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Subversive is a podcast by Alex Kaschuta about ideas that may not fit neatly into the Overton window and could use a nudge, or a sledgehammer. Alex chats to thinkers across the spectrum from iconoclast philosophers, rogue scientists, *real* journalists, and our true intellectual elite, Twitter anons. If you want to support the show or my work in general, head to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive
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Carl Trueman - A Hidden Revolution of the Self
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We speak about the concept of the Self, the different visions it embodies across the ages, and how this perspective managed to infiltrate the popular imagination. We also speak about Expressive Individualism, authenticity, technology, romanticism, and much more. Carl R. Trueman is a theologian and ecclesiastical historian, a professor of Biblical a…
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Elon Bachman - Minds Evolving Online
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We speak about the dream of enlightenment liberalism, libertarianism as useful but incomplete, the retreat to a smaller scale, Covid as not a big deal, deaths in Teslas, Orania as a libertarian paradise, and much more. Elon Bachman is an anonymous Twitter poster and writer. You can find him @ElonBachman on Twitter. --- Send in a voice message: http…
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Nathan Cofnas - On The Jewish Question
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A wide-ranging discussion on one of the least openly discussed issues of our time with a man deeply in trouble with both the left and right. I speak with Nathan about his defense of the study of race differences in intelligence and the question of Jewish overrepresentation in high-status fields, including his critique of “The culture of critique” b…
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Roy Baumeister - No Escape From Human Nature (TEASER)
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This is one of my occasional Patreon/Substack exclusive episodes. You can find our entire conversation there: https://open.substack.com/pub/alexkaschuta/p/roy-baumeister-no-escape-from-human https://www.patreon.com/posts/roy-baumeister-78301174 We speak about the replication crisis, particularly in psychology, men and women and their tensions in th…
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Jean-Francois Gariepy: Gene Editing - The Dangers Ahead
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We speak about the origins of life on earth, the reaction to Covid-19, the dangers of CRISPR, genetic testing, embryo selection, IVF, the global fertility drop, synthetic wombs and their implications for the relationship between the sexes, and much more. Jean- Francois Gariepy is a biologist, the author of The Revolutionary Phenotype, and the Host …
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Paul Gottfried - The New Right - Reborn or Reheated?
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We speak about gatekeeping, containment, neoconservatism, equality and egalitarianism, natural rights, the Frankfurt School and Marcuse, vitalism, Kondylis, the meaning of ideology, and much more. Paul Gottfried is an American political philosopher, historian, writer, and editor-in-chief of Chronicles magazine. He is the author of many books, among…
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Chris Buskirk - Nurturing Vitality in an Age of Decay
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I speak with Chris about his involvement in the Blake Masters campaign and what he learned from it about civilizational vitality, America in decline but still on top of the world, US narrative hegemony, technology, debt, the frontier, and much more. Chris Buskirk is an American entrepreneur and writer and founder, editor, and publisher at American …
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Charles Haywood - No Enemies To The Right
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I speak with Charles about his perspective on the dictum “No Enemies to the Right,” on its practical application, its potential limits, its pitfalls, its reception by people not trained in the finer points of political philosophy and tactics, and the conflicts he has been involved in trying to defend his position. Charles Haywood is the maximum lea…
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Peachy Keenan - The Making of a Domestic Extremist
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I speak with Peachy about life with young children, becoming redpilled at the office, being your children's supreme dictator, having as many children as humanly possible, the futility of dating, sacred drag queens, and much more. Peachy Keenan (pen name) is a writer, contributing editor at the American Mind, and the author of the upcoming Domestic …
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Patrick Casey - Take Wins Where You Can Get Them
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We speak about the current state of the right wing after a turbulent decade, the promise of electoral victories, resisting the blackpill, good omens and worrying signs, possible heroes and false friends - and much more. Patrick Casey is a writer and the host of Restoring Order. He has written for Chronicles, American Greatness, and the American Sun…
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Covfefe Anon - Effective Autism > Effective Altruism
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I speak to CA about Twitter’s new management and what it means for the regime, biting the bullet on anti-liberalism and charging through the chaos, NRx as a valuable framework, effective altruism, and much more. Covfefe Anon is a Twitter poster @covfefeanon and recent Substack Owner/Operator at Tradeoffs and Conflicts; Institutions and Egregores --…
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Michael Bailey - Uncomfortable Truths in Sex Research
