Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

I’m afraid you’ve proven that catching Covid turned out to be a bit of an IQ test. Kind of a cruel assessment—but a more accurate conclusion than “Covid lowers IQ.” — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

“The origin of the problem seems to be that many physicists are Platonists.” https://t.co/ilaW6FvD1U — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Conservatives are endlessly 30 behind on ideology, retreading ground the Left has already abandoned. In the 2050s, Quillette editors will be praising CRT for its respect for human dignity or some such. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

They just couldn’t help themselves… https://t.co/aCPpw7FSsn — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@FredMacKen @amorvincat @TiAIjatLKoML4B5 @Poensgen_JK None of this is to say that mythical elements aren't woven into the Hebrew Bible and New Covenant—that these texts aren't responding to previous myth systems. But, again, the demands of Judaism and Christianity on the minds of its adherents are much higher than, say, Hinduism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FredMacKen @amorvincat @TiAIjatLKoML4B5 @Poensgen_JK You can't really be a Christian and think that the execution and resurrection are just metaphors. If you're a Christian, these things actually happened! The demands of the religion on the critical faculty are much greater than any pagan faith. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@FredMacKen @amorvincat @TiAIjatLKoML4B5 @Poensgen_JK What's distinctive about Christianity and Judaism is that, on one level, it is *not* a myth. Yes, the first few chapters of Genesis (Creation, Adam, and Eden) are written in mythical language, but afterwards it is something like "history" in the contemporary sense. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KetaMeanGirl @TiAIjatLKoML4B5 @amorvincat @Poensgen_JK I’ve not read Carrier’s book, but I’ll get around to it. We’re all in alignment that Christianity was consciously and mythically developed, generations after Jesus’ putative death. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TiAIjatLKoML4B5 @amorvincat @Poensgen_JK Ehrman’s a fantastic scholar. I would describe him as a “disappointed Christian” or even a crypto-Christian. His motive is to uncover a root Jesus teaching; this puts him at odds with established, organized churches. But he’s not anti-Christian in the way of, say, Nietzsche. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TiAIjatLKoML4B5 @amorvincat @Poensgen_JK There are interesting sections in Ehrman’s *How Jesus Became God* questioning whether Jesus actually conceived of himself as messiah—or whether that was developed by later generations as the Gospels were composed. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@TiAIjatLKoML4B5 @amorvincat @Poensgen_JK That said, acknowledging such things does not mean that Jesus didn’t become fundamentally mythical, and that, indeed, Christianity was consciously developed as a myth in the generations after Jesus’ death. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@TiAIjatLKoML4B5 @amorvincat @Poensgen_JK I’m generally of the opinion that there was, in fact, an itinerant preacher from Nazareth named Jesus who was crucified in Jerusalem around 30 AD. We obviously cannot be certain about this, and much of the textual evidence is a bit dubious. But I’m not a “hard” mythicist. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ScienceLs: https://t.co/dAFrNn8pQB — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @KirkegaardEmil: Conservative values https://t.co/IP6dDlkAC8 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GenZGOPLs: https://t.co/sLF9HdBgGy — PolitiTweet.org

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No one gets ratioed like Spencer gets ratioed. 🤣 https://t.co/RQrVoMzUuR — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@MarkBrahmin You clearly haven’t read the Gospel. Matthew (5:28): Thou hast heard that those who deadlift under 750 lbs. are girly men. But I say to you that anyone whose max is anywhere under 750 lbs. in his heart will be cast into eternal lululemon.” ~Jesus Christ — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @kaitlancollins: An Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated patients who are dying of Covid-19, and consoling their families afterward.… — PolitiTweet.org

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*HIPAA — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@BandlerAaron https://t.co/8XdjezZY0L — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

By poking fun at Trump’s base, and not shrilly denouncing it, Tom Brady and Joe Biden put themselves *above* polarization—truly national figures, distinct from the partisan hacks. https://t.co/zhpVgVDLQs — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The “lock-downs” and mask mandates are ending, or are going to end soon. Vaccines are safe. The Right spent more than a year obsessing about the most ridiculous nonsense imaginable and soon will have nothing to show for it. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The wacky “shibboleth” strategy of the American Right—and increasingly the Right in Western Europe—simply cannot ever win, even when it, on occasion, gets something right. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Instead, Trump pursued this bizarre strategy of denying Covid…while bragging about travel bans… overseeing the development of the vaccines … while undermining them in the press. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

If Trump had dispensed with the “power of positive thinking” nonsense and become a doom-saying Covid fascist, he would have won in 2020, maybe even established lasting policy. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Trump couldn’t develop a nationalist and statesman-like response, first, because of Wall Street and then because his base went “all in” with conspiracy theories. Trump was unwilling, perhaps unable, to tell them “no.” — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The great irony of Covid is that Trump had an opportunity, early on, to own the issue and win big: The Democrats were crying “racism” and opposing travel bans; Trump’s initial instincts were sound; and the pandemic led to a de-facto nationalism and a renewed respect for borders. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Sometimes that “lib owning” position can touch on more existential issues. But more often than not, it’s simply wacky: Covid doesn’t exist…the vaccines are the real virus…the Democrats are eating babies… etc. This all started with Obama’s birth certificate. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The dynamic of the Trump movement is that you stake out the most “lib owning,” “wing nut” position possible, and then demand that others comply or run cover for you, or at least don’t denounce or correct you. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

In 2016, I genuinely believed in an “Overton Window” thesis about Trump. Trump himself was always stupid and bombastic, but, I thought, he was pushing the entire GOP base towards existential issues, like identity. That did happen to a degree, but something else was at play. — PolitiTweet.org