Narrative Warfare: For Want Of A Game Publisher, A Narrative War Was Lost

A Breakthrough From Unexpected Avenues

In addressing a Narrative Warfare outbreak in a cultural niche (see all of last week's posts at the Retreat), the recurring pattern of these events crystalized before me.

This pattern is fractal.

This pattern applies to far larger cultural and political issues. The pattern is all about Narrative Control. If you hold control over the Narrative regarding the issue, then it is far easier--to the point of triviality--to seize power, hold it, grow it, and exploit your enemies attempts to combat you to do just that.

This is what Mike Benz tried to communicate when he took up the psuedonym of "Frame Game Radio" those few years ago and explain the concept of Narrative Warfare and how it is applied by setting the Narrative framework regarding what the issue is, what the socially-acceptable range of opinion is, and how to shift that opinion (i.e. the Overton Window) away from your enemies and towards you and yours.

The problem with the specific cultural niche is that it is all about something that is inherently decentralized by its nature, and as such centralization by various parties has been a fragile affair that's easily broken and not so easily rebuilt. This is not true across the board, but it's a lot more viable than it seems.

Learning how the Frame Game works has been a massive breakthrough, as it is a game of pure Rhetoric; there is not one scrap of useful information to be had (i.e. no Dialectic). It's all about manipulation of the perception of status: who has it, who lacks it, and therefore who determines what and whom is in and what/whom is not.

Centralization of information transmission is vital to making this work; if you don't have a mass media apparatus that works, then you don't have the mass mind control necessary to wage Narrative Warfare effectively.

What centralized media outlets trade on, therefore, is legitimacy. Or, rather, the illusion that they have it and others do not. Nowhere is this more obvious than with the New York Times, "The Paper Of Record", but the entire mainstream establishment (across the Globohomo empire) plays this magic trick on the populations. When it is in full effect, it can make a population believe anything- no matter how impossible. Yes, down to believing that black is white and gravity is optional.

What happened this past week? A British game publisher pissed off their fans to include Death Cult poz, and as a result the most connected and influential hobbyists started a revolt. I argued for the expansion of that revolt to remove ALL centralizing actors in this cultural niche, and explained how and why to do it. In comparing specific events, the pattern emerged; I compared the pattern to events outside that niche and it held. I extended backwards; it held.

And now I see why the Death Cult blames #Gamergate for ruining everything. Because it did. How? By shattering the legitimacy of journalism to a critical mass of people ALL AT ONCE. Everything started cascading from there, but in a manner that showed a lack of deliberation and coordination- a potential that the enemy (who relies on both) saw and sought to put down for good.

They failed.

Which leads to solutions.

A Solution Of Unexpected Simplicity

The solution for most of these pattern occurences is "Decentralize, decentralize, decentralize!"

The distribution of agency, authority, information, resources, and accountability to the local level--while maintaining a network capacity to allow for necessary larger-scale collaboration as required--is the way out for most of these matters. Less looking to the Big Man, and more looking to the neighbor and the mirror.

This requires a paradigm shift. We are already seeing that shift occur with regarding to journalism; centralized outlets are plumetting in legitmacy with the public at-large, as smaller outlets take their place- some being literally one man with a smartphone streaming live and talking over it as it happens.

Is this a sureshot panacea? No, it is not. The enemy is at liberty to use the same tools, and does so to mask their own fronts (e.g. Unicorn Riot and other Antifa fronts, which are tied in to Globohomo via deniable Intelligence cutouts), but despite the increase in noise (to borrow radio speak) the signal strength and variety is also far greater than it was before 2007 and the introduction of the iPhone- just ask Richard Grove, The Syrian Girl, or Luke Rudowski.

The thing to learn and master for now is the Frame Game. This is no longer about loserisms like Ben Shapiro's Facts & Logic. Feelings do trump facts, and most people are wired to bend the knee to Status over everything else. Find out what High Status looks and sounds like, then perform that until you seize the high ground; once in the high status chair, change the definitions of High Status to conform to you and yours. That is what Globohomo's Thralls do to us, and have for over a century.

