This is fantastic. From Mark Kern @grummz
Over a week ago I made the statement that we are in an information civil war between ideologies where one side was already shooting and the other didn't even realize the war had started.
I pointed out the the "Left" is very good at nicknames and branding, which is the equivalent of carpet bombing in an information war. Indiscriminate and brutal, snatching up broad swaths of innocent civilians. "Nazi", "Alt Righter" and "Bigot" etc. are applied with a broad brush.
Meanwhile the other side, aside from the POTOS's very effective nickname branding, seems to be largely dormant. Not realizing the conflict has already arrived, they mistakenly believe that no real harm will be done until the "shooting starts." So they lag behind.
I suggested that branding and nicknaming needed to improve in order to match the side that is already bombing everyone. I suggested "SJW" was an abstract, even positive term, that served no useful purpose in this information battle. I called for suggestions for alternative names.
Many suggestions missed the point. They were abstract, or required the reader to already have knowledge of the situation to appreciate, were too mired in humor, or simply not punitive enough. Then one suggested "Social Terrorist."
To me, this was the perfect term. Easily digestible to the masses and derogatory enough while accurately painting their tactics. "Social" identifies the group clearly as linked to "SJWS" while Terrorist highlights and blasts their hateful tactics in a social setting.
The people who were not aware they were in a war yet, complained the term was too hyperbolic, too violent to be used.
Well, use it or lose it… your enemy has no problem calling you that and far worse. Yesterday I was proved right.
The Left, via a Wired article, called everyone posting online in support of the POTUS or Judge K, "Information Terrrorists."
Called it.
They just outbranded you again. Everyone else will continue to lose the information war until you are ready to use words to push back.
So wake up. The war is now, fought over information and economics. It won't be a shooting war. Even if it becomes one, you will have lost far before then as your communication are cut off, your payment processors and jobs revoked, and you are erased from the Internet.
Fight with information, use ALL your words and your freedom of speech (while you have it) as weapons. Conservative techs, wake up, create alternative structures for communication, payment and search. Don't wait for physical warfare in an information age.
You are already behind.