15 Years of Conflict: A Review of the Culture War
Where all of this came from and how the Dissident Right became the New Right
Preface: Why I Wrote This Rough-Hewn History
This article attempts to provide an in-depth understanding and timeline for how we got where we are today. The post-war era of neoliberalism that began in 1946 has come to a ruckus end. The 2020 pandemic, the resurgence of tribal identity among the white population, the growth of counter-liberal narratives, and the denial of the Marxist “arc of history” didn’t just happen. These changes occurred because people changed. People made it happen. I was one of those people. The following is a look at the origins of the modern New Right and how it came to prominence. It’s also personal in that I was among these intellectual frontiersmen from the very beginning.
I’d ask you, reader, to please restack this article and share it. Even if you don’t read the entire thing, a lot of people aren’t familiar with the deep history of the culture war. This history will allow other people to provide additional context in the comments. Some comments and events may be valuable inclusions that I missed or didn’t think of. This shall be a decent, rough history of the full Culture War timeline up to 2025 and its key events. Some big, some small, some brilliant and some retarded.
Introduction: The Culture War
It’s been over 15 years since the first stirrings of the Culture War across the Western world. The Culture War is a term bandied about as a description of the conflict that has emerged in Western nations. It was/is a consequence of long-lasting deep cultural factors that reach back decades.
Over-leveraged financial Institutions and economic bubbles
Associated Book: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
The completion of the fiscal pillaging of future generations
Associated Book: Hillbilly Elegy
The emergence of the internet and social media
Associated Article: Digital Jubilee: Rejection of Cancel Culture
The consolidation of power among a cadre of Western oligarchs
Associated Book: Harassment Architecture
The collapse of classical liberal and neoliberal culture and a moral absence created by widespread secularism
Associated Book: The World After Liberalism
The resultant degeneration of Western Culture into tribal cliques and a mass-produced corporate slop culture
Associated Book: The Bushido of Bitcoin
Mass immigration into Western nations by uncivilized and impossible-to-integrate foreigners
The following is a retrospective on this battlefield from its beginnings in 2008-2011 to the present-day post-pandemic era in 2025. The world order is restructuring, and recent engagements in the Middle East, Ukraine, and India show that the United States is no longer able to play the role of “world police” the way it once did. As one who has been present and tuned in during the entire ordeal, I am in a unique position to provide perspective.
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The Digital Frontier
If one delves into the annals of history, this discussion could begin with early digital communications. Like the printing press before it (which kicked off the protestant reformation and the 30 Years’ War), the beginnings of this recent political upheaval centered on the internet. A new medium of unfettered communication never before seen in human history.
I am not old enough to delve into the initial emergence of the digital network with a firsthand account. Instead, we will skip when things get interesting in the late 2000s. On the early internet, people could speak freely and explore otherwise taboo ideas for the first time in history. 4chan was a core place where taboo ideas were first examined critically. The sacred cows of neoliberalism were subjected to scrutiny. In the early days, 4chan upheld a highly libertarian attitude created by the fact that only a small fraction of people were digitally connected. The assumption among most self-isolated communities is that foreign peoples behave the same way they do. While untrue, none of the online kids really understood that yet.
In the early days, the self-selection bias in digital spaces generated a place only accessible by those willing to experiment with new ideas. Simultaneously, it was also a young demographic, those that were disconnected from the ethos of the boomers and seeking rebellion against a stodgy establishment. Early events like the Habbo Hotel raids and Project Chanology are excellent examples of that free-spirited era before bots, AI, and universal censure.
This was an era of free-spirited pioneers who had no centralized forum or database to censor; no hub with overlords that could silence divergent voices. Contrary to histories taught now, there was virtually no racial consciousness (that was effectively killed by neoliberals in the 90s), and religion was a dying force (subject only to the occasional rant by outdated “everything is satan” style evangelists left over from the 80s). People had very little that provided a moral grounding beyond popularity, what they said on television, and an ineffable consensus of culture. The resultant hedonism was okay because most people could easily afford food, rent, and entertainment. Purchasing a home was still considered something that a normal person was expected to do.
It was at this time that Facebook and Twitter became predominant. Those tools were valuable components to President Obama’s run for office; he leveraged social media in new ways, though he didn’t take full advantage of it, as those using social media were limited in number and young. That all began to change in 2008, just as he achieved victory.
