Certain Democratic figures such as Rueben Gallegos and Jon Ossof, two younger faces of the establishment Democratic Party, have come out with comments that seems critical of the Left. It is interesting that Democrats are forced to do this, however, Republicans seems to openly embrace or do little to nothing to critique the open secret that fascism is popular amongst the Right Wing, notably the youth.
People shouldn’t be afraid of American Socialism because…we still live in a Democratic Republic. The Socialists won’t win all seats or levels of power, but rather they are new voice for an emerging and long overdue voice of the American public. Their voice represents an evolution of American’s seeing through the idealistic promises of capitalism, nationalism, etc. Americans are shedding their “CIA Cold War” indoctrination where they now understand differences between Socialism, Communism, Marxism, etc. Americans now see how the “hot dogs are made”, i.e., the brutal truths of running an Empire, which involves the exploitation of people both international an domestic.
The USA is evolving into something akin the UK’s political system but uniquely American. The UK has three to four political parties. Labour Party which represents a coalition of Socialists and Labor oriented movements, then you have Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and Greens. Because the USA only has two parties, the Democratic Socialists are forced to be in the Democratic Party, where the Democratic Party of the USA are the Liberal Democrats in the UK. Figures such as John Fetterman stated that Democratic Socialists need their own party, but this is a highly divisive statement because the Right Wing has cohesion, and unfortunately many Democrats – being Centrists – empowers the Republican Party. If anything figures such as Fetterman need to LEAVE the Democratic Party.
What the American Left wants or will end up getting is something akin to François Mitterrand – Wikipedia who led France’s longest Socialist Presidency. Mitterand balanced the wings of the various Leftist factions.
A lot of people get scared of the word socialism, but it is a broad spectrum of ideologies. The type of socialism emerging in the USA is not what Conservatives allege it as being. Conservatives argue that the American Left wants Marxist Leninism which is like most totalitarian Communist nations where everything is owned by the state under the auspices of the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. Everyone is forced to be equal and profiteering is illegal.
Conservatives attack the Left on the economics front but also on the moral front due to issues in American cities such as drugs and homelessness but the irony is that Socialism does not mean lawlessness and if anything, mayors such as Seattle’s mayor are not real Socialist. Rather, mayors such Katie Wilson of Seattle, despite calling herself a socialist, I would argue that she is a Far Left Liberal still relying on a charity based capitalist framework to mitigate issues, yet all this does is monetize the issues since fixing issues are not lucrative, notably because of the large bureaucracy of non-profits with overhead such as salaries which arise. A real socialist would advocate for true government solutions rather than middle ground private-public partnerships. A real socialist would want more government housing, workers, etc. The moment you start privatizing, the more the bill goes up. Many government workers despite not making lots of money are supplemented with benefits. Social issues such as drugs and homelessness need to be attacked with almost military precision, and yes, you need cops to help just as much as you need social workers, public housing administrators, etc. The problem with “liberal cities” is merely a misalignment of ideologies. Washington State and Oregon decriminalized drugs but this just attracted “drug tourists” who were either already homeless or soon-to-be homeless, so these states added onto already terrible homelessness issue, which was compounded by the capitalist side of the equation notably with new and very expensive construction which prices out working-class families. Then compound this by laws where cops can’t enforce drug crimes, which empowers the addicts and the dealers. Even if people do wind up in jail, because of the closure of government facilities such as mental health asylums, you end up with jails (often privatized) where you get addicts, dealers, and the mentally ill all festering under one roof and creating a new social hierarchy of criminality, communicable diseases, etc.
All of this insanity is not Socialism. Drugs were actually illegal in many Communists and Socialist nations, and they had police, military, etc. This is why I am calling the American Left as utopian. They have no realpolitik, despite having the needed class consciousness and analytical frameworks to dissect systemic power, e.g., intersectionality.
On the moral front, I can admit that Left which is a largely an ambiguous construct of various factions and ideologies, where they all have in common a sort of egalitarian sentiment, is that their social policies have been failures. By social policies I mean the decriminalization of drugs notably. The reason for this failure is either one of two things. The first being an emotion-based idealistic utopianism in which seemingly noble ideas precede the material infrastructure required to fulfill the ideas and solve problems; or, secondly, and more nefariously, a pathological strategy to make things worst in order to force the issue so that people justify government expansion of social services. Conservatives would argue the latter, whereas Progressives would argue the first. I believe Leftist naiveté based in emotion, personal inaction (despite having online opinions, etc.), and not truly thinking thru the ideological tenants of what American Leftism truly is or should be is the reason the Left has failed to capture more of the public’s approval. On the matter of ideology, the Left for example is often seen as being anti-police, but the irony is that Leftist nations, notably Far Leftist nations who adhered to Communism had police. The USSR had cops because you still have crime in Communist nations. So, the American Left saying they want to abolish police (if we are to take that statement seriously and not a slightly veiled threat with no fangs), is inconsistent with the reality of Socialist nations across the spectrum of socialist ideologies. To further add irony to the Left’s ideological inconsistencies – despite me considering myself a Leftist – is that socialist thinkers such as Karl Marx considered themselves to be realist and scientific as opposed to utopian socialists such as those who preceded Marx. This is important because the American Left is arguably influenced by Marx, yet their ideology seems more anchored in utopianism than realism. It is the equivalent of walking before crawling. But the Left can easily apply realism but that may mean walking back certain statements or slogans. I suspect this is what is going one with Democratic Socialists as they distance themselves from the earlier “woke era” which they call “woke 1.0”.
I doubt the “the Left” which is not really as much of a coherent thing as what Republicans or even those on the Left itself would argue is being pathological and trying to burn down society. Such as an allegation may thread upon the philosophy of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, where Blanquism advocates for a small vanguard of intellectuals infiltrating institutions of power to bring forth the worker’s revolution.
Rather the Left has inconsistent policies and ideals overweight realism.
But back on course, Conservatives never explain or can’t understand that Marxism is a theory of Communism and Communism is a style of Socialism.
You can be a Socialist and anti-Communist or sympathetic to some of Marx’s ideas (e.g., alienation, class conflict, etc.) but disagree with his ideas on government.
What the American Left seems to want is return to Progressive & New Deal Era policies to hedge and reform capitalism but you still have capitalism.
Calling oneself a socialist is akin to a battle flag or moniker of people fed up and since the Right Wing will call them Socialist anyways, then why not wear it with honor. Republicans always called Democrats, Socialists, so why not?
The emerging Socialism in the USA wants taxing the rich, empowering labor, universal health care insurance as an option to compete with the private sector (Medicare for All, not just the elderly), etc.
I like to explain the economics as: Imagine capitalism with supply and demand, competition, trade, etc., as we have it now but flip the relationship of “boss vs worker” on its head or make the pyramid where the 1% resides atop as less steep. Essentially keep capitalism but give more to the workers and people. If a billionaire exist then that means people aren’t getting paid enough or not getting a fair share of equity in the companies they expend their labor in.
First off, I have no hate towards Jewish people, but I do believe that the biggest threats looking the United States of America is White Supremacy notably through the Christian Nationalist movement and Zionist Jewish Supremacy, which more and more people are being made aware of Zionism from the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal and the Genocide in Gaza. These two forces are the biggest threats to American democracy because they already have power, but they are accelerating towards some vague goal which appears to center around the consolidation of the State of Israel into an ethnically Jew only state, but also the religious and quasi-Manifest Destiny ambitions of American Christian Nationalists who historically overlap with White Identity politics. Secondly, I do not actually care about race. I believe race is a broad construct, arbitrarily created by European colonizers, that does more harm than good, but it is a part of our material world as far as social organization goes, so I am not too naive to believe that I can simply wish race were not an issue, when race has been used as a means of creating particular materialist conditions – notably for black people – which has created social issues we are still trying to overcome. Also, even though I do not care about race, the fact remains is that many people do, and I cannot adequately analyze situations without acknowledging the racial consciousness and identities that people have, notably as I psychoanalyze or write on white supremacy.
This is where Jeremy Carl comes into play. Jeremy Carl of the Claremont Institute and Hoover Institute (just to name a few), testified before Congress U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to essentially interview for his nomination to a be the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. According to a publication posted on 12 February 2026 on the website for Senator Charles Murphy (D-Conn), it was that if confirmed, Carl will lead a State Department unit of over 100 diplomats and shape the United States’ engagement with multilateral organizations, including UNICEF and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security asked Jeremy Carl about why he believes white identity and culture is under threat.
Carl struggled to define white culture but referenced the decline of Scots Irish and Anglo culture. However, Jeremy Carl is Jewish and not even “Anglo” or “Scots Irish, so what is he even talking about? I am likely more Scots Irish than he is as a black guy from the South who grew up an “English-speaking Protestant”.
The fact that Carl cannot even argue his position to Congress is proof he’s really a “double agent “, i.e., a Jewish convert to Christianity but only for convenience, so he can embed himself within white supremacist and conservative politics to ensure the Right stays Pro Israel. The Zionist lobby is very desperate. They used to influence both sides of American politics, but with the Left standing up for Palestine, the Zionist lobby is going farther Right Wing. Meanwhile Centrist Democrats are under Chuck Schumer are trying to court the Zionist lobby back.
Jeremey Carl, white supremacist Jake Lang (Jewish mother), Stephen Miller, Libs of Tik Tok founder Chaya Raichik, Mike Cernovich, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, etc., all understand as ethnically Jewish people that if they side with racists and the Far Right, they can slip in Zionists agendas by diverting attention away from Israel and instead keeping focus on distractive culture-war issues such as “wokeness”, “blue haired feminists”, “sad white men”, “black crime against white people”, “George Soros conspiracies”, etc.
People like Jeremy Carl are pitting white Americans against everyone with “fear of replacement” so they can control that side and keep them Zionist. But, people are more aware now and no so trusting of narratives, notably in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein revelations which seems to point back to Israel in one way or another.
It is interesting he referenced Scots Irish….but not Jewish? Why? If Carl included Jewish as white, he would be admitting that Israeli Jews are mostly white European and not native to Palestine. If Jewish people are white, then their ambiguity between being minorities and majority simultaneously erodes away. The ability of Jews to retain racial ambiguity in order to achieve realpolitik and pragmatic gains is in the spotlight. They can be minorities but also freely operate in circles dominated by the majority, and if ever called out for it, from either side, they can allege antisemitism. For instance, Executive Order 14188, or “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” is an executive order signed on January 29, 2025, by President Trump, but the Task Force stood up to enforce this order is only going after liberal arts colleges. According to the Department of Justice website the following universities and colleges are being singled out, which are Columbia University; George Washington University; Harvard University; Johns Hopkins University; New York University; Northwestern University; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Minnesota; and the University of Southern California. [Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-task-force-combat-antisemitism-announces-visits-10-college-campuses-experienced].
Ambiguous, invisible, etc. If they were a “race” one could call them opaque. In the wake of the Supreme Court of the United States having revoked Affirmative Action, with the help of conservative think tanks linked to people such as Jeremy Carl (which he hinted at during his Congressional hearing), is that Jews still get government preference through Anti-Boycott, Divest, and Sanction laws, on top of the Executive Order aimed at allegedly fighting antisemitism which I spoke about above.
Carl is proof that MAGA is nothing more than proof of the Zionist Occupied Government. Once a term used by loathsome white supremacists, them aside, no antisemitism intended, objectively, Z.O.G. is real.
Antisemitism is wrong but this is not antisemitic but rather me calling out this vast conspiracy of Z.O.G., which Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were members of. Jews can be racist just like anyone else.
Jeremy Carl is proof of what I call MAGA as being, with that being “Antisemitic Zionism”. It is a movement that is purposefully contradictory and confusing so the Trump Administration, and thus the Zionist lobby can get away with more. The uses of blatant lies, smoke screens, gaslighting, hyperactive media (e.g., mastering the methods of Malcolm McLuhan), and shell games to commit one abuse after the other.
Jeremy Carl who was born and raised a Jewish man, should know better than to be speaking the way he has, not only against people of color but also against Jews. In a twist of hilarious irony, the very antisemitic beliefs that Carl is pushing so he can fit in with white supremacists are reasons certain Republicans are not voting for his confirmation. U.S. Senator John Curtis (R-UT) announced that he will oppose Mr. Carl’s nomination. Carl thought by posing as an Antisemitic racist…white guy.. he would be elected to then flip and be an agent of the Zionist cause.
Before I conclude this, you should look into the Claremont Institute which is a right wing think tank descended from conservative students based out Claremont McKenna College who studied under Harry Jaffa, a notably followers of Levi Strauss (the anti-liberal and anti-modernist who is argued as being the founder of neoconservatism). Both Jaffa and Strauss could be argued as being “Platonists” in the vein of Plato’s The Republic which can be argued as laying the basis for a class based Republic, which is conducive to the power of Western elites (e.g., ranging from your Aldous Huxley “Brave New World” Silicon Valley Tech CEOs, to outright fascists, to your milquetoast classical liberal snobs). Harry Jaffa, Michael Anton, Larry Arn, and other’s linked to the Claremont Institute are Platonists. They seem to believe in a class-based society, which if considering the general trend of conservative politics towards open expressions of racism and sexism can be best understood as a caste type of system. For example, Jeffrey Epstein was a racist and eugenicist. According to Julia Metraux of Mother Jones, “Some of his correspondents took it even further. Racist AI researcher and Epstein grantee Joscha Bach said, as reported in MS NOW, that Black children’s brains “are slower at learning high-level concepts” and better suited to a “more hunting/running style of life.”” Further, Metraux stated, “In a separate email with Bach—in which Bach also discusses the “Ashkenazi mutation”—Epstein reimagines Ancient Rome as a eugenicist paradise, a favorite theme of right-wing eugenicist tech billionaires like Musk: “it seems that Greece and Rome had a class society that allowed the upper classes to have more offspring than the lower classes, and larger social mobility based on IQ than our current arrangement,” Epstein writes approvingly.” [Source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/epstein-emails-eugenics-chomsky-altruism-billionaires/].
The Claremont Institute has deep ties to Michigan based Hillsdale College, which is the alma mater to people such as Erik Prince of Blackwater, the brother of Trump Education Secretary Betsy Davos. Hillsdale is influential in the charter school movement, and they are the creator of the 1776 Commission curriculum, which seeks to combat the 1619 Project in education which deals with addressing America’s history of slavery, genocide, etc. The charter school project coincides with Republican ambitions to essentially privatize the Department of Education and instead use tax dollars to fund religious schools. [See Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqg705vwyno].
Hillsdale College if you look into it has ties to Rudy Guilani and were involved in helping overthrow the 2020 election. According to Danny Hakim of The New York Times in his article titled, How Hillsdale Got Mixed Up In The 2020 Election Plot, published on 8 January 2024, he goes into detail about how members of this college planned on literally camping out in the Michigan State capital so they could pose as actual electors in order to cast illegal votes to elect Trump. No major jail time was given. [See Link to Archive of this article: https://archive.is/2fuyk].
Hillsdale College has ties to prominent Right Wingers such as Libs of Tik Tok founder Chaya Raichik, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Chris Rufo of the CIA founded Manhattan Institute (who regularly contributed to Tucker Carlson and helped shape the DEI controversies). Former CIA Director, William Casey founded the Manhattan Institute.
This last tidbit of information is to shed light on how deeply connected Right Wing Conservative and Zionist organizations are.
These are well-funded machines which has given us Heritage Foundation Project 2025 which seeks to turn Trump into an actual dictator (e.g., nationalizing elections, pushing charter schools, eroding women’s and Civil Rights, etc.), January 6th, the 2020 Election Fake Elector Plot, many ties to Jeffrey Epstein who likely was a Mossad asset, etc.
Below are notes I made for myself showing connections.
