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Jan 20 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
WTF are you doing @nytimes promoting this "Russia before communism" White Russian Tsarist nostalgia, tying in with Falun Gong's "China Before Communism" message? Y'all need to be aware this is all one network and being driven, right now, for a reason. Image
Maybe try understanding that this messaging is tied into this bit of nostalgia, which is directly related to current operations and messaging in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. It's Duginism.
npr.org/2021/10/02/104…
And of course the Falun Gong folks are driving their batsh!t dance show globally. Knowing the themes and currents of history is useful for understanding propaganda. AND: communism has produced catastrophic atrocities.

But these networks are trying to destroy *democracies*. ImageImage
Suggesting that democracy==communism is part of the ongoing rise of autocracy and all of this plays into it. Listen to today's Congressional hearing on the rise of autocracy if you want to learn more.
c-span.org/video/?517369-…
"Putin has turned history into a kind of story about the past where the dictator is always right." – @TimothyDSnyder to Congress today
And of course, one must note... How it started vs. how it's going.

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Jan 22
1/While we are facing serious challenges and it seems a lot of things are falling apart, I'd like to offer a few possible reasons for optimism.

Much of what's driving global uncertainty now is being driven by people like Bannon, Dugin, and Putin.
2/Without their agitation (and with the pandemic as a variable we'd possibly have either way) things would be considerably more stable if those people, and the network they've built, did not exist.

So, what are they doing to destabilize the world?
3/They are amplifying division, attacking financial stability, promoting geopolitical realignment, and destabilizing democracies. They are doing this primarily via information warfare seeded via the internet, which ripples throughout the information ecosystem.
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Jan 14
1/It looks like Russia is systematically eliminating options that would allow them to avoid conflict, and instead is moving in the other direction. Getting signals from multiple sources. Here's some of what I'm hearing.
2/Ukraine has suffered a major cyberattack, apparently by Russia. This would likely immediately precede any hot conflict, in order to weaken the government, stoke fear, and alarm the population. While some suggest this is all sabre-rattling to "extract concessions" it is...
3/unclear what sort of concessions are plausible. Talks have not produced viable proposals. I am hearing reports of what sounds like Russian activity in Berlin. Past experience with Russian involvement in western affairs suggests this would be an expected part of hybrid warfare.
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Jan 9
1/The rise of cryptocurrencies and the attacks on democracy are a single phenomenon. They are both attempts to advance a libertarian, individualist worldview. Of the “Austrian school” economists, Hans-Hermann Hoppe may be the most relevant right now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy…
2/He believes democracy is a failed experiment, and that monarchy is preferable.

Better still is “natural law” and “anarchocapitalism.” This philosophy unites oil barons (Kochs), oligarchs, and anti-vaxxers; it is the basis for Bannon and Thiel’s anti-democracy views.
3/This is the same “natural law” that underlies insane anti-vax cult groups like the “International Tribunal for Natural Justice.” A toxic mix of intelligence operations and cults aiming to end government entirely, and establish a “natural” order. 😬
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Jan 7
1/The concept of “folk politics” is a useful one for describing why the left has become ossified and reactionary against the right, and why the right has the upper hand in establishing the Overton window.

designing-history.world/en/theorie/fol…
2/I don’t know that I agree with the entire agenda here, but I do think we need to ground ourselves in first principles, with a firm and unwavering commitment to rule by the demos, and a firm and forceful rejection of libertarian anarchism and its neofeudal aims.
3/Also worth noting that “Marxism” is super dumb and has produced some of the world’s greatest atrocities. Why? Because of how humans behave in groups. No one bothered to consult a sociologist or study the effects of in-group/out-group conflict.
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Jan 7
Ask Mo about Space Command and how his buddy Trump “single-handedly” moved it to Brooks’ district.
Receipts.

thehill.com/policy/defense…
And ask about why Brooks made the announcement prematurely, exactly one week after January 6. Press release, January 13, 2021. @January6thCmte

brooks.house.gov/media-center/n…
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Jan 4
1/January 6 was a product of multiple factions operating at multiple layers. Any analyst saying it was just 'one' thing is missing the forest for the trees. Here are a few of these layers.
2/Christian nationalists, yes. Represented in groups like Council for National Policy. Right wing paramilitary extremists (Oathkeepers, Three Percenters, 1AP). Constitutional Sheriffs. Goldbugs. Anti-CCP (Epoch Times/Guo/Moonies). QAnon cultists. Catholic Trads (Viganò faction).
3/Underlying all of this are broad coalitions of raw power: oil/gas interests, crypto/gold vs. fiat, NATO/EU vs. Eurasianism (Dugin). These coalitions go back decades into longstanding international fascist and criminal networks competing with liberal democracies for primacy.
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