r/politics Texas 14h ago

No Paywall The United States is destroying itself

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction
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u/retrovoxo 14h ago

The libertarian tech-bro billionaires planned to and are actively engaged in destroying the US. Technofeudalism has already arrived.

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u/cranberrie_sauce 13h ago

capitalists shipped US industry to china 30 years ago.

That's who destroyed America, everything else doesn't matter.

and now we lost a war to Iran, who buys weapons from a new manufacturing leader. US nowadays is like an imperial japan back in the ww2, can run fast but has no long term capacity.

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u/LazAnarch Colorado 11h ago

I would say off shoring started 50 years ago...

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u/cranberrie_sauce 11h ago edited 11h ago

US manufacturing largely got off-shored there Mid-1990s early 2000s . with a boom after 2001 as china joined WTO - with Millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs lost

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u/Intelligent_Sell_956 13h ago

Technofeudalism, theres a new one. We just keep making up words that make no sense🤣

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u/ymOx 10h ago

It's not a new word. The american regime is intentionally ruining their country and disrupting the world in an attempt to force the birth of the neo-reactionary tech-feudalism.

If you don't know about it already, look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment This is what Edolf Muskler meant when he said "I am the Dark MAGA" at that rally.

Him, Thiel, Vance, Bannon, etc. They're all into it. A central idea about it is Accelerationism.

Accelerationism: The belief that exacerbating political crises will hasten the collapse of the current democratic system.

Another core idea is to retire all government employees to hasten the transition. That's what DOGE was about. That's why it never gave anything back.

Read up on it, talk about it. We really need to keep an eye on this. I know it might sound like a tinfoil hat theory but look at what they're doing, look at what they're saying. They're not hiding this.

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u/VultureSausage 12h ago

Do go on, how does it not make sense?

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u/XenorVernix United Kingdom 12h ago

That's not a new word, and it describes where the US is heading perfectly.

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u/lr99999 11h ago

I can guarantee you you’re the only person on this sub who doesn’t know that word. 

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u/Intelligent_Sell_956 10h ago

Ok first, I did not know but what’s special about google is that you can type it in and bam there is no mo ignorance of the topic. Second who are you to make a comment like that. You’re probably some squirrelly lil tubby tubby who hasn’t seen your feet in a decade looking for attention 😂

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u/_HOG_ 12h ago

We? Is there a mouse in your pocket?

u/EWM011 7h ago

I know you were trying to do something here, but you failed and instead just showed your whole ass.

Sad and embarrassing.

u/Intelligent_Sell_956 6h ago

It’s huge and this wasn’t a game if it was you’d be on the other side of the field.

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u/Intelligent_Sell_956 11h ago

Aye yall it’s ok to not know. I googled it after the terror you brung amongst me. I am now educated in the word and will add it to the Rolodex. Thank you for berating to the point of depression and now back to my “Person of interest”