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A huge red flag for me was the over-the-top opportunistic propaganda in favor of X (Twitter).

I can't speak for people at large but I would certainly caution people that there is a powerful illusion on X that it's "the only place you can find the truth" and ironically it's the furthest thing from the truth.

This got so bad that we have a particular egregious case (among others) of a Home Depot cashier being "doxxed", harassed at work, and ultimately fired over "awful but (presumably) lawful" speech.

I wrote up my frustrations about this (https://gabe.rocks/thoughts/right-wing-cancel-culture/)

but it's about more than just this particular flashpoint, we're clearly seeing a pattern develop of a new regime of political correctness and who knows what else....

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Happy belated birthday, Mathew! 🎉

Really grateful for your take on this pseudoevent, Mathew. Like you, I don’t claim to know for certain what occurred, but there were too many signs of Bernaysian stagecraft to ignore.

I generally avoid hot takes, but I had a premonition the next morning and thought it was important to document just in case this is the playbook they intend to pursue:

I can’t help wondering if yesterday’s assassination attempt is the first act in a play, where the next act will involve a Trump supporter successfully assassinating Biden, having been serenely plotted by strategists like those in this “Network” scene:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wr-TychE8Vk

It’s a win-win-win for the cruelites:

1) They get rid of Biden without the political cost of losing face.

2) Biden becomes a martyr who can no longer be criticized and can be used to serve the greater cause.

3) The DNC can replace him with their preferred puppet.

4) They can still rig the election without it looking suspicious.

5) The Trump supporter (and by association, Trump) are vilified as far-right–wing fascist extremists, justifying a ramp-up in the War on Domestic Terrorism.

6) The media make out like bandits on the entertainment value of the unfolding play.

Perhaps we can foil the plot if so many people see this prediction, they know they won’t be able to get away with it.

https://x.com/MargaretAnnaAl1/status/1812522639438836146

https://substack.com/@margaretannaalice/note/c-61962841

Note: This is likely obvious, but Trump supporter should be in scare quotes since this would be an actor/MK-Ultra’ed patsy.

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“On that note, remember that just because something is staged does not mean that everyone involved had to be in on it. Compartmentalization is the hallmark of a well-planned operation.”

This is a point I continually try to drive home to those who have difficulty grasping the banality of desk-murdering—to adapt Christopher Browning’s term from “Ordinary Men,” where he writes:

“Their jobs frequently consisted of tiny steps in the overall killing process, and they performed them in a routine manner, never seeing the victims their actions affected. Segmented, routinized, and depersonalized, the job of the bureaucrat or specialist—whether it involved confiscating property, scheduling trains, drafting legislation, sending telegrams, or compiling lists—could be performed without confronting the reality of mass murder.”

Louis Rossmann (Right to Repair) recently said something in a video that popped out at me because it such a perfect description for this phenomenon:

“It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy when incentives align.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS698R-bxuc)

“In 2010, Monsanto hired Blackwater to infiltrate dissident groups.”

Are you familiar with the 2008 paper “Conspiracy Theories”?

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1068&context=public_law_and_legal_theory

I referenced it in my Apocaloptimist Manifesto (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/against-defeatism-the-apocaloptimist):

“In their 2008 paper ‘Conspiracy Theories’ published in the University of Chicago’s Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule propose deploying cognitive infiltration tactics in online communities like ours:

‘We suggest a distinctive tactic for breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories: cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of those who subscribe to such theories. They do so by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups …

‘Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.’”

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“Sometimes, people who have been fooled become agents of the Matrix. Any level of narcissistic mental feedback loops could cause them to lash out at anyone who challenges the fiction that fooled them.”

OMG, tell me about it 😂

“And it’s so solid that you’re crazy for asking the question, so stop ruining life, you life ruiner.”

🤣🤣🤣

“working as expected”

Oh, they most definitely were—Mistakes Were NOT Made, you know ;-)

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