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is it naïve of me to feel, deep in my bones, that despite how bleak it is now, the Western Bourgeoisie are overplaying their hand (hexbear.net)

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Like, yeah, they can 'get away with' ending soft power. They can 'get away with' extrajudicial killings. They're operating off of pure machismo right now. They're getting drunk on their vices. They're stripping masks where masks wouldn't be advised to be stripped. I feel like I understand now that Fascism is, in part, an expression of weakness. They wouldn't be doing this unless they were scared. It's too volatile. It feels both too late on a power-level and too early on a popular-level. Never mind the ticking time bomb that is AI data centers. It feels like, and I'm sure this is cope, there is a timer on their ability to run the circus much longer.

My first instinct here is to doubt myself, intellectual pessimism and all. In that vein, maybe this is just revolutionary optimism, but we're at the point where it feels like there is a palpable anger brewing in the basement. I don't know. Maybe Palantir works as an anti-communist panopticon and we just death spiral forever. I don't want to lose hope.

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[–] Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, this hard-power approach is self defeating. Sure, the US can STILL destabilize countries that they'd sanctioned and economically isolated for decades, but it doesn't mean the US can keep doing it in perpetuity.

What the government is doing is undermining every institution that made it successful in the first place. Coupled with the fact that the US is no longer an industrial powerhouse and maintains its hegemony through the dollar which is losing its reserve status gradually, means that the US is in a death spiral. All that fictitious capital doesn't mean jack once people start going hungry in droves.

They flame flickers most when it's about to go out.

Despite the US' hollywood-esque shenanigans, the material reality says the US' fate is sealed.

[–] CountryBreakfast@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The US is currently stealing the largest oil reserves on the planet, worth 4x the GNP of Japan, while already boasting the world's largest oil production.

Id say they're buying themselves more than enough time to do permanent damage.

[–] Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

Nah, the US can't move without profits. If there isn't profit to be made, no US organization will make a move.

Besides, the US is stretched thin. It's lashing out because it can't maintain its hold over it's colonies, so it's trying to get more vassals, except it still doesn't address the US' internal contradictions.

The empire is in free fall. Make no mistake