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Subvert the subversion. Mock them and meme them until their smears mean nothing. Wait til you see how demoralized the new CEO of NPR is, will have a spicy post on Sunday about her.

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You need both intellectual counterargument and mockery in order to win. Humor has universal appeal and politics is downstream of culture. Haley is not a contender, just another uniparty neocon donor-funded puppet who wants more endless wars. She is not serious.

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"You need both intellectual counterargument and mockery in order to win."

Trump has both. In spades.

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Good to see you’re reading Dr Y. But you ‘protest too much’ to little effect.

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Now that you've satisfied your pathetic need for ego gratification, please go hide under a compost pile.

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You haven’t read the room. The battleground is for the minds of today’s youth. They speak in memes now. And Haley was never a contender.

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"I am the youth."

OK, Fauci.

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A+ in “copy and paste”!!

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The SPECTRUM speaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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No one takes Haley seriously except the people who pay her and the liberals who were told to support her. She'll be gone soon. And I was not a Trump fan until now. I suggest you keep your eye on what's happening and what the stakes are, if you can see past your own intellect you seem to want to prove, and understand that the battleground is more than what you assume it is. And help your "fellow youth" understand that, as well.

And to me, "the youth" is also the kids in my house who are the rising generation who do not live in the America that I did. Or even you did. They live in a dystopia that those at Harvard helped create. Yes, that syndrome absolutely infected every single discipline everywhere for decades. You must sense that's true, or you wouldn't be reading Chris Rufo's stuff.

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Good lord. Haley earned that by the democrats coming out to vote for her in a republican primary, which is just stupid.

And the world IS a dystopia. My house may be a haven but we don’t live on a prairie in a log cabin.

Again, you don’t seem to be able to read the room. Every other sentence was a personal insult. Either you’ve being naive or idealistic. Which means you don’t have kids, or at least haven’t hit the stupidly hard part of having kids in this upside-down world.

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The SPECTRUM speaks!!!!!!!!!!

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70% of the Independents who voted for Haley told pollsters that they were voting against Trump and most likely vote for Biden if Trump was gone in November. 43.2% is NOT serious. I voted for Obama in the 2008 Massachusetts primary because I didn’t like HRC, but I didn’t vote for him again.

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The SPECTRUM speaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Achilles Heel for the Left is that they are in such a bubble, and take themselves so seriously, that they have zero idea of how they are perceived by normal people.

Mockery is the best weapon against someone like that, not think pieces in the Atlantic.

And Nikki Haley is nothing but controlled opposition. That should be obvious to the most casual observer.

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Both mockery and thinkery are important. :)

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Rufo is not alone, like at all. Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Jordan Peterson, Shelleberger, Douglas Murray and Konstatin Kisin are intellectuals who are attacking the left.

John Stewart destroyed the right for a generation using humor. You underestimate its power.

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You might want to consult a physician to extract that stick from your rectum.

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Your keep launching blobs of meaningless mental feces into the cosmic cesspool.

SPECTRUM

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The SPECTRUM speaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Regardless of whether you like them, memes are a shorthand that allows us to convey our serious intellectual counterarguments to people who do not read long, seriously argued counterarguments. Or read much of anything because they are of the short-attention-span generations. Memes are our best weapon right now in recruiting allies.

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The SPECTRUM speaks!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The institutions in question have undermined their own seriousness. The morally bankrupt, partisan NGO is a meme in itself now, so they should be memed mercilessly

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The SPECTRUM speaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Umm OK. Whether we write pompous verbose screeds about them or post memes (or do nothing) is going to have no material effect on them

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Memes expose lies and skullduggery quickly and with humor. While there's certainly a place for expository intellectual argument (academia, legislation), memes are the common language of the common people. Sorry if that doesn't sit well with you, but its not going away.

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Interesting quote.

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Got it. Have you seen "The Nutty Professor"? Look, dude/code, you're in the wrong line. The line for Ivory Tower (one of DizKnees most popular) is over there. Your quote-strionics aren't winning anyone over. We got this, herr DOK-TORR, now take your meds before your CPU overheats.

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There is use in politics for mockery. The left has used it effectively. The KKK was killed as a political force via mockery.

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Jan 26Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

As an American Jewish college professor, I can only wish that these two organizations were equally as energetic in confronting the more violent anti-Semitism associated with the campus and ANTIFA left.

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Exactly, and the academic Left, which is also supporting the "decolonization" of Israel.

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Jan 26·edited Jan 26Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

The grave flaw here is your assumption that they desire to confront hate. Quite the contrary love.

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One of the Commandments for all Leftists/liberals is NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT.

