By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/04/2026And by pretending its tech exports were neutral platforms, America got to raid the world's private data and bank accounts, spying and looting to its heart's content. 6/ 170
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/04/2026When Trump kicked off his campaign of incontinent belligerence - putting tariffs on the exports of countries populated only by penguins, trying to steal Greenland - it became impossible for the world's leaders to carry on this pretense. 7/ 170
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/04/2026This led to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney - the world's most Davos man - standing up at this year's World Economic Forum to denounce the whole post-war settlement as a bullshit arrangement, announcing that we were in a period of "rupture." 8/ 160