Nick Fuentes is no genius. His blatant antisemitism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, Anti-Protestantism (or, any religion that is not Pre-Vatican II Catholic), and xenophobia aside, the other underlying parts of Nick’s core thesis regarding the state of society is not original and even the most politically uniformed person (which is not a sleight by me) already knows what Nick is saying.
That being how society made promises by selling a system (college, houses, constant growth, etc.), yet, that system inevitably consumed and destroyed itself, thus making previous promises and dreams, e.g., the American Dream, more difficult to achieve, despite the seeming ease of making money (e.g., paid partnerships and income from Google’s algorithm).
Nick is essentially pent up white entitlement dealing with the existential malaise of the theorized fall of the American Empire. The only currency he has is cruelty and being a snarky troll.
Nick is just a basic person with eyes and ears who is a byproduct of the economic and political malaise which arose out of the 2008 Financial Crisis and the nearly decade long Global Recession which overlapped and extended from the underlying reasons of what caused 2008. For example, in the USA we had the real-estate crash whereas in Europe you had the Greece sovereign debt crisis and other crashes in Ireland, Spain, Iceland, etc.
This era gave us Occupy (which foreshadowed Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and even Zohan Mandami) but also Tea Party (which laid the seeds of MAGA, Qanon, January 6th, the Obama Birther Conspiracy Theory, Project 2025).
It’s not brain science.
This is why Tucker Carlson is being disingenuous when he claims to not agree with Nick despite both men being racist. Tucker is just snooty about his and yet is seen by Zoomer conservatives are being something akin to a “plant”, i.e., Tucker says the right populist things but still is seen as proxy of the status quo.
However, Nick brings nothing ground breaking to the table as far as his analysis of economics, culture, etc.
It does not take an advanced degree to understand that capitalism sent jobs overseas. It is not a secret anymore that de-industrializatiion hit the white (and, yes, black) working classes of the USA, England, etc. Nick and people like JD Vance (a Catholic convert who bridges the “Trad Bro” community with the “Tech Bro” oligarchs) essentially plagiarized or co-opted Left Wing structural analysis of the ills of capitalism, but both Fuentes and Vance twisted it to appeal to regressive borderline fascist sensibilities and tactics. The same way how the German Right on the 1930s usurped popular Left Wing sensibilities to grow the Far Right.
The only thing Nick brought to Tucker was broadcasting and legitimizing Nazism, no matter how much Tucker denies it. Urchins like Nick Fuentes are essentially the street thugs protecting the elitist racism and WASP nostalgic snobbery of Tucker’s world.
Basically Tucker is just the older, wealthier and more spoiled version of Nick Fuentes, yet, since Tucker is from a “Ralph Lauren, Conde Nast, cardigan wearing, row crew affiliating, late 80s to early 90s Ivy League-esque” world, Tucker simply refrains from publicly being Far Right because in these elite circles such behavior is seen as proletarian and not of “refined”, “established” men of the “classical liberal” tradition.
Tucker agrees with Nick but has to appear to have slight disgust only to save face and disgust is simply a characteristic of the upper bourgeoisie class. Tucker is like powdered wig landowner covering his mouth with a scarf as he strolls through the muck of the everyday person.
Contradictions and irregularities are in part an element of the exclusivity of the rich, because not making sense enables this class to gatekeep, raise the bar, and appear aloof with their tastes which of course the peasants can’t understand.
Tucker Carlson literally could have invited any Joe Smoe to talk because as stated, Nick is not original.
Let me quickly distill Nick’s overrated analysis.
In 2008, the banks crashed the economy and unemployment rose. The US was already fighting an expensive forever war in the Middle East which was funded on US debt considering the Bush Administration cut taxes. The US domestically had already been suffering from unique drug pandemics in the early 2000s such as the rural meth crisis, but by the time of 2008 Crash, the seeds of the opiod epidemic was already established.
When you mix economic crashes, wars, veterans, drugs, etc., you get crime, political unrest and more extremes, but also increased cop altercations because of crime, evictions, for-profit prisons, etc.
Many cop altercations, notably as cell phone camera technology improved, were across racial lines. Protesting against police thus became ripe for exploitation by racist who wanted the civil unrest to appear inherently anti-white (which they veiled under milqtoast calls for Law & Order), so alienated people who felt silenced by society would normalize White Identity politics. White supremacists co-opted Left Wing anti-colonialist frameworks to argue that white people deserved the same sort of special treatments, preservationist policies.
The people promoting this purposely omitted or failed to grasp that minorities were given a sort of unspoken ability to have racial solidarity because past oppression of minorities under white supremacy created the need for the empowerment of minorities to heal and make up for generations of lost opportunities.
White people within the USA have never been and will never be as oppressed as BIPOC people, and even if there were industries that exploited and/or trafficked white people (i.e., indentured servitude), thr scope snd scale will never match black chattel slavery, Indigenous genocide, Jim Crow, the KKK literally running governments, etc.
Sorry to all white supremacists. You’re not oppressed.
White Identity politics which steals Left Wing frameworks is ironic since most of time there is an innate sense and calling for supremacy.
It is funny to me that so many white racists are fearful of being minorities (which is a theory not necessarily a reality) but they expect minorities to be happy in staying minorities. So are racists admitting that being a minority sucks? So…why are they suprised minorities resist or call out their treatment by the majority (notably from a historic perspective).
Even if this isn’t the case entirely, White Identity politics erases and downplays the effects of past racial abuses on current material conditions of minorities.
More irony added, is that the more racist white people are, the more self-awareness and determination that minorities feels as they realize assimilating will never be good enough.
But, back to how the world evolved into what it is, many war veterans became cops in a tumultuous America, thus asethically linking these two careers more so, which enabled further politicization of them, which conservatives capitalized on due to their ability to appeal to patriotism and law & order, while dismissing concerns of police brutality, systemic racism, the blowback of imperialist adventures, etc.
Because of the crash, the rich got richer, and Big Tech took off as being the catalyst of the new emergent economy. The old industrial DOW Jones was now in the backseat towards the hype fueled Tech Sector of indexes like NASDAQ.
Near zero rates enabled those who in part caused the crisis to get cheap loans to buy competitors, bloat their stocks, etc., indifferent to the natural inflation the “Free Money” era created. Capitalism’s propensity to boom and bust, and to seek new paradigms to justify its continued and unfettered existence, creates irregularities between real life and market perception. The crash essentially burned a forest in which society was living off of and got comfortable with, but those who burned it got rewarded and society had to do the slow and painful migration towards new forests (paradigms, systems).
This era gave us the “gig economy”, “porn hubs”, data brokerages, etc., because the physical world was becoming for technological and digital based, yet the efficiency that capitalism creates such as saving on labor, means people struggle to find jobs and the economy itself becomes more reliant on asset investing rather than real production of tangible items. Further, as the developing world becomes more advanced due to capitalism, the more conflict over resources arises, and the utopian ideals of free markets takes a backseat to human barbarism, amoral realpolitik, etc.
The reliance on asset investing, bolstered by cheap money and interests, boats assets thus making homes and stocks pricy while the currency itself fluctuates in its purchasing power.
The general population found themselves in a sort of Japanese Lost Decade situation where it seemed the rich only got richer, previous ideas of college became criticized, homes became unaffordable by the time Millennials and Zoomers had enough capital to put down payments down, and socially the public spent more time in online spaces which in itself can create nihilism from the all the drama, tension, fighting, desensitizing media, competitive online dating, trolls, misinformation and depressing news one is inundated with.
Nick is simply a byproduct of this. He was one of the “basement dwellers”. The revolt of supposed losers against the elites.
Yet, Nick has to grow up. He himself is nostalgic over the Pepe The Frog era of pre-2016 which gave rise to the Charlottesville Riots in which he participated in. The Pepe The Frog era was a counter culture movement of cynical, lonely, Sound Cloud ethereal music listening young people who felt alienated but many saw liberalism (Lean In feminist capitalism, criticism of white male privilege, etc.) as the new establishment and thus went into Right Wing ideology which can first start with YouTuber content creators such as Sargon of Akaad or Jordan B. Peterson but then bleeds into fascist online spaces.
Many Zoomers don’t remember the education of Martin Luther King post-racial education of older Millennials and Gen X (though this post racial education was largely a shallow attempt at solving the residuals of systemic oppression).
Many Zoomers and younger Millennials are Nick’s target audience so all they see is the perceived failure of liberalism and thus are being sold a vision of the past that wasn’t entirely true and ironically by people such as Nick who weren’t around in such past times.
But, regardless, 2008 and all the strife and struggles, did advance the world but interstingly it also unleashed an antiquated and potentially violent force of Right Wing reactionaries. I was born in 1987 and the future I saw as a kid was of post-racial harmony, high technology, egalitarianism, but what I am seeing is the forewarning of postmodernism writers.
That being a world of recycled fashion and anachronism, Zoomer racists who lack an understanding of how much progress was made yet live in online spaces litered with undicpherable memes/intertwined irony and nonsense, and Seig Heil flashing oligarchs like Elon Musk or Kingmaker oligarchs like Peter Thiel (who grew up in a Nazi enclave in Namibia).
Nick isn’t original. We know how he formed so the question is if society has the guts to course correct and send people like him back to the basement. Not only that but having a genuine de-radicalization effort of his influence networks, which can only be done by honesty addressing the concerns of the lost and alienated.
Further, the political left needs more representation in spaces where younger people were recruited into Right Wing ideology, and this means the Left needs to lower its eyebrows and ease up on seeming pretenious or overly Enlightened.
Also, mainsteam outlets and news need full time staff covering online spaces otherwise we risk the rise of more Tyler Robinson situations, in which authorities and elders are utterly lost in understanding modern culture and its ever complex layers and semiotics.
The elites, social programmers, cultural engineers, think tanks, etc., need to understand people are not stupid and being more hyper-aware than ever, people can smell inauthenticity, hunt down and expose “industry plants”, etc., a mile away.
No one quite knows why the shooter did what he did, but both sides of the political spectrum has too turned this murder into a discussion about political violence. The Right Wing media wanting what they consider to be long overdue Civil War and purge of “Lefties”, “Commies”, “feminists”, “migrants”, etc., or, the Left Wing, which seems to be on a type of pre-emptive and defensive campaign to shed light on the possibility that the shooter wasn’t a Leftist, despite possibly being involved with the LGTBQ community, since sexuality and politics aren’t mutually exclusive (I mean look at a gay man such as Peter Thiel, Dave Rubin, etc.).
But still, no one knows why he did it but we have preemptively concluded it is about partisan politics.
Yet, the shooter has reasons we do not quite know yet, and in the mystery, we are all guilty of trying to input or spin the situation; however, there is nothing wrong with thinking this through. It is just that we have to be humble to the fact that we don’t know everything. Randomness does exist and if though randomness goes against our human need to control, the universe at times simply doesn’t care. Nihilists, anarchists, etc. do exist, and we have to factor this in, and the plausibility that this event was a random act of opportunistic violence and infamy seeking.
Even, Andrew Callahan with Channel 5 “station”, or “video-cast” – who I support and respect – has already done a segment exploring this ideas that it is about political differences between the Left and Right, but…we don’t know why the shooter did what he did. However in Andrew’s segment, titled: “The Last Person to Debate Charlie Kirk (Exclusive Interview)“, he does touch upon an important idea that younger generations seem disassociated to violence, which sounds a bit paternalistic considering people said the same about Millennials or Gen X, however, I do think and feel that Zoomers specifically are the most entrench generation of what we can consider (and, I hate to say this word) of “postmodern” irony. But, it is not even a postmodern irony which allegedly afflicted Gen X and elder Millennials at play, but more so an even more advanced, entrenched, realized, and recycled version of ideology that even surpasses the “postmodernist condition”. A post-post or “meta-modernist” type of behavior which seems to instill a sense of hope or sincerity through action (aspiring for the objective truths or grand narratives that postmodernist rejected), while still playing and flirting with postmodern tropes such as irony, being snarky, detachment, punk anarchism, and weaving a playful quilt of high-and-low pop cultural references and anachronisms.
But, what even what I just said is too intellectual likely for the shooter, and all I meant to do there was paint a picture of the sociological conditions in which he operates. He was operating in the digital landscape of gaming, chatrooms, memes, shock videos, etc., which gives a person a sense of connection without actual physical connection, and allows people to operate under anonymity, thus potentially giving a person a false sense of grandeur as opposed to the likely mundane nature of their actual non-digital existence.
This could be a matter of intra-conservative violence, rather than bipartisan violence. Similar to how the Nazis of Hitler beefed with the Strasserism. There is a big policy divide of Zoomer Conservatives (who have been influenced by online movements such as the Catholic Dues Vult movement; Groypers; 8chan; figures such as Lilly Gaddis or Nick Fuentes, etc.) who have turned on Israel and those who are Zionists.
A lot of older people, parents, etc., don’t know what is going on online, and I think there is a kneejerk reaction to blame change on progressive explicitly, i.e., like how parents in the 60s called anything different as being “dirty hippies”. Yet, many conservative parents, who see their children as “God fearing darlings” are a lot more technology adept than what their parents know. Their parents who go these large Evangelical Churches don’t understand memes, racist troll symbols, the irony, the lingo, etc. Tyler Robinson could thus be an example of conservative parents being out of touch, and when presented with the actions of their children, they fall into denial and simply blame outside forces, rather than understanding many of these online spaces are explicitly for conservatives, right wingers, fascists, etc.
I wrote this post a few days ago, but as of 9/15/24, I am adding in a video by Internet Today, which also talks about this online postmodern irony I spoke about above.
And, of course, you have liberal centrists (different from Leftist), i.e., the CNN, MSNBC crowed (not to be confused with the Jacobin crowd), doing their “can we all just get along” campaign, while they inadvertently creating more top-cover for conservatives, but establishing a false equivalence between the Left and Right, as if the Left has the history of violence in the USA as conservatism does, and the Left is generally more financially broke that the Right Wing. Since liberal (modernist liberals) and conservatives (classical liberals) are both guided by a capitalist framework of thinking, liberals simply want to “go back to business as usual”, with no real moral or humanist impetus, so they accidently become conciliatory towards conservatives, and their messaging in suite follows.
I can already see the “Charlie Kirk Foundation” or “Charlie Kirk Society” being created and used to bankroll tax write-offs for wealthy industrialists from the Great Lakes Region, or for their more ruthless, ambitious, and crypto investing grandkids. “Inspiring liberty and freedom from leftist Ideology” will be the motto. The board will be figures associated with Hillsdale College (a school implicated in trying to overturn the 2020 Election), Patrick Henry College, Liberty University, etc.
It will be just another 501(c) in the conservative ecosystem used to move money around. These controlling figures are the old money who controlled factories, farming, brewing, mining, chemical plants, etc. Families no one sees. They are not the endearing father figures such Brian Dennehy from 1995’s Tommy Boy, starring Chris Farley, who owned an auto parts factory. Rather, these seem to be the types of people who may say, “Hitler was bad, but he had some good ideas” at a party.
Such an organization would be a self-aggrandizing fawn-fest of self-awarded accolades, “Fellowships”, and other resume padding efforts to make those associated with it seem like “scholars” or “experts” worthy of Fox News airtime similar to cretins such as Christopher Rufo. It will be just another organization in the vast web of interconnected right-wing “think tanks” such as the Claremont Institute, Cato Institute, Discovery Institute, Hudson Institute, Gatestone Institute, Atlas Network, VDARE, Pacific Research Institute, Seale Freedom Trust, the Federalist Society, Manhattan Institute, etc.
Yet, such experts will be corporate stooges arguing for tax cuts on the rich and trying to convince the public that forever-chemicals don’t cause cancer.
