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Why Is It So Hard to Imagine the End of American Empire? (jacobin.com)
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[–] 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think we, humans globally, should try for no dominant empire. I think if we all get together and think really hard, we can come up with a better system than "whichever group has the most guns and money gets to do whatever they want and take whatever they want, whenever". It just never ends well. Or middles well. Or begins well! It's a bad system for most of the people, most of the time, inside and outside of the dominant empire du jour.

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  • [–] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Getting rid of the bullshit "veto" power of some countries in the United Nations would be a start.

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  • [–] 9 points 14 hours ago

    I think we should start a world government from scratch. A global, grassroots, democratic fellowship of people, operated locally and cooperating globally. All persons are considered members, and they can assert their membership by joining a local group or starting their own. We recognize the other power structures in the world; the governments and the corporations and the religions. We may even belong to some of them, this fellowship is not exclusive.

    Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to define membership, or verify the integrity of votes or member identity, or implement a functional judiciary, so this is more of a long-term project. But I think long-term, humans need to figure out how to settle our differences without killing each other, and I don't trust the existing power structures to willingly give up their authority. It has to be bottom up, and every one has to have a voice.

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