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(Justin Webb is upto shit again ...)
Americast
The anti DEI MAGA activist Christopher Rufo
We’ve been speaking to perhaps the most prominent anti DEI MAGA activist, Christopher Rufo. He’s widely credited for convincing Donald Trump to dismantle Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes within the government, and led the campaign which saw Harvard President Claudine Gay resign from her post in 2024.
He's a controversial figure who has who has spearheaded the right-wing movement against what he describes as "gender ideology" and "woke" institutional policies. He’s also concerned about the future direction of the movement he helped to create and worries about splits within MAGA that have seen influencers like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens split with Donald Trump.
In today’s podcast, Justin and Rufo sit down to discuss how successful he thinks the second Trump administration has been, and why Richard Nixon is enjoying a revival among Gen Z Republicans.
HOSTS:
• Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenterGUEST:
• Christopher Rufo, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan InstituteGET IN TOUCH:
• Join our online community: https://discord.gg/qSrxqNcmRB
• Send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 330 123 9480
• Email [email protected]
• Or use #AmericastThis episode was made by George Dabby and Alix Pickles. The technical producer was Rohan Madison. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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(Justin Webb is upto shit again ...)
Americast
The anti DEI MAGA activist Christopher Rufo
We’ve been speaking to perhaps the most prominent anti DEI MAGA activist, Christopher Rufo. He’s widely credited for convincing Donald Trump to dismantle Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes within the government, and led the campaign which saw Harvard President Claudine Gay resign from her post in 2024.
He's a controversial figure who has who has spearheaded the right-wing movement against what he describes as "gender ideology" and "woke" institutional policies. He’s also concerned about the future direction of the movement he helped to create and worries about splits within MAGA that have seen influencers like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens split with Donald Trump.
In today’s podcast, Justin and Rufo sit down to discuss how successful he thinks the second Trump administration has been, and why Richard Nixon is enjoying a revival among Gen Z Republicans.
HOSTS:
• Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenterGUEST:
• Christopher Rufo, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan InstituteGET IN TOUCH:
• Join our online community: https://discord.gg/qSrxqNcmRB
• Send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 330 123 9480
• Email [email protected]
• Or use #AmericastThis episode was made by George Dabby and Alix Pickles. The technical producer was Rohan Madison. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
If you want to be notified every time we publish a new episode, please subscribe to us on BBC Sounds by hitting the subscribe button on the app.
You can now listen to Americast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Americast”. It works on most smart speakers.
US Election Unspun: Sign up for Anthony’s BBC newsletter: https:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68093155
Americast is part of the BBC News Podcasts family of podcasts. The team that makes Americast also makes lots of other podcasts, including Newscast. If you enjoy Americast (and if you're reading this then you hopefully do), then we think that you will enjoy some of our other pods too. See links below.
Newscast: https:// www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p05299nl
Top Comment: https:// www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001mssm
Radical: https:// www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0gg4k6r
The Global Story: https:/ /www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvsdDownload
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Blue eyed and blonde Scandinavians are not '"White enough" according to American White Nationalism now....
Nobody will ever be Incel enough to fit in with these Nazi boys, Whiteness inevitably turns in on itself....
#USPOL #USPOLITICS #WhiteNationalism #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Whiteness #ChrisRufo
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Blue eyed and blonde Scandinavians are not '"White enough" according to American White Nationalism now....
Nobody will ever be Incel enough to fit in with these Nazi boys, Whiteness inevitably turns in on itself....
