Once upon a time, the Russians got so cute about industrial espionage, they assumed anything that they could steal was a valuable trade secret. The US left Easter Eggs in the form of sabotaged software and faulty component blueprints and when the Soviets manufactured and installed the stolen systems, it created the biggest non-nuclear human-made explosion ever. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/reagan-approved-plan-to-sabotage-soviets/a9184eff-47fd-402e-beb2-63970851e130/)(https://archive.is/9oV9x) It used to be crackpot talk to mention how this incident, plus Chernobyl, the Afghan war, agriculture, alcoholism, nihilism, birth rate: death rate ratio, and a declining industrial investment rate destroyed the USSR. Too many Americans say it was Reagan. Subversive measures worked and they traded the hammer and sickle for blue jeans.
But now America seems to be a chiral molecule of the Soviet Union. Declining energy production? Check. Anti-farmers in power? Check. Substance abuse as lawfare policy? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawfare) Check. Nihilism? Check. Birth rate : death rate ratio? Look at white America's demographic stats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans#Demographic_information); they're similar to the population decline that occurred in the former USSR in the 1990s. ICOR worsening? Check. Government investments turning to shit? Check. We've even got a crazy, non-empirical ideology that measures the utility of everything by equalist standards(The Woking Class), that was derived from Soviet Active Measures of subversion.
Ah, subversion. It only works if you don't believe in yourself. Your enemy is subverting you because your normal mode is too strong and they need to take you down. To do that, they want you questioning what makes you win in the first place. The USA successfully subverted the USSR because communism is crap and the material world proves it. But capitalism doesn't differentiate between Viking/Wako/East India Company plunder economies and productive economies that build useful things (food, housing, education, productive capacity). Capital is capital. Whether you build it or take it, an asset is an asset; a commodity is a commodity. The business process is different is all. When the USA started plundering its own people with its military industrial complex and perma-bull thinking (https://slopeofhope.com/2023/04/arrogance-terminus.html), that demoralized the fair-minded American public. Government gerrymandering fucked the market and market fundamentalists got screwed again and again. If I have to cite all the forever wars to push this thesis, you're just a fucking retard and shouldn't be reading grown up writing. To quote Tim Knight,
“When I think of bulls, I imagine then in the year 1940 trying to decide if they’ll join the Axis or the Allied powers. They always choose the Axis. And why? You can hear them now: “Don’t cha wanna be on the winning side? BE FLEXIBLE!” Why not be with the winners, eh? It doesn’t matter how evil they are, as long as the outcome is positive for you.
That’s called moral relativism, and I refuse to play.
However, that’s the bullish mindset. No morals. No ethics. No scruples. Just short-sighted allegiance to whomever seems to be large and in charge at the time. That’s about as far as their limited cranial capacity can carry them. It’s always why these pigs are totally dependent upon BAILOUTS AND HANDOUTS.
SBF was a bull.
Elizabeth Holmes was a bull.
Adam Neumann was a bull.
You get the picture.”
When America was making the best cars, computers, hot rolled coil steel, mechanical components, chemicals, and people lived in bigger, better houses, ate better food, purchased better education, and lived better lives in general, there was no way subversive measures could work.
But now the government is used like a Frankenstein's monster, summoned by a bunch of necromancers (otherwise known as political agents) to attack the domestic populace. Who can be loyal to a place like that anymore? (https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-pull-back-from-values-that-once-defined-u-s-wsj-norc-poll-finds-df8534cd) During Covid, even religious leaders were craven cowards, whose predecessors were fed to lions, but who meekly allowed the statist annihilation of their religions. The Catholic Church in SF has tried to hide the evidence (https://sfarchdiocese.org/health-alerts), but archive.org beats the memory hole again: (https://web.archive.org/web/20200320195150/https://sfarchdiocese.org/health-alerts). This is why subversion has worked. America is not America anymore and anyone who is not a Zoomer knows this is the case. Zoomers don't love freedom, which is why they've allowed themselves to be bullied and corralled by statist Capos into wearing masks that have no scientific basis. They've been terrorized by woke classrooms into learned helplessness. If anyone should have aggressively resisted Covid restrictions, it should have been the kids. But they don't love freedom and didn't recognize a government out of control as something worthy of fighting. They just logged online and checked out. 'OK Boomer' does not come from nowhere. They already were getting done with all of America's lies. But Covid just fast forwarded it. Now they don't believe in anything. Demoralization? Check. This is why you can be attacked on the street in San Francisco and nobody will help you, even in the formerly safest neighborhood in San Francisco (
). And that's the side of the city where everybody used to know karate and the ghetto kids knew better than to start a fight in a neighborhood where everybody is a martial artist (see Taraval, ie: martial arts alley)(https://www.google.com/maps/search/martial+arts/@37.7428117,-122.4858846,15z/data=!3m1!4b1). But the younger kids are demoralized. My son didn't think he'd get in a streetfight until a guy who looked like MC Ride ran up to sucker punch him in Muni (
). Now he's practicing martial arts with me. That's what it's going to take. Getting sucker-punched to teach these Zoomers to take shit seriously.
Until then, the demoralized quiet quitting (https://www.forbes.com/sites/nazbeheshti/2023/03/07/is-a-new-kind-of-workaholism-the-flip-side-of-quiet-quitting/?sh=4b5c3c3c5a24) will continue and quality control will continue to decline. Who's going to see something say something (https://www.dhs.gov/see-something-say-something) when they're getting minimum wage? The Brits are there too (https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/treasury-looks-for-new-head-of-cyber-security-and-its-paying-just-57000-a-year-20230330).
This is why Boris Badenov is involved with some incidents. We just don't know which. Lots could just be straight up incompetence. Pretend work for pretend pay. Another affliction of the USSR. Was he involved with the Freeport natural gas export terminal explosion? (https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/06/08/reports-of-explosion-at-lng-oil-and-gas-company-near-surfside-beach-police-say/). How about the East Palestine ('The place you want to be...' lol)(http://eastpalestine-oh.gov) derailment? (
). The polluted Ohio River? (https://www.wtvq.com/officials-no-detection-of-methanol-in-areas-surrounding-ohio-river-after-incident) The food supply fires? (https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-media/NFPA-Journal/2022/Summer-2022/News-and-Analysis/Dispatches/Food-Processing-Fires). No couldn't be! Sabotage is from a different era (https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/wartime-acts-of-sabotage/) when they had huge tank battles (
). Meanwhile in Ugledar last month... (
).
American social sciences teach you how to change your sexuality to an attack helicopter (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-sexually-identify-as-an-attack-helicopter). Russian social sciences teach you how to collapse another country's government without overt warfare (
). Which one looks like the demoralized country to you? The US might be blowing up Russian pipelines (
), but Americans are destroying their own infrastructure through incompetence (https://infrastructurereportcard.org), stupidity (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30103078), and laxity (https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/cause-keystone-pipelines-massive-oil-leak-found-97021494). Maybe it takes a smelly homeless guy randomly attacking you to make you realize you actually care about yourself and want to keep what you have.