No more debates. No more discourses. They always engage in bad faith purely to do Frame Game attacks on you. It's a status dance, and you need to learn how to lead.

That's the trick; their claim of legitimacy is based on their claim of status- equally illusory, so it's only real if others believe it is.

Bully, mock, and mog them until they submit (or better); they are the killjoys, the life-destroyers, the kid-rapers, the Forever Warmongers, the Normie Haters and Destroyers Of Grills. This is how and why Trump won in 2016 and forced the election theft in 2020; he was too popular and high status to defeat.

Show them as cringe, lame, boring, shrill Karen Killjoys that hate you and want to rape your kids into killing themselves. Show yourselves as cool, awesome, exciting, life-enjoying fun-loving folks that love your kids and want them to be even more fun and awesome than you. That is how you win the Frame Game.

Do this and the Thralls fail, Empire falls, and the world becomes better. How? By breaking their Narrative framework, the audience (the prize you're contending for) loses allegience to Globohomo and becomes open to what you offer via coming into your Narrative frame instead. Explain nothing until they buy into your frame. Dialectic is for Ingroups, not for Outgroups.

That's how you win--how we win--and I can't believe it took 15 fucking years to finally get the answer to how to win against Empire.

Narrative Warfare: Globohomo Explained In Plain Terms Normies Can Grok

This man just laid it out. This is how the Globohomo faction of Empire works. (h/t John Perkins, who's Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man is independent confirmation)

What does "Democracy" mean, as applied to our government?
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They say, “If Trump is re-elected, he will end Democracy.”
Do you know why they are saying this?
What will Trump Do to 'end Democracy'?
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From the knowledge I gained in recent months, I agree with them.

I finally…

— Bob loblaw (@Bob_Lob_Law99) March 29, 2024

I'll spare you the clickthrough. Here's the full text (with emphasis added):

What does "Democracy" mean, as applied to our government?

They say, “If Trump is re-elected, he will end Democracy.”

Do you know why they are saying this?

What will Trump Do to 'end Democracy'?

From the knowledge I gained in recent months, I agree with them.

I finally understand why they (hillary, biden, pelosi, schumer, romney, chenney) profess this phrase vehemently. These people (and many others) are plugged into The Blob.

Background:

I stopped watching the news after the 2016 election, and I did not start watching it again until a couple months before the 2018 election. The political media coverage was unrecognizable as anything fair and balanced, and I could not understand what I was seeing.

Due to my fresh eyes seeing the vicious attacks against Trump in combination with the lack of context from the previous 18 months of media stories, I could not make sense of the situations. The reactions were on a level of hate I have never seen against a public person. I’ve been searching for an explanation that could reconcile this confusion since that time.

Which resulted in my years-long Thought Experiment: “How did we get here?”

Now, I know the answer: World War II.

Is Trump an existential threat to Democracy if elected in 2024?

Well, yes. But, what does “Democracy” mean?

Without World War II we would never have arrived at the political state of the world that we are in now. World War II has been thoroughly examined for the cause and the events that took place. But, the TRUE motivation behind the recovery plan and the political environment at that time is much less well-known to most people. In the aftermath of the War, the politics of the Western World changed from a Colonial Model to a Neo-Liberal Capitalistic Model by mandate. This meant the powerful Countries of the world can no longer conquer foreign lands by force, and Sovereign Nations would choose their desired form of Governance and Political Leaders by vote.

The CIA and the Marshall plan, which was designed by Secretary of State George Marshall (not Congress), went hand-in-hand to overturn governments and control the world. They funded Radio Free companies to control the narratives, and established CIA Stations in each area. The state department, the DOD and the CIA all worked together to put a face of diplomacy on covert operations. They wrote the manual for Color Revolutions, and it has been used repeatedly for decades around the world. This was new to the world in the 1950’s due to the recent advancements in technology, so it was not obvious what was really happening. Even to this day, people do not want to accept the level of covert corruption that happens right in front of us.

