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June 21, 2023 - RadixJournal - Richard Spencer
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit radixjournal.substack.comAn excellent discussion. First, Richard and Mark offer a new subscriber a breakdown of Apolloism. Next, the gang dives into the tricky subject of (gulp) the Holocaust and the “revisionist” movement. In the sample included, Richard discusses his thoughts on Andrew Tate and the Tate phenomenon: the irony is that the Right has adopted a trans-national Musl…

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Tate would be an interesting subject, Richard.
I'll let you go with that.
Okay, well, so he's been arrested again.
So to give the background on the matter, he went to Romania, according to his own words, because they didn't have laws there, or they at least didn't enforce them, which is a kind of odd statement.
To make.
He did.
I mean, Tate isn't lying when he boasts about being the most relevant human on the planet.
Like when he says, I'm the most Googled person and your nine-year-old knows who I am and your nine-year-old can't name the...
Vice President of the United States, or the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank or whatever.
All of that is, it may be exaggerated slightly, but that's actually pretty accurate, sadly.
I actually asked my, my nephews are in their early 20s, and I was actually asking them, over New Year's dinner or something, I was kind of curious, and I was like, have you ever heard of Nick Fuentes?
And neither of them had.
It just went over their head.
They were like, who's that?
Never heard of him in my life.
And I was like, okay, that's interesting.
And then I was like, do you know who Andrew Tate is?
And they were both like, oh, yeah.
I was like, oh, God.
This is totally depressing.
But so he became extremely relevant with the Manosphere and a kind of combination of a lot of things.
Like there was the Manosphere, there was...
All of the red pill stuff.
And then there was also this, you can become a billionaire by hustling.
So very similar to that guy.
I don't know if I ever knew his name, but you've certainly seen him on YouTube at least four or five years ago.
He would do a video of his garage and there would be a Maserati or Lamborghini his garage.
And he'd talk about reading three books a day.
How you just hustle your way to multi-millionaire status through the internet and blah, blah, blah.
Tate, I think, picked up on that as well.
I mean, he had these like hustle university or whatever it's called, et cetera, where he would teach you to do things.
And it was all a huge scam.
You know, maybe 2% of the people made money doing drop shipping on Amazon or whatever the fuck he was offering them.
Everyone else just got fleeced.
And there was no, obviously, value to what he was offering.
And so it was this kind of weird combination.
And then they had the man himself.
I mean, he can, you know, he's a former kickboxer.
He's obviously super in shape, maybe steroid-induced, but who knows.
And, you know, to be...
Entirely charitable.
I mean, there were some funny things about him.
I remember this one clip where he was like, you've got to understand.
See, I'm a deep thinker.
You're playing checkers, I'm playing chess.
I'm on a much deeper level here.
So I ask you this question.
You have the hottest transsexual on the planet.
And then you have...
The ugliest heterosexual woman.
So the woman will look like Hulk Hogan.
She'll literally have a mustache and big muscles.
And the transsexual will look like Megan Fox.
And so I ask you, which is gayer?
It's just funny.
I mean, I have to say, it's just so ridiculous.
That sounds funny.
I'm going to have to Google it.
It's kind of like Nick Fuentes when he's having sex with women is gay.
It's so outrageous and kind of gets at some weird teenage mentality that it's just funny.
I'll kind of hand him this.
But the other aspect of this is there are two more aspects that are worth talking about.
The other one is that he is By his own admission, engaging in a sort of sex trafficking.
Now, whether it's legal sex trafficking or not, I don't quite know.
But he is creating a harem of women on OnlyFans and chat rooms and live streams in his house.
And he's taking a percentage of them.
Even if that is legal, like, let's say they all consented to do this, it's extremely disturbing and dubious and etc.
I don't even need to go into it.
Yeah, but I think it actually probably was illegal.
And that's what he's being charged for.
And when you're doing that kind of stuff, you kind of do start to question, like, what else are you doing?
When you meet people who have a harem of girls in a house and they're all doing OnlyFans, you're not jumping to conclusions where you're like, oh, and are they also prostitutes?
Or, oh, are they also sex slaves?
Or, oh, are you also beating them for pleasure?
You're not like...
Jumping to conclusions by asking those questions when someone is doing that.
You know, I don't need to say more.
So anyway, there's the other aspect of he just became this god on the alt-right.
And all of these alt-right people made pilgrimages.
I mean, like, I hate to even say it because I don't have any, like, animosity towards them.
But like, you know, like Michaela Peterson visited Andrew Tate.
You know, like...
I'm sorry, what happened when you visited Andrew Tate?
You know?
Maybe he didn't have sex with you.
I don't know.
What else happened?