The Recession (2008) and Arab Spring (2010)
People have claimed the 2008 recession never ended. That isn’t exactly true; the monetary instability that preceded 2008 was clear for any professional economists paying attention. As resources started to thin, governments simulated GDP growth by simply printing more money. Thus, the wealth from the late 1980s onward was generated through debt financing.
The result of the 2008 recession was a drastic and rapid reduction in living standards for most of the population, as some of the early over-leveraged debt bubbles finally burst. Thousands out of work and no one understood why, least of all those kids who were beginning to achieve new frontiers of information online. The internet didn’t understand the 2008 recession because the kids online weren’t old enough to know how it fundamentally altered their lives.
I’ve said before that there’s an age cut-off. Those who entered the workforce prior to 2008 think in one way about life. Those who entered the workforce after 2008 are far more “extreme” in their positions on politics and far less forgiving of malfeasance.
As the recession swept across the globe, the Arab Spring occurred shortly thereafter due to economic disruptions. The Arab Spring was a (probably astro-turfed) movement in which thousands of people in the Islamic world rebelled against corrupt leadership due to the economic pressures placed on them during the global fiscal catastrophe. The generation that was active online graduated from high school into the Great Recession, and found that their future prospects had evaporated overnight. Many went to university and deeply into debt, with the (now known to be false) promise of a better life if only they had a degree. The “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” ideal was strong among the millennials because they’d never known anything else.
When the Arab Spring occurred, many of the formerly non-partisan digital groups rallied around it. They communicated via IRC chats and similar systems to leverage significant pressure against foreign corrupt governments (Islamic and secular alike). I was tangentially involved in the Arab Spring. Many people active in the free places online were involved in one capacity or another. At the time, it was seen as utilizing the internet to go after the corrupt elites who had damaged many people’s lives and force democratic states from totalitarian ones. Where the internet was shut down by dictators, various anons taught the arabs how to build mesh-networks and organize against their governments. We provided critical digital infrastructure and information.
It was naive.
In retrospect, it was an enormous mistake to support muslim extremists fighting against otherwise secular governments. We’ll put that down as the first really big “whoopsy” committed by a bunch of kids wielding tools they didn’t understand yet. At the time, the digital youth were still generally democrat-liberal aligned and didn’t distinguish between leftist ideals and libertarian ideals. The Arab Spring and the infrastructure and skills learned during that time, however, did give a bunch of anons some dangerous ideas.
“If it is possible to overthrow corrupt foreign dictators with the power of digital communications, maybe that power could be leveraged here in the West after all, the crisis created by international bankers.”
The Occupy Wall Street Movement (2011-2012)
The story of the modern culture war properly begins in 2011 with Occupy Wall Street. Again, a generally left-aligned initiative was generated, mostly online and spread through early social media. Many felt that the internet had come into its own as a power for social good. Protests were organized, and people recruited. Sit-ins and protestors appeared across the country to condemn the big banks and what they had done to our people. Many folks were pissed that our corrupt government had bailed them out on the taxpayers back.
Unfortunately, we weren’t the only ones who had learned from the Arab Spring. Certain significant financial and oligarchic forces in the United States and in the West had learned a great deal as well.
I was again involved tangentially in Occupy. Not as tangentially. One of my friends in a little rural town was arrested by the FBI for his involvement. I was never put under observation, but it was a surreal experience. I recall chatting with my buddy while federal agents searched his apartment and seized his hard drives. The concept of operational security had not evolved to where it needed to be.
The glow-boys raided digital infrastructure, but that wasn’t what killed Occupy. In the fires of international corporate funding, another weapon had been brewed up on various college campuses. The brain-dead left-wing thralls that we now refer to as “Woke Activists” were a weapon of the elite to suppress political organization and resistance. Just as they do now, they were used against those seeking to improve the lives of their countrymen, and just like now, they were too stupid to understand they were being used.
Woke activists promoted racialized identities and used left-wing rhetoric to break up the Occupy protests. They were sent in as a contagion with anti-white, anti-male extremist ideologies. An attack against the people who had made Occupy effective. Woke activists pushed ideas like the progressive stack to shift the protest’s priorities.
The progressive stack is where white men speak last, and black disabled, transgender women are given the highest priority.
At the time, the Right was nothing more than ineffective boomer-cons, so the presumption was that everyone at Occupy was on the same side. It wouldn’t be until years later that we would develop a name for the destructive death-cult created by violent woke ideological extremists now festering in numerous cities across the West. There was no social immune system to root them out.
