#201. Total Rufo Victory
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🧵Threads of the Week 🧵
> Last year,
and debated in the pages of the value of political activism (A Based Read of 2024). Yarv had spent 2023 criticizing Rufo for being a tryhard carelord who thought that incrementally reforming our sacred democracy could save us from destruction. Rufo’s activism, Yarvin argued, is useless in the long term because it’s tilting at problems that are actually just symptoms of the bigger problem (democracy). Well, the results are (sorta) in, and it looks like Rufo was right. His activism, despite the many hardships it brought him, really was worth it. Sure, they’re just executive orders, but the idea that this is even in political contention matters. Curtis Yarvin has since been yeeted to Panda Express Hell, where his ass is to be eternally battered and fried in seed oils by infernal Gen Z cacodemons.> On a similar note,
stuck his neck out when he wrote “The Unprotected Class,” a book about anti-white discrimination, which includes fixes for the current situation. Now Trump’s knocking them out one by one. Will these executive orders turn into policy change? Maybe not, but again the fact that these issues are even in contention is a huge win, and a testament to Carl’s work.> Curtis Yarvin was interviewed by the NYT in his finest leathers.
offered his “disenchantment” analysis, and> We don’t usually go in for “life was better in [insert decade]” nostalgia, but Jason Kessler’s right, the music of the 80s really is “unrecognizable in its romanticism and big-heartedness,” marked by its “belief in love.”
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reminds us how bad the Obummer cult really was.>
explains how the immigrant small business loan scam works.And the 🏆Thread of the Week🏆 award goes to…
> Insurrection Barbie looked at a random J6 case and sure enough it was total bullshit.
💰Shill of the Week💰
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💁♂️Cool Project of the Week💁♂️
> Owen Cyclops has a new illustrated kids’ book out.
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put on his data scientist hat and analyzed the biggest libtard accounts on Substack. These boomers are raking it in with the most Trump-deranged content you can fathom. But there’s something fishy about the numbers.>
’s got a new novel out. He discussed Crimson Veil this week on the podcast.> The West has fallen, get used to it.
’s Multipolarity is out now, with a forward from Alexander Dugin himself.🎥A/V of the Week🎥
> Sam Hyde followed up his sensational “Dear Elon” with “Dear Vivek,” elaborating on the same themes, further establishing himself as an elder millennial Andy Rooney.
> Many are saying this
and discussion about Chicago (and more) is a standout.>
and discuss our Silicon Valley overlords’ “techno-gnosticism” for The Blaze.> Check out Daniel Algarin’s Dread Pirate Roberts, a short film about Ross Ulbricht.
> We’ve featured his splenetic media and local government criticism in the NRP a dozen times, but we’ve never seen him speak. This week,
interviewed premier Californian critic (and critic of California) .>
appeared on ’s podcast to discuss his status theory of infertility.> Is Elon Musk a FAKE GAMER GIRL?
explores this question, which has bigger implications than you might expect. Why would Elon fake being a pro gamer, what would he have to gain, and what does it say about him as a world figure?📰Reads of the Week📰
> The NYT’s James Pogue, an early mainstream chronicler of the New Right, put together a tidy summary of the recent brouhaha between the populist right and the tech right, perhaps a sign of an inevitable unraveling. We’ve featured a number of pieces on the subject, but this one’s worth reading for Pogue’s access to major figures.
> For GQ,
covered Passage Press’s Coronation Ball.
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reviewed Nancy Mace’s erotically charged Twitter presence.
> Though not exactly a rightist,
drew some uncomfortable conclusions about current year feminism’s disposition toward female agency when examining Neil Gaiman’s #MeTooing, signalling a broader sea change.
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is wondering what the Left can possibly do to pick up the pieces after Trump’s comprehensive victory. He predicts a return to populist progressivism. Meet the Chud Left.
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’s piece on Romanticism implies that the Vivek-brained among us would do well to review their recommendations for post-industrial malaise.
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wrote a critique of Dave Ramsey-ism. Financial solvency is well and good, but today’s sensitive young men need something more spiritually meaningful to get them out of bed.
> For IM-1776,
and Voodoo write about Trump’s resurrection of Realpolitik.
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wrote the last essay on Bootstraps-gate that we’ll share. It offers an angle you maybe haven’t seen, because it looks back farther than the others.
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celebrates fictional detective Charlie Chan on his 100th birthday. Don’t dismiss him as a cornball racist caricature.
> Missed this one last week: Grayson Quay wrote a nuanced Christian defense of deportation, which will come in handy in the coming years.
And the 🏆Read of the Week🏆 awards go to…
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asks why America doesn’t do a very good job of cultivating native elite talent. The prevalence of H-1Bs are a symptom of this bigger problem. The solution? Let schools and employers test again. (h/t )
✍️Fiction of the Week✍️
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penned a nasty little sci-fi short for .
🐦Tweets of the Week🐦
And the 🏆Tweet of the Week🏆 awards go to…
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I know it's really early, but the "Toontown is f*cked" tweet might be tweet of the year.
rufomaniacs we are so bad
curtisisters, is it over?