"Chris" "Caple" 🇨🇦🥌🦫🎸🎶
@chriscaple.bsky.social
Montrealistic guitaritarian & writery artperson. Toujours antifasciste.
Be unrelentingly honest and kind and everything else takes care of itself.
Defeat fascism through relentless ever-intensifying love, kindness, music, art, & beauty y'all. And nukes.
Be unrelentingly honest and kind and everything else takes care of itself.
Defeat fascism through relentless ever-intensifying love, kindness, music, art, & beauty y'all. And nukes.
"The tragedy is not that the American empire is dying, it is that it is taking down so many innocents with it."
January 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM
"The tragedy is not that the American empire is dying, it is that it is taking down so many innocents with it."
"Our decaying empire stumbles forward like a wounded beast, unable to learn from its disasters, crippled by arrogance and incompetence, torching the rule of law and fantasizing that indiscriminate industrial violence will regain a lost hegemony."
January 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM
"Our decaying empire stumbles forward like a wounded beast, unable to learn from its disasters, crippled by arrogance and incompetence, torching the rule of law and fantasizing that indiscriminate industrial violence will regain a lost hegemony."
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4/This is part of a broader phenomenon that @segoddard.bsky.social and I describe as neo-royalism. It is a world order based not on national interests but those of elite cliques pledged to absolute sovereigns.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
January 4, 2026 at 3:05 PM
4/This is part of a broader phenomenon that @segoddard.bsky.social and I describe as neo-royalism. It is a world order based not on national interests but those of elite cliques pledged to absolute sovereigns.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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8/Trump foreign policy, then, has much more to do with royal houses ambitions over resource grabs than anything close to alliance structures that we are used to in world politics.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Trump’s new focus on Venezuelan oil reinforces claim action was never about ‘war on drugs’
US president claims US will take back oil stolen from it by Venezuela, but experts say no legal claim to natural reserves exists
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
8/Trump foreign policy, then, has much more to do with royal houses ambitions over resource grabs than anything close to alliance structures that we are used to in world politics.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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History will remember Donald Trump and every person who enabled him, voted for him, protected him, and did not actively oppose him as complicit in the fall of America.
It's America's 250th anniversary this year. It is also the end of the republic.
It's America's 250th anniversary this year. It is also the end of the republic.
January 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
History will remember Donald Trump and every person who enabled him, voted for him, protected him, and did not actively oppose him as complicit in the fall of America.
It's America's 250th anniversary this year. It is also the end of the republic.
It's America's 250th anniversary this year. It is also the end of the republic.