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ben chambers 🏴

@bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy

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dipshit dilettante | og sjw | wokescold | apprentice of the cathedral | acolyte of cthulhu | partisan of the unpopular front | game theoretic moralist | free market […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ kolektiva.social/@bcham, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"Since the beginning, it’s been my contention that the attack on citizenship itself is both the very essence of the Trump movement and its most dangerous feature. From birtherism to the stolen-election myth, Trumpism can be understood as the notion that some Americans are not really Americans […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for western civilization among malignant philistines?

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

the specter of the "SJW" haunts the reactionary mind, a monstered hate fetish resembling the "Red Woman" of the freikorps imagination as well as the grotesque caricatures of the "Jew" from nazi agitprop its like a serial killer obsessively fantasizing about murdering their abusive or […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

a half-baked idea to explore: the political economy of old school white supremacy and patriarchy has largely been dismantled or dissolved; the toothpaste of globalization is not going back in the tube. thus, the derangement of the right is in part because they are clinging ever tightly to what […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

"I sketched a theory about the function of conservative intellectuals: they are not leaders of their movement; they do not set the agenda or advance ideas; their role is rather to mediate and to justify, rationalize, and euphemize. They sometimes understand themselves as guiding the debate, but […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"Again, entanglement is not chains in the sense of everyone smothering everyone else, it’s causal lines of influence. You need more causal lines of influence into your brain in order to understand the world and thus extend causal lines of influence out deeper into it. Ultimately, the more you […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"Indeed the causal structure of physics is precisely what substantiates the process of their agency. If the universe were unpredictable, no map could be made or held. This points us towards the minimal features of agency as a process: For a patch of the universe, that patch must have 1) a […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"For many an instinctive cartesian dualist, choice is synonymous with “free will” which is something like an un-caused causal influence from outside our universe. There are many variants, dressed up in different pretensions, but they all basically boil down to something like the magic meat of […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

aaand i caught a 3 day suspension on bluesky for one of my spicy kirkiversary posts

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

very funny that the most consequential thing to come out of the kirkening was for the right to reinvent the sunni-shia split from first principles

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

really bummed out that i missed the opportunity to post 'mistah kirk--he dead'

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

charlie kirk was a toe-headed, mouth-breathing degenerate who got what was coming to him tyler robinson did nothing wrong the situation is quite literally the same as a german boy with a jewish girlfriend assassinating a hitler youth leader may more maga filth meet commensurate fates

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

trans people have a right to defend themselves

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

>dies blaming trans and black people for shootings >shot and killed by a white chaser

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

remember, charlie kirk was no angel

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

when we said protect trans kids what did you think we meant? essays? vibes?

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

congratulations to charlie kirk for going one year without saying anything racist

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

"The chud is defined not merely by his resentment, but by a complete lack of shame around that resentment. He never hides his envy, his spite, or his prejudice — and he considers himself virtuous for doing so, believing that he is more honest than those who do hide their resentments." "Which […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

my comment: you once made a great point that reactionary intellectuals operate in an ambiguous space between base emotions and high ideals--lionel trilling's "irritable mental gestures"--and turning shitposts into disquisitions seems like the purest distillation of that relatedly, corey robin […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

"The shittiness of X is the point, so to speak. It’s a slag heap, a mental waste dump, a sewer. Currency exchange was the wrong metaphor; It’s some kind of industrial waste product recycling process. Instead of writers and intellectuals coming up with ideas that filter into the culture, they are […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

"Every social movement has within it an economy and those movements can be strengthened by getting more serious about economics." "There’s value in plumbing abstract questions of computational complexity and the bandwidth limits of communication between humans, but because few are willing to […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

