SPECTACLE OF WAR
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Spectating conflicts. Musings on GeoPolitics, Domestic & International Affairs.
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Geopolitics of Drones
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Drone Warfare — Post factum
How UAVs are reshaping modern conflict?
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December 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Geopolitics of Drones
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Trump has been trying to go full dictator this entire time, if he could just do it he already would have. His public support plummeting isn’t going to make the task easier
Reality Time:
If Trump truly intends to go full dictator, it'll happen in the next 11 months. The way he's destroying the country, there is a full on GOP bloodbath coming next Nov, and when that happens and Dems take ALL of Congress, he knows he's going to be impeached, removed, and jailed.
If Trump truly intends to go full dictator, it'll happen in the next 11 months. The way he's destroying the country, there is a full on GOP bloodbath coming next Nov, and when that happens and Dems take ALL of Congress, he knows he's going to be impeached, removed, and jailed.
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Trump has been trying to go full dictator this entire time, if he could just do it he already would have. His public support plummeting isn’t going to make the task easier
Dictatorship against the Left = Fascism
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Dictatorship against the Left = Fascism
Okay fine, I’ll peruse through… so much work yet to be done. But the dungeon doors must open and I must come up for air occasionally.
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Okay fine, I’ll peruse through… so much work yet to be done. But the dungeon doors must open and I must come up for air occasionally.
Current party politics in America is managing structural decay while projecting strength.
Both parties represent wealthy corporate class, w/ no plan but performing empire.
As the social contract collapses so too will partisan coalitions.
Both parties represent wealthy corporate class, w/ no plan but performing empire.
As the social contract collapses so too will partisan coalitions.
April 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Current party politics in America is managing structural decay while projecting strength.
Both parties represent wealthy corporate class, w/ no plan but performing empire.
As the social contract collapses so too will partisan coalitions.
Both parties represent wealthy corporate class, w/ no plan but performing empire.
As the social contract collapses so too will partisan coalitions.
What is nationalism to a lost civilization? 1/🧵
Every civilization worships something.
Even secular ones.
Especially secular ones.
Every civilization worships something.
Even secular ones.
Especially secular ones.
April 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
What is nationalism to a lost civilization? 1/🧵
Every civilization worships something.
Even secular ones.
Especially secular ones.
Every civilization worships something.
Even secular ones.
Especially secular ones.
Not every empire is destroyed.
Some commit suicide.
Some with drama, but most likely through boring bureaucratic delegation:
→ of truth to spectacle
→ of governance to wealth
→ of memory to myth
🧵1/
Some commit suicide.
Some with drama, but most likely through boring bureaucratic delegation:
→ of truth to spectacle
→ of governance to wealth
→ of memory to myth
🧵1/
April 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Not every empire is destroyed.
Some commit suicide.
Some with drama, but most likely through boring bureaucratic delegation:
→ of truth to spectacle
→ of governance to wealth
→ of memory to myth
🧵1/
Some commit suicide.
Some with drama, but most likely through boring bureaucratic delegation:
→ of truth to spectacle
→ of governance to wealth
→ of memory to myth
🧵1/
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Take care of your neighbors and friends, you're going to need community more than ever.
@scalzi.com You literally wrote the book on Collapsing Empire[s], any advice for people living in the US in 2025?
April 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Take care of your neighbors and friends, you're going to need community more than ever.
American empire isn’t collapsing the way people expected. It’s collapsing exactly the way it was designed to.
New project. First release.
Welcome to Spectacle of War.
🧵1/8
New project. First release.
Welcome to Spectacle of War.
🧵1/8
April 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
American empire isn’t collapsing the way people expected. It’s collapsing exactly the way it was designed to.
New project. First release.
Welcome to Spectacle of War.
🧵1/8
New project. First release.
Welcome to Spectacle of War.
🧵1/8
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Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia.
Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.
Extraordinary.
Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.
Extraordinary.
February 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia.
Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.
Extraordinary.
Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.
Extraordinary.
The Trump Administration & The Game of Nations; 🌐🧵1/
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February 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The Trump Administration & The Game of Nations; 🌐🧵1/
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Technocracy sidelines representative governance, replacing it with rule by unelected “experts” and algorithms.
This weakens the social contract by removing decision-making from democratic deliberation and placing it in the hands of corporate elites.
#Technocracy #Thechnofeudalism
This weakens the social contract by removing decision-making from democratic deliberation and placing it in the hands of corporate elites.
#Technocracy #Thechnofeudalism
Technocratic Transhumanism is a virus, not a solution.
I think I've found a way to articulate what bothers me about the trajectory of the modern tech industry (and to some extent... society).
We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.
This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.
We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.
This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.
February 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Technocracy sidelines representative governance, replacing it with rule by unelected “experts” and algorithms.
This weakens the social contract by removing decision-making from democratic deliberation and placing it in the hands of corporate elites.
#Technocracy #Thechnofeudalism
This weakens the social contract by removing decision-making from democratic deliberation and placing it in the hands of corporate elites.
