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Citation very much needed.



You can read the “Great Reset” book to get a wider view of their vision.

They’ve been talking about this for a long time

https://www.salon.com/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025/


Trading that article, I wonder if you are conflating prediction and desire for something to happen.


Use of the idea that now is an opportunity to be seized I think dictates that it's a desire


So, if I predict something catastrophical will happen and I make efforts to prepare for it, I'm part of the problem?


This is a great question and my answer is possibly. If you prepare so much that you stand to gain from it coming about, then it does create perverse incentives. And it could make you part of the problem.


The institutions are stating that exploitation of the status quo to implement X is an opportunity. One that usually comes at the cost of individuals


And predicting the fall of the US... Makes them both nazis and communists? I'm confused by your argument.


It's really hard to be both far-right and far-left at the same time.


The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact says otherwise.

German and Soviet troops that met in Poland after invading from the west and east had no trouble in celebrating their victory together, holding parades and such.

As John Gunther—who was in Moscow when the world learned of the pact's existence in August 1939—wrote, "communism and Fascism were more closely allied than was normally understood".


What about horseshoe theory?


Nazism is far-right and authoritarian. Socialism is just far-left, but not necessarily authoritarian. Soviet-style socialism was very authoritarian and that's why it got its bad reputation. And you can be authoritarian and not even be on the left-right axis - Saudi Arabia is an example, as is Afghanistan now.


Both of those countries are theocratic and extremely socially conservative, which places them on the far right.


Maybe, but they don't have really free markets either. In this regard, North Korea is more of an absolutist monarchy than any previously known form of socialism.


Read the book, look into the forums content, funding sources, history, etc

I was pointing out the anti-United states propaganda has been going on for years.


I'm not going to do all that to verify your comment. It strikes me as an absurd claim, at least in part because nazis and communists are opposites, and everybody is predicting the fall of the US' dominance to China these days.

The WEF is just liberal capitalism. The trend towards technofeudalism (everyone is renting their existence from big corps) has been going on for a while, at the hands of capitalists. Because its profitable. See: the growth of financing/credit, software subscriptions, etc.


If I am not mistaken "The Great Reset" is written by Glenn Beck. I may be wrong, as there are several books with that name, but the Beck book is the one most likely to involve railing against Nazis and Communists.

You can get a sense for Beck's work here:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/?s=Glenn+beck


"The Great Reset" is the name of a book by Klaus Schwab, who is chairman of the WEF. It was also the name that the WEF gave to their 50th annual meeting, which took place in 2020.

Conspiracy theories aside, I've read Schwab's book, and it's a moronic, badly-written pile of buzzwords and corporate jargon that says nothing of interest and reads like the work of a hungover undergraduate who's padding the wordcount the night before the deadline while hoping the professor won't realise he hasn't done the reading. I'd tell you to ignore it, except Schwab is a man of enormous power and influence, so his apparent inability to produce an intelligent thought is really quite troubling.


Indeed. I was ignoring this stuff until the “build back better” was the campaign slogan all over everyone in the western world


I don't see how you can read things like the Great Reset and think the things you do.


I'm open to convincing arguments. What do you think the Great Reset is? To me it seems like late capitalists doing a capitalism as they always do, trying to eke out more profit by way of financier feudalism.


Go browse their website.It's very much transparent, which is both scary and somewhat surreal.




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