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@JayFivekiller • Jan 24

They need a black martyr in Minneapolis, but good luck getting any sensible
black to go out in -10° weather to fight cops on behalf of a Guatemalan sex
offender.

there appears to be a great deal of denial and projection about this, a sort of “redshift” where those moving rapidly left assume they are the ones standing still and the more radicalized they become, the more they must believe that everyone else is going “far right” in order to explain the gaps they see opening up.

“it’s not me, it’s you” is a common psychological and political viewpoint and one whose expression seems to have intensified of late.




now consider how this huge bolus and weight of fake history, fake present, and misapprehended movement across a political spectrum plays in those we have so often discussed here as “the people who ARE their ideas as opposed to being people who have their ideas.”

they have forged externally validated identities on patterns of facts and assumptions about how the world was and is that cannot find consonance with reality, and as more and more folks defect from this world view, it gets harder and harder to find ways to tell yourself that you are not seeing what you’re seeing.

the deep need to “know what is not so” becomes a rising rage forged in the burning wires of cognitive dissonance trying to protect an ideological identity whose revision feels like erasure and death.

and people under pressures like that will believe wild things to protect their world views. ...

they have become so accustomed to being the center of the universe, the center of debate and attention in their chosen echo chambers that merely to hear others speak of normal things outside of the splash zone of political and ideological obsession becomes upsetting.

we saw so much of this during the times covidian.

you cannot have “normal” when your identity is in crisis. ...

and we have some really unhealthy folks out there.

and as the group around these people who are accepting or even tolerant of their worldviews and monomanias grows ever smaller amidst the breakage of the cancel culture that allowed these views to rage unchecked and unchallenged, some will wake up, but the far fringe, the really ill and ill-formed, will self-immolate in rage.

there will, over the coming months be a vast amount of information surfacing about fraud, elections, manipulation, and a whole ream of the “cherished history” of this tribe that will be overturned.

i'm not sure there is, at this point, really much that can be done to head off the impending melt down and freak out festival to come, but at least understanding why it’s happening can help with navigation.

it will punch itself out. this cannot long survive without engagement, attention, and validation. “convincing” is not a path to success. once one ceases to feed to trolls, they’ll move on.

Also nuking reality for the left: Antifa/Vanilla ISIS's central command and control system was broken into and disabled. And separately, a complete list of names, addresses, and phone numbers of contributors to StopICE.net (which tracks suspected ICE vehicles) was exfil'd and sent to the FBI, DHS, ICE, and selected X users. StopICE.net itself was hacked to show meme pictures of Tom Homan and send text messages to all users telling them the FBI was on the way to their house. (The owner has since repaired the site but they're apparently so incompetent that it's become a running battle over who's controlling the thing).

Reddit is absolutely melting down about this. One user there said she was going to stop wearing her nose ring "to try and blend in", which is either a masterful troll or the least self-aware post in the history of social media.

Karen gets arrested...
https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2017664388656722047?s=20