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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by lettergram on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:15AM (#29823747)
The world economic forum is largely lead by former nazis and communists. They have openly called for the United States to decline as a power.

I wouldn’t necessarily take anything they say as fact. Lol

Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by ianai on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:21AM (#29823808)
Citation very much needed.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by lettergram on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:45AM (#29824113)
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/

Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by ajmurmann on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:59AM (#29825200)
Trading that article, I wonder if you are conflating prediction and desire for something to happen.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by easytiger on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:53AM (#29826025)
Use of the idea that now is an opportunity to be seized I think dictates that it's a desire
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by ajmurmann on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:25PM (#29827605)
So, if I predict something catastrophical will happen and I make efforts to prepare for it, I'm part of the problem?
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by im3w1l on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:46PM (#29832389)
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.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by easytiger on Friday January 07, 2022 @04:21AM (#29836961)
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
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by beaconstudios on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:07AM (#29824403)
And predicting the fall of the US... Makes them both nazis and communists? I'm confused by your argument.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by rbanffy on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:38AM (#29825797)
It's really hard to be both far-right and far-left at the same time.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by TMWNN on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:49AM (#29872049)
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".

Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by MadeThisToReply on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:45PM (#29828880)
What about horseshoe theory?
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by rbanffy on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:11PM (#29831072)
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.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by beaconstudios on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:44PM (#29831582)
Both of those countries are theocratic and extremely socially conservative, which places them on the far right.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by rbanffy on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:04PM (#29833234)
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.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by lettergram on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:11AM (#29824462)
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.

Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by beaconstudios on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:14AM (#29824487)
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.

Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by habeebtc on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:43AM (#29825862)
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

Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by blackshaw on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:51PM (#29828977)
"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.

Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by lettergram on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:28PM (#29829573)
Indeed. I was ignoring this stuff until the “build back better” was the campaign slogan all over everyone in the western world
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by hunterb123 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:14AM (#29825419)
I don't see how you can read things like the Great Reset and think the things you do.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by beaconstudios on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:17AM (#29825455)
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.
Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by sebow on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:18AM (#29824553)
Go browse their website.It's very much transparent, which is both scary and somewhat surreal.