This meme made me to watch a femdom porn again
It doesn’t sound humane.
We so often forget that the USA became a superpower because everyone else was totally crushed in the WW2, so they could just scoop it all up afterwards (which they absolutely did as much as they could).
It seems like things are changing back. History will tell, but the USA is only liked because of its dominance, not because of its morals. IMO. And USAnians have to figure out why “it is not working anymore” (hint: you were lucky and greedy in the fifties, but the luck has ran out since a long time), so good luck to you, it’s usually a bit excruciating, but most countries figure it out.
Some replies to this comment are hilarious. American history lessons, that’s what seems we all need to appreciate the USA legacy of the XX century.
Wasn’t that the case with Europe and colonialism tbf?
The species became a superpower because of fossil fuels which allows each person to benefit from energy accumulated over millennia all in one geological eyeblink.
The chaos you are seeing around us is simply what happens when the drugs run out. The tinder was smoldering all along.
I’m sorry, what exactly did they scoop up after WWII?
This comment demonstrate’s a complete ignorance of what actually happened before, during, and after WWII.
I am not trying to defend the U.S. here, but this comment is particularly stupid.
Either you are a total fucking moron, or deliberately espousing false information for a purpose.
Ironic claim on your part. Check out the history of the LOANS given to rebuild Europe. That’s the “scoop up” to put it simply.
Governments were then beholden to the loan givers to rebuild; those loans weren’t charity. They were very ADVANTAGEOUS to the USA. American companies and the banks that own them bought everything for the bottom dollar and used that to strong-arm the rest of planet earth into compliance in many ways for decades. The effects can still be seen and felt today. Not even going into the UN, NATO, the IMF, the World Bank, and so on.
It’s multilayered and incontrovertible. Check it out, my angry befuddled friend
OR provide me with “true information”. Good luck
What!? Banks gave out loans so people could rebuild? Even after the lend lease program?
Countries must have been devastated and then had to swear fealty to America as a result.
Checks note
Number of countries that have to do what the U.S. tells them: zero.
Let me do the most basic of research…
From Wikipedia:
"The U.S. rebuilt Europe after WWII primarily through the
Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program, 1948–1951), providing over $13 billion (approx. $150+ billion in 2017 dollars) in aid to 16 Western European nations. The assistance was mostly grants (~90%), not loans, designed to rebuild infrastructure, boost industrial production, and curb communist influence."
I guess your fantasy is just that, a fantasy.
The only pull the U.S. has is the that the plutocrats in their own countries stand to make money too.
Global trade? Military bases all over the world? Defense contracts?
Global trade is mutually beneficial and isn’t “scooping up”, in any sense of the phrase, and is in no way taking advantage of people unless the terms were terrible for one of the parties, which none of them were.
The military presence across the work was a result of the cold war. And the European powers we.more than happy to let the U.S. foot the bill, for fighting the “red scare”.
The defense contracts are a result of the U.S.'s military industrial complex, that even Eisenhower warned the U.S. against.
Most of what is wrong with the U.S…can be pointed at Capitalism.
You are not wrong to invoke WWII when discussing the U.S. becoming a hedeminy, but they were already a super power. As a nation, no one was producing more than the U.S.
After WWII, the U.S.'s industrial base was virtually untouched and had no real competition. (Mao and Stalin were great at getting into power and destroying any political opposition, but they were fucking retarded when it came to running a country.)
The U.S. however became the main producer of the world and so wealth was just flowing in.
But without proper controls, capitalism just becomes a plutocracy which is evident here.
Any controls that were put into place were slowly eroded and now, with the weaponization of data, it is a lot easier to control an uneducated working class.
But now the U.S. has moved all its industry overseas and the plutocrats, that have been sucking every ounce of wealth they can, out of the economy have neutered its ability to pivot and evolve.
The fascism in the U.S. right now is probably closer to Mussolini’s version than Hitler’s, but it’s still a cultural rot that needs to be purged.
You can’t just point your finger at things you don’t like and say they did this and just shoot from the hip as to why.