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I speak to Michael about how trans went from a niche sexual fetish to the next rights revolution, about the common misunderstandings in the field, the differences between male and female sexual orientation, compassion for sexual minorities, and the thorny conversations around pedophilia. Michael Bailey is a psychologist, behavioral geneticist, a pr…
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Athenian Stranger - Reactionary Classicism
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We speak about what is so unsavory about the classics in our current time, about culture, education, and entertainment as an embedded experience in a way it has never been before, about Twitter spaces as an incredible new forum, and much, much more. Athenian Stranger is a famed Twitter Space host @Athens_Stranger , a philosophical maximalist, and t…
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Soso @chernayakoshka - Aesthetics > Morality
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I speak with Soso about the main fault lines on the online right, between a focus on religion vs. a focus on immigration and the simmering conflict between family and vitalism. We also speak about aesthetics as a superior way of relating to reality - and much more. You can find Soso's writing on Twitter at @chernayakoshka --- Send in a voice messag…
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Lin Manuel Rwanda - The Twilight Of A Hight Trust Society
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I speak with Lin about the British empire, £2.5bn for refugee hotel stays, the decline of public services in the UK, housing in the UK and its final form, the Deanobox, amoral constitutionalism, anarcho-tyranny, and much more. Lin Manuel Rwanda is a Twitter poster @lmrwanda, you can find his essays at IM1776 and in other outlets soon. --- Send in a…
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Steve Sailer - A Lifetime Of Noticing
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I speak with Steve about the people's republic of California, Liberalism under total honesty about hate-facts, applying Moneyball-style analysis to base reality, the possibility of meritocracy, the conflation between IQ and human worth, the strange relationship between Asians and affirmative action, the legacy of Barack Obama, Abortion’s effect on …
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Raw Egg Nationalist - Your Body's Great Reset
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I speak with REN about being in your body as an act of defiance against a regime that wants to enslave you through disembodiment. We also speak about the virtues of slonking, weight lifting, women in "the movement," medical malpractice, frankenfood, covid amnesty, and much more. Raw Egg Nationalist is an author and the editor of Man’s World magazin…
I speak with Amy about all manner of unspeakable subjects - from racial achievement gaps to the question of IQ, to the possibility of liberalism under a de facto caste system, to Jewish overrepresentation in the upper echelons of almost every field, to reading Jared Taylor and much much more. We leave no stone unturned. Amy Wax is an American lawye…
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Morgoth - We're Approaching Post-Humanity
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I speak to Morgoth about the current state of the dissident right, Liberalism in a tailspin with the progressive view of history a mirage propped up on vulnerable infrastructure, blackpills, assisted and non-assisted suicide, therapy culture, and the world reserved for us after liberalism as a post-human landscape. Morgoth is a veteran YouTuber and…
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Katherine Dee (@Default_Friend) - Liberalism's Homegrown Shooters
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I speak with Katherine about a bizarre, relatively new outgrowth of the American psyche, the phenomenon of the school shooter. Beyond the "we need fewer/more guns" debate, there is a numb silence about the worldview that fuels the actual motivations of these young men. They are labeled and put away in the monster pile. But could it be that, in some…
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Sam Ashworth-Hayes - The Return Of European History
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I speak to Sam about the shifting tides in UK politics, about a new "very right wing" government implementing price fixing, about energy strategy and fumbling it on a continent-wide scale, and about the decriminalization of crime in the UK and what alternatives may look like. Sam Ashworth-Hayes is a journalist who has been featured in The Spectator…
I speak with Helen about finding love, marriage, traditional gender roles, having and raising children, and doing it all under the watchful eye of gnostic rainbow millenarianism. Helen Roy is a writer, wife, and mother. She’s a contributing editor for the American Mind and the host of the Girlboss, Interrupted podcast. https://girlbossinterrupted.p…
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William Wheelwright - Reactionary Agriculture
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We speak about the future of industrial agriculture, food safety, regenerative agriculture, economies of scale and local specialization, the wonders of LARPing, US crime rates and the new islands of “failed states” within the country, and much more. William Wheelwright is an anonymous Twitter poster, you can find his work @ploughmansfolly on Twitte…
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Jeremy Carl - Settlers vs. Immigrants
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I spoke with Jeremy about the history of immigration in the United States, the difference between settlers and immigrants, what the allegiance of our government class is towards citizens and non-citizens, brain gain and brain drain, immigration as apprenticeship, immigration as a fertility patch, and much more. Jeremy Carl is a Senior Fellow at the…
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Aleksandar Zabrosky - Progress Is A Scam
