Most everyone is familiar with the concept of the panopticon, which is a type of prison designed by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham. The system allows all prisoners to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates being able to tell whether they are being watched. The image that comes to mind is of a single eyeball in the sky that is always scanning for rule breakers. The key is the uncertainty. You never know if you are being watched by the guards of the prison.
This is a powerful image that always comes to mind when people realize that their rulers are spying on them. It is the wrong image. America is not a panopticon, but a synopticon. This is a concept conceived by Norwegian sociologist Thomas Mathiesen that means surveillance of the few by the many. Mathiesen belonged to the prison abolition movement which advocated for the elimination of prisons and prisons systems in favor of anarchist inspired alternatives.
The world in which we live today is one where everyone is spying on everyone, except the rulers, all the time. The local business installs cameras outside the warehouse to prevent vandals from defacing the walls with graffiti. Those cameras record everything and store it on the cloud. The owner is told the video stays on the cloud for seven days, but in reality, it is there forever. It just gets moved to a different database, accessible by the security state whenever they think to use it.
All around us, the vast network of recording devises uploads data to various databases that are harvested by the secret police and stored in their systems. Americans don’t think we have secret police, but Americans also think their votes count. The main feature of liberal democracy is it keeps the people living in a fog of self-delusion about who is really in charge of society. That is what we see with the secret police. They have no name and no location, so they do not exist for most people.
One of those people is not Tucker Carlson, however. His organization was visited by someone claiming to be a whistleblower. This person provided information to them from their texts and e-mails that could only be known by Team Tucker. The claim was that the NSA was using its super-duper spying tools to harvest their data. The idea was to find something they could use to get Tucker fired and then place it in the media. This is something the FBI does when framing people.
Like most Americans, Tucker takes his rulers at face value. If the government is spying on someone, it is in an official capacity from an official office. That is not how the secret police work in the American synopticon. The secret police are instead a loose network of fellow travelers that occupy positions inside the large institutions, both private and public. It is a secret society in which the membership is informal and rooted in shared beliefs and access to information.
In the case of Tucker, it is unlikely that the NSA was using its super-duper listening tools to gather up his e-mails. Whether such a thing exists is debatable. This data exists in databases both private and public. There is no need to sniff every packet on the internet in real time when millions of people volunteer to capture, collate and store the data on private systems. When those systems are maintained by people in the loose network that makes up the secret police, getting access is never difficult.
A good example is the insurrection hoax. The banks and mobile carriers were quick to volunteer their services to the hoaxers in the inner party. They provided mobile phone data and credit card data without being asked. All of a sudden, within hours of the event, the FBI and DOJ were getting waves of information about people who may or may not have been at the event. In the synopticon, the FBI is reduced to errand boys when it comes to framing enemies of the system.
In the case of Tucker, this is probably an operation not aimed at Tucker, but at his fans out there in flyover country. The secret police send this guy to tell Team Tucker that they are spying on him. They probably got some stuff from Google or Apple to use as a prop in this little drama. It is entirely possible the operation is being run out of Silicon Valley and the FBI official they are using is just a fellow traveler. His credentials as a high-ranking government agent adds authenticity to the caper.
Of course, Tucker ran straight to the camera to report on what happened, because that is what you do if you are a journalist in a democracy. There is the value of the self-delusion maintained by liberal democracy. If Tucker saw himself as a subject in an authoritarian surveillance state, he would have evaluated this event from that perspective and kept quiet about it. He would have assumed they were targeting him, hoping he would blab about it on television.
Now, if this operation is not about spying on Tucker in order to get him fired, then what is the point of it? The primary tool of control in both the panopticon and synopticon is psychological, not informational. The theory is that the uncertainty and lack of privacy instills submissiveness. The prisoner, never sure when he is being watched and what is being watched, begins to assume his captors are always watching and know everything about him, even his innermost thoughts.
This has always been a key feature of the secret police. They want their targets to think everyone and anyone could be a spy. Since the ruling class sees every white person in America as a potential threat, the secret police are trying to make sure every white person knows they are being watched. Getting Tucker, a guy who thinks UFOs are real, to play along in this drama is not terribly difficult. Millions of white people who watch Tucker are now thinking they are under surveillance.
In every corrupt regime, the secret police are a symptom of the rot, but they also reflect the nature of the ruling class. The KGB in post-war Russia was highly bureaucratized, reflecting the nature of the regime. They slowly began to ignore organized crime, as that was hard to address, and focused on trivial crime. On the other hand, the Okhrana, which was the Tsars secret police, was a highly personal operation. It was ad hoc and relied on individuals to infiltrate enemies of the Tsar.
In a liberal democracy like America, no one really knows who is actually in charge, so no one knows the nature of the secret police. There are formal institutions, just as we see in politics, but those institutions never do what the people want, which is what you see with elected officials. Just as with elected officials, there always seems to be a hidden agenda with the security forces. It is as if there is an invisible hand on the levers of power that is only known by what it does.
