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Be careful out there this week, guys: As the old saying goes, White Nationalists always die in threes. Or maybe I’m thinking of celebrities. I dunno. Either way, be careful, because over the weekend, news broke on social media about the passing of not one, but two Dissident Rightists. Both were deeply involved in the Alt Right circa 2017-2018, but had faded from public view in recent years.
First there was Alexander Blake Luderman, who went by the nom de guerre of Blake Lucca. A Charlottesville veteran, Lucca was probably best known for being the host of the podcast Wolfman’s Activism and Entertainment, which debuted on the Radio Wehrwolf podcast network before briefly moving to TRS. He interviewed a diverse array of notable Dissident Right figures on it such as Jason Kessler, Vincent James, and Patrick Little. This occurred when TRS was at the height of its popularity, which would put Lucca in the top 1% of best-known White Nationalists. (I estimate that there are somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million people in the Dissident Right audience).
While a relatively minor player in the scene, Lucca was remarkably well-connected. In addition to his podcasting, Lucca also wrote for Identity Dixie and had connections to the Traditionalist Workers Party as well as Blood and Honor (the music promotion arm of Combat 18).
From what I can gather, Lucca was a bit of an edgelord and appears to have graduated magna cum laude from the Mr. Bond School of Optics. Which is whatever. His rumored cause of death is suicide, and antifa has been making hay out of it.
Well, hell, antifa, what’s the suicide rate for transgenders like? I bet it’s a lot higher than for White Nationalists. Why don’t you go concern troll them? “We can connect you to detransition specialists. It’s not too late! Detransition before you kill yourself!”
Whether Lucca’s death was a suicide or not is unconfirmed, as far as I can tell. It appears that the origin of that rumor comes from an anonymous antifa account. The fact that the account claims they were “tipped off” implies inside info and that they did not hear it from the Right-wing internet sphere, because then they would have posted the screenshots. If this has been confirmed elsewhere, I have not seen it.
It is possible that antifa invented the suicide story for propaganda purposes, to say that becoming a White Nationalist caused Blake Lucca to become a social pariah, which in turn led to a downward spiral into depression and suicide.
That might be plausible if Lucca had been anonymous and then got doxed, but Lucca was fairly open — nay, flamboyant — about his political beliefs. He appeared to have a pretty high threshold for social disapproval, which seems inconsistent with the idea that he had a problem with becoming a social pariah. He wanted people to know his beliefs. The guy walked around in sonnenrad shirts, for Pete’s sake.
Then, on Sunday, the news broke on Twitter regarding the death of Cameron Padgett. Padgett is best known for booking Richard Spencer’s 2017-2018 speaking engagements. He was the man who organized Spencer’s appearances at Auburn University, the University of Florida, and Michigan State University.
Now, I’m not a fan of Richard Spencer, nor do I think Spencer’s speaking engagements were particularly effective at anything other than boosting his own dopamine levels. That said, Padgett was never a Spencer henchman per se. In fact, during interviews — at one time, he was getting a fair amount of press –, Padgett insisted that he was not even Alt Right, but rather a libertarian who was organizing Spencer’s speaking tour out of a principled devotion to free speech.
In an interview with The Tab, Padgett was asked, “So at what point in Richard Spencer’s career did you think, ‘Yeah, this is the guy I’m going throw my energy behind’?”
Padgett answered:
When he was just getting shut down. Antifa people were shutting him down, not letting him speak. I thought that was wrong. I think I would put my energy behind anyone else on campus who was trying to speak, anyway. It was almost impossible for him to speak after Texas A&M. I was reading a bunch of policies, and I realized he has every right to speak.
In an interview with Talking Points Memo, Padgett also said that he would “support someone who went up and said all white people are evil and should give money to all the minorities and give their land over,” if that person’s free speech was being suppressed.
The speaking engagements had one small utility besides keeping Spencer’s brain awash in delicious dopamine: His appearances forced the school to expend resources on security and legal fees. Padgett’s finest hour came when Auburn University attempted to cancel Spencer’s speaking engagement by citing safety concerns. Padgett, along with his attorney, Sam Dickson, sued the school, claiming this constituted a “heckler’s veto,” which is not a valid legal reason for suppressing speech. Auburn was forced to cough up $29,000 and allow the event to go forward. I like to think that as a result of Padgett’s actions that Auburn was unable to hire another secretary for their Chief Diversity Officer.