"For the reactionary today, true freedom is freedom from society: an impossible ideal. It is the benefit of society without the cost, reward without responsibility, recognition without reciprocity" "I keep calling this type of politics ‘sociophobic’, following Wendy Brown’s In The Ruins of […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

alt text: "I spent years listening to libertarians insist that we should abolish public accommodations laws, NOT because bigotry is fine but because bigotry is irrational and economically inefficient and therefore the market will punish this behavior such […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

alt text: "I spent years listening to libertarians insist that we should abolish public accommodations laws, NOT because bigotry is fine but because bigotry is irrational and economically inefficient and therefore the market will punish this behavior such […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

lonesco describing the intellectual climate in 20s Romania, that
served as inspiration for his play "Rhinoceros". | get echoes of
this whenever | think of the slanderous perception media,
politicians and "dissident intellectuals” have created about trans
people and refugees today
» University professors, students, intellectuals were turning Nazi,
becoming fon Guards; onc afier theothier. We were some fifteen
people who used to get together, to discuss, to try to find argu-
ments opposing theirs. Tt was not casy . . . From ime to tine,
one of the group would come out and say: “T don’t agree at all
with them, to be sure, but on certain points, nevertheless, I must
admit, for example the Jews ...” And that kind of comment
was a symptom. Three weeks later, that person would become a
Nazil He was caught in the mechanism, he accepted everything,
he became a Rhinoceros. Toward the end, it was only three or
four of us who resisted."

ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

"Maistre saw himself as the enemy of an eclectic cast of characters he called ‘la secte’ in his native French; la secte was devoted to the destruction of his beloved world order, dominated by the beautifully irrational mystery of the Church and Crown, which could keep the great unwashed in their […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

sharing this for no reason whatsoever claude.ai/share/70c9e4bb-59d9-4581-…

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

ive played around with claude for a bit and im genuinely curious what people think about these prompts, the output, and what they say about ai: claude.ai/share/2d5fda26-5b22-44ae-… claude.ai/share/e0c9bfc7-89bc-4dbf-… […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

ive played around with claude for a bit and im genuinely curious what people think about these prompts, the output, and what they say about ai: claude.ai/share/2d5fda26-5b22-44ae-… claude.ai/share/e0c9bfc7-89bc-4dbf-… […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

"That said, the resettlement program has been an astounding success, not only in providing relief and assistance to people in crisis, but in generating tangible economic benefits here in the U.S. Over the last 45 years, impact studies have shown that refugees from places like Bosnia, Iraq […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

"The video is a trap because for fascism the aesthetic—the physicalized embodiment of a theory of power—has always been a central “idea.” But that trap only “works” if we judge its result by pre-fascist norms. The Noem video, like the ASMR video of faceless immigrants being shackled, dares us to […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

"To note that this is for fascism not just ASMR, soothing, but “ASMRotica,” sexualized, requires no interpretation; it’s only to state the self-evident. This is, literally, a bondage video. It is presented to us as a bondage video for ASMR, for “tingles.” The sound of other people’s pain is the […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

"The masculinist movement at the heart of the modern right have higher-order ideological beliefs about re-asserting explicit patriarchy, but they also have equally influential lower-order desires and anxieties." "The modern right feels emasculated by the relative status gains of women, and in […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

"I would like to suggest that Trumpism is best understood as a species of what I’m going to call hyperfascism. By “hyperfascism,” I don’t mean “superfascism” or anything like that. Instead, I’m using the hyper- prefix in a way similar to how Baudrillard deploys it in his definition of […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

this is a neat 10 point template for analyzing today's charlatans: -galaxy brain -revolutionary theory of everything -anti-establishment -aggrievement -conspiracism -narcissism -cassandra complex -pseudo-profound bullshit (technical term!) -cult-like -profiteering the gurometer reminds me of […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

ultimately the thing about stefan molyneux is that he is an *apex predator* at angling for aimless, impressionable young adults--largely white men--and sinking his hooks in through gaslighting, negging, lovebombing, and other abusive manipulations […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

finally summoned the nerve to listen to this and its great, highly recommend if you can stomach listening to excerpts from one of the most noxious, obnoxious degenerates that reaction has ever produced, a true freakazoidal psychopath […]

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ben chambers 🏴 @bcham.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025

remember, fascists are small men who want to feel big, dorks who want to look cool, simpletons who cant handle complexity theyre losers who embrace a low effort ideology that lets them win, playing on easy mode to feel like theyve conquered something trolling, taunting, and gloating are all […]

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