Note: The weekly Taki post is up. This week I respond to a critic who took me to task for saying mean things about libertarianism. Behind the green door there is the Sunday podcast on some news items of the past week.
Turning Point USA is one of the many grifts from Conservative Inc. aimed at corralling young people into the pointless enterprise of modern conservatism. It is the creation of the late William T. Montgomery, a former marketing guru. He decided to turn Charlie Kirk into the modern day Billy Ray Valentine of conservatism. The result was Turning Point USA, a campus group that holds events around the country. They host 6 National Summits and 8 Regional Conferences each year.
The most recent event, which was staged in Florida this past weekend, ended in a bit of controversy when TP-USA decided to ban someone named Brandi Love. She was scheduled to address a group of teenagers as a VIP. Brandi Love, in addition to being a distinguished contributor to conservative publications, is also a retired porn actress who advertises herself as such on-line. She now uses the skills that made her a star in the oldest profession to be a star in the second oldest one.
TP-USA knew who she was before they extended the invitation and they provided her with VIP access as an honored guest. Clearly, they saw nothing wrong with having an over-the-hill porn star promoting her work to teenagers. The reason they shifted gears is they were getting mocked for it by their critics on the Right. Their critics had a field day with it as another example of how TP-USA is just another grift peddling degeneracy in the name of conservative values.
In fairness to the organizers of TP-USA, they probably assumed there was nothing wrong with having an aging porn actress at their event. After all, the Federalist website has her as a featured contributor. Sean Davis, one of the founders of the site, must think she is acceptable for young people. His partner, Ben Domenech, made this clear on Twitter over the weekend. Later he blamed anti-Semites for getting her booted, which sets up an interesting moral dynamic.
It is these sorts of things that suggest the universe has a sense of humor. Brandi Love is the prefect representative of conservatism. She is an old whore well past her prime, desperate to keep what little audience she can. Of course, conservatism is also an old whore well past its prime willing to degrade itself for attention. When you look at it objectively, Brandi Love should have been the keynote speaker. She is the near perfect representative of the conservative movement.
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at this, but it points to the primary reason that conservatism was a complete failure. It was always hollow. Despite all their pretensions, they never really stood for anything. Conservatism was nothing more than a way for the unpopular kids to get a chance to sit at the cool kids’ table. The reason they welcomed an old porn actress to their ranks was to show the cool kids they were not a bunch of stuck up prudes. They liked degeneracy too!
Beyond that, it shows that the people running TP-USA know they have nothing to offer, so they have to rely on gimmicks. Last year they got grief for having scantily clad bimbos with t-shirt guns on stage like it was spring break. They are not offering young people a chance to be a part of something important. They are offering them a chance to get drunk and have easy access to whores. Clubs in Ft. Lauderdale have more dignity than to use these tactics to get attention.
Of course, we live in an age in which conspiracy theories turn out to be previews of tomorrow’s news, so you have to wonder if this was really an error. TP-USA has been pushing degeneracy to young people since its inception. They used to have promiscuous homosexuals speak to college audiences to promote sodomy. That is how Nick Fuentes got famous. He got his fans to show up at events and ask people like Charlie Kirk why he thought anal sex was a conservative principle.
Given the times, one can be forgiven for wondering if the whole point of this operation is to be the other side of the sandwich for young people. One side is left-wing antiwhite politics, while the alternative is libertine degeneracy. It is not as if this old porn actress tried to crash the party. People at the very top of the organization reached out and invited her as a VIP. It is impossible for them to claim they did not know who she was, as that is the only reason anyone knows who she is.
It is a good example of how the market corrupts. The people running this group are sure that the marketplace must always decide. That means they measure their own efforts in terms of box office. The more tickets they sell, the better they think they are doing, even if they are peddling smut to teenagers in order to do it. They probably think this was a good result, as it got them some unearned media. Conservatism submitted to the marketplace and became just another carny act in the process.
