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This is definitely happening - but more and more I’m finding my politics realigning around a single question: what preserves geopolitical stability long enough for us to get off planet and reach existential security? If this achieves that then so be it, if not then something else
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Their plan is literally partystate Sinification of Anglosphere politics and they aren't even bothering to mask that anymore twitter.com/NicoleGoodkind…
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It's incapable of achieving that though, it's hegemonic and totalitarian in an environment where the conditions for hegemony of any kind are evaporating rapidly It's shaped wrong for the problem
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Oof I suspect you are correct - but a dissolution of conditions for the continuation of some centres of hegemony on a single planet pre-existential security strikes me as an unimaginably dicey situation to be in. An explosion of dice rollers with catastrophic tech in their hands