In 2008, Obama used popular “street artist” and weapons grade cuck Shepard Fairey’s trademark designs to break the political ad mold, a big part of the reason, imho, he was so appealing. Funny how obviously referential to communism it was even then. 1/4

https://twitter.com/willtheagency/status/1771186398353100985

Today, a less well known advertising designer named David Rudnick originated this sort of design you see everywhere. Hypermodern. Chromatic/metallic. And very deep fried. The Biden camp tried it out, and it didn’t work. 2/4

Why HBO Hates Tokyo Vice 🧵
A Fish Out of Water

A precious new vein of IP: fish-out-of-water stories of Westerners living not in the third world where they become white saviors (there’s plenty of those), but in places, like contemporary Japan, where they face the opposite. 1/19 These stories are particularly interesting now, with Asia ascendant, and because they’re so rare. I can think of only two on-the-ground gonzo reports about the Tokyo underworld today. Tokyo Vice, the memoir behind the HBO show, and People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Perry, imho the most underrated literary true crime book of all time, about the murder of a British hostess club girl in Roppongi. In Tokyo Vice, Rachel Keller also plays an Roppongi hostess club girl, an exploitative Geisha-like role we don't have in the West. 2/19

My hometown strikes again. First, Evanston became the first city in the world to offer reparations—25k one time payment to black residents.

Now, it's bringing back segregation.

1/7 I'm from the BLM-lawn-sign capital of the world. Evanston a perfect storm of AWFLness—hometown of Frances Willard, founder of Women's Temperance Movement, and heavily involved in every non-liberal liberal movement in history. 2/7

We are currently witnessing key moment in culture war history as a homeless encampment underneath one of LA’s most trafficked freeways, the 10, caught fire and destroyed the freeway “indefinitely.” 1/4





You can tell it’s a big deal cause they’ve trotted out “mayor” Karen Bass, all but absent at all other times, and Newsom himself to tell us that the images were seeing “may not correspond with reality” while obese trans sign language translator fills most of the screen 2/4

In roughly 2013, something unprecedented happened in American Culture; the most productive artistic culture since the Renaissance.

Culture's natural waveform began shifting rightward, just as it had in the 80s and 50s, a natural correction to dominant progressivism. 1/7 But the cultural gatekeepers, now mostly women, refused to allow this natural shift. They barred critiques and banned art/ideas that served this new demand. They knocked culture off its trajectory, freezing out natural successors, splitting culture in two: natural & unnatural 2/7

The left took over because it built a money pipeline between its (real) elite, middle, and low. The cost was massive: it had to sacrifice economic leftism and replace it with rainbow globalism (extreme financial inequality).

Some call this pipeline “patronage”

1/10 The right struggles with connecting its genuine elites to its other classes.

On the one hand, we have fake elites, the Conservatives who happily lose every battle; they’re controlled opposition. You can’t plug into them because they’re not really there. 2/10

Subway vigilante Daniel Penny might not be charged. 🧵 Much has changed since I worked Manhattan DA under Robert Morgenthau, who charged known racist Bernie Goetz with attempted murder after shooting four black teenagers who harassed and threatened him on the subway in 1984. They all survived.

1. In the West’s grand gender experiment, we see women react to the reduction of marriage pressure in one of two ways: 2. 1) embracing natural hypergamy, pursuing very high status men often indirectly via professionalism. This leads to higher satisfaction as they mate with the men they want to. But can be deeply unfulfilling—enough high status men to have sex with, not enough to reproduce with.

1. Much talk in our sphere today on role of sex and marriage in a man's life...if it destroys or enhances scholarship and/or credibility as a thinker. I come to this discussion w much experience on all sides of womanizer——sperg——family man spectrum, so I’d like to weigh in. 2. Every cult leader insists sex gives him great power. Even more interesting, he's correct. Frequent sex does provide an elemental power you carry with you in your everyday affairs. This only becomes clear when you reach a point where women (or men) throw themselves at you.

1. Yoel Roth. We encounter this archetype often in the higher echelons of power. The Pernicious Manager. The The Theater Kid Occupier. The Manageouisie... I've encountered him over and over again. What drives him? What is the source of his power? 2. Let us examine Roth next to his twin, Kyle Robertson, a fellow member of the Manageoisie. Robertson is the founder of virtual mental health startup Cerebral. Cerebral essentially paid off doctors to write Adderall scripts to anybody who asked. It's now under investigation.