1/ Trump supporters who stormed the capitol think polite debate accomplishes nothing and thag they will be ignored. So they are now resorting to other means.
I wonder where they got that idea?
2/ When Bret Kavanaugh was sworn in protestors swamred the Supreme Court and pounded the doors.
They didn't get in, but not for a lack of trying
3/ In 2017 there were 5 people shot, and congressman Steve Scalise almost died, when a gunman with a list of Republicans opened fire at a practice for the congressional Republican Baseball team.
4/ The mayor of Portland held a press conference *3 days ago* to discuss the lawlessness and violence Antifa had brought into his city.
5/ Now, don't misunderstand me. I am NOT condoning the violence. In fact I have already stated that we must bring in the troops to deal with the Trump supporters who have stormed the capitol.
Order must be restored and the seditious rioters prosecuted.
6/ That said, the elite media class of academics, influencers, celebrities, and *journalists* who make up the #resistence, spent all summer saying "riots are the language of the unheard," as a way of excusing and justifying violence, vandalism, and riots in the streets
7/ This is an intentional strategy. The book Beautiful Trouble tells radical leftists to shift the overton window (the limit of acceptable opinion) ro the left by "amplifing and echoing the voices of those who take a position a few notches more radical than what you really want."
8/ Here Oberlin college professor Jenny Garcia explains "when there’s violence, protests can make it a more salient issue and provide greater pressure on elected officials and candidates," and how that pressure created by violence is used as leverage by woke political activists.
9/ This is all extremely well thought out.
Alex Hundert defended "a diversity of tactics" (a euphemism for using violence) in Rabble Magazine. He explicitly says committing to non-violence is "dogmatic" and "stifles debate" about which tactics are ok. rabble.ca/news/2010/03/d…
10/ What did people think would happen when Trump supporters figured out what was going on? They were going to go do the same thing.
None of that justifies what happened today. As I said earlier the trrops should be sent it, capitol stormers arrested, and law and order restored.
11/ The people who amplify the voices of fringe radicals to shift the debate and using violence at protests to create political leverage act as though this all came out of nowhere when Trump was elected.
Nonsense, those same people been teaching this to their activists for years
12/ If you want to know how bad it is here is a story:
In 2017 after Donald Trump became President, a group of activists organized "The Women's March," which was covered in the media with positive coverage leading up to and following the March....
13/ The organizors of the women's march then decided to organize a general strike called "a day without a woman.
One of the women who helped organize "a day without a woman" and helped write the manifesto calling for "a day without a woman" was Rasmea Odeh.
14/ Rasmea Odeh is a convicted terrorist. In fact, she gave an interview with the Journal of Palestinian studies in 1980 where she admitted she was part of the 1969 Jerusalem Supermarket bombing that killed two people.
But it gets worse...
15/ At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, a group called "Black Steptember" took 11 Israeli olympians hostage. They demanded the release of 234 prisoners, many of them convicted terrorists.
There were attempts to free the hostages but they didn't work... britannica.com/event/Munich-M…
16/ During one of the rescue attempts there was a mistake. The kidnappers became aware of the attempted rescue, so they decided the kill the hostages. All 11 Israeli's which included athletes, coaches, and other members of Israels olympic delegation were murdered.
Guess what...
17/ The Black September terrorists had a list of 234 prisoners (many who were convicted terrorists) they wanted freed in exchange for the lives of the Isaeli olympians. One of the names on the list was...
Women's March activist and "Day Without a Woman" organizer, Rasmea Odeh
18/ When Odeh's terrorist ties were made public many activist groups and media people defended her, saying that she was being targeted for political reasons and not, you know, being a terrorist.
19/ What Trump supporters did today was awful and those who vandalized and broke into the senate amd capitol ought to be punished to the full extent of the law. Troops must be sent to stop the Trump supporters if nothing else works. As I said earlier:
20/ But spare me the absolute nonsense about how this is new and different. Woke activists have pushed this exact form of politics for years now. It's wrong either way, and I've said that from the beginning of this account. Buut don't pretend any of this started with Trump.
21/ One last thing:
Trump people get your act together and stop this. Don't wave a blue
lives matter flag or a your thin blue line flag and then go the capitol or senate buildings and assault police officers. That is just a pile of nonsense and baloney.
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1/ The left is demoralized and exhausted, but they are not going away and will try to maintain their hold on cultural, education, and government institutions.
This is what happened in the 80's. Reagan won, but the left took over universities, schools, and cultural institutions.
2/ The fact that the right had won a significant political victory only made the left more desperate to take over the social institutions that make up our society.
So they went about taking over our colleges, universities, public schools, accreditation boards, and so fourth.
3/ The result was that even while it looked like the right was winning, the left was putting themselves in a position to control all of societies knowledge production and legitimizing institutions.
They made themselves the gate-keepers of respectable opinion.
The left owned our cultural institutions (Journalism, televsion, advertising, Universities, entertainment, social media, medicine, publishing, non-profits/NGO's, education, government) and used them to flood the culture with anti-trump messaging for a decade.
Trump still won.🧵
They spent a decade using a vertically integrated messaging apparatus to run anti-Trump messaging in every inch of the culture, 24/7, for a decade, while censoring, deboosting, suppressing anyone who pushed back against their extreme leftist ideas.
Trump still won.
The left had complete control of the institutions of: 1. cultural production (movies, music, books, magazines, art,) 2. knowledge production (universities, public schools, academic journals, scientific journals, accreditation bodies, colleges of education)
In 2012 a weird form of identity politics mixed with "social justice" emerged from academia and used social media to take over of journalism, the Arts and culture industry, NGO's, Non-profits, news media, and the government; and used that power to censor the rest of society....
Then, for the next decade, anybody who thought men and women are different, believed kids can't pick their gender, or judged people by character rather than race, was driven out of our societies institutions by mobs of online social activists screaming social justice slogans.
A group of social activists, moral entrepreneurs, and grifters, used their dominance of our social institutions and their influence online to create what amounts to a social and economic death star that they aimed at the reputation and social standing of anyone who opposed them.
Christianity began to recede because the plausibility of its claims had been degraded on multiple fronts by attacks from both postmodernism and secular humanism.
Part of what @jordanbpeterson has done is restore the plausibility of the Christian understanding of the world.
@PaulVanderKlay has been saying that @jordanbpeterson has been excising the spirit of secular materialism from the culture.
I agree with that, but what interests me is the way Peterson has done this. It isn't by providing a point by point refutation of Dawkins style atheism...
@PaulVanderKlay @jordanbpeterson Rather, what he has been doing is a revivification of Christianity by rehabilitating the underlying the worldview and understanding of the way he world works. You can see this quite clearly in his recent conversation with Andrew Huberman (@hubermanlab)....
Gr00ming gangs, puberty blockers for kids, and men in women's sports all have one thing in common:
Our legal, medical, and media institutions covered up predatory sexual behavior and sacrificed the safety of women and children on the altar of advancing leftist political ideology
Telling the truth about these things would have shattered Critical Social Justice (woke) narratives like "trans-kids," "Puberty blockers are reversible," and "all cultures are inherently equal."
So instead of telling the truth, they covered things up to protect their narrative.
These people don't change their beliefs to fit reality, they think reality must be changed to fit their leftist politics.
And they think that reality is infinitely malleable and society is "socially constructed" and therefore can be remade to fit their political ideology.
1/ Today's fight shows the coalition between tech and MAGA is uneasy.
MAGA sees HB-1 visas get abused in order to drive down wages and want to end the HB-1 visa.
Tech doesn't want to lose high level talent thinks HB-1 visa's are needed.
Here's how to thread this needle...🧵
2/ For starters, MAGA doesn't trust the government or corporations on immigration
They think open borders people will game the system by handing out HB-1 visa's like candy
This concern must be addressed. To do this, the government must:
A) stop the flood of illegal immigration
3/ B) Create a robust deportation policy, rigorpusly enforced, that deports illegal immigrants (including visa over-stayers, illegal border crossers, fraudsters.....all of them)
When this is done, and is working effectively, then you can address the concerns of tech people...