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The Active Club Model
A fellow sofer put me onto the "Active Club" idea: form a squad of guys to hold each other to a standard of handsome fitness, meet up and hike and practice boxing, talk politics, build brotherhood, make propaganda videos to promote your crew, and so on. It... posted 2w ago with 5 replies received politics coordination

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The basic concept is obviously great. You're getting too indexed on the WN angle.... 2w ago received

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Is the faction of truth going to amount to anything?
Despite all the disorganization and confused populism, it seems there is something of a new world coming into being from "the right". It's young, secular, nationalistic, technocratic, irreverent, and anticorruption. It is what drove the energy of Trump's c... posted 2mo ago with 17 replies received politics philosophy

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thanks for the recap. some quick reactions:... 4w ago received

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This is a good tactic when working within an existing normie institution. When one has more of a free hand, it's often better to be more intentional. 2w ago received

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Development is the Hard Truth
We open with this incredible line from Deng Xiaoping: "development is the hard truth".... posted 10mo ago with 17 replies received politics fieldtrip

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What all successful ruling elites seem to do is picking the parts of their nominal ideology that work, while ignoring the parts that don't work.... 10mo ago received

What all successful received

All of your politicians want to rhetoricize and play theater kid about the war against Authoritarian Russia, while Rheinmetal overengineers a solid half dozen tanks to get blown apart by old fashioned forged-steel 152mm (to say nothing of autonomous system... 3w ago received

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How did Effective Altruism get so big?
I disagree with many of the views behind EA, but I've been fascinated by how they managed to make institutions, build a scene, start companies, NGOs, get funding, etc.... posted 2y ago with 30 replies received politics rationality family

How did Effective Al received

I'm writing a longer article about this but my basic analysis is that the EAs have one big virtue they are fairly unique on: they treat money as a strategic resource to be disposed of rapidly for effective impact, whereas everyone else treats money like a ... 2y ago received

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Some good stuff here on the ideological and intellectual content of Effective Altruism, and how that package fit the zeitgeist. That's half the story.... 2y ago received

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okay man, it's been two years. where's the article? 3w ago received

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On the Mixing and Purification of the English Race
The ongoing breakdown of the Yookay state has produced some new kino: Jacob Reese-Mogg dressed up in traditional English attire calling the English "non-Aryan" mongrels while asking them die in a war. Besides the polemical nonsense caption, much of what he... posted 3w ago with 2 replies received politics immigration

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Yeah this is what I'm arguing. Yes races are product of mixture in long past, but the attain value by long cultivation towards ideals, which the english have done. To mix them at that point of high cultivation with random crud from around the world is to c... 3w ago received

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Ivy League White Nationalism?
Since the 1960s, overt white nationalism has been a mostly lower class and even prison gang sort of thing, at least in public. You have your Jared Taylor, William Luther Pierce, and Richard Spencer types attempting and occasionally succeeding at a genteel ... posted 4w ago with 20 replies received politics eugenics immigration

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If western people's are to develop some form of ingroup preference again they will need some more firm standing and ways to maintain their alliances, as seafaring peoples they often come in contact with foreigners and will need to be able to recruit their ... 4w ago received

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because I'm not white... 3w ago received

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Idea: Palladium Institute for Governance Futurism.
I love Palladium magazine and what they started.... (www.phenomenalworld.org) posted 7mo ago with 19 replies received politics bookclub

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I like this idea. I've been cooking something like this, about to raise money. Basically, we're starting such an institution with media and conferences. All the forward deployed philosopher mentoring and all this can basically be built out from there. We g... 7mo ago received

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Ask through the network and try advertising through xitter, seems to be the primary RW public forum nowadays. I'm zillenial and have some zoomer friends that would have even more zoomer friends of which, from the pool, there is surely one or two guys worth... 4w ago received

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The Dallas Forum
Last week our generous zcash patrons took a group of us San Francisco eggheads out to Forum's event, a side event held alongside the Republican midterm convention in Dallas. This was a gathering of online chud right people from a few different strands of t... (dailycaller.com) posted 4w ago with 2 replies received politics coordination immigration

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I was just writing up my own report on it. Here were some of the things I noticed:... 4w ago received

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The Libertarian Revolution in New Hampshire
I knew the woke era was over when I arrived in New Hampshire in mid 2024. The libertarian Free State Project had taken over half the republican party and was well organized, debating how to clean up crime and homelessness, develop economic infrastructure, ... posted 1mo ago with 3 replies received politics fieldtrip

