Do it with nginx rules, it's much more efficient to not have to check every single packet. Also you can have a log when they connect to you and you can route them to middleware liek this https://github.com/cjdelisle/big_download
This makes a lot of sense. Americans are the source of the elite's economic power, and so the elites can't really avoid letting some power slip into their hands.
Europeans on the other hand are not really necessary to the elite's power - and as such they'd sooner run the continent into the ground than allow any rival power base to emerge. Subservience is simply the only game in town.
And the way they market this is really clever too, they cast the American rival power as *representative* of America and they deride it as unscientific backwards, anti-intellectual, violent & unintelligent.
And Europeans wanting to differentiate themselves from Americans fall right into the trap: seeking to become pro-science intellectual gentile intelligentsia. IE: docile & obedient.
This view that the seat of western elite power is in fact the USA explains a number of things:
1. America is at war with itself - well yes, there are rival powers 2. Europe is not - of course not, any semblance of rival power has been crushed already 3. Britain and its colonies lost imperial status to the Americans, and they're getting collectively stuffed in the locker - which is why those are some of the most miserable places to live recently. - Up until the 1960s, Canada had a unique and interesting culture of "Britishness on the frontier". Now their culture has been crushed and replaced with a carbon-copy of what the American power elite promulgate through The Democratic Party. 4. Every country's level of acceptance of this US Democrat value-system is very much correlated to their level of dependence on America.
> But but but, the dollar is on track to be kaput before 2040 !!
Let me repeat. The dollar won't collapse. In, Your, Lifetime.
cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 21:27:52 JST
cjdWTF kind of stupidity is this? Yeah go give a slap on the wrist to the one guy who can make a phone call and put oil back over 120, put Janet Yellen's little short-selling operation 100bn in the red, and give a great big payday to Darth Putin.
They are, but they just don't have the infrastructure to pump it.
To actually get the oil out of the ground, it would take 5-10 years to construct the pumps, pipelines, storage & terminals. And nobody will invest a penny in that country because lol communism.
The obvious problem with this logic is it remains subject to Goodhart's Law. If everyone follows it then the powerful will simply make themselves appear weak & oppressed.
I would argue that's a slightly different matter, because But Light is not a weapons dealer or a mega bank, they're a lifestyle brand.
They don't just need people to not attack them, they actually need people to want to associate with them. Now SOME people attacked them, but I'd wager the vast majority of people participating in the "boycott" in fact simply did not want to be seen associating themselves with Bud Light.