Extremely Online Man realizes most of people aren’t extremely online.

His next substack is going to be "how i reached ultimate happiness in thailand"

I like how in his own metaphor he basically admits to being an orc who cannot appreciate the simple beauties of life and instead dreams only of empire and power.

Meets the most white of white Americans, responds with "what are these, some kind of ASIANS??"

This whole thing just reminds me of the episode of spongebob where squidward moves to a town full of people too much like him and it drives him insane

This reminds me of the Red Scare fans who converted to Catholicism and got mad that the people they met at their local mass didn't read Christopher Lasch and shit.

To all the bookish late bloomers nursing a psychic wound amidst their marble statue pfps, their Ayn Rand, and their Nietzsche, take solace that you, the nubile Dratini will turn into the dashing young lad Dragonair at 30, and the daddy dom Dragonite at 55. That's how the real world works.

This guy looking at some Wisconsinite. "WHERE IS YOUR IMPERIAL DESTINY!?"

I can translate this guy’s entire “article” in one sentence: “I couldn’t get laid, so I moved to the Midwest but still couldn’t get laid.”

the most honest part is referring to himself as a "contrarian novelty seeker" like thousands of internet nazis were made by the fact that it was so stupid they couldn't say no to the irony, wtf is this shit doing to us

It truly is a tragedy Matt couldn't be here to discuss this article. I hope he's doing well with his family

What happens when you become a racist based entirely off of TV shows and movies

So he moved somewhere, discovered he hated his 'chosen people' and realized he just hates everyone? Hell, i didnt have to move anywhere to figure that one out.

As a southerner, I relate to being described as a "gothic tragedy".

this guy talks about people from different localities in the US the same way that 19th century race scientists talked about all the new tribes they were discovering on their voyages (i typed this out near the start of the video and now near the end he's actually saying midwesterners are the descendants of conflict-averse german catholics LMAO i was right on the mark)

I love how he gets mad that they don’t want to change their lives, which is very conservative of them

"I'm no longer a fascist, I'm a neoliberal"

"See, the problem is that Nazis have become too woke."

Imagine being a Minnesotan hockey fan and this freak from down south comes up to u and starts talking to u about hyperborea

Tampa, the new Macedonia had me fucking dying. After having lived in Tampa for a decade, even during COVID, this man would be apoplectic the second he drove down Kennedy or Dale Mabry and realize it's the same strip mall bullshit that he saw in the Sun Belt and as well as the Corn Belt. It's amazing how much this essay writer went on and on about "the traveling pioneer spirit" and yet his concept of this "Faustian Florida" literally came from memes and having never been there. Btw, Nick's Gas station in Dunedin has the best Cuban sandwiches in the entire region. It's like the Philly cheesesteak. You can skip the tourist traps and just go into any local corner spot and get quality.

"...faustian individualism..." lmao

Someone like this can only exist because of the internet

how to be stupid and learn nothing from life experiences 101

I love how these young white nationalists don't seem to get that they already won a very long time ago and that we live in their world.

what living on 4chan and never interacting with real people does to a mfer

“Faustian individualism of Floridians” is an insane combination of words

"I dont get it, I moved to this place that I immediately hated for whatever reason then spent the rest of my time here staring at the locals with my mouth agape and remarking how different they are from me without showing any interest in their interests and for whatever reason NONE of them want to be my friend! What's wrong with them?"

Mfr acting like he survived the plot of Deliverance.

A perennial rhetorical question that pops to my mind each time I hear a Chapo reading series is "wait, this guy gets paid to write?"

Nietzsche would have hated the people who worship him today

Gerard de Nerval writing to Theophile Gautier, August 1843: "I have already lost, Kingdom after Kingdom, province after province, the more beautiful half of the universe, and soon I will know of no place in which I can find a refuge for my dreams; but it is Egypt that I most regret having driven out of my imagination, now that I have sadly placed it in my memory." Orientalism pg.100, Edward Said At some point they started actually believing the mythos of white, rural America that they themselves made up.

"this is just a guy who is entering his thirtyes" ahahahah

Contrasting this loser’s political outlook to Thiel’s makes you realize why Thiel does what he does: he sees everyone in their “in-group” as Hobbits too, but wants to be the one to protect them by being a megalomaniac because he thinks they’re too inept to protect themselves

I'm from small town midwest. There is a sort of horrible "Pleasantville" vibe to a lot of places

It's just that post about how people have a "Noble Savage" view of "Normies"

A Faustian spirit embiggens the smallest man

He's trapped in a plot of a Tim Burton movie about the most racist poster alive.