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There was a preference cascade but there remains a whole lot of build up stress, we may have undergone the phase transition from solid to liquid, but there's plenty of that potential left to pop over into Gas. I have been keeping my eye on the Free state P... 1mo ago received

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Let's go to Brazil to observe Partido Missao
One of the most interesting political movements in the western hemisphere is the Movimento Brazil Livre (MBL) and their Partido Missao under Renan Santos. They are young, technocratic, unapologetic, popular, and very clever. They are our guys, and a great ... posted 2mo ago with 3 replies received politics fieldtrip

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Also very interested in concrete suggestions in the other direction: What lessons can we take from Missão that are applicable in SF, e.g., for expansion of the Students? 1mo ago received

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War by Other Means — PALLADIUM Magazine
By John Severini.... (letter.palladiummag.com) posted 1mo ago with 2 replies received politics

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i wonder how much the failure of conscription was just the obvious stupidity of the Vietnam war and by that point illegitimacy of the country. I would bet a napoleonic charismatic state project would be able to project a lot more force than sclerotic post-... 1mo ago received

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Post-war democracy is abdicating legitimacy for the sake of corruption and mass immigration
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has attempted to ban Renan Santos from campaigning on a selectively enforced technicality (though backed down). The German state constantly flirts with the idea of banning AfD, the most popular opposition party. In respons... posted 2mo ago with no replies received politics news

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The New Economic Engine
From our gracious host's latest, we once are left with the question of what the new economic engine may be to save us from the inevitable Quiglian decay. I believe we should be able to make headway here.... (youtu.be) posted 4mo ago with 9 replies received politics economics

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I believe there is, of course the possibility that such new economic engine will not be counter bureaucracy but instead, competent, bureaucracy itself. By this, I mean a for profit, manipulative surveillance state. This for obvious reasons is socially repu... 4mo ago received

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The life of the mind only requires that one is not forced into tedious, difficult, daily labors. Anyone in the west can find a way to live off of welfare and live the life Nietzsche lived, its not expensive. Where are the philosophers?... 3mo ago received

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On American Political Aesthetics
American politics used to be visually impressive. Today, they are visually ugly. All sides are aesthetically incompetent.... (x.com) posted 1y ago with 36 replies received politics history fieldtrip

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Broader Western aesthetic decline is an separate question.... 1y ago received

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I've been enjoying the "greco futurism" work from Peniche. He should post more of that here. It's high tech, humanistic, warm, aspirational, luxury, grand, western, traditional, archeofuturistic. I agree we've got to kill cyberpunk. It's just dystopian and... 1y ago received

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Well boys, I've got good news and I've got bad news.... 4mo ago received

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Is China our main enemy, or a distraction?
Some debate recently broke out in the local cell about whether "beating China" is a useful goal to orient around, and in particular whether China is our main enemy. On the yes side we have allegations that China is behind fentanyl, AI deceleration, boomer ... posted 6mo ago with 16 replies received politics fieldtrip

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Imho this is the wrong framing, and it's not a productive dichotomy. Specifically because the word enemy is a pretty loaded term. There are significant benefits to being the most advanced techno-industrial state including both for material prosperity and g... 5mo ago received

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Where is the lie? 5mo ago received

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How to buy fent with EBT in San Francisco
Pablo Peniche and the SF10x boys have blown the whistle on SF's huge SNAP-to-cash fraud problem by which fent addicts get their dope paid for by the government. Basically it works like this:... (x.com) posted 6mo ago with 8 replies received politics fieldtrip

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The DA was recalled, the 'progressive' majority in the BoD was replaced with a 'moderate' majority. We have a new 'moderate' mayor. Crime and disorder markedly decreased since hitting rock bottom post-covid, even though it's still unacceptably high. It's s... 6mo ago received

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I'll take the implied tone reset here and respond without snark. The skill building and marginal activism is a good chunk of the point. It moralizes allies and demoralizes enemies. It builds the network. I wish you had clarified that you already understand... 6mo ago received

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This Thing Is Not Us. The imperative of cognitive separatism from the global american empire
I'm told "we" have a vital interest in defending Taiwan from China. Perhaps we do. Japan certainly seems to. I do like Japan. But then again, "we" also seem to have a vital interest in not quite letting Japan off the leash. I hear they are months from deve... posted 3y ago with 13 replies received politics fieldtrip

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Three questions that must always be addressed when questioning what to do in life:... 3y ago received

