Using the activist handbook "beautiful trouble," as our guide I'll show you how none of the protests, marches, or social media campaigns are spontaneous, but are in fact well planned actions created by activists in order to extract concessions from whoever they target.
3/ The first step is called "power-mapping."
Power mapping is: "A tool to not only identify who holds that power, but, crucially, who holds influence over that person, and, therefore, who to target with your direct actions"
This is how the woke "survey the battlefield."
4/ Power mappingis how the woke determine who has the power to give them what they want,**and how they can be vulnerable to pressure.** Remember, the woke want to take power, and to do that they need to know WHO to take it from and how. Power mapping tells them who has power.
5/ Look at the diagram on power-mapping from Beautiful Trouble. Note that it includes their friends, their church, their family....everyone. The woke are looking for any angle they can find to put pressure on the person they are targeting.
6/ Once they map the power dynamics: who has the power, and the pressure points of those people, they have to figure out who to target. Sometimes the target has no direct weaknesses, so they have to go after them indirectly.
That means the woke: "Choose your target wisely"
7/ You must "Choose your target wisely" because, In their words: "You might not have enough power to push your primary target at first, but your actions may help you identify a secondary target...that can be pressured to leverage their influence on the primary target."
8/ If done correctly, the can determine smaller more vulnerable targets that can be pressured and leveraged to go after much bigger targets. Like a domino effect where a small domino knock over progressively larger dominoes. (Pic 1)
9/ See how that works? They map the power dynamics, figure out who has power, figure out where that persons pressure points are (in both their professional and *PRIVATE* life), and who they can pressure in order to build leverage and momentum to go after the main target.
10/ To Quote Beautiful Trouble: "You might not have enough power to push your primary target at first, but your actions may help you identify a secondary target — an individual or group that can be pressured to leverage their influence on the primary target"
Just like dominos
11/ Once they pick a target they analyze the "spectrum of allies."
The idea behind the spectrum of allies is that society isn't divided into those who are for you or against you, society a spectrum of various opinions on all sides, and the woke want to know who stands where.
12/ The woke determine the social blocs in play (the people/groups involved) and put them into 5 categories:
active allies-who fight with them
passive allies-who agree but don't act
neutrals
passive opposition-who disagree but don't act
active opposition -who actively fight them
13/ The goal is to shift each group over one notch on the spectrum (IE:They want passive opposition to become neutral, Neutrals to become passive allies, and passive allies to become active allies). If each group moves over one notch, that shifts the entire spectrum.
14/ The Dodgers were Passive allies (allowing a prode night but not hostility to Catholics) and were shifted into being Active Allies.
Blues Jays pitcher Anthony Bass was outspoken Activie opposition who was shifted one notch into passive opposition and must be quiet.
See that?
15/ As beautiful Trouble says: "Movements seldom win by overpowering the opposition; they win by shifting support out from under it"
The woke realize that people might not totally agree with them, but if everyone moves one notch toward them they shift society in their direction
16/ So, once the woke have done all that, they act.
The first strategy is to put their target in a "decision dilemma." This is where they pick and action that forces the target to react, but leaves them with no good options. The target is put in an impossible situation
17/ For example, The Dodgers could either stand firm in their decision and get a ton of backlash from LGBT groups and the media, or they could give in and offend all the Catholics.
They are forced to pick a side, and have no easy way out.
That's a Decision Dillema.
18/ The same is true with blockcades. If the police arrest you, you get to look like a martyr, if they don't you now control the road...police have no good options.
Decision Dillema's are paired with another strategy:
19/ "The Real Action if your Target's Reaction."
The goal is for the target to react to the woke pressure tactics, but to react in a way the woke can take advantage of.
It's like luring the target into a woke trap.
20/ So, what the woke will do if force you into a situation where not matter how hard you try to please them, they'll just say it isn't good enough. and then demand more. IF you don't give in you get called a bigot, if you do give in, they just ask for more and demand more.
21/ Any reaction you give creates more publicity, draws more attention to the fight, and creates more bad publicity for you.
See how that works?
the whole POINT is to leave you with only bad options in hopes that you'll just cave completely.
22/ Once all of this is going on, and the woke have done an action (protest, boycott, demands, etc) they now have to win the fight in the media. They have tactics for this as well.
First "Seize the Means of Communication"
23/ So how do you do that? Well, Beautiful Trouble does not say exactly, but they do tell us one way that you might do that, and it is "Do the Media's Work For Them."
Basically, give the journalists the story you want them to write, and let THEM print it so it looks authentic.
24/ This is how woke activist talking points come out of the mouths of so many journalists.
Further, they want to make sure that they tape their own events, publicize their own events, and try to wage a sort of narrative warfare that allows them to control the narrative....
25/ Again, none of this is organic or spontaneous....all of it is planned.
Part of the Narrative control is to "Play to the Audience That isn't There"
The idea here is simple, the largest audience isn't the people at a given event, it's people on social media and on cable news
26/ To Quote Beautiful Trouble again: "In a media-saturated world, the audience you care about is rarely the one witnessing your action, but rather the one you’ll reach through mass media and social media. Design your action with them in mind."