The good news in all of this is TP-USA seems to be collapsing. Their event was lightly attended, and their on-line shows had crickets as a soundtrack. Despite the fact that young people today are terribly naïve, they still retain the ability to see through these efforts to exploit them. Yesterday men peddling nostalgia for an age that will never return are not going to get far with young people worried about being hated minorities, even if the sales pitch is festooned with smut.
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As Conservative Inc continues to crash and burn, it is truly moments like this that convince me that the Universe has a sense of humor.
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In fairness to the organizers of TP-USA, they probably assumed there was nothing wrong with having an aging porn actress at their event.
Can’t say I blame them. The God Emperor fucked porn stars, so they probably thought it was cool with peasants. Also, he’s married to a retired sex worker, and Breitbart was selling her like Jackie Kennedy come back to earth.
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I dunno why this one got so many downvotes. I hate it too, but Felix is 100 percent correct…
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There’s some Vox-ards here that really hate to be reminded just how stupid the whole “God Emperor”/”Qanon” thing was being pushed by a certain internet super genius.
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Not getting the references
Is Melania openly promoting her past as wholesome or something? Was a central point of Trump’s candidacy ever an open appeal to his playboy past?
It’s incredible the amount of people who don’t get the distinction between a former life of sin and an ongoing one.
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Agreed. It was a cheap shot at someone (Melania) who did nothing to warrant being picked on. We ought to have higher standards than that or we’re no different than the Libs.
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I suspect they might be trying to distance themselves from the genophobic Puritanical wing. Unnecessary; the Religious Right has been in the tar pit for a while now.
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Wasn’t Ashley Goldenberg the one bringing all the attention to this on Gab? The people who run this racket must think if they have got suckers to choke down everything else they have fed them, they can get them to believe a Jewish woman opposes having a porn star speak to teens because of anti-Semitism. I guess John McCain’s son in law had some opportunities to learn a few things before McCain died. I’m sure he is looking up from below cheering on Domenech.
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Pressure reveals character. Under the slightest bit of pressure, Domenech pulls the antisemitism card. Given his checkered past, it is no surprise.
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> Hey, guys, having an old porn actress speak to young people is wrong
> Dude! Cool it with the antisemitism.
It’s not even funny any more.
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Maybe there needs to be a YouTube video like the gay choir one for people to get it.
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One would imagine that the TP-USA organizers thought that featuring an actual heterosexual woman represented a hard (heh) swing to the Right. And by their standards, it may have been…
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Spectacular, Z. As always.
The dissidents really have to start jumping on this and actively targeting the youth demographic. We have nobody there except Vox Day and his comic book empire (and regular emotional hissy fits) – and Nick Fuentes. Nick is great, but he’s a kid and he is vulnerable to the gaffs and blunders that young people make.
Most of all, we must target young women. They are the most vulnerable to modern neoliberalism and libshitism, and they take their young men with them. The message to them should be: do you want to be an old whore like Brandi, or Kamala or the other strutting vaginal laughinstalks? Because as it stands right now, this is where an alarming number of our daughters are headed.
We really need some cool kids on this side of the divide.
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I’ve mentioned before that we need to redefine what is “cool”. Being cool was always about counter-culture. The kids at 4chan are experts at knocking down liberal ideas with simple memes that cut to the bone. These memes send ripples through the internet zietgiest.
Making it cool to mock celebrities is the first front of the battle. It is celebrities that funnel the rot to the impressionable youth. When the youth are reeducated to consider celebrities as nothing more than a jester you can throw rotten tomatoes at for amusement then we hamstring their influence on our youth.
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Well done Zman.
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I’m laughing at the inference
In other words, Conservatism is a cooties that turns girls into whores
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What a world for young women. Do you want to be a whore or a lesbian?
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That’s why we need a viable third party. So our girls don’t have to choose; they can be both whores and lesbians. Limiting the sexual options of women is how we ushered in the dark era of Western Civilization. We must not regress. Always progress.
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This episode is the epitome of Cuckservative Inc.’s problem: it confuses marketing with leadership.
The path ahead for young White kids is difficult. It’s not strewn with whores and free tee shirts. Indeed, half the problem is the despoiling and mind-poisoning of young White women. Leadership would first and foremost involve straight talk.
