The "F.A.G.S Index"

Most of us have realized all new media is incredibly gay, and terrible. But just how gay is it?

Sometimes, they try to be subtle like V for Vendetta, other times, it's the Acolyte.

I've devised an easy to use index, so you can determine what level of "F.A.G.S" (Forgetting About Good Storytelling) the creators of your media are on.

This is a pyramid structure, the lower levels work on almost everyone, the upper levels are only for further radicalizing true believers. If you're exposed to a level you aren't ready for, it actually has the effect of radicalizing you against the whole thing.

To illustrate this point, I have included the various cut-offs, so that you can see what propaganda works on who.

This is where Hollywood screwed up. They're so far up the pyramid, they forgot where normal people are, and gave away the whole game too fast.

Unlike my other threads this one will be light on examples, because I don't regularly consume gay media. If you have good examples, post them in the comments.

Level 1: Persecution Porn
Level 2: Lesbians
Level 3: Sweater Vest Gays/ Bull Dykes
Level 4: Kissing Gays/ Non-Binary (good looking)
Level 5: Drag Queens
Level 6: Reasonably passing trans, all other non-binary
Level 7: Clearly not passing trans
Level 8: Trans Kids
Level 9: Trans Medicine
Level 10: Trans Kids Medicine Level 1: Persecution Porn

This is the lowest level, and it's been going on forever, it is also by far the most effective, on the widest possible audience. It has worked extremely well, and I commend them for their efficiency.

This Persecution Porn got us from gay marriage being illegal, to cutting off children's genitals in one generation.

At this stage, you won't actually see any gay behaviour. It'll merely be alluded, too, and then:

Oh no! what's this! A lynch mob is coming to kill Timmy for holding hands with Greg!

This one is to soften people up, and it almost always works. Everyone except the most die-hard extremists will walk away saying:

"of course gay marriage is wrong, but that's just awful, much too far! We need to find a compromise"!

This level is designed to soften people up, to implant the idea that gays are horribly oppressed, and they need to fight for their mere survival. It plays off people's compassion to soften their defences, and get them to a point where they're willing to make a compromise.

This level works extremely well on religious people, as it plays on their natural compassion. While they're the most immune to levels above this, this level tricks them very easily.

Information Warfare: A Introductory Series

I expect this to be a long series deeply exploring this topic, it’ll take me a few weeks to finish. I’ll post one everyday at 6pm EST for the duration.

I’ll try to keep it to about 500 words per post so it’s not ridiculous to read. Information Warfare: A Introductory Series

Prelude

My parents were both involved in Polish underground resistance movements as communism was falling apart. My mom was even detained by the SB (Polish KGB) twice, and interrogated.

I grew up hearing stories around the dinner table, and my parents told me since I was a child “don’t trust the news, or the government”. They aren’t conspiracy theorists though, not in any conventional sense. They also told me “don’t trust the conspiracy theories, the government wrote most of them”.

They told me stories of how the communists covertly infiltrated the resistance movements, and guided them step by step. When communism eventually collapsed, the scoundrels behind it never faced any consequences, they were well set up for the rest of their lives.

Why?

Because their cronies were running the resistance by that point. The people in charge saw the writing on the wall, that communism was done, so they simply found an angle to make sure that when the time came, no one would prosecute them for their crimes.

The real dissidents were removed years before. Then they made sure that the communist plants were arrested, beaten, and vilified in the media, so that they’d have credibility in the resistance movements. These people rose to the top, and led the "new" order.

Hearing these stories has gave me a lifelong interest in Propaganda, and Information Warfare. I studied political science and philosophy, and most of the papers I wrote were at least tangentially related to this topic. It’s always been my favorite subject to read about.

I’ve looked at and researched Information Warfare going from Antiquity, all the way to Modern Times, I even had a paper published about its use in the EU (that’s all I’ll say to not dox myself).

If you’re looking for a thread of “Bush did 9/11” or “the vaxx is for depopulation” prepare to be disappointed. I don’t intend to dive into any specific conspiracies at this time.

What I want to do is present the information I’ve learned, and how to use it to analyze current, or past, events. I’ll be covering topics like types of counter-narratives, actors in conspiracies (Feds, useful idiots, honeytraps, apparatchiks), and many basic definitions and ideas involved.

Later on I’ll reference historical or fictional works, and my parents personal stories, to show how what I’m explaining can be seen in real life.

The idea is to give the reader the tools to navigate the information minefield that exists in the present day.

