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[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately that requires the capability to deter using force. We are all still aggressive territorial chimps, only now we are chimps capable of creating portable stars.

Unless you find a way to convince biologically/inherently violent people to calm the fuck down and listen, your vision of not submitting to dictatorships and living peacefully by simply asking nicely will never work .

No. The force is limited. Donald Trump is pure Yang... but energic tactics are costly. Trumps causes a negative reaction and he puts the people in risk. For example, Europe is considering new diplomacy.

USA is a giant... but with mud feet. Dollars go out, gold bars go in. Gadafi bye bye... but we keep buying gold bars and selling dollars.

Global militar bases are really expensive. How much time you believe USA can keep it? Without global money, in horrible debt and without allies. And with California and others thinking if to be part of this country (USA) is convenient really. See Texit and Calexit.

[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Bonobo chimps use sex to calm the males down, which allows them to live so fucking peacefully among other chimp tribes. If only contemporary society was so open to such a concept.

[โ€“] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Bonobo

Great DJ.

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's...not going to work on humans. Maybe world leaders, but not the masses.

[โ€“] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Think a little less directly, meeting people's needs vs bombing them. In the US, ~6 hours of "defense" spending could put everyone in the country on food stamps for a year

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That works, somewhat.

But if you tell a person "I'm going to fuck you, calm down" they just call the police, or deck you in the face.

[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Meanwhile the European countries with legalized brothels/prostitution dont spend enormous amounts of money on their own defense budget and are chill af to visit as a tourist.

[โ€“] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The correlation not causation thing...

Fine. Ngl, sex work is illegal here, period. Probably for the best.

[โ€“] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we have 5000 plus years of culture engrained into us about male control of women, so women using sex to pacify males, probably wonโ€™t work.