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Elon Musk-era Twitter/X has been a hell of a ride so far, and we got another big curveball this week with the unbanning of Alex Jones.
This came as a surprise for several reasons. First, a lot of people — including me — were under the impression that there was some kind of ultimate blacklist of people who were never going to be reinstated, and surely Alex Jones would be on that list — perhaps even at the top. He was on the Anti-Defamation League’s list of people who must never be reinstated that they published last year when Elon took over. Granted, Andrew Tate was also on that list and he was reinstated, but Alex Jones is a bit higher on the Zionist Occupation Government’s hit list (Tate is also British, and Brits seem to fly under the censorship radar a bit better than Americans do).
Secondly, Elon Musk had already ruled out unbanning Alex Jones several months ago. That makes this turn of events a reversal of his own position.
White pills abound. If Elon Musk could change his mind about Alex Jones, maybe there is hope that he will change his mind about Jared Taylor, Kevin MacDonald, and Counter-Currents, too!
We’ll see. I’m cautiously optimistic, but more cautious than optimistic when I consider the events leading up to Alex Jones’ reinstatement. The biggest precursor was Alex doing an hour-long interview with Tucker Carlson wherein he said, among other things, that Hollywood was controlled by the Chinese Communists. Some have suggested that Alex Jones is being reinstated for the same reasons as Tommy Robinson: as a deradicalizing agent. He is clearly less radical than a lot of the people who are already on the platform.
Also, like Pontius Pilate, Elon put Jones’ reinstatement to a plebiscite, and 70% of the huddled X masses voted to bring Alex Jones back. How would a full-blown White Nationalist such as David Duke do in such a plebiscite? I don’t know.
It also the case that Alex Jones’ audience is probably larger than that of the entire dissident Right combined. When Musk was doing a risk/reward assessment, the potential reward of reinstating Jones is much higher and the risk much lower than someone like David Duke, who would generate a lot more outrage without bringing in nearly as many audience members.
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I’m not trying to black-pill anyone, just trying to manage expectations.
Still, Jones’ reinstatement is definitely an encouraging sign, as it proves that nothing is set in stone per se. It’s a shame that we cannot read Elon Musk’s mind. We’re not sure what his long-term plan is. At times, he will say that he wants to allow all legal speech, but at other times he says that he doesn’t want to allow “hate.” He’ll say spicy things about Jews one minute, but he next he will appear to cuck to the Zionists. Or is he merely humoring them to buy himself some time? Or is he humoring us? I don’t know. He’s a tough guy to read.
In the short term, we have to reconcile ourselves to the fact that Alex Jones is now back in the game. How do we feel about that? I am of the opinion that, all in all, his presence is a net gain for the dissident Right.
Granted, there’s a lot to criticize in his beliefs. He’s a Zionist shill with a History Channel understanding of the world, and many of his beliefs are blatant nonsense (although to be fair, he was right about the frogs turning gay). At the same time, if you approach Alex Jones from an ideological perspective, you’re overthinking him.
Alex Jones is sort of like the band KISS. I always thought KISS sucked. Their music sucked, and their makeup was a stupid gimmick. And yet I know people who were kids in the late 1970s, when KISS were at their peak, and nothing I can say to them could ever shake their conviction that KISS were anything other than the coolest band to ever walk the planet. They don’t care that the whole band was just a cynical ploy to sell lunchboxes. They don’t care that KISS betrayed their own fans by making a disco record. They don’t even care that the music sucked. They will simply say, “You don’t get it. KISS were about more than just the music.” For them, it was the whole experience. It was about the image, the mythos, and the mystique (for years, no one knew what KISS looked like without the makeup).
Likewise, there are many on the dissident Right for whom Alex Jones was part of their red-pill journey, and they still retain a deep affection for him. Just as there are people who love pro wrestling who know full well that it is fake, there are dissident Rightists who enjoy Alex Jones despite being entirely cognizant of his ideological shortcomings. To tell such a person that Alex Jones is a race-cucked Zionist shill is like telling a KISS fan that they sucked. It’s not about the music. Alex Jones is not meant to be understood in the same way as your average thought leader; you’re just supposed to experience him.
