The Tea Party and the Rise of American Gerontocracy

NOTE: This article was originally published at In Mala Fide on November 16, 2010. I’m re-posting it here because it is relevant to Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign and the violent opposition it has engendered from Baby Boomers. It and other articles I wrote for In Mala Fide can be found in my book Three Years of Hate.

Some time ago, I saw a picture of a sign from a Tea Party rally that read “Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare.” It dovetails nicely into an expose Matt Taibbi wrote for Rolling Stone in which he described the hoards of anti-government protesters rather uncharitably, to say the least:

Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it’s going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I’ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They’re full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending–only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry’s medals and Barack Obama’s Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending–with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about–and nowhere do we see that dynamic as clearly as here in Kentucky, where Rand Paul is barreling toward the Senate with the aid of conservative icons like Palin.

He goes on to write how Rand Paul opposes eliminating the one government program that enriches him personally:

Early in his campaign, Dr. Paul, the son of the uncompromising libertarian hero Ron Paul, denounced Medicare as “socialized medicine.” But this spring, when confronted with the idea of reducing Medicare payments to doctors like himself–half of his patients are on Medicare–he balked. This candidate, a man ostensibly so against government power in all its forms that he wants to gut the Americans With Disabilities Act and abolish the departments of Education and Energy, was unwilling to reduce his own government compensation, for a very logical reason. “Physicians,” he said, “should be allowed to make a comfortable living.”

A while back, the New York Times reported on a poll of Tea Partiers that backs up Taibbi’s observations:

When talking about the Tea Party movement, the largest number of respondents said that the movement’s goal should be reducing the size of government, more than cutting the budget deficit or lowering taxes.

And nearly three-quarters of those who favor smaller government said they would prefer it even if it meant spending on domestic programs would be cut.

But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security–the biggest domestic programs, suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”

Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.

The lesser mind will look at the above excerpts and proclaim, “Aha! The Tea Party is a bunch of hypocrites!” And yes, they may be hypocritical, but there’s a method to their madness.

Liberals like to attack the Tea Party as racist, and some on the far right embrace them as an evolving expression of “implicit whiteness” in America, but race is not what defines them. The Tea Party is fighting to transform America into a gerontocracy: a government of the old people, by the old people, and for the old people. More specifically, the old people who will be ruling are the Baby Boomers, the most narcissistic and avaricious generation in American history. The above-mentioned NYT report identifies the demographics of the Tea Party as being primarily old and white:

Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45.

The more cynical among you might argue that America is already a gerontocracy, what with the levers of power held by dried-up old prunes like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell. But just like how having white men in government doesn’t mean that white or male interests are represented, Congress being an old folks’ home doesn’t mean that elderly interests are represented. When then-President Bush proposed privatizing Social Security in 2005, the old farts in this country had a collective anal prolapse.

Ever wonder why Social Security is the third rail of American politics? It’s an obvious scam that is slowly dragging down the economy, but it just happens to benefit the fastest-growing and most politically influential voter bloc in this country. Government pension programs by nature are Ponzi schemes because they require an ever-increasing number of citizens paying into the system to stay solvent. This leads into the primary reason why Social Security is in danger: the Baby Boomers didn’t have enough kids to keep the Ponzi scheme going. Unlike their frisky parents, the Boomers preferred to have smaller families of three, two, or just one kid, and in some cases none at all. No kids means no taxpayers to keep you from having to eat Alpo when you’re 75 and can’t work because of your bum hip. To make matters worse, Social Security was designed merely to keep seniors out of poverty, not to fund the big, expensive cars and trips to Bermuda that the Boomers are used to.

There are only two ways to save Social Security. The first is to drastically increase the number of workers paying into the system. The government’s preferred way of doing this is with immigration, legal and illegal. The negative effects of legal and illegal immigration have been hashed out so many times by so many different writers that I don’t need to repeat them. Suffice it to say, importing large numbers of foreigners isn’t an option, either practically or politically. This leaves our other choice: liquidate all parts of the government save for Social Security, Medicare and other programs that benefit seniors.

That is the true purpose of the Tea Party. For all of their anti-government bluster, they’re just another interest group clamoring for their slice of the entitlement pie. They are the final expression of Boomer vanity, narcissism, and greed before they skedaddle on up to that spirit in the sky. If you doubt me, find me a Tea Party politician who is even considering talking about cutting Social Security or Medicare. Sharron Angle? Rand Paul? Marco Rubio? Not a chance. They are all part and parcel of the Gray Mafia, who will appropriate all of the ducats to their vampiric constituents while denying you so much as crumbs from the table. The young must die so that the old may live.

And make no mistake, the Baby Boomers are nothing more than a generation of vampires seeking to suck the blood out of their children to prolong their own wretched lives. They’re also a vile gang of hypocrites. After they spent their youths in the sixties and seventies taking every illicit substance known to man, they got Puritan pious and instituted the War on Drugs in the eighties to ass-rape anyone else who did the same. After voting themselves massive entitlement programs in the form of the Great Society, they foisted neoliberal capitalism and “free trade” on America to denude blue-collar work and make getting into tens of thousand of dollars in debt a requirement just to enter the middle class. After dodging the draft during the Vietnam War when they were young enough to die for their country, they conjured up some “Support the Troops” bullshit as a salve to their corrupt souls and to browbeat everyone into becoming sunshine patriots. Every joy they indulged in they seek to deny to the rest of us; every ladder that they used to climb to the top they kicked away. And now that their lives are finally coming to a close and the scam they were hoping to cash in on is about to collapse, they’re scheming to hoard the government’s bullion all for themselves.

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Official Statement: I Disavow the Alt-Right, Unite the Right 2, and Jason Kessler

Next month, disgraced political activist Jason Kessler will be holding “Unite the Right 2,” a follow-up to his disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. Unite the Right resulted in the deaths of three people and injuries to countless more, and it also unleashed a wave of digital censorship and deplatforming that was unprecedented in the history of the Internet. As a direct result of Unite the Right, numerous dissident right individuals and organizations—many of whom did not participate in the event—were banned from Twitter, Facebook, PayPal, and countless other platforms and services.

I don’t know Kessler’s reasons for wanting to hold a second rally and I don’t care. The events of Charlottesville should have convinced anyone with half a brain that goon marches accomplish nothing other than getting people maimed, injured, doxed, and ruined by the left. One participant in Unite the Right even committed suicide due to the constant harassment he was getting from antifa and the media.

Right now, the Trump administration has made numerous strides towards achieving nationalist goals, from mass deportation of illegal aliens to a travel ban against several Muslim countries to wiping out the ability of public employees’ unions to fundraise for Democrats. The Democratic Party is tearing itself apart due to conflict between its neoliberal and socialist wings, and many leftists are beginning to realize that the prophesied “Blue Wave” in this year’s midterm elections isn’t going to happen.

