Ferrous

Insinuating that an individual's turn to trumpism/fascism is due to lead or stupidity completely disregards the decades of regulatory capture, dismantling of social safety nets, financial strain, alienation, and liberal capitalism that ultimately promotes fascism.

If you don't abandon this mode of thinking quickly, you're going to find yourself more and more confused as more people start turning fascist. The only explanation via your current framework is "well, I guess these millions of people must just be.... dumb". This is the danger of liberal thinking - it doesn't address the cause of fascism or how to kill it. If your framework were correct, we'd see volumes of work that show how lower IQ directly correlates with fascistic tendencies: obviously we know that idea is not only ableist but also incorrect.

The marxist critique actually takes into account the economic systems and structures that lead to fascism.

As an electrical engineer who dabbled in RF in school, that sounds supremely difficult.

The climate crisis is getting exponentially worse despite democrats having held office. The solution is going to be outside of American electoralism. It will have to be an international workers movement if there's any hope of dismantling regulatory capture and supremely powerful special interests.

Refining capitalism isn't going to save the planet.

The IDF killed so many of their own people on Oct 7 that they refuse to investigate further.

Why do you think surveillance units cannot be hostile? By that logic, you'd be fine with the Houthis flying surveillance drones over US soil.

At the bare minimum, it's a 5000 pound drone that could do damage if it falls out of the sky. Sure, the chances are minimal, but why should Houthis be expected to bear that risk?

“Yemeni air defenses were able to shoot down an American plane (MQ-9) with a suitable missile while it was carrying out hostile missions against our country on behalf of the Zionist entity,” a Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Sarea, said in a statement.

“Yemeni armed forces will not hesitate to take more military measures and carry out more qualitative operations against all hostile targets in defense of beloved Yemen,” the statement said.

I'm struggling to see which part of this statement is braggadocious.

Heavy equipment also use the technology. Someone using this tool at a construction site could cause massive issue to 70k pound loaders using radar to detect personnel.

Can you show me a single time in history when a ruling class simply "ceased to exist" due to a "primarily progressive" populace?

Ruling classes: classes with power, money, capital, do not simply cease to exist. Their power isn't given up so easily.

Your original premise that only conservative voters protect the ruling class is so demonstrably wrong. Look at at the entirety of the social democratic Europe: who have attained riches from the global south. Look back to FDR voters who cheered internment camps. Look at modern Biden voters who tacitly approve genocide in Gaza. Look to the social democrats who betrayed leftists in Germany. Make no mistake: democrats preserve capitalism.

You have a warped view of our issues as left vs right when they're actually up vs down: which plays into the hands of big interests like big oil. And the result is that you are pacifying people who would otherwise be doing actual class analysis and have some ounce of revolutionary fervor. Instead, you're perpetuating the myth that all the evil we experience in our politics is due to baddies on the right who are proud Republicans.

I suspect that as time goes on, while the US and world continue to backside into genocidal fascism, you'll find yourself confused and aimless, wondering why every tool at your disposal (electoralism, kissing the feet of democrats) isn't helping to stop Nazis.

You have to read some Marx and understand these are class-based issues as opposed to left v right.

So honest question: why do you find it more accurate to refer to these people as conservatives instead of the ruling class in your original comment?

... who get tacit approval from liberal democrats. Both parties are bought and paid for by special interests: namely oil. Biden has drilled more than Trump.

Nope.

More money = more drones = more power = undefeatable.

/s obviously, but it is maddening to hear people talk about modern civil wars as if they're fought like the American revolutionary war: huge fronts of soldiers walking toward each other, where more bodies and resources were more indicative of a strong force.

That line of thinking went out the window 100 years ago. The sheer might of the US army does not mean as much when it takes just one disgruntled Texan to shoot critical power transformers, take a government official's child hostage, blow up rail lines, etc..

The idea that the American army is an unbeatable force because of our money expenditure is nothing more than American exceptionalism, and I'd encourage believers of that line of thinking to learn about modern guerilla warfare.

This is what a lot of local Thai places started using near me.