A similar thing happened at Michigan State University (MSU) when they tried to cancel Spencer’s appearance and Padgett sued again, this time with Kyle Bristow as his legal counsel. Again, MSU settled and begrudgingly allowed the event to go forward. The Florida speech likewise required the threat of a lawsuit in order to go ahead. Unfortunately, Spencer’s MSU appearance turned into a violent disaster and ended his speaking tour. The movement was going back to being exclusively online, and Spencer had put all his eggs in the “public figure” basket.
Around this time, Cameron Padgett began to fade from view, and it wasn’t until Sunday that I heard his name again.
Cameron Padgett died on Wednesday, November 24 at the age of 33. His cause of death has not been made public.
RIP Cameron Padgett.
I did not know either Cameron Padgett or Blake Lucca. One of them I had never heard of until two days ago. They were both minor characters in the story of our movement. They were more than extras, but far from stars, and it appears that both of their involvements in the movement ended a while ago. Still, they stood in our ranks, and I felt compelled to write something about their passing.
It bothered me that I found out about both of their deaths from antifa, however. To antifa, there is no White Nationalist too small for them to care about. It is actually bizarre how much antifa will obsess over some of the most irrelevant people: teenagers posting pictures in front of flags, a few idiots you’ve never heard of in a chat room, complete randos — antifa care about all of them.
To antifa, the fact that Padgett had not been involved in White Nationalism for three years was no excuse not to break out the champagne bottles, and neither was Lucca too small for them to try to exploit his death for propaganda purposes.
A major propaganda theme for Antifa runs something like this: “Nazis might pretend to be your friends, but they don’t actually have your back. They will turn on you at the drop of a hat. If you go to jail, no one will show up at your trial. No one will write to you in jail. If you die, no one will care, because they are not real friends. To Nazis, all you are is cannon fodder for their sick ideology.”
Thus, you have two people who put their lives and reputations on the line for The Cause to the extent that they could never have “normal” lives again. They died. Antifa acknowledges their passing, but the Dissident Right doesn’t. What does that suggest? I hate to say it, but if I were a casual outside observer, it would look an awful lot to me like antifa might have a point.
It’s bad optics — or rather, it’s like the Catholic concept of a “sin of omission,” which holds that you can sin by not saying or not doing something. You can say it’s bad optics of omission.
Of course, you might also say it’s bad optics for antifa to celebrate the deaths of White Nationalists as well — but that’s not my problem.
I have been disappointed with how few people on the Dissident Right even acknowledged Lucca and Padgett’s passing. At the time of writing, the only people on Twitter who have acknowledged Padgett’s death are Hunter Wallace and Kyle Bristow. Richard Spencer has yet to comment on the death of the man who became a social pariah in order to put him on a stage. Nor am I aware of anyone involved in TRS acknowledging the death of one of their own podcast hosts. Bad optics, guys.
So I figured it might as well be me to say something. Again, I didn’t know either of them; l just want to acknowledge that these men existed. They stood up for white people in public, and for that, they should not be forgotten.
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If he died by suicide because he could not find work or safety as a result of being doxxed by Antifa, then really, didn’t they successfully kill him?
Not sure that such a public figure really could be doxed. Something does not add up.
True, and my thought. But what Kessler says about real world networks, however, is something I’ve been thinking for a very long time, and saying in comments here.
Join a TRS pool party?
The deadly results of atomization and anomie. We have been discussing it in theory for YEARS. Our enemy’s plan is starting-to bear actual fruit In our ranks. It’s just the beginning. Buckle in.
What is Hunter Wallace’s current Twitter? Looking for his post mentioning Lucca
and Padgett
https://twitter.com/OccDis/status/1465142724324114445
I didn’t know about them either. Thank you for this information and the opportunity to bewail our fallen comrades. Statistically, suicide is the most likely cause of death for two such young people. Secondly, trauma. I think the proximate cause is obvious, don’t you guys? : the recent spate of anti white verdicts, particularly the Charlottesville civil case. That is the motive behind this prosecution, to degrade and humiliate us to the point of death.
I would have been thrilled to lend support to either of these guys…if I had even known they existed! The enforced anonymity and atomization is itself a weapon against our side. The antifa at least get to know who each other are!
Good points.
I agree with Travis 100%. Those who publicly stood for white preservation should always be honored, and so this post was necessary even if sad.
I would say that no dissident should commit suicide, as there are too few white preservationists as is. We need people alive to do the work of building the movement to preserve our people – though it must be acknowledged that someone determined to kill himself is perhaps the System’s most dangerous opponent.
