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The Rise of Jackson Hinkle:
Is Twitter’s #1 Anti-Zionist Influencer /OurGuy/?
Travis LeBlanc
Jackson Hinkle
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One knows that criticism of Jews is the ultimate taboo by virtue of the fact that the establishment never bothers to cultivate a controlled or approved opposition to Jews. There are people such as Tommy Robinson, who act as controlled opposition to mass migration, and there are even some Con Inc. operatives such as Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh who dabble in controlled/approved opposition to anti-whiteness. But Jews are so paranoid about a backlash against them that thy refuse to allow the public access to even impotent criticism of them.
The closest thing we have in the United States would be The Squad (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib), who occasionally offer some tepid criticisms of Israel but fold like a deck of cards at the slightest pushback. Other outlets such as The Young Turks might grumble about Israeli war crimes, but even then they have to pull their punches and load up on qualifiers — “I don’t support Hamas buuuuut,” “I’m not anti-Semitic, buuuuut,” etc. — if they want to stay in business. They are certainly not going to be quoting any passages from the Talmud.
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The consequence of this is that since the beginning of the latest kerfuffle between Israel and the Palestinians, there has been a surge in demand for thought leaders who are critical of Israel. Because the establishment failed to cultivate a controlled opposition to Zionism, those are filling that demand all come from outside their ranks. Many of these people are either dissident Right or are in adjacent communities. Most on the dissident Right are more focused about the mischief that Jews instigate outside of Israel, and to the extent that they care about Israel at all, it’s because our leaders are beholden to it and wage wars on its behalf. But there are others for whom Israel has always been one of their pet issues, and they have been making big waves over the past month.
Among those who have risen to prominence include White Nationalist Keith Woods, who now has 125,000 X/Twitter followers after gaining 50,000 new followers just in the last 30 days. The month before that, Keith gained 25,000 followers as a result of the exposure he received when he led the #BantheADL movement. Even more impressive is the social media growth of nationalist Lucas Gage, who has gained a cool 100,000 new X/Twitter followers, bringing him to 175,000. Jake Shields, a former mixed martial arts champion, has become an unlikely anti-Israel activist since the conflict began and has gained 83,000 to bring him to just shy of half a million. Ryan Dawson, while not a White Nationalist, nevertheless moves in White Nationalist circles, where he is tolerated due his encyclopedic knowledge of all things Israel. Dawson is up 34,000 followers, taking him past the 100,000 mark. Syrian Girl is another anti-Israel specialist such as Ryan Dawson, albeit a shade spicier; again, she is not White Nationalist but engages with us and has appeared on Millenniyule. Syrian Girl is up by 77,000 followers post-bellum, taking her over the 300,000 mark.
To call these rapid gains in such a short period “impressive” is an understatement. They are unheard of in dissident circles. But as astonishing as they are, they pale in comparison to the meteoric rise of Jackson Hinkle, who has gained 1.5 million new followers to become the face of anti-Zionism in the West, and the most viral X/Twitter account in the world.
But is Hinkle /Ourguy/? That’s not an easy question to answer. He’s only 24 years old, and during the brief career he’s had so far, his beliefs have evolved considerably. He started his career decidedly on the Left. In 2018 he appeared in a documentary produced by the Sierra Club profiling six young environmental activists, another one of whom was Parkland High School shooting survivor and anti-gun activist David Hogg. His original area of interest was environmentalism, but he later came to disavow it as “anti-human.” As a teenager, Hinkle organized a pro-gun control protest, but has since reversed his position, stating that “Gen Z is pro-gun.”
Hinkle was a Bernie Bro in 2020, took up an interest in Marxist theory, and continues to describe himself as an anti-woke Marxist-Leninist today. Contrary to popular belief, orthodox Marxism is anti-woke on the grounds that it undermines worker solidarity, and that by making everything about race, culture, and such it obscures class conflict as the real driver of events. “Cultural Marxism” is actually an oxymoron, and it is annoying to still see conservatives describe wokeness as “Marxist.”
Jackson Hinkle and Anna Linnikova
Hinkle was fairly well known before the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict for his pro-Russia stance in the Ukraine War — he is dating Anna Linnikova, who was Miss Universe Russia in 2022 — as well as his defense of the Assad regime in Syria. Like many commie Leftists, he opposes the military-industrial complex and American intervention without exception. Arguably, however, Hinkle’s biggest claim to fame is the creation of what he calls MAGA Communism.
I have written extensively on the Bernie Left and pondered the possibility of them defecting to the dissident Right. After all, the Democrats have crushed the populist wing of their party, but the populist wing of the GOP still has some life in it. Tucker Carlson-style, class conscious Left-wing populism might be the closest thing to socialism that can realistically be hoped for in the United States. As it turns out, many Bernie Bros did in fact break with the Left and the Democratic Party, but rather than moving into our circles, they set up their own distinct communities. For the Dirtbag Left (X/Twitter and podcast-based), that community is what is called the “Post-Left,” which includes characters such as Aimee Terese and Anna Khachiyan of the Red Scare podcast. MAGA Communism was the BreadTube (the name applied to a group of Leftist online content creators) manifestation of the same phenomenon of Bernie Bros moving to the GOP.
It’s worth noting that if this Reddit thread from r/socialism is anything to go by, Jackson Hinkle is not held in very high esteem among orthodox Communists who consider his MAGA Communism to be crypto-fascism. As one redditor explains:
He’s a right-wing grifter who figured out that being pro-Palestine is the most popular position right now (cause, you know, hello hello, most people are against genocide), so instead of his usual grift, he’s surprisingly grifting from this angle (the grift is to get people to pay to subscribe to his twitter thing). Nothing wrong with him posting pro-Palestine stuff per se, but be aware he’s not an ally in any way, shape or form and should not be supported, so don’t follow him, don’t RT him, don’t like his tweets, don’t interact and so on and so forth, cause that boosts him in the algorithm and also gives him more money from the blue checkmark thing (that gives some pittance based on engagement).
Okay, so the Communist thinks he is /OurGuy/. But here’s the real kicker: It has recently surfaced that in 2022, Jackson Hinkle tweeted out the 14 words:
He has also stated that George Floyd died of a drug overdose, which suggests that he has a degree of resistance to race cuckery:
Jackson Hinkle claims that George Floyd was not murdered by Derek Chauvin, but instead “died from a fentanyl overdose”.
There’s zero evidence for that at all, and everyone who claims it’s true is doing it for racist reasons. https://t.co/wQt4NjULpD
— Post-Left Watch (@PostLeftWatch) November 2, 2023
So is he a secret agent? A White Nationalist hiding his power level? It’s possible. Many of the dissident Rightists who managed to avoid YouTube bans did so by not talking about race anymore and shifting their focus to issues tangential to White Nationalism: economics, geopolitics, culture, and so on. There is a faction of White Nationalists who believe that the capitalist system is part of the problem and must be reformed if white genocide is to be averted. It could be that Jackson Hinkle promotes Communism because he sincerely believes that it will advance white interests.
In the end, I can’t read the guy’s mind. He may very well be /OurGuy/, but at minimum, he is not the enemy. I for one am happy to have a non-explicit White Nationalist figure become the face of anti-Zionism, as it makes it harder for the Jews to come up with effective counter-propaganda and play the Holocaust card. I’m weary of once again placing too much faith in a 24-year-old, but if you had to pick someone to be the face of anti-Zionism, we could do a lot worse. He’s young, movie-star good-looking, unwoke, and the amount of his output is incredible. He’s definitely an upgrade from Ilhan Omar and AOC.
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19 comments
How the mother-fuck is the Magacommunism list of beliefs communist?
The post-American, progressive education system may, pun intended, be a major thrust in explaining it.
Travis LeBlanc wrote:
Strongly disagree. The phrase “Cultural Marxism” clarifies complex things and explains why Liberals espouse Communist values but love being rich and butt-plugged into the matrix.
Marxist-Leninism incorporates a pretty wide Leftist spectrum between Trotsky and Stalin, and whatever adjacent Zionist radicalinskis that would love to transition to Hard power.
However, I prefer the term “Cultural Bolshevism,” to Marxism, which should be followed by the reminder than “Communism is Jewish.”
This is the point that is missed in American or classical-liberal politics, where all White people — Liberals and Conservatives — have been trained since the war to not see anything in terms of Race or Whiteness, and to accept that our crusading elites should be Judeocentric.
On the other hand, it is hard to serve up the whole trout to a starving man. And not everything revolves around the Joos in any case.
The Tlaib “Squad” and Muslims in general are not “fighting the Joos” so much as just being anti-White. Too many country-club covert White Nationalists miss that point because they still implicitly see Whiteness as a defect or a deficiency instead of a feature or an asset. And it bothers affluent Liberals endlessly. That might be a useful fact to exploit.
Race is the only foundational basis for what Spengler called ethical-socialism that can be built. The rest is only details.
The Constitution did not create a Capitalism system, not a Democracy, nor a Theocracy. It was designed to create “a more perfect union” and to provide for “our posterity.” It guarantees a republican government but that should not be a sack of magic beans either. The Constitution was never complete nor the Founders sacrosanct — but somewhere along the way we forgot that our posterity was quintessentially White of European stock.
We have forgotten that progress is not charted by financial markets nor race-mixing. And our life tools are not summed up by gadgets that any Blackamoor can use without any understanding of the technology and society behind them.
I’ve never been Conservative nor Libertarian. I’ve never voted GOP except for Reagan once and Trump twice. I also despise the Party of Jefferson.
But if terms like Communist still have negative implications with older people, it might be for good reasons. That might be another useful fact.
And for punks to not be alarmed by anarchism and “modern practical Marxism,” it probably has more to do with their lack of education and life experience than any youthful clarity. Edginess should not confuse wakefulness for insight at the expense of reasoned enlightenment, let alone substitute seasoned experience for reflexive incitement.
I never minded most of the economic goals of the New Deal without the messianic goals of world redemption — nor did I mind even the term Progressive, and so considered myself until the idea became irredeemably hijacked by the Left and the race-mixers and anti-Nationalists.
Instead of retreating to our own cabin in the woods or imagining that Tweets are somehow actually fighting the war on Whites, we have to invent our own definitions of Modernity and to build up an effective leadership cadre — just like a certain house painter and soldier did a long time ago.
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Tweets might not be fighting the war, but they are building our army. Going to X and finding like-minded folks by the thousands gives me hope. X is currently about as Wild West as we’ve got, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun, too.
“Instead of retreating to our own cabin in the woods or imagining that Tweets are somehow actually fighting the war on Whites, we have to invent our own definitions of Modernity and to build up an effective leadership cadre — just like a certain house painter and soldier did a long time ago”
I believe that supply follows demand. Pro-white institutions and pro-white candidates will emerge organically once there is sufficient demand for them. The internet is how you build that demand.
Never heard of this guy at all. But Twitter is becoming something more like a walled garden since Musk. You’re either in it and know what’s happening or you’re outside.
Why is this guy at what looks like some photoshoot at a red carpet event with this woman ? Is he a personality outside of Twitter ? It’s not clear from this article what he does outside the internet.
The grift thing might be possible. I’ve become wary of this in recent times. If people are popularizing a message it doesn’t matter too much I suppose, but always look at what someone’s selling.
If they come out of nowhere, on a particular wave, but have books they have written and other products and a mini entourage in place, it’s fine to be suspicious. Some of what they say may be true, but their reasons for getting into this lie somewhere else.
They see opportunities for themselves not justice.
He looks way older than 24. More like 44.
It’s like baseball prospects from the Dominican Republic who obviously are 36, but claim to be 17.
Do you realize this moron goes on and on about “Nazis” in Ukraine. I’m pro-Ukraine, so I’ll never like this grifting dork. If he hates Ukrainians so much, and wants to wage jihad against “Nazis” he should go to Russia and volunteer for the “special military operation”. The fake, pampered, bourgeois pussy wouldn’t last 2 seconds before his head is liberated from his torso on the outskirts of Bakhmut and everyone knows it. He knows it as well, so he stays in America making cringe Russian agitprop for the past year and a half. The guy is an absolute joke for that and a host of other reasons.
That he would be quickly killed in battle is not an argument against him. Can you lay out why you support Ukraine? I am honestly curious, I’m not wedded to either side. I will say that I distrust Zelenski more than Putin for good reasons
The short answer is I prefer Ukrainians. I see them as more Western and European. Whereas I see Russians as more mongoloid and Asiatic, generally speaking, of course, don’t NAXALT me. Also, Ukraine is defending itself against Russian aggression. Why do I have to explain any of this? I personally don’t like Russia/Russians very much. The past 2 years has done nothing to make me change that opinion, either. I also don’t like people who constantly bellyache about “Nazis” all the goddamn time. Besides Jews, Russians and their Western catamites tend to never shut the hell up about the Austrian painter. Putin is a 3rd rate KGB goon midget cuck. Go ahead and trust him all you want. Not sure why you would, but by all means. My sympathy for Ukraine in no way means I like or trust Zelenskyy, why would it?
Ukrainians have more in common with Russians than they do with westerners. It sounds like you’ve been around neither group. Both groups have large issues with corruption and alcoholism. Both groups have similar destructive tendencies of theft and other problems. That’s why the start of the war multiple countries complained about the bad behavior of Ukrainian refugees because like Russians a lot of Ukrainians act in similarly poor ways. Even before this, Poles were having issues with Ukrainian migrant workers acting badly and this is something even admitted by Ukrainians themselves. Both subscribe to a concept of face that is reminiscent of Asiatic culture. Despite, these commonalities they are still two different ethnic groups so don’t bring up you’re just saying they are Russian. Also, Poles hate Nazis too so they are just as annoying right?
But I can tell you both of them don’t act like Asians. This usually comes from people who have never been around Chinese or any other East Asian group in large amounts. Nothing approaches the levels of deceit and dishonesty that is present in East Asian culture as it does in Ukraine or Russia. And neither group has the psychology of an Asian. Russians and Chinese don’t actually get along. Despite what that Turk insists Russia isn’t Asian. Also, in reference to Russians being more mongoloid, last time I checked Ukraine has Tatars too and was also conquered by Mongols.
