Late-stage capitalism doesn’t expand by building - it expands by stripping assets. When growth fails, extraction replaces development.

Trump didn’t invent this, he just dropped the pretence. The Biden administration didn’t reverse it, they polished it.

Different language, same mess.

#Mainstreaming progressive critique wasted ten years focusing on hypocrisy, norms, and credibility. But that’s a category error.

You can’t shame a system that no longer cares about legitimacy. You can’t expose corruption when corruption is the operating model.

This is not about #Trump. It’s not about one country. It’s about a system that has replaced politics with managed extraction and calls it order.

This isn’t a lie to be debunked, it’s a bribe to be refused. And refusal only works collectively, outside the institutions that profit from the lie.

That’s the hard part, the work we need to do #OMN