The Weaponization of Lies

Values make both the man and the society. 

A lot of people understand the relation between our principles and ourselves in a backwards way, where the principles are negotiable and sometimes irrelevant. They can be utilized or ignored based purely on the situation at hand, forgotten about in the case of some immediate benefit.

This is especially true when there is conflict, when the value or principle relates to how a person interacts with an enemy. In such situations, people sometimes see their principles as being a hindrance and discard them in the hope of achieving their goal more easily. 

This is a mistake, as in reality values create the individual, the society, and the zeitgeist of any group. Those with superior values will be superior. Those who forfeit their values will be degraded by their own actions. 

As a group, we in the dissident right, or whatever you'd like to call our position as reactionaries, have collectivized around values and principles that society has discarded. This is the basis for our existence as a movement; we are searching for a higher order constructed by those lost values. As a result, we watch society decline, specifically for lack of principles, as our movement grows and gains relevance. 

One such value at the center of our ideology is purity, this being a value that society has completely lost. One sort of purity is truth, this being a value that society cannot grasp through delusions of the postmodern. 

Truth is a weapon of the dissident right, and it is something that has been extremely useful to us for a long time now. One of the major reasons our movement has been growing is because when society lies, we tell the truth. When society says men can be women and women can be men, people ask questions, and we tell them the truth. When society claims all races are the same, people look for information, and we show them the statistics. When society fails at adequately explaining the norm, we contradict it through reflecting what is real. 

This behavior has been a great boon to us and has allowed us to contradict enemies with vastly more power through nothing but argumentation. It has allowed our movement to attract intelligent people who care about right and wrong. It has served as a vehicle for our growth and the propagation of our message.

This is why it is extremely unfortunate that some people within our movement have been defaulting to more illicit behaviors in the face of adversity. Instead of holding themselves apart from society in service of the higher order that we seek to create, they emulate the same broken weapons of our sociopolitical enemies.

This behavior is becoming more and more common and is self-harming in nature. If truth can be your weapon, you should never need to lie. The adoption of slander in pursuit of the defamation of individuals, within or outside of our movement, is a disastrous manifestation of a twisted animus that we must subdue. 

There have been many examples of this in the last year, where people will target a person they disagree with and lie about them in an attempt to defame them. Some notable examples being: the Peterson girl, who people spread malicious rumors about in her supposed relations with Andrew Tate; Nick Fuentes, who people pretend engaged in sexual activity with Destiny; and most recently, Elon Musk, who people fabricated malicious screenshots of during the conversation on Twitter about H1B visas.

All three of these people deserve criticism; that criticism of their actions and opinions is the very weaponization of truth I mentioned earlier, us reflecting reality. Telling Nick he should stop complaining about women and get married is us using truth as a weapon. When we tell Elon any immigration under any circumstance is unjustifiable, that is again us reflecting reality into his twisted perspective. 

Whenever people instead default to lying and spreading false information, whether it be malicious rumors or fake screenshots, or any other manner of slander, they sow chaos and create a new standard of operation in which our principles as a group have been degraded.

Take the case with Elon, where he is ranting about H1B and fighting with people who are anti-immigration. He was destined to lose the conversation because his position does not actually engage with the degradation of society in a constructive way. He has a short-term goal and a short-term solution that will only increase the degradation long-term.

There was never any good reason to fabricate viral misinformation about that situation. There was a conversation happening between people of our ideology and one of the most powerful individuals in the world, and instead of reflecting the truth and showing purity in our intents and desires, some individuals felt it necessary to attack Elon maliciously and taint our message. 

Those attacks effectively ended the conversation. Elon was confronted with a lie in the face of his argument and chose to engage with that by banning such individuals. Which is certainly justified. His response is not unwarranted or unexpected; it's simply what any reasonable person will do when people attempt slander. 

What was achieved? Elon, who obviously never agreed with us, was at least willing to have the conversation. Instead of meeting him with our best intent, he was confronted by an abomination of the ethics our movement is supposed to represent. The people outside of our movement, onlookers and such, they also will be confronted by that abomination when otherwise they would have only been confronted by the truth.

So Elon is now poisoned by our actions. His opinion of our movement has likely changed, his willingness to have the conversation decreased, and the people paying attention to the situation, people who we should be trying to influence, now view us as liars. We were all degraded by the malicious actions of a few individuals. Our position on this front was weakened, not by an enemy, but by self-harm. 

This will be true of any weaponization of lies, and it's something that many people don't realize is the case, as they are viewing a society that has totally lost these values and seeing this behavior as a norm within it. So they emulate that behavior, not realizing that it contradicts and destabilizes the very nature of their position. With each big lie, we will become less effective. 

If we do not manage to correct this behavior, we will likely lose a lot of the momentum we have gained from our utilization of the truth. This is a problem that could potentially slow our growth and destroy our ability to achieve our goals. It is extremely important that we do not engage in such tactics and that we always try to pursue what is true.