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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Feb 10

The fun thing about having lots of rumors swirling around about you is having to take treks into "None Of Your Business" zones publicly sometimes.

There's a rumor @SovMichael is my "weird benefactor" (as Chris Rufo put it to me recently, which brings us here). That's not true.🧵

Normally, I don't think it's anyone's business but ours to talk about our finances and business relationship, but since Rufo seems to have believed the propaganda about my relationship with Michael, as have many others, I'm going to address it. Again. Ughh.

Michael O'Fallon discovered my work while doing his own thing in Ireland in fall 2018, stumbling across a talk I gave that autoplayed on his YouTube after finishing a Jordan Peterson lecture while he was indisposed and couldn't grab his phone. He thought I've "got it."

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Feb 6

Some of us were telling you all that Christian Nationalism is 10000% an op the Woke Right radicals were falling into or exploiting and delivering the receipts that the other ("critical") side of this op was working in alignment with the feds for a long time now, no money added.

People like Auron MacIntyre and William Wolfe, inter alia, are the right-hand side of a "Christian Nationalist" scissor operation that had people like Russell Moore on its other side all along.

Christian Nationalism is 10000% an op, even with one arm of the scissors now exposed.

This is classic Fabianism: both "Left" and "Right" arms of an op that seem to be opposed are actually working together in the same way that scissors work. The next phase is that the Woke Right side leverages the exposure of the Woke Left side to cover and advance.

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Jan 28

I often hear that we need to abandon our "libertarian" (meaning constitutional) principles in order to win, or that we should do so because we need to "like winning." Let's talk about winning. As my Aussie friends say, let's check the scoreboard, mates. 🧵

If we're going to talk about winning, we need to talk about what we're winning, but let's look at the scoreboard first.

The "we need to win" crowd told us consistently before the election that we "can't vote our way out of this" and that "voting harder" won't work. It did.

Sure, we can harbor doubts about Trump now or the people around him (again) and be ready to throw a blackpill fit or whatever, or we can think the Left is more ultrapowerful than it seems and stay mad, but Trump won because we voted harder, and it looks like we voted our way out.

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Jan 27

Yesterday, I did a thread about "post-liberalism" (after liberty) and discussed its unfair conflation of two traditions that both get called "liberal" and touched on how those two regard the "self." Most found it helpful. Some got upset. The trans issue adds much relief. 🧵

Without getting into it all again, the two traditions that get called "liberal" are American and Continental (or French-German). The first is rooted in realism and the second is rooted in idealism, which is anti-real in its metaphysics (in practice, often constructivist).

Further, the point of my thread was to illustrate that Prof. Patrick Deneen, a post-liberal (after liberty) philosopher is conflating these two and treating them as two parts of the same thing, which they are not, and that he used this error to incorrectly talk about selfhood.

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Jan 26

We all talk a lot about "Cluster-B personality disorders" these days, and there's likely a very simple reason why: social media facilitates their amplification. There is almost no playground better for these destructive disorders than social media, and the consequences are huge.

Cluster-B personality disorders are the particularly nasty ones: histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial, and borderline. They are stable psychological deformations, at least by the time adulthood is reached, and they cause disruption and destruction everywhere they go.

Some years ago, Jordan Peterson gave a controversial interview in which he explained that male violence (physical) doesn't "upload" to the internet well, but female violence (social) does "upload" fluidly and easily. He did so in attempt to explain the toxic femininity of Woke.

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James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

Jan 25

So I've been listening to some of the arguments made by so-called "post-liberals" (notably Prof. Patrick Deneen) a little more closely than before and want to speak to a persistent confusion I see in the foundation of their work that I almost have to wonder if it's deliberate. 🧵

The problem, and the allure of "post-liberalism" (including to our current Vice President) is obviously that "liberal" is a highly contentious term, and one has to wonder what it means if we're going to go "post" (beyond) it. It means VERY distinct things to different thinkers.

Deneen makes a curious point that liberalism began well as minimal government interference and the rejection of the birthright of the ruling class as absurd but rapidly acquired a different character of seeking the "Self-defined Self" liberated from all restrictions.

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