Just as the secret police reflects the nature of the system, it also gives us a sense of the system’s overall health. The more threatened the ruler, the more willing he is to use explicit force to intimidate his opponents. The confident ruler is willing to play cat and mouse, often for his own amusement. We saw this with he Tsar as century ago, where he was willing to be more explicit in the use of violence. The less secure he was in his position, the more willing he was to shoot people.
What we are seeing today is an effort to public intimidate opponents. Torturing political prisoners in secret DC jails and now advertising a domestic spying operation suggest genuine fear in the system. They really do believe that Trump was put in office by a secret conspiracy against them. This paranoia and fear is driving the explicit use of force by the rulers. That invisible hand is moving from the shadows, into the open and becoming more obvious in order to intimidate the enemy.
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An equally plausible explanation for these phenomena is the idea that the People in Charge are flaunting their power, not displaying their fear. Message: “if we can mess with TuCa, just imagine what we can do to you.”
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In the last century, the truly powerful countersignaled. They did not display their wealth and power. You still see this in Washington politics, where the powerful politicians are never seen carrying a briefcase and rarely seen chatting on the mobile. They have people for that. Down stream from them, the type of briefcase signals status. The thin style will be a lobbyist, high status. A bulging soft-sided style is staffer, low status.
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It does show a possible propaganda shift from gentle psychological manipulation to fear and intimidation. It used to be they would use heavy-handedness sparingly, usually in wartime.
I do believe that this is more likely to be a genuine whistleblower, as I really don’t think the Deep State is willing yet to completely throw away the naive patriotism of your average American that is needed to keep society going.
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I’m coming around to the idea that our ruling class has exactly zero competent, rational people left in it. Up until maybe two decades ago they were our enemies and plotted against us—while taking the reality of our minds and lives into account, if only to better injure us. Now they’re just wildly insane and retarded.
They’re not sending us any message. They don’t know how. They batter us with idiot noise and any signal we perceive is our own desperate hallucination, our last hope, that they’re still merely evil. But they’re not even human.
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Have you seen the movie “The Death of Stalin”? I recommend it for everyone on this side of the aisle. *That’s* the world our rulers live in – hubris, humiliation, and paranoia in equal measure.
I suggest we’re currently experiencing the scene where The Boss has clearly keeled over, but no one dares to enter the room until morning. The guards fear for their lives if they do and Stalin is still alive. Some party guys fear for their lives if they do and he’s dead. The top Party men won’t go in, because ONE of them has to open the door first, and since that guy controls the narrative, they can’t allow a rival to do it… but are too scared to do it themselves. The blackest of black comedy.
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After Stalin died, it was Beria who first took control. He was the head of the foreign intelligence. Beria was also the first to see Stalin in a coma and was the one who prevented doctors from ministering to Stalin at the end.
What our regime seems to lack is a Khrushchev.
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That’s true (obviously they took some liberties for the movie).
I’ve written a lot about Khruschhev. He was, in a way, the ultimate Commie. He came up hard — you don’t survive the civil war and the Great Patriotic War (both as an army kommissar) and the Great Purge without being one seriously clever reptile. Not only do we not have anyone like that, we’re probably three generations removed from it at this point.
The current generation of Leftist leadership, being Boomers, were convinced they were going to live forever; they haven’t paid any attention to their farm system since the 1970s. (In a sane party, even a sane Bolshevik party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would still be stuffing envelopes under the supervision of a junior ward captain’s third assistant, and if she got anywhere near a smartphone, the kommissar would have her fingers broken. Instead, that idiot is going to be La Presidenta por Vida in a few years)…
…so, yeah, thinking it through, I was wrong. Not “The Death of Stalin,” more “The Abdication of Yeltsin,” but not nearly as funny as either. Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev is still hilarious, though.
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This Tucker thing is an interesting dovetail to Biden’s quip that Molon Labe types don’t stand a chance to nukes and F-15s. People that follow Tucker (and right wing media in general) are, however, not willing to submit to tyranny, and have a healthy “fuck you” attitude to the establishment. (Even Libertarians!) Maybe right-wingers fantasize about taking up arms against authoritarianism but won’t do anything in actuality, but I suspect there’s a significant amount that would. These people won’t respond to calls for white racial consciousness, but they will respond to calls for liberty. So Tuckergate will just serve to rile up the right-wingers even more; I don’t see it cowering them. Ask any Fox News Uncle if he will stay quiet because of the NSA, and I’ll bet he’ll say something like “fuck them”.
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Well, that is the other can of worms. Consider: you are a legacy patriot American squaddie in the services. You are literally forced to hold your nose when the brass orders you to march in high heels, watch tranny indoctrination films, and answer to queer lunatic officers and wahmen.