There will likely be exchange programs for American students to visit Israel too.
The Right Wing is already trying to merge the death of Charlie with the unfortunate murder of Ukrainian refugee
Kirk, despite being a father, etc., was a loathsome person, who got paid to divide. Seriously, his portfolio is toxic. Rarely did he present positivity unless vanquishing liberals is the only happiness one gets. He did not bridge the divide but rather he widened it, hoping his ideology – one of exclusion – would win. Though not deserving of violence, his rhetoric could be considered as dehumanizing in nature, thus being violence in and of itself. Stochastic terrorism at its finest. Contrary to Trump’s claim that calling someone a Nazi led to Kirk’s death, I’d argue that Charlie’s toxicity came back around like a boomerang.
Now his wife, who seems like she would not have been with Charlie if Charlies were not famous and well-funded, is threatening an ambiguous group of people for his death. It seems she is supposed to be the mascot, a type of white, Trad Wife, Nashville Joan of Arc for the Civil War that many Christian Nationalists, white supremacists, anarchists, fascists, etc., wants but because the shooter doesn’t fit the intended demographic of their anger, she is only left with posturing towards an ambiguous “they”. Her speech almost seemed scripted, but I don’t want to shame a grieving wife, however, it seems odd she’d make such a scripted response just a few days after his death, where I would think most people would have been too traumatized to have spoken just yet.
Yet, keeping tabs on these conservative people I remember years ago Kirk beefing with Nick Fuentes and racist “America First”, “Alt Right” Groyper movement (look it up if you don’t know this term — but be forewarned that the surface level childishness is intended to conceal the abhorrent fascists that these Groypers are).
Kirk wanted to absorb and harness the Alt Right, i.e., be its establishment linked handler, but they felt Kirk was not racist enough (which is hilarious considering Kirk’s default was the “how can we blame black people?” crutch which most conservative pundits rest on).
Kirk was a Zionist whereas Fuentes is an antisemite and anti-Zionist (I consider those two different things).
Before I go on, it is important to note that both Kirk, and racist America First leader, Nick Fuentes, are both from Chicago. This seemingly random tidbit sheds light on the Midwest’s influence on Right Wing ideology. It is a city with a notoriously segregated past.
For example Nick Fuentes is essentially the modern day, online troll, version of mid 20th century racists such as Wllis Carto (of Indianapolis) and Francis Parker Yockey (of Chicago, IL).
Also, as alluded to previously, there is a group of shadowy Midwest Republican Megadonors who were behind Charlie Kirk. The Midwest has a charming place in America’s heart yet is home to the Rust Belt, was hit hard by decades long crime rates due to deindustrialization, and more recently was in the America’s mind because of the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting on Kenosha, Wisconsin and the George Floyd Protests in Minneapolis.
However, this shooter, if truly a Groyper, then he was likely a “troll, 8chan kid” who wanted chaos. 8chan is an unfiltered message board where anonymous users often share controversial material ranging from racist memes, videos about death, etc. Such youth-oriented political and 8chan types of violence is not unheard of, but the allure of 8chan for many is that if it gains attention for the infamous actions of some of its users, then outsider backlash often comes off as “lame”, “parental”, or being taken too seriously. It’s a way for detached or alienated to have a sense of “insider knowledge”.
8chan in a sense is simply a distillate of the cynicism, irony, parody, etc., of our modern times, where morality is really subjective and nihilism ironically makes people attached to a world, they feel alienated or exhausted by (and I say ironically because nihilism is supposed to be the absence of feeling). It’s a place for the blacked pill to trade in craft and fellowship. 8chan is a mirror of the perpetual Holden Caulfield (i.e., The Catcher in the Rye) malaise that seems to have robbed people of optimistic thinking.
According to a basic online search of a headline I remembered, in early 2025, in Waukesha, Wisconsin (where Wisconsin oddly appears a lot in my writing), teen Nikita Casap was charged with killing his parents as part of an extremist plot to fund a white supremacist political revolution. The FBI discovered evidence that the 17-year-old was influenced by neo-Nazism and intended to use his parents’ money to assassinate President Donald Trump.
This seems similar to the Kirk assassination to me. But conservatives can’t admit any possible white supremacist or adjacent type of motives, even if it were a fraction, because the modern conservative movement in the United States is a white supremacist movement, more so than it has ever been. Fox News sounds like something one might have heard in Apartheid South Africa, and the seeming parody of Fox News’ cruelty is really them testing what they can get away with. I heard on a Fox News segment the cast of a show talking about executing homeless people with lethal injections.
Yet, to understand Casap, we have to briefly touch upon the Occult, which is very broad and can make the person explaining it seem odd or looney.
I could go back as far as the Greco Roman world with figures such as Plotinus or Iamblichus, or to Renaissance era with Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, or the Masonic and Illuminus Movement of the Enlightenment, or more recent modern figures such as Madam Blavatsky, but in simple terms, the Occult, notably “magic” or “magick”, seeks to will existence into reality and reach higher levels of consciousness through ritual. According to magic practitioner John Michael Greer, author of “The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power” (2021), he states on page 91, “Magic, as we’ve seen, is the art and science of causing changes in consciousness in accordance with will. If you are denied access to any other sources of power, you can still exercise power over your own consciousness.”
Greer’s thesis in his book sheds light on how a generation of “basement dwellers” who were alienated from society, for which they blame the failings of liberal market-capitalist democracies, started practicing “Chaos Magick” as a means of finding friends in fringe online spaces. Chaos Magick is the Postmodern version of older forms of Occultism where relativity, Discordianism, and subjectivity are keys in willing or manifesting one’s will into being. By postmodern I mean a philosophical worldview which rejects grand narratives and is skeptical of objective facts, and thus sees value in mixing high with low art, blurring lines of morality, distorting time and traditional narrative, and musing over living within the hyperreality which could be summarized as the constant propagation, replication, and recycling of consumer and pop culture within capitalist systems that have reached levels of domination in which every aspect of life is a commodified product. The postmodern condition thus could be defined as people living in advanced capitalist societies which have reached such a level of systemic domination over people, that there is no escape for a system based on an idea that people made up. For example, the irony of having third world poverty in the most wealthy nations, as if this were naturally occuring, rather than the byproduct of a man made system and game that we could alleviate ourselves from, but choose not to simply because we are addicted to the system we created.
Many youth mass shooters are…the afterbirth of the postmodern condition, and they know it, so they are predisposed to reactionary politics, often but not always with a traditionalist or Orthodox bent. This is why so many young people or Zoomers seem to be more open to anti-democratic versions of political organization. It seems in part a mix of their rage against their real-world materialist conditions as isolated youths in a world that seems to be getting worse day-by-day, yet it also seems part of wanting to create a fantasy world where individuals have agency again, no different than characters people play in complex world-building “dreamscapes” in video games.
Chaos Magic, Postmodern Magick, what have you, is simply making up whatever you want with the intention that you are performing a magic working to change behaviors and will existence. If we were to apply a sterile military application or lingo to what I just said, the Chaos Magic and Postmodern Magick are simply… psychological warfare without any qualms of bending morality. In grunt military terms it is essentially… f-cking with people. This thus makes it alluring to snarky and edgy teens and young adults.
By the way, I recommend Greer’s book, notably pages 86 through 107 as a better summary as what I stated above
Greer was saying that alienated young people are playing with “magic” as a means of wanting political change, however I am adding on that certain groups want actual results and use violence as a means of ritual to stir chaos, hopefully to bring on collapse or totalitarianism (i.e. Ceasar, Trump).
For example, Casap was a member or associate of Order of Nine Angles, an online mostly Satanic Neo Nazi cult of lone wolf operators, who do violence including murder, sexual assaults, pedophilia, etc., because they see it as a kind of Alistair Crowley, Hermetic, Occultic path towards Enlightenment and reaching higher “Aeons”, i.e., stages of development, where their goal is a “galactic Aryan civilization”.
Members believe in “manifesting”, so by doing evil acts they feel it opens up new pathways of personal success. It sounds very odd. Your grandmother would have zero clue on how to process this, but the Republican Party’s inability to vet the extreme fringes of Right-Wing ideology has given groups like O9A an almost playful albeit dangerous safe space to operate. Rather than calling out extreme white supremacy, which can only vote modern Republican in a two-party system, the GOP simply blames The Left, to the delight of Neo Nazi anarchist organizations.
Like Casap is Wisconsin, in another case a US Army member was given a 45 year prison sentence for trying to a terror attack on his unit as part of an O9A ritual. According to ABC New, Aaron Katersky (2023), stated, “Ethan Melzer, the former Army private described as “the enemy within” because he plotted with a Satanic neo-Nazi group known as O9A to kill fellow soldiers, was sentenced Friday to 45 years in prison. Melzer, 24, pleaded guilty last June to three counts: aiding and abetting the attempt to murder U.S. service members, providing material support and resources to terrorists, and illegally transmitting national defense information. The charges accused him of attempting to plan a jihadist attack on his Army unit in the days leading up to a deployment to Turkey, by sending sensitive details to other members of the U.K.-based Order of the Nine Angles, known as O9A. The attack never came to fruition.” (https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-soldier-ethan-melzer-enemy-sentenced-jihadist-plot/story?id=97616439).
So, we have two cases of O9A members, so it could be possible that Tyler Robinson was influenced by such a group. But this is only a lead I am suggesting.
It goes further, according to a piece by the BBC with Daniel De Simone revealed the larger scale of O9A activity. In the segment, Daniel Hussein was a member of O9A who promised to sacrificed women for power and money, and he was just one of at least 7 men arrested for other O9A inspired violence. Hussein killed two women in a satantic ritual.
But when Tyler Robinson of Utah was arrested it made me think of some research, I did a while ago in which this BBC segment talked about a man, Matthew Lawrence from Utah, who was the cult leader who helped inspire Daniel Hussein. Lawrence convinced Hussein to believe in Lucifuge Rofocale, a supposed demonic entity that Matthew Lawrence told his followers to make a blood pact with.
The BBC segment featured analysis from Professor Matthew Feldman of the Centre for Analysis of The Radical Right who spoke about Left Hand Satanism which he explained as a Darwinist, violent form of Satanism.
So, if my theory is correct, Tyler Robinson could have been a “chronically online person” who was exposed to groups such as O9A, notably because Robinson is from Utah similar to O9A affiliated cult leader Matthew Lawrence. Robinson could have done the shooting to “will existence” such as start general chaos, anarchy, etc. Lawrence was affiliated with the Temple of Blood, which is related to the O9A, and O9A has influenced Nazi groups such as the Attomwaffen Division.
Adding to this Occult angle, is that people are trying to pin Tyler’s act on links to transgenderism or Furries. However, sexual orientation or assignment doesn’t automatically indicate political leanings, e.g., you can have gay Nazis, where in the case of male homosexuality may find arousal in the Right Wing’s emphasis on hypermasculinity, domination, etc. The Christian Nationalist movement would love to pin this on the LGBTQ community, black community, immigrants, Jews, etc., as the impetus for their Holy Civil War. Many see Transgenderism as Satanic and there is a basic thesis, I call it the “Jay Dyer Thesis” which has gain prominence in Right Wing conspiracy theory circles, states that transgenderism is effectively alchemy, in which humans are playing God by distorting the natural order of things. This thesis pushes that the modern world, with ideas such as Darwin’s theory of evolution, Transgenderism, etc., are effectively modern occult practices linked to demonic entities.
Tyler’s roommate may have been a Furry or on the LGBTQ spectrum. However, there is a good video that explains a real case of a Nazi Furry conducting a mass shooting. Conservatives haven’t come to grips that people with conservative or even fascist leanings can be gay, trans, irreligious, etc. But I want to be careful as to not paint these groups as synonymous with each other or as being bad. Of course, being LGBTQ is not bad.
The Cost-Benefit of Kirk gone from the perspective of the shooter is as follows:
(A) Make a statement by taking out a prominent Zionist whom you see as an agent of the “Zionist Occupied Government” where “Z.O.G” is a term often associated with White Supremacist politics notably in the 1980s, due to the book “Turner Diaries”, but hate aside, the non-racist truth is that the Israeli lobby has deeply rooted influence in American politics in which more Americans are aware of. And, the brazen actions of Israel and the apparent desperation of Zionists to sway public opinion in their favor, is making more people suspicious of Zionist Jews, which increases retaliatory threats against Jews in general
(B) Hope that the vengeance of Trump will cause “accelerationism” (a term popular in “Black Pilled” – i.e., nihilistic, communities). They, such as extremist groups such as the Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys, and more overtly Neo Nazi groups such as Attomwaffen and Order of Nine Angles (O9A), want societal collapse. Anarchist violence helps figures such as Trump (whether he is aware of it or not) towards pushing more authoritarian ideas. Both A & B are goals of people such as Nick “I’m Half Mexican” Fuentes.
Fuentes is exploiting the fact that US politics avoids calling out Israeli actions, thus Fuentes deceptively appears more authentic, “real”, forthcoming, etc. This “authenticity” seems genuine to younger people online. This new era of Israeli negative sentiment is exciting to many in that the establishment appears like a parent hiding the truths of how things work. And, they were hiding the truth.
The rise of political violence, relating to issues such as Zionism is “blowback”. It is the inevitable “Chickens coming home too roost”, as more people realize they’ve be living in one world, slaving, dying, and spending for it, whereas there’s larger agendas at foot.
A lot of people blame Israel for the Middle East situation, which has caused the USA to lose it’s de facto position as arbiter of democracy, but has also made millions of refugees, where many fleed to Europe and the West, during times of economic uncertainty such as durinh the Global Recession of 2008 to roughly 2014.
This could have all been avoided if the legacy media treated Israeli coverage fairly – both the goods and bads, but media in the US is corporate driven and many corporate leaders have Zionist sentiments.
For example, Zionist Jew, Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, has a son, David Ellison, who is the new Chairman and CEO of Paramount Global following the Skydance Media merger that was completed on August 7, 2025. As the leader of the combined Paramount Skydance, David Ellison will oversee a vast entertainment empire that includes CBS, MTV, and Paramount Pictures.
Ellison has already given journalistic reigns to Barri Weiss, an ardent Zionist, to help flip negative coverage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
But, there is a theory that Charlie Kirk was taken out because HE WAS judging Israel, and I HIGHLY skeptical this.
But to expand further, Charlie being dead makes him more valuable to the Right Wing Movement who will exploit his death.
This situation eminds me of John Birch of the John Birch Society if you know that history. John Birch was a Christian missionary during World War II, and given a commission during the days of US and Chinese “Flying Tiger” operations against Japan. His fluency in Chinese made him useful to American operations assisting China against Japan, but after the war, China erupted in Civil War between Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalists and Mao’s Communists. Birch was allegedly killed by Communist at a checkpoint for misunderstanding instructions.
The JBS was founded by rich industrialists, mostly in the Midwest, such as Harry Lynde Bradley (co-founder of Allen Bradley which is now Rockwell Automation) of Wisconsin. Fred Koch, who helped Nazi Germany refine oil, and whose sons Charles and David, became Republican Megadonors, and founded the CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank. Another man Revilo P. Oliver, a professor at University of Illinois, helped found the JBS too but left because he felt it too nice to Jews. He left to join the National Alliance, a hate group founded by William Luther Pierce, an ex Oregon State University professor, who wrote the racist Bible called “The Turner Diaries”, which as a book inspired Tim McVigh to do the Oklahoma City Bombing.
This split of Oliver from the JBS is similar to the Kirk versus Fuentes beef.
The Bradley Foundation gives money to the ultasecret Donor’s Trust who funds Libertarian and conservative causes, including… Turning Point USA of Charlie Kirk. The Bradley’s are inter-married to the Uihlein of Wisconsin. The Uihlein’s owned Uline Logistics, Schlitz Brewing, and General Binding Corporation.
