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Monsieur le Baron
@Mssr_le_Baron
Welcome to McComrades, today we have 2 for $5 Big Marx. I'm Lovin' It, Comrade. Monarcho-Communist. Telegram: @MonsieurLeBaron Urbit: ~radlux-hobmus
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Jan 2 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Many Americans may be totally unfamiliar with prep school culture, American prep, college prestige, and all that, because only 10% of college students, roughly 3% of Americans, go to colleges with <50% admit rates, but this includes basically every state flagship and T50 SLAC. Image
Image It may not be normal for regular Americans, but for Upper Middle Class Americans, this is normal. The median student at UGA, one of Georgia's two state flagships, took 9-13 AP classes. Americans work insanely hard at prep schools.
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Dec 31, 2024 • 38 tweets • 8 min read
Both were the source of vast fortunes for enterprising young men, both were ascribed mystical Oriental wisdom.

But the ideal is different. India is the dream of the nabob and the perennialist. China is the dream of merger and the eschaton. The nabob goes to India to get wealthy, to conquer, to overcome, and this has always been part of the fantasy. But having done so, he settles into the luxury of India. He is a participant. Nabob is a play on nawab, a native term for a subordinate ruler. This is telling. Image
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Dec 27, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Why do you hate me so much?

No, really. When you break it down, my day-to-day is easily >90% similar to yours. I make it very clear that Study Hard Mathematic is important and necessary. This is not just my personal quirk either.

Do you *hate* elegant leisure, etc? I want to make the reality on the ground *very clear*. "American Prep" is already a grindfest. Movies about lounging on a yacht all day aren't true. That's not real. The sailing exists, the estates exist, but all of it is on the margins.
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Dec 17, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There's a lot to unpack here. I'll start with the first one.

Why blame White people as a whole for how Asians are depicted in Hollywood? Image Secondly, if the Asian literature by Asian authors sent to me by DM is anything to go off of, Asian authors (almost all Asian women married to White men) go even HARDER into these stereotypes. An "award winning" novel is about how Asian women can sleep their way into WASPdom.
Dec 13, 2024 • 58 tweets • 10 min read
Don't feed the bums. I'm not telling you this because I don't feed the bums, I'm telling you this because I do. It's a bad idea. It's a terrible idea. The fact that it sometimes goes well isn't the point. Bums are not rational actors.

If you can't accept that, I will explain. Feeding the bums, or even interacting with the bums, is like opening up a gacha box or pulling the lever on a slot machine. You're opening yourself up to a wide variety of outcomes, many of them bad, and none of them beneficial to you in any material way.
Dec 6, 2024 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
I think what this is getting at is a deeper epistemological point. What are the memes? The memes are representations. People getting caught up in the meme understandings aren't intentionally lying, they're commenting on the world as they understand it. But their understanding is glib and superficial. That being said, a more subtle analysis is still built on representations, just more observations, and more critical thinking. Unless you are personally encountering Merkel in your sense experience, it's also built on "memes".
Dec 6, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Interesting data. I'd like to break it down for my readers. First of all, the basic overview. Enrollment is only growing slowly at private non-profit and public 4 years ("real uni"), while most growth is driven by non-trad types.

The theme: unis are scraping the barrel. Image White enrollment is declining.

Unfortunately, the income data only goes into quintiles, which is too low resolution to sift out the professional UMC (the top few %), but we can see the top two quintiles (roughly the white collar middle class). That is declining *the most*. Why? Image
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Dec 3, 2024 • 60 tweets • 12 min read
Anyways, to broadly address this point at a very high level:
America's Sneeds, from Start to 1965

We'll start with a loose recap of Albion's Seeds and continue with the rest in the same format, also with a "Albion Descendant folkway" when applicable. Puritans:
Normandy's Seed. Predominately drawn from the English gentry (Norman), forming the Roundheads/Grandees faction in the English Civil War. Lower nobles/gentry that were favored by Henry Tudor during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. ~40% of Norf founders.

I <3 Puritan.
Dec 2, 2024 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
Very interesting discussion with @magicmaan775, who has insider insight on the life of the Southern UMC. More similarities than I was getting from early responses, but a lot of interesting differences. The corporate lifepath actually is roughly similar, so that's reassuring. Most Southern UMC are corporate elites, with some small business owners. This works, conceptually, the same way as the North, but competition is *substantially* less. The quantity of competition creates a quality all its own. The North is stuck in ZSHC.
Nov 24, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In D&D and other fantasy, we can split these into three kinds:
1. Monsters/Animals: A kind of creature that by its nature does things harmful to man.
2. Evil Humanoids: Orks, drow, etc, who have an evil religion/ideology that compels them to evil. Drizzt isn't evil, but most are. If drow abandoned their weird femdom thing, they could be good. Personally, I like to think drow lay eggs, since they seem to be able to rebuild from just a matron. Goblins could eat pigs instead of people, but they find it glorious to raid.
Nov 16, 2024 • 65 tweets • 12 min read
The fixation on civility is important because it reveals the problem: resentment at being made to use fork and knife. But why does civility matter? What makes assimilation work in America? What *is* assimilation?

