#132. Keyboard troopers
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> Starship Troopers. First it was a based book. Then a director who didn’t like the book adapted it for the screen, but as much as he tried to subvert, the movie still came out based because it’s about a cool army of square-jawed bros and busty gals obliterating ugly bug invaders. Now, your average leftoid nerd doesn’t actually read real books, so all he has to prove his intellect are boring arguments about the biff-bang-pow comic book movies he’s been watching since he was a kid. Starship Troopers has been one of these contentious films for years, as much a political litmus test as a popcorn movie, because it’s easy to read as both a satire of militarism/fascism AND as a genuine, straightforward celebration of man’s triumph over big ol’ grody bugs. The former camp of bugpeople won’t relax until you acknowledge that the story is a critique of fascism, and that you should want to live in the pod and empathize and identify with the bugs. Be eaten by the bugs. Be the bugs.
> Is it time for the right to jettison its Reagan fetishism?
> Every gymbro you know thinks women would be better off in their own workout space, but that doesn’t stop the foids from bending reality with oppression narratives.
> Fanni Willis is a strong, independent black woman who don’t need no man to tell her that her dress is on backwards. You may find her to be a mediocre AA hire who will serve her patrons rather than the law, and you’d be right. But she is legion, and she is the future.
> Why do crazy ass white boys blow their own brains out instead of the brains of others? It’s because they objectify themselves to themselves, or somethin’.
> Ye best start believin’ in Hypnagogic Dechronosis. Yer in one.
🎥A/V of the Week🎥
> Everyone’s talking about this primer on Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political and the friend-enemy distinction, which explains why everything is politics now, and why you’re at war with half the country, even if you don’t know it yet.
> New Apple Vision Pro ad go crazy.
> Basil is back this week with the Good Ole Boyz duo of Bog Beef and Maarblek, urging the right to hammer less on race and more on critiquing the gendergobs, which the mainstream is more ready to embrace.
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has been talking about The Case of the Disappearing Lesbians (a Nancy Drew mystery) for years (they’re all enbies and transmen now, with peach fuzz and love handles and those weirdly piercing eyes), and it’s still one of the most fascinating and bizarre side effects of the trans social contagion. She’s a lefty, but her critique of gender madness rings as true as ever on this episode of .📰Longreads of the Week📰
> American Mind out of the gate with three bangers. The first, something we’ve never seen before: a practical guide to surviving, and THRIVING, during a cancellation attempt, written by someone who went through it.
> Nate Fischer examines how wokeness serves managerialism, and positions commitments to meritocracy as half-measures, just more managerialism. What we need is ownership.
> This Presidents Day,
would like you to meet a younger Washington, one with verve and personality.
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continues his series of deep dives into the backgrounds of our ruling class, the bureaucratic functionaries who don’t make anything but rules, with a spotlight on disinformation diva Nina Jankowicz.
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, in a discussion about elites conducting class warfare on normal folks, makes a similar point:
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speculates on a few running theories that explain the Western elites’ drive toward world war.
> New manmade horror beyond your comprehension dropped:
reports on beef rice.
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writes of of antidemocracy-to-save-democracy in Germany, which is, of course, coming to your country if it’s not already there.
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wants you to stop thinking emotionally about the Middle East, and start thinking in “mundane geopolitical terms.” Israel is in a weird position, which causes it to behave in weird ways when provoked, unless you understand what makes its position unique.
> Freddie deBoer is no right winger, but his takedown of the Washington Post’s sloppy coverage of that recent Dimes Square salon is pretty good anyway.
> Catholics have a solution to gender war: Men need to self-abnegate, women need snacks.
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’s Torbert Fahey explains some of Trump’s undersung accomplishments that you may have missed because they’re a bit wonkier than the culture war stuff that dominates media.
🐦Tweets of the Week🐦
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Torbert Fahey's J'Accuse article is coming out of left field for me. To see Trump not as the culture war avatar of the anger of the working class, as the Republican Party wanted to frame him - (to say nothing of the "racist" framing of the Democrat Party), but instead of a "technocrat" accepting any America who can see the U.S.'s situation on Iraq and international trade is really counter narrative.
I am reminded of the Jordan Peterson quote, "I saw a Trump support wearing a shirt that read 'Trump 24, because F*ck you twice.'" I guess I am wrong to have held that larger-than-life image of Trump.
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