I had a really great talk with @M_Millerman about philosophy, politics, Heidegger, and more
Why should we care about philosophy when it is moms and dads at school board meetings who are doing the work to produce political change? 1/ contra.substack.com/p/heidegger-an…
The people putting the fear of God into the regime are largely "unphilosophical," but that is not at all a term of derision; philosophical "inquiry" is too often silly navel-gazing, the luxury of a lazy and spiteful class 2/
Parents at school board meetings aren't arguing over the "the good, the true, and the beautiful." They are fighting for their blood and their homes—their children and their communities. They are leading what Russian theorist Aleksandr Dugin calls the "Great Awakening" 3/
Dugin explains that a spontaneous mass movement of mass people is currently operating in reaction to the psychotic aims of what he calls as the "Great Reset" camp, the or the Build Back Better managers 4/
But Millerman thinks that the right kind of philosophical approach, one that goes beyond conservative-liberal/left-right, can help us understand and defend these efforts by alienated Westerners as they fight for a new order 5/
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A principal wagged his finger at his community about racism, so parents ousted him. This is how things should work everywhere: soapboxing about racism and diversity should cost you your job
There is no debating with these people. If you have the power to get them out of a position of influence, that is the way forward, not arguing over ideas
This is perfectly fair considering that saying something totally innocuous but politically incorrect can cost you your job. Why not the reverse? That's what these parents are saying, and they're *more* right than the other side about removing these people from power
A major problem in America is that the media incites racism against white people, going so far as trying to shape and channel public opinion to force outcomes in the legal system against whites. What is to be done about this? Why aren't we talking about this more?
Under the guise of objective, professional journalism, you have the most powerful and influential news organizations in the world trying to get white people like Kyle Rittenhouse imprisoned, or in the case of Jake Gardner, media complicity cost him his life. What happens?
I'm not a free speech absolutist; I don't think The Economist, the New York Times, should be allowed to do this with impunity. So what is the solution and when does this become a national discussion?
The Jake Gardner trial preceded the Rittenhouse trial and provided a model for how media and activist pressure can force an outcome. In Gardner's case, a judge initially refused to file charges against Gardner for killing a BLM agitator in self-defense 1/
But that judge would not only capitulate to pressure from the public, but he appointed an overtly anti-white special prosecutor to lead a grand jury investigation that, without any new evidence, charged Gardner with four felonies 2/
Gardner's parents had to move because all the threats they received. Gardner alone received over 1,600 death threats 3/
One of the reasons there are so few right-wing muckrakers is that most Republicans, whether for or against Trump, are cowards. Something I run into often is hearing about how so-and-so has receipts that show this or that Republican or conservative figure is betraying the cause 1/
But so-and-so doesn't wanna go on the record or even comment anonymously because it might come back to them. The potential consequences are never like, "I'm afraid the CIA might kill me." It's more like, "I don't want to be disinvited from galas at Mar-a-Lago or DC" 2/
So what ought to be a bomb that rightly blows the lid off a scandal becomes an impotent complaint, a frustrated muttering under one's breath that ends in a pathetic rationalization for not pulling the trigger and doing the right thing because the right thing is scary 3/
You're not actually a journalist here, you're a regime bootlicker and you deserve to be ruined
It's one thing to shout "they're the enemy of the people," we are there. What is the next step to actually taking away their power and punishing them as political enemies not objective "truth tellers"
Trump is pushing Republicans to copy the Democratic Party's gender/sexuality identity politics. The "pride coalition" announcement occurred after Trump’s America First Policy Institute gala on Friday.
In his remarks, Rick Grenell maligned Pat Buchanan. Trump’s GOP is awful.