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Republicans preparing to reject US election result if Trump loses, warn strategists
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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Those at the margins of the world will be saved from the long arm of the United States government.
It'll be pretty bad for US Americans though.
As much as the US is an imperialist colonial state, they also keep the other ones (Russia, China) in check. Both of them were subsumed by state-capitalism, and became just as expansionist and xenophobic as the US is. I don't want any of them around, but all 3 breaking up ain't in the cards right now, and unchecked imperialism is exactly what made the US so dangerous to the "margins of the world" for so long.
I frankly haven't believed in my own government since 9/11. This is not about conspiracy theories; it's about the fact that I could drive into Canada in 2000 with a driver license. We obviously are the most imperial country in history (the irony is not lost on me, given how this all started).
But we started doing things like creating the Department of Homeland Security when the DoD covered that alongside ICE. I don't understand what it's like to think those were insufficient.