Basman

Unchecked power does make for a worse, more corrupt society and leaders that lose touch with reality. Putin litterally thought that he was going to die if he didn't invade Ukraine. Big corporations will pay tribute to king Trump in bribes and gifts while they enslave you and your children.

Besides the UK and Russia, all European countries have paid their debts in full since WW2. But you clearly don't deal in facts, but in selective memories. Whatever suits you ideologically in the moment. Your a "might-makes-right" post-truth authoritarian. You only care about sound bites. Ironially, this is a sign of American decline and it losing its influence globally.

Sentiment that could skew in an authoritarian direction isn't uncommon, like expressing distrust in democracy and economic insecurity. Trump does acknowledge genuine societal issues that technocratic governments don't by virtue of these issue being systemic, but his solutions are simplistic sound bites that essentially amount to scape goating and are ultimately directed by whatever mood he is in as opposed to any principle grounded in politics. Trump will only make things worse while blaming his opponents for everything. Like how the US government is propping up AI to hedge against a recession because it is the only growing sector. Trump doesn't want a recession while he is in term and therefor plans to illegally bail out OpenAI from all the debts they can't pay. He'll be out of office by the time the recession hits if he doesn't succeed at becoming dictator. Then he'll blame the then president for the recession like he blamed Joe Biden for the economic downturn post-covid. That's my analysis at least. Trump hates looking incompetent. He literally cannot take advice, like with the tariff debacle. No one could tell him that it was a stupid idea from head to toe. He would literally be richer if he had just invested his stocks into index funds and did nothing instead of trying to build a bunch of businesses. It's all about image for him. Rant over.

It will remove a politician from the game, and if that politician is for example an authoritarian then you will have less authoritarianism in your politics. But it is undemocratic and uninstitutional. Your undermining the entire game of representative democracy when you start killing your rivals. If you normalize the killing of political leaders in general you create an environment where political control is a matter of physical survival, which reduces a country's options for constructive action. You can't have checks and balances if divided power is physically dangerous.

MAGA cultist brainrot. "My dad gave your dad money 80 years ago and I want it back now."

According to Anders Nielsen, the Trump regime wants create a new world order where the world is split into three spheres of influence. The Americas for the US, Asia for China and Europe for Russia. A new era of imperialism. Trump is envisioning the end game of the authoritarian movement, where he is part of an exclusive club of world leaders in an order where superpowers are free to dominate smaller countries.

People probably latched unto the theory because it does speak to a certain dynamic that people recognize even though it's unscientific.

I'd add closing of loop holes that skirt around taxation by technicality. Like what Elon Musk is doing by being paid in stocks and borrowing money. Foodora left Australia without paying the workers the wages they where owed. Internationals shouldn't be barred from running their business in one country if they don't live up to their legal obligations in another country through an international coalition. The government needs to have corporations under control and not the other way around. There's too much corruption politically and a lack of political will to regulate big corporations. One thing that China does right is that they are a sovereign power over their corporation.

Now Trump has a track record. You think he'll invade Greenland as well as he said he would? And how is Europe going to react, since Greenland is technically part of NATO via Denmark? If he invades I have feeling that Europe is just going to roll over while meekly complaining.

Violet Evergarden is an anime that insists upon itself. Gas station cry bait.

The new-Age therapy speak is crazy.

Each stage builds on each other like a flight of stairs. You miss one step and your staircase lacks the structural integrity to take you to heaven.

Higher stages are functionally superior in terms of being effective societies. The higher the stage, the more technology and resources a society has, both in terms of raw materials and institutionally (knowledge, skilled workers, etc.) Something like Sillicone Valley is an indispensible resource for technological innovation unique to stage orange development. Lower stages can't create a resource like sillicone valley or NASA. Actualized is a resource that couldn't happen in a less developed country. Case in point, would you rather live in Norway or Sudan?

It's a common but mistaken criticism of spiral dynamics that it is about superiority. It's just a map of cultural and moral development. It's descriptive, not judgemental.