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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 2mo ago with 15 replies received politics

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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 2w ago with 22 replies received politics nietzsche

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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... 5d ago received

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Budapest, Revisited. Can we build cool new stuff?
Pokorny is a breath of flowery fresh air, despite this piece in reality being an indictment of Orbán's blip-on-the-historical-radar regime's aesthetics of 'kitsch atop concrete'. Is it in fact possible to build works of great splendor anew, with strange a... (www.jaccusepaper.co.uk) posted 1w ago with no replies received politics

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The Second Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student. Political fiction of Meritocracy
The J'Accuse people (and Amarnites in general) are up to something interesting but I don't entirely understand it. This little story starts out describing the "Examinations of the Crossworld Meritocracy", a ritualized gaokao for citizens of a future politi... (substack.com) posted 2mo ago with 2 replies received politics eugenics

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Careful lionizing the majority of shonen-slop anime. Any true student of anime knows the japs have fallen off and have gotten increasingly tied up in uncreative repetition of dumb tropes much as our own "extended marvel cinematic universe" has taken to sim... 1w ago received

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Quinlan Terry's Career Retrospective
Quinlan Terry is probably the most eminent classical architect in Britain today. He is the favorite of King Charles III, and someone I admire for his lifelong bravery and commitment to his ideals. This interview by his son is a fascinating portrayal of his... (www.youtube.com) posted 2w ago with no replies received politics

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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 4w ago with 10 replies received politics history

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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 ... 2w ago received

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Elon vs Trump, Tech Right dead?
It was always an unlikely coalition but it seems to be over. Trump is effectively selling national socialism of a sort and the tech right wants global capitalism, with some protections against China at home but nothing beyond that.... posted 1mo ago with 7 replies received politics

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Which is to say, the scope within which Elon is successful is quite circumscribed. The federal government is nothing like a company in which one has controlling ownership. Not even for the president, much less for someone he has appointed. I doubt Elon cou... 1mo ago received

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Democracy in America or Modernity in Democracy?
From a twitter post today by Tanner Greer (https://x.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1928597464006738035?t=Cper8b-TzL9_zK8Ggzw-zA&s=19) :... (x.com) posted 1mo ago with 3 replies received politics history

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The elimination of the upper class as a self-conscious, self-contained entity is definitely part of it, both in Europe and in certain parts of America. You did have the transition from an aristocracy based on the ownership of productive land towards a more... 1mo ago received

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How many civilizations are there ?
People fall into 2 camps when talking about civilization. Either they speak of 1 global civilization, or of distinct civilizations as politico-cultural units. Huntington is perhaps the best expression of this latter confused conceptualization (is it cultur... posted 2mo ago with 7 replies received politics history

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I don't think that I am missing the point nor do I disagree with you. It is necessary both to be abstract and concrete. You see pundits talking about high minded ideals like "defending Western civilization", making sure "Civilization doesn't collapse", pre... 2mo ago received

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What can we learn from Chinese political theory?
A lot of threads that I saw focused on the economic differences between China and the US. However, China also seems to have its own vibrant community of political theorist, trying to synthesize something new from Confucianism, Marxism and Liberalism (see h... posted 2mo ago with 1 reply received politics

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Nice post, these are the right questions to be asking. Mao definitely cooked up something new by running a version of Marxism that worked and inventing novel military strategy. At the same time though, I think 90% of the picture can be described by the CCP... 2mo 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 2mo ago with 5 replies received politics

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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... 2mo ago received

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Imperium
Has anyone here read F.P. Yockey's Imperium? If so, do you think it is possible to overcome cultural distortion in the current state of affairs and establish a pan-Western Empire? What do you think the world would look like in such a case? posted 3mo ago with 27 replies received politics history bookclub

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https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/meister-eckhart-maurice-o-c-walshe-bernard-mcginn-the-complete-mystical-works-of-meister-eckhart-the-crossroad-publishing-company-2009.pdf 3mo 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 3mo ago with 3 replies received politics eugenics

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I wrote quite a lengthy reply and then accidentally deleted it. FML. I'm not rewriting that at 5 am.... 3mo ago received

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Advice for smart, right-leaning zoomers
This post is from friend of mine whom I met at a right wing conference. He’s very intelligent and funny, I thought a lot of these tips were very good, some I hadn’t heard before. I am doing most of them pretty well and am beginning to find a path for m... (open.substack.com) posted 4mo ago with 4 replies received politics

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Here's a piece of advice: if you haven't already, drop everything you are doing, fly to Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia or some other hellhole, and spend a month there to take it all in. 4mo ago received

