Is there a concept of 'imperialist realism'? As in, similar to capitalist realism concept except the default state is imperialism
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    This was a phrase I first saw used by Daniel Bessner.

    So what message would the average fourteen-year-old take away from Black Ops Cold War? To riff on a phrase coined by Mark Fisher, the game evinces an “imperialist realism” that can’t quite justify American actions abroad, but also can’t imagine a world outside of a militarily dominant U.S. empire. This idea is clearly expressed in Bell’s trigger phrase (“We’ve got a job to do”), which implicitly affirms that in the Cold War, and perhaps in every war, all a soldier can do is put his or her head down and get to work. Though nothing — not the CIA, not the Soviet Union, not even one’s own mind — can be trusted, no other world is possible, so you might as well support your own empire. https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-cultural-contradictions-of-call-of-duty/

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  • what does degrowth look like?
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    The biggest degrowth guy is Kohei Saito. Check out his book, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

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  • ‘A deranged fringe movement’: what is Maga communism, the online ideology platformed by Tucker Carlson?
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    I mean, we live in an incoherent time, which can make incoherent ideas like MAGA Communism become relevant. Haz and Hinkle are probably supported by a LaRouchite group (is that itself an op?), but are they funded by some elites to tarnish communism with conservatism? I'm open to that possibility if there was concrete evidence to suggest it

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    I don't know if you're in the mood to read theory, but if you are, I would recommend Stigma by Erving Goffman to better understand/contextualize these feelings

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  • Anyone have any thoughts on this Twitter thread about the persistence of status?
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    That graph is interesting but I think it's beside the point for this discussion. The question is not the level of income inequality but which families occupy the high status positions/accumulate the most wealth in a given society. In the case of China, 'elite' simply refers to the families that had status/wealth before the Cultural Revolution, lost it for a generation during the CR, and somehow got it back a generation afterwards.

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  • Full Twitter thread unrolled -> https://en.rattibha.com/thread/1792267464258048408 This person basically uses a bunch of graphs to argue that status of elite groups persist under even the most extreme cases. For example, the elites targeted in the PRC and the Soviet Union bounced back in elite status after a generation or two, how many elite southern planter families regained their status after the Civil War, how formally interned Japanese Americans reached the same homeownership rate as the non-interned Japanese Americans after a decade, etc. But then they suggest that >So status persists throughout history even in the most extreme scenarios. What explains this? Genes play a major role. Consider how status persists when the status is accurized purely through chance. Is this really a reasonable conclusion to draw? I saw one tweet criticizing this, saying >this information is very interesting, but it's nonsense to think this implies genetics/talent/effort causes success. i see this as evidence that social/human capital is persistent and important for economic development, so inequality on this dimension breeds economic inequality https://x.com/leonveliezer/status/1792413175301935124 Which seems like a good objection to me. What do you all think?

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    China is genociding genocide!
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    This kinda sounds like BS. Article doesn't mention economic relations changing. If China is still Israel's second or third largest trading partner, can one really say they are burning all their bridges?

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    And what's an example of a non-atomized society?

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    https://twitter.com/AShihipar/status/1784970226674634904 The tides are turning, lmao

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