Fisking Todd Blodgett

Riposte to a buffoon (aka – answering a former Quota Queen). In all cases, emphasis added.

Laugh at this.

Let’s look at some background about Blodgett before getting to the letter.

Todd Blodgett…

With a surname like “Blodgett” you just know he got an instant free pass in Der Movement. And as you’ll soon see, you’d be correct.

…worked as an FBI informant…

Rat.

….inside the white supremacist movement.

There is no such thing.  There are very few “white supremacists” in America.  There are many pro-White activists, including White nationalists, which is a completely different type of specimen.

His political career began in the Reagan administration as a junior staffer. He helped the 1988 Bush-Quayle presidential campaign. But in the 1990s, Blodgett drifted into circles that included infamous American Nazis like Willis Carto, and “The Turner Diaries” author William Pierce.

Yeah…he “drifted.” Translation: As a NW European “WASP” type, he was immediately scooped up and elevated to high levels in Der Movement sans any real merit.

While Blodgett said he was never a “true believer,” …

There you go.  He was “never a true believer” but he was working with the biggest names in the American Far Right, including Carto and Pierce.  But, you see, you don’t need to be a “true believer” – just have the “correct” ethnic ancestry and surname.

…he helped Carto increase circulation and funding of his tabloid magazine, The Spotlight, and was a co-owner of Resistance Records, the largest white supremacist music label in the U.S. He spent time with other notable white supremacists, including Jared Taylor and David Duke.

Taylor and Duke.  Calling the Southrons!  How could they resist someone named Blodgett?  Of course, had he been named “Finkelstein” or “Chen” he may have still appealed to one of those gentlemen.

In the early-2000s, Blodgett become an FBI informant…

We’ll get an idea why shortly.

…and used his access to the highest levels of the American white supremacist community, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and the Aryan Nations. Since then, Blodgett has spoken out against white supremacy and has worked with groups like Life After Hate that rehabilitate white supremacists.

OK, a typical apostate.  But, we need more information.  

First, see this.

From March 2000 to November 2002, Blodgett was retained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to supply information concerning organizations and individuals affiliated with the racist Far right. He regularly met with and reported to FBI and JTTF (the Joint Terrorism Task Force) agents and other officials, after attending gatherings hosted by Holocaust Deniers and White Supremacist groups, which featured racist, far-right extremists who were of interest to American anti-terrorism law enforcement officials and agencies.

More importantly, see this.

In the next four years, he would meet and work with other extremists including the notorious..

Emotional ad hominem.

…William Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. After his role as a broker for Pierce was revealed in the Intelligence Report, Blodgett says his world began to collapse. In short order, he approached the magazine hoping, he said, to redeem himself publicly.

OK.  Motivation part one.  His work for Pierce was exposed, causing difficulties.  Therefore – “he approached the magazine hoping, he said, to redeem himself publicly.” Note there’s nothing there about the ideology of White nationalism being flawed, or the facts upon which that ideology is based being wrong.  Instead, he suffered personally because of System/Left social pricing, and therefore he wanted the personal damage to be alleviated.  

But…there’s more.  Now we’ll move on to motivation part two.

Blodgett: Truthfully, the answer is I was very opportunistically inclined. It was business — strictly business — and now I'm paying the price for it, and I'm not happy about it. I was stiffed by Willis Carto to the tune of about $78,000, and I'm angry.

OK. He was angry about money – allegedly he was “stiffed by Willis Carto to the tune of about $78,000.” Note once again – nothing about ideology, facts, or anything else, re: the cause being wrong.  Again, this was a personal issue. Now, a bit more about motivation number one:

My wife and my parents are not happy about the Washington Post [which ran an article recapitulating the earlier Intelligence Report story], and I want to get past that.

The personal social pricing pressure was increasing since his family was “not happy” about the whole situation, so he wanted “to get past that.”  Once again – a purely personal issue. Where’s the epiphany about the errors of White nationalism?  I’m sure any faux “epiphany” was retroactively applied later to rationalize a personal response to personal issues.

Now, let’s take a step back and discern how he got involved in Der Movement to begin with.

Blodgett: Republicans lost a lot of seats in 1990 and were kind of on the defensive and I just decided I was tired of politics. So I employed my skills as a salesman and advertising writer with a California entrepreneur who was and is the owner of Slick Times, a kind of Clinton lampoon. In January 1995, I decided to start my own consulting company.

In the meantime, Willis Carto had been contacting me to come work for him. I named a price I thought he'd never meet — $3,500 a month — and sure enough, he agreed. He also gave me an assistant.

I mean, do you need any more evidence of the "movement's" ethnic affirmative action policy? He went from “a salesman and advertising writer” and being involved with his “own consulting company" to being recruited to work for one of the leading lights of the American Far Right – and at $3,500 per month (1990s money – adjust for inflation)!  And with an assistant! That’s akin to Johnson hobnobbing with Taylor and Francis from day one, or Spencer being made the head of NPI sans any meaningful qualifications for that position.

Oh, you'll say that the "movement" interest in Blodgett was due to his mainstream Republican connections and was thus somehow merit based.  Really? First, as he himself admits, he was out of the political game when he was recruited by Carto. Second, according to Wikipedia, his initial entry into the mainstream political world was via personal connections, and his father was a politician. So, even if Carto's interest was connected to Blodgett's past foray into Republican activism, that GOP activism itself was connected to a mainstream "good old boys network" that mirrors that of Der Movement. In the end, it all conflates to ethnic affirmative action.

Now, we’ll get confirmation of another Sallisian meme – that some Quota Queens realize that what they are doing is practically hopeless, and are only in it for the money:

…there are certain people out there that when somebody speaks up for what they advocate, they give you money. Carto realized the value of espousing a lost cause: there's money in it.

And here is (according to Blodgett) Carto’s opinion of Der Movement and his role in it:

I asked him one time, "Do you really think you're going to succeed at what you're trying to do?" And he said no. He said, "It's the only thing I can do. I have no hobbies except my garden. I don't have any children." He knows there's no way he's ever going to be influential like he once was. He also once said, "Todd, the problem we have is that everybody on our side is stupid." That's what he said.

Of course, Blodgett can be lying about all of that. Perhaps Carto never said any of it.  Perhaps Blodgett's perception of Carto as being primarily interested in making money is derived from Blodgett's dislike of Carto. But it does have the ring of truth to it, at least from my perspective.

Before I begin fisking Blodgett’s letter, let me begin by summarizing the three major flaws within it.

• 1. He conflates White nationalism with “White supremacism,” which really does not exist anymore to any significant extent, and is quite different from White nationalism. Anyone who mislabels today’s pro-White advocates, including White nationalists, as "White supremacists" is being so fundamentally dishonest that their mendacity suggests to you there is little or nothing of what they say that you should believe.
• 2. He conflates pro-White activism with Der Movement, while in fact the latter is merely the currently extant vehicle for the former, akin to how the Republican Party is currently the vehicle for American conservatism. The failures of the vehicle do not necessarily reflect upon the righteousness of the cause that vehicle allegedly supports. If the vehicle is no good, it should be replaced; you need not give up on the cause itself.
• 3. The righteousness of a cause and the objective facts upon which it is based do not disappear just because a particular person becomes disillusioned with the cause and/or with the vehicle currently embodying that cause. Facts about White demographic displacement, racial reality, anti-White structures of the System, the failures of globalism and multiculturalism, and the reality of ethnic genetic interests, do not disappear just because someone is angry that they got “stiffed” for money by Willis Carto, or because the exposure of their activity upset their family. 

OK, back to the letter.

AN OPEN LETTER TO WHITE SUPREMACISTS

I once trod the treacherous path you’re traveling and it wrecked my life. Taking a detour and exiting the nasty, racist road is as much in your best interest as it is America’s. 

I do agree that it is in the interest of people to leave the catastrophe of Der Movement, but I do NOT agree that they should disavow pro-White activism (two different things; see above). Now, could it be in their selfish personal interest to drop out of activism completely? Well, would it have been in the interest of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to never have become an anti-Soviet dissident? I suppose he would have had a more comfortable life if he hadn’t gone down that path, starting with that Stalin-critical letter that led him from the Red Army to the gulag during WW II. But would that have been in his overall interest?  Would that have led to the proper fulfillment of his life?  His destiny? His dignity and self-worth? Would that have been in the interest of his people?  What is interest anyhow?  What price interest?  And do personal interests include ethnic genetic interests? I say yes. Hence, we can see the interest, the personal interest, in being a racial advocate. Why is it, according to people like Blodgett, only in the interests of Whites, and not of other groups, to eschew racial activism? Why is social pricing, and hence the damage to material personal interests, always focused on Whites and on pro-White activism?

Further: What is America? The concept is essentially meaningless in any practical sense. What is it?  A land area where disparate groups of people live?  A nation state that has drifted away from its original purpose? An economic unit of consumers? What? A set of “ideals?” Ideals are not ultimate interests. As human beings, as evolved organisms, as people, our prime concern is with people; our ultimate interests are in genetic continuity. After all, the “ideals” are for who?  For “Americans?”  What’s an “American”?  Who are the “people” we are concerned with?  The American population is being demographically transformed.  So when we refer to “people” we can ask – “what people?”  Who?  Whom?  If a pregnant illegal alien crosses into the USA and gives birth, then that offspring is an “American citizen.” That’s an “American.” The concept of America, which has become disconnected from a distinct people, and has become unmoored from normal human interests and from basic biology, is, as I have stated, practically meaningless. The concern should be with specific people in America, viewing America and its ideals as a vehicle for meeting the needs of those people and their interests, not as a vehicle for their dispossession and destruction. Talk to me about White Americans, not of an abstract America. Thus, America has no inherent interests.  Only groups of people in America - like White Americans - have inherent interests.

And, by the way, even IF you want to focus on an abstract America and its equally abstract interests, your beloved multiculturalism is destructive to those American interests, and it brings in people who have no understanding of, or interest in, preserving the “ideals” traditionally associated with America, peoples whose presence and whose own ethnocentrism breeds racial and ethnic conflict. Even from the standpoint of abstract ideals, America is a failure, and a greater White homogeneity would only assist in preserving the ideals Blodgett allegedly cares about. So, Mr. Blodgett, you are doubly wrong.

Significant differences exist between legitimate conservatism…

Why is conservatism “legitimate?”  Because it is useless, accomplishes nothing, is part of the System, agrees with the fundamental premises of that System, and is essentially fake, controlled opposition?  In any case, we are NOT conservatives.  What is there to conserve?  I am a Far Right Revolutionary.

…and bigoted, racist hatred. 

Emotional nonsense. In any case, if you are against “bigoted, racist hatred” you should oppose that targeting Whites.

Do you hate minorities so much that you overlook the significant contributions made by Conservatives…

I oppose conservatives, moron.

…who are black, Jewish, Hispanic, and Gay, to the honorable causes of limited government, a strong national defense, lower taxes, and freedom for the individual?

All those ideals are meaningless if they are enjoyed by a different people, if MY people are race replaced.  What Whites should care about “the honorable causes of limited government, a strong national defense, lower taxes, and freedom for the individual” in a Brown America?  And even his own premise is silly, since the vast majority of Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, and Gays are leftists who oppose all of these “legitimate” and “honorable” conservative concerns. If you really cared about those concerns, then you’d want a White America, full of people who have repeatedly demonstrated a fidelity to those issues and concerns.

And anyway, the whole point of White nationalism is that we do NOT want to live in the same polity, in the same society, as non-White peoples, regardless of if they are “conservatives.” This idiot is speaking a different language than what the “white supremacists” he is addressing actually understand - they understand RACE and CIVILIZATION, not tax rates and limited government.  By the way, has conservatism actually achieved progress toward any of your “honorable” causes? No, America moves in the opposite direction, away from those ideals, because of racial demographics.

Further, these days, mainstream conservatives are called "Nazis" and attacked in the streets, GOP congressmen are shot at (e.g., Scalise), and GOP senators assaulted (e.g. Paul). Rational people see what's happening in America and view Blodgett's stupidity as either painfully naive or blatantly mendacious (and that was true when the letter was written, not just today).

If so, you’re subscribing to an agenda comprised of unadulterated HATRED. 

So, Whites defending their group interests is “unadulterated HATRED.” Other groups doing the same is wonderfully admirable, and as you note, not criticized by this buffoon, who thus, in his hypocrisy, essentially confirms the validity of the WN worldview.

The high-tech, PR-savvy…

They’re not.

…well-funded…

That’s true, although they always cry poverty.

…evildoers…

Hmmm. Call your opponents “evildoers.”  Cue Dr. Evil asking for “one million dollars.”  Grow up.

…you’ve thrown in with will alter your life in the most negative of ways – as personal experience taught me. 

So, this moron is angry at Carto over money, and he is upset that his activity with Pierce got exposed, so that’s the “personal experience” he’s talking about, that and being a FBI informant – a rat.

If happiness, stability, and success are your goals, then you must open your mind and change your heart. 

Sure! Supporting a System that hates you for your race, and practices de jure and de facto discrimination against you, and defames your race and civilization, is the road to happiness and stability.

It’s not too late to change, and your past can be a lesson, not a life sentence. The late Willis Carto – a professional White Supremacist/anti-Semite, who conjured up the fraud called Holocaust denial, and who spent 60 years promoting hatred – was my boss from 1995 to 1998. 

And what real qualifications did you have for that?  Besides being a High Truster named Blodgett? Besides being involved in the GOP due to family and other personal connections? Did you ever have an involvement in politics - either mainstream or Far Right - based purely on your own merits?

To my lasting regret, I raised nearly $3 million for his Liberty Lobby, and generated an even greater amount of advertising revenue for his publications.

With all the money floating around Der Movement, that’s no grand accomplishment.

Within a few years, my business partner was Dr. William L. Pierce – the founder of the National Alliance, who wrote ‘The Turner Diaries’. 

Affirmative action.

He and Carto were America’s leading neo-Nazis. Motivated by greed and a lust for power, Pierce, Carto, and I owned what was then the world’s most profitable, successful racist music company, Resistance Records. These facts, for which I’ve atoned, won’t ever go away.

The facts about White race replacement and the System’s anti-White racism “won’t ever go away” either.

I routinely dealt directly with sociopaths like David Duke, ‘Pastor’ Richard Butler, Erich Gliebe, and John Tyndall, and racist killers like Jamie Von Brunn, Eric ‘the Butcher’ Fairburn, Tommy Mair, Wade Michael Page, and Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, among many others. 

High Trusters!  Inner Hajnal!   

My life spiraled downward, resulting from my involvement in HATE. This included becoming a drug addict for seven+ years, getting divorced and nearly being killed in a knife fight. These tragic consequences and others could’ve been averted had I avoided the vile realm of White Supremacy, even as an opportunistic profiteer. 

Make sure you capitalize "HATE" just in case your readers are not sure of whether you disapprove or not.

What an imbecile. His personal choices, his defects, those he blames on a set of political beliefs. As if being pro-White means you must be a drug addict, and, gee whiz, you can’t find any anti-racist leftist drug addicts anywhere, much less Black ones, right? Only White activists get divorced and, of course, there's never been Whites knifed by racist criminal Negroes.  Bad things happen to people only if they are pro-White, and don't you forget it!  This guy’s “logic” and his writing style (“vile realm of White Supremacy”) is akin to that of a not-too-bright twelve year old girl.

Monitoring haters for the FBI as a full-time, paid informant…

Note - paid. Being on the side of the angels, against hate wasn’t enough. Like Judas, he wanted his thirty pieces of silver.  Betrayal for a price.  Take that, you cheapskate Carto!

…opened my eyes to the insecurity of most of those who were brain-washed into the counterproductive, evil world in which you’re now ensconced. 

Pure projection. All these apostates are insecure, personal defectives and failures, who get involved in the cause for the wrong, almost always personal, reasons, and leave for the same bad reasons. You’ll note that nowhere in this screed is any sort of reasoned, analytical rebuttal of White nationalist beliefs. It is all emotion, all personal issues, and all superficial leftist buzzwords.

Seeking personal redemption helped me realize a better life was, indeed, within my grasp. I slayed my demons, beat drug addiction and got my life back on track. You, too, can do this! Walking away isn’t hard, but remaining with hateful, violence-prone, racist losers will ruin you.

One basic problem with the “movement” is that is full of drug addicted, illogical, hysterical losers like Blodgett, who have NOTHING going for them but their ethnicity.

Removing your Swastikas, covering up racist tattoos, replacing Doc Martens boots with pricey athletic shoes and wearing tassled loafers, Polo shirts and khakis, and calling yourselves “identitarians” instead of neo-Nazis, fools no one. 

As if most WNs were like that. I thought stereotyping was "bigotry?"  By the way, if "no one" is being fooled by pro-White activists, why do you and your handlers worry so much about those haters?

If your ideas were sound, you’d not need to engage in such chicanery. Got it?

Pure projection.  If YOUR ideas were sound, you’d need not write a long screed that contains ZERO substantive content, and is nothing but “being an activist made be angry and unhappy, so it is bad.” Got it?  Your mendacity fools no one.

Question - if WN ideas are so unsound, then why are they repressed by the System/Left instead of debated and refuted?

I hope and pray you’ll turn your life around, and that you and all misguided activists leave the milieu of organized Hate. 

Join the System that hates you and is destroying your race and civilization. That'll turn your life around. Just make sure you're paid for it, amirite?

Those who admit they were wrong are in a great position to help make things right.

Yes, make things right by being a PAID informant.  You may as well make a buck when you “make things right,” eh?

Like many who are now wasting their lives in this putrid, so-called Movement, I’ve been jailed. More than once. 

Was that a direct result of your prior beliefs? If not, it is irrelevant.  If so, being jailed for your beliefs means that the anti-System worldview of WNs has validity – the System is repressively anti-White. Either way, you're wrong. And if you were jailed because of activity you did that was somehow connected with your work for Carto and/or Pierce, that's either on you - a mistake you made - or it is diagnostic of a repressive System (or both).  Either way, you're wrong...again.

But whether or not you’ll ever be locked up, as long as you harbor hateful, anti-Semitic, bigoted thoughts, you’re locked in a hellish jail of your own making. 

Huh?  Having a set of political beliefs is not a “hellish jail.” The real “hellish jail” is not the straw man of “hateful, anti-Semitic, bigoted thoughts” but instead it is the reality of multiracial America.

So, set yourself free; unlock your mind…

Yes, reject the System and embrace White nationalism. That's my prescription, although I'm sure that's not exactly what Blodgett has in mind here.

…and banish hate from your soul. 

Tell that to those who hate Whites.

Having learned this the hard way, it’s easy for me to see where you’ll end up, unless you alter your thinking and change your ways. 

Don’t blame a set of political beliefs for your personal inadequacies.

You CAN get your life on track, even if it wasn’t previously all that cool. It’s easier than you think, and you won’t regret it. Trust me, I know.

In summary, Blodgett is a meritless defective Quota Queen loser, elevated in Der Movement because of his High Truster ancestry, who left Der Movement for purely personal reasons, became a paid FBI rat, and now justifies his pathetic life by preaching to us as if he had a grand epiphany. But, hey, trust him...he knows. He knows how to be a useless asshole.

Once again – there isn’t a single substantive, objective argument against White nationalism in that letter.  Not a single one.  Nothing. It’s all emotion.  It’s all the story of a pathetic defective, by his own admission not a “true believer,” who got involved in the cause for all the wrong reasons, left for personal reasons, became a PAID FBI informant, and now spews girlish tirades – Evil! Vile! Hate! – assuming that all WNs are as defective as he was (and likely, still is), and will become ever-so-happy if they ditch their beliefs – ideas that he has no actual arguments against – and become more System zombies.

What a buffoon.

It is obvious to the reader of this post that I was rather irritated by Blodgett's letter; the combination of emotional non-argument, illogic, and empty platitudes was just too much to take. The disturbing question is this - how many people like this are there in Der Movement today?  How many are not true believers, how many are FBI informants, grifters, drug addicts, or other types of defectives? Then we have the Hermansson case, which demonstrated how easy it is for even a non-government actor to infiltrate pro-White activism; Der Movement is lucky Hermansson was only a (relatively) short-term information-gathering infiltrator and not a long-term mole. With his ancestry and ability to make high-level "movement" connections, he could have risen to a position of some influence, and did considerable damage.  His sexuality, as we can observe with others, would not have been a hindrance for this (I wonder if his sexuality was known by any of the "movement" people he interacted with during his infiltration).

One wonders if such moles currently exist and how high in the "movement" hierarchy are they?  Who are they and what are they doing?

Odds and Ends, 10/22/21

In der news.

Der Movement’s hatred of Southern Europeans is borderline psychotic. The self-obsessed egomaniacal Nordicism is also deranged.  See this.  Emphasis added:

…if Nino wins, he gets to bring his family up from impoverished, dead-end Sicily.

He likes the Swiss. They’re calm, rational, affluent, and ordered; so unlike the screwed-up Italy that offers him nothing.

Then, Nino is getting on the train to go back to Italy. He’s broken and annoyed by the other Italians on the train: chummy, cocky, singing songs like O Sole Mio; all that sun, sea, and happiness.

She’s a cut above him in that she’s educated…

shrugging off the usual Italian songs of sun, happiness, and Bella Italia. Yeah, right.

…the workers stare as the Swiss enjoy a beautiful lake. They stroll, kiss, shed their clothes, and swim, contemplating beauty like the Eloi in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine as we hear a delicate oboe solo, almost like the opening scene of the movie with its quartet and the placid Swiss by a lake. We see blonde hair and firm, naked bodies, tall and poetic on horseback, while the runty Italians stare. The Commedia dell Arte meets Wagner.

Nino, like his fellow workers, are transfixed by the Swiss. It is a defining moment in the film and our age of the relations between north and south. People come to northern Europe to work, compelled by conditions in their homelands, but there is another draw to the north as well: it’s orderly, rational, blonde, quiet, poetic, and beautiful. The southerner can’t resist it; in fact, the world can’t. Despite the south’s inefficiency and resentment against the north and its economic power, the south can’t take its eyes off the Nordic types. They are beautiful and serene.

If the Swiss as like the Eloi in Wells’ The Time Machine, the Italians are the Morlocks, but hardly savage and brutal; they’re rather penned up like chickens who are awed by the swans.

Germany and northern Europe are still the predominant economic powers, now filled with guest workers. It recalls the Taverni brothers’ film Padre Padrone, where a Sardinian farmer keeps his son in illiterate servitude. When the Germans come looking for guest workers, the son’s hopes of finding freedom up north is ended as the father drags him away from the recruiters and back to herding goats — goats who shit in his milk pail.

…he is served by a dark-haired Italian, and for a moment, he blinks . . . but he goes on. Live the vision!...He looks at himself in the mirror. That blonde hair. That strength. Beauty. Vision. His eyes widen, and he dashes his head in the mirror.

The blonde girl, who hasn’t taken her eyes off him, comes out and offers help. Nino, embarrassed, swats her away. But it’s okay, she says; I’m not one of them. I’m one of you. She whips off her blonde wig, and a cascade of black hair tumbles out. “España!” she cries in triumph.

Nino groans. “Would you believe it?” he cries, and passes out.

As the train rolls south, a man plays his guitar and sings. Yes, of happy Sicily; all we need is the sun, the warmth, the blue sea, a pretty girl . . .

That look comes to Nino again. The train rolls on, chugging away, and enters a tunnel. A pause. Nino emerges from the tunnel with his pet suitcase, eyes haunted, a zombie…

If Nino could bring his family, they would be Sicilians in Switzerland, like the Turk…

But we can still appreciate Nino and his struggle: A tramp being pulled one way and another like Sicilian taffy…

Comment from that post:

I saw “Bread and Chocolate” back when it came out, and enjoyed it, but it is truly a sad and demoralizing movie.  The setting was, of course, chosen to heighten the racial and cultural disparities between the Italians and the Swiss.  Not all Italians are Sicilians or short or dark; there is an Italian part of Switzerland that is presumably neither as dysfunctional as Sicily…

Of course, Johnson avers that there is no affirmative action in Der Movement. Obviously, a S. Italian has an equal chance of being accepted as a “movement” “leader” as a WASP, right?

The Alt Right is dead.  Those are your "leaders." Please keep in mind this is not 20-20 hindsight. I was criticizing the Alt Right before Unite the Right, and I was promoting the idea of behind the scenes quite organizing and infrastructure building during the Trump interregnum. At the very least, if you are going to have public rallies, plan for contingencies and have proper operational security. Screaming about "octoroons" isn't quite satisfactory for that.

Priority number one for any rightist dissident movement is a robust and aggressive legal infrastructure. You need that BEFORE you do your public rallies and speeches. And, yes, that costs money - better to spend $340,000 on that than for someone's "executive compensation" to "maintain an online publication." Or for "fundraising" to support the "work" of Counter-Currents. Der Movement simply is not serious.

Lawfare should be illegal. But it exists. In that context, consider this comment from Amren:

I read Parts I and II. My final assessment of the Unite the Right Rally was that it was poorly organized, involved too many clown-show racists, and was not adequately thought out. This is not to say that the government and police department of Charlottesville, as well as then-governor Terry McAuliffe, were not all despicable scum. They were - and are. But in retrospect, having Richard Spencer (who later came out of the closet as a left-wing Democrat) and Matt Parrott, a cuck and a goofball who stood by while fat boy Matt Heimbach screwed his wife, just reveals the true character of so many who attended this fiasco.

Is that who you want to have in charge?

I don't like people telling me what to do; I don't like mandatory activities. So, I don't think the vaccine mandate is ethically and morally optimal. I would rather have people do as they please, but be held accountable for their choice. So, folks who refuse the vaccination would in turn be refused medical care if they contract covid, and would be held legally responsible if they infect others. Unfortunately, that is not practical according to medical laws as well as so-called medical ethics. But it is theoretically preferable from a moral and ethical standpoint, although from a public health standpoint the mandates do have some validity.

Remember when I wrote up about the Etruscan study? Italianthro now has an analysis on that, which is reasonable.  See this quote form a paper mentioned in that analysis.

Multiple Iron Age populations characterized by different languages and cultures lived in Italy but, genetically speaking, they started to approximate the modern Italians (Aneli et al. 2021; Antonio et al. 2019).

Essentially, much of the genetics of Italy, and of Europe as a whole, were already in place in the ancient world.

Amren 2021: Jews and Filipinas.

Does White nationalism really actually exist any more? Today, Der Movement is a mash-up of HBD race realism, Trumpian populism, spiced up with a dash of Nordicism and the crazy crap of Counter-Currents. The hardcore White nationalism that existed in the 1990s (for better or worse) is gone.

Would Pierce have invited Filipinas and Jews to speak at NA meetings? Would Asian girlfriends been welcome at Rahowa concerts? Did the Creativity movement talk about Asian superiority?

Things are quite different today than in the 90s.  Back then, the bulk of the "movement" was, for better or worse, NS-oriented.  Amren stuck out like a sore thumb back then for being non-NS and moderate; today, Amren is considered "extreme" compared to America First and Trumpism. As someone who lived through all of these events, in retrospect, the death of Pierce was a dividing line between the old WN-oriented, NS-focused "movement" and today's HBD crap. I was visited by an activist, by coincidence the very day Pierce's death was reported in the media. Upon meeting, we just stared at each other for a moment without saying anything.  We knew an era ended and things would never again be the same.

Others now seem to agree. See these comments from Counter-Currents:

DonqyWashOctober 21, 2021 at 7:29 am

This is now what, the fourth or fifth article posted about this film? Does this website have some kind of stake in the ticket sales or something? There’s no such thing as a “pro-white” movie coming out of any Hollywood studio in 2021, and one would think the contributors on Counter Currents would be well aware of that fact. Why in the hell would I want to watch yet more racial replacement garbage prominently featuring a prominent hypercompetent negress character? This is a staple of virtually every movie and television show produced now, and I’ll gladly opt out. Wokeshit propaganda wearing once-enjoyable IP’s as a skinsuit isn’t something you’d expect to see promoted on a dissident platform.

Vagrant RightistOctober 21, 2021 at 8:50 am

My guess is topical film reviews help recruit new people in a gentle way. But yes it might be at the expense of focusing on other frankly more important topics. I don’t think these articles about Bond are for the converted personally.

There is a broad trend on the Right now to move ever more towards meta; film reviews, music, analysis of other people in the movement (which was mentioned critically in a comment on the podcast article about America First), philosophy, based Christianity and paganism, while some of our people are even saying that race and the JQ are passé, old news, WN 1.5 or something. I’ve even heard people apparently in our circles say we need to be less ‘about race’.

And it’s not just people like Fuentes that are an issue here. There are really smart people who only a year ago were presenting themselves as hardcore pro-white third positionists, now they present themselves as Christian theologians.

To me it looks like for many of our people – their content, frankly even their beliefs in some cases, are being shaped by our oppressors; internet censorship, fear of losing accounts and in a number of European countries harsh laws, but they are telling themselves “I’m sophisticated, I’m not just about race like you dated wignats”. I don’t buy that.

I’m not saying this is the case here though, but film reviews are like the ‘good cop’ aren’t they ? They need to be accompanied by the ‘bad cop’ or we’re not really delivering a payload.

See this.  Sallis right, and prescient, once again.

The Alt Right is a callow, superficial, moderate, intellectually and ideologically shallow version of pro-White activism; lacking seriousness and depth; oriented toward millennial snark, trolling, and social media; taking breathless excitement over discovering “rightist” truths that the rest of us knew long ago and which to a large extent are nothing more than plain fact and common sense; marked weakness with respect to science and other forms of empirical thought; prizing style over substance; and prone to exhibit, often in an enhanced form, all of the fossilized dogma, bizarre fetishes, and poor judgment of the “movement” as a whole.

Interestingly, back in 2014, Johnson reproduced one of my EGI Notes essays attacking Amren and Amren meetings. Later on, I suppose, Greggy and Sammy got a long better, so Sallis's complaints suddenly became "insanity" - a "paranoid piece of crap." Note who was it who changed based on circumstance and who has been consistent

China now has a new hypersonic nuclear-capable missile. Meanwhile, the USA uses 1960s-1980s era nuclear weapons, and our vaunted "new" GBSD ICBM will be nothing more than a souped-up Minuteman III. And many Democrats don't even think we need a ICBM leg to the triad. America is becoming a Third World country in every way. I was reading a book about American nuclear weapons history by a fellow named Goetz. He terms the "new" GBSD as an "enormous disappointment" as it just an upgraded Minuteman III (1960-70s missile), and also outlines how "new" American bombers and missile submarines are merely upgrades of old technology. He also notes an issue I have raised as a concern - the ever-diminishing yields of American nuclear bombs, to absurdly low levels. Essentially, I see the USA as undergoing de facto piecemeal unilateral nuclear disarmament. Popgun yields coupled to aging delivery systems will deter no one.

Rockwell Redux Again

More on the same issue.

For another perspective on this, please see this, re: Rockwell, Patler, Patler's wife, and other related issues. Subsequent pages of that book, as well as other sources, speculate about an alleged Koehl-Pierce conspiracy to kill Rockwell, to make Rockwell into a martyr and take over the organization as an explicitly Nordicist-Germanic-Old School Nazi outfit. I make no judgment about the truth or falseness of that, just reporting about the various hypotheses put forth in that book and elsewhere. Indeed, the book suggests that Rockwell was just as much at odds with Koehl (and Pierce) as he was with Patler, and some sources suggest that Rockwell was going to expel Koehl and Pierce as he did with Patler.  Again, I do not know the relative truth of these speculations, of this reporting, but it would appear that the situation may have been more complex than "movement" dogma that a "greasy little Greek turd" killed Rockwell while the heroic Koehl and Pierce strived to keep Rockwell's political vision alive. I don't pretend to know whether that dogma, or revisionist theories, are correct, but at least I admit I do not know, in contrast to others who claim a definitive knowledge about events that are far from clear.

That shifts the focus away from a Rockwell-Patler conflict to a Rockwell-Patler-Koehl-Pierce conflict, and adds the dimension of moral responsibility for Rockwell’s death in addition to the actual legal responsibility. Regardless of who pulled the trigger and whether or not a Koehl-Pierce conspiracy existed, it seems to me that at the very least Koehl and Pierce have significant moral responsibility for Rockwell's death. This episode also underscores the extreme Nordicism of Pierce – one could only imagine his subsequent contempt for non-Nordic National Alliance members.

The whole thing with the alleged affair between Rockwell and Patler's wife, and Patler's alleged submissive support for that affair, is disturbing and disgusting, and certainly puts a fresh perspective on "genetic omnidominance," cuckoldry, and extended phenotypes. It would seem that sometimes people "closer to human origins" are the extended phenotypes of people "farther from human origins."

This additional information also puts into a different perspective the following comments from Pierce from The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce by Robert S. Griffin:

The guy in charge of the print shop--and remember this name --was John Patler. While I was around there, I had a chance to observe Patler. His real name was Yanacki Patsalos. He was this dark, greasy- looking little guy from New York, and he felt bad he was Greek instead of Swedish or German. It really bugged him. He tried to disguise his origin by changing his name. He had this feeling of inferiority, and he had an envy and hatred for people with light eyes, hair, and complexion. I don't know exactly where this came from. Maybe it was because he had grown up in New York and he was from a poor immigrant family and was at the bottom of the pecking order, and at the top around where he was from were the English, Irish, and Germans. Anyway, he was organizing the darker members of the party against what he called the blue-eyed devils. He was a very aggressive little turd. It was wild, surreal. Patler was sort of talented, though. Besides the printing, he was an artist. He did cartoons for Rockwell. He was smart and had a lot of willpower and drive. The other people in the print shop were real losers of one sort or another, and they did the grunt work for him. "When it came time to print the magazine, I stayed down by the print shop. I ate my meals in a little kitchen in one end of the chicken coop and slept in a station wagon I had at the time. Rockwell had told me that I had better stay down there all the time because he suspected that Patler was going to sabotage the whole damn thing. Patler hates you, Rockwell said. Rockwell said Patler doesn't want this magazine produced because he looks upon it as a competitor to his own magazine, the one he edited, called Stormtrooper. And it did turn out that Patler and I were in constant warfare during that time.

That's very convenient, putting all the blame on Patler and ignoring the overall context. Note some things other there.  Pierce denigrates the "turd" Patler while at the same time that "turd" was "smart and had a lot of willpower and drive." Why was he a "turd" then? Pierce also is outrageously disingenuous here. He states about Patler: "He had this feeling of inferiority, and he had an envy and hatred for people with light eyes, hair, and complexion. I don't know exactly where this came from." That's after describing Patler as "this dark, greasy- looking little guy from New York." If that was the attitude of Patler's "comrades" then, well, is it any surprise Patler had certain negative attitudes toward them?  According to all sources I have seen, Pierce was denigrating Patler - you know, the smart guy with a lot of drive - as a racially inferior greaser, and then he says about Patler's reaction to that: "I don't know exactly where this came from."

Also see this about Rockwell:

“Link,” as Rockwell was nicknamed, was regarded as a selfish and lazy commander. “[He] would usually sit around and read or sleep away most of the day while the rest of us would work or look for work,” one former Nazi said in a typescript memoir acquired by the Arlington Public Library. “Many sympathizers would bring food over to the headquarters during the winter months, and Link would take the choicest food and hog it up and leave the scraps for everyone else.”

Der Movement has always been a defective joke.

In any case, the Nordicist view of the Rockwell-Patler scenario: "You can't trust those swathoids and thar'ts what happens when you include swarthoids in the movement" doesn't necessarily capture the full story that occurred in this case. This goes back to the major point in my last post on this issue. If your group claims to be pan-European, for all Whites, and accepts people like Greeks, then a Greek member who is "smart and had a lot of willpower and drive" is someone who should be valued and allowed to rise as far as their abilities allow. If your attitude toward such a person is that he's a "turd" and "this dark, greasy- looking little guy" then be explicitly Nordicist and don't allow Greeks in your group in the first place. You can't have it both ways. Decide what your ingroup is and then move on from that.

Rockwell Redux

Ideological incoherence led to tragedy.

I’ve written about the Rockwell-Patler scenario before, but let us consider it again.

In one of his books, Rockwell wrote, on the one hand, that his “movement” was pan-European/pan-Aryan/pan-White, but, on the other hand, that the Nordic is the racial ideal we should all strive for.  Hopefully, the inconsistency there is plain for all to see.  While the Nordic may be the appropriate ideal, the appropriate archetype, for Northern Europeans, at least for Northwest Europeans, it is not so for any other European types. Rockwell’s incoherence here essentially created a two-tier (at least) caste system in his “movement,” with Nordics as the superstars, and other Whites as the scrubs, the second-stringers, and the bench warmers.  

Rockwell’s attempt to merge pan-Europeanism with Nordicism, trying to push a square peg into a round hole (or a round peg into a square hole, whichever image you refer), was a failure, and he paid the price with that with the Greek Patler, who assassinated Rockwell.  For years, Patler (an unstable individual who should never have been accepted for that reason – but Rockwell seemed to prefer such types) served Rockwell (albeit with an interregnum when he tried to form another group). But then Pierce joined Rockwell's group, leveraging Rockwell’s incoherence on this matter to promote an exclusive pan-Germanic Nordicism, squeezing out Patler, and trying to take over roles in the group that had been Patler’s. Rockwell dealt with that as incompetently as he did his group’s ideology, with the tragic outcome that we know.

Ironically enough, Pierce used the same strategy, but in his case it was more cynical. While Rockwell I think genuinely believed that he could square the circle and be a pan-European Nordicist, Pierce in my opinion was always primarily a Nordicist who merely transparently pretended to be pan-European. That’s one reason I believe that Pierce never had his own Patler; I think that deep down even swarthoid NA members knew from the beginning that they were second (or third) class. They never become so disillusioned that they felt betrayed. Pierce also had higher standards than Rockwell as per membership (that is not saying much) and I suppose that hiding out on the WV mountaintop helped to safeguard Pierce from the more extreme nutcases  One wonders if fear of Rockwell’s fate was one motivation for Pierce to move to the mountain woods of WV.

Now, when I met Pierce I was not searched for weapons or anything like that – although I would not have minded if I was and in fact would have taken the whole operation more seriously if they had more security and had treated Pierce as someone so important and “dangerous” to the System that he required such protection. Of course, any guest that harmed The Great Man would likely never have left the compound alive. On the other hand, from my judgment, a professional assassin or soldier, or group of such professionals, could have easily killed Pierce and gotten away with it; it is obvious that no one considered him a sufficient threat to actualize such a plot.

But I digress. The main point is this: Any leader who tells you that you need to be a second-class (or worse) low caste member is not anyone worth following, they are not anyone worth being your leader. Conversely, anyone willing to be such a low caste member is not worth having in your group to begin with; they are not worth being your follower.  

It is true that the Right is inherently hierarchical and non-egalitarian. But with respect to inherent racial characteristics, that non-egalitarian nature should be between groups, not within your own group. The only hierarchy within a group should be based on individual merit and ability.  If you believe someone is “racially inferior” based on their inherent ancestry, then they should not be in your group to begin with. Once they are in your group, you should accept them as a racial equal, but hierarchy exists based on the characteristics, abilities, and actions of the individual. Group-level hierarchy needs to be between, not within, groups; within groups, individual-level hierarchies are those that can and should naturally exist.

NA: What Went Wrong

The NA question again.

I have previously written about the National Alliance (NA) and its long-time leader, the late Dr. William Pierce, and why that organization, widely recognized as the most successful (in relative terms) White racialist organization in post-WWII America, failed to achieve its major objectives and eventually collapsed (it today exists as a shadow of its former self, with Will Williams as its leader and Kevin Strom as its major ideologue). In addition to the post about the Headquarters question (below), some of my previous comments on this subject are here, also see here, also see this, and see this as well.

Given the importance of the NA in the history of the "movement," understanding its failures – that are essentially the failures of Pierce – can assist in developing more successful approaches that avoid the same pitfalls. Thus, this post can be viewed as a summary of my thoughts on this matter as of the present time (more may come in the future). 

I divide the analysis into four components: Ideology, Strategy, Tactics, and Personality. I then end with Lessons.

Note that this analysis focuses on predominantly endogenous factors, not purely exogenous factors. Thus, I concentrate on characteristics and actions of Pierce and the NA, rather than external factors such as "the sociopolitical climate of America was such that there was no way for the NA to be successful." Of course, there is overlap between endogenous and exogenous factors; for example my assertion that the NA's ideology was unsuitable for America can be considered as much about America as the NA. However, in theory, the NA could have (should have is another question) adjusted components of its ideology; everything I criticize are things that are strongly associated with internal characteristics of Pierce and the NA, and could have been adjusted. My critiques are, therefore, in my opinion, fair since they involve issues that were within the power of Pierce and the NA to, at least to some extent, change. Even issues of personality fall into this category; for example, Pierce could have modified his leadership style to match his personality, even if he likely could not have significantly altered his basic personality type.

Ideology. While the NA was ostensibly a pro-White activist organization and, also, ostensibly, pan-European/pan-Aryan, in reality it was an overtly neo-Nazi, Hitler-worshipping, narrowly racial-biological (essentially ignoring culture), and solidly Nordicist. The NA was firmly in the camp of what Yockey termed “vertical racism” and was very radical in this sense and, again, as must be stressed, unapologetically “Nazi” (indeed, Pierce got his start in the "movement" as part of Rockwell’s American Nazi Party). This hardcore, radical neo-Nazism was, and is, not well suited for America, not only for the White masses (that Pierce was not really interested in appealing to), but also to most of the “elite” Whites that the NA wished to recruit. That Pierce and the NA were, at their heart, extremely Nordicist while pretending to be pan-European/pan-Aryan was a major weak point, another focus of tension leading to potential problems. When combined with Pierce’s strategic and tactical errors (and personality issues), the NA's flawed ideology doomed the group to inevitable failure, and in part explains why the organization degenerated into a Pierce personality cult.

Please note that I am not saying that the NA had to alter their underlying worldview to adjust to the surrounding society; after all, I am an opponent of mainstreaming (in the sense of changing core beliefs). But there is a difference between being national socialist (small "n" and small "s") and being overtly neo-Nazi with openly Nazi aesthetics and Hitler worship. There's a difference between stressing biological race and focusing exclusively on that. If Pierce wanted the NA to follow a Nordicist philosophy, then he should have restricted NA membership to "Germanic" NW Europeans ("Nordics") and not pretended to be pan-European/pan-Aryan. Of course, it is possible that even with those adjustments, the organization's ideology would still have been ill-suited for America. However, at least it would have eliminated superfluous harmful characteristics (e.g., cartoonish Nazi memes) as well as hypocrisy (the cryptic Nordicism). And, in any case, at this point in my analysis I am being more descriptive than prescriptive; my belief is that the NA's progress was inhibited by its ideology and how that ideology was manifested. If that was so, whether or not the organization should have changed its ideology (or at least the surface manifestations of that ideology), or just plowed ahead "as is," is another question.

Strategy. Although I am no fan of Greg Johnson, I will admit that Johnson’s characterization of Pierce as a “Leninist” has validity.  Pierce’s strategy, such as it was, seemed to be to create a revolutionary cadre, and the paradigms of his novels The Turner Diaries and Hunter seem to underline what his mindset was concerning his preferred mechanism of social change. Thus, Pierce was interested in revolutionary, rather than evolutionary, change. The NA did not engage in electoral politics, was uninterested in real community building or in broad metapolitical education (other than their insipid propaganda and the books they sold), knew nothing about democratic multiculturalism, was not interested in the slow infiltration of institutions, and always seem to have the attitude of “the system is about to collapse, so…no need to do X,Y,Z.” There really didn’t seem to be any grand strategy at all apart from wishful thinking that somehow a revolutionary cadre will be built and somehow that will lead to the overthrow of the System. Year after year, decade after decade…and no progress to anything meaningful occurred, which is not really surprising since there was no realistic strategy directing the organization to achieving any fixed objectives. The combination of a flawed ideology and a missing or ineffective strategy doomed the group from accomplishing anything meaningful, even without the tactical and personality problems discussed below.

Tactics. I have previously discussed Pierce's error in moving the NA’s “National Office” to the mountain woods of West Virginia, see here. The costs and benefits of the move are considered in that essay and the conclusion is that the costs significantly outweighed the benefits.  Thus, the decision to move to the mountains of West Virginia was a very serious tactical error. 

Another serious error was the over-centralization of decision-making in the NA. True enough, keeping a tight control of NA local unit activity made some sense since the government, as well as litigious “watchdog” groups such as the SPLC, would have attempted to hold Pierce responsible for any illegal activities of his followers. But he went too far in smothering any and all local initiative (with a few possible exceptions – Gliebe in Ohio  may have had a bit more of a free hand, I don’t know), and, in the end, many local units were allowed to do nothing except distribute the sterile and unappealing propaganda of the National Office. A combination of high quality, prudent and disciplined local unit coordinators, and a more “rapid response” and flexible national leadership, could have allowed local units to engage in a wider scope of (perfectly legal) activity, including producing and distributing locally-relevant propaganda. Not allowing greater local autonomy squandered many opportunities, depressed local unit morale, and basically transformed the National Alliance from a potentially useful activist organization into a money-making enterprise for Pierce. In the end, while one could understand why a degree of centralized control was necessary, Pierce went way overboard with this. Pierce could have tested local units by first allowing a small degree of local initiative to them and then observing the results; those units that proved capable of effective and responsible self-directed activity could have been kept on a longer leash, while others who proved not capable kept on a much shorter leash. 

Thus, the combination of over-centralization and a non-dynamic, slow, and inflexible national leadership impeded progress to a significant degree.  Associated with all of that is that the NA, particularly at the local unit level, had poor security, and was too easily compromised by infiltrators and spying. The habit of giving responsibility for local security to folks whose qualifications were, e.g., “an interest in Viking battle axes,” yielded the expected tragicomic results. Greater local unit autonomy would have been possible only with greater security and proper vetting of members, who all needed to be of high quality. Further related to this was Pierce's poor judgment in choosing (at least some) local unit coordinators, with a combination of typical "movement" ethnic affirmative action, combined with Tom Sawyer-like techniques – e.g., paint a fence at the national headquarters, and so prove you are uncomplaining enough to follow orders. That’s a bit limited for vetting I think. Obviously, greater local unit autonomy, and, overall, more productive local units, absolutely required local unit leadership of very high quality, and that did not seem to exist in some cases. And whomever was responsible for selecting Gliebe as Pierce’s successor made a terrible mistake. Gliebe may have been an effective local unit coordinator (I don’t know for sure, but he had that reputation), but he was not suited to lead the NA after Pierce's death.

Personality. A group like the NA, with a highly centralized command structure, and with an eventual personality cult, required a dynamic and charismatic leader. Pierce, whatever his positive attributes – after all he led the most successful (again, note “most” – relative terms) White racialist group for about three decades – lacked dynamism and charisma and was more of an intellectual introvert (albeit a highly radicalized one, with a “Leninist” temperament). By itself, this may not have been fatal, but when combined with the other problems, it was disastrous. Indeed, moving to the “mountaintop” in the West Virginia woods had more to do with Pierce’s personal preferences and temperament than to any deep strategic or tactical planning (and in Griffin’s biography of Pierce, there was talk of some personal reasons why Pierce left the DC area for West Virginia). Pierce’s lack of dynamism, flexible thinking, and timely decision-making was also a big problem for an organization that was so highly centralized and depended on his approval for getting things done, particularly at the local level. Months and years went by with nothing seemingly getting done other than distribution of mediocre propaganda, payment of “membership dues,” and book sales. For a “Leninist,” that’s no way to make a “revolution.”

Lessons. Looking at this from a positive, constructive sense, what is required is an ideology that is consistent for its members (if you have pan-European membership then be pan-European; if you are Nordicist, then restrict membership to Nordics), sane, appropriate for its society, not obsessed with Hitler and Nazism, and something that can be broadly applied to different strategies and tactics. It can indeed be very radical, but in a sense other than “Sieg Heil, praise Saint Adolf.” There needs to be an effective grand strategy that encompasses different synergistic approaches and not just a “Der Tag” revolutionary mindset, there needs to be appropriate tactics and a learning curve that avoids repeating error, there needs to be a balance between centralization and decentralization (while keeping legal liability in mind, maintaining discipline, and having effective operational security), and leaders need to have leadership personalities.

Worse is Better Yet Again

Another (brief) foray into this topic.

In The Turner Diaries, Pierce makes the cogent point that a major objective of revolutionary violence (besides making the System look weak) is to provoke repressive measures by the System so as to alienate and radicalize the population. 

It says something about human nature that the population wouldn't simply blame the rebels for instigating the situation - most people are shallow and focus on immediate causes; further, if revolutionary violence depends on support from a fraction of the population, then one can assume that elements of the population were already displeased with the System even before the increased repression, and would thus be very willing to blame the System, rather than the rebels, for ultimately creating the problems.

But how does the historical truth about revolutionary violence stack up against Suvorov's Law - that revolutions tends to occur when repression is suddenly relaxed, not when the repression is the greatest?  And what about my own support for a strategy based on Suvorov's Law?

First, even if the repression increases, typically peaking at some point, as long as the rebellion continues, the System may make an attempt to compromise, so the two aspects of revolutionary change are not always incompatible. Typically, Suvorov's Law activity follows a period of the worse is better repressive scenario. Second, in those cases in which the two strategies are completely separate, choosing one or another depends upon circumstances. If the population is not supportive of revolutionary violence, if there is no effective organization for such violence, if there is no way of using force to overthrow a System, then Suvorov's Law comes - or should come - into play. Under other circumstances, such as a System disintegrating due to other pressures and ripe for physical overthrow, widespread support for armed rebellion, a situation in which the System is "boiling the frog" so slowly that radical intervention is required to disrupt the status quo, then the "twigs and branches" "to the mountains" armed struggle approach may be more reasonable.

EGI Notes does not support armed struggle in our current situation, and all of the Grand Poobahs of "movement" "leadership" seem to agree, with their denouncing of violence (assuming their sincerity) and emphasis on "metapolitics" (the fact that some of these "leaders" still focus on worse is better Der Tag "the System is about to collapse" scenarios tells you how incoherent their "strategy" is). Very well. There is not yet any real significant support for "twigs and branches" Der Tag scenarios, and there is no organization for that, no chance for success.

Thus, I - who at least offers a coherent strategy, whether you think it right or wrong - promote the Suvorov's Law approach. The danger of "safety valve" complacency after System concessions is fought against with a vanguard elite that constantly stirs the pot - there should be endless demands, one should never be satisfied, every concession by the System should be met with a set of fresh demands, new outrage, and more militancy. The Left has radically transformed America with this strategy. When has the Left ever been satisfied with any concession over the last, say, 60 years? Never. Every surrender by the Right, by the old traditional System, every compromise and concession, was met with screams for yet more, endless demands, endless anger, leading to new cycles of surrender, concession, compromise, and leftist victory. There was never any "storming of the ramparts" by the Left; America was just given to them, piece by piece.  They never had the support of the people for armed insurrection, nor did they have the organization and power to take on the government. They seized power nevertheless.

Is the Far Right paying attention?

Commercialized Amusement Business

An analogy.

Historian Harold Seymour cogently stated that professional baseball is not a sport, but rather a “commercialized amusement business.” This truth (*) applies to all other professional “sports” as well. By analogy, what else can that description apply to?

There are some who no doubt expect, or hope, that my trajectory will mimic that of Ian Jobling. First, become involved in the “movement.” Then, become a critic of the “movement” but still involved in activism. Finally, finish by dropping out of activism completely and disavowing it.

Sorry to disappoint such hopeful individuals, but…no. The essential difference is that someone like Jobling was interested in White preservation for proximate reasons. If I recall his explanation, it was that Whites are the group that best embody the liberal, Universalist, Rawlsian ethics he (Jobling) supported. I, on the other hand, am a hardcore racialist and racial nationalist, whose interest in White preservation (and advancement) revolves around ultimate issues of genetic continuity, and more important proximate interests of racial phenotypic expressions, including the extended phenotype of High Culture. My commitment is therefore existential, not an epiphenomenon of some other (liberal-based) concern.

My essential disagreement with Der Movement is that it is a pathetic failure and a farce, a fraud that actually works against these aforementioned deeply-held interests of mine regarding key issues of race and civilization.

Getting back to Harold Seymour and the analogy, Der Movement is not really a racialist political movement, but rather it is a commercialized amusement business. The Quota Queens provide entertainment for the hobbyist rank-and-file, and get in exchange all of the “D’Nations,” “membership dues,” “paywall payments,” and other perks (fame, a bit of power over their entertainment industry – e.g., didn’t Steinbrenner enjoy his power as a baseball team owner?). Now, true enough, some of the customers take things a little too seriously – Robert Mathews for example – but that happens throughout the entertainment business. There are “sports” fans that become obsessed, even violent; celebrities have stalkers; there are nerds whose lives revolve around Star Trek or Star Wars. So, why shouldn’t the “racialist” commercialized amusement business be any different? The similarities are endless. You have your stars (“rock stars” we are told, eh?), devoted fanboys, the equivalent of box scores (look at our page hits!), famous games and shows (Unite the Right), mythical figures (Rockwell as Ty Cobb, Pierce as Babe Ruth, Duke as Joe DiMaggio, etc.), we even had someone once make “trading cards” of “movement” and HBD personages.  You have your celebrity feuds and online “flame wars.” And then there are the fan conventions (American Renaissance, for example).

But, alas, I actually take all of this seriously; I demand accountability and results. I actually want a real political movement that achieves racialist objectives. That’s the real reason I’m labeled “insane” and a “paranoid piece of crap.”

Doesn’t it all make sense now?

Note:

*This is why (typically leftist) assertions that the (Colored or White SJW) players of today are superior to the (White “racist”) players of the past are essentially irrelevant.  Baseball today is painfully boring – an endless parade of home runs, strikeouts, and walks, dominated by juiced up hitters swinging wildly at juiced up baseballs and by faceless relief pitchers with surgical scars on their elbows. With respect to entertainment value, the game of the past was vastly superior to that of today, assertions (right or wrong) about "quality of play" notwithstanding.

Thus, even the crude, amateur baseball played at the Elysian Fields in the 1840s was no doubt more entertaining than what passes for “sport” played at, say, Yankee Stadium, today. Therefore, why is the latter “superior” to the former?  It is not - at least not with respect to what it actually is meant to be, entertainment.

The difference is that racial activism is supposed to be neither sport nor entertainment, but political activity with real world biocultural consequences. Thus, here, objective superiority is defined by the ability to achieve political objectives.  

Odds and Ends, 6/2/21

In der news.

As I have a small bit of IRL free time the past few days, another post is now presented, to take advantage of this window of opportunity.

Happy belated post-communist Children’s Day.

Homosexual past?  Pink swastika indeed! The quality of the presentation is horrible. “1924 putsch?”  Off by a year.  “1932 election of Hitler?” Huh?  What alternative timeline was that?  Hitler came to power in 1933 and was appointed by Hindenburg. “Gutternsipe?” Pure propaganda.

Solid evidence that Hitler had a homosexual past = zero.

Solid evidence that the Nazis started the Reichstag fire = zero.

I'm no Hitler fanboy, but that video was pitiful.

Self-indulgent nonsense.

The grift continues?

Just the facts.  HBDers weep. Pangolins?  I thought it was “an American bioweapon.”  Now, it’s back to being zoonotic?  Should HBDers be indicted for treason?  Convicted?  Executed?

This analysis is surprisingly reasonable. The single most important point in that essay:

When viewed as a system, what appears to be coordination and sentience in liberal democracy is actually emergent behavior.

This is an error the Far Right makes as often, or more so, than the Right in general. Everything to them is a well-coordinated conspiracy, orchestrated by “the Jews” or “the globalists” (who of course overlap to a considerable degree). In actuality, much of the behavior in question is emergent from the properties of the System, which is, of course, created and maintained, also to a considerable degree, by those selfsame Jews/globalists.  So, in many cases, it is indirect, rather than direct, control.  True enough, the endpoint is the same, but to correctly diagnose the problem, and to avoid sounding like lunatics to “normies,” indirect vs. direct is an important distinction. It is a distinction with a difference, at least with respect to political optics and eventual victory.

One wonders if the same applies to Der Movement.  Perhaps some of that which I ascribe to a coordinated HBD-Nordicist-ethnonationalist alliance is, at least in part, simply due to emergent behavior of a racialist system created by, and for, Nordicists and related types of ethnic fetishists.

Still, though, the coordination among elements in Der Movement at times seems more coordinated than what is observed in the System. Is the "movement" behavior really coordinated? Reality or illusion?  Hard to say.  The recent emergence of Lipton Matthews among a variety of Quota Queen outlets, virtually simultaneously, is an example of either fairly tight coordination or an emergent strain of groupthink that is quite remarkable in its own right. Can it be possible that “movement” dogma and rent-seeking self-interest is so pronounced that the Quota Queens move in the same direction independently and without overt directing coordination?

Getting back to the Zman article, and looking at society as a whole, a fundamental problem is that human types that exhibit “dark triad” psychopathic traits tend to rise to positions of authority (we’ll pass in silence over the relevance of that to Der Movement), and such elites structure society to serve their own selfish interests. On a group level, ethnocentric and collectivist psychopaths (Jews) structure society to benefit their own group, and they leverage more individualistic psychopaths (High Trusters) so as to get the latter to work against their own racial interests (that they care nothing for) and instead support the racial interests of the former group.  Hence, we observe as a result a “right-wing” leadership that acts against White interests not much different, in the end, than do leftists.  The entire System is built to serve the interests of psychopaths, and among these, the group interests of the more collectivist are favored. The emergent properties of such a System become rapidly evident to careful observers.

Well, yes.  Re: Jews and others who support Jewish interests:

They’ll be writing and publishing anti-Black materials themselves, in an effort to capture that particular market and control it.

Yes, it’s called HBD.

And the Jews will figure that if they can keep the reaction under control for twenty years or so, for a generation, it will lose its vitality and die out. And then there’ll be nothing left to threaten them, nothing left to thwart their plan for a Mulatto future.

Der Movement is, perhaps unknowingly, part of that controlling delaying action. The words quoted were from Pierce, thirty seven years ago. Thirty seven years! And what has been accomplished in all of that time? Nothing.

Speaking of which, you can only laugh at this gibbering stupidity. Gee, well, if we can’t tell that folks are Jews due to their skin tones and hair textures, and if Jews can pass as “Nordish,” we’ll just have to parse their behavior. I mean, that’s all objective and scientific, right?  Break out the behavioral calipers, so to speak.

Are those thirty seven years of utter failure becoming more understandable?