Call their bluff! What have you got to lose!?

We have lost more people to gun violence in the last thirty years than every US soldier killed in every war. Death by firearm is now the number one killer of US children. I have personally lost several people I grew up with to gun violence.

Almost 50% of US males have a criminal conviction and minorities have a close to a 30% felony conviction rate. Millions of minority and poor families have been destroyed by the war on drugs. People regularly get convicted of crimes they didn't do because they are manipulated into plea bargains with the threat of massive time behind bars. The US jails more people per capita than just about any other nation.

The unemployment rate for those under thirty is around 40%. Most working class families are priced out of home ownership and going to get a higher education will often indebt you for decades. You are expected to constantly change careers or you will be quickly left behind with median position length of just under four years. Many Americans have up to ten or more jobs in their lifetime due to instability in our economy.

I raised my family for over twenty years with zero health insurance. Going to the hospital is a financially life ending event with bills easily reaching $10k + for even basic procedures unless it is just a few stitches. Medical bills account for 40% of bankruptcies and half a million people go bankrupt every year from medical debt.

I find it amazing propaganda can manipulate rubes so easily into hating each other. The wealthy have truly won.

This is not up to your average American worker. They don't choose where their money goes after they spend it and they don't have a real choice otherwise. There is no well known burger joint that pays their workers a living wage. These are ultimately the decisions American business leaders make.

American managers do generally pay a much better salary to healthcare workers but only because the profit margins are insane and often literally made up.

As far as paying taxes it really depends on where you live. Certainly the fear of paying taxes exists in depressed red states but most blue states and metropolitan areas pay more taxes and get more services because of it. People live in these areas because they are good for families.

What America wants and what they vote for are two different things and this is related to politicians not being held accountable for anything. You can say you will do one thing and the moment you are elected you can do just the opposite without consequence.

Voting in the US has pretty much become just a rubber stamp for what the wealthy want. If people won't vote for it, they just do it anyways as seen in the current administration. This is because the government was designed by the wealthy for the wealthy and democracy exists only as a facade at the Federal level.

This is rather common because they are very similar. I attached a pic for comparison.

Edit: Just to be sure you drawing looks great and the guy below could be interpreted as the fourth leg of the peace sign. Keep up the cool drawings!

Cool and lots of detail. One thing though, is there a reason you are using the Mercedes symbol instead of the peace symbol (I am guessing that is what was intended)?

Costa Rica is far less fascist having no standing army than most nations. Their history is disheartening in the past, but they have made several reforms and are currently rated highly by human rights organization.

On the other hand, they have been vassalized by the US long ago and have recently helped with their human rights abuses. I suppose they don't have much choice when faced with the manipulative power of the fascist US.

Also, remember fascism is a scale not all or nothing.

While it has been fun playing sow the doubt of fascism and that fascism is really just another word for X (hard to tell what that word is for you). I am afraid you have never really made any sort of point in a long time or ever really.

I suppose you just don't want to share your unique wisdom with me. Perhaps you will share it with someone else someday. Cheers!

France is one of the epicenters of fascism for sure and France itself is a fascist nation supplying weapons to the world. You ever listen to their national anthem.

England spread its imperialism far and wide and birthed a nation that went on to cause more damage than any nation before it.

The East India Corporation invented corporate lobbying and was instrumental to the rise of corporations.

The Netherland, in particular the Dutch, once held the reserve currency before England took over it and caused massive suffering through the Dutch East India Corporation.

Yes, a lot of these nations laid the ground work for what we would consider modern day fascism and they have fascist tendencies to this day. As I said in the beginning, the entire world became fascist with the US toppling democracies and instituting fascism whenever and wherever it could. Seventy countries that we know about but I can guarantee the US had its hands in many more than this.

Oh for sure, air gapped sensors that relay information are going to be necessary. We should be building these systems with absolute security because they are critical to infrastructure.

The most devastating part of the conspiracy was never the act, it was what was done afterwards. The lies, wars, torture, etc. that had nothing to do with the original act or holding those people responsible.

Not that understanding the details of what happened isn't important, the real devil is how we used it as an excuse to create terror.

I will take things that never should be connected to Internet for $200 Alex.

Breaking the law is a matter of national security. So is raping children and covering it up. So much security!

Not happy with raping a few countries, he has to rape them all.