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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Nov 22

Woke is not dead. 🧵

It's very tempting to say "Woke is dead" in the wake of the tremendous victory of Donald Trump in the American election this year, but nothing is further from the truth. Those of us who understand Leftism know this and how Woke will move in the coming years.

Leftism is diabolical. It doesn't die; it changes forms and tactics. Dark arts are never defeated, though they can be blocked.

Leftism is dialectical. The dialectic never retreats. The dialectic only progresses. It takes advantage of whatever circumstances it has to gain power.

The election of President Trump represents a significant victory in this particular war against Woke Marxist ideology and Woke ideology more broadly, and it may significantly close down the federal apparatus to it's hand, or at least force it to change its appearance and form.

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Nov 18

You've heard the saying "you don't have to care about politics, but politics cares about you." That's even more true for political warfare. You may not care about political warfare, but these days, political warfare definitely cares about you. There are psyops everywhere.

Because of mass media, the internet, and social media, at least for the time being, you live on a political warfare battlefield. You have very little choice in this matter, and whether you're a innocent bystander or an active combatant, you are by default a combatant in it.

I want you to take this description very seriously. You are a combatant in a global political warfare firefight whether you want to be or not, outside of some very difficult and narrow exceptions. That's because political warfare isn't like conventional warfare. It's everywhere.

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Nov 17

After having given it some thought, I've decided to put a super-mega-thread of my recommendations for the new administration's Department of Education, et cetera. Given how these things go, I expect this will make at least everybody mad, but welcome to the jungle. 🧵🧵🧵

1) The Department of Education must be abolished before Trump's term ends, but there's a functional contradiction in this first priority. A department that doesn't exist cannot actually do anything, so it's unclear what any of the Trump Administration's ambitions in education would even mean.

The primary power over education the federal government has is monetary, but if the Department of Education shuts down, the executive apparatus for directing federal moneys in education disappears as does the executive power base for influencing education. Some decisions have to be made, then: federal or state control of education, and when?

Simply shutting the Department of Education down on Day 1 would be a serious mistake. The string-tied federal money in education is all authorized by legislation in Congress's purview, and the legislation authorizing that money and enabling its strings would not end just because the Department of Education ended. That all has to be dealt with.

If the Department ends with money (and strings) still authorized, other departments (like Treasury, and?) would have to pick up the slack, scattering the education functions around, across, and through the executive branch, making it harder to fix. The Department is also ideally poised to facilitate the process of Congress undoing much of this legislation.

In the meantime, the Department can use what power it has, even as it sunsets itself, to repair many of the most outrageous issues in education as it currently exists, which are numerous. This would allow a transition period in which states are pulled into better educational priorities and commitments before they're given full educational autonomy.

The only practical solution, then, is that the Department of Education must be wound down, not simply abolished. Its eventual abolition should be a priority it communicates to the American people and to Congress, who should have a bill prepared for it at the right time.

I would in theory recommend a two-year timeline to establish and accomplish its mission and close its own doors, but the midterms are a concern, meaning a three-year timeline might be smarter and more politically viable.

This approach cannot become an excuse to perpetuate the Department and "use the One Ring." A clear shutdown timeline with benchmarks should be planned and communicated from the start, and Department actions should only be taken such that they are consistent with the overall agenda of closing the Department down completely by the planned deadline.

Fwiw, I have recommended that Tiffany Justice from Moms four Liberty serve in the role of Secretary of Education as described above. She should have the patriotic honor of terminating the awful department in her tenure. She understands the assignment and represents the largest coalition of parents and their interests this country has ever known. That's big outsider energy of exactly the right kind.

2) The United Nations, UNESCO, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and other global NGOs need to have no influence on American education whatsoever. If you don't understand that the Woke education in Alaska looks just like the Woke education in New Jersey looks just like the Woke education in Kenya, you need to get with the program: this is a global initiative in education, not an American one. That needs to end from the first possible day.

I recommend full withdrawal from all these global(ist) education initiatives—including Education for Global Citizenship, SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) in education, Education for Sustainable Development, and Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), not to mention any vestiges of Common Core–derived from the UNESCO World Core curriculum.

To effect this, not only should there be a deliberate withdrawal, etc., from official relationships with these organizations, all school districts in their own relationships with these organizations should have to disclose that information clearly and publicly.

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Nov 14

Marxism and the Nationalism Question 🧵

I spent the day carefully reading Joseph Stalin's most notable work of Marxist Theory today, "Marxism and the National Question," and it has greatly clarified our contemporary debates about nationalism under the threat of Marxism.

First, let me lay out what this thread is NOT. It is NOT an argument for or against nationalism of any kind. This thread is an explainer that explains how Marxists have been extremely savvy and effective at utilizing nationalist circumstances to their advantage for a century.

In other words, this thread is a warning that if you wish to walk a nationalistic road, which may or may not be a good idea, there is a predictable line of attack from Marxists that has proved extremely successful in many contexts that's highly refined, so be ready.

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Nov 13

I think we need a thread about "Election" and totalitarian ideologies like Communism. Communism always sells itself as being the champion of "the people" or "the oppressed," and then it speaks for them and uses them to obtain power, usually destroying them along the way. 🧵

If you don't understand Marxism/Communism as a Sociognostic (Social Gnostic) faith based on the idea that certain people have Woke up to a hidden truth that changes everything and only they can direct the affairs, you don't understand it at all, so that's first.

Originally, Marxists had Woke up to the belief that human beings are intrinsically social, by which they meant socialist. Marx was very clear that only by remembering his true social nature could man realize his true human nature. In fact, he made social(ist) and human synonyms.

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Nov 13

It's very important to understand that above all else, Marxism is a scam. This includes Woke Marxism. A lot of Woke or Woke-sympathetic people today do not realize that Marxism is a deliberate scam that uses the apparent plight of the less fortunate to gain power for itself. 🧵

Marxism sells itself by being "for the oppressed," whether that's class oppression, racial oppression, sexual oppression, or any other kind of oppression, but that's just the sales pitch. Marxism is a scam. It champions those causes to position itself to steal power. Here's how.

The mechanism of Marxism is always the same, whether Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, or any others, including the Woke today. There's some "Enlightened" group of theorists who concentrate in a Party and in committees (Soviets) who will administer the redistribution system. Always.

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