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Protest in 2021 isn’t all about riots

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A good point is made here in some commentary on the GameSpot hedge fund wars:

One of the perennially frustrating things about “the people,” in their collective incarnation and also as individuals here in America, is that they are middle class at heart, which means that they tend to express themselves through things like buying stocks through free online trading accounts rather than by marching in the streets with banners and placards like they do in Venezuela and Cuba. They are also poorly educated about the revolutionary fashions of 75 and 100 years ago, and as a result tend to show little awareness of the slogans of the past, like “no pasaran!” Some people, and by some people I mean me, might see in this failure to endlessly repeat slogans from the past a good thing, given the reality of the past, which is fine enough as a closet for kids playing dress-up, but is not a very suitable guide for anyone interested in the American future.

Populist fighting back can take many forms, and one of them is economic. There’s strength in numbers.

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Protest in 2021 isn’t all about riots — 27 Comments

  1. The worthless Newsweek published an astonishingly stupid piece a few days ago entitled “Far-Right Extremists Use GameStop Chaos to Radicalize”, but this is by no means the only attempt by the MSM to demonize populist anger against our corrupt and criminal elites as “domestic terrorism”, against which the full might of the state must be mobilized (including the alphabet agencies and the Pentagon), since the greatest danger is now supposedly the “enemy within”, including anyone and everyone not completely enchanted with the arbitrary dictates (executive orders called “dictatorial” just a few months ago by the senile buffoon) of Harris/Biden. WaPo even published a defense of the short-selling of the hedge-fund vipers a few days ago.

  3. Looks like the supposed Silver buy event has fizzled after one day but I think you’re right that GameStop showed an interesting method of disrupting the elites.
    I would have thought the next big event would be a boycott of some prominent Prog firm. But GME brought that level of power into the news and wasn’t a boycott.

  4. I think in country economic warfare is just starting. We could be split into two camps, maybe for awhile having some companies neutral until a miss step or the Left forcing a choice follow them or pay for it.

  6. On the topic of protests, one question that fascinates me is why there is not more resistance. Why don’t people drive through freeway blockaders? Or shoot violent protesters looting shops? This comment at an Instapundit post expresses what I’ve come to believe.

    “My understanding is that any citizen who resists or protects themselves will be prosecuted to the FULL extent of the law. Antifa came to a Trump rally I attended. They were very provocative, but I think they are trained to take it right up to the limit without passing a threshold where you can take … strong action.
    I don’t know about their interaction with cops, they seem to depend on police rules of engagement and support from civic authorities to get away with stuff.
    I don’t know about this hotel situation, but I bet the law says it is illegal to parade around with knives and hatchets BUT that is not an excuse for a general citizen to shoot the Antifa threatening them. Maybe in TX. Not in WA or OR or CA. So the police COULD arrest them but you can’t defend yourself from this credible threat. And the police WON’T arrest them because of orders.
    So … there we are.”

  7. “I think in country economic warfare is just starting.”
    Maybe. But, for now, there are 1,000 firms willing to do the Left’s bidding for every 1 that is willing to treat both sides equally.

    That is a horrible ratio, they are eating our lunch.

  8. @JimNorCal:

    Substation Transformers don’t get made in a day. Not even in China. And they’re heavy #$@^ers… One doesn’t just order one up on Taobao with a few clicks and get it Fedexed.

    Amazon and Google could pay $1000/hour to how many ex-Seals to protect every one of them? Actually they could afford to pay all of them that and more. But what price does one put on one’s life?

    In addition to power, data centers have voracious thirst for cooling water. Who you gonna call? Pipelines R Us?

    Pretty sure that Big Tech could be induced to have a Road to Damascus Conversion should they push too far.

    And that’s just Deliverance type folks getting medieval. Get the online army of autists who just messed with the hedge funds involved and it’s a whole other story again.

  10. JimNorCal,

    WallStreet Bets was one form of economic warfare. NFL, NBA, FoxNews, ESPN, viewership, Gillette razors purchases, Bed Bath and Beyond, Kohls losing customers… Parler, Rumble, Daily Wire, CRTV, The Blaze, NewsMax, OANN…

    As Zaphod writes, not everything can be built in a day, but folks are awake and choosing alternatives.

    Personally I have just about de-Google’d myself. I’ve never used Facebook or Twitter and I’m using alternatives to Amazon whenever available. I’ve switched from the name brand soda made by a Marxist posing company that I drank for decades to a local company.

    I’m not into boycotts, but I try not to give money to companies that openly hate me and are using their revenue to harm Americans and the nation I love.

  11. JimNorCal,

    zaphod is explaining that Big Tech is very dependent on Blue Collar.

  12. We are ruled over by an out of touch ‘Elite’ which believes that everybody and everything (except themselves, of course) is instantly fungible, instantly interchangeable, and instantly replaceable.