The only thing an event like Unite the Right 2 can do is jeopardize all of this.

Because the city of Charlottesville denied Kessler a permit—since they understandably don’t want neo-Nazis and communists constantly brawling in their streets—he’s choosing to hold Unite the Right 2 in Washington, D.C., a city where Hillary Clinton won 91 percent of the vote in 2016 and where the mayor and city council are all Democrats. Far-left groups like Smash Racism D.C. and the Democratic Socialists of America are given free reign by D.C. police to terrorize and harass their political opponents, up to and including administration officials like Senior Advisor Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Having visited D.C. numerous times over the years, I know how dangerous a place it can be for dissident right-wingers.

There is no way that Unite the Right 2 won’t descend into violence, and this violence will be used by the left to justify further reprisals against the right. The fake news media will attempt to pin blame for the event on President Trump and Silicon Valley entities will use it to ban, censor, and deplatform more people. Indeed, if you’re feeling paranoid, you could argue that Kessler is doing all this on purpose with the intent of damaging American nationalism.

I did not participate in or support the first Unite the Right rally, partly because I had disassociated from the alt-right two months before the rally happened, and partly because Richard Spencer and other leaders of the alt-right had made it clear that I was not welcome in their movement. I’ve increasingly come to believe that Spencer’s refusal to allow me to join his now-dead site AltRight.com was divine intervention, God sparing me from the destruction I would have faced had I continued down that road.

Therefore, I hereby disavow the alt-right, Jason Kessler, and Unite the Right 2.

I have no connections to Kessler (aside from having interviewed him in my capacity as a journalist), do not support what he is doing, and do not wish to be associated with him in any way. I hold no ill will against him or anyone involved in Unite the Right 2, but I believe the event is foolish, shortsighted, and will do nothing but give ammunition to the left while painting nationalists in the worst possible light. I oppose all political violence and hope Unite the Right 2 does not descend into chaos like the first rally did, though I’m not holding my breath. I condemn anyone and everyone associated with Jason Kessler and his rally.

This will likely be my only public statement on this matter.

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The Second Dotcom Crash and the End of Web 2.0

Roughly a year ago, I took my first book Confessions of an Online Hustler off-sale because I believed that in an age of omnipresent Internet censorship, much of the advice it in was no longer worth charging for. (You can now get it for free by signing up for my mailing list.) Back then, I believed that the struggles myself and other dissident right figures were going through would be temporary. That the clouds would part and we could go back to changing the world.

It’s time to face facts: we are in the middle of a second dotcom crash.

What do I mean by this? I mean that Web 2.0, the dominant paradigm of the Internet for the past decade, is dying. Much like how the first dotcom crash wiped out countless startups—and allowed others such as Amazon and eBay to achieve dominance—the second dotcom crash is destroying the livelihoods of everyone who creates online content for a living. Left, right, center, apolitical: independent writers, YouTube hosts, and other creators are being squeezed out to make the Internet safe for corporations and controlled opposition.

I’m one of those creators who’ve been wiped out. Most of you know that I was banned from Twitter in November 2016, losing access to over 10,000 followers who read, promoted, and supported my work. Earlier that year, I was also banned from Amazon Associates, a hit to my income. Two months later, after President Trump was inaugurated, I noticed a sudden and inexplicable drop in my site’s search traffic. Because much of my blog income (book sales and affiliate marketing) came via random Internet searches, my cash flow plummeted to the point where I was forced to find a job in order to support myself.

I believe that after the inauguration, Google targeted my site with some kind of anti-fake news algorithm, choking me off from potential new readers…and also choking off my ability to make a living. Since then, my search traffic has continued to dwindle, to the point where my audience is roughly the same size it was when I first started this blog back in 2012-2013. I’m making sufficiently little money that I’d be broke and homeless even in Eastern Europe if I didn’t have a day job.

I know that I’m not the only person who has dealt with this. YouTube’s constant gaslighting of its users is a major case in point. If you create videos or host live streams, it’s a crapshoot as to whether your subscribers will even see your content. The arbitrary “community guidelines” system has lead to hosts as diverse as my friend the Bechtloff and German communist Three Arrows having their videos removed due to false flagging. The “adpocalypse” last year led to countless channels being demonetized despite their popularity, and Google has increasingly tightened monetization requirements to shut out neophyte creators. And let’s not forget how videos are being “sandboxed” to keep other people from seeing them.

Every other Big Tech company is doing the same thing. For example, a close friend of mine who runs a website that reaches millions of people told me that Facebook has targeted him with their algorithms in such a manner that it’s impossible for articles on his site to go viral. Twitter’s penchant for banning and shadowbanning non-leftists is well-known at this point, and registrars like GoDaddy have seized the domains of websites like the Daily Stormer and AltRight.comI’ve also seen evidence that Amazon is trying to shadowban certain authors who sell their books via the site.

Libertarian retard logic claims that corporations will always try to maximize profit, yet Silicon Valley is deliberately leaving money on the table in order to shut down the most popular people on their platforms, even though most of these sites are already losing money. Moreover, President Trump has shown absolutely no interest in defending freedom of speech online, even though it’s his supporters that are being disproportionately targeted. Ted Cruz—the guy we all mocked as a feckless cuck during the Republican presidential primaries—has done more for us on this front than the “God-Emperor” has.

While we like to imagine ourselves as freedom fighters who will NOT! STAND! for our voices being silenced, the reality is that humans prefer to take the easy way out, and we’ve already quietly adapted to the new reality. For example, Beardson Beardly deletes episodes of his show The Weekly Sweat after they air so he doesn’t get a strike on his account (which would keep him from live streaming). Dissident right-wingers have developed increasingly elaborate ways to sneak back onto Twitter after being banned. Alt-tech platforms intended to replace these sites have all crashed and burned. Gab has become a repository for neo-Nazis and feds and will likely be shut down by the FBI in the near future, while YouTube competitor Vidme shut down last year due to mounting losses.

Not only that, there’s little reason to believe that we’d be able to return to the pre-Trump glory days even if all the censorship and gaslighting were ended today. Audience tastes have changed to such a rapid degree in the past few years that solid methods for making money and getting your message out will become obsolete within months. Attention spans have become increasingly short due to constant sensory overload, resulting in a shift from blogging and writing towards video and audio production, as well as Tweeting.

For example, live streams have supplanted videos as the primary means of creating content on YouTube due to a combination of incentives and disincentives. Audiences prefer live content to prerecorded videos due to the dynamism and interactivity factors, and YouTube’s Super Chat system (which allows viewers to donate to stream hosts in exchange for having one of their comments pinned to the stream chat for a period of time) makes live streams more lucrative as well. It’s because of this that I’ve shifted from doing podcasts and videos to hosting live streams.