Self reliance, hard work, respect for women and demanding that they respect themselves, and determination should be the message. The solution to our problem won’t come out of a tee shirt gun. The slicker the marketing, the more likely the product is rotten.
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“Self reliance, hard work, respect for women and demanding that they respect themselves, and determination” This is kind of underwhelming and would fit on a t shirt shot out of a cannon. No offense.
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Hey man, I for one would buy that t-shirt. Or at least I’d elbow my drunk neighbor aside and face palm a couple other dudes to jump up and catch that shirt after its shot out of a cannon.
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I dunno, I think God’s gonna have to be involved in a fight against Satan. But hey what do I know.
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As long as God and Satan will be wearing complimentary “I’m with stupid” t-shirts…
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Bootstraps, guys! Learn where they are!
100 thumbs up, Captain.
The problem is it is a hard sell. My daughter is a great example: back in the days when the education scam was going full tilt, she was enrolled in the sciences at a reputable university. She – like all the kids I suppose – hated it. She was always swamped, she never got a break and was always under pressure. One day she stole some time to go to a no-name college for their open house, and came across some beardo at one of the exhibits for a fine art course. The guy had a man-bun, but knew the ins and outs of sales, university life and hardships – and made the pitch. “Why work 50 hours a week when you can party your way to a degree? Student loan forms are right here! Take a brochure! Show it to your friends! Do you want a future paying bills, or one doing something you love? Follow your dreams, and the money will follow that!”
Contrast that with the message from her grumpy old father, telling her that there is no money in fine arts, that the good life costs, and is something you have to plan and work and sacrifice for, blah blah blah. I couldn’t dissuade her, and that one went exactly as you would expect.
How do dissidents market against that? These poor kids get suckered, and then get out into the real world and go insane when it turns out to be far different than the one they were educated and trained to meet.
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The problem is that some small percentage of the kids that go the easy route will succeed and go on to flaunt their lifestyle on social media. This ensures that the pipeline of suckers going in never really stops. It’s no different than inner-city blacks and their NBA aspirations.
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I suspect we could demonstrate that for every “social influencer” promoting their super cool lifestyle as a fine arts major or professional athlete we could provide 100 examples of the losers that choose that path that work at burger king in their early 30s living with their parents and driving a used piece of shit.
Its almost like we need an anti-social media platform, to exploit the losers as examples of the lies.
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Hey, it’s not that bad being a BFA! It’s actually a pretty good major for self-starters who want a degree for whatever reason. The hustle of it, the lack of structure, etc., actually suits some quite well. Admittedly few, though.
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Its called real life and that is exactly what we are competing against.
American Kids
1984 what do you want to be when you grow up?: “Astronaut!”
2021 what do you want to be when you grow up?: “You tube star!”
Those 100:1 failed cases are nothing in a culture of individual exceptionalism steeped in performative narcissism. All those camera phones are not pointed at the stars or the homeless camps; they are in perpetual selfie mode.
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Kind of outside looking in as although I like checking in with the “artist field”, I never had a desire (or, alas, ability) to work in it, but what scares me more than the failures is what it takes to earn a paycheck in that field. It’s a field where frequently “good enough” is okay and there are people (like me) with no training whatsoever who can crank out “good enough” on a part time basis. To aspiring arteests I say, go to someplace like Behance (Adobe’s pro-artist version of LinkedIn), do you think you can do stuff like that? Not just once, but every day, with a public face while tirelessly self-promoting (thus why they all use Behance)? There is not a second that I envy the people in that field who have to rely on their work to make a house payment.
“How do dissidents market against that?”
By using our own propaganda. I notice that the girl’s father did indeed attempt to tell her, so evidently this won’t always work. Which leads to the next thing that her father (sadly), at that time, could not possibly have known:
Don’t send your child to be educated by people who hate you and what you value.
If you’re in doubt, do a bit of research. One of my favourites was picking the name of a school, and finding a list of people who worked there. Usually they are young women, old trollops or soy males. Then look at what they say on Twitter. Revealing.