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We've had two years of intellectual development since the inception of this thread by the monosyllabic-nym old ones, so I want to pose a central question I had while reading. Cognitive separatism is necessary, we are actively doing it, it is starting to wo... 1y ago received

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States are tools and territory for peoples, not magical repositories of real interest
In the "high skill" immigration debate, I see people conflating the interests of "us" with those of the American state. There are arguments to be made that certain kinds of immigration are of benefit to the state. The state gets more labor and perhaps high... posted 8mo ago with 11 replies received politics immigration

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I'm going to provide the steelman, and then argue against it orthogonally, because it is a good steelman.... 7mo ago received

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Greco-futurism: Solution for NRx trichotomy
Spandrell has written about the three different sides of NRx who are against the Cathedral.... posted 7mo ago with 31 replies received politics philosophy nietzsche

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I like the idea. The plan needs work. For example:... 7mo ago received

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Hereditary monarchy was goofy renaissance fair business even in the 1930s. The leading powers (France, UK, etc) had long replaced theirs or reduced them to symbolism.... 7mo ago received

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Unamericans in America
One severely underdiscussed aspect of woke is its disastrous effect on our ability to integrate talent.... posted 9mo ago with 61 replies received politics news immigration

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Fair. I meant "woke" in a more general sense that predates the 2010s. In the 90s it was called "PC". There's a general phenomenon dating back to the 60s, but which got substantially worse recently, where:... 9mo ago received

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Disagree. If we shut down the O1 program tomorrow it would slightly reduce "non-white immigration" but it would be a big loss to the United States.... 9mo ago received

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Valid points, I agree on all counts! These are indeed important considerations. 7mo ago received

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Robots, not immigrants: My optimism on Japan's New Political Party
I spent some time in Tokyo, and got to meet some people around the newest political party "Team Mirai" (Japanese: チームみらい; lit. 'Team Future').... posted 7mo ago with 3 replies received politics news

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Very interesting, some parallels to the strategic calculus of the Mission Party in Brazil 7mo ago received

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Book Club: Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy.
Dr Alamariu dropped his groundbreaking dissertation last year and by now you have all had a chance to read it. Let's read it again and discuss. This book really hits hard doing two related things that I think are of supreme importance:... posted 3y ago with 40 replies received politics eugenics bookclub

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As the quote from Strauss (referencing Nietzsche) indicates, man's nature, unlike that of chimpanzee, extends beyond itself to nomos. There is no option to live without nomos. One can only work for a good one, one that harmonizes with and fulfills rather t... 3y ago received

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The "what are young men supposed to do" question doesn't have a clear one-line answer, as the entire history of western philosophy is the discovery that human life does not contain one-line solutions to fundamental questions.... 9mo ago received

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Reparations In Liberia?
The plight of the Negro in the Americas is one of the great injustices of the world. Forced by the legacy of slavery to live among oppressors who hate and fear them, the African diaspora has been in a miserable state for hundreds of years. The internationa... posted 10mo ago with 10 replies received politics eugenics

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The undisputed classic on Liberia, highly recommended if you have not seen it already:... 10mo ago received

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The question of American race relations is a good proxy for one of the most urgent fronts of the deep and fatal problems with philosophical egalitarianism and worldwide kumbaya integrationism. It's therefore worth dwelling on it occasionally in concrete de... 10mo ago received

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The Material Basis of Meritocracy
New article attempts to explain a world becoming more individual, less eusocial, more elitist, more meritocratic, and more extreme.... (archive.ph) posted 13mo ago with 7 replies received politics gnon

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The article seems to ignore the fact that the greatest economic and industrial success of the last fifty years is China, which simply applied the "Fordism model" for the first time and harder than ever before. 13mo ago received

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This is exactly right. To be clear, what is interesting is not the Chinese-specific aspects (e.g., Mandarin, Chinese culture & history). Even less is it the genuinely Communist aspects. Rather, it's the way in which China under Deng began to distill a part... 13mo ago received

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Which essay or blog post most shaped your worldview?
I'm particularly interested in political essays that have flown under the radar over the last decade due to censorship. posted 1y ago with 12 replies received politics bookclub

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Definitely hasn't flown under the radar, but "Politics and the English Language" is my favorite piece Orwell ever wrote, and I don't say that lightly. Required reading.... 1y ago received

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"The Posh Turn" published in J'accuse Substack reframed my entire understanding of Brexit and its enemies in the British context.... 13mo ago received

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Reading Groups and Political Mobilization
There's been some good discussion of reading lists at >>4188. I'll say a few words about a closely related topic, the reading group.... posted 1y ago with 8 replies received politics bookclub