#USPOL #USPOLITICS #WhiteNationalism #Minnesota #Minneapolis #Whiteness #ChrisRufo
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'America demands assimilation': BlazeTV's Christopher Rufo and Bessent slam Somali welfare scam 'open secret' in Minnesota
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'America demands assimilation': BlazeTV's Christopher Rufo and Bessent slam Somali welfare scam 'open secret' in Minnesota
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There are worse forms of authoritarianism but wanting everyone on a social platform with an algo you control is quite effective. #ChrisRufo is only complaining now cause it's not serving his interests as much as he thinks it should. All these well known folks with money behind them could support decentralized social media with no algos, but that would be worse for them than the old corporate press that treats them, but not us, as people to consider in the "discourse".
https://christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-media-shape-our-thinking?publication_id=1248321&r=110ak
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There are worse forms of authoritarianism but wanting everyone on a social platform with an algo you control is quite effective. #ChrisRufo is only complaining now cause it's not serving his interests as much as he thinks it should. All these well known folks with money behind them could support decentralized social media with no algos, but that would be worse for them than the old corporate press that treats them, but not us, as people to consider in the "discourse".
https://christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-media-shape-our-thinking?publication_id=1248321&r=110ak
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the absolute meltdown of the MAGA movement into a circular firing squad of christian nationalism, gay baiting, and conspiracy theories about "the joos" in the aftermath of the murder of #CharlieKirk is incredibly heartwarming.
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes have done truly incredible work on behalf of humanity.
#MAGA #uspol #chrisRufo #ChristopherRufo #uspolitics #antisemitism #CandaceOwens #TuckerCarlson
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the absolute meltdown of the MAGA movement into a circular firing squad of christian nationalism, gay baiting, and conspiracy theories about "the joos" in the aftermath of the murder of #CharlieKirk is incredibly heartwarming.
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes have done truly incredible work on behalf of humanity.
#MAGA #uspol #chrisRufo #ChristopherRufo #uspolitics #antisemitism #CandaceOwens #TuckerCarlson
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the absolute meltdown of the MAGA movement into a circular firing squad of christian nationalism, gay baiting, and conspiracy theories about "the joos" in the aftermath of the murder of #CharlieKirk is incredibly heartwarming.
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes have done truly incredible work on behalf of humanity.
#MAGA #uspol #chrisRufo #ChristopherRufo #uspolitics #antisemitism #CandaceOwens #TuckerCarlson
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the absolute meltdown of the MAGA movement into a circular firing squad of christian nationalism, gay baiting, and conspiracy theories about "the joos" in the aftermath of the murder of #CharlieKirk is incredibly heartwarming.
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes have done truly incredible work on behalf of humanity.
#MAGA #uspol #chrisRufo #ChristopherRufo #uspolitics #antisemitism #CandaceOwens #TuckerCarlson
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the absolute meltdown of the MAGA movement into a circular firing squad of christian nationalism, gay baiting, and conspiracy theories about "the joos" in the aftermath of the murder of #CharlieKirk is incredibly heartwarming.
Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes have done truly incredible work on behalf of humanity.
#MAGA #uspol #chrisRufo #ChristopherRufo #uspolitics #antisemitism #CandaceOwens #TuckerCarlson
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apparently more than a third of #republican voters in the US are now holocaust deniers¹? and 41% think 9/11 was an inside job.
these numbers came from the trump loving, christopher rufo paying, super right wing Manhattan Institute. this is not a liberal pollster.
¹ maybe "holocaust truthers" is a more apt description but... whatever
#ManhattanInstitute #GOP #Vaccines #antivaxxers #holocaust #September11th #moonlanding #conspiracyTheories #ChrisRufo #christopherRufo #covid #lableak #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics
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apparently more than a third of #republican voters in the US are now holocaust deniers¹? and 41% think 9/11 was an inside job.
these numbers came from the trump loving, christopher rufo paying, super right wing Manhattan Institute. this is not a liberal pollster.
¹ maybe "holocaust truthers" is a more apt description but... whatever
#ManhattanInstitute #GOP #Vaccines #antivaxxers #holocaust #September11th #moonlanding #conspiracyTheories #ChrisRufo #christopherRufo #covid #lableak #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics
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apparently more than a third of #republican voters in the US are now holocaust deniers¹? and 41% think 9/11 was an inside job.
these numbers came from the trump loving, christopher rufo paying, super right wing Manhattan Institute. this is not a liberal pollster.
