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Roosh makes a strong statement about Richard Spencer:

Richard Spencer, head of the NPI Institute, was attacked by the media in the last week because attendees at his recent weekend conference did a Roman/Hitler salute. This caused a schism in the alt right, where more moderate voices condemned Spencer’s actions and splintered off into a “new right” or “alt light” group. Looking back on the episode with full hindsight, I believe it was a strategic mistake to side with the media and not assist Spencer, no matter how strongly you disagreed with his actions….

The proper response when the fake news tells you you’re a Nazi is to say “Fuck you.” The proper response to when they call you a racist is “So what?” The proper response when they call you a rapist is to say, “I certainly wouldn’t rape you.” The only way we can take away the power from these terms is to not immediately deny you are one. If a crazy old bag lady approaches you on the subway and loudly says you are a murderer, would you take the time to deny it? No, you would laugh and say, “Get out of my way, you crazy bitch.” This is how we must react when the media confronts us, because if you don’t have a fear of being called a Nazi, racist, or rapist, the power of the media establishment will quickly diminish.

That doesn’t mean that Spencer did not commit an unforced error. We have to agree that Spencer’s decision to let in the media and frame the conference any way they saw fit was a considerable mistake, but not one I will eternally hold against him. He is not an establishment talking head that has been “groomed” to be good with the media, and his first major interview was less than a month ago. I was a media newbie too. I got shellacked when I went on Dr. Oz and got embarrassed by the Daily Mail when they showed up to my parents house until I finally understood the game and humiliated the media myself in a press conference. I’m sure I will make a mistake in the future, since I am not a media professional who does interviews every month, and I hope my allies don’t disavow me because of it.

After Spencer’s gaffe, I’m seeing a lot of messages online that the alt right “brand” is done for, and that their movement is dead. Back in February, I said their movement has peaked, but I underestimated them, and those today saying the alt right is dead are also wrong. They will lick their wounds and get stronger, because they don’t need the media and they don’t need Trump. Their sales pitch of “America will be better with only white people” is too seductive for marginalized white men to resist, and in spite of their obsession with race, there is intellect and truth-telling underneath it. They have blind spots, but they have fewer blind spots than other movements, and for that reason I think they will have increasing cultural influence in the next five years for men who want an external fix to their problems instead of an internal one like I aim to provide. The Spencer debacle is a painful but necessary teaching moment for them.

Now that the schism has taken place, men like Mike Cernovich, Paul Joseph Watson, and Stefan Molyneux have a clear path to the top as part of their “new right” platform. There is no Nazi taint to hold them back. Within a couple years time, as long as their output is consistent, they will have a massive bullhorn to reach millions of conservatives. It will be fascinating to watch these men become the “new mainstream” as the old media order fades away.

Roosh knows better than anyone what it feels like to be under media assault. I have never seen anyone attacked so viciously in the media, and to make it worse, with so little cause. And he’s right to say that we should not disavow anyone under media pressure, because that is nothing more than their usual game of divide-and-conquer.

Anyhow, it is good to see that Roosh is a man of integrity. It has been fascinating to see him evolve from petty pick-up artist to an increasingly impressive philosopher.

That being said, I don’t believe there is a genuine schism, because the Alt-Lite has never been, and will never be, the Alt-Right proper. It is, rather, a large pool of newly awakened conservatives and liberals who are only beginning to shed the lies of the propaganda in which they have been steeped for their entire lives. Also, it is neither disavowing nor attacking someone to criticize a specific action they have taken. I’ve been criticized by my social media allies before, and while it wasn’t public, it was certainly every bit as direct as most of the criticism that has been directed at Spencer. The criticism was justified, I appreciated the criticism, and most importantly, I learned from it and adapted my behavior according to their advice.

Perhaps the most impressive thing about the Alt-Lite to Alt-White spectrum has been the ability of the various parties to bury the hatchet and avoid the virulent divisions that the media, and occasionally, some of the followers, would like to see. Everyone is excited about the ascension of the God-Emperor Trump, so it should not be surprising that a few of us managed to go a little overboard, after all, we have had far too political successes to celebrate for most of our lives. But the tide is turning, so it is time to learn how to discipline ourselves and be prepared for the larger-scale challenges to come.

The forces that have produced the Alt-Right are still at work across the West. They are growing stronger, the stresses on the unity of the international elites are growing, as are the explosive pressures on the popular unity of the various nation-states. What many find unnecessary, impossible, or even unthinkable, will come to be seen as the only possible route forward before long. And when they do, it will fall to those of us who have seen the patterns and trends evolve to do what we can to ensure that there are powerful voices of reason to be heard amidst the madness.

I expect Mike, Paul Joseph, and Stefan to continue to ascend to the top too, but not due to any avoidance of a nonexistent taint of a long-dead German political philosophy, but for the reason that is written on the bottom of this blog every day. The times are changing. The rules are changing. The game is changing.

SUCCESS COMES MOST SWIFTLY AND COMPLETELY NOT TO THE GREATEST OR PERHAPS EVEN TO THE ABLEST MEN, BUT TO THOSE WHOSE GIFTS ARE MOST COMPLETELY IN HARMONY WITH THE TASTE OF THEIR TIMES.

Andrew Torba of Gab has it.

CNN reached out and was incredibly rude and unprofessional.

We simply let them know that it is our policy to record all phone interviews.

They then backed out and claimed they had to speak with the editor about it, skipped a 2nd call to discuss, and acted very unprofessionally.

As does Tila Tequila :

Msm keeps on contacting me for interviews about my Roman salute. I should tell them all to suck my nuts, faggots!

They are not your friend. They do not want to let you tell their story. They want you to play the part of the sacrificial victim of their pre-established narrative.

Figure out a policy that works for you. Then stick with it. Mine is straightforward enough:

1. I only do TV/video with Stefan Molyneux. Otherwise, no TV/video.
2. I only do radio shows with friendly hosts. As a general rule, no podcasts except as the occasional favor to someone on our side.
3. Written interviews only. No telephone calls or in-person interviews.

Like others in and around the Alt-Right, I’ve been approached by numerous media organizations since the election. I was also invited to speak at the recent NPI conference. I declined the opportunity, not because I have any problem with Richard Spencer or anything the Alt-White is pursuing, but because going to conferences and talking to lots of people is really not my thing. I don’t even go to three-quarters of the professional conferences that I really should attend, and I’ve been speaking at game industry conferences since 1995.

But I have to admit, it was somewhat fortuitous that I didn’t go given the manufactured media coverage of a minor incident towards the end, when apparently some idiots in the crowd began throwing Roman salutes on camera, and Richard decided it would be a great idea to throw the media some red meat by shouting “Hail Victory and Hail Trump.” Mike Cernovich put out a widely watched Periscope calling this “utter stupidity” and “controlled opposition”, and thereby sparked a bit of outrage among Richard’s fans.

As a number of people have asked my opinion of this, here it is:

• No, I don’t think Richard is a federal agent or an actual controlled opposition figure. I think Mike would have been more accurate to say “controllable opposition” or “dancing monkey”. But Mike made it very clear exactly what he meant in his Periscope. Don’t get pedantically hung up on a term. If nothing else, Richard’s hair is too fabulous for him to be a federal agent.
• There was nothing actually wrong with what Richard said. But we’re dealing with rhetoric here, not dialectic.
• It wasn’t a big deal. But it was a foolish thing to do. The media is absolutely slavering to be able to have REAL PROOF that the Alt-Right are no-good, very-evil Nazis so that they can use it as a weapon against President-elect Trump, giving them ANYTHING is tactically retarded.
• It’s not about Richard. It’s about Donald Trump. If Richard is genuinely supportive of Trump, then pulling that sort of stunt was the very last thing he should have done. Making yourself the news story at the expense of the individual you are supposedly supporting and celebrating smacks of being self-serving. As Mike said, dress up like a Nazi, speak bad German and wear a swastika armband if you want, just leave Trump out of it.
• Richard has failed to learn the lesson of #GamerGate and the principles of 4GW. He wants to be the media-anointed leader of the Alt-Right because he believes, wrongly, that this will help him achieve his objectives. It won’t. As Mike and I have both noted, the media elevates fringe figures to “leadership” specifically in order to attack the movement through them. That’s why they keep trying to call Milo, and Mike, and even occasionally me “an Alt-Right leader” even though we all specifically deny it. Milo and Mike have always denied being Alt-Right, and yet the media keeps trying to claim they are its leaders. Ask yourself, “why is the media doing that when they know it isn’t true?”
• You don’t play the media, the media plays you. Yes, Trump can play them. Yes, Milo can play them. But I’m not either of those unique talents and neither are you. I learned my lesson the hard way, when a woman from Wired read SJWAL and spent three hours talking about #GamerGate with me just in order to get what she thought was a single kill-quote into her article that was nominally about the Hugo Awards. She was wrong, because she was an American who didn’t realize I was referring to a very real problem that is covered only in the European press, but I learned that they will go very far out of their way in order to get that single soundbite, that single optic, that they can then use as a caricature of you for the next decade in order to discredit and disqualify you. That is why I don’t do TV, I don’t go on radio shows or podcasts that are oppositional, and I require that all interviews with me are written.
• The media is not the way to “get out your message”. That’s the bait they’ve used to lure in every sucker for 50 years. I can’t count the number of times a reporter has said he “just wants to give me the opportunity to tell my side of the story”. It’s a trap. The way to get out your message is to patiently build your own platform, because he whom the media builds up is he whom the media can take down at will.
• I am not opposed to Richard or jealous of Richard, nor do I want the attention he is receiving. I rather like him, I simply don’t think he understands that the media intends for him to become a David Duke figure, a weapon available for deployment against any politician or program that he nominally supports.
• The media always has a narrative it is attempting to sell. Don’t help them sell it!