    This set of delusions is most assuredly NOT correct on so many different levels. But the surest and fastest way to make them grok this is down at the physical plant level. Certain items of physical plant simply cannot be replaced overnight or even over-months for that matter.

  13. Thanks, Rufus.
    And congrats on your actions so far. It’s likely we’ll all be called upon for much more as we go along.

  20. “Populist fighting back can take many forms, and one of them is economic. There’s strength in numbers.”

    Maybe; unless the govt. shuts you down.

    With the press of few buttons, the govt. can seize/freeze all one’s assets including your paycheck, and with their social media billionaire pals, can prevent you from even finding a job (other than, say, as a roofer, pot hole repair, etc.).
    RobinHood, rightly or wrongly, basically suspended trading in GameStop; but only for the “little guy.”
    If the courts ( under govt. directive) and the SEC decides to reject any lawsuits against RobinHood, bingo, the billionaire hedge funds have prevailed.
    Of course, no need to examine which “interest” group was a major contributor to the Bidet campaign or which gave Janet Yellen $800,000 as a speaking fee.
    I don’t even think Obama-commie can command this fee.
    Jeez, wonder why Yellen is able to command such impressive speaking fees?

    As for placard/poster wielding demonstrators in Venezuela or Cuba or even Hong Kong (not anymore folks; that’s history. The demonstration leaders are all in jail, if not dead), they realize that it is the only mechanism remaining to voice their message.
    Voting in those places is a sham, a joke a farce – just like it is here in the USA. So they take to the streets which allows their govt. to identify the leaders to be rounded up and jailed or shot dead.

    Dictatorships evolve over time – usually over a few short years. The tyrannical govt., little by little begins to engage in unconstitutional / repressive activities, and observes what is the response from, say, parliament or Congress or the people.
    If the govt. sees their “illegal” actions are met with silence and/or acquiescence, the rulers take another step “beyond the line” and so on.
    Until it is too late, it’s a done deal.

    Sort of like ruling by Executive Order or by fiat or by edict.
    Jeez, can’t imagine that happening anywhere that I am aware of.

    The framers of the Constitution never envisioned that two of the three branches of the Federal Govt. would be in cahoots to eviscerate the Constitution. They figured that the branches of govt. would be a “check” on the power of the other branches.
    Well, they were wrong.

    Not their fault; about half of the voting citizenry have allowed this to occur, notwithstanding the fraud, the joke that is now voting here in the USA.

  21. Dictatorships evolve over time – usually over a few short years. The tyrannical govt., little by little begins to engage in unconstitutional / repressive activities, and observes what is the response from, say, parliament or Congress or the people.
    If the govt. sees their “illegal” actions are met with silence and/or acquiescence, the rulers take another step “beyond the line” and so on.
    Until it is too late, it’s a done deal.

    Took a longer time for herr wacko with the mustache to gain the power than it did for power to destroy things…

  23. Zaphod:

    Comment sections on the internet are much like Twitter, a sewer. Neo’s are the exception to the rule if you have noticed.

    Why should I care about gratuitous broad insults, if it isn’t age, it’s sex, or race, or whatever. All shock no awe. But Ok millie, you be you. 🙂

  24. “ Former CIA Officer: Treat Domestic Extremism As An Insurgency”

    NPR interview with NYTimes article writer, CIA counterterrorism officer Robert Grenier: “ Former CIA Officer: Treat Domestic Extremism As An Insurgency”

    They deny Our Election! They are violent! They have charismatic leadership! “Danger! danger Will Robinson!”

    https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963343896/former-cia-officer-treat-domestic-extremism-as-an-insurgency?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=nprnews

    NEVER MIND THAT AOCs Big Lie was that Patriots led by Ted Cruz almost had her “murdered!”

    https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3931518/posts

    No, says new Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R). AOC was in the Cannon Building across two streets away from the Capital Hill building.

    “My office is 2 doors down,” Mace wrote in a Tuesday Twitter post. “Insurrectionists never stormed our hallway. Egregious doesn’t even begin to cover it. Is there nothing the MSM won’t politicize?”

  26. There’s no need to be setting bombs. Reluctance to cooperate is a tactic most of us can find room for.
    Grit in the lubes.

    On the other hand, if you already don’t do something, there’s no real benefit, nor any satisfaction, in continuing to not do it. I can’t quit TV sports. I can’t tell a celebrity from someone who does commercials I see, while watching something else. TV series, can, with some fanfare, end a ten-year run and it’s the first I’ve heard of them.

    Have to think of something.

  27. Earlier I posted this.
    ” … there are 1,000 firms willing to do the Left’s bidding for every 1 that is willing to treat both sides equally.
    That is a horrible ratio, they are eating our lunch.”

    A case in point:
    “Tucker Carlson reveals that Bank of America was flagging the purchasing history of its customers and sending it to the federal government in order to find out if they were involved in the Capitol riot.”

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