¹ maybe "holocaust truthers" is a more apt description but... whatever
#ManhattanInstitute #GOP #Vaccines #antivaxxers #holocaust #September11th #moonlanding #conspiracyTheories #ChrisRufo #christopherRufo #covid #lableak #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics
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apparently more than a third of #republican voters in the US are now holocaust deniers¹? and 41% think 9/11 was an inside job.
these numbers came from the trump loving, christopher rufo paying, super right wing Manhattan Institute. this is not a liberal pollster.
¹ maybe "holocaust truthers" is a more apt description but... whatever
#ManhattanInstitute #GOP #Vaccines #antivaxxers #holocaust #September11th #moonlanding #conspiracyTheories #ChrisRufo #christopherRufo #covid #lableak #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics
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apparently more than a third of #republican voters in the US are now holocaust deniers¹? and 41% think 9/11 was an inside job.
these numbers came from the trump loving, christopher rufo paying, super right wing Manhattan Institute. this is not a liberal pollster.
¹ maybe "holocaust truthers" is a more apt description but... whatever
#ManhattanInstitute #GOP #Vaccines #antivaxxers #holocaust #September11th #moonlanding #conspiracyTheories #ChrisRufo #christopherRufo #covid #lableak #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics
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@cryptadamist Hey #ChrisRufo you don't need to come for me. I'm coming for you. Within the confines of the same law that binds you and your fascist hoard.
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@cryptadamist Hey #ChrisRufo you don't need to come for me. I'm coming for you. Within the confines of the same law that binds you and your fascist hoard.
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Along with the tech-centric WhatsApp groups Krishnan had organized out of a16z,
Andreessen joined a slew of others,
including ones that Torenberg set up for tech founders and for more political discussions.The tech chats tended to be on WhatsApp and the political ones on Signal, which is more fully encrypted,
and they had different settings.(“Every group chat ends up being about memes and humor and the goal of the group chat is to get as close to the line of being actually objectionable without tripping it,” Andreessen told Fridman.
“People will set to 5 minutes before they send something particularly inflammatory.“)
After a group of liberal intellectuals published a letter in Harper’s on July 7, 2020, some of its signers were invited to join a Signal group called “Everything Is Fine.”
There, writers including #Kmele #Foster, who co-hosts the podcast
"The Fifth Column", Persuasion founder #Yascha #Mounk, and the Harper’s letter contributor Williams joined Andreessen and a group that also included the anti-woke conservative activist #Chris #Rufo.The new participants were charmed by Andreessen’s engagement:
“He was the most available, the most present, the most texting of anybody in the group
— which shocked me because it seemed like he was the most important person in the group,” one said.But the center didn’t hold.
The liberal Harper’s types were surprised to find what one described an
“illiberal worldview” among tech figures more concerned with power than speech.The conservatives found the liberal intellectuals tiresome, committed to what Rufo described to me as “infinite discourse” over action.
The breaking point came on July 5, 2021, when Foster and Williams,
along with the never-Trump conservative #David #French and the liberal academic #Jason #Stanley,
wrote a New York Times op-ed criticizing new laws against teaching “critical race theory.”“Even if this censorship is legal in the narrow context of public primary and secondary education,
it is antithetical to educating students in the culture of American free expression,”
they wrote.The conservatives had thought the Harper’s letter writers were their allies in an all-out ideological battle,
and considered their position a betrayal.Andreessen “went really ballistic in a quite personal way at Thomas,”
a participant recalled.The group ended after Andreessen “wrote something along the lines of
‘thank you everybody, I think it’s time to take a Signal break,’” another said.The meltdown of this liberal-tech alliance was, to #Rufo, a healthy development.
