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Jan 31, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read Read on X
The regime not even trying to argue that the truckers are wrong, and instead focusing all their energy attacking them as “bad” people—Nazi, racist, etc.—has a few important implications:
1. This is a weak frame that betrays a lack of confidence to withstand dissent

2. They are betting (correctly imo) that normie support for/against is driven almost entirely by which side is believed to be more virtuous
Which means the truckers can and should escalate this and call whatever bluffs are coming. The regime is on the ropes here and should be forced into submission…but this must be done in such a way that does not undermine the truckers’ moral standing…
This is very difficult to do against an opponent that are lying scum perpetrating an ongoing psywar in coordination with journos and tech gatekeepers, but it is the challenge before us and one I think the regime will lose.
The 5G war is on boys and this is what the battlefield looks like. The underlying substantive issue is almost irrelevant, except as a test of what the regime can impose on its people. This is critical territory. Support the truckers unconditionally. They must not back down.

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After the Cold War, Soros quietly built a supranational web of nested NGOs and private enterprises across 20+ post-Soviet countries to reprogram entire national cultures from the ground up—then the whole thing essentially vanished from memory, leaving almost no trace behind.
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The document does indeed reference "conspiracy theories" and "conspiracy theorist," but...
...it doesn't invent either of these terms. The offending paragraph and related section are attached below.

You can tell from context that conspiracy theories were already a known political concept and the authors assumed their readers would understand what these terms meant. Image
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The document mostly concerns itself with both disproving the specific "conspiracies" related to the assassination and propping up the Warren Report's bona fides.

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The meta-story of this week is once again that MAGA has completely circumvented legacy media. We select what stories matter, and how those stories get shaped and delivered to decision makers.

Sentiment created on X flows in a straight, disintermediated line directly to DC.
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But it really is only now that this is actually happening.
We saw this with the H1B Christmas debate as well. An organic negotiation arises online and rather than outsource its arguments to op-ed writers and "experts," it's just a bunch of people on X whose influence is determined strictly by the rest of the network
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Whereas they will fight deportations and attempts to slash the bureaucratic state and especially the spook-state…
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This is going to require generational churn.
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They can't. They can't ever admit to the moral atrocity they've committed.

They have to get cut out like a tumor.
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