#234. Jimmy rustled
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> OK, your kid got radicalized at college, but not in the classroom, or even in the dorm room.
> Nice free speech you got there. Itâd be a shame if someone removed the cultural scaffolding that enabled it.
> The average person is too dumb to understand basic civilizational precepts.
> Expect more trans violence as the fantasy collapses.
> The only option is to win.
> Total
Victory as Jimmy Kimmel out at ABC.> How does a normal kid with no defining features other than âteen boyâ become an assassin? Maybe being a ânormal kidâ was part of the problem.
> This is pretty speculative stuff, but this thread about there being something a little off about the shooterâs boymom is interesting.
> Yap clapped.
> Antifa is as real as the mafia.
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> Many are imagining what it would be like If Roles Were Reversed.
> Sam Hyde is in his fire and brimstone era.
đ„A/V of the Weekđ„
> Sam Hydeâs âThis is Youâ monologue at 4.5M views is going to go down as one of the yearâs most iconic images.
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debates feminist philosopher Kate Phelan on whether masculinity is imposed by power to oppress women or if it arises organically to meet their needs on the podcast.>
discusses Italyâs Years of Lead with , when tit-for-tat political violence reigned.>
hosts Jack Mason of the Perfume Nationalist for hours of relentless vitriol hurled toward the assorted phonies, quislings, and *gulp,* anons that populate the New Right.đ°Reads of the Week đ°
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gives a primer on meme literacy for easily-duped, irony-blind oldsters who are being told by âinternet expertsâ that the Charlie Kirk shooter was âextremely-onlineâ but itâs impossible to speculate about his true political orientation (also check out their second banger of the week, a fascinating look at the Free Brazil movement).You should not be so quick to believe that people have done drastic action for subconscious reasons when a conscious explanation is immediately obvious. If it seemed unbelievable to you that somebody would carve onto a bullet âHey Fascist, Catch!â, without the idea that they would be shooting a fascist, then that is because it is unbelievable.
> OK maybe we canât blame the internet, but there is something weird going on in its deepest corners. An anonymous contributor to
âs blog pans their flashlight over a space that even the internet experts are missing.On a forum like /leftypol/ the edgy for the sake of edgy personalities are treated more like lolcows, and its the strict ideologue who can post pages and pages of arguments and sources who is the ideal, whereas on /pol/ it is the reverse. It is a cult of theory more than a cult of memes, one that just so happens to maintain the rhetorical traditions of old school imageboards.
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thinks the time for friendly dialogue is over, there will be no compromise: the right must crush the opposition.You cannot give trans mommies the right to castrate their children without abolishing child abuse as a concept⊠you also canât ban childhood transition without the trans mommies accusing you (consistently, from within their perspective) of withholding life-saving medical care from children. There is no middle way.
> To memorialize Charlie Kirk, we turn to
, one of his peers whose Sanctimony Meter is ever set to âzero.ââŠsuch a moralistic framing doesnât achieve anything useful other than granting you temporary emotional catharsis. If you want to meaningfully reduce the incidence rate of shit like this you actually need to understand WHY someone would throw their life away simply to cause pain, which means game theoretically projecting out what makes sense given their own values and rational interests.
You wonât form heuristics with any predictive or explanatory power if you just shout âhe cwazy!â the moment a dude stops following the rules of a systemâŠ
> Thereâs a lot of talk flying around about the Constitution only ever being used to stop the right from breaking the rules, but
is here to warn against doing away with it.Whatever you may think of its practical ability to lead us from where we are now to a place weâd prefer to be in the future (e.g. escaping debt slavery), know that getting to a better place will require leadership from people of character. To Samâs sentiment that the Constitution is a âfuckinâ toilet ragâ, it wasnât ever the âragâ that made America great, it was the people willing to die to support and defend a particular people and their preferred norms against foreign and domestic enemies. These people have, and always will, take their oaths seriously.