“A lot of these technologists hoped that the centrist path was a viable one, because it would permit them in theory to change the culture without having to expose themselves to the risk of becoming partisans,”
he said.“By 2021, the smartest people in tech understood that these people were a dead end
— so the group chats exploded and reformulated on more explicitly political lines.”Rufo had been there all along:
“I looked at these chats as a good investment of my time to radicalize tech elites who I thought were the most likely and high-impact new coalition partners for the right.”#MarcAndreessen #LexFridman
#ChrisRufo
#VivekRamaswamy #ErikTorenberg #Krishnan
#NoahSmithhttps://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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Along with the tech-centric WhatsApp groups Krishnan had organized out of a16z,
Andreessen joined a slew of others,
including ones that Torenberg set up for tech founders and for more political discussions.The tech chats tended to be on WhatsApp and the political ones on Signal, which is more fully encrypted,
and they had different settings.(“Every group chat ends up being about memes and humor and the goal of the group chat is to get as close to the line of being actually objectionable without tripping it,” Andreessen told Fridman.
“People will set to 5 minutes before they send something particularly inflammatory.“)
After a group of liberal intellectuals published a letter in Harper’s on July 7, 2020, some of its signers were invited to join a Signal group called “Everything Is Fine.”
There, writers including #Kmele #Foster, who co-hosts the podcast
"The Fifth Column", Persuasion founder #Yascha #Mounk, and the Harper’s letter contributor Williams joined Andreessen and a group that also included the anti-woke conservative activist #Chris #Rufo.The new participants were charmed by Andreessen’s engagement:
“He was the most available, the most present, the most texting of anybody in the group
— which shocked me because it seemed like he was the most important person in the group,” one said.But the center didn’t hold.
The liberal Harper’s types were surprised to find what one described an
“illiberal worldview” among tech figures more concerned with power than speech.The conservatives found the liberal intellectuals tiresome, committed to what Rufo described to me as “infinite discourse” over action.
The breaking point came on July 5, 2021, when Foster and Williams,
along with the never-Trump conservative #David #French and the liberal academic #Jason #Stanley,
wrote a New York Times op-ed criticizing new laws against teaching “critical race theory.”“Even if this censorship is legal in the narrow context of public primary and secondary education,
it is antithetical to educating students in the culture of American free expression,”
they wrote.The conservatives had thought the Harper’s letter writers were their allies in an all-out ideological battle,
and considered their position a betrayal.Andreessen “went really ballistic in a quite personal way at Thomas,”
a participant recalled.The group ended after Andreessen “wrote something along the lines of
‘thank you everybody, I think it’s time to take a Signal break,’” another said.The meltdown of this liberal-tech alliance was, to #Rufo, a healthy development.
“A lot of these technologists hoped that the centrist path was a viable one, because it would permit them in theory to change the culture without having to expose themselves to the risk of becoming partisans,”
he said.“By 2021, the smartest people in tech understood that these people were a dead end
— so the group chats exploded and reformulated on more explicitly political lines.”Rufo had been there all along:
“I looked at these chats as a good investment of my time to radicalize tech elites who I thought were the most likely and high-impact new coalition partners for the right.”#MarcAndreessen #LexFridman
#ChrisRufo
#VivekRamaswamy #ErikTorenberg #Krishnan
#NoahSmithhttps://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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Along with the tech-centric WhatsApp groups Krishnan had organized out of a16z,
Andreessen joined a slew of others,
including ones that Torenberg set up for tech founders and for more political discussions.The tech chats tended to be on WhatsApp and the political ones on Signal, which is more fully encrypted,
and they had different settings.(“Every group chat ends up being about memes and humor and the goal of the group chat is to get as close to the line of being actually objectionable without tripping it,” Andreessen told Fridman.
“People will set to 5 minutes before they send something particularly inflammatory.“)
After a group of liberal intellectuals published a letter in Harper’s on July 7, 2020, some of its signers were invited to join a Signal group called “Everything Is Fine.”
There, writers including #Kmele #Foster, who co-hosts the podcast
"The Fifth Column", Persuasion founder #Yascha #Mounk, and the Harper’s letter contributor Williams joined Andreessen and a group that also included the anti-woke conservative activist #Chris #Rufo.The new participants were charmed by Andreessen’s engagement:
“He was the most available, the most present, the most texting of anybody in the group
— which shocked me because it seemed like he was the most important person in the group,” one said.But the center didn’t hold.