The quality of character displayed by antifa– and her media-ensconced cousins– is of the type that doesn’t care to die for their cause so much as kill for it.
An especial glee attends intermediating forms of homicide beginning with character assassination, social exile, deaths of despair-suicide. Imagine these on a continuum with demographic replacement.
Goylibility is their most precious resource.
BAM!
The chutzpah of antics angers me more than the tragic deaths saddens me
but it’s just the pathetic gloating of lifelong losers who have never accomplished anything of value in their miserable existence on this planet (graduating from Globohomo U doesn’t count)
even if we perish, their “victories” will be short lived and bittersweet. The reapers scythe is coming for them soon after us. They are too dumb and shortsighted to see that they are gloating over the deaths of the advance guard protecting their pathetic existence
it’s going to take a lot more, sadly, before the Saxon begins to awake
Never heard of these guys but the suicide of Lucca brings up an awkward truth: the Dissident Right does have more than its fair share of mentally ill in the ranks.
Maybe, not sure that’s true. What is certain is that antifa has more than its share of outright criminals in its ranks, as the whole world discovered from the Rittenhouse trial, and the exposure of the pasts of the criminals attackers he defended himself against.
The evidence just doesn’t support that:
https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2020/06/27/leftism-and-mental-illness/
I’m an older person, a ‘Boomer’, and relatively new to this site, but it has helped me get through all the insanity in this country in the past two years, between being nearly housebound due to Covid-19 et al., and the horrible political nonsense rising in our midst. The ‘Summer of 2020′, which stirred up the twin hornets’ nest of BLM and Antifa, and all the ‘peaceful protests’ culminating daily in burnings, lootings and blatant destruction of property as well as beat downs of the people trying to stop the ‘peaceful protests’, left an indelible memory of the nastiness of the groups that oppose my newfound philosophical home. So, I know we have enemies, but when they gloat over the suicide death of young White men, then I know the nature of the beast we are truly opposing.
We must find ways of getting together in groups of five or seven or so, to talk face-to-face with like-thinking people near us, if possible. I live in a huge city on the West Coast — there are 4 of them — and I don’t know one person who thinks like I do. I live, instead, with two Democrat roommates, with whom I can never discuss politics or any of the things that I care about. I’m lonely too, though at my age, who cares — I don’t have the onus of getting married and having three or four nice kids to keep the race running, as do many of our younger persons here. But please don’t ever give up, though it may look hopeless at times — age will teach you that there is always another path. You’re still White and every life is definitely needed. You’re needed. Take your last dollar if need be, and fly over to Europe to see the great art museums and cathedrals, — you don’t have to be Christian to enjoy the magnificent artworks and construction — and hopefully, the wonderful folk-dances in small villages. Also, look up your family ancestry, and trace it back as far as possible. I sure wish we could get together in groups to do these things, and let’s figure out a way to do all this. Cheers, luv.
Drop over to Gab and look me up. We can stay in touch. My situation is similar to yours and pure almost-unleavened isolation is not healthy.
Antifa types are a perfect example of the morally psychotic—a personality defect which knows no ideology and can wrap itself wraithlike around any belief system that claims to own a monopoly on goodness.
Since they own the very concept of “good,” anyone they dislike is “evil” and thus deserves things done to them that in any other context would be considered “evil”—murder, torture, rape, penury, suicide, eternal hellfire, you name it.
Because the targets of the abuse are “evil,” it’s not “evil” when “evil” things are done to them. In fact, it’s the opposite. It’s as good as it gets.
I’ve never quite figured out how a disturbingly large quotient of humans are able to pull this little mental trick on themselves.
Yes. Human default: ethics only apply to the ingroup. Either we lose our goylibility or we lose everything.
Ethics do NOT only apply to the ingroup – though I agree that a foundation stone of real ethics is that one owes proportionately greater obligations to those within one’s familial and tribal circles than to outsiders. While there can always arise particular moral obligations (a good-natured blue collar Latino who works for my company did me a good turn some time back, so I will repay his thoughtfulness should a similar situation unfold), wrt alien strangers, the most that ethics demands is “negative” morality, ie, the avoidance of aggressive harms. Whites certainly don’t owe any positive obligations towards other races, especially when they come at the unjust expense or disadvantage of our own race. Think of how nice the world would be if there were no aggressive wrongs perpetrated among persons of different races (without any additional interracial acts of altruism)!