Finally, a lot of online success comes down to luck. In nearly a decade of writing online, I’ve increasingly noticed that the biggest winners are those who latch onto a trend first. For example, video hosts like James Rolfe, Spoony, and Doug Walker became popular in the late 2000’s because they were among the first people creating content for YouTube, then a new site. “Digital nomads” who got their start when WordPress and blogging took off in the late 2000’s also made bank. When the Kindle first debuted, its users were so desperate for something to read that anyone could make decent coin publishing for the platform, even if their books were utter shit.

Johnny-come-latelys in any field will always be struggling against market saturation, even if they have talent. Untalented ones will fall flat on their faces. For example, look at the case of Christian McQueen, a fraud who lives off credit cards and scams people as part of his “playboy” lifestyle, or Dylan Madden, a fat, broke loser who lives with his grandma but pretends to be a baller online. I wager the majority of “location independent entrepreneurs” writing today are living off credit cards, trust funds, or savings from their old jobs.

The simple reality is that the Internet is rapidly closing its doors to the common man. Censorship, changing audience tastes, and market saturation are creating a situation in which the only people who can survive are those with connections. Think YouTube trying to muscle out independent hosts so they can cater to CNN and other mainstream media outlets, or alt-lite personalities like Stefan Molyneux sipping from the poisoned chalice of corporate sponsorships.

There is some hope. Some writers and YouTube hosts have managed to become successful under the new rules. But the catch is that they’re doing things that are new and novel. Dissident right subcultures like the ironybros and Frog Twitter are more successful accidentally than the vast majority of “digital nomads” are on purpose. Bronze Age Pervert’s book Bronze Age Mindset is currently one of the best-selling titles on Amazon, while Beardson Beardly was able to raise $150 in less than an hour so he could buy a capture card to stream video games. In contrast, dorks like Dylan Madden constantly beg people to click their Uber affiliate links and make pennies at best.

This is in part why I’ve shifted my focus to my new project, Terror House MagazineWhile I’m never going to quit writing or take down this site, opining on politics or the topics I typically focus on are not only less interesting to me, they have diminishing returns. With Terror House, I’m building something I’ve wanted to do for years, something that serves an important need (if our rapidly growing traffic is any indication) and is unique. I’m going to be 30 years old at the end of this month and it’s time for me to put aside childish things.

I plan on surviving the second dotcom crash by building my wealth outside of the Internet through a day job and creating an online business that will survive the ups and downs of censorship and audience mood shifts. Many people won’t be able to do this and will end up being forced out like Pets.com was. The golden days are over: it’s time to adapt.

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A Requiem for Milo Yiannopoulos

I want to like Milo Yiannopoulos. I really do.

Milo’s work as a journalist and provocateur is a big reason why nationalism and the dissident right have made the strides that they have. He was the first major journalist to give a fair shake to GamerGate, and his outspoken support for Donald Trump when he began his presidential run three years ago was a boost to the movement. His open faggotry was annoying, but the guy was legitimately funny and good at driving the left insane.

I can’t even get upset over his supposed “defense” of pedophilia, because all sodomites are pedophiles. Contrary to the claim that homosexuality purely comes from nature, many gay men are gay because they were molested at a young age, and the trauma of that experience leads them to become molesters themselves. When the gay rights movement began in earnest several decades ago, one of their top demands was lowering the age of consent, and a big part of why homonationalists like Grindr Greg Johnson are so enamored with Europe is because ages of consent are much lower here, as low as thirteen in some countries. Crucifying Milo for being honest enough to admit what every homo believes is the height of priggishness.

Unfortunately for the Dangerous Faggot, that incident defanged him permanently. He had a chance to redeem himself in the wake of the pedo controversy by turning the tables and revealing how the “gay community” is built on the systemic sexual abuse of young boys, particularly boys from broken homes. He could have broken the conditioning. Instead, he did the equivalent of hiding behind his mom’s skirt when the other boys arrived to beat him up, like every gay man does.

Milo is finished. He’s not coming back. He was forced out of Breitbart following the pedo incident, the Mercers cut him off last fall, and he was forced to pay back the advance Simon and Schuster gave him for his book. His operations are losing money due to his coke-fueled, high-octane lifestyle, and the left has stopped caring what he says or does. The weight of countless broken promises, such as his Privilege Fund and the book he was writing about GamerGate that never materialized, hangs from his neck. And now he’s reduced to giving speeches in places like Hungary, desperately trying to buy more time for his fifteen minutes of fame.

Last Friday, Milo Yiannopoulos gave a speech in Budapest with the decidedly un-Milo title “Risks and Opportunities in the 21st Century,” paid for by a foundation connected to the Hungarian government. It was part of the “Future of Europe” conference, a multi-day extravaganza where various right-wing figures both foreign and domestic came to the city to warn about the dangers of globalism while the rest of us ate duck breast fusilli and drank wine on the taxpayer’s dime. After two days of presentations by Steve Bannon, Douglas Murray, David Goldman, and other major nationalist figures, Milo’s speech was billed as the biggest event of them all. Would the Dangerous Faggot reclaim his crown?

Sadly, the answer was no. I was at the speech, and it was a genuinely depressing affair. While Milo is still witty and quick on his feet, his bag of tricks is empty. He’s a stand-up comedian who repeats the same jokes over and over, oblivious to the fact that they’re no longer funny, though the aggressively mulched minds who attend his dwindling events might suggest otherwise. The arc of the Milo universe is long and headed down, down, down.

In defense of Milo, the entirety of the alt-lite suffers from this problem. Figures like Paul Joseph Watson, Jack Posobiec, and Candace Owens have desperately tried to carve out a niche of being edgy, but not too edgy. The alt-lite is where you go when you’re not starchy enough to work for Conservatism, Inc. but you think the “neo-Nazis” of the alt-right are icky. As a result, it lacks an ideological center and is constantly being pulled apart by both sides, which is evident in how some alt-lite figures are starting to drift back towards the left.

A big part of why Milo and his ilk were funny was not just because of what they said, but the left’s hysterical reaction to them. The frisson of trolling is about offending the easily offended, and the more anodyne the trolling, the funnier it is. For example, the social media manager of my new site Terror House Magazine recently trolled a bunch of leftists by making a blatantly fake Tweet about killing pitbulls. Milo is, by any reasonable standard, a political moderate: he’s pro-gay rights, pro-abortion, and is not terribly religious. His objections to feminism and leftism are similar to Jordan Peterson’s and the other emissaries of the Intellectual Dork Web: he’s not against these ideologies, he just thinks they’ve gone too far. In a sane society, Milo would occupy the same space on the political spectrum that the Revolutionary Communist Party is currently at.