You are ordered now to fire on American citizens. I dunno about you… but I can see a LOT of fraggings in the future of the American military.
Dissidents have problems seeing it – but Normie is getting mightily pissed. He no longer dozes on the couch in front of the big game on TV with a six pack and a bag of potato chips. He’s not watching sportzball despite their best efforts to make it vibrant and diverse – he’s so damned mad, on January 6th he actually went out to protest. Pay attention, Dissidents – that is HUGE. Nick Fuentes is mocking those shitty old fossils in gov’t the way they did when they were kids.
We are watching history and a gathering storm, fellas.
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The tyranny of this age is not violence, it’s financial. A normie con farmer in the corn belt might be willing to strap up with guns and take a crack at some feds, but not a single one of them will risk having their lines of credit dried up. That’s why spying and violence are mostly irrelevant. Its a meaningless flex, both sides are bluffing AND know the bluff will never be called. But you will never see a normie con go into a bank and ask for a straight white Christian clerk or banker, or threaten to boycott over globohomo agendas being pushed by their bank. That’s a bluff they don’t want called.
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“I am already on the List”. Form 4473, class 3 Tax Stamp. Trump ballot. IP logged across multiple wrongthink addresses. Donations to GOA and other “extreme far right groups”, religious orgs, and wrongthink publishers logged by IRS. Credit card purchases at gun shops, Cabellas, “prepper” websites, and online bulk ammo sellers. Demographic data (white male) logged across multiple dotgov databases. Social media posts full of “hate” and “anti-government” sentiment, including b-roll stock of handling “assault rifles” while smiling ready for 6’oclock news to seal narrative.
TPTB have used all of these sources and methods time and again. The “anti-terror” infrastructure is all right there to cntrl-P a “dossier”.
The passive patriot has already been painted into the corner. And any race consciousness at all means the skinsuit indicts regardless. Its easy to see how the point of laying low is losing purchase.
The question is how and when the game becomes all too real. Or even if it ever does. The f-15’s and nukes stuff is just old potato stuck in the ‘80’s. The nuke is economic. Covid was a limited tactical deployment. The ICBMs have yet to fly.
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Why do Stasi officers make such good taxi drivers? You get in the car and they already know your name and where you live.
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Why do the Stasi work together in groups of three? You need one who can read, one who can write, and a third to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.
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That would be like waving a red flag in front of the 2A crowd. I know the dissidents aren’t very impressed by them… but eventually those guys will push back and it will be a sporting event for them.
I am not worried about the deep state spying on my emails and cell phone. If these guys take a notion to, manufacturing evidence is child’s play. With Tucker… expect some sobbing harridan to come out of the closet 30 years after being raped by him. A gaggle of others will follow. Maybe he’ll get caught with a computer full of kiddie porn. These guys don’t have to spy anymore, Z. They kill in broad daylight and in cold blood inside the synopticon as they did with Epstein. They might not even bother with a frame up. You’ll wake up and some lone wolf crazy will have bumped Tucker off. Or he gets hit by the random diversity truck.
If our leaders are out to intimidate us… oh boy… we will see who intimidates who when the retaliations start. We are in for interesting times.
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They already took the sexual misconduct shot at Tucker with some lunatic who claims he propositioned her on the set and invited her back to his hotel. It didn’t work. Someone in the establishment has to see at least some value in having Tucker on TV as a pressure release valve for normies.
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That is another problem. They’ve pulled that con so many times nobody believes it anymore. Hillary Clinton lost the election by telling men they must believe all women…except when it comes to her rapist “husband”.
The other one is the race hoax. When some nogger claims to have crosses burning on his lawn with cone heads capering around the flames… you instantly know it’s a lie and a hoax. Funnily enough – the perps never get punished.
It’s going to take a Pinochet or Duterte style President to fix this, and probably a civil war.
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Nothing can fix our problems. The Dissolution of the United States, a.k.a. imperial collapse, is the only way out now.
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You’re probably right about a Pinochet or Duterte style President to fix this via some type a civil war.
Meantime, in the race hoax sweepstakes – although I can’t say I much care what happened to Smullett and the guys that robbed him o’ his Subway sammich on a cold winters night not long ago – at this point I’m almost disappointed some jogger hasn’t ginned up an even more entertaining story of a how the noble poc fought back against the debil white rayciss.
“…a pressure release valve for normies.”
Exactly. Just like this blog.
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The comment section, probably. Aren’t they all? The blog and Z-man’s writings—nope. Keep reading, you’ll view the world differently after a while if you pay attention.
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What I don’t understand is why people are talking about how the Imperial State is spying on its own citizens. Mr. Snowden and Mr. Assange gave us loads of details on that back in 2013. If anyone had cared about it then, Assange wouldn’t be rotting in a British Shithole and Snowden wouldn’t be living in defacto exile in Russia.
