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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023Liked by Dave Greene

Shrek dissertation. /s

Maybe another 40k lore stream? Sargon and Morgoth would be great guests.

As for a subtack post, a lot of basket weaving involves the wargaming and board game hobby. It would be great to hear from you how to handle progressive enjoyers of the hobby. Magical words like 'gatekeeping' and other defensive memes like 'it's all satire bro' make it hard to bridge the social gap. Thier ant-smell thresholds are very easy to trip.

I think you have covered a lot of this before but it could be good irl content, even if it's ultimately not as important as faith and family.

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Here is something that has been on my mind since i saw Aurons latest Yarvin interview, and really to a lesser extent since last summer when Roe got overturned, there is a sentiment that doing things that will make the left mad are counter productive because it will cause them to close ranks or redouble their efforts or whatever way its being put by whomever. I understand not "poking the bear" to get a reaction, or dunking on people, or doing things that are transgressive for their own sake but when it comes to actions that accomplish something (even something minor) but also make them mad I have a hard time understanding this being a problem because for the most part as far as I can observe the ranks are already all but entirely closed. They have been saying Silence is violence and its permutations for several years now and it seems like we are past the point where anything other than active affirmation is seen as a transgression.

I guess the point i am trying to get at is from where I am sitting it looks like polarization and entrenchment is going to continue at roughly the same pace no matter how things proceed outside of outlier events. I could write a lot more about this but I want to keep this at least somewhat concise, hopefully it didn't come off as too spergy.

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Honestly, national politics is getting really stale. Really interested in some war stories from people in the local level who either succeeded in pushing back against progressives, or created new institutions without being fed-bait.

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Address constant conservative cowardice and reluctance to pursue power, like their enemies do.

Address conservative refusal to support East European nationalism in its fight with the Russian multicultural, multiethnic empire.

Address cheap, low level reactionary behavior against everything the US does sold to idiots as smart politics.

Cheers, Dave!

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Hello Dave,

For starters, I want to go ahead and posit that, for guys like me and most of your audience, the most functional action plan is getting involved in the church, particularly the Catholic Church.

This course incorporates both the prerequisite work of self-improvement, especially on the most crucial moral and spiritual level, and also provides the philosophic and ethical framework needed to truly escape the machine. Plus it has some actually decent physical infrastructure for the practical work of building community. Sometimes you see chicks there too, which is cool.

I think a deep dive into the Church (the *true* Cathedral, Mr. Yarvin), its attitudes towards politics, community, and economy, and what it offers to non-Establishment people, and how we ought to approach it, would be very beneficial.

Cheers!

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Personally, I lost most of my progressive friend group in 2016, I then started building a family and despite attending church regularly feel socially isolated. My enemy radar trips off regularly and to my friends who are conservative I often talk more about ideas than about normal things especially as I’m not plugged into new media like I was before. Im trying to give up talking about politics for lent to try to rediscover normal conversation. I like your recent focus on community building and think it’s the most important thing we can think about.

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Maybe analyze different moral frameworks on the right. AA and BAP seem to be anti-religion or at least anti-Christianity but I have a hard time understanding how someone like AA doesn't see all his ideas collapse into liberalism without some kind of religious base. BAP's ideas will obviously collapse into the exact degeneracy we see today over time. Maybe they see something I don't? There's been recent spats on twitter right about porn, with some of these "right" figures mocking the idea that porn is bad for society and not understanding that reality makes anything else they say questionable.

Sorry its probably not the IRL content you're looking for, oops. Maybe for that some child-rearing focused topics since I'm in the same boat. How do you raise a child with armor to deflect all the arrows that secular liberal society will be shooting at them? There is a lot more to that topic than just "Homeschool yer kids, duh!" (we do).

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I already have a strong community of based men and woman through my Latin mass. I’m in a fraternity of young men doing Exodus 90 which is like a hardcore ascetic thing for lent and within my otherwise very lib university I have been pretty good at hunting down other based people who tend to also always be Catholics. My question is how, if I even should, connect this isolated community with the more continental one we are tryna form?

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Perhaps some examples of local meetups. "Here is a podcast recording of our local book club meeting." You have to handle opsec for this with voice changers etc.

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Hello Dave, thanks for all of the amazing thought pieces and essays (video and written) that you produce, you’re inspiring me to write more hopefully when I’ve more time, anyways!

As you and our community continually shift our focuses away from the constant Twitter happenings and everything else that has so characterized our movement as of late (this hyper online aspect of the movement is very annoying to myself personally), I’d be curious to read posts whether from yourself or others about y’all’s lives. I’m not looking for details about day-to-day things happening but more so how we can take stock of our lives in this present moment and what we can do to move towards whatever goals we have.

The reason I’d like you to write/speak more on this is that because this little thing of ours is so hyper online, I believe we lose track of what’s happening outside our homes. I’d like to see more people talking and writing about topics that concern building local institutions, developing one’s skills (gardening, construction, etc), advancing in our careers and how we can use these advances to better our families and the community’s we inhabit, and anything else that allows people to discuss things that are happening in their immediate material reality.

The politics, theory-posting etc., is all well and good and these discussions can and still should be had but as you yourself highlight the importance of basketweaving (#texas channel chads rise up!) we need to place a renewed emphasis on what’s happening in our localities. Discussions on this, without going into specifics, would be beneficial, they would give people the courage and the know-how for improving both themselves and the places they inhabit.

Our community is filled predominately with men, likely young men like myself and we need guidance, not on esoteric political theories, but on how to be better men, I know the self-improvement meme is beaten to death but that’s literally what most of us need. With that guidance on being better men, discussions on “touching grass” (yes, I know another oft-abused meme) how to participate in your town/country/state elections, how to go out and find you local political party. How to properly interact with other people at your Church’s how to find local commerce organizations and how to get into a position to be influential, at least at the town level, so you can defend and improve your communities.

My personal thought is that if we all increase the amount of focus on those aspects, the personal and the local, we’ll be able to develop a network of communities that can shine like a light in these ‘darker’ times. That’s what I would like to see addressed by yourself and many others in our spheres Dave, thanks for all you do and continue to do sir!

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My chat post for the broadest reading ;)

Along the lines of what I’ve been throwing at you lately, and what you mentioned in FGP 33. If the Dissident Right really is Dissident and wants to build, I think it really needs to take a hard look at the relationship with Information Technology. I’ve settled on a simple heuristic which I think supports our reality based mindset: Analog Machines are good, Digital Machines are evil. In that mode, I plan to transition away from my smartphone to a Light Phone 2, and also try to only have a single, desktop computer in my home as my sole internet portal.

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I recently listened to the interview you gave with Benjamin Boyce 8 months ago, and after reading the comments on the video, there was one comment that caught my eye. One of the questions Benjamin asked was regarding the vision of the coalition of the right, and how beliefs must be somewhat suppressed for the coalition to survive. The commenter's point was how the sectioned off intellectual areas of the right coalition very strongly resembled liberalism. I know that there are other distinctions that qualify the design away from liberalism, but responding to that comment might make a good video, or at least expanding in more depth on that vision.

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I came here on a Distributist search.

So I guess that answers itself.

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How do I join the discord? My blog is in my description here (or should be) so you can message me there.

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Mar 10, 2023·edited Mar 10, 2023

A stream on how and where to cultivate unlikely allies might prove helpful. As an example, Arab immigrants and refugees are conservative if not de facto members of the dissident right. Deep and enduring connections are the natural result of refugee work. It’s remarkably restorative to spend time among those families, even if you don’t speak a word of Pashto. My husband is a conservative journalist and as I’ve prayed to know what to do about what’s on the front page, Good works is the only answer I’ve gotten. Since there is the blessing of Heaven on Christian service and you’re undoubtedly right about building community, cultivating loving relationships is a best use of our time. Count the ways? Thanks for all you do!

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Been watching the Youtube channel for a while, and greatly enjoy your work. A set of topics that I'd be interested to hear your take on is agrarianism, homesteading and its recent resurgence, and the "cottagecore" aesthetic. The main issue I find is not really with either of the first two but the last one (as I'm very much in support of agrarianism as a social/political position, having been born and raised in the South and living semi-rurally most of my life).

So many modern urbanites are completely missing the point of moving to the country, and bringing their maximalist, consumerist attitudes with them. They say they want a "simple country life", but have none of the mindset required to live such a life properly. It seems they want the country to turn into one giant suburb, just with larger land plots, and they keep their 40- hour workweek, corporate wage slave mindset, trying to discourage anyone from achieving mental and financial freedom from the state lest their own choices look morally inferior. And the "cottagecore" obsession, especially among young people, seems to be a version of what you said in your Anime and Zoomers article, where they are creating an idealized simulacrum of rural life and trying to interact with that, instead of going out and really living a rural life.

Anyway, as for me I've always been a fan of rural life, and my dream is to live debt-free, on a piece of land, build things, create art, and tend Eden as best I can and keep away from the secular drama.

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good poetry

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I'm contemplating a move from a purple state to the left coast. It would be interesting to hear your perspective on how dissident communities can thrive in these areas, and how they can be building in such places. And how can one know when and on what positions to be open with your beliefs vs remaining hidden, and how viable hiding remains. Also any advice for those moving into such areas for employment.

It seems like there has been an ongoing divide between those who advocate living as dissidents in the midst of the cathedral, versus those who seek a radical and geographic break with the system. I'd like to hear your thoughts as someone who also seems drawn to both positions, about how individuals can think about these divergent strategies. And how viable is a right-counter-culture that makes institutional impacts, versus the loud but impotent voice we've seen so far.

And this community has a disproportionate amount of extremely disagreeable young men. I'd like to hear your thoughts on:

- How, if possible, RW communities can police their members.

- Is it desirable, or even possible, to have a respectable RW community

- How IRL communities will solve to problems prevalent in online spaces.

- Your thoughts on how dominance on passively consumed content, like videos and livestreams, have impacted these communities and our discourse

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Maybe a post about establishing institutional trust, particularly for new institutions, over ideological purity.

I work for the government doing customer opinion surveys and people overwhelmingly crave competent and functional governance and don't care about ideology at all. Also institutional trust has collapsed among the younger generations. Boomers still overwhelmingly trust the government, less so for GenX, but the Millennials and GenZ have much less faith in institutions.

It looks to me on our current course that the Cathedral as we know it will collapse in about 20 years because nobody will support it and whatever new institutions have the best reputations and highest credibility will take over the roles.

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One of the more influential imprints within our sphere, Imperium Press, first made an impact with the publication of C.A. Bond’s « Nemesis ». He became an infamous figure after he controversially accused Auron McIntyre and Alex Kaschuta of being « feds ». Auron McIntyre now works for The Blaze and Alex Kaschuta recently had a podcast entitled « On the JQ » where she promptly dismissed the question. This came after a podcast with guest Steve Sailer where they talked about « noticing » the problems with black and brown people. What new pen are we being herded into?

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