But the left isn’t taking the bait anymore. From 2013 to 2016, left-wingers had become so hypersensitive that merely remarking about how women with excessive confidence or tattoos were unattractive was enough to get you gang-stalked and flooded with hate mail. But we’ve overused the penicillin of trolling to the point where the leftist bacteria in our societies have become immune to it. The snowflakes are melting, the safe spaces are being torn down, and the energy on the left is shifting to “dirtbag” groups like Chapo Trap House, who are unafraid to trade barbs with dank memesters in between repping the Democratic Socialists of America.

In this world, Milo and the alt-lite no longer serve a purpose. This was evident in the near-total obscurity in which his Budapest speech took place. To be fair, Hungarians by and large don’t know who he is and the Hungarian left is too terrified to leave their houses after dark, so the likelihood of a Chicago- or Berkeley-style attack on Milo’s speech was remote (and the Hungarian police would have shut it down anyway). But the international fake news media barely noticed that the Dangerous Faggot was repairing to a country that they regularly smear as “authoritarian” and “fascistic.” The spotlights have moved on.

The speech itself hovered between serviceable and cringeworthy. Milo was introduced by some local Hungarian figure who I didn’t recognize, who had a bizarre shtick of pulling off his T-shirt every other minute to reveal a new shirt with a dumb slogan. He started out with “Make Liberals Liberal Again,” went to “It’s Okay to Be White,” and finished up with “Free Speech,” all while making dumb puns about “asses” and toothless appeals to the West’s “Judeo-Christian” values. The crowd—mostly foreigners—ate it up, proving my point that the average IQ of the right-wing has slid about seven points in the last four years.

Milo’s speech was his typical boilerplate: egregious references to his love of black cock, attacks on the ugliness of feminists, kvetching about Islam. He doesn’t understand that speeches are like comedy routines, not songs: people don’t want to hear the exact same ones over and over again. If you’re the kind of person who listens to the exact same Katy Perry single from 2008 over and over again, you’ll love Milo, and to his credit, he’s at least consistent from a presentational standpoint. But there’s no there there. He’s as hollow and illusory as Patrick Bateman opining on Huey Lewis and the News.

The only genuinely shocking thing Milo said during his speech was when he revealed that his husband was in the audience, but he wouldn’t point him out because he didn’t want the guy to be “assassinated.” Seriously, man? This is Hungary. The number of black men in Budapest at any given time isn’t big enough to fill a Lil Herb show, and the number of gay black men is even smaller. There were also only about 500 people at the event. Are you trying to get the love of your life killed? (Well, he technically is by engaging in sodomy with the guy, but I’m talking purely about this dumbass statement here.)

After Milo’s speech, there was a brief Q&A session where he answered questions sent to him via an email address that was supposedly provided to everyone, even though half the seats in the room didn’t have the slips of paper that it was supposedly printed on. Beyond the weird, creepy fanboy questions—one idiot asked Milo whether he thought Viktor Orbán or Donald Trump was sexier—the only one of note was a commenter asking why Milo did an about-face on gay marriage. Milo hemmed and hawed, finally answering that he used to oppose gay marriage because he didn’t think he’d be able to love another man in the way he loves his husband, which nearly made me leave the auditorium in disgust. After the Q&A session was over, Milo promptly departed the room, instead of hanging around for selfies with his fans like he ordinarily would.

I don’t want to dislike Milo. I’ve hung out with him before and he’s always been gracious to me. But his career as a public figure is at an end. He can’t innovate in a changing world, a world in which enraging people requires more effort than merely calling feminism “cancer,” and where the most trollable characters are protected by censorious algorithms and “hate speech” bans. Like most sodomites, Milo is all style, no substance, and in an increasingly lean world, he has little to offer anyone anymore.

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How We Can Make Western Women Feminine Again

This is a guest post by Jack from Road to Solidity.

It’s no secret that Western women have become more masculine and less feminine over the course of the last few decades.

They have forgotten who they really are and what they’re supposed to be.

Some would say that Western girls have become the worst in the world.

Feminism is one of the many things that has wreaked havoc on Western civilization in both Western Europe and the U.S.

I’m not going to talk about the people behind feminism or the disastrous effects it has on our civilization; instead, I’m going to focus on how we can escape this situation.

I’m going to lay down a plan we can use to take back control of our women and make them feminine and attractive again.

But before that, we must take a closer look at female psychology and the natural behavior of women.

Women Are Followers by Nature

Women are herd conformists.

They follow the group.

That’s what they’ve always done.

They are biologically hardwired to follow whoever is in charge. They are biologically programmed to fit into the society they live in.

A woman will do everything in her power to avoid being rejected from her social group and, by extension, the society she lives in. A woman who has no social group has no chance of survival.

That’s why women follow popular trends and opinions without even thinking about it.

Now, if the moral standards of the group women belong to are good, that’s great. Most women will behave in a good way and be proper wives and mothers.

However, if the moral standards of the group are bad, that’s another story. I do not need to draw a picture of this because you already know what I’m talking about.

So women just follow trends and they don’t bother to think whether they’re bad or not.

In fact, women have less of an ability to distinguish between good and evil compared to men.

It’s not even the fault of women that they follow the sick trends of today. They are like a gaggle of sheep following their shepherd.

Who the shepherd is and where he’s heading is what really matters.

Why Do Women Follow These Sick Trends?

Again, women will do anything to fit into their society.

They are becoming less feminine and more masculine because that’s what society dictates to them.

Since they don’t want to be rejected from society, they do what they’re told: adapting their behavior to the moral standards of their society.

Now, what if there was another society they could belong to?

What if there was another group they could join?

What if they belonged to a group that had good moral standards?

If women do what this sick society dictates to them, it’s because they have no other group to follow.

Western men have become individualists who don’t see themselves as a group. They only see themselves as individuals.

This individualism is a good thing because it’s what makes the Western man so smart and creative.

But individualism isn’t enough when it comes to building a society that can resist subversion. It’s insufficient when it comes to resisting other groups of people who are more organized and cohesive.

Since Western men don’t form a group, they are just isolated individuals, and these isolated individuals have no choice but to follow what is dictated by society and the government.

Let me be clear about this: I’m not against a strong government with strict laws and considerable power. That kind of government is very good so long as it truly serves the interests of the people.

On the other hand, if the government clearly works towards the destruction of the nation it rules, it is necessary for people to go their own way. It is necessary for men to distance themselves from society and create their own.

Communitisation is Key to Saving Western Civilization

Once Western men join together and start building a society with their own rules, things will start to change.

Women will have another society they can belong to. They will have another group to follow. They will naturally follow the powerful, masculine men who are close to them and who belong to this new society.

Women will do everything they can to fit into this group. They will follow the trends of this society. Our trends. Our moral standards.

This parallel society Western men should create can be seen as a cartel or a mafia, albeit a mafia who serves our interests and works towards the restoration of our civilization.

Once this happens, the Western man will be unstoppable. He will understand how to gain and keep power.

It might sound a lot of work, because it is. We won’t make this happen overnight. But this is the way to go.