To be fair to the girl’s father, and fathers of yester-decade, this sort of research was probably not possible to do. We have paid a huge price for our trusting nature.
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Any improvements on the home front, Glen?
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Why would a young woman be in college in the first place, except to find a husband or prepare herself to run his household?
“The path ahead for young White kids is difficult.”
You’re right, but some will have a far better time of it than others. I’m thinking of white kids in fractured families, sent to state schools. Or white kids whose parents are together, but they just don’t care all that much, and so push their kids into state schools. White kids with no parents? That’s a tough one right there. And very sad to realise.
But there is one group of children who I hope will be able to weather the storm of terror: white kids born to like-minded traditional (perhaps ‘dissident’) parents. The biggest obstacle that this sort will face will be The System preventing home schooling. How likely that is near term, I am not sure. Also, the fewer that do it, the less attention it attracts… but that’s a dilemma too, seeing as it needs to attract attention. It needs to get bigger. The mass ought to swell.
For me personally, I could not take being forced by The System to send my kids to their propaganda pens. I have had serious thoughts about what to do in such an event – and I don’t want to leave England. I don’t think I could. I want to fly my St George in the face of every abominable Woke-tard that can see it. The swine. I want them to know that I hate them. I want my sons to do the same. Anyway, these make for terrifying thoughts, but the key at the moment is education – i.e. making sure your kids have a good one, that is not anti-white.
On a positive note, I don’t mention home schooling too much to many people, but when I have, I have had far more favourable reactions than in previous times. A lot of whites, normals, are picking up on the anti-white stuff, and that is good. Also, many are dissatisfied with state schools. A lady I know is struggling with her twenty year old daughter, whose boyfriend is heavily into the BLM crap. This kid pretty much dumps on her mother with the ‘white privilege’, ‘white supremacist’ stuff that so many here have seen loved ones go through. I told her: school did this. The media did this.
Covid jab reaction update: A chap of my acquaintance dragged his wife to the football. The wife caught The China Flu. The wife thought she was protected as she was ‘twice vaccinated’. The wife has been in bed since Thursday last.
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I got in trouble at my old job when it was apparent that the marketing department was overtaking the communications department that I worked in. I was overheard at lunch stating: “you only need a marketing department when your product or service can no longer sell itself”. Needless to say I hurt some career bitches feelings and had to make penance for my sins, overseen by HR, of course.
I do truly detest marketing and marketers.
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Get control of what they consume via their phones or give them reasons to exist without their phones. Generations of addicts. Something must be removed from the equation. How does responsibility, grace, and modesty compete with envy, vanity, and dopamine?
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“Self reliance, hard work, respect for women and demanding that they respect themselves, and determination should be the message.”
FTW, in other words. Amateur branding 🙂
A central problem is cause-effect delinkage. Certain people with connections can scam millions. Young white persons can apply themselves diligently in college and then be excluded via affirmative action. Etc.
Conservative can mean saving / rationing / investing for a greater result via compounding. But, if one works and saves and invests, will it pay off, or will an interloper simply wolf it down?
The highly evolved can do the right thing just because it’s right. An expectation of consistency in rules is a key piece to helping motivate people to do the right thing.
Haha to the Billy Ray Valentine reference. Trading Places used to be one of my favorite movies until I realized it pushes many of the ideas that have taken down the US: nurture over nature, smart hookers, it’s the evil greedy WASP bankers who are the problem. So entertaining yet, like Animal House, presents a hateful clownish version of UPC/WASP America. Devon Stack should have a look at both those films.
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Caddyshack is another example of movies my generation loved. I never saw the attack on WASP culture back then, but that was a common theme they hammered home in many movies and TV shows. It’s almost like there was a plan or something…..
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Yes, mass culture back in the ’70’s and 80’s was a lot healthier than it is today, and a lot better, but the poison was there, no doubt. When you watch old shows that era with awareness, it’s everywhere.
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Heh. Watched it again a couple of years back. Judge Smails, the uptight WASP. Then Dangerfield as the funny and crude, new moneyed Jew. I got the message.
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All of Dangerfield’s work is anti-WASP. Back then it just felt like anti-elite/working-class-slob humor. Now, it has a different vibe.
