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Former US general advises Switzerland to prepare for war.

According to former United States general Ben Hodges, the withdrawal of US troops from Europe is only a matter of time. In an interview with SonntagsBlick, he advises Switzerland to prepare for war.

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  • electoralism is not the root cause of this particular problem

    • Ele... what? Phew, for a second there I thought I had accidentally posted on .ml again.

      • electoralism. sorry for using hard words, didnt know you were a 'hurr ml' person.

        it means that fascism would get to power anyway, regardless of you scribbling on a paper in favour of diet fascism or not.

        • So how do you decide who gets to govern, if not through elections? And yes, I am very much a "hurr ml" person. I've rarely seen such an accumulation of blockheads outside r/thedonald, back in the day.

          • Elections don’t work when education has been systematically degraded. Elections don’t work when there are no restrictions on the amount of contributions that oligarchs can contribute to a political candidate. Elections don’t work when there is no safeguard against election tampering. Elections don’t work when oligarchs own the media.

          • its not about deciding who to govern here. burgeois elections in a burgeois state will only elect people aligned with their agenda, which means you will keep walking towards fascism regardless of who wins an election, and none of the alternatives will actually enact your will, even when they have a majority. democrats and their warmongering are especially bad to us in the periphery of the planet

            as for solutions, join a leftist political organization or union. it will involve talking to people around you, striking, helping and building community and participating in direct action with systemic change in mind. the more people get involved, deeper gets the change we can enact. it doesn't have to involve capitalist institutions at all. in most socialist/anarchist systems they chose their leaders, yes, by debating and voting in a council but that assumes the system is not rigged against us, which pretty obviously is in capitalism for the reasons mentioned above and more.

            you think us as blockheads because you probably read no political theory beyond liberalism, if that. be more open minded towards leftists, and do a bit of studying and you will notice our ideals are close to the left-leaning liberals. we think you as blockheads because you keep trying to change things in a misguided or misinformed way that is pretty obviously not solving any problems.

            you can shake your fists all you want at the hefty percentage of people that recognize this (not only us leftists btw, which are a tiny minority in the US) and doesnt bother to vote, but you won't change anything because a compelling candidate for leadership is not viable in the current system. my country has mandatory voting and nothing changes either, electoralism is not the solution.

            • So what is the solution? Violently overthrowing one bunch of bastards will only end up with another bunch of bastards. Completely smashing the system will lead straight to warlordism. Lasting positive change was only ever achieved at the ballot box. And if you despise democracy, I despise you as much as the fascists and I fail to see the difference.

            • This reads like satire, a parody of tankies.

              • its literally the basics. you heard it before.

                • No, it's delusional bullshit. Copy-pasta for LARPers.

                  • doing nothing in the face of fascism is delusional bullshit.

                    it takes a sheltered westerner to hate leftism that hard.

                    • I am not a "sheltered westerner".

                      Your world salad about bourgeois elections leading to facaism is complete bullshit and clearly not true, be it in the west or anywhere in the world.

                      Fascist/oligarch take over via democratic means is a lot more complex than that and has more to do with local social attitudes and certain qualities of a given political system.

                      You have no clue what you are talking about.

                      • the very withdrawal of troops in the OP we are arguing under is caused by fascism. caused by burgeois elections failing to present any option that didnt point to it.

                        oligarchs can take over whenever they want because in capitalism, they are the actual leaders over the puppetshow.

                        we are literally witnessing it unfold in real time.

    • I don't get what happened here. Did you really said "electoralism is not the root cause of fascism", meaning that power would end up corrupted no matter what, and people actually downvoted you on .world, meaning they would think that electoralism IS a problem ? That's not at all the cliché I have for either .ml and .world folks.

      Or, since your original comment was edited later than its reply, did you edit it to make it say something else ?

      • I added the word root, because i recognize it bears some influence. im not a native english speaker so sometimes what i type diverges from what i mean.

        clarifying: i mean that elections have already been corrupted and just a show. as evidenced by the fact the "more reasonable party of moderates" enacts more and more right wing policies to the point they are actually just conservatives now. this is not just an US phenomenon either, i live the same dilemma.

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