Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Maybe Rudy was just tucking in his shirt... maybe he had images of an afternoon delight with a blonde bimbo dancing through his head. I wouldn't fault him if the latter were the case. He's a man, after all, and we can't expect moral perfection. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

This brings us to the recent scene involving Rudy Giuliani. I won't cast judgement on Rudy, because the scene is heavily edited and the whole thing is obviously a setup. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a double move here, too. In many instances, Brüno is depicted as an Austrian crypto-Nazi. Thus, the system can subliminally infer that "fascism" arises due to hidden sexual perversion and "repression." — PolitiTweet.org

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Cohen can play to the gay stereotype with Brüno precisely because Cohen himself has the stamp of approval by the liberal system. We're thus allowed to laugh at the gay minstrel show precisely because the moral and political battle over homosexuality has already been decided. — PolitiTweet.org

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The funny moments in Cohen's films are purchased on the cheap. They come when the audience is allowed to indulge in crude racism and sexism, usually coming from the mouth of Borat himself. Or, in the guise of "Brüno," when we're granted the right to laugh at an absurd queen. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sacha Baron Cohen films—and the "Borat" character, in particular—are the ultimate form of postmodern thought policing. After all, the best kind of racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, and homophobia is that which the system controls. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@holyinventions @KeithWoodsYT This is kinda what I was getting at last night. "Time" is a category in the human mind; it's how we perceive the world, but it's not in the world itself. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TitaniaMcGrath: The term” female” is outdated and disrespectful. From now on, I demand to be referred to as a bleeder. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@parkercassidy4 This is true. Our two movie theaters in Montana were decent enough. One has closed permanently. Some theaters were smart: serving food and cocktails and having lounge seats, etc.. But many were simply crappy experiences. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KeithWoodsYT I also imagine the theaters will try to survive by demanding the studios make huge, 3-hour Stan Lee epics, featuring every comic book character ever in one final battle to save humanity. A movie like *Tenet*, which was both intellectual and badass, simply won't be made again. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KeithWoodsYT Yea. I think theaters might survive (barely) by replaying classics, which would be cool. I loved the Logan Theater in Chicago. I've seen *Solaris*, *2001*, *The Shining*, *Gone With The Wind*, *The Searchers* etc. on the big screen. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JPConway4 No. Tenet seems to have lost a lot of money in theaters. It had a 200 million budget. The film fails as entertainment, but its ideas are actually quite interesting. I don’t think they’ll make a movie like that again. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

We should give the devil his due, even when the devil is Hollywood! Cinemas are part of a theatrical tradition stretching back to the ancient world. Streaming won’t change the content— if anything, films will get more toxic—but it’s a seismic shift in our lived experience. — PolitiTweet.org

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I find this sad. Streaming means, to a great extent, watching alone; in other words it’s part of a macro trend towards loneliness, isolation, and despair. — PolitiTweet.org

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People have been talking about streaming supplanting theaters for a while… With *Tenet* failling on its face and James Bond, apparently, going to streaming (coinciding with a global release), we might just see the “end of cinema“ in the next few years. https://t.co/6HE1MHuvuu — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Peter_Turchin: The Powder Keg Index And The Election From Hell https://t.co/RnFWmxUpLL via @paldhous — PolitiTweet.org

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@FredNietzky I don’t deny that he’s “dynamite,” but the mood I focus on is also relevant. I’d check out Laurence Lampert’s *Nietzsche’s Teaching.” — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The outcome of deplatforming. More shitty conservative content. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@AltJewish Nietzsche addresses “realism” in your sense of the word; but he does it in his way, which I sense you dislike. “Piety” was at the heart of the scientific project; but that project eventually undermined piety. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lucycali88 Okay. That's your sincerely held belief. Fair enough. For what it's worth, I, too, think Jesus was a real person, although we misunderstand his teaching. He was a prophet of imminent apocalypse, not too dissimilar from Zarathustra. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PraticOslo Yeah... — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@lucycali88 What in the hell do you mean by Christianity being "literal"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@FLBL2020 I still have some Latin rattling around my brain. Some French... I wish I wasn't banned in all these countries. I'd improve my foreign language skills. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @threadreaderapp: @BoilMaster Hola, please find the unroll here: @RichardBSpencer: It's not wrong—not entirely—to read Nietzsche as the… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Wolf44114251 @almightygenie @KetaMeanGirl If you want to understand the imagination of millions of people—perhaps every White person in North America and Western Europe—then you must seek to understand someone like Steven Spielberg. He taught us how to dream. Studying him is more important, arguable, than biochemistry! — PolitiTweet.org

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@Wolf44114251 @almightygenie @KetaMeanGirl People criticizing Mark (and by extension me) for his analysis of pop culture is massively misguided. It's possibly the worst of their bad critiques—and that's saying something! — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

But again, Nietzsche's response is that we have no choice. We must, in fact, say "yes" to it—live through the catastrophe joyfully. The world is willing it anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The collapse of this 2000-year project is bringing about a catastrophe we can barely fathom. Moving beyond the Christian-Platonic project is, to borrow a metaphor, much like "reentering the cave." It is dark and terrifying. — PolitiTweet.org

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The catastrophe of today (for Nietzsche and us) is the self-destruction of the Platonic-Christian project. Again, this project was itself nihilistic, in Nietzsche's view, in that it valued the "other world" or "afterlife" over life. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The Platonic and Christian project ended the ancient world—and it smothered the wisdom and approach ("sense of life") that we can glimpse from what remains from the pre-Platonic philosophers. — PolitiTweet.org