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StratGoatCom
Aug 6, 2019

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The incompetency of the response to the plague has essentially doomed America as a hegemon, both due to the display of rampant ideological incompetency that it it has spread through its alliance system as well as crippling its workers through widespread sequellae, and its educational and medical systems as workers either die, suffer sequellae or flee for the hills.

It probably wasn't the only cause, but it was the last straw.

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StratGoatCom
Aug 6, 2019

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JBP posted:

Huge global resurgence via direct military power then everyone dies imo

Ehhh, getting a good supply of warm bodies might be difficult with a lot of long covid around.

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Aug 6, 2019

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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:

What is also funny about these effects and those who think our "democracy" is in decline because of Facebook is how powerless at actually changing politics they are. A half year of grassroots, direct action, social media driven BLM protest ended with the Democratic party rallying around police forces and agreeing to fund them more. Alleged Russian interference and Qanon crazines generated Trump, who governed as basically a standard Republican with slightly ruder rhetoric.

Facebook is not going to destroy our democracy, it is going to maintain the oligarchy we've always had. That's bad, but not for the reason people think.

what is precisely the difference, considering that oligarchy is terminally dog brained and running the system into a brick wall because they don't understand how it works?

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