Hopefully once I have my full thoughts articulated in this series, I can reform it into a shorter and more straightforward article, for now, enjoy my ramblings.

Twitter Communities: The Conclusive List 🧵

I spend a lot of time deep in the coal mines of X. Having travelled far and wide I can now give you the objective rankings of the Twitter communities.

S Tier - Dissident Right,
RETVRN Twitter.
A Tier - Trad Cath/Ortho
B Tier - Libertarians,
Mainstream Conservatives
C Tier - 90's Republicans,
Conservative Protestants
D Tier - Black Twitter,
Democrat Shill Twitter
Commie Twitter
E Tier - Atheist Twitter
LGBTQQIP2SAA++
Progressive Christians
F Tier - P*rn Twitter

Below I'll go into a breakdown of why they fit in each category, and examples of accounts that fit roughly in that community.

Some of these accounts are better or worse than the overall communities they fit into, maybe I'll do some of those individually later. S Tier - Dissident Right

This is easily the most unhinged and deranged space on Twitter, everyone here is on the shortlist for a ban. Elon is one struggle session away from axing all these accounts.

That's why this is where I spend most of my time. It's a great community, a ton of fun, everyone has a good sense of humor.

Anyone who wanders into the comments with a trash opinion usually regrets it pretty quickly.

I agree with most of the opinions, but even the ones I don't, are usually good for a laugh.

Examples: @revenant_MMXX , @consciousphilos , @AuronMacintyre , @9mm_smg , @DissidentSoaps

I could easily list 50 good accounts here, but I'll keep it brief.

Harry Potter: An Anti Trans Allegory 🧵

The talk around media literacy truly opened my eyes, and led me to re-analyze one of the most popular films of our generation:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

It always has been, undeniably, inescapably, an anti-trans allegory. 1) Harry's relationship with Snape.

Is it any wonder that Harry's most strained relationship is with the potions professor?

Who can we think of, in our society, that uses strange potions and alchemical practices? Who are the people spending time pouring over formulae, in an attempt to deceive the natural order?

Harry knows to be wary of Snape, because Snape is a creepy weirdo who probably wants to give him a polyjuice potion so Harry will look like his mom. At which point Snape will do God knows what to him.

This is basically confirmed in the later films.

Israel and Palestine: The Oldest Forever War 🧵

People seem to slowly be losing interest in this conflict, just as they seem to have totally lost interest in Ukraine. Before the next "current thing" comes up, I thought I'd write out my thoughts on why the situation is totally screwed, and can't be resolved in any meaningful way.

People like to argue about when it started "Second Intifada" "70 years ago" "6 Day War" but really, the Jews have been fighting with their neighbours on that piece of land for around 3000 years. This is a deep and ancient conflict. The simplest answer is the fighting will continue because their ancestors have been fighting for forever. It's tradition.

I have two examples/stories on why I think the fighting won't cease. Israel and Palestine: The Oldest Forever War 🧵
Why Israel Will Never Stop

When Netanyahu was temporally out of power, an 8 party coalition was formed. It was a very diverse, and therefore very weak coalition. They only had a 2-seat majority. For awhile it was held together with the promise of not letting him back into power, but it was fragile since even a single member leaving could dissolve it.

What finally killed this coalition? A female member left over the argument on whether Israel should allow leavened bread in hospitals during the Passover. She decided that it was better to let her political enemy return to power, than to allow that.

Ask yourself, if a Liberal/Centrist Jew was willing to destroy her political alliance over bread, what would a Conservative Jew do to defend what they consider their birthright?

There is a 0% chance Israel will ever stop, they may agree to a temporary ceasefire, but they won't stop.

The Western mind cannot comprehend this level of fanaticism or devotion.

All Bad Ends: The Erasure of Heroes in Popular Media 🧵

Stories are meant to reflect real life. More importantly however, they're meant to reflect idealized versions of real life.

Stories are meant to be a sort of hyper-reality. The villains are especially evil, the heroes are superhuman in their virtue. Sometimes the villain can have a better motivation than the heroes, think Magneto from X-Men. Sometimes the heroes can be very troubled characters, think Rorschach from Watchmen. Even in these stories the heroes are still fundamentally good, the villains still evil.

Stories are a way for us regular people to imagine an ideal, to be able to relate to perfection, despite human failings. When we lose that, stories lose their transcendental value and become mere entertainment.

There's been some discussion the last few days about a few different games and movies. Specifically Lord of the Rings, and it's right-wing appeal, as well as the new Suicide Squad game, and the killing of Batman. How are these two things related?

