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Sort of. Sort of not.

If we look at an instrument of control: Something like immigration, trans rights, meat taxes. They are investing a bit in seeing what makes people angry. What gains traction, they invest in. And we are talking a lot of cross media, politics, and online, investment. Co-ordinated, and with objectives that are not the stated ones, but rather a hidden agenda agreed amongst the co-ordinating investors. Which is the dictionary definition of conspiracy - not to be confused with flat earth and the like nonsense, which is designed to discredit anyone positing the notion of conspiracy, by discrediting notions of conspiracy in all it's forms. I digress. They don't care what takes and what doesn't. They, and future generations of their families, will not lead lives where exposure to immigrants, the dilemma over women's safety versus equality of opportunity for those whose identity doesn't follow their biological gender, or having to pay tax on meat, is going to be a problem. They are making sufficient money off your back, that they will be insulated from that. Their job is to keep nudging you along whatever the disruptive instrument of control, to keep herding you in the right direction. Don't fancy this one? They will try another. Until people stop stamping out the fires, and start asking themselves what these cunts with the petrol and matches are up to instead, they are golden. It doesn't much matter what it is....and these are disposable transient throwaway tools - we are not fretting over statues much at the moment.

If you compare that with a strategic objective, like bexshit: While the tools to be used are the same....there is a noticeable shift in focus towards actual outcome. If a tool doesn't gain traction, other tools are deployed alongside them to support the objective. Not necessarily just disruption control. So you have an avalanche of broadly unchallenged lies ' they need us more than we need them', the german car industry will be along in a minute to bail us out','if there is any more paperwork as a result of borders, just send it to me', 'there will be no more paperwork, nor any checks at the borders', 'we will be able to strike superior trade deals with other countries'...and on and on...while suppressing known information into the level of interference of foreign powers in our elections, and pretending that foreign nationals that have bought UK nationality are investing in the project, via party funding, purely because of their desire for a strong UK (don't mention the think tanks and their policy and funding influence). And the reason they deploy such a widespread blanket co-ordinated approach towards a specific objective, is because they need that to function. The need to leave the EU, so that there is no external scrutiny of the background of their funders, so that there are no effective direct levers to curtail their actions, and so that they can deprive the UK population of rights and standards, to force them into work below their expected standards of living, and push products and services from partners who do not meet the aspirational standards of a trading block designed to elevate the lot of their wider European population. They need this, so the psychological pressure and investment is off the scale and relentless.

So for me, they are different things...if from the same toolbox.

Not. an. accident. Nor. a ground. up. movement.