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This is a dopamine loop, and it’s one of the most powerful ones humans have ever encountered. Every time you prompt an AI and get a useful result back in seconds, your brain gets a hit. Variable-ratio reinforcement, same mechanism as slot machines, except the reward is real: actual output, actual progress, actual leverage on your ideas. Traditional work follows a delayed-reward structure. You write code for 6 hours, maybe it compiles, maybe you get feedback in a week. The gap between effort and reward is wide enough that motivation decays constantly. AI compresses that loop to seconds. Effort → reward → effort → reward. Your prefrontal cortex stays engaged because the next payoff is always one prompt away. This is why people describe it as “fun” when they’re actually working 14-hour days. The subjective experience of effort disappears when reward frequency is high enough. The “harder than ever” part is real too. When your bottleneck shifts from execution to imagination, you run out of excuses to stop. There’s no “waiting on the build” or “blocked by review.” Every idea you have can be tested immediately, which means your brain never gets a natural stopping point. People who thrive on this are selecting for a specific neurotype: high novelty-seeking, high conscientiousness, tolerance for rapid context-switching. That’s maybe 10-15% of the population. The other 85% will experience the same tools as overwhelming, not energizing. And that split is going to define the next decade of who captures value from AI and who gets displaced by it.
Nearly every ambitious person I know who has dived into AI is working harder than ever, and longer hours than ever. Fascinating dynamic tbh. I have NEVER worked this hard, nor had this much fun with work.
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“How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.”

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That "dark money" group, Sixteen Thirty Fund, is Arabella Advisors and is pure Open Society passthrough. Congratulations to Taylor Lorenz for finally catching up to what we've all known for years: that the Democratic party is controlled by Soros.
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I stopped taking advice from childless people. Fitness. Productivity. Life advice. All of it. And here's why: It's not that they're wrong. It's that they're playing a completely different game. Taking life advice from someone without kids is like getting marriage tips from a guy who's "really good at first dates." Cool, bro. But you've never had to initiate the tough conversation and own your mistake just to keep the peace. We're not in the same sport. We've all seen some 25-year-old fitness influencer with non-negotiable 5am routine. Wake up. Meditate. Journal. Cold plunge. 45-minute lift. Sounds beautiful. You know what woke ME up at 5am last Tuesday? A 3-year-old standing 3 inches from my face whispering, "Daddy, I frowed up." There's no cold plunge for that. Just reality. These people have optimized their lives around ONE variable: themselves. I'm optimizing for: → A marriage that still thriving after 10 years → Kids who actually want to be around me → A career that provides for my family → A body that lets me keep up with all of it That's a completely different goal and it requires a different formula. Real discipline isn't waking up at 5am when your apartment is silent and your only responsibility is a houseplant. It's a 10pm workout after the kids went to bed because your morning blew up showing up for your family when they needed you. That's the game I'm playing. Childless advice isn't just impractical. It's unrelatable. Their goal: optimize for SELF. My goal: optimize for FAMILY. It's like a vegan telling me how to grill a steak. You might technically know the steps. But I don't trust you with the tongs. The best advice I've ever gotten came from parents in the trenches. They don't talk about "optimizing morning routines." They talk about: • 20 push-ups while your kid eats breakfast • Walking with your wife after dinner because it's the only time you'll get together • Meal prepping Sunday because Tuesday night is a warzone THAT'S advice that actually works. So no, I'm not taking health advice from someone whose biggest inconvenience is their supplement stack being shipped late. I want the guy who's been elbow-deep in a diaper blowout and STILL hitting their goals. That's the guy who I'm listening to. Find your people. Take their advice. Ignore the rest.
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The Theory of Evolution is impossible & absurd. Contradictory evidence & data has been around for decades, but it is mostly just ignored. But one of the most glaring unsolvable problems facing Evolutionary Theory is this: Haldane's Dilemma. Buckle up for this one🧵
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The entire Book of Revelation is a giant chiasm. 🤯 A chiasm is a literary device where ideas unfold in order (A B C) and then repeat in reverse (C B A), forming an X shaped symmetry that aids memory and draws attention to the central point (C). The Bible is amazing.
