.

It does not apply here at all.

No, I’m not talking about the Russian occupation of Crimea, if you weren’t following the news back then, you can filter google news by year.

In 2014, we got a peace agreement in Ukraine and now, we have war

Minsk II agreement was never enforced, they were fighting literally until the day of the invasion.

But a stable peace would require the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine to go to Russia or an independent state, both the Russian and Ukrainian paramilitaries that started this to be disarmed and prosecuted for war crimes.

1991? When the US backed Yeltsin’s coup, causing the breakup of the USSR, the greatest non-war-related humanitarian disaster of the 20th century, and paved the way for Putin to come to power?