The liberal Harper’s types were surprised to find what one described an
“illiberal worldview” among tech figures more concerned with power than speech.The conservatives found the liberal intellectuals tiresome, committed to what Rufo described to me as “infinite discourse” over action.
The breaking point came on July 5, 2021, when Foster and Williams,
along with the never-Trump conservative #David #French and the liberal academic #Jason #Stanley,
wrote a New York Times op-ed criticizing new laws against teaching “critical race theory.”“Even if this censorship is legal in the narrow context of public primary and secondary education,
it is antithetical to educating students in the culture of American free expression,”
they wrote.The conservatives had thought the Harper’s letter writers were their allies in an all-out ideological battle,
and considered their position a betrayal.Andreessen “went really ballistic in a quite personal way at Thomas,”
a participant recalled.The group ended after Andreessen “wrote something along the lines of
‘thank you everybody, I think it’s time to take a Signal break,’” another said.The meltdown of this liberal-tech alliance was, to #Rufo, a healthy development.
“A lot of these technologists hoped that the centrist path was a viable one, because it would permit them in theory to change the culture without having to expose themselves to the risk of becoming partisans,”
he said.“By 2021, the smartest people in tech understood that these people were a dead end
— so the group chats exploded and reformulated on more explicitly political lines.”Rufo had been there all along:
“I looked at these chats as a good investment of my time to radicalize tech elites who I thought were the most likely and high-impact new coalition partners for the right.”#MarcAndreessen #LexFridman
#ChrisRufo
#VivekRamaswamy #ErikTorenberg #Krishnan
#NoahSmithhttps://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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Along with the tech-centric WhatsApp groups Krishnan had organized out of a16z,
Andreessen joined a slew of others,
including ones that Torenberg set up for tech founders and for more political discussions.The tech chats tended to be on WhatsApp and the political ones on Signal, which is more fully encrypted,
and they had different settings.(“Every group chat ends up being about memes and humor and the goal of the group chat is to get as close to the line of being actually objectionable without tripping it,” Andreessen told Fridman.
“People will set to 5 minutes before they send something particularly inflammatory.“)
After a group of liberal intellectuals published a letter in Harper’s on July 7, 2020, some of its signers were invited to join a Signal group called “Everything Is Fine.”
There, writers including #Kmele #Foster, who co-hosts the podcast
"The Fifth Column", Persuasion founder #Yascha #Mounk, and the Harper’s letter contributor Williams joined Andreessen and a group that also included the anti-woke conservative activist #Chris #Rufo.The new participants were charmed by Andreessen’s engagement:
“He was the most available, the most present, the most texting of anybody in the group
— which shocked me because it seemed like he was the most important person in the group,” one said.But the center didn’t hold.
The liberal Harper’s types were surprised to find what one described an
“illiberal worldview” among tech figures more concerned with power than speech.The conservatives found the liberal intellectuals tiresome, committed to what Rufo described to me as “infinite discourse” over action.
The breaking point came on July 5, 2021, when Foster and Williams,
along with the never-Trump conservative #David #French and the liberal academic #Jason #Stanley,
wrote a New York Times op-ed criticizing new laws against teaching “critical race theory.”“Even if this censorship is legal in the narrow context of public primary and secondary education,
it is antithetical to educating students in the culture of American free expression,”
they wrote.The conservatives had thought the Harper’s letter writers were their allies in an all-out ideological battle,
and considered their position a betrayal.Andreessen “went really ballistic in a quite personal way at Thomas,”
a participant recalled.The group ended after Andreessen “wrote something along the lines of
‘thank you everybody, I think it’s time to take a Signal break,’” another said.The meltdown of this liberal-tech alliance was, to #Rufo, a healthy development.
“A lot of these technologists hoped that the centrist path was a viable one, because it would permit them in theory to change the culture without having to expose themselves to the risk of becoming partisans,”
he said.“By 2021, the smartest people in tech understood that these people were a dead end
— so the group chats exploded and reformulated on more explicitly political lines.”Rufo had been there all along:
“I looked at these chats as a good investment of my time to radicalize tech elites who I thought were the most likely and high-impact new coalition partners for the right.”#MarcAndreessen #LexFridman
#ChrisRufo
#VivekRamaswamy #ErikTorenberg #Krishnan
#NoahSmithhttps://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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Along with the tech-centric WhatsApp groups Krishnan had organized out of a16z,
Andreessen joined a slew of others,
including ones that Torenberg set up for tech founders and for more political discussions.The tech chats tended to be on WhatsApp and the political ones on Signal, which is more fully encrypted,
and they had different settings.(“Every group chat ends up being about memes and humor and the goal of the group chat is to get as close to the line of being actually objectionable without tripping it,” Andreessen told Fridman.
“People will set to 5 minutes before they send something particularly inflammatory.“)
After a group of liberal intellectuals published a letter in Harper’s on July 7, 2020, some of its signers were invited to join a Signal group called “Everything Is Fine.”
There, writers including #Kmele #Foster, who co-hosts the podcast
"The Fifth Column", Persuasion founder #Yascha #Mounk, and the Harper’s letter contributor Williams joined Andreessen and a group that also included the anti-woke conservative activist #Chris #Rufo.The new participants were charmed by Andreessen’s engagement:
“He was the most available, the most present, the most texting of anybody in the group
— which shocked me because it seemed like he was the most important person in the group,” one said.But the center didn’t hold.
The liberal Harper’s types were surprised to find what one described an
“illiberal worldview” among tech figures more concerned with power than speech.The conservatives found the liberal intellectuals tiresome, committed to what Rufo described to me as “infinite discourse” over action.
The breaking point came on July 5, 2021, when Foster and Williams,
along with the never-Trump conservative #David #French and the liberal academic #Jason #Stanley,
wrote a New York Times op-ed criticizing new laws against teaching “critical race theory.”“Even if this censorship is legal in the narrow context of public primary and secondary education,
it is antithetical to educating students in the culture of American free expression,”
they wrote.The conservatives had thought the Harper’s letter writers were their allies in an all-out ideological battle,
and considered their position a betrayal.Andreessen “went really ballistic in a quite personal way at Thomas,”
a participant recalled.The group ended after Andreessen “wrote something along the lines of
‘thank you everybody, I think it’s time to take a Signal break,’” another said.The meltdown of this liberal-tech alliance was, to #Rufo, a healthy development.
“A lot of these technologists hoped that the centrist path was a viable one, because it would permit them in theory to change the culture without having to expose themselves to the risk of becoming partisans,”
he said.“By 2021, the smartest people in tech understood that these people were a dead end
— so the group chats exploded and reformulated on more explicitly political lines.”Rufo had been there all along:
“I looked at these chats as a good investment of my time to radicalize tech elites who I thought were the most likely and high-impact new coalition partners for the right.”#MarcAndreessen #LexFridman
#ChrisRufo
#VivekRamaswamy #ErikTorenberg #Krishnan
#NoahSmithhttps://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
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Maybe I need to find one good #ChrisRufo monitor because then you know what @FAIR will be complaining about in a few months when some mutation of his trolling passes muster with a half dozen of the more ghoulish editors at the Times.
Sorry to any #ASL Americans with the incredible human capacity to convey language entirely by sign. Which came first? It would be more fun to think about than who the bellwether troll will dehumanize next.
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Maybe I need to find one good #ChrisRufo monitor because then you know what @FAIR will be complaining about in a few months when some mutation of his trolling passes muster with a half dozen of the more ghoulish editors at the Times.
Sorry to any #ASL Americans with the incredible human capacity to convey language entirely by sign. Which came first? It would be more fun to think about than who the bellwether troll will dehumanize next.
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«No matter, Rufo said, he had proof in the form of some impressive shoe-leather reporting.
