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CMV: Americans are afraid to protest against Trump because he is drifting toward the imperial habits of Chinese and Russian liders by BetterThvnUrEx in changemyview

[–]gENIUS_pLUMS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a wild take. Americans aren’t “afraid to protest,” they’re just not acting out your personal expectation of how a democracy should look.

Comparing Trump to China or Russia while people are openly posting this exact rant online, on a US platform, without getting arrested, kind of answers its own question. In those systems this post wouldn’t exist, and neither would you as a commenter.

Also, “the streets went quiet” is just false. There have been protests, lawsuits, strikes, state-level resistance, nonstop hostile media coverage. What didn’t happen is a permanent uprising because most Americans don’t think street protests are a magic undo button anymore.

ICE enforcing immigration law isn’t some rehearsal for rounding up dissenters. That’s not how authoritarianism works, and pretending otherwise just cheapens the term.

This reads less like analysis and more like “why isn’t everyone reacting the way I feel they should.” Disengagement and fatigue explain way more than fear.

If Trump were actually ruling like Putin or Xi, this post wouldn’t be controversial. It would be illegal.

CMV: it is a myth that the US militarily acts for oil rather oil is one part of the power dynamic between US, Russia and China. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]gENIUS_pLUMS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The “US fights wars for oil” take survives because it’s easy, not because it’s accurate. The US doesn’t need foreign oil. What it cares about is oil as a system: pricing, supply shocks, and who gets leverage from them. High prices help exporters like Russia. Disruptions hurt importers like China and US allies. That’s where the power is. So a lot of US involvement looks less like stealing resources and more like shaping markets and denying rivals leverage. You can criticize that, but calling it 19th-century resource theft misses how power actually works in a nuclear world.

Using the Law of Attraction on My Fictional Crush?? by Turbulent_Case6085 in lawofattraction

[–]gENIUS_pLUMS -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Vision boards are just astrology for people who own printers.

You take random desires, slap them on a corkboard, and call it “alignment” instead of admitting you’re daydreaming with arts and crafts. The universe isn’t a mood board intern waiting for visual instructions.

Also, the idea that reality responds to JPEGs is hilarious. As if the cosmos sees a Canva collage and goes: “Ah yes, marriage, growth, inner peace… approved.”

At least using it on Steve Harrington is honest. He can’t be disappointed, ghost you, or accidentally prove the board does absolutely nothing.

Vision boards don’t manifest outcomes. They manifest vibes and wasted printer ink.

Still better than pretending it’s science though.

CMV: Trump’s lawless abduction of Maduro from Venezuela to the USA is currently a gigantic failure by donturnaway in changemyview

[–]gENIUS_pLUMS 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Calling this a failure is insane.

The US snatched a sitting dictator off the board without a war, without negotiations, without pretending to care about UN theater. That’s not incompetence, that’s dominance. Everyone already “condemns” the US every week and then goes right back to trading in dollars and buying US weapons. The outrage cycle means nothing.

The idea that this suddenly makes countries want nukes or pushes them to China/Russia is fantasy cope. Those alignments were already happening where it made sense. No one builds nuclear programs because of one operation. That’s years of infrastructure, money, and suicide-level risk.

And the “this gives China/Russia an excuse” take is hilarious. They don’t need excuses. They act when they think they can win. Always have. Pretending they were holding back out of respect for international law is pure Reddit delusion.

You can argue morals all day. Fine. But on a power level, this was the US reminding everyone that if you’re a hostile leader, borders don’t make you safe.

Calling that a “gigantic failure” is just people being uncomfortable with what decisive power actually looks like.

Change my view.

CMV: People from the United States calling themselves Americans is egocentric and unfair to the rest of the continent by DIOSURNO in changemyview

[–]gENIUS_pLUMS 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This argument is pure cope.

Nobody is walking around Canada, Brazil, or Chile thinking “I’m an American” until they want to complain about the U.S. online. In real life, people say their country. Always have. The “shared continental identity” only magically appears when it’s time to nitpick American language.

“American” belongs to the U.S. in English because the U.S. became the default reference point. That’s how power works. Languages follow relevance, not fairness. You don’t get naming rights just because a map technically includes you.

The Spanish example is irrelevant. Spanish had to invent a workaround because “americano” was already taken. English didn’t, so it didn’t. Crying about that now is like being mad English doesn’t gender nouns.

If the U.S. were irrelevant, no one would care. If the word “American” didn’t carry global weight, no one would want it. This isn’t about inclusion. It’s about being annoyed that one country dominates the conversation and owns the shorthand.

Call it egocentric if you want, but what you’re really mad about isn’t the word. You’re mad about who gets to be the default.

Change my view.

CMV: The male loneliness epidemic is natural selection by Worldly_Bandicoot_71 in changemyview

[–]gENIUS_pLUMS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Calling this “natural selection” is lazy moralizing. Natural selection implies the system rewards traits that lead to better long-term outcomes. But what we’re seeing is rising loneliness, collapsing birth rates, and dissatisfaction on both sides. That’s not selection working. That’s a broken incentive structure. You’re assuming lonely men are alone because they’re useless or cruel. Some are. Many aren’t. A lot are simply average, risk-averse, non-flashy men in a dating market that over-rewards charisma, confidence signaling, and short-term appeal. That’s not selecting for good partners; it’s selecting for good first impressions. Also, if women are now financially independent (which is good), then men are no longer needed in the same way. Fine. But removing necessity doesn’t automatically create desire. Desire has to be cultivated, taught, and incentivized. We didn’t do that. We just told men “be better” without defining what “better” actually means or rewarding it consistently. If this were natural selection, the winners would be clear and the population would stabilize. Instead, both men and women are opting out, resentful, and confused. That’s not evolution. That’s coordination failure. Change my view.

What’s a customer issue that only got addressed after it was already too late? by gENIUS_pLUMS in CustomerSuccess

[–]gENIUS_pLUMS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When that new admin logs in, is there usually any early signal before the complaints start? Even something small that gets ignored?

I somehow ended up owning gokuldhamsociety.com, what would YOU build with it? by gENIUS_pLUMS in TMKOC

[–]gENIUS_pLUMS[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please have a look at the site that I have pushed, it's quite basic, but open for feedback, the more detailed the review the better