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I speak with Aleksandar about our age of incoherence, the strange duality between the accelerating complexity of the online narrative and essential systems breaking down in reality, and much, much more. Aleksandar is an anonymous poster who has had many lives on Twitter, from @ajdhenry and "Turning Point Dyatlov Pass" to recently @FaucciMane, and i…
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Emmet Penney - The Looming Energy Crisis
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I speak with Emmet about what is wrong with the grid and the probability of ever more blackouts, the decay of our technological commons and the demise of their caretakers, our strange, apocalyptic media-infused relationship with nuclear power, the nightmare of an EMP, and much more. Emmet Penney of the Ex-haust podcast, editor in chief at Gridbrief…
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Dan Dima - Left And Right in Eastern Europe
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I’ve been looking to record this episode for a while, given that Eastern Europe is both in the news and has gotten a new reputation as a bastion of “based politics.“ To enlighten me on the subject, I brought in my friend Dan Dima, one of the most well-read people I know, especially on Romanian and Eastern European history and political philosophy. …
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Lafayette Lee - Patriotism Among The Ruins
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I speak with Lee about the meaning of patriotism under the rainbow flag. We also speak about a desire for wild places and the frontier, homeschooling, family culture, being at home in your hometown, and more. You can find Lafayette’s work on his Twitter page @Partisan_O and on his Substack https://ruins.substack.com/ --- Send in a voice message: ht…
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Ed West - Never Quite On The Right Side Of History
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I speak with Ed about the current state of UK politics and the failures of its post-war conservative movements, the population collapse and why it is happening, grooming gang scandals, Eastern European fashion trends that may or may not include mullets, and much more. Ed West is an author, journalist, blogger, owner/operator of a substack called Wr…
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Peter Wang - The Predatory Infinite Feed
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I speak to Peter about our unprecedented information infrastructure and how it has captured the public discourse, and how we relate to others and ourselves. We also speak about Web 3, limbic capitalism, being powerless without common myths, and much more. Peter Wang is CEO and Co-founder of Anaconda, a software developer and former physicist, and a…
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Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) - Evil in a Decadent Society
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In this special Subversive episode, I'm joined by one of the most influential and observant social critics of our age, a man who has seen it all and lived to tell the tale. We speak about crime, anarcho-tyranny, the allure of violence, the concept of evil, religion, liberalism, decadence, mental illness, identity, stigma, and much, much more. This …
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Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) - The Deep Right - A Manifesto
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I'm joined once again by Curtis to discuss and dissect what is closest to a declaration of the propositions of the Deep Right. We focus primarily on the five principles as laid out in his Substack post: Principles of the Deep Right: Timelessness, Neutrality, Vitalism, Realism & Absolutism, but as always with Curtis, exciting tangents abound. Curtis…
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Yoram Hazony - What Is There To Conserve?
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speak with Yoram about what distinguishes British/American conservatism and how exportable it actually is, the liberal idea that politics can address itself to the public sphere alone, the possibility of democracy, the disenchantment of life downstream from technology, and much more. Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, a Bible scholar, and a po…
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Helena Kerschner - Rapid Onset Gender Madness
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I speak with Helena about the incredible speed at which transgender ideology has captured the liberal mind, what is behind it, and how it feels to have been to hell and back as a female to male trans person and then as a detransitioner. Helena Kerschner is a 23-year-old girl who has believed herself to be transgender since she was a teen. She is no…
The lovely Louise is back on the show to speak about motherhood, "Cultural Deathgrip Syndrome," sexual disenchantment, sex education based on consent, the idea that sex is a skill, abortion, the inherent inequality of sex, the rough sex defense, and much, much more. Louise Perry is a writer, campaigner, a columnist at the New Statesman, and the aut…
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Luke Burgis - Wanting While Atomized
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I speak with Luke about being an autonomous self in an overabundance of memetic and mimetic opportunity, about choosing unchosen bonds again, the positives of mimesis given that it is inescapable, metaphysical boredom, expertise, identity, and much more. Luke Burgis is Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs at the Ciocca Center for Prin…
I speak with Matt about how living together is possible when two different religious systems clash, about voice vs exit, Elon buying Twitter as an act of statesmanship, the accelerating "Current Thing" ratchet, civil rights law, based captains of industry as modern saviors, how we find each other and how we converge on a positive vision. Matt Peter…
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Mary Harrington - Cyborgs In The Longhouse