To distill all of my information further, in simple terms, Charlie’s insurance policy expired and his value to the MAGA, the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, etc., yields more benefits with him gone.
It sounds heartless but if this were something more coordinated from MAGA proper, i.e., a grand conspiracy, which seems unlikely, then it is a basic cost-benefit analysis.
(A) Trump can blame the Left with no proof (B) MAGA can drum up its call to purge people on the margins. Trump already pardoned January 6th Rioters, so what else will he pardon? (C) a new generation of people will be loyal to Kirk in memory as they will zee the Left as to blame.
(D) It distracts from all other Trump stuff like his round ups of migrants, his contract awards to Peter Thirl’s Palantir to create a mass surveillance “dragnet” program, but also troops in cities, keeping the media off Israel/Gaza, and no Epstein talk such as the fallout of the botched Ghislaine Maxwell interview, (F) boost before November elections especially with centrists where Republicans are already Gerrymandering in Texas. (G) Justify taking out Leftist in a tic-for-tat scenario
Kirk’s death increases the odds of violence on Left Wing figures, etc., such Mamdami, Hasan Pikeer, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, etc.
Overall, Kirk’s use ran out, especially with Zionists and Republicans furious with the rise of figures like Mamdani in NYC, indicating Kirk has failed a bit to sway public opinion. However, Kirk being killed by an Anti-zionist can help the Zionist lobby clamp down further on anti Israel movements.
So that side had gripes on his failing assignment. Yet, Groyper may have killed him because Kirk was Pro-Israel and his death would cause “the theory of accelerationism”.
It is a basic cost benefit analysis.
Kirk is better off to the Zionist – Right Wing – Trump movement, not being alive than alive, even if they weren’t involvement in a grand conspiracy.
Dave Smith is nonsense to me. I’m writing a longer piece on him and other comedians so treat this like an introduction briefing.
Dave Smith comes off as some anti-war, anti-Zionist intellectual and gets a lot of attention out talking everyone he debates but his underlying philosophy is conservative and I would argue regressive.
I’m not sure if he is a committed idealist with a penchant for stubbornness or a disingenuous person who uses libertarian ideals to sound autuer and above politics, but his politics have always been those of the status quo. Literally.
In this video, he commends Milton Friedman for having sound economics. Really?
“Milton – Greed is Good – Friedman” has sound economics?
The same Milton Friedman, who was heavily tied to the CIAs Neoliberalism, with figures such as the Chicago Boys from Chile, who designed Augusto Pinochet’s economy, while Augusto Pinochet and other Latin American leaders (often harboring Nazis like Klaus Barbie) were waging purges across the South American continent?
That’s your scion Dave?
Libertarians are liberals and liberals emphasizing private property, thus are capitalists, and capitalists always take over and hijack governments, and use government to insure their losses, steer investments their way, and use the military-intelligence apparatus to expand imperialism for market domination.
The “New World Order” has always been the full dominance of capitalism across the globe (despite controlled conspiracy theories alleging the NWO is leftist).
The NWO is a full spectrum agenda including the promulgation of Libertarian ideas thru billionare funded think-tanks (e.g., the CATO Institute, Heritage Foundation, Atlas Network, etc. — who have advanced away from paid intellectuals like Friedman and Sowell, towards podcasters and New Media).
Also, the NWO uses borderless multi-national corporations, regime change, etc. When the capitalist class pushes a society to its brink and near logical conclusions, with that being a land of deep wealth disparity, manufactured “buy the dip” booms-and-busts, de-industrial wastelands, and an economy more dependent upon asset investing (bloated stocks and real estate) rather than manufacturing (where the slivers of remaining manufacturing have been automated), then the elite class (who funds Libertarian movements) drifts towards fascism.
They do this because they know the system is reaching a conclusion but need a nationalistic, militaristic, & nostalgic regime to distract from the fact, so they can extract more wealth while the current version of this game is still around.
Libertarians are in feed back loop, and is equally as idealist as what they claim Communists to be. In other words, regardless of any facts countering to their ideas, they’ll still push forward with a worship of the idea regardless.
Dave Smith is not a revolutionary. And, I’m never going to listen to his comedy to know if he’s funny or not. But, if his political beliefs are anything like his comedy, I suppose I’ll be laughing at him and not with him.
Sure, he’ll go against the “boogeyman CIA” or take the high horse pacifist position – as if peace in natural anyways – but, his libertarian ideals will A) always lead towards a totalitarianism of capital over democracy and is (B) an ideology that comes from elites.
Murray Rothbard, Reagan Milton Friedman are the exact opposite of “anti establishment”.
If anything Libertarianism is just a veiled type of Straussian elitistism, and by that, I am talking about the Rockefeller Foundation funded thinker Leo Strauss of the New School and gee-go-figure, the University of Chicago, who not only hated modernity, but wanted a Plato based Republic, which of course is ruled by “Philosopher Kings”, which in reality ends up being Tech Bros, the old gentry class, billionaires, etc.
There’s no suprise that libertarian movements have often expressed themselves or have found solace in right-wing, often racist, traditionalist, and hierarchical movements, since patriarchy, racism, etc., are effective buffers for protecting the capitalist class.
I don’t trust Dave.
I’m not sure if he’s controlled opposition or just a clown.
His libertarianism is nothing more than Generation X MTV Republicanism in the vein of Kurt Loder or Fox New host, Kennedy. To no suprise at all he’s friends with Fox News figures such as Greg Gutfeld.
We live in complicated times now. Antisemitism is wrong, however, there seems to be a lot of strangeness in people’s minds relating to Isreal. Israeli influence in American life seems very apparent, however, people aren’t allowed to talk it, and that creates a general sense of frustration, which opportunists can use to steer conversations towards conspiratorial ends.
But…
Lilly Gaddis, the aspiring Oprah Winfrey of Nazi America, is a good case study about how conservatives can be easily radicalized into Far Right, White Supremacist politics. However, Lilly may not be some innocent victim who has been brainwashed. There is accountability on her part. She is also indicative of the ever-growing monetization and normalization of Nazi politics in mainstream American life under late-stage capitalism (i.e., a land dominated by the “simulacra and simulation” of the internet, where racists have learned to use bot-farms, memes, fake identities, revisionist history accounts [such as depicting the Nazis as heroic], trolling, replicant accounts, burner accounts, etc., as a means of promoting white supremacist narratives).
Photos from Birth of a Nation. Lilly is essentially the “frail white maiden”
Lilly, like most racists, have an obsession with black people. Black people live in their heads rent free. White supremacists despite not liking any race that is not “white”, seems to only call out black people, which really shows the innate fear around black people. For example, Lilly Gaddis in her segment on the Pier’s Morgan Show, discusses how she openly uses the N-word because A) she doesn’t like black people and B) using racial epithets is her way of ensuring that free speech is preserved.
Let me get this point out of the way before I go on. Lilly claims to be “promoting free speech” but the inevitable consequence of her political ideology is the ERASURE of FREE SPEECH. Conservatives do not want free speech, but rather they want to use it as of now to bring forth their racial “Imperium” and then get rid of it. For example, Lilly claims to be about free speech, but she doesn’t advocate for anyone else’s or their right to have it as well. She actually disdains free speech when you think about it. That is the irony of this “conservative crusade for free speech”, and they have such cognitive dissonance, that they don’t understand the flaws in their thinking. Conservatives are often anti-LGBTQ, anti-diversity, anti-immigrant, anti-female empowerment, anti-union, anti-artistic expression, anti-sexuality and sexual health, etc. Conservativism’s inevitable conclusion and victory is the erosion of free speech in order to preserve the status quo. If Lilly believes in using extreme racial hate speech to preserve free speech, then why doesn’t see support…let’s say…freedom of pornography or freedom to ingest whatever substances you want? I am not comparing porn or drug decriminalization to hate speech, but if Lilly were a true “free speech absolutist”, then why doesn’t she publicly advocate for these things too? Because conservatives don’t really believe in free speech.
Lilly is simply a basic Republican, from a sheltered background, who got radicalized further into conservative thinking, and she thinks she’s an “Oi Oi!, Screwdriver punk band listening” or unique, but really her ideology is illiberal, unenlightened, etc. It is also ungodly if we consider Christianity because she creating an idol are her race.
I have heard Lilly say she uses the N word for free speech, but my response would be, “Why only black people? What is your obsession with black people? Why don’t you use slurs against any other group?”. The reasons Lilly only targets black people is because she is tapping into a universal disdain for blackness that can appear in other groups that aren’t black, so she’s calculating to get the sympathy of anti-black sentiments in non-white groups, because that is the biggest target she wants to take out first, and then she will maybe claw herself towards attacking other groups.
Also, Lilly got fired from her job in North Carolina for using N word (which I will talk about again below), but in her response video she “thanked black people for helping her get famous”. This is further proof of Lilly’s obsession with black people and her disdain for black existences.
This aside, I noticed Lilly somewhere online conversing with Owen Shroyer, who was Alex Jones sidekick on the Right-Wing conspiracy site, InfoWars. Lilly is an antisemite and racist, but she is talking and possibly coordinating with Shoyer who is…. Jewish. Strange. Lilly in her past comments found on Twitter before her infamy online is that she used to be a milquetoast American Republican conservative, which of course meant paying homage to Zionism, Israel, Evangelical Christian Millennialism, etc.
What I suspect that others may not be suspecting is that Lilly, Owen Shoyer, and others in the Right-Wing eco-system are doing what we call “Getting a head of the narrative”.
They may not be truly antisemitic, however, they are racists, and colorist, like many Zionists are, but by invading, co-opting, and controlling antisemitic narratives – which largely stems from a rise in criticizing Israel – they can divert attention away from Israel to the benefit of Zionist Jews and also Zionist Evangelical Christians.
Lilly hyper-focusing on black people is the default strategy for most conservatives to distract from other issues, deep analysis of systemic injustice, abuse of power by the state, etc.
For example, Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire, often hyper-focuses on Black Americans (e.g., pushing the trope of fatherless black homes, high crimes rates, the defectiveness of black culture as he sees it, etc.) knowing that there’s a groomed anti-black sentiment within the American consciousness, yet he does this to distract from issues such as the Israel-Hamas War. This is likely why Ben Shapiro in 2025 is hinting support for pardoning Derek Chauvin, who is the Minneapolis Police Officer made famous for killing George Floyd. Conservatives, Trump, Shapiro, etc., seem to believe that pardoning Chauvin will cause social unrest thus A) distracting from humanitarian issues in Israel, B) distracting from the failed economic promises that Trump claimed he would do, and C) possibly enable the Trump Administration to practice repealing the Civil Rights of US citizens with laws such as the Insurrection Act.
The Trump Administration for example has been using the Alien Enemies Act to detain immigrants, refugees, undocumented immigrants, etc., and this has been challenged by the courts, because even illegal immigrants get due process because the word “illegal” implies legality, and only courts can try cases. The Trump Administration is essentially performing state sanctioned vigilante justice, rather than going through the Constitutional cornerstone of due process.
If Trump’s possible Chauvin pardon seems too risky, then civil unrest pertaining to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), would have the same effects such as Trump activating the National Guard in U.S. cities.
However, another key example of how Zionist Jews and Zionist Evangelical Christians work with the Far Right can be seen with the outlet called Rebel Media, which was one of the organizers of the United the Right Rally at Charlottesville, Virgina, and this outlet is owned by a Canadian Jewish person called Ezra Levant.
Lilly was a standard Republican, before she got radicalized, and I truly suspect I know why. She was your basic pro-life, Pro-Israel, small government conservative, but now she is an “awoken” cigarette smoking Far Right commentator.
Keep smoking those cancer sticks Lilly…. You’re so cool.
What happened? I suspect the guy who knocked her up pushed her further into Right Wing thinking. There is no real record of who her “baby day” is, but she is a mother and based on her videos she did a natural birth (going so far as calling women weak who don’t do the same thing).
The only reason I threw that random tidbit of information in there is because she seems to take “weakness” not too kindly. One could even say her wanting to push the limits of free speech is more so out of a deep-rooted desire to inflict pain, weed out weakness, etc. Better put, Nazi like stuff.
She seems also seems like a tomboy as far as the old terminology goes, but being conservative, thus needing to emulate traditional gender roles, the mixture of that “rough and tumble, insensitive” masculinity that she grew up with (likely with brothers), with her duty to traditional femininity equates to her being a… bitch. Seriously, a rude bitch. She also has commented on what she considers to be a boyish physique.
She seems to have been a relatively sheltered and privileged girl from a Christian conservative home in North Myrtle Beach, SC, but also potentially Wilmington, NC. North Myrtle Beach and Wilmington are not that far away from each other actually.
She may be related to Patricia Gaddis, Marc Gaddis, Alex Gaddis (who is US Army), Jared Gaddis, and Lucas Gaddis. To find this, all I did was go to her Instagram, went to her followers and typed in Gaddis, and did the same thing for anyone’s profile that was public. Watching her YouTube videos, she stated she has brothers, so personality wise she was raised with some “boyish” “rough around the edges” bantering tendencies with her siblings. She seems to be an adopter of “boys will be boys”, and this may well be all innocent in the context of a nuclear family, but I could also see such as mentality, particularly for a conservative woman, laying the basis for a woman actually defending patriarchy, being dismissive of topics such as rape culture, toxic masculinity, etc.
I say this because, well, Lilly has said very racist things, endorsed Neo Nazi bands such British Nazi Band, Screwdriver, etc. Nazis have a very negative and limited viewpoint of women, and women often are some of the biggest enablers of patriarchy, etc.
In a recent Instagram post, she was in Wilmington, NC with her son, where they visited an old slave house, called the Bellamy Mansion Negro House. Lilly sort of sees herself as a Southern Belle.
Also, about her, she enjoys water sports such as surfing and was a lifeguard with Ocean Rescue. Also, she rides horses and has vacationed at the Biltmore Estates.
She also seems to have some sort of model aspirations in that she often does glamour shots of herself. Her modeling reminds me of the racism in the modelling industry such as the infamous comments made by Tommy Hilfiger once he realized black people were wearing his clothes.
According to her photography/graphic arts website, she attended Liberty University and studied Strategic Communications and was Pre-Law. She has an old student Youtube account where she did amateur commercial and product placement projects.
Liberty University is a very conservative Christian college in Virginia founded by the Fallwell family. Liberty University is also a pipeline college for conservative students into politics, similar to Hillsdale College, Patrick Henry College, Bob Jones University, Oral Roberts University, and schools in the Great Midwest Athletic College, etc.
However, Lilly may have also attended Western Carolina University for a little bit, possibly playing tennis, per one of her Instagram pages under the tag llddisss
She also has other accounts in Instagram such as theobservantpatriot, thelillygaddis_, lillyssurfphotography, etc.
On one of her Twitter accounts in 2019, she posted “I dated an Iranian and a former Muslim and he will be the first person to tell you Islam is NOT a religion of peace”
She enjoys photography with one photo I found online being taken near the Cherry Grove Inlet section of North Myrtle Beach.
I suspect Lilly is simply a person brainwashed by the amalgamation of 1) Intellectual Dark Web – a very corny term by the way – with figures such as Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Sam Harris, etc., i.e., many people in Joe Rogan’s universe (2) conservatives alleging censorship especially when Donald Trump was kicked off of Twitter, (3) a reaction to Social Justice, notably to movements which some interpreted as critical of white people, such as the Black Lives Matters movement, etc., and (4) traditional Republican politics which always flirted with Far Right ideology such as Pat Buchanan distilling Civil Rights into a Marxist plot to destroy America, etc.
