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Lomez
@L0m3z
Founder of Passage Press. Write at https://t.co/3NQ1Q9FbDT
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Nov 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that the lib freak out is not going to happen or will be dramatically muted relative to 2016. The energy for it is just not there.

Their manic zeal from the first Trump term was never sustainable. They are ready to surrender. Image My hunch is that we are going to see broad capitulation on a lot of Trump’s agenda, especially with regards to tech, fp, crime, and infrastructure build out.

Whereas they will fight deportations and attempts to slash the bureaucratic state and especially the spook-state…
Oct 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is a good example of how even if Woke is waning, there are a few critical institutions like medicine where the sunk costs are too deep, morally and psychologically, for its stakeholders to walk away from it.

This is going to require generational churn. Or you treat woke holdovers like Bukele treats MS-13 members. You just round them up. Strip them of their licensing all at once, gut the med schools, the associations and specialty guilds of all bad actors. Remove them from the gen pop (so to speak) (in the ring) (in real life)
Sep 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Marcellus Williams, Adnan Syed, Steven Avery, Central Park Five... all of these high profile cases where the guy is obviously guilty, why does the lib insist beyond reason the guy is not guilty and make impassioned moralistic pleas that we all submit to their delusion? At bottom, despite the trappings of cosmopolitanism, the lib is a provincial, small-minded creature. The lib, for all his openness and presumptions to empathy, cannot see beyond himself, beyond his own inclinations, cannot imagine there are people who are not at all like him
Sep 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is actually perfectly revealing of how the Richards—and this class of formerly right “centrists”—come to their politics. It’s not about policy or ideology, but embarrassment over the less sophisticated parts of the right, the narcissism of small differences toward the chuds If you’re wondering why these guys obsess over the vulgarity of the right while ignoring the derangements of the left, this is why. The Richards are interested firstly in themselves, what makes them personally look good or bad.
Sep 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The signature characteristic of the leftist is resentment for people who are richer than he is. The lowest expression of this resentment is the blind violence of the commie. The midwit version (see below) is vague, abstracted appeals to “fairness,” while the highest version (see the thread linked in reply), at least rationalizes it by making arguments about capital velocity or market efficiency or whatever, but it’s all the same thing: that other guy is richer than me which makes me feel inferior and I don’t like it. Resentment dressed up as economic efficiency:
Jul 24 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I know it’s been talked about a lot around here, but I finally saw First Man and it’s even better than I could’ve imagined. An A-tier film, not only about the space-race, but about masculinity, and the costs and requirements of great civilizational achievement. Must watch. Image There’s a great moment highlighting the social-political tensions of embarking on a project of this scale where Kurt Vonnegut makes a passive-aggressive plea to spend the money instead on making New York City safe, and communist poet Gil Scot Heron recites “Whitey on the Moon”
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Jul 22 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A minor academic book called "The Party Decides" was published in 2008 arguing that party insiders, donors, media, etc. all coordinate behind the scenes to pre-empt voter preferences to make presidential nominations despite the "democratic" pretext of the modern primary process...Image The book had a moment in 2016 when both Trump and Bernie Sanders looked like they might defy this thesis and return the selection process to the voters in direct opposition to party preferences.

Trump prevailed.

Bernie did not.
Jun 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Got started on my Khmer Rouge reading by the leading American scholar on the subject. In the first 30 pages I encounter a totally unnecessary political claim about biological race, followed by a ham-handed reframing of the KR as not truly communist but instead “reactionary”

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Jun 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Fascinating short thread on Tasmanian aborigines. Living for thousands of years isolated from inter human competition, the Tasmanians become more primitive over time. They lost the knowledge/will to fish, to make fire, had no clothes, and never got around to making boats. Tasmania isn't a particularly mild climate either. It's cold, windy, and the winters would bring them to the brink of starvation. Yet, they never really adapted at all. Mostly, at least the men, sat around and did, well... nothing Image
Jun 12 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Caught 30 mins of a CNN special on the “misinformation” crisis. A very telling piece of media to understand present regime psychology. Premise is CNN bugman reporter (looks like a bug) goes around the heartland doing pseudo-anthropology on “Trump’s America.” Image On its face it’s the usual sop to a lib audience who need constant affirmation of their moral and intellectual superiority. Fear porn about white rural rage, plus Q-mania, plus “Christian Nationalism,” with special emphasis on J6.
Jun 8 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The other thing happening here is that teen social life has become hyper-structured in general.

Pre cell phone/internet, teen life depended on some level of spontaneous coordination. You’d show up at the Taco Bell parking lot and sort of wait around for whatever came next. Lots of idle loitering, flirting, smoking cigs, getting into trouble, discovering in real time with a highly variable and loosely bounded group of peers how to spend the day/night.

