Eliot Sumner
eliotsumner.bsky.social
Eliot Sumner
@eliotsumner.bsky.social
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-James Baldwin
I wrote an essay analyzing the DHS social media strategy, see my pinned post
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Yes, and his post was the entire ethnonationalist strategy in miniature: the fashwave aesthetic, the Globalist slur, and the 'just a joke' defense, all converging at once. See my pinned post
November 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
2/4 Vance calls this conquest an "accomplishment." This is Slotkin's thesis: Regeneration Through Violence.

The American myth claims civilization is born from a violent, purifying act against the savage. Vance recasts cultural destruction as redemptive moral necessity. Violence is the point.
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🧵 1/4 Vance's "child sacrifice" comment is colonial myth.

It’s Pearce’s Savagism. A monolithic evil "savage" is invented out of diverse cultures. This negative image justifies the conquering Christian civilization.

The 'savage' is created only to justify the conqueror.
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I wrote an essay about it recently; check out my pinned post for the link
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I wrote an essay to try and decode that social media strategy, check out my pinned post
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I wrote an essay about the government’s social media strategy; see my pinned post
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Good article thanks. FYI I wrote an essay about the fashwave aesthetic, see my pinned post
October 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Thank you for being clear about this, Congressman. I wrote an essay analyzing that social media strategy, I hope it will help people understand what they’re seeing; check out my pinned post.
October 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I wrote an essay decoding the aesthetic; check out my pinned post
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Uncanny
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Jimmy Kimmel's return opened with the Jack Paar callback: "As I was saying before I was interrupted." That 1960 event happened within days of Rod Serling's warning of self-destruction in 'Maple Street.' This is history repeating. 🧵
September 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The murder of Charlie Kirk wasn't an attack from outside. It appears to be a symptom of a 'political autoimmune disease.' A system attacking itself from within. 🧵
September 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM