#76. Not real
Featuring sci-fi award hijackers, based economists, beleaguered memers, alternative transmedia ecosystems, space crusaders, turbulent flights, and 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
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makes the case for giving the lolberts their due. All the trendy edgelord positions today’s sensitive young men take were once pioneered by autistic econ freaks like Murray Rothbard. Um, we were reading Man, Economy, and State in high school, so guess you could say we’re BUILT DIFFRENT.> The FAA made your flight bumpier and blamed climate change.
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is counting on you to VOOT for based sci-fi/fantasy literature in this year’s Dragon Awards, so that for once, they don’t go to horny Tumblrina furries. We don’t know much about sci-fi, but Aristo’s list is already pissing off the right people.> Redditors will never reach the stars.
> Beautiful thread about Da Vinci’s notebooks.
> Don’t give up on Doug Mackey.
reports from this ongoing miscarriage of justice for our nation’s memer community.> Mormon holy war (… the punishment due).
> You thought American plantation owners were nasty, wait till
introduces you to the slavers and slaveholders outside of Christendom. *yanks collar* Yeesh!Audio/Video of the Week
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and Justin Murphy discuss the life of John Kennedy Toole, the author of Confederacy of Dunces, the spiritual godfather to all autistic incel forum mods.>
and interview Dave Martel to discuss the quest to take back pulp and sci-fi literature back from the cat-eye-glasses-wearing cat lady scolds, among many other things.> Gio also did a big, crucial episode on Sam Hyde and his Fishtanklive project. It’s a fascinating story about one man’s singular vision to create a truly independent, alternative media ecosystem. It’s the sort of stuff that the Sherry Turkles and Henry Jenkinses and Clay Shirkys of the world should be all over, but they aren’t, because Sam’s universe is too distasteful to serious academia, even though it’s the most interesting transmedia stuff happening right now. Thank God we have Gio. Listen to the first two hours free.
> Moldbug on BAP, discussing Elon and those pesky trads who aren’t down with his dark elf degeneracy. Did they slow his voice down, or is this California mf just really feeling himself these days?
Longreads of the Week
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on the flight from blue cities to red ones.>
on the Total Nookular Death that is lying dormant in the Ukraine.> Hedgehog’s Alan Jacobs on the theology of Pynchon.
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on what Meta’s war on Twitter means. Free my n*gga Substack.>
on the left’s swift and successful reimagining of July 4th.Tweets of the Week
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