Each Western man must gather with other men who want the same things as him and create a powerful network with these men. A network that will allow them to build an attractive lifestyle women will want to be part of. A network that will offer women an alternative.

Jack blogs at Road to Solidity.

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Why You Should Abandon Gab

For nearly two years, I’ve been an evangelist for Gab, a free-speech social media network that sprung up in the wake of Big Tech’s censorship wave during the 2016 election. Originally intended as a Twitter replacement, Gab boasted several major improvements over that site—such as the ability to edit your posts—and has since evolved to include messaging, video uploading, and streaming capabilities. Most importantly, the site did not censor or throttle right-wingers for their political views.

However, it’s clear that Gab can no longer function as a platform where sane people can promote their work and share their views.

In the past couple of months, Gab has been a major battleground in the collapsing alt-right and its conflict over optics and tactics. Individuals such as Ricky Vaughn, Andrew Anglin, and Weev have urging the dissident right to abandon Nazi imagery (even if they’re only using it ironically), avoid pointless real-life marches, and to adopt American nationalism in order to win over normal people. They’ve been resisted by individuals such as Christopher Cantwell, Paul Nehlen (yes, the Paul Nehlen who is supposed to be running against Paul Ryan), and Matthew Heimbach, who think that the white race will be saved through nonstop goon marches, LARPing, and screaming about Jews constantly.

Two days ago, Nehlen decided to dox Ricky Vaughn on Gab because Ricky had the temerity to make fun of Nehlen on a podcast. It’s worth pointing out that the dox has not been confirmed: Ricky is still posting on Gab as well as on Twitter and doesn’t appear to be affected by Nehlen’s lame attempt to silence him. I won’t link to the dox to protect Ricky’s privacy.

Nonetheless, the precedent set by Nehlen’s actions is chilling. While doxing is an ever-present threat for anonymous commentators—and I’ve advocated that people who use pseudonyms should always be prepared in the event they are doxed—Ricky was doxed not by a leftist, but by someone who was ostensibly on his side.

Why would anyone who has anything to lose get involved in the dissident right now? If you make the mistake of trusting a psycho like Nehlen who ends up doxing you over his hurt feeeeeelings, you could end up ruined, fired from your job, and a target for physical violence from the left.

To make matters worse, Andrew Torba, the head of Gab, has specifically refused to ban Nehlen. His logic is hilariously Pharisaical: because the dox hasn’t been confirmed to be real, it doesn’t violate Gab’s Terms of Service. In other words, Ricky needs to wait until antifa thugs show up at his door or he gets canned from his job before Torba will take any action:

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Either Torba is playing favorites—he’s a longtime fan of Nehlen’s and fully supported the guy detonating his political career to rant about Jews—or he has a ludicrously autistic definition of what constitutes “free speech.” Doxing anonymous individuals such as Ricky Vaughn is depriving them of free speech, because without anonymity, they cannot speak without fear of becoming unemployable and a target for leftist violence. The fact that Torba doesn’t understand this means he cannot be trusted to protect Gab’s users.

It’s worth noting that Weev, one of a handful of users who have been banned from Gab, pointed this out months ago. We should have listened. Torba alleges he banned Weev for “direct calls to violent action,” yet has never produced any proof that Weev was in fact inciting violence.

Despite defending his ban of Weev to this day, Torba won’t lift a finger to ban Paul Nehlen, Christopher Cantwell, or the countless other waffendorks on Gab who engage in objectively worse behavior. For example, here’s a screenshot of Cantwell threatening me with violence because I dared to criticize him on Davis Aurini’s most recent live stream. Cantwell’s comment to me is several orders of magnitude worse than anything Weev ever said on Gab:

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The hilarity of Cantwell acting like a tough guy on Gab is that he’s still on trial for his actions at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville last year and his comments will no doubt be used to justify a guilty verdict. Not only that, I live in Europe, and due to Cantwell’s criminal record and his reputation as a violent “white supremacist,” if he were to ever come over here to carry out his threat, I could make one phone call and ensure he gets arrested and deported the second he sets foot on E.U. soil.

Then again, what do you expect from a guy who shoves meth up his asshole?

This is the problem with Gab: its “free speech” mission and Torba’s selective moderating has allowed it to devolve into a cesspool of the worst doxers, retards, and neo-Nazi scum. Torba’s persistent refusal to introduce a block button allows morons to free-ride off of more popular people’s content by spamming them with constant replies, dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator.

By refusing to ban Nehlen, Torba has also now set a precedent that doxing people is acceptable on Gab, ensuring that more people will flee the site. White nationalists and neo-Nazis will take advantage of this to aggressively dox and stalk their “enemies.” Keep in mind that these people are so deranged that they regard anyone who doesn’t march around in a swastika armband bragging about killing Jews as an “enemy”:

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White nationalists and neo-Nazis think doxing is acceptable because they are miserable losers with no future, no families, and no career prospects, and they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are. If you have anything to lose, you should stay as far away from them as possible.

Because of this, I will no longer be using Gab to promote my work.

On Tuesday, I cancelled my Gab Pro subscription (which was due to renew that day), and yesterday, I announced that I will no longer be posting on the site or even logging into my account anymore. While I’m not going to delete my account (mainly to ensure that some retard doesn’t try to impersonate me), I won’t be using or promoting Gab in any capacity until/unless Andrew Torba does these three things:

  1. Bans Paul Nehlen.
  2. Changes the Gab TOS to ban doxing.
  3. Introduces a block button.

As one of the more popular users on Gab—I have just shy of 6,000 followers there out of roughly 400,000 users total, equaling nearly two percent of Gab’s user base—my departure will be a minor blow to the site. Torba is under no obligation to accede to my demands, of course, but I’m also under no obligation to give his site money or publicity.

Gab has been absolutely worthless in regards to attracting traffic to my blog and YouTube channel anyway: the only time I’ve gotten a significant number of hits from the site is when I was writing about the FISA memo. I get more hits from Twitter and Facebook—two platforms I was banned from eons ago—than from Gab.

If you’re a Gab user who wants to keep up with my work, I recommend you cut out the middleman and subscribe to my mailing list, which you can do via the sign-up form in the sidebar (and you get two free e-books along with it). You can also subscribe to my RSS feed if you still use an RSS reader by clicking here. Finally, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel here, my SoundCloud page here, and my Instagram account here (though I haven’t used the latter in a long time).

Good night, Gab, and good luck.

UPDATE (4/5/2018): Andrew Torba responded to this article within an hour of me posting it, snidely referring to me as an “obese blogger” and ignoring my arguments:

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It’s interesting that Torba cannot fix basic problems with Gab (such as sluggish performance, the inability to resize avatar pictures, or the fact that the site regularly goes offline) but was able to find my article and whine about it almost immediately after it was published. He’s a typical millennial: unprofessional, petty, and thin-skinned, and Gab is his personal hugbox.

