2/04/2021 Roundup
Project Updates, Andy Ngo's new book, Greta's Big Oops, Squatting tactics increase
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Project Updates/Changes:
Hello Friends! I hope you’ve been well, and I hope you’ve enjoyed my recent podcast content. I’ve had some really great guests join me for both the CIP seasonal series and my Daily Dispatches, and I’ve gotten lots of positive feedback. I’m in the process of lining up a few more in the upcoming weeks, so expect more of those as we go forward.
When I started this project I had never done a podcast or newsletter before, and it’s been an…interesting experience, to say the least. This project was part experiment, and has continually evolved along the way as I attempt to find an efficient workflow and methodology that suits my goals to bring you timely and relevant information (while slotting between other obligations) and I think I’ve found something that works for me.
Moving forward, my current format is three podcast episodes a week, one from the Seasonal Contextual Insurgent Podcast series that primarily focuses on analyzing particular topics from history and finding timely and useable lessons for righties interested in activism, and two from the Daily Dispatch series that deals with deconstructing current events. The CIP episode will drop Mondays, and the Daily Dispatch series come out Wednesday and Friday.
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Andy Ngo’s New Antifa Book Released
Andy has done some good work in Portland exposing the radical left, and I was honored to be included in his new book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. We ended up having brunch my last time in Portland, and I agreed to be interviewed for this work. You can get a peak in this Newsweek essay:
Erin Smith, a conservative trans woman and writer who goes undercover at large Antifa riots on the West Coast, tells me Antifa uses a "calibrated level of violence" to provoke reactions by law enforcement for propaganda purposes.
"Antifa seek to force law enforcement into a dilemma action, where there are simply no good responses from a public relations standpoint," Smith said via email. "They either fail to respond to Antifa harassment and look weak, or react in ways likely to be perceived by the casual observer as an overreaction. Both choices undermine the legitimacy of the state and its security forces."
Leftists Increasingly Use Squatting Tactics
I have previously covered how leftist groups are increasingly fond of squatting, and predicted 2021 would be a banner year for it as the economic issues grind on. They have expanded from squatting vacant or foreclosed houses to renting motel rooms for one night, packing them with homeless people, then refusing to vacate at checkout time. This latest incident required a SWAT team and flashbangs to extract the squatters, and I expect the frequency and intensity of these confrontations to grow.
Righties tend to throw the word ‘direct action’ around like it only means special forces raiding a target, but lefties have a more nuanced view of the word; in fact the hotel occupations are what is known as prefigurative direct action, or essentially imposing their vision on the world and forcing others to un-make it:
The lunch counter sit-ins of the U.S. civil rights movement are frequently referenced as defiant, courageous and ultimately successful acts of resistance against America’s Jim Crow-era apartheid. They were certainly that, but they were also profoundly prefigurative. The students’ actions — mixed-race groups of people violating the law by sitting at lunch counters and demanding to be served — foreshadowed victory and prefigured the world they wanted to live in: they were enacting the integration they wanted.
Essentially they want to take control of all vacant homes and hotel rooms and fill them with homeless, because communism.
Mutual aid is not only direct action, in a sense it is them building dual power/shadow government to supplant the failing established government they’re so intent on undermining:
Greta Accidentally Exposes Astroturfed India Riots
We’ve talked before about the artificial nature color revolutions and hybrid war theory, and basically anyone that payed attention last year to the BLM riots knows there’s a sophisticated activist infrastructure handling the logistics for these sorts of things.
Still, Greta Thunberg (or rather her handlers) let the cat out of the bag so to speak when they linked a google planning doc for the India Farmer Riots that appeared to -among other things- have prepared talking points for events that evidently haven’t happened yet.
I’ve mentioned before that I think India is likely to be a major player in advancing a decentralized internet due to several factors such as a sizable user base, technical know-how, and nationalist sentiment, so I’m not really surprised to see destabilization operations underway there.
Here’s some more good reading on the topic:
Indian Outlet With Background Info
Apex On The Nature of Plastic People as Avatars For The Elite
BLM Riot Videos Catalogued
A handy repository of last year’s riot videos, feel free to browse or download for research. It’s important we preserve multiple copies of what happened for posterity, every memory stick with the evidence saved is a bullet ready for a future information war:
Prefigurative direct action is "be the change you want to see in the world", or, more accurately, a proof of concept model for attacks. Or a startup that creates a model and hopes for funding, except because it's not for profit, the proof of concept can be funded and expanded, or it can just be like a Defcon presentation that no one patches...
Interesting to learn about prefigurative direct action. Sounds like the same principle as "assuming the sale" in persuasion/game or sales tactics. Good setup for a dilemma action too, since the actors are usually "doing something normal".
Thanks and keep up the good work.