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This is the penultimate stage of a managed decline to the lowest standard of living a people will tolerate.Something I've noticed: A fair amount of jobs in the US are either redundant or mostly useless. Large swaths of the workforce could be put out of work without bringing the entire economy crashing down. The resulting social unrest might do it, but food is still pretty damn cheap and populations are far less likely to revolt when they're fed. There has been some fuckery going on with meat production and the likes but the US is still producing so much surplus grain that we put it in soda and feed it to livestock. Because the value of labor is so skewed in this way and food prices are so stable I think we're unlikely to see a Wiemar-style collapse. The situations with the housing market and instability of basic infrastructure are looking far more volatile and interesting.
- Centralized ownership of non-depreciating assets.
- Quality of goods and services lowering in fits and starts.
- Previously common place goods and services rebranding as luxuries.
- Mass surveillance and inward focused security state.
- Endless "nudging" of the masses towards the outcomes desired by elites.
- Merging of public and private consent manufacturing entities.
- Expansion of the voting franchise children, non-citizens, criminals, the insane.
- Sexual liberation of children with the understanding that this will keep them dependent on pharmaceuticals for life and prevent them reproducing.
- Aggressive taxation of and law enforcement holy wars against the class/ethnicity that builds and maintains infrastructure, fights wars, and pays taxes.
The main implication for the resistance is that the best weapons are deception and subversion, and the best armor is to camouflage yourself as a regime supporter. Instead of openly protesting, find ways to use the regime's incentive structures to profit yourself. This could be by:
- Claiming to be trans to get tax breaks, low interest home loans, loan forgiveness, or other preferential treatment.
- Getting a genetics/ancestry test done to determine if you have any non-European ancestry, and use that to get entitlements.
- Not marrying your girlfriend, keeping your name off the birth certificate, and letting the regime pay for your children.
- Starting a rehab clinic and using the funding you receive to teach those stuck in the law enforcment and social services plantations how to navigate the systems and extract entitlements from them, while contributing nothing back.
- Pretending to be a "marginalized" ethnicity, gender, sexual group, or religion to get entitlements, and to harm actual regime supporters. This can be done by in many ways, one of which is pretending to be trans while making no effort to change your appearance, and then reporting the office harpies for misgendering you.
- Acting excessively deferential to regime pets, so much so that they understand that you are lying, that they feel alienated from the regime, and that they feel they can't trust their actual allies within the regime. For instance, you can take a knee, raise a fist, close your eyes, and demand a minute of silence for George Floyd at the start of every office meeting, and before you speak in the presence of Africans or anyone who can be construed as being a "person of color".
- Deliberately misidentifying mutually hostile ethnic groups and apologizing to them for your White privilege. For instance, you could say to a Puerto Rican, "Before we start I just want to apologize for my nation's historical occupation of Mexican land, and genocides against Mexican peoples."
- Openly celebrating the decline of the European peoples, both in their Continental homelands and in the lands they conquered. Mock any centrists who disagree with you as "Nazis", while providing easily debunked arguments against actual nationalists. When you are defeated in argument, state both that the decline isn't happening, that they deserve to have it happen to them, and that it's a good thing that it's happening.
The regime also has no defense against common criminality, provided those crimes aren't overtly violent and don't openly oppose the regime's will. It's legal to shoplift up to what, $750 in parts of California? Shoplift up to that amount then.
It's legal to take a shit in the street in parts of California? Feed the homeless cheap bean chili and hand out toilet paper.
It's legal to litter? Empty your trash bags on public streets rather than pay a garbage collection fee.
It may not even be necessary to commit a crime to subvert the regime, you can simply withdraw your goodwill, stay home, tell half-truths without explicitly lying, and get on public benefits or pretend to be a socialist so you can fleece the Brooklyn trust fund communist podcaster crowd. There is nothing stopping you from pretending to troon out so you can get Open Society Foundation funding that you use to stage radicalization marches through Republican controlled territory. To my knowledge there is no test - no genital inspection - required to claim that you are a woman and to get the entitlements available only to women or troons.
Worst case scenario is you go to prison for a while. Claim you're a woman and go on a hunger strike until you are housed in the woman's prison, then relax and wait our your days in relative safety.
There is a huge opportunity in co-opting regime power structures and acting as controlled opposition to populist movements. You can make a lot of money doing things that harm the regime in the long run while sticking to the letter of the law, both de facto and de jure.
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