On today’s episode of Radio Tortuga I speak with yet another WRP alumnus: everyone’s favorite eclectic Californian,
.In this call we catch up on the latest developments surrounding Kamala and JD Vance, California NIMBYism, Walt’s job stacking project, the value of usury, and much more.
Topics include:
Robert’s article White Dudes for Kamala: Wokeness Normalizing White Identity
Is White Dudes for Kamala pro-White or anti-White?
Kamala isn’t nearly as scary as Hillary
High IQ right wingers go into business, not government institutions
Democrats can talk explicitly about white people in a way Republicans can’t
The Woke are more correct than the mainstream
Multiculturalism that includes whiteness is better than civic nationalism
Implicit Soft WN is in the mainstream GOP Overton Window
Walt’s resentment towards victim mindset of many white nationalists
Why Walt is opposed to BAPism
Is JD Vance “weird?”
The pain associated with being in between white trash and elites
How “weird” plays into the Democrats increasingly becoming the party of bourgeois middle class suburban values
The move of white male nerds from Left to Right
The GOP is now the party of open displays of sexuality (Hawk Tuah)
The extreme dearth of elite human capital in academia / bureaucracy
Brahmins vs. Vaishyas is an antiquated way of looking at the world because the asymmetric symbol manipulation economy advantages Brahmins
How Walt is adding an ethical / aesthetic substance to job stacking
Zoomers want to be exuberant more than they let on
Can significant numbers of existing elites be won over?
Is Walt “Grey Tribe”?
The Silicon Valley Right—why is tech no longer coded as Left?
At will employment, the declining value of reputation, and the existence of HR mean you have a moral obligation to plunder Corporate America
Every other ethnic group practices overt or covert ethnic nepotism
Job stacking is proof of the inefficiency and waste of the modern economy
Con artists are necessary to test the limits of the system
People who call others ‘grifters’ are usually poor and untalented
Walt thinks people shouldn’t be ashamed to talk about money or be proud of having a high personal income
Job stacking as a means of facilitating patronage networks of sophisticated midsize investors
AI allows artists to produce high quality content on an industrial scale
Mass automation will favor people who are volatile and good at exploiting asymmetric situations
Walt’s rejection of pluralism as a consequence of coming face to face with jihad
The demographic characteristics of Walt’s fanbase
Having money lets you define the rules within your own bubble
Walt’s objection to Vance’s comments on “childless cat ladies” and the associated status jockeying between parents and DINKs
The U-Shaped class distribution in many characteristics
The right wing puts too much emphasis on procreation
The civilizational threat of dopamine traps
Creativity is the best escape from addictive Skinner Boxes
Will conservative Christians take over given differential fertility rates?
America’s lack of real downward mobility contributes to the crisis of competence
If California seriously embraced YIMBY LA would drain the Midwest of people
Why Walt maintains that usury is a fantastic thing for class mobility
Financial derivatives help stabilize the economy and the Federal Reserve is good
Debt facilitates harder work and social vitality
Shaniqua and Donald Trump don’t pay their debts but the middle class does
Stark Reality