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Henry Kissinger has only been dead for like a year and apparently there's not a single fucking guy speaking sense to these idiots. They have no idea why the systems are there and they refuse to learn, as even Marxist economists are going "holy shit buddy are you sure you wanna do that?"
I think we’re under appreciating how cucked the average American is.
The average American is evidently very willing to engage in adventurist acts. It's not a huge leap for them to start picking different targets.
My spouse has a nurse coworker who has six-figure student debt. She's working thirteen-hour night shifts many days of the week to pay it off, and still studying to become an NP (which is like a super nurse and very well-paid). My spouse describes herself as "a socialist but not a communist" but she is also thankfully missing lots of liberal brainworms—a few weeks ago she mentioned that this coworker had said something about "Uyghurs," which my spouse had never heard of. But oh man, of course I know all about it. And I was just like...you're drowning in debt, you're crying in front of your coworkers every day, you're either working or studying almost every waking moment for month after month, and this is what you're worried about? This is the kind of media you're consuming? You hate Chinese people, you hate Muslims, but you're very concerned about Chinese Muslims—right? And of course, not a word about Palestine from this coworker. Not a single complaint about the Democrats never lifting a finger to provide universal education or even pay people to go to school.
Whiteness just boggles the mind I guess. So many destitute Americans (many who are not white on the outside at least) will jump whenever the ruling class tells them to.
Real "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you" moment.
A lot of people are fine being pissed on by the ruling class as long as there's also people below them in the hierarchy for them to piss on.
Kissinger and his cohort were so effective because they knew what they were peddling to the public was bullshit. The new generation that's in power now didn't seem to get the memo—they're true believers.
I swear to God this is the missing piece in all of the analysis that tries to explain the current predicament. We're ruled by a cadre of magicians' nephews who never got told how the tricks work and think that the assistant actually gets sawed in half. And here comes AI in the latest hour: the mechanical turk of the 21st century
Shit fucking rules