Comment on Doge reportedly using AI tool to create ‘delete list’ of federal regulations
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoPaul Weyrich and Robert Kriegel of the Heritage Foundation and Free Congress Foundation held mock elections before the collapse to teach Soviet politicians about democracy. Another Heritage Foundation member who created the State Policy Network (SPN) is quoted as telling Kriegel “You capture the Soviet Union, I’ll capture the states.”
They started sneaking in fax machines and electronic equipment to dissidents in the USSR, and once the coup happened, they were already established and ready to set up the first of its kind go between business for Russia-US relations (Russia House) in 1991.
Weyrich later said in 1996 that allegedly they had been tailed and intimidated by KGB while they were in Moscow holding the fake elections and spreading “democracy.” Someone told him after the coup that Kryuchkov, the head of the KGB had gone to Gorbachev and asked him to crack down on Weyrich. Gorbachev just responded with silence, so Kryuchkov started organizing the coup the next day out of anger. That sounds like total BS, but I’m not sure if Weyrich made it up or if somebody else did and Weyrich believed it.
In 1999, Weyrich started writing about how he believed the moral majority had lost the “cultural war.” So rather than continue fighting to take back institutions, the movement would need to follow the model of homeschooling and create their own. Over 20 years later, the most recent version of the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership (Project 2025) is ready to deregulate and dismantle all federal government. Once it collapses, similar to the power vacuum in post Soviet Russia, they will have already been ready and waiting to replace it with a new far right government.
Similar to Russia, I’m not sure how much control they actually retain once it collapses and is replaced, but they’ve used essentially the same strategy. Doing all of this out in the open, putting the pieces in place, training and recruiting people to be ready to betray their own country. Yet when you point all this out, people want to pretend it’s just a conspiracy theory.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well, this reads … I dunno. Conspiracy-minded at best, I’ve read plenty of such and most was likely fake.
To make it clear, I don’t consider deregulation something bad, when done as part of a system where it makes sense.
Otherwise it’s like paying people for work - labor should be paid for, not paying is cheating, you need work done for you, all these are true, except when it’s a gypsy fortuneteller saying you have to pay lots and lots of money not previously agreed upon for lifting a curse, then you probably shouldn’t pay that person.
When deregulation is done only partially and without “releasing” any of the political power held by private parties, just removing obligations accompanying it - then something is wrong.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
No, I could see how archived Washington Post articles written at the time of the events in 1989 and 1991, plus an entire documentary about their involvement made by the Carnegie Institute in 2012 reads conspiracy minded.
I’m sure their system of deregulation via automated vibe coded AI that by EO must reflect a “non-woke” bias will make a lot of sense.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was kinda agreeing with you, just clarifying on one nuance