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@BullyEsq I want our government to build giant trebuchets and fling these people over the border like a looney tunes cartoon.

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@rawmilkhoney Me AF

[Mr. Idaho @IDSurvivalPrep]

The city of Chicago just died. The owners of the Chicago Bears are leaving because taxes have pushed them away.
Welcome to communism Chicago, you voted for this.

[Alana Mastrangelo @ARmastrangelo]

Imagine if someone performed an English-only halftime show at the Copa Libertadores final and concluded with "Oh, by the way, you're on an American continent and here's a list of every other nation on the American continents."

You can't imagine it, because it would never happen.

We, as a society, let people give us A LOT of shit. And then they have the audacity to call us racist.

[retard mode ✞ @retardmode]

in honor of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., we have highlighted every street dedicated to him in gold

his legacy lives on at https://t.co/vuQIXDZ0qG

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Let's talk about the opening part of this statement: "nobody is illegal on stolen land." We can break it down, but we should also know what it is. What we are looking at is Chinese-style political sloganeering called "tifa" (提法).

Communist communications ever since Mao took over China (and the CCP before that) almost always follow this kind of formulation, called 提法 (tífǎ), which literally translates as "watchwords" or "slogans." Literally, it means to lift up or present or highlight the core message or political principle in play through a charged slogan.

The purpose of the sloganeering is actually to do a kind of political engineering through carefully selected and weaponized words that are easily memorable and that hijack the critical thinking faculties of the people who both hear and repeat them so they'll advance the Party line.

You can think of tifa quite literally as a form of "discourse engineering" with the intent of doing political engineering or political warfare more or less by hijacking people's brains through mystifying slogans. (Mystification is like a more powerful form of confusion, akin to having been put under a spell.)

In his amazing analysis of the CCP in the early 1950s, just after Mao took power (in October 1949), psychologist Robert Jay Lifton referred to what amounts to tifa as "thought-terminating clichés." That is, they're slogans (or clichés) that have the power to turn off your ability to think clearly about what's being said and implied and to just go along with the political messaging rather than to question it.

The mechanisms of these political warfare tools are mystification and rhetorical entrapment. Mystification is overriding critical thinking with carefully constructed falsehoods and framing. Rhetorical entrapment occurs when there's no easy way to disagree with the framing (think, "black lives matter" or "Christ is king" (as the Groypers use it), both of which are examples of tifa).

The mystification part is a process of using carefully constructed falsehoods presented as truisms that undermine the critical thinking process. That is, the statements can be seen as "obviously" true in a particular way that disguises how they are false in another way. For example, black lives obviously matter, but supporting the organization is something people should not do.

The statement "nobody is illegal on stolen land" is very sophisticated as tifa because it contains three mystifications in just six words:

1) "Nobody is illegal" confuses the distinction between being a human being of basic human dignity and being a citizen of a country or legal visitor there;
2) "Stolen land" confuses the legitimacy of the country in question;
3) The idea of being able to be legal or illegal if the country itself is not legal because it is "stolen land." This is distinct from the idea of the land itself being stolen because it conceptually bridges the concept of legality and legitimacy of the country.

As you can tell, breaking down and explaining the failures of all three parts of this mystification (demystification) is both challenging and exhausting, and it takes so much space that most people will not engage with it due to its length (which will be three orders of magnitude greater (5000-6000 words) than the tifa itself (6 words) to explicate fully and two orders of magnitude greater (600-800 words) just to barely articulate). Raise these by another order of magnitude of effort or two for the argument that will follow the attempt to demystify.

The point is that to fully engage a six-word tifa through explanation, discussion, and argument to try to break someone free of it might take 50-100 thousand words worth of effort by the time all is said and done. (Another example: "trans women are women"; look how much effort that one has taken!)

This example of tifa also contains two rhetorical traps that derive from the first two mystifications:
A) It dares critics to say that people themselves are illegal (illegitimate) because of a political circumstance, thus replacing a legalistic fact with a moral assertion, one that is difficult to litigate without considerable expertise and that might still lose on emotional appeal ("empathy");
B) It lures critics into litigating the legality of the establishment of the nation in question, which undermines the justified presumption of authority in the national concept.

These rhetorical traps not only put critics in a bad, weak, and likely losing position from the start, but they also invite adopting a reactionary or chauvinistic stance as the only possible reply (e.g., "we aren't colonizers; we're conquerors" or "illegals are illegitimate"). This feeds the strategic principle of "your target's reaction is your real action" upon which these manipulative movements gain the most ground.

