“The left has always been about the abolition of family, faith, and property and has never been very good about hiding it. Free speech was never a core value of the left; it was simply a convenient vehicle for the furtherance of their agenda”
Unfortunately, the left understands the concept of power much better than the right. You can mock the ridiculous and frankly comical ideas of modern day leftism but at least they understand power better than the pseudo-libertarianism that has existed on the right for a long time that has deluded many conservatives into thinking institutional neutrality is possible.
Yeah, that's just, like, your opinion and stuff. We all know that we need the government and its agents in silicon valley and Wall Street to restrict what we can say and how we can spend our money and what information we can access because we have to save our democracy from the fascists like you who want more freedom to spread, like, ideas I disagree with and stuff. Don't you, like, get it?
Like, you guys may be on the right side of the political aisle, but you're, like, on the wrong side of history and stuff. Like, man, you don't even have a PhD, so you like can't be as smart and stuff as my professor, who taught me what to think about these things. Well, she and Vox and The Young Turks and AOC taught me what to think. And they're like right and stuff, and they're like good people, and you disagree with them, so that like makes you a bad person. And stuff. So nobody should listen to you. So like, I just showed you and stuff.
Mocking is one good way way to fight back against the left but in isolation is ineffective. Without massive local & national peaceful, targeted and relentless pressure tactics - there is no incentive for institutional decision makers to change.
Other tactics are definitely needed, but sarcasm and satire and scornful laughter are effective. When the emperor has no clothes but everyone is nervously playing along and acting like he does because they're afraid that they're the only ones who see that the emperor is actually naked, sometimes all it takes is a few people willing to point out the obvious and laugh at the emperor for being such a fool, thereby encouraging others to start publicly acknowledging the truth themselves.
Can the U.S. find its way out of the conundrum of a nationalism shorn of blood and soil? Already large zones of the country (e.g. NY; LA; Detroit etc.) don’t feel American anymore, because they essentially aren’t. Tolerance for those who hate the nation and wish to destroy it is an Achilles Heel indeed. If the hour is not too late, we need to rediscover the bravery of our ancestors - “if they want war, let it begin here.”
Rhetoric that keeps morale high is important in fighting back against the left but in isolation is ineffective. Without massive local & national peaceful, targeted and relentless pressure tactics - there is no incentive for institutional decision makers to change.
What you call "the left" is who devised and wrote "The Authoritarian Personality" as a script to prevent "fascism" and abolish the family and conservative values post WWII. The plan was to subvert secretly with "Eros" which is why you had the sexual revolution and summer of love and you have seen an explosion of pornography ever since. (How else does one reconcile being able to shut down any undesired speech but not porn? C'mon. Algorithms can do it easily. It is because the damage is desired.)
The method you mention is nothing more than Herbert Marcuse's hypocritical "Repressive Tolerance" and a product of the Frankfurt School. The masterminds and their views are not Amish! Have a look.
Delving into historical origins of leftist thinking is of course fascinating and I think can help provide some possible explanations of some of the more puzzling and extremist doctrines of today's left. But you can get a gist of all these types of speculations in about a month - yet I see notable anti-leftists dwelling on these issues for years. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that - i.e. being a hobbyist historian engrossed in an intriguing subject . But for those who are looking to this information as a means to effect change - I believe that massive organized local & national peaceful, targeted and relentless pressure tactics on institutional decision makers is a better use of energy - so don't waste too much time being in the 'History Corral'.
If you think that the Left is correct about so much then...why not join them?
We don't use their tactics because they are not fit for our goals. The things they accomplish we don't think are worthwhile. The battlefield is not simply asymmetrical the war that they are winning is not even the war that many of us are fighting.
You are also mistaken when you say that the Left's dedication to free speech or anti-war or anti-Corporatism was always fake. Rather, the Left has purged the true believers from itself and kept only the faithless and compliant, those who believe nothing on their own and so will believe anything that they are told. Because of the enemy's continuous self-purgation all that was good on their side is now over here and they are left with only thieves, liars, and fools, which is why they must steal elections and do it in competently. All of the popular power has come to the Right, and we, very different groups, will remain fairly united until we have driven the leftist abomination back to the hell it came from.
But you sir, don't know your history, your allies, or your enemies.
Hello Auron, not to be rude, but there is a small error in this piece.