So, why the concern now?
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Timing is everything in life. People were not ready to believe the worst about the system back then. Today, people are much more willing. That and Assange and Snowden were less than ideal messengers. Presentation counts for a lot.
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Assange was initially celebrated by the official left because he had those revelations about Bush’s war crimes at the height of Obama mania just before those leftists quietly joined the neocons and regime change became acceptable foreign policy for progs. Wikileaks didn’t really make more big waves until they released that stuff that hurt Hillary and CNN had to villainize Assange and WL. He could have hung out in that embassy the rest of his life if he hadn’t embarrassed Hillary.
Snowden is just an ugly nerd with no charisma or anything that interesting to say. I looked at a recent interview with him and it was like watching a high school teacher explain how the internet works.
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On the other hand, Snowden was smart enough to go to Russia. Would he still be alive today had he not gone there?
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Perhaps also, everything we see today are manifestations of the incompetence and arrogance typical of any society in the final stages of imperial collapse.
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The country has already collapsed and is unraveling
This is something I realized the other day. My guess is that people outside of the USA already see it. Because it is very hard to make the case that we aren’t more or less in a similar situation as the USSR was before the Berlin Wall made their demise official. Our roads and bridges and infrastructure are already as bad I can imagine things were in the USSR. Nothing can be fixed. We don’t have the will or the competency for it.
We just do not have a symbol like a wall being torn down to drive the point home. And I don’t think the Miami condo is our version of the Berlin Wall, the crystallization of things, but just one in a running tally of misfortunes and mishaps that when viewed in total tell the world that the country is kaput. I expect there to be many more things like condo buildings collapsing that will keep piling up (no pun intended) and eventually shake people out of their daze that the country is kaput.
I am already acting on the premise that the country is finished. I am just ahead of the curve.
For all the good work that Snowden did, he was not a sympathetic character. He ran to Russia when both the Left and the Right hated Putin and could too easily be dismissed as a foreign asset.
Assange poked his finger in the eye of both the Left and the Right, so there was not as much of a who/whom partisan existential threat people saw from the government. When Trump failed to pardon him, a lot more the right tail of the political spectrum started to accept that that ballot box would not save us.
It’s turning into a few incidents snowballing and escalating to clear pattern, and is now blatantly partisan.
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Becoming anonymous is a skill that can be learned, and should be taught to all who wish to live lives independent of our maliciously sick culture & society. It’s also worthwhile survival training and a fun hobby. Here’s a few hints to get you started. Kill your TV. Get off social media. Leave your cell phone at home whenever you wish to be left alone. Buy a few changes of clothes at the Goodwill (shoes too) and pay cash. Learn to wear hats & sunglasses frequently. Grow a full beard if you’re male. Learn to use public transportation, again pay cash. Bicycles & motorcycles are a good alternative. Put a pebble in your shoe to change your stride when the circumstances warrant. Observe others and note which imagery & behaviors stand out & then avoid them. Some occupations, like delivery driver & maintenance men, are effectively invisible. If you have a good friend who is a cop, ask what tells they typically look for when surveilling the public. Learn by doing. It could save your life someday.
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When I was a kid and watched “Minority Report” my takeaway was that I really couldn’t be bothered with all that effort. Now that the world is rather close to those conditions I still feel the same way. Still, thanks for the tips, especially about the pebble.
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Paying cash is always a good practice whenever possible. Keeping your phone “black bagged” is also wise. Think about just these two precautions and how easy it is to track you and compile a dossier of your daily activities with such info. Why make it easy.
Tom, I’ve located some security video of you in disguise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pN7nmzuvNc
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While I have no reason to hide my activities (“yet”?) I agree with the above. Most of us are not operatives. Even so, it’s possible that some day these might become survival skills. I don’t have any title suggestions, but stories about how lives were lived in the Communist countries would be helpful. Of course today we already have “1984” levels of potential surveillance, much of it already installed in our homes by us! Witness the cell phone, perhaps an Alexa, etc.
Like the shoe pebble, many low-tech opportunities exist. For example, you can instantly reduce Sauron’s ability to track you by phone by merely pretending you have a 1970 phone — e.g. it stay at home. Yes, you give up some convenience, but somehow we lived without mobile phones, as recently as 40 years ago.
A sometimes mentioned disadvantage of attempting to evade monitoring is that the very attempt may draw attention to one. Despite that, I’m sure creative individuals will always find ways to work around the system.
“The Chinese watch will be ready at midnight.” — Monty Python
The same has always been true re the Snowden revelations. It was obvious even in 2012 that TPTB wanted every American to understand that the government could spy on them through every electronic device, even e our webcams weren’t safe. The news media was covering the story wall to wall for several days so clearly they wanted to get the message out there. The whole thing was a PR project to disclose something they couldn’t just come out and say.