Lilly may have been born in 1998 and likely being from South Carolina, she was in the region when contentious issues were unfolding. She may have been around sixteen years old in 2015 when Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, murdered nine Black Americans who were attending church. Dylann’s shooting was supposedly in response to rising racial tensions, such as those which arose after the 2014 murder of Trevyon Martin.
So, take a girl raised in the South (which isn’t an inherently racist place like the media depicts), but in a place like South Carolina, which does still suffer from a racial-economic divide, Lilly shifted from childhood (which may have had racism in the home) to teenage angst in a nation where race was at the forefront of conversation.
Many white people did not understand Black Lives Matters for example. Rather than understanding it as “Back Lives Matter too”, they saw as “Black Lives Matters only, and we don’t care about anyone else”.
People were seriously that closed minded about it, but in places, notably in the South, where there are cultural, economic, and political divides are around the black-and-white lines, progressive liberation movements can inspire tensions on both sides. For example, white people seeing black people who they see as “ghetto”, “thugs”, “criminals”, “bullies”, etc., suddenly being given sympathy by the media and the Ivy Tower, creates a sense of anger, pettiness, etc.
Slavery and segregation created parallel universes unfortunately and places like South Carolina it can be felt.
Sometimes conversations around race, notably when some (emphasis on some) black people discuss white supremacy, the rhetoric can come off to some as reverse racism and sometimes petty. Also, some black people do try to capitalize on racial strife, often providing nothing more than commentary. Not making an excuse, but many white people feel “silenced”, blamed, scapegoated, etc.,
Yet, the irony is that, sure, individually many white people are totally fine, yet systemically white people did and still do benefit from a system that paints minorities, notably Black Americans in a negative light.
Black people for example exploded with analysis, commentary, etc., on race during the heyday of the BLM movement. There was a pent-up aggression at being seen as inherently criminal, stereotyped, etc. Many white supremacists used this era as a prime recruiting ground, and the election of Trump, whether Republicans want to admit it or not, did involve a white backlash to what some perceived as anti-whiteness.
The irony to me is progressivism is not targeting white people, but rather targeting systems that are often layered with whiteness, in that whiteness is used as a defensive mechanism of the system.
In a nation built on a foundation of colonial exploitation, a racial caste system was designed by elites, so that poor or working-class whites would see themselves as part of the inner one percent, despite not being included in it.
Rather, they were simply used as a buffer for the wealthy, and rather than having economic benefits, many white people simply had the “dividend or wages of whiteness”, i.e., social currency, as thinkers such as W.E.B DuBois would say.
For example, you can be the hardest working and successful black person, but people will lump you into their worst stereotypes about being black, yet a white person who does nothing can simply appropriate the successes of other white people and get away with it.
You often hear things such as “white people invented civilization”, but my rebuttal to a person who says that is, “well, what did you do?”, and often people go silent.
Why do people vote for a party that broke up unions, got rid of pensions, outsourced jobs, supported mass incarcerations, poisoned their food supply, shifted tax burdens onto the working class and away from the rich?
Because, whiteness and the system are largely the same thing, and the value of whiteness is so much that people will give away anything as long as that is protected in their eyes, and especially if the system gives them a target to direct their anger at.
This is why we are seeing Nazism in our late-stage capitalist existences. Nazism is the epitome of lacking awareness, accountability, and self-reflection.
Since our system is based on exploitation and division, it can only go on overdrive when it realizes it can’t keep hiding its own inherent flaws, contradictions, etc.
The game has already been won and those who won it have to keep us convinced that it all still matters, because our “faith” (our, “credo”) props up their vast wealth, which we too are hostages of, since we rely on the wages of owners, and by owners, I mean an ever-growing limited amount of private equity firms, conglomerates, corporate monopolies, etc.
Seriously, imagine playing monopoly, someone wins, but they won’t let you leave or start over. Why would they? They won. Now imagine if you don’t play the way they want, you get evicted, a cop drags you aways, etc.
We live in a cyclical boom-and-bust, buy the dip, centrally managed, fiat-inflationary-monied regime, that is controlled by politicians who answer to the rich.
The central management of the money supply is not the issue, but rather the fact that monetary policy is catered towards preserving the interests of the rich, corporations, banks, etc., since a few firms are so large, that forcing them to truly live by free market principles would be disastrous for everyone, either by exacerbating monopolies or by creating a market so unstable that things would naturally crash and burn.
Technology is used to provide convenience (which we lavishly live in to escape from life) but technology’s main goal is to extract value more efficiently (even while we watch TV now, our information is being mined since it has value), but technology also reduces the need for human labor. Yet humans still need to fight for a limited number of jobs, while still owing rents, bills, etc., because…everything in the USA is a private enterprise, since America runs on liberalism, i.e., a system whose core tenant is private property rights and idealistic notions of fair exchange.
With the social need to “Keep up with Jones”, and the fact job requirements are more and more ridiculous, often costing very expensive education, then society naturally tries to make money in ways once perceived as taboo such as in sex-work, but also everyone trying to be an “influencer” hoping to stike it rich from algorithm-advertising money and donations.
Capitalism’s logic is running thin and with so many humans, it’s running into an issue. Creating economies-of-scale and efficiency reduces labor but people need labor to pay bills in a system based on charging to exist. The only real remedy is to hedge capitalism with socialism such as subsidized housing, healthcare, education/skills training, public transit, etc. Money needs to be diverted from living and towards buying goods and services in the marketplace, but the government can create demand by creating new “complexes” such as a green energy infrastructure complex.
The rich, corporations, etc., pay for campaigns, intellectuals, “libertarian think tanks” (i.e., the CATO Institute, Mises Institute, the Donor’s Trust, Mont Pelerin Society, the Atlas Network, etc.) to muckrake the government and welfare, despite the elites getting their own welfare.
Capitalism has evolved from endorsing itself with paid-for cheerleaders such as Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell, to relying on Right-Wing postmodern mind-melt by rewarding trolls, sometimes called YouTube influencers, with money paid out by the Google Algorithm. These influencers are the current baton holders selling the dream of “everyone can make it” under capitalism, because people erroneously feel that if they get rewarded by it, they can’t honestly critique it.
But, as already stated, the system layers itself with a toxic intersectionality, with whiteness being the biggest and most entrench block, that pits genders, races, etc., against each other.
To me it is ironic that the term intersectionality, despite it being co-opted by the political-left, was coined at the University of Chicago (i.e., a school known for its conservative economic thinking where Milton Friedman was a professor at).
Whiteness is romanticized, honored, etc., through media and film (traditionally relegating non-white men to side roles as means of preserving the white male ego), so all the worker bees can feel some piece of social dividend, even if their towns are rusted, polluted shells of themselves.
Even Christianity has been co-opted by it, which is why colonial-variants of Christianity are often white supremacist in nature, because religion serves as a deification of racial supremacy, which ironically contradicts the lessons of impermanence and transcendence the Bible provides. If anything, the “do what they whist” mentality of capitalism is more Luciferian than the supposed “godlessness” of socialism as conservatives allege.
That’s the sad thing about Lilly. She’s no revolutionary. She is a mindless follower and doesn’t even realize it. She is predictable. To be expected.
Lilly became famous (well, infamous) when she said the N-word while doing one of her Trad-Wife cooking-with-commentary segments. She was fired from her job at Rophe, a black woman owned business that seems to provide elder care services, and this business received threats after letting her go.
Back to her biography…
Lilly was going by Lilly Leigh Gaddis Coleman, and was a mother, so she must have got married. Sources during this time I found had her living in Wilmington, North Carolina. I suspect her husband helped tripped her over from the casual racism and dismissiveness within standard Republican politics, to white supremacy politics.
Going through her IG pages, simply searching Coleman, I find Oscar Coleman (scarbeenhavin), William Coleman (_williamcoleman), a page called Oscar & Will Fitness (fitness_coleman_), and a John Luke Coleman (jcoleman_36), but also a Daniel Coleman (daniel_coleman28). So, she has relation to this people somehow.
Lilly Gaddis is the inevitable opportunist who arose from the toxicity laid by earlier figures such as Meghan Kelly and Tomi Lahren who had a “restrained type of conservatism” which involved promoting ignorance with plausible deniability in which they could allege that whatever offensive things they may have said wasn’t what they actually meant and using coded language to convey white supremacy in veiled ways.
Further, Lilly is building off of Candace Owens, who herself copied Meghan Kelly, who tripped the wire of full blown public antisemitic discourse.
Candace Owens, being an opportunist herself, went full blown antisemite, by simply responding to a calling within some conservative circles to drop traditional Zionism in favor of criticism towards Israel, which was seen as a burden to American sovereignty and the reason for disastrous wars that have coincided with waning American influence and the influx of Muslim refugees.
This anti Zionism was a natural consequence of conservative’s propensity for conspiracy theories (e.g., The New World Order, the UN confiscating guns, humans being microchipped, theories about how “Cultural Marxism” is unraveling white male patriarchal and nationalistic systems, etc.).
Pro-Israel conservatives are called “Kosher-servatives” by anti-Zionist conservatives.
He is no longer on YouTube, but there was a popular YouTube content creators called Adam Green who ran a page and site called Know More News. Know More News at first seemed like an outlet which was analyzing Israel in a pragmatic sense, but it was later revealed to be anchored in white paranoia, old antisemitic tropes, etc. Adam Green, despite me not supporting his ideology, did reveal something important things about how MAGA, Alex Jones, etc., were really just Zionists, using conservatism for the benefit of Zionism.
Regardless, Know More News as a BIG part in the development of current online antisemitism, which people such as Lilly Gaddis, whether she realizes it or not, is influenced by. I wrote about Adam Green in the below blog post.
Traditionally, conservatives have distracted people away from criticizing Israel by focusing their attention on other minorities such as black people, for example Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire is notorious for laser focusing on black issues to distract from any criticizing or analysis on Israel.
Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA employs a similar strategy to Shapiro, i.e., “everyone hates or is annoyed by black people, so always default to that position” strategy, but even Kirk cannot balance or contain the real antisemitic forces in parts of the Right-Wing movement. Charlie Kirk, despite his open racism, white right’s apologia, and biblically inspired patriarchy, is not radical enough for many.
Thus, Lilly sees a market opportunity.
This is why Nick Fuentes rose to prominence with his counter Turning Point movement, called the American First movement. This American First movement then coincides with the nativist white only group of Patriot Front and others through the grapevine of right-wing extremism such as Patriot Prayer, etc.
Lilly is simply more far-right than Candace and since Candace is black, she will never be truly accepted into the white ethno-nationalist visions which Lilly is becoming the spokesperson for.
Candace knows this so she and Lilly are in an arms race and Cold War of vitriol spanning racism, anti-female empowerment, xenophobia, and antisemitism.
Lilly has even admitted to using people of color to accomplish white supremacist objectives. For example, Lilly praises Kanye West despite her openly admitting that she is only using black conservatives.
Lilly, like most of us, does not want a real job and wants to get paid by YouTube’s algorithm or paid by a pay-wall subscription/donation model. YouTube, Instagram, Telegram, etc., makes it very easy for extremists to make a living., and leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg are more likely to try to fit into this space rather than shut down or police racism online. To no one’s surprise at all, people in these Right Wing and Far Right spaces see Zuckerberg as a poser.
In Lilly’s brain, her thesis to politics, is that free speech can only be maintained with extremism, and censorship is inherently illiberal. One could say, sure, she has a point, but the truth is her stance is not simply about having a society of agree to disagree matters of language or discourse, but rather she is using this as top cover to bring forth real world material change that ironically will hinder free speech by oppressing marginalized groups, enforcing conservativism and Orthodoxy onto the masses, etc.
Lilly aside, conservatives throughout the online ecosystem have been arguing they are free speech advocates yet, ironically want a world where you don’t talk about diversity or anything critical of white exceptionalism. They want a society than bans and criminalizes sexual expression between consenting adults, removes books from libraries, expels or deports students who protests on behalf of Palestinians, doesn’t believe women should work at all in many cases, and is hostile towards religious beliefs (or lack thereof) that aren’t a white colonial variant of Christianity.
Conservatives during the Social Justice Movement of let’s say, 2014 up until the Second election of Trump on 2024 (the nail in the coffin to many of the woke era), did a good job convincing the masses that they were a victimized group against “Big Tech censorship”. For example, Right Wing grifter Tim Pool helped platform this idea of conservative persecution on Joe Rogan by debating Twitter leadership such as then CEO Jack Dorsey.
This Nazi politic that is becoming socially acceptable is a reaction to white fear about racial replacement, a rejection of perceived feelings of guilt surrounding past atrocities, an indifference to concepts such as systemic racism & patriarchy. Also, an inability to blame capitalism and elites who objectify the masses, but also an inversion of often left-wing multicultural talking points, where white conservatives are arguing themselves as being a separate, empowered group.
The flaw in this logic is that multicultural thought arose as a rebuttal to white European (often British) Colonialism and supremacist thought. Conservatives appropriating multiculturalism to advocate for white separatism denies the reasons non-European groups felt the impetus to resist their oppressors.
The truth remains that most wealth, resources, land, judicial power, and the Monopoly on state violence, etc., is in white hands. This is why white supremacy needs to manufacture scapegoats.
White supremacy use a two pronged approach to sustain itself.
In one hand it uses explicit violence and suppression, but in the other it uses victimhood to preemptively attack and suppress groups.
For example, black people have been dehumanized since they landed on American soil. Their ancient customs stripped, their names erased (often given nicknames rather than proper names), depicted as stupid, savage, and incapable despite slave labor clearing land still producing bounty to this day, etc.
Yet, when for example black people create a sense of solidarity to heal deep rooted psychological wounds of being called inferior, then white people…cry. They go “See look at them uniting and rising up!”, and use this feeling of black solidarity to promote more white separatism and supremacy.
White Rights of the 1960s and 1970s, was a direct response to Black Power, but Black Power was about regaining humanity and attempting to incubate wealth that white supremacy claimed black people were incapable of creating.
Essentially, white supremacy perpetuates a damned if you, dammed if you don’t mentality.
White supremacy despite its self-idolatry, self-romanticism, holier-than-thou mentality is…dishonorable.
It wants those oppressed to stay down and if anyone dares to stand tall, then this gesture is seen as being reverse racist, and this false allegation is used to further resolidify white supremacy.
Lilly like many others became antisemitic based on what I will call the “Zionist Meta Conspiracy”.
This Meta Conspiracy blames all of the world’s problems on Jews by having a combination of…
(1) Conspiracies about Israeli involvement in 9/11 such as the case of “The Dancing Israelis”, and the how Israel seems to have benefited the most from America’s very expensive and controversial wars in the Middle East. A lot of people believe that Benjamin Netanyahu, AIPAC, ADL, etc., controls the USA, and sometimes it is hard to argue against considering how much the USA “rolls the carpet out” for this Zionist lobby. For example, US conservatives have helped push anti-free speech “Anti-Boycott, Divest, and Sanction” Laws, and have also used protests against Israel to allege rampant discrimination against Jewish students, just so authorities and the Trump administration can withdraw funds from colleges, detain students, deport foreign exchange students on legal visas, etc.
(2) Pent-up frustration in people who are called antisemitic for critiquing Israel since the US and British media are ardently Zionist.
(3) Jews as being easy scapegoats for appearing to be disproportionately successful and helping each other out in important industries with lots of influence such as media, music, publishing, and banking, etc.