Your citation:
Frank Herbert famously said in his novel "Dune," “When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.”
This is correct about the series, but wrong about the specific book.
Frank Herbert wrote this in his 1976 sequel, Children of Dune. Not in the 1965 book Dune.
The original quote is, as follows:
"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to
your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because
that is according to my principles.
-Words of an ancient philosopher (Attributed by Harq al-Ada to one Louis
Veuillot)"
If you wrote roughly the same sentence: "Frank Herbert famously said in his "Dune" series",
then your insight would be factual.
I'm a big fan of your work, you've been one of the most insightful poasters on Twitter, and you do a great job of compressing these dense philosophical and macroeconomic concepts into short aphorisms.
This is a great article that incisively describes the 'Free Speech' scam. No it was never about free speech as a universal principal. It was always about championing 'Free Speech' to erode societal norms then, once those norms were destroyed and the progressives attained institutional power, it very quickly became about consolidating that power. This is why we see the ACLU suddenly slam the free speech door shut behind them revealing that they were in fact always merely henchmen for the Entrenched Wealth that has been steering the power-seeking progressive movement from the outset.
But I have to call you out Auron. Not to pick on you specifically as what I am about to say applies to the whole swathe of Progressive-Critical & Anti-Woke journalists, content creators, entertainers, academics & politicians.
What you all have in common is that you have been instrumental in ensuring that for decades no meaningful opposition to the left was ever launched. It's like a memo went out to you all saying: "it's permissible for you to catalog the carnage, lament the destruction & and accurately describe the insanity and indignities with the most beautifully thought out and scholarly articulations - but the one thing you must NEVER do is encourage any counter movements." Which means you have NEVER distributed Activist Toolkits or templates to give people the means to organize and fight back in their local communities like the left does. Or even encouraged your audiences to do this themselves like the left does. You have NEVER described in detail the persuasion measures, the pressure and coercion tactics used at the local & state level. Plans that are all painstakingly written down and readily available. You NEVER mention by name the ring-leaders - the actual individuals and orgs of the leftist machinery. You have never de-mystifed the leftist machinery operating like a juggernaut at the local, national and international level so that community leaders would know what to expect and be able to plan in advance how to deflect leftist take-over attempts. Put simply you have never done a complete revelation of leftist methods presumably because the inevitable result would be "hey - so these leftist pressure tactics are devastatingly effective huh? why don't we do something similar in opposition?"
Instead you all keep the leftist take over methods muddy and vague -for example always focusing on individual 'activists' and personalities like they just sat in their living room and one day decided on their own to become a transgender swimmer or just walked out of starbucks one day and launched a 'bake the cake' lawsuit or randomly walked into a salon one week while shopping demanding they get their balls waxed. You play along with the deception that these are just random atomized individuals with no machinery behind them. Not one of you will ever accurately describe these as the deliberately choreographed events that they are. Not one of you ever asks these personalities: so who are the people that planned this. Which NGO's? Names please. Please detail all the planning and strategizing conversations you had. step by step please. Were there other candidates for the job? Did you have to interview for it? who interviewed you? Names please. How much are you getting paid? Do you have a paid political "Brand Ambassador" contract? What are your obligations under that contract? Which PR firm? I could go on and on about the many ways details are kept hidden. The level of negligence is tantamount to having colluded with the left to guaranty their take over was successful.
And I've been waiting for a year now for Rufo, Beck, Greenwald, Lyndsay, Weiss, Walsh, Carlson, Shapiro, Bongino, Beattie ANYONE to address this. Even the more fringe commentators - but nope nothing. It's either complete silence or endless how-is-this-happening head scratching. And all I can think is - am I supposed to believe you don't know how this is happening? really?
And I've searched for material - anything - and on the rare occasions I find something written by someone notable about the astonishing lack of meaningful mass counter activism or pushback against the left - the justifications and excuses are laughable. Rush Limbaugh called conservative activism an "Oxymoron" and unfathomably everyone just agrees. Or another notable journalist lamented that conservative activism is simply not possible because you see everyone is "too busy grilling" I kid you not.
So I'm calling you all out.
And so ludicrous is the reality of this complete absence of counter-activist measures to resist the leftist juggernaut I can only assume it would be a death sentence to even dare try.
