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“LARPing” is short for live-action role playing, but in the political sphere it does not literally mean playing some sort of role-playing game; rather, that participating in life and politics in an unrealistic way that could only bear fruit in an idyllic fantasy. LARPing tends to be associated with weapons, prepping, and survivalism.
Over the years, any semblance of realism in these fields has eroded into a true and utter “LARP.” In the 1970s through the ‘90s, the militia movement was less of a LARP, and yet the little LARPing they did led to their complete demise, as it eventually translated among disturbed individuals into real-life acts of violence.
Today things are much worse. Unlike the old baby boomer radical Right, we are only now just rebuilding a movement that has remained completely disorganized for decades. This is partly due to the LARPing problem. Rather than spending time infiltrating local GOP nodes, becoming pillars of the community, and organizing, most Right-wingers are more comfortable shooting at targets and grumbling about a “without rule of law” scenario.
Not only is this militarization fantasy largely not useful to our cause, it is often counter-productive. The old radical Right of the last century were all the things I described: influential, active, and organized. But they were also LARPers. Because of their militarism and training camps, they were easy targets for the Jewish-controlled legal system, which was able to crack down and send them all to prison in the worst-case scenarios, or simply use Jewish private law NGOs to sue them over nothing — and win — in the best cases.
I am not the first person who has remarked that Right-wing politics and firearms should never be mixed. Furthermore, anything regarding firearms should never be broadcast as the Rightists of old did by allowing news crews to check out their compounds. A quick glimpse at how the post-Charlottesville civil trials went has shown that some have still not learned any of these lessons.
So, if playing with guns in the woods isn’t the solution (shocker!), then what is? The truth is dependent on what we believe the problem to be. Is the question how to save Western civilization (or in my case, simply America)? If so, it should have become clear after decades of no solutions that there is indeed no solution to saving much of our civilization. The United States as we historically conceived it will fall; perhaps the history books of the future will say that it already has. Sadly, many European countries will fall as well. But if the question is, how does the good that is embodied by the falling West — its blood, its culture, its spirit — live on, then there is a more achievable task.
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To LARP is to pretend one has more power than one has. The sheer amount of power that the revolutionaries of yore had prior to their revolutions is impossible to imagine for a Right-winger today. Lenin had immense resources at his disposal, and was facing a government which had lost legitimacy in the midst of the greatest war in human history. Hitler had a massive political party and an active paramilitary force backed by the old German legal system behind him. Franco could rely on the power of the Spanish military’s most elite units and the Catholic Church. For his part, Pinochet had the military, the legal system, and Western backing. The list goes on and on.
The point is that all this talk about revolution and fighting the government is moot if you aren’t certain that you will win, and if you are willing to die in the process. If you feel that there is even a hint that your bid to take power will not succeed, it’s because this is actually the case. For example, the recent Turkish coup attempt was uncertain of itself and only happened because of the desperation of some Kemalist generals. We are weak; there is no denying that. Rather than flexing muscles we don’t have, it is time to grow those political muscles — a task that will be the main responsibility of the true Right wing over the course of the 2020s as the United States and many Western countries become unrecognizable.
If there are three words you should take from this and translate into your political life, they are: organize, organize, and organize. There is no more important task. The Left does not possess physical strength, they aren’t particularly intelligent, and they don’t have much going for them even when it comes to entrepreneurialism. But what they do have is organization, which has allowed them to seize martial strength, legal strength, intellectual strength, and monetary strength by proxy. Humans are a species that derives strength from living in tribes. Individualism is the ultimate cancer on strength. One of us, even the strongest, is merely a twig, but together we are the powerful fasces.
Organization is not merely political. Not only have we been forced with the task of rebuilding a genuine Right-wing movement, but perhaps even more importantly we are also tasked with rebuilding community itself from the ashes of the post-‘60s cultural revolution and its perpetuation through the technological revolution of the Internet and smartphones. It was second nature to build political community out of community itself, but it is neigh impossible to build political community without community. I am reminded of the people in Northern Ireland who actively helped IRA members during firefights, aiding in their escape by making distracting sounds with trash bins. It is no wonder that the powers-that-be destroyed community before establishing their total state.
Any move made directly against the government, whatever government that may be, will be fruitless due to the latter’s sheer power and resources. You are not John Connor; you’re just a man doing his best. So do your best. Aiming above what is possible will result in tragedy, while aiming for what you can reasonably accomplish will elevate you to a position to be able to aim higher. LARPing is a useless safety blanket; a cope for an unpleasant reality. The time for LARPing is over.
It’s time to prepare. Prepare for what exactly? We have some general ideas as to what we wish to accomplish, but the specifics are still in the making. Through culture and community, not simply crass and profane politics, I am certain we will soon sharpen this idea. To do one’s best is to elevate, and to elevate is to prepare.