(4) Hypocrisy around Israel’s own Apartheid policies and the tribalism within Judaism such as seeing outsiders or gentiles as non-Kosher, dirty, and as being a term called “goyim,” etc. Some even argue that certain Orthodox Jewish sects see non-Jews as not being fully and spiritually human, and are thus the Jews are tasked with implementing a set of laws, known as Noahide Laws, to steer Gentiles or the Goyim closer to God [Disclaimer: I am reporting on what others are saying]
(5) The unresolved mystery of Jeffrey Epstein who was involved in human trafficking, and he was a Jewish man who seems to have bridged the worlds of media, Hollywood, modeling, etc. Yet, people also suspect him of being an Israeli spy, considering his relationship with Robert and Ghislaine Maxwell, but also ties to Director of Central Intelligence, Bill Burns.
Epstein not only represents the ever-growing paranoia around Hollywood, which some call Hollyweird, i.e., a place of alleged “casting couch” sex-for-work pro-bono culture, supposed “humiliation rituals” for access to insider power, and allegations surrounding the abuse of minors, but Epstein also represents a type of realpolitik that many see as dishonorable, with that being a spy who used sexual incrimination or “honey pot” campaigns.
The Epstein mythology rubs off cultural onto the Sean Combs “Diddy” Scandal, where Diddy is in jail for human trafficking. Many believe that since “Jews run the music industry”, that this Diddy situations was a parallel sex entrapment campaign.
The mixing and merging of the Epstein and Diddy situation, not only pushes antisemitism, but it also feeds into the demonization of hip-hop culture, to the delight of moral crusaders. Figures such as Kanye West helps to push this conspiracy but Kanye’s paranoia is really him lashing out because of his own failures, mental illness etc. Kanye as become a mascot for antisemitism, but white supremacist love that he is black because it takes the light away from them.
Further, this Epstein-Diddy subplot conspiracy promotes conspiracies surrounding black male sexuality by alleging homosexuality underrides the hyper-masculinity in the music that is exemplified by black males. Essentially, painting a genre of black music as not only degenerate, but also secretly “gay”, while also controlled by “Jews”, and this only serves in boosting the egos within white supremacy, but also boosting voices in black nationalism sects (such as the equally antisemitic Nation of Islam, who are known for blaming the Jews).
Essentially, racists can kill two birds with one stone by overlapping the Diddy and Epstein situations. Even if there is an overlap between the two men or whomever controlled the two men, it doesn’t mean that Jews or Black people overall are responsible for what is going on, but white supremacists want to link them together to create a grand narrative that feeds into white supremacist belief systems.
The central hub in connecting these conspiracies could been seen as the “Qanon infrastructure”, i.e., the conspiracy movement rooted in Trump mythology and deification, which has a hyper-paranoid focus on sex abuse, Demonic rituals, etc.
In essence, people are simply copying the storyline of Stanley Kubrick’s Eye’s Wide Shut and they applied that insider secret society within the film to real world industries. The “Kubrick Effect” as I call it, made into twenty-teens online “hip hop Illuminati” conspiracies, so when Diddy got arrested many felt vindicated in their conspiracy beliefs, which often goes off onto multiple divergent tangents on multiple subjects.
(6) Conspiracies around billionaire George Soros, where the conservative movement used Soros as a scapegoat. Not only was a Jewish man blamed for all the world’s problems, distracting from the wealth held by rich white or non-Jewish people’s, but ironically his evil villain persona was spun by two Jewish political consultants, thus showing how some Jews, notably Zionist ones, will help promote antisemitism because increased hate and violence towards Jews enables Jewish organizations to clamp down on criticism of topics relating to the State of Israel by explicitly conflating antisemitism with anti-Zionism. The more people learned what was going on, they assigned Jews with dishonorable characteristics.
(7) People who aren’t Jewish often see Jews as stand-offish, so without cultural bridges being made, people naturally build up suspicions, notably as Jews appear to be overrepresented in powerful industries.
Of course there is your standard “Old World” antisemitism that has never went away that dates back to organized riots against Jews (called Pogroms) from the York Massacre, the expulsion of Jews from England , the Rhineland Massaces during the First Crusade, the Holocausts of World War 2, and the Inquisitions, explusions, and forced conversions of Jews in Spain.
Jews are easy scapegoats who get blamed for pornography despite non Jews voluntarily participating in this industry. If anything white males are never judged or vilified for participation but rather women are slut-shamed despite being desired, and non-white men, notably black men are often used by anti-porn crusaders – often at the nexus of Christian white supremacy – to depict porn as grotesque, unnatural, etc. Caricatures of black men with white women are often used to shame away the likihood of interracial relationships in the real world, tapping into women’s fear of being socially ostracized, despite as restated, white men disproportionately benefitting from this industry both monetarily and asethically (i.e., never judged and seen as safer options).
Jews also get blamed for modern music such as rap music, which is often vilified by moral crusaders despite many non-black people consuming the music and most black people having no say in what is made in their names, which thus spurs conspiracies within the black community against Jews surrounding Jewish objectification of black culture despite benefitting as white passing people’s themselves. This sentiment is as old as vaudeville, minstrel music Jazz, etc. As a side note, conspiracies around rap music ar all over the place. Some allege it was the CIA promoting it to destroy black solidarity, while elsewhere Jews are blamed. Conspiracies around rap music often comes from a real world sense of hopelessness searching for an easy explanation, and in reality black people are often the most vulnerable to the blowback of geopolitical machinations, such as drugs flooding the streets of the USA due to American interference in Latin America or Southeast Asia. Black people, like any people, start weaving an easily digestible correlation, and this noble attempt at truthseeking can morph into conspiracies of hate.
Jews are even blamed for modernity itself where some argue as led to a materialist, Godless world of relativity because of Freudian psychology, Einstein relativity, etc.
Antisemitism to me is when a system simply needs to blame something rather than admit their flaws in it’s own system. A convenient excuse. Are their Jewish conspiracies? Probably, but to insinuate Jews are solely to blame is ridiculous.
For example, Kings of Europe used Jews as financiers, but then blamed the Jews when times got tough. The same way how Jews get blamed when a recession happens or worst, a depression, the kings of old blamed Jews for their own follies. European nobles where essentially our modern 1% to upper middle class, and despite benefitting when times are good, they often blame Jews when times are bad.
How to Fight Antisemitism? By antisemitism I am not talking about defending the state of Israel but rather protecting Jewish people in places such as the United States.
1) Point the fingers at people are to actually blame for current economic conditions, wealth disparity, social alienation, etc., such as many of the Non-Jewish, Right Wing, Republican millionaires and billionaires who control things. Counter the Soros conspiracy by pointing the fingers to people such as Uihlein Family, etc., to counter narratives.
Why are these white, racist, billionaires and millionaires getting off the hook while everyone else becomes sitting ducks from terrorists because the conspiracy theories hiding their power? It’ bullsh-t. It’s bull. How many innocent people from all races, colors, creeds, etc., have been the victims of white supremacist conspiracy-based violence? Why doesn’t Joe Rogan talk about these billionaires? Hell, Elon Musk is literally a white supremacist a but no one can stop him.
I am not even Soros fan. I have no idea who he is. But I find it unfortunate he took all the blame, and what’s sadder is some Jews helped demonize him.
If you’ve read any of my other blog posts, you will notice I talk about a group I call the “Anglo-American, Continental, Zionist, Saud” (ACZS Network), which is the de facto power bloc that controls the West. Often the Zionists, i.e., a stand in for the Jews, are often blamed (because of people like Adam Green of Know More News), but there needs to more focus on American, British, and Saudi interests, who aren’t Jewish, but who wield immense power in shaping world conditions.
The Jews as of today to me don’t seem to do a good job at fighting those who pose a real threat, i.e., the actual Nazis, but rather they are going after student protests movements. Trust me, a college student protesting is not the same threat level as a Neo Nazi wanting to do a mass shooting or terror attack.
I wish someone would explain this to people such as Bill Maher, who is Jewish via his mother. Bill got hung up on this anti-woke campaign, that he seems to have lost track of traditional enemy of Jews, i.e., white supremacy and Nazis. Playing this “enlightened centrist” role is not helping anyone, because it makes the mistake of creating “false equivalencies” such as convincing people the “Far Left” is as dangerous as the Far Right.
It seems Jews have stopped fighting Nazis and their narratives (which was the case when I was growing up), but oddly they are hyper focusing on liberal or Leftist groups because these groups are providing humanitarian counter arguments to IDF operations in places such as Gaza.
This shift from focusing on fighting Nazis and “Aryanism”, towards focusing on Leftist humanitarians to me proves that… Jewish groups have been calculating towards their goal of helping Isreal “cross the finish line”, which is construction of a Biblical like state (for Jews only).
It is about prophecy.
Jews don’t see the Right Wing as a threat, and they have embedded themselves into the Right Wing (Ben Shapiro, Ezra Levant, etc.), to help distract from criticism on Israel, but now their main obstacle are the Leftist humanitarians. But…both sides are aware of what is going on, creating mistrust on both sides of the political spectrum, thus creating a combined overarching environment for antisemitism to grow. There actually seems to be an admiration for white supremacy withing certain Zionist sects, and this may have evolved out of the ‘Might makes Right” mentality adopted by many Jews after the horrors of the Holocaust.
2) Social media needs to do a better job of fighting racism, Nazis, etc., online. That includes even clamping down on bot accounts or anonymous accounts. If people want to exercise free speech they, do it under their legal name, so the rules of the game are fair. However, Mark Zuckerberg seems more interested in bowing down to Right Wing Trumpian power, than fighting it, and I suspect because he as a Jewish man, knows that despite the threats of violence from MAGA inspired white supremacy, the MAGA movement is also Zionists, so they are supporting Israeli supremacy in Israel on their quest to have a fully Jewish state.
3) Get rid of Anti-BDS laws which convinces people that Isarel has unconstitutional power over the United States of America.
Being a Black American, I noticed that a lot of the more vocal, fiery, and/or analytical voices within Black Liberation politics often attempt to be at odds with “Western philosophy”, yet, they are indelibly… Western through and through.
Most Black Liberation Politics centers around Continental Leftist and or liberal (in the classical sense onwards) types of ideology centering around concepts such as deconstruction, post-structuralism, Critical Theory, existentialism to many extents, anti-colonialism, post-colonialism, and some degree postmodernism (e.g., hip hop as a late stage capitalist form of music that blurs high art with low art, pastiche, hyper capitalism, the subjectivity of morality, pop culture, etc.).
But, for those within Black Liberation politics, stretching from the Ivory Tower college seminars with the stereotypical dred-locked wise sage professor, to YouTube video essayists with their evermore ridiculous thumbnails to attract eyeballs (yes, I am talking about “Foreign Man in a Foreign Land”, etc.), and all the way to fringe cults pushing antediluvian Black Supremacist origin stories (even throw in a few UFOs or mad scientists, e.g., The Nation of Islam, Nuwabians, Hoteps, etc.), what I notice is…. there is no real black philosophy.
Rather, we what we have is blackness expressed through Western philosophy.
What I’m saying is….is that most of the Black Nationalist or liberation types who are quick to call another person’s “blackness” into question, even going so far as using white supremacist Antebellum slavery monikers towards each other, i.e., house slave, house negro, coon, Uncle Tom, the N-word, etc., but these Black Nationalist and liberation types are….living in the “House”, i.e., the house is the Western civilization including its philosophy.
So, to appear to be at odds with the West, when in essence we are products of the West, including using its language, didactic, etc., is ironic. In other words, don’t pretend that you’re higher or holier or more “organic” simply because you push pro-blackness when we are all living collectively under the roof of the house. The only way to truly alleviate this dilemma is to…leave the West.
Full unplug form the West or rather attempt at establishing a coherent “Black Philosophy” or “Southern Philosophy” that with academic rigor pools various indigenous African philosophies under one umbrella. No conspiracy theory, no anti-white girl paranoid black female nonsense, no toxic masculinity, but literal hitting the books and creating a framework that spans ethics, logic, etc.
I say Southern philosophy because we obviously know that Eastern typically represents Asian and/or Indian Subcontinent frameworks spanning Hinduism, Daoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, etc., whereas Western philosophy touches upon everything from the Sages, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Continentals vs Analytics, etc. In other words, we live under a global “Eurasianist” viewpoint, which isn’t bad necessarily, but the problem is that it excludes the philosophical frameworks of other parts of planet, so we can’t have a truly united human specifies until we include other frameworks or test them at least.
My call, yes, Quinton Mitchell is saying, that there should be a Southern Philosophy that emphasis the major categories of philosophy such as Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, and Aesthetics. This could be done my using game theory, Artificial Intelligence, computer regressions, etc.
There are so many bot accounts discrediting Black Lives Matters on social media platforms such as Instragram, Twitter (now X), etc. Bots aside, it is a popular talking point to muckrake against Black Lives Matters and you’ve seen this in the Right-Wing eco-system of Charlie Kirk, Candance Owens especially, Tim Poole, Gavin McInnes, etc.
With BLM Global Network having been exposed for money issues such as with Patrisse Cullors buying a 6 Million dollar home, using funds for a birthday party (which she supposedly paid back), and hiring her family members for a near 1 million dollar security contract, this gave the Right Wing the ammunition they needed to further perpetuate anti-black sentiments such as black people aren’t capable, that we are “race baiters”, that we blame all our problems on white people yet seems to want white people’s money, etc.
Anti-blackness runs deep across the globe and its not just the West. Perception does matter, which is why I was disappointed that BLM didn’t do an aggressive PR campaign to own the situation, get a head of it, and create a pathway forward.
Rather, the leaders faded away such as Cullors posting “crystal mommy” Instagram posts or Alicia Garza going off to start other non-profit projects. The attacks of the Right Wing, the money scandal, and other issues such as social media and the news showcasing situations of black citizens attacking Asian Americans, the system got what it wanted…letting “black people” get hopeful, just to pull the rug from up under our feet, so we end up embarrassed after appearing as “mouthy” “angry”, etc.
It is exactly what the Right Wing wanted, and BLM’s anonymity allowed them to use BLM as a means of recruiting arngry white males to Far Right causes, which includes people such as the Buffalo Mass Shooter. Sure, these weren’t BLMs intent but it was a result.
But, I think there’s still hope for BLM but it will take work. PR, scholarships, auditing reports by legit third parties such as Ernst Young, conference calls, grants, an aggressive media campaign, etc. Or, the new non-profits that Garza created need to be absorbed into BLM.
But, regardless…
What about BLEXIT? What are they doing to help the black community, especially since they have more access to billionaire money as opposed to Left Wing organizations who have to scrap for small dollar donations? Candance Owens according to the Daily Beast (2022) article by Kelly Weill, titled: Blexit’s Finances Are Slumping – but Its Paycheck to Candance Owens Keeps Coming, stated that Owens received $230,000 in 2022.
I repeat, BLEXIT has way more access to fundraising and capital potential but it doesn’t seem like there is a coordinated effort to help the black community, but rathe piece-milling grants here and there. For example, Turning Point USA with Owen’s ally Charlie Kirk has received money from billionaires. “Turning Point USA is funded by numerous right-of-center foundations and big Republican donors.
According to InfluenceWatch, TPUSA received $275,000 from the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation, the Rauner Family Foundation (run by former Illinois Governor Bruce Raunder (R)) gave $150,000, the Folgia Family Foundation gave $210,000, and the Marcus Foundation gave $72,500. TPUSA has also received smaller donations from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundation, the Huizenga Foundation, the Mike Miller Foundation, Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Wing Thinking, the Einhorn Family Foundation, Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation (run by the in-laws of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos), the Gianforte Family Foundation (run by Montana Governor Greg Gianforte (R)), the Thomas Patrick Morrison Foundation, and the Family Taxpayer’s Foundation.” This doesn’t include the various sponsors such as the Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association, the Reason Foundation, the Foundation for Economic Education, PragerU, the Job Creators Network, the Leadership Institute, and the Generation Opportunity Institute. [Source: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/turning-point-usa/%5D
These people and organizations have enough money to buy entire neighborhoods, pay for people’s private schooling or college, but the goal of BLEXIT isn’t help but rather pushing anti-black liberation politics to support the capitalist system as is, which means supporting the 1%, as is.
