Yup same exact play. After Obergefell public perception on LGBT people shifted and conservatives were suddenly too weak to attack them as a full group. So what's the play when that happens? Divide and conquer. Split the group and attack the smaller/weaker half bsky.app/profile/gray...

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100%. On the flip side this is what drove the same group of elites so crazy during the post-Covid "no one wants to work anymore" tight labor market bsky.app/profile/them...

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Like that's not some speculative conspiracy theory, it's very easy to find our society's elites praising how much they love Dubai and Abu Dhabi and Riyadh and then link that praise to their plans — plans they've written down for everyone to see! — like "network states" to reproduce those here

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Yes. As I said in another thread, the gulf monarchies are an explicit model for them: Royals at the top, a group of citizens below who get limited rights contingent on regime support, and a vast underclass of rights-less guest workers or slaves who do the actual labor bsky.app/profile/pmmi...

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The anitdote is similarly obvious: solidarity. Fight together and keep our freedom or fight alone and be enslaved. It's frustrating how many people in power seem to not understand this and say we can just sacrifice part of our coalition in order to save the rest of us. It doesn't work like that!

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