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This unbelievable clip drops the red-pill nuke on the Somali fraud scam! She lays it out cold: "You can't afford another kid because childcare is so expensive - but Somali fraudsters got millions of your taxpayer dollars for child care centers that don’t exist." "You can’t afford a home - but 100 Somalis spent millions of your taxpayer dollars on luxury properties." "You’re paying $30K a year for terrible health care - while they got millions of your taxpayer dollars for health care centers they never opened." That's the corrupt Dem elites exposed raw - putting unvetted migrants and grifters first while screwing over hardworking Americans. They robbed us blind for years and smeared anyone complaining as racist. Everyday patriots finally shining the light forced the freezes and audits. Trump's team is cutting off the cash and cleaning house fast. Real Americans are taking our country back!
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LONG POST WARNING: How did this Somali fraud happen? I have a close relative who works inside this system. She processes medicalcare claims for a large provider, we’ll call it SMH, in a deep-blue state (not Minnesota). What people miss is that the biggest fraud isn’t the checks written to individuals. It’s the staggering cost of administering the programs. My relative isn’t some paper-pusher. She’s a nurse with multiple degrees, managing a full team. Her entire day is spent chained to a computer: nonstop paperwork, Zoom calls, audits. There’s a fingerprint scanner and a camera on her desk. Family emergency? Too bad. Break down in tears from abuse? Still too bad. Now, start with a real medical event: heart attack, cancer, stroke. The hospital treats you, then pushes you home quickly because long stays are crazy expensive and the hospital doesn’t have enough beds. Fine. But home recovery requires ramps, grab bars, equipment. The state cuts checks to upgrade homes. Many recipients simply pocket the money. The state knows this, but doesn’t have enough inspectors, so it forces SMH to do “due diligence.” That means more paperwork. More subcontractors. More verification. More zoom meetings for my relative. One claim can consume hundreds of man-hours. Then there’s a shortage of visiting nurses. So patients must travel for bloodwork and follow-ups. Transportation services exist, but they’re heavily regulated and audited. That’s expensive. Cheaper solution? Pay family members. Give them money to add a ramp to a minivan and drive the patient themselves. Have an uncle who already has a van (because he’s scamming the system too), great we pay him monthly and you have to do nothing. Now the real games begin. How much help you get depends entirely on how you answer Zoom questions. Normal Americans say things like, “My son can help” or “A neighbor can drive me.” That caps benefits. But there are cheat codes. Say instead: “I care for my autistic grandson.” “I provide childcare for my niece.” Now SMH must either support those dependents or move the patient into a full-service facility which is vastly more expensive than any other option. So they pay for childcare. Because my relative is a mandatory reporter and children are involved m, every meeting now includes medical care teams, child-safety teams, housing teams, transportation teams. The clock is running. These are highly paid professionals. Except there doesn’t even need to be children involved because privacy laws prevent basic verification. No birth certificates. No DNA tests. So SMH provides a list of approved childcare facilities. You can just borrow someone else’s child for the paperwork and give them a new name because things like ID and birth certificates are “anti-immigrant” so they can’t be checked. Now if the child supposedly has autism, costs explode: specialized care, transportation, services. Ironically, local public schools often have excellent autism programs but school administrators won’t jump through SMH’s audit hoops. And when a child doesn’t actually have autism, schools quietly disenroll them without paperwork to avoid lawsuits. SMH is left holding the bag so better just to contract with a center. If anyone complains you can just say the school doesn’t meet your religious needs. Those are just patient meetings. There are thred more meeting categories that devour time: State audits: Auditors expect problems and won’t leave without finding them. Missing paperwork means more meetings. Legal: Endless lawyers. Enough said. Efficiency Then come the “efficiency experts.” SMH needs to turn a profit so my relative’s boss is an Ivy League MBA. The solution is always the same: push more work onto families because it’s cheaper than more hospital time. That’s the cheapest option. And to republicans (the only ones demanding accountability) it makes sense to support families over facilities Except that if you’re a normal American, you’re screwed. 1/2
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The absolute most accurate post I’ve seen today.
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RE: Fraud in Minnesota I’m not sure that most Americans understand that in large swathes of humanity, there is no actual concept of “fraud,” particularly fraud against the government. Instead, there is a belief in the virtue of getting away with what you can to help yourself and your tribe. I spent a lot of my life in the Middle East and Central Asia, working closely with foreign contractors and foreign governments to provide support to American military operations. As a US Army officer with a big checkbook courtesy of Uncle Sam, I can’t really count the sheer number of times I was offered bribes to award a contract, or falsify records to do things like create larger (fake) headcounts at places like dining facilities, or to just simply be on the take for future illegal requests. Of course I had enough sense to never comply with such requests. Moreover, they were never explicitly structured as “bribes”; instead it was usually along the lines of “Here I have these Rolexes as gifts for you and your wife to show our friendship.” (Unfortunately, too many US officers and NCOs succumbed to this siren song and ended up breaking rocks in Leavenworth.) The weird thing about this to me was that whenever I turned down such an offering, it was treated as a grave insult. I was the one in the wrong, and not the fraudster trying to bribe me. They considered it rude that I was in their country and refused to accept how things got done. After all, why did I not want to help my tribe by helping their tribe? Let me repeat: in these cultures, FRAUD IS NOT EVEN A CONCEPT. There is only what helps your tribe. Such thought processes are so alien to Americans and much of the West. We are raised on the presumption that our institutions are valid, that the rule of law always prevails, and that integrity is universal. We need these presumptions to have working governments and economies, and without those presumptions—without the mental barrier that causes us not to accept outright fraud—our nation would quickly descend into the economic and social hellscape of countries like…. ummm… you know…. SOMALIA! So when we import people en masse from cultures that accept bribery and fraud as routine, acceptable ways to advance one’s tribe, we should not be surprised that things like the $8 BILLION fraud schemes of the Somali population in Minnesota happen so easily. Introducing a fraud-based culture based on tribalism into America is like introducing some sort of lethal virus into a population that has no natural immunity. The virus will spread and grow, unchecked, because it is so alien to the host. Similarly, a culture of fraud is anathema to American thinking, and it must be cut out before it consumes the host. So when you see and hear patriotic Americans decrying what is happening in Minnesota or elsewhere, and when they seek deportation of the offenders, it is not “racism,” it is not “bigotry,” it is not “xenophobia”; instead, it is preserving the American tradition of responsible institutions and national integrity.
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27 Dec 2025
🚨 PAY ATTENTION AMERICA: It’s Not “Somali” Fraud. It’s Islamic Doctrine Everyone today is hyper-focused on the massive "SOMALI" fraud scandal in Minnesota, while conveniently leaving out Islam. The fraud is undeniable. What’s being deliberately avoided is the motive. It remains politically safer to talk about ethnicity or immigration than to name the Islamic scripture that strictly observant, religious Muslims use to justify extracting money from non-Muslims. This is not just greed. Muhammad explicitly established that people of other religions must pay a poll tax to Muslims called jizya, imposed as a marker of inferiority and submission. This is not interpretation. It is stated plainly in Qur’an 9:29: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah… until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” Jizya was a humiliating tribute tax placed on conquered non-Muslims, a permanent condition of subjugation under Islamic rule. In Western welfare states today, many Muslims live on public benefits. Among strictly observant adherents, those payments from non-Muslim (“kuffar”) governments are often viewed as the modern equivalent of jizya, money infidels are obligated to hand over. No reciprocity. No moral issue with fraud. No obligation to work. The doctrine provides the justification: non-Muslims in submission must pay; their wealth is not fully protected. In lands outside Sharia rule (dar al-harb), traditional Islamic rulings permit taking what is considered “owed.” This is why the same pattern erupts again and again in observant Muslim migrant communities across America and Europe: astronomical welfare dependence, organized fraud networks, and billions drained, all rationalized through religious doctrine that turns taxpayers into tribute-payers. Media and politicians obsess over the stolen billions but scream “Islamophobia” the moment anyone quotes the verse or names the ideology. They refuse to acknowledge the scripture that casts every non-Muslim taxpayer as a dhimmi obligated to fund Muslims. To the truly adherent, your taxes are jizya - enforced submission through the wallet. Enough evasion. Quote the scripture. Expose the doctrine. America is not dar al-Islam. We do not pay jizya. Look at the illegal Islamic invaders in the UK, LAUGH at their host nation... A "Migrant" uses his smartphone to show his friends back in ‘Somewhereistan’ all the free money he is getting from British taxpayers. I am sure he will be filming his free 4-star hotel room, free food, free clothing, free legal aid, free healthcare, etc., which will encourage more of his fellow freeloaders to invade the country!
29 Oct 2025
AMERICA HAS HAD ENOUGH SNAP now burns $145 BILLION a year. That is $7.8 BILLION every single month. Recipients spend TWICE what the average working American spends on groceries, because they aren’t spending their money; they are spending yours. This isn’t “helping the poor.” This is rewarding dependency and subsidizing foreign populations who arrived to take, not to build. 43 million people are on food stamps. 80% of SNAP users are also on Medicaid. 61% get two or more additional welfare programs. And 53.5% of immigrants are on at least one welfare program. Nearly 45% of Afghans in the U.S. are receiving FREE FOOD from you. And now - incredibly - we have Somali migrants in America angrily demanding that their HALAL food pantry be restocked. Not food. HALAL food - a sharia food system funded by the U.S. taxpayer. Halal is not “cultural cuisine.” Halal is civilization enforcement through supply chains - a Sharia-compliant food system imposed on Western markets by pressure, litigation, and corporate cowardice. People think halal is ancient. It isn’t. The global halal industry was engineered in the 1970s–80s, after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, when Iran and Saudi Arabia — competing to export political Islam — partnered with Western multinationals like Nestlé to create a certification empire that pushes Sharia norms into non-Muslim economies by stealth. Now that same system sits inside our welfare state - enforced with your money. And spare me the claim that “illegals aren’t on SNAP.” Remove illegal-alien households, mixed-status loopholes, and fraud and the cost would collapse - 70% of this system exists only because the foreign population is bankrolled. If all benefits were cut off, they would leave. Is this your American Dream? Because it is not mine. Stop subsidizing your own replacement. Stop feeding people who despise the hand that feeds them. Stop normalizing Sharia in American supply chains. Boycott halal. End welfare for non-citizens. No more Sharia pantries on U.S. dollars. America has had enough.
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🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.
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If you ever read Tom Holland’s “Dominion,” in which he makes the case that the pre-Christian human mind is so alien to any mind infected by the ideas of Christ as to be wholly unintelligible, which he does by surveying the sheer depth and breadth of ideas which we take for granted and assume are just “human” which are in fact uniquely Christian, then you might come away thinking, “Well that’s a great catalogue of all the ways we now irrevocably think like Christians, but where can I find a book that illustrates how /they/ thought? The ancient pagans? I want to see the alien.” The answer is simply to do what Holland did. Read those ancient works. Read the Greek epics. Read the Odyssey. But don’t apply your own standards to it. For instance, when the hero rapes a woman, or tortures or mutilates someone helpless and begging for mercy, or kills a small child, don’t try to figure out why it was actually justified according to your way of thinking, and don’t even think about why it needs to be condemned according to your way of thinking. Rather, just sit there and wrap your mind around the fact that no one thought it needed to be justified or condemned when it was written. It was self-evidently, to them, a heroic act, part of what it means to be a hero. Once you manage this, most of the modern controversies even over events like Oct 7 and the Holocaust will melt away. You will realize there isn’t any trouble in believing a man raped a girl with a nailgun until she died and then called his grandma to brag about it, nor that Germany and Russia created entire industrial systems of labor camps which had as their objective to ensure that no laborer survived the labor (and entire industrial systems to dispose of the bodies as the laborers died), or that Saladin’s biographer boasts—boasts, because it is a point of pride and honor for Saladin—about “miserly women forced to yield themselves, and women who had been kept hidden [nuns] stripped of their modesty … and free women occupied [meaning “penetrated”], and precious ones used for hard work, and pretty things put to the test, and virgins dishonored and proud women deflowered … and happy ones made to weep!” It will not be hard to imagine these things done, it will be easy to believe the stories of the holocaust and all the rest, because you will come to understand, by reading pre-Christian heroic stories, that all of this is just normal human behavior. It’s what you would do, would proudly participate in, but you happen to have been born in a Christian land in a Christian time, even if you yourself are not Christian. And where lands become un-Christian, “nature heals.” Human beings return to what they naturally are: the kind of thing that considers this behavior not horrific but heroic, and to be lauded.
The worst thing about Nolan’s Odyssey hasn’t even been discussed yet. Odysseus convinces the Greeks to throw Hector’s infant son off the walls of Troy. Odysseus raids a city on his way home and kills all the men and enslaves the women. Odysseus kills an unarmed suitor who clings to his knees begging for his life. Odysseus tortures a goatherd who sided with the suitors by slicing off his ears and nose, chopping off his hands and feet, and ripping off his genitals and feeding them to dogs. Odysseus has his son brutally hang twelve of his slave girls who slept with the suitors. I remind you of all this because Nolan’s Odysseus will instead have the same moral values as the 2025 median voter.
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Flipped tables as the Lamb. Imagine what he will do as the Lion? Fear the rage of angels.
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If you see a teenager in an empty parking lot doing donuts or drifting, don’t call the police on them. If you are worried about them just observe. The kids are gonna learn best on how to travel in snow and slick weather by having a little fun in it. They will learn how to correct the vehicle and how their vehicle acts when we have this type of weather. I know I learned best when a few friends and I went to do the same thing. It taught me so much about how vehicles respond to this weather and road conditions. I’d rather my kid learn in an empty snow covered lot then crashing on the road or highway.
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15 Nov 2025
Not designed by aliens. Designed by "the first AI that builds machines" as the press has called Noyron, our Large Computational Engineering Model. This hypersonic precooler we produced with @FarsoonAM uses a fractal folding algorithm to chill down superheated air.
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I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band: My 11 year old son son joined the elementary school band, and so I went to the parents orientation night which was held at a local high-school. As the night went on it became obvious to me why young men rage against the larger social system. The classrooms were inundated with DEI messages and trans pride flags. On the walls there were posters, stickers and various decorations that all invoked the various totems if diversity. Black lives matter messaging, decolonization messaging, LGBTQ messaging, and basically ever sort of race and gender social justice messaging you can imagine was present. The advertisements for post secondary opportunities featured social justice education prominently, including advertising a course on indigenous ways of knowing" as something grade 12 students should pursue upon graduation. Many of the teachers has "this is a safe space" sticker son their doors, and others had variations of "in this house" messaging on their doors or on the walls of the classroom. The entire aesthetic which dominated the decoration of classrooms was the progressive leftist coded "in this house" and "be kind" aesthetic. As soon as you walked into a classroom there was no doubt as the the political leanings of whichever teacher occupied that classroom. The only way I can describe it is to say that progressive social justice activists have colonized the school and marked their territory. A woman in a mask (who was in charge) got up and read a number of land acknowledgements before acknowledging the contribution of indigenous people to ways of knowing. Standard leftist land acknowledgement boilerplate. Additionally, every interaction was done in the style of HR style professionalism mixed with progressive leftist coded gentle parenting. When it comes to how the teachers behaved I am going to draw on both that night and the other times I have been at my sons school in order to explain it. To begin, the boys are treated almost as though they are defective girls. The feminine modes of interaction and socialization are treated as though they are the only legitimate modes of interaction and serve as the taken for granted way to properly interact and navigate the world. Almost all the authority figures at my sons school are women with almost no exceptions. One day my son found out that the school had hired a single male education Assistant, and my son came home and told me, in wondrous amazement, that he saw a "boy teacher" at school. The level of wonderment and surprise he expressed was on par with what I would expect if he had walked into school and seen a triceratops walking the hallways. My son often comes home from school and expresses utter frustration at the fact that his preferred way of communicating, as well as the things that are aligned with his temperament are treated as though they were somehow inferior. As he is 11 (and being assessed for autism) he lacks the correct technical language to describe this, so it generally shows up as him getting in trouble for being insufficiently "gentle" and "kind" in response to various passive aggressive power plays and instances of bullying carries out by his more socially developed (often) female peers. To say that band night was feminine coded would be an understatement. It would be more accurate to say that feminized modes of behavior and communication were embedded in every single interaction. It was a totally alien environment for anyone who isn't well versed in navigating the social codes of progressive leftist institutional spaces. It was like the slogan "the future is female" was taken to be a command delivered from God Himself turned into an education program. Now, I want you to imagine what it is like for an 11 year old