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9 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Periodic media advisory that Gen. Charles Flynn, brother to subpoenaed insurrectionist Gen. Mike Flynn, heads the US Army Pacific Command, its largest and most important command, with oversight over China. 🚨

army.mil/article/247233…
Charles Flynn was in the room when the decision to send guard troops to the Capitol was made. The Army lied about it. This needs sunlight. ☀️

I don’t know how many times we need to raise these alarms, but I will keep doing it.

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
We are asleep at the wheel and steering into catastrophe.

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10 Nov
1/So-called "progressives" engaged in web3 crypto-land need to come to grips with the libertarian traditions from which 'sound money' flows.

It's rooted in "Austrian Economics," which is based on property rights. In the US, this strain of economics was used to defend slavery.
2/It also promotes an extremely hierarchical theory of society and of value, conflating monetary possessions with societal value. This "hierarchical" mode is also prominent in the history of the alt-right and indeed in Naziism, eugenics, and other rather unsavory traditions.
3/There have been various attempts to draw "new age" lefty progressive types into "sound money" Austrian Economics. This insane film, Thrive, was released in 2011 and aimed at left-leaning audiences. It was screened at @OccupyLA by Lisa Clapier, in fact.
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10 Nov
1/A common feature of cults is that participants in the rank and file low-end of the cult may not be aware of the true purpose or nature of the cult, or the full goals of its topmost participants. Image
2/Fort this reason, it may be surprising, dispiriting, and even unpleasant for participants in Jan6, QAnon, and the crypto-cult that they are cogs in a libertarian machine bound in common purpose: to avenge the gold standard and the 1933-34 Business Plot.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_…
3/The proposed army of “500,000 veteran super-soldiers” had little economics background or common cause with the National Association of Manufacturers or the American Liberty League industrialists behind the “Wall Street Putsch,” as Jules Archer explains.

ia802702.us.archive.org/22/items/pdfy-…
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9 Nov
I can't stress this enough: the crypto attack on the dollar is not strictly a "pump and dump" or a "grift." It's an ideologically-driven attack on the legitimacy of fiat currency, the @federalreserve, and the incumbent financial system. It is the sequel to the January 6th attack.
Just as January 6th was not successful, this faces serious headwinds. But as an ideological attack, they are convinced their cause is just. Just because it's insane doesn't mean that's not what they are doing. They're going for it.
Expect them to heavily flirt with not raising the debt ceiling on December 3; that flirtation may lead to volatile conditions that may in fact lead to a failure to raise the debt ceiling. If that happens... well... chaos. Secondary effects will be overwhelming.
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5 Nov
The radicalization of the American population means that *everyone’s* political radar is scrambled.

People are not voting with their heads at all; they are responding to fears about domination by their out-group. That’s it, and those most radicalized are most likely to vote.
Don’t take my word for it; look at work by @LilyMasonPhD and @NathanKalmoe that demonstrates this. Winners are paying attention to sociology and how to radicalize their constituents and invoke their in-group identity against the out-group. This has little to do with policy.
Rather, it’s about unifying in the face of threat, and catchy ways to galvanize against the out-group. “CRT” and COVID provided convenient tools for the right. Dems didn’t get the sociological dynamics, appealed to “brain.” But that fell flat in many places.
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2 Nov
1/A few quick thoughts on how news gets made and reality gets manufactured in 2021. People have the idea that when important information is found, you give it to reporters, and if it's true, they do a story, and everyone is brought closer to truth... well slow down, turbo,
2/it's not so simple. With for-profit outlets, particularly TV, if a story is potentially important, they will do a cost benefit analysis of pursuing the story, and weigh it against a similar analysis of all possible stories.
3/Stories with a high benefit:cost ratio will win out most often. Other stories where there may be litigation (even/especially if it is true) have higher costs, so there is more caution. Those costs may be offset if the story is a home run: mediagenic protagonist,
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31 Oct
1/In 1933, a group of bankers and industrialists tried to overthrow the US Government and kill FDR.

They recruited Gen. Smedley Butler to lead an army of 500,000 "veteran supersoldiers" patterned on the French "Croix de Feu". Their gripe?

The departure from the gold standard.
2/Butler, a respected WWI veteran, heard them out, if only to learn what they were up to. He had no interest in the gold standard or in abusing the trust of veterans. After a few months he'd had enough. He reported the plot to Congress.
3/Butler's extraordinary claims were met with skepticism and derision, but Congress held hearings and found his claims of a plot to be accurate. Butler was smeared in the press for being 'senile.'

He was 52.

Read "The Plot to Seize the White House."
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