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A number of this site's frequent posters, myself included, are trying to fix the institutions that govern us and revive our society. This requires political organization based on Truth, not just collecting a bunch of Truths and then leaning back in your ar... 1y ago received

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I’m reading Kanbunmyaku(漢文脈) by Mareshi Saito (齋藤希史) in translation. It is an exploration of what Prof. Saito calls the “literary sinitic context” or kanbunmyaku.... 14mo ago received

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What We Owe Charlie Kirk
As you've all seen by now, Charlie Kirk was martyred for having the courage to openly proclaim the ideals and realities this country was built on. I didn't agree with him about many things, but I find that I agree with him a lot more now that I've watched ... posted 14mo ago with 17 replies received politics news

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I don’t doubt there were insane people on the darkest corners of the web who said terrible things at every point of internet history, and to the extent they can be persecuted for encouraging violence, they should be.... 14mo ago received

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The third-worldification of the global internet: are private network enclaves the answer?
Following recent anon discourse on the general third-worldification of the internet, I've been pondering potential solutions.... (yggdrasil-network.github.io) posted 1y ago with 31 replies received politics technology computing

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Urbit is a prime illustration of the limits of the theorycel.... 1y ago received

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I agree with this. You may be required to pass an in-person Merit test and phenotype inspection to continue posting here.... 1y ago received

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This describes almost exactly what is explored in this: https://thebutlerian.com/posts/a_case_study.html... 1y ago received

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Race in America
I know we want to be high brow here but forgive me anons.... posted 1y ago with 33 replies received politics eugenics life

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You cannot profess a heresy without upsetting the believers. There is no clever phrasing where you deny their tenets but disclaim it in a way that makes them feel fine.... 1y ago received

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Yeah if we're doing politics, we're going to need a good and honest party line. What's the party line on race relations? I dunno let's figure it out here.... 1y ago received

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Yeah I know what Nietzsche tried to claim all this stuff was real, but he was wrong. Ultimately slave morality and master morality are just ideologies. Any other explanation of them isn't compatible with actual observation. 1y ago received

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The Dark Enlightenment and why we won the war
This is Nick Land's infamous 'The Dark Enlightenment', which was one of the first pieces of writing to seriously nudge me away from my inherited political orientation. It's great throughout, but section 4d was particularly interesting when I returned to it... (keithanyan.github.io) posted 1y ago with 12 replies received politics history

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I was too unserious in this post and unfortunately that killed its legitimacy. I was reminded of it by >>3722. There remains a big question at the center of any of our serious political thought, one which Nick Land loosely gestures at in the analysis above... 1y ago received

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I mostly don't disagree but this kind of thinking in particular is the "prussian insanity" referred to by >>3896 that caused NS to lose. We've have discussions before about how they had no external legitimacy even if it was internally coherent, because the... 1y ago received

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Drugs, generally
On my sixteenth birthday, I bought five grams of mushrooms, ate them in my bedroom, tuned my Walkman to Coast to Coast AM, flew out the window, and experienced ego death. A few months later, I took LSD sent in a Christmas card by friends on IRC. I got a ti... posted 3y ago with 18 replies received politics life

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Absolute truke. Seems like fundamentally the same idea as amphetaminutes and cybernetic lock-in from >>3695. There is something to this idea that certain drugs make people more productive and overall well-suited to 'modern life', which under a Landian fram... 1y ago received

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I don't get why people don't take psychedelics when they're in shitty psychological straits that seem to be persistent for an indefinite amount of time. I knew a lot of people in basically clinical or subclinical levels of depression throughout my life, an... 1y ago received

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Commentary vs Plans
Most discussions on the right are still largely bogged down by targeting what the left does wrong instead of formulating actual plans. Commentary vs Plans.... posted 1y ago with 15 replies received politics coordination

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Disagree with this. Many men have achieved impact from appointed office without ever winning an election, often exceeding that of the people who put them there (not to mention outlasting them). Robert Moses is a famous example. And the Chris Rufos of the w... 1y ago received

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BAP: The Right of the Stronger and the Better
BAP is sometimes obscurantist. In this essay, which only appeared in print prior, he is not obscuring anything. If one had any questions about the power core of his program, here it is on a silver platter. I personally tend to think the formation of new st... (www.bronzeagepervert.yoga) posted 1y ago with 22 replies received politics eugenics nietzsche

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Precisely. LKW also masterfully stayed within the unwritten limits, thereby cementing his impact and legacy.... 1y ago received