“The left has always been about the abolition of family, faith, and property and has never been very good about hiding it. Free speech was never a core value of the left; it was simply a convenient vehicle for the furtherance of their agenda”
That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it?
Unfortunately, the left understands the concept of power much better than the right. You can mock the ridiculous and frankly comical ideas of modern day leftism but at least they understand power better than the pseudo-libertarianism that has existed on the right for a long time that has deluded many conservatives into thinking institutional neutrality is possible.
Yeah, that's just, like, your opinion and stuff. We all know that we need the government and its agents in silicon valley and Wall Street to restrict what we can say and how we can spend our money and what information we can access because we have to save our democracy from the fascists like you who want more freedom to spread, like, ideas I disagree with and stuff. Don't you, like, get it?
Like, you guys may be on the right side of the political aisle, but you're, like, on the wrong side of history and stuff. Like, man, you don't even have a PhD, so you like can't be as smart and stuff as my professor, who taught me what to think about these things. Well, she and Vox and The Young Turks and AOC taught me what to think. And they're like right and stuff, and they're like good people, and you disagree with them, so that like makes you a bad person. And stuff. So nobody should listen to you. So like, I just showed you and stuff.
Mocking is one good way way to fight back against the left but in isolation is ineffective. Without massive local & national peaceful, targeted and relentless pressure tactics - there is no incentive for institutional decision makers to change.
Other tactics are definitely needed, but sarcasm and satire and scornful laughter are effective. When the emperor has no clothes but everyone is nervously playing along and acting like he does because they're afraid that they're the only ones who see that the emperor is actually naked, sometimes all it takes is a few people willing to point out the obvious and laugh at the emperor for being such a fool, thereby encouraging others to start publicly acknowledging the truth themselves.
Can the U.S. find its way out of the conundrum of a nationalism shorn of blood and soil? Already large zones of the country (e.g. NY; LA; Detroit etc.) don’t feel American anymore, because they essentially aren’t. Tolerance for those who hate the nation and wish to destroy it is an Achilles Heel indeed. If the hour is not too late, we need to rediscover the bravery of our ancestors - “if they want war, let it begin here.”
Rhetoric that keeps morale high is important in fighting back against the left but in isolation is ineffective. Without massive local & national peaceful, targeted and relentless pressure tactics - there is no incentive for institutional decision makers to change.
What you call "the left" is who devised and wrote "The Authoritarian Personality" as a script to prevent "fascism" and abolish the family and conservative values post WWII. The plan was to subvert secretly with "Eros" which is why you had the sexual revolution and summer of love and you have seen an explosion of pornography ever since. (How else does one reconcile being able to shut down any undesired speech but not porn? C'mon. Algorithms can do it easily. It is because the damage is desired.)
The method you mention is nothing more than Herbert Marcuse's hypocritical "Repressive Tolerance" and a product of the Frankfurt School. The masterminds and their views are not Amish! Have a look.
Delving into historical origins of leftist thinking is of course fascinating and I think can help provide some possible explanations of some of the more puzzling and extremist doctrines of today's left. But you can get a gist of all these types of speculations in about a month - yet I see notable anti-leftists dwelling on these issues for years. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that - i.e. being a hobbyist historian engrossed in an intriguing subject . But for those who are looking to this information as a means to effect change - I believe that massive organized local & national peaceful, targeted and relentless pressure tactics on institutional decision makers is a better use of energy - so don't waste too much time being in the 'History Corral'.
If you think that the Left is correct about so much then...why not join them?
We don't use their tactics because they are not fit for our goals. The things they accomplish we don't think are worthwhile. The battlefield is not simply asymmetrical the war that they are winning is not even the war that many of us are fighting.
You are also mistaken when you say that the Left's dedication to free speech or anti-war or anti-Corporatism was always fake. Rather, the Left has purged the true believers from itself and kept only the faithless and compliant, those who believe nothing on their own and so will believe anything that they are told. Because of the enemy's continuous self-purgation all that was good on their side is now over here and they are left with only thieves, liars, and fools, which is why they must steal elections and do it in competently. All of the popular power has come to the Right, and we, very different groups, will remain fairly united until we have driven the leftist abomination back to the hell it came from.
But you sir, don't know your history, your allies, or your enemies.
