Sam Culper is a former intelligence NCO and contractor with nearly a decade of defense and intelligence service. He spent 2006-2007 in Afghanistan, 2008-2009 in Iraq, and 2010-2011 as an intelligence contractor in Helmand and Kandahar, Afghanistan. He left the Intelligence Community in 2012 to pursue other interests. He will always be a 96B at heart.
I used to be allergic to this sort of thing. In the tradition of MWIR, I’ve long warned against apocalyptic thinking and end-of-the-worldism. The chances of Civil War happening in our lifetime is less than .05%.
The real fight is cultural, institutional, biological and psychological. While guns are fun, putting faith in “hot lead and cold steel” is absurd. There will be no shoot out, then the good guys win and live happily ever after.
There is no end to the struggle except in death; then it’s time for your descendants to struggle.
But part of the right psychology is understand that you are already in a war – it’s just not a hot war, it’s a cold war.
So maybe some tactical advice from military guys might at least put you in the right mindset.
Even better? Read the spies. At this point, it’s likely more useful to think like a spy rather than a soldier.
It can’t hurt.
Banned Hipster 
Precisely this:
“The real fight is cultural, institutional, biological and psychological. ”
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“Read the spies. At this point, it’s likely more useful to think like a spy rather than a soldier.”
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Golden perspective.
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@Lyon
Please answer one of the following three questions:
1. Are you from the old MWIR blog?
2. Are you MW?
3. Are you from the old Hipster Racist blog?
I’m dying to know.
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Sure thing. Answers below:
1. No idea what MWIR is/was.
2. Ditto for MW
3. No
I just have memories of your Get Smart pic and Racist Hipster thoughts in the comment section of other blog(s). For the life of me I cannot remember where. There are a number of them and websites I would be initially drawn to and then eventually dismiss or tire of (… counter-currents, Zman, etc.), But I do remember others not in agreement with you and thinking this cat should have his own blog.
I still check out Voxday every so often, but the boys over there are really ramping up on their Jesus Juice, Jon Rappoport had some good thoughts years ago (…lately he’s been subbing in on Alex Jones which isn’t a good choice… Jones is a big phony/ limited hangout) and Corbett Report seems good but avoids certain elephants in the room. James Corbett’s 9-11 stuff seemed well researched.
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@Lyon
I posted on a few blogs a lot, and a lot of blogs occasionally.
I’ve never posted on Voxday, nor would I. It’s like a cult. I assume some of the Jesus stuff is really a cultural thing – it’s a convenient way to mark Jews as the outgroup, for instance, as well as excluding whinging anti-theists. I think a lot of the “God Emperor Trump” stuff is the same way, kind of tongue-in-cheek, mostly used as a way to draw sharp distinctions between the ingroup and outgroups.
Voxday has a face for radio and a voice for print. But despite the fact I’d never post on his blogs and have zero to do with his cult-of-personality, I kind of admire the guy for actually creating alternative platforms, even his own line of comic books. They have their own social media and even their own wikipedia and their own version of Youtube.
I kind of like his “SSH” and his idea of “gamma males.” But his idea of “Sigma males” is such a blatantly obvious Mary Sue – a stand-in for himself – it would embarrass a less autistic man. I remember the very first post when he defined “Sigma males” – and it “just happened” to be the story of how he impressed his friends at a party by bringing his new hot girlfriend to show off.
But, again, you can’t argue with success. Voxday has actually built his own thing. If more of us did that we’d be a lot better off.
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@Lyon
“Jon Rappoport”
LOL – let me tell you a story.
Maybe eight years ago, when I first started gaining traction on my original blog, I used to “repost” various other WordPress blogs. This meant a comment and link on their blog, and an entry with the comment on my own.
I had read maybe three or four posts on Rappoport’s blog and he seemed interesting.
But about 48 hours after I reblogged one of his posts, I got an email from a “fellow Rappoport fan” asking me if I wanted to split the $300 dollars to buy one of Rappoport’s e-books.
It takes a lot of hubris to suggest people pay $300.00 for an e-book. It took me about five minutes to realize that the email came from Rappoport himself, trying to scam me into paying $150 for his e-book – as if I would find it a fantastic deal to not have to pay the full $300.00.
