I've previously said that in regards to the political Left, violence from the political Left, against the political center-Left absolutely works by basically culling the Left into a new position. The Left wants to be on the winning side, more than literally anything.
However, these options are not available to the political anti-Left because the anti-Left is a revolutionary force. In war you can't replicate your enemy's strategy because their strategy exists to guarantee their success. Replicating all the same tactics ends up with them winning because you're just fulfilling their objectives.
Acting as if using any tactic which is also used by your enemy will result in defeat is retarded reasoning a level above "If you fight your enemy, they win." You are correct that if the anti-left resorted to burning, looting, and murdering, that they would just be accomplishing the goals of the left, but the fact that you can already largely distinguish "right wing violence" by the fact that it targets (which is the key word) establishment institutions instead of the general public indicates that you don't have to worry about the right going BLM.
Over and over again, we've seen the political left, from their establishment position, use attacks from the political right, or even claims of potential attacks from the political right, as justification for further violent crackdowns, and a curtailing of legal barriers and rights. [...]
[T]he objective of Information Warfare operations is to drive the political right into violence, so that it may be channelized into an easier position to destroy. [...]
Even after this latest FBI shooting, we are even seeing Viva Frei being personally targeted as the man who incited the attack. The purpose of these efforts is to break the ability for political dissent to communicate; to reduce their public effectiveness; and rationalize more violent crackdowns on dissenters.
The intelligence apparatus is more than capable of manufacturing justification for whatever actions the establishment wishes to take. Rational people aren't going to go lone wolf against an FBI building because they realize that isn't going to accomplish any of their political goals. I agree that we should probably be discouraging people from doing retarded shit like attacking fortified buildings with nail guns, but it's going to happen (once again, if for no other reason, because the intelligence apparatus will stage it.)
Do NOT trust people who are calling for violence, particularly on the eve of a mid-term election that is nearly guaranteed to win the Republicans the House, and after an illegal FBI raid unified the political right around Donald Trump for a moment, and even got progressives like Tulsi Gabbard and Jimmy Dore objecting to it.
The anti-left was handed a major PR victory here, though it's one which they will be unable to capitalize on for at least the next three months. We can only hope that this gives enough institutional support to stop the bleeding 'til then, and that they actually do capitalize if they win (and God help us if they don't.) But I digress
Part of the purpose of Black Pills is to help demoralize a target population, and then to use that sense of hopelessness to inspire them into violence. This is why Black Pills and advocations of violence are enemy strategy, not just retarded.
OK, but what should we be doing instead? I know it's way harder to present a viable alternative than to just say "that's bad, don't do that", but for those careening toward the abyss, just saying "don't do that" isn't just unhelpful, it's actively harmful. With that said, in order to avoid hypocrisy, I'll give a short summary of what we should be doing instead of downing the blackpill.
First, we should be reducing our dependence on the existing system and working to become more self sufficient. Find a means of supporting yourself and your family that is as resilient as possible to cancellation and economic destruction by the left and their policies. This will look different for everyone depending on their individual skillsets, and it will be harder than going with the flow, but there are a variety of options here.
Second, we should be preparing to effectively resist tyranny (Fuck off AoV this isn't going to be a call to violence, and even if it were, it's constitutionally protected speech and the hypothetical violence would also be constitutionally protected.) To paraphrase the Second Amendment, "A properly functioning militia is necessary to secure a free state." That means not just being armed, but being familiar with the function of those arms, being physically and mentally fit, and having a group of likeminded individuals prepared to use those arms in an organized manner. Equally as important is having the political and social organization to minimize the necessity of using those arms and preserving a peaceful society.
Third, (as I stated in my top-level comment) we must either take over the existing systems and institutions, or replace them with ones we have built. We cannot simply abandon the current system because the left refuses to allow anything to exist which they do not control. This is what happened during and following the Cold War, and it gave us the mess we have now.
I've previously said that in regards to the political Left, violence from the political Left, against the political center-Left absolutely works by basically culling the Left into a new position. The Left wants to be on the winning side, more than literally anything.
However, these options are not available to the political anti-Left because the anti-Left is a revolutionary force. In war you can't replicate your enemy's strategy because their strategy exists to guarantee their success. Replicating all the same tactics ends up with them winning because you're just fulfilling their objectives.
Acting as if using any tactic which is also used by your enemy will result in defeat is retarded reasoning a level above "If you fight your enemy, they win." You are correct that if the anti-left resorted to burning, looting, and murdering, that they would just be accomplishing the goals of the left, but the fact that you can already largely distinguish "right wing violence" by the fact that it targets (which is the key word) establishment institutions instead of the general public indicates that you don't have to worry about the right going BLM.
Over and over again, we've seen the political left, from their establishment position, use attacks from the political right, or even claims of potential attacks from the political right, as justification for further violent crackdowns, and a curtailing of legal barriers and rights. [...]
[T]he objective of Information Warfare operations is to drive the political right into violence, so that it may be channelized into an easier position to destroy. [...]
Even after this latest FBI shooting, we are even seeing Viva Frei being personally targeted as the man who incited the attack. The purpose of these efforts is to break the ability for political dissent to communicate; to reduce their public effectiveness; and rationalize more violent crackdowns on dissenters.
The intelligence apparatus is more than capable of manufacturing justification for whatever actions the establishment wishes to take. Rational people aren't going to go lone wolf against an FBI building because they realize that isn't going to accomplish any of their political goals. I agree that we should probably be discouraging people from doing retarded shit like attacking fortified buildings with nail guns, but it's going to happen (once again, if for no other reason, because the intelligence apparatus will stage it.)
Do NOT trust people who are calling for violence, particularly on the eve of a mid-term election that is nearly guaranteed to win the Republicans the House, and after an illegal FBI raid unified the political right around Donald Trump for a moment, and even got progressives like Tulsi Gabbard and Jimmy Dore objecting to it.
The anti-left was handed a major PR victory here, though it's one which they will be unable to capitalize on for at least the next three months. We can only hope that this gives enough institutional support to stop the bleeding 'til then, and that they actually do capitalize if they win (and God help us if they don't.) But I digress
Part of the purpose of Black Pills is to help demoralize a target population, and then to use that sense of hopelessness to inspire them into violence. This is why Black Pills and advocations of violence are enemy strategy, not just retarded.
OK, but what should we be doing instead? I know it's way harder to present a viable alternative than to just say "that's bad, don't do that", but for those careening toward the abyss, just saying "don't do that" isn't just unhelpful, it's actively harmful. With that said, in order to avoid hypocrisy, I'll give a short summary of what we should be doing instead of downing the blackpill.
First, we should be reducing our dependence on the existing system and working to become more self sufficient. Find a means of supporting yourself and your family that is as resilient as possible to cancellation and economic destruction by the left and their policies. This will look different for everyone depending on their individual skillsets, and it will be harder than going with the flow, but there are a variety of options here.
Second, we should be preparing to effectively resist tyranny (Fuck off AoV this isn't going to be a call to violence, and even if it were, it's constitutionally protected speech and the hypothetical violence would also be constitutionally protected.) To paraphrase the Second Amendment, "A properly functioning militia is necessary to secure a free state. That means not just being armed, but being familiar with the function of those arms, being physically and mentally fit, and having a group of likeminded individuals prepared to use those arms in an organized manner. Equally as important is having the political and social organization to minimize the necessity of using those arms and preserving a peaceful society.
Third, (as I stated in my top-level comment) we must either take over the existing systems and institutions, or replace them with ones we have built. We cannot simply abandon the current system because the left refuses to allow anything to exist which they do not control. This is what happened during and following the Cold War, and it gave us the mess we have now.