Synthesis
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DiversityWatch (October 31, 2025)
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 ~~~ The Myth of the “Robber Barons” We were told a Leftist history in order 
to justify the American Civil War, and now we are slowly learning how 
corrupt a...
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ISteve Open Thread 7, by iSteve Community
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 Here’s a new Open Thread for all of you. To minimize the load, please 
continue to limit your Tweets or place them under a MORE tag. For those 
interested, h...
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Another one bites the dust.
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 I don’t usually cover the events of the day, because one loses track of the 
big picture. The events of the day only reveal their meaning when viewed 
months...
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A new legend
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 Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has 
joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the 
Made b...
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Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies”
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 Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all 
Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at 
best … Me...
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360 Small Numbers
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11111122222212, (((((0)))))0, 254 111112122222, ((((00)))), 277 
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Cold War 2 Propaganda
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 So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy. 
Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite 
a while, ...
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The Pursuit Of Worthiness: Lessons Drawn From The Mormon Experience
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 1.  Introduction From stormy origins to the stability of the American 
Century, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have 
played the...
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Diversity’s Dilemma
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 There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the 
ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the 
prisoner’s dilemm...
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Imperial Circular 09/13/18: On Steel Tariffs (STEEL-cam 1 Tech-Comm 0).
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 “Economics is a matter of national security.” That was the central claim we 
made in our post STEEL-cam v Nick Land’s Tech-Comm Accelerationism. Today, 
we r...
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Catalonia and the Problem of Separatist Nationalism 
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 The separatists in Catalonia are not motivated by any traditional 
nationalist concerns; rather they wish to create a better shopping mall 
than Spain, where...
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My Last Post
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 This is my final post here. I did not just want to stop writing and 
disappear like Foseti and sort of like Handle. Two names from the old days, 
which is ve...
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Joining Thermidor
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 I had said that I would have an article at Thermidor upcoming, but the 
truth is somewhat more substantial.  Since the magazine started, my good 
friend P.T....
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The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/05/28)
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 Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. The ballots are in. These 
were the articles most worthy of note: Honorable Mentions: Imperial Energy: 
STEE...
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Scaring Bad Boys, Part II
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 More Caldo:
Dalrock wrote a post commenting on Scott’s post and elaborated in a similar 
direction as one of my previous essays. While I agree with what bot...
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The Problem of Efficient Political Order
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 The fundamental imperative of the state, at least from the perspective of 
the state, is to maintain sufficient political hegemony, such that no 
subset of...
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Ab Ovo Usque Ad Mala
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 The time has come to say good-bye. This is something I’ve been planning for 
a while now.  The moment has come when I need to step away from this blog, 
step...
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Hiatus
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 This post has moved to the permanent location for Unqualified Reservations 
by Mencius Moldbug: 
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Company free riders
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 Some companies–particularly in the tech industry–can afford to make silly 
mistakes without it costing them very much. They can also afford to make 
silly hi...
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Potpourri
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88-Year-Old Congresswoman Is Exposed for Having 7 No-Show Jobs
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 Read it. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.’s 88-year-old congressional 
delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but 
inv...
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An Essay in Uglification
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 In this provocative essay at The European Conservative, Dalrymple explores 
our cultural climate in which ugliness is embraced as a badge of 
authenticity an...
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Sacraments and Gospel Sacraments
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 In my last essay I resumed the series of essays on the Article of the Creed 
which I had begun in 2023.  I had left off with *Article Nine - The Holy 
Cath...
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New Kid In Town
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 If you, like most people (or, at least, like most people who think about 
things a bit, and often need to look things up), have found yourself using 
Wikiped...
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The real parasites are not who you think
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 I used to work as a tire installer, and then later as a chimney sweep and 
mason, and then after that as a fiber optic designer. I did some other 
things as ...
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The collapse of the imperial-scale welfare system, due to over-production 
of recipients (a special case of general imperial over-extension)
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 I haven't waded into political dIsCouRsE for awhile, since there has been 
nothing new to add from what I've already said. But with the looming 
possibilit...
