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I've seen a bunch of the more trad/NRx people, especially the youtubers, getting really upset about what happened yesterday. Respectfully, I don't think they are really thinking it through.
For starters, if you say you really want everyone to wake up to the truth of the Inner and Outer Parties, democracy as a system that doesn't work and also deceives, or even just uselessness of voting, you have to accept certain consequences. How do you think people will respond?
Not everyone is going to absorb the idea that American representative government really is just a sham with the kind of distant, measured calculation that you probably want them to. Expect ugliness.
Secondly, the response we saw from government yesterday, far from being evidence of a 'psyop' actually makes perfect sense in the context of a structure of force that wants to hide itself. For such avid Moldbuggians, perhaps disgust should not overwhelm their senses.
At the first, the State feels unwilling to enforce any of its own taboos or stipulations, fearful that doing so will confirm that it both has and is willing to use effective force against disorganized, mostly unarmed civilians.
Then, it overcorrects with immediate and decisive action once it realizes that it now runs the risk of appearing an easy target. It has no real recourse in a scenario like 7/6/2021's that forces it to react in such an obvious way.
An interlocutor could respond by saying that NRx theories about power only apply to entities like NGOs and the press, but I don't think that's true, and in any case, we know the State acts in accord with these, and we can see what they think about the matter with great clarity.
Lastly, for many reasons, Americans are going to have to part with the Founding fiction, namely that a totally spontaneous, popular movement justly established the State, especially in response to abuses of power or even power itself.
Yesterday was a primary example of American kulaks trying to relive the fabled glory of the 1776 revolution. Dave would call this, 'a Ghost Dance.' Perhaps so, but more importantly, it serves a necessary purpose in the shattering of many illusions
By mimicking the actions of the Founders and being forced to see the fundamentally different levels of success, Americans are seeing in real time that 'revolutions' do not take place in the way they've been trained to think they do.
Although the actions of the Confederacy could be said to have been conducted on similar grounds and to demonstrate the same point, the education system can more plausibly discredit their movement with a direct connection to Slavery. I don't think it's as believable, now.
And now, let me say something about the claims of 'staging' and 'psyops.' As I've remarked before, why were live rounds used in a manufactured incident? Why are there calls for people to be doxed and charged with crimes? Why would the Capitol be made to look so weak?
More importantly, in a system of control where authorities are a) trying to conceal their roles b) utterly incompetent, you're going to have scared, amateurish behavior like that on display from the officer responsible for the shooting, not to mention the ones that opened gates.
What bothers me most, though, are the implications of such a suggestion: that it was somehow incumbent on the DR to stop such an event, that we should change our attitude toward acting US elites, or that 100,000 people were all 'feds.' Time to find a new routine.
Firstly, let's say the Capitol invasion WAS a fake produced by any sort of conspiracy. What could have been done to stop it from occurring? Likewise, if it wasn't, what was anyone going to do? Make YT videos telling everyone not to go to Washington?
By the way, Q-interested people and many others were saying they would do something regarding the electoral vote counting for like a week; why didn't you make any heroic content predicting it would be some kind of mistake?
I'll admit, I didn't take the claims that anyone involved with St0ptheSte4l would do anything seriously, either, but there has to be plenty of evidence that people had expressed an independent interest in demonstration long before any paid actors arrived on the scene.
And again, even if everything was a choreographed display, that doesn't mean anonymous internet commentators can't laugh at an undeniably corrupt group of people being made to look foolish. Why would they not do that?
Do you want people to love our loser oligarchs more? What good reason could you possibly have for that, and what good could come of it? Do you really think internet commentators greatly influence political decisions? Why? Do you think Biden wouldn't crack down on speech anyway?
Honestly, the complaints just come off either as a cope, a squeamishness that is wholly irrational and unhelpful, or a kind of envy/loathing that comes from online celebrities worrying that their social media accounts might now become targets.
