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By the way, when I say, "you won't change a thing," I mean legally. We can shift the Overton window metapolitically, but no policies will be implemented without our people in positions of power and influence.
That being said, I see little evidence that IRL "dissident activism" has substantially shifted the Overton window. The change has been driven almost entirely by Trump and similar politicians, and by the online culture war. You can reach far more people via social media than you ever could by doing marches, banner drops, protests, etc. (which are generally perceived negatively by the public anyway).
Currently, the aim of entryism should be to keep the far-right tail of the Overton window within frame and to expand it gradually. In most Western countries, that means mass deportation (of illegals), zero net migration, repealing DEI/AA, overturning "hate speech" laws and implementing new free speech laws, gutting woke institutions, cracking down on crime, etc.
That being said, I see little evidence that IRL "dissident activism" has substantially shifted the Overton window. The change has been driven almost entirely by Trump and similar politicians, and by the online culture war. You can reach far more people via social media than you ever could by doing marches, banner drops, protests, etc. (which are generally perceived negatively by the public anyway).
Currently, the aim of entryism should be to keep the far-right tail of the Overton window within frame and to expand it gradually. In most Western countries, that means mass deportation (of illegals), zero net migration, repealing DEI/AA, overturning "hate speech" laws and implementing new free speech laws, gutting woke institutions, cracking down on crime, etc.
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If you are intelligent, competent, measured, and are not prone to spergouts or causing optical disasters, you should get involved with mainstream politics to steer things in the right direction. The more we do now, the more power and influence we'll have…
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Spencer J. Quinn reviews The Witness, a documentary about the infamous 1964 rape and murder of Kitty Genovese, while 38 people allegedly watched without doing anything, and how the New York Times invented lies about what had happened in order to undermine white America. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/the-witness/
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The Witness: How Lies about Kitty Genovese’s Murder Were Used to Undermine White America
2,387 words Urban myths are insidious enough when they are false. But when they assume universality in the broader culture — while reflecting negatively on that culture — then they can cause people to lose faith in themselves. This is one way in which civilizations…
Jim Goad on the cancellation of and fallout that followed from a high school event featuring a group of lard-assed black women in bikinis dribbling and twerking in the school gym for cash prizes in a basketball competition called “Nuttin’ But Az" in that all-American town of Newark, New Jersey. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/buttocks-and-basketball-bash-banned-in-blacktown/
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Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown
1,153 / 8:42 When you hear “NBA,” do you think “National Basketball Association” or “Nuttin’ But Azz”? Newark, New Jersey, that bleak post-industrial mega-ghetto posing as a city, doesn’t have a professional basketball team, so all signs point to “Nuttin’…
Paroled from the Paywall: Spencer J. Quinn on how well some classic rock songs that dealt with transgenderism have aged in today's world, where it has become part of liberal orthodoxy. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/on-lola-dick-and-jane/
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On Lola, Dick, and Jane
2,333 words The Kinks have been one of my favorite rock bands for many years. I have written about them for Counter-Currents on three occasions, most recently in my review of their great 1969 album Arthur. I also included their 1978 reggae number “Black Messiah”…
Ondrej Mann interviews Daniel Beherit Bílý, the main organizer of the long-running Black Metal event, Eternal Hate Fest, in the Czech Republic, the next edition of which is happening on July 13. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/eternal-hate-fest-black-metal-without-political-correctness/
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Eternal Hate Fest: Black Metal without Political Correctness
3,393 words In Europe there are very few black metal festivals that are genuinely free of censorship. In the Czech Republic there is one such festival, which is held in an attractive and dark natural location: Eternal Hate Fest, organized by Daniel Beherit…
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David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute was Greg Johnson‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the Institute’s latest poll on immigration and deportation issues as well as other current things. It is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-594-the-homeland-institutes-latest-poll-on-immigration-and-deportation/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 594: The Homeland Institute’s Latest Poll on Immigration and Deportation
210 words / 1:55:42 David Zsutty of the Homeland Institute was Greg Johnson‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the Institute’s latest poll on immigration and deportation issues as well as other current things.…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Alcibiades I continues as Socrates makes Alcibiades realize his ignorance in relation to the nature of justice and the art of politics. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/notes-on-platos-alcibiades-i-part-5/
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Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I, Part 5: Expertise vs. Common Knowledge
1,887 words Part 5 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 6 here) In our previous installment, we examined the speech Socrates made to break Alcibiades out of his complacency and spur him to educate and cultivate himself if he wishes…
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So excited to bring that enrichment to Italy, he was already starting while still on the boat!
