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?
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.
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?
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.