#200. Battle of the bootstraps
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> Welcome to bootstraps discourse: an argument between older guys who made it with grit, determination, and a thrift store suit; and zoomers, who think that it’s impossible to be achieve anything anymore. Memetic Sisyphus made his bones stacking boxes, and aristocrat of the soul Solionath thinks work is exploitation. This little spat kicked off the biggest discourse of the year, with others declaring “Work Sucks” or at least “working for other people sucks, or working for soulless megacorps sucks, even if you’re a manager” Some think much of this grievance arises out of spiritual leftism. Sometimes it seems as though Zoomers, not unlike your girlfiend, don’t want to hear solutions, they don’t want practical advice, they just want to feel affirmed, seen. But for real for real? It’s bad out there. It’s rigid, you’re on rails. It’s not like it was when the millennials were 20. You can’t even get a burger for an hour of work anymore. Sure, the six-figure Panda Express salary may exist, but is it “real”? What do you actually get for it? Zoomers were given a path, and halfway down it, the rug was pulled, the path revealed to lead directly to hell. When Chris Rufo claims that young guys just need to take the guac pill, others argued that although working hard will get you nowhere, but working smart will. Moreover, fixing this issue will be very painful for some. Not to both-sides this issue, but: both sides.
> Kyle shares horror stories of immigrant kids ruined by Vivek-style academic grinding, and loafing Halo players who ended up doing pretty well for themselves.
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sets JK Rowling straight on the source of trans nonsense (hint: it’s not “misogynist men”).> Today in Regulatory Capture: Activist NGOs invented a fake fish to successfully stop a dam from being built.
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wrote some fanfic about the Indian guy running Elon’s Twitter.> Lanius shared a cool thread about vampire aesthetics.
> Tony Sneedprano shares unexpectedly hilarious Jersey-Japan mashup.
> Park MacDougald illuminates interesting parallels between mid-century “Vietnamization” abroad and proto-wokification at home.
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was driven to madness by studying the eldritch horror of Richard Hanania’s uncanny visage.>
would like to remind you that Obummer was actually Indonesian.>
explains how people first experience anarchotyranny at school, and how this trains them to accept their abuse as inevitable.>
may lack a strong regional accent but at least he’s not some sort of “based” chaser.>
answers the Irish Question.> Inez Stepman pinpoints the problem with the feminized workplace and it isn’t “bossy” women.
> Anna Khachiyan responds to some catty Artnet sneering.
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wants to bring back McCarthyism. Cormac, that is.And the 🏆Thread of the Week🏆 awards go to…
> The aforementioned thread from Ben Braddock about how large corporations slowly ruin businesses and make life miserable for both employees and customers.
> Charles Haywood explains why the demoralized Britbongs haven’t taken matters into their own hands.
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wants you to stand your ground with a garden hose.> Rambo urges you to roll around in the dirt if you want to tell a good story as a right winger.
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> Jobs Now! is “your portal to top-tier tech jobs tech giants are trying to hide from YOU, so they can hire an H1B instead.”
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is opening a based art gallery in NYC. Learn more about her approach to art in this interview with .>
has a new “based Shakespeare” curriculum.🎥A/V of the Week🎥
> Huwhite supremacist Jared Taylor vs. civil rights activist Richard Hanania debating the stuff you’d expect.
> Even he/hims have had enough with rampant street violence.
> Is the term Woke Right a disingenuous liberal cudgel or a valid critique of far right ideology? Neil Shenvi and
discuss on @Benjamin Boyce’s show.>
hosts based animator DougTenNapel to explain why it’d be nice if Southern California didn’t burn down.>
captured the longhouse in 11 seconds better than any other description.> On
’s Carousel podcast, Gabriel Mann tells you everything you want to know about the fires in LA, mainly about the institutional failures that caused this mess.>
pays tribute to the recently deceased David Lynch, marking the end of an artistic epoch.>
discusses Rotherham with .📰Reads of the Week📰
> You may have heard that LA is on fire.
describes California as a kind of failed state that the federal government should do something about.
> The recently re-publicized revelations about UK rape gangs leave one staggering, scrambling to find a foothold: how could they let it get this bad? How could they let it go on so long?
offers a broad history of systematic demoralization, and offers some correctives.
> Should we slide bridle-bits into the mouths of Karens so it’s painful and humiliating for them to nag?
examines the pros and cons, and finds there’s no need: Karen’s days are already numbered.
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’s Riley Bass is thinking about what American culture actually is.
> Angry Angeleno
highlights how the media uses the same old tricks they honed during the Covid era to allow elected officials to divert blame with sanctimonious appeals to expertise.
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explores the TikTok trend of women boasting of their fertility (i.e. hotness).
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wrote a nuanced response to bootstraps discourse, one that employs the best arguments of both sides, with a dash of Christianity.
> We wanted to take a moment to highlight a couple of pieces from Blaze’s Frontier magazine that we missed last year. They paywall most of their content (you should subscribe since they feature many of the best writers you see here, and the product is extremely well produced — we’ve heard print mag skeptics rave about the level of gloss you don’t often see in this sphere). Editor Peter Geitl experienced Bukele’s El Salvador (along with Ben Braddock, who wrote last year’s “read of the year” on the same subject). Also don’t msis this magazine manifesto of sorts from Matthew Peterson. Graciously unpaywalled, for your reading pleasure.
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draws a few uncomfortable parallels between Andrew Tate and another figurehead whose name begins with ‘T’.
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is quickly establishing herself as one of the New Right’s keenest prophetesses, holding thought leaders’ feet firmly to the fire on issues relating to women and family. In this peice, she casts her gimlet eye toward pro-natalist kidmaxxers who view fertility not as a means to an end, but the goal itself.
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examines schizoid (in the best way) connections between occult circles and Big Tech. A secret luciferian history of modern technology.
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elaborates on the realities of reverse colonization, a flattening of all characteristics.
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frames the Ukraine War in Baudrillardian terms: yes, people are really dying out there, but the framing is a farce. Your experience of it is propaganda.
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has written quite a bit about the dehumanizing nature of technology. In this Heritage Foundation manifesto, she lays out her case for the Right adopting a more alert, adversarial approach to the decidedly leftist transhumanist urge.
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takes the Yarvin Pill and goes deep on the Puritanical origins of progressivism.
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does a little armchair psychologizing of Justin Trudeau’s mommy issues, which, she argues, have shaped his very feminine approach to governance.
> You may know Twitter’s Basil from his crusade against the trans identity, which, in his view, is a political cudgel that is being used by the Left to further a censorship regime — not just a culture war distraction. Here he expounds upon his broader political philosophy and project.
> A stunning piece from
this week, a meditation on the “secret” America of Emerson, Pound, Hawthorne, and Poe. Read it, American, and feel your heart will swell with love and pride. A poetical, spiritually rich counterpoint to Vivek-style machine min-maxing. Behold this humdinger of an opening paragraph:
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compares the administrative obfuscation following horrors in Rotherham with the bureaucratic blame-shifting that occured in the wake of Chernobyl’s explosion.
> You know there are masculine and feminine modes of being and morality. But,
warns, there is a third: the parasitic androgyne, or eunuch. And beyond warning, he includes a stirring call to embed oneself with family, fraternity, and community.
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Congrats on 200 poasts
Thank you for including my gallery and great roundup. Feeling like this is the right time for us, especially with Inauguration Day coming up. Whitepilled hard.