To the small yappy dogs on the porch, and the inertia-laden sophomoric layabouts first to chirp "You first" in every single conversation about anything: No one's asking you to charge cannons all by yourselves. Heaven knows, most of you wouldn't even put on your pants and shoes to try.
Just get off your ass a bit, shift a handful of metaphorical gravel now and then, and maybe give a helpful shove once in a great while.
That's all that's required. Truly. That's the whole secret.
The weight of both Judgement and fecal material stored up and waiting to be unleashed from a great height upon this corrupt shambling corpsified regime is quite sufficient to take care of the rest, far beyond any one person's meager efforts to shift the rudder of human events.
And who knows but that the pebble you dislodge, or the most meager pressure you apply, may be the last tiny bit needed to tip the scale, and change things far beyond your feeble imaginings. If you'll simply get off your brains once or twice, and remember what your limbs are for.
But if you don't do anything differently, you won't get anything different. Inaction reveals the roots from anyone's ass down to bedrock, and explains much of why things are as they are.
If the shoe fits...
"If you don't do anything differently, you won't get anything different."A direct and to the point comment. I'm keeping that.
ReplyDeleteI know he gets a generally good reputation in the rightwing net, but
ReplyDelete>the inertia-laden sophomoric layabouts first to chirp "You first" in every single conversation about anything:
is EXACTLY Larry Correia's playbook.
He's the guy who popularized (and I think may have created) the meme of "Americans have two settings, 'off' and 'shoot fucking everybody'". The problem with that is, if you accept it, it means that if you're not ready and willing to engage in murder, you have ZERO options. You do NOTHING AT ALL, or else you go straight to murder. And I am not overstating this, I've seen multiple exchanges in Correia's comment sections where he reinforces this - in response to discussions about the latest leftist line-pushing, somebody says something like "we should do something" - and there's all kinds of things that could mean, starting with just identifying the specific leftists involved in an actual event or likely to be involved in some planned event and where they work etc, ranging through tracing the local financial support (with more specificity than screaming "George Soros"), organizing legal support BEFORE likely incidents rather than leaving people twisting in the wind of law enforcement consequences, and so on and so forth -
- but in every case Correia jumps immediately on that person and says something like "You go ahead and start shooting. I'll watch." In every case he immediately frames the matter as one of lethal violence, putting words in the other person's mouth, framing it as though the random commenter was the one advocating murder when in fact they said nothing of the sort.
I think it's because Correia is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. But it is also a fact that a federal provocateur would be saying precisely this.
What are you talking about? As far as I've seen, he posts 'you first' of 'go ahead and start, I'll watch' only in response to people actively calling for all-out violence. And as far as the violence meter, yes, he says there's a switch. And there is. The right doesn't do the riot over every little thing and burn police cars because someone used harsh language in the store. It's never been an "all or nothing" switch, it's a "when it gets to that point and nothing else has worked, the last resort all-out violence switch gets flipped". The left uses bombs as conversation starters (weather underground, Puerto Rico separatists, antifa, etc), the right doesn't use them until conversation is over.
DeleteIf that's the case, he's chickenshitting.
ReplyDeleteIf he's just sucking up to TPTB to keep from getting his blog pulled, it's still chickenshit.
It took a lot of things to go from Plymouth Rock to Concord Bridge, and more still to get from Concord Bridge to Independence Hall.
Shooting people was generally the last thing that happened, not the first, with a metric f**kton of things in between.
Anybody that can't figure that out on their own isn't just an @$$hole, they're a bag-of-hammers stupid @$$hole.
And they're going to be Overtaken By Events, with a surprised look on their face.
And there's a lot of work to be done before it gets to that point, with the proviso that on that timeline, The Enemy always gets a vote.
Sigh, says the man that advocated everyone staying home during Lobby Day in Richmond VA because it might be a "buffalo jump".
ReplyDeleteJohn
Like the Vaxx, it will be slow, then suddenly.
ReplyDeleteFWIW - "“People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.”
ReplyDelete1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
11. “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
Alinsky’s rules can and have been used for anti-democratic designs. But he defines the U.S. as a “society predicated on voluntarism.” His vision of democracy leans heavily on that of keen outside observer of early America, Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher who “gravely warned,” writes Alinsky, “that unless individual citizens were regularly involved in the action of governing themselves, self-government would pass from the scene.” https://www.openculture.com/2017/02/13-rules-for-radicals.html
There's actually a lot between sitting on your ass in front of a screen, or acting like the Provisional IRA. Hell, the first thing to do is to organize your neighborhood - face-to-face, forget about social media: "From the beginning the weakness as well as the strength of the democratic ideal has been the people. People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interest to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people. One hundred and thirty-five years ago Tocqueville gravely warned that unless individual citizens were regularly involved in the action of governing themselves, self-government would pass from the scene. Citizen participation is the animating spirit and force in a society predicated on voluntarism." https://streetcivics.com/community-organizing-basics-power-interests-saul-alinsky/
Larry was talking about the right and political violence. We do peaceful political protests, we do not do riots with looting and arson. Mostly because we have jobs, families, and think we have too much to lose. But if it gets down to our survival? Will we start stacking bodies?
ReplyDeleteMy opinion: Look at it from your personal situation? Who wants to be a January 6th political prisoner? Who wants to be Doug Mackey, facing 10 years for a f**king meme?
The Left is practicing Legalistic Terrorism, and it is working. Why? Because there are only about 3 Republican Politicians that have shown any of these people any support. The Democrats and their media allies do not make that mistake with their armed political terrorist wings, AntiFa and BLM. They support them no matter what!
Will it change? The Uniparty fears you, especially the non-MAGA Establishment Republican wing. The GOP Establishment is our biggest problem.
RD
@John 6:30P,
ReplyDeleteSigh. Doing stupid things is not the opposite of doing nothing, nor the only other option. But I can't help people that are spring-loaded to either the lazy position, or the stupid one.
1) Richmond taught people that once in a great while, playing in the streets doesn't turn into a total clusterfuck, and get your own side beat up and tagged for a killing, unlike it did in Charlottesville just weeks before. Because sometimes no matter how many monkeys beat on the live ordnance, it miraculously doesn't explode in their faces.
2) Instead, you accomplished nothing, because the fucktard governor of VA yawned at the show of impotence, and signed his anti-gun legislation anyways, right in everyone's face. Well-played.
3) The really genius members of the Playing In The Streets Idiot Posse decided it worked so well for them in Richmond, they decided they ought to do it again, and went to Washington D.C. on Jan. 6th, 2021. Kindly explain to the class how that field trip worked out for ya.
If that's the "something" you're planning, you deserve everything that happens to you, and all the derision you receive for it before and after.
There is a universe of other options for doing something constructive and effective that don't include the idiocy of playing in the streets, where nothing you want will ever be won, unless you're bringing rifles, and mean business.
If you can't come up with a million versions of "something" that is neither stupid, nor sitting on your ass, short of the actual revolution in the streets, you're probably not tall enough for this discussion.
We have some lovely parting gifts for you, and encourage you to have fun storming the castle if you insist on doing it the dumbest way, which hasn't worked in, oh wait...ever.
Pretty much like sitting on your ass works.
QED
But I give you full marks for having the guts to sign your post.
Some of your halfwit semi-brethren chickenshit-posted the usual "You go first!" jackassery anonymously (color me shocked), because reading the post was too hard for them.
If you can be better than that, you can be better than creating the false dilemma of choosing either stupid or lethargy.
Take your game up another notch, and take another whack at the problem.
@RD,
ReplyDeleteOur side needs to stop playing by their rules, on their game board.
Knowing you have no support from the GOPe Chickenshit Professionals, don't be their Amateur Notional Guard component. Leave them hanging and mumbling to themselves.
Ten or twenty guys committed to Not Doing Stupid Things could accomplish a thousand times more than 1000 people doing stupid things, and more than 10 million people doing nothing.
They'd start by thinking through the whole game, knowing they had no support but themselves.
They wouldn't hold recruiting drives, and thus they wouldn't be open to infiltration by anyone glowing.
The fact that exact thing hasn't happened yet, but that it could start, any minute - and worse than that, it could start in five or fifty places simultaneously, without any co-ordination or linkage - is what scares the ever-loving sh*t out of TPTB. They can't predict it, they can't track it, they can't co-opt it, and they can't stop it.
One Dorner (an obvious idiot) tied the entire state of CA in knots for a week.
Two DC knuckleheads with a .22 and a car trunk had two states and the District of Criminals shitting bricks for weeks.
And those idiots were the low-hanging fruitcakes.
Now think of what people trained to plan and execute things could do, if you had anywhere from half a dozen to a couple of dozen, let alone a few small groups like that, who knew which pebbles and spots to push on things would have the greatest effect, and weren't bent on outright homicide or suicide.
Think of even The Mob. The don't break knees of nickel-and-dime shopkeepers for protection anymore; they organize a garbage strike on a resort hotel, and make 100 times the money with 1/100th the exposure and effort.
You can lead a bull - one that would trample you to death given half a chance - serenely around by a simple ring in his nose.
You can get a lot of compliance from a single person by applying the right pressure on the right spots, with no danger of killing them nor doing serious bodily harm.
The body politic is exactly the same sort of machine. Find the right places, and exert the sort of pressure that warns of pain, and it will move or turn, as intended.
But that takes thinking, and work, and dedication, and that's where most people bail right the f**k out of the bargain.