In short, tifa like this hijacks the capacity to understand the situation correctly in a succinct, repeatable phrase even Billie Eilish can repeat in about a second and a half (confuses and mystifies) while arranging a sophisticated psychological and public opinion trap that is mostly lose-lose-lose for those who would object.

Notice that through the application of tifa as a form of political warfare (public opinion warfare, specifically), any idiot (including the average Billie Eilish fan) can ensnare any good-faith actor in this very sophisticated political warfare device even without understanding in the slightest how it works, dragging them into either confusion or arguments meant to be fought on losing ground for the good-faith critic. You don't need a sophisticated political warfare operator to make this happen.

Furthermore, notice that any idiot who falls for the tifa here will actually repeat it, making the slogan campaign viral so that it is mostly being fought out not by experts but by masses of laypeople who know there's a fight but who aren't properly equipped to deal with it. This is why it is an example of "public opinion warfare" as one of the CCP's "three warfares" doctrine styles.

As summarized by the RAND Corporation: "Tifa have four identifying characteristics: (1) They are politically laden and stated verbatim, (2) they extend along a clear line of authority, (3) they are distributed to official party organs, and (4) they characterize or resolve a dialectical contradiction between competing ideas in the CCP."

Engaging with this kind of slogan, as we must, brings critics into a "dialectical space" that's roughly on the level of the average idiot who can argue emotively or even just repeat the slogan as a kind of verbal cudgel (for those watching) rather than genuinely engaging. We might call this the "Reeeeee! Effect," and we all know it works very well. Tifa creates the "Reeeeee! Effect."

Since the late 1960s, almost all "New Leftist" activism in the West runs on a Maoist-Marxist engine, including the heavy use of tifa sloganeering as a form of rhetorical and political warfare. Most of what we engage in today with their B.S. rhetoric is tifa.

So these "thought-terminating clichés" (tifa) are very powerful and sophisticated political warfare tools that we all encounter every day. The only way to beat them is to identify them for the manipulations they are and explain them as best we can so that people are more likely to identify them and less likely to fall for them, and also to help people out of the ones they're already caught in and under the spell of.

[Joe Pags Pagliarulo @JoeTalkShow]

Anyone who says "No One is Illegal on Stolen Land," is basically saying, "I know nothing about history and I'm really stupid."

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@DBGyt_ Until they quit selling packs for unauctionable cards, they aren't back.

[Stew @Stewbiedo0]

A friend dating back to high school has a German life partner and spends a lot of time in Germany. Is there now and posted that he can’t take the US gestapo government anymore and is beginning the process to move there permanently. I’m like cool, you’re there now. You’re all set. He’s like no, I have to (lays out complex process of establishing permanent residency). I reply why bother with all that? You’re there now, stay. He explains that you just can’t just do that. There’s a process or you’ll get sent back. Interesting, I say.

[Johnny Appleseed 🇻🇦 @Johnnyappl77151]

If you die protesting ice do you get 72 trans women?

[wanye @xwanyex]

It’s important to remember that nothing is actually happening right now. It’s not a big deal. A bunch of people are mad about immigration enforcement and they are putting themselves in harms way, causing conflict, and getting themselves hurt. That’s regrettable. But life is fine, the country is fine. There’s absolutely no reason that this couldn’t go on like this forever, if the protesters refuse to relent. That would be fine. Your life would be fine. My life would be fine.

Protesters who interfere with legitimate law-enforcement operations are going to keep getting themselves hurt, but that’s an acceptable outcome we can live with.

[Red Eagle Politics @RedEaglePatriot]

Illegal aliens don’t belong in the United States of America and I don’t care how many white libtards get killed attacking the people trying to get them out of here

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Leftists are not “protesting.” They are EXPLICITLY attempting to sabotage and interfere with law enforcement. They admit that this is what they’re doing. None of them are protesters. None of this is legitimate. They’re all violent insurrectionists, and should be treated as such.

[Grummz @Grummz]

The Left is out there shooting at presidents, assassinating podcasters, and running over ice agents…

But the politician of the right still won’t support Doge or fix the filibuster and are scared of being called unreasonable.

And don’t even get me started on the DOJ.

Use the power, or in 3 years they will throw us all into the gulags.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

The theater kids are at it again.

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@goddek There's a zero percent chance we're giving China Taiwan. 🙄

[Mr. Sausage @MrSausageGet]

@AGPamBondi

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@Gavin_McInnes Why do they all look like retarded P Diddy?

[SOVEREIGN BRAH 🇺🇸🏛️⚡️ @sovereignbrah]

OUR TAXES ARE FUNDING THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTRY