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Cherico

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Replace the slogans with "Our Democracy"TM, and similar, and that's broadly correct. The actual American people are just there to provide funding and cannon fodder for the Neocon global Empire (and the private interests of individual Neocons of course), the same way Roman citizens were for the Late Republic and the Senatorial elite.

Now, Cato can loudly proclaim his Roman patriotism entirely honestly while his idea of Rome is nothing outside the interests and ideology of the Senatorial elite. Neocons have to do more doublethink to reach the same conclusion with all the advances in political thought since Rome.

If you want to have empire then you must compensate the people who make your empire possible.
 

shangrila

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If you want to have empire then you must compensate the people who make your empire possible.
It's extremely, extremely, common for the ruling elite of Empires to try to replace the people that made the empire possible instead, with outsiders that can be more easily controlled. (Which works . . . for a time) The Roman Empire demilitarized Italians and turned to provincials, mainly Illyrians, to maintain the Empire, and eventually foreign barbarians. The standard story of Islamic Empires is the rise of a tribal confederation, then once the Empire is established, the leaders build up a corps of slave soldiers to put down the tribal commons. Manchuria is Han Chinese today because the Manchurian Qing literally conducted a population replacement on their own homeland.
 

Captain X

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Osaul
How, petulance as the government casually kicks him in the balls until he squeals?
And what power do you suppose the government of Australia has to tell Musk what to do? Or that of Brazil?
Oh, let me guess - you're one of those people who has derangement syndrome toward Musk. :sneaky:



In other news, it really is pathetic the way these people are just such slippery snakes.
 

Captain X

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Osaul

TL;DW - Youtube deleted some videos from TimcastIRL after they had been on for 3 years, and are their usual evasive selves in just claiming some nebulous rule violation(s), yet also claim that the videos had always been in violation. They coincidentally all had Alex Jones in them, and it just happens to be an election year. He's threatening YouTube with deleting all his videos and only leaving new episodes up for a week since he doesn't want some retroactively enforced rules violations to end up getting his account banned, and apparently YouTube actually doesn't want him to do that and are trying to assure him he's fine. He also talks about some negotiations he's participating in to try to build a future of the channel by building a "parallel economy."
 

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