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@benjaminchambers.bsky.social
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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 communist | evangelist for anarchy | antistemlord aktion | mtm dysphoric | he/him/his

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"seen a video circulated purporting to show jews baking the blood of christian children into matzah" just to be clear about what that filthy degenerate rufo and his maga lemmings did here
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 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 remains--libidinal economy. with the material conditions of eg jim crow or the male breadwinner gone, the right is forced to rely on postmodern cultural media and stake their restorationist project to a hyperreality

rightwing rhetoric nowadays is so frantic, febrile, and maximalist because they are compensating for having nothing else, except maybe the most anti-social elements of neoliberalism as a consolation
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
homeless shanty towns and squatting zones may look ugly, health-hazardous, and not upwardly mobile at first, but we never give these forms of organization a chance to stabilize and grow. in theory there could be a semi-underground society so advanced that becoming homeless is
a truly alternative lifestyle with routes toward improvement and stabilization, rather than an immediate horror and self-perpetuating disaster. but since the state and the pretty prejudices of everyday people keep destroying this infrastructure, we'll never see itcome to light.
at every turn, people are prevented from building the tools to help themselves - this of course obtains while they're regularly told that they blame anyone but themselves for their troubles.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i mainly use instagram to lurk on celebrity crushes but the algorithm occasionally serves up cryptonazi memes and recommends cryptofascist accounts, and thats before getting in to occasional, more subtle culture war baiting again this is left-right populist, jews-as-baal antisemitism in my feed
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
officials who commit impeachable offenses should be impeached
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
sartre's quote on the antisemite gets rightfully cited ad nauseum but equally trenchant and prescient of trolling and the alt-right was tolkien's little exposition on orc-speak:
But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find. Much the same sort of talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigor, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.
—J. R. R. Tolkien, Appendix F of The Return of the King
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"the magic of science"
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's a purely zero-sum worldview of moral nihilism in which every sort of causal influence or application of physical force is the same, so you just have to ruthlessly fight for your team. And anyone who believes in the concept of freedom is a deluded naive fool.
Once you demonstrate that freedom is a tangible material thing -- the expanse of accessible states of a system and informed intentional choice in accessing them -- and that this can be increased or decreased *overall* there's no longer a zero-sum game and their shit collapses.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
re @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social's interracial cuck porn theory of everything, the hindu right in india believe they are up against a muslim "love jihad" (from richard seymour's disaster nationalism):
This brings us back to the problem of sexual theodicy: of who is sexually evil, and who deserves pleasure. Nationalists have always killed to defend themselves against their sexual fantasies. For example, in 2020, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh passed the Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance. The target of the law was what its advocates claimed was a wave of ‘love jihad’ cases, in which sexually wicked Muslim men lured Hindu women into the camp of the enemy, feigning love in order to drive up the Muslim birth rate. This law had been won through decades of agitation by networks of grassroots vigilantes linked to the BJP, such as Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), who claimed that Muslims were using amulets and black magic to trick Hindu girls. To stop the ‘love jihad’, according to activists, it was necessary to destroy the submissive, secular, anglicised upper crust linked to the Indian National Congress and the ‘left’.9

