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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 25, 2025

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Put simply, por que no los dos? Why does the fact that the shooter was active on Nazi fora automatically exculpate the trans community? Why am I required to believe that the Nazi fora was what done the radicalisation, and participating in online trans communities was incidental? Why exactly is that the null hypothesis?

The Nazi/rainbow overlap is even well-known enough to have a Stonetoss comic about it (the redditors refusing to understand the joke are icing on top).

And don’t get me started about Nazifurs and the 4chan creation Aryanne the white supremacist My Little Pony.

What people who know about these never seem to see is the vast distance between edgy performative jerkwads and conservative-liberal values.

Buttercup Dew/My Nationalist Pony would make for a great writeup, but honestly I think that most people would need a 5 or 500k word introduction to the 2010 internet first.

There was some great intersectionality between the alt right of the 2010s and Friendship is Magic. Apart from /mlpol/ and My Nationalist Pony, you also had things like The Dreaded Jim's "Rabid Puppies and My Little Pony" and AntiDem's "In Which I Determine Whether Friendship Really Is Magic" as well as his three part review of Friendship is Optimal. And I think "Just An Assistant" might have been a stealth neoreactionary story. All while Breitbart was reporting on Ted Cruz's favorite pony and wondering which little horse Trump could pick in response.

Good times.

RIP AntiDem, according to Anissimov last week https://x.com/MikeAnissimov2/status/1957118600264695829

which little horse Trump could pick in response.

I'd guess Cadence. The insecurities and personal failures of the mane six among others would add up too quickly for him. Cadence seemingly owns her big failures re: Chrysalis and Sombra, but they really genuinely aren't her fault. Going purely from memory, been a long time.

Oh, fuck, is that why he stopped updating? I've been reading him for a decade!

He joins Lawrence Auster among the ranks of greats whose words continue to inspire from beyond the grave.

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I've lived almost 50 years - less than some, more than some. I've been all over the world, and seen some incredible things. New Years' Eve in Times Square. Halloween in Salem. Sunrise over Mt. Fuji. Sunset at the Sultan's Palace in Istanbul. Midnight on the Las Vegas Strip. I've stood in a pack of buffalo in the South Dakota Badlands. I've touched the Sea Lions at Fisherman's Wharf. I've had a pint of bitter in Dublin, a glass of saké in the alleys of Shinjuku, and a sip of moonshine in the hills of Tennessee. I've flown First Class in the top deck of a 747, and solo in a Cessna 172 in the black of night over the Florida Keys. I've loved some wonderful people, and been loved by them. I've made my peace with God.

Let them come. I'm ready.

Just found it on archive.org and holy cow I was not ready for that.

And don’t get me started about Nazifurs and the 4chan creation Aryanne the white supremacist My Little Pony.

Christian/Neoreactionary Sunset Shimmer was better.

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