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I’ll say a few things about prepping. It has evolved over the years and has different philosophical beliefs among it’s adherents. The vast majority of preppers don’t advocate any type of revolution or confrontation with the military, police, or the government. A lot of what motivates preppers is the realization that civilization is fragile. We see these things during civil unrest and after natural disasters. After a major hurricane, the feral hordes will result to looting and violence. You wan’t to make sure your family and friends have what they need to function and that includes protection. It’s not motivated by some Mad Max fantasy scenario like it was in the 80’s and 90’s. Many preppers advocate not broadcasting what weapons and supplies they have, both for safety and PR purposes. The media will show these militias and fringe groups to make everyone look bad. We do need to organize in many ways, just like parents are doing at the local level against critical race theory in schools. Push back against woke corporations like Netflix and cause them to loose money. We need to keep in mind that we don’t need the left or non- whites to run the country, however, they need whites to run the country.
Take the Jews out of ‘the Left’ and there’s not much left. But there is still something and it’s more than the Right has. For example, pro-Whites need to see that the driving force for much of anti-CRT is Whites. They’re ‘anti-racist’ Whites to be sure, but, unlike the Jewish ‘left’ the ‘anti-racism’ of these nice, White folks (and some decent non-White folks ) includes opposing ‘racism’ against Whites. A properly-functioning pro-White political ‘movement’ would recognize these folks as generically ‘pro-White’ enough to be considered an ‘affinity group’. In other words, when the time came to promote a pro-White candidate or pro-White policy, we’d invite them to the pancake breakfast and work to create bridge between themselves and the outer edge of ‘the movement’.
Simply put, the hard-core parts of the movement need to be kept away from definitely-not-hard-core ‘affinity groups’ in order assure ‘the movement’ has mass connectivity to the very people we’re supposed to be interested in helping (even if they aren’t quite ready to openly accept our help).
We need diplomats not snipers.
I say, keep LARPing. LARP until you make it. LARP your hearts out. There is great power in LARPing and magical thinking and I believe it can be utilized in the same manner that “meme magic” was extolled after 2016.
A little more direction would be nice. I think most of us understand that organization is needed. It’s the “where exactly does this begin out of nothing” that needs guidance. Any general tips? And don’t say the GOP
You bet I will say “GOP”! America is an inevitable political duopoly; it is inherent in the very nature of our system to evolve into this. The Left (white evolutionary defectives + ethnocentric Jews + nonwhites) controls the Democrats. This is indisputable. The GOP is heavily white in demography and cultural attitudes, and it is where white men are not “suspect”. Therefore, the GOP is our natural home for any type of prowhite politics.
The problem is that the GOP leadership has repeatedly betrayed both whites and conservatives (I am white preservationist before I’m conservative, though I’m also ideologically conservative). The GOP went from Rockefeller (I use that name both literally and metaphorically) to Jewish control; not since the 1920s has it really represented whites and worked for prowhite policies (nor, except rhetorically, for even race-neutral [but disproportionately Middle America-benefitting] conservative policies, either).
Our task is to make the GOP responsive to what we want (and then eventually to take it over by prowhites). How this is to be done, I don’t know. But I suspect we must start by organizing along civic nationalist lines – both because many right-of-center whites naturally embrace civic nationalist policies (eg, secure borders, opposition to CRT and wokeness, continuing opposition to affirmative action and the diversity industry, proactive policing and stand your ground laws for crime suppression) while still remaining brainwashed wrt the deeper racial nationalist truths, and because civic nationalism (consider the policies I just mentioned) overwhelmingly overlaps with white nationalism (even if the former is obviously insufficient to prevent white extinction).
What America needs is a national civnat organization, one that ties together ALL the implicitly prowhite policies we want, from immigration cessation and booting Chicom grad students out of STEM programs, to free speech and gun rights and Puerto Rican nationhood. Indeed, one with a heavy social and networking component to make it attractive and sustainable (people get burned out with 24/7 ideology).
I am convinced we need to make extensive civnat political gains before we can even think about broaching deeper WN arguments (I mean to those not already interested in our truths). There is a reform chronology, after all, isn’t there? How can we expect people to embrace the Ethnostate as a concept, let alone work towards it, if we can’t even build a damn Wall on the out of control Mexican border? People are weak by nature. They gravitate towards success. Prowhite political victories can lead to more such victories. But without such breakthroughs, we will never be able to make our case, as each new white we awaken is swamped by another dozen nonwhite immigrants. It’s a cliche, but we really are running out of time.
“Our task is to make the GOP responsive to what we want (and then eventually to take it over by prowhites). How this is to be done, I don’t know.”
No, you sure don’t, and neither does anyone else. Which is exactly why you are dead wrong to immediately leap to “GOP” as a response. If the GOP is the only solution, just pick an Appomattox and let’s be done with it.
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