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2) There is a growing faction among Anglo elites - mostly but not entirely Dems and Labour types - who see the Sinification of Anglo economic and social life as the crucial project of our times
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3) The conspicuous mainstream progressive silence about things like the border camps can will lead to anti-authoritarian centrists and leftists to breaking with them
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4) The use of the US security state on domestic political actors will be normalized to a degree not usually seen in Western countries, likely to the point of members of Congress getting arrested on flimsy pretenses
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5) If Northern Ireland crashes out of the Good Friday Agreement it's gonna spend at least some time in a phase of Hong Kong-style street actions and firebombing, but with more rifles and drones.
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6) This ignores the history of working class neighborhoods such as those in Paris or other early modern capitals. The guns and barricades were often an effective means of exacting demands from a extractive social order.
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btw; the same logic that makes the border racist and classist makes this notion of controlling access to the gated off comfortable apartment racist and classist, too.
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you might as well ask for a "poor door"!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_door
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7) Jurisdictions are getting smaller. There's gonna be all manner of burbclave, but also giant proletarian housing blocs. Global warming is gonna move huge populations into prefab fortresses and out to seasteads (container favelas on ships probably) inside a decade.
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