Today, we'll be discussing assimilation and Church's 3 ladders. There are three main kinds of pathways:
Regionalized Assimilation
America, Fuck Yeah
The Ordeal of Civility
Nov 6, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Good morning, sleepless patriots.

Some thoughts.

1. The GOP genuinely was making a play for VA and NH. The end result nationally was roughly the midpoint between our numbers and the mainstream polls (in the tank for Kamala).
2. Presumptive EVs: 312. Just shy of a landslide. 3. Trump has a decisive mandate for mass deportations and DOGE.
4. Kamala didn't outperform Biden in *any* county. Some of this was rigging collapse, but she sucks and DEI is deeply unpopular.
5. Trump drove a large turnout surge, but abortion was still enough to whip D turnout.
Oct 21, 2024 • 47 tweets • 11 min read
What's the value of money? I've written a lot about the value of assets and income and relative status and prestige, but what about lifestyle? How are you going to spend that money? How do Americans live? I'm going to keep to approximate price categories, with the caveat that prices on normal goods can fluctuate wildly regionally, sometimes 50-100%, but this should level out as you go higher. And let's be honest. The higher stuff is why you're here anyways.
Oct 18, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A working sketch of US history. A variety of settlers set out from Britain, with a barbell class distribution and a predeliction towards ideological extremism. The colony grows fat off of its immense natural resources and eventually seeks autonomy, which is denied. After winning independence, the debate is between Hamiltonian statebuilding and Jeffersonian yeoman frontierism, which is arguably the soul of America. Jefferson largely wins until the US runs out of frontier, which also causes the simmering regional conflict to go hot.
Oct 18, 2024 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
I was talking with the Czech man and he mentioned government bureaucracy, and I unfortunately have no firsthand experience or insight on how that sausage is made. But I did have a story, which I think you all will find interesting.

How "Generational Wealth" came to be. I must provide many caveats here. Unlike other threads, this does not come from my own life or adventures I've had, it's just a story told to me by a bureaucrat I used to know, but it's so mind-bending I suppose I have to share it.
Oct 17, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
At some point, I should probably write a comparative ethnic business behavior thread, but no, Chinese are not magically super industrious. They're maybe slightly more industrious than Americans, and more willing to grind, but grind is as often counterproductive as not. Honesty is perhaps not the right word for it, since honesty implies trustworthiness. Maybe English doesn't have a good word for "tells literal factual statements often". But the Yellow man bullshits less. Bullshits himself less, bullshits others less.
Oct 15, 2024 • 43 tweets • 18 min read
I've been writing a lot about California, but I refer a lot to places and regions and peoples that many of you non-Californians may not be aware of. So, the sociogeographics of California. The shape of a dream that became a nightmare. Image California was shaped by four subsequent waves of immigration.
1. The Founders
2. The Midwesterners
3. The Okies
4. The Sunbelt
Oct 14, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Looks like I opened a can of worms. The guess was a vibe check, but it turns out his SAT scores are public. Pre-1995 670V, 730M, for 97th %ile in both, and a 99th %ile composite. This is consistent with an IQ in the 135-145IQ range. Does not suggest higher. Even the pre-1995 SAT has never been *that* hard, so if he had an IQ over 150, we would expect him to easily cap it, which is why they use specially normed tests for anyone in that range. Normal IQ tests are too easy for anyone >3SD. It bores them.
Oct 13, 2024 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
I was talking with @Cal_Crucis about Okies and California demographics, and yet another pillar of 20th century Sacred Cows imploded before my eyes.

Which is to say...

The Dream of Prince Gavin: White Slavery and How the West was Lost, or the Age of the Japanese Planters Picking up from last time, California was the American Dream as a fever dream. A remix of all the previous themes of America in pastiche, in haze, as a fever dream, erratic colors and shapes.

A place to begin anew, to renew, to rebuild.
Oct 10, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
If I had to give a tl;dr of American post-WWII history from a Dissident lens, it would be this. The FEDGOV was split into a REDGOV and a BLUGOV. The reason why Americans feel alienated from their government's foreign policy is because it *was* alien. It had alien priorities. Image The REDGOV was the Pentagon power structure, run by KMT/Taiwanese interests, with a political machine operated by the Italian-Jewish Chicago Outfit in California, which produced the mid-century GOP's most prominent politicians.
Oct 10, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I wouldn't bring up a #NotHappening call made so late that it was already #NotHappening except for all the morons in mentions. First, thank you to all the emergency responders and thank you to those who prayed.

A CAT3 has made landfall every few years my whole life. Shut up. I don't know if it's all the foreigners who have never seen American weather before, HDTV news, climate hysteria, or better monitoring tech, but people freak out constantly over "normal disasters" now. People were saying it was the end of the world when CA had orange skies.