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Richard Parker shows that modern-day American culture has quite thoroughly disproved the belief in the "marketplace of ideas" that is so dear to classical liberals. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/when-neither-a-marketplace-nor-ideas-are-proffered/
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When Neither a Marketplace nor Ideas are Proffered: On the Promises and Platitudes of the So-Called Marketplace of Ideas
4,186 words None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A vast majority in American society remain confident in so-called First Amendment values. A foundational premise to this belief in free…
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Dave Chambers reviews James Duane's You Have the Right to Remain Innocent, a book which advises American citizens against talking to the police under any circumstances, but also warns that invoking the Fifth Amendment may no longer be a wise course of action. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/talking-to-the-police-a-very-very-bad-idea/
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Talking to the Police: A Very, Very Bad Idea
1,993 words James Duane You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: What Police Officers Tell Their Children about the Fifth Amendment New York: Little A, 2016. Most Americans know very little about police interrogations. If a police officer wants to ask you some…
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Greg Johnson's "White Nationalism and Jewish Nationalism" is now in Polish. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/nowa-prawica-przeciw-starej-prawicy-rozdzial-12/
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Nowa Prawica przeciw Starej Prawicy, Rozdział 12: Biały nacjonalizm a żydowski nacjonalizm
2.437 słowa English original here; Translations: Estonian, French, German, Russian, Slovak, Spanish Część 14 (Rozdział 1, Rozdział 11, Rozdział 13) Przemówienie Guillaume’a Faye’a na konferencji American Renaissance w 2006 r. było dość burzliwe. Większość…
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James J. O'Meara reveals some instances of Francis Parker Yockey's (possibly) cryptic use of terminology that he uncovered while working on the index to the soon-to-be-released Centennial Edition of Imperium. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/unlocking-yockeys-word-hoard/
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Unlocking Yockey’s Word-Hoard
3,945 words IT will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find…
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An update on our fundraiser, the imminent release of the long-awaited Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, and Saturday's livestream on the #ZeroSeats campaign in the UK with Morgoth, Mark Collett, and Millennial Woes. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/editors-update-7/
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Editor’s Update
358 words There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents, and this week is no exception. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. We had a slow start to the campaign because of debanking, but…
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Coming at the top of the hour on Counter-Currents Radio: Morgoth of Morgoth’s Review, Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative, and Millennial Woes will discuss the #ZeroSeats campaign in the UK, and of course YOUR QUESTIONS.
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Paroled from the Paywall: Steven Clark on two classic adaptations of short stories that reflect aspects of the American spirit: The Scarecrow, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Who Am I This Time?, based on Kurt Vonnegut. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-scarecrow-and-who-am-i-this-time/
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The Scarecrow and Who Am I This Time?: The Necessity of Role-Playing
words I was a modest, 20-year old television baby by 1972, and drifted on and off to the newly-minted network, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). It had taken over in 1969 from NET (National Educational Television), and I found myself drawn to it, especially…
Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown,” on the cancellation of and fallout that followed from a high school event featuring a group of lard-assed black women in bikinis dribbling and twerking in the school gym for cash prizes in a basketball competition called “Nuttin’ But Az” in that all-American town of Newark, New Jersey. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/buttocks-n-basketball-bash-banned-in-blacktown-video/
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Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown
67 words / 8:50 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown,” on the cancellation of and fallout that followed from a high school event featuring a group of lard-assed black women in…
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Paroled from the Paywall: The next lecture in Greg Johnson's series on Plato's Alcibiades I deals with how Socrates inculcates in Alcibiades the wisdom to recognize that it is only by cultivating self-knowledge that one can attain virtue, which is in turn necessary to practice the art of politics well. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/notes-on-platos-alcibiades-i-part-6/
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Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I, Part 6
2,497 words Part 6 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 7 here) The final part of the Alcibiades I deals with the self and self-knowledge. Most ancient commentators held that this discussion is the core of the dialogue.…
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New writer Ganainm reports on the outcome of the recent local and European parliamentary elections in Poland, and speculates about why anti-immigration candidates fared so poorly despite polls showing widespread support for remigration https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/what-happened-to-the-irish-anti-migration-vote/
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What Happened to the Irish Anti-Migration Vote? A Report on the Irish Local and European Elections
2,021 words Three things tell us there is widespread enthusiasm in Ireland for mass remigration of our foreign guests: 1. Opinion polls before — and after — the elections showing that 80% of voters are of the view that we have already taken in too many foreigners.…
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Jim Goad on Joe Biden's very public cognitive decline, a West Virginia couple who have been accused of keeping black slaves, a German woman who insulted a convicted migrant rapist and was in turn sentenced to more jail time than he received, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/the-worst-week-yet-181/
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The Worst Week Yet: June 23-29, 2024
1,948 words / 14:11 Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline: A Symbol of America’s Deterioration In case you’re one of the three or four people left on the planet without an Internet connection, you’re aware that Joe Biden’s handlers didn’t pump him full of enough…
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A new interview with French New Right thinker Alain de Benoist, who discusses metapolitics, how politics is changing, the current elections in France, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/whoever-runs-culture-always-ends-up-dominating-the-state/
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Whoever Runs Culture Always Ends Up Dominating the State
1,737 words The following interview, which was first published on June 27, is being reprinted with the permission of the interviewer from the blog of the Turkish writer Eren Yesilyurt. Alain de Benoist is a French writer and thinker, one of the leading figures…
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