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7d ago
I went to a Rally with my father. No clue what year. Only thing I really remember was the sound of four thousand men singing was a very different experience than what I've encountered before and quite profound.
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13d ago
That's kind of a huge point of this place. We can discuss things that are forbidden elsewhere as long as we do so with clarity. Avoiding sarcasm is literally in the rules. I may break that rule but I'm not surprised if I get modded for it.
Last week we had a conversation about Tucker Carlson’s interview of Nick Fuentes. This week we see two more salvo’s in the conversation:
New York Times: Nick Fuentes Was Charlie Kirk’s Bitter Enemy. Now He’s Becoming His Successor. [Archive]
No to the groypers.
No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash.
No to those who champion them.
No to demoralization.
No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit.
No to anti-Americanism.
No.
I attribute some material amount of Trump’s political rise to the mainstream media covering him so much. One, because he drove engagement; two, because I think they thought he’d be easy to beat. Fuentes was catapulted into the mainstream when elements of the media and the left tried to pin the Kirk shooter as a far-right groyper. I didn’t believe Trump would succeed, so maybe I shouldn’t trust myself, but I struggle to believe that Fuentes will actually go mainstream. Shapiro plays many clips of Fuentes. To me, it sounds like Fuentes is joking in some, but I think they are extreme enough that at least most Republicans will be turned off. With Shapiro entering the ring and what my Twitter feed is feeding me, it seems like there are definite battle lines being drawn on the right.
Shapiro’s fellow Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh:
We have a very short window of time where we control congress and the White House and have the power to push our agenda forward. We’re going to waste this window fighting with each other. We’re going to squander everything. I’m furious, honestly.
It’s hard for me to gauge “normie” right circles, as before Kirk’s assassination, I couldn’t have definitively differentiated between Kirk’s and Crowder’s campus antics. It seems like Kirk may have been the most influential -if not, very possibly ascendant to be - figure on the right. Not sure through Kirk's sheer influence, but also keeping the coalition together and keeping the more radical wing at bay. I wonder if Trump will weigh in.
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19d ago
I don't hate that idiots get taken out of circulation. I hate that these are used to build a narrative that there is some greater problem, and the resources waisted.
That's Fudd lore. Perhaps it's generally a wise sentiment to hold but it's in the same vein as Dave Ramsey: "never use credit cards" of trying to keep low impulse control people from doing low impulse control things.
Value is subjective, which is why free markets, voluntary exchange, and the ability to fail based around private property rights are so important for creating price signals. Are Bill and Shelley taking a lower salary than they could earn in the private sector, or are they overpaid for their output? Is a musician who can’t fill a local bar more valuable than Nike’s top designer? Who knows...
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26d ago
"The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away"
But I doubt it, they built the propaganda into the name "public servant".
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28d ago
Usually skeptical of dog whistle claims but I would say this leans more Totenkopf than pirate:
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-871235
Granted he's a marine so I could buy he just legit thought it looked cool.
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Bias in academic networking: A social media field experiment suggests that gender, race, and university affiliation influence the formation of professional relationships among economists. by Tyler Smith
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