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Mia Wong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6381 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

And, you know, no one's ever done an environmental impact statement on what if you blow the house up with dynamite, because why the fuck would you do that? Right. Sometimes the police do that. It's true, it's true. I guess the U.S. is the world's police force. There you go. No one has planned for this.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

And, you know, no one's ever done an environmental impact statement on what if you blow the house up with dynamite, because why the fuck would you do that? Right. Sometimes the police do that. It's true, it's true. I guess the U.S. is the world's police force. There you go. No one has planned for this.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

But the second thing is, there isn't another model of capital waiting in the wings in the way that there was... when the sort of Reaganites did this to the economy, because the Reaganites had an entire ideological apparatus, they had a functional way for the economy to work and be worse and be more exploitative, but there's nothing behind this, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

But the second thing is, there isn't another model of capital waiting in the wings in the way that there was... when the sort of Reaganites did this to the economy, because the Reaganites had an entire ideological apparatus, they had a functional way for the economy to work and be worse and be more exploitative, but there's nothing behind this, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

But the second thing is, there isn't another model of capital waiting in the wings in the way that there was... when the sort of Reaganites did this to the economy, because the Reaganites had an entire ideological apparatus, they had a functional way for the economy to work and be worse and be more exploitative, but there's nothing behind this, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

There's just a vision that literally cannot work. And so the place that I want to end, as we head into the end of the economy, and as I've been trying to grapple with what is it going to look like after this, is that we just don't know. Things in the supply chain are going to break that we have never thought about before. Medical systems are going to start breaking down.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

There's just a vision that literally cannot work. And so the place that I want to end, as we head into the end of the economy, and as I've been trying to grapple with what is it going to look like after this, is that we just don't know. Things in the supply chain are going to break that we have never thought about before. Medical systems are going to start breaking down.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

There's just a vision that literally cannot work. And so the place that I want to end, as we head into the end of the economy, and as I've been trying to grapple with what is it going to look like after this, is that we just don't know. Things in the supply chain are going to break that we have never thought about before. Medical systems are going to start breaking down.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

The supply chains for really, really basic goods that we don't even think about the production process of is going to start breaking down because it relies on being able to cheaply import one very, very specific kind of product ball bearing that's made in one factory and suddenly costs like 400 times as much as it did before and we don't know what that's going to do

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

The supply chains for really, really basic goods that we don't even think about the production process of is going to start breaking down because it relies on being able to cheaply import one very, very specific kind of product ball bearing that's made in one factory and suddenly costs like 400 times as much as it did before and we don't know what that's going to do

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

The supply chains for really, really basic goods that we don't even think about the production process of is going to start breaking down because it relies on being able to cheaply import one very, very specific kind of product ball bearing that's made in one factory and suddenly costs like 400 times as much as it did before and we don't know what that's going to do

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

And this is, on the one hand, absolutely horrifying, right? Like, this is going to mean an unbelievable amount of suffering for people across the world. But on the other hand, there is no plan, right? They don't have a fucking strategy. And that means that the future of the global economy is up in the air and it's up to us to make it a fucking better one, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

And this is, on the one hand, absolutely horrifying, right? Like, this is going to mean an unbelievable amount of suffering for people across the world. But on the other hand, there is no plan, right? They don't have a fucking strategy. And that means that the future of the global economy is up in the air and it's up to us to make it a fucking better one, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

And this is, on the one hand, absolutely horrifying, right? Like, this is going to mean an unbelievable amount of suffering for people across the world. But on the other hand, there is no plan, right? They don't have a fucking strategy. And that means that the future of the global economy is up in the air and it's up to us to make it a fucking better one, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

It's we either drive these people from power and we destroy the basis of their power on such a fundamental level they can never return to power, right? Like, we just fucking kneecap them. We physically seize all of the fucking assets and all of the things of the productive capacity that they have that has been allowing them to do this. We make sure they can never get it again.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

It's we either drive these people from power and we destroy the basis of their power on such a fundamental level they can never return to power, right? Like, we just fucking kneecap them. We physically seize all of the fucking assets and all of the things of the productive capacity that they have that has been allowing them to do this. We make sure they can never get it again.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

It's we either drive these people from power and we destroy the basis of their power on such a fundamental level they can never return to power, right? Like, we just fucking kneecap them. We physically seize all of the fucking assets and all of the things of the productive capacity that they have that has been allowing them to do this. We make sure they can never get it again.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

You know... I will point out, the reason they all called it alter-globalization and not anti-globalization was that, like, one of the original things... A lot of them did say anti-globalization. A lot of them did, right? But, like, a lot of their argument was, like... The West Coast team certainly did. This is true.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

You know... I will point out, the reason they all called it alter-globalization and not anti-globalization was that, like, one of the original things... A lot of them did say anti-globalization. A lot of them did, right? But, like, a lot of their argument was, like... The West Coast team certainly did. This is true.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

You know... I will point out, the reason they all called it alter-globalization and not anti-globalization was that, like, one of the original things... A lot of them did say anti-globalization. A lot of them did, right? But, like, a lot of their argument was, like... The West Coast team certainly did. This is true.