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Midnight@slrpnk.netM to collapse of the old society@slrpnk.net · 12 days ago

The American Age Is Over

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The American Age Is Over

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Midnight@slrpnk.netM to collapse of the old society@slrpnk.net · 12 days ago
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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    The Heritage Foundation is speedrunning the collapse of the postwar (WWII) global order, with intention. They posted their plans in plain sight. Nobody with the power to stop them lifted a finger.

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      https://aeon.co/essays/why-western-democracy-is-ailing-and-how-to-fix-it

      We entered this era of an unjust social order, political malaise and destabilisation almost half a century ago when the US president Ronald Reagan and the UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher introduced libertarian reforms that were embraced globally.

      At his first cabinet meeting as president in 1981, Reagan distributed copies of Mandate for Leadership, whose 3,000 pages came out of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, DC. This became the ideology of neoliberalism, which advocated a smaller state, industry deregulation, tax cuts, strengthened defence, and roll-back of social engineering. A year later, 60 per cent of the Mandate’s proposals had been adopted by the Reagan administration,

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        This will just lead to people flocking into China’s embrace, since they still treat their people better than cattle.

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      american people included

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        Especially American people.

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      What intent would that be. I have not read the Proj25 so asking

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        In brief, to restructure the federal government to consolidate control to the executive branch under the president and implement a conservative, Christian nationalist agenda.

        • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          To be even more succinct, Nazis 2.0.

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        go read it

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          For a moment i thougt you had shared a link. Thanks but no thanks.

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            I’m even too scared to even read it knowing it’s genuine. This is real oligarch, Saló shit.

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              Saló shit

              I can’t eat rice with my fingers in my mouth

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            deleted by creator

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            helll no…i don’t help blatantly lazy people who can’t be bothered to do anything for themselves.

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              Thanks but no thanks.

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