I suspect there are some Nazis in every country.
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I am sure many if not most do have some. Even Putin has the Wagner head with his ss symbols tattooed on him. LOL but like you say every country (pretty much) has them but their true influence is minimal but people like to use it as some sort of slam dunk proof to “insert name here” argument
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Certainly the alleged founder of the Wagner Group, Dmitry Utkin, has such tattoos. Wagner was/is his call-sign (‘nickname’), in honour of Richard Wagner. That Hitler also liked Wagner has probably something to do with that:
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The US picked up a lot of Nazi’s post war too (operation paperclip). They were put to use in the founding of the CIA and in many other agencies, including NASA. Not sure if any other country got the benefit of the educated ones.
Their influence in the US is unclear, but certainly the CIA has had a profound influence on the US and the globe.
Of course there were many self-professed Nazi’s in the US before WW2. We might assume that the Bush family were among their number (not self-professed of course, but Nazi is as Nazi does) given Prescott Bush’s facilitation of the financing of Hitler via Union Bank.
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“Fascism is more appropriately called Corporatism for it is the perfect merger of State and corporate power.” – Mussolini
Not all fascists are Nazi’s, but all Nazi’s are fascists. The difference being that the Nazi’s hold fake elections (or disallow them), detain people indefinitely without trial, & promote war is a way of distracting the public (amongst other totalitarian things) … Fascists just propagandize to the max and loot society.
I don’t see much difference these days in US gov. presidents and Nazi’s. They are riding the border line too close to make them distinguishable.
I do think that if people want to ‘fight them’, then their best bet is just to stop using their fake fiat currency. As people give up on fiat (and they eventually will) then the value of that fiat will go to zero and the power of the State, the fascists, & the Nazi’s will go to zero with it.
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Maybe not. Resources (natural, economic, political, etc.) will still be in play even if the world’s trade mechanism changes.
As a grammar nazi^, you should be put up against a wall for
and shot for incorrect use of the apostrophe.
You are broadly correct in what you say though.
^ the only acceptable kind
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Thats very easy to say in an internet forum. Shame you are not here on the sunny southside to accompany as we leave on a journey of adventure and discovery across the road to the Spar - Our mission is to leave the shop with 2 litres of milk, 4 well-fired rolls and a Crunchie and being welcome back - without the use of fiat.
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Converting on the fly or as needed from sound money to fiat is fine.
The aim is to convince people to not hold fiat as a store of value. In this manner as more and more are converted into sound money, then fiat’s value will plummet. At some point the State will wither and everyone will start using sound money.
If any gov. still exists after that it will need to stick to the discipline that sound money enforces as they can’t print it.
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A govt of some sort will ALWAYS exist. Sorry…
And I truly fear what it would look like if the anarchists get their way.
And that will require a govt with teeth - of some sort - which IIUC would be somewhat antithetical to your beliefs?
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This is a matter of definition and scale. I’m living in a shack in S. Tasmania. I’ve seen nobody from any gov. for a long long time. Yes, they exist, somewhere around here. but what I’m suggesting is that it can shrink a lot as funding dries up and for a time there may be very little in the way of any gov. being around.
What typically happens in these situations I suspect, is that local people get together as needed to deal with roads or whatever and common law courts continue on as they always have where they are needed.
Most of every day for most people even now is comprised of transactions with regular people and not members of the mafia.
No, quite the opposite. Until they grow the teeth and convince or threaten people to give up on sound money and adopt fiat again, they will be forced by the discipline of sound money to remain within their budget - they can’t print to bribe people into voting for the worst of them.
I don’t have beliefs on this matter. I favor decentralization of power - that’s what anarchism means to me. I favor as much decentralization as what works for the people. Because centralization always, always always leads to mass corruption, death and a collapse - it’s human nature.
Decentralize for the win via sound money. And sound money is going to happen regardless of the sensibility of people to make the choice of sound money. Because at the end of the line, the real producers in society - the workers - aren’t going to take some bits of paper that won’t buy them any milk and are only useful for wiping their arses. They’ll simply stay home, garden/farm, produce for themselves and let the ponzi scheme collapse.
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And therefore are in VERY peculiar (almost unique) circumstances. Very very different from my suburban existence, very very different from city centre dwellers and indeed quite different from almost the entire planet.
Good luck to you in your effort to remain as off grid as poss but your experiences - and hence your advice- can only ever be of theoretical interest but sadly almost infinitesimal practical value to the rest of humanity.
Q Why does China have a very centralised structure?
A Cos there is effing billions of the buggers and they are wise enough to know that ya gotta have some rules if that many folk are going to live in close proximity to one another without communal violence. see USA - mass shootings.
And despite the inevitable wailing from our Guardianista “democracy” fans, the Chinese seem to manage rather well, thank you very much.
Glory to the Communist Party of China and its enlightened system of choosing leaders based on meritocracy, not advertising budget wholly dependent on “donors”.
Must go now - I have been summoned to Heraghtys, home of the best Guinness on the Southside.
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Damn, I can’t believe I Liked a @Southside post.
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It might not even be tech companies
But DAO’s
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Interesting discussion. Fraser Cain interviews Dr Amruth Alfred on the possibility of Axions being dark matter.
00:00 Intro
02:19 WIMPs vs Axions
06:35 Observations
15:54 Implications for Cosmology
18:54 Where axioms come from
23:57 Difficulties with observations
27:54 How can the results be confirmed or debunked
31:13 Open-mindness in science
36:50 Gravitational lenses
54:35 Outro
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02:14:19 Final Thoughts on The Network-State
Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor, tech founder, and WSJ bestselling author of The Network State.
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Dr. Srinivasan was the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center. He holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.
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When the brand new is unthinkable, we fight over the old. That’s where we are today with governments, with politics, and with much of the physical world. But perhaps we can change that.
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This is a brilliant interview. A must watch, listen for those interested in effects or Networks on a State, Social, and Technological level. I wonder how SafeNework can play a role in establishing new Network States that exist and solve problems outside traditional Nation States and Social Groups.
His book is free at the above link.
US Economic Freedom score going down the tubes.
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But compared example Russia, China and Iran it is on the moon.
@Josh - thanks for sharing about Visla – I used it to make this video.
Short ~3m I made this morning. Hope you enjoy, please share.
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