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  • Tucker Carlson Interviews U.S. Navy Pilot Who Spotted ‘Tic Tac’ UFO

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 24th 2020 11:02pm EDT

    Given 2020 so far… I wouldn’t be surprised if an alien invasion is the October surprisehttps://t.co/MSCtvtJUj4— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) July 25, 2020 Why is this coming out now? Maybe things are getting so bad on so many fronts that our leaders are desperate to talk anything else to change the subject? Note: I’ve seen […]

  • Today’s Absurdities

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 24th 2020 9:20pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Flannery O’Connor: Showing the moral and intellectual fortitude one would expect, @LoyolaMaryland has now preemptively canceled #Flannery O’Connor. A statement from the president, Brian F. Linnane, S.J.: pic.twitter.com/Watr2L58RY— Joseph Bottum (@JosephBottum) July 24, 2020 For the racist perspective of her personal writings which are in conflict with […]

  • The Burden of the 20th Century

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 24th 2020 5:34pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: I apologize for not being quicker to approve comments. I have been working on this article. If you are a devoted fan of this website, then chances are you are a dissident who resents the crushing burden of the 20th century, particularly the West as it has existed in the post-World War II […]

  • Pentagon Will Disclose Some UFO Findings

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 23rd 2020 9:26pm EDT

    So, it was casually dropped this evening at the New York Times that aliens are probably real and have crashed on earth and UFOs have possibly been recovered by the government. New York Times: “Despite Pentagon statements that it disbanded a once-covert program to investigate unidentified flying objects, the effort remains underway — renamed and […]

  • Today’s Absurdities

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 23rd 2020 7:41pm EDT

    Major League Baseball: Members of the @SFGiants kneel during the National Anthem. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/QbvAvCZiEs— MLB (@MLB) July 21, 2020 Playing for more than ourselves.#BlackLivesMatter // #NATITUDE pic.twitter.com/su8AxUxTSt— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) July 23, 2020 These boys ? #NYYforNY @TorresGleyber @Urshela10 @ElGarySanchez pic.twitter.com/UlwSA4nyOi— New York Yankees (@Yankees) July 23, 2020 Equality is not just a word, it’s […]

  • Senate Republicans Vote To Rename Military Bases That Honor Confederate Generals

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 23rd 2020 4:01pm EDT

    If the GOP fails to hold the Senate in the 2020 election, well, I am afraid we are doomed. USA Today: “WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly passed a massive defense bill Thursday afternoon that includes the removal of Confederate names from army bases and creates a possible showdown between Congress and President Donald Trump, who opposes renaming the bases. The bill passed by […]

  • Portents of Doom

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 23rd 2020 1:42pm EDT

    So, this has happened over the past two months: LIT UP: Lightning strikes in the distance behind the Statue of Liberty as severe storms move through the New York City area. https://t.co/PUubMhbiO2 pic.twitter.com/xzheR3pCGM— ABC News (@ABC) July 23, 2020 maybe if the Washington Monument obeyed the Lightning’s orders it wouldn’t have gotten hit pic.twitter.com/wDIfI1visz— Phil […]

  • Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Addresses “Mostly Peaceful Protests”

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 23rd 2020 1:18pm EDT

    Portland: This isn’t the first time @JoAnnPDX has made shocking allegations without evidence. Last month she blamed the first night of Portland rioting and looting on white supremacists: pic.twitter.com/mIl5v6ljS9— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 23, 2020 White Nationalists are to blame. Donald Trump is also to blame. Portland pic.twitter.com/JSUOBh5Ohm— maria viti (@selfdeclaredref) July 23, 2020 Portland […]

  • “Mostly Peaceful Protests” Continue In Portland

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 9:17pm EDT

    What do you think? Portland looks perfectly under control to me. Graphic: Shane V. Green, who is black, walked inside a NE Portland laundromat & used a sharp handsaw to attack two women. Responding police located him on a nearby street but the arrest was interrupted by Portlanders who screamed at & taunted officers, accusing […]

  • Thomas B. Edsall: ‘The Whole of Liberal Democracy Is in Grave Danger at This Moment’

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 7:27pm EDT

    In The New York Times, Thomas B. Edsall warns that the Right is drifting away from liberal democracy and toward authoritarian democracy. New York Times: “In the continuing debate over whether liberals or conservatives are more open minded, whether those on the left or the right are more rigid in their thinking, a team of […]

  • Today’s Absurdities

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 4:32pm EDT

    John Muir: The Sierra Club, nation’s oldest conservation group, is denouncing the racism of founder John Muir, the ‘father of national parks’ https://t.co/dDMgHzFXe4— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 22, 2020 “It is essential that we try to understand John Muir in all his complexity. He was a man of his times, who actively worked to […]

