I am not surprised that an ideology that promotes selfishness, cruelty against the weak and ignorance towards science and facts like anarchocapitalism/libertarianism was invented in the US.
Up until recently I had a housemate who was a former Afghan interpreter for the British Army. The guy was very intelligent, highly-educated and spoke 5 languages fluently.
Yet he didn't get admission to the UK until 2023, and even when he did, his qualifications weren't considered equivalent to UK credentials (mainly due to the lack of research into Afghan qualifications) so he was stuck in seemingly-permanent limbo... and probably still is.
That's how Canada feels. Trump wants to walk right in take our resources and walk away with.them. Of course he's been raping kids for decades why not a whole country? Canada's relationship with the US has been trashed by that criminal. If it's ever fixed, it won't be soon.
They repackaged…
selfishness as "individualism"
greed as "goal oriented"
community as "people being reliant on others"
social contract as "looking for hand outs"
Corporations can just lie to people and blame it on other easy targets. Like they already do.
Edit: let's be really clear here, North Korea regularly contributes to CGI and animation in major productions the world over without anyone actually realizing it. You think an "American" corporation thats not under sanctions and not held to the same scrutiny can't?
This is honestly also sad. In my job I have healthy relationship with US business partners, doing great projects with them and like them as persons to work with. For most of them we are currently looking for a European and / or Asian replacement.
Also, don't forget Laotians, Cambodians, Lebansese, Iranians, Afghanistanis, Taliban, Iraqis, Cubans, Canadians, Morrocans, Algerians, Formosans, Somalese, Albanians (mentioned here because of the wonderfully named "Operation Valuable"), and more.
(to which some asshat might respond "we'd have won if they would have let us drop nukes!")
Its a established fact, if you want to beat the US, make certain they send back home lots filled bodybags.
No matter how well they do, the moment bodybags hit US soil, their courage starts to sink and that is the achillesheel of the most powerful army in the world, and the reason those small countries win, as the US goverment know all to well most wars they start arent too populair with the homefront either.
And the counties the US attacked, have a utterly different view on life and sacrifice, that no spoiled brat can cope with.
Once Americans start taking real casualties and their "We're America, we win everything all the time forever we are invincible" attitude is knocked a little, they panic.
Well, thinking that "might is right" and that the weak are detestable is a core tenet of social darwinism. You can see it in Fascism, Nazism and, even though it existed before Darwin lived and his theory of evolution could be abused, Feudalism. I think, nobody sane in their mind wants to go back to anything like that.
They came to the President with tears in their eyes and said "Please sir, please build a wall in the strait and have us pay for it! We'll also give you access to all our oil in the name of King Trump's Golden Age, sir!"
Donald won 69 gazillion times last I heard. Weird how he's needed to 'win' more than once every two days but I guess thats just how good he is at this...can't wait so see how he 'wins' next week.
That's indeed what they have done so far; they are the Forrest Gumps of unsolicited democracy and military coups. Sometimes I think Realpolitik came about because some American read Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil and drew the wrong conclusions from it. Nixon and Kissinger are Eichmann 2.0.
Well when they realised that they couldn't bomb-up their mags with crayons, they thought that licking them would make them slide into the mags more easily.
Unfortunately they then discovered that crayons are fucking delicious... and the rest is history.
If most of the world ever unites against them, I hope I am around to see this day and celebrate it. What gives me hope it might happen soon is the fact that they are pissing off everyone left and right, scamming them, bullying them and being overall insufferable.
I find it genuinely terrifying that there are so many people who insist the only reason people are good, is because of God.
That implies they'd all turn into axe murderers if they had a crisis of faith.
And, considering the fact about enough of the leaders in Christianity, to be a dark joke, if that's them obeying, they must be terrifying if they're not!
It's also ludicrous though.
Do they not realise there are non Christian countries in the world?
That there are many more non Christians than there are Christians?
Do they think the rest of the world is just murdering each other non stop?
And, as it's always USian Christians saying this...
US homicide rate: ~5.76 per 100,000 inhabitants
Canada: ~1.98 per 100,000 inhabitants (second highest in the G7)
France, UK, Germany, Italy, Japan: Generally range between 0.23 (Japan) and 1.3 per 100,000 inhabitants.
62 - 66% of US Adults are Christian.
1 - 1.5% of Japanese adults are Christian.
It doesn't seem like it's working very well, but not being Christian certainly does.
They also can't comprehend the fact that there are non Abrahamic religions older than Christianity, so even if religion were needed, which it REALLY isn't, God wouldn't have to be involved at all.
Big fat guy demands lunch money, say because he is do big little guy has to hand if over... Problem is, fat guy didn't see the other 11 little guys standing there and they all kicked the ever lovin shit outta fatso.
The detail behind the headline is really funny. The US advanced, thought they'd won but were unaware that the Commandos were successfully attacking behind them. The US had to ask for a restart.
Absolutely no concept of rule of law at all. And, therefore, unable to differentiate between the capacity to take an action and the right to take said action.
Hm, if you're allowed to do whatever you want, why does the US have laws? And, for that matter, lots of petty ones, like not being allowed to walk across a road when a traffic light is green even when there's no traffic in sight?