You HAVE to understand how these things develop, and see how they are not some evil that manifests in a vacuum.
Just because someone is shit now, doesn’t mean they were always shit.
But also, no one is clean or pure at this point. Everyone has shit in their history, so using that to justify how you feel today is kind of dumb. Just focus on the actions now. There’s plenty to hate on, but use history to learn how these things evolve. And to do that, you actually have to have an accurate (to some extent) idea of went down.
“Scooping everything up” after WWII doesn’t even make sense in any way, to describe how anything happened in the initial years following WWII.
And German scientists, too
Have you read a comment like it since a long time?
Holy fuck you need a history lesson…the US didn’t become a superpower because of WW2…
The US is liked because it creates(this is changing rapidly because of the turnip in power) world stability for a huge portion of the globe. It’s why the USD has been the reserve currency for such a long time.
And while we’re on the topic
https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/01/at-what-age-can-you-legally-get-married-in-europe
The EU has a lot of this as well. France has no legal age requirement…and we’re not going to even talking about the rest of the globe outside of Europe and the USA, because it’s 100xs worse.
Edit: because some of you are unable to read and study history. The US was already a powerful nation preWWII…you got the Internet, use it for once.
https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/how-did-united-states-become-global-power
Are you unaware of the petrodollar being enforced with violence while accusing others of being ignorant?
Where did I say that it’s not? Our military and economic power is the reason for the why it’s used. Doesn’t make what I’ve said wrong.
US is liked
Brave assumption, there might be some people outside the US who like them, but I guess that’s true for all countries. I for my part started hating the US, it’s such a bad development for humanity, since capitalism/oligarchy takes over. Even China starts to look good in comparison…
Also:
world stability for a huge portion of the globe
Just LOL. Probably the force that causes the biggest global instability. Do I have to mention Iran as most recent event?
There might’ve been a period where that might’ve been true, but it certainly isn’t anymore.
Brave assumption, there might be some people outside the US who like them, but I guess that’s true for all countries. I for my part started hating the US, it’s such a bad development for humanity, since capitalism/oligarchy takes over. Even China starts to look good in comparison…
The word liked is used here in the terms of economic stability. Plenty of people hate the US and want it out of their countries, but it does provide protection that a lot of countries want.
Also:
Just LOL. Probably the force that causes the biggest global instability. Do I have to mention Iran as most recent event?
Prior to the turnip, there is a reason that the USD is the worlds reserve currency. This is just a fact.
There might’ve been a period where that might’ve been true, but it certainly isn’t anymore.
Never said it was, the turnip in charge has done more to damage our allies and reputation in the last year than the last 50 years of wars.
The US is liked
Everyone’s been warry of the US and slowly moving pieces to reduce reliance on them for at least a decade.
Yep…around the same time as…o yea trump1
The US is liked because it creates world stability for a huge portion of the globe.
lol, no.
You can lol all you want but there is a reason why the majority of the world uses the USD as the reserve currency.
Facts are facts. Agree with it or not.
It’s also a fact that the US started multiple long wars for oil or influence.
Sure there is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
And this negates my point how? Or was that to back up my point?
I do not see that as the US being the benevolent beacon of freedom and safety they claim to be, no.
What is that reason? Be specific.
As in why? It’s because we dump a massive amount of money into our military might and play world police. The majority of us want out, but we’ve created a monster that everyone hates but relies on.
You sure can rely on the US meddling in global affairs when they have no right yeah. All you need is the “might” right?
Nope, we became a super power bcz of ww2, that is a fact. Whether you want to recognize that is irrelevant.
The US was already a powerful nation preWWII, it’s why we joined ww1 and it’s why we had been expanding for decades prior to this. 1898 is the agreed upon time when it was already powerful and what could be considered a superpower.
https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/how-did-united-states-become-global-power
It’s not hard to understand this, in your hands you have basically the world’s entire knowledge and history. Try and read for once.
At the close of World War II—the deadliest conflict in human history—British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that the United States stood “at the summit of the world.”
