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I'm way to deep in the research rabbit hole, went all the way to OG proceedings from 1888 because the sources in Wikipedia were questionable (random Time articles).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Proceedings_of_the_American_Federation_of_Labor_1888_(IA_sim_american-federation-of-labor-proceedings_1888).pdf

RE: https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/116296713591693164
Yup, read fucking EVERYTHING, particularly anarchist critiques of Marxism and communism. I say that *as* a Marxist communist myself.
Here's one of my faves:

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 27. April 1967 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Effendi". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1966/67 auf der Nevad…

"As President Trump escalates his attempts to control us, it is on us, the people, to show that we will fight to protect one another and our country. If he believes we will roll over and allow him to take our freedoms, he is mistaken. We are coming together again on March 28 because we know we can overcome this repression when we unite."
https://www.

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

"America, Not Americans": Inola Residents Say Trump's Industrial Push Is Coming at Their Expense - Oklahoma Watch
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/03/11/america-not-americans-inola-residents-say-trumps-industrial-push-is-coming-at-their-expense/

Good but depressing analysis of the war with Iran. Must-read.
#iran

How America's War on Iran Backfired
Seventeen years ago, while serving as an Iran desk officer in the U.S. State Department, I asked a more veteran colleague about the latest inflammatory statement by Mahmood Ahmadinejad, then the Iranian president. My colleague responded: “Stop paying attention to Ahmadinejad. Only focus on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He makes the important decisions.” He added: “But don’t worry. Change is coming. Khamenei”—who was then 69 and widely believed to have cancer—“could die at…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaucrats are reportedly planning to use specialty facial recognition glasses to collect data on Americans in real time,
independent journalist Ken Klippenstein revealed.
Financial statements viewed by Klippenstein point to the development of a facial recognition platform modeled after commercially available AI smart glasses,
like Meta’s widely-panned“pervert glasses.” ICE’s in-house model, it seems,
will allow agents to monitor vi…

Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time
Newly leaked documents revealed the existence of the government's in-house facial recognition platform, coming soon to an ICE agent near you.

Heute vor 50 Jahren: Am 26. Februar 1976 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Shallows". Die Operation Anvil war eine Serie von 21 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1975 und 1976 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.

The messaging coming from the White House increasingly reflects an “America, fuck yeah!” approach to international politics
– a phrase from the theme tune of "Team America: World Police",
the 2004 satire by the creators of South Park, which mocked the thrusting militarism of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
For those who don’t remember,
the film follows a crack squad of puppet soldiers as they blast their way around the world,
pursuing bad guy…

Trump’s ‘America, F**k Yeah’ doctrine and the war with Iran
Bombing the Iranian regime with little thought of what comes next suggests a foreign policy driven by pure swagger – a Team America approach to global power