Ironically, it is written on Substack.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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Instead of allowing the US government to continue to bully and threaten countries around the world, its Western allies must team up with friends in the Global South not just to force the United States into line, but to tackle the power of its out-of-control tech industry once and for all.
There is a big focus on US tech profits taken out of colonies. A bigger issue is political control. X/Meta going full MAGA with explicit favouritism on cultural issues and political parties in the colonies is an opposing force to the traditional CIA media controlling the worst moderate politicians in all of the colonies to support US wars. The far right tends to be NATO "skeptics" , and USAID (which Musk just terminated) is a CIA front.
The core "moderate brainworm" that must be cured is "US is a force for good with liberal ideals". Not only has it just rigged an election for the most fascist pro Israel ruler, the previous administration had huge faults of its own. There is a "liberal supremacist" brainworm which accepts every warmongering lie to diminish "less liberal" nations, and specifically Russia no matter how far away USSR is in history. The brainworm is incapable of judging nations on the progress/prosperity it gives its nation, only that there are few political distractions on how to make world the least sustainable possible. If you want Russia to accept human sustainable policies, you need to stop waging war against it.
That the tech industry offers itself as a new media colonization scheme on "US friends" with MAGA/ethnic supremacist validations is a sharp contrast to the traditional US control messages, and the obviousness that in a sustainable world, immigration helps sustain your economy for the future, with "soft racism" helping keep the immigrants at lower end of hierarchy. In an unsustainable world going to shit, then investing in future is pointless, and might as well end child education to keep the Senior vote. Cannibalism is coming. The only reason to contradict the traditional control message of "US is a humanist partner", is that the US needs divisiveness and wars in Europe. Ukraine was pure awesomeness for the US. All of the CIA puppets STFUd about nordstream sabotage.
For sure countries need to significantly tax US tech profit extraction, but they need to significantly extort money from US to tolerate US presence there. Canada actually defends the US instead of the other way around. It hosts NORAD, including radar that protects US from Russian ICBMs. US needs to pay for NORAD. EU military bases are occupation bases. German government spying is done from such occupation. US needs to pay for privilege, or leave.
When pro US countries accept US enemies as their own enemies, that becomes their point of insecurity. They only need US help in their defense, because they have chosen cooperating on demonic diminishment of the US's adversaries. The globe's enemy is the US empire. It has no love/humanity for anyone else.
I've already made this a separate post, but I do think it is very relevant to this. You can already start finding alternatives to US-centralized software and digital services, and these two sites are a great start:
Pretty sure there already is one and it's called BRICS.
yup, that's the free world
Or is it?
it's certainly more free than the fascist west
Lol, Russia gonna try to take that over, too. They're literally in the acronym.
when you definitely have a clue
short but dense article. a very useful read.
Burying a call to action in dense text is such a pain in the butt. I'm generally interested, but considering how many of these go nowhere, it doesn't seem worth the effort.
I hear ya. just not sure there is going to be a single buffet of easy, bitesized solutions :-(
Solutions don't need to be easy or bite sized, but they do need to be explained in a way that people want to read.
Burying them in dense text is one step away from putting them on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard."
still slightly less painful than listening to vogon poetry.
look, the hyperspace bypass is upon us. if you happen upon the literary equivalent of a subether sense-o-matic and a digital thumb, I will have my bathrobe and towel at the ready.
but we gotta try and take everyone.
Hiding ideas in text so dense it requires a Babel fish to understand won't bring many people with us.