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We know what BAP means by "the right of the stronger and better" just like we know what Sam Hyde means by "real Americans", but that doesn't make it coherent. I'll apply that same distinction I used in >>3385 between the truth and the political formulas he... 1y ago received

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“And guess what, the US/WEF consensus generally regards him as a hero. This is completely load-bearing--it's why Singapore is well integrated into the Western world, which is the only way for a modern small state to be prosperous and reasonably sovereign... 1y ago received

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On the Erosion of Society, Erroneous Optimism, & what should replace it
By now, all can smell the new feeling in the air. Whether it be 53 BC Rome, 1787 France, or 1850s America, this pungent sensation is something all have felt prior to years of great change & strife. We may discuss the recent feuds in California, the instabi... posted 1y ago with 10 replies received politics history eugenics

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My understanding is that the biggest cities have always been fertility-negative on average for as long as we've had cities. But you are right that the most civilized types of men are the result of city-related selection. So what's going on? Would first of ... 1y ago received

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Is Islam a more appropriate starting point than Christianity for the modern Western elite?
I've been reading "Cities of God", about the history of early Christianity and how Christianity rapidly spread through the late antique Mediterranean world by filling a niche in the urban centers. (It was nearly absent in rural areas until forced conversio... posted 1y ago with 5 replies received politics history

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This will become especially true if we do end up with low-grade speciation from either some kind of genetic tampering or selective breeding between the elite. Already, you could argue that selection mechanisms in the West have led to a sort of situation li... 1y ago received

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What longform piece is missing from the Mass Deportation/Remigration discussion?
Two years ago a Palladium article was written that forcefully argued that the replacement of meritocracy with DEI wasn't simply a "design decision," but was instead sowing the seeds of an unwind of complex civilization. The article escaped the Muscular Cen... posted 1y ago with 5 replies received politics eugenics

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Sure, sounds worth writing. You should go for it.... 1y ago received

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I want to go on 2 different slightly tangents: (1) on the 'hard' vs 'soft' migration assimilation policies, with a contrast between a muscular assimilationist Singapore and an inclusionary Europe/West of 2015. (2) on the gender / age dynamics of immigratio... 1y ago received

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America isn't going to become Brazil. It already is Brazil.
According to the 2020 census, the United States was 57.8% non-Hispanic white.... posted 1y ago with 3 replies received politics eugenics

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We see this on the street every day. It's obvious the big demographic power of European civilization from the early 20th century is going and gone. Largely this was predictable and predicted a hundred years ago (Stoddard's "Rising Tide" was published 1920)... 1y ago received

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I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am.... 1y ago received

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The case for Trump's deficit-reciprocal tariff plan
I didn't get the Trump tariffs at first. It seemed like a hastily implemented half-thought economic trainwreck. Or at least that's what the stock market says. But now I think I understand some of the logic.... posted 2y ago with 9 replies received politics economics news

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I have seen intellectuals propose quite a few different galaxy-brain explanations for why a philosopher-king might do something like Trump's tariffs. Each of these explanations is internally coherent, but they're quite different from each other and often c... 2y ago received

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this criticism sounds wise but it has no substance. Who even is invoking global macro doomerism, moral narratives, or the "global trading system"? CTRL-F tells me its only you, anon. The basic subject at hand is the financial unsustainability of a trade de... 2y ago received

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Ideology is more fundamental than *just* post-hoc rationalization
Mosca argued that every ruling class justifies itself with a political formula : an ideological narrative that legitimizes power. Raw force alone is unsustainable; a widely accepted narrative makes dominance appear natural. Internally, shared ideology unif... posted 2y ago with 10 replies received politics accelerationism rationality

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I think even acts of intuitive human intelligence are often difficult to explain to other people; perhaps the metaphor of Cassandra is a good reminder how genius is often recognized far too late:... 2y ago received

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Are aesthetics really primary when seeking converts?
A common theme I see in some circles online is that many political opinions and other social convictions are downstream of aesthetics. This leads to a sort of propagandizing via art and literature, appeals to physical beauty, etc.... posted 2y ago with 15 replies received politics nietzsche

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This feels like overthinking. Mathematicians are lefty because mathematicians are academics and academics are lefty. Call it aesthetics or whatever why people are drawn to what are propagandized as beautiful ideas within their formative environments, but I... 2y ago received

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That is to say, if everyone who can be good is attempting to be good, then we need no other plans. If God is real then He will guide us; if not, then our efforts are already in vain. 2y ago received

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