I mean, like, there's just these questions that are raised by this.
And I even saw all of these guys, even some of these red pill guys that I knew at some point, like Dennis Mangan, who I remember wrote for AlternativeRight.com.
I mean, I remember him coming out in favor of Andrew Tate.
And he was like, well, I talked to Andrew Tate.
I don't know if he ever visited in Romania, but he seems like a great guy.
I can't imagine he did this.
All this nonsensical defense of Andrew.
He's a great guy.
Lots of criminals are really fun to be...
Most criminals are probably fun to talk to.
It's a totally irrelevant defense.
The connection between all of the right-wing and even mainstream media and Andrew Tate is incredible.
Candace Owens, PJW, or Paul Joseph Watson, they all visited Andrew Tate.
It's like he was this node for about two years there.
What is going on here?
It's true.
The other aspect of what is going on here.
I'll post this video in the chat or something.
So I found it last night.
There is this guy on YouTube.
I don't think I've subscribed to him, but I've watched a few of his videos.
And I think the name of his channel is What Do You Meme?
And he's this black American guy.
He's very laid back.
And he's actually a sincere Protestant.
And he does kind of like discussions of internet culture.
I don't even know how I came across him.
It must have just been the algorithm or something.
But, you know, the guy's cool.
Like, he's fine.
He is a sincere Protestant believer who talks about culture and stuff like this.
And he did this video, and I saw a video about Andrew Tate, and I watched it, you know, and I was, you know, relaxing or whatever.
And he got at something that I found kind of fascinating because he basically, so he is a sincere Christian and he was saying that like, what do we make of all of these influencers going over to Christianity?
So like 10 years ago, Dave Rubin was an atheist and now he's Christian or Christian sympathetic.
Andrew Tate also did atheist stuff.
And if you're a Christian, you're weak-minded or whatever.
This was all 10 years ago.
And he had evidence.
He had videos of them talking this way.
And they've all just kind of come over to Christianity.
And actually, this guy, who's sincere, was kind of like, is this a good thing?
Because they're making really bad arguments for the faith, basically.
Is becoming a Christian now this kind of way to own the libs effectively?
And is that actually bad?
Because from his standpoint, you don't become a Christian because it's badass or whatever.
You become a Christian because you're going to hell otherwise, and Jesus has sacrificed himself for your sins.
That's why you're a Christian.
And there may be other reasons, but...
That's the sine qua non of why you're a Christian.
And if you're a Christian for another reason, you should maybe question.
So he's basically saying these guys are making terrible arguments.
But isn't it interesting?
So I saw that, and there's this trajectory of atheism to Christianity.
And you see this Nico.
There was some other guy that got in a Twitter battle.
I didn't even respond to him, but he got into a Twitter battle with...
Our buddy, oh gosh, why am I forgetting his name at the moment?
He was on the show, Adam Green.
And he got into a Twitter battle with us.
And this guy claims to be a Christian, but he also claims to be fucking 100 chicks a day or something.
He's this weird character, like an Andrew Tate acolyte or Andrew Tate light.
And they've all adopted all this stuff.
And they've also adopted a kind of QAnon, like the world is satanic.
This was Andrew Tate's justification for God.
It was a bizarre, nonsensical one, which is like, there's so much...
The devil clearly exists because we see Hollywood and transsexuals or whatever.
So the devil clearly exists, and thus God must exist.
And thus I'm a Muslim.
I mean, total nonsense, but...
I don't know.
And isn't it interesting that all of these people become Christians?
That's kind of like the end point of the right-wing grip.
And Tate himself, who has some connection, maybe it's just a selfie connection, photographic connection, but some connection with Saudis, is promoting Islam while he is...
You know, engaging with teenage boys on TikTok in the most, you know, low-hanging fruit, common denominator way.
Like, he's just basically talking about, you know, women are bitches, you want to get laid, go fuck them, treat them like shit, get a big car.
Like, he's engaging in this, like, teenage fantasy nightmare, you know, way.
And then he's also kind of slipping in Islam on the side.
Like, oh, and by the way, Isn't it interesting that these characters are all promoting that?
Isn't it also interesting that the foundation of the alt-right, as it emerged, was Trump to a primary degree, but was also the refugee crisis in Europe of these And in a sexualized version of the refugee crisis.
So he's like all these young men are crossing borders and they're raping white women, you know, like Cologne, Germany and, you know, New Year's Eve of 2016.
They're just gang raping women in public and whatever.
And isn't it interesting that like.
That was such a primary and remains just such a primary motivation for the right.
And yet their hero becomes a Muslim sex trafficking gang rapist.
Isn't that curious?
What do we make of that?
I don't know.
But anyway, these are my thoughts on Tate.
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