Father Dave !RsSxeehGwc joined in and replied with this 4 months ago, 43 minutes later, 58 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,390,903
It's weirder that the Secretary General of NATO calls him that as he tells Europeans and Brits that they'd either acquiesce to hundreds of billions of their taxpayer money being sent to the American military industrial complex or else "learn Russian".
Anonymous B replied with this 4 months ago, 39 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,390,911
Why is that weird. Empires don't last. Being ignorant to reality isn't easy. Power consolidation has been happening. We are a global economy. It's not necessarily a privilege to live in the US, as on personal levels there's more nuance in 'winning' and 'losing' but western society wasn't going to maintain world domination forever. Perhaps power structures could have been dismantled differently, but Trump and company have their own way, or 'style.'
Infinite growth is impossible in a closed system. Technology's absorption and commodification of life is actually pretty remarkable. You don't have to like or participate in a.i. but no one can deny that it's a nearly perfect product for capitalism. A service-physical product-monetary integration-social control/replacement and entertainment-allows for limitless technological improvement.
Anonymous B triple-posted this 4 months ago, 21 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,390,914
It's really difficult getting a full list of all real estate holdings personal and corporate from basically just a couple thousand people alive right now. Take trump for example, and look at the geopolitics. Add a couple Russian oligarchs, and Chinese ownership. It's not just panama papers or swiss bank accounts, but if there's ties to every continent there's a good chance there are ties to basically every controlling nation.
Sorry if that went a little ranty. People are just so caught up in social media lately everywhere. Honestly humanity deserves it.
Anonymous B quadruple-posted this 4 months ago, 20 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,390,921
Link real estate and land holdings back through the generations to the time of sailing ships and war horses. You either get conquered or make deals. Nobody ever just gives up property. We're already looking at Antarctic treaty negotiations, but these aren't new. Generations and family lines are a thing. it's the trickle down disambiguation that separates who people are. And corporations have taken the role of the family unit in some instances, but well /pol/ issues.