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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023

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I think they’ll ultimately win. It’s just that really they’re still in the foundation stage of the movement. Almost any real political upheaval is a generations-long process of first creating a philosophy and ethos and then unify around that philosophy and work to implement it. But if you’d have judged the communist movement by what it was in 1870 when it was first taking shape, you wouldn’t have predicted the Russian revolution. The tumultuous nature of the current generation of reactionaries doesn’t mean much because I believe it will eventually settle on an ethos that will be United enough to win real power.

The question is, united how? I hope the comparisons to the Russian Revolution aren't followed to their conclusion, where the dissident right winds up putting a Stalin type in power, believing it to be their salvation.

It's my sincere hope we get a Sulla instead, if that only buys us a generation or two before we get a Caesar instead. I mean, read this and try not to get excited.

In total control of Rome and most of Italy, Sulla instituted a series of proscriptions (a program of executing those whom he perceived as enemies of the state and confiscating their property).

Proscribing or outlawing every one of those whom he perceived to have acted against the best interests of the Republic while he was in the East, Sulla ordered some 1,500 nobles (i.e., senators and equites) executed, although it is estimated that as many as 9,000 people were killed.[40] The purge went on for several months. Possibly to protect himself from future political retribution, Sulla had the sons and grandsons of the proscribed banned from running for political office, a restriction not removed for over 30 years.

Near the end of 81 BC, Sulla, true to his traditionalist sentiments, resigned his dictatorship, disbanded his legions and re-established normal consular government.

All that aside, it's hard to argue with his thesis. The America I knew as a child is utterly dead and destroyed. There is no saving it. The only hope to avoid the boot of people who hate me on my neck, and my descendant's neck, for all time is fedposts

Fun aside: Sulla started out relatively poor, and only got wealth (and political power) after his mistress Nicopolis left him a sizeable inheritance. She herself was a former slave and earned her fortune through... prostitution.

Is the next Sulla currently out there dating an OnlyFans model?

The black son of that minor DR personality who married the only fans girl is going to be a caudillo?

He’s talking about Helios (or something like that), some twitter lowbie with like 1000 followers or something who fancied himself a big BAP guy who proposed to an OF e-girl with a huge diamond ring who he had never met and had on the day of the proposal uploaded IR porn and who had a half-Black kid. Everyone clowned on him and he’s never been seen on the site since.

I think he was one of the weird twitter pagans? I wasn’t really watching the drama. I just know he married an only fans girl and adopted her interracial baby.