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Germany arrests 25 accused of plotting coup

• 082349872349872 4y ago
  DE Reichsbürger are continental analogues of US SovCits; from the relative timing I'm guessing the former (even if unaware of it) are derivative of the latter. Anyone know the etymology of this memetic complex? (farthest back I have been able to trace has been the US during the late Warren Court period)
  • Arnt 4y ago
    Uhm. Reichsbürger aren't noticeably cosmopolitan. Understanding foreign languages isn't their thing. Pedantry is, though.
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  • 082349872349872 4y ago
    Someone posted here, and then deleted, that US income tax conspiracy theories (and, in a prior century, gold vs silver debates) are antecedents of the SovCit complex. There's likely some there there; when I read Pound's apology for (italian OG) Fascism, he sounded in parts amazingly like a modern goldbug.
    • 082349872349872 4y ago
      Here's someone arguing that the armed (and potentially violent) strain of nuttery came in ~1970: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/hate-group-expert-daniel-levitas-discusses-posse-comitatus-christian-identity-movement-and https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/... and 1930s tax revolt (16A is bogus!) crossed with 1950s bigotry (14A is bogus!) as broader roots here: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ca4-16-04183/pdf/USCOURTS-ca4-16-04183-1.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ca4-16-04183/pd...