CascadeOfLight [he/him]

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Cake day: May 13th, 2023

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  • The most important thing if Trump annexes Greenland is that any Democrat that comes after won’t give it back.

    I know, liberals will be physically incapable of remembering the event, let alone processing the contradiction, but it will still be an extremely visible example of imperial interests superceding every trapping of the US’s sham democracy.

    And I also think, as the US gets more overtly brutal in winning its gains, even if the total body count is lower than in previous wars that had better PR, it will be harder to justify keeping those gains after the bloodied glove of the previous president is discarded and a fresh one put on, especially if they want to keep doing their cyclical Dem/Rep good cop/bad cop routine. Then again, we might just be heading towards the endgame now where the facade of pretending to care about international law is discarded by both parties.





  • Between their military and police force, which are in many ways functionally interchangeable, the US accounts for over 60% of the world’s military budget. This is the effect of bringing to bear a century of total global domination and the power and experience gained from that, particularly in special forces operations. The staging and planning of this attack probably ran into the billions of dollars, not even counting the actual purchase price of the weapons, ships and aircraft involved, or the training costs of personnel, or the cost of putting up the spy satellites they will have used, etc.

    It’s certainly surprising they could outright capture and extract him, rather than just bomb him or gun him down, but when you look at the total volume of military hardware used to pull it off, it’s not that hard to believe.



  • This might not count as news, but having talked to various friends and relatives over the holidays, I’ve managed to collect some purely anecdotal economic data, and the obvious conclusion is that the inevitable collapse of Europe is grinding slowly onwards.

    Workers and whole teams at companies in multiple industries are being made redundant - including important technical roles that have my friends confused as to how the company is even going to run now. Projects are being put on hold or shuttered. Tradesmen are competing for fewer jobs. A multi-year, multi-million dollar contract between an automaker and an advertizing firm just evaporated. There are fewer clients, smaller cohorts coming through training programs, less money in budgets for the kind of elevated make-work that the European middle class subsists on.

    Of course, no one I talked to, even discussing a few of these things in the same conversation, can link these events together, let alone conceptualize this as a tingling in the extremities, the warning signs of the entire continental economy’s impending death by gradual, trickling blood loss from the killing blow of Nordstream. They all think it’s just a bad year, rather than the best year anyone’s going to have ever again. Not ‘ever again’, I must correct myself, in a mere 97 more years Europe will have completed its century of humiliation.