boy to be saturated in that environment day after day. he is an alien in his own school who is treated essentially like a ticking time bomb who needs to be effectively managed rather than engaged with an taught, and he knows this is happening. It is hard to overstate the level of hostility towards boys that is floating around in the ambient culture of the school system. It isn’t so much that there is an explicit form of anti-male bigotry (although examples of that exist) it is more that there is an overall attitude of distaste for anything masculine and an utter indifference towards the interests, fortunes, and inner lives of young boys. The expectations, norms, rules, and standards of behavior cater to the sensibilities of girls and women. This is the entire social system that a young boy goes through from when he is 6 years old all the way until he is graduated from university. It’s an old trope on the right to say “imagine if the roles were reversed,” but that would be to miss the point. I know that many on the left will say that all of this is perfectly acceptable because of historical injustices and the pursuit of Social Justice. What I want to point out to you is how absurd the world must appear through the eyes of the average 11 year-old boy. He is basically told he has a host of social advantages (white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege, etc) that he has never experienced and will never benefit from, and this justifies the system which he is immersed in. And the worst part is, if young men point any of this out, the very people who are doing it will look them in the eye with a straight face and deny that any of this ever happened. Making matters worse these men begin to figure out that the institutions have been used to advance a leftist political agenda that scapegoated their group (young white men), and when they point this out everyone in authority calls them evil bigots. And all this happens during their formative years. Now, Imagine you are a young white male. You graduate from the school system and are released into the world only to find that the feminine modes of socialization pushed on you are entirely unfit for purpose. That the social skills you were taught fail utterly in both the job markets young men tend towards (construction, engineering, building, landscaping, etc) and have no purchase in the dating market where highly agentic, masculine, wealthy men have a huge advantage over the passive, docile "nice boy." On top of that, imagine that a great deal of the job listings that you peruse make it clear that preference will be given to women and "diverse" candidates, and that the job interview itself is full of shibboleths, coded statements, and trap questions meant to elicit responses that allow the hiring party to exclude anyone who isn't sufficiently versed in and aligned with the priorities of the DEI/Woke/Social Justice paradigm. On top of that, that if a you do get a job you will exposed to various sensitivity trainings, DEI trainings, and intersectionality workshops in which your group (straight white men) are repeatedly scapegoated as the source of all the worlds pathologies. Laid at your feet are patriarchy, colonialism, racism, sexism and a great number of other social evils for which you are taken to be complicit in and have a responsibility for fixing in virtue of being a white male. While all this is going on a series of scandals (COVID, Men in womens' sports, trans kids, etc) reveal to you the degree to which the institutions that make up the society you live in have adopted an ideology that is actively hostile to you because you are a straight white male, and have been denying you opportunity while scapegoating you for all societies problems and treating you like you are a defective girl. Once you understand this, the real question is not "why are some young men radicalizing?" the real question is "why are there any young men at all who have not been radicalized?" None of this is to excuse any of the extremist radicals who are attempting to harness the resentment and anger of young men for their evil purposes. The point is to get you to understand why young men will attach themselves to any voice who is willing to stridently call for the obliteration of the social system and ideology which lied to them during their formative years and is currently doing things which rob them of opportunities for advancement and success. The institutions have totally blown their credibility with young men, and have completely destroyed young men's trust in institutions. Young men view the current set of social institutions as ideologically corrupt and totally illegitimate, and they view the narratives that emerge from those institutions as being expressions of as nothing more then a story told to legitimize an ideology which seeks to hold them back. As such, the institutions and their narratives have absolutely no normative pull on young Gen Z men. I am not saying the situation is hopeless, but unless you acknowledge what I have laid out here, and engage in a good faith attempt to understand what the school system, Universities, non-profits, HR departments, and other civic institutions have done to young men, you will never be able to gain their trust enough to lead them away from guys like Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Andrew Torba, and other pathological influences. /fin
10 Nov 2025
I spent a long weekend in Washington. Here is what I learned about Groypers, Jew haters, and the fight for the conservative soul and future. It’s not pretty. open.substack.com/pub/roddre…
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