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Gamergate red-pilled a lot of people.

Brexit red-pilled a lot more.

Trump’s election red-pilled a lot more.

Kavanaugh red-pilled a lot more.

Russiagate red-pilled a lot more.

And now, #VoxAdpocalypse is gonna red-pill a lot more.
The mask is dropping.

Powerful institutions are demonstrating how readily they’ll embrace the purge of wrongthink, if only to retain power.
Civil discourse across partisan lines is becoming increasingly impossible.

This is a good thing.
The present system is MADNESS.

Centralizing hundreds of millions of people under a single government, a single media oligopoly, a single culture?

In 2019?

Not in the age of the internet. Not in the age of blockchain.
Forcibly centralizing people within a single institutional framework is like using carrier pigeons in a cell phone world.

Monolithic institutions are going the way of the dodo, and all the chaos we’re seeing is the death throes of those currently in power.
Censorship is an engineering problem.

The answer isn’t “force these people to coexist with us!”

It’s “disempower them so their attempts as censorship are irrelevant.”

And that happens with technological innovation.
If you think these conflicts are simple disputes that can be resolved through discourse, youre wrong.

Worse, you’re ceding territory to people who fundamentally don’t believe in discourse.

They want to destroy you, not debate you.
This strikes at the heart of @SohrabAhmari / @DavidAFrench debate:

The culture war IS A LITERAL WAR.

Peacetime conservatives who *don’t actually get that* are just useful idiots & foils for totalitarianism... no matter how many civil rights cases they win.
That’s not to say that winning those court cases shouldn’t count as victories.

It’s that they’re just pyrrhic victories when confronting an enemy that operates from the fundamental premise that you’re going to play by the rules & operate within the existing system.
Peacetime conservatives WILL be annihilated, because they have no idea what they’re up against.

They want to save the very system that is now being used to destroy them.
The system can’t be saved.

Either you use the system to win the war (wartime conservatism)

Or you abandon the system altogether in favor of replacing its functions with decentralized technology (anarchism)
Clearly I prefer the latter. 😏
Combining @michaelmalice book The New Right with @willchamberlain observations about wartime vs peacetime conservatism = 💡💡💡

cc @Cernovich @KurtSchlichter @Barnes_Law @RonColeman @ali
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