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which I think is particularly clever because it would rope in normies to become race conscious
Where our government is a computerized Overlord and changes the political operating system
Love the idea of the app. Seems like you could only exclude leftists through marketing/branding of the app.
@comcast well for any election that runs on a primary system it would be easy enough to just not include the leftist candidates, making the app far less useful
Right, no info at all about the opposition
right
and then yes, internal branding and culture would be powerfully exclusionary too
especially if it did something like inform you if the candidate was jewish or something
like a little yellow star icon
Apple wouldn't carry that lmao
They would not
politics is arcane
if the alt-right wants to shift the american right's trajectory, it needs to seize the right's structure, which is basically the state party organizations
so an app aimed at alt-rightists that provided insight into local party structure and procedure in a digestible and actionable way would be very disruptive
more importantly, it would encourage some subset of users who have the right skillset to not just show up for votes, but join and involve themselves and carry their alt-rightist views into the party structure.
that part requires a certain cohesive ideological / policy platform though, which is the foundational political work that I'm not really sure is being done at this point. Arguably Land and Moldbug and Jared Taylor, then some random outliers like Pat Buchanan
There's also the old school dudes like Mencken and Spengler and Gentile and etc but those just have to be influences, they can't be the source of policy for a modern party
What the alt-right needs is people who have like public policy doctorates, econ phds, legal, military, or governmental experience to start a think-tank and publish some policy papers that provide data-driven policy proposals for alt-right positions such as immigration or corporate personhood or import tariffs on the federal level, and regulatory stuff on the state level. Legislatures and lobbyists rely on these proposals and studies to introduce bills and argue for their new laws.
That tactic, in turn, depends on a philosophical/theoretical unification or at least general clustering of the alt-right as a cohesive platform. Like, how do we think a state should run? What should it pay for and what should it not pay for? Do the anarcho/libertarian elements of the alt-right impede our ability to use the state to encourage certain cultural pursuits and discourage others?
what is the appropriate balance between state and federal power? Fascists might disagree with Libertarians or Trad types.
Having determined that federalism question, what changes need to be made? Does the supreme court need to quit using the Commerce Clause to expand federal power?
there's no well-resolved picture of what a government would look like from us yet.
At least, not within the current constitutional framework. Certainly some people would argue we should institute nazi germany or the monarchy or an anarchist non-state and just ignore the constitution.
One option. But i think not a very likely one in the next few decades
@UOC I AM NOT SURE THAT POLICY PAPERS WILL WORK, GIVEN THE LOW TRUST IN INSTITUTIONS
BUT IT IS AN INTERESTING IDEA
I think it's just something that needs to be there. It's not the motivating force or the main driver or anything. But at some point somebody is going to have to pass a law with specific policy positions.
unless there's a real revolution obviously
it's the boring part, except for spergs like me who like it
this kind of thing
but more
Are you guys chatting? @diversity_is_racism @comcast
@Parasite I AM LAGGING
ARE YOU JOINING IN?
Sure maybe in a few minutes, just waiting for Anti-Cimex album to end
I'm in now
woo, sent all of my quote requests
congrats
hopefully spergs reply quickly