Matt Forney Has a (Well Written) Article In Taki's Magazine

Matt Forney

Matt Forney

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Credit where credit is due: I was inspired in part by AnonymousBosch's concept of "iMcCarthyism" (I linked to his RVF posts several times in the article). In fact, my original title was "The Rise of the iMcCarthyites," but the editors changed it.
 
Quintus Curtius

Quintus Curtius

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Yeah, I read this when it came out. Very astute piece of cultural observation, Matt. That article deserves a wide circulation.

I really agreed with the premise that all the internet outrage and associated bullshit comes down to: emptiness.

Instead of activism (1960s and 1970s) and the Gen X nihilism (1990s), millenials have now taken that to the final extreme: utter impotence. They can't or won't do anything concrete, so they just sit back and fire off Tweets into cyberspace and accuse each other of being mean.

I suppose part of it is not their fault. The power system here has so cowed the population that you can't even do anything without being marginalized or blackballed.

I'm starting more and more to respect those countries where people demonstrate, strike, protest, and even do more extreme things.
 
AnonymousBosch

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Matt Forney said:
Credit where credit is due: I was inspired in part by AnonymousBosch's concept of "iMcCarthyism" (I linked to his RVF posts several times in the article). In fact, my original title was "The Rise of the iMcCarthyites," but the editors changed it.
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I read and liked the article a couple of days ago, Matt. It's both a concise refinement and superior expansion of the discussion, so if I sparked it in any small way, I'm honoured.

I'm not worried about 'ownership' of ideas I write on the forum. Since they grow out of inspiring discussions on here, I see them as Forum Constructs, with everyone contributing a piece of the puzzle.
 
N°6

N°6

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The article seemed to be warming up when it ended prematurely.

I found the repeating of the slur 'McCarthyism' unfortunate though. McCarthy was getting close to finding out the source of funding to the weird and wonderful elements of the then 'New Left' and it wasn't from the Soviet Union.
 
Quintus Curtius

Quintus Curtius

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AB,

Your posts on this topic, and also on female psychology, are also in a class by themselves. You really should consider cutting and pasting them into one large article for ROK.

Minds would melt!!!
 
AnonymousBosch

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^^^

You're mixing up McCarthy (the man and his politics) with McCarthyism (the dubious tactics he employed named after him).

McCarthyism is a political ploy that wields accusations and shame without significant evidence.
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McCarthyism is how MikeCF gets thrown off the Shorty Awards for a trumped-up 'promotion of pornography' charge, whilst Lena Dunham, an admitted child molester, is allowed to remain.

All of these are i-MacCarthyism in action:

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Quintus Curtius

Quintus Curtius

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N°6 said:
The article seemed to be warming up when it ended prematurely.

I found the repeating of the slur 'McCarthyism' unfortunate though. McCarthy was getting close to finding out the source of funding to the weird and wonderful elements of the then 'New Left' and it wasn't from the Soviet Union.
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I have to step in here and register my strong disagreement to your statement here, No. 6.

McCarthy wasn't "getting close" to anything in his ranting accusations, except an early death from alcoholism.

McCarthy was a liar, a bum, and a scumbag. He destroyed the careers of many capable people in the State Department and the rest of the government, with his groundless accusations. He capitalized on fear, he fed on hatred, and he profited from the cowardly silence of others.

He did immense damage to the prestige of the legislative branch and to the popular culture. There was nothing good about him.

He was only stopped when he finally overreached himself and attacked the military. He began to accuse Army generals of being traitors, and that was a mistake.

Unfortunately, his spirit haunts us still. There are still many like him out there. Wherever there is fear, ignorance, and demagoguery, there will be bums like McCarthy. He is the enemy of anyone who believes in open discourse, honest dialogue, and sincere scholarship.

Good riddance, the bastard.

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The Reactionary Tree

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I don't read Forney often but when I do, I enjoy it. He is spot on about these social media 'pink' shirts. As it has been hammered away on this board, the SJWs are cultural Marxists. Comparing them to puritans is an accurate description. Similar to Moldbug's analysis that modern day progressives are ultra-Calvinists, the SJW crowd may be atheist or secular but their never-ending quest for "social justice" is done with zealous, religious fervor. Basically, these assholes need to get real jobs, grow up, and leave people like us the fuck alone.

