Message from @pratel

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2018-07-30 23:13:43 UTC  

Left wing organizations were designated "obscene" in the 90s.

2018-07-30 23:13:45 UTC  

The Proud Boys could've been something good, but they've been mired in controversy and accusations of racism since day one.

2018-07-30 23:14:17 UTC  

I'm not sure that really matters much for the fight over the academy.

2018-07-30 23:14:31 UTC  

Who else is going to be shouting "THIS IS WHAT YOU DO TO US"?

2018-07-30 23:14:48 UTC  

What, you think there will be a false flag of some sort?

2018-07-30 23:15:25 UTC  

No, just that it's extremely difficult to get a conservative group together for real life activism because they get labelled racist and nobody wants to participate.

2018-07-30 23:15:43 UTC  

This reminds me so much of the discussions I was having about a year and a half ago in which I said silicon valley was going to play censor and Congress needed to be looking at doing something about it then.

2018-07-30 23:16:23 UTC  

I can get away with going to a demonstration because I'm self-employed and don't give a fuck what anyone calls me.

2018-07-30 23:16:44 UTC  

But anyone who works for a corp is dead meat if they show up to a conservative rally.

2018-07-30 23:17:24 UTC  

Not necessarily. And even if that were true, if you're in the College Republicans you're already pretty marked as is.

2018-07-30 23:17:51 UTC  

I mean, the kids already making "affirmative action bake sales" and running TPUSA booths are already pretty committed.

2018-07-30 23:18:09 UTC  

Effective messaging is hard, I will agree. But that's something the right needs to learn.

2018-07-30 23:18:37 UTC  

Gotta weed out the Nazi LARPers too.

2018-07-30 23:18:57 UTC  

Agreed. And you need a system of identification (like colorful standardized Tshirts)

2018-07-30 23:19:09 UTC  

The big thing the right needs to learn is how to not suffer defeat in detail every time someone speaks up.

2018-07-30 23:19:43 UTC  

There is a reason unions came to power once. If a whole division quits over someone being fired it makes a statement.

2018-07-30 23:20:26 UTC  

You're never going to get the American right to behave in such a collectivist way.

2018-07-30 23:20:35 UTC  

I'm not sure.

2018-07-30 23:20:38 UTC  

That ain't happening man.

2018-07-30 23:20:50 UTC  

How many fucking candidates did they have again?

2018-07-30 23:21:05 UTC  

So what, jsut throw everything in the air and give it all up?

2018-07-30 23:21:12 UTC  

Let the left dominate everything?

2018-07-30 23:21:34 UTC  

No, I think there is a sense of unity among the right, but it needs to learn how to use it.

2018-07-30 23:21:55 UTC  

The left is always trying to tell itself to emphasize unity and complains it lacks unity itself.

2018-07-30 23:22:03 UTC  

No, but you're going to have to realize that the right is not the left. They are made up of people who think in fundamentally different ways. You're just trying to get the right to emulate the left and I'm pointing out they can't do so. It's against what makes them conservative.

2018-07-30 23:22:46 UTC  

I think you can rally people to a collective goal if the sitution is clear enough.

2018-07-30 23:23:12 UTC  

If the right became a mob of collectivist pod people shouting slogans and wearing identical t-shirts i wouldn't want to have anything to do with them.

2018-07-30 23:23:15 UTC  

"There's no libertarians or social conservatives in the academy" is going to attract two groups of people.

2018-07-30 23:23:24 UTC  

I'd rather act like insurgents.

2018-07-30 23:23:39 UTC  

Ok. So what do you plan to do?

2018-07-30 23:24:07 UTC  

I'm not going to discuss what I am doing.

2018-07-30 23:24:12 UTC  

Not in an open forum.

2018-07-30 23:24:23 UTC  

I like the idea of insurgents. But the habit seems to be to pretend that you'll take the management position in a company. And then you discover you can't just act unilaterally and nothing actually happens.

2018-07-30 23:24:49 UTC  

@Atkins well, I can't make you trust me. But if you want to talk, we can try to set up some kind of encrypted channel.

2018-07-30 23:25:19 UTC  

I might be wrong in how I think this could be played. But I feel very strongly that there is fundamentally no discussion of tactics among anyone other than the far left.

2018-07-30 23:25:40 UTC  

And the tactics discussion *needs* to happen or the far left will always dictate the norms of society.

2018-07-30 23:26:08 UTC  

PM me if you want to try and set something up.

2018-07-30 23:26:37 UTC  

sum good ole game theory would be a good idea XD get a bit of a stride for the right

2018-07-30 23:27:05 UTC  

although ppl on the right dont seem liek the kind to be willfully ignorant about game theory

2018-07-30 23:27:14 UTC  

its just not a part of common parlance

2018-07-30 23:27:45 UTC  

Honestly, in my experience alot of people on the right tend to be pretty apathetic to anything that doesn't get hits on Rush Limbaugh.