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Category Archives: Mike Benz
Alliance Theory v Actor Network Theory Regarding Mike Benz
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Alliance Theory (AT) disagree most about what counts as an actor and what needs explaining. ANT distributes agency across humans and non-humans. The algorithm, the memo, the building, the speed bump, the database. Each acts. The … Continue reading
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The Man Who Named the Pain: Mike Benz and the Censorship Complex
Mike Benz, born around 1984, runs the Foundation for Freedom Online from a position few of his contemporaries can claim. He speaks the bureaucratic dialect of the State Department, the legal vocabulary of the corporate bar, and the rapid idiom … Continue reading
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The Rise Of Mike Benz
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would read Mike Benz’s rise as the emergence of a new kind of alliance coordinator for the post-2016 right. He did not become influential by winning elections or building a mass audience first. He became influential … Continue reading
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Status Closure and The Lost Generation
Donald Trump Batters The Credential Society On Christmas Eve—or Nittel Nacht, as we call it in the tribe—I was doing my level best to avoid studying Torah. To distract myself, I opened the Perlego app (the Netflix of textbooks!) and … Continue reading
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How Two Jews – Nathan Cofnas, Mike Benz – Ate The Alt-Right
The Alt-Right built its identity around the claim that Jewish intellectuals subvert Gentile movements from within. That claim found its empirical vindication when two men of Jewish descent dismantled the Alt-Right from inside its own intellectual territory. Nathan Cofnas attacked … Continue reading
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‘Mike Benz is a glitch in the matrix of polite society’
Steve Sailer analyzes The New Yorker profile of Oliver Sacks: He was especially invested in two young men on the ward whom he thought he was curing. “The miracle-of-recovery started to occur in and through their relation to me (our … Continue reading
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The Mike Benz Cadence
As a philosopher of life out where the buses don’t run no more, Mike Benz hits my sweet spot. There’s just something in the way he speaks that feels familiar and comforting. As a dissident blogger and vlogger, I can’t … Continue reading
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The Porous Appeal: Why Institutions Misread Mike Benz
Mike Benz sits in a contested zone. The establishment sees him as a threat or at least a vector of narratives that need explaining or de-escalating. To understand the appeal of Mike Benz—and the fierce polarization he generates—one must look … Continue reading
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Analyzing Internet Freedom Activist Mike Benz aka Frame Game Radio
Kristen Ruby made this transcript of part of my video: Frame Games was a public commentator in 2016-2018. He was alt right adjacent, openly Jewish, but he kept his name and identity and face hidden. Brandy Zadrozny at NBC News … Continue reading
The New Yorker: Jim Jordan’s Conspiratorial Quest for Power – How the Ohio Republican built an insurgent bid for Speaker on the lies of Donald Trump.
Jonathan Blitzer writes: * …online conspiracists began claiming that Starbird and other researchers at the Election Integrity Partnership had colluded with the Department of Homeland Security to censor twenty-two million tweets during the 2020 election. This was, Starbird told me, … Continue reading