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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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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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If you want a sense of how bad the attacks on pro-choice speech are right now, read the latest issue of my newsletter.
Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here
jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...
Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here
jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...
Texas College Cancels “Illegal” Speech by Abortion Provider
2.2.26
jessica.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
If you want a sense of how bad the attacks on pro-choice speech are right now, read the latest issue of my newsletter.
Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here
jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...
Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here
jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...
trying to include expansive conceptions of property rights alongside human and democratic rights is a bit like that veep quote about using a croissant as a dildo: it doesn't get the job done and it makes a fucking mess
February 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
trying to include expansive conceptions of property rights alongside human and democratic rights is a bit like that veep quote about using a croissant as a dildo: it doesn't get the job done and it makes a fucking mess
there's no "get out of human rights" card where special historical circumstances that allow you to do blood and soil ethnonationalism. landback is bad because it's predicated on a lockean/libertarian absolutist theory of property that's stupid and impracticable
February 3, 2026 at 4:06 PM
there's no "get out of human rights" card where special historical circumstances that allow you to do blood and soil ethnonationalism. landback is bad because it's predicated on a lockean/libertarian absolutist theory of property that's stupid and impracticable
"no human is illegal on stolen land" is a stupid slogan because of the stolen land part. indigenous peoples, whatever that means, also don't have a right to deny the legal protections of citizenship to foreigners
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
"no human is illegal on stolen land" is a stupid slogan because of the stolen land part. indigenous peoples, whatever that means, also don't have a right to deny the legal protections of citizenship to foreigners
accusing the crazy hillbillies who kidnapped you of participating in cancel culture and not embracing forgiveness as a central value
February 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
accusing the crazy hillbillies who kidnapped you of participating in cancel culture and not embracing forgiveness as a central value
compare emma stone in bugonia as a ceo who can only talk in vague new york times platitudes about echo chambers and diversity while destroying the planet, communities, and her own employees (very heavily hinted someone killed themselves in the office) to mayor ted garcia, who's just performative
February 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
compare emma stone in bugonia as a ceo who can only talk in vague new york times platitudes about echo chambers and diversity while destroying the planet, communities, and her own employees (very heavily hinted someone killed themselves in the office) to mayor ted garcia, who's just performative
that's the real weakness of eddington the movie: it thinks conspiracy theorists are something for stupid uneducated rubes while criticizing the liberal establishment *only* for being smug, self congratulatory, and dumb
I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies
February 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
that's the real weakness of eddington the movie: it thinks conspiracy theorists are something for stupid uneducated rubes while criticizing the liberal establishment *only* for being smug, self congratulatory, and dumb
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I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies
February 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded