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The woke mania and economic decline of the United States is an intentional Boys from Brazil style attempt to recreate the social and economic conditions of Weimar Germany in order to provoke a future fascist backlash.

Can you unpack this a bit? Who's doing it? How? Why?

I’m not sure who exactly would be doing it. I know there were influential families (the Fords, the Bushes) and titans of industry in the 30s and 40s that were fairly sympathetic to naziism. There was also a decent amount of contact between the OSS and German intelligence during the war. Allen Dulles, the later head of the CIA, was back-channeling with Heinrich Himmler to try and negotiate a separate peace between Nazi Germany and America so that the Nazi government could remain standing and be used by the west as a bulwark against Communism. Some Nazi intelligence divisions were basically rolled intact into the American intelligence apparatus after the war ended.

You could say that America resembles Weimar Germany just because there are certain characteristics that sick or declining societies all have, but some of it seems awfully specific.

  1. There is a giant coordinated push for Marxism in the early 2010s, both the old school kind and the new Bio-Leninist kind.
  2. There seems to have been a giant coordinated push to weaponize American black people as a Cossack class to oppress American white people. This doesn’t seem like it would work on its own, but it did an awfully good job of putting white Americans into a defensive crouch. This culminates in near-genocidal Hutu-style rhetoric against white people in 2020.
  3. There are suddenly suspiciously organized glowie-adjacent communist street fighters that took their name and logo from the communist street fighters in Weimar Germany. They generally seem to be trying to act as unsympathetic as possible.
  4. The controlled detonation of the American economy in 2020, inducing hyperinflation.
  5. The coordinated lockstep pushing of transgenderism and prostitution culture. This and Antifa is what really started to make me suspicious, because those were both phenomena that was specific to Weimar Germany.
  6. In 2022 there is a sudden, at least partially astroturfed push to associate Jews with the prior events I described in the last several paragraphs. There was definitely organic anti-semitism in the years before that, and some genuine bad behavior by prominent Jewish people in America. But 2022 is when you start seeing very consistent very intense anti-Jewish rhetoric on Reddit, which is very odd given that Reddit Turbo-jannies were and are such prudes about literally everything else. I have hung around on 4chan long enough to know what organic anti-semitism looks like, and what I started seeing in 2022 looked different, odd. It looked more like organized shill behavior that I had previously associated with left wing stuff like transgenderism and astroturfed pro-Ukraine sentiment on Reddit. Crucially, I started noticing this a full year before October 7 and the bombing of Gaza, which is usually marked as the beginning of wide scale public anti-semitism.
  7. October 7 happens in 2023 (which stinks to high hell but that’s an entire post on its own). The invasion of Gaza starts and now you suddenly have a left-right triangulation against Jewish people. The Israeli government seems to be working very hard through all this to act as unlikeable and shady as humanly possible.
  8. Ever since then there has been just a full-bore shill campaign against Jews on Reddit, Twitter, TikTok and 4chan. I used to hang out on 4chan when half the posters were literal Stormfront users, and it was never this intense. It definitely smacks of organized shilling and not just people who genuinely dislike Jews.
  9. Then a sudden coordinated push to rehabilitate Naziism. First for liberals with the glowie-affiliated Azov Battalion (“Shut up Chud, It’s just the Ukrainian skull and pinwheel of good fortune!”) and then for conservatives with Tucker Carlson and Darrell Cooper (who both have connections to CIA and the defense industrial complex).

So to me it looks like there was potentially a coordinated push to induce Weimar problems and then present Weimar solutions.

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