One of the weird aspects of liberal democracy is that the state takes every opportunity to celebrate itself. Every public event has rituals before the event where members of the state are marched out to be cheered by the crowd. Sporting events have a weird North Korean vibe to them. July 4th has always been a chance for the office holders to celebrate themselves. This year, the F.B.I. decided to hold a parade in the city of Philadelphia to let us know they are always on the job.
Patriot Front is the latest carnival act to get a chance to perform on the big stage of democracy, at the direction of the usual suspects. They are based in Texas, but decided to hold a parade in Philadelphia over the long weekend. Allegedly, they got a permit from the city, but their event looked ad hoc. They showed up, danced around just long enough to get media attention and a reaction from locals. Then they got back in their vehicles and headed for parts unknown.
Some will no doubt say it is unfair to assume these guys are just another honeypot cooked up by the secret police, but that is the way to bet these days. The Oath Keepers are looking like they were created by the secret police a decade ago. This exhaustive deep dive by Darren Beatty into the origins of the group and the dodgy nature of the founder should cause everyone to rethink the authenticity of these groups. The best you can say about any of them is they are led by unstable people.
The Oath Keepers are not an outlier. The Proud Boys, which was started by Gavin McInnes, went from goofy fan club to paramilitary operation. Instead of drinking beer and celebrating western chauvinism, they were rolling around in the dirt with Antifa and other state-sponsored extremist groups. It turns out that the guy who took over the group was a “serial informer” for the secret police. This is pattern with these groups that goes back a very long way. It is the default position.
The essential tool of all secret police operations is to use unstable informers to infiltrate the target group. The reason this works is outsider politics tends to attract people just looking for a home, many of whom are unstable. Go to a Libertarian Party event and it feels like the day room of a local insane asylum. One of the results is people organizing outside the system will encounter a lot of crazies. They get used to seeing them, so the one that is actually an informer slips through.
A good example of how this works is the Bolsheviks. A fellow named Roman Malinovsky was a prominent Bolshevik before the revolution. He was also an agent of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police. He was able to become close friends with Lenin and Stalin, two highly paranoid and suspicious men. Malinovsky even setup Stalin so he could be arrested at a social event. He was so good at his work that even when everyone was in jail but him, they still did not think he was a spy.
Malinovsky was always the most enthusiastic supporter of the cause. This is what won him notice from Bolshevik leaders. He was a guy who never deviated from the party line, however it was being expressed by the leaders. It was why Lenin could not accept that he was a spy, even when the evidence was clear. It is always hard to distrust the guy who is your most loyal supporter. Eventually he was betrayed by his ex-mistress and the Bolsheviks had him killed.
Another reason the secret police find it easy to infiltrate outsider groups, especially those claiming to be on the Right, is that they are usually run by stupid people who never learn from the past. Look at this Patriot Front outfit. The “flag and costume” act has been a failure in America going back to George Lincoln Rockwell. The general public find it weird and off-putting. The only thing these antics do is isolate the group from normal society, making them easy targets.
What did the Patriot Front people think they were doing? They already managed to get themselves put on the terror watchlist. If they were hoping for attention by the Feds, they need not worry. Was anyone in Philly going to be impressed with this stunt and say to themselves, “You know, I think I may consider becoming a fascist”? Was this event going to bring them positive coverage from the media? As Jason Köhne noted, the only thing it did was drag young men further into the abyss.
Politics in a liberal democracy is a drama run by the ruling class. Think of it as a big stage on which politics is acted out for the masses. In America, this means the Left opens the show by demanding action against some threat to “our democracy” or demanding action to defend a victim group. Their fluffers go into the crowd to get the audience excited for the next drama. The actors perform the familiar story, sometimes combining the two into a single story.