Additionally, leftist journalists are now attempting to harass and attack Ricky Vaughn thanks to Nehlen doxing him, which could have been prevented had Torba banned Nehlen in the first place.

UPDATE (4/5/2016): Andrew Torba has finally banned Paul Nehlen from Gab now that it is clear that his dox of Ricky Vaughn was real. He should have banned Nehlen several days ago, but he did the right thing regardless. I still will not be returning to Gab unless he implements points two and three.

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Watch My Live YouTube Stream on the Pennsylvania House Special Election

Yesterday, I did an impromptu live YouTube stream on the Pennsylvania House special election between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone, possible Democratic voter fraud, the protests in Slovakia, and much more. The show aired at 8:10 PM EST (7:10 PM CST/5:10 PM PST).

You can watch the stream by using the window below, or you can click here to watch it on YouTube.

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Charlottesville and the End of the Alt-Right

Eight months ago, Richard Spencer blocked me from joining his new site AltRight.com—over the expressed wishes of his partner, Daniel Friberg, as well as everyone else involved with the site—for reasons so insanely petty and small I won’t repeat them here. He did this despite the fact that I was by far the most popular writer for Right On, one of AltRight.com’s predecessor sites, and despite the fact that I stood by him during the Heilgate fiasco when Mike Cernovich was accusing him of being a fed, even though I’ve always been closer to Cernovich than to Spencer.

Thanks, Dick. You didn’t know it then, but you did me a favor. Now I don’t need to wash your retarded stink off of me.

Charlottesville was the death rattle of the alt-right. From Heilgate to the doxing of Fat Mike Enoch to Richard Spencer getting his clock cleaned in public by a shit-eating cuck: it was all leading up to this moment. The untold carnage that has resulted from Unite the Right—from the Nazi LARPer twerp who killed a woman, to the participants who’ve been doxed and lost their jobs, to Baked Alaska being permanently blinded, to Christopher Cantwell losing everything, to the unprecedented censorship unleashed by Silicon Valley—is a direct result of Spencer and Enoch’s (and Jason Kessler’s) poor leadership skills.

Yes, you were set up by the Charlottesville and Virginia governments. Yes, you should be angry and seek restitution. But what did you think was going to happen? Why was there no Plan B in the event that things went south?

It’s like Kessler, Spencer, and everyone else was asleep for the past two years, when the Democrats were paying professional agitators to “bird-dog” Donald Trump’s rallies and instigate riots. Over a year ago in Chicago, I watched as several thousand MoveOn.org agitators, armed with Mexican and communist flags and Bernie Sanders campaign signs, invaded the UIC Pavilion and start a full-scale riot with the full cooperation of the city governmentFor that matter, they somehow missed the attacks leftists have launched against events by Milo Yiannopoulos, Roosh V, and other dissident right figures over the past two years.

Like Chicago, Charlottesville is a Democratic-run city in a Democratic-run state. Did you think that the left was suddenly going to start playing fair?

Now the alt-right is being physically removed from the Internet itself, and all Spencer and his clique can do is point fingers. American Renaissance and VDARE, despite not participating in Unite the Right, have been banned from PayPal, cutting them off from their primary source of funding. The Alternative Right site run by Colin Liddell and Andy Nowicki was banned from Blogger. The Daily Stormer has gotten it worst of all: they’ve been run off the Internet and onto the deep web, thanks to every domain registrar and whatnot trying their damndest to unperson Andrew Anglin.

And for what? So a few hundred dorks in Kmart golf shirts could wander around a college campus whinnying about how “you will not replace us,” a slogan that sounds exactly like Shia LaBeouf’s “He Will Not Divide Us” (and had roughly the same effect on the general public). It’s a slogan so bad that the left was able to cuck the alt-right out of it almost immediately.

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I’m pretty sure the only reason they didn’t call themselves the “resistance” is because the left beat them to it.

You can argue that leftist-controlled Big Tech was going to purge the right anyway and all Charlottesville did was give them an excuse, but by that logic, you might as well OD on heroin, because you’re gonna die “anyway.” Unite the Right’s biggest accomplishment so far has been riling up the left and simultaneously stripping the right of much of their ability to fight back.

Forget Spencer dipping into his trust fund to pay for Baked Alaska’s medical bills or Christopher Cantwell’s legal fees: has he, Kessler, or anyone else even tendered an apology or a note of sympathy to the countless lives that were ruined by Unite the Right? “But it’s not my fault the antifas attacked us or the police helped them!” No, but as a leader, you’re responsible for whatever happens to your followers. The buck stops with you.

They trusted you, and you betrayed that trust.

I’m not holding my breath waiting for Richard Spencer to man up, because none of this will ever affect him in any substantive fashion. While it’s true that NPI and Radix have been shut down by the purge and Spencer banned from PayPal, so long as he has access to Daddy’s credit line, he’ll be sitting pretty. He could quit the movement tomorrow and go back to skiing in Montana and his life would be completely unaffected. He’s like Tucker Max, the narcissistic ex-player who was able to crash cars into storefronts, get arrested for attacking cops, and screw up over and over again because his daddy would bail him out whenever he got in over his head.

And like Spencer, whenever Max’s decisions blew up in his face, he blamed everyone but himself.

I warned you that all of this would happen.

I warned you over a year ago, when the alt-right decided to team up with antifas and feminists to stalk and harass Roosh V during the International Meetup Day fiasco, smearing him as a “rapist,” solely out of envy that he was sleeping with the white women they wished they could sleep with. I got dogpiled for that, because the idea that I would defend a personal friend against false accusations was apparently puzzling to some people.

I warned you that turning a blind eye to homosexuals such as Grindr Greg Johnson would be a disaster, because homosexuality is an abomination and sodomites are mental defectives inherently drawn to death and self-destruction. The homo infiltration has only gotten worse since then: for example, TheBigKK, one of Richard Spencer’s most trusted lieutenants and the admin of the AltRight.com Discord server, is a Satanist furry dating a female-to-male transsexual.

I warned you that thanks to sites like The Right Stuff, the alt-right was increasingly being dominated by socially retarded millennials, their brains fried by social media use during their formative years, making them incapable of thinking in anything other than memes and thought-terminating cliches. For crying out loud, they unironically worship a cartoon frogJames Alex Fields, Jr., the Nazi LARPer weirdo who killed a woman at Charlottesville, is a perfect example of their breed.

Not only was the alt-right’s leadership failing to provide these young men with masculine guidance, as the “Third Jimpact” showed, they were actively taking advantage of their naivete and feeding their worst traits.

I warned you that putting morons like the fat, bumbling coward Mike Enoch in leadership positions would end badly for you. Remember when Enoch was exposed as having a Jewish wife and his immediate response was to not only straight-up lie about it, but to enlist fake news media site Salon’s help in throwing his audience under the bus by smearing them as “neo-Nazis?”