Which also helps explain why the American liberal class allowed every institution they control to be taken over by Leftists, while the strongest opposition they could muster was to make an occasional speech about "people on both sides" etc before retreating to the faculty lounge.

Left-liberals simply have no ability or vocabulary to oppose anyone on their side who claims that whatever they're doing, no matter how dishonest or dishonorable, is "to make the world a better place".

This is the magic phrase that makes all crimes and lies disappear.

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They should be defunded, period. The obsession with hunting down and eliminating "antisemitism" has brought us to this current impasse.

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It is not enough to simply ignore these people and diminish their effectiveness, they have to be completely destroyed financially too. I recognize that litigation has significant barriers to entry like time and cost to the plaintiff, but I really do believe that forcing organizations like the SPLC and ADL to pay damages via defamation lawsuits is the way to go. King et al v. The Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama is a step in the right direction, but there needs to be much more action taken against these evil psychopaths. The only thing that will prevent them from continuing their insidious operation is feeling pain and fear.

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Yes, we need some lawsuits against them. The Majid Naawaz case demonstrated that they are vulnerable on that front.

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Jan 26Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

This is exactly right. “In fact, if one must pin labels of hate, violence, or extremism on one faction in this debate, the charges should be reversed. Gender ideologues, not their critics, promote the hatred of biological reality, disseminate extreme ideological and pornographic literature in classrooms, and advocate for (and perform) violence on children’s bodies.”

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Jan 26Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

And let’s not forget the name Anthony Fauci. If justice means getting what is due to you, he likely has avoided justice.

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It's like Maytag.

Maytag built a brand around making quality products in America. The marketing creation of "the bored Maytag repairman" only worked for decades because Maytag's appliances really were good. Then Whirlpool bought Maytag, moved production overseas and transitioned to lowest-bidder, plastic parts. Now Maytag washers are just Whirlpool washers a different label. Whirlpool traded on the built-up brand loyalty for about a decade, but eventually reality caught up (as it always does), and people stopped being willing to pay a premium for the Maytag brand.

This is happening to EVERY institution in the West today.

Harvard still wears it's "veritas" on its sleeve, but people are noticing that it's a joke and that many Harvard grads are fragile, narcissistic, idiots. Gary Larson recently penned a Far Side along these lines... a job interviewer asking a candidate: "Our background check won't turn up anything will it? Drug use? Hookers? A Harvard diploma?"

Just like Maytag and Harvard, the new order within the ADL and SPLC are wearing the old orders' reputations like skin suits. It won't last. But they'll fleece a great many (both in contributions and in social damage) while it does.

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Very true, very true.

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Jan 26Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

If there's a group of more odious vermin than these left-wing NGOs, I am unaware of them.

Their cupidity is never satiated, and they will never rest, because the number one enemy of progress is question. Besides, it's for your own good don't you see, so shut up.

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Right, they are quite bad.

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The corrupt NGO's are driven by greed and a hunger for power, and their sociopathic-narcissistic personalities.*

The RACE-GRIFTER-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX is estimated by Jennifer Bilek to be a $BILLION business sector. "Diversity" workshops, books (Kendi, DiAngelo, etc.), govt "consulting" contracts like the $500/hour California "diversity" consultant that the Loudoun County School district hired, and so forth.

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/01/the-billionaires-behind-the-lgbt-movement

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* https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspp0000329

Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities.

Ok, E., Qian, Y., Strejcek, B., & Aquino, K. (2021). Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(6), 1634–1661. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000329

We investigate the consequences and predictors of emitting signals of victimhood and virtue. In our first three studies, we show that the virtuous victim signal can facilitate nonreciprocal resource transfer from others to the signaler. Next, we develop and validate a victim signaling scale that we combine with an established measure of virtue signaling to operationalize the virtuous victim construct. We show that individuals with

[->] Dark Triad traits—Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Psychopathy

—more frequently signal virtuous victimhood, controlling for demographic and socioeconomic variables that are commonly associated with victimization in Western societies. In Study 5, we show that a specific dimension of Machiavellianism—

[->] amoral manipulation

—and a form of narcissism that reflects a person’s belief in their superior prosociality predict more frequent virtuous victim signaling. Studies 3, 4, and 6 test our hypothesis that the frequency of emitting virtuous victim signal predicts a person’s willingness to engage in and endorse

[->] ethically questionable behaviors, such as lying

to earn a bonus, intention to purchase counterfeit products and moral judgments of counterfeiters, and making exaggerated claims about being harmed in an organizational context.

...