At this point, the so-called conservatives waddle onto the stage in their comfort-fit chinos and golf shirts. They dismiss the claims of the Left, either claiming they are exaggerating or that the issue is just not important. The crowd is encouraged to boo and hiss at them, which causes their knees to shake. Before long, some of them break ranks and join the Left in jeering at their old colleagues. The crowd keeps booing and the conservative are eventually run off the stage.
Every once in a while, for reasons science has yet to explain, the conservatives do not start to shiver and quake. They hold their ground. This is when the the spotlight illuminates the right side of the stage and we see the Hitler outfit. Over the sound system comes, “Who in the crowd will perform this vital role?” Sure enough, some idiot from a group fond of weird flags runs up on stage, dons the costume and begins to strut around on stage as the crowd throws rotten vegetables.
This is what the Patriot Front did over the weekend. They also took credit for defacing the statue of the blessed George Floyd, peace be upon him. These guys are performing a vital role in the political drama. This is why the Feds are endlessly trying to coopt and create groups that will perform this role. It turns out that the supply of idiots willing to do this without prompting can never meet demand. The secret police make sure the supply is always there so the show can keep staggering on.
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Waddle out on stage.
Now there’s a visual for ya……
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That was usually the role for Hannity at his country music events
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I can see Chris Wray conducting the band
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Yesterday I came up with a good one
Covid was the Blair Witch Project of pandemics, all meta and hype with nothing really scary happening inside
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That is a good one. And this is an aside, has anyone else had the experience that DuckDuckGo has totally collapsed. It’s become almost unusable for me
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DDG been working for me
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How so? Do you mean technically, or just returning unhelpful results?
I think you’re right that the best thing to do would be (as usual) the opposite of what the republicans did, and rather than trying to stymie the January 6th show trials, they should have let it go, encouraged it, fanned the flames. Seeing hysterical women like Pelosi or Chuck Schumer or Ocasio Cortez talking about how they were almost murdered can only make the ridiculous system look even weirder. Plenty of people who hate Trump but aren’t crazy see this constant lawfare against his organizations as evidence that all the institutions that are supposed to be checks on lawlessness are lawless beyond repair. Everyone from the DHS to the FBI looks completely insane and vindictive. And even the silliest normie con finally understands that white rage and white supremacy and white people all mean the same thing now.
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> and rather than trying to stymie the January 6th show trials, they should have let it go, encouraged it, fanned the flames.
Sounds like the classic technique of Agree and Amplify when dealing with a ridiculous demand. It forces the other to either put the brakes on themselves or hit the accelerator into a wall. Either way, you win.
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Mockery is a powerful weapon. If the GOP was anything other than a junior partner in politics, they could have easily mocked the Democrats for their hysteria. This strips them of their authority. Mockery says “you do not have the authority to dictate what I should take seriously.”
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Good point. Shame is also a powerful weapon, but unusable against The Left as they are all quite obviously shameless. The Right could use a good Mocker in Chief. Someone like Twain, or Mencken – although their rapier wit would largely be useless as the average Lefty intellect is so subpar they would’nt know they were being mocked. Trump’s brand of mockery, though warranted, was too grade school-ish to be effective.
There’s a reason why the footage from Jan 6 hasn’t been and probably never will be released to the general public. It’s in all probability filled with examples of Our Esteemed Representatives behaving like panicky cowards in the face of a giant fraternity prank.
Why is the left so much smarter than we are? Why do they relentlessly advance generation after generation? It’s not just one person, it’s a collection of people over decades and eras. I am baffled and frankly a little awed
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Objectivism is no match for partisanship. Normal people look around and ask, “What is the best solution for this problem?” The partisan says, “How best can we exploit this to advance our side or harm our enemies?” It is why the only way out of this nightmare if for our side to embrace the partisan mindset. “This is who we are and these are our interests.”
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That’s it. The average Leftist is NOT smart, and whatever native intelligence she might have had has been beaten out of her by ideology. They’re just ruthless. Same deal as the Mafia. “The Sopranos” did a great job with that. None of those guys were physically intimidating. I doubt any of them was particularly good in a fight. They won because they went straight to “beating you with a pipe wrench” before you even got out of the “we’re having a social chat” stage. That whole “let’s have a discussion” thing is just a ruse, to get within wrench swinging range.
