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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Fuck the liberal hegemonic order. Even if a liberal hegemony is theoretically "better" or "preferable" to other hypothetical hegemonic orders, that is not a justification for the existence of hegemony itself. Many of us who want to see the liberal hegemonic order abolished want that not because we want to see it replaced with another hegemonic order (like, for instance, a Marxist-Leninist/Maoist hegemonic order), but because we want hegemony itself abolished, and replaced with a democratic order, in which the nations of the world collaborate, cooperate, and strive for peaceful coexistence.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

What's is a "liberal hegemonic order"? Because what we already had was a democracy, and we were making grassroots efforts to make it better. Was it perfect? Fuck no, but at least we had a chance to make things better. States were brining in Ranked Choice Voting, other states were enshrining human rights where it wasn't always guaranteed. Smashing it all down and starting over with a Christo-fascist authoritarian government is about the dumbest way to "collaborate, cooperate, and strive for peaceful coexistence." We're about to get the Christian Taliban with the most powerful military in the world backing it. Trump is about to give our government officials purity tests and will throw out anyone that doesn't swear to him (literally per P2025), and he's going to be stacking the government with lackeys. We're on track for Nazism 2.0.

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