No. I'm sorry, I know we need a big tent or a popular front or whatever you want to call it, but jimmy concepts doesn't get to be a part of it. If he's genuinely recognized the error of his ways, he can atone by shutting the fuck up forever - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

jowiph.bsky.social • 23 days ago

No. I'm sorry, I know we need a big tent or a popular front or whatever you want to call it, but jimmy concepts doesn't get to be a part of it. If he's genuinely recognized the error of his ways, he can atone by shutting the fuck up forever

Reposted from Robert Downen

"I have a lot of my work over the past decade to repent of. The Nazis used me, and I knew for a long time they were using me, or at least glimpsed it."

James Lindsay and longtime collaborator Michael O'Fallon are having a reckoning over Claremont Institute and other "ministries and organizations."

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frankypelvis.bsky.social•23 days ago

In these cases there is a method available to restore one’s honor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku?wprov=sfti1#

nicemangos.bsky.social•23 days ago

There's no way he's truly recognized the error of his ways imo

jowiph.bsky.social•23 days ago

Oh, absolutely. Like @maxkennerly.bsky.social said, he sees which way the winds are blowing and is trying to escape being caught up in the coming denazification

highcountryrose.bsky.social•23 days ago

Y'all saw part 2 where Yarvin is courting him right? https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3lna2lycbes2a

tubbles.bsky.social•23 days ago

I've known who Yarvin is for awhile now, but I've never actually read anything he's done because why bother reading nazi fuckheads? YEEESH is he a fucking loser, I was not prepared for the sheer depths of stupidity and utter lameness he presents, what a fucking dweeb (derogatory.)

jowiph.bsky.social•23 days ago

Maybe if we're lucky they'll end up fighting and leave no survivors

highcountryrose.bsky.social•23 days ago

A girl can dream

justingwallace.bsky.social•23 days ago

Amen. Bill Kristol aside, most of these hotdog suit enthusiasts are just trying to apologize so we have to keep listening to them.

If they truly wished to make amends, they should renounce the spotlight for those who were, you know, right the whole time.

haredurer.bsky.social•23 days ago

Kristol still belongs in an Iraqi prison, I’m afraid.

justingwallace.bsky.social•23 days ago

Hard to argue with that one.

jowiph.bsky.social•23 days ago

Kristol spent years being wrong about everything and doing immense harm, but he's always been consistent and honest about his beliefs. I may not be happy to have him in the tent, but I don't doubt the sincerity of his face turn. There's no reason to give Lindsay or Hanania the benefit of the doubt

renderjudgment.bsky.social•23 days ago

His Twitter handle is still "anti-Communist," which does not give me great confidence that he has seen the error of his ways.

weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social•23 days ago

Even if I took him at his word that he's not a Nazi, he just let himself be used by them and now realizes that's bad (and I don't) a declaration of needing to repent is not enough. His words and views were useful for Nazis. If he's truly sorry, he needs to change his whole worldview.

aaronblackshear.bsky.social•23 days ago

Pick up a hobby Jimmy. Go crochet or something and never say another word about politics

rinric.bsky.social•23 days ago

Let's not get too hasty, I'm sure that James, in an act of utmost contrition and love for those people he had put down for years, would be most willing to be put in the front lines of as many protests as he can be, especially as the temperature rises.

rawrtigerlily.bsky.social•23 days ago

But not enough to change his handle from anti-communist to anti-fascist. Even though he supposedly now understands fascism is a real threat to us all while communism realistically has less than 1% representation in our government.

dinosaurrobo.bsky.social•23 days ago

I haven’t been following him, but “real Nazis on the shadowy global stage” has a real whiff of “Globalists”.

hiddenzoo.bsky.social•23 days ago

Love too say "Nazis" when referring to Jews

tallsprucetree.bsky.social•23 days ago

That's sort of how I read it, since the real Nazis right now are not bothering hide in the shadows

deadlyflowers.bsky.social•23 days ago

The International Democracy Union have been facilitating the sharing of authoritarian notes and coordinating of strategies across the globe for some time now.

I don't know this person or if he knows of the IDU, but there very much is a global fascist movement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Democracy_Union

jowiph.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yeah, I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear that most of his schtick has always boiled down to essentially "secret cabals of Judeo-Bolsheviks run the world"

caitlinmoriah.bsky.social•23 days ago

hard to imagine how the nazis thought they could use him, guess we’ll never know

jowiph.bsky.social•23 days ago

Some mysteries are just beyond human comprehension

ceecee-2000.bsky.social•23 days ago

There is no place in society anywhere for these fucking ghouls, ever.

subcontrarian.bsky.social•23 days ago

What about their audiences? Should we cancel them too?

robcodey.bsky.social•23 days ago

Have they stoned?

subcontrarian.bsky.social•23 days ago

Stoned whom?

robcodey.bsky.social•23 days ago

Atoned. Fucking auto fill.

subcontrarian.bsky.social•23 days ago

Ah, yes, that is the question. If they have, then we can all be at one again. Let's keep striving for wholesomeness!

nostaticatall.bsky.social•23 days ago

Literally! Just shut the fuck up forever and we’re even!

rrcandid.bsky.social•23 days ago

He sucks and under no circumstances do you have to hand it to him, but every person with a platform who uses it against the incipient Trump dictatorship is a win for the cause of preserving American freedom and democracy. Once we win, he can STFU forever.

felgraf.bsky.social•23 days ago

OK, but he still doesn't have to be in the tent. He can use his platform from outside of it. He does not have to be considered an *ally* in the fight.

The Enemy of my Enemy is my Enemy's Enemy, no more, no less.

libeltheband.bsky.social•23 days ago

I’m also ok with him parading around wearing a giant placard that reads, “DON’T BE LIKE ME.”

feistybrunette.bsky.social•22 days ago

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•23 days ago

I would however like 5,000 words from him explictly interrogating *why* he was OK with letting Nazis use him for so long, and what he intends to do about it.

jowiph.bsky.social•23 days ago

As long as it's the last thing he ever writes for public consumption

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•23 days ago

To be clear, I don’t expect him to arrive at any kind of genuine self-analysis via the process, it would just be an interesting thought experiment watching him attempt to write around making the obvious admission to himself.

jowiph.bsky.social•23 days ago

Oh, agreed

super-mighty.bsky.social•23 days ago

An easy choice for me - no reason to listen to any dumdum who "repents-of" anything.

toofmullets.bsky.social•23 days ago

Fuck these fuckers

ofvick.bsky.social•23 days ago

If you don't have at least an infantry company's worth of guys ready to go whenever, you don't get to defect and immediately expect a leadership position

arrellemm.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yes, forgiveness requires more than admission of guilt. It requires restitution to be anything more than a windy insurance policy.

tubapeter.bsky.social•23 days ago

They can help by voting and being quiet.

frontopup.bsky.social•23 days ago

The “anti-communist” presumably just wants to be offered the money of liberals in his pursuit of being a sweaty waste of space

bmazmanian.bsky.social•23 days ago

same energy

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bamamontana.bsky.social•23 days ago

Nobody wants to shut the fuck up forever, no matter how wrong they were or how ashamed they should be. They want to flog a goddamned book about it.

cassandrasaidso.bsky.social•23 days ago

OMG, yes. Lindsay is among the LAST ones we should trust right now.

tulletilsynet.bsky.social•23 days ago

Remember when there was that list of "30 intelligent conservatives to follow on Twitter" or whatever the fissured hog anus that was

cajohnson-craig.bsky.social•23 days ago

the popular front doesn't need collaborators