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To put a little color on what Z said, I used to live in one of the inner suburbs of DC. One of my neighbors worked for a conservative Christian NGO. He had worked earlier for some GOP politician.
In the five or so years that we lived around them, he had his tires slashed once, his house egged once and people yelling outside his house at 2 a.m. once. And this was back in the early 2000s, long before BLM and the recent rise of the SJWs.
Several liberal neighbors openly refused to talk to this family.
The dad only asked me once if I went to church and that was when I first met him. (It was very much a general question, along with do I golf.) He never brought it up again. He rarely talked politics and even then was quiet about his beliefs and certainly never demanding that I tell him my views or that I change them.
My liberal neighbors wouldn’t shut up about politics. They also wanted to know my views, and if my views were different that their views, which they always were, they didn’t let go. They more or less demanded that I agree with them or accepted that I was evil.
To the Left, politics is part of their life. It’s every day, all day. They have no problem cutting off people who disagree with them, either socially or financially.
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I prefer to use the term “tribalism” rather than the modern “partisanship.” This behavior exists because it’s in our DNA. We are descended from tribesmen and it became a trait of our species because it “worked” in the evolutionary sense. Higher order thinking (rational cognition) has only been with us for about ten thousand years, but the innate tribalism proclivity extends back into our predecessor species, i.e. perhaps a few million years. Last, a parasite doesn’t really need rational cognition in order to survive & thrive; just a host to latch onto.
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“Our” tribalism, in this case Northern European tribalism, isn’t nearly as tribal as tribes from warmer parts of the world, where clannishness and in-group preference are everything.
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“Why is the left so much smarter than we are? Why do they relentlessly advance generation after generation?”
cause they have all the money, even the republicans need corporate money
after they got rid of the monarchies the usual suspects control all of the west’s finances
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They had their eyes on the prize. This goes way back. “The long march through the institutions.” (Gramsci), the Frankfort School, Post-Modernism, etc…
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The left isn’t “smarter” so much as more “devious.” They’re a lot like movie critics, in that they are really good at pointing out flaws and failings of other men, but are incapable of greatness themselves. A critic can make astute observations about a movie, and point out subtle flaws in its story or filming, but is generally incapable of making any sort of film let alone a good one. Leftists are the same, in that they can agitate for a cause, even a worthy cause, but are incapable of thinking systematically which is why whenever they are in charge they either revert to the old method of administration or end up running a failed state in short order.
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Not sure what you guys think of BAP, but he had an amusing thread where a bunch of anons took a picture of his dissident book next to their credentials as operators in the system. There were a bunch of military guys and even a California judge.
He’s been big on avoiding open gatherings where it’s easy to get identified and doxxed, recommending instead to the infiltrate organizations and finding jolly renegades of like mind within these organizations as well as one’s personal life.
Basically it’s the opposite mindset of groups like Patriot Front. Still of the opinion out institutions are too rotted for infiltration to be plausible, but at least it’s not capable of being openly detrimental, and it creates an amusing aura of paranoia of bad-thinkers in their own ranks that make it very hard to direct their energies at us.
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Curtis Yarvin is wrong about a lot of things, but he is absolutely right that Leftist-style “demonstrations” don’t work for the Right, because for demonstrations to be successful, they have to have the support of at least a fraction of the power structure, which the Right does not have at the moment. As the Chinese will tell you, calling mobs into the streets is only a supportive adjunct to faction fights within the elite, where the real action is. At this point any right-wing group that encourages street theatre demonstrations must be assumed to be an op until proved otherwise. Contra Yarvin, this is not to be taken as an encouragement to passivist defeatism, but under today’s circumstances, this is counter productive. There may come a time for such demonstrations, but that time is not now.
