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Why was agenda 47 pushed on X? It seems like old videos (1-2 years old) are being presented as breaking. Hundreds of people are restacking. I saw one community note indicating that this was old (and it then appeared to disappear).

Some points on what it includes:

1. Ability to remove rogue bureaucracy
2. Clean out corrupt actors in national security & intelligence
3. Reform FISA courts
4. Expose the hoaxes and abuses of power
5. Stop collusion between government and media
6. Independent Inspector General
7. Independent auditing of intelligence, no spying on citizens or disinformation against American people
8. Move bureaucracies out of Washington
9. Ban bureaucrats from taking jobs from companies they regulate
10. Push a constitutional amendment to oppose term limits on members of Congress

The post-election Twitter memes are predicting a “New American Golden Age.” These videos are a rejection of woke DEI liberals, and they’ve over-corrected to become indulgent in materialism, violence, and sex. These videos show yoga pants, hot girls, tongues, weapons, cars, Greek villas, 9/11, tennis sluts, Rome, tanks, Sears, motorcycles, NYC, and dogs. It’s a sad breed of Americana that seems edited by a 16 year old. Comments include, “I felt my testosterone go up 20 pts,” “All I want is a blonde trad wife for christmas,” and “White Boy century.”

As someone who doesn’t identify with either party and has voted for both, I’ll have to reflect more on this [an essay of a friend].

There are definitely some exceptions that break a simple dichotomy. For example, a republic of different states can promote more diversity compared to a single globalized entity (it's ironic that Republicans are culturally against diversity, but structurally for it). And if you actually look at what a republic is, I’d say that offloading responsibility via election goes against the republican idea of autonomy.

There’s another interesting thread here on the nature of selfishness. Either end of the spectrum is wicked: I think it devolves into “altruistic” mobs or hubristic self-destruction. Maybe solving this paradox is key: selfish interests that benefit the larger organism.

The norm is for power struggles to happen in private. While each party is positioning itself to the working class, this really might just be a coup–some private elite overthrowing the established public elites. Some scenarios:

1. It's thwarted;
2. They integrate;
3. A struggle—they both die;
4. Coup (no change);
5. Coup (far worse);
6. Coup (better off);
7. Coup (the battle kills both, makes room for new);
8. Power vacuum (the emergent order is worse);
9. New party (exposes both, well-oriented, popular but limited power);
10. Constitutional reboot (system-level change).

In 2016, Trump brought the word “deep state” to public consciousness. Conspiracy theorists used to be an Internet fringe group. Now it’s partisan. The killing of Epstein in 2019 brought a new level of lucidity; that half of the insane things Alex Jones rants about might be true. Now in 2024, the assassination attempt of Trump is drawing parallels to the JFK assassination. I think Trump’s will to power came from exposing the corruption of rival power—that doesn't mean he’s not equally implicated. Is there any precedent of this?