On today’s episode of Radio Tortuga I speak with the esteemed
, who publishes on Substack at The Garden of Earthly Delights.Several months ago Alex had me on her own pod to interview me about the rise and fall of the Alt Right, and I thought it might be interesting to continue our discussion by interviewing her about the AR’s successor movement the Dissident Right.
Alex has been among the most prominent figures in the DR since 2020, but in recent months she’s started to move away from the scene.
In this episode you’ll find out why.
Topics include:
Alex’s recent change in direction — has Kaschuta cucked?
The perverse incentives for ecelebs to beef to grow their audience
Why everyone in an internet subculture becomes a gossipy yenta
Why Alex found the DR so valuable as a source of truth in 2020
How (much like the AR) the DR gradually fell victim to its own success
Right wing conspiracy theories as a response to left wing gaslighting
The DR’s vibes are terrible these days
Growing huge on Substack requires a mainstream messaging effort
It takes different tactics to get exposure and to earn paid subs
Why everything converges into dating discourse
Getting a mate is the last remaining difficult task in modernity
Are upper middle class women less attracted to men?
Walt can’t understand why guys hate gold-diggers
Why Walt despises the upper middle class
Differences between the American and British class systems
The difference between lying and mythmaking
Walt wants to take the Andrew Tate approach in a more prosocial direction
Women are attracted to the Right because they’re looking for protection
To autistic guys bad at parsing subtest it feels like women are lying all the time
Men love bomb women because they’re anima possessed
Should right wing men expect agency from women or take care of everything?
Will we raise the age of consent given arrested development in Zoomers?
A lot of male Zoomers seem to act like Herbivore Men
Why Alex doesn’t think Walt’s polygyny idea will scale up
Job stacking is more civilized and hardworking than working one easy job
The less you have to do the lazier you are
How Alex transitioned out of her normie job while a DR eceleb
Walt wants to change his IRL name to Walt Bismarck
Romanian names
Why do so many right wing parents openly sneer at the childless?
Does Alex agree with
and that Walt is similar to Aella?Do parents stress too much about how to raise their kids?
The negative consequences of helicopter parenting
Why is it that gypsies still exist?
Alex’s thoughts on the recent UK riots
Is there any hope for the British political right?
Vitality emerges from the potential to suffer
W. Europe has more non-financial status markers than E. Europe and US.
Is it good for right wing content creators if Kamala wins?
The Left has started to discard the worst excesses of antiwhite prejudice
The potential growth of a new center built from people tired of polarization
You can no longer make informed predictions about politics because of the incredibly rapid news cycle and the rise of alt media
