re: #251 William Lewis

Nazi’s had lots of slaves too. I think it’s more a matter of which uniform they think they look cooler in - black decorated with skulls or grey with big feathers in their hats and sabers.

I think the US fantasy is more that you personally own your employees, they have no recourse to other institutions that could check you power over them, and government exists to make that ownership smoother and safer.

Like, part of their thing is that they’re not doing the dominating on their own and being truly free amoral actors. They want a church that tells them they’re good, they want an economy that subsidizes them but also tells them they deserve the subsidy, the want blind venality but also retributive violence but also a legal system that sanctions these things.

…but that shit isn’t near coherent in their heads so I don’t think the rest of us can really grok a complete picture of their social system.