Even I, against my better judgement, sort of like him. He’s silly and more than a little buffoonish, but as a lover of Americana, I can’t help but appreciate him as an “only in America” type of personality. He’s as American as Elvis Presley or P. T. Barnum. Try to imagine a European Alex Jones. You can’t do it. And despite his Zionist shilling, he oozes with goyishness. Try to imagine a Jewish Alex Jones. These two qualities are the primary reasons, even beyond his political positions, why he triggers such a visceral disgust response from ZOG. It’s not about the music for them, either; it’s the goyish Americana that he represents that they want to exterminate.
For as much as people call Alex Jones “controlled opposition,” unlike Tommy Robinson he is not an aggressive gatekeeper. Jones will engage with certain dissident Rightists and adjacent figures. His younger protégés are even more engaged with us. Clearly, there are rabbit-hole tunnels connecting InfoWars to the dissident Right, and a great many people have arrived here along that path. Jake Lloyd, who started on InfoWars, was a groyper for a while. Andrew Anglin started out as an Alex Jones fan, and Keith Woods likewise cites Jones protégé Paul Joseph Watson as one of his early Right-wing influences.
It’s great news that Alex Jones is back on the scene and better news that he is bringing his gigantic, purple-pilled fan base with him. Jones is adjacent to the dissident Right — and he’s now also adjacent to Tucker Carlson, which brings us one degree of separation closer to the mainstream.
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I say: Let a hundred flowers bloom!
The process of weeding out will come later.
A very good analysis! I agree with the majority of your points.
Personally, I don’t even know why Alex Jones was banned to begin with. He’s never been even close to a race realist, he rarely defends whites as a distinct people and/or the rightful owners of their countries, he’s of the opinion that the USA is propositional nation where anyone can come “so long as they love guns and our constitutional rights” and he’s very dismissive of dissident right conservatives who point out the Jewish question. About the only real credit I can give Alex Jones is he will have folks like David Duke on his show and allow him to speak his mind without being censored, but that’s pretty much it.
While I don’t consider myself to be strongly pessimistic or endlessly black pilled, I don’t personally see the reinstatement of Alex Jones as evidence that people like Jared Taylor, David Duke, Nick Fuentes, or any white nationalist or white advocate is going to be unbanned any time soon. It may open some conversations, but I’m not sure if much more will result.
I’ve never been a fan of Elon Musk and I’ve long been of the opinion that he’s a fraud and no friend to us, but what I’ll do for now if give a few weeks to a month to see what “does” manifest as a result of Alex Jones being reinstated before I declare my true opinion.
Even if the worse case scenario of the black pillers is true, we can still go pretty wild in Alex Jones replies. This will only further the reach of our red pills. That this was a reasonably foreseeable consequence which they still had to accept means that we are now wielding more leverage than we have in years.
This. X is almost open frontier right now, and there are a ton of folks like us. I have specifically suggested CC to some folks I’ve replied to, too.
“I …wanna rock and roll all niiight, and part of everey day!!”
that’s a great song! Kiss would be great if only for that one song.
Kevin macdonald was actually banned by musk’s Twitter. I followed Kevin macdonald on Twitter right up and to the point where musk took over. It actually appears to be musk who is banning people based on some sort of adl list. The old Twitter banned people unfairly, but they did appear to operating based on a set of rules, and even if you were the antichrist, you could stay on Twitter if you played within the sandbox that they allowed, and expressed whatever opinions or ideas you could within those constraints, which macdonald was able to do. It’s probably what the author said, that the new Twitter axed people who would most please the powers that be, yet had small numbers of followers, so a good benefit ratio.
Musk previously stated he’d never reinstate Jones due to Jones’s comments about Sandy Hook. It had nothing to do with race.