The Neo liberal capitalist system came out of World War II. The U.S. had ramped domestic production to extreme levels during the War, and it needed to find a way to export our capacity around the world to generate massive profits. This new Capitalist system fears two things:

1. Right/Left-Wing Nationalists (Populists), which will resist global trade and focus internally to make their own lives better, ahead of the Global Community.
2. Left-Wing Communism, where the State owns all the resources in the country so foreign governments can’t steal them through business deals.

The solution for the Populist case is to declare these groups “Domestic Terrorists” and label them as an existential threat to our Democracy. Then use Institutional Media (which has been influenced by the Intelligence Agencies since the 1940’s) to relentlessly repeat a supporting narrative. Over time the credibility of these Populist Groups are degraded in the court of public opinion. At this point, the members of these groups can be publicly shamed, arrested, prosecuted, bankrupted, or outright killed, and the Country would see it as a solved problem. Historical examples include McCarthyism’s attack on the left-wing Populists in the 1950’s; the assassination of MLK Jr. to end the rise of his Populist movement; the assassination of Malcom X to end the rise of his Populist movement; and most recently, the arrest and prosecution of the leaders in the MAGA Populist movement and continuous political, financial, and legal prosecution against Trump, who is now labeled a future Dictator if elected.

The solution for the Communist case is to overthrow the “Dictatorship” Government in a given Country and put somebody who represents “Democracy” in power. Gene Sharp, from the Einstein Institute in Massachusetts, is credited for creating the CIA’s definitive guide to effectuate a Color Revolution, and the process was used to overthrow over 100 Regimes between 1947 and 2016. The plan included having the new “Democratic” Government privatize industries and allow Our Country to take control of the previously State-owned resources for huge profits.

This model of “Democracy” is called “Institutional Democracy.” (Editor: This is literally one step from the Managed Democracy of Helldivers.) It is a type of Democracy where the Institutions vote on policy, not the people. They know what is “best for the Country.”

Why did Hillary spend over $1.2 Billion in her campaign for the Presidency? Because the President appoints the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the CIA. These (3) positions control the organizations that form the core of The Blob (it is noteworthy to point out that these are unelected individuals controlling World Events via our Government). Trillions of dollars in Global Capital is at risk if the wrong people are appointed. You can look back over the past 40+ years, and you will see the same people rotating through these positions, and in some cases, generations are represented.

THIS IS THE “DEMOCRACY” that could end if Trump is re-elected. INSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY.

Reframe from "Trump is an Existential Threat to Democracy" TO "Trump is an Existential Threat to INSTITUTIONAL Democracy."

It is true that Trump might seriously damage the current state of Institutional Democracy. This could disrupt Global Markets. We need to make a decision to try to move back to a Populist model of Governance or allow the Institutions to continually and increasingly control our lives. Neither option has a guaranteed outcome, and the opportunity to effectuate this Populist Movement is only possible now because of the recent explosion of Social Media Independence. This window of Internet Freedom might be short-lived. The Censorship Industry has grown dramatically since 2016, and The Blob is actively using it to gain back control of The Narrative. It is already happening in the EU and Canada.

Credit for any accuracies above to my Professors who continue to educate me:

• Dilbert Guy (@ScottAdamsSays)
• Robert Barnes (@barnes_law)
• Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber)
• CC: @elonmusk thanks for buying X

I take responsibility for the inaccuracies.

There it is. I'll clean this up a bit more and put it into a easily shareable PDF later today.

One Step Closer To World War Three Going Hot

Something Happened

Yesterday (going on overnight local time) Iran decided to throw a lot of ordinance at Israel.

Iran dispatched waves of armed suicide drones first in swarms. Then they launched medium and long raise cruise missles, followed by ballistic missles. The allegation at the time was that they were to arrive on target at about the same time. The intent was to overwhelm Israel's considerable air defense system (anchored by the Iron Dome).

Israel took the threat seriously, as did Jordon, the United Kingdom, and the United States. All three countries contributed to the air defense response, culling significant numbers of drones and missiles before reaching their targets.

