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deletedJul 3, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo
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Jul 3, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Legendary.

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Jul 3, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Love. And I am really gay! and very much into Foucault.....love the writing. But not into the fisting part. Yuck.

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Jul 3, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

As a fellow Mischling, I will claim that our current power comes from being Jewish enough to understand the state of present circumstances, but Gentile enough to be irritated by it.

I tend to agree that one of the weakest points of Curtis's view of history is his refusal to admit the enormous cultural influence of Jewish Americans post WWII. Darren Beattie is similar, he who constantly talks about the NSA/CIA and never the Jewish oligarchy in Academia and Media. Perhaps they have reasonable reasons for doing so, but their disinclination paints a distorted picture of our history.

The "1960s" for example in many ways represent a first revolt of our Jewish population against stuffy WASP culture - certainly not a continuation of it. The end of the Hayes Code in Hollywood, the rise of Jewish comedians like George Carlin that refused to respect WASP decency standards ("Seven Words You Can't Say on TV"), the power of the Jewish investigatory press (Pentagon Papers, Watergate), the later dominance of Jewish sitcoms (Friends and Seinfeld, e.g.), and so on.

1960s cultural disputes aside, I truly don't understand why the Jewish/Anglo relationship in the US has becomes so frayed. I will hazard a few guesses here: (i) late 20th century Jewish emigration from the USSR, (ii) lack of other serious opponents that Jews felt they needed Anglo help with, and (iii) the overall weakness and degeneracy of Boomer Whites. Real scholarship here would be valuable.

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Jul 3, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Damn and Rufo wants to ban Critical Race Theory? Seems fun to me…

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Another disappointing take on Yarvin, true to the introduction that Soldo never read him... No one (insert all the lame YouTubers here) whats to challenge Yarvin on his own ideas, his writing. Actual questions. 100% snark, 100% of the time, screw this! Yes this it's fun but makes you feel as if after Chinese dinner, still empty stomach. This is erudition for the sake of erudition, kids games.

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Jul 3, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

based

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What is Reconstruction 2.0 and Reconstruction 1.0?

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As it happens I follow Yarvin from the UR days, I may have ...and only may...have read a majority of the comments, I know I read all the posts.

His thinking hasn't really evolved as much as matured, he wants a King or in effect a King.

That's probably what's going to happen. After ah....yes...a sorting of sorts.

Whatever Nico thinks of American power the Republic is dead and that changes things. Not for the better.

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Jul 4, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

"Ideology is overrated; structure is underrated." Love it. Great interview and I remain a big fan of Curt's and prayers for his departed wife and for his family.

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Jul 4, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Not sure if I more resent the eye strain from reading through UR or that I just got called a homosexual by a programmer in a Death Wish extra's leather jacket.

Great interview as always. At this rate you'll run out of significant interviewees and end up putting up talks with random anons like some kind of Balkan War Criminal Scott Greer.

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Jul 4, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

This is quite a lovely interview. It is as I would imagine an interview between Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs would be. And I love it that you both get in digs against BOTH the Intellectual Dork Web AND The Supreme Dork Lord. Long may your tribes endure, and peace be upon you (PBUY).

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Good conversation. Best line: "The only alliance our Teacher's Pet regime fears is the union of jocks and nerds. It is the jock who shoves the teacher's pet into the locker. It is the nerd who convinces him to do it." True. The teachers pets run things, and no one likes them. Hopefully woke rioters will trash their coffee shops and teach them a lesson. An alliance between the simmering resentment + tech skills of the nerds and the ripped physiques + brazen self confidence of the jocks could conquer everything.

Unrelated, but I wanted to make sure you saw this, because its good.

https://scholars-stage.org/culture-wars-are-long-wars/#comment-2584

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"I've been preparing myself for this interview for over a decade now by purposely not reading a single thing that you have written."

"Cons will always be slaves until they feel in their bones that they have the right not only to rule themselves, but their enemies--for their enemies' own good."

"The irony is that Blacks in the USA are almost entirely powerless politically, beyond serving as symbols for injustice in which one set of white elites uses these symbols to hammer another set of white elites."

More great writing as always. Namaste

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Jul 5, 2021Liked by Niccolo Soldo

Nic,

I am going to Europe very soon. Salo forum has been down and I want to visit Croatia while I am abroad.

What is best way to contact you?

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So gonna keep asking this question until someone has an answer -- what happened to Niccolo's Twitter? The "progrockfarmer" account now appears to be controlled by somebody else, unless I mistake the views and tone.

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