I said I prefer Ukraine over Russia. Not sure why this triggers you guys so much. Christ, is this Counter-Currents or Unz? I know Ukrainians are closer to Russians than people like me. So what? I think western Ukraine is quite a bit different than the east. Tatars are mostly from Crimea and aren’t originally from there. Putin looks vaguely Asian and he isn’t a Tatar. And yeah, as an American of Western European descent I don’t have much personal experience with Eastern Europeans. This is a fallacy anyway. You don’t need to be hit over the head with a crowbar by De’Andre to dislike and or never relax around blacks, generally speaking. What’s so bizarre is that a lot of you guys admire the Third Reich, but have an issue with my views! I’m far more mild on Russians compared to them.
Strongly agreed. When I think of Ukraine I try to remember actual Ukrainians like Dmytro Yarosh and Oleh Tyahnybok, and not just squatters like Zelensky and the US state department propping him up. Russia by comparison isn’t nearly as “based” as these elements, who truly represent the Ukrainian spirit.
When you say “orthodox Marxism is anti-woke”, this is correct in theory but not in reality. It’s better to say, “orthodox Marxism ought to be anti-woke” if it was going strictly according to Das Kapital.
Speak or listen to an orthodox, old school Marxist. Bring up alt right talking points (Jews are the 1%, blacks are poor because of genetics, women joining workforce stalled wages, immigration stalls wages, etc etc etc) and see how they react.
I will bet you my last shekel that they will baulk at these talking points, perhaps not for Liberal-left “muh feels” reasons (but most of them will still be left liberal moralists who firmly believe in the Holohoax) but some swivel-eyed gibberish duckspeak about this stuff being the capitalist’s way of distracting the workers from uniting together.
Read orthodox leftist periodicals, organs, websites, Twitter accounts, and literature. Engage with them and observe how they report on issues like gender pay gap.
Look at what orthodox old school Marxists actually say. For example the long time Labour MP Dennis Skinner in Britain. Or Slavoj Zizek. Or the British newspaper The Morning Star. Or any other number of old school, “tankie” Communists.
They may not always bleat about cultural issues like liberals do, but they are definitely not in agreement with us on these issues.
In fact they tend to just get ultra obsessed with the whole “oppressed people rise up” thing and when they see it in other fields than pure economic class terms (eg gender or race) the “anti-oppression” malware in their brain seems to kick-start the programming and by that point then you may as well be talking to a Reddit NPC woke bot.
Truly, genuinely anti woke Marxists, who both talk the talk and walk the walk, are extremely, extremely rare. In fact I actually doubt they even exist as it is something of a cognitive dissonance, and by that point they’re basically national socialists, which none of them would ever admit to or want to be.
Precisely what I was thinking. Jackson Hinkle is just an anomaly, an eccentric.
Noam Chomsky is someone I’d consider an orthodox Marxist of sorts, and he’s about as anti-woke as AOC. He’s cucked on most of the important red lines that the neo-marxists have crossed, b/c fundamentally marxists/leftists are pussies. Weak, feminine bullshit. Resentment-based underman politics and they always hate God.
Im not sure about Hinkle but he’s giving Israel and the Jews hell so for that I like him. And he’s not afraid to shatter taboos on some of /our issues/ so Godspeed to the guy. He’s better than about 99% of normie pundits.
Looks like he’s all over the place politically. I figure he’s evolving. A serious Marxist-Leninist surely would want to nationalize all or most of the economy, not just the Tech Tyrants. Come to think of it, though, the thought of Suckerberg, Gates, and so forth relieved of their positions and reassigned to work on a collective farm does have a certain appeal.
I watched a couple of this guy’s videos prior to the current clusterfuck in israel/gaza, before his youtube channel got shut down.
He didn’t give me the greatest of vibes, he was making videos from Russia, praising the Red Army in WWII and making a big deal of the Ukrainian Waffen SS veteran who got invited to the Canadian parliament by mistake. He claimed it was unquestionnable proof that the West is actually controlled by a bunch of evil nazis.
What I got from these videos was that he most probably was a paid propagandist for the Kremlin, that even provided him with the Russian bimbo featured in this article.
Which is interesting, considering his current total opposition to Israel’s policies. If he is indeed a Kremlin mouth-piece, it seems the Russian regime isn’t exactly fond of the chosen people.
As for Hinkle, I really wouldn’t trust him at all and I think there’s a really good chance that his 14 words tweet was doctored by trolls to make him look like our guy. He also looks way older than 24, as others have said.
Still, as the article mentions, at least it’s a white guy spreading antisemitism far and wide and not brown people. He’s being useful, right now.
Flash in the pan. He’s not /ourguy/ and he’s not “the one,” but there’s no denying he may prove somewhat useful for as long as he lasts.
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