#64. The Year of the Shrug
#64. The Year of the Shrug
Based advertising, the e-right's war on spanking, art school edgelords, junk food humans, and much more!
Welcome to the NRP. We are publishing the absolute best of those extremely online extremists known as the new right — “All the shit that’s fit to poast.”
Threads of the Week
> Aristo shares tips on how to not get got.
> Cops are not your pals, says Remnant.
> Monuments matter, they define your culture, and you are obligated to tear down public art that degrades you, sayeth Pope Head.
> Vote Republican? That’s a terrorism. Watch the 700 Club? That’s a terrorism. Share a Quillette article about how the woke left has gone a little too far this time? Ooh, you better believe that’s a terrorism.
> Make 2023 the Year of the Shrug. Someone calls you a racist transphobe? Hit ‘em with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Ultimately, who gives a shit?
> Prometheus (2012) is a racism movie.
> The story of John Money, the spiritual grandfather to every gendergoblin walking among us (and especially to those no longer walking among us).
> Cool thread about the Chinese salvaging old WWII shipwrecks for scrap.
Shill of the Week
> Disgraced Propagandist started the first “based ad agency” called WILL, and they’ve released a speculative ad for Twitter Blue. We invite you to imagine a world where the boldest brands reject flat, globohomo rainbow slop to instead light a spark in the hearts of their audiences, and where visionary, talented artists can get real paid to pierce through the gray goo with a radiant beam of truth. Watch the spot and tell us we aren’t so fucking back.
Kerfuffle of the Week: Spanking
> Beating your children. Is it right wing? Is it lindy? Is it small-souled, lounghoused behavior? Is it Asian behavior? Will it break the samurai warrior spirit? Will it turn your kid into a cartoon villain? A divorced mustachioed janitor? Boys yes, girls no? Will even discussing this topic summon an ancient demon?
Audio/Video of the Week
> Bobby Kennedy Jr. on factory farming. You mean you don’t have a second freezer yet, anon?
> Missed this last week but people are saying this is the greatest Red Scare episode ever.
> Confirmed South African Johann Kurtz appears on the Exit podcast to talk about how one can learn a lot by keeping one’s head down within the world’s most powerful organizations. He even shares the dark secrets you’ll need to know to obtain and nail an interview when you’re not a disabled BIPOC LGBTQ+.
> Ben Sixsmith and Tom Jones discuss the uncertain future of Bongland’s sensitive young blokes.
> Myth Pilot’s first podcast appearance, talking about everything.
> Scott Mannion visits
to discuss the Anglo question, among many other things.> Paul Kingsnorth asks what comes after the moment when there’s nothing left to conserve?
>
invites Mike Kimelman of Sovereign Sunday on the pod to discuss his rise, fall, and subsequent rise.Consoomer Product of the Week
> New IM-1776 dropped. Featuring NRP stars like Lafayette Lee, Pope Head, Ben Braddock, and Darryl Cooper.
Longreads of the Week
>
writes about the euphoric pleasure of witnessing exceptionality, and what that means for the future of Equity, which seeks to crush exceptionality.>
on the redefining of healthcare as “whatever the individual needs to feel healthy,” even if our cheap, extreme body modifications fail to resolve the dissonance that frustrates us in the first place, like empty junk food calories.> Grayson Quay on the Muslim axe and the Christian bow fighting together on some enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend shit.
> IM-1776 runs a Q&A with Techno Fog and Lee Smith on the Durham report findings.
>
puts on an ill-fitting white suit to lampoon dissident chic. It’s cheesy, but we’ll toss him a few points for nailing Yarvin’s circuitous rhetorical style.
> I guess we can’t all be
. This week, he hobnobs with the art school edgelords operating on 7 layers of irony, showcasing other people’s viral videos for institutional clout.Tweets of the Week
