Thread by @TAJackson20

Oh boy. Strap in.

1. The American Revolution was not a licit event. Aside from it's gross hypocrisy. ("How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" is a question Yanks still can't credibly answer)
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2. Set aside the race thing though, and the "intolerable acts" that pissed off the American Patriots so much were things like "taxes to pay off the debt of a war we started," "letting Quebec maintain Catholicism," & "honouring at least one of our treaties with Indians."
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3. The American Founders themselves were smugglers and a not insignificant part of their anger was at the British parliament passing laws for the crazy wacker purpose of "making it easier to buy goods from merchants instead of criminals."
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4. Catholics will bring up the 🇺🇸 Freemasonry issue, but it wasn't as well known how incompatible that was with Christianity back then. E.g. Joseph de Maistre was both a Mason AND an honest ultramontanist at once for a time. I'll not hold the association against them.
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5. The Declaration was absurd as a legal case, but brilliant as propaganda and I commend Jefferson's skills for writing it.
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6. Constitutionalism is the worst possible form of statecraft. (cf. Schmitt) Alone, it creates obstacles for overt elite action that force the ruling class to behave in a deceptive manner to circumvent (and, what's worse, SELF-deceptive as they drink their own Kool-Ade)
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6a. ...Constitutions thus also proliferate corruption, since that's what you get when you select for underhanded liars. Worse, combined with common law jurisprudence, constitutions turn any country into a de facto kritarchy.
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7. But puting aside the shittiness of constitutions and asking about the Founders' political philosophy in general, let us observe that literally everything in the Federalist turned out to be provably wrong. ("Faction is weaker in large countries" 😂)
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8. ...Notwithstanding, of course, that the Articles of Confederation was the system the Founders actually wanted (hence trying it first) and only abandoned it when reality kicked their Whig asses.
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9. So, my summing opinion of the American Revolution is "orthodox moldbuggery." But it happened hundreds of years before I was born so, barring a time machine, the question is "Given that America exists, what is to be done?"
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10. This is basically the position Rudyard Kipling found himself in vis a vis the British Empire. ("The White Man's Burden" is pretty clear on how stupid he thought the whole thing was, but he was smart enough to see what a horror show decolonization would be)
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11. Let's get one thing clear first: Hegemony is impossible to avoid in any navigable region, including "The Planet Earth," where you have polities that differ in strength of technology, military, industry, and/or ideology.

I.e. any region with multiple polities.
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12. Given intercontinental travel: if the United States of America does not more-or-less rule the planet then someone else will. As a Canadian, I have more choice in wondering whether a new boss would be better, but the fall of empires is BAD SHIT for the imperial country
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13. This means that Americans don't really have the luxury of wondering, like us leafs, whether a Chinese hegemony would or would not be better. The Yank must commit himself to either unfuck the American empire or survive when the Vandals start sacking shit.
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14. As a 🇨🇦, I'll say this: the Chinese people I live with are much, much nicer in aggregate than the foreigners that Americanism brought into my country. (the housing prices are absurd, but the urban decay and rape gangs are worse)
But China hasn't been here long...
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15. I'm sure many, many, places would have much fewer reservations about literally anyone else being in charge than Americans at this point. (MENA especially)

But an American conservative/illiberal/etc. must be committed to order, not anarchy that falling empires bring.
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16. Returning to "What is to be done?"

Non-🇺🇸s: Pragmatic loyalty to the Burgers OR realignment with whichever potential suzerain would be best for your country and the support that entails

🇺🇸s: Unfuck America no matter what. Coups, deep state infiltration, whatever it takes.

PS:
There is a third--very risky--answer to the American question available for polities of potential world-power status like China.

What is that option? I think you can guess.