you're a national treasure

It's funny how often people say "we" when they mean "I"

maybe next they can figure out how to make a reliable icemaker

He probably thinks Buzz Windrip was supposed to be him as well

have you got a url for the gravy river

i don't think your age matters they just insist that you have the right clothes

time to fire up wemod and realize your greatness

There’s something satisfying in destructive rhetoric, an emotional high from being “offensive”, embracing cruelty, engaging in provocation, deflecting everything with plausible deniability

I hear what you're saying but I don't like undereducated because many of the people I know back home got just as much schooling as I did. They are preyed upon by people who desire that they should believe wrong things. Their attention and trust is a prize.

It's worth it if for no other reason than Cuno

Also it's so difficult to get people to understand that telling a person they're an ignorant hick guarantees that any other substance that might exist in your message won't be heard. I see so many people responding to bigotry with bigotry and wondering why it doesn't seem to be working.

his cocaine guy called

If your response to bigotry is bigotry, all you will ever achieve is to have increased the amount of bigotry in the world.

I feel like they're barely even trying now

Expressing this kind of bigotry toward people of Appalachia is part of the reason they're unlikely ever to listen to anything you have to say.

ahoy!

hah that was great! I found the podcast since I'd been hunting for more recent stuff, I had been following the Moldbug story for a long time and kind of thought it wouldn't come to anything, sadly. New Republic did a good piece about the Thiel/Vance/et al crowd: newrepublic.com/article/1839...

he seems like the kind of fellow who tries to build a following by stringing together statements which create a sense of surprise and delight in the listener to which the message was targeted. I feel like there's a word for groups that assemble around those people.

came for a strongman, got a candy-ass