Hello Auron, not to be rude, but there is a small error in this piece.
Your citation:
Frank Herbert famously said in his novel "Dune," “When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.”
This is correct about the series, but wrong about the specific book.
Frank Herbert wrote this in his 1976 sequel, Children of Dune. Not in the 1965 book Dune.
The original quote is, as follows:
"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to
your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because
that is according to my principles.
-Words of an ancient philosopher (Attributed by Harq al-Ada to one Louis
Veuillot)"
If you wrote roughly the same sentence: "Frank Herbert famously said in his "Dune" series",
then your insight would be factual.
I'm a big fan of your work, you've been one of the most insightful poasters on Twitter, and you do a great job of compressing these dense philosophical and macroeconomic concepts into short aphorisms.
This is a great article that incisively describes the 'Free Speech' scam. No it was never about free speech as a universal principal. It was always about championing 'Free Speech' to erode societal norms then, once those norms were destroyed and the progressives attained institutional power, it very quickly became about consolidating that power. This is why we see the ACLU suddenly slam the free speech door shut behind them revealing that they were in fact always merely henchmen for the Entrenched Wealth that has been steering the power-seeking progressive movement from the outset.
But I have to call you out Auron. Not to pick on you specifically as what I am about to say applies to the whole swathe of Progressive-Critical & Anti-Woke journalists, content creators, entertainers, academics & politicians.
What you all have in common is that you have been instrumental in ensuring that for decades no meaningful opposition to the left was ever launched. It's like a memo went out to you all saying: "it's permissible for you to catalog the carnage, lament the destruction & and accurately describe the insanity and indignities with the most beautifully thought out and scholarly articulations - but the one thing you must NEVER do is encourage any counter movements." Which means you have NEVER distributed Activist Toolkits or templates to give people the means to organize and fight back in their local communities like the left does. Or even encouraged your audiences to do this themselves like the left does. You have NEVER described in detail the persuasion measures, the pressure and coercion tactics used at the local & state level. Plans that are all painstakingly written down and readily available. You NEVER mention by name the ring-leaders - the actual individuals and orgs of the leftist machinery. You have never de-mystifed the leftist machinery operating like a juggernaut at the local, national and international level so that community leaders would know what to expect and be able to plan in advance how to deflect leftist take-over attempts. Put simply you have never done a complete revelation of leftist methods presumably because the inevitable result would be "hey - so these leftist pressure tactics are devastatingly effective huh? why don't we do something similar in opposition?"
Instead you all keep the leftist take over methods muddy and vague -for example always focusing on individual 'activists' and personalities like they just sat in their living room and one day decided on their own to become a transgender swimmer or just walked out of starbucks one day and launched a 'bake the cake' lawsuit or randomly walked into a salon one week while shopping demanding they get their balls waxed. You play along with the deception that these are just random atomized individuals with no machinery behind them. Not one of you will ever accurately describe these as the deliberately choreographed events that they are. Not one of you ever asks these personalities: so who are the people that planned this. Which NGO's? Names please. Please detail all the planning and strategizing conversations you had. step by step please. Were there other candidates for the job? Did you have to interview for it? who interviewed you? Names please. How much are you getting paid? Do you have a paid political "Brand Ambassador" contract? What are your obligations under that contract? Which PR firm? I could go on and on about the many ways details are kept hidden. The level of negligence is tantamount to having colluded with the left to guaranty their take over was successful.
And I've been waiting for a year now for Rufo, Beck, Greenwald, Lyndsay, Weiss, Walsh, Carlson, Shapiro, Bongino, Beattie ANYONE to address this. Even the more fringe commentators - but nope nothing. It's either complete silence or endless how-is-this-happening head scratching. And all I can think is - am I supposed to believe you don't know how this is happening? really?
And I've searched for material - anything - and on the rare occasions I find something written by someone notable about the astonishing lack of meaningful mass counter activism or pushback against the left - the justifications and excuses are laughable. Rush Limbaugh called conservative activism an "Oxymoron" and unfathomably everyone just agrees. Or another notable journalist lamented that conservative activism is simply not possible because you see everyone is "too busy grilling" I kid you not.
So I'm calling you all out.
And so ludicrous is the reality of this complete absence of counter-activist measures to resist the leftist juggernaut I can only assume it would be a death sentence to even dare try.