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Yeah, street demonstrations are demonstrations of power. Civil rights was an insider movement and the marches were PR.
OTOH, I think there may be something to PF desecrating of the Floyd statue PBUH. Just look at the comments under the local news’ story on the event.
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Agreed, but it would have been better done anonymously, under cover of night. For example, the tactic of distributing those “It’s OK to Be White” flyers everywhere secretly was highly successful, it made the Left even more paranoid, and it arguably set the stage for people calling CRT “anti-white” which is a moderate breakthrough. Never let the enemy know who we are, or exactly how many of us there are.
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The relative status of the “sides” is probably the only thing he’s right about, but it’s the biggest thing and people refuse to believe it.
I’ve been drilling it since “Read ‘Rules for Radicals!’ Know your enemy!” caught on back when Clinton was elected. Alinsky wrote only for the heirs to power—the ones already in the will. When anyone outside the family tries to “rule 13” (or whatever), nothing happens. When the favorite daughter cries, Dad hands her the keys.
IIf you mention leftist theorists to actual leftists, they consider the names right-wing shibboleths. Though the books are only for them, they don’t have to read them, just like legacies don’t have to do their homework to get into Harvard.
“Cultural Marxists” is a fun example, too. When I was a teenager, that’s what the proto-wokeists called themselves. It was in the titles of their own books…most noticeably, the one called “Cultural Marxism.” Now, those decades of academic signaling not only never happened, but the term is a right-wing conspiracy theory popularized by Anders Breivik. The encyclopedia says so. And leftists believe it.
They don’t read the books! It’s “autodidactic,” autistic. It means you don’t know the right people. And you don’t.
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Who is BAP? I hate having to decipher acronyms.
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Bronze Age Pervert.
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Here in Denmark in 1972 we have a vote on becoming members of the “European Community” (which later became the EU). Back then there was only on television station run by the state. Many people was in doubt about what to vote. But, in the last news report on television prior to the election, they showed a clip of a demonstration against the “European community” with some very long haired hippies dancing and making very odd music on their instruments. After that those in doubt what to voted had not doubt about that anymore.
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are danish women as pozzed as german and american women?
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So it would seem even”normal” society is filled up with cranks, crazies, informants, fanatics and infiltrators. As Derbyshire said, we are evidently doomed, wandering around in this liberal democracy matrix with little to no hope it’s going to be seriously challenged, let alone collapse or implode. Man, welcome to the machine…
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The problem with this system is that it’s designed to preserve a status quo, but the very people tasked with maintaining it are fanatics… and none too bright to boot. Even if we the it as read that the Oath Keepers were an op, at least a decade in the making, I doubt the Feds have the competence to pull that off now… and more to the point, I doubt they have the brains to understand why they even need to bother. They obviously have no problem rigging false flags like the Four Hour Insurrection; pretty soon some dumb, ambitious SAIC is going to ask “why are we bothering with this penny ante stuff?”… and no one will have an answer.
(one of the most enlightening books I’ve read was ” Black Mass,” about the FBI and Whitey Bulger, since made into a Johnny Depp movie. Just ludicrous incompetence all around, largely because of the Fed culture at the Boston Bureau. And that was the late 70s, and everyone involved was White. Do you think the Feds have gotten more or less competent since then? If Vegas put odds on the “spiciness” being kicked off by some blatantly bungled Fed op, I bet they’d be interesting).
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I have known several lower member Oath Keepers over the years, and they were good solid people. Something didn’t set right with me, so I didn’t join. I was asked to join the KKK, again, didn’t even think twice that time. To play the other side that is never mentioned. The NFAC’s Grandmaster Jay was indicted for things in the Breonna Taylor protests. Can’t forget an oldy but a goodie, Louis Farrakhan, and the nation of islam (NOI). They too have been quiet lately. I supposed they are letting the “crackers” do the damage to themselves. More groups on all sides, but only the “white supremacists seem to make “news.” I wonder why? (A rhetorical question that doesn’t need to be answered)
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“At this point, the so-called conservatives waddle onto the stage in their comfort-fit chinos and golf shirts. They dismiss the claims of the Left, either claiming they are exaggerating or that the issue is just not important. The crowd is encouraged to boo and hiss at them, which causes their knees to shake. Before long, some of them break ranks and join the Left in jeering at their old colleagues. The crowd keeps booing and the conservative are eventually run off the stage.”