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It isn’t just secret police as they are ordinarily considered. The country is over-run with enforcement officials that we can’t recognize, like this guy.
And, every retired agent remains an agent, licensed to carry firearms.
The most unusual sight in the country? A guy in a bar wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with “IRS Softball Team”.
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My awakening occurred twenty years ago at a fancy party. We couldn’t find my expensive camera the host requested I bring and use. After literally searching everybody else a group of us surrounded a woman and found my camera at the bottom of her hand bag. She instantly whipped out her badge and asserted “FBI” and then threatened us. I am sure she would have kept the camera as loot, but her professional interest was who consorts with whom among very important people. Now they don’t even have to steal your hardware.
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I came across a terrific song called “Stink Eye” which is all about state survaillance — here it is on soundcloud —
https://soundcloud.com/user-341777589/stink-eye
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It’s interesting to see the ruling class change from passive aggressive suggestion into full on thuggery, intimidation, and force. I’m still trying to figure out why the sudden change.
a) the ruling class is increasingly composed of low IQ vibrants like AOC and Ilhan Omar. They aren’t very bright they just really hate whitey and have masses of low IQ foreigners to vote them in. I bet the FBI is full of your typical resentful Indians. these people don’t understand tact and their hatred of whitey is too strong.
b) the Jewish influence is not what it used to be. Nobody race-mixes more than Jews, they have a very low birth rate and full blooded ones are basically extinct in millennial generations. They’re losing the smart fraction too.
c) they are getting scared. internal polling is showing that white Americans are more race aware, anti establishment, etc. They don’t know how to handle this shift in public opinion and, like typical women, are freaking out.
d) the general populace is becoming ungovernable. the low IQ non white masses they’ve imported just don’t follow any rules at all that are put forth by the Karen and J class in Washington. They are so belligerent towards China and Russia now too. We saw this play out in Canada, basically all the COVID cases were blacks and Indians spreading it. elites are trying to bring back a common enemy to unite the foreign masses. They turned around and arrested white Christian preachers.
Or it’s a combination of all the above. I don’t really know what escalating a war on your own population is meant to achieve though. Do they really think that people like us are going to back down because Biden threatened to bring out the nukes? One good thing about a third world shit hole is that the police & intelligence agencies are also third world. I’m actually less scared of law enforcement with each passing year. Corruption levels are so high and it is easily done these days.
I think it’s a good thing to see overall though. I’m not an accelerationist, and I don’t think this is acceleration. It seems to be the result an increasingly dysfunctional and stupid regime grasping at straws for relevance. People are just ignoring the ruling class now.
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Any insight as to why the province of Alberta seems to be the hotspot for arresting Christians these days?
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I’ve always thought that the war on one’s “own population”—which is White—was because the remaining “bad Whites” are the only true threat to their (TPTB) power. But that could just be narcissistic arrogance on my own part.
As to “smart fraction”, it may well be gone. The current collapse of the condo high rise in Florida was commented upon briefly by Dutton. It is precisely as he expects intelligence decline to occur/manifest. It will first present itself as an inability to maintain current technology and infrastructure. In the case of the collapsed condo, the deteriorated supports were know for months—if not years.
Pictures taken not three days before the collapse show horrendous deterioration—yet no one who was evaluating the structure over a lengthy time period was able to understand the criticality of what they were looking at. In another day and time, the condo structure would have been immediately condemned and the people evacuated.
Coincidently, another Florida structure (bridge) collapsed—and in similar circumstances—a few years back. The prefab bridge was installed (we are told) incorrectly, causing a large structural crack—visible, and so wide you could stick your fingers in it. The crack was ignored because no one doing the install recognized the structural integrity loss such a crack entailed. They were simply not up to the task.
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Your first point is an underappreciated one. The average person doesn’t understand the younger wave of elites simply aren’t very smart. It isn’t just vibrants, many of the young elite educated whites are true believers who even though they spent decades in education, learned nothing useful there and have no skills whatsoever. They believe the garbage they were taught and follow it blindly.
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Stupid people often follow rules/procedure explicitly—at least until they reach very low levels of intelligence. It’s the only way they can approach the world and still play some productive role in it with their level of understanding.
In another time, when I was younger, I viewed such in a jobs training program for the mentally “challenged”. If you were willing to spend the time and could find a menial job that could be broken down into simple, repetitive tasks, you could train these people for employment. For instance bus-boy in restaurants.
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I’m not so sure about this. Countries that are slipping and sliding into Third Worldism tend to get simultaneously more oppressive and more incompetent, and this theory may give the powers-that-be more credit for being smart and Machiavellian than they really deserve. I wouldn’t put it past them to genuinely be so ham-fisted that they’re really just spying on Tucker Carlson to try to dig up dirt to smear him with in some hit piece in the friendly media. It would be sloppy and amateurish, but so was the Steele Dossier, and they pinned their whole impeachment plot on that.
