He is an Ivy league PHD graduate who seemingly bounces around the world as he pleases, and is obviously from wealth. He pretends he is some fucking outlaw outsider, which is just absurd. He is a JINSA-affiliated neocon who went out of his way to engage with Bill Kristol.
(3) He is in tight with people like Mike Cernovich and Curtis Yarvin who have all promoted his weird book.
Bronze Age Mindset - Does Mike Anton Even Lift? https://t.co/5DpSqvUuVS
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) October 29, 2019
He has also been extensively fake criticized by various publications who always fail to dox him despite it being trivial. (until recently when it just became untenable.) He clearly has the support of some media group behind him that has coordinated his media exposure and runs his fake, obscenely overblown followers.
He has received funding from Peter Thiel's foundation at the very least, and I have good reason to assume that Andreessen/ Horowitz have likely kicked in funding.
He started off at the Salo forum which shut down around the time that Nicolo Soldo, who ran it, started his Substack, which is itself a very interesting thing to consider. Why would he spend his time on that forum? Seems like scouting for unhinged people to me, and it seems like Twitter was just a continuation of this role.
Note that Nicolo Soldo is himself very close with Marc Andreessen last time I checked, which explains why he interviews him and the likes of Greenwald. Then we have the Anton and Yarvin connection, because of course they would hype a Zionist Likudite. And, of course, he was pretty supportive of Jan 6, egging people on, a lot, because of course he was.
never forget 2/9/22 https://t.co/WcKXw9C686 pic.twitter.com/Gvpm8ifGCR
— lukeyoflowkey (@1337key133ky) January 23, 2023
Why?
And why is he encouraging members of US law enforcement to contact him as part of a secret society? And why is there a mass shooter linked to him?
cw: Denver mass shooting, neo-Nazism
— Luke Turner (@Luke_Turner) December 29, 2021
Lyndon McLeod, aka 'Roman McClay', the Denver mass shooter who just murdered 5 people, appears to have been heavily inspired by neo-Nazi figure 'Bronze Age Pervert' (BAP), a Romanian-American extremist whose real name is Costin Vlad Alamariu pic.twitter.com/3TSUKwGD4g
Originally published as a Twitter thread and slightly edited for the requirements of a blog post.
BAP and Jack Donovan have the same schtick. They are gay middle-class academic types who tell people to become violent criminals. We have "primitivist" bands of men in the US today living frontier lifestyles, they are called gangs and drug cartels. Neither of these guys would ever become a violent felon, of course.
ReplyDeleteWhy are some Republican donors backing this, in BAP's case? Its "Barstool conservatism". The political divide in 2023 is about culture war issues, not economics. Most young men are socially liberal and secular now, so Christian right stuff isn't going to appeal to many of them. So movement conservatism instead pushes things that are "anti-woke" and "anti-feminist" but still consistent with sleeping around, and not marrying--PUA stuff and people like Dave Portnoy and BAP. This keeps socially liberal young men voting Republican and consuming media from conservative movement grifters. PUA is the only part of the "dissident right" that is making much of a mainstream impact for this reason. GOP opposition to immigration and affirmative action probably dies if Trump losses in 2024, and we will be left with two identical political parties, one SJW, the other PUA, and that are otherwise identical.