Ezekiel

I do Geopolitics stuff | The Enlightenment was a mistake | Red Squirrel Nationalism

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

@HistoryBro1 It’s easy to imagine a scenario where we become space faring and the greatest signifier of wealth and status off world is nice wooden furniture.

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

Realising that Indians support Israel because the Zionists are trying to breed the perfect cow.

[The Calvin Coolidge Project @TheCalvinCooli1]

🚨New: A perfect Red Heifer has been born in Israel according to the Temple Institute

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

@BearJFK It could be as high as 80m.

[Garak Obama @ObamaGarak]

BAPgem

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

@AkkadSecretary They are enlightened therefore anyone who disagrees must be being led astray by the forces of evil.

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

@aswren 20 new nuclear reactors and turn the coal back on till they're operational.

[Marcus @Marcus70672192]

The deepest cut: we never got to see what Britain could have been at its peak in the 21st century.

A rich, technologically advanced, high-trust nation that still felt like home for the historic British people.

That future was stolen before it arrived.

The elite chose demographic transformation over letting us finish what our grandparents started.

We still feel the loss. And we’re right to.

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

Too old. This should be kickstarting the career of some beautiful unknown zoomette.

[Redd @ReddCinema]

Margot Robbie is reportedly rumoured to be in negotiations to star in the upcoming Britney Spears biopic 👀

Based on Spears’ memoir "The Woman In Me," directed by John M. Chu.

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

@Sargon_of_Akkad @pureMetatron Good thing you can play the original printing with far superior art then.

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@9mmsmg Little is better than a quality sausage dipped in runny egg yolk.

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@RoidsOverFoids Seen the dollerydoos?

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Guy who confuses Sam Harris with Sam Hyde.

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

Regime change in Cuba is coming.

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea.

🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion.
🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts.

Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes.

Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11.

That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference.

Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad.

The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets.
That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth.

The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal.

The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism.

North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget.

Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime.

The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund.

Where things stand in 2026?

Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone.

The UK is a net energy importer.
Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas.

One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth.

The other treated it as income.

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[Joshua Garfield @JoshuaGarfield]

How it’s started. How it’s going.

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

Is this how Americans say 'Chinese century'?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast foods in the United States all combined. That's a pretty big statement."

[Ezekiel @EzekielGeos]

Trumps going to go get told what Thucydides Trap means then he's going to feel slighted, wonderful diplomacy

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 Xi Jinping warns China and the US must avoid the 'Thucydides Trap'

Thucydides Trap refers to the historic pattern where fear between a rising power and a dominant one leads to conflict.

"These are questions posed by history, the world, and peoples," Xi stressed.

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

“wHy aRe tHerE iNdiaNs In pOrTuGaL?!”

Because they are good slaves, you are not.

I hate essay-posting but allow me a rare indulgence:

To understand what is happening now, you need understand that this isn’t the first time it’s happened.

Why are there Indians in Kenya? Suriname? Fiji? Burma?

Because Indians have always been the preferred servile class of elites. The evidence for this goes back hundreds of years.

I’ve spoken about British colonial Burma before, and it is a great example of what this looks like.

Even after extensive efforts to bring them to heel, the majority of the Burmese ethnic groups were far too resistant to submit to the British empire to be reliable labor. They refused to abandon their culture and ways of life to be slave drones for British pocketbooks. So the Brits started importing Indians to be their colonial administrators, preferring them as labor because they were easier to control and satisfy.

By the 1940s, Indians made up almost 20% of the population of the entire country.

Another great historical example of this is Suriname - a small country in South America that had been under Dutch colonial rule for 300 years.

The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863, forcing colonial plantation owners to have to hire labor to do the work they had previously been using slaves for. But… they didn’t want to pay former slaves or Indigenous locals a living wage for the work.

So what did the Dutch elites do instead? Import Indians.

Today, Indians still make up 27% of the population. 27%. Of a tiny, obscure South American country.

We could basically go through the list of every country with a non-negligible Indian population and the theme would be consistent: They were brought there by elites who needed a submissive, easily exploitable labor pool when local labor asked for better living conditions or wages.

Why? Because Indians never did. They are a population that seems fully content with subjugation (even Marx noticed this).

So it’s easy to see why they were such an ideal population for the intensive global expansion era of colonial empires. And it’s even easier to see why they are perfect subjects for late capitalism now.

They are the culturally, psychologically, and physically ideal organism for the dominant system.

There’s 1.4 billion of them. They are deeply socially stratified and so expect and even enjoy inequality. Their cuisine is cheap, meat-free slop. They live amongst trash and filth with no qualms. They don’t care about the environment. Their reaction to death and abuse is blank-eyed indifference. They are physically and spiritually malleable. They not only adopt and internalize the demands of the dominant system as personal ambition, they believe this servitude makes them better than everyone else who hasn’t.

Absolutely IDEAL subjects.

You, on the other hand, are not the ideal subject.

You want to live in a high-trust society. You would shed tears if someone tried to cut down the apple tree you climbed as a child to build a data center. You want to see and experience beauty. You want your own space. You have an expectation that your living conditions will improve over time. You would not be content to live in a room with 10 other people, work 16 hours per day for pennies, and eat cheap slop.

You are a liability. Just like the Burmese and Surinamese slaves were.

And as we continue to crawl deeper into this late capitalist hellscape, you and your silly little needs will come into increasing conflict with those of the system.

Thus, you WILL be replaced by people far easier to control and far less concerned about their own welfare or the welfare of everyone and everything around them.

… Unless you do something about it. But the system has already locked-in that you won’t, and that you’ll just sort of fade into nothingness, distracted by meaningless comforts and terrified of the uncertainty of change.

So “why are Indians in [wherever]?”

Because you are about to not be.

[Bear @BearJFK]

*Cries in British
https://t.co/VorAx8yJ1m

Locations of major British shipyards of 1914. 173 merchant and warship yards.

Not including the mighty state owned RN Dockyards that built a lot of warships.

Much of Britain’s industrial might was forged off the back of supporting the Royal Navy.