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  • Breaking Points: FBI Caught Searching Millions of Americans With No Warrant

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2022 12:43pm EDT

    This is where the liberals are at now. Liberalism 1.0 included things like the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights. This is the truly important stuff. This is the stuff which I don’t have any objection to. I agree with this. I don’t support the corrupt “intelligence community” spying on people and invading their […]

  • Potlatch Psychology

    Counter Currents - May 2nd 2022 7:32am EDT

    1,580 words Author’s Note: In a recent livestream, our longtime reader Sutton asked, “How important is economics in terms of ultimately understanding history and politics?” Hyacinth Bouquet transcribed by answer, and I edited it a bit. I want to thank Sutton for the question and Hyacinth for the transcript. This is essentially a philosophical question. […]

  • Elon Musk Calls Out Woke Progressives

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 29th 2022 9:41am EDT

    pic.twitter.com/Q9OjlJhi7f — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022 So true. We point this out all the time here. New York Post: “Billionaire Elon Musk insists he is a liberal — but is viewed as a far-right “bigot” because “woke progressives” are pushing the left to extremes. The world’s richest man used his new $44 billion […]

  • Thomas Main: Illiberalism and Its Challenge To American Democracy

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 16th 2022 10:34pm EDT

    Yes, I wasted my time watching Professor Thomas Main and Karen discuss the rise of illiberalism for about an hour this weekend in the hope that these two would cover new ground. The funniest thing about this is that I am more liberal by temperament than either these two. I enjoy arguing with people. I […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Free Speech Hating Liberals Attack Elon Musk

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 16th 2022 5:23pm EDT

    Liberalism 3.0 is authoritarian, elitist, hierarchical and anti-populist. It celebrates unbridled corporate power and monopolies. It relies on censorship to silence dissent and to impose conformity to the elite consensus. It doesn’t have the patience for persuasion. More than anything else, it wants the common man to shut up and know his place and fall […]

  • Modernity = Equality = Individualism = Solipsism

    Amerika.org - Apr 14th 2022 10:18pm EDT

    It is axiomatic that you cannot reach a destination without knowing what that destination is, which in turn requires you to know what it is not. You can decide to vacation in Cape Cod, but if you do not know where it is not, you will end up in the wrong place. Even knowing where […]

  • Why Nationalists Hate Dumb Liberal Wars

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 14th 2022 11:42am EDT

    Ben Burgis has written an article at Jacobin in which he explains why the Far Left is generally opposed to the war in Ukraine. It is because of their internationalist tradition. Jacobin: “As the Russian government’s criminal war in Ukraine continues, socialists in the US have forcefully condemned the invasion while focusing most of our energy on opposing the potentially catastrophic escalation in […]

  • Eric Kaufmann: What Francis Fukuyama Gets Wrong About Liberalism

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 10:11am EDT

    Good article from Eric Kaufmann: Unherd: “In an insightful piece over at Foreign Affairs entitled ‘Liberalism Needs the Nation’, Francis Fukuyama argues that abstract universalist liberalism is too thin to compete with the Right-wing nationalism of a Le Pen, Trump or Putin, but that an inclusive, state-led form of nationhood can keep the populist wolf from the […]

  • What’s a Woman?

    Counter Currents - Mar 28th 2022 10:02am EDT

    Ketanji Brown Jackson 1,738 words After Stephen Breyer announced he was retiring from the Supreme Court in January of 2022, Biden fulfilled his 2020 campaign promise to nominate a black female for the position. While every rational person sees the problem with electing someone based on his skin color and/or gender, the nominee, Judge Ketanji […]

  • An Equal and Opposite Reaction

    Amerika.org - Mar 26th 2022 6:32pm EDT

    Since the dawn of humanity, our species has tried to get its act together enough to make civilizations that survive and individuals that are sane. The two are tied together, since a sane environment makes sane people, and vice-versa. All of these efforts have failed. Currently we are living through the failure of liberalism. This […]

  • The Hill: Cuomosexuals Move On To Zelensky Thirst

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 21st 2022 3:03pm EDT

    Emmanuel Macron is trying on the look.

  • Foreign Policy: Putin Has a Grimly Absolute Vision of the ‘Russian World’

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2022 2:21pm EDT

    Wow ?????? These Chinese kids seem to have a better historical understanding of geopolitical conflicts than 90% of western “experts” that bombard us with propaganda about the threat of the Russian invasion of #Ukraine to transgender freedom and gay parades. pic.twitter.com/7BPfTtFGp2 — Sniper (@Sniper02020) March 18, 2022 I largely agree with these takes. Obviously, Putin’s […]

  • Breaking Points: Matt Taibbi: Orwell’s 1984 Comes True In U.S. Propaganda

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 15th 2022 12:20pm EDT

    We are “fascism.” We are “authoritarianism.” In light of our experience with the liars who led us into Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, we don’t want to jump into a war with Russia over Donbas, a place which 99% of Americans know virtually nothing about and have never visited and which literally no one cared […]