It’s interesting to see that the Argentine media is considerably more professional than the US media. Instead of running to the likes of (((Ben Shapiro))) and other self-professed enemies of the Alt-Right to explain what it is and what it believes, Gabriela Esquivada took the unusual approach of simply asking Jared Taylor and me for her piece entitled “A Visit to the Thinking of the Alt-Right“:

Viaje al pensamiento de Alt-right: qué es y cómo funciona la nueva derecha de Estados Unidos. 

Estan cansados de la corrección política y el conservadurismo tradicional. Son nacionalistas, antiglobalización y defensores de una América blanca. Su influencia en la victoria de Donald Trump

En los Estados Unidos se ha presentado como un conjunto laxo de personas y organizaciones que van de la derecha a la ultraderecha, y que han ganado espacio en los medios que tratan de encontrar explicaciones a la elección de Donald Trump. Se llama Alternative Right, Alt-Right: derecha alternativa (DA).

“Es una ideología occidental que cree en la ciencia, la historia, la realidad y el derecho de una nación genética a existir y gobernarse en su propio interés”, definió Vox Day, seudónimo de uno de los bloggers más influyentes de este movimiento variopinto que se ha cocido en los Estados Unidos al fuego de la crisis económica y la decepción política de los últimos años.

El autor de Vox Popoli recomendó la lectura de los 16 puntos que él sintetizó como base de una filosofía de la DA, entre los que se destacan la superación del conservadurismo tradicional, la defensa de “los tres pilares de la civilización occidental” (el cristianismo, las naciones europeas y el legado grecorromano), el nacionalismo, la oposición a la globalización y el igualitarismo, la defensa de la política de la identidad y el proteccionismo, entre otros puntos….

El racismo y el sexismo son ideas y ninguna idea es mala, según Vox: “El hecho de que alguien pueda legítimamente tener una creencia no significa que alguien más no pueda creer que está equivocada o despreciarla. Dicho eso, algunas ideas encontradas pueden coexistir. Otras no”.

—Hay creencias que pueden conducir a acciones destructivas.

—¿Y qué? La ciencia lleva a acciones mucho más mortíferas que cualquier creencia —siguió Vox—. ¿Deberíamos matar a todos los científicos para asegurarnos que ninguno podrá construir armas peligrosas? La gente sólo puede ser responsabilizada por sus acciones, no se puede ejercer el poder de policía sobre las creencias sin recurrir a la tiranía total y el control del pensamiento.

“La DA está cansada de la corrección política”, marcó Sabo uno de los ejes de ese ideario. “Porque no es posible prever hasta dónde la llevará la izquierda”. Vox cree que la corrección política “es un cáncer y un intento de controlar el modo en que se le permite pensar y hablar a las personas”. Agregó, enfático: “Es una abominación neo-marxiana”.

It’s a very good article that, wonder of wonders, actually reports rather than editorializes. This should make it clear, as if there was still any doubt remaining, that the Alt-Right is a global phenomenon, of interest to nationalists and their opponents all over the world.