They're related in the same way the Star Wars Sequels, Game of Thrones, Mass Effect, and Cyberpunk 2077 are, they're all symptoms of our cultural bankruptcy. Is Lord of the Rings Right-Wing Extremist?

Well, firstly we can drop the word extremist, since it no longer has any meaningful connotation. So is Lord of the Rings right wing? The answer is, unfortunately, yes. Once upon a time, it, like Star Wars, transcended political lines.

It was the type of basic story that resonated with the human struggle, the human condition. Now, any mention of "good and evil" is considered inherently fascist. We're called to be blank and grey in our morality. Any notion of objectivity must be stamped out.

Lord of the Rings can't exist in modern culture for the reasons it was once so popular. Sauron is irredeemably evil, and the good guys win, getting to live happily ever after. Frodo and Gollum are the only two characters who occupy a grey space, failing to get the perfect storybook ending.

Gollum is shown throughout as a character in the clutches of evil and addiction, but he is a character for whom there is still a faint glimmer of hope. In the end, he can't overcome his own desires, and is destroyed for it. This, along with Frodo's failure to destroy the ring, foreshadows Frodo's fate. He lives, but he is empty and unable to exist in the Shire any longer. But because he only partly fell to evil, not totally, he is given a chance at healing in the undying lands.

Contrast this somewhat melancholy, but ultimately hopeful, story with any modern books or movies, such as the new Star Wars movies.

Trans Memes: A Gentleman's Field Guide, 2nd Edition 🧵

Doing the same thing as with the Leftist Memes thread, keeping it to 10 memes a thread, then linking forward and back.

https://x.com/culturecrusades/status/1748403134391615657?s=20

Trans Memes: A Gentleman's Field Guide, 2nd Edition 🧵

"Revolution is When Gay Sex"

Overall - 30/40

This is an incredibly strong meme, the lecturing is the absolute ideal, and it's very deluded. But it falls short especially on format, and the degeneracy is a little too subtle. This one really has potential to get 35 points with some modifications, sad to see no flags.

Thanks to both @SJ_Sathanas and @zermatist for suggesting this one.

Lecturing - 10/10

Wow. This one really makes me reconsider the whole scoring guide. I've been giving out too many 10s, this is the new standard for Leftist lectures.

What grave sins have I committed that the Lord condemned me read the phrase "division of reproductive labor assigned by the patriarchy"?

This one has every element, if I gave out 11s, this would be it. Super smug strawman vs. our stunning and brave queer hero. Giant textwall stolen verbatim from a shitty manifesto. Garbage social justice nonsense words.

There's absolutely no question this is anything but perfection.

Degeneracy - 6/10

I can't give high points here because it isn't promoting much explicitly, except being queer, which all these memes do. It gets a few extra points because it promotes being a "revolutionary" which is the last thing we need, these people feeling like their sex lives have a higher purpose.

Another extra two points because of the AK on the manifesto, clearly this is trying to get people on the: Sexually confused -> Trans -> Violent, pipeline. That being said, the violence part is subtle, and no mention of kids.

Delusion - 9/10

It's pretty bad, only one tiny redeeming factor. The idea that these people are "fighting the system" by no having proper families is really sad. They sacrifice the best aspects of their humanity, then applaud themselves for it.

What the hell does any of this have to do with the "class system"? Everyone between extremely poor to uber rich, has kids. Poor people are actually more likely to have a ton of kids, whereas rich people are more likely to be huge sexual deviants. If anything these people are totally helping the "class system" because their degenerate behaviour normalizes all the weird stuff rich people do.

Why not full points? There's a tacit admission in this meme that these people are not normal, so instead of justifying their abnormality, they need to make it interesting and special. "We're not weirdos, we're misunderstood freedom fighters".

Format - 5/10

WHERE ARE THE FLAGS. I want to give this one a higher score here, but he just couldn't get across the finish line. It's got a unique, smug soyjack, which is good. It has antifa's strongest solider, which works too. It also is basically just a manifesto citation, but there are no flags, no pins, and no WordArt.

Why the Left Loves Murderers, but Hates You 🧵

A lot of people are discussing capital punishment, and its morality the past few days. As well as ideas surrounding things like justice reform. I've seen a few big accounts make comments like "They want you free if you're a murder, but not if you were a Republican in 2010".

In case anyone was actually curious, I thought I'd try to address the actual roots of why this is. Why the Left Loves Murderers, but Hates You 🧵

One of my favorite books, and one that discusses this phenomenon in depth, is the Gulag Archipelago.