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Many years ago I donated to the SPLC to help them sue the KKK. I stopped donating some time after their legal success. I stopped getting letters as I moved a lot. Then, a couple of years ago, I started getting fund raising letters from them. The letters are cleverly written propaganda that are designed to influence responses to an included push poll with a donation section at the end. They also include their “hate map”. Initially the “hate maps” included “black nationalist” groups. But they dropped those organizations as DEI gained strength. Now they also show several Catholic organizations

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Right, they are desperate to find "racism" now that mainstream, institutional racism is a thing of the past.

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Its not just NGOs, the entire federal and many state public health bureacracies were politically weaponized against the public during covid. In in NJ and the state dept of health and various county offices were absolutely worthless tools. The health commissioner was a puppet for the governor mouthing platitudes and propaganda slogans. Meanwhile NJ has among the highest death rates in the world

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Yep, and education bureaucracies have been politically "weaponized" for a long time, blocking real education reforms that go against teachers' union agendas.

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You're my hero, Mr. Rufo. I *loved* your book, and found it so helpful in clarifying what's happening and who is behind in. I wrote in the margins and lent it out. I will pursue your excellent sources cited in footnotes. At one time, these very people advocated "speaking truth to power." Now that they have the ascendant, it's "Don't question our authority." Sad that all these brainwashed kids follow along like zombies, ignorant of history and calling for more of a system that will ultimately do away with the freedoms they take for granted, like ordering fancy coffee at Starbucks and anything they want on Amazon.

At that new college in Florida, the movie, Mr. Jones should be required viewing!

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Thank you!

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Well past time to do the deep dive into, and ultra aggressive, very public counter attack against these leftist fanatical hit-shops (ala Harvard/Gay). Their power lies in their unchallenged attacks on their political opponents. People with power, wealth and a public platform (Ackman, yourself, etc.) need to lead that charge. Keep up the excellent work. The salvation of this country depends on it.

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New Orleans was founded by mulattoes fleeing black revolutionary death squads during the slave revolt in Haiti.

Gay's ancestors were the Haitian "revolutionary" elites.

Gay not only plagiarized numerous sources, she used lots of bad data, as did her mentor, another corrupt, incompetent, insane plagiarizing academic.

Gay was responsible for the vicious "woke" attack on black economist Roland Fryer after Fryer stumbled across data that showed that BLM was blatantly lying about race and police violence.

Academia is full of Claudine Gay types that have never been held accountable.

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The entire political left’s worldview is predicated upon lies. Lies that they retell over and over in their insulated bubbles where dissent is not allowed. They have built their world on the sands of lies. This is why the left censor’s and jail’s it’s opposition. Their world would crash into the sea of truth and fact if the wave of reality is allowed to wash up to their foundation. This why all crimes against humanity have been committed by the left. 100 million dead from communism. Hundreds of millions will die from their climateism. Millions of young people will be render sterile and mutulated by transgenderism. The left is where true evil arises.

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If the left can force a former president to pay a completely crazy woman $83.3 Million for a defamation that never happened about a rape that *certainly* never happened, the left still has far too much power from which to draw. Good luck getting a fair defamation verdict in a big city. Isn't the SPLC headquartered in Fulton County, Georgia, i.e. Atlanta?

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Ignore the Left or delegitimize them by pointing out their tactics. Both approaches are good advice. For more tips I suggest reading "Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America" by Ted Cruz. I have reviewed "Unwoke" in my latest Substack at https://2026.substack.com/p/unwoke-review

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The irony of being labeled anti-Semitic by the ADL for criticizing George Soros, who funds generously just about every legal anti-Israel group in the news.

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It is sad that these two organizations can no longer be trusted to be unbiased. Gay man here and I have witnessed the full scale mobilization of hate towards a group that I support, Gays Against Groomers. Does it matter that all we are looking for, is for advocates to leave the kids alone? Of course not. Once they (the kids) reach the age of consent, then the kids can make their own decisions about what they want. But until then, let kids be kids.

In life.

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Amen! The people who force irrevocable changes on children who are still developing, exploring all the possibilities they face, are the forces of destruction. What 12 year old knows without doubt what they will become? At that age I had no idea what life held for me, and my parents gave me the freedom to explore without drugging or mutilating me. Gender reassignment has been largely banned in Europe because real research shows that the risk of suicide is NOT decreased, and may be slightly increased. I really admire Gays Against Groomers, the gay community does need to distance themselves from the NAMBLA perverts trying to steal your rainbow.

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https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1712505992540274708

twitter. com /wesyang/status/1712505992540274708

excerpt:

... white leftist savior was actually a homosexual groomer using drugs to induce a troubled 15-year old black boy into sexual liaisons who was then murdered by the kid he was grooming after attempting to blackmail him with homemade porn ...

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