#191. Fresh outta high school
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🥩Beef of the Week🥩
> When Chris Rufo announced that a star indie reporter would be joining the Manhattan Institute’s effort to produce “right-leaning” media as a fellow, it turned out that up until a few months ago, the reporter wasn’t very right-leaning at all. Rufo knew, but it was her gender-critical reporting that counted most. Then, after a thorough mole analysis, some anon investigators in shadowy groupchats confirmed that she had a rather spicy past. But hey, she was “Fresh Outta High School” then. If we were a “Perky Redhead Hippy Slut,” we may have ended up “Seduced by a Real Lesbian” too. The moral of the story? His mercies are new every morning, BUT — as pretty faces finally begin to defect from the left in large numbers, maybe give them a few years to prove their conversion really took, and that transforming overnight into a right-wing e-girl isn’t another desperate bid for attention. In the meantime, there are plenty of smart, sensitive young men who are, instead of partying, studying the blade. Bet they’d love to be fellows, and yet this sort of thing keeps happening. Maybe hire those dorky guys next time instead.
🧵Threads of the Week 🧵
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tells a tale of ancient Romans who tried to stop the steal.>
inspires us with the story of the Anglos who tamed an unforgiving wilderness.> And then Will Tanner bums you out by charting the sun setting on the British Empire.
> You need to be able to walk 50 miles, says Teddy Roosevelt and Vandie.
> Were neanderthal foids really strong, powerful women who don’t need no man?
doesn’t think so.> Ever met a Nightmare Before Christmas Person? They’re like Disney Adults, but…spooky? They’ve made the movie their personality. Owen Cyclops explores what this is really about.
And the 🏆Thread of the Week🏆 awards go to…
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is a repentant libertarian. In this thread he explains the blindness he had to the free market’s weaknesses to influence from global cartels and weaponized immigration, and points a way forward for libertarians who haven’t yet realized what time it is.> Have you ever needed to get an email response from someone in August and then when the person doesn’t reply for three weeks you realize it’s because they’re French and Europeans simply don’t work in late summer?
has harsh words for shiftless layabout Europoors who contribute little to the world.> The lolberts are crushing it this week:
unleashed a searing response to Michelle Obama’s insulting appeal to male voters.🎥A/V of the Week🎥
> Chris Winig took a break from cutting edits of chadly cliff-jumpers to make this Elon-approved Trump hopium edit.
> Is JD Vance /our guy/? Charles Haywood,
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talks Deep State reformation with Harrison Pitt.>
interviews the guy behind Old Sovereign, an indie publisher that’s releasing beautifully produced reprints of forgotten, right-coded classics. Can’t think of a better Christmas gift for the wordcel who has everything.📰Reads of the Week📰
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continues an impressive run at Social Matter with a paean to frontiersmen who dare to conquer space, both physical and cyber.
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works out a theory of Backyard Nationalism, a vision for reclaiming “real civil society.” Maybe you think walls are about keeping people out, but they’re also about keeping people nice.
> In Tablet, Park MacDougald reports that normies can’t even comprehend how crazy the Dems have gotten.
> Speaking of, Germany’s Greens have really gone off the deep end in a way that Americans can’t even comprehend, and it all seems to be in service to various powerful interests.
reports.
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casts the Old Right / New Right dichotomy in Gothamite terms.
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thinks we need to jettison fiction where the deranged serial killer who flays people alive is like that because of unresolved childhood trauma.
> That being said, perhaps some sympathy for Vlad the Impaler is in order, argues
. He was just a crazy ass white boy who didn’t have a lot of options, apart from all that impaling.
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, outlines the archetype of the Zodiac Left, the extreme far-leftist volunteer activist Antifa type. Are these hopeless misanthropes driven by the same urges as a serial killer?
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is elite human capital, and he has a tendency to look down his nose at our nation’s blockheaded biotrash. But Walt’s got a big heart, and even he can find something to appreciate about chuds. At least they’re not neurotic, overeducated strivers.
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on schitzotemporality, the mode of AI thought and its bypassing of rhythm and duration.
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playfully prognosticates about California’s demographic future.
And the 🏆Read of the Week🏆 award goes to…
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, A measured critique of Helen Andrews’ Boomers and her editorial legacy at the American Conservative, the magazine she edited, until a few weeks ago. Good commentary on the future of righty media from .
🐦Tweets of the Week🐦
And the 🏆Tweet of the Week🏆 awards go to…
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That Ron Paul / Ninja Turtles meme was really nice. Thank you.
Excellent collection as usual, but a few more screenshots of the Tweets might be useful to reduce the time flipping back and forth between this page and X.