Great article Forney.
 
Benoit

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Quintus Curtius said:
McCarthy was a liar, a bum, and a scumbag. He destroyed the careers of many capable people in the State Department and the rest of the government, with his groundless accusations. He capitalized on fear, he fed on hatred, and he profited from the cowardly silence of others.

He did immense damage to the prestige of the legislative branch and to the popular culture. There was nothing good about him.
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McCarthy was "right" in the sense that there truly was endemic Soviet/Communist infiltration within all levels of the US Government.

However, he ruined the careers and lives of many innocent people by attacking them while the true spies were undetected and free to carry out espionage and manipulation for years.

He made the world a worse place. What a legacy.


To bring it back to Matt's article - modern "rape culture" hysteria imprisons innocent men based on a woman's hurt feelings, while actual rape gangs are unopposed because people turn a blind eye to avoid appearing culturally insensitive.
 
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AnonymousBosch, Quintus, and Forney always strike me as men who can cut out the fat and get right to the point of any topic and drop a nuclear bomb while doing it.

That piece was short and sweet. I would have just called the entire generation* faggots and have been done with it.






*with exception of RVF millenials who aren't faggots, of course.
 
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jayyrod1

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While I don't agree with it, the self immolation of Tibetan monks speaks highly of their conviction while makinf an extraordinarily grand statement about activism in itself.
 
Quintus Curtius

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N°6 said:
I don't want to derail the thread but if you're interested:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t7hhf "Reds were under the bed"

Hopefully I'll find the radio broadcast itself.
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I'm not seeing this, really. Yes, there were "leftist sympathizers" and outright spies (e.g., Rosenbergs and Hiss).

But it's the job of counterintelligence to root these guys out and identify them. And the FBI (run by Hoover) was more concerned with morals crusades than with hunting down real spies. The FBI's counterintelligence record against Soviet agents is pitifully inadequate. Hoover was more interested in blackmailing his bosses and smearing civil rights workers. Great guy.

All McCarthy did was scream and holler at ghosts and shadows. He did little or nothing to enhance the nation's security.

If you want to talk about Soviet penetration of a government, why don't we talk about the British government?

A better case can be made that the highest levels of the British government were compromised by spies. Remember the Cambridge Four? McLean, Kim Philby, and the rest of the whole sorry lot?
 
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KorbenDallas

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Obviously, great article, but I would be interested in N 6's view about McCarthy.

Obviously we have all learned Quintus's position in school, no "right thinking" person would be caught dead supporting McCarthy, and that may well be the truth, but I have also skimmed some stuff that suggested that although McCarthy was all over the place, the reason the left has screamed so much about him and routinely demonize him even to this day, (maybe warranted, I'm not sure, there were plenty of liberal politicians back then that are not remembered now who helped pass things that are just leave just as evil a legacy as Mccarthy) was that even though he might have hurt innocent people, he was legitimately close to revealing some nasty very powerful people in charge of the highest levels of power (possibly Rothschild influence, Rockefeller, IDK) who WERE hellbent on destroying America.
 
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zigZag

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Kona said:
I'm bumping this one because I couldn't find a Matt Forney appreciation thread.

I was doing some holiday shopping on Amazon, and I find out he wrote a book about picking up fat girls.

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Lovin-Guide-Picking-Chicks/dp/1495261328

I love this guy a little more everyday!

Sadly, the book is unavailable.

Aloha!
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Which begs the question. What exactly was Kona shopping for to "bump" into a book about picking up fat chicks?
 
Aurini

Aurini

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Kona said:
I'm bumping this one because I couldn't find a Matt Forney appreciation thread.

I was doing some holiday shopping on Amazon, and I find out he wrote a book about picking up fat girls.

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Lovin-Guide-Picking-Chicks/dp/1495261328

I love this guy a little more everyday!

Sadly, the book is unavailable.

Aloha!
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It's hilarious. I tried to convince him to let me do the audio book version, but he's moving in a new direction.

If you message him, I'm sure he'll send you an e-copy.
 
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