Skyrim was released as one of the definitive RPGs 14 years to this day. Who you decided to back in the Skyrim civil war shows where your political instincts lie. Here is why the Stormcloaks were in the right, and how Ulfric would Make Skyrim Great Again. A 🧵 To layout the background, the White Gold Concordant of the Great War is integral to understand. The Empire and the High Elves fought a war in which the Empire lost, and in the concordant banned the worship of Talos. Talos was the first Emperor of Tamriel, who ascended to godhood, and whom the elves hated.

In their victory they banned all worship of him as a god. The Empire, in their weakness, capitulated and agreed 26 years prior to the start of Skyrim. It is in this war that Ulfric Stormcloak was forged to be the ruler of Skyrim.

The Declaration of Independence can often be a common target on this side of right wing politics, but largely it is as misunderstood by the dissidents as it is by the moderates. It is best understood as a Nationalist document. A 🧵 The most common phrase attacked by dissidents and misunderstood by everyone else is “All men are created equal.” But this is language asserting what was established in the Virginia Charter of 1609, which was that the descendants of the colonists will hold the same rights they would’ve held if born in England.

“Also we do for Us, our Heirs and Successors, DECLARE by these Presents, that all and every the Persons being our Subjects, which shall go and inhabit within the said Colony and Plantation, and every their Children and Posterity, which shall happen to be born within any of the Limits thereof, shall HAVE and ENJOY all Liberties, Franchizes, and Immunities of Free Denizens and natural Subjects within any of our other Dominions to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within this our Realm of England, or in any other of our Dominions.” - Second Charter of Virginia, 1609

James Lindsay and his plot to control the future of the post-Trump American right by becoming the next Bill Buckley through gatekeeping them from mainstream discourse by labeling them as Woke Right, a thread 🧵 (1/19) James Lindsay has made a tweet with the words “Woke Right” nearly every single day for at least the past 8 months since roughly around the time of the election of Donald Trump. He has been noted and ridiculed by many for doing so, but the question that stands is why is he doing it?

Theories that have been proposed include:

1. He is a grifter and is in it for money.

I find this to be completely untrue. Lindsay has lost potential money and support in his crusade and dedicates an absurd amount of his time and energy to this fight. He is smart enough to know that this isn’t benefiting him financially at this moment, and he could’ve easily rescinded and retracted and been accepted back if he simply stopped and apologized for it. He even acknowledges as much himself. (Pic1) This is what someone who is a grifter would’ve done. This leads to the second proposed theory.

2. He is just unhinged and crashing out.

While this is true to an extent, with him doing things such as labeling this random Turkish guy named Furkan Gozukara who loves Zohran Mamdani alongside accusing many random tiny follower count anons to include myself as a member of the Woke Right, it doesn’t paint the full picture. Almost certainly, there are deeper motives to why he is doing this and Lindsay himself has outlined it in many of his articles. This leads me to question, what is his actual motive? (2/19)