#121. I see Satan fall like lightning
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🧵Threads of the Week🧵
> Bill Ackman, newly antiwoke billionaire, was sitting back enjoying his victory, having forced Harvard president Claudine Gay’s resignation. But Peachy Keenan is holding his feet to the fire, because like almost every other ultra-rich guy in the west, he’s giving money to people who hate him and his country. Ackman asked her to prove it, and she displayed the receipts.
> BAP thinks that human biodiversity is a political nonstarter in the West, and race realists with public names and faces should preach the gospel of race blindness to win converts, who are nowhere near ready for the truth. At least, until we dispense with democracy and get ourselves a dictator.
> Meanwhile, BAP had time to post a long, personal tale of total Han victory within American academia, estimating that now straight white American (non-legacy) men represent a tiny fraction of the student body at elite American schools.
> Perhaps you saw that video of that poor woman falling into a river while trying to cross a rope bridge. Maybe you wondered why there wasn’t a proper bridge. Armchair anthropologist explains why Africa be like it do.
> Lafayette Lee wonders how long institutions will be able to afford to indulge in DEI.
> Elites are still having kids. It’s the upper middle class parents perpetually shuttling one measly kid between expensive supervised activities that are the problem.
> Someone masterfully trolled the art world by mocking an early piece of sacred neoliberal kitsch by some gross pervert, completing what AIDS left unfinished, and the nihilistic art people suddenly discovered that art does convey moral values. By their standards, this troll is probably one of the finest pieces of art we’ve had in years.
> Elon thinks Christianity’s collapse is probably not great for the West. Interesting!
> Marmot experiences a theater full of cucks.
> Some have been quick to claim that Claudine Gay’s resignation is a hollow victory (more on this below), but they haven’t read their Clausewitz.
> The people who rule you are a bunch of lily-livered, yellow-bellied, fraidy cats.
> Apparently you can just ask Twitter why you’re being throttled and it’ll just tell you.
> Cozy thread about Moby Dick and the limits of religious tolerance.
> Elon tweeted out Palladium’s “competence crisis” article, which was in the NRP’s “Top 5 Based Reads of the Year.” Whew lad!
> If you have an Ick-droid phone you may as well give up on ever being loved by a woman.
🥩Beef of the Week🥩
> Yarvin V Rufo: Acorn horticulturalist Curtis Yarvin fired the first shots at young Chris Rufo, who’s written a piece for IM-1776 laying out his blueprint for activism on the new right. Rufo’s essay argues that right wingers need to stop being bowtied policy dweebs, and start cracking skulls, which, yes please. Yarvin’s position is that Rufo’s activism that resulted in Claudin Gay’s ouster is a hollow victory that can’t scale, and the right should focus more on the long game — developing parallel institutions and culture that entices people away from cathedral institutions. Rufo clapped back exquisitely at the supreme prince, who in Rufo’s eyes, just enjoys being a loser. Acorns vs activism. Fellas, fellas, why not both?
> Carlson V Shapiro: Tucker cast aspersions on Ben Shapiro’s dual loyalties, and you’re not going to get a more nuanced, concise unpacking of that concept than this one.
> Lindsay V Everyone: James Lindsay thinks you’re a gnostic if you think the problem with the world today extends beyond the existence of woke cultural neomarxists who worship the Frankfurt School thinkers, and he’s lashing out against all the post-liberals who’ve been there, done that. Yes, it’s all *sniff* ideology, to Lindsay. It’s not like all these ideas are actually enforced and mandated in our legal system.
> McInnes V Fuentes: Are Jews good or bad? I ain’t watchin all ‘at but maybe you want to?
🎥A/V of the Week🎥
> Bukele can’t stop winning. Here he is, smashing their idols. Here he is, recapping his year like an Instagram housewife.
> Real when-they-tell-you-who-they-are-believe-them hours on this landback clip.
> African men seemingly unable to put themselves in the shoes of their victims, leading to other questions.
> Area mum brought to the absolute edge by new chocolate packaging.
> You know Stephen Hawking was doing dwarf orgies on Epstein Island, but did you know that he’s also not real?
> Vivek refuses to recite the catechism.
> Basil and cohost DJ Poolhouse elaborate on Basil’s sexletics theory for another 20 minutes, which posits that Whores and Failed Men have teamed up in their shared hatred of the powerful men who built society to created a Trans golem and censorship regime to destroy them. Wild stuff.
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appears on to discuss dissident lit. also guests to discuss his new book.>
appears on to talk about how to keep the boycott momentum going. also guests once again, to discuss his latest novel.📰Longreads of the Week📰
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writes about the zoomies for AmMind, not the the first generation to embrace third worldist gobbledygook, but the first to really mean it, at scale.
> You know that cute little section of your local bookstore or library called “banned books” a disingenuous label meant to add a frisson of transgression to otherwise utterly safe and regime-approved literature? Well,
’s building himself a little shelf of actually-banned books, and buddy, you better think twice before trying to buy some of them.
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looks back at a 2006 case where a bunch of rich white guys allegedly victimized a POC sex worker, and the media ran away with the story despite evidence pointing to the guys’ innocence, which became the blueprint for every #MeToo scandal we’ve seen in the last two decades.
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, Curtis Yarvin critiques the Rufo school of right wing activism (seen in Beefs).
> In The American Mind,
writes about pharma information warfare, and how the pandemic enabled mega-conglomerates to build propaganda and media manipulation engines that will now be used to nudge us in all sorts of uncomfortable directions.
> You know about patronage, the process by which elites win loyalty from plebs by handing out gibs. Well, it’s not just gibs. It’s also feels, says
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> A lot of thinkers on the right are working to synthesize Nietzschean vitalism with Christianity. Last year’s
essay was one of the more prominent examples. urges his readers to pick a side.
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reviews the work of a man you’ve probably never heard of who has influenced much reactionary religious thought.
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examines rapidly shifting, extremely confusing political affiliations as political compasses.
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at the wants you to iron your shirt.
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looks at what the American right can learn from how Euros won the youth.
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thinks you’re stupid. JK, he just thinks the right is full of dullards, and contra BAP, he thinks promoting HBD is the way to fix this.
> Political asks
how he took down the president of Harvard, and he told them. Friend of the Poast makes an early and critical appearance in the story.
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remembers the “Shitty Media Men” list, a founding document of #MeToo which enabled people to broadcast allegations as serious as rape and as frivolous as “gave me the creeps,” with zero accountability.
> Christians are happy to win hearts and minds, but should they also make you act like a Christian once they take power?
asks the hard questions.
🐦Tweets of the Week🐦
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I screenshotted too many of these memes
Great post as always Dudley! FYI, the Marmot and Lancoon thread are x links as well as the Vivek clip.
Happy hunting for 2024!!