As usual, projection. Half of what fashs accuse progressive of doing is exactly what they would do. Which makes sense: they assume that their attitudes and ideas are *natural* and *logically necessitated*, so anybody must be performing them. They are not catholics (how many of them do you think regularly attends mass?), they just think that social conformity and orthodoxy are the only viable model for any culture. Since modern culture is quite clearly viable (even them recognize that it kicked their ass for the last three centuries or so), then it has to have a very strong Cathedral somewhere.
It is pretty much the same for all their deliria. White genocide? Well, for sure *they* would genocide anybody slightly different at the first chance. Not only that, they convinced themselves through Darwinian bullshit that *every living being* would do the same. So obviously they believe that non white people want their blood. Status games? Since they are convinced that having a high IQ unavidable leads to be a nihilist dipshit like them, the only reason why people they are forced to recognize as smart care about something must be "virtue signalling". Deporting conservatives and doing a Maoist-like cultural revolution? Well, they are more than willing to go full McCarthy, and sometimes full Pinochet. So why shoud not progressive willing to go full Mao? And so on and so forth
Just mainstream TV using terms used by neo-nazis. (And yes, Moldy
isn’t a neo-nazi, but neo-nazis do use the term, or at least they did a
a few years ago).
To be fair, not sure this is Scott being happy, but more neutral. Which
considering the nazi angle, is a bit weird. (Esp as the nebulous term
can easily include him, he wrote against this kind of shit in his anti
feminist days).
It also seemed a super spurious correlation (for as much as I just wanted to vent a showerthought)
But then I actually checked how [the guy](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement#Whitewashing) was doing...
All this shit is weirdly connected, in ways that if you point them out you sound like a crazyperson to people not in the know. (Which totally fits the same pattern as qanon stuff). At least I already know of ESR from long ago else I would also have had trouble believing it.
I was also an early “sparring partner” of Moldbug. Fortunately most
of that stuff is gone from the net but I just dug
some out of the Internet Archive.
Eventually I gave up on it as a waste of time, but I remember the
horrified feeling I got when I realized that what I thought was just a
weird little corner of the internet was actually a growing influence on
real politics and a significant ideological contributer to Trumpism – I
think it when I learned that he was watching election returns with Peter
Thiel is what did it for me.
That some of the jargon has made it to Fox News doesn’t surprise me
in the least, and shouldn’t surprise Scott. There is no daylight at all
between NRX and the Republican Party in 2021.
Tucker Carlson has really changed the game at Fox News. It’s hard to
imagine Moldbug and Michael Malice influencing the programming during
the O’Reilly era. Gotta stay relevant!
That same post cites Glenn Greenwald (who used to have a reputation
as a leftist, but is now just an out-and-out fascist and Fox talking
head) take on the Lafayette Park incident.
According to a recent current affairs article before his rep as a leftwinger, greenwald had sone pretty rightwing opinions on stuff like immigration, so he certainly is a man of contrasts.
Don't encourage him.
I'm not sure what Michael Malice actually *does*. He's been a "character" in New York hipster circles for years and became a cheerleader and ambassador for the alt-right when that became lucrative.
He seems to carry a lot of charge in certain quarters by the sheer force of his obnoxiousness.
I’m still puzzled by the time I read a self-described tradcath ranting about ‘The Cathedral.’
Just mainstream TV using terms used by neo-nazis. (And yes, Moldy isn’t a neo-nazi, but neo-nazis do use the term, or at least they did a a few years ago).
To be fair, not sure this is Scott being happy, but more neutral. Which considering the nazi angle, is a bit weird. (Esp as the nebulous term can easily include him, he wrote against this kind of shit in his anti feminist days).
I was also an early “sparring partner” of Moldbug. Fortunately most of that stuff is gone from the net but I just dug some out of the Internet Archive.
Eventually I gave up on it as a waste of time, but I remember the horrified feeling I got when I realized that what I thought was just a weird little corner of the internet was actually a growing influence on real politics and a significant ideological contributer to Trumpism – I think it when I learned that he was watching election returns with Peter Thiel is what did it for me.
That some of the jargon has made it to Fox News doesn’t surprise me in the least, and shouldn’t surprise Scott. There is no daylight at all between NRX and the Republican Party in 2021.
Tucker Carlson has really changed the game at Fox News. It’s hard to imagine Moldbug and Michael Malice influencing the programming during the O’Reilly era. Gotta stay relevant!
That same post cites Glenn Greenwald (who used to have a reputation as a leftist, but is now just an out-and-out fascist and Fox talking head) take on the Lafayette Park incident.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/glenn-greenwald-excited-by-tucker-carlsons-national-socialism
Michael Malice sounds like a Marvel supervillain.
Ah, Michael Malice- yet another paragon of free-thinking radical centrism.
Ben Domench doesn’t have a fucking chin and so he cuts his shitty beard to give him the appearance of a chin.