Last night, prompted by a superchat question, @timcast indicated...
James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames
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Feb 14, 2024
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Last night, prompted by a superchat question, @timcast indicated that he doesn't really like it when I talk about Operation Christian Nationalism because he doesn't think it's relevant or important because Biden has power or something. This is a common misconception. Thread.
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Probably the most common misconception about Operation Christian Nationalism is that we shouldn't pay it attention because it's small, fringe, "a boogeyman," not real, not going to get power anyway, etc., but this all misses the point. It's straight not knowing what's going on.
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Operation Christian Nationalism is happening, real, and significant, not because it's huge or likely to gain power but because of what it's designed to do as a set of political warfare operations against our nation. It doesn't have to be big to be extremely effective.
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Like it or not, my talk about it isn't the result of getting trolled online. It's an op; I know it's an op; and as an op, it's built around a movement of a few thousand activists who have published books, have significant names and money behind them, and are targets of the govt.
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You might not have heard of it, but that doesn't mean it's not real. Rob Reiner, with his Intelligence Community connections, isn't making a film about it for no reason. James Carville isn't going on TV and warning Democrats about it for no reason. There's a J6 report too.
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People like Tim seem to think, if I don't misrepresent him, "it's small and fringe and has no chance of taking power." No shit, that's not its purpose. Its purposes are otherwise. Among them IS to create a boogeyman for Democrat voters, but they also include a few others.
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You can read this report to the January 6 Committee, for example, that testifies to the operationalized federal government that the real cause of January 6 was Christian Nationalism, not Trump or MAGA. You can speculate for yourself why they'd say that.
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You can also use your brain and determine that they're preparing the groundwork for a government push and Vertically Integrated Messaging Apparatus mass-line against conservative Christians tied up with the idea of an "insurrection" against the US from Christian Nationalists.
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If your brain is too inoperable to put that together, you can just read the damn document for yourself and see that's exactly what they intend, using a VERY broad brush for who will get painted with the moniker "Christian Nationalist," which will be tied to white nationalism etc.
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These parts of the operation don't have to be big to be extremely effective against their political enemies, including conservatives, Christians, and MAGA. They only have to whip up a few hundred yahoos on the internet and get them to do something stupid, and then tar everyone.
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They already have more than a few hundred yahoos whipped up and stupid on the internet in the name of Christian Nationalism. These fools led the charge a couple weeks ago to do reckless and stupid "J6 2.0" stuff at the border more loudly than anyone, for example. Matter of time.
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Should they whip any of these yahoos into doing something outright stupid, the mass-line launched by the Regime and its messaging apparatuses will be astonishing in its breadth and reflexive potential. You know it won't work on you, but you're not the target, and it will anyway.
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You'll get swept up into taking a side and fighting over the issue, spreading its fire into an inferno. Meanwhile, mainline and wavering Democrats get motivated to fight against this new threat to the nation, tarring Christian conservatives and MAGA as "the problem."
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This is classic Maoism, and they don't even really need these idiots to do something all that stupid to get the ball rolling. They're already making a film, and they have all the evidence they'd need from these guys' social media accounts and podcasts, including ugly themes.
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Meanwhile, another part of the operation will be to whip up a few thousand, maybe a few tens of thousands, of frustrated Christians, particularly Millennial-aged men and their wives who see their futures being stolen from them and their children, to want to do a National Divorce.
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Once again, many of the loudest voices who aren't wingnut libertarians calling for National Divorce, balkanization, regionalization, intentional communities, etc., to break free from Woke oppression are the Christian Nationalist yahoos, some of whom are certainly agitators.
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These voices have already mainlined many ideas relevant to the partial fracturing of the United States and the rejection of its Constitution. Seeing the Constitution as a dead or failed document is already common among their ranks. It's Operational Preparation of the Environment.
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Imagine maybe ten or twenty thousand such frustrated individuals now and what will happen the next time something big doesn't go our/their way. Maybe it's the border. Maybe it's the election. Maybe it's something else related to one or both or something different. What happens?
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We don't have to speculate about what happens because it just happened over the border thing when the SCOTUS didn't overrule its precedents in an injunction hearing. This is a very volatile situation, and they're like black powder. Their reaction is the Regime's real action, too.
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Should either of these potentialities develop and the trigger get pulled, the Leftist smear machine will whir into action at full blast. All of MAGA, conservatism, and Christianity will get swept up in the smear/hate campaign, affecting 20-50M people negatively in an instant.
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The center will not hold under these conditions. It is not warm to the slightest whiff of theocracy, and if you read those books about Christian Nationalism, it's in print that it's on the table for these guys. Neoconfederate, kinist, racist, etc., ties will be exploited, fast.
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You will be pressured to pick a side, and your choices will be "bad" and "worse," so you'll make arguments like the ones I hear every day already: "Well, I'd rather have a Christian tyranny than a Woke one." We lose the idea of not having tyranny in the ensuing maelstrom.
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Of course, this all has nothing to do with Christianity also. I get this all the time. In fact, it's what started the remarks on @timcast last night. The superchat asked Tim to comment on why I'm going after "Christians" all the time now and being unhinged or whatever. I'm not.
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@Timcast To say I'm going after "Christians" because I'm going after activists who are claiming Christianity, despite horrifically bad theology and questionable commitments to faith and Christian virtues, is identical to accusing me of "anti-LGBTQ hate" for opposing Drag Queen Story Hour.
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@Timcast This is also classic Maoism. The revolutionary activists, or in this case revolutionary foils, hide behind a token group, do their activism in the name of the token group, and then deflect all criticism as though it's criticism of the token group instead of the activism.
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@Timcast Criticizing an IDIOT ACTIVIST who claims Christianity is not "attacking Christians." It's criticizing an IDIOT ACTIVIST who is doing IDIOT ACTIVISM in the name of Christians, even though it will almost certainly hurt Christians in the process. Please learn to discern this move.
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@Timcast The Christian Nationalist program isn't going to get power. It isn't even meant to get power. It isn't even meant to be clear about what it is or what it's doing. It's meant to be yet another radical splinter that achieves operational goals for the Regime through useful idiots.
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@Timcast I realize it's difficult to comprehend that something small and fringe could be weaponized against the nation on a massive scale, but it has to potential to use a few hundred to smear tens of millions and motivate tens of millions more against them, splitting everything apart.
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@Timcast Christian Nationalism is an actual movement composed of agents and idiots with a variety of operations attached to it, and ignoring it won't make it go away any more than it makes any other radical splinter go away. That splinter is designed to become a wedge, and it will.
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@Timcast Tim may not understand this because he doesn't care, can't see it, or because I've failed to communicate it adequately (he and I have not spoken about it, he's just gleaning from my social media). I'm not wrong. I'm early. Again.