Maybe I’m wrong on this, but I’m increasingly thinking that it’s a mistake to either underestimate our enemies’ malice or to overestimate their intelligence.
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Less than 50% white amongst under 18s. White people always seem to be surprised at this type of tyranny, and offended by gross incompetence, but as you said, it’s just part and parcel of living in a shithole country.
I was walking home from the store the other day and there were a bunch of noggers ooga booga-ing in the middle of the sidewalk, and a chinaman raced past at 100km/h in a 40 zone in a loud Mercedes. This old white guy looked so confused, like “what the hell is going on??” I was not surprised at all, because demographics are destiny and race is also destiny.
Expect the tyranny is just getting started, as there are still plenty of competent white Boomers and even Xers that haven’t retired yet in government, management, and law.
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I’ve said for awhile that our rulers are likely at their peak power. They’re inheriting still functioning institutions and a good deal of social capital.
(Yes, those institutions aren’t as effective as they were before AA and wokism starting worming their way into them, but the FBI, CIA, NSA, even local police still have a lot of reasonably competent Gen Xers and even some leftover Boomers.)
But the number of competent Whites in those institutions will slowly (maybe quickly) erode. The social capital is getting burned away day by day.
In ten years, those institutions will be far less effective. They will have a few specialized units where the last remaining competent Whites are housed to be used for jobs that actually have to be done right. But the rest of the institution will be a clown show.
Trust in the government will fall as it become more and more incompetent and openly anti-White.
Our job will be far easier over time, which is why it’s stupid to take on our rulers now when they are their strongest. Build quietly and wait for opportunities.
Pontificating upon your last sentence:
Anyone who’s ever worked in the military, the Federal government, or contracting, even thirty or forty years ago, will be able to readily attest that what I might call just average competence, is most certainly NOT a feature of the entire apparatus.
Levels of competence you see displayed on your favorite TV show or movie, even one of decades ago, simply doesn’t exist. Ladies and gentlemen, this government is not the one of eighty years ago that won a major war, nor the one of sixty years ago that put men on the Moon. Those days are long, long gone. And, of course, there was plenty of bureaucracy and ossification then too, but the present state is multiple times worse.
All levels of society, but government most especially, has been the subject of various Socialist experimentation for at least 70 years (equal opportunity, quotas, etc. etc.)
I can assure you that in the 1960s, pregnant sailors didn’t have to be sent back to port from deployed ship or submarine. Personnel choices were made with greater emphasis on ability, instead of race, sexual preference or what university one attended.
Of course, small pockets of competence must still exist. Otherwise the entire system would seize up and collapse. But the average bureaucrat is more concerned about Xer social standing with co-workers, the value of Xer retirement plan, than they are with their agency’s mission, if they even have the slightest inkling of what it is supposed to be.
In sum: yes, we have enemies, who no doubt have some malice towards us, but they are at best a tiny few in the Oligarchy. They are hamstrung by the above-cited apparatus. The vast majority of those workers are indifferent to us; they are just drones doing their plodding job. Sure, the Evil Boss may use them for ill purposes against us but the drones are just tools, nothing more.
I’ve already made my case for the overall competence of the system.
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“The primary tool of control in both the panopticon and synopticon is psychological, not informational. The theory is that the uncertainty and lack of privacy instills submissiveness.”
This is key. You have to ask yourself why there are these ideas that everything is a social construct, or that there’s no meaning beyond language. Why are there people who believe these things?
Is psychology the study of the mind, or does it become a manipulation of the mind when people submit to it? Are tptb using the internet to observe mass movements and predict the future, or are they creating the future by manipulation? Has the public become so submissive that the manipulators start believing their own bs?
There is a greater power in all of us that we’ve been turned away from by being convinced we are our thoughts, words, browsing history, etc— the material things. But to get in touch with it, one has to embrace mystery and uncertainty. One has to have faith, in other words.
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At the end of the day, someone still has to be charged with something. How many of those people sitting in the DC gulag for their “insurrection” actually talked, and attempted to “explain” themselves to these people? Even the dumbest career criminals know, never never never talk to these people. Never indulge them. Never give them the time of day. Never open the door for them without a warrant. Even then never say a word. They’re not there to “discern the truth.” They’re there to “make a case.” Only a scumbag could be in a job where it’s all about “making the case”, right or wrong, and they are scumbags. Theres a time and place to explain yourself and its never in front of any type of police, from Federal agent to the local beat cop.
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I admit I haven’t really followed up on the “insurrection,” but given the initial news reports, I suspect that the closest evidence of a “conspiracy” that occurred would be that a bunch of rednecks said “Let’s go protest in Washington.” As such, even if those now in custody “talk,” against their interests of course, what are they going to “confess” to? Having agreed with Jim Bob to go visit the Capitol?
None of this is to say the Feds can’t find something to charge them with. There are laws aplenty to entrap the unwary.