I'm 38! As opposed to "moderating,", as I've gotten older, I find myself getting more communist. So there's that.

As a professional cultural anthropologist, outside of conferences, even cultural anthropologists don’t want to talk about cultural anthropology.

Fascist no true scotsman speedrun

this guy was def a groyped-up shawtie

13:30 I grew up conservative, and yeah, a lot of these online guys who view themselves as really conservative, have clearly never like. spent much time around the conservatives they idealize. Church girls tend to not want a guy who has slept around, for example... (not that these guys have that issue)

Found what he wanted and hated it 😂😂

"Wherever you go, there you are"

I am born in Cleveland. I'm from 5 generations of Cleveland. It is definitely not racially homogeneous. It's strongly black, the white people have a gigantic representation of Jewish people, and there's a smattering of various middle easterners and Indians. Even more than that though, it's incredibly liberal and tons of money comes to this city via international students. There's racists in any place, but any racists here knows that they have to use dog whistles and then still hope not to catch a beating. However, people that move around are definitely untrusted. I did move away and can confirm, street cred rapidly is spent from every year a person is gone.

"the bohemian arthoe daughters of the bicoastal elite"

Let's be honest: this guy would thow in with Saruman a thousand times faster than he would with Gandalf

Imagine moving to the Midwest, an area that’s broadly often content with being content, and thinking you’ll get an adequate fill of novelty (without putting in any effort especially).

The wild thing to me is how many of the critiques of why the kinds of white people that author saw in the Midwest are primarily rural/urban divides. Most people living in the rural areas want to be by themselves, want cheap land, or have inherited the farm -- many of the ambitious, non-conformist people who may have lived in these rural areas typically leave small-town life as soon as they can for work and education. Imagine moving out to a cornfield of your own free will and complaining that there is nothing to do in a ten-mile radius: as a wise man once said, "This is a cow farm; you're gonna have cows outside." In a small town like that, gossip is the primary source of local news & the local church is the primary center for social life, particularly for younger people like the author to find potential partners. With an environment where gossip travels quickly, conformity is valued in such a setting & outsiders without those social connections are viewed as suspicious. (It is interesting to see how the white nationalist author only has an issue with a conformist society that is suspicious of foreigners when it is applied to him.) While he sees openness as stereotypical niceness, he seems unable to detect the passive-aggression that is often on the flip-side of the coin. Additionally, there is not as much investment in rural areas, so many of the "big wheels" in town are near-literal big fish in small ponds. (Indeed, many of the people who have money are those who have inherited large swaths of farmland from previous generations -- especially after the farm crisis of the '80s -- so many have been coasting off work done generations ago.) Of course he -- as a yuppie city-slicker moving into town, not going to church, and being an off-putting, irritable mental jester -- had a difficult time being accepted in the community; but instead of reflecting on himself, he decides it is the people whose community he moved into -- completely voluntarily -- who are wrong. Ironically, he seems to have a lack of introspection and reflection; something of an instinctive distain to examining himself through the perspective of history & cultural anthropology. He is no longer a white supremacist because he now considers his own white neighbors to be inferior beings to himself. The odd part of comparing rural Midwesterners to Hobbits is not only fact Tolkien based the fantasy creatures on a romanticized, rural areas of the West Midlands in the author's youth, but the novels' descriptions of the Hobbits' bucolic lifestyle are quite positive.

this isint white nationalism. this is ASD

This is so fucking funny. As a Midwesterner, I’m appalled at the mispronunciation of Mackinac (say it like “Mackinaw”)

"like you see in New Yorkers, Texans, Californians and Imperial storm troopers in Star Wars"

Top tier content and prof that Nazi’s are just middle earth LARPing

His comment on the civil war is ridiculous. The two most famous Union generals of the war (Grant and Sherman) are both from Ohio, lol. Also, while Lincoln was born in Kentucky, his family moved to the midwest when he was seven, so that part of the country probably had a bigger impact on him than where he was born.

I am glad that Adam SSomething finally told us his real story.

These cities he says have 'Faustian spirit' are just where he had a moderately ok time so added their genotype to his master race list. "Oh you laughed at my joke, tampans now have the best dna"

The White Nationalist Rod Dreher “White people are too normal and nobody wants to talk about HBD or read Guillame Faye”

the effects of not going outside and touching grass.

Fascism = Main Character Syndrome

The faded glory of the south consists of Nascar and getting their bathroom remodeled. This dude is just pissed that his fledgling terror cell mostly just wanted to paint Warhammer figurines

My guy went to the Midwest and got MAD that we are chill and enjoy slow work days or Friday beers & football. I'm glad this jagoff hates it here.

The thumbnail with the title couldn’t be any more perfect

this guy is trying to convince himself that the reason no one likes him is he moved to the wrong place

never thought a person could genuinely be racist against white americans, but this writing comes close

He sounds like he moved to Iowa. Unless you’ve experienced, you don’t know how depressing it is

Find feisty Faustian Floridians near you!

would never have expected to find multiple comments down here to the effect of "i'm a nazi too and i'm offended by this!". incredibly funny.

UK Listener here, no idea who you're talking about. From what he writes... it's someone who has not interacted with human beings before, yes?

Brian Quimby talking to the army of the dead sent me overboard 🤣🤣

I have become liberal, covert fascist of the world

7:34 Southerner here. Most southerners don't know what any of that means.

Mike Recine softly chuckling for fourth mic

Is this man's "contrarian novelty seeking" a genuine threat to the local social order? Or is it more the contents of his hard drive 👀👀👀

Every word of this article/post/whatever screams gross Reddit nerd to me. This guy seriously needs to touch grass.

Innate Saxon Wrath 😂😂😂

I guess if you have an 'identity' you dont need a personality, lol

22:52 *_My road to Cumtown: A Conservative's Journey_*

One of my favorite things nationalists do is move and become nationalists for their old country and the new country they came to bother. But I wonder if there has ever been a supremacist who realizes they're actually a different race but continues being an equally committed supremacist for their newly discovered race. Like "I'll tilt my entire belief system on its head as long as I'm still the gigachad and everyone else is the soyjack".

Just realized this reading series is basically “What if China Girl by David Bowie, but it took place in Wisconsin?”

Hey Brock and Team, sorry to interrupt your keg party. I'm here to save you from The White Genocide.

as opposed to hard r white nationalism

Did Steven Miller write this article under a pseudonym?

Looking forward to this dude reading the books and doing a series of pro-Sauron op-eds. Also, fascists becoming centrists to be creepier and worse is just chefskiss.

my favorite part of this is that he was, as he put it, "active in the movement" for like three years? so who even cares? this isn't even a large part of his identity tbh, it was a phase, a special interest. just long enough to push away any normal people who could've brought him back to earth.

My god, I’m from Cincinnati and this guy seems to have insane ideas about Midwesterners

I miss Matt so damn much

maybe education isn't the answer to combatting racism

This is what happens when you care about philosophy and nationalism at the same time

Where is our big beautiful boy Matt

The leap from white nationalist to just another Lord of the Rings nerd is more of a bunny hop.

I can’t believe you talked about the Midwest this whole damn video and there was only ONE (1) mention of Chicago. Wow.

You want to see the pride of my people? You come to st Louis and you tell us your state has better barbeque. Then you'll see some fighting spirit and imperial glory.

So many people who identify as White Nationalist or Alt-Right or Trad Catholic or whatever, they all want to live in the Middle Ages. They have this imagined history of non-stop adventure that they think will come back someday. The truth is that life was pretty boring for the average person during the Middle Ages. And yes, there was lots of war and imperialism, but only the kings benefitted from that. Most white people don't want to be soldiers who die stealing land from other countries for the king. We just want to work well-paying jobs, play with our kids, and watch superhero movies.

He sounds like ignatius j Reilly

He makes US midwesterners sound pretty cool (I am europea know nothing about the midwest).

no wait, he thinks floridians came from Romans!? ahahahahhahahahahahah

is he a conservative who likes the aesthetics of progressivism or a progressive who likes the aesthetics of conservatism? or maybe there is no difference?

Brave of the NYT to publish this

So, this guy thought Iowa(?) was exactly the same as it was in 1901?

Where was Ohio in the Westfold fell?