• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 hours ago

    I said it shouldn’t only be easy.

    and glamorising the fact that things had to be fought over more than a lifetime.

    Those people are stronger than you, so sure, yeah.

    I can just call the US government support number to voice my disapproval, can’t I?

    Let me lay out a strategy for you:

    VISA has decided conservative authoritarianism is cool.

    We bully them into rescinding this.

    Later, VISA decides again that conservative authoritarianism is cool.

    We bully them into rescinding this.

    Later, when we have the means, we take their processor from them.

    Now, we don’t need to bully them. We own the processor. We decide what it does.

    The above plan is, literally, all I’m arguing for. You’re with everything until that final step. Why are you so against taking power?

    If you don’t trust the people in government, you should be in government then. Join your own country’s, pressure the US.

    If you would like “we” to be International, by all means. Go for it. I won’t stop you. I don’t need our PayPal to be owned by the US. Maybe all countries have their own PayPal. Maybe the UN governs one.

    None of these problems get solved whatsoever, though, if you refuse to be in power. One day, VISA will just stop taking your calls. You’ll get an answering machine that says, “We won the game for control of the world. Eat shit.”