“That’s cool, but he has no chance,” was my initial reaction when a friend of mine sent me a link to a story about a candidate who was running for president on a platform of “universal basic income.” Admittedly, I had never heard of Andrew Yang until just a couple of weeks ago and had […]
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Official Response to Trump’s Remarks on the AltLeft
As many of you may well know, President Trump conducted a press conference earlier today in which he specifically made disparaging remarks about the AltLeft. Many of these statements were slanderous and well off the mark. No one that I know who is associated with the AltLeft (which by the way has existed for years) […]
A Time Beneath the Surface
I’ve seen a lot of morons on social media celebrating and encouraging political violence against people like Richard Spencer. The consensus among them seems to be something along the lines of “We can’t let this happen again. You saw what happened last time when we stood by as fascists rose to power. We can’t allow […]
The Unreality of “Non-Racist” Race Realism
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about “anti-racist” or “non-racist” race realism in certain circles. Basically all it strikes me as is some kind of bizarre euphemistic rationalization for someone who says and believes racist things but wants to insist they are against racism, perhaps by implying that they aren’t going to act […]
A Proposal To Go Away
Some friendly fellow named “Lord Keynes,” who seems mostly preoccupied with Post-Keynesian economics, made a post on his blog called “Proposal for an Alt Left Political Program.” In it he makes the claim that my wing “doesn’t even belong in the Alt Left.” Group (1) doesn’t even belong on the Alt Left at all in […]