Thank you sir. The question: can one bring this oughtism to a life fight. I merely stated the human default, which is historically indisputable. Personally, I wish to preserve the Christian residue and detest the ‘my people, right or wrong’ ethos currently on display among the dindoos and hebrews. If you as a white man go to Singapore and vandalize vehicles I would advise the good Sinmarians to up the caning from 6 to 60.
Antifa are not merely fanatically morally misguided, though some likely do fit the bill. Many others are genuinely wicked persons who latch onto antifa because it is today the stronger power (due to full-spectrum liberal overclass control; conservative confusion and cowardice; and ensuing institutional discrimination against whites and rightists). Think of the pedophile and domestic batterer killed by Rittenhouse (and that creepy Grosskreutz has a morally problematic background, too). If they were Italian or Mexican and raised in a certain environments, they might be mobsters or drug cartelists. If this were the Third Reich, they would be Gestapo or concentration guards. Evil institutions, practices and ideologies attract evil people for whom the nature of the institution or content of the ideology in question is of secondary, if any, importance.
Of course a few well-meaning, but mentally unstable utopians may also find themselves drawn to antifa activism. But they should soon be disabused of their pathetic ‘idealism’ by actual contact with the monsters in antifa. If not, then maybe they weren’t really any good to start with.
In this case I think it’s a mixture of Jewishness and youth. Antifa is in many ways a militant extension of Jewish thinking, and Jews think this way about the world.
After that, yes it attracts other mentally ill people and misfits who hate what they perceive as a normal world that they can’t fit into and those people feel ethical limits don’t apply to them because they have ‘had it so tough’ in their minds. They only have a sense of entitlement to their own feels and perversions.
But I suspect most of these non-Jewish misfits in antifa and their issues with the world are low down the list of priorities for antifa privately.
I would imagine non-Jewish antifa are orbiters around Jews and Jewish values.
The other issue is youth. A lot of young people generally don’t have any moral integrity, restraint or anything. Everything is a joke to them or at best like a sort of video game. Nothing is real, there are no consequences.
I even read here Nick Fuentes was joking about a child killed by that worthless ape in that vehicle attack. In some ways it would seem Fuentes’ thinking is not that different to antifa’s.
I think you’re on to something about youth here. It seems to me that one of the defining traits of Gen Z is a total collapse of any sense of morality. They may still believe in pseudo-sacred taboos such as against “racism” etc. but that’s not the same as believing that certain acts are intrinsically right or wrong. The only exceptions to this trend appear to be among the exceptionally religious.
I knew of Lucca, when I was on Facebook. But alas, I’ve cleaned my life of social media.
I did not know of his death because of this. When I read this today, I was sad. I had counseled Mr Lucca a bit about some personal struggles, but I did not really know him.
I suspect that there are a large number of people who would have made it a point to eulogize Mr Lucca if they were able to express themselves openly on social media. It is unfortunate that we aren’t even allowed that bit of humanity.
I don’t think it is callousness that hid their passing from “the movement”. I think it is a disrupted network and isolation.
with the caveat that people who directly benefited from their activities such as Spencer and TRS, they should have made statements in regards to their passing.
Requiescant in pacem Mr Ludermann and Mr Padgett.
Whilst the system tries to push us to despair we must try to remember that suicide is not an option which should be seriously considered by those who are committed to their nation’s survival.
RIP
RIP Blake Ludermann and Cameron Padgett. They did not live or die in vain.
Did either have underlying conditions which caused them to die from the Coronachan? Or did Faucci’s needles cause paralysis or blood clots?
Did the lockdown, enforced masking and “distancing” cause unbearable isolation?
Did the bare shelves, supply line problems, and unemployment of Brandonism cause deep despair?
Were they assassinated?
In this moment of darkness and hate let me just say it’s not merely OK to be White, it’s great to be White.
Antifa celebrating deaths of even the most minor pro-White/Third Position figures isn’t remotely unprecedented. That cretin who runs One People’s Project / Idavox certainly saw fit to gravedance on slain drummer Jacob Langworthy whose only crime was playing drums in a Nazi Punk band. To Daryle Lamont Jenkins and company, it didn’t matter that Jacob was murdered at the age of 18 in his own home by a mostly Black gang during a home invasion. All that mattered was that the victim was associated with Nazis, and for that, he should die:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011235218/http://onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=646&Itemid=2
Screenshot here should they memoryhole this: https://imgur.com/a/9iweHcL
What makes this story even worse is when you read heartwrenching accounts from loved ones like this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170902221018/https://wandervogeldiary.com/2010/05/17/jacobs-ladder-part-1/
ANTIFA is engaging in fear tactics. They act like there’s something inevitably damaging about supporting right wing beliefs when this is not the case. Immigration restriction in 1924 benefitted those who supported it. It’s only damaging now because ANTIFA, non-whites, the organized Jewish community, traitor leftist whites, and indolent, decadent normie whites make it so.
