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10 Aug 2026, 11:34 am

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In the past, leaders could be both capitalistic and nationalist. An example might be mid-century USA which produced most of its infrastructure and consumer goods. No need to import anything from outside the country. On the other hand, the US practiced economic colonialism such that manufacturing may have been outsourced to Canada and Latin America, but in such a way that the US exerted control over those enterprises.

At least if you are to consider supremacy over other nations as a form of nationalism.

Probably less likely nowadays, but the attitude of that era lives on.

There's a guy who used to work in the Department of State, Mike Benz, who talks a lot about 'national champion' policies in a similar way to what you said above. You might find him interesting if you haven't run into him yet.


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11 Aug 2026, 12:15 am

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the great conspiracy of having people looking at other people's faces all of the time, talking faces that program,
the program of programming
- if you notice the hordes that voluntary give up their memory for any 'official narrative' in order to belong-to the crowd that does so too
good luck with that group travel



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The rabbi isn't an antisemite, but the orcs trying to sing over him might be.


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12 Aug 2026, 6:37 am

funeralxempire wrote:


The rabbi isn't an antisemite, but the orcs trying to sing over him might be.


I think it's very impressive how the rabbi is able to keep talking while they are making all that noice.


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I think for-profit business is the best charity.



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In the field of apologetics, if one's argument is essentially the universe is mysterious, therefore a Levantine storm demon made it or we don’t know, therefore god; not just any god, my favourite god, one doesn't have an argument.


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