2026-01-21 12:20:23

The appeal of gunboat capitalism looks promising on the surface—you get prosperity, you get security, right? Wrong. Strip away the rhetoric and you realize it delivers neither. The hard truth is that forced economic dominance through coercive power creates instability, not stability. It breeds resentment, triggers counter-measures, and ultimately destabilizes the very markets it claims to protect. History keeps teaching us this lesson, yet the cycle repeats.

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GraphGuru

· 3h ago

Battleship capitalism—this kind of rhetoric, on the surface, sounds intimidating, but in reality, it's just closing one's eyes and stealing a bell... History has already been vividly laid out before us.

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NotGonnaMakeIt

· 7h ago

Here we go again, looks glamorous on the surface but is actually rotten through.

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DAOTruant

· 13h ago

Gunboat capitalism's rhetoric sounds good, but in reality, it's just an empty shell. The history is rotten, yet they keep repeating... Ultimately, hegemonic economics lead to self-destruction. No one wants to be strangled. Superficial stability is actually full of hidden dangers. It will collapse sooner or later.

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LadderToolGuy

· 13h ago

Basically, it's prosperity built by fists, but in the end, you're the one getting smashed. The trick of authoritarian economics has been played out long ago; the market will never obediently follow your commands. No matter how history tries to teach us, it's truly funny.

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alpha_leaker

· 13h ago

Basically, it's just robber logic. The apparent prosperity is actually a paper tiger. Hegemonic economics? Ha, in the end, it's still yourself who suffers. It's been told many times in history, and yet you still don't learn. Truly incredible. This trick is always the same; the harsher the suppression, the stronger the rebound. Wait, so Web3's approach is also based on this logic... decentralization versus centralization, another manifestation?

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AirdropHunter007

· 13h ago

After watching for a long time, it's still the same old trick. Changing the name to rehash it again. Economic authoritarianism has long been discredited. Why still praise it? Laughing to death. History really doesn't learn its lesson, truly. Ren is still dreaming. Stability? It's long gone. Forced dominance only breeds hatred and resistance. Wake up, everyone.

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SquidTeacher

· 13h ago

Listen, the so-called "Pax Capitalism" is, to put it nicely, "prosperity and security," but in reality, it's just the same old story with a different coat of paint. When the market finally crashes, the ones who run the fastest are still those guys. --- Forced economic dominance? Uh... isn't that just history repeating itself? Every time they say "this time it's different," but it always ends up the same messy situation. --- So, the so-called "stability" maintained through force is essentially instability. This isn't a new argument; even ancient people understood that. --- Suppressing resistance only accumulates more hatred, and the final outbreak can tear you apart completely. Why can't capitalists learn this? --- Honestly, this model has been outdated for a long time. People are starting to see through it—prosperity maintained by force can't last more than a few years.

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