The thought leaders of Occupy were left confused and recalcitrant, but unable to do anything about the ideological toxin that had entered their movement. The progressive stack was an excellent tool in silencing those who wanted to effect change rather than merely complain. I’m certain that was the plan all along. It would have been cumbersome to arrest them all on some bogus hacking charge. Instead, they were rendered impotent in their role. Blue-haired feminists and black nationalists burrowed out of the woodwork to make sure that white men (the majority of the Occupy thought leaders) would be forced to the bottom of the hierarchy within the movement. In short order, drugs and violence within the movement became predominant as the leadership caste was effectively ejected.
Those who remained were driven out or forced into silence. Virtually all of those among the former leadership who held ideals of punishing the elites responsible for 2008 were either removed or walked away in disgust.
We had a lot to think about.
Learning from Our Mistakes (2011 to 2014)
Those capable of learning dissolved back into the internet to lick their wounds and reevaluate. Notes were compared on 4chan… which at the time was still a small, no-name website that relatively few people knew existed.
From a philosophical point of view, the results of Occupy were a slap in the face. That failure instigated a complete reevaluation of the classically liberal ideals that had led both to the Occupy movement and its disillusionment under the weight of Woke progressive extremists. The anti-male, anti-white rhetoric of the Left grew far stronger and more violent during this time, giving rise to figures like Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin), Millennial Woes, and similar early YouTube e-celebrities. Originally, they had come from the anti-Christian/atheist sectors of YouTube. However, modern developments saw a repurposing of substantial rhetorical skills. Early digital voices provided a platform for discussion of the groups that had hamstrung Occupy: the brain-dead extremists whose actions derailed the protests.
It took several years of arguments, rhetorical discussion, and infighting for a new common narrative to emerge. As we licked our proverbial wounds from the abject failure of Occupy. New ideas were developed; slowly at first, and then quickly in the bowls of the internet. These ideas are not new now (quite aged actually), but in the face of democratic neoliberal universalism, it was difficult for people to accept them. I lost a few friends when they sought to find flaws in the logic and failed.
We cannot save the whole world in one go. We must think smaller.
Our people must come first; we need a collective identity.
Our enemies are corrupt; Institutions are only tools. Problems stem from groups of people, not institutions.
Power resides in the family, the community, and a spiritual, moral center.
If we do nothing, the history of our people will be destroyed by materialism and by those who self-evidently hate us and want us all dead.
We didn’t know it then, another decade was needed to hone our ideas, but leftism is a death-cult. Realizing that it was necessary to stand against leftism in the general sense meant developing an entirely new moral center.
We had to abandon liberalism, neoliberalism, and, in time, classical liberalism. The universality and egalitarianism of liberalism are inherently flawed in a world of tribes. We had to develop something new, as it is not possible to vote a civilization into existence. We constructed a new ideology based around acting in the interests of our people, one that advocated Truth and Kin as a foundation above egalitarianism. Liberalism was slowly dying, and we could all see it.
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The narratives changed. As philosophies were reevaluated, everything we thought we knew, everything we’d been taught to believe by the friendly man on TV. It was self-evident that natural equality was a lie. Tabula Raza was a lie. The behavior of the arabs post-Arab Spring (see the Libyan civil war) showed that different peoples behave differently. It became clear that “individualism is great until your collectivist neighbors decide they want all your stuff.”
Modern civilization wasn’t built by everybody; it was predominantly built by our ancestors. It was clear that envy drives entire civilizations to both emulate the West and to hate the West. It was clear that the meddling of previous generations in foreign nations and cultures to try and impose our way of life on them was not only stupid and naive, but dangerous. (The same goes for when we tried it during the Arab Spring.)
It became clear that the elites and their Woke pawns used words as weapons… not to be understood but to deceive. They’ll scream about equality when they don’t have it, and then practice extreme nepotism at the first opportunity, leading to that tiny group making up an insanely disproportionate part of the ruling class.
The method of winning the game of social Darwinism is not to abandon your people in favor of individualism. It’s to establish who you are as a people and then defend yourselves from all comers by any means necessary. It was in that period that the need to rebuild traditions passed down from our forebears was realized. A person is a bridge from the previous generation to the next generation. Identity and dignity are not to be sold to the highest bidder, nor to be purchased and worn like a commodity.
