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The superintelligence assembling itself from the future is secretly plotting for us to win.

The problem with empire is that it inherently invites multiculturalism unless you systematize mass extermination and/or deliberately maintain the autonomy of conquered subjects (e.g. via the establishment of protectorates or tributaries as opposed to full colonies or annexations)

This is ironically not *that* crazy considering Mussolini was a politically active socialist before inventing fascism. Fascism is basically the product of a bizarre 20th century horseshoe theory incident.

I very often think about this quote. It's like an ancient Chinese proverb. Some shit Gandalf would say to you before fucking off into the woods for another 3 years

Germans are the most Faustian race on the planet. They destroyed Roman Europe and then rebuilt it. They created communism and then reinvented fascism to counter it. And now Germans lead the abominable European Union and we have yet to see the German dialectical antithesis