The specialty of humanity — there’s nothing we do better.
Russia isn’t behind the criticism of the Women’s March.
Russia is behind its corruption in the first place.
It’s a bit like the election: Hillary got Russia Stink on her the second it ended, and it turns out they were pushing for everyone but her.
Same thing here. The Women’s March arises, becomes threatening to the current destruction of democracy, and promptly becomes a morass of corruption, grifting, and hate led by a bunch of Jew-hating misogynist chuckleheads who sailed in out of nowhere and that no one ever even heard of before. Other women react with WTF and alarmed statements about how damaging this is.
Russia is promptly blamed for the alarms pointing out the potential for damage.
You can’t make this shit up. If you did, your script would be sent back for rewrite for being too obvious.
The Four Horseman (Sarsour, Mallory, and those other two morons whose names I can’t even remember since they never did jack shit up to this point) are a bunch of camera-friendly fireships installed specifically to gut the one fleet that has any real potential to stop Putin and the rest of the oligarchs who are trying to bring democracy to its knees.*
There, I said it. I also want the Women’s March to succeed, of course — but I will never support it with The Four Horsemen at the helm because they were put in charge specifically to destroy it. Probably at several levels of remove to make the connection tangled enough to be untraceable.
I share the most brilliant and golden of the pearls of wisdom from Donella Meadows’ Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, a quote from Jay Forrester:
“People know intuitively where leverage points are,” he says. “Time after time I’ve done an analysis of a company, and I’ve figured out a leverage point — in inventory policy, maybe, or in the relationship between sales force and productive force, or in personnel policy. Then I’ve gone to the company and discovered that there’s already a lot of attention to that point. Everyone is trying very hard to push it IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!”
People know that the current state of chaos in the WM has to do with Russia somehow. But they’re pushing in the wrong direction.
You know though, the scary thing about this is how the concept of a fireship interacts with the concept of countless, indistinguished social media actors as described in this article by Malcolm Gladwell. It’s become fashionable to bash Gladwell, but the example he describes here of the Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron and how it was “hacked” by the proliferation of thousands of unskilled self-destructive actors is important to keep in mind.
Basically, go to that article, search in page for “Doug Lenat,” and then think of those zillions of tiny PT boats as zillions of pop-up appear-and-disappear paid social media trolls. And think on the fact that, until the rules forbade the use of such, Lenat’s fleet was unbeatable.
Unless and until social media either goes away or polices itself in an effective automated fashion to seek out and destroy these retroviral attack vectors, they will win. Every single time.
And they will have to keep destroying them, over and over, as a permanent activity that never ceases, because while you can shut down an account, you cannot shut down the human at the other end. Online trolls are like suicide bombers who can revive themselves and go on to blow up themselves and anyone near them, again and again and again. Unlike the real world where a bomber can only function once, there is no high price to be paid to be an online suicide bomber. You can always just reboot the game and have an infinite number of lives.
(In a way, each online interaction with a paid troll is like being pinged in a DDOS attack. Unless you block and move on, you will be brought down.)
* Note that I did not mention the Orange Baboon by name. He’s nowhere near the middle of the pack. He’s merely a useful idiot, a manipulable loose cannon with no one at the fuse. No one with more than two brain cells is ever assigned to the helm of a fireship. You just light the stupid thing on fire, give it a shove in the right direction, and station all of your fighting captains elsewhere to come in from the sides at the points of real tactical interest. Like Trump, Sarsour, Mallory, and those other two are small-time narcissistic, grudge-nursing dipshits who’ve had flattering smoke blown up their asses and were then put in charge of a fireship precisely because they are chaotic and expendable. The real fighting is being done on the edges of our awareness by people we aren’t even looking at, because we’re too busy being distracted by these cartoon fools.
Fire and Air 