Serial killers like Ed Kemper for example speak about having to kill their victims because of what they claim are inevitable reasons. Marx said capitalism would inevitably lead to communism and socialism. There seems to be a false determinism common among left wing ideologues and serial killers as the former projects learned helplessness onto the world at large and the latter onto themselves. Leftists have accused us of having false determinism, saying we draw.too many conclusion from data, when in fact they are the main proponents of false determinism. Most of our predictions come true, and most of theirs don’t. Most of theirs seem like attempts at stoking self-fulfilling prophecies. Left-wing men should go live in South Africa, which is the future to which their ideology will lead in America.
The left and specifically ANTIFA are morally pretentious toward us. They act like they’re our parents or something. Mentally ill drug fiend parents who burn down cities, that is to say.
Leftism allows weirdos to be cool by enabling them to justify for themselves hating the mainstream. Dissident rightists are not in the in-crowd as much as moderates and normies conservatives, since they have slightly higher levels of mental illness which is a good barometer for not being cool, but their levels of mental illness are much lower than that of leftists, and consequently they are nowhere near as weird. I think it’s okay to be a little weird or crazy. A lot of great scientists are. Sometimes it is people who are a little crazy, crazy enough to think outside the social simulation, who have the best grasp of truth. Those who invent an even more untruthful social simulation of dozens of gender pronouns, concepts like white privilege that are themselves sort of bundled half-truths, and just tons of ego-placating nonsense are going into a less truthful mindset than what normies have.
I am frustrated with white normies almost as much though. They are far from perfect, especially these days as psychopathy and narcissism seem to be among their most prized virtues, but the worst thing about them is apathy. Political apathy. That’s how 1965 happened, that’s why CRT is rearing it’s ugly head, and that is why they let Jews overshadow them insofar as the higher the status of a position, the more Jews are likely to hold it. It is also why they let women in HR make a third of men unemployed and women generally make half of all men 18-29 single. Flushing themselves along with half of all men down the genetic toilette is not a strategy for a workable society. Finally, apathy is why whites let non-whites come in, breed like rabbits, and suck in social services and societal concerns.
Yes, dissident rightists care about the things over which leftists are apathetic, but where are the normie conservatives, the moderates, and even left-wing rejects? I mean, left-wing whites have some good qualities (left-wing women moreso than men). Why don’t left-wing whites value themselves enough to say no to mass immigration? Obviously, left-wing whites don’t like non-whites on a social level as their closest friends tend to be other whites, yet they pretend otherwise so hard.
The deaths of these two men are tragedies. Our movement has generally been restricted to feuding, anonymous networks that do not foster trust and belonging. If the average European-American ethno-nationalist seeks to have the approval of his family and friends, post-secondary education, stable, rewarding employment, a wife and children, and other goods of life, then he will likely have to remain anonymous in his communications with others in our movement. In the U.S., the social system of reward and punishment or incentive structure precludes an open European-American ethno-nationalist from enjoying a normal life in most cases.
In my own case, I find it difficult to square my beliefs with my actions given the social pressure to conform. My brief period of non-conformism was associated with social failure and family estrangement. My longer period of conformism has been associated with social success and improved familial relationships. Maintaining a schizophrenic relationship with my outward self and my inward self alone has been challenging. This path seems better suited to my own flourishing than the open path taken by these two men. However, I admire their courage in the utmost. Our movement needs to engage with questions of improving mental health as cringe as that may sound.
The incentive structure of the broader Western World will have to slowly change before meaningful, sustainable change can be effected. We will not vote our way out of this. At this point, most of our members and fellow travelers should focus on staying alive, having children, and procuring resources. We must not hope for the Deus ex machina of a total collapse or a white awakening. Rather, we must steel our wills to do the necessary boring things required to stay alive and breed. I consider survival to be winning under our present conditions. I hate that these men failed at this task. They must be avenged. Rest in Power men!
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