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by BobaFloutist 846 days ago
"globalist" is frequently (typically?) a dog whistle (especially alongside the word "cabal"), it's worth eliminating from your vocabulary if you want to be taken seriously by people who recognize it, and I feel like your claim wouldn't meaningfully suffer from its lack.
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What word do you prefer to describe the class of powerful people who aren't particularly loyal to any nation yet have extensive financial interests in (exploiting) them?
I don't really feel the need to specify which powerful people that have extensive financial interests in exploiting nations are or are not particularly loyal to one nation in particular, but I guess you could go with "rootless cosmopolitan elites", "smirking merchants", or even just "The Illuminati".

If you're referring to a specific, discrete group of people, you could just name them instead of using a laundry list of questionable adjectives. But that wouldn't imply a global cabal, and so you couldn't oh so subtly and inconspicuously point fingers at an ethnic and religious minority.

Normal humans?
cosmopolitan