Solzhenistyn explains how in the USSR, under the article for political crimes (which could be as innocuous as saying "Stalin has made mistakes") 10 years was the minimum sentence, sometimes 5 years for elders and juveniles.

For things like thievery, the minimums either didn't exist, or were as low as 2 years. If you stole from the government, it was a political crime, stealing from your neighbour wasn't. Spitting at a government official would have surely landed you 10 years, killing an old woman may have only gotten you 5.

Trans Memes: A Gentleman's Field Guide 🧵

I have delved deep into the internet jungles in my study of these memes, and have created a grading system, so that the public may better understand this mysterious culture.

I would strongly caution against doing this on your own, there are things in the dark places of trans pages that cannot be unseen, and such a journey is not for the faint of heart.

This is why I consider it an essential service to teach, and warn, the public. While Leftist Memes are usually just cringe, many of these are truly revolting.

I have given each of these Memes a name, and a grade. If you have any Trans or Leftist Memes you'd like officially graded and entered into the registry, send them my way.

Lecturing: from 1 to 10

This category will be basically the same as the in the Leftist Memes. Is it a giant wall of text? Is it incredibly condescending? These are the key factors to achieving a high score here.

Degeneracy: from 1 to 10

This category will be similar to the version used for Leftist Memes, but with a different grading curve. All trans memes are somewhat degenerate by nature, so it will need to be especially bad or overt in order to score maximum points. What would be a 5/10 for a Leftist Meme will be maybe a 2 or 3 here.

Delusion: from 1 to 10

This category will replace Elitism. How separated from reality is the Meme? Rather than layers of theory to understand it, the question will be, how many internet echo chambers do I need to be in to agree with the meme?

Format: from 1 to 10

Points will be assigned here for sticking to the format of Trans Memes. Does ______ say "Trans Rights"? Are the trans colors present? Are the words girl p***s used? Are at least 2 types of WordArt used? There are many predictable indicators of a trans meme, and points will be awarded for sticking to them.

By following this rubric, hopefully you will be able to identify what grade of Trans Meme you're dealing with when you encounter one in the wild.

I will continue to work on and add to my categorization in this thread, so that a comprehensive guide for understanding these Memes will be available. For the first few, I'll start with very low scoring, non-offensive memes to get a baseline, and then work up to the truly grotesque.

Hopefully one day, I may find the perfect 40/40 for my collection.

So join me, as we journey toward the heart of darkness. Trans Memes: A Gentleman's Field Guide

"Groupthink"

Overall - 11/40

A gentle introduction into the world of Trans Memes. Not the worst or most degenerate, but it offers a glimpse into their mindset. They understand it is their duty to actively brigade in support of each other, no matter how insane they're being.

It's nice to start with such an easy one, they only get worse from here.

Lecturing - 2/10

This one is not attempting to lecture anyone it would seem. It is a rare example of someone just stating a personal opinion.

It does score one extra point however, for being overly wordy. The "understand them" was superfluous.

Degeneracy - 1/10

There's not really anything bad here being promoted, just up-voting things on a website. If I were grading on a general scale, the score would be higher because it's promoting a dangerous ideology. But, by trans standards this is as non-offensive as it gets.

Delusion - 5/10

It gets a few points here because it actively reinforces the echo chamber. Someone can post a terrible, or even deranged, meme, and this person will support them. The idea being advanced here is absolutely critical to understanding the trans community.

Have you ever wondered why garbage "Sonic says Trans Rights" memes will get 50k likes? They understand that trans ideology is like Tinkerbell, if you stop believing, it dies. So they fly like moths to a flame whenever a meme has the trans flag in it.

Format - 3/10

Having the trans colors anywhere in the meme is at least a 3, the bad text placement is also a nice touch. Apart from that, it's fairly bland.

Why is Modern Art so Bad?

Beauty has two components: Aesthetics and Meaning. Any art that touches on one component but not the other may be trendy, but it will never be lindy.

The core principle of modern art is that only meaning matters. If something looks and feels horrendous, it is actually beautiful, because of some contrived story. But in that case, is it not the story which is beautiful, instead of the art piece? So can we not just keep the story, and lose the art? Modern art acts as a form of in-group signalling.

Which, ironically, makes it far more elitist than anything before it. While claiming to transgress norms, and break barriers, it throws up barriers all around itself. Modern art veils itself in false mystery and intrigue, where none actually exists.

An illiterate can look at Rembrandt's Night Watch and appreciate it. It takes an enormous degree of social conditioning to enjoy Unfinished Painting.