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I am looking forward to the wet T-shirt and banana eating contests next year.
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Worked for AOC.
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I just referred to white people as “non-semitic white people” to someone. I got no comment or push back but I have no doubt it registered. Interesting.
Also, I watched Lethal Weapon a couple days ago. There’s a scene when Murtagh and Riggs are at the range talking about who was in bed with the girl that got killed when they realized she could have been in bed with a woman and Riggs says “Gross. But that could be it” . So in the 80s it was considered gross two women together. Think about that.
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“So in the 80s it was considered gross two women together. Think about that.”
Fast forward to that coors light commercial in the late 90s “And TWINS!”
https://youtu.be/UfH2mgOnM-k
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Always liked the Derb’s take on homosexuality.
Basically women’s homosexuality was mildly amusing, and male homosexuality was mildly disgusting.
That seems fair. Humans have a much wider range of emotions that “HATE!” and “LOVE!” Not that you’d know it on the binary internet.
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Heh. Good old Mel. Mind you, he used to always be getting in trouble for saying the naughties about the semitic whites. What happened?
Also, thanks for reminding me of Lethal Weapon. I planning on purchasing some DVDs of old action films I used to enjoy but didn’t have (The Rock, Con Air, First Blood,…) and this’ll be a great addition.
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I remember the change distinctly
I grew up in Tampa, and the first Hooters opened across the bay in Clearwater. Their first big star was a girl, I think Cheryl Austin. I think she went on to playboy and married a baseball player.
But anyway. Tampa was not a big city, and there was a club called Ocean Club and various local stars would go there, such as the Bucs players. Ms Austin was also a regular, and her big thing was she the was the first hot chick to dance with another hot chick and basically have mock sex on the dance floor. Everyone was Oooh and Aaah. Lesbians. Wow.
Then girl on girl became mainstream. But I remember where it started, at least in my life. Incidentally it was around this time, actually several years before, where it became edgy cool for guys to admit they masturbated. The punk rockers were big into that. Life was never the same. These little things that change it.
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Correction: Lynne Austin
I knew it was one of those pornstar type names
Options for white women:
1. Married, traditional, mother of many
2. Over credentialed, Corporate, day-care child or two, emasculated husband.
3. Carousel riding, tattooed, pierced, medicated and smelling of kitty litter.
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4. You can have it all! Here’s how: follow me on insta!
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I just don’t know how many of the people suckered by this kind of thing will ever make it to the dissident side. Most of them are people who never got over being passed up for the varsity team, class president, valedictorian, etc. in high school. They are living in the past. This is another cut at something they should have grown up and moved on from. In essence, they are wanna-be politicians and I don’t know that the dissident world should want them. It certainly doesn’t need them.
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Up next: The Conservative Case for Donkey Shows.
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And more and more, it shows, realistically, that there truly is no sense in voting. As Z has explained, it’s one giant carny show and voting for the right, expecting someone to put the brakes on it is basically wishing on a star. Until the audience finally gets fed up, the slide will continue, and it may be too late anyway. Judging by large swaths of the population buying into the covidian scam, things don’t look promising.
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Noticing how Kristi Noem is going super bitch on her contenders for 2024. She expects regular guys to vote for a woman who uses the same tactics as Kamala
But that all said, I’m hoping that the 2022 mid term votes are a fraction of what they normally are, as people say no to the system and boycott it
But probably misplaced hope. I haven’t looked deeply into it, but apparently the special elections in Georgia had a boatload of Republicans go out to vote.
Sex-worker, Z-Man. Sex-worker.