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makes the case against taking your murderous son out back behind the tool shed and giving him the Old Yeller treatment.Turning in your murderous son isnât a betrayal of your kin. Itâs upholding the values you should adhere to as man of the West. Impersonal authority is a crucial ingredient to our civilization and allowed us to rise above the petty squabbles of primitive society.
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summarizes the last half-century of minority activism and places gendermania as the end of the line.And so it has gone, from one âmarginalizedâ and âoppressed minorityâ after another until all that liberalism (and their official org, the Democratic Party) had left in the 2020s was the tiniest subculture in the country: people who fantasized about becoming the opposite sex. That group was much encouraged by the medical establishment so narcissistically enchanted by their surgical skills and manipulations of hormonal chemistry (and the money it generated) that they recruited ever more subjects for their experiments.
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highlights the unsavory connections between the UK Right and scummy, scammy crypto companies.âŠin the relative absence of conventional donors, right-wing populists of various shades have become vulnerable to the overtures of cryptocurrency investors. In turn, cryptocurrency investors, shunned by the political mainstream and high on their own anti-establishment rhetoric, are almost magnetically drawn to right-wing populists. This is therefore a natural marriage of interests, but not necessarily a healthy one.
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is remembering, like many of us, Italyâs Years of Lead. Fortunately, weâre not going to have open organized violence. But we will have lone goonmen until we are ready to make a choice between order and chaos.It is half past eight in Remuria. From my window, I can see a clear truth. You can either have a Via dell'Impero, or a Piazzale dei Partigiani, a George Washington Avenue, or a George Floyd Square. Romulus and Remus cannot co-exist. And the first brother to realize this bitter truth, will be the brother whose name is immortalized by our descendants. The other will be thrown to the wolves.
đŠTweets of the WeekđŠ
And the đTweet of the Weekđ awards go toâŠ
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Also, on the tweet about Hickman: Iâve heard a related but reversed phenomenon invoked to explain Donald Trumpâs wild ride. Heâs a wealthy, powerful man, and has been for decades, since his visage graced the back page of Newsday rather than the front page, and yet he has legions of fans among the stagnant marginalized classes. Of course thereâs his singular personal touch, but also, he unapologetically lives the lifestyle of a Gilded Age arriviste, which is far more relatable than what the tweet describes. That is, he behaves the way that you think you might if you became rich overnight. Strange to say, but thereâs no pretension in that man*. It might be reductive or condescending (i.e. does anybody aspire to be Scrooge McDuck?) but it rings true to me.
* my mom grew up in an adjacent neighborhood in Queens and she backs it up. She says he hasnât changed in any essential way, for better and for worse. I see him as a recognizable type, that is the bastard-with-a-heart-of-gold that everyoneâs dad or uncle counts as his best and wildest friend, in my experience.
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Regarding the first tweet (X-item, what have you): I was listening to Douglas Murrayâs The Madness of Crowds. At one point, he recounts the incident at Evergreen College in Washington state where Brett Weinstein was forced out of his job after a target was painted on his back for the most laughably innocuous of reasons (IIRC, he defended his wife, Heather, who was under fire because she had pushed back in mild terms against a memo from some resident advisor counseling against any Halloween costume that could be deemed âcultural appropriationâ.)
Now, Iâm sure I could find plenty to disagree with among the views of these two scholars, but they seem like thoughtful, humane people. Murray describes a charged encounter between Weinstein and the student mob, and my God. I was shocked, and Iâm saying that as someone who mostly grew up in the Internet age. The corrupt hatred, the vile ugliness of the inventive spewed at this man was something Iâd never encountered (although it was too easy to hear it in the correct pitch in my head, despite Murrayâs mild English accent.) Where does this rage come from?? What is it that they resent so?? Disaffection of the times aside, if you are not only a resident of Washington state but a student at Evergreen College, I assert that you have it pretty good. I guess itâs natural to think you know better than your elders, I certainly did at one time, but the violent warp spasms of hatred I do not understand. I think they wouldâve laid him out Cincinnati-style if they could have.
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