I’m genuinely trying to help you, @LauraLoomer. You are having a psychiatric episode. A few weeks ago you truly believed you had uncovered me hiding wealth (in a most basic trust structure) from the French government. You also truly believed you discovered my husband and I living in separate homes. The following week you truly believed that I was fleeing (with my husband) to the Vatican in Italy to run from the FBI’s office investigation into the SPLC, which you claimed had funded me. You similarly believed I was coordinating with the Pope against Trump alongside other podcasters.
You now have pivoted to a new frantic belief that you have uncovered a plot which involves me being funded by Russia, and which includes secret meetings (in Italy) with Alexander Dugin and special access to the Kremlin. Despite evidence that you have been comically wrong about literally everything, you continue to publicly applaud yourself because grandiose delusions of self often accompany these episodes. This is textbook stuff. I know you truly believe you are helping the President and that he loves you , but you are not and he does not. His advisors are terrified of your obsession and you really need to step away and address your underlying psychiatric needs.
@Neurofluoresce This is too funny now it’s the US controls Israel because our president wanted to break from their maximalist desires after giving them at least 75% of what they wanted. Also what they need our help to do. No appreciation just absolute snobby BS like this person.
The ideological core is Trotsky. The neocons actually took from him. It also kinda depends on what you think about because we’re not going around actually promoting majority rules democracy. I’m more of a representative republic guy myself but to each his own. It’s about world building using the military and defending that system at all costs. It is branding that’s what James has done with his anti communist label but his whole entire focus is just being woke and offended for just one minority he thinks is most important. He also carries that same offended about everything tone to Israel criticism
Today is dunk on James Lindsay day. I have something special for all of you. By the end of it I hope you’ll understand that James Lindsay has stretched the definition of Woke so far you could apply it to almost anything. I started out with his argument about how people who criticize Israel on the right are woke and simply replaced the Israel concepts with another country. Finding a way to make the grievance politics and oppressor oppression narratives related to China was easy when I used the logic James has. Here is my result:
“The “China Question” as Grievance Politics
The classical anxieties about rising civilizations and “yellow peril” have been reborn through the critical lens as the China Question: “What do we do about this competent, cohesive, high-achieving civilization that refuses to play the role of perpetual victim in the oppressor/oppressed script?” Legitimate concerns about CCP totalitarianism, IP theft, military expansionism, Uyghur policies, or Belt and Road debt-trap diplomacy exist and can be addressed through liberal realism—deterrence, alliances, reciprocity, and competition. But the grievance style of China criticism, especially the obsessive, totalizing kind that dominates certain corners, operates as wokeness by another name: a pseudo-religious critical consciousness that reads all Chinese success or assertiveness as proof of hidden power structures that must be deconstructed.
On the left, this takes the familiar postcolonial form. China becomes the Han settler-colonial oppressor against “indigenous” Tibetans, Uyghurs, or Taiwanese; its economic rise is reframed not as lifting hundreds of millions from poverty via market reforms, but as exploitation of the Global South and “stolen” technology. Asian achievement gets pathologized as “model minority” complicity or systemic privilege. On the dissident right, it mirrors the same epistemology: conspiratorial spirals about omnipotent CCP infiltration of everything, every domestic failure blamed on eternal Chinese plots, cultural or demographic anxiety dressed up as existential civilizational war demanding purity tests and isolation. This is critical theory for nationalists—power analysis over evidence, moral inversion, and resentment-driven gnosticism that sees a hidden cabal behind competence and order.
That’s the tell: wokeness isn’t ultimately about the target—it’s about the method. Real critique of the CCP strengthens civilization through clear-eyed realism. Grievance politics weaponizes selective outrage, double standards, and totalizing narratives to demoralize and invert. The China Question, like its predecessors, often reveals more about the critic’s ideology than about China itself. When “woke” expands to pathologize any robust pushback against a genuine authoritarian rival, it shows how the framework has been stretched into a universal solvent for any inconvenient competence or threat assessment.”
From this mirror experiment you can only come to one of two conclusions I think. Either James Lindsay has stretched the definition of Woke so far I can literally apply it to almost anything or everyone’s opinions and actions including Israel could fit into the category. In fact James Lindsay uses the fringe ideology on the right to paint more moderate people as adjacent to extreme. If you look at the pro Israel lobby they all believe Qatar is responsible for everyone disliking Israel around the world. It’s not even fringe with them. Your grievance against left wing politics is something I could fit into his definition.
If you get the chance share this with James Lindsay. He blocked me for pointing stuff like this out.
@ConceptualJames
@Joshua_the_car How is this new reporting from Glenn beck not in lockstep with Russiagate 2016? Maybe you guys don’t understand what you’re doing. Maybe you do.
https://t.co/FQEJxYTDUD
@RedWhiteBlueJew Oh wow a false dichotomy. Which one shall I pick??? I don’t want to be accused of wanting Americans to die. This type of emotional blackmail might be successful with the lower IQ individuals
It's wild to watch MAGA now sound exactly like Rachel Maddow and Adam Schiff when talking about RUSSIA.
Russian civilization has produced remarkable works of literature, science, religion, architecture, politics. It's fascinating to visit. Talking to Russians is not sinister.
Guess what we’re still selling Israel offensive weapons. This temper tantrum the ultra pro Israel Right is having is very eye opening. It seems to me they were using Trump and our movement to get what they want. Instead of getting 100% of what they want right now they’re at risk of only getting 75% of what they want. The 100% was totally unrealistic and not even agreed upon by the way.
@eli13027 In fact I think they feel the same way about it when people try to say we’re harming some trans minority or something or pointing out what we do with the prison system or native Americans.
I completely disagree. In fact I would say the James Lindsay type crowd is actually along the lines of Trotskyists aggressively criticizing Stalinism. In fact Trotsky seems to be the main ideology behind the neoconservative mindset that has evolved over time. They brand themselves as anti communist but are only there to support the neoconservative ultra interventionist mindset spreading democracy and pro Israel sentiment across the world with our military. It’s very similar. But obviously from the Chinese perspective they have a different idea than were stealing your IP and persecuting the Uyghurs
If you’re so deep into an ideology that you’re riding with another country’s flag in the bio don’t get surprised when the more nationalist side of politics criticizes you. They did the same to all the Ukraine flag in be bio people. You over analyzing a small quip doesn’t really help your case. Especially when you’re talking about people who’s whole thing is going out of their echo chamber and debating compared to the on a who say “how dare you platform them”.