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   Ame (americanchampion@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 03:27:46 JST Ame
   asylummagazine.ca/MESSIANIC-ONLINEISM-AND-THE-SPIRIT-OF-16
   
   Not a fan of what ZHP has become - especially in that all of these fucking people now obsess over writing "thinkpieces" in "magazines" whose view counts barely crack three digits rather than doing anything worthwhile. One of the regime's most effective PR coups in recent years was convincing a generation of decent-if-socially-awkward writers that they were above writing to an audience of 4chan anons, and should sit around circlejerking each other impotently instead.
   
   Still, it's a decent steelman of the RW twitter sphere's opinions. Thread:
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     This is something that, to his credit, doesn't get brought up enough. J6 could very well have been something if things had gone a little differently. If you have a million true believers in the capitol, one fat security guard with a gun is not an obstacle.
     
     If the crowd hadn't been leaderless - if he hadn't been taken away (a palace coup? a limo driver preventing him from grabbing the wheel? we will probably never find out the real explanation.), it could very easily have been used to apply pressure. The regime was clearly scared out of its mind - enough to shut down the military, pull out of Afghanistan, and redouble its political purge at the expense of competence, even in the leadup to a major proxy war.
     PoalackJokes88 repeated this.
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     > "We need to build a heckin' bench!"
     
     The battlecry of the Conservative Intellectual. Categorically false, of course.
     
     The core facet of all these peoples' narratives is that the left is organic and independent. It's a blatant lie, but they can't go without it because admitting that it's a lie is catastrophic to their self image, and to their elevator pitch. If the left isn't a group of organic, self-organized true believers, then they can't be countered by having some dork attempt to debate them - it'd be like debating the aliens from Blindsight, who can speak in order to negotiate but are not conscious nor ideological. We don't need to build a bench (by giving sinecures to this guy and all his useless friends) - we absolutely would solve everything by purging our enemies' leadership.
     
     Rather, the Left is a top-down organization - wipe out the Lawyer's Guild in its time, pick off maybe a four digit number of people, and ban new entries, and the left never exists again. The Right, on the other hand, is truly organic - everything from Trump to GG to the trucker protest have been bottom-up.
     
     If the Right 'wins' - if it takes power in America - all it needs to do is expunge the people at the top of the lefties' chain of command. There's no fallback system; there's no organic support. Without internet censorship, their pretense of winning the culture war is as dead and gone as it was in '16. Without their activist judges, CA would still be a vibrant red. Righties can organize in small groups, organically, and fight off any problems in their towns, so long as they aren't blocked from above. Any power vaccuum would be filled by people we'd like - the only task at hand is creating one.
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     Ame (americanchampion@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 03:27:46 JST Ame

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     > "Ahkshully, all of these people truly believe in the retarded ideology they made up to hurt you!"
     
     Clearly not. The Jews who advocate mass immigration turn on a dime to protect Israel. They believe none of what they say. The non-Jews in the left aren't any more faithful - they're craven rather than self-interested. "Lefties as true believers" is a terrible predictive model, and anyone who internalizes it becomes less effective.