Social life outside the home/off-line now seems to all be pre-planned *by parents.*
Jun 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Would like to read a piece of longform writing or novel on Gen X turbo normie youth sports family.

I’ve encountered this quite a bit. Highly functional, pro-social, well-adjusted families but that expend 100% of discretionary resources/time on kids sports. Seems to be mostly a Gen X suburban UMC phenomenon. Why?

Seems to be some kind of secular lib filtering mechanism. Resource intensive and requires planning and long term commitment, therefore self-selects out the community’s dysfunctional/pathological elements.
May 17 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
When I first came to Twitter and even before that in comments sections at various blogs like UR and Xenosystems and iSteve what drew me to these places was a spirit of open intellectual inquiry, experimentation of ideas, and a sense of play, of humor... This was totally at odds with the academic environment that was and still is ruled by prescriptive thinking, dogma, and witless, self-serious pretension. Constipated intellkshuals tickled by the overwrought contortions required to squeeze out a fart...
May 14 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Breaking: the Guardian has exposed a family man with a loving wife and many beautiful children, who played college basketball, worked for Google, traveled the world, then had a 10-year career in academia before starting a highly successful publishing company.

I'm shook. Image This person has been stalking "Lomez" for months. He is a Portland-based ANTIFA activist paid by a multi-billion dollar media conglomerate to harass people. He's been emailing and texting presumed former colleagues. Texting my wife. Attempting to get friends fired from their jobs for merely knowing me. Invoking my deceased father. Threatening to “expose” my blog posts from 20 years ago, my high school and college athletic achievements (please do), and even my nickname from middle-school. A truly deranged individual.
Apr 26 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Virtually everyone I talk to, across a variety of institutions and ideological priors, all point to 2014 as the real Year Zero of the Woke Revolution. By now it has become the conventional wisdom. And I do think it's true, but I have yet to read a detailed account of this... I have my own pet theory, which is that the culmination of Obergfell released a bunch of activist energy and created the conditions for newly embarrassed and defeated conservatives to be bullied into conceding on successive "next current things"
Apr 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Woke isn't dying. Woke isn't going anywhere.

Friend told me his small red town in a red state 500 miles from the nearest international airport just announced it's having it's first ever Pride parade, including a drag show for kids sponsored by the town council. This also came with a "Proclamation" issued by the city declaring the town a safe space and condemning bigotry blah blah blah, suggesting that any objections, let alone active resistance to a city-sponsored Pride week and kid's drag show is somehow verboten...
Apr 13 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
While you were playing your switch on the airplane, I decided to torture myself by watching the interahamwe film “Dear White People” using disposable airline headphones I could barely hear through, and now I am going to write a review: Stylistically, the movie is a feature length low-brow teen soap opera you might’ve seen on 2000’s era WB, but with pretensions of making some big sociological/political statement about race and class, which it does pretty clumsily, but not without some (accidental) insight.
Apr 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NPR Update: This article is very good look at the internal politics at NPR since 2016. Trump, then Covid, then BLM broke these people's brains. Though it's about NPR specifically, this story explains pretty much all of mainstream media over the last half decade The writer, who is an NPR journo himself, pinpoints the big shift in how media perceived their job: from delivering relevant and useful information, to preaching moral and ideological instruction.

::Always has been:: yes, but things got markedly more pronounced post-Trump
Mar 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
When people say the culture is stuck they mean that it's iterating downward, replicating into ever more attenuated, high-compression copies of itself, like a financial system comprised of dozens of layers of synthetic derivatives with no new underlying asset creation This can produce all sorts of novel artifacts that have the shape and texture of "new" material, but they aren't generative in and of themselves; they are stand-ins for the real thing, shadows of them
Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Very good BAP thread on IQ, which like GDP as a measure of economic health, is a crude proxy for the variables that actually matter, and if obsessed over to the exclusion of fuzzier “common sense” metrics may lead to all sorts of very stupid and counterproductive politics Nonetheless the political fight over IQ, whether or not IQ is “real” or heritable or differs across populations, is a flash-point for a much bigger fight over fundamental assumptions on which political decisions are made and negotiated over, what can and can’t be said and by whom
Feb 7 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Recently watched Terminator 2 and had forgotten that the super genius computer scientist who invents Skynet is black. This is peak 90's color blindness. The fact that he's black goes totally unremarked upon. It doesn't register at all. As a friend has pointed out there is very brief window where the world's biggest mega celebrities are black men, Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson. Jordan wins his first ring the same year Terminator comes out. Black men were a universal everyman.