  • Woke Supremacy Is Surprisingly Unpopular

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 2:10pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. The first data point comes from The Washington Post which shows a huge retreat in public support over the past month from the so-called “racial justice movement.” As the reaction to woke supremacy has gathered momentum, there has been a 15 point decline in support for seeing […]

  • An Intellectual History of “Woke” Left Modernism

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2020 1:14am EDT

    Left Modernism is ubiquitous. It is synonymous with American mainstream culture which is a composite mix of liberalism, modernism and cosmopolitanism. It is essentially what we are against. Modernism rejects authority and tradition in favor of self-interest, self-expression, self-achievement, self-realization, self-fulfillment and self-advancement. It rejects the past in favor of the future. It is always […]

  • The Spanish Flu & How The World Recovered

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2020 9:57pm EDT

    History Time has a new documentary on the Spanish Flu.

  • Twitter Purges QAnon

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2020 8:36pm EDT

    BREAKING: Twitter says it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content and banned many of the conspiracy theory’s followers due to ongoing problems with harassment and the dissemination of misinformation. https://t.co/NwT9bGWkfx— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 22, 2020 We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that […]

  • Today’s Absurdities

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2020 4:49pm EDT

    Aristotle: Try not to burst out laughing. We thought this subject had been settled in the High Middle Ages in Peter Abelard’s time. The Rightwing Internet: Just noticed Google has removed several conservative websites from search results (at least on my end, in the UK). RedState, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Human Events, and more – all […]

  • Saying No To Critical Race Theory

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2020 3:19pm EDT

    This is a great overview of the genealogy of woke supremacy. I disagree with James Lindsay on three points though: 1.) First, I do not believe that race is a social construct that was invented in the 16th century to justify slavery and colonialism. Slavery wasn’t abolished by Spain and Portugal until the late 19th […]

  • Social Justice Search Results

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2020 12:39pm EDT

    I seem to have been cancelled by @Google. If you search for my blog and blog posts, you don’t find it. Is this happening to any other conservatives?— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) July 21, 2020 Rod Dreher brought this to my attention. Rod has been blacklisted in Google search results. Guess who else is blacklisted and […]

  • The New York Times Is Doxxing Tucker Carlson

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 20th 2020 9:52pm EDT

    Tucker responds to intrusive reporting by The New York Times. pic.twitter.com/xj4z69G9cA— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 21, 2020 The downward spiral into the inevitable crisis continues. Note: Two months ago, George Floyd was still alive. Look how far we have come in just two months.

  • St. Louis Prosecutor Charges McCloskeys With Felony

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 20th 2020 9:26pm EDT

    This story has done more to radicalize normies than all our collective efforts over the course of the last twenty years combined. It also just the capstone of the events of the last two months.

  • American History Series: Cosmopolitanism and the Postwar Consensus

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 20th 2020 5:26pm EDT

    Conservatives must take a stand on Demographics @NickJFuentes pic.twitter.com/FMisovfV0q— Zoomer Patriot (@PatriotZoomer) July 20, 2020 I see that Nick Fuentes is banging his fists against the postwar consensus. Have you ever wondered why American conservatives are unable to defend themselves from the -isms and -phobias which are critiques and therapies which grew out of the […]

  • The Sovereignty of the Individual

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 20th 2020 2:41pm EDT

    We’re covered in shit. As I started at this graffiti covered statue of Robert E. Lee while dipping my feet in a swimming pool on a hot summer day, it hit me. It seems like this is all we do now. It has become a routine. We wake up in the morning, check the news, […]

  • Peter Turchin’s State Collapse Formula

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 20th 2020 1:45am EDT

    This has been on my mind lately. It is Peter Turchin’s formula of state collapse. Political Stress Index = Mass Mobilization Potential (MMP) x Elite Mobilization Potential (EMP) x State Fiscal Distress (SFD). Mass Mobilization Potential has three components: relative wages, urbanization rate and the effect of age structure. Basically, a measure of a surplus […]

  • Today’s Absurdities

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 19th 2020 8:11pm EDT

    Trader Joe’s: Trader Joe’s says it is in the process of phasing out names like “Trader Ming’s” and “Trader José” that have appeared on its international food productshttps://t.co/wr3BuZau9c— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 19, 2020 Grocery store chain Trader Joe’s says it is changing its ethnic food packaging after more than 1,400 people signed […]

  • American History Series: George Fitzhugh on The False Philosophy Of The Age

    Occidental Dissent - Jul 19th 2020 5:48pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. As we wait for the Portland riots to resume tonight on the West Coast, I am continuing to reread and reflect upon George Fitzhugh’s book Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters: “The moral philosophy of our age, (which term we generically use to include Politics, Ethics, and […]