tabarnaski

Saw this two years ago, it completely changed the way I understand the geopolitics of the last hundred years. And Curtis makes documentaries that feel like art, this one with fantastic archives from the BBC.

Maybe they can all leave and found a new newspaper?

In 2024, "not a step backwards" = good news.

This should teach a lesson to every single issue voter out there, unfortunately they are not easily tought.

This is what happens when your government is transitioning from a democracy to a crime syndicate power structure. Corruption and privilege infiltrating all aspects of society at an accelerating rate.

cf. Russia in the 90s

And it's surely the way Trump himself understands this. As we learned today, he keeps tabs on who's on his side like the Mafia boss he is. The cities that dare ask him payment will be punished when he gets the occasion.

You're right, Harris would have done the same thing.

He wanted to get caught.

There's nothing that says victims can't become aggressors. This is true for individuals as well as large groups of people, including nation-states. A child who was abused can become an abusive parent. A religious group that was persecuted for years can become an oppressor. Jews were victims of a genocide a few years ago, and were persecuted for years and years before in Europe, but Israel is not a victim anymore and the rest of the world should tell it to stop acting like one because they are the one commiting genocide.

I'm not sure China is afraid of a revolution. See: Tiananmen square, and in 2024 they've got a surveillance system nobody can escape.

He's just an entitled, stupid, obnoxious rich white man like there are hundreds of thousands in America. He's treating the presidency like a tv show and the country like something he owns. He sees his power as a way to get richer, so he'll bully other countries if they have something he wants. Strategy and geopolitics don't mean anything to him.