Geopolitics

Anyone else starting to get worried about this rise of casual open imperialism? Like, not "peaceful trade at prices social justice activists don't like" imperialism but actual "let's go conquer stuff" imperialism. I know it's "meant to be a joke", but often such jokes are a first step to normalizing something dark...

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agreed, but has said principled defense worked at all before

it also forfeits any moral high ground or principled defense for the USA opposing imperialism by Russia or China.

Fair enough — my point is that many many people vote with their feet.

None of the countries I'd be happy to live in.

Honest question: how many countries would jump at the chance of becoming a part of the US if they could?

Trump's return simply means masks off for the US

It's always been an imperialist power masquerading as an exporter of ideals

But these so called ideals don't even hold up to a modicum of scrutiny domestically

Im extremely worried.  Its hard to talk about because it feels like there isn’t much we can do.

I was already worried about casual hegemony, ngl. contrary to the imperialists, there seemed to be a casual mix of anarchism in some areas and totalitarianism in others, completely covert to the extent that it's so normalized.

which is sort of the tone with the jokes, that they're so overt they're debatably harmless, and one might say the same about ironic/satirical humor spreading other politics.

in any case, this mindset would be moot in any real interaction between Canada and the U.S., since there's other international nuances that are completely missing from that content.

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I’m just a simple Canadian hoping to not be annexed.

Hoping for a glimmer of coherent strategy? Really, still?

Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable. And I’m hopeful it’s just an opening gambit for trade negotiations.

Totally. This is the kind of thoughts that triggered my "Etehreum as a Neutral Economic Zone" post.

Totally. This is the kind of thoughts that triggered my "Etehreum as a Neutral Economic Zone" post.

https://blog.vrypan.net/2024/12/23/ethereum-as-a-neutral-economic-zone/

Hernan Cortes had no intention of peaceful trade; which would have setup the Meso empires to experience their industrial revolution, hyper GDP with expansion into North America.  And a robust, global maritime economy coordinated from Tenochtitlan would have rivaled Great Britain.

His delivery is often casual, but when has he actually been joking?

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Modern nazism/imperialism/war justification sucks for this reason, surely it wasn’t this unserious back in the day 😭

It always starts as a joke. And if you object? “Haha chill bro, it’s only a joke”.

Then later, when it’s real, it’s too late to object.

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This deserve a much longer post, but let me try.

I can't be alone in noticing the big shift in the last 1-2 years in how the ruling class communicates & acts.

I think it's mostly driven by the fact that AI significantly changes the power dynamic between labor and capital; and the ruling class realizes they don't have to play "nice" anymore.

Palestinian Gen0cide was a big catalyst too; because it's been so openly committed and the only way to ignore it has been surfacing supremacist tendencies even many educated people internally carried. A point of no return.

Meanwhile, Microsoft for the first time admitted that AI isn't about productivity but about labor replacement. Anthropic is working with US military. Altman, Zuckerberg kissing Trump's feet. Musk, Thiel, Andreessen, even Brian Armstrong are now openly spreading far-right conspiracy theories.

Callousness is not limited to tech either. Journalism (NYT), healthcare (UHG), education (Col.Uni.); all power players are brazenly attacking the 99%.

Talking about this for a year. And it's not just Trump. Let's go conquer imperialism has been very much active for a while now.

Now Trump understands Overton Window well so he wants to normalize stuff, shifting narratives further imperialist.

But leftists saw this trend years ago.

Talking about this for a year. And it's not just Trump. Let's go conquer imperialism has been very much active for a while now.

Now Trump understands Overton Window well so he wants to normalize stuff, shifting narratives further imperialist.

But leftists saw this trend years ago.

https://warpcast.com/chainleft/0x8044265d

This is what fascists do. They go out and try to conquer their neighbors because of problems at home that they don't have the answers for domestically

And I think it's been obvious to a lot of people for a while now that MAGA was heading in this direction

I’ve found that when you hear people say ‘it’s meant to be a joke’, it’s not a joke…

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We always are just in different areas 

Now it's time to have "enlightening" moments that help bring light to the darkness

We are in for some truly dark times ahead.

it is weird and highlights how America is on its own vs. brics