Never underestimate the masochism of a cultist, even when his self-appointed swami tries to betray him to save his own skin.

I warned you, and you didn’t listen.

You responded by calling me a “cuck” or claiming that I was “blackpilled”: how dare I interrupt the cult’s groupthink!

You accused me of “punching right,” even though I’ve never criticized anyone for being more right-wing than me: I’ve criticized them for their conduct, behavior, and lack of honor.

You tried to claim I wasn’t “really” alt-right, even though I’ve been writing in this part of the Internet since 2009, before most of you got your first pubes.

You tried to push aside my arguments by calling me “fat” or bringing up the fact that I’ve slept with Asian women, as if my weight or my past actions have any bearing on the truth of my words.

You tried to attack me for withdrawing from an altercation with antifas in Cleveland during the RNC to avoid getting gang-stomped, yet none of you keyboard warriors would dare make fun of your dear leader Richard Spencer for getting his shit pushed in at the inauguration, then running away to fix his hair and cry.

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The rest of the Internet didn’t have a problem making fun of Spencer. Memes of him getting his ass kicked are still being made by normies to this day.

Well, you were wrong and I was right.

And as you sit among the smoking ruins of the alt-right, shitting your pants over coming FBI investigations and trying to rationalize that no, you haven’t screwed yourselves beyond all hope of recovery, I’m laughing at you.

Oh, you think President Trump is on your side because he condemned the “alt-left” at one of his pressers? Listen closely to what he said, idiots. He equivocated both the alt-left and the alt-right, because he’s priming the population to reject both groups so he can purge them.

You think you “won” because public support has increased for preserving Confederate monuments? The people are supporting Trump, not you. They think you’re a bunch of freaks.

The alt-right was never important or significant. The only reason it seemed like a big deal was because they targeted left-wingers in the media and cuckservatives, and because both groups a) hold the media microphone and b) are easily triggered, they gave the alt-right more attention than they deserved. Hillary Clinton’s speech attacking the alt-right was likely almost entirely motivated by the fact that her easily butthurt millennial staffers were sick of getting trolled by Pepe the Frog avatars on Twitter.

The majority of the working-class whites who voted Trump into power and Brexit into law have never heard of the alt-right, and the more they learn about them, the more repulsive they find them.

The people I grew up with—working-class, Trump-supporting, church-going nationalists from the Rust Belt, i.e. the kind of whites who should be attracted to the alt-right—think Richard Spencer is a homosexual, assuming they even know who he is. They will never follow him or anyone from his cohort, because they see the alt-right as a weird subculture of degenerate urbanites and suburbanites obsessed with gay whoosh haircuts, gay dance music, and nattering on about nonsense terms like “fashy” or “white sharia” all day long without realizing how nuts they look to everyone outside of their social circles.

Nationalism will win: that I am assured of. The alt-right has become a hindrance to nationalism, and that’s why it’s getting flushed down the toilet.

The reason why President Trump hasn’t lifted a finger to support the alt-right, despite your support for him and all the physical and online attacks you’ve suffered since he took office, is because he wants you gone just as much as the left does. You were only useful to him during the election, because you were attacking his enemies; now that he’s in control, he’ll gladly ignore you as you get steadily no-platformed and unpersoned. And if you’re dumb enough to think Trump is /yourguy/ after his condemnation of the “alt-left,” he’ll curb-stomp you the next time you try something like Charlottesville.

You were never part of his vision for the U.S., and now you’re finding that out the hard way.

I disassociated from the alt-right two months ago, and I’m glad I did. I’m walking away from the political battlefield because none of the combatants deserve to win. If my choices are groups like the alt-right, the alt-lite, and the left, then I choose None of the Above. Maybe after they’re done with their little slapfights, they’ll be something worth finding in the ruins.

I’m not the only one who sees this. In the wake of Charlottesville, smart, sober commentators like my friend Ryan Landry and Paul Kersey of Stuff Black People Don’t Like are diving for the exits. As people like them vacate the premises and the retards hijack the short bus, the alt-right will speed faster and faster towards oblivion.

Oh well. It’s not my problem anymore.

Good night, alt-right, and good luck.

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Official Statement on the ADL’s False Accusations Against Me

Several hours ago, the Anti-Defamation League published a report titled “From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate,” which named me as one of the major figures of the alt-right, which they libeled as a “white supremacist” movement. Many friends and associates of mine, including my former Right On colleagues Daniel Friberg and Jason Reza Jorjani, Mike Cernovich, Colin Liddell, Matthew Heimbach and others were also named in the piece.

The ADL’s article isn’t simply a threat to my life and the lives of everyone on it (as it singles us out for violence from left-wing terrorists): their blurb on me is libelous and defamatory, accusing me of being a Holocaust denier, among other things. I will refute their claims about me below.

1. I do not work for Red Ice.

While I have been a guest on Red Ice several times and am friends with Henrik Palmgren and Lana Lokteff, I have never worked for the network in any capacity. While I did partner with Red Ice to report on the Republican and Democratic National Conventions last year, I did so as a volunteer, paying for my expenses with my own funds and with donations from my readers. Red Ice assisted in promoting my fundraiser and in logistics, but did not pay me to report for them.

2. I am not a Holocaust denier.

The ADL’s article falsely attributes an interview from Red Ice,Eric Hunt – The Shoah: The Biggest Hoax of the 20th Century?“, to me. This is how sloppy their “reporting” is: a simple Google search would have shown them that that podcast, which they call a “Holocaust denial screed,” was not done by me. Given that I live in Europe, where Holocaust denial is against the law in numerous countries, the accusation that I would engage in it isn’t just defamatory, it’s stupid.

3. I do not identify as alt-right.

Last month, I publicly announced that I was disassociating from the alt-right. I am not “disavowing” the alt-right, because I have many friends in it who are doing good work and because despite my criticisms of the movement, I recognize that globalism and the left are our ultimate enemies. I’ve simply chosen not to use the “alt-right” label to describe myself anymore. For the ADL to put me on a “Who’s Who” of the alt-right is insanely idiotic.

I may have grounds to sue the ADL for their false statements.

Not only has the ADL defamed me, by publishing this list, they’ve put the lives of everyone on it—as well as their loved ones—at risk. By singling us out with their libelous accusations of “white supremacy,” the ADL has made us into targets for left-wing violence.

The assassination attempt on Steve Scalise and other House Republicans by left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson last month, as well as the violent attacks on right-wingers and Trump supporters by antifas, show that leftists feel increasingly empowered to hurt and kill anyone they deem to be a “Nazi” or a “white supremacist.” While I currently live in Europe, my family has been targeted by antifa in the past, and could easily become a target again thanks to the ADL.