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Trump Admin 2 Months In
The Trump 47 administration has been in office roughly 2 months. I created this thread so people can discuss their actions, where they’ve been succeeding, and where they can to do better.... (www.bbc.com) posted 4mo ago with 8 replies received politics news

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this 1999 stormfront framing of the issue is weak and vulgar. It presumes way too much from grievance group ethics and just tries to get the white man in on the moral patient grift. The real issue here is european civilization as a transcendent higher thin... 4mo ago received

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internet supplants america
Modern Americans have outgrown our republic.... posted 5mo ago with 6 replies received politics technology

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Ah sorry, I meant a migration **from the physical to the digital world.... 5mo 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 5mo ago with 10 replies received politics accelerationism

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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:... 5mo ago received

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The Greater East Asia War
>Did our Greater East Asia War really result in total defeat? The former colonies that became battlegrounds all gained their independence during or after the war, and they have not fallen into white hands again. What are we to make of this fact? In the pos... (ihr.org) posted 5mo ago with 7 replies received politics

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Well guess what, it didn't end on the Korean Peninsula and so it's actually still a stalemate. New ideas are needed.... 5mo ago received

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Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
Thread for discussion of the recent interview of Curtis Yarvin for the New York Times. I thought this was a great interview and am still in awe that the Times published this. Seemed unimaginable 4 years ago. My thoughts will be the first reply. Feel free t... (archive.is) posted 6mo ago with 6 replies received politics news

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Its the election-related preference cascade. With trump winning as hard as he did, the mercenaries realized they would have to work with trump, the left realized they didn’t know how to oppose the right anymore, and the right realized they wouldn't be op... 6mo ago received

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Against Yarvin's Absolute Monarchy
I recently watched the Yarvin interview on NYT. I want to argue against Yarvin’s position on monarchy. Yarvin makes his typical argument in favor of monarchy: ‘look around you, everything here in this room is built by a monarchy’ and ‘NYT is a 5th ... posted 6mo ago with 7 replies received politics

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Monarchy in Yarvin's sense (per OP) need not be hereditary and typically is not.... 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 2y ago with 9 replies received politics

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The Grimm Brothers saw language as the repository of a people's culture. And so linguistic spheres of influence have effectively become cultural spheres of influence. I don't think the issue here is necessarily the size of the speech community, but rather ... 8mo ago received

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"Trump's America"
I would assume some of you might be celebrating, others don't have high expectations of the upcoming administration.... posted 9mo ago with 10 replies received politics news

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Busting leftist patronage networks could go very far. Suppose they busted *all* leftist patronage networks to the same extent the right has been repressed. 8mo ago received

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A Sketch of Near Future Political Prognosis
I want to speculate for a minute about what kind of revolutionary or reform potential exists in our political-economic system as the current era of boomer senility and liberalism reaches its breaking point. I'm going to skip over a lot of reasoning here fo... posted 9mo ago with 4 replies received politics

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This is a good point. Mere selectivity and a particular culture isn't enough to work in the way I'm speculating will become more normal. The key is going to be ability to actually reproduce human capital, not ability to attract and shape. I'll believe Spac... 9mo ago received

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We need to make mental-firmware for normies
I was talking to my normie parents (Harvard educated, Clinton supporters) about the presidential debate. My parents think I support Trump, but when politics is brought up, I say "both are bad" and divert the conversation.... posted 13mo ago with 5 replies received politics

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As an example of an institution that is attempting to generate a semblance of autocthonic legitimacy from relatively non-elitist material, see https://www.mcucoop.com/ 11mo ago received

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Road trip week 5, 6: The wedding, public land, overpopulation, underpopulation, unsociety.
The road trip at the end of week 5 took us across the bay to celebrate the wedding of an old friend and teacher. I didn't know what to expect, but it was delightfully well done. Congratulations to the couple.... posted 13mo ago with 1 reply received politics

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Nevada is the open road radicalized and extended into a whole state. This actually makes it quite pleasant. Almost everything is public land, and underpopulated enough that you can do whatever you want. You can just drive off into the bush and camp, and ev... 13mo 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 13mo ago with 14 replies received politics rationality

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Right, you can't serious probe and weigh these questions without getting into questions of ends that are ultimately not utilitarianism.... 13mo ago received

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The internet social apocalypse and its solutions
folks over on twitter are complaining that all the twisty little passages full of unique social subcultures have been dissolved into a single global free market of slop. Elon giveth, and Elon taketh away. It seemed like an interesting topic so let's have a... posted 13mo ago with 9 replies received politics

