Not a big Fuentes guy, but he’s 100% right about metapolitics, Trump aesthetics, and Vaporwave calling back to a past conception of a glorious modernist future.
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST I've said it before - Bowden in his juvenile comic-book/Americana appreciating modernist mode would have DUG Donald like Dickie Spencer did before he became a fag.
{Someone} once said “Wouldn’t it be better if we presented ourselves as the victims?”
The problem with doing that is that it’s what everyone else does... if you concentrate on pain and defeat you will breed resentment, and I believe {these} are... to be avoided.
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST@BowdenBot And if you have a decline and you have a desire to assert yourself to arrest the decline, and you have to apologize to yourself about even having the idea of assertion to arrest decline, you’re not going to get anywhere, are you?
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST@BowdenBot {If someone says} you’re descended from brigands... you say “I’m not going to bother about figures and who did what to whom; I’ve overcome that!”
They may say “That’s a bit illiberal.”
And you say “Liberalism is moral syphilis, and I’m stepping over it!”
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST@BowdenBot I believe we’ve created a modern world that has been taken away from what it could have been. If people with our sorts of values ruled modernity, everything about this society would be at one level the same, and in every other respect completely different...
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST@BowdenBot People would still drive contemporary cars, There’d still be jets, and there’d still be supercomputers and so on, but the texture and the nature of life would be different...
Or rich people, whatever. The point is you will be a miserable millennial in some American shithole forever, LARPing as a revolutionary, never changing anything because you don’t have a clue about how the world works and what is going on.
I think my least favourite behaviour is people using an unearned sense of moral superiority to boss people around/attack the true and beautiful. This is modern leftism. Losers who got a raw deal and think this makes them superior.
Con inc = infoentertainment for geriatrics. Civilisation continues to recede. Corruption beyond African dreams after the liberal state. New races. Deep in enemy territory, down these streets a sensitive man must go…
Sam Francis on "Capitalism the enemy" in the culture war over the confederate flag
"The hostility of capitalism toward tradition is clear enough in its reduction of all social issues to economic ones. Moreover, like communism, capitalism is based on an egalitarianism that refuses to distinguish between one consumer's dollar and another."
"{Southerners} have supported the GOP since the 1960s in what was really an alliance of convenience for both sides, and most conservatives of all kinds have allied with capitalism against the more militant forms of egalitarianism of this century."
Too right wing for the big donors, but afraid of engaging with the radical right grassroots
(smacks of @ScottMGreer's IQ supplement on the subject)
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"The blunt truth is that there can be no serious national campaign of the Populist Right without former Duke supporters, militia members, and other inhabitants of the margins of national politics, and it is not possible to organize a real campaign without them.
"Those who lead and run a populist campaign of the right have to face that truth and to figure out how to deal with it when confronted with their "links" to such "extremists."