Both are wrong - conspirators are often using a coordination point without specific communication (this is what a religion allows - it allows you to predict and anticipate another's behavior so you can choose cooperate / cooperate w/o communication) & money is secondary to status
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In this specific case it means that DOD and the unis and PR firms aren't pushing the agenda - it means that *people working in those orgs* are doing so - and they're doing so b/c they understand that they will gain personal status with their coreligionists 3/?
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This can happen because a religion allows cooperation without specific communication - that's the Earthly power of a religion - it gives you a working mental model of other people allowing you to choose cooperate / cooperate equlibria 4/?
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Evidence that these people are right and they will be rewarded is how the woke always fail up even when they crash the orgs they work for 5/?
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The reason for the radical acceleration of the left lately is because social media has allowed everyone to witness that the prog egregore will reliably reward its servants - the hive mind has built an excellent "tit for tat" reputation so it gets cooperation /fin
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Post script - this matters because it changes the calculus of an actor (like a Gillette exec green-lighting an ad campaign) considering defecting on his org to help the prog cause - before he had to wonder "will this make me unemployable?". Now he *knows* that it won't.
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