TPUSA has ties to Lynde and Harry Bradley are related to the Allen Bradley company which is now Rockwell Automation. Harry Lynde Bradley was one of the founders of the John Birch Society which are the group that paved the way for far-right, New World Order, anti-UN conspiracy theorists such as Alex Jones with InfoWars. The John Birch Society had an early member, Revilo P. Oliver, who left the JBS because he felt it was “too Jewish” and went to help found Neo Nazi organizations alongside William Luther Price (the author of The Turner Diaries).
Republicans on their constant quest for Culture War, as a means of brainwashing the public to hate progress as the rich get richer, our environment goes down the dumps, and capitalism is running out of things to exploit as we all live part time in toxic digital spaces, etc., are now saying that the military does not need diversity, or more specifically “diversity quotas” or “affirmative action”, and that the military should only be about meritocracy.
These Congressional discussions are in the wake of the Supreme Court banning affirmative action at certain private colleges, which has led many to think this will create precedent throughout the entire college admissions process across the county.
Still hot on their victory, Republicans seem to be operating under the mindset of “we have an inch, so we are going to take a mile” mentality. This means that they are taking any concept of diversity to bat, even if diversity is a force multiplier when it comes to national defense. By force multiplier, I mean something that gives the US military a strategic advantage and create synergies, e.g., (for example), the ability to have people from various backgrounds, the ability to have people who speak various languages which are vital for translating, the fact that foreign nations might relate more to people that look like them as opposed to seeing a bunch of white males who may be seen as colonizers or invaders, etc.
Also, Republicans like many conservatives assume that diversity is forced, i.e., that traditional minority groups are only in college, business, or the military because of crutches at the expense of white people, when many people of minority groups are in positions of power because of meritocracy, i.e., their hard work, personality, timing, how they “played the game”, etc., and not because of their identity.
Republicans have this agenda of stewing white rage, despite white people still being the majority, and many immigrant groups that are non-Anglo-Saxon, i.e., Germanic and/or Celtic groups (i.e., Northern and Central Europeans), such as Latinos still identifying as white in many cases, since Hispanic/Latino are ethnicities and not races (though we in the USA often see Latino as a different race since it’s based on a “different programming”, i.e., it is more Catholic and Spanish, rather than Germanic based and Protestant, but also Many Hispanic Latinos in the US are Mestizo, notably of Chicano heritage meaning they have partial indigenous American roots).
The interesting thing is that the military is not as meritocratic as civilians might think or how conservative veterans may explain things on “the inside” as they flaunt their military service to silence those who didn’t serve.
For example, officers don’t test for their rank as compared to enlisted personnel who must test for their rank. So how is this meritocratic?
First off, because of the Mike Rowe Dirty Work sentiment more prevalent in conservative politics that stresses that college is overrated as compared to blue-collar (working with your hands) skilled work, and adding on the fact that conservatives such as Tucker Carlson have called colleges something akin to “Communist indoctrination centers”, I find it interesting that in order to be an officer one must have a college degree (so I guess they fail the “anti-woke” tests”?).
Secondly, that those who gain a commission as an officer in the United States military don’t have to have test for rank or promotion.
So, while conservatives attempt to gas-light the public into believing that our ever-growing progressive society is “anti-white”, especially anti-white straight Christian male, they fail to mention that officers, yes – our higher paid, college educated, quasi-fraternity like leaders – don’t have to test for rank.
Promotions are almost guaranteed until you get to certain levels, i.e., a junior enlisted officer may have different expectations as opposed to field grade (or, mid-grade) officers, general level officers, etc.
Yes, officers like enlisted must study for their career development (such as they will go to Technical Training or TDY, i.e., Tour of Duty, for advanced learning), yet when it comes to enlisted forces, they must pass courses to get pass junior enlisted to the non-commissioned officer ranks (sergeants and above depending on branch).
For example, when I was in the military, I did trainings or course work as far as my job (sometimes among officers) as means of getting certified from an apprentice to a journeyman, but when it came to promotion from E4 (Senior Airman) to E5 (Staff Sergeant) I had to test and pass (a two part exam on my job skills and another on general military history/etiquette, etc.), whereas officers simply gained rank on time, board reviews, and behavior without testing. Does that make sense?
Simply put, to do your job you need to have training, but to promote, testing on your job is required for enlisted but not for officers, even though if an officer does poorly in job course work this may be counted against them on their Officer Performance Report (OPR) but it may not hinder them from achieving rank, yet it depends on what higher ups determine. “Testing” only really becomes important once officers start needing War College level training where they learn how to command in foreign theaters, command multiple forces where some may be foreign militaries, etc., but these may not happen until you hit Major or Lt. Colonel (or, equivalent type ranks).
So, is it really meritocracy in the officer ranks? You can make it to Captain or Major and not be that bright of a person or not be battle tested, yet you made those ranks on time rather than necessary proven tested aptitude.
Separately, in the Air Force at least, a person’s Physical Testing scores aren’t factored in to rank promotions, and adding insult to injury, passing requirements for rank promotions vary form year to year, meaning some years you may need an 85% to pass, whereas others you may need a 95% to pass.
So, there’s no clear way of comparing troops, especially between officers and enlisted, let alone between enlisted and enlisted. For example, I had leaders who tested lower than what I scored on my promotion exams, and were way more out of shape (barely pass their PT tests), etc. In theory, there’s people who partied through college, did ROTC, and now are making 2.5x or more than enlisted personnel.
Ironically, and adding more insult to injury, officer promotions such as in the US Air Force as based more on achieving goals, community service, leadership activities, etc. It’s more like a corporate annual review you might see with your boss in corporate America, after you have a few quarterly or a mid-year check in.
Officers are evaluated more on a “good ole boy” and “peer review” system, meaning that at higher levels that there might be favoritism when getting selected since you essentially interview before a board. Boards occur in enlisted ranks but often only senior enlisted ranks, yet, still enlisted personnel must test for rank.
Without saying it, you may be discriminated against such as whether you were an “Academy cadet” as opposed to an ROTC, Enlisted-to-Officer, or general commissioned officer (i.e., a person off the street with a degree who gets a commission after doing Officer Candidate School or Office Training Schools depending on branch).
So why is it like this?
The simplest answer in my opinion is that enlisted do the actual work, whereas officers are in leadership roles, so it’s not so much about knowing your job but rather ensuring your workers are doing their job. The concept of officer’s dates to medieval times when feudalism existed.
If you want a true meritocracy you would abolish the two-tier enlisted and officer system and have promotions be based on education, testing, PT scores, interviews, communication skills, etc.
Terrence Howard, Kanye, B.o.B, Tyga, DeSean Jackson, Will Smith…something is going on.
I appreciate Umar standing up for black people but I disagree with him on things.
He’s another talker in a sea of people doing the same, chasing that easy money from the “algorithm”
I wonder how many women Dr. Umar Johnson sleeps with after his seminars while touring the country considering a lot of the applause in his crowds seems to come from black (maybe single, maybe not) women. Seriously. He’s selling a product that many want, and I figure many women might want the honor of saying they’re the muse to the “honorable” Dr. or “Chief” or “Emir” Umar Johnson.
For such a judgemental person he’s out of shape and should cut back on the deep fried lemon pepper wings.
Considering his misogyny and bigotry, like the “reject modernity, embrace traditionalism” “black people were better under segregation” of thinkers like Kevin Samuels, with the late Mr. Samuels having been associated with podcasts like the Fresh and Fit Podcasts (which leads to Rollo Tomassi, Andrew Tate, Stefan Molyneux, Lauren Southern, The Young Americans, etc.), I wouldn’t be surprised if Johnson, with his version of Pan-Africanism, is a proponent of polygamy, considering many men are doing whatever they can these days to “get their balls” back, even though I’d argue they were never taken/they’re embarrassing themselves/saying things they might not be able to take back one day. But, who knows? That’s just speculation my part…
I guess according to Umar… people who love each other and have children across “racial lines” have to get…divorced? Split time with their kids? Feel shame?
Fuck you.
Umar chirps about staying in your race and that black men should only date black women but this puts all the blame on men as if black women don’t set the criteria. Marrying someone simply for their race and no other characteristic is stupid to me but it works for some.
There’s plenty of black men for black women and if a woman can’t find a partner that’s more of a sign of her than men. There’s always a willing man more than a willing woman in my opinion. Black women are also allowed to date outside their race and this doesn’t offend me. I remember growing up and there was no love thrown my way and I can admit that. I also grew up traveling as a military brat where environments are very diverse and non-segregated.
Honestly all the anti-whitey talk is a turn off. It’s a turn off to air this supposed dirty laundry. Hate is a turn off. Ignorance is a turn off.
I admit, I’m dating a white woman but black women are beautful but my lady isn’t black. Cool. She makes me feel supported, free, and she doesn’t think she knows better when I speak about race. I can be a nerd. I don’t have to worry about appearances. I can listen to whatever music I want. She simply listens. She shows me affection and there’s no real power struggles. I support her.
No one supported me so why turn my hand away from someone I care for just because of a fat and fat mouthed bigot rapping off black stats and woke talking points I already know about?
I use to live in “Hotlanta” and went to high school there but it wasn’t my style 100%. Bougie. Fast. Heartless. Fake it to you make it. Avarice. Leased cars. Shootings. Strip clubs. Hook up culture. Some of the most spoiled black children I’ve ever seen living in mansions but making fun of poor kids or bullying white kids. Granted there was plenty of old Dixie hate around. I know the S.W.A.T, Ben Hill, Greenbrier, Fort Mac, Old National, Riverdale, the West End near Morehouse and Spelman, just as much as I know the burbs where I grew up where my school was 50% black. Church on Sunday, wings for lunch with extra bleu cheese or Publix chicken with “fixins” on the side. To be honest I miss old days of black culture before rap, before “woke”, but I’m not hating. I grew up with two parents, one from the hood of Miami near Liberty City by way of kinfolk from Alabama near Selma (my grandmother grew up near Coretta Scott King), and my other parent is from the backwoods country of Georgia.
Yet, Umar Johnson has no right to tell a black person who lives the black experience, which is an experience of many experiences, from poor to bourgeoisie, rural to urban, Northern to southern, East to West, native born American or new African immigrant, part black, extrovert, or introvert, straight or gay, tall, or short, “proper sounding” or ebonics, that they aren’t black because they don’t meet his criteria.
When will black people ever stop this? Time and time again…This purity testing? Blackness could be this all-encompassing and loving movement, happy to spread sacred wisdom of the Motherland to influence all mankind, but instead it comes off as hate against hate.
And, who care’s if he’s “eloquent” or “funny”. Hitler was eloquent. Idi Amin was eloquent. Mao was eloquent. Grand Wizard’s can be eloquent or funny.
Dr. Umar who is essentially in the Intellectual Dark Web, like quacks such as Jordan Peterson, Stefan Molyneux, Eric Weinstein, etc. He’s not building anything. He’s not engineering anything. He’s not coding for anything. He’s just another…talker. A paid, viral, algorithm chasing talker with some papermill doctorate, in our postmodern hellscape of self-help gurus with fascist underpinnings hidden under Joseph Campbell Jungian analysis or whatever.
I find it offensive that Umar as one American guy thinks he can single handedly define what Pan-Africanism is. His Pan-Africanism seems like a black man’s wet dream of Hitler grandeur with his Pan-Aryan ideas or some George Orwell 1984 dystopia. Pan-Africanism, Umar aside, despite the noble intentions and the many contributions of self-ascribed Pan-Africanist is inserting a black framework into larger discussion, seems like a form of reverse colonialism where predominately American voices are dictating the narrative, despite America, compared to black countries abroad, is privileged. Yes, systems do oppress black people, but one black American has more opportunity than many black Africans abroad.
I understand the need for we as black people to regain a sense of our roots, but often Pan-Africanism seems like erasure, oddly. It attempts to merge all black aesthetics into one on the grounds of unity, but incidentally might erase the unique nuances that makes the black experience so unique. Further it might not even include things which some might not consider “black enough”. It also might insert toxic elements from the America’s into the family oriented, rural, and pastoral cultures of many African groups. It’s not that Pan Africanism is bad, but how it has come to be, seems slightly problematic but questioning it in certain circles is grounds for something akin to “excommunication”.
And, by the way if you’re some white liberal reading this. Respectfully, all love to you, thank you for being allies to black people in time of need, but on this matter… white liberals have a tendency of listening to the loudest black voice in the room because they’re constantly searching for the blackest “diamond” in the rough.
Pan-Africanism in one way could be considered a bridgehead for the United State’s growing interests in Africa to hedge countries like China, and the US State Department (and intel community) could use “Pan-Africanists” to insert US ideas into Africa.
Adding insult to injury as Umar goes around threatening the existences of interracial couples who are already receive hatred from certain parties, he also DID NOT go to a Historically (emphasis on historically) Black College and University (as if it matters or makes you less black if you don’t go to one). Sorry, is Obama not black enough for going to an Ivy League college, a place where black people were denied for most of American history? Why are we shaming black dance teams at “white colleges” when this could be a showcase of black culture, etc.? Black people act like white folk don’t have (or, didn’t invent) remote controls. It’s not hard for others to watch Grambling vs Southern or the Celebration Bowl.
Umar went to Millersville University and got an advanced degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where osteopathic medicine is heavily criticized by traditional medicine, but it’s not that Umar cares, or many of his follower’s care, considering we live in a world of Zodiac followers and hand-readers, because he simply needed a Dr. in front of his name to give himself more credence. Good on him for achieving it, but simply because you’re a “doctor” doesn’t mean your prescription to the world’s problems are entirely accurate.
He’s even been caught lying talking about his ancestry to Frederick Douglass according to The Root (2017) article by Michael Harriot, titled: We Fact-Checked Umar Johnson’s Hotep Tantrum with Roland Martin Because Someone Had To. That should have cancelled him, but his hotep followers don’t care, his black female followers obsessed with black men with white women don’t care, no different than Trump supporters not caring for his multiple lies.
The further irony of Umar is that he’s some type of Muslim, but for whatever odd reason, black Americans never question the fact that Islam played a huge role and still does play on in the enslavement of black people. Muslims, whom I have no problem with, but relating to the history of slavery in Africa, weren’t permitted to enslave fellow Muslims, so being in Northern Africa and the Sahel, Muslims made raids into Sub-Saharan Africa or traded for slaves for goods with black African tribes or kingdoms. Tribes who didn’t want to be enslaved and wanted to make money from the gold trade routes converted to Islam as a business decision. These gold trade routes helped Timbuktu flourish, but the wealth of gold trading Muslim African Kingdoms likely tipped off the Europeans who had contact with Islam (for better or worsts).
After the Reconquista of Spain and Portugal over the Moors, the Portuguese simply sailed to areas that Muslims were familiar with, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began in the Age of Discovery, especially after Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand sent Christopher Columbus to what would be the new world.
If certain black people are so committed to “de-colonization”, then why not go further, and return to nature-worship which is more indigenous than any Abrahamic religion? However, our ancestors in the USA fought with Christianity inspiring us, so why throw away what our ancestors fought with simply because we want “consciousness”? Why can’t you be a Christian or a cultural one at least (identifies as one, but not a hardcore follower) like most Americans and be equally as intrigued with African culture? Are we better than our ancestors because they were more oppressed than us, but they didn’t “fight hard enough” according to or modern standards? I dunno…
I would argue the existence of black people is miserable because not only are you oppressed by systems out of your control that inherently criminalized or stereotype you, but you’re also policed, haggled, and harassed by your own black people where everyone walks around purity testing the authenticity of the other instead of owning their own lives. You’re a target of white supremacists and get the ire of black nationalists.