So I visited Dayton for Drop Site News, and tracked down the infamous blue grill. It turns out there are a lot of holes in that shoe leather»
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/the-unraveling-of-a-cat-tale#chrisrufo #disinfo #Ohio #DaytonOH #elections #TrumpVance #debunked
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«No matter, Rufo said, he had proof in the form of some impressive shoe-leather reporting.
So I visited Dayton for Drop Site News, and tracked down the infamous blue grill. It turns out there are a lot of holes in that shoe leather»
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/the-unraveling-of-a-cat-tale#chrisrufo #disinfo #Ohio #DaytonOH #elections #TrumpVance #debunked
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I've been sitting on this post for literally two weeks for two reasons; frankly I'm not sure it's all that newsworthy, and because I really don't have a lot of context or analysis to add to what Deflector's David Roth has said here. Despite this however, I've found myself unable to let it go without sharing the link because not only is Roth absolutely correct about the transformation of modern Republican politics into something akin to the social media influencer business, but he's also hilariously *nailed* the modern reactionary zeitgeist built around Trump to a perfect tee. I guess what I'm saying here is that you should just read the whole fucking article this time, maybe even twice.
Men On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
"Both greasy strivers like Rufo and also your more warped and willful elected officials on the right all understand their jobs this way and behave accordingly. If they seem somehow unlike actual people, if they are too big and too mad and too much, it is because they are now full-time content creators, and so actually not quite like actual people at all. They are all pinned into a deteriorating orbit around the dense collapsing star at the center of the conservative universe, but they have committed to at least make their turns around Donald Trump's imperial bulk as loudly as possible. Again, this is the job.
The result of that work is a chunky slurry of gossip and fantasy and rank bigotry blasting from a thousand gilded hydrants at every hour of the day; it amounts to a grim sort of fan service catering to an even grimmer fanbase. This has limited public appeal, just in the sense of not being the sort of thing that most people are interested in hearing about, let alone to the exclusion of any other topic and in the most vexed n' fervid keening imaginable, and that poses an obvious problem for a political party that has entirely given itself over to the making of this kind of noise. The bigger issue, though, is that these imperatives only run in one direction—louder, uglier, more confrontational, further out, more. If the obvious tactical challenge here is that this shit absolutely sucks and most people hate it, the more fundamental one is that the internal incentives are such that it can only ever get worse."
Now to be absolutely clear here, I think it's ultimately important to recognize the political movement we call Trumpism for what it is; an extremely dangerous expression of unchained, violent reaction drawing on the latent historical embrace of white supremacy and fascist ideology nestled inside American political thought. If I didn't think that was important, I wouldn't write about it so damn often.
By that same measure however, there's nothing wrong with occasionally taking a moment to step back and acknowledge that the unhinged cracker weirdos behind this movement are objectively total assclowns running a pathetic grift based entirely on adult temper tantrums and appeasing the whims of a sadistic, self-absorbed fucking moron reality TV show nazi in Donald Trump. The idea that fascists are all hyper-calculating, super-intelligent political scientists executing a meticulous plan for domination is itself fascist propaganda gifted to us by the jerkstore muppet losers who ran the Nazi Party in Germany; it isn't true, and watching the guys trying to get that bag by sucking up to Trump and herding dipshit cracker edgelords for the cause is a far more apt demonstration of how fascist movements actually work, provided to us in real time. The fact that Roth also takes time to let the air out of the inflated ego balloon that is Chris Rufo's weirdly-shaped head, and slap guys like Ron DeSantis and J.D. Vance around a bit is really just icing on the cake here.
All work and no play make Jill a very dull girl; as such, I'd advise you to grab yourself a coke and check out this article. I'm not making any promises, but if you're anything like me you'll laugh, cry, and maybe vomit - but you'll do it while giggling, and that's a prize worth claiming all on its own.
#USPol #Fascism #ChrisRufo #Trump #JDVance #DeSantis #Grift #Humor #DavidRoth
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[People] will hold the [MAGA Bigot Content Creators] in contempt, not just because of their backwards and shabby aspirations but because of how unappealing—how much smaller and more anxious and more spiteful—those desires have made them. That assessment is easy, less automatic than autonomic. It's the sort of decision that gets made in the same part of your brain that tells you not to eat a hot dog you see lying on the sidewalk.
