Weekly Round-Up 11/11/2024
Sorry to keep you waiting, complicated business
Hi everyone,
Hell of a week!
Welcome to all the new subscribers to this Substack. A very large number of you were brought here by my post-election essay Project 2035: Building a Trump Movement to Last, where I laid out my many grievances with the modern Right in the run-up to our most recent election and propose a few potential solutions to these problems. This is the most popular and widely-read essay in this Substack’s history.
There’s a lot of content on this Substack that even I’ve forgotten about. The direction of this Substack has changed many times and will probably change in the future. Here are a few highlights:
Contemporary politics - I hate this subject, but these essays inevitably end up being the most well-read pieces.
Political and cultural transformation in the era of massive psychic damage
Political post-mortem of Ron DeSantis: The Caudillo who wasn't there
History - This is what I enjoy writing about the most. There is so much great content out there that is largely forgotten but very revealing about our current predicament. Also, be sure to finish the Clarence Darrow and Russian Revolution series. People never bother to read the later parts of these multi-part essays but they’re very good!
In March 1914 socialist mobs invaded churches all over New York City
The 1932 Bonus Army scandal was always communist propaganda
ACLU hero Clarence Darrow bribed juror to try to free bombers who killed 21 people (Part II) (Part III)
You really should read this brief introduction to the Russian Revolution series (I spent a lot of time on this, please read it)
Part 1: The February and October Revolutions
Part 2: Post-Revolution Russian politics/The aftermath of the October Revolution
Part 3: National and ethnic divisions within the Russian Empire/The Ice March
Part 4: Ukraine, Finland, and the Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion/Regicide
Part 5: Disaster for Lenin/Enter Wrangel
Current events - Hate writing these, mostly because they are so depressing and I don’t have the constitution to churn out clickbait at a regular clip. Still, more people should know about these stories.
Judge gives BLM gunman 70 days in jail for firing at car on highway, hitting bystanders
BLM gunman convicted of manslaughter, not murder, for shooting police officer to death
Finally, there is the podcast. I think the podcast is really great, frankly. Crazy to think that there have been more than 50 episodes so far. The most recent episode covered Halo: Combat Evolved (2001) but the topics jump around between movies, games, TV shows, and books. No edrama allowed. All the podcast episodes can be found below.
Finally, I’d like to humbly ask you to upgrade to a paid subscription right now. This will give you access to all the podcast episodes available on this Substack, it also really helps me out a lot. It’s only $5 a month to upgrade to paid and it really makes a big difference in my life. If just a very small fraction of readers upgraded, I wouldn’t have to ask. I am sincerely grateful to all paid subscribers, and think all free subscribers should be killed in real life.
Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled):
Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid)
Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free)
Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a shit on your stupid Civil War 2 fantasy (Free)
Ep4: "The Glorious Cause" is the best book on the American Revolution (that I've found) (Free)
Ep5: Your opinion on The Killer (2023) determines whether or not you have bad taste (Paid)
Ep6: Bitter master director Ridley Scott takes his time shitting out historical epic no one wanted (Free)
Ep7: This is the one (1) movie that you absolutely need to watch literally right now (Paid)
Ep8: Revenge thriller episode (Paid)
Ep9: Ride with the Devil (1999) is the best Civil War movie that I know you haven't seen yet (Free)
Ep10: 🚨ALERT🚨 Japanese launch devastating surprise attack on moviegoers' heartstrings (Paid)
Ep11: Total Recall (1990) was the sci-fi slaughterhouse America needed and deserved (Paid)
Ep12: I watched a bunch of the new DailyWire+ original movies last week... (Paid)
Ep13: If you don't force your family to watch this movie for Christmas, they will despise you (Paid)
Ep14: Emergency surprise free Christmas review of the Prometheus Engineer chronicles (2012) (Free)
Ep16: Someone finally made a good Afghanistan War movie and nobody noticed (Paid)
Ep17: If you don't watch this new movie in theaters, you are betraying me and yourself (Paid)
Ep18: Michael Mann’s Ferrari is the death-song of Esoteric Boomerism (Heat is overrated btw) (Paid)
Ep19: This forgotten Russian Civil War memoir shows why "Ruralite retreat" localism is dumb (Free)
Ep20: "In ‘First Man,’ Triumph for White Male Dreams" -The Harvard Crimson (Paid)
Ep21: Hunt: Showdown is a late 1800s horror-shooter that simulates normal life in Maryland (Paid)
Ep22: COMBAT DROP! Surprise Emergency Free Starship Troopers (1997) Sunday Show (Free)
Ep23: Dune 2 was unironically really bad and you’re actually stupid if you enjoyed it (Free)
Ep24: Witness (1985) is a masterclass in the lost art of the popular thriller (Paid)
Ep25: Returning to the scene of the crime against cinema, the Dune 2 rewatch episode (Paid)
Ep26: I rewatched The Lord of the Rings and all I could think about was how bad Dune 2 was (Paid)
Ep27: The new Road House movie is an obscene act of cultural terrorism (Paid)
Ep28: This is most important Dune 2 podcast episode that you'll ever listen to (Paid)
Ep29: If you don't follow this esoteric health advice you are actually going to die (Paid)
Ep30: Free ($0) sample episode - What is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl about? (Free)
Ep32: Canadians accidentally made a sci-fi movie about the Ukraine War in 1995 (Paid)
Ep33: The new Fallout TV show is really, really, bad (Paid)
Ep34: I found the single most important American history book for rightwingers to read today (Paid)
Ep35: The differences between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 are a little too relevant to today's problems (Paid)
Ep36: Why exactly has Fallout: New Vegas stuck around for so long? (Paid)
Ep37: The long-awaited/much-demanded review of A Perfect World (1993) (Paid)
Ep38: ($0 free episode) Cyberpunk 2077 is the one game you need to play before the 2024 election (Free)
Ep39: Should you watch Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga? (Paid)
Ep40: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty shows us how to complete a perfect story (Paid)
Ep41: You really *really* need to watch the first Mad Max movie (Paid)
Ep42: You really really *really* need to watch Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (Paid)
Ep43: The Bikeriders is an eternal story about cultural decline in a very small place (Paid)
Ep44: Is new western Horizon (2024) the start of Kevin Costner's redemption arc? (Paid)
Ep45: The Ultimate Bladerunner 2049 Retrospective (Paid)
Ep46: Should people who enjoyed new movie Alien: Romulus (2024) be killed? (Paid)
Ep47: Everyone who didn't enjoy Top Gun: Maverick should be beaten to death with hammers (Paid)
Ep48: I am humbly requesting that you watch Andrei Rublev (1966) right now (Paid)
Ep49: New movie Megalopolis (2024) is a grand failure of Boomer Lib vision (Paid)
Ep50: I have very bad news about Joker 2 (Paid)
Ep51: Why exactly is Dead Rising the greatest zombie game of all time? (Paid)
Ep52: I watched terrible new Trump movie The Apprentice (2024) so you don't have to (Paid)
Ep54: ELECTION DAY SPECIAL! The definitive Halo: Combat Evolved retrospective (Paid)
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