 Okay, May 40 here So I'm not sure why the internet is so much worse on the Santa Monica Beach than it was on Sydney So I've been walking around for about an hour and can never get enough Cell phone connection to do a live stream. Anyway, I watched some highlights from the Nick Fuentes vs. Mr. Medica debate from Friday night and Fuentes builds himself as Christ is king like this Christian warrior so why is Mr. Medica the nihilist ways he's much more moral than Nick Fuentes and so on the face of it It's a question like Nick Fuentes is like mocking Mr. Medica for possibly having a terminal form of cancer doesn't seem very Christ-like Nick Fuentes like many distant right stream is very eager to try to make the case why he's a superior person a superior man superior human being More successful live streamer than Medica again doesn't seem very Christ-like. In fact, there's absolutely nothing about Fuentes It seems Christ-like So on the face of it this Seems like oh Fuentes is a hollow man Right and when you're a hollow man When when you're standing up and claiming that you're one thing when you're not really Then you think that this would be much more likely to lead to burnout On the other hand for 95% of Christians in America doesn't really mean anything So I'd say for the majority of Christians who go to church regularly in Australia and Europe It does mean something but for the majority of Americans who go to church on a weekly basis It doesn't really seem to mean anything. They don't seem to to stand for anything Their their life doesn't seem distinguishable from non-Christians And so maybe Nick Fuentes is just like the majority of Christians in America. I mean Nick Fuentes apparently doesn't go to church So on the face of it seems weird. This is a guy embraces, you know, Christ is king But there's absolutely nothing in his life that seems to live up to to that title and particularly disfaceful like going after Medica for having cancer is that some Some moral blemish on on Medica's fate Part that he's got cancer and that This is how you're going to show that you're better than everyone else because you don't have cancer and Medica has has cancer Seems seems like a low blow But I guess the answer is that for most people who profess Christianity doesn't really mean anything And that's that's just the way it is So I've been listening to the Richard Rhodes book the making of the atomic bomb And it seems like a key part of the allies winning World War II against the Axis powers isn't the allies were able to obtain a lot more of the top scientists And when you're building a coalition it's important to to Connect people Speaking of cancer what sunscreen does 40 years? I think it's like 30 is 30 a number for sunscreen so Luckily my 116th Chinese is kind of serves as a There's a sunscreen and protection from from getting sunburn But you'd think if if Fuentes wants to build a social political Cultural coalition you wouldn't go out of your way to unnecessarily A&A people and make people unnecessarily despise you. So I don't know How many people would watch fuentes versus medica and side with fuentes? Right, it seems like his performance on that debate would narrow his base the extent that people have any Open mind any consideration of changing sides. So medica is formidable And medica doesn't medica bill himself as a nihilist And yet he seems so much more commonsensical and decent than than fuentes And fuentes just seem particularly juvenile and it's not like medica knocked it out of the park But uh, is this really what america first has come to? Yeah, nick fuentes's movement will die just like the alt-right. So I think for most, you know live streamers they have They have like a half life of about uh, what nine months Usually about nine months or a year in have about half the following that they had In in their first initial rise to fame now nick fuentes has got a much longer run than that So, I mean that he gets like six thousand Live streamers. I mean that's a that's a pretty formidable number, but uh What exactly intellectually morally culturally and politically can america first build on Really didn't seem clear from that Fuentes versus medica debate and so to spiral into filing dmca complaints against other live streamers which frequently these loses leads to the death of your youtube channel or your your conventional You know big tech channels, right? It's uh, and the swatting that's going on between What eathan ralph and nick fuentes on one hand and and ppp they're going after ppp and his family Streamer and porn stars have similar career arcs. Yeah, that's that's a good point and it seems Similarly toxic so I noticed that uh life in porn took a big toll on people in that industry so that You know, they would age as much in a month as regular people would in a year And so this downhill spiral that Appears fuentes and eathan ralph are in where there's just constant swatting and doxing And just fused to the death that seemed from an outside perspective absolutely unnecessary fuentes and Ethan ralph don't seem at ease with themselves So mr. Madagascar seems very much at ease with himself Ppp seems at ease with himself Any wasky now seems at ease with himself jf garipi seems at ease with himself But There seems to be a downward spiral on the part of fuentes and an eathan ralph at the moment So I think The more authentic You come across on stream, right the more Rooted in reality. You are probably less likely you are to burn out raker first has been destroyed and they have next arrogant cap boy attitude to blames as the chat so fuentes Got on a pretty good wicket there like christ is king. It's like a winning political formula for gathering a solid following america first is a solid formula Gathering a substantial following So fuentes is appeal has never been primarily intellectual it's right, it's it's more entertainment and cultural So the way you succeed as a pundit is that you feed a particular audience what it wants so just like A john or have a hawker tell him certain things like oh tell me that i'm hurting you or tell me that i'm the best ever So too fuentes is a crowd that wants to hear christ is king america first They want to hear the greatest hits just like people used to listen to top 40 radio to hear the greatest hits over and over and