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@Indian_Bronson
Sep 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Back in Dallas-Fort Worth, a lovely example of conurbation.

I have a layover in DFW Airport, which is a good example of subaltern/private government:

indianbronson.substack.com/p/part1-decent…
indianbronson.substack.com/p/part1-decent…

A clarifying question about power to ask is "who shows up if I call 911?"

A better question to ask is "who shoots at me, if it comes to that?"

The distinguishing power of State is violence:
indianbronson.substack.com/p/part1-decent…

"Don't be fooled by the Auntie Anne’s Pretzels (in every terminal!) and many global languages you’ll hear, this is sovereign territory under the rule of a serious government."
Not pictured: the Dallas-Fort Worth Department of Public Safety officer who declined to be photographed

("We don't allow photographs", and "turn around and go to your gate, right now")
indianbronson.substack.com/p/part1-decent…

Some people get to own a car.

Some people get to own a home.

Some people get to own a semi-autonomous body charged with governing DFW International Airport.
Keep reading, and learn how faithful Mormons are like the Taliban in the ways that matter (for government:)

#DezNat #Decentralization

indianbronson.substack.com/p/part1-decent…

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Sep 1
Recently several billionaire-holds-court groupchats asked me as a courtier (what can you do? that’s how it goes these days) to just explain why White/right wing/etc. Americans are so angry.

There are many other graphs I could’ve chosen and these are imperfect, but it’s this: Image
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America was made Expensive and Alien.

Everything essential is costly, the country has been made demographically unrecognizable, the ability to be alive in a fixed location—of all possible expenses—specifically didn’t benefit from money printing, and the ability for a regular person to navigate this in any way, so long as they by worked hard and played by the rules has been exploded, too.
There’s lots not captured here: bewildering cultural fragmenting and social changes wrought by technology and immigration and ideological movements (everyone is now hooked on their phone, on hold with tech support or interrupted by spam calls from India, while swiping aimlessly on women who might be trans) aren’t exactly welcome either. But they’re effectively downstream of these two main forces:

The elite of America said: “you are overpaid as our help who live on our lands” (and therefore) “you need to share it with all of these other people”.
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Feb 26
“Wokeness” killed hipsters. They started to go away with Trayvon Martin in 2012 and Michael Brown in 2014. By 2015 with the clash between BLM and MAGA, they were gone.

Do you know why?

Hipsters were the last gasp of a White American Identity which rejected “pop” culture. Image
Here is the anthem sine qua non Hipsterdom, “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (2009), a song and music video featuring a bunch of itinerant-looking white youths plaintively crying out in nostalgia for Heimat and a sense of belonging with each other:

“Alabama, Arkansas
I do love my ma and pa
Not that way that I do love you
….

Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie
Chocolate candy, Jesus Christ
Ain't nothing please me more than you”

You know, just in case you thought they were all about *subtlety* in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
In kind of the same way that Ted Kaczynski’s contributions to geometric function theory and complex analysis still get citations and cause inspiration, one of the primary drivers of Williamsburg and the hipster scene was none other than Vice magazine co-founder Gavin McInnes. Image
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Feb 4
I think the next US political realignment / the message the Democrats of the future (as different as 2024 Republicans vs 2004 Republicans) run on will be anti-technology, anti-automation, aesthetically “quiet”, and even pro-“family”

Totally not pride parades or ‘hope & change’
Before we get into that, let’s see what won—decisively—against the 2012 RNC Autopsy, winning in 2016, was subverted by the GOP in 2020, and in a hero’s arc, came back in 2024.

I think any clip from @REVIVALNATIONAL could work, but imho, this is the best:
@REVIVALNATIONAL What makes this (and all his content) so good, and so compelling, is the remixing of old and new. Beyond just (Heritage) American nationalism it’s a kind of “White Zionism”; tantalizing images of an American Altneuland. Synthwave, art deco, 80s, 2000s, sex, guns, flags, etc.
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Jan 11
Conservatism today is just calling young men "entitled"
for wanting what their fathers and grandfathers had:

- gainful employment without direct foreign competition
- wives like their mothers and grandmothers were
- a living nation-State whose institutions they control
Can't get a job? Well you don't want to work 80 hours like Karthik and Juan do

Can't get a wife? That's 'cause you're not MAN enough for a 31 y.o. with crow's feet and double digit body count

Can't respect institutions? America was ALWAYS about foreign wars so sign up, LOSER
All of these issues are interlinked; starting a family, providing for a family, having the status women care about, having institutions that protect the country, etc.

And the answer *even now* of conservatism is to blame young men for not doing enough and acting 'entitled'.
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Dec 27, 2024
The US has record highs in both:

- numbers of immigrants
- immigrants as a percentage of population

Have *most* Americans’ lives directly improved as a result? Have the benefits of the new economy and new society accrued to them? Image
Here’s the marriage rate.
Here’s the birth rate.
Here’s the suicide rate. (young highlighted)
And here’s the share in patriotism: Image
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More Americans, especially young Americans, than ever before—and trending worse—are:

- not getting married
- not having children
- killing themselves
- feel no pride in the country

Broken promises on immigration, into the job market, into the housing market, is a part of that
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Dec 26, 2024
This isn’t correct.

In its glory days, NASA was all jocks.
Former (and active duty) fighter pilots, submariners, heavy drinkers, smokers, etc.

The American space program was so defined by jocks its *nerds* were jocks, too.

“The Right Stuff” is about this. Image
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Two reasons you don’t want to get carried away with way too many “skilled immigrants” are:

1. You shouldn’t displace your own young men

2. You actually want CULTURE FIT more than smarts. The balance of dynamic young men in your society should respect each other and get along;
Btw as you may recall——this is why the establishment media & Democrats were freaking out about Vance and begging Trump to pick a woman or a minority or anyone else except another “jock” white guy like himself.

It scares them for the very same reason fraternities scare them:
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