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There is an it. Sorry, just because there is no subject that can be blamed doesn't mean there isn't a coherent complex system of mechanisms that exhibits emergent intentionality and has clear effects.
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I mean I know you're an anti-marxist crusader, but seriously, the threat of marxism is not so huge now that you have to put lipstick on the happy pig of capitalism. I think fears of modern communism 2.0 are leading to some sort of dangerous idealization of capitalism.
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Nah, it's just some superficial rhyming. There are no Stalins lurking behind the pronoun warriors, anymore than there are Hitlers lurking behind the proudboys. It's all idiots larping behind scary historical masks.
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I'm more concerned with the Jacobinkin. they're smart, and sorta world beating so far imo. have a great market of resentment to tap into... people failing out of woke neoliberalism
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There's going to be a certain minimum level of damage involved in the level of inequality correcting itself. This is a blindspot of woke neoliberalism. They refuse to admit that inequality is in any sense a problem at all. They're still thinking it's some sort of mass confusion.
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Trumpism distracted us from thinking through inequality. We kinda hit pause on that debate in 2014 and need to pick it up again. To pretend it's a non-problem is to hand reins over to hard left, just as pretending white-left-behindness was a non-problem handed reins to Trumpism.
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I can. All countries of this size are going to fragment, either de facto (more regional political autonomy) or de jure (countries splitting off).
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Within 1 century, I predict all large countries of >200 million are going to break up, either soft or hard. So that's the US, China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Pakistan. Between 2 to 10 pieces each.
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I'd say there's as strong a chance there is a new ECB IMF hybrid dictating terms to every one of these lil countries and allocating carbon credits from a gilded, entirely corrupt city
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