The ‘love jihad’ is a popular cuck fantasy of the Hindu right, which is fascinated (as in ‘fascinum’, as in ‘fascism’) with the idea that Muslim male potency has illegitimately dominated India for 1,200 years. It draws directly from the visual idioms of fascism – Der Stürmer’s depictions of ‘Germania’ as a beautiful, blonde female in the clutches of an unattractive (yet sexually successful) Jew, or Hitler’s expostulations about ‘bow-legged Jewish bastards’ seducing German girls.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
one of the nastier realities you have to come to terms with is that oppression is not edifying and that every demographic is susceptible to reaction and political neurosis
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 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 Iron Guards; one after the other. We were some fifteen
people who used to get together, to discuss, to try to find argu-
ments opposing theirs. It was not easy . . . From time to time,
one of the group would come out and say: “I 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
Nazi. 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."
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
julius streicher was hanged at nuremburg for publishing in der sturmer the same type of grisly snuff pornography ("jewish sex crimes") that elon musk now posts daily ("muslim rape gangs") hitler articulated the same lurid trope of the racial other as sexual predator in mein kampf:
The black-haired Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew uses every possible means to undermine the racial foundations of a subjugated people. In his systematic efforts to ruin girls and women he strives to break down the last barriers of discrimination between him and other peoples. The Jews were responsible for bringing Negroes into the Rhineland, with the ultimate idea of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate. For as long as a people remain racially pure and are conscious of the treasure of their blood, they can never be overcome by the Jew. Never in this world can the Jew become master of any people except a bastardized people. 
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 11: Race and People
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
and dont forget mr g nails matt yglesias and ezra klein just as eerily
Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy. He has
been concerned with general ideas since the age of ten and has one of
those minds that can scintillatingly rationalize everything. I have known
him for ten years and in that time have heard him enthusiastically explain
Marx, social credit, technocracy, Keynesian economics, Chestertonian
distributism, and everything else one can imagine. Mr. G will never be a
Nazi, because he will never be anything. His brain operates quite apart
from the rest of his apparatus. He will certainly be able, however, fully to
explain and apologize for Nazism if it ever comes along. But Mr. G is
always a “deviationist.” When he played with communism he was a
Trotskyist; when he talked of Keynes it was to suggest improvement;
Chesterton’s economic ideas were all right but he was too bound to
Catholic philosophy. So we may be sure that Mr. G would be a Nazi with
purse-lipped qualifications. He would certainly be purged.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Why This Combination Is Particularly Potent

What makes this propaganda format so insidious is the layering: it begins with real footage (lending false credibility), exploits genuine human responses to violence (bypassing critical filters), uses the architecture of social media (algorithmic amplification, shareability, community reinforcement), and delivers an ideological payload that feels like a personal discovery rather than a received message. Countering it requires not just fact-checking but media literacy education that addresses the entire emotional and cognitive stack — because the argument is not primarily propositional; it is visceral, tribal, and affective.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I've been beating the drum for going on two decades that neuroscience obliges us to more radically ground and reformulate anarchism to shed off old liberal assumptions of all moral subjects being discrete cartesian individuals. Moving from "rights" talk to agency/choice talk.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Yeah, it's not just a matter of being incentivized to *lie* -- even angels have issues turning human language into accurate *weighting*.

*How much* do you need widgets? How would you consistently tradeoff that need against another need for doodads?
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, “the combination of different forms of belief or practice”; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a silver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A.R. Moxon
@JuliusGoat

It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.

It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
every police & prison abolitionist should read randall collins's violence on the causes & contexts of violent behavior violence, ie physical, face-to-face harm, is precipitated by situational & interactive variables which overcome, bypass, or break through *confrontational tension* (technical term)
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
happy hitler death day
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
proud to live in a state whose official flag is a fedpost
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
reminds me of this one:
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
bluesky is great but one thing i miss about ye olde twitter is yungneocon. his eclectic and polymathic gigathreads were like cheat codes
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find. Much the same sort of talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigor, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.
—J. R. R. Tolkien, Appendix F of The Return of the King
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
revolt of the handsy bosses: they wanted to sexually harass underlings and say slurs again
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find. Much the same sort of talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigor, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.
—J. R. R. Tolkien, Appendix F of The Return of the King
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
dont forget this gem from a former rising star conservative intellectual
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
fishhook theory
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
visual representation of what its felt like to live under the trumpocene
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
every fascist intellectual is nothing more than an adolescent pseud with faux gravitas whose output is sophomoric fanfiction the sole purpose of which is to rationalize fascist barbarism
over-all takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers & go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fűhrer, he’d be impressed with the guy’s motor mouth & appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
in 2026 it should be common knowledge that individualism vs collectivism is an elementary false dichotomy that is not analytically useful humans are social agents, both individuals and enmeshed in collective structures and forces here id like to plug alan carter's *interrelationism* as a synthesis
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
the new little red book:
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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