  • Richard Spencer: A New Traitors Coalition Has Emerged

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 8th 2022 12:48pm EST

    Richard Spenther says you’re a traitor if you don’t side with the NWO against Russ¡a Here, he conflates opposition/criticism of NATO and the US empire with being “pro-Put¡n” pic.twitter.com/CVcZpPEpkz — ????????. (@remnantposting) March 8, 2022 In all honesty, my ex-wife did have a major effect on my attitude towards Putin and Russia in 2014, as […]

  • Tim Pool: Majority of Democrats Back Trudeau’s Crackdown on Freedom Convoy

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 23rd 2022 3:57pm EST

    This poll demolishes Thomas Main. Far from being a radical fringe, woke progressivism is now the governing ideology of the Democratic Party. These people DO NOT believe in traditional small-l liberalism which is an impediment to progressive activists. In fact, they are far more intolerant and ready to embrace authoritarianism to ruthlessly crush their opposition […]

  • Thomas Main: Tracing The Rise of Illiberalism

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 23rd 2022 12:32pm EST

    I’ve been reading Thomas Main’s book The Rise of Illiberalism. While I have never written anything here before about feminist standpoint theory, I am familiar with Nietzschean perspectivism. Virtually everything that Thomas Main says in this podcast reflects his perspective or standpoint as an establishment liberal who is an academic who lives on a coast […]

  • Glenn Greenwald: The Neoliberal War on Dissent

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 21st 2022 12:17pm EST

    We live in a time in which words have lost their meaning. If you are opposed to Justin Trudeau’s shocking crackdown on the Freedom Convoy and the rollout of a full blown totalitarian police state in Canada, YOU are the “authoritarian.” YOU are an enemy of “liberal democracy” for sending a private donation or engaging […]

  • Matt Bai’s Reactionary Centrism

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 18th 2022 11:16am EST

    I thought it was a good article. Matt Bai is a PMC and a liberal, but he isn’t a woke progressive. He isn’t comfortable with the fanatics who have seized control of the Democratic Party. There are a lot of deeply closeted people out there like Bai who have been alienated by the triumph of […]

  • David Brooks: The Dark Century

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 17th 2022 9:43pm EST

    David Brooks is in a dark and foreboding mood tonight. New York Times: “In the early 1990s I was a roving correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Europe. Some years it felt as if all I did was cover good news: the end of the Soviet Union, Ukrainians voting for independence, German reunification, […]

  • James Traub: What The Pundits Get Wrong About Biden’s Presidency

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 17th 2022 5:08pm EST

    James Traub, the author of What Was Liberalism?, is pushing back against the conventional wisdom in Washington. Traub argues that the doomed push for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and Build Back Better was exactly the medicine that was needed to stop the virus of resurgent Trumpism. Politico: “In recent weeks, a new conventional […]

  • Spectacles Media: Thomas Main on Illiberalism

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 15th 2022 4:45pm EST

    Professor Thomas Main is an anachronism. This is how he is perceived by the “lumpen intelligentsia” of illiberalism. The man is a relic of his time and place which is a bygone age. What do I mean by that? “Normal” for Thomas Main is late 20th century New York. It is America and the world […]

  • Justin Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act To Assume Dictatorial Powers

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 14th 2022 10:05pm EST

    Canadian Government is now suspending personal and corporate bank accounts of anyone involved in the blockade. pic.twitter.com/LzlyRrftPC — A Very Serious Place (@SeriousPIace) February 14, 2022 LMFAO Canadians Reacting To Trudeaupic.twitter.com/P3Ok06cQ9x — The Columbia Bugle ?? (@ColumbiaBugle) February 15, 2022 Trudeau brings martial law to Canada. pic.twitter.com/RsiTrChIMe — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 15, 2022 This […]

  • New York Times: Ugly Freedoms

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 5th 2022 12:07pm EST

    The New York Times published a very important new op-ed this morning which is highly relevant to our current debates about so-called “free speech” and the rights of non-experts. There are beautiful freedoms and ugly freedoms. The ability of someone like Donald Trump to reach a mass audience on social media is an ugly freedom. […]

  • Glenn Greenwald: Democrats Are Pressuring Companies To Censor For Them

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 3rd 2022 4:54pm EST

    We live in a funhouse mirror world. Nothing is really what it seems to be in this world. In this world, the “illiberals” are the people who are loudly opposed to censorship and who support free speech. Meanwhile, the “liberals” are the people who want to censor the internet to stop the spread of “disinformation” […]

  • Tucker Carlson: Censor Rogan!

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 3rd 2022 9:03am EST

    Liberalism is dead. Woke progressivism is the new governing ideology of the Democratic Party. The “illiberal Right” devotes much of its time these days to pointing out how liberal institutions like the New York Times or The Atlantic were conquered from within by young leftists.