Don’t let your car kill other people, if your expensive deathtrap kills you I feel bad but I can’t say it’s unexpected.

Centuries and no periodically.

I’m describing the systematic roll-back of free travel, free trade, and freedom of individuals to co-mingle absent legal barriers.

Yes, periodically we just went over this and you seem to be intentionally missing the point and spouting random unrelated bullshit.

we remain both socially and physically less independent of our authoritarian oligarchs than we were prior to the European Imperialist Era.

Horseshit opinion.

You described literal progress only to say it’s the illusion of progress. You aren’t even making logical sense.

There is no legitimate argument that we haven’t moved leftward over the last thousand or so years.

So progress that only seems like progress but progress is progress boss. I’m not sure what exactly you’re arguing but so far it seems… Outlandish and removed from reality.

I mean yeah. That’s the cyclic nature of politics, we learn a lesson and get a bit better, forget that lesson, get away worse, only to overcorrect and end up better than the first. We move pretty consistently leftward politically globally but only as a reaction to incredible periodic swings to the right.

Starship troopers the book and the movie are separate. The movie is it’s own special beautiful absurdity loosely based on the book but not really at all.

Because they’re not going to do that. You can’t call them terrorists and expect logical reasonable action or reaction.

The Palestinian people by in large did not vote Hamas in, over 50% of the people in Gaza were not alive during the last election.