Also, anti-imperialism as a first-order value has been a pretty flagrant disaster for at least the American left. Seems to have resulted in a situation where anyone anti-American, very much inclusive of the American right, is to be supported no matter how awful
Also led to a focus on a facile aesthetic radicalism for its own sake, with a concomitant hatred of normies as such. Shockingly it has yet to ever in any situation lead to good outcomes
No it isn't, they will attempt their methods of control at the periphery before moving corewards. Therefore we must do what we can to frustrate their experimental applications.
This isn't true. The methods of control they are using are things like Fox News, gerrymandering, and dirty campaign contributions. These are not things they learned by doing imperialism in - say - Iraq. These are home grown.
The more sensible argument imo that imperialism matters is that imperialism and constant war lead to executive aggrandizement.
Obama asserting the authority to drone US citizens abroad: bad! Bad on its own terms, bad for how someone more crooked could abuse it or build on its precedent
Another example: Everyone getting used to thinking “oh sure Congress doesn’t have to authorize this military misadventure, *handwave* AUMF or something does that”
I think really what led to executive aggrandizement was the US government's bizarrely veto heavy legislature creating a space between what the majority of Congress wants and what legislation they can pass.
I did 9 years of GWOT, and this looks nothing at all like any iteration of that. It's just random cyperpunk fantasizing with no connection to anything like COIN.
Of course it is nonsense, Yarvin said it. The application of COIN to police training and the reuse of GWOT era equipment by police departments is quite real, and an example of the kind of testing at the periphery. I don't mean that conspiratorially, it's just easier to experiment there.
Curtis Yarvin's vision of governing without the consent of the governed through technology is evil, it bears absolutely no resemblance to the imperialist methods used abroad.
They *will* as in: in the future. The sharp end of repression usually is, and their vision, like the rapists they are or aspire to be, is all sharp end.
This should be unsurprising since Yarvin is a lazy idiot who would never take the time to actually *read* and *learn* about imperial military strategy. So why would we expect him to replicate something he doesn't even know about?
Boy, it sure would be poetic justice if it were the case that imperialism abroad prepared the way for imperialism at home. Unfortunately, this injustice doesn't even have the decency to be poetic.
To some degree DOGE looks like a somehow way dumber Coalition Provisional Authority, but I think in general this is all more Evil Cargo Cult than Imperial Boomerang
What yarvin was talking about sounds smartish and evil, but also it makes no sense to me in the context of how military cryptography works.
Either you need a handful of trusted agents to manually install crypto into the guns every day, or you make every gun very vulnerable to foreign espionage.
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Obama asserting the authority to drone US citizens abroad: bad! Bad on its own terms, bad for how someone more crooked could abuse it or build on its precedent
Either you need a handful of trusted agents to manually install crypto into the guns every day, or you make every gun very vulnerable to foreign espionage.