By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026Here's a sentence that stopped me in my tracks last week: "The statement that 'the cemeteries are full of indispensable people' is just as true of nations, and in particular the US": crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/5... 1/ 6356145
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 28617
John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A much more thoughtful note than the shallow apology for the absence of strategy offered by Douthat in today's NYT, where the US = dispensable is interpreted as they (foreign nations) can't take the US for granted. The death of an empire, ruined by it's insane emperor. 000
What_If_it_was_a_Republican? @raultoblerone.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Awesome Cory Doctorow thread coming at you. 000
Sebas van den Brink @sebasvandenbrink.nl · 22/07/2026The destruction of American influence to replace it with dumb and antagonising threats and violence, is making the US the weakest it has ever been. Despite looking “strong”. It’s only a bully‘s idea of looking strong. bsky.app/profile/seba...Sebas van den Brink@sebasvandenbrink.nlOne thing that amazes me is that I understand why the Republican MAGA wanted to nuke USAID, but the brilliant galaxy brains failed to see the leverage they had with that programme over states that needed it. They yanked it wholesale. Gone leverage. A hole for other nations to fill (which they will). 17414
Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 23/07/2026Damn Cory, that illustration is the tits. Reminds me of Matt Taibbi's description of Goldman Sachs (IIRC) from BITD - IMO, 'vampire squid' would make a rather excellent description of the ruling class and its infrastructure of dominion. 271
Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Unfortunately Americans showed we are willing to elect the worst among us as we are profiting wildly off of the system built by his betters. If we get too poor too fast then the rhetoric around invading Greenland and Canada suddenly becomes more attractive to our multitudes of mouth breathers. 010
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