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Abundance: A Review
The strategic genius of wokeness was that they were able to make their 20 side of the 80-20 issue seem like an overwhelming majority, using civil rights law and social media mobs. Abundance Democrats are a movement that somehow manages to make their own 80 side look like the 20 side.
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Hunter Biden just went off on the Democratic Party:
"Fuck him and everybody around him... George Clooney is not a fucking an actor. He's a brand."
"James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 fucking years."
"David Axelrod had one success in his political life and tha... See more
Greg Pricex.comPeople who scapegoat Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg miss a fundamental truth. Twitter didn’t happen to politics. Facebook didn’t happen to politics. The internet happened to politics. The shifts are structural and until we understand that, we can’t have an intelligent conversation about the state of the world. The common narratives, which are exag... See more
David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?
Goad’s analysis of race and class in America broke through to academia, in Penn State professor Shannon Sullivan’s superb 2014 book Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism. Sullivan, who is very left wing, takes a scholarly approach to Goad’s ideas and agrees with many of his conclusions.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Challengers like Meta’s Threads don’t seem like drop-in replacements for Twitter — especially since Threads head Adam Mosseri keeps saying his team will not “encourage” news on the platform. That makes Threads a comparatively tamer experience than the chaos that drove Twitter to its height. “Threads is to Twitter as methadone is to heroin,” says Kl... See more
Gopnik stresses the need for conversation and debate. This is the marketplace of ideas, in which better ideas eventually win out, allowing society to advance. This stands against the conservative position that some ideas are sacred (literally or otherwise) and must not be challenged and against the postmodern position that some ideas are dangerous
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Jim Goad is the Godfather of the New Right.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The recent obsession with identity has allowed journalists to pretend—indeed to believe—they are still speaking truth to power, still fighting on behalf of the little guy, even after they have themselves ascended to the ranks of the powerful, even when they are speaking down to an audience who, in more cases than not, have less than them on every m... See more