When the enemy holds all the power playing the optics game is just handicapping yourself. There were always be a retard that goes off the rails. If there isn't, they can always false flag you. Then a directive will come down from the top and every single media institution will run with that narrative.
We need to take control over the narrative. Part of that is to stop tripping over ourselves so hard to condemn the sperg outs. Instead take a page out of the left's playbook and say "those aren't real right wingers". And, like you mentioned, we need to stop playing defensive. Always being reactionary is a losing game. You don't win by allowing the enemy to chose the battlefield, time, and means of engagement. If I had a nickle for every time someone here said "haha the left is the real fascist". You've implicitly accepted and legitimized the left's reality that fascism is the worst evil, and that there are actual fascist in the West. Call them communists. It's more accurate, and it invokes an image of leftist evil. Why would you invoke an image of right wing evil when trying to defeat leftists?
I remember being hesitant to bust out the C word but dammit if it doesn't fit all the time.
Then you have useful idiots who spout stupid shit like "herp derp, wanting free shit like taxpayer funded healthcare and college and money for doing nothing isn't communism". They either haven't given a single thought about how the implementation of those policies will push us closer to full state control over all aspects of existence, or thats what they want and they are boiling the frog like you said.
The stupid thing is the what they desire and call "communism" exists and has since humanity began. It is called a family and a tribe. And it doesn't scale past maybe 50 people because at that point there isn't enough genetic familiarity to counteract individual interest. Yet the assholes pushing for it think somehow the state can substitute for a good father, probably because theirs wasn't in the picture or sucked if he was.
Then you have useful idiots who spout stupid shit like "herp derp, wanting free shit like taxpayer funded healthcare and college and money for doing nothing isn't communism".
Either that, or they call you far right because "everyone slightly left must look like that to you." You never see those type of people complain when others bring up the nazi insult. There're just there to pretend to be neutral, when they're either obviously on that side. Or as you put it, "useful idiots".
They carry around hammer and sickle paraphernalia for goodness sake. You shouldn't need to convince anyone that they're commies, it's not like they're trying to hide it.
These kind of posts are just showing them that their propaganda is working on you. Trump is in the White House, Republicans control the senate and leftists openly dislike their own representatives. All the good parts of the Internet are also against this shit too. Every MP game I play (even while the game is actively fellating BLM or whatever) is full of MAGA usernames or other related memes at a like 10/1 ratio to liberal BS.
These people are terrible and their ideas are monstrous only because they’re taking the angle you’re proposing now. If we jump the shark and get overly militant and they pivot back to that “UwU, I just want people to love each other and maybe have a little healthcare coverage” we’ll just be right back at square one.
You're being a little ambiguous, but I get the feeling that you're suggesting we change what behavior is accepted in this space. I think that's not going to take us far here, because we have to strictly follow US law on this site, and what passes for law can be changed and distorted on a whim.
Another matter is that we're here to gather and share information, not to suggest what should be done with that information. This is no rallying point, except perhaps for a good old gamergate operation where we send information to outsiders.
Personally, I don't think rallying/organization is important to move forward. I think it's enough that more and more people are being put through the grinder and being forced to learn essential lessons like the news not being trustworthy. Little things will add up and cognitive dissonance eventually breaks the floodgates, assuming that they aren't a member of the woke cult.
Modern law isn't designed to protect good men from criminals, it's designed to protect criminals from good men. I'd prefer to maintain civility, though, and plan on doing it for as long as I can - but I know where I've drawn the line. Perhaps when I have to act uncivilized I won't be alone, but I'm prepared to fall alone, and I think that kind of resolve is very important in stressful times.
This post glows. /s
When the enemy holds all the power playing the optics game is just handicapping yourself. There were always be a retard that goes off the rails. If there isn't, they can always false flag you. Then a directive will come down from the top and every single media institution will run with that narrative.
We need to take control over the narrative. Part of that is to stop tripping over ourselves so hard to condemn the sperg outs. Instead take a page out of the left's playbook and say "those aren't real right wingers". And, like you mentioned, we need to stop playing defensive. Always being reactionary is a losing game. You don't win by allowing the enemy to chose the battlefield, time, and means of engagement. If I had a nickle for every time someone here said "haha the left is the real fascist". You've implicitly accepted and legitimized the left's reality that fascism is the worst evil, and that there are actual fascist in the West. Call them communists. It's more accurate, and it invokes an image of leftist evil. Why would you invoke an image of right wing evil when trying to defeat leftists?
I remember being hesitant to bust out the C word but dammit if it doesn't fit all the time.
Then you have useful idiots who spout stupid shit like "herp derp, wanting free shit like taxpayer funded healthcare and college and money for doing nothing isn't communism". They either haven't given a single thought about how the implementation of those policies will push us closer to full state control over all aspects of existence, or thats what they want and they are boiling the frog like you said.
The stupid thing is the what they desire and call "communism" exists and has since humanity began. It is called a family and a tribe. And it doesn't scale past maybe 50 people because at that point there isn't enough genetic familiarity to counteract individual interest. Yet the assholes pushing for it think somehow the state can substitute for a good father, probably because theirs wasn't in the picture or sucked if he was.
Either that, or they call you far right because "everyone slightly left must look like that to you." You never see those type of people complain when others bring up the nazi insult. There're just there to pretend to be neutral, when they're either obviously on that side. Or as you put it, "useful idiots".
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fascism is left just like communism though
Maybe it is, but our leftists are closer to communists regardless. It also makes the semantic battle harder to win.
"Yeah, AntiFa are the real fascists, but also fascism is actually leftist."
Now you have to convince people of two separate arguments, one of which they've likely never heard before.
They carry around hammer and sickle paraphernalia for goodness sake. You shouldn't need to convince anyone that they're commies, it's not like they're trying to hide it.
-Sun Tzu
Anyone advocating against taking the offensive is advocating for surrender and defeat.
These kind of posts are just showing them that their propaganda is working on you. Trump is in the White House, Republicans control the senate and leftists openly dislike their own representatives. All the good parts of the Internet are also against this shit too. Every MP game I play (even while the game is actively fellating BLM or whatever) is full of MAGA usernames or other related memes at a like 10/1 ratio to liberal BS.
These people are terrible and their ideas are monstrous only because they’re taking the angle you’re proposing now. If we jump the shark and get overly militant and they pivot back to that “UwU, I just want people to love each other and maybe have a little healthcare coverage” we’ll just be right back at square one.
You're being a little ambiguous, but I get the feeling that you're suggesting we change what behavior is accepted in this space. I think that's not going to take us far here, because we have to strictly follow US law on this site, and what passes for law can be changed and distorted on a whim.
Another matter is that we're here to gather and share information, not to suggest what should be done with that information. This is no rallying point, except perhaps for a good old gamergate operation where we send information to outsiders.
Personally, I don't think rallying/organization is important to move forward. I think it's enough that more and more people are being put through the grinder and being forced to learn essential lessons like the news not being trustworthy. Little things will add up and cognitive dissonance eventually breaks the floodgates, assuming that they aren't a member of the woke cult.
Modern law isn't designed to protect good men from criminals, it's designed to protect criminals from good men. I'd prefer to maintain civility, though, and plan on doing it for as long as I can - but I know where I've drawn the line. Perhaps when I have to act uncivilized I won't be alone, but I'm prepared to fall alone, and I think that kind of resolve is very important in stressful times.
Translation: 'Come on whitey, start killing people...you know you want to...they are gonna get you'.