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.
We don’t need the EU to do it. One day, like Germany, America is gonna bite off something bigger than it can chew. For the Germans it was the Soviet Union, for the Americans it’ll be China. It’s an unwinable war that the United States has been hyping itself up for around a decade, and many understand this, but it won’t matter. And it’ll all unravel from there. Doesn’t matter how many AI data centres you have when the Pearl River Delta alone can produce more missiles in a week than you can in a year.
The existence of nuclear weapons makes me terrified of this eventuality
Breaching and sabotaging nuclear launch sites should be something all forces opposed to the USA should be considering