All I had to do was send the mysterious stranger $150.00 and he’d take care of the credit card transaction … ok, John.
The more I read the more I realized he’s just “conspiracy theory fiction.”
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Corbett’s “conspiracy” stuff is usually good, but when he starts preaching his Anarcho-Libertarian religion, I tune out.
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Thanks for the link. I agree that two organized sides duking it out a la 1861 is wrong.
The truth is that we’ve progressed beyond a cold war, though. We crossed that chasm in 2016/17.
We’re in a low intensity conflict, which includes political, economic, informational, and diplomatic action. Political violence is included in LIC, but is typically not the decisive factor.
Unfortunately, the Right has nearly completely abandoned the soft power required to win in low intensity conflict.
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@Samuel Culper
“the Right has nearly completely abandoned the soft power required to win in low intensity conflict.”
Absolutely, and they lack any institutional support.
This is a must read on the difference between the left and the right when it comes to institutional support and soft power:
https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
“Institutions are one of two major assets that the Left has and the Right lacks. The other is Shock Troops.
Institutions are organizations the Left controls that operate for the benefit of the Left’s people. The Right doesn’t really have these. As an example, there are occasional hard right lawyers, but so far as I know there is no such thing as the Reactionary Lawyers’ Guild.
The other thing that the Left has that the Right doesn’t are Shock Troops: unshameable actors.
Institutions and Shock Troops are important resources for the Left. They work together. The Left’s Institutions accept, cater to, train, and/or employ its people, including Shock Troops. And, in the cases of several Weathermen (and Davis), give them cushy jobs in their Shock-Troop retirement.”
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Unfortunately, too many on the right think that having a lot of guns somehow makes up for a lack of organization, institutions, and soft power (as you say.)
But what good are guns if you can’t shoot them? And no right-winger can shoot a gun – best case scenario? He goes to prison.
So all those guns cannot win a single engagement.
I’d trade 100 rifles for one good lawyer.
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That sounds like an incredible cheap bargain. If you’re very lucky, you might find someone at many, many times that price. He’ll be calculating that the case will be career-ending.
Imagine how much money you’d have to pony up to have full-time counsel arguing for white rights. It’s necessary, and will surely come but not before the upper echelons start to be affected. Right now, I think they’re too busy choosing the upholstery of the Taycan.
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@bannedhipster and bob saffron:
This whole ironically-named “Woke Movement” is doing what almost sixty years of White Nationalism failed to accomplish; it is waking up the “Normies” to the Anti-White agenda of TMFIIC.
This very arbitrary, capricious anarcho-tyranny is already eating its own. There isn’t a day that goes by that a leftist leaning liberal isn’t purged for not being “Woke” enough.
Unfortunately, it has gotten to the point where no White with two working brain cells is going to vote for the Democrats – they are Trump’s ace in the hole AFAIC – regardless of how publicly anti-Trump they appear to be. The truth is going to come out in the ballot box.
It’s really a shame that the milquetoast Republicans are the only place Whites have to go right now. One person said that Co-President Jared Kushner told an aide that Trump didn’t have to do anything for his White base, because they have the “trailer park vote” nailed down.
I get the notion that neither party wants to win the White House that badly this election. That’s why I suspect the real financial meltdown is just around the corner. Neither party wants their guy behind the wheel when that ship sinks.
The Republicans are doing handstands to sabotage Trump by pulling the unemployment benefits so early. And they are dragging ass on any financial stimulus checks. The least they could push for is a student loan jubilee considering that, with all these bailouts, the Banks have been reimbursed repeatedly.
And the senile, creepy, hair-sniffing, can’t keep his hands to himself Joe Biden is the best the Democrats can do. And God only knows how obnoxious and incompetent to hold any office female they will run with him as long as she is black they will find.
That’s going to backfire on them. This is only going to tick of their White Female base which is why I imagine all these “Karen” ambushes are being conducted on likely former Hillary voters. They know these women are going to be in a snit and might express it in the ballot box, hence all these attempts to intimidate them. Van Jones even targeted them as a bigger threat to Democrat hegemony than Trump supporters.
So, I honestly don’t know what to make of these election except that I sense violent ambiguity on both sides about winning what they fear may be a Pyrrhic victory. Neither side wants to be the next Herbert Hoover, that’s for sure.
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Very good.
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