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Jan. 17, 2025 - RadixJournal - Richard Spencer
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Panda Express Triumphant

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Yes, I get it that for someone with ambition or at least pretension, someone who wants to be cultured and values those things, that there is a sort of monotony-like quality to working at a Chipotle that is going to be grading.
I totally understand that.
But that's not most human beings.
And that is not...
Anywhere close to being the majority of MAGA.
And a lot of people like the monotony because it's regular and they can count on it and every day is the same and they become friends with their colleagues and they make that mellow mushroom pizza or they serve up the orange chicken at Panda Express and it's...
For some, it's a part-time thing.
For some, that's kind of what they're going to do in this old world of ours.
And we shouldn't demean them.
We can be total snobs, arrogant assholes on this program, but you should never demean someone who's working.
I think you should be nice to waiters and waitresses and the person at the convenience store.
They are serving you on some level.
And there's just no point in being an asshole or showing off or trying to claim that you're above them or something.
It's just pointless nonsense.
But I don't know what to tell people like Scott Greer other than most of MAGA It's good advice for most of MAGA to not go to college.
I don't know what to say.
Now, it's not good advice for other people.
And elite people won't tell their children that.
And they're, in most cases, right.
But there are levels to society.
And so I think it's just much more effective to talk about, like, valuing work and bringing meaning to people's lives.
Than it is to claim that Khan Inc.
is preventing the rise of Scott Greer.
I think that, and this is an ad hominem, but ad hominems are sometimes the best arguments.
I think Scott, as a conservative, it's like they desperately want to...
Be a normie.
It's all about the left preventing you from being a normie.
I think Scott regrets that he didn't either own a small business or maybe study harder and become a professional.
Basically, to do anything besides just being this sort of useless grifter.
And he's expressing that regret through Dumb, illogical arguments.
And I think he also resents the fact that he never succeeded in con ink.
You see this with Kevin Deanna and all these people.
Like, con ink's the problem.
They succeeded and you guys didn't.
Maybe luck had something to do with it.
I don't know what to say.
But, like, you basically...
Believe in the same shit that Khan Inc.
believes in.
They're just sort of better at it or they had more connections or it's luck or whatever.
And you resent them.
And so you like offer these just bad faith critiques of Khan Inc.
And I know them personally.
And so I know that this is true.
They all worked in Khan Inc.
They desperately wanted to rise in Khan Inc.
And they didn't.
I never worked in Con Inc.
because I didn't want to have anything to do with conservatives.
They did.
Kevin Deanna worked in the Leadership Institute for like a decade.
So they're like failed Con Inc.
operatives who rage against Con Inc.
and their new employment status.
I'm sorry to be this mean, but like...
I don't know.
Seeing this cafe panda discourse just sort of triggered me because it's so stupid.
Again, just to reiterate my other major thesis, if you are not talking about reducing the number of people entering higher education, then I don't want to hear about you because you're just part of the problem.
You want to bring more MAGA people to get college degrees?
Like, what are we fucking talking about here?
You're just literally part of the problem.
You're doing the same thing that led to higher education being overstuffed, way too expensive, ridiculous, full of beer drinking idiots.
I mean, you're part of the problem.
So I don't wanna hear from any of these people
Chris Ruffo is correct that earning 70k To manage the orange chicken aisle actually sounds good for many people.
Sorry. Okay.
Yeah. To play devil's advocate here, I guess.
I think a lot of the anger at Rufo, it actually kind of ties into the H-1B discourse.
Because if I recall, Chris Rufo, he works for the Manhattan Institute, which is basically like the discount Cato Institute.
And so they want to bring in a lot of these H-1B immigrants to replace people who are genuinely educated and have the potential to go into high-paying professional jobs.
And so it seems like his response to that is, well, if you're mad that we replaced you with Ranjit from, you know, Mumbai with 37 degrees and Kamputerskians from the University of India, you know,
if you're mad about that, then just go work at Chipotle and fold the burrito.
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
I agree with that.
I also oppose H-1B visas in toto, so I'm consistent.
Well, I also wanted to say, I mean, I agree that less people should go to college overall.
I mean, somebody else said, I don't think anybody disagrees with that.
But there's two issues.
Number one, the, well, yeah.
Well, number one, it is kind of funny.
Somebody pointed out earlier that you see a lot of these conservative personalities saying, you know, don't go to college.
It's full of libtards.
Mike Rowe says to go work a trade job.
They're basically seeding.
These institutions to the left.
And then they'll turn around and say, you know, oh, the long march, the left conquered the institutions.
Not really.
You guys just kind of ceded ground to them.
The other thing is...
Let me stop there.
Sorry. Okay.
Well, I just want to jump in on these things.
So, a couple of points.
First off, you speak differently to different audiences.
This is something we should learn from Plato.
Many other people have said it.
You speak differently to a madman than you do to a reasonable man.
You speak differently to a child than you do to an adult.
For most people, telling them not to go to college is actually good advice.
Now, would I say that to someone who has...
No. But unless you understand that you have to speak differently to different people, then you're full of shit.
Because, like, on the aggregate, getting a 70k job at Chipotle is good.
That's a good idea, in fact.
Don't waste your time at college.
Most people should be given that advice.
We, because we understand human differences...
And hierarchies, etc.
We understand that you can tell different people different things.
They, as conservatards, think that like, oh, you know, I don't know, we're all Americans or some bullshit like that.
So I would stress that.
Secondly, this is something I've been thinking about it.
Is it really the case that all of these conservatard parents told their kid not to go to college, whereas the libtard parents all told their kids to go to college, and thus college
is full of libtards?
comments.
Or is it the case that the type of intelligent person who can succeed at college is far more likely to become a libtard?
And or that libtardism is a kind of managerial elite strategy for America.
So it's not a coincidence that all of these people become libtards.
Because they're, first off, more predisposed intelligence and openness, etc.
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