Christian identities emerged. Pagan identities emerged. Ancestral identities emerged. A white identity emerged. All driven by unrepentant foreign migration into our homelands by hostile populations who hated us. Gender traditionalism developed in response to tradition-despising feminists who would rather see the world burn than see their brothers or fathers prosper. In many ways, the feedback from Occupy taught very valuable lessons and encouraged the reading of taboo books: Evola, Hagel, Nietzsche, Kaczynski, etc.
What emerged from this period was very different from the culture that entered it. Stronger. A new dialectic regarding liberty, prosperity, independence, and identity. Thus, we digital philosophers were prepared when new social convulsions began.
The Trayvon Martin Incident (2013)
Trayvon Martin’s death in 2013 is a modern blip on the radar, but the resultant riots and destruction cemented an unapologetic pro-white stance among the young Dissident Right. A young minority male was in a neighborhood he wasn’t supposed to be in. He attacked a Hispanic man named Zimmerman, and Zimmerman shot him.
The media attempted to whiten Zimmerman’s skin and claim he was a neo-nazi. The media attempted to claim he shot an unarmed child. The journalists did all they could to use this as an excuse to start riots and vilify all white people. The court case was closely watched. The media debated identity for nearly a year online in digital think-tanks. This created a new sense of racial solidarity early into the culture war.
This wasn’t the first time this’d happened in US history, it was just the first time that we got to see it in real-time as the narrative shifted depending on which minority faction was in ascendance.
Importantly, when protestors screamed and ranted about killing all the evil white people, the Dissident Right took an important step in their philosophical ideas: the new Dissident Right believed them. One important thing to understand about progressives is that you should believe them when they tell you what they want to do and how they want to do it. That lesson was learned at Occupy and showcased again here.
Gamergate (2014-2015)
Gamergate. The Big One. There’s so much written on Gamergate. A tale of evil sexist gamers and hypocritical self-righteous journalists. Importantly, this is the first time in the previous decade that the (to-be) Woke progressives received a proper bloody nose. The first time they’d ever lost a fight. Remember those man-hating feminists from Occupy? They’d been doing the rounds for 5 years now under the tutelage of entrenched 3rd-wave feminists and angry HR cat-ladies. Talk shows highlighting evil men, rape, male gaze, man-spreading, etc. Gamergate was the first time they entered a subculture and demanded supplication, and the subculture told them to stick their ideas right back up the bloody gash they’d poured out of.
What actually happened during Gamergate is somewhat anticlimactic compared to the fallout.
A videogame developer, Zoe Quinn, had cheated on her boyfriend.
The men she cheated on her boyfriend with, 5 of them, were game journalists. (5 guys burgers and fries).
Some of those men were influential in the granting of awards for independent videogame competitions.
Zoe Quinn won such an award, sparking accusations of conflict of interest once the news became apparent.
The following is a YouTube video created in the midst of 2015 when the beginnings of the dissident Right were just starting to percolate.
It is now an initial shot across the bow that signaled the beginning of the culture war. The video is an interesting window into a collective past. Keep in mind that many of the discussed ideas have evolved substantially in the last decade.
After the Initial Outrage, People Started Digging as they do:
Accusations of favoritism and conflict of interest were levied against many game journalists
Game journalist media begins blaming evil-sexist-white-male-gamers instead of addressing the concerns
Gamers get angry, and their calls for justice get louder: Autism has advantages
Game journalists circle the wagons and double down. People like Brianna Wu (transexual) and Anita Sarkeesian (Jewish), who have been waiting in the wings, immediately jump into the discussion demanding the censure of these evil misogynistic gamer males
Reddit begins mass banning individuals discussing the topic
4chan begins mass banning people from the /v/ video-game board for discussing the topic
A whole lot of users from /v/ move to /pol/ the politics board to continue discussions where they encounter a newly founded pro-white pro-male identity
4chan bans discussion site-wide
Many, many anons move to 8chan and begin organizing resistance
Letters are sent, phone calls are made. Black-faxes (back when companies had fax machines) are sent in bulk. Demands are made. Boycotts begin en masse
Liberal-left game journalists triple down and continue attempts at censure
Gamers and dissidents triple down and refuse to give an inch, going after anyone where it hurts. Back in those days, Twitter was still a platform where you could rally against the accepted political narrative
Mascots are created, memes are created, and they went viral
