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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
These are fantastic thoughts. One question that comes to my mind: With roughly 750 American military bases in roughly eighty countries outside of the United States, is any global struggle divorced from American hegemony geopolitically, historically and culturally? I can casually connect almost any American headline to any global justice struggle. Pick a U.S. headline topic and a global struggle out of two hats at random. For example: Flint, Michigan lead poisoning and repression of Iranian leftists? Post World War II war manufacturing capacity and oil dependency got re-appropriated as gluttonous consumerism for which Flint was both a design aesthetic and auto industry factory town. Racist bank covenants evacuated non-white wealth from Flint during and after auto-making’s heyday. Eisenhower’s CIA overthrew Iranian democracy at the behest of those same banking and oil interests in 1953. Those interests abandoned Iran’s Shah when he challenged their hegemony paving a path to theocratic takeover.
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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
“American” issues only seem “American” in a momentary framing. I THINK the rule you want @rathermercurial.eth is that: “Justice will be discussed from a perspective that is post-American hegemony. This means that it will be framed with the assumption that future justice hegemony that replaces American hegemony is the natural state of the world today. This means what whenever possible, we will describe issues as the champions of new justice hegemony—not documentarians of old injustice hegemony.” THAT rule would ban what I just did— articulate the valid ways American hegemony animated a global struggle. I kind of like that rule and think it would make this an interesting space. What do other people think?
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@tayzonday watching chocolate rain as a youth, I would never have imagined I'd one day read tay sharing his thoughts global movements from flint to post-war europe, Iran under the shah very cool
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Should we have 750 military bases in 80 countries or is that just antagonizing to those unfriendly to us?
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