That said, some did get through and some wreckage hit unintended areas. As of this post, the only significant target hit was Ramon Air Base in Israel's Negev region, so after the fact the New York Times and the Telegraph would release these:

Updates from NYT:

- 331 Iranian drones & missiles launched
- Primarily from Iran, Iraq & Yemen
- U.S. forces helped shoot down
- Israel intercepted most with “some assistance” from allies

“Given how significant this attack was, it is difficult to see how Israel cannot respond.” pic.twitter.com/JPGLcwSx03

— Ian Ellis (@ianellisjones) April 14, 2024

As of this post, Iran has not gainsayed these numbers or results.

Israel has already claimed that Tel Aviv will retailate against Tehran for this action. This ignores Tehran's justification for doing this, which was Tel Aviv's bombing of Iran's embassy in Syria and the death of a prominent flag officer therein, in an action Tehran claimed was without justification.

Not that Tel Aviv cares, or ever did.

It's The Economy, Stupid

While there's talk about Israeli nukes being used, often in a mocking matter, that's irrelevant. The real damage Iran seeks to do is not to Israel as such, but to what it depends upon for its power and position: the global economy.

Iran's actions, both directly and via its proxies in Yemen (i.e. the Houthis), have had a serious effect on global economies via disruption of seaborne trade in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea- trade that includes Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates via messing with their energy and petrochemical trade with customers across the world, trade that is not helped in the least by Ukraine striking Russia's oil and gas infrastructure and forcing that end of OPEC's output to collapse.

Like it or not, nationals and friends of Israel are prominent in the core sectors of the global economy- including, especially, insurance and banking.

Every disruption, rerouting, impediment, etc. of the flow of goods and capital across the world due to Iran's actions and proxies constitutues unrestricted (but deniable) warfare by Tehran against Tel Aviv.

THis is a cost that everyone, no matter where they are, bears but becomes Israel (and Tel Aviv) got directly attacked there must be a response or Face will be lost.

If this escalated much further, those nuclear weapons won't remain objects of mockery much longer.

The liminal spaces between the Imperial Powers is about to shrink to a much smaller space, which is terrible for anyone seeking to avoid the consequences of such a war going hot- and I say that because World War Three is already here, but it remains cold with threatening flare-ups. It could go hot, and if this goes on it will, and far too many are not ready for it.

And the Imperial Powers see war as the answer to their problems, at home and abroad, so they have incentives to go hot sooner than later.

Get ready.

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There's some Telegram channels to monitor on this and other theaters needing watchful eyes.

• Bellum Acta
• Levant Observer
• Resistance Trench
• Popular Front
• SouthFront
• Military News

Narrative Warfare: The Rebranding of the DIE Regime (& How It Is A Case Study In Globohomo Propaganda)

Once more, it is VTubers putting in the work that Press Whores won't even bother to steal credit for.

Credit to Kirche and Rev for putting in the work and boosting the signal to others, who would repeat and enhance in turn.

Yes, the DIE Regime in Western entertainment is freaking out at being exposed. However, you already know that this is deeply embedded into Western corporate and civil policy, and that's what Kirche reported on (and Rev here is amplfying).

What the goal here got laid out in plain language by Kirche, TINA: (T)here (I)s (N)o (A)lternative.

This is why they are so hard up about attacking entertainment media outside the West, starting with Japan and Korea. That's media they don't control. What they do not control they consider a threat because it is.

"But why?"

For that, we cold-cock some British twat and nick his Police Box because we need to go back in time.

The Liminal Space Bewtween Cult and Patronage

Issac Simpson, writing at Dark Futura, published a piece called "Cthulhu Gazes Right" this past week. Long, and heady, but worth the read; do so now, as I'll be building on it below.

What Issac talks about is why the Thralls of Empire--be they serving the Red Dynasty, the Neo-Tsar, or Globohomo--act and believe as they do, with an emphasis on those that serve Globohomo because those the Thralls that dissidents reading this will have to contend with.

A lot of this can be summarized with a meme:

But that is not the whole of the story.

What you need to take away from that article is that money, by itself, is fucking worthless. Its value exists solely in terms of what it buys; it is nothing more than lubrication for the Machine Of Power- the system of contracts, relationships, and leverage by which Globohomo (or the other two Imperial Powers, and those wishing to be one) do what they do. Without it, the Machine seizes up and destroys itself.

