#202. Apple-cheek nationalism
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> New York Mag sent a reporter to cover an inauguration party populated exclusively by square-jawed alpha chads and stacies with dimples. The writing is limp, not as mean as youâd think, although
identifies a feeble undercurrent of âhmm this probably isnât good, haha đ„Žâ-ness about it. Despite the implicit framing, they made the pretty young things of Right look cool. Cooler than our best attempts, argues Cluffalo. thinks we found a new It Girl for the roaring â20s.> Groyper lieutenant Beardson Beardly be lookinâ like an unkempt Son of Thorin, and got into it with a rather potato-faced girl who nobody wouldâve ridiculed if she hadnât put herself on a pedestal in comparison to our bearded friend, a growing trend among our nationâs mids that many sensitive young men find off-putting. Beardson spent the week putting the foids in their place.
> Never let anyone tell you that poasting is a waste of time.
recognizes that yes, the internet is real life now, and memey moments have the power to âshift energy,â maybe enough to flip an election>
explains how modern Christian fixation on âwelcoming the strangerâ gets it all wrong.> Youâve seen The Chart, and while it might not be so simple as âliberals care more about rocks than their own families,â
explains its brutal truth: a universal love of humanity is âa way to spread love and care around so thinly that you never have to really care or love anything too deeply.â>
penned an ode to his favorite strawberries, which require tech working not to conquer nature, but in harmony with it.> Trump turned off the spigot of infinite Dem patronage bux, and hoo boy, look at the ridiculous stuff you were paying for that
dug up. He also tracked a few important developments toward competence crisis in commercial aviation DEI regulation.> FischerKing wrote about tech not working in harmony with nature.
> boneGPT argued that the real lesson of Deepseek is that hiring people for your team who may not be loyal to your country leads to your enemies eating your lunch.
> Ever wonder why so many women in Africa get HIV, to the point where we have to send them billions of PrEP a year? According to Tantum, itâs because these hoes be putting sand in they pussies. They are gonna make it so dry for you.
> G.S. Quay dunks on the Cato Insitute, who appear to be hiring psychologists to pathologize your opposition to globalism.
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shared a rather heartbreaking tale of a little girl who just wanted affection from dad, twisting her into a girlboss.> You might think empowering U.S. citizens to take out cartels Sicario-style is a âbit much,â but as Utah Senator Mike Lee explains, it might be better than the alternative: war with Mexico.
> Beware the âthe precocious child-prodigy who had internationally-minded parents.â
dissects the Nathan J. Reilly -er- Robinson red-diaper-baby-of-letters archetype with surgical precision.đââïžCool Project of the Weekđââïž
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is building the worldâs most relatable moodboard.đ„A/V of the Weekđ„
> Friar Calvin Robinson unleashes an emotionally-charged gesture at the National Pro-Life Summit. Apparently they defrocked him for this obvious troll.
> Passage Press gives Rachel Maddowâs Yarvin scaremongering the schizo edit treatment.
> Impossibly based meeting of the minds as Josh Rainer revives his long-dormant podcast with guest William Wheelright, discussing agriculture done Right.
> Joel Webbon, A.D. Robles, and
a running a different kind of Bible Study.> If you can get past
âs catgirlish AI voice and âs potato mic, you will be rewarded with scintillating Canuck commentary on this debut episode of the Anarchonomicon Podcast.> New Right explainer journo James Pogue discusses his craftâŠerâŠart with Isaac Simpson.
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scored a fascinating interview with Vincenzo Barney, the guy who wrote that viral piece about Cormac McCarthyâs muse.>
and have launched âCall Us Daddies,â a new podcast for based dads.> When we first came across
âs talk Against Christian Civilization back in October, which argues against Christians attempting to take the reins of civic power to save Western civilization, we immediately wanted to know how and his Christian Ghetto might respond. Finally, the moment has arrived.đŹCringe CornerđŹ
> Bringing back this section in 2025. Cathy Young wrote a piece for Cringe Corner mainstay The Bulwark about how Trump is dismantling the permanent unelected DEI bureaucracy the wrong way. Wonât someone think of the norms?
đ°Reads of the Weekđ°
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wrote about the decline of Angel studios, a film producer that made it big with Sound of Freedom and, he argues, immediately fumbled the bag with compromise, greed, and the need for a pat on the head from the mainstream.
> Your average modern conservative thinks we need to put the woke away and get back to meritocracy.
lays out a provocative argument that upholding merit as the ultimate ideal is how we got into this pickle in the first place, and advocates adherence to a more organic, resilient ideal. The first of a series weâll be eagerly anticipating.
> The Bonglanders at
put together an exhaustive history of American free speech laws, which didnât originate in 1776, despite what you learned in grade school.
> Trump spent the last week proving that you can just do things.
is pondering the implications of the American Rightâs discovery of its own balls.
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examines the impoverished civic mythology of AOC and, letâs face it, the average American. We beat the confederates and the nazis, and thatâs what America is all about. Donât think too hard about what the average Union or WWII soldier would think of AOC today.
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commemorates the end of the fact-checking era with an essay that casts our need for verified facts as a symptom of a deeper malaise.
> Curtis Yarvin cries uncle, acknowledging the dawning of the Rufonian Age.
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wrote about gay stuff for First Things, which ends with this hell of a kicker. Gagged. Wig. etc.
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typed up the longest article weâve ever featured, an argument against Canadaâs annexation by the U.S. This may seem like a silly thought experiment, but the piece expresses the value of Canadaâs unique ethnos and mythos, and makes the provocative claim that due to these immutable characteristics, the temporarily embarrassed royalists may be better off than their libtarded southern neighbors in the long term.
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characterizes the surprise emergence of Chinese AI offerings as a potential boon for humanity, if only because itâs upset the balance of power in an industry where centralization and secrecy could spell doom.
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âs latest for Royst explains the threat embedded in the âbring your whole self to workâ invitation, and its framework for social-managerial control. She spins this realization into a dazzling discussion of physics and post-structuralism, concluding that the dissident must fight the culture of full spectrum transparency to âre-assert realityâs fundamentally mysterious nature.â
đ°Shill of the Weekđ°
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âïžFiction of the Weekâïž
> Dissident lit podcaster
âs new short story collection, "The Search For More Money,â is out.
đŠTweets of the WeekđŠ
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