Your own source all but says post-WW2 is when the U.S. became a world superpower.
Learn how domestic expansion and three wars—the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II—transformed the United States’ standing in the world.
There’s also the summary at the very top
I could find more, but it’s pretty well agreed upon that post-WW2 was when the U.S. became a world superpower.
Hell, the article you linked to said the U.S. enacted an isolationist policy post-WW1.
I really hate to naysay you on this, but the US starting pointless wars over random shit is not a new thing with Trump. It got marginally worse sure, and I’d agree there some stability problems that got worse in the past year, but the US is mostly an economic powerhouse largely driven by the military industrial complex, which did indeed get kick-started by their late entry into WW2. There’s a reason the US economy goes into overdrive every time they start a war. This is a self perpetuating problem that has been going on for nearly as long as living memory unfortunately.
I completely disagree with this type of unnuanced view. yeah war generally is point less so this could be said about every country that has had war. korea was proxy and viet nam was kinda taken over from france. in proxy wars either side could stop being involved. The sudden attacks on venezuela and iran are really out of no where. I would say the closest we have to this is the second iraq but even then they spent a bunch of time at least trying to rationalize it. Up until now many allies have been involved before moves were made.
They were a pillar in world science infrastructure, they brought peace to world sea trading due to the dominance of their navy fleet, and hollywood helped spread liberal ideals worldwide.
Yes, they started proxy wars for privateering purposes, and have let their neoliberal tendencies dominate their politics, but Americans on the whole as well as European countries under the umbrella of their protection seemingly thrived under it.
Now they’re demanding tribute. Actively dismantling their umbrella of influence, and defunding any progressive thought in sciences and culture. This is a new trend.
Nah the usa was so strong in say 1930, looool
The great depression effected the entire globe. Fucking hell you people are ignorant as fuck with history.
It’s fascinating how some people can be proven wrong again and again without even reflecting over why.
Technically everyone is a child so all marriage is child marriage. Abuse of language can be dangerous, children.
Just because you are doesn’t mean we are.
You have no parents?
Marriage on its own is a problematic concept. The problems with child and essentially teen marriage are the tip of the iceberg.
It is the case where thousands of people past the common age are still being abused. And even within countries where the children’s rights have been ratified, those individuals are yet again prone to abuse when they reach the arbitrary number which is the common age.
The purple ones aren’t full of goddamn pedophiles
I am glad we changed the law in Missouri last year, however lots of our pedo politicians like Mike Moon want to challenge it…
Nah, they’re full of them too. If laws prevented pedophilia, it would have disappeared long ago.
That’s fair. We still need the laws though.
Yeah, it at least helps scare some of them out of acting on their impulses.
Just like homosexuality!
Wait…
Well… DC is, they just can’t legally marry children.
For those curious about the other colors:
Edit: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1In the red states, why would the common law age be younger for girls (12) than it is for boys (14)?
Both are horrifyingly young, but I’m curious what justifies two extra years of child molestation for girls
Because nobody wants to marry one of those groups, and a certain demographic wants to marry the other.
That’s simultaneously a fascinating question but also one I am not at all interested in researching.
The most at hand explanation I think would be biological differences between the genders. Male puberty is, on average, delayed by approximately 18 months in comparison. Girls/women are earlier in development and mature earlier, boys/men later.
Puberty was pretty much the defining factor back in the day for adulthood vs childhood.
What happened to the picture lol, is it ai’d?
Old meme from before ai, I think it might be from the show Robot Chicken.
Yeah I recognize the meme template but not that it looks so distorted?
Looks upscale from low-res.
An AI upscale that’s been fried back down to its original low resolution.
Ayy my state not being one of the bad ones for once
Did they make those laws based on the one in a million?
(I just mean like when that nerd high schooler gets an advanced college degree and they go on the news for it every year or few - like presumably that kid’s parents would know whether they could marry a 20 year-old or whether the older partner should be castrated)
Common MN win
But isn’t the age of consent 18 in the US? How does that work?