The Neo-Tsar and the Red Dynasty don't care so much about the illusion of democratic legitimacy or the illusion of impartial business operations in a free market. Globohomo does. In an irony that few reading this will comprehend, Globohomo is far more obsessed with Face than either of its rivals- Globohomo is now, and has been for many years, the pre-eminent Face Culture on this planet, surpassing even the Red Dynasty.

This is the secular reason for all the virtue signalling and Mean Girl/Longhouse/Fox-minded social control schemes. There is a sacred one.

Globohomo's Thralls are, ultimately, run by the Death Cult- a thing author Brian Niemeier explained almost five years ago. This is where Globohomo's power lies: it usurped the moral authority of the Church, taking the moral high ground in the culture in the Anglosphere for certain and in much of the West generally, a high ground from which all attempts to use facts, logic, law, ethics, etc. fail because they set the narrative Frame Game IN MORAL TERMS.

Yet it is a moral authority that they know is stolen- is false. The phenomenon of the Witch Test has not been defeated yet; every single time, it works to compel them to confess that they are Thralls of Empire, and with it their illusion of moral authority is shattered because they reveal themselves to be the very Enemy that they claim to be against in their posturing.

(This, by the by, is part of why they're taking the mask off and openly flouting their Satanic ways in classic inversion.)

This same phenomenon is behind the freakouts over Sweet Baby, Black Girl Gamers, BRIDGE, etc..

It is exactly the same thing. They know that they're lying while they posture, so they do all that they can to work behind the scenes unobserved. If this was not the case, they would operate in the open; they would welcome the attention of the public at-large, celebrate all of the interests that joined into the Patronage Network to get things done, etc.- as has happened in generations before ours.

This is the vulnerability, and we cannot afford to refrain from hammering it with the fist of an angry God until it breaks and shatters- unable to reform ever again.

Which means that there is now very fun, very entertaining, and very Achievable IRL content for dissidents to enjoy.

What To Do About It?

The Aristocratic Utensil has a good place to start.

Narrative Warfare is all about the Frame Game.

The DIE Regime freaked out because someone not under their control (Kabrutus) broke their frame and thereby disrupted their Narrative Warfare campaign. The DIE Regime needs to keep this quiet because, as their own communications reveal, no one wants this- IT HAS TO BE FORCED. They are now relying on their Patrons to protect them by making the moves necessary at major nodes of power and control to permit them to force this upon them.

This cannot work if they are constantly freaking out to being exposed, which is why Kirche's video matters- it's further action (not reaction) against the DIE Regime.

If you want to follow this up, map out the Patronage Network and expose THAT. Don't let them scrub their websites and lock down their social media profiles; dig, process, present, expose, and amplify.

Remember that they fear exposure and unwanted attention; every single time they've been caught out, they scrub, lock down, and hide hoping it will all blow over.

But this time there is more than can be done. The tools now exist for easy translation of their own words, including with context, to language speakers that they seek to target and either subjugate or destroy- or, failing that, lock out of Western markets. Japan and South Korea are the top two on the list of folks who need to be shown and told how these people regard them, regard their media, and how the Western audience is at war with them over their totalitarian overreach.

The second thing to do is to dig into how the Globohomo Thralls use payment processors and credit card companies as gatekeepers in both directions; getting on the Mastercard Blacklist10 is all but a death sentence to any business that lacks Fuck This Gay Earth money. Yes, there are people attempting workarounds and substitutes, but so far they've been lacking in necessary scale and scope to compete with the Globohomo-controlled global banking system. (And yes, this is the final fallback position before the guns come out- all the Geopolitical Bros have said this for years now.)

The most important thing, however, is to read that Issac Simpson article and read it deeply for comprehension. This is a game; there are rules, and Globohomo knows them better than everyone else- for now.

You're dealing with a vampire. You know what to do with vampires, don't you: expose them to the light of the Sun.

And remember to Act, not React. The initiative, and the power over the Narrative Frame, goes to those that Act. Empire Must Fall.