#Technocracy #Thechnofeudalism
The administration’s focus on immediate power grabs without considering long-term consequences is like burning down your house to stay warm for the night.
Tomorrow’s going to be cold.
Tomorrow’s going to be cold.
February 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The administration’s focus on immediate power grabs without considering long-term consequences is like burning down your house to stay warm for the night.
Tomorrow’s going to be cold.
Tomorrow’s going to be cold.
Instructive for our times and in this phase. You can see it displayed nightly as the gap between what govt heads and officials say will happen and what results on the ground, grows. It creates a responsive public cognitive dissonance that will eventually break, or not…
One of the defining features of our current moment of lumpenfascism is a preoccupation with symbols of strength, power, or prestige, while being totally uninterested, or even actively opposed to learning about, the actual reasons why those symbols came to be in the first place. Cargo cult ideology.
February 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Instructive for our times and in this phase. You can see it displayed nightly as the gap between what govt heads and officials say will happen and what results on the ground, grows. It creates a responsive public cognitive dissonance that will eventually break, or not…
Technocratic Transhumanism is a virus, not a solution.
I think I've found a way to articulate what bothers me about the trajectory of the modern tech industry (and to some extent... society).
We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.
This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.
We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it.
This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.
February 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Technocratic Transhumanism is a virus, not a solution.
Drain the swamp they said 😂😂
Imagine America is a boat 🚢🇺🇸
Letting corporatists dismantle government wholesale is like removing the engine from the boat to make it go faster.
It will never drain the swamp.
Putting holes in the boat will ensure getting stuck in the mud with no way out.
Imagine America is a boat 🚢🇺🇸
Letting corporatists dismantle government wholesale is like removing the engine from the boat to make it go faster.
It will never drain the swamp.
Putting holes in the boat will ensure getting stuck in the mud with no way out.
February 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Drain the swamp they said 😂😂
Imagine America is a boat 🚢🇺🇸
Letting corporatists dismantle government wholesale is like removing the engine from the boat to make it go faster.
It will never drain the swamp.
Putting holes in the boat will ensure getting stuck in the mud with no way out.
Imagine America is a boat 🚢🇺🇸
Letting corporatists dismantle government wholesale is like removing the engine from the boat to make it go faster.
It will never drain the swamp.
Putting holes in the boat will ensure getting stuck in the mud with no way out.
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He’s effectively also flipping off Trump, who has publicly committed himself to getting a Saudi-Israeli deal.
Netanyahu says he’ll never permit a Palestinian state and gives Saudi Arabia the middle finger:
”The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they have a lot of land over there.”
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”The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they have a lot of land over there.”
jpost.com/middle-east/...
Netanyahu: 'The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia'
"The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they have a lot of land over there," he said.
jpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
He’s effectively also flipping off Trump, who has publicly committed himself to getting a Saudi-Israeli deal.
Washington thinks it’s playing chess. Moscow thinks it’s playing poker. Beijing thinks it’s playing Go. Meanwhile, the Global South has flipped the board and started building something entirely new. The West hasn’t caught on yet.
#Geopolitics #GlobalShifts #Multipolarity
#Geopolitics #GlobalShifts #Multipolarity
February 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Washington thinks it’s playing chess. Moscow thinks it’s playing poker. Beijing thinks it’s playing Go. Meanwhile, the Global South has flipped the board and started building something entirely new. The West hasn’t caught on yet.
#Geopolitics #GlobalShifts #Multipolarity
#Geopolitics #GlobalShifts #Multipolarity
America’s foreign policy is like a foreign tourist navigating to drive using an outdated foldable street map, in Manhattan, rush hour traffic is honking passing him by while he refuses to admit the road doesn’t exist anymore.
The world is moving on.
The world is moving on.
February 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
America’s foreign policy is like a foreign tourist navigating to drive using an outdated foldable street map, in Manhattan, rush hour traffic is honking passing him by while he refuses to admit the road doesn’t exist anymore.
The world is moving on.
The world is moving on.
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
January 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
👀 it computes
Deto-Nater 💣💥
Deto-Nater 💣💥
January 24, 2025 at 5:58 AM
👀 it computes
Deto-Nater 💣💥
Deto-Nater 💣💥
“Mod” dems 🤝 Tech/Biz Billionaires
Weird horseshoe where AOC and The Bulwark people are the most clear eyed in their political rhetoric about what Trump/Elon represent while the moderate Dems are all still busy talking about finding ways to work with Trump.
January 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
“Mod” dems 🤝 Tech/Biz Billionaires
Neoliberalism advocates for the primacy of free-market capitalism.
Hyper-neoliberalism advocates for the belief that operant neoliberalism is morally determinative.
Hyper-neoliberalism advocates for the belief that operant neoliberalism is morally determinative.
January 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Neoliberalism advocates for the primacy of free-market capitalism.
Hyper-neoliberalism advocates for the belief that operant neoliberalism is morally determinative.
Hyper-neoliberalism advocates for the belief that operant neoliberalism is morally determinative.