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Silkester<p>This YouTube Thumbnail gave me Star Wars Drone wars flashes when the empire turned against the Jedis who fought for freedom...<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alegories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alegories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarWars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RussianOccupation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussianOccupation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UkraineWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkraineWars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RareEarthMineral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RareEarthMineral</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USdeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USdeal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> #'Europe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deceit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deceit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Thor A. Hopland<p>My country is dying, our <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> has been replaced with <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/consumerism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consumerism</span></a> and I'm tired of not acknowledging it.</p><p>These same words have been used by <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascists</span></a>, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/despots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>despots</span></a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchs</span></a> all around the world - from the cradle that is Africa, to the "new world" and back again.</p><p><a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> just wants <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/russification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russification</span></a> to replace <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/westernization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>westernization</span></a> though. It's hard <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> vs <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/softimperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softimperialism</span></a>.</p><p>Our conqueror is the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>. But our destroyer will be ourselves, as we forget all about what made <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> great.</p>