A large portion of the world is resigned to enslavement (through economic and violent coercion and through PR) by megalomaniacs who see the world from a nation-state perspective and who are personally hyper-competitive.
[−]cmrdporcupine · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:37 UTC ·
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They only want you to see the world from a nation-state perspective.
Meanwhile they're making business and political moves trans-nationally behind the scenes to support their own wealth and power.
Notably those linkages they're making have nothing to do with the "classic" G7 neo-liberal trading alliances and consensus and everything to do mostly with petroleum extraction and real estate, and the entities they control.
We are in agreement. Yes, they are personally hyper-competitive and many are out for personal gain. Many of them do also see the world from the lens of the nation state and want their country to win.
[−]cmrdporcupine · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:14 UTC ·
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They want nothing more than to use their nation state and nationalism as a pawn for their own personal interests. Some of them, yes, have deluded themselves into thinking they're one and the same (I think Trump himself is like this) but others are very clearly more Machiavellian about this.
Meanwhile they're making business and political moves trans-nationally behind the scenes to support their own wealth and power.
Notably those linkages they're making have nothing to do with the "classic" G7 neo-liberal trading alliances and consensus and everything to do mostly with petroleum extraction and real estate, and the entities they control.
It's all just "might makes right" shit.