What went wrong? - The Manosphere to Alt-Right pipeline
To make sense of the results, you need to analyze where Trumps surge in votes came from. Leeja Miller laid it all out over a year ago.
A couple of years ago, while I was in a role where I had free time, I spent a lot of time on Youtube to learn things, and to just expand my horizons1.
One of the accounts I stumbled on was Leeja Miller, a lawyer who was building a creator ecosystem and ultimately, she left the big firm, started a small firm, and focused on her dual career path.
She brings deep research and analysis to her videos that you would expect from an attorney.
While at times she goes a little too far to the far-left progressive sphere, she still does a LOT of videos on important social issues and trends.
With that out of the way, about a year ago, she did a piece wherein a 25 minute video, she does a good view of the growing path from disaffected young men, into the alt-right (aka MAGA) pipeline.
Indeed, with the results from the recent US Presidential election where the Trump campaign effectively mobilized these lost-boys to capture both the Electoral College, and the Popular vote.
Watch this, and see if you are nodding your head.
Ok, yes, I was just fucking around…
Read more
TFG: Ross Douthat on Epstein
I really didn't want to write about Epstein and the release of a tranche or emails with some juicy drops by Comer-fudd, but then Ross Douthat had to open his face-anus, and try to play the "nothing burger" card, and "be careful what you wish for"
A day of Browsing: Acoustic Centre
This will be a geeking out sesh. I have been on the other side of the world supporting one of our flagship trade conferences. As such, I have been pretty busy supporting the mission, but Thursday I had a 100% free day. Al0ne, in South Melbourne, Australia, I tapped the
Fucking AI in music...
AI music is infecting the world, and it is getting well and truly scary how good it is. Here's a player demonstrating how to "write" a song with AI, and how terrifying this is for flesh and blood musicians.
When you lie down with dogs ...
MAGA's commitment to labor was always a fig leaf, the truth is that it, and the Republican party of the last 55 years has been excessively hostile to labor, and has ridden herd on the decimation of what once made America great. No surprise.