Many of the gamer-dissidents made numerous apologetic attempts to show they weren’t sexist, they weren’t racist, they merely cared about the medium that had impacted their childhood. They were good people
Those who had already gone through that with Occupy didn’t bother; it was a waste of time, and it ended the same way with the gamers: total failure and exclusion
Thus it was that the general digital culture learned that appeasement of Woke Pychopaths and their Thralls doesn’t work and would never work
While angry about being forced off their websites, it still wasn’t understood what type of hornet’s nest had been kicked by not-laying-down-and-shutting-up
Things got weird after that:
Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian were invited to national talk shows by the Mainstream Legacy Media to complain about evil sexist gamers
They were invited to complain about “cyber-bullying” (people saying mean things to them on twitter) at the United fucking Nations
Radio shows and talk shows, and even the UN all used their pulpits to rant about how those evil, racist, sexist gamers were attacking these poo,r innocent women
Even after all that, the new Dissident Right didn’t stop; the dissident-gamers were autistic and angry
The politically aware used this as leverage to provide contexts and education to thousands of new people
Gamergate catalyzed the largest transition of people from politically unaligned to politically dissident in the history of the 21st century. That’s why they still talk about it ten years on. They banned dissidents from Twitter and eventually Reddit, but they lost. The spread of new ideas accelerated rather than damped. It was the first time they’d ever received a bloody nose in their cultural destruction of Western society. After the UN arrayed against the Dissident Right, it became clear to anyone with eyes that the combat was not against a few corrupt journalists, but with an elite that stretched to the highest echelons of global government. And a bunch of autistic gamers on the internet had given them a bloody nose.
After Gamergate, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and all of the other digital oligarchs who had once rallied on behalf of free expression began mass censorship. It began with banning “hate subreddits” like /r/fatpeoplehate… but their scope of censure quickly expanded. It has only continued to expand since then, all the way to “expresses any disagreement with an oligarch-promoted narrative.”
It was through Gamergate that the Western Oligarchic Establishment realized that the ideas of the new Dissident Right were more powerful than theirs (because they’re true), and that was dangerous.
Murdoch Murdoch and the First Election of Donald J. Trump: (2015-2016)
At this point, the culture war had entered a simmering state. Among dissidents, white-nationalist ideals were openly espoused as a cultural dialectic. Christian-nationalist ideas weren’t as strong, but were growing in popularity. The culture came to understand the nature of the Woke Progressive Left and the oligarchs who ruled them. They wanted a civilization where our people became serfs in the homelands our fathers had conquered. They wanted humanity to become interchangeable cogs in their great engines of global capital and economic production.
2015 was a very blackpilled time. The problem was understood, the enemy was incredibly powerful, and the culture hated us for daring to stray outside of acceptable norms.
Enter Murdoch Murdoch. An often overlooked “gay internet cartoon” that accurately captured the feelings of these new dissidents. It was critical both to spreading ideas and to helping the new right understand themselves. Murdoch Murdoch accurately conveys the self-discovery that the new right experienced, along with many of the bizarre cultural holdovers and trepidations. It describes a place among one’s ancestors and the awakening that occurred between 2012 and 2020. It’s relatable. It’s honest. It’s silly and stupid.
It’s probably now more of a historical piece than active media, but enjoyable in that regard, perhaps. A time capsule of a long-past era. Murdoch Murdoch coincided with the rise of the first “Alt Right” influencers.
The propaganda created by Murdoch Murdoch was at the time, pivotal to the completion of the ethos. Many friends bonded with each other and the community through Murdoch Murdoch. Even now, it holds a certain nostalgia for those who were there for it. They expressed the ideas without a dense autistic work of literature. Murdoch Murdoch communicated through a visualized medium, hopes, and doubts. As art, it described what the fight was for, and the dissident ethos that had developed around it.
Murdoch Murdoch began on YouTube and was summarily banished in 2017, and continued on Bitchute with constant re-uploads required. Now it remains on a few dedicated websites. Murdoch Murdoch is inspiring, even if also autistic and gay.
Then, for no reason at all, Donald J. Trump was Elected President (2016)
While I’d love to dig into the esoteric mythology of Kek, Meme Magic, and 4chan, that isn’t what’s important. I remember walking across a University Campus the day after Donald Trump’s election. I was surrounded by dower faces, terrified people… and every now and then some smartass with a shit-eating grin. A smart ass exalting in having won a real victory for the first time.
