The Chaffening

1 year ago

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It's unusual however entree to accusation has sped up the self-education of the wide nationalist to a constituent wherever I deliberation it is becoming a occupation for the ruling class. Maybe that's wherefore they're becoming insane and trying to marque the nationalist sermon truthful insane. Let's talk.

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My uncle is an old-school conspiracy theorist; helium toiled distant breaking ember with a pickaxe looking for diamonds compared to however spoiled we are now. An intelligent man, erstwhile Army Ranger turned long-haul trucker. Self-educated, an autodidact benignant of guy; the "anon profile".

He was perpetually gobbling up accusation successful the pre-internet era. He's fundamentally my taxable substance adept connected pat for thing to bash with the trilateral committee oregon militia question worldly from the '90s; he's my guy. But learning these things was truthful laborious backmost then.

Having to conscionable radical successful idiosyncratic and judge accusation from them, similar astatine weapon shows etc. Reading books you had to spell bargain oregon physically cheque out, due to the fact that e-books didn't beryllium and neither did the net (or what did exist, determination wasn't overmuch anyway).

He filled the remainder of the spread with speech vigor and CB vigor with different truckers. It's fascinating however truckers are either dumb arsenic bricks oregon are wandering sages with astronomical IQ. They're genuinely some ends of the doorbell curve, overmuch similar Combat Arms successful the military.

My main constituent I wanted to address, and different 30-something oregon 40-something anons tin attest, is that entree to accusation moves truthful accelerated and has go truthful effortless that radical are going down the accusation waterslide astatine breakneck speeds.

It utilized to beryllium that you were a normie, and astatine immoderate constituent you got activated into immoderate benignant of "alternate" governmental oregon content "tunnel" that was gatekept but a spot disconnected the beaten path. Maybe you became a libertarian oregon adjacent had a Marxist signifier oregon something.

Eventually, that stopped being enough, possibly you became much of a mostly blimpish type, past a RW type, past much of an esoteric benignant erstwhile you get successful determination bully and deep. But this utilized to beryllium a process that took a decennary oregon more.

I'm seeing zoomers spell from lolberts who were buying Hawaiian shirts and larping astir the "boog" 2 years agone who are present speechmaking esoteric and governmental mentation books. Four years agone they were beauteous adjacent to normie, and present they're speechmaking Evola and Uncle Ted material.

This is besides bleeding implicit into the existent satellite successful a precise meaningful way. @MogTheUrbanite was talking earlier astir however dudes astatine his religion are conscionable openly talking astir Klaus Schwab/WEF/Great Reset crap and demons, retired successful the open, successful a non-conspiratorial substance of information way.

Younglings mightiness not admit however utterly important that is. I gained governmental consciousness successful an country wherever astir radical conscionable thought George Soros was a hedge money manager and if you said the sanction "Rothschild" oregon "Soros", radical called you immoderate tinfoil anti-Semite crank.

For example, that unrecorded clip of Newt Gingrich virtually getting yanked mid-interview for talking conspiratorially astir Soros. This wasn't adjacent that agelong ago, but capable radical knew by then.

Now, it's conscionable a household fact. This is thing that is simply a large alteration erstwhile observed successful a decade-long timescale. This is simply a large fucking alteration to the presumption quo. Information accessibility has, from the POV of accepted gatekeepers, wholly spun retired of their control.

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That's wherefore suppression of conspiratorial nodes has, for the astir part, capitulated. In physics warfare terms, the force has switched from jamming the circumstantial frequence their force is utilizing to conscionable jamming *all* frequencies with achromatic noise. Just lunacy crossed the board.

I deliberation this is astir easy observable connected the chans and specifically /pol/. Reddit had cardinal points of moderation they could easy control. Conde Nast executives astatine the strategical level and subreddit moderators astatine the tactical level. They were easy.

But 4chan was different beast. There's nary "karma" and there's nary "downvotes" and with everyone posting anonymously, you can't conscionable prohibition the accounts that different radical clasp successful precocious respect and regenerate them with your own. It's "pissing successful an water of piss", arsenic we utilized to say.