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Gatekeepers and Keyholders
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 There are few things that demonstrate someone’s charactre and true 
loyalties more than when they are suddenly put on the spot and have to make 
a quick deci...
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The Future Is Already the Past
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 Can you believe that Back to the Future II Day, October 21, 2015, is, 
today, ten years in the past? Something that has been on my mind about 
that. The whol...
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New Music
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 White energy open thread
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Was the Electric Car a Bait-and-Switch?They were never viable; so why were 
they pushed?
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 I’m sure that everyone here knows about how he stole the company from a 
couple of California dreamers. With all due respect to those guys – who 
sound lik...
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Conservatives and the fertility rate
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 The advance of science very gradually led to the decline of religion which 
has greatly changed the western world. Most seriously it has affected the 
fert...
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10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years
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 A friend asked what the big trends in American society over the next five 
to ten years would be. This is a fun time frame to think about, because you 
don’t...
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Portrait of a ticket-taker
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 By noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) Source: Vox Popoli
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Volvo advertising: America ......and Poland
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 Diversity isn't your strength. It lowers your wages, marginalises your 
culture, increases your crime, fills your hospitals, occupies your housing, 
ruins ...
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Fiscal Impact by Race in 2018
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 The US Federal Government, State and local governments do not collect data 
on race and tax revenue. So this data here is based on multiple sources to 
come ...
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Sun Of the Sleepless
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 …from the quills of dead white poets Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) (From “Hebrew 
Melodies”)   Sun of the Sleepless! melancholy star! Whose tearful beam 
glows tr...
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Diversity’s Dilemma
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 There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the 
ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the 
prisoner’s dilemm...
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Let’s Guess Who Helped Felons Get The Right To Vote In Florida
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 Just as a disclaimer, I’m actually a pretty mellow guy when it comes to 
people who served their prison time for whatever it is they were convicted 
of (sex ...
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Israeli Airforce struck Damascus airport
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 Military sources confirmed to Muraselon website that the Syrian 
air-defenses have intercepted unidentified targets above the western 
countryside of Damascu...
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Daily Linkage – December 4, 2015
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 - Alpha Game: Dating rules 
   - Vox Popoli: Government isn't fixing this either 
   - Your Self-Worth Should Not Be Negotiable: 3 Steps To Stop Sell...
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Fearless
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 According to the Way of Men, the four defining masculine virtues are 
strength, courage, mastery, and honour. As the foundations of masculinity, 
I am going ...
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Christian
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Nonhumans in Human Literature
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 This is a reprint of a column from 2010, which I wanted to bring to the 
attention of any new readers here. John W Campbell Jr once offered his 
writers the ...
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Creatura
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 The following poem was written under the pseudonym “Monos” for Volume 4 of 
Julius Evola’s “La Torre” magazine. For those who have been paying close 
attenti...
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Why I am so Sure that "AI" is a dysfunctional and destructive fake
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 *I* seem to be more solidly confident that so-called (post November 2022) 
AI is a dishonest and incompetent fake, than are most people.
Partly, this is b...
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“Catholic Social Teaching For The Lionhearted” – BOOK ALERT
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 The title on this post is taken from the subtitle of the new book – yes, 
it’s 10:30 on Friday, so there’s probably a new book – from Peter 
Kwasniewski.  An...
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The antifragility of the system
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 Not just in Europe, throughout the West. At TLD, Strakon commented in 1994:
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Ballad of the Goodly Fere
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 Ballad of the Goodly Fere Ezra Pound – 1885-1972 Simon Zelotes speaketh it 
somewhile after the Crucifixion. Ha’ we lost the goodliest fere o’ all For 
the p...
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There are two sides to the Catholic immigration debate
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 Everyone knows that the Catholic Church teaches that wealthy nations ought 
to welcome immigrants.  It is less well known that she also teaches that a 
nat...
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Cry For the Children…
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 …unless they happen to be inside a womb. Democrats and others crying about 
so-called “child abuse and ripping children from their parents” who 
purposely br...
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Three 80s shows
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 **both sexes welcome** Let’s get one thing straight: There is NO EPIDEMIC 
of “racist” white cops cruising around American cities hunting down and 
shooting ...
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