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ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-30 12:47 am
ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-30 12:47 am
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The enshittification of American power
There is no question that the last century, and particularly since the end of the Cold War, the world has been characterized by US hegemony exercised through its military and economic power, and control over financial institutions. But in a long article in Wired with the above title, Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman argue that under the Trump regime, the US is starting to follow the pattern of big tech entities like Google and Facebook and that this is eventually going to lead to a decline in US power and influence in the world.
This makes a disturbing amount of sense.
There is no question that the last century, and particularly since the end of the Cold War, the world has been characterized by US hegemony exercised through its military and economic power, and control over financial institutions. But in a long article in Wired with the above title, Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman argue that under the Trump regime, the US is starting to follow the pattern of big tech entities like Google and Facebook and that this is eventually going to lead to a decline in US power and influence in the world.
This makes a disturbing amount of sense.
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We talk about Trump as if he's the root of all evil. But he's not the disease, he's the symptom. He would never have gotten where he is, if it wasn't for the GoP being corrupt through and through and the home of some of the worst people to ever walk the halls of power... and they wouldn't be where they are if it wasn't for the people who voted for them.
Face it, a third of Americans are perfectly fine with what Trump represents... and that is the problem, which has become everyone's problem now. You have an incredibly ignorant toxic sub-culture, which has a sort metastatic enshittification effect on everything it touches.
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