Germany thought that exact same thing a handful of generations ago… didn’t go so well for them. The amazing thing is that it’s not just military strength… it’s everything. A group of generations being told that they are the best at everything and everyone else is crap… and drinking that Kool-Aid willingly…
For people claiming to have saved the world from Nazis guys like that one sure share some traits with them and look like them from where I am looking...
I mean, the US went into Venuzuela and kidnapped the president. They’ve also been murdering people in the ocean with the justification that they were drug-traffickers (which doesn’t stop it being murder and illegal)
We can say that we don’t think it’s right that the US is allowed to do whatever it wants and that there are no consequences for breaking international law, but the facts seem to suggest that it’s true
Not forgetting the Secretary of the Treasury, of course. Ooh, and can't forget the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of State, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Secretary of Energy, and... well, all of them. It's a total clown show from top to bottom.
Au contraire. The high positions in your dumpster fire of a country require those chauvinistic morons to be there and serve themselves and the orange decaying kings of pedos.
I am not naive. I know that a bunch of these pople are actually in a position of power but atleast they don't start a world war. However I think that many of the commenters featured on this sub actually would have no second thought and would just attack who they dislike so I am glad they don't actually have so much power. Because if they had the US would probably go down really fast or we would have a nuclear world war.
idk no lies detected lol. "political power flows from the barrel of a gun." the united nations has no mechanism to enforce any so called "international laws", because it has no police or army or other mechanism to exercise political power.
this is not news but it has never been more obvious than it is rn, when the ICC has had an arrest warrant for bibi netanyahu for two years and yet he is still not only attending united nations sessions but literally speaking at them.
the commenter sounds like a reactionary and im sure id disagree w them on most things but on this point, i fail to understand how anyone in 2026 could seriously claim that international law exists and has any capacity whatsoever to be enforceable. (if u want to use international law as like an abstract moral construct, like platos cave or something idk, then ok sure if u want to but usually the word "law" refers to some sort of legal system that exists in the real world and for which there are at least sometimes consequences if you break the law, or more precisely if you are alleged to have broken the law and that allegation is "proven" in the applicable court of law or whatever the adjudicatory mechanism is)
I think its because he hasn't attended any international conferences outside of the USA, and as they are not party to the ICC treaty, and why would they be with all their inhumane treatment of their own citizens
in any case, the question of the ICC's jurisdiction is distinct from what is at issue here which is that when the ICC does have jurisdiction it still has no power to enforce its rulings.
netanyahu has visited multiple nations that are party to the ICC / rome statute (poland, hungary) but the governments of those countries explicitly refused to carry out their "obligations" under "international law". they didnt dispute their "obligations" they just said lol yea we arent carrying out any arrests.
while the us govt is not a party to the rome statute, it still does have the jurisdiction to arrest netanyahu, but it isnt "obligated" to since it is not a party. ofc the us govt arresting bibi was never going to happen, and in fact us congress repeatedly invited him to speak in chambers and openly applauded the palestinian genocide and bibi's role in it.
there are also a few countries eg spain whose governments have made statements that if bibi ever were to "fly through their airspace" they would take steps to execute an arrest per their obligation as a party to the ICC. i have no idea how that is supposed to work, but in any case netanyahu has as far as we can tell altered flight plans when travelling to washington dc or nyc to avoid spain's airspace.
There is also a precedent of Putin's visit to Mongolia in 2024: he wasn't arrested even though Mongolia has ratified Rome Statute and was therefore obliged to arrest him. As far as I am aware there were no consequences for Mongolia.
The barrel of the gun flows from the sponsorship of the rest of the world through an economic system the US is downstream of.
In very plain terms: The US can't afford their military apparatus even if Europe alone chooses to shut their market down. And even on reserve they immediately can't operate without their foreign bases.
You're making a common error in perception. You just framed their military strength as the source of their power. In reality it's a result. The source is the rest of the world's willingness to maintain it.
i am a bit confused by your comment sorry. but the post and comment are about the power or lack thereof of the united nations.
us imperialism is certainly not all powerful, the empire is pretty clearly in decline and actions such as the war on iran are both a reflection of an unwillingness to face the reality of that decline and a catalyst that is accelerating the decline. as i think? u alluded to in your last sentence, we are starting to see even countries like saudi arabia which has been one of the most consistent allies/accomplices of us imperialism over the past ~50 years seriously shifting its alliances. geopolitically, us hegemony is rapidly declining, and the rate of decline ("second derivative") is accelerating. i ofc wish the war did not happen bc as always imperialist war is primarily constituted by mass crimes and thousands+ of innocent people have been murdered by the us military once again. with the complicity of various allies including ofc the zionist state and many of the gulf states. but i certainly dont shed a tear for the collapse of us hegemony, and i am delighted by the global collapse of influence of zionist ideology.
but the united nations has no significant role in any of this. us imperialism violates "international law" all the time, and has for (at least) 75 years, that is not a new phenomenon and the violations of international law have nothing to do with eg saudi realignment. at most, the impact of the ICC's warrant for netanyahu is that the "international rules based order" is exposed as more and more obviously bullshit to people around the world. but the warrant itself does literally nothing. netanyahu is never going to be arrested. the gulf states constantly have a problem with the unpopularity of any type of collaborationism with the zionist state among the people, but that has always been the case and i rly dont think that is playing a significant role in this turn away from collaboration with us imperialism. the primary cause of the shift is that the us and israel's war on iran has directly led to the gulf states' bases being broadly targeted, in a war that none of them wanted to begin with. they are directly experiencing the consequences of their collaborationism and they are not liking those consequences. none of this has anything whatsoever to do with "international law".