#maga #fascism #chrisrufo #kkk #trump #proudboys #clackamascounty #uspol #bigotry #altright #clackamascountysheriff #clackamascountygop #andyngo #timpool #cassandrafairbanks #propaganda #farright
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[People] will hold the [MAGA Bigot Content Creators] in contempt, not just because of their backwards and shabby aspirations but because of how unappealing—how much smaller and more anxious and more spiteful—those desires have made them. That assessment is easy, less automatic than autonomic. It's the sort of decision that gets made in the same part of your brain that tells you not to eat a hot dog you see lying on the sidewalk.
#maga #fascism #chrisrufo #kkk #trump #proudboys #clackamascounty #uspol #bigotry #altright #clackamascountysheriff #clackamascountygop #andyngo #timpool #cassandrafairbanks #propaganda #farright
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Update. If you needed it, here's proof that this wasn't normal library deaccessioning.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/08/20/new-college-florida-dumping-books-and-losingFrom a tweet by Jeremy Redfern, press secty to #RonDeSantis: “Putting gender studies books in the garbage? Great job, @NewCollegeofFL."
From a tweet by #ChrisRufo, New College board member nominated by DeSantis: “We abolished the gender studies program. Now we’re throwing out the trash.”
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Update. If you needed it, here's proof that this wasn't normal library deaccessioning.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/08/20/new-college-florida-dumping-books-and-losingFrom a tweet by Jeremy Redfern, press secty to #RonDeSantis: “Putting gender studies books in the garbage? Great job, @NewCollegeofFL."
From a tweet by #ChrisRufo, New College board member nominated by DeSantis: “We abolished the gender studies program. Now we’re throwing out the trash.”
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Heads up, Calgarians, there's an event on Sept 21st you may want to be aware of:
"Rufo, the keynote speaker, is advertised as being “a prominent figure in the fight against critical race theory in American institutions.” "
#Koch #Meta #chrisrufo #abpoli #UCalgary #BarryCooper #ClimateChange #climatePolicy #CanadaStrongandFreeNetwork
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Heads up, Calgarians, there's an event on Sept 21st you may want to be aware of:
"Rufo, the keynote speaker, is advertised as being “a prominent figure in the fight against critical race theory in American institutions.” "
#Koch #Meta #chrisrufo #abpoli #UCalgary #BarryCooper #ClimateChange #climatePolicy #CanadaStrongandFreeNetwork
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Perhaps the “Great Awokening” is ending after all, just not in the way anti-woke reactionaries like #RonDeSantis and #ChrisRufo had hoped.
It has not, historically, been right-wing traditionalists who have owned a “mind your own damned business” ethos. Au contraire. It looks like the not-right-wing-traditionalists are taking it back now.
Maybe we're also taking back incautious expression, telling it like we see it, chips fall where they may.
See e.g. #AdamKotso https://itself.blog/2024/08/12/weird-conservatives-and-the-end-of-whiny-self-righteousness/
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I did not know that #ChrisRufo opposes recreational sex. Such a missed opportunity that #JoeRogan didn't ask him about that this week. He must not have known, I assume. Joe tore #MattWalsh apart for his opposition to gay marriage. This would have been even better. #JRE
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"56-year-old pundit begins to question whether the Easter Bunny is real"
#Glem #ChrisRufo #GlennGreenwald
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/10/56-year-old-pundit-begins-to-question-whether-the-easter-bunny-is-real -
#Texas #AntiAbortion #Judge Suggests #Drag Is "Sexualized," Allows #Ban
#MatthewKacsmaryk, a #federaljudge in #Texas, allowed a #ban on #drag at a #university to go forward. In doing so, he cited #antitrans #extremists such as "#GaysAgainstGroomers" and #ChrisRufo.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Courts #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-anti-abortion-judge-suggests