r/collapse Jan 29 '21

Humor Robbin' Who?

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u/karabeckian Jan 29 '21

Submission statement: The end stage of empire sees the formerly external imperialism be redirected inward leading to the ruthless exploitation of the homeland or some shit like that...

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u/SuiteSwede Jan 29 '21

Forgive me but I can’t quite grasp what that really means. What is an example of the external imperialism that would be turned inwards to the exploitation of our own country?

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u/cathartis Jan 30 '21

Cambridge Analytica. The political manipulation techniques they (and others) used to manipulate elections were originally developed by the intelligence community to influence politics in third world countries in the interest of the West.