Senor Barborito wrote:

Switzerland did alright when it was surrounded completely by hostile nations, you'll recall, but that has a lot to do with terrain and every male citizen owning an assault rifle

Senor Barborito wrote:

(they account for each distributed *sealed* case of bullets in regular checkups which is why they maintain a low murder-rate despite the assault rifle proliferation - almost every single instance of gun violence they have is suicide via gun to the head).

Senor Barborito wrote:

Beyond that sidenote, the United States is in the perfect fucking position. It's got moats on either side thousands of miles wide and several deep, a thinly-veiled proxy state to the north and a virtual slave state to the south.

Senor Barborito wrote:

Scandinavia and Switzerland serve as living proof that a) a healthy degree of socialism and b) direct democracy rather than corporation-owned representatives both CAN scale.

Senor Barborito wrote:

What the people of the United States need to give up is the constant barbarian desire to not just live well but to live so much better than everyone else as to humiliate them. It's sickening and outdated and the degree to which we exercise it does not aid the capitalism-as-darwinism stance Ray of Light! takes regardless of whether you agree with him.

Senor Barborito wrote:

As for closing the borders to Mexican and imported Indian/Russian/Baltic indentured servants for the purposes of picking fruit or cheap tech support, respectively - you don't hear me disagreeing. Both the mid/far left (anti-globalization) AND right (nationalists) are in solid agreement here. The only people politically enabling this are the centrist sheep (who simply don't care) led to vote for bought-off candidates by the tune of the corporations' pied-piper TV advertisements.

Senor Barborito wrote:

A full war this time could be like entering a Mogadishu that had a modicum of organization and civilization - ERROR WILL ROBINSON.