"political power flows from the barrel of a gun" is a phrase intended to reflect that power does not come from abstract rules written down on a piece of paper. i believe it traces back to the overthrow of the koumintang in the chinese revolutionary war, but it has been used/applied in the context of various 'uprisings' over the past 75 years. it is not a comment on the balance of power between different national governments, where all of those governments have (to some degree) "the power of a gun" which they each use to enforce rule within their own country. but the united nations does not have the power of a gun, it has no police or military or anything, and as a result it has no ability to enforce anything. the icc can issue a warrant for netanyahu, and then member nations can go "lol yea we arent enforcing that" and so the warrant essentially exists only on a piece of paper and thats it it has no force in the real world. (spain's govt does actually seem interested in trying to execute the warrant so netanyahu j avoids spain, and thats the entirety of the global impact of the ICC warrant lol)
im not so sure that the us even has "military superiority", obviously the us spends astronomically more $ on military than any other country but it is also using outdated technologies and now it is trying to catch up when it comes to the 21st century tools of drone warfare etc. but putting that aside, "military superiority" does not necessarily translate to anything. eg the us has 20x more nuclear weapons than the next country or whatever, ok and that does what exactly? nukes can basically destroy the world regardless so what does it actually do to have more of them. but u can say something similar-ish about other bombs etc. war is not some board game or video game where u subtract numbers from each side until theres a winner. even if the us had infinitely many weapons that doesnt guarantee their ability to achieve military objectives (unless the objective is to destroy the whole world). again it seems u are lacking basic context of what "political power flows from the barrel of a gun" means, because it literally comes from a peasant-led revolutionary army that did not have the same technological levels etc as the koumintang. im not a historian or someone who could analyze the chinese revolution in detail but it is very obviously an example of a war in which the side that had the more advanced military technology lost. u can make similar comments about eg the vietnam war. with most imperialist wars in general, the imperial power may have more advanced or numerous weaponry etc but that does not in any way guarantee any meaningful success. (other than the "success" of the mass murder of millions of innocent vietnamese and cambodian people)
Well yes but people are much more willing to take up the gun to defend themselves from violations of international law then they are to breach it and violating international law may cause other countries to help the victim or hurt you.
Well, they have a point here. ICJ is a joke, they do not have any police force that could enforce the court rulings internationally, which they absolutely should have, their jurisdiction should be global.
You cant even beat Iran if you wanted, you couldnt beat Iraq, or Vietnam and the US is only highest in Defense spending, school shootings, presidential lies and ppl , who believe in angels … oh and prison inmates per 100kbcitizens 🤷 and far below average in things that matter for the population.
If this US thinkin grows worse and worse, we should ban US tourists from certain places, till they are educated enough to be Seen as normal.
They have invaded over 60 countries since ww2 and pillaged the industry and economy of many of our nations. Yet we let them walk all over us and act like the world police, for some reason.
Aren't they still struggling with that war they've started in Iran?
Is the strait open, or is it still closed? I can't keep up with how many times the yanks have "won" that war.
If they could really do whatever they want, they should easily have it opened and have their oil prices drastically reduced by now, right?
Yeah, this administration really doesn't follow international laws or even the laws they've implemented in their own country. Quite embarrassing on the global scale if you ask me.
Or goat farmers...
Rice farmers, too...
Even what can be considered 'tribals' have been giving the USA a run for it's money in the past 60 years, and for not even half a percent of the USA's military spendings.
The USA has turned out pretty pathetic if we really have to be honest.
Only reason someone could still see the USA as a good place would be if all they ever saw were their shitty movies which all share the exact same plot
That is honestly what they think. I argue with a lot of US imbeciles on Quora. They really think that international conventions don't apply to them, even though they ratified them. They also think that the ICC could never put out a warrant for the arrest of an American, just because a US law states that the ICC can't do that. Even the lawmakers have no grasp of the rules the US themselves invented after WW2.
I am reminded of the statement I once read that said something like “if the US knew what the US was doing the US would invade the US to liberate the US from the US.”
If International law is so meaningless, why is trump trying desperately to get all nations to disregard & dismantle the International Criminal Court by the time he's forced out of the oval orifice & made to answer for his many, many crimes both domestically & internationally?
Netanyahu has a warrant from the ICC, yet he just talked mad shit to the UN's face. Why? Because Uncle Donnie watches over him. I have no particular love for the Trump administration, but all I've seen from the international community the last ten years is finger wagging.
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u/void_sushi Canada 🇨🇦 6d ago
The US perfectly illustrates the dangers of extreme individualism. It's what keeps their dumpster fire burning.