Being a fake rebel requires real bravery

Oppressors may suffer some backlash. It's a risky position!

If all social media became completely unmoderated, all censorship was removed, all comment sections were restored, and nobody could be sanctioned from the top for expressing their opinions, Hell would break loose.

Both political sides agree with this, and they also agree on the direction of this change (an ultra-extreme, violent Far Right reactionary explosion of bottled-up rage). One side warns about this; the other threatens with it, but they both agree.

The Extinction Rebellion is not being shadow banned for their radical message, it would be ridiculous to claim so, even in our Clown World.

“I’m super woke and I get death threats from trolls” - of course you do. What else can the little people do? They can’t fire you from your job. They can’t put you on a worthy blacklist. They have no power, after all.

Hungary’s last explicitly Far Right, racist, antisemitic party, Jobbik, was pulling 20% for a while around 2010. Were they a threat to anyone in power? Absolutely not, for the same reason: they had no power over the elites. They barely had power over individuals in the lower classes.

The Woke package is extremely unpopular.

The Woke package is the revolutionary Far Left ideology meant to transform society through thinly veiled malice, quietly indoctrinating university students in the West before Obama’s second term, only being noticed by the few normies who had the misfortune of encountering recently graduated, mostly female rainbow guards with the mistaken assumption that they wanted to argue in good faith. It’s the ideology that went mainstream after 2013, seemingly overnight, as a shock therapy in the US, eventually being adopted with great servility in the broader American Empire by the end of the 2010s on all levels of power, public and private. Advocating for it was risky, and still is; it still requires real bravery, because the unwashed masses hate it.

One needs moderators, gatekeepers, fact-checkers, like private guards, to be protected while they scold the masses with a megaphone; if this line were to break, the mob would flood in to take revenge. And this is just the online space, IRL, you need real guards, real police, real physical separation; you need to be on the lucky side of an elite apartheid to have the luxury to be woke both online and in real life.

It’s dangerous, pushing unpopular crap on the majority, requiring real bravery—but it’s not a rebellion.

Can you advertise your rebellion on LinkedIn and benefit from it? If so, you are not a rebel, not a victim of harassment any more than an oppressor who suffers backlash.

You are a little tyrant, a member of the comprador bourgeoisie of Hegemonic Liberalism.

Of course, those people who disagree with you online could also be bots. Nazi bots. You are popular, a rebel, a rockstar, and only Nazi robots may doubt that. That is a possibility.

Those angry people down there Elena? They are just holograms!

Addendum

Consider the powerless little maggot who threatened or trolled the woke person on social media—the latter using their real name and face, their whole career in their bio; the former being some nickname with an anime avatar.

On one hand, there’s zero chance of any real repercussion. On the other, if the Eye of Sauron - backed by the woke person by well-entrenched institutional support - decides to hunt down the pesky little maggot, the maggot’s life is in existential danger.

A knock on the shittiest door of the most run-down, rented hole by the mightiest cameras is in order. No forgiveness, for the rest of their lives.

Who is braver? Who risks more? Who is the rebel, and who represents an authoritarian regime? And how long can such a regime endure before a blowback?