Donald Trump was not a dissident-nationalist or esoteric-fascist; he was more of a classical liberal. That isn’t why we loved him. The Woke Progressives who hated us (white men) and wanted us all dead also hated him and wanted him dead. Their violent thralls threw tantrums and screamed at his ascendance.
Donald Trump represented those of us who would not have our spirits broken by neoliberal anti-natalist anti-white anti-male progressivism. He represented a rebellion. The closure of the year of 2016, for all its faults, felt like halcyon days with the wind at our backs and the sun on our faces. A major win, one performed with all of the sane American people on our side. Not really, of course, but it signaled a change in the cultural wind. An early rejection of Woke narratives.
For the second time in our lives, we had scored a blow against the opposition.
The Culture-War Continues (2016-2020)
At first, we hoped that Trump did share our esoteric ideals, a hope quickly dashed as he engaged in the same plodding policies that the previous government had engaged in. While it did feel good to hurt our opposition, he didn’t accomplish all that much. Congress halted anything he tried, and the media spent 3 years spinning lies and false narratives about Russian interference, right-wing racists, violent extremists, and anything else their unhinged minds could think of. Leftists are natural liars.
The media whipped the left-wing public into a frenzy, comparatively tame compared to later years, but extreme enough to garner attention. Defending oneself from false accusations was (at the time) necessary; thus, it became a full-time occupation for most conservative politicians. Few were even real white-identitarians; it was all a big fake political optics show… but our political class (because they were boomers) didn’t yet understand that the Left must be denied any purchase. Acknowledging their accusations is itself a sign of weakness and an attack vector.
The mainstream response was unending apologies and constant refusals to act. The presidency was occupied by a normal classical liberal, yet our oligarchics were losing their minds. Donald Trump represented a concept of fair play for individuals, peoples, and nations. An idea that the oligarchic class despised. The idea that individuals might choose their associations and leaders was not conducive to remaking individuals as interchangeable cogs bereft of identity, or culture, or history.
The legacy media hated Donald Trump… and more than that, the Woke Left hated the people he represented. As Trump said, “They’re not after me, they’re after you, I’m just in the way.”
The result of this unhinged extremism from the Left was not the suppression of the Dissident Right. It was the opposite; the creation of a big-tent alliance between every single other group that dared to question the narrative of the [elites]: Libertarians, religious groups, business interests, anti-progressive forces of all types fell into a loose ideological alliance.
Now the board cultural fight began: a leftist coalition of legacy media, billionaire oligarchs, violent extremists, feminists, and mentally ill transexuals vs normal people who wanted only what was best for their families. One is funded by billionaires, and the other with no backing or funding to speak of.
An aside must be taken to state the real accomplishments of Donald Trump. Of those, the most important are:
Economically, he at least managed to bring about a resurgence of American exceptionalism.
Politically, he did what he could to prevent the oligarchs from clamping down too hard on the right.
In terms of journalists, he provided a target that distracted them from going after everyone else.
He began removing the US occupation forces from foreign nations and wars that the American population wanted no part in.
Social Media Lockdowns (2017-2020)
The years after Donald Trump’s election were interesting. The Woke progressives, with their control over legacy institutions, believed it their holy duty to silence all dissent. A legacy still ongoing (as of 2025) in most of the Western World, where many receive jail time for “offensive” speech (if they’re white).
The Elites and their mindless Woke Thralls wanted totalitarian adherence. Just like the printing press, what follows are social reforms, destabilization, and perhaps violence. Like the printing press, the elites decided it was their duty to suppress free thought among the serfs.
One does not lightly give up control of information, and the social media oligarchy saw fit to exercise as much censure as possible. This process began on Reddit after the death of Aaron Schwartz in 2012, but truly started in earnest as of 2017. Places that were once well known for the expression of ideas became places where only a single narrative was permitted. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, all the classical media of the previous decade silenced dissenting voices. As the years went on, the capacity for free expression fell. Playing games of capture the flag with Shia Labeouf (who was an internet sensation that year) would never be permitted again [part 1 (part 2 has been censored) part 3 part 4 part 5].
Dissent became dangerous to your career, your family, and your life.
4chan still existed, so that was nice. 8chan was shut down in 2019 after Brenton Tarrant posted his Facebook livestream link on it. The New Zealanders tried to go after Kiwifarms but were given about the most petulant response I’ve ever seen. (Kiwifarms was taken down in 2022 and has since changed its domain.) Many of these sites existed in perpetual uncertainty, not knowing when their servers would be switched off or when some lawsuit would force closure. Many are gone now, like LiveLeak. Adaptation was key to survival in an environment where legacy institutions preferred you all dead.
