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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026

But the American tech sector relies on the other sources of American power - the ones that Trump is so bent on destroying. Trump's de-dollarization of the US economy is pushing the world away from using American tech for payment processing and networking. 31/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026

The American empire created the form of the US tech sector. As Bjarnason writes, "if Airbnb or Uber had been local startups much fewer countries in the world would have loosened their regulations and consumer protections to accommodate them to the point where they prospered as they did." 32/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026

Trump isn't the first US leader to make a strategic blunder (the US has lost every war it's fought since WWII, after all). But Trump's blunders are different in that they "deliberately signal the end [the US] empire." 33/

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