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Anti-capitalist. Anti-imperialist. Anti-racist. Anti-colonialist.
Dreaming of the liberation of all Pasifika People
Demilitarize the Pacific
Dreaming of the liberation of all Pasifika People
Demilitarize the Pacific
Palau voted against a UN resolution that would combat "glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia ..." Many Pacific Island nations are just vassals of ameriKKKa😡
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Palau voted against a UN resolution that would combat "glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia ..." Many Pacific Island nations are just vassals of ameriKKKa😡
Every white settler could be a property owner. No wonder emigration to the "New World" (newly conquered, newly enslaved) was so popular in Old Europe. No wonder life in Amerika was spoken of almost as a fable by the masses of Old Europe. Young Amerika was capitalism's real-life Disneyland.
-J Sakai
-J Sakai
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Every white settler could be a property owner. No wonder emigration to the "New World" (newly conquered, newly enslaved) was so popular in Old Europe. No wonder life in Amerika was spoken of almost as a fable by the masses of Old Europe. Young Amerika was capitalism's real-life Disneyland.
-J Sakai
-J Sakai
"Political democracy will die without economic equality."
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"Political democracy will die without economic equality."
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
"The establishment of a new colonial, capitalist world system was enabled by the sacrifice of the tens of millions made to work under the whip, or die alone drowned in the Atlantic, crushed in mines, or slowly perishing from the pitted skin and scarred lungs of smallpox."
-Luke Kemp
-Luke Kemp
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"The establishment of a new colonial, capitalist world system was enabled by the sacrifice of the tens of millions made to work under the whip, or die alone drowned in the Atlantic, crushed in mines, or slowly perishing from the pitted skin and scarred lungs of smallpox."
-Luke Kemp
-Luke Kemp
"Researchers in 2022 tallied up the costs and benefits of this unequal international trade. They found that over the period 1990–2015 $10 trillion was transferred every year from the global south to the global north."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
November 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Researchers in 2022 tallied up the costs and benefits of this unequal international trade. They found that over the period 1990–2015 $10 trillion was transferred every year from the global south to the global north."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
"The US has 750 military bases scattered across eighty countries around the world and spends $849 billion annually on defence: around 40 per cent of all government spending on defence globally, and more than the next nine countries combined."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
November 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"The US has 750 military bases scattered across eighty countries around the world and spends $849 billion annually on defence: around 40 per cent of all government spending on defence globally, and more than the next nine countries combined."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
"As inequality rises, the society becomes more extractive. A wealth pump is established in which social arrangements increasingly benefit elites at the expense of the poor."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
October 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"As inequality rises, the society becomes more extractive. A wealth pump is established in which social arrangements increasingly benefit elites at the expense of the poor."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy
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Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy
If Zuckerberg deliberately enables advertisers to microtarget weight-insecure girls with content that will push them to suicide, then we are living in an unprecedented dystopia ruled by the sickest of...
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October 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy
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"U.S. imperialism would rather that all Third-World people in their Empire remain totally blank and ignorant about themselves, their nations, their cultures, their pasts, about each other, about everything except going to work in the morning. But that day is over."
-J. Sakai
-J. Sakai
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"U.S. imperialism would rather that all Third-World people in their Empire remain totally blank and ignorant about themselves, their nations, their cultures, their pasts, about each other, about everything except going to work in the morning. But that day is over."
-J. Sakai
-J. Sakai
A 400-Word History of Capitalism
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A 400-Word History of Capitalism
Humans were not corrupted by capitalism. They created it because they were corrupt in the first place. Capitalism has been accused of creating today’s selfishness, individualism and narcissism, but th...
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October 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A 400-Word History of Capitalism
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The definition of the "imperial boomerang"
October 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The definition of the "imperial boomerang"
"While migration to the US is an attractive option for many in Micronesia, it is far from easy. Not only are there the usual difficulties with relocating and navigating a new social milieu, but discrimination toward Micronesian migrants is rampant..."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
September 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"While migration to the US is an attractive option for many in Micronesia, it is far from easy. Not only are there the usual difficulties with relocating and navigating a new social milieu, but discrimination toward Micronesian migrants is rampant..."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"There may be support from some for the Americanization of Micronesian societies, and feelings of affinity and patriotism toward the US may be widespread, but there is plenty of animosity toward the US in the 2nd island chain as well."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
September 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"There may be support from some for the Americanization of Micronesian societies, and feelings of affinity and patriotism toward the US may be widespread, but there is plenty of animosity toward the US in the 2nd island chain as well."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
Isabella Sumang advocating for Palau's right to real sovereignty where the people can write their own constitution and make their own laws.
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September 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Isabella Sumang advocating for Palau's right to real sovereignty where the people can write their own constitution and make their own laws.
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"...the US treated these islands (Micronesia) as areas of strategic denial, sites for military bases, and sacrifice zones for nuclear weapons testing. The US blocked attempts for formal sovereignty... by disallowing any foreign direct investment for 3 decades."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
September 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"...the US treated these islands (Micronesia) as areas of strategic denial, sites for military bases, and sacrifice zones for nuclear weapons testing. The US blocked attempts for formal sovereignty... by disallowing any foreign direct investment for 3 decades."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"It is inaccurate to state that there is an urgent need for a robust US military presence in the Western Pacific to counter an imminent, articulated Chinese threat, because that threat appears to emanate more from actors in Washington than it does from Beijing."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
September 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"It is inaccurate to state that there is an urgent need for a robust US military presence in the Western Pacific to counter an imminent, articulated Chinese threat, because that threat appears to emanate more from actors in Washington than it does from Beijing."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"...the Pacific continues to be treated by external states not so much as a home to Indigenous inhabitants but as a stage on which to compete with each other militarily, politically, and economically."
-Sasha Davis; Islands & Oceans, Reimagining Sovereignty & Social Change
-Sasha Davis; Islands & Oceans, Reimagining Sovereignty & Social Change
September 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"...the Pacific continues to be treated by external states not so much as a home to Indigenous inhabitants but as a stage on which to compete with each other militarily, politically, and economically."
-Sasha Davis; Islands & Oceans, Reimagining Sovereignty & Social Change
-Sasha Davis; Islands & Oceans, Reimagining Sovereignty & Social Change
"Whether we are talking about unincorporated territories such as Guåhan, commonwealths such as the Northern Marianas,... or incorporated/occupied archipelagos such as Hawaii, there is nothing post-colonial about the contemporary Pacific."
-Sasha Davis, Islands & Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands & Oceans
September 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Whether we are talking about unincorporated territories such as Guåhan, commonwealths such as the Northern Marianas,... or incorporated/occupied archipelagos such as Hawaii, there is nothing post-colonial about the contemporary Pacific."
-Sasha Davis, Islands & Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands & Oceans
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"On the left side of the political spectrum, indigenous groups, anti-imperialist social movements, and progressive anti-capitalists have looked to enhancing sovereignty as a way to resist the exploitation of transnational capitalism..."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
September 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"On the left side of the political spectrum, indigenous groups, anti-imperialist social movements, and progressive anti-capitalists have looked to enhancing sovereignty as a way to resist the exploitation of transnational capitalism..."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