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Listening to the podcast yesterday the most prominent concept for me under discussion was the bolshevik’s consistent focus on how to exploit any given situation to the benefit of the political movement. You have to admit they really meant it when they said ‘nothing is apolitical.’ One of the things that inspires instinctive horror and disgust about the current regime is that it exhibits the same monomania, I believe this is why I still call them commies even though I acknowledge all the good reasons not to stated here. In the past I have brought up looking into the anti-abortion movement and its successes in exerting their will in certain regions as an organizational model and also as ideological allies. There’s another criticism of ”this thing of ours’ up on Unz https://www.unz.com/article/what-wrong-with-white-nationalism/ that is worth reading because it raises a lot of good points to consider. I’ve only read it once so far but I believe it offers no solutions, as would be expected on this topic on that platform, but it does mention the religious aspect. All of this is a somewhat rambling way to come around to the point that ‘our thing’ would do well to figure out how to make some kind of religious conviction part of the ideology. To this day it is one of the greatest fears of the chi-coms. It was also one of the first things the new Czar turned to cultivate in the de-commification of Mother Russia. If Solzhenitsyn may be taken as a reliable source the Khazars adopted Judaism with utilitarian purposes, positioning themselves to be neither Christian Slavs nor Moslem Turks or Caucasians in the interest of silk-road related politics and trade interests. It’s unfortunate for the world that such a people were coupled with such a religion. I don’t know if Christianity is too domesticated to serve our ends but I’m sure some kind of religious identity lead by people with explicit intentions to serve the interests of our people will be a necessary ingredient.
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I have acquired a level of contempt for Conservatism, Inc. which I never previously thought possible.
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David French and fluffy head Jonah Goldberg make hating on Conservatism, Inc very easy
Incidentally, where is Normie con hero Ted Cruz speaking out against the 1/6 protestors sitting in jail and the anti-white jihad coming from “his good friends on the other side of the aisle,” among other things. Also have noticed Rubio gets far more exercised over events in Cuba than over here, along with Tom Cotton.
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The Kuban Kerfuffle is the rawest idiocy on stilts. As if it’s actually 1961 rather than 2021 and the “conservatives” can beat the Leftists about the head with “kommunism.” This is proof of Z’s assertion that the vast majority of the members of the Power Structure are anachronisms. Their views and positions are so far behind the curve as to be laughable.
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One hallmark of this age is that we are at the extremities of our opinions on a vast array of subjects. These extremities are in direct proportion to the stupidity and lunacy of the times. In other words, we have an accurate grasp of reality.
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I have to fight becoming overly cynical, I don’t want to become an embittered cynic, but the current day is preposterous from top to bottom, and supposedly we are living under the direction of the smartest people on the planet
Always reminds me of that Guns N Roses album, simply titled “Lies”
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It was a good album. I’m surprised Axl hasn’t groveled and apologized for ‘One in a Million’. Perhaps he has, but I missed it. Anyway, that was a great song.
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The acoustic version of “You’re Crazy” is ferocious!
I know that Slash tried to calm the outrage over “One in a Million” by saying that there are white n1gg3rs too. I don’t think anyone was calmed by that.
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Line:
“there are white n1gg3rs too”
Michael Rappaport.
Agree. That version of “You’re crazy” was pretty savage. I was really too young to remember GNR in their heyday, but it just seemed like they really did try to get away with whatever they could. Can’t say I’ve seen any band in the last 20 years that has done that.
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“It is these sorts of things that suggest the universe has a sense of humor. Brandi Love is the prefect representative of conservatism. She is an old whore well past her prime, desperate to keep what little audience she can.” – Perfect.
Her background is more honest than most of the Republican politicians. At least she doesn’t wear a patch on her eye like Pirate Dan, and pretend to be some phony baloney war hero who was “securin’ the homeland.”
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The “marketplace of ideas” – Much like the marketplace of Wall Street. Everything costs two or three times its value and is leveraged with debt.
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“Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach” is an old aphorism. Allow me to update this slightly in the context of the political war currently raging in our culture. “Those who can, fight. Those who cannot, present.”
Conservative Inc. is social club of highly paid poseurs & presenters whose only skill set is clever & outrageous yakking and telling a disgruntled cohort of the population what they want to hear. That is how they build a following. And in a sense, it’s really no different than the business model that Oprah used to get rich & famous. Now, is that an indictment of the grifter or the griftee?
In another era, this cohort of the species would have gone the way of the Neanderthals, but in our age of affluence, we carry this deadweight with ease and it eventually becomes a disease. And a disease that festers eventually becomes gangrene.
