Reddit’s users are predominantly millennials, and ideologically, the site tends to have an anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, and contrarian bias, yet NRx and related ‘Dark Enlightenment’ views are surprisingly popular there despite reactionaries generally advocating ‘more power’, not less. When Moldbug in 2016 did an AMA it was very well-received, and judging by the up-votes, many Reddit… Continue reading Why NRx is Popular on Reddit
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The Post-2008 ‘Philosophy Boom’
This article is going viral: Why read old philosophy? Since 2008, we’ve been in what can be described as ‘philosophy boom’, as articles and stories about philosophy frequently go viral on sites such as Reddit, 4Chan, and Hacker News, and there seems to be a lot of interest in the subject on Quora and elsewhere.… Continue reading The Post-2008 ‘Philosophy Boom’
Why the left is losing, as summarized by a Reddit post
If the left wants to know why they are losing, they need look no further than sites like Reddit and 4chan, as the brilliant Reddit post bellow demonstrates why the far-left is so unpopular right now, and why if the left persists in their ways they will continue to lose both elections and the hearts… Continue reading Why the left is losing, as summarized by a Reddit post
SJW Narrative Collapse, Part Infinity
This is pretty funny… going on Reddit (I recommend logging out to see which default threads are on the front page, not subscribed ones), and it looks like the left, to quote the title of a Charles Murray book, is losing ground. A story on /r/news about “Leaflets calling for death of those who insult… Continue reading SJW Narrative Collapse, Part Infinity
An Army of Fact Checkers: How Reddit (and social media) is Destroying the SJW Narrative
Scott ponders how online reporting of science can be improved. Maybe a solution is to ‘crowdsource’ the peer review through social media such as Reddit, putting all these smart users to use to do the fact-checking the mainstream media is otherwise too lazy or incompetent to do – in fact, that already is happening. Pretty… Continue reading An Army of Fact Checkers: How Reddit (and social media) is Destroying the SJW Narrative
The SPLC’s War on Reddit and Free Speech
From splcenter.org: Black Hole There’s a relevant quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: “He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.” That seems to apply to the SPCL right now, which is shooting itself in the foot and expending… Continue reading The SPLC’s War on Reddit and Free Speech
SJWs Eat Their Own
Last week the left had high hopes that they would be able to shutdown Reddit – well, so much for that. On front page of Reddit this afternoon I found zero stories about the shutdown, suggesting that most, if not all, of the locked threads had been reopened as people had gotten on with their… Continue reading SJWs Eat Their Own
Why The Left Wants Reddit To Fail
The left is elated over the recent shake-up of Reddit in which Victoria Taylor – the ‘verifier’ of celebrity AMAs (ask me anythings) – was inexplicably fired, resulting in the shutdown of several sub-Reddits in solidarity, rendering large portions of the site inaccessible. A more detailed explanation can be found here, in which I took… Continue reading Why The Left Wants Reddit To Fail
The Pursuit of the Truth
By in large, Ivy League students are smarter in terms of IQ and SAT scores than students from no-name schools. As much as the left whines about cronyism and nepotism in the Ivy League, dull kids typically don’t get into those schools, period (although of course many smart kids don’t go to the Ivy League).… Continue reading The Pursuit of the Truth
Smart People On Reddit Giving Police Benefit of Doubt
Reddit, to their credit, is showing their support for the police, as shown by up-voting 10,000 times this imgur post about how, contrary to liberal belief, police stop blacks not out of racial prejudice but because genuine infractions were made, and that the proper course of action is to not become combative and assume racial… Continue reading Smart People On Reddit Giving Police Benefit of Doubt