This is too real.
Serious question for Z. You don’t advocate for “voting our way out of this”. Yet you also don’t advocate for forming new political groups and movements. So you don’t think there is any solution to our current cultural and political crisis whatsoever?
Is it your contention that we can only attempt to form our own communities within our atomized society, and then hope to rebuild whence it all crumbles decades, maybe generations from now?
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I second this. In the last podcast he talked a bit about activism but it didn’t go beyond making niche content and making comments in blogs and livestreams. What else can we do that won’t get us a ride in an FBI party van?
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Think of the current regime as a raging fire that’s just past the point of being able to be put out. You have four options: fight it even though you can’t put it out, throw accelerant on it so it burns out faster, move far away from the flames and do what you can to insulate yourself from them, or do nothing. Obviously, fighting the fire does nothing except increase the odds of you getting burned; this is akin to voting. Adding accelerant might be helpful, but basically guarantees you’ll be badly burned; this akin to undermining the regime. Doing nothing means you’ll just get carried away with the currents of inevitability.
That just leaves running away and insulating yourself from the fire. This is akin to dropping out politics and pop culture, and reaching out to like minded people and building communities with them. This is pretty much what our esteemed host recommends, at least when he’s not in a “hoist the black flags and start slitting throats” sort of mood. Retreating and preparing is a grind, to be sure, but it’s also pretty effective.
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Yes to all of this, but it’s not enough to just say . . . don’t be a stupid idiot and join a crazy club. It’s also imperative that we educate the sane with respect to what does work in our modern police state.
Get fit, go dark, and then Simple, Secret, Solo, and Spontaneous. Get out of the city, mind you own business, stay in the shadows, improve your skills, learn to survive on your wits & local resources. If you have your heart set on being highly proactive in the present, then consider an occupation that may come in very handy someday, e.g. delivery driver, maintenance man, cable installer, EMT, etc. The people doing these jobs are effectively invisible and have extraordinary access and mobility. Think outside the box and use what you know best. Finally, anyone in our military will tell you that if you can be targeted, you can be killed in our modern high-tech world. So don’t become an easy target.
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I never get too involved with these groups. If they aren’t feds, they implode because the organizers are incompetent or power hungry. The only exception is Christian groups who seem to have higher quality human capital running them (of course most of the time you’ll be demonstrating to end black abortions or something).
“Guys meeting up for beers” is a better strategy, imo.
That said, there’s nothing wrong coming out to a demonstration like this. Cover your face (trust the science!) and get out early if things are turning sketchy. Keep an eye out for provocateurs and antifa.
It’s a good place to meet some like minded guys to have beers with too.
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OK, but be very, VERY careful. You might be having a beer with a Fed. I’d be willing to bet that at least one fourth to one third of the guys at that demo were infiltrators. Neighbors/co-workers that you have known for a while are a much better bet, IMHO. By all means network, but remember, this is not the United States you grew up in.
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Also, don’t ignore the importance of family connections – a fed can pretend to be your fellow demonstrator, Christian, Muslim, or conservative, but he can’t pretend to be your brother or cousin. It’s not just a coincidence that the enemies that USG has had the hardest time breaking were family/clan based – Taliban, Somalis, organized crime families. The Left has always hated and feared the family, since the very, very beginning, and there’s a reason for that.
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Absolute gold comment! Blood is thicker than water.