I know a guy who was always sort of a conspiracy guy but he left L.A. and moved his family to Texas. I hear he was buying into the Q stuff and that Pence was going to invalidate the election and all that and he and his wife were going to go to the Capitol to protest. Some of this, I think, was to prove to his new Texas neighbors that he wasn’t a liberal from L.A., but “one of them” as if all Texans are of the anti-government variety. Now this guy is paranoid and seeing cops everywhere and thinking he’s going to be arrested. Reading between the lines, I take it the paranoia is not part of their overall identity. And that’s a shame that the “new normal” for lots of Trump supporters is living a life of paranoia. How can the country survive when so many are thinking like this? Things are only going to get worse.
Let us give them something real to fear…
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How about introducing them to their new neighbors, Natrone and Nakeisha?
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I don’t know what to think about this Tucker thing. He said they had his e-mail and texts. That could imply two different companies, so this was likely pulled on a government level. They get around it by having one of the overseas agencies pull the info and then give it to them. “Oh, we never ran one query on this.” – No, you called your British counterpart and had them do it, and they gave it to you. Just as I’m sure we’re pulling info on British dissidents. The theory that this is to spoof Tucker’s audience is, I think, above the IQ level of those in charge. These are petty, petty, thin skinned people. They’re dim witted and entitled. Tucker goes after a different one each night and they find it appalling that someone would viciously mock them on prime time TV. They really would bend the rules to destroy him. They are the rules. What these people hate the most is mockery.
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And it begs the question. Does Milley really believe he didn’t come off as a buffoon on national TV? The bubble they all live in has to be pretty thick for them to have not even an inkling at how stupid they appear to people on the outside. It’s not even a bubble, more like a planet in a different galaxy. And now with their UFO b.s., maybe they’re the UFO.
Using geofencing over the period of a few days, it is fairly easy to figure out who is normally there and who was there from out of town and during no other days of the last 30 days. If you are going somewhere where there is a remote possibility something will go wrong, leave the cell phone and credit card at home. But, even if nothing goes wrong, you can still be identified if you are carrying a phone.
This is the essential problem of the spy state. Everything is written down somewhere. They probably collect way too much information to make any sense of it just by looking at it. But buried in there is all the useful information they need which can be selectively examined after the fact.
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Eh, if all this info is being logged to databases somewhere it’s not that difficult to write the queries that start filtering records based on dates, times, coordinates, etc.
It now appears that right-wing paramilitary type organizations are actually run by the Feds as honeypots to entrap people drawn to them, and to justify the vast surveillance state.
“https://www.revolver.news/2021/06/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-missing-link-fbi-unindicted-co-conspirator/”
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And one of the leaders of the Proud Boys (Enrique Tarrio) was a confidential informant too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/nyregion/proud-boys-informant-enrique-tarrio.html
Possible lessons:
1. If you are in any nominally right organization with a name, likely it is shot through with government agents.
2. Never trust anyone that attended an ivy league school (Oath Keepers). They are likely a CI.
3. Never trust a POC. They are likely a CI.
Its somewhat ironic that rightist organizations keep getting caught off guard by POC CIs. I don’t know what to make of that.
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Isn’t this straight from their lord and savior Lenin’s playbook?
I think the quote is something like’ “The best way to control the opposition is to run it ourselves!”
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Also one other fun possibility:
1. Deep state ran fake Jan 6 insurrection
I had always thought that Jan 6 folk were over enthusiastic “our guys”. But if the leaders of all these groups (Proud Boys, Oath Keepers etc) were CIs, how much direct guidance did they get to run this operation from the dems/intelligence services? Its looking increasingly likely that the entire Jan 6th thing was a setup from the top. If congress ever got their act together and started conducting oversight on the intelligence agencies again, investigating role of CIs and intelligence could be a powerful tool for reforming these agencies.
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“If congress ever got their act together and started conducting oversight on the intelligence agencies again”
LOL
The intelligence agencies are doing Congress’ bidding.
A little-known fact is that illegally obtained evidence may be admissible in court, or used to obtain a warrant, etc. IF such information was made available by a third party (At least so I’ve read.) Note the symmetry with intel sharing by the spooks. It’s illegal for the USA to spy on you in most cases. But if they ask the Brits to do so, and they share the intel with the USA, the USA hasn’t broken the law.
In the Carlson case, or the January 6 “Insurrection” case, it doesn’t even matter. Using the latter as an example, it’s possible that (say) the credit card banks broke laws in providing customer data to the Feds, but the point is that the Feds broke no laws, unless it could be proven that they illegally demanded such data. In fact, it’s quite possible the corporations broke no laws. Just read your service agreements sometime. It’s dismaying how little rights or privacy you actually have. A contract where one party can change terms and conditions at any time? Cancel without notice? Etc. Thus your credit card or bank account gets cancelled, just because somebody in management gets wind that you might be a conservative with unapproved views or opinions.