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Instead of being nostalgic, it occurred to me that I might give an example of a platform that has survived the social apocalypse...... 13mo ago received

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Throne, Altar, Freehold. Jim.com's classic defense of monarchist libertarianism
https://blog.reaction.la/economics/throne-altar-and-freehold/ posted 13mo ago with no replies received politics

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Silicon Valley's Military Fever Dream
Thank goodness I can just Ctrl-A Ctrl-P before the paywall shows up. That was a close one. It does appear that Silicon Valley wants to appear more chad, so to speak. Perhaps nerds have too much of a reputation for being hunchbacked and quiet, as the articl... (www.forbes.com) posted 1y ago with 24 replies received politics technology

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I looked to President Eisenhower in his inaugural address for guidance... 13mo ago received

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Soil and Blood: A Defense of Magical Dirt Theory
Consider the development of a particular man under two different ecosystem inputs.... posted 1y ago with 39 replies received politics eugenics

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To be clear, I'm not denying that there are hard materialists, some them quite loud. What I'm describing as false is that the bad conclusions actually follow from mathematical physics. I'm objecting to your attribution of them to... 1y ago received

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On Religion
IMO, the #1 insight I've absorbed from our general sphere is a far better grasp of the holistic significance of religion and theology within human society. In this regard, I found Wolf's article on Abraham especially insightful. I especially owe him for hi... posted 1y ago with 13 replies received politics philosophy

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Glorious. Right on. With respect to the other transcendentals, I've recently been thinking the way we should launch this philosophical movement is radicalizing around the natural law ("The Idea") operationalization of Truth. Beauty is very charismatic, but... 1y ago received

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El Salvador Questions Thread
I’ve been to El Salvador twice recently and have spent over two months there. It’s a great spot, I loved my trips both times and will return.... posted 1y ago with 20 replies received politics

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Thanks, that's a good read. I still wish I could find more detail about how he secured the loyalty of his security forces and police and got them to "defect" in a certain sense from the previous regime as well as from the gangs. My understanding is that in... 1y ago received

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How do you make yourself a Nazi?
“1) Wherever there is impersonality and chance, introduce conspiracy, lucidity, and malice. Look for enemies everywhere, ensuring that they are such that one can simultaneously envy and condemn them. Proliferate new subjectivities; racial subjects, natio... posted 1y ago with 10 replies received politics

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The better known version of this thesis is Burnham's Managerial State, which many think would more precisely be called the administrative state. That some version of this is true is pretty uncontroversial in our circles. Calling it "fascism" is a kind of p... 1y ago received

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Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on Twitter? A little something on what we're up against.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/who-is-behind-all-the-pussy-in-bio-porn-spam-on-x.html posted 1y ago with 6 replies received politics technology

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1. Urbit is not designed to be uncensorable, nor is it particularly useful for our purposes.... 1y ago received

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Heredity and Character
Today’s “scientific racists” sometimes tend to discard all of human psychology except for IQ, because IQ is almost the only part of psychology that’s been quantified in a way that adds more signal than noise. This isn’t unique to the study of rac... posted 1y ago with 18 replies received politics eugenics

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Arguably we got mathematical science from the greeks, but I'd love to see a good historical analysis of how that happened. What greek texts were Newton and his predecessors reading? 1y 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 1y ago with 15 replies received politics

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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. 1y ago received

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Should we read Foucault?
It seems silly to invite strangers to read with me parts of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) by Michel Foucault. I assume everyone has read it. A foundational text! But I realize I’m basing tha... posted 1y ago with 10 replies received politics bookclub

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I must say, his methods for resisting power are intended for the mentally ill and homosexuals, if those should be separated, but his conceptions of those categories are different from those popularly used at present, and they can still be adapted for other... 1y 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 1y ago with 37 replies received politics eugenics bookclub

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Agreed, the cover is what provides security, and provides a barrier to external threats (impeccability). For an internet community, especially considering possible threat models, this sort of barrier is far stronger than material security, say, in the form... 1y ago received

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Who is Portugal For? (and what's the point of democracy anymore?)
https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/02/23/who-is-portugal-for/ posted 1y ago with 12 replies received politics

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Indeed. The difference between what seems possible according to the world of ideas and what actually is possible is potentially large and always the essence of the game. This is why I'm not sure we can put too much stock in the "it can't reference or be mi... 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 2y ago with 9 replies received politics

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Nice trips. For me, I take a hard line on drugs of all kinds. I don't believe they are ever a good idea. Drugs basically just temporarily destroy part of your physiological or psychological balance. If you're depressed, there is some physiological or circu... 1y ago received

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