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Does The West Rule?
“this does not help your cause” - guy who hates you and your cause
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New Substack post: about the mysterious case of The West and Western Values as a concept being invoked by an alliance of MAGA, the craziest people in Europe, East Asia (?), and the most embarassing political parties in Latin America
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open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...
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In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
February 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
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¿Puede recuperarse la economía de Venezuela?
www.cgdev.org/blog/cgd-pod...
Grabé una conversación con Dany Bahar y Liliana Rojas-Suarez sobre este tema. ¡Ahora la transcripción está disponible en español!
www.cgdev.org/blog/cgd-pod...
Grabé una conversación con Dany Bahar y Liliana Rojas-Suarez sobre este tema. ¡Ahora la transcripción está disponible en español!
February 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
¿Puede recuperarse la economía de Venezuela?
www.cgdev.org/blog/cgd-pod...
Grabé una conversación con Dany Bahar y Liliana Rojas-Suarez sobre este tema. ¡Ahora la transcripción está disponible en español!
www.cgdev.org/blog/cgd-pod...
Grabé una conversación con Dany Bahar y Liliana Rojas-Suarez sobre este tema. ¡Ahora la transcripción está disponible en español!
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The fundamental thrust of totalitarianism is that the government dictates terms of how every aspect of every organization, as well as your own life, operates. The Soviet Union, the Nazis, the modern PRC, all have commissars in every org to ensure they follow the government political line.
Breaking news: The Pentagon issued a warning to Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts, saying the organization risks losing its long-standing partnership with the U.S. military unless it rapidly implements “core value reforms.”
Pentagon warns Scouts to restore ‘core values’ or lose military support
The relationship dates back decades, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has criticized the organization for allowing girls to join and changing its name from Boy Scouts.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The fundamental thrust of totalitarianism is that the government dictates terms of how every aspect of every organization, as well as your own life, operates. The Soviet Union, the Nazis, the modern PRC, all have commissars in every org to ensure they follow the government political line.
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I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
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Using 200 years of patent data to describe the rise of the US innovation machine. Innovation drivers are R&D, education, and defense spending, from Antonin Bergeaud, Ruveyda Nur Gozen, and John Van Reenen www.nber.org/papers/w34760
February 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Using 200 years of patent data to describe the rise of the US innovation machine. Innovation drivers are R&D, education, and defense spending, from Antonin Bergeaud, Ruveyda Nur Gozen, and John Van Reenen www.nber.org/papers/w34760
he explicitly says power corrupted robert moses but if you pay close attention to the family, yale, and oxford chapters it's obvious he wasn't corrupted by shit. his philosophy was that there was a natural elite (which was also racial) entitled to rule over society. then he got power and did it
February 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
he explicitly says power corrupted robert moses but if you pay close attention to the family, yale, and oxford chapters it's obvious he wasn't corrupted by shit. his philosophy was that there was a natural elite (which was also racial) entitled to rule over society. then he got power and did it
robert caro has the perfect quote on this:
February 3, 2026 at 7:23 PM
robert caro has the perfect quote on this:
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I yearn for the abyss
What woman would engage with, let alone fantasise about, a man like Nick Fuentes?
Clearly, quite a few. Read Poppy Sowerby on the latest manifestation of the e-girl: the Groypette👇
unherd.com/2026/01/meet-the-groypettes/
Clearly, quite a few. Read Poppy Sowerby on the latest manifestation of the e-girl: the Groypette👇
unherd.com/2026/01/meet-the-groypettes/
Meet the Groypettes
‘It’s difficult to grasp the appeal of Fuentes.’ (ChatGPT/Stephanie Keith/Getty)
unherd.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I yearn for the abyss
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holy shit
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
February 3, 2026 at 6:52 PM
holy shit
i think his influence is on elite discourse via twitter and substack more than via like, mass market reach
February 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
i think his influence is on elite discourse via twitter and substack more than via like, mass market reach
he's talked about it on twitter mostly but i feel like that was right before the whole "he used to be a nazi" thing.
but like, the governor of colorado recommended his substack!
but like, the governor of colorado recommended his substack!
February 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
he's talked about it on twitter mostly but i feel like that was right before the whole "he used to be a nazi" thing.
but like, the governor of colorado recommended his substack!
but like, the governor of colorado recommended his substack!
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Most reliable red flag for a certain kind of ostensibly sensible centrist-ish elite is when they dig in their heels insisting Charles Murray is some kind of serious thinker who shouldn't be shunned, rather than a plain old gutter racist substantially on par with David Duke.
Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.
February 3, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Most reliable red flag for a certain kind of ostensibly sensible centrist-ish elite is when they dig in their heels insisting Charles Murray is some kind of serious thinker who shouldn't be shunned, rather than a plain old gutter racist substantially on par with David Duke.
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What a strange coincidence that Harlan Crow, the billionaire with the collection of Nazi memorabilia, is also the patron of Charles Murray, the guy who thinks Black people are not a part of "western civilization."