I generally agree with Z’s reasoning today. No one today rationally expects an honest statement from the NSA. Indeed, I’m skeptical of most anything I hear from any official or media source. I suspect many of you here are similar. Sad commentary on our times, but isn’t it true? Presented with a news item, the best we can really do is try to tease out the likely kernels of truth, weigh probabilities, spin, and so on.
What’s missing in today’s analysis? The possibility that Carlson may have made the whole thing up. It’s a good story for ratings, whether or not it’s true. Now, you are welcome to hate me for such a comment. He’s “on our side.” Indeed he may be. But all statements should be questioned, from ally or otherwise.
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From Z’s essay: “In the case of Tucker, it is unlikely that the NSA was using its super-duper listening tools to gather up his e-mails.”
Watching Tucker’s segment linked in the essay, it seems clear that that the NSA issued a nondenial to Tucker’s accusation that “NSA has read Tucker’s private e-mails without his permission.” Instead NSA responded with a press release that reframed his accusation as “monitoring our [Tucker’s] electronic communications in an attempt to take his show off the air,” and responding that “Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has no plans to take his show off the air.”
Here we see the NSA (1) reinterpret Tucker’s accusation into something they can truthfully deny (i.e., intent to take show off air) and (2) issue their stock response that admits that information that may have been collected from Tucker but that this information was bycatch from surveillance of another target (i.e., “not an intelligence target”). The bycatch rule interpretation is what allows the NSA to surveil American citizens in the America. Here the surveillance bycatch were the e-mails the Tucker’s informant said that NSA had.
IMO, weak NSA nondenial is a confirmation of Tucker’s accusation. Tucker is to be commended in aggressively forcing the issue with NSA, putting them in a spot where their lawyers felt required to issue the stupid memo of clarification.
This isn’t to say that there is also willing surveillance and disclosure of communication from private companies of American citizens. We live in an era where both government agencies and private companies have freedom to violate US citizen right to privacy. Both public and private entities are now hostile in this regard. And congressional oversight of intelligence entities is ineffective.
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“And congressional oversight of intelligence entities is ineffective.”
Wanna know something that will blow your mind? Not only is congressional oversight ineffective, it is run by people who deliberately make abuse possible. Your internet search history, for instance, is now available for private entities to purchase. The morons of the GOP, back when they controlled congress and the FCC, allowed this practice to go through. In the near future, perhaps even now, it will be possible for private entities to buy this data and disclose your internet history — all done legally. Have you ever gone to p*ornhub and searched “interracial” or “stepmother xxx”. Yeah, well if you’re doing that now without a vpn some Leftist group could purchase that data, sift through it, and connect it back to you and release it through a third party or even through themselves. Hackers did something like this to the Ashley Madison website a few years ago. Turns out one of your favorite pastors was trying to hook up with someone else’s wife. This difference is that its going to be legalized in the future. The regime will institute practices making it much easier for the proles to snitch on each other.
I’m sure Carlson is correct. The entire affair has a ring of truth to it. Probably they were conducting an investigation (illegally) into Jan. 6th protesters, then allowed some politically-motivated persons in the NSA to go a bit further under false justification to ensnare Carlson. The NSA has access to all the raw communications data of the country, and they have search tools to allow anyone to target anyone else. This stuff is also accessible to about half a dozen other countries, too. So, there is plenty of potential for leaking. There have been dozens of reported abuses of this practice in IG reports over the years — guys spying on girlfriends, wive on husbands, etc.
This sounds true — sounds like a whistleblower warned him in advance. There are a few good people left in these agencies. If you’ll remember, the military has been lowkey warning Biden for weeks to get his crazies under control. Some in the ruling class must think this kind of abuse is a possibility from these people.
The NSAs’ denial all but confirms it for me. It’s non-denial denial using weasel words like “intelligence target.” Of course, they could still leak his texts without him ever having been a target of investigation. They just tried something similar with rep. Gaetz, a vocal critic of the uniparty, so there is a pattern here. If you’ll also remember, the democrat political party (DPP is the new CCP) was running its fat mouth a few days ago about this Trump nothingburger story about him wanting congressional records or something. Leftists often project what they are doing themselves. Some of them knew and were preempting their misbehavior by rationalizing with a fantasy of misbehavior on the other side.
This kind of thing with the NSA happens all the time. It’s common knowledge they illegally read texts and emails of criminals, then forward to the authorities with instructions on how they can cover the agency’s involvement. I believe Robert Muller himself acknowledge this practice and defended it.* This happened. You live in a police state now. Remember that when someone claims you’re voting your way out of this.
*I can’t find the link right now, but this is a real story should anyone want to track it down. There is a specific name for this practice. I believe this may have been revealed during the initial Wikileaks reporting.
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