Yet, maybe I can’t be mad at Umar because black people are human and most humans care about what other’s think and try to fit in as to not bring negative attention to themselves.
II. Want to Hear a Conspiracy?
Anyways,
Want to hear a “conspiracy theory”?
Ok. Here we go…
White supremacists love black separatism.
Oh, wait, that’s not a conspiracy.
It’s as if the Founding Fathers who supported slavery but knew that the freedom of black people was inevitable, knew that one day, particularly with black people being treated so poorly, would segregate themselves, because they would hate white people, which was their plan all along.
There’s something odd going on to me, but it seems we as a people have accepted the contemporary discourse of self-determination and tribalism as a needed tenant for a more just world, yet, to me, I suspect that this tribalism, particularly in the United States, where white and black are more similar than we given credit for, is and has been pre-planned or is the expression of past segregated/nationalistic ideas still echoing into the present (for example, even the hippies of days past were still racially regressive compared today’s standards but their views or analyses on race, gender, etc., largely remains unchanged to this day).
The Great Replacement Theory” or “Kalegri Plan” is something spouted by conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, and Nazis (and, Fox News) alike, but I would argue that the future is the “Great Re-Segregation”.
The Great Re-Segregation is the innocuous herding of groups into defined spaces (maybe, even “smart cities” with “themes” and within meta-verse spaces, i.e., no different than racially segregated neighborhoods) in a globalized world where groups are essentially herded like animals (without thinking of it as such), where our data is collected (genetic information included), surveillance is everywhere, and the mass media is used to stir up unrest in the public, yet, since levers of power will be largely influenced by Westernized European inspired ideas, policy, etc., but also the growing influence of the homogeneous Chinese.
A society ruled by a technocratic elite (i.e., like things already are), indifferent to progressivism or conservatism, who operate with a pragmatic and “syncretic” viewpoint and manages the species, like a Darwinist exhibition. Sure, we will still have overlap between the groups, because we as a species have always had overlap, because sharing genetics helps “keep gene pools” humble (not inner-bred), which helps the overall longevity of the species (i.e., genetic vigor), but most people will be herded (socially groomed) to segregate and the political right and political left are both responsible.
Countries are essentially “centers” overseeing commodified groups where all nations answer upward to institutions and systems effectively ran by a small group of people, i.e., a pyramid scheme. When consumer bases start to slow down in how fast they replicate while also demanding more rights as they climb the economic ladder, economic down-turns are manufactured, new bodies from around the globe are shifted into industrial ones, and process of segregation in one hand and assimilation in another takes course.
However, I don’t want you to lose faith in all institutions, and institutions in many ways are highly effective at mitigating risks and subsidizing costs to help the public; however, there’s players within these systems that seem to have an agenda, or maybe these leaders are simply operating subconsciously the way the system was designed to, i.e., an empiricist, scientific, sterile mindset of mitigating groups, creating grand narratives, managing the scarcity of resources, etc.
III. Trauma, Conspiracy Theory, etc., etc.
But on black people.
Terrance Howard is flying around the world telling people that he has disproved gravity. Kanye “Ye” West is having a psychotic episode for our sick entertainment as he is handled by white nationalists and antisemites using him as a “pet to prove that they aren’t has “unstable” as Ye. Rapper, B.o.B., attempted crowdfunding to raise money to help prove the Earth is flat. NFL Wide receiver, DeSean Jackson was called out for saying antisemitic things. Rappers such as Tyga often talks about “Jewish money”, etc., the irony is that there’s likely Jewish management working on his albums (with rappers also somehow allowed to say terms like “white bitches”). Will Smith, likely feeling emasculated by social media and his wife (or, life partner, what have you, whom had a relationship with Tupac – who holds a messianic status amongst certain black people), calling his manhood and even blackness into question, assaulted another black man on stage, in front of the whole world, at the world’s most prestigious acting award (even if the event has fallen off in popularity in recent years as far as ratings). Kyrie Irving did share a post of a “Black Hebrew Israelite” adjacent documentary (not to be confused with black people who practice Orthodox or Reformed Judaism) that has antisemitic tropes.
The comedian, Godfrey, and even the radio personality, Charlemagne the God, whom I would say have their heads on right for the most part, sometimes praise the Farrakhan’s of the Nation of Islam, which as a group espouses…Black Nazi rhetoric, even if they make certain good points analyzing power, how things work, etc. I found it interesting that everyone called out Ye for his obvious hatred, yet, there this veneration for figures like the Farrakhan’s which is often a way of proving “how down you are” in a culture were purity testing, i.e., sizing each other up seems prominent.
Black people have been taught that we cannot be racist, but only prejudiced, since we lack institutional power, yet, the irony of this idea is that A) it allows black people to not challenge our potentially bigoted ideas and to feel empowered within those beliefs because traditionally we lack power, and B) this notion seems like a form of infantilizing black people by saying our actions aren’t as comparable to that of our supposed “superiors”, and this can be problematic on multiple fronts such as empowering sociopaths who already lack the ability to take self-accountability, and yes, black people can be sociopaths as well.
Bullet point (B) in my opinion tends to be promoted more by non-black liberals or non-black Leftists, who struggle with how to help or listen for fear of offending. Building empowerment solely on the idea that we as black people don’t have power or haven’t had an impact on power systems, seems defeatists to me, i.e., a victim-based mentality, which sure has plenty of merit – considering black people were and are victims in many ways – but, this tendency also has elements of “erasure”, i.e., it erases the impacts black people have been able to insert on power systems.
We as black people always focus on depression as black people. Our movies are either hilarious comedies or the most depressing family or slavery stories. It’s one extreme to the next. It reminds me of the Greek mask where one half is smiling and the other is sad.
Many self-ascribed black nationalists don’t know every single black person who contributed something of prominence, and we often talk about social leaders and celebrities, as opposed to our engineers, scientists, doctors, etc., which interestingly is something that all groups do, further showing we’re no better or worse than anyone else.
Before I go on, I want to state that I want all humans to be inspired by blackness. I do not want black exclusivity, black segregation, black hierarchies, black gatekeeping, purity testing, etc. We are all humans and should find inspiration and commonality amongst each other because we all have different ways of seeing things, so it’s intelligent to learn and adapt to each other. The same way how when I was kid found a moral is tales like Robin Hood who fought the rich and the state for the benefit of the common man, I want a white kid feeling lonely in the boonies to be inspired by Shaka Zulu.
I’ll get to the point of my beliefs. I don’t like segregation. I was raised with a Christian inspired Abolitionism that seeks a future where are people judged by their actions solely and not for their race.
Even though I am by no way a good Christian, and many Christians would reject me as being a Christian because I’m not an extremist, I still place merit on the teachings on mercy, love, humility, etc., that Christianity teaches.
Interestingly, my political left leanings are in part inspired by Christian mercy.
I believe that racial segregation is social engineering derived from our colonial roots and is a way of dividing the public by manufacturing dialectical (diametrically opposed) tension, cultures., etc.
I find it “funny” that white nationalists support the rhetoric of black separatists, so…if logic is to persist, and black people or the political left say that the US is white supremacists (i.e., Amerikkka), then maybe black separatism was intended to be another force that keeps the races separate, so they can be “farmed” “herded” etc. I find it interesting that certain elements of Left-Wing thought, with its anti-colonial, post-colonial, and de-colonial framework calls for self-determinism, yet, white nationalists or other Right-Wing forces call for self-determination too.
I believe that those in power use both left-wing and right-wing because they have a pragmatic view of power, to maintain racial segregation, hierarchies, etc., but these people, seeing themselves as entitled to “evolve the species”, use tension to merge elements of bipolar opposites, so from the explosion of these opposite agents, you create a new paradigm, but the later repeat the cycle as new diametrically opposed binaries reveal themselves.
There’s a Darwinists and Enlightenment Period based mindset (which includes liberalism, Communism, fascism, and capitalism) that sees chaos and flux as essential in the process of evolution and these concepts are embedded into Western thought, didactic, etc. The common man, burdened by the grind of existence, where the system knows and manipulates our Maslow Hierarchy of Needs by creating scarcity (competition, unemployment, etc.), is more likely to find solace in their identity (the cheapest form of currency in my opinion), and not question how those identities are constructed to be binaries in a system of control for the benefit of a few.
For example, the Nation of Islam, which is listed as a hate group by the US State Department, Southern Poverty Law Center (who helped take down the KKK in the 1960s), and Anti-Defamation League, believes that black scientist named Yakub (insinuating Jacob from the Jewish tradition) created white people and other races with an unspecified birth-control method to be “diametrically opposed” to blackness, and to conquer black people.
Nation of Islam by the way was allegedly created by a man impersonating a black man, and he mysteriously disappeared, potentially stealing money from membership fees of poor blacks. Many poor black people fled up north, and the creator of the Nation of Islam, using the then popular trend of secret groups, like B’nai B’rith, the Klu Klux Klan, etc., focused on these new black migrants who became jaded by racism up north. Before the twentieth century, after the Civil War, the United States saw an increase in spiritualism, mesmerism (hypnosis), seances, etc., because there was a lot of death from the war and a changing of America as new immigrants came in. The N.O.I., is simply a byproduct of these events. Today, the Nation of Islam has ties to Scientology, which is further proof of the mind-control elements the N.O.I. seeks out.
Simply reading this I can pull so much. A) black people descended from slaves often make similarities to that of the ancient Jews in captivity since that was the only book that slaves were allowed to read (or, be read too), granted it was redacted by slave owners to justify slavery, B) because of Christianity being forced upon us – my people, as it was for most groups, including tribal Europeans in the Dark Ages, newly freed black people after slavery, notably those exposed to other ideas in Northern Cities, were searching for identity and some chose a religion that was perceived as polar opposite to Christian, rural, and Southern, yet still beholden to the credibility of Abrahamic faiths, and chose unorthodox Islam, and C) the figure of Yakub – a rip off of Jacob – is essentially the concept that not only chirps to anti-Jewish thought, but also the notion of the “Uncle Tom”, “sell-out”, “race traitor”, etc., meaning that the Nation of Islam inserted this character, as a “purity testing” trip-wire figure, as a means of taking the high ground to call any detractors or critics “enemies of the race”, which is a pretty low and lazy way of winning arguments.
There was also an aversion to the COVID-19 vaccines, despite black Americans in certain categories being at increased risk for contracting it due to high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, etc., but also black and Latin workers often work in businesses that were prone to outbreaks such as warehouses, meat packing facilities, restaurants, etc.
Sure, my last point about COVID-19 is more understandable, because to be frank, the virus was new, people had limited information, the virus did fundamentally change how we operate (such as tele-work, social distancing, etc.), and there is a general mistrust of institutions; however, for all the other previous points stated, there is a trend of black men, notably popular black celebrities, descending into what I consider to be postmodern solipsism, relativity, and conspiracy theory.
Further, as this phenomenon of black celebrities going mad is happening, which is not necessarily new, there are public figures willingly to use this distortion or confusion of what is real or what is not real to mix it with Pan-Africanism so these public leaders to ascend to prominent positions.
Umar Johnson, for example, is a Men’s Rights Activist, likely inspired by the late yet controversial Kevin Samuels (whom like Jesse Lee Peterson, tells the story that black people were better off segregated).
IV. Fascism hiding under Postmodernism
Misinformation affects all people regardless of demographic because as a society we are now living in a hyper-reality of late-stage, globalized capitalism – full of parody, pastiche, bad actors, i.e., trolls or agents of misinformation, and recycled pop culture – where the distinction between real and fake, or simulation and simulacra is hard to discern.
We live in a world where corporate power for example is so strong, innocuous, and entrenched and it pervades all aspects of life, including the commodification of race, culture, sexuality, orientation, ideology, religion, education, healthcare, and just about…everything. Even misinformation is commodified.
I say that postmodernism is the chameleon skin that shrouds the predatory animus of capitalism.
The disorienting “skin”, i.e., postmodern culture, is simply a way of capitalism to sustain itself by a) creating relativity so we don’t know what is real or fake, and b) recycling culture, often in anachronistic fashion, because most growth or markets have already been exhausted, and most production isn’t from labor value but is from financialization, i.e., using fiat money to speculate on assets to create artificial demand where those at the top benefit the most, and manipulate business cycles to their own benefit (knowing government’s, already being privatized, will insure their loses at taxpayer expense).
As a result, we live in a world where “Continental Philosophy” encompassing fields such as metaphysics and existentialism merges with “Analytical Philosophy” encompassing fields like linguistics, game theory, logic, etc. In other words, we have a lot of intensive research and data alongside endless subjective interpretations of said data thus leading to a “collective flux”, i.e., mass solipsism, resulting in statements such as “my truth”.
Even though this democratization of information can be inspiring and helpful (e.g., checking institutional power), it does lead to a “triumph of the will” of ideas, i.e., the strongest survives, hence we may be subject to constant and ever-growing ideological conflict as ideas battle each other with no sense of moderation or consensus in sight.
But as a fellow black man, I can understand why there’s this need for truth among black people, yet, it seems to be leading black men (not saying more so than anyone else) down conspiracy rabbit holes.
The truth is, of course, black people had our diverse and often differing indigenous identities stripped and were forcibly yet partially assimilated into Western Civilization, to be labor power, but also to serve as an aesthetic binary to whiteness, where blackness became the magnet for the vileness of white supremacy.
Black Americans were designed to arouse a sense of supremacy in white settlers, many who had nothing but the value of being white.
Black people historically were denied education, reading, the ability to speak up, and our own destinies. Yet, this doesn’t mean that black people lacked aptitude, but rather we were disbarred from understanding the civilization which fell upon us, and which also devalued us. There’s a tendency to think that we’re not getting the entire story, or, there’s a paranoia of some higher deeper and nefarious truth – which is true but can be untrue depending upon on how we seek those truths.
But, how far black people have come is a true miracle.
We must be willing to check our own theses.
Simply because we feel something doesn’t mean that it is true, and the also the simplest path towards a solution is often not the truth but its tempting to take the less arduous path. For example, antisemitism is often a gross simplification of the truth, because Jews don’t run the world, even though, of course, there are powerful players that are Jewish pulling the levers of power, but to time and time again blaming Jews is intellectually lazy and ironic. If Jews really ran the world, why would they not just bulldoze anyone in their way?
White nationalist for example, preach that they are superior one second, while claiming to be victims at the same time, and most of the bad ideas that are affecting everyone – white people included – were created by white people. Karl Marx, a Jew, or a BIPOC person didn’t steal your job, but Mitt Romney working in Leveraged Buyouts did.
The temptation to jump to antisemitism, is disingenuous, and an easy scapegoat, but black people do this too, i.e., we try to find a simple explanation without understanding all the nuances, conflicts, inner diversity of various groups, etc.
When you add all of this with the fact that black men are often the most criminalized, black people in general – traditionally speaking – are often seen as having “less quality” or “less refined tastes”, etc., there is an insatiable thirst for truth to rebuild or regain our “consciousness” “regalia” “honor”, but the trauma on black people, both present and past, both anecdotal and institutional, seems to corrupt the path towards truth. This corruption, which objectively is from a good place I would argue, seems to have some black people questioning everything, even basic principles such as Terrance Howard arguing against basic arithmetic (something all humans developed and understood on their own).
History is already a confusing and rigorous endeavor, but most people fall for conspiracy theories, where I defined conspiracy theories as theories where the conclusion is already predetermined, but the researcher with a specific or ideological bias uses facts that simply serve their point, instead of actively challenging their own thesis or idea. Conspiracy theories as opposed to let’s say investigative journalism often lacks rigorous peer review, panel presentations, debates, etc.
