The world view it espoused wasn't even very liberal. There's literally a race of superbeings that are superior to everyone else who segregated themselves off into their own secret apartheid ethnostate. The bankers are their own race, and are also forbidden by law to have the basic tools of magic or allowed to go to magic school. There's literally a slave race too, and freeing them was mocked by the narrative. The vast majority of humanity regularly have their minds, memories, and free will violated as a matter of law.
A critical analysis of Harry Potter reveals a hellworld, and we're supposed to cheer for them because the good apartheid ethnostate only turns its cruelty on other races instead of turning the cruelty inward. She accidentally wrote a critique of her own worldview
What do you mean "holding" an asset? If they aren't holding it within their borders in their own vaults then it's just paper. The US can just say "that's ours now" and steal it, it's no more a viable asset than the oil being stolen from Venezuela.
Worse, if they pull their gold out too fast it might cause the US to react by locking the vaults anyway.
It's a rock and a hard place. They fucked up by ever trusting the US.
If the gold isn't in your physical hands then it still has ties to the nation that it's stored in and is subject to its politics.
When people buy gold, they buy certificates of ownership. They don't buy literal hunks of bullion. The gold is still physically in a vault, and a lot of that gold is stored in the US itself. So, what happens if the US says "actually, that gold is ours now"?
The white moderate have always been happy to ignore Black and Brown people being brutalized by the government, that's why MLK warned about them in his letter from Birmingham Jail. It takes bloodied white faces for them to realize fascism is coming for all of us.
Obviously the opinions of fascists don't matter. They love to watch "race traitors" die. But it's not like every pro-gun Republican is a race war Helter Skelter gunfucker that wants to mow down all their neighbors. They're mostly just ordinary people that believe guns are for protection and this is the exact moment they were told guns were supposed to protect us from.
That means that the historical role white people play in the struggle against white supremacist society is as the bodies on the front line. This is when that white privilege can be used to actually help everyone, instead of just helping white people like it always has.
Nothing makes this more obvious than the pro-gun Republicans suddenly pushing back on ICE for murdering Pretti. If he was a Somali migrant with a gun they would be absolutely silent, it's only because he was a white man that they're upset.
Instead of getting mad at OP for pointing out the facts, recognize that we can use this. White people have a really important duty to put their bodies on the line to fight ICE, because when they get injured or killed it upsets white society.
Germany simply reproduced colonialism internally. Everything they did was modeled after what colonies had already done, the difference was that it was being done to Europeans this time instead of Africans or Native Americans or Asians.
Unfortunately, Democrats have done nothing to build any forces loyal to democracy. They supported racist and violent cops that are loyal to Republicans, and those cops almost certainly won't follow orders to arrest ICE agents. If anything they're just going to collaborate, like they already have despite it technically being illegal. National Guard might be better, maybe, but they're probably just going to help ICE suppress the protestors.
All these GenAI apps and tools are underpriced to encourage mass adoption, which means using them is actually praxis because it's wasting their money. The more werewolves you generate the faster this bubble will pop, unlimited werewolves on the first world.
Liberals don't want to hear it, and when the declassified documents come out in a few decades they'll all pretend like there was no way they could have known.
They'll probably justify the caste system i.e. Goblins are ontologically greedy, Elves love being slaves, etc etc