Narrative Warfare: How Globohomo Manufactures Consensus (Amazon Edition)

This past week on Monday, U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH 4) posted the following to Twitter.

Never-before-released internal emails subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP reveal that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of.

“Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books”? pic.twitter.com/ZsAN9BZAcX

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024

Someone else used one of the thread recap bots to collect this into a readable page. It is here.

If you want a summary, here: "So the ones screaming about book bans are the ones banning books."

But you ought to know how this is done.

• White House wants something censored.
• Amazon (biggest seller) gets an unofficial request to do so.
• If Amazon doesn't comply, it becomes official.
• If Amazon still doesn't comply, White House ropes in NGOs to wield media pressure to compel it.
• If Amazon still doesn't comply, White House and NGOs start using their influence and power over the banks to do it.
• Amazon complies, targetted media is censored. "Muh Private Company!" protects both sides from legal attacks.

Some of you may notice that this is a scaled-up version of the "cancellation" process that SJWs and Death Cultists use against targetted individuals. That's because it is.

This is why any serious dissident operation has to create a parallel economy across the board. To that end, it is the publishers (and Gab) that have actually put in real work and not the political organizations. Even so, there remains two major points of weakness where Globohomo has the upper hand: payment processing and banking.

(Yes, I am aware of GabPay; let's see how that plays out.)

The banking element, for now, must instead rely on the tension between the Western banking establishment and the major banking jurisdictions outside Globohomo's reach.

No one in the dissident sphere even figures that this is possible, but it is- and far richer enemies of Globohomo successfully wield it daily to fuck Globohomo over. Dissidents need to copy that homework.

(Yes, I will talk about this privately.)

And After Empire Captures A Castle

Once a "private" institution is captured by Empire, it is repurposed into a pro-Empire propaganda outlet. Film Threat had a video yesterday about how this is being done at Amazon Studios.

And they will, if they can, choke off access to media that does not conform as Crunchyroll is doing for its all-digital library (and other captured companies are doing as they do to theirs).

And if they can, they will gaslight targets into conforming prior to seizing control themselves.

To say that it's bad is an understatement, but it is not insurmountable. What a remedy will require is time, patience, and massive amounts of teamwork.

There will be more and more need to erect parallel structures as Globohomo gets worse in the West. I think now is a good opportunity to pivot and start talking solutions using this as a focus.