If you've never seen a movie called "The Boondock Saints," it's the story of two men who destroy the various mobs in Boston after it's suggested they're anointed by God to destroy those who cause harm to others. It's a superb movie if you like gritty action movies, and one of the few with pro-Christian themes. It's not for the first row of the church, but what I want to focus on in the first scene.
The movie opens with two main protagonists in a church as the pastor is giving a sermon about good men taking action, and how the indifference of good men is an evil we must fear even more than evil men themselves.
The movie, as mentioned, features these two men taking on both the Russian and Italian mobs and systematically destroying Boston's underground crime ring.
I don't know of any real life examples of two men destroying two mobs within a city, but I do have a real life example of one man taking down an entire system by purchasing a website, which I'd argue has had a much greater effect.
By now you know the story of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, making it into a free speech platform called "X," and then encouraging people to tell the truth on the website by literally making it lucrative financially to do so. The outcome of this event can't be understated, as it's partly responsible for an entire change in our government, and the echoes of this are still unfolding as I write this.
However, one of the biggest effects it had on society was the disruption of news centralization.
As my colleague Bonchie reported on Friday, Axios is currently having a meltdown because the corporate media are no longer the gatekeepers of information thanks to X, and this has led to the death of the "fact-checker," which has allowed the dreaded "misinformation" to flourish. Now, says Axios, we no longer need fact-checkers, we need reality-checkers.
Fact-checking suddenly looks inadequate and practically irrelevant. Whole realities — the supposed culprits for the LA fires, a new MAGA world map, a child sex-abuse scandal in Britain — now sweep the internet overnight.
— Axios (@axios) January 10, 2025
We no longer need fact-checkers. We need reality-checkers.
As Bonchie noted, both of the things they mention in their piece about this that they claim are false are absolutely true... as reported by Axios's own reporters, but I digress.
The point is that this disruption of their control of the narrative happened because just one mainstream website decided to start allowing free speech.
Just one website.
Axios, and indeed the rest of the corporate media cabal, created an illusion of control thanks to centralization of information, even across various platforms. This was done thanks to several factors, including ideological homogeneity, and pressure from government and institutions. As I reported on Friday, this was proven by both the Twitter files and Mark Zuckerberg's own admission that the government came down on Meta in order to enforce censorship.
The issue is that the aforementioned illusion was also one they thrust upon themselves. For decades, their own control over the narrative made them feel as if they were unassailable, and it's a delusion that they hold onto even when they began losing control. This only highlighted just how corrupt and untrustworthy they were. They may very well have always been that bad, but we never knew the extent because there wasn't any way to truly call them out on it until Musk purchased Twitter.
It didn't take much to begin dismantling and collapsing the left's grip on information, but here's the interesting part of all that. They still more or less control all information gateways. Meta, until proven otherwise, is still an entity that allows censorship. Google, and all its sites, including YouTube, control what can and can't be seen based on ideological biases to the left.
The corporate media is a left-wing hive of unabashedly biased leftists trying to convince you the sky is falling every time a Republican sneezes. With the exception of Fox News, which tends to sometimes have its own agenda, every network follows or obeys a certain narrative that compliments the left.
Only X allows for the free dissemination of narratives, and because it's a free speech website that maintained its status as "mainstream" despite all the attacks and attempts to discredit it, it has utterly destroyed a system that has been in control of the news for decades.
I bring this up because for ages, we considered the media to be this Goliath that could not be slain. Its tentacles went too deep, the money in it was endless, the powers that be propped it up, and there was no way to beat it normatively. It had weapons, it had armor, it had an entire system behind it, but then Elon Musk showed up with a rock and a strip of leather.
All these things that we see as impregnable and too big to be defeated, are likely more fragile than you may know. It just takes the right application of ingenuity and willpower.
All you have to do is act, and entire empires can crumble