“Rock and Roll All Nite” is a great song, both the studio and live versions, but that’s where it ends. KISS were the “it band” when I was a high-school freshman. I tried to like them. I really did. Same goes with Motley Crue and the state of Texas. In every case I like the concept, but not the execution.
I have to disagree with you there. Crue has many beauties.
The sandy hook hoax talk is something you might actually ban somebody over. That involves demonstrable libel. So in all of this, Alex Jones is the one rational ban that exists.
I hate to be “that guy”, but it’s not
“I …wanna rock and roll all niiight, and part of everey day!!”
its “PARTY EVERY DAY”
The ChiComs run Hollywood? Good one, Alex!
I’m not quite so sure that he oozes goyishness, though. It seems to me that it’s plausible he has at least partial Jewish ancestry. If it’s true, I’m not the sort who would criticize him for that alone, but it would be at least a big yellow flag if he were concealing such a background. If he is indeed not the least bit Jewish, I find it odd why he never calls out Zionism when he’s quite happy to lock horns with lots of other powerful institutions and individuals from the Bohemian Grove to Cupcake’s consigliere. He doesn’t have much to lose, so I doubt he’s strategically tiptoeing around Zionism to keep himself from getting cancelled. It’s not like he has much affection for the neocons, or is one of the fundamentalists star-struck by “God’s Chosen People”.
Pretty sure he still has credit card processing which is a big something to lose.
The Sandy Hook story is a good example about how Alex evokes quite ambiguous feelings. On one hand it is an example how he is able to promote very stupid and unfounded theories without any inhibition; on the other hand it is inhumanely insane to fine him with such an astronomically large sum as happened, presumably to ruin him forever. This kind of injustice and tyranny makes you want to defend him, even if you think he is a buffoonish moron.
Hands down, my favorite Alex Jones moment.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGAAhzreGWw&pp=ygUUYWxleCBqb25lcyBmb2xrIHNvbmc%3D
Most of his beliefs don’t differ that much from the mainstream Republican party. A race-blind liberal who will never name the Jew isn’t going to help true dissidents.
People like Nick Fuentes/Anglin are who the elite truly fears and hence why they will never be allowed back on.
I just watched Tucker Carlson interview Jones and they both heartily dismissed White nationalists as a tiny 1% not to be taken seriously.
Yet, I know that what people say or think of themselves is not the same as what people make of them. I hope.
For the time being, I am perfectly happy to let people think that white nationalism is not a threat. “Hey, what’s the harm in letting us back on social media? We’re a microscopic minority with no broad appeal beyond a few bitter basement-dwellers and the idea of us ever gaining power is simply absurd. So just let back on already!”
The point is raised in the Carlson-Jones video along these lines: “If any other groups were to be attacked as Whites are now being attacked, there would be mass protests.” And then they ask why there is no such protest.
The answer is very simple: every other group organizes along identitarian lines, most notably racial. There are tons of organizations to defend, say, African-American interests (NAACP, Black Student Associations, Black Studies Departments, BLM). There are no similar advocacy organizations for White people.
One reason there are no such organizations is because of the deliberate Regime repression of such (the de-platformings, the de-bankings, the smear jobs, the set-ups, the thinly masked support for mob actions against pro-Whites).
Another reason – and this is critical – is that it is precisely the Carlsons and the Jones who oppose the organization of such pro-White advocacy. They still want to make the American system work, call it Civic Nationalism if you like (“liberty and color blindedness for all’). And maybe there was a time when that approach could have worked. But CivNat has been unable to make any significant advance against the rising tide of Wokeism. It’s a failed strategy.
It’s up to the Dissident Right to develop the agitprop lines which can mobilize that protest against the anti-White agenda. And win over the Carlsons and the Jones. If they can be won over, then they will bring with them millions of their followers. And perhaps some big buck$.
If a person is on television, they’re an entertainer. To the extent that ‘entertainment’ provides a basis for the development of a revolutionary mindset, it can do some good. Is there an Alex Jones to Greg Johnson pipeline that I’m not aware of? 🙂
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