over again so too with talk radio and many of the most successful live streamers that just playing the hits over and over and over again but it doesn't seem to be any intellectual development or path forward for fuentes and the america first crew it just Who would be proud of his his performance? vis-a-vis medica Where medica the nihilist comes across as much more sane and moral than christ is king neck fuentes And what kind of coalition do you build out of mocking people for having cancer? and launching all these unnecessary feuds and that The contingent of these people who are engaged in indexing and swatting and filing complaints about you know others I mean Would they behave this way if they hadn't spent so much time online? I mean is this not the problems of the E personality where you become desensitized to to things that would normally Appal shock outrage and unnecessarily offend people such as Beating up on someone for simply having cancer and like oh, aren't you going to be dead in a year? right, I just can't imagine that uh nick and an ethan and Would carry on the way they do if they hadn't spent so much time online, so I spent the last two days in pass over the seventh and eighth day of pass over and you spent a lot of Face time with people like face-to-face Right, you see something and it registers in people's faces and you go to people's homes and You dance with people and you sing with people and you walk with people And you get the benefits of being In communion with other people getting on the same page as other people singing the same song literally reciting the same prayers sitting up standing up sitting down Going through the rhythms of the Jewish prayer service Participating in the rhythms of the Seder so the Passover Seder Seder means order So when you participate in the same order as other people it tends to To build energy levels and you tend to get on the same page with people and you tend to bond with people Now that bond comes an ethic Right that extends above and beyond the Seder So that even when i'm walking on the beach I still have that feeling of the people that i've bonded with over the holiday They're still with me even when i'm doing a live stream or walking on the beach I'm never alone even when i'm alone in my room Now i'm thinking about Oh, I want to share what i'm reading with Now this friend and another friend would would appreciate this podcast that i'm listening to Or i can't wait to meet up with so-and-so Or i remember the discussion that i had with this person or i remember Being in a community over here where we were discussing this topic And so even when you're walking the beach on your own or you're in your room alone just reading a book You carry other people with you Gradually Fuentes morphed into a living Pepe spent too much time online Seeing what he could get away with Yeah Yeah, I mean Fuentes Man of undeniable talents just unbelievably Their charismatic personality can you know absolutely Hold a crowd with the sheer force of his his charisma and enthusiasm but I mean what what he's all about christ is king Which christian clergy would would endorse the way he's conducting it himself like Which christian clergy would say oh When you're having a debate with someone it's it's totally righteous and the christlike thing to do Is to point out that they have cancer and they'll be dead in a year so It's not a matter of perfection and being you know perfectly christlike obviously no one can be like that just like no Orthodox jew is fully observant of jewish law So you may catch an orthodox jew violating a law of the Sabbath or violating kosher in public and There's a big difference between something you you might catch someone doing occasionally and something that people do chronically like to chronically Disobey the fundamental laws of Judaism is to kind of separate yourself from the tribe E. Michael Jones always makes excuses for next toxic behavior but if you're violating the rules of your group and the ethos of your group on an ongoing basis Isn't there a point Where you begin to look hollow And does that take a toll on you or is that just the same as or the other christians who go to church? And it makes absolutely no difference their behavior. So I'd say with modern orthodox jews that Generally speaking their behavior outside of the strictly religious realm is indistinguishable from their peers That this is not something that's unique to christians that we're steadily living in a less mystical less magical and a more rational world so that religion may still exist in form but the substance of You know having access to the the presence of God and living one's life in in accord with divine dictate seems to have less and less power and It's hard to get more more separate from the the divine dictates than Nick Fuentes's debate performance on friday night How do you go forward from there? anyway, um, I just found out a great story about my uncle george so He is my mother's grandmother's brother And it's anzac day in australia right now and the story The family legend about uncle george was that he was wounded in Gallipoli and put in a pile of dead people And someone noticed him moving and they rescued him and so He was a wounded warrior a living legend And rescued from the brink of death and came back to australia and never reproduced but you know had a life so Apparently you're able to look up your dead relatives military records in australia. So it turns out that our Gallipoli legend uncle george never was in gallipoli But he was in Cairo And he apparently caught syphilis in Cairo and he was hospitalized for two months In Cairo dealing with his syphilis. That's probably why he was never able to reproduce And then he was shipped to france served on the western front so He he was actually a year after the gallipoli fighting ended. That's when he got to Cairo So he was never anywhere near Gallipoli And then he served on the western front in france for 15 days Got shot and was returned to australia So our gallipoli legend uncle george great uncle george Turned out to have never been near gallipoli turned out to have been hospitalized two months with syphilis And ended up fighting for 15 days on the western front in france before getting shot and returning home so His blood is coursing through my veins