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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Seems like most people find AmRen more likable, but is their approach really the best? Jared Taylor recently said in a new interview with Greg Johnson that he shouldn't be seen as radical because his ideas are in sync with American figures like Lincoln and Washington.

Yes I find this annoying as well. AmRen continues to invite people like Brimelow who runs a great website but whose strategy of normalization of WN ideas and anti-immigrant sentiment seems to fail time and time again. Also the strategy of openly courting Jews -- I remember the Derb once saying that the reason you had to have Jewish backing and make your ideology 'Jew friendly' was because political success was impossible without them -- seems never to bear any real fruit yet they persist.

However I have massive respect for AmRen and Taylor and this is a movement where people should be approaching the problem from different angles and different approaches without being called names. I am so sick of every time I see someone on the Dissident Right call someone a fed or a shill or a loser just because that other person doesn't perfectly align with their niche worldview and practical approach.

Who knows maybe AmRen will have success and drive the GOP rightwards like they've always envisioned. We have to play the long game and accept both strategies.

Edit: Oops you asked for definitions. I'd say Spencer is trying to make a coherent and metapolitical basis for white advocacy whereas AmRen does practical, IRL conferences in the hopes of influencing the GOP and conservatives -- among others -- that white advocacy is normal and justified. Both have their own place.

[–]Nombre27 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

seems never to bear any real fruit yet they persist.

Operation Trust on a more microlevel, i.e. wait and keep spinning your wheels, vent/release, etc.

I think AmRen just likes to toe the line as much as possible. I understand why they do this and think it's necessary. There are many paths that lead out of the cave most people are living in, hence all the "(blank) to Alt-Right pipeline" articles. A consistent piece of all these "blanks" begins with questioning something, e.g economics (libertarians/anti-affirmative action), women/feminism (redpill/MGTOWers/MRAs), history (revisionism), contemporary media (drag queen story hour, MSM narratives, etc.), NEETs to SIGers (aka "why does my life suck", Jordan Peterson and others), environmentalism (Ted, nuclear power, etc.), politics (Communists, neoconservatives, the only non-partisan issue), nature vs. nurture (biology is upstream of behavior which is upstream of all the social construct nonsense), to name a few. A second piece is actually being open-minded and having humility ("what am I wrong or misinformed about?"). Hence why we see the rise of factchecking nonsense (outsourcing executive functioning). Getting these two pieces in motion with someone, questioning something and then being receptive to new information, is a useful approach in deprogramming people. Find whatever they care about and then, to use our opponents language, deconstruct it through questioning.

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Removed: Rule 1. I can approve it if you remove the linked image or crop out the last few panels.

[–]Nombre27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Removed the link, sorry about that.

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Removed the link.