They specifically referencing the link between libensraum and manifest destiny I believe.
Tom742
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Instinctually I would peg this on the economic impacts of covid, whether through the decline in traffic enforcement when PD’s threw their fits, lowered trust in society causing the “social glue” to unravel as material conditions worsen, etc.
Socially and economically disadvantaged counties and racial and ethnic minorities were disproportionately impacted.
This seems more like an economic impact than a covid caused brain damage impact.
A binary left/right would place things in absolute terms, and I’m not sure how that would look exactly. The single political axis allows for left/right to be placed in relative terms, and what happens is anything slightly left of far right becomes leftist in relation, despite not being leftist in the absolute. The single political axis is what I think enables our vibes based politicking, largely.
Darcy Coates is my current comfy author, nothing fancy just good slop. She has some haunted house books, haunted space ship books, haunted underwater sub books. Very nice stuff.
Something I was thinking on yesterday:
David Dobrik’s big thing on youtube was how “generous” he was. His vlogs would frequently feature him dropping large gifts of houses, cars, electronics, and cash on his “vlog squad” usually, but also giveaways to strangers. He used that gift giving to charity wash a lot of the wrong he was doing, and his supporters would defend him through his “charitable acts.” Dobrik made millions off his channel thanks in large part to his vlog squad, and none of them made a cent off being monetized by him. Their compensation was largely tied to those gifts.
Mr. Beast is similar in a lot of ways, but most notably also employing charity washing.
When dobrik quit youtube, he also quit all of his “charity” work, lmao. No more large gifts to his friends, despite his defense prior being “I’m just a generous person and love gift giving.” So one could make the argument, “dobrik you’re still rich, why are not still donating and giving gifts?” We all know the answer there.
What’s interesting to me is that Mr. Beast seems to have learned from that and insulated himself from that kind of criticism by tying in the viewers mind (like 80% are literal children) that the money he donates through various videos only consists of the money he made through previous videos, and that he himself is minimalist and doesn’t take an extravagant salary. That ignores the fact that he lives in an 80million dollar flat and drives exotic cars, but it really seems to have insulated him a little from the same type of criticism that dobrik would get.
If he indeed does have political aspirations he could jettison the beast channel, stop any type of donations and gifts, and have a defense for it.
Just a ramble, not sure where I was going with that.
Imagine it’s like your Rolex
The rage when I read this, gonna go
I don't think Biden has what it takes to campaign. But he has what it takes to be President.
And the more I think about what I just read 
That’s basically the IMF’s whole bid too, the west created a whole global institution to create loans that can never lose, their goal is debt trap.
Which is ironic considering the capitalists rhetoric around loans and interest is that riskier loans have higher interest because of the chance of default. Then they go and ensure that no loan is risky if it’s enough money owed to the right people.