I have the utopian hope that this is just a matter of circumstances… and how badly off they are. The majority is still doing so well that they can afford to be “apolitical.”

That one isn’t a bot but a user trying to bring more content to lemmy… maybe with questionable means.

Looking at this specific accounts history it seems as if its a regular poster (with a bit controverse ethics about content creation if you will) and as if OP has just labeled the account to be a bot.

They see the bubble collapsing and want to postpone the inevetable by ,voluntarily slowing" development.

Yes.

But my guess would be that almost every country, especially the US, is far to big to be governed by force. Spreading supply lines across a potentially hostile area of that size would be a nearly impossible task on its own… protecting all the industrial assets and natural ressources would be another.

Once it’s torn down no amount of court rulings will bring it back. Laws are useless if the admin is allowed to ignore them.

Why is this news?

Zuckerberg ist going to call Cheeto Benito and he’ll find a way to supress the trials outcome.

…I’m tired.

Two things that come to my mind:

1. In our current society money equals power over others. If you’re not the richest your not the most powerful and if you are you need to fight to proetct your power from other who are getting richer. It’s not about money but about determining the fate of others and rulership over society.
2. You don’t become obsecely rich by being a good person. Once you reach a billion dollars you most paobably already aquired a mindeset that leaves you no other choice than to look for another billion. Much like a hamster in a wheel which spins to fast to let it go off.

In the eyes of average humans (which I believe to be decent people, at least 80 % of the total population) this is insane… however the 10 - 20 % egoists are the ones we chose as our rulers.