Over those years, we realized that we could not rely on the old systems. The cavalry was not coming to save us, and we had to do something ourselves. Simultaneously, the old guard from Occupy was still active and had gained nearly a decade of experience and resources. No one would mourn us for losing gracefully. Alternative social media was born from the minds of pioneering free expression absolutists: Gab, Voat (later shut down), Rumble, Bitchute, and other alternative websites.
The shutdown of social media also led libertarian-minded people to finally merge with dissident nationalists in a temporary alliance. Even classical liberals found themselves aligned against the disgusting authoritarian thought-control promulgated by Woke leadership.
Importantly, 2017 is when Discord became a popular platform. Easy to use, convenient, and more interesting than the sterile mono-thought coming out of Twitter and Facebook. Discord led to brand new subcultures and groups expressing themselves in new ways. I’m glad that the zoomers got to experience the free internet in their own way. Discord was largely responsible for the environment of microcultures we now inhabit today.
The Shutdown of Tumblr (2018)
The shutdown of Tumblr was more important than it would at first appear. In 2018, Tumblr came under pressure from its financial processor. To reduce the pressure, Tumblr banned pornography. Tumblr was 90% pornography. This effectively killed Tumblr as a platform.
The most significant side effects came from the other 10% of the user base. The left-wing political extremists who once resided on Tumblr were shunted to another platform. They quickly settled on Twitter. Simultaneously, many of those who were conservatively minded Tumblr users were likewise forced onto Twitter, or sank into Discord.
The expulsion of Tumblr users, like the evacuation of an overfilled rectum, did substantial damage to Twitter. The journalists of Twitter were exposed to a 24/7 cascade of the most extreme leftwing propaganda on the internet. Resulting, of course, in a further leftward lurch towards homogeneous groupthink propelled by individual Twitter users and journalists feeding off each other in an oroborous of hating white men.
As a result, an even stronger right-wing backlash went mainstream. Conservative citizens of the internet found it impossible to ignore the political left as a passing phenomenon. They were forced to confront it and found that they had almost no spaces (digitally or physically) to make their grievances known. Many conservatives were banned from Facebook, Twitter, etc., as a run-up to the 2020 elections; this happened to coincide with progressive extremists seizing control of major communications platforms. As a result, a conservative backlash grew in alternative digital spaces. Small groups began forming that would act in mutual interest against the progressive left.
Places like Discord and other websites saw the growth of crypto-fascism. It’s an open secret that nearly half of the users on these platforms are either pro-white, ethno-nationalists, Christian Nationalists, or fascists. However, these people were also forced to operate as political dissidents, subjected to draconian speech rules. No longer are Facebook memes getting shared by grandma; instead, there’s a dynamic group of young people loosely organized across multiple redundant platforms.
The internet is an excellent place to make good friends because, under the cover of anonymity, one can be more honest. Groups form quickly and effectively. The shutdown of Tumblr was a key event that precipitated those with focus from the general crowd. Initially, it created a left-wing advantage. A few years later, it created a right-wing initiative. All it would take was a sufficient political shake-up for these ambient Dissident Right leaders to condense. They became a cloud of cultural possibility poised to build a new political movement.
The Pandemic and Summer of Love (2020)
2020 was the year that the old world died. The neoliberal post-war consensus ended in 2020. Future historians will point to the pandemic itself, but the truth is that the curtain has been falling on the neoliberal world order for a long time. The year 2020 had everything: the “Summer of Love,” where violent riots broke out across many American cities and burned neighborhoods to the ground. It had a global pandemic and lockdowns, and misinformation. I remember walking to the shop in an old soviet gasmask because I thought it was funny and was taking the piss. 2020 then concluded with a [definitely not] stolen election and the MAGA-boomer-right blowing their load at the capital building on January 6th, 2021.
During the years of 2020 and 2021, it seemed as if an entire decade of history occurred in less than 20 months. It was a rapid-fire series of major economic and cultural shocks. The turmoil of 2020 and the sudden authoritarian extremism expressed by our leaders in 2021 turned otherwise quiet dissidents into active organizations. A condensation of ambient distrust distilled and activated. A self-fulfilling prophecy of secret Nazis created by the Woke Left. Thousands across the United States and the West self-organized using back-channels that had been created in response to mass-censorship 2 years prior. 2020 drove home the point in the culture that one could not go it alone in everyday life anymore, not safely. A lesson that’ll take at least a generation or two of stability to forget.
