Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Things move extremely fast: news breaks... hot takes are put forth and critized and debated... trends emerge, peak, and disappear... Output that would occur across years in the 20th century takes place over the course of minutes online. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

But as we’ve found out, the laws of power are still in effect in cyberspace. One can produce almost anything on YouTube—produce the most bizarre or inane “content” imaginable—but only within the boundaries of the regime’s taboo system and power structure. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

On the Internet, the normal rules of decorum no longer apply. A person who is mild mannered in real life (that is, in the presence of other humans), can act like a wild man or freak in the hyper-reality of social media. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Pewdiepie’s various politically incorrect outbursts were funny precisely because they were meaningless hijinx, the quest to seem “edgy” and “ironic” in cyberspace. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Genuflecting to the ADL is a “cost of doing business” for Pewdiepie. His business was never and will never be social or political change. It is offering his dislocated and isolated fans a simulation of “community” and sense of meaning in their lonely and listless existence. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

If the Internet had been around in the first half of the 20th century, Lenin, Hitler, and Mao would not have achieved revolutions faster or more decisively. They’d probably never have achieved power at all, having spent their waking hours complaining about shit online. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

I could go on, but the point is that all these assumptions are childish and wrong. Participating in the Web is not participating in politics and power; it’s participating in a simulation of politics and power, not too different from playing “Age of Empires.” — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

4) Talking about social problems that’ve arisen since 1965, will change the power structure and our situation within it; 5) The Internet is free! 6) Masses of people have “had enough” and will soon “wake up”; 7) We aren’t dissidents; we’re cool, edgy, ironic nationalists. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

These assumptions include: 1) All power is on the Internet and social media; 2) Alternative media will soon replace the “dying” establishment media; 3) Cliques of red-pilled people talking to each other on forums is a productive use of time and resources; — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

We like to make fun of Boomers for being clueless, but this was the ultimate Zoomer fantasy—and one based on a series of fallacious assumptions. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The “strategy” went something like this: Step 1: Red-Pill amusing eCeleb or professional gamer Step 2: Get him or her to make a “based” declaration Step 3: ??? Outcome: Total Victory — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

We should be introspective about the #pewdiepie/ADL debacle. In 2016-17, so many (including myself) indulged in this fantasy that a “based,” though non-political, figure from the Internet, would red-pill his millions of fans and change the world. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@westland_will If Trump wanted to start a war that would help him get reelected (à la Bush), that window has closed. The 2020 campaign is in full force, so don’t expect any major policy to develop from here on out. If Trump manages to win next year, he’ll be a lame duck from day 1. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @mtracey: Bolton was also a huge anti-Russia hawk and championed initiatives like blowing up the INF Treaty, but of course that was all… — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@pwndbyagirl @Rajon___ I’ve never had any ill will towards @Styx666Official and I’ve talked with and debated him multiple time. I’d be happy to do it again. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

It’s amazing how close the neocons and other “humanitarians” were to launching a strike on Iran—literally minutes away. Trump deserves blame for surrounding himself with these people; he deserves an ounce of credit for not letting them live out their sick dreams of another war. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

I don’t trust Trump, and I don’t see the Bolton firing as the turning point when Trump goes full MAGA 2016 and appoints Gen. Flynn or anything like that. That being said... The window for an Iran invasion has closed. And that’s a good thing for the world. 🍾🥂 — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @johnrobb: This is the "international hook" that will allow the big, bad, hundred billion dollar, counter-terror machine to focus inward… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @staceyabrams: Georgia’s electorate is growing fast and changing rapidly. We need a strategy with big, early investments to take advanta… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EsemicolonR: Aw man https://t.co/Et76uouc8H — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @mtracey: Bolton is one of the few remaining unrepentant Iraq War hawks in the United States (even McCain repented on his death bed) and… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattduss: Bolton now considering releasing the Iran war on his own independent label. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @parkercassidy4: Hyperreality + social media = self-imposed dehumanization. https://t.co/N8uuKgb7A5 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TulsiGabbard: Good riddance. If Trump really was for peace, he never would have hired Bolton, Pompeo, Haley, and the rest of those neoc… — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The neocons and conservative movement —for whom Bolton was a champion—simply couldn’t abide Trump’s realism, as it would amount to admitting defeat in Washington’s Afghan boondoggle, which has stretched across two-decades. — PolitiTweet.org

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With the situation not fundamentally changing, Trump, understandably, wanted to engage in peace talks with the Taliban, which is effectively a state actor in a region that’s somewhere between civil war and divided, patchwork sovereignty. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The Taliban had control over much of Afghanistan in 2017, when Trump announced a troop buildup and plan to “kill terrorists” and not nation-build. https://t.co/f7RfYdSGBH — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Ilhan: Cancelling $1.6 trillion student debt will help 45 million Americans. 🏡Buy a house 👶🏽Start a family 💼Start a business 📈Stimula… — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Ding dong, the witch is dead! But I have to ask: if Trump "disagrees strongly" with Bolton, why hire him in the first place? It's not like Bolton's "policies suggestions" were a great mystery. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @mtracey: Trump declares today that negotiations to end the Afghanistan war are "dead": no media outrage Trump declares over the weeken… — PolitiTweet.org