In the UK you used to be able to get married at 16, but the age of consent is 16, so it kind of made sense.
Someone else has broken down a lot of examples, but in the broader sense, around half of states, a little more than half IIRC, have an age of consent of 16. The reason 18 is so well known is that’s the age of consent where so much of our media is made, California.
“Fun” fact! Marriage is a defense to statutory.
In rural Oklahoma, you can fuck a teenager as long as you put a ring on it.
In some cases it’s also a easy way out of an abusive house hold for high schooler.
My mother for example was beat basically daily and abused by her parents. My father putting a ring on her allowed him to become her legal guardian and remove her from her parents while allowing her to keep going to school and be protected from the state forcing her to go back home.
My mother was 16 my father was 18. They met when she was a freshmen and him a junior. Dates all though out high school.
Sometimes being a little flexible is the right call. It sucks that we don’t have better systems in place to deal with such things. But you work with in the system you have.
Marriage cannot be the solution for child abuse.
But isn’t the age of consent 18 in the US? How does that work?
Common misconception, but nope! The U.S. decided to leave that one up to the states, since apparently whether or not it’s okay to screw children depends on… what geographical coordinates within the U.S. you’re located in. It’s also separate from whether or not you can marry btw.
It also depends on a number of different factors in some jurisdictions. For example, the age of consent might be 18, but with exemptions for someone who’s 16 or older with someone who is within 2 years of their age. (e.g. a 16yo & 18yo, 17yo & 19yo)
It can also vary based on larger age gaps. For example, Washington has the age of consent at 16, but it can go up to 18 if the other person is more than 5 years older and other conditions are met.
Or, you could be like Iowa, who sets it at 16… but allows people 14-15yo to do it with someone up to 18 or 19yo respectively.
For marriage, sometimes it lines up with age of consent and sometimes it doesn’t.
For example, California sets the age of consent at 18, and any sexual activity with someone 18 regardless of your age (even if you are also under 18, or even the same age) is a crime… unless you’re married, which can be done at any age in the state, so long as there is parental consent and a judge says yes.
To be very transparent… I’m basically just paraphrasing from these two Wikipedia pages 😅
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States
I will say that the 2 year age gap actually makes sense though. Dating in high school would be a lot weirder with restricted ages based on if your birthday was in May vs January of the same year.
Yeah, I definitely agree with that precedent. Stuff would be incredibly hard to navigate without it and you’d essentially just end up with a bunch of high schoolers technically committing a crime.
Certainly one way to speed up the school-to-prison pipeline 💀
Wow, that’s a lot more complicated than I would have expected!
Our system, although it’s basically the way it is because things change slowly here, kind of works for us. Between 16-18 here, you’re no longer in school, you go to college (different meaning than in the US!) or vocational training. It’s an in-between child and adult stage, where most people start doing grown-up things for the first time.
Wow, that’s a lot more complicated than I would have expected!
This happens a lot in the USA, because of how much autonomy the states have. A lot of decisions are left up to individual states, and some states end up doing strange things and add all sorts of exceptions to their laws. Even basic things like sick leave aren’t federally mandated (and only 19 or so out of the 50 states have mandated paid sick leave).
Sometimes it can be a good thing though… For example, California has the strictest privacy laws in the country (CCPA and CPRA, similar to GDPR in Europe), and Illinois has very strict laws on usage of biometrics (like fingerprints and facial recognition). Those would have been extremely hard to approve nationwide. Things that go well in one state often end up rolling out to other states too.
Dont hold up California as a good example of privacy when they’re leading the charge in demanding OS level age verification…
It’s not perfect, and I don’t like the OS-level age verification, but in terms of privacy it’s still far better than most other jurisdictions.
By that same logic don’t hold Europe up as a good example of privacy either despite the gdpr.
Like are you actually that stupid? Californias age verification thing is annoying yes, but cali is still one of the prime example of digital privacy and consumer protections in the world.
No where’s perfect for fuck sake. You can’t just ignore all the good cause one thing that hasn’t even happened yet could possibly be bad.
