Date: August 14th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
Believing everything is part of a massive international conspiracy has always been associated with a fringe of the alt right. If Dale Gribble was a leftist his character wouldn't resonate and that was in the 90s.
trying to follow the Judeo-Indian pretzel logic of this thread — in which the “Alt Right” is somehow the premier venue for moon-landing skepticism — just gave me a migraine.
Date: August 15th, 2026 9:21 AM Author: Hyperventilating Startling Casino
Holy shit that’s an embarrassing statement. if I were you I’d delete this post and my account, then throw all my electronic devices into an active volcano
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:29 PM Author: indigo knife
Did I ever say that? I said I was committed to causal closure, but not necessarily reductive physicalism. My position is closer to Russellian physicalism + non-eliminativism + explanatory pluralism. IDK that might be compatible with reductive physicalism it is hard to tell because different people use different definitions for RP and NRP.
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:36 PM Author: indigo knife
lol no. Russellian physicalism does not equal neutral monism. It is an umbrella. Neutral monism usually says the fundamental stuff is neither intrinsically mental nor intrinsically physical. What I'm saying is that there is one causally closed physical reality, and that conscious experience may reveal something about the intrinsic nature of physical states that physics does not capture.
Date: August 14th, 2026 5:27 PM Author: hairraiser spruce center
That’s the thing. Bateman was literally 20 years ahead of his time running straight up Clavicular in the limo shouting Heil Hilter schtick. The reason why American Psycho was funny and timeless was that the parody displayed both intimate knowledge and appreciation for the internal monologue/first person POV of its subject while also maintaining complete contempt for it. My favorite reference in this vein is the affirmative action bake sales that College Republicans ran 25+ years ago. This RW tendency went mildly more underground and took root in web forums because Obama into Woke 1.0 was a period of about a decade during which Hollywood Jews, women and gays tried to assert their cultural dominance as a fully authoritarian governing faction of society. But right wingers under 40 have been obnoxious, smug douchebags for many decades, since at least the 40s.
Date: August 14th, 2026 6:52 PM Author: hairraiser spruce center
Bateman’s schtick was that he was a pussyslaying Chad with “the body of a Men’s Health cover model” (lol what a fag) and his prestigious academic pedigree and familial wealth and prominence meant he was fundamentally better than everyone else.
Date: August 14th, 2026 7:28 PM Author: hairraiser spruce center
Ok. I don’t give a shit about the dumb bullshit you claim to remember about a poaster on XO 25 years ago/primarily in the PR days. I care about the much more interesting bullshit I remember about him.
It's ultimately not. Most of the recognizable personalities even now have been here for at least--at the very least--half a decade and are too old for highly online alt-right trickle down branding. Race realist and scarred by biglaw kikery, sure. The voices you're describing seem newer and fewer, even if loud.