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Counter-Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

In today’s call I speak with the inimitable Yuri Bezmenov, who writes here on Substack at How To Subvert Subversion about how the right can withstand and triumph against the many nefarious tactics of left wing memetic warfare.

It was fantastic to finally speak with Yuri directly; it seems clear that his community-building efforts have a ton of synergy with my own job-stacking organization, so I envision lots of collaboration going forward between his Comrades and my BisBucs.

Topics include…

How the bottom-up social ostracism tactics and stochastic terrorism of the Modern Left resemble the “struggle sessions” of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

When authoritarians rely on a snitch / bullying culture to seize power they’re either devoured by their own mob or need to Long Knives them

The “Current Thing” and how the vax narrative was supplanted by Ukraine

Liberals never admit when they’re wrong—they simply pivot the news cycle

The difficulty of holding the Left accountable when they constantly gaslight us and how this contributes to a right wing culture of conspiracy theories

Whenever we encounter left wing linguistic tyranny (e.g. “marriage equality”) we need to fight fire with fire (e.g. “child castration” or “civilian disarmament”)

Charles’ main point is that we are not (yet) in power, and should therefore avail ourselves of whatever tactical opportunities present themselves. He responds to the argument that we should ignore easy targets, obese middle-aged cashiers for example, in favour of high-value targets such as, say, Harvard presidents, for the simple reason that we do not (yet) have the power to go after the latter. To insist we limit ourselves to sniping at generals who remain well behind the front lines, while holding our fire on the cannon fodder, is in essence to argue that we do nothing at all. Now, one could point out that we did, in fact, take down the president of Harvard ... but Claudine Gay is still a professor at Harvard, and getting paid nearly a million dollars a year, no less: her humiliation is purely cosmetic. As Haywood notes, despite the Bud Light boycott absolutely wrecking the sales of Anheuser-Busch’s former flagship beverage, so far as we know not a single person has actually been fired over the debacle. Since we cannot (yet) impose corrective action on the elite, we must, for now, focus our opprobrium on the vicious little goblins that form the main body of the leftoid horde, making examples wherever and whenever we can, pour encourager les autres. ...

Vagrant of Rhodes thinks we should win the fight, and not worry about how we win the fight.

The left has littered the field of battle with weapons of mass societal destruction, and they’ve fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. We can either keep getting cut down or pick some of those weapons up and fight back to establish parity. If you tell someone that their actions have consequences, and then refuse to enforce the consequences when you have the chance, then the rules don't matter. That's why we are here.

Vagrant suggests that conservatives are trapped in a permanent nostalgia for the 1950s, imagining that we are still playing by the Marquess of Queensbury rules, while the left is throwing molotovs. Conservatives, he says, have the complacent and cowardly mindset of civilians, when what our historical moment calls for are warriors. Unfortunately, the comfortable conditions created by technology tend to encourage the civilian personality type. ...

As to the Red Scare, it’s probably worth pointing out that McCarthy was actually right: there really were communists trying to infiltrate the Western social order; tragically for us, the communists succeeded, which is a large part of the reason why we are where we are now. ...

As to the unpopularity of the left, I do not think this is only because of their po-faced censoriousness, although there is no question that that contributes. It probably also has something to do with their vicious racial and sexual hatred, their contemptuous hostility towards Western civilization, and their propensity to emotionally abuse children to the point that those children demand that they be allowed to mutilate their genitalia, amongst a great number of other horrors.

Finally, as to Alexander’s first point, that cancellation does not teach anyone anything. Au contraire. Look around at how society has changed in just the last decade. Sure, if you’re an autistic rationalist, a contrarian ideologue, or a Bohemian free spirit, cancel culture has only made you hate the left more. But this is a fairly small fraction of the population. What about the normies? In a remarkably short period of time, they went from opposing gay marriage, to supporting it. Why? Because examples were made of a few people who opposed it, and the rest got into line. Most people are basically NPCs: they don’t follow a praxis emerging from carefully thought out philosophical systems, but simply go along with whatever they perceive the prevailing morality to be. They are not rational, nor are they principled. They simply respond to incentives, which is to say, to rewards and to punishments. Put a few heads on pikes to demarcate new social boundaries, and the normies will in general respect them. ...

This is something I wish I’d emphasized more in my own post. The left’s egregious impositions over the last generations, and its crescendo of tyrannical obscenity in the last decade, has generated an absolutely volcanic emotional charge. There are huge numbers of people who are absolutely boiling with pent-up fury. They want blood, hopefully figuratively. There is a cthonic hunger for vengeance, and as the woke left stumbles and shows weakness for the first time in a generation, that hunger will demand satiation. Whether you like it or not, things like this are going to happen a fair bit in the coming years. All that emotional energy is going to need to go somewhere.

My Youtube is being flooded by Kamala ads.

So I don't just block them but also report them for hate speech.

I put in the comments for the report "Why am I seeing ads on my YouTube from this unborn baby killing commie bitch?"

Hopefully a human being will eventually get this and shut off political ads in general for me. :)

https://genesiustimes.com/thomas-matthew-crooks-headlines-white-dudes-for-harris-zoom-call-from-his-room-in-hell/