I’m not saying he’s a bad cop. On the contrary. He’s very good. And like all good cops, he does you over just inside the rules. He’s a talented oppressor. A subtle beast.
- The Night Of -
7. Summary:
→ Dollar = reserve currency
→ Oil trade = dollar demand
→ Dollar demand = cheap U.S. debt
→ Cheap debt = empire funded
→ Military = system enforced
It's not ideology. It's a financial architecture — and it's been running for 80 years.
The U.S. empire isn't built on democracy or values.
It's built on one thing: making sure the world needs dollars to buy oil.
Here's how the U.S. empire actually works 🧵
6. The empire has one real vulnerability: if enough countries stop buying U.S. Treasuries, borrowing costs explode and the whole system unravels.
China and Russia are already building non-dollar trade networks. Slowly. But deliberately.
Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly (2006) is a trippy, brilliant take on Philip K. Dick’s dystopia, shot in rotoscope animation that makes every frame feel like a lucid dream. Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, RDJ and, Woody Harrelson are all perfectly cast.