February 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
What a strange coincidence that Harlan Crow, the billionaire with the collection of Nazi memorabilia, is also the patron of Charles Murray, the guy who thinks Black people are not a part of "western civilization."
i mean he was very clearly gaining a relatively prominent position in discourse, being linked by a ton of people, and being considered like a relatively intelligent "reasonabel conservative" type figure. he got a bylien in the economist!
February 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
i mean he was very clearly gaining a relatively prominent position in discourse, being linked by a ton of people, and being considered like a relatively intelligent "reasonabel conservative" type figure. he got a bylien in the economist!
herbert marcuse wrote that, as nazism increased the range of normal behaviors and beliefs that were considered aberrant and punishable by death, it also permitted behaviors long considered taboo, particularly around sex - incest and pedophilia most notably
to be fair the pedo shit is what stopped his rise to prominence, he was taken most seriously when he couched virulent neonazi racism in the language of iq, culture, and economics ("elite human capital"). his book is about how to repeal the civil rights act, which got him a proj2025 job
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
herbert marcuse wrote that, as nazism increased the range of normal behaviors and beliefs that were considered aberrant and punishable by death, it also permitted behaviors long considered taboo, particularly around sex - incest and pedophilia most notably
to be fair the pedo shit is what stopped his rise to prominence, he was taken most seriously when he couched virulent neonazi racism in the language of iq, culture, and economics ("elite human capital"). his book is about how to repeal the civil rights act, which got him a proj2025 job
February 3, 2026 at 5:13 PM
to be fair the pedo shit is what stopped his rise to prominence, he was taken most seriously when he couched virulent neonazi racism in the language of iq, culture, and economics ("elite human capital"). his book is about how to repeal the civil rights act, which got him a proj2025 job
i mean both but once you start reducing human beings to folk biological tales of their existence, pedo shit becomes *very* hard to stomp out
February 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
i mean both but once you start reducing human beings to folk biological tales of their existence, pedo shit becomes *very* hard to stomp out
ohhhhh william galston replied
We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
ohhhhh william galston replied
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We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
surprised that the french *now* think pedo shit is bad. they didn't have an age of consent until 2015. good for them tho
*FRENCH POLICE RAID X OFFICES IN PARIS
*GROK "NOT APPROPRIATE LEVELS OF RACIST AGAINST ALGERIANS" PER SOURCE
*MULTIPLE FRENCH ACADEMICS SIGN PETITION IN SUPPORT OF IMAGE GENERATION CAPABILITIES
*GROK "NOT APPROPRIATE LEVELS OF RACIST AGAINST ALGERIANS" PER SOURCE
*MULTIPLE FRENCH ACADEMICS SIGN PETITION IN SUPPORT OF IMAGE GENERATION CAPABILITIES
February 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
surprised that the french *now* think pedo shit is bad. they didn't have an age of consent until 2015. good for them tho
he's not an idiot. he's a deeply evil person
I think Hanania must just be an idiot? The climax of American Beauty is Lester realizing how bad it would be to act out his fantasies about his daughter's best friend. The movie is not about how cool it is for dads to bag high school girls. Also Kevin Spacey is a personally notorious kid toucher
![Richard Hanania
@RichardHanania • Feb 1
By obsessing over Epstein, they're attacking healthy heterosexuality. [screengrab of Mena Suvari in the tub with Kevin Spacey leaning over her from American Beauty. The caption is "The Real Target of Pedophile Hysteria Is Age Gap Relationships," the title of a blog post by Hanania]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjzrpzlcmir3bkss4b5nh6ox/bafkreiduwzv3jqpsa7vwjwukvvonszcumubiuzkd6ujv2dq62zcwgg2ec4@jpeg)
February 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
he's not an idiot. he's a deeply evil person
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the promotion of this Nazi dumb-dumb as some sort of dissident intellectual by a swathe of centre to right figures in the last two years has been deeply fucking embarassing
I think Hanania must just be an idiot? The climax of American Beauty is Lester realizing how bad it would be to act out his fantasies about his daughter's best friend. The movie is not about how cool it is for dads to bag high school girls. Also Kevin Spacey is a personally notorious kid toucher
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
the promotion of this Nazi dumb-dumb as some sort of dissident intellectual by a swathe of centre to right figures in the last two years has been deeply fucking embarassing
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random Yale law professor: jeffrey you naughty dog.... will i be seeing you at this year's Skull Size Forum or will you be busy with your hobbies ;)
JE: we must invent trans phobia,,
JE: we must invent trans phobia,,
February 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
random Yale law professor: jeffrey you naughty dog.... will i be seeing you at this year's Skull Size Forum or will you be busy with your hobbies ;)
JE: we must invent trans phobia,,
JE: we must invent trans phobia,,
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Ngl the deaths recorded incident gotta be like one of my worst fears
February 3, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Ngl the deaths recorded incident gotta be like one of my worst fears
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