Candelestine

It's really just not a very good unpopular opinion post. It's literally the mainstream position of one of our two main political parties.

Which makes it a fairly meh troll post.

Huh. I thought that'd be about that "Lay Flat" movement among certain teens in China. Guess not.

That's what the U part of UBI is for. Otherwise you just have a BI.

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that happens, look at hostage negotiations for the Gazan conflict. That's very different from some global shadowy cabal running everything.

There's countless secret meetings that happen regularly. The trick is that they're not all the same party, they're independent groups each with an independent agenda.

Barely-controlled chaos, not some carefully crafted, centuries-old hegemon, is what runs the world.

Human ignorance can be fought too. Much more easily.

Military occupations of active warzones are their own thing. Not everything bad has to be a fascist state.

Let me help:

In 2013, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC; the acquisition included the Newsweek brand and its online publication, but did not include The Daily Beast.[11] IBT Media, which also owns the International Business Times, rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched Newsweek in both print and digital form.

In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges.[12][13][14]

Under Newsweek's current co-owner and CEO, Dev Pragad, it is profitable with revenue of $60 million and also growing: between May 2019 and May 2022, its monthly unique visitors rose from about 30 million to 48 million, according to Comscore. Pragad became CEO in 2016; readership has grown to 100 million readers per month, the highest in its 90-year history.[15][16] The operations of the company were researched by the Harvard Business School; they published a case study in 2021.[17]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek

Then just check into those companies and the CEO.

And it would be fine, if we didn't live in a world with competing ideologies and independent national powers working towards their own ends, in the Information Age. Which is a very simple explanation, incidentally.

Whatever you want to call it, it's weak. Occam's Razor is much stronger.

So far lacks the authoritarian power structure, which is a pretty key trait of fascist regimes.

C'mon S Korea. I know you have one of those "no-arms-sales-into-active-conflicts" laws in place, but you can't just sit back and let the north profitably scale up their artillery production like this without taking some steps yourselves.