Different Flavours of Gaslighting and Fanfiction

A dump of a few links and quotes

This is just a dump of some bits and bobs that grew into a pile. Posting here in a kind of abstract order. Inspiration for the title is a germanon who described "different flavours of gaslighting and fanfiction" as what the choices have become when you exercise your freedom to choose.

"There's no winning..
Only different flavours of gas lighting and fanfiction.."
--germanon, Sunday, 4th August 2024

It's not a matter of winning when you put it that way.

https://rumble.com/embed/v54ma4b/?pub=183zc7

"The plurality of moral messages that circulate in the electronic storm of information, fundamentalist and liberalist - all similar in that they shape public behaviour by inducing self-justifying patterns of belief and behaviour - are today all underwritten by the demands of financial-managerial acumen."
The Terror --Colin Campbell, 18th March 2009

I thought the below comment from lainon regarding Crowdstrike was definitely a spicy, hot take 👌👌👌

Vetting Security "experts" and IT Industry
"Security is compliance theater in the enterprise. Crowdstrike has caused more outages than it has prevented hands down. But its needed for compliance so companies don't risk getting sued by their customers when they have a data breach because their actual security practices internal are complete garbage."
--Debbie Charteris, 21st July 2024

We Want To Build Cyber Magicians

The Art of Deception Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations - UK GCHQ's Human Science Operations Cell (2013)

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations - Glenn Greenwald, TheIntercept.com, 24th February 2014.

"No matter your views on Anonymous, “hacktivists” or garden-variety criminals, it is not difficult to see how dangerous it is to have secret government agencies being able to target any individuals they want – who have never been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crimes – with these sorts of online, deception-based tactics of reputation destruction and disruption."

"Government plans to monitor and influence internet communications, and covertly infiltrate online communities in order to sow dissension and disseminate false information, have long been the source of speculation."

"Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein, a close Obama adviser and the White House’s former head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote a controversial paper in 2008 proposing that the US government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-”independent” advocates to “cognitively infiltrate” online groups and websites, as well as other activist groups.
Sunstein also proposed sending covert agents into “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups” which spread what he views as false and damaging “conspiracy theories” about the government."

Does that name Cass Sunstein sound familiar to you? Must admit I felt a hefty shock once the name of Cass Sunstein was recognizable. He is the most venerable and celebrated inventor of Nudge Theory. You know, that thing which basically made fucking populations of different class, creed, character and chastity, a complete piece of piss to do.

Sunstein's involvement in governmental policy prior to the 2020 onset of the Plandemic is worrisome, because Nudge Theory achieved what was previously unachievable; mass worldwide adoption and implementation of it within fields of public health / governance / policy and behavioral sciences. I have not explored his earlier works or their involvement with the Obama Presidency's Policy reforms.

Today's Zoomanons

No skills or resources, crying about how Elon isn’t doing what they want him to.

Zoomanons get some good schoolin' and knowledge transfer in this thread.

Why do so many people in the US military and intelligence agencies worship satan?

"The reason places get shilled, get flooded with annoying dross, get polluted and a struggle to engage with - is because they are missing something and must seek it out by any means necessary. What it is, they don't know but what you know is that they are missing.. you!"

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"The Temptation of Revelation of the Method"
"Because those who openly proclaim commitment to diabolical methods, using them for whatever they're working towards; do so not just in prime jest, nor for projecting their assertions as an inevitably - No.
They do so at cause of their own deep-seated & subconsciously repressed lacks and gaps. They do so to seek an especial audience, to caress and entice the ears of those whom embody qualities they are lacking in. And forsooth, they always will lack.
They lack us, us who are their betters and of a separate distinction. And they will eternally seek us to join their fold.
Why?

Carnyx Outtro