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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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I didn't say anything about democracy, that's a lot older than the USA.
I was talking about capitalism.
Im not even gonna dignify your "we need military because the threat of musilm terrorists" which you just changed muslim terrorists to russia"
its the same old same old with the establishment. You're addicted to consumerism, and you think the rest of us are too, think about it!
Nothing is going to work out, the end is coming, and it's coming because of consumerism.
It destroyed the planet. Full stop. No argument can change that. It may have killed us all in the end.
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The American system of democracy is only as old as America; what the Greeks did was certainly in the same vein, but it was not the same system (by a long shot).
But consumerism != democracy and consumerism != military. It's a separate beast ... but the main source feeding that beast is the overpowered corporations in our society.
It's corporations (which did not exist, in their modern form at least, when our founders set everything up) that are killing this planet. It's their sole focus on profit above all else that forces them to find new ways for us all to consume this planet.