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25 Jun

Perhaps the biggest mistake we can make right now is to think that what we are going through is *totally* new. Some of this is new (the internet brings speed/scale), but a lot of it has happened before. Using history to differentiate old from new offers both comfort and utility.

If you've ever suffered from depression, one terrifying thing when it happens the first time is the feeling of "what if it's like this from now on?" When it does later get better, you realize that it was temporary. So when it happens the next time, it's not so terrifying.

We're going through something like that now? What if it's always like this from now on? What if it's worse? That can be terrifying, and disabling. It can be hard to find the ways to manage and improve when you are paralyzed by fear and uncertainty.

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Dave Troy 🇺🇸

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23 Jun

Here's some 1850's style weird gold + gov't overthrow stuff... unclear how connected this is with the later iterations exactly, but JFC people, what a tedious recurring theme!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_o…

Echoes of the Business Plot + January 6th: "The plan was to prevent Lincoln from reaching Washington by capturing him in Baltimore. Then they would occupy the District of Columbia, and install Breckinridge as president instead of Lincoln." Sigh.

KGC looks like a totally quality outfit, amirite?

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19 Jun

🧵 1/I'd like to direct everyone to this simple but excellent documentary about NESARA — an early conspiracy theory that resembles QAnon in many important ways. WAITING FOR NESARA (2005) captures elements we are still dealing with 16 years later.

2/NESARA was a piece of legislation (National Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act), allegedly passed by congress, and which would eliminate the IRS, Congress, and remove George W. Bush from office. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESARA

3/Crucially, information pertaining to NESARA was communicated via telephone messages from the "Dove of Oneness," later revealed to be Shaini Candace Goodman, a member of the "I AM" cult offshoot, the Ramtha School of Enlightenment run by J.Z. Knight — a major Trump supporter.

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18 Jun

1/Worldviews create networks, driven by homophily (tendency for likeminded people to attract each other.) Networks generate social capital and cohesive bonds. Networks are history’s protagonists.

2/So called “great (wo)man” theories of history are flawed in that they downplay the persistence of networks. Some leaders can alter networks by reconciling conflicting worldviews, or introduce new ones.

3/Much of what we call history (and news) can be described in terms of conflicting networks espousing different, persistent worldviews. Those worldviews don’t die. People do. But networks persist too.

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2 Jun

What happened to Pelley's Silver Shirts? The group was dissolved and members were arrested for sedition. Seems we used to know how to do this. Pelley was sentenced to 15 years in jail. wolfsonian.org/blog/2020/19/

"The Silver Legion was ... dissolved the day after Pearl Harbor, when authorities called for the arrest of any individuals associated with the group. In 1942, Pelley was indicted in Indiana for sedition, convicted, and sentenced to 15 years in jail."
wolfsonian.org/blog/2020/19/

And I must point out — again — that the Silver Shirts and "I AM" are not just *like* QAnon and the current round of nonsense, but rather directly related through a shared, common network. It is the *same* phenomenon, threatening us again. But this time we aren't stopping it.

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Dave Troy 🇺🇸

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27 May

1/For a deeper understanding of the networks that led to January 6th, it's worth reading these comprehensive FBI primary source files on the "I AM" movement and on Robert LeFevre's "Freedom School". LeFevre helped lead the "I AM" movement and was indicted in 1940 for his role.

2/Koch Industries was connected to both movements and provided substantial funding to LeFevre, along with Roger Milliken. Here's 215 (truly fascinating) pages on the Freedom School that provide background on the early days of American 'libertarianism.' documents.theblackvault.com/documents/fbif…

3/And here are 750+ pages on the so-called "Mighty I AM" movement which was truly the QAnon of its day, was seen as a major threat to the war effort — and went on to provide underpinnings for QAnon itself.
documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/fbif…

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