barneypiccolo

You are on the right track, but it isn't Theil driving it all. Putin is the real leader, using The MuskRat and HitlerPig as his muscle, and the Sociopathic Oligarchs of the world are all following his lead. The writings of Curtis Yarvin is their Bible, who believes Democracy is a failed system, and the planet should be controlled by those with the money. Obviously, that resonates strongly with the Sociopathic Oligarchs of the world.

But you are correct that the ultimate objective is a New World Order in which the Sociopathic Oligarchs are in complete control, not countries, and the national leaders will be on leashes held by the Sociopathic Oligarchs.

None of this is "conspiracy theory," they all talk about it openly. Vance, for one, quotes Yarvin often.

They dont think about money like we do. I remember a situation in a TV show where a successful actor lost half his money to a crooked financial advisor, and he was commiserating with his normal friends.

"I lost $30 million!"

"Wow, thats awful, how much of your money was that?"

"About 50%."

"So you still have $30 million?"

"Yeah, but I lost $30 million."

"Yeah, but you still have $30 million!"

"Yeah, but I LOST $30 million!"

Rich people often focus on how much they DON'T have, rather than how much they do have. That's why they are always grasping for more, despite having no use for it at all. It's a mental illness like hoarding, except it's money instead of old newspapers or cats.

When a Sociopathic Oligarch like The MuskRat loses half his fortune, he isn't thinking "Who cares? I've still got more than I'll ever need." All they can think about is how much they lost. This Tesla crash will haunt him until the day he dies, even if it recovers, which I increasingly doubt it will. 50/50 it ends in bankruptcy within a couple of years.

That's why we should double and triple down and make it really hurt. I've taken to actually asking Tesla owners what made them turn into a Nazi. I don't bother to stand around waiting for an answer, I don't care. I just want them to hear how people are judging them harshly for their choice of vehicle.

Which is fine with them, they know that smart people will call them out on their bullshit. That's why one of the first thing an authoriatarian government does is go after the intellectuals. That's why they're disappearing avtivist college students.

The good news for our side is that they are giving their opposition the gift of competence. The most experienced, competent leaders are being replaced with stupid, ignorant, totally inexperienced loyalists. Left behind are millions of angry Federal employees, who hate what MAGA is doing to all their years of hard work, and who despise their new bosses. They are ripe for recruiting as moles, leakers, saboteurs, assassins, etc. And those experienced leaders will be the ones to lead us through the inevitable revolt, and form the basis of the new Democractic government.

Ultimately, MAGA will be brought down by their own virtuosic incompetence.

His name will be rembered for a long time, but it will be in the same context as people like Caligula, Nero, Bendict Arnold, Hitler, etc.

Over the next century, historians will write more books and graduate level theses about the HitlerPig phenomenon than any other modern historical figure.

I work with big tanks of a pressurized gas that occasionally releases pressure for a few seconds, very loudly. Civilians are often startled, and ask if its going to blow up, and I always say:

"Do you see me running?"

"No."

"Then don't worry about it. But if you see me running, then you should definitely run, too."

Once they've finished processing all the foreigners, they'll start coming for Americans they don't like.

I've been talking about how I joined Lemmy after having my 12 year, nearly million karma account permabanned on Reddit following the inauguration. When they finally get around to perusing my comment history, and track down my email info, I'm a goner.

He'll soon be controlled by America anyway, eh?

I've watched referees in both football and basketball, and wondered how thrilling it must be to be in the middle of all that action.

It is kind of like that now for historians, except that instead of describing the experience as thrilling, its more like terrifying.

As a history graduate myself, I can tell you that he has absolutely looked forward, and extrapolated where this timeline is likely to go, based not only on past historical examples, but also considering the models that the contemporary players are using, which is clearly a combination of the Nazi playbook, extreme Libertarian fantasy, Russian ambition, and oligarchic greed .

Way back in the late 80s, I started listening to Rush Limbaugh, whose radical propaganda I was able to resist because I had a good grounding in Critical Thinking. But as I heard his listeners fawn over him, and saw the conservative talk radio trend quickly spread across America following the end of the Fairness Doctine in 1987, I realized that if this level of conservative rhetoric and propaganda continued for long enough, it could literally destroy America, and then the world.

Then I watched in horror as it caught fire in the 90s with Newt Gingrich fanning the flames, then the stolen election of 2000, with the Dems just saying "Oh, well," in response, then the rise and election of HitlerPig.

EVERY single prediction I made in my most extreme imagination in 1987 has come true so far, and if we dont do something to stop it, we will come to resemble Nazi Germany, with death camps and everything. Except this time, nobody will come to the rescue, and the entire planet will turn into an authoriarian kleptocracy, operated by Sociopathic Oligarchs.

My next prediction: MAGA can't lose the slim majorities in both Houses, or control of investigatory committees will fall into the hands of Democrats, as well as legislative control. Protests will continue to grow around the nation, driven by citizen anger over multiple issues. By next summer the protests will be huge, and HitlerPig will encourage his RedHats to instigate violence. They heeded his call before, and he pardoned them, and made them political martyrs within their cause. They will respond again.

Now he can call the protests violent, and send in the authorities to quell the violence with more extreme violence. That will allow him to declare Martial Law and suspend the upcoming elections until peace is restored, and since he controls the peace, that will never happen. Any further demonstrations will be met with deadly violence, and any organizers will be disappeared to the 30,000 person facility currently being built in Guantanamo, outside of the view of the media or the toothless courts.

Kapo Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller has said that he wants America reduced from the current 335 million people, to 100 million. Using your best historical speculation, how do you think he proposes to reach that goal?

Valid.

He is desperately trying to redeem his legacy for future historians, now that he realizes he is going to be taking the blame in future history books for enabling the MAGA scourge. He has finally figured out that he will be remembered as one of the worst, most destructive, Americans in history. He deserves it.

I hope he believes in God so he can live in terror of the afterlife during whatever life he has left.

He was the 21st century problem, but he can share blame with Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, who built the foundation that McConnell stood on.