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   Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 00:26:03 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

   So what can you do as an individual to help this process along? Individual decisions about energy consumption are meaningless.

   You can help by speaking out against jingoism and xenophobia. There was and is a tendency to go to great power competition as a respectable alternative to fascism. Trump resisters routinely add something about how China will win or how we have to hold back China.

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 00:26:11 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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     Americans have been taught that we are the world heroes and defenders and that progress has to come from us. That if we lose capability or leadership, the world is doomed because only we can supply it.

     Please grow up.

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 00:26:14 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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     It's frightening to American middle class people to consider a world in which our country doesn't have the power to alter events globally. This is, of course, how people in most countries have lived during the time of superpower competition -- wondering whether US and USSR people in a bunker somewhere would start a nuclear war that they could do nothing about.

     That world is not good, and was never good.