Sending dollars out for the rest of the world to use as a reserve currency and sucking in the bulk of the world's resources was the SWEETEST SCAM AMERICA EVER HAD GOING FOR IT and this absolute fucking boob kicks it over because he thinks the "dollars go out" part means we're the ones being scammed.

I'm working on some stuff hopefully it will get a home soon

Portuguese merchants in Asia in the 1500’s

yeah absolutely. I remember seeing the cope cages in late 2023 and being like ohhhhhkay here we go. the IDF as a ground force seems basically broken but the problem is their air force isn't.

it is! it is but nobody gets it! nobody even understands the things that are happening right now. it really reminds me of Yurchak and Zubok's retelling of the beginning of the end of the USSR

thinkin about it

I also want to interview you for it lmao

no nobody does, but it's important, it's part of the substrate of what's breaking down, and I want to *make* people care about it

damn okay I need to get one of those clauses out of there

100% accurate also the rosewater move is a winner.

Garfunkel and Oates have the slowest-operating lathe of heaven in existence but its a big one

you watch the neighborhood...I'll watch the skies