#65. We wuz heirs of Isildur
Why Black Aragorn Matters, quiet carriage nationalism, the taco truck delusion, in praise of fedposting, right wing Lion King, 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 (Turbo Mode)
> Egalitarianism as conspiracy theory.
> Street heroes should expect maximum violence.
> Childless shitlibs stay childlike, destroy civilization.
> Say what you wanna say. Let the words fall out.
> A brief history of seed oils.
> People are / dying alone. No funeral.
> White male lawspergs are out. Yass queen go-to-gulag judges are in.
Spiritual cuck of the week
> Professional concern troll David French gets red and nude over a jokey implication that his wife is stepping out. This level of “how dare you sir” boomer sanctimony on the right is basically not going to exist in 10 years, thank God.
Can’t imagine getting so butthurt over a little old fashioned ribbing, unless…👀
Schizo Thread of the Week
> They are growing big-brained test-tube-baby thought leaders out in the desert.
Audio/Video of the Week
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and Wide Dog discuss the ideas behind their speculative Twitter Blue ad. While you’re at it, catch Simpson’s op-ed in AmMind about AI leaving an opening for bold right wing creators.Longreads of the Week
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on J’Aragornarius Son of La’Arathornquatius. Why care about a race-swapped Chieftain of the Dúnedain in some dorky card game for neckbeards?
> Achingly sad piece from
, who writes of blood, and yes, soil, in his examination of how El Salvador’s subsistence farmer’s were sold out by their countrymen, the elites. Dispossessed of their land, they now desperately migrate elsewhere, to inflict yet more dispossession.
> Another downer of a read from
lamenting the short future of the quiet carriage, and more generally, why we can’t have nice things.
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writes in AmCon of the American’s uncanny propensity to overlook any negative effects of immigration and multiculturalism because “hey, cool — taco trucks.”>
in Countere on warrior asceticism and the way of the samurai.> Therapists in 2000: It’s your dad’s fault you’re miserable. Therapists in 2023: It’s systemic racism’s fault you’re miserable.
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parses a dispatch from Turbo America.>
on our dead Constitution.
For more longreads, I must once again point you to
(here) and (here), who are doing more buttoned-up, more exhaustive, Substack-only roundups. Nice companion pieces to the NRP, if we may be so bold.Tweets of the Week
Another banger, well done!
Great roundup. I'm surprised you caught my article from this morning. Happy to be here.