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What I’m seeing is the same kind of disdain for dirt people coming from Conservatism Inc as I see coming from the “elites”
They really have to hold their audience in contempt and not really have a grasp of what motivates them if they are pushing a porn star on them.
I have to guess Meghan McCain was advising them. They probably see her as a person who gets the dirt people.
And this Freedom Phone thing is another example of holding your audience in contempt. That is the mother of all grifts.
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You’re bang on there. They do indeed disdain the Dirt Peoples. I guess there whole grift is to ‘hand out with the cool kids’, so it is to be expected.
Just take a dump on the plebs, and everything will work out. I have seen a lot of disdain from ‘conservatives’ over here for the standard working man. Particularly the working man who flies his flag proudly.
I guess over here, the St George with a Patriotic Alternative logo in it’s centre is hated by our ‘conservatives’ just as much as the Confederate flag (apologies if I got the name wrong, there may be many flags that have this name – but you know the one!) is hated by your ‘conservatives’.
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It’s all just so cynical
You can just see the focus groups and market testing behind so much of it
And that kid behind the Freedom Phone, the advertisement is not very coherent and is little more than a word salad of buzzwords the marketers told hm would produce the desired pavlovian responses in the mouth breathers
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Yeah. Best to stay away. There are so many services and goods that we just don’t need.
A relative got us a gift for my son. One of those bouncey things they sort of stand up in. The box is littered with silly slogans, and pointing out features that make you think that this is anything other than just a seat with some rope attached to it. Made in China of course.
I appreciate the gift, but it costs a fair bit too. Just not needed, really. All gimmick. Oh, and then you’ve got the stupid warnings that are plastered all over every part of it.
Just looked up the ‘Freedom Phone’. If you want secret, fully authenticated correspondence; you’ll need to meet a trusted friend in a forest. That’s it. Sending your sensitive stuff over someone else’s infrastructure (usually an anti-white phone company), well, that stuff may not be all to secure.
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My first thought was how great it would be to have a competitive product that honored privacy. My second thought was this is probably an FBI Op to surveil conservative communications without having to sift through the entire population of texts and calls.
The really sad thing is I went to a porn website and typed in her name. If she is, indeed, “retired,” she retired like last year or the year before. She was very obviously well into her 40s going by the thumbnails of what came up.
I confess that I did some cursory research as well but stopped myself from doing any in depth research. Thank God. I don’t want to be a porn watcher, which I was as a young man. The primal desires that porn unleashes must be respected and tamed.
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I see worthwhile comments that say, “We’ve got to convince the kids of of our message” or “We’ve got to become the cool kids.”
All this entails taking the mass media away from those who currently control it. Free speech only works on some smart people and they are in the minority. The only way to solve this problem is to commandeer the mass media. Some call this fascism. Am I missing another solution?
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The smart and cool kids want nothing to do with the sold out fifth column of traitors known as the Uniparty.
Only Marxist U. dullards fall for that horseshit of sticking it to the man or building some rainbow stew bubble up utopia. Utopia is not on the menu, comrades.
Let the Uni fellow travelers wallow in their irrelevance as their crack pipe fever dreams of today Georgia and tomorrow the world go up in smoke.
Americans fear Wokegov but the rest of the world is laughing and milking Uncle Sucker while the getting is good.
They pwn the Baizuo and now it is all about the humiliation of Traditional Americans all with the blessing of Beijing Biden and his never can be happy band of Hussein Hopenchange retreads.
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Conservatism did have one victory: taking down the Soviet Union. Others played a part, to be sure. But NR was the only place you could get a regular critique of the SU. Of the three opinion magazines carried by most libraries, The Nation ran ads for trips to the Soviet paradise. The New Republic for a while was run by an actual KGB agent, Michael Straight.
That changed when Reagan, a big NR reader, was elected in 1980 and the billionaires of the day started pouring money into Conservative Inc. After the SU dissolved in 1991, NR, and the rest of Conservative Inc, had no reason to exist, having accommplished nothing else. But by then, as Z says, it had become a racket.
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