What this means in practice...
27/ Is that the woke try to make it so that they always look like the victim, even when they are the ones picking the fight and trying to shut other people up.
By understanding how optics work, the woke are able to control how their actions are viewed by those watching.
28/ Finally, there are two more ideas we need to understand before we finish. "Use Your Radical Fringe to Shift the Overton WIndow."
This is one of the more common, and dishonest, tactics the woke engage in.
29/ The idea is that there are two ways to win in politics.
The long, hard way is to continue making your actual case persistently and persuasively until your position becomes accepted. The easy say to to amplify the voices of those a few notches more radical than you...
30/ order to make yourself look more moderate...
This is why the left will amplify the voices of the most radical members of their group. It is so that less crazy people look sane by comparison. This is a way of making themselves appear closer to the center then they are. but...
31/ they haven't moved to the center, they just held up the most radical person they could find to make themselves look less crazy.
Do you see how all of that works?
Are you getting the picture yet?
32/ Everything the left does, all of their succesful actions, all of their victories in the culture, all of that is a result of carefully planned out analysis of the social groups in play, who has power, how the media can be used, how to shift society and the overton window...
33/ And how to move society in their direction.
So long as conservatives refuse to engage with this, and refuse to understand how these tactics work, they will continue to get hammered.
You *MUST* understand woke tactics in order to beat them. This thread is a good start.
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In the Trump/Elon dispute Elon represents fiscal reality, Trump represents Political reality.
Elon knows the Unite States is headed toward financial collapse caused by its debt, Trump knows voters will never accept the spending cuts and tax hikes needed to solve the debt crisis.
Elon is correct that the United States 36 TRILLION dollar debt will eventually crush the American economy and eat it's budget.
Trump is correct that voters will never accept the tax hikes or spending cuts (especially social security and medicare cuts) needed to pay off the debt.
Elon is saying "The financial crisis is coming. Either we deal with it now or we will deal with the financial collapse of the American economy."
Trump is saying "We can only do what is politically possible. Voters refuse to elect congressmen who will make large cuts to spending"
I think society is returning to the desert of the real.
The social narratives which animated people's lives have lost their power and are dying, and the counter-movements they spawned will (eventually) die alongside them.
We are now living in a decaying hyper-reality...
Baudrillard said we're so saturated in representations and images from mass media (T.V., Movies, books, social media, etc) that images become more salient to us and matter more then the real world, so artificial representations become more "real" to us then actual reality itself.
The result, says Baudrillard is that what feel real to us, what feel immediately important, salient, and meaningful to us is whatever emerges from the ecosystem of artificial, curated, simulated, and manufactured representations produced by the vehicles of mass communication.
1/ Woke activists bully people by using social pressure. They publicly shame and attack people to make them feel like all of society is rejecting them.
See the photo below? They want people feel like all of society is doing that to them.
2/ Call-Outs and Cancel Culture are related but different. Cancel culture tries to get people fired or de-platformed as a way to punish them economically and professionally in order to silence them.
It uses economic and professional punishment to make people fall in line.
3/ Call-outs operate using a very different set of mechanisms: social pressure, the sense of hyper-visibility we feel when we are publicly humiliated, and fear of social rejection.
Call-out leverage these Social Mechanisms in order to apply pressure and make people fall in line.
The woke left thinks what is true depends who says it and which side they are on. Only claims made by "COUNTER-HEGEMONIC" people are believed
The woke right thinks what is true depends on who says it and which side they are on. Only claims made by "DISSIDENT" people are believed
People keep saying the right can't be woke because wokeness denies objective reality, and the right doesn't deny science and biology the way the left does.
That's wrong.
Once the right adopts the belief that truth is matter of who says it and which side they are on....
then it is only a matter of time until they begin denying scientific and biological truths because they are being made by people with the wrong politics.
You can actually see this dynamic in the Glen Greenwald discourse that has shown up over the last several days...
1/ Leftists took over the culture so they could own and control the production and interpretation of *meaning*
They wanted to control culture in order to control meaning, and they wanted to control meaning in order to control thought...and that's the real goal: thought control.
2/ The idea is a pretty simple one, people interpret the world using the concepts, ideas, and frameworks of their culture, so whoever owns the apparatus which produces a societies culture decides which ideas, concepts and frameworks people use to understand the world.
3/ The left thought the reason people supported capitalism and hated communism and socialism was because evil capitalists controlled the culture, and used that control to embed capitalist ideology and ruling class values in the culture where they would be absorbed by the masses
Gen Z women leave the church for the same reason they polarize left.
Intersectional feminism says every belief is socially constructed, and anything claiming to be an absolute universal truth, including Christianity, must be exposed as a social construct through deconstruction,
The Critical Social Justice (AKA: "woke") worldview (ubiquitous among Gen Z college educated women) adopts the postmodern contention that all beliefs and truth claims are "socially constructed," and are thus contaminated by the interests and biases of those who constructed them.
As such, the typical Gen Z college educated woman sees Christianity's claims to being an absolute and universal truth as little more than a mask for what the feminists thing Christianity really is: an expression of the interests, biases, and political agenda of the patriarchy.