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“They started engaging with citizens of Philadelphia, who were none too happy about what they were saying. These males felt threatened, and, at one point, somebody in their crowd threw a type of smoke bomb to cover their retreat, and they literally ran away from the people of Philadelphia,” said Philadelphia Police Officer Michael Crum.
And then everybody clapped.
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leftists, progressives, etc are parasites that infect anything involving more than one person; i.e. group, team, company, etc. but they are not concerned with running the group/company, they only care about increasing their control, and stripping the joint of anything of value. then the group/company dies. when they take over the entire country, it dies.
the thing is, they are opportunistic, always waiting for the host to weaken so they can make their move. america got weak culturally, due to immigration, and took just over 100 years to sicken and die. and have no doubts, heritage america is gone. best one can do is try and capture and archive as much culture as you can, and maybe monkey wrench the system where opportunity permits.
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Sh1tholedelphia is still around? I figured it would be a Chinese autonomous zone by now as a gift from the glorious peoples republic of Pennsylvania in honor of comrade chairman Beijing Biden and the Big Steal.
Groups are always to be avoided unless you want to see stupidity and insanity multiplied.
The only good democracy is an Irish Democracy.
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“Empire of Dust” was filmed there.
Native American Democracy
sending in their fluffers to get the crowd excited
such a great line, and your observations never disappoint, Kudos Zman.
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Anything with the word “Patriot” in it, even before the Patriot Act was signed, is suspect. Patriot of what? Something that died in its sleep years ago? About the time Ford was President? The second problem is that they were waving American flags. Literally waving the flag of the oppressor that will put them on no fly lists and ruin them. When you look at that flag, at best you should see a vessel of emptiness that no longer has meaning, much like the word “patriot.” The “oath keepers” is another one. “I’m keepin’ muh oath!” Oath to what? The Constitution? That document hasn’t had any meaning since 1927. Oath to a government that hates you? To a country in which half the inhabitants are aliens? The “Proud Boys” have the dumbest and gayest name of all. I would never have trusted that media whore latino from day one. Just like no one should trust the media whore who started it. Chances are if an organization has a kitsch name and appeals to lost patriotism, or some kind of 1955 redux, it will be inauthentic and run by charlatans.
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Posts and comments got me thinking lately. The weapons of freedom, progress, and prosperity, having conquered communism, got turned inward. All the SJWs are indeed warriors. The boomer stereotype is SJW 1.0. GloboCap is a war machine. War is theater.
People talk about civil war. One side is currently killing people with Covid drama, the other trying to figure out how to win the next election. Civil war is de facto. More war theater.
Imo, it’s all settled with little if any additional bloodshed, albeit at great cost of impoverishment and discomfort. That’s the problem, though. Life is cheap, lifestyle dear. We are living in the strangest and most satanic times.
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You betcha, done professionally by top talent, this industry no doubt has degree courses offered at elite collages.
Since 1960, the year the ‘Mad Men’ ad agency is set in:
The Mighty-Wurlitzer: How The CIA Played America- Hugh Wilford
Wall Street attorney Frank Wisner, who would soon become the chief architect of the CIA’s Propaganda Assets Inventory, a “Mighty Wurlitzer” network of media assets and front companies, small organizations and magazines that the agency used to propagate its message during the Cold War against the Soviet Union.
The director of the CIA expanded the program into “radical” groups on both the left and the right to provide media fodder, direct the moral narratives, and honeytrap ambitious risers with potential.
This is the first time I’ve seen this Jason Kohne. Was he right on the Philadelphia event? Yes. Was he obnoxious and trying to catch flies with vinegar? Also yes. It’s sort of haughty to put an umlaut over your last name on this side of the Atlantic. Just as it’s haughty to remind misguided kids who engaged in this parade that you’re a “real man” while they’re not…over and over. Way to win them over by being a dick! As a side note, no one really knows who is a real man until all the chips are down in some life event. Strike three for me is that he has a book with the word “patriot” in the title and American flag paraphernalia all over his office. Uh oh. Someone has a government hotline programmed in his phone.