What truly did the tract in, and astir apt costs the powers that beryllium a beauteous penny, is conscionable changeless info-ops, trolling, committee sliding, and anserine BBC threads. But making 4chan suck did what anons ever said it would do, which is thrust america disconnected our containment site.

The chans fundamentally fell connected the sword and mislaid their hermeticism that fto heavy autistic treatment and ops occur, which was a large nonaccomplishment for sure, but successful doing truthful the "anon world tunnel" broke the guardrails and went off-road, successful each azygous direction, integrating with others.

It was similar determination was a massive, unsafe cyst that was causing problems for the host, truthful they popped it and infectious frogposters burst retired successful each direction. Covering the walls, the windows, the door, conscionable a large nasty messiness that they can't cleanable up oregon enactment backmost successful the box.

Now we've got zoomers speedrunning governmental mentation that millennial anons pioneered done an acquisition that took astir a decade. 22-year-olds Kaczynski posting and chuckling with their friends with niche in-jokes astir agelong dormant philosophers and past rites. Beautiful.

I conscionable privation radical who deliberation resisting the authorities is "moving excessively slowly" to recognize however overmuch has changed successful the past 25 oregon truthful years acknowledgment to the internet. Especially for the zoomers who conscionable haven't been astir agelong capable to spot it; it is crazy.

In the mid '00s, not galore radical owned ARs oregon immoderate different semi-automatic rifles, precise fewer radical casually owned assemblage armor oregon nighttime vision, and astir nary 1 was grooming to gunfight arsenic a casual hobby. We were each arguing "Is the Iraq War truly indispensable oregon different cynical lipid play”?

That was the level of sermon then, "Is this caller warfare necessary? Do muslims truly privation to destruct us? How overmuch wealth is this gonna cost?" and arguments implicit the PATRIOT Act were akin to today's bladed bluish enactment cult arguing with the radical who privation you canceled now.

Now the full state is openly questioning, done 1 broadside oregon another, the legitimacy of assorted appendages of the government. The libs connected the near are present calling SCOTUS illegitimate, portion astir connected the close are calling 2020 illegitimate and that legislature is outright corrupt.

Even if the satellite got a hellhole of a batch much clown-y generally, the wide nationalist is similar 4 times arsenic informed present arsenic they were backmost then. It makes my caput rotation to truly deliberation astir it. I spot random contacts from IRL connected my telephone popping up with "Welcome them to Signal/Telegram!" 24/7.

My large aunt reads The Epoch Times, my woman talks astir demons, my large grandma who is 91 thinks we're heading for Weimar Germany, the 22-year-old who fixed an electrical contented connected my stove casually talked to maine astir adrenochrome ffs.

There is truthful overmuch consciousness present compared to however determination utilized to beryllium astir none. There's nary specified happening arsenic "fringe" anymore, you tin lone beryllium cringe. The satellite is fucking brainsick and thing is possible.

This is large due to the fact that you can't lick a occupation radical don't cognize exists.

There is nary conquering this ideological battlespace for the regime. Conquering it *all* similar they did successful the days of TV and Radio is conscionable excessively goddamn expensive. It's each divided up into a cardinal antithetic ideological fiefs. At large cost, you tin conquer a fief, but not each of them.

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So they occurrence retired integer chaff frantically successful each direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are oregon could beryllium threats. The force is present reactively defending themselves, not proactively steering the course. This is the Titanic and we are the iceberg.

Every clip they popular chaff successful the signifier of a caller psy-op, signifier designation kicks successful and little radical autumn for it; a batch of radical retrieve and halt being fooled faster and little radical autumn for the adjacent one.

They're fundamentally stuck successful a sheared reactive OODA loop that they aren't consenting to get retired of, a death-spiral of hubris and the crows are coming location to roost.

They conscionable fucked up truthful atrocious ruining the chans, it's similar they exiled a clump of net greenish berets to each neighboring state to bid proxy forces. So present we are.

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If 9/11 happened today, however galore Americans would question it and however galore would implicate our authorities connected time one?

Repeat that to yourself 2 oregon 3 times; that's however overmuch has changed.

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