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11 Nov, 22 tweets, 6 min read

TFW a bunch of get-rich-quick schemers realize they're in league with the John Birch Society and kinda wish they weren't. History is a cruel mistress.

Some reading material for folks not sure which factional interests they're aligned with.
goodreads.com/book/show/6337…

If you don't know about Robert LeFevre, you need to.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autarchism

Of these, "sacrifice and molestation" is my favorite. It literally conflates the subversion of individual will with "molestation."
youtube.com/playlist?list=…

You'll want to get up to speed on Cleon Skousen, the John Birch Society, Mark Skousen, and FreedomFest. This session from 2021 is emblematic.
freedomfest20212020.sched.com/event/jNrp/how…

And of course, worth understanding the founding of the Council for National Policy and their role in the tea party and planning + executing January 6th.
washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/

Of course there's this classic outlining the cryptocurrency future by the founder of the National Taxpayers Union and his proto-Brexit co-author William Rees-Mogg. Oh and foreword by Peter Thiel.
goodreads.com/en/book/show/8…

And of course these folks were all great pals with Grover Norquist, who wanted to "drown government in the bathtub." And also was at National Taxpayers Union.
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grover_No…

Or perhaps you recall this "great moment in democracy"? Singlaub helped found the CNP, ran much of Iran-Contra, and just put Mike Flynn in charge of his "America's Future" organization. He's 100 years old.
latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

Aside to camera: if folks want to push crypto and NOT be associated with this historical network of Nazis and fascists, they need to break away and figure out how not to be part of their agenda.

The Birchers hated Nixon for all kinds of reasons. He wasn't anarchist (or autarchist) enough for them.
nytimes.com/1964/07/16/arc…

Probably most crypto folks don't know about Robert Mercer's PhD advisor, Revilo Oliver and his connections to eugenics and the JBS. Surprise! Now you do!
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Or about Cambridge Analytica "whistleblower" Brittany Kaiser and her fetish for crypto, with ketamine shipper Chase Ergen! Or that she ran OG crypto-duck Brock Pierce for president in 2020! Starting to see a pattern yet?
davetroy.medium.com/in-targeted-br…

Most probably don't know that Brock Pierce started a big digital goods business prior to the creation of cryptocurrency with none other than Steve Bannon! He rounded up $60 million from Goldman Sachs!
thewrap.com/how-world-of-w…

Oh hey, you say Bannon is a CNP guy too? (So are Ali Alexander, Brandon Straka, Scott Presler, and a bunch of other Jan6 insurrectionists).
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016…

I'll keep adding to this as time allows. But one cannot push cryptocurrencies without also understanding the historical tradition from which it is drawn or the bedfellows you're keeping.

The Koch family's history of Nazi connections are well known.
unkochmycampus.org/los-ch3-part-1…

What? Yup. The Hunt Brothers funded the CNP.

They also tried to corner the silver market and were obsessed over inflation of the dollar. [NB: They got crushed when regulators imposed new margin buying requirements, deleveraging the market.]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Th…

Folks probably don't know about Larry McDonald, his involvement in JBS + CNP, and his obsessions with gold. He'd be a HODLer today. His crazy proto-QAnon beliefs would make him great friends with MTG, who currently represents his GA district.
politico.com/magazine/story…

Not many know very much about the Moon Cult... but they were a central part of the "anti-communist" networks created by CIA factions. They were a big part of the CNP's creation story.
watch-unto-prayer.org/moon.html

There is just so much here in terms of where this came from and who's pushing it. I do believe there are pathways here that can separate new efforts from these old networks, but that needs to be an intentional choice and design direction.

Right now BTC isn't so much a currency as a value store and cultish social network. It's time to take a hard look at what this set of technologies needs in order to move beyond just being a cult.

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13 Nov

Cryptocurrency comes from a long line of fascist and far-right thinking: Kochs, Mercers, Ayn Rand, John C. Calhoun, et al.

The current crypto-cult is not compatible with democracy, and people who think of themselves as progressive should distance themselves. #DivestBTC

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Anyone who knows history can assert I’m not making anything up here. Dark Money by @JaneMayerNYer, Democracy in Chains by @NancyMacLean5, and Shadow Network by @alnelsona all confirm the assertions I make here.

Some progressives are just in denial about crypto. Time to wake up.

For those that don’t yet understand and are not infected with cult-think, crypto and the gold standard are equivalent and aim to take away power from central banks because they don’t believe they are trustworthy.

Industrialists, especially, feel this way.

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13 Nov

The crypto cult is trying to divide the world into two groups: “NGMI” (not gonna make it) and “GMI.”

The implication is that people who don’t submit to the crypto worldview and get on board with fascist-think will be left behind.

What percentage of people are in the “GMI” camp?

Does this seem just or fair in any way?

See number 6-8, also “Thought Terminating Cliche.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_R…

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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.

@OccupyLA

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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@davetroy

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.

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

@federalreserve

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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9 Nov

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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