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Mary joins me once again to chat about her upcoming book, cyborg theocracy, modern feminism as class war, the power of the state in relationship to women, Bronze Age Mindset, the concept of "progress", prostitution, the devouring mother as the animating force behind liberalism, and much much more. Mary Harrington is a writer and contributing editor…
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Walter Kirn - On Power And Bullshit
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I speak to Walter about what makes one a dissident at the moment and what the nature of a coalition can be that unites a Romanian mom with a Hollywood chad-type, the necessity of free speech and freedom for the creative, what the true believer archetype looks like from the top and how many of them there are, what power looks like up close and much …
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Carlo Lancellotti - Del Noce & The Problem Of Atheism
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I speak to Carlo about modernity as the elimination of the supernatural, atheism as the ultimate outcome of rationalism, the role of Marxism in the developments of recent history, transgender ideology as the next step in a gnostic unraveling, the convergence of the thought of Girard and Del Noce, asking questions as the first step and much more. Ca…
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Ben Sixsmith - Navigating The Digital Decades
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I speak with Ben about life as an expat in Eastern Europe as storm clouds are gathering, the Zeitgeist of the last few decades under the shadow of all-encompassing technology, the new landscape of conservative magazines, identity as a product, navigating Twitter beefs, and his book "Noughties: Eleven Echoes of a Dismal Decade" Ben Sixsmith is a wri…
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The Return of Gio Pennacchietti - A Map Of The Dissident Ecosystem
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My friend Gio is back on the podcast as we engage in a sprawling discussion across very online spaces. We discuss his new project as a documentarian of the new right sphere, its warring factions, and memetic and mimetic dynamics, we also speak about beauty, the dating marketplace, dating archetypes, bronze age liberalism, "liminal spaces" and non-s…
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Michael Tracey - Our Permanent State of Emergency
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I speak to Michael about his stance on Ukraine, on what it means to be contrarian under forced context collapse, on a possible escalation of the war, sanctions, the involvement of western NGOs, "do-something-ism" and much more. Michael Tracey is a journalist, a political commentator, and owner/operator of the Michael Tracey Substack. You can also f…
I speak with AA about his political evolution and how it mirrors mine, about Libertarianism and its discontents, about the "current thing" as it manifests itself in the conflict in Ukraine, about blackpills and whitepills, and much more. Academic Agent is an internet renaissance man, one of the most prolific and successful content producers on the …
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Covfefe Anon - The Woke Are More Correct Than The Mainstream
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Covfefe Anon joins me to discuss the ongoing dysfunction of the West, the 54th Clause of the Magna Carta, the woman question, history entangled with technology and the market, "do-somethingism" and much more. Covfefe Anon is a Twitter poster offering commentary from an NRx perspective. The threads and resources referenced in our chat: 1-2% executio…
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The Return of James Poulos - Remaining Human In The Cyborg Theocracy
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I'm joined for a second time by James as we discuss what it means to be human and why this is worth holding on to as the tide of technology threatens to sweep us away. We also speak about technology as both tool and master, the future of one religion or many, the religious wars of the future, the old gods and the new, anarchoprimitivism, the power …
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Anatoly Karlin - The View From Russia
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I speak to Anatoly about the view from inside Russia, why he returned after decades in the West, what Putin's intentions and aspirations are, the mood in Russia, the outline of the nationalist forces that have emerged in the last decade, his correct and false predictions about the war. We also speak about fertility decline, murder rates and Scienti…
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Spencer Klavan - The Freedom To Constrain
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I speak to Spencer about being a classicist in a post-modern world, hysteria as the baseline feeling, the longing for order and guidance, and how it manifests under a system where order is seen as fundamentally oppressive. We also speak about being gay and adjacent to the dissident right and BAP's perspective on the origin of homosexuality. Spencer…
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Benjamin Braddock - Alternative Truth Supremacy
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I chat with Ben about the escalating situation in Ukraine, the waning US empire, and the Covid truth regime, from origins to medications to side effects, animal reservoirs of the virus, and what you can do to strengthen yourself against its likely effects as Omicron comes for us all. Ben Braddock is an anonymous Twitter poster @GraduatedBen, a writ…
The audio is a bit choppy as we had some connection issues, but it's mostly intelligible. I chat with Thomas about Ukraine and historical precedents, Chinese dominance vs. Western hegemony, technology as a motor of history, Liberalism, Religion as a vacuum that needs to be filled, scale, localism, having children and the global fertility decline, g…
