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...

politics

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