Tag Archives: optics

Phil Eiger Newmann, Walk of Shame, 2020.

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I fell asleep early on Election Eve because I lost faith in the federal government — and the very idea that the United States was a sustainable nation — years ago. Ever since November 3, I’ve been disinterested in the issue of election fraud because I don’t think there’s much of an “America” that’s left to save. My gut feeling is that no matter who got elected president, we’re already well into a post-American phase and that the USA is a bankrupt and irredeemable enterprise. What good is one last round of chemo if the patient is already terminal? Read more …

Published: January 11, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Capitol occupation, censorship, crime, deplatforming, Donald Trump, Jim Goad, North American New Right, originals, Right-wing terrorism, terrorism, the political, truth | 80 Responses

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Groypers On the March

Travis LeBlanc

7,991 words

“The groyper thing is going to burn out fairly soon (don’t believe me? Let’s talk again next fall).”

— David Cole, November 26, 2019

When I heard about the upcoming Million MAGA March, I was torn as to whether I wanted to go. I generally despise traveling. I knew I should go but I really, really didn’t want to. And yet, something told me that if I didn’t go, I would regret it.[1] Read more …

Published: November 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America first, anonymity, antifa, articles, Baked Alaska, Blacks in America, cults of personality, Donald Trump, Groypers, implicit whiteness, Million MAGA March, Nick Fuentes, North American New Right, originals, physiognomy, protests, Proud Boys, rallies, subcultures, the Republican party, Travis LeBlanc, wignats | 52 Responses

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Tom Metzger, American Radical
(April 9, 1938-November 4, 2020)

Jim Goad

Phil Eiger Newmann, Tom Metzger, 2020.

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Terrible Tommy Metzger died the day after the election.

One night in the fall of 1989 I was a snot-nosed and cocksure wigger journalist who’d tooled the hundred miles or so south from my ratty apartment Read more …

Published: November 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, egalitarianism, Jim Goad, lawfare, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, Southern Poverty Law Center, Third Positionism, Tom Metzger, White Aryan Resistance | 63 Responses

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Are Things as Bad as They Seem?

Beau Albrecht

Franz Geffels, The Relief of Vienna, 1683-1694.

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How bad are things now? “Pretty bad” is a decent answer, though a brief one. We’re faced with daunting challenges, quite obviously, though it’s a mischaracterization to say that all is lost. This has some very practical considerations. Read more …

Published: August 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged activism, anti-white censorship, apathy, articles, Beau Albrecht, censorship, culture, history, mainstream media, metapolitics, North American New Right, Old Right, optimism, originals, political correctness, strategy, tactics, the internet, whitepills | 23 Responses

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Tired of Boycotts?
Try This One Neat Trick

John Wilkinson

2,373 words

Sometimes a ray of sunshine peeks through otherwise dark and gloomy clouds in the midst of a volatile storm, such as the torrential political post-Floyd world. I experienced such a moment of illumination today in the most unlikely of places, my local corporate grocery store. Well, technically, it was while I was on the phone Read more …

Published: August 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, boycotts, dogwhistles, free speech, implicit whiteness, John Wilkinson, North American New Right, originals, procotts, visibility | 18 Responses

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The Brief Life & Spectacular Death of Propertarianism

Darwin's Prophet

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Online personalities Curt Doolittle and John Mark caused a stir in the nascent Propertarian community in early June 2020 by announcing a Founding Father’s Convention 2.0 in Richmond, Virginia, on July 4, 2020.

Propertarianism is a phrase coined by Curt Doolittle, Read more …

Published: July 9, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, Curt Doolittle, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Propertarianism, protests | 45 Responses

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The Handshake

Charles Krafft

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Editor’s Note:

Charles Krafft sent this piece to me in the Spring of 2014 for Counter-Currents, but I was in the process of a trans-continental move, so it slipped through the cracks. My thanks to PB for sending me his copy.

Young artists, covered in tattoos sporting half a haircut, Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charles Krafft, North American New Right, originals, relationships | 8 Responses

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Changing the Whip Hand

Mark Gullick

1,442 words

Football players in England resumed their interrupted season in front of empty stands this month. Before the first game, each player, in addition to their name, squad number, and advertising slogans (including the now-sainted NHS or National Health Service symbol), wore the slogan “Black Lives Matter” on the back of their shirts, Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Black Lives Matter, black supremacism, censorship, ethnomasochism, football, Mark Gullick, mass psychology, North American New Right, originals, white dispossession | 10 Responses

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The Jogger Question

John Wilkinson

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“We don’t take kindly to joggers around these here parts.” (Cue dueling banjos)

Let’s get right to it. I’m a blue-collar southerner. Greg and Travis McMichael could literally be my brothers or cousins. Read more …

Published: May 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, John Wilkinson, North American New Right, originals, pragmatism, self-defense., violence | 26 Responses

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The Ironies of History

Quintilian

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The ravages of old age are mitigated by its consolations. Physical action is slowed, but one’s actions seem more purposeful than those of youth. It takes longer to learn things, but the things learned in old age seem more meaningful. Read more …