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Category Archives: Richard Spencer
The Richard Spencer Show
Richard B. Spencer (b. 1978) built a voice designed to launder the content. The press kept calling him dapper because that was the whole performance. He spoke in a measured, even register, slightly flat, slow enough to sound deliberate. He … Continue reading
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Richard B. Spencer: The Man Who Branded the Alt-Right
Richard Bertrand Spencer (b. 1978) is an American White nationalist, political organizer, publisher, and commentator. For a few years in the middle of the last decade he served as the public face of the movement called the alt-right, a coalition … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Richard Spencer Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full identitarian speed in Richard Spencer’s quiet Virginia study, his occasional podcast appearances, his Substack notes, and the encrypted chats with the remaining fragments of the alt-right/identitarian network right now. With the U.S.-Israeli … Continue reading
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Decoding Richard Spencer
ChatGPT says: Richard Spencer is best decoded, through Alliance Theory, as a failed coalition entrepreneur who mistook attention for alliance power and moral transgression for durable coordination. Start with Pinsof’s baseline. Moral language is used to build and police alliances. … Continue reading
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The Rise & Fall Of Richard Spencer
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would read Richard Spencer’s rise and collapse almost entirely in terms of failed coalition building. Spencer tried to found a new super-alliance: white identitarians, disaffected young men, race realists, paleo-conservatives, anti-liberal intellectuals, and anti-globalist populists. In … Continue reading
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The Age Of Fuentes (11-9-25)
01:00 I don’t want to talk about Nick Fuentes, but I accept the reality that we live in the Age of Fuentes.05:00 Ben Shapiro: Tucker Carlson Sabotages America, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16477207:00 Death By Lightning Is The Latest Example of Hollywood’s ‘Magic Negro’ … Continue reading
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The Stress Reward Cocktail For Edgy Streamers Like Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Richard Spencer
LF: “What does it feel like physiologically for Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and company when they step out of polite society and say things that virtually everyone with power will condemn? What would evol psych say?” … Continue reading
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Decoding Nick Fuentes
02:00 The False Promise of Emotional Sobriety, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16456406:40 Mark Halperin and company on Nick Fuentes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzdjqzOhsQ07:00 Decoding Nick Fuentes, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16460508:00 Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes58:00 As the MAGA Turns: How American nationalists fell out of love with Israel, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1642241:11:00 The … Continue reading
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Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
Elle Reeve’s new book just came out. Here are some excerpts: * You can dabble in racism, hang out on racist websites, read fascist literature, and later come back to the normal world, but when you use your real name … Continue reading
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Is Richard Spencer The Greatest Pundit of his Generation? (10-4-23)
01:00 What type of person seeks a great pundit?04:00 Do pundits optimize for truth?06:00 Pundits optimize for attention, income, status, prestige, success but not truth32:00 YU gets a medical school: Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XDju83J2Wk36:00 What happened to Mama JF? StephenJJames, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1LwFm6McH842:00 … Continue reading
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