A close lawyer friend has told me that I have a case against the ADL. I am currently weighing my legal options and deciding how to proceed.

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Statement on Greg Johnson, Counter-Currents, and My Disassociation with the Alt-Right

Over the weekend, a conflict erupted between Daniel Friberg of Arktos and Greg Johnson and John Morgan of Counter-Currents Publishing. Arktos’ staffers published an article at AltRight.com revealing how Johnson and Morgan attempted to destroy Arktos through a coup involving the company’s shareholders. I’m involved in the conflict due to the fact that I’m a personal friend of Daniel’s and I worked for Arktos’ former website Right On as an author and podcast host.

Earlier today, Johnson published a response in which he accused me of being a “proxy” for Friberg, as well as other allegations. Counter-Currents author James J. O’Meara has also accused me of being a “fall guy” for Spencer, Friberg, and AltRight.com.

Additionally, over the weekend, Lucian Wintrich, Jack Posobiec and other New Right figures have been attacking Richard Spencer as being a closeted homosexual. Wintrich used as evidence a now-deleted post from my private Facebook account that didn’t mention Spencer at all, but discussed Greg Johnson, Counter-Currents and The Right Stuff. I’ve since been accused of allying with Wintrich in a smear campaign against Spencer.

Here are my statements and clarifications on these matters.

1. Everything Friberg, Spencer, and Arktos are saying about Greg Johnson and John Morgan is true.

Greg Johnson has a well-publicized history of mendacity and backstabbing. Over a year ago, I tried to warn the alt-right about Johnson’s treachery after he libeled my friend Roosh V as a “rape advocate” and a rapist during the hysteria over Return of Kings’ International Meetup Day. Using selectively quoted passages from Roosh’s book Bang Iceland, Johnson tried to make it seem as if Roosh had raped a drunk girl in Iceland, using the same logic that feminists and leftists use. When Counter-Currents commenters pointed out Johnson’s deceptive quoting, he deleted their comments and banned them from the site.

(Amusingly, several months after defaming my friend, Johnson had the audacity to beg me to contribute to a book he was writing on the manosphere and the alt-right.)

Several years ago, Greg Johnson nearly destroyed The Occidental Quarterly during his time as editor. After being fired for gross incompetence (not keeping proper financial records, failing to send out issues of the journal to subscribers, among other things), he seized control of TOQ’s website, subscriber list, office keys and other property, refusing to give them up unless he was paid off. After he was finally ousted from TOQ, he started Counter-Currents because he had nowhere else to go. Johnson’s near-destruction of The Occidental Quarterly is documented here.

Johnson has made a career out of backstabbing and betraying people in the alt-right, from Richard Spencer to Matt Parrott to Matthew Heimbach to Colin Liddell. Additionally, his attempts to normalize homosexuality and pedophilia are dangerous and subversive. Johnson’s argument that “intolerance of homosexuality of Jewish” is not only factually wrong (Jews identify as LGBT at much higher rates than the general population and are strongly in favor of “gay rights”), it serves to manipulate and confuse young men in the movement—many of whom already come from broken homes and/or lack proper masculine guidance—into adopting the gay lifestyle.

As for John Morgan, while he is not as psychopathic as Greg Johnson, he is a deceitful and untrustworthy man. Morgan’s coup against Arktos affected me directly, because at the time, I derived a large portion of my income from the articles and podcasts I produced for Right On. Following the seizure of Arktos’ bank accounts last September, Daniel was unable to pay me for my work (though he would later pay me some of the money he owed me out of his own pocket), and I had to borrow money from a friend in order to avoid getting evicted from my apartment.

When I first moved to Budapest six months ago, Morgan would suck up to me in person but insult me in private. At one house party, he got drunk on absinthe and began following me around, clapping me on the shoulder and proclaiming that I was a “good writer,” before passing out in the bathroom in a puddle of his own vomit. At the same time, he would whine about me to Daniel or other mutual friends of ours, claiming I was insufficiently “respectful” towards him. In March, Daniel, Davis Aurini, Melissa Mészáros and I recorded an episode of Matt Forney After Hours where we discussed Morgan’s actions in the context of “gamma males” and their psychological disorders.

Conversely, Daniel Friberg is one of the most honorable and talented men I’ve ever known. I first began working with him nearly two years ago, when he solicited me out of the blue to write for the newly-launched Right On. Daniel is one of the best publishers I’ve ever worked with: he always paid on time (excluding during the coup, which was out of his control), was always clear about what he expected from me, and never played games.

Daniel enthusiastically supported my coverage of the presidential election last year and also selected me as a speaker at Arktos’ Identitarian Ideas IX conference last February, standing by me even when my enemies in the alt-right tried to pressure him into cutting me off. He’s also an incredibly generous soul, paying me the money he owed me out of his own funds when Arktos was going through financial difficulties, offering me a place to stay when I first moved to Europe, and introducing me to countless nationalist figures here. I’m proud to call him a friend.

I’m defending Daniel Friberg because he is an honest man who is being smeared by a vindictive queer with a reputation for libel and treachery. Greg Johnson is the cancer of pro-white activism, and it’s time for chemotherapy.

2. I did not collaborate with Lucian Wintrich to attack Richard Spencer.

The Facebook post that Wintrich and Jack Posobiec are circulating was directed at Greg Johnson, Counter-Currents, and The Right Stuff, and did not mention Spencer at all. The allegations in it were not from me, but from a podcast called “The Third Jimpact“: I merely summarized the podcast’s contents. Moreover, I did not give it to Wintrich: someone on my Facebook friends list did. I have never met Wintrich or Posobiec and never spoken to them, and aside from some personal friendships, I have no ties to the New Right at all.

While I have my differences with Richard Spencer, I am not accusing him and will not accuse him of being a pedophile or committing any other heinous crime. I don’t support what Wintrich and Posobiec are doing and I have since deleted the original post. I am not interested in getting drawn into this fight.

3. I was not “fired” from AltRight.com.

Richard Spencer’s statement about my involvement in AltRight.com in January was due to a failure of communication between him, myself, and Daniel Friberg, who supported my involvement due to the fact that I was contributing to AltRight.com’s forerunner site, Right On. The issue has since been resolved.

4. I am disassociating myself from the alt-right.

Richard Spencer, RAMZPAUL and countless others have acknowledged me as a significant influence on the alt-right, going back to my old blog In Mala Fide, founded in 2009. However, it’s clear that the alt-right and I are moving in different directions. While I am not abandoning nationalism or white advocacy, I no longer feel that the “alt-right” label is an adequate descriptor of who I am and what I do.

I am not disavowing the alt-right as a whole, seeing as I have many friends in the movement (such as Daniel Friberg) who are doing good work. Like RAMZPAUL, I’m simply no longer using the label to describe myself. I have no ill will against Richard Spencer et al. and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors.

This will be my last public statement on these matters for the time being.

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