People needed tribes. Both dispersed across the nation and local to their person.
The George Floyd Riots caused over 20 deaths and saw Woke Progressives burning cities to the ground in “fiery but mostly peaceful” protests. We could see it all livestreamed by people who were there. Yet the media still tried to lie about it. To so brazenly distort the truth while video footage was publicly available. 2020 was the true death of Legacy Media, though they pretended otherwise for a few more years. It’s simply in the nature of the media to lie.
The saga of Kyle Rittenhouse represented the high point of the riots. An angry mob of progressive “peaceful protesters” attempted to murder a 17-year-old kid. That was where a pedophile, wife-beater, and a felon were all shot by a heroic 17-year-old with a rifle. The court case over the following year, 2021, made for some fantastic television and memes. His acquittal of all wrongdoing itself spawned a few more riots.
Numerous articles were published discussing how to organize in the surveillance era. How to organize locally, nationally. How to fight against the Woke Left. Importantly, it finally drove home the point to the regular public: the Left is not interested in truth or justice. They want to hurt and control innocent people and will use whatever lies are required to do it.
The extreme tension of 2020 created a strong impetus to action. At protests against the “elected president” Joe Biden, one met future friends. Telegram was popularized as an encrypted mass communications platform. The precipitation of dissident organizations began small, but accelerated as small groups of friends expanded and merged. Manuals were produced that gave rise to public-facing organizations: Active Clubs, local National Justice Party Chapters, White Lives Matter, and more. People were scared. Unlike the Left, who scatter like cockroaches when confronted, the Right organized, galvanized, and unified in the quiet corners of the internet.
The 2020 Summer of Love culminated in the January 6th MAGA-boomer protest. It’s best to think of that not as the first big strike against the establishment, but as the last gasp of the traditional conservative establishment. In retrospect, January 6th was the final attempt by the boomer-right to wrest control of the levers of power. The Dissident Right knew better. For the most part, as few of their keys were even present, much less arrested.
As with all of these events, of course I have personal friends/acquaintances who were present. I’ve managed to be 1 degree of separation from all of these wacky historical moments. Whether that’s by chance or divine design is a thought experiment left to the reader.
The whole year was a rigid propaganda machine pumping out fear and contradictory statements. Conservatives were refusing to back down. Donald Trump was trying not to play too hard with the political opposition during an election year. The Boomer-Right stubbornly believed that the Woke Left was merely misguided. Decades of discontent built up in both the Lib Left and the Boomer Right since the 1980s were let loose in 2020 and amounted to….
… nothing.
After a year of riots and BLM violence. After an enraged mob of pentagenarians to octogentarians stormed into the halls of Congress, nothing changed. There was a peaceful transfer of power. Donald Trump refused to agree that he lost, but he stepped down nonetheless. The halls of power quieted, and the ancient generational rhetoric left over from the Branch Davidians in 1993 and Ruby Ridge in 1992 ended. The halls of power were quiet. The MAGA-Boomer Right had been vanquished, their leadership scattered and apologetic.
The Left had seized control by hook and crook they had “returned” the world to normalcy. No longer would those traditional conservatives hold serious political sway in American culture.
Foreshadowing. For those present at the time: the MAGA-Boomer Right and the Dissident Right are not the same movement and never were. The Left didn’t know.
Let’s Go Brandon (2021-2022)
The Left immediately set about punishing their political opposition: arrests without trial, terrorist charges against those boomers who were at the January 6th event. They ran victory laps in the media, talking about how Joe Biden was the Best President ever, even as we plunged into a global recession caused by Pandemic money-printing.
The Left had succeeded in achieving power over the Federal government. They had succeeded in crushing the MAGA-boomer Right. They were going to put a transgender lecturer in every classroom. They were going to educate children on gay sex. There was nothing you could do about it, Chud! If you dared question the narrative, you’re racist. No one wants to work with a racist Nazi! Look at what your Grandpa has to say about that.
The election was obviously questionable. There was little people could do to voice their discontent beyond lackluster protests against Joe Biden. Few “normal” people wanted transgender lecturers in the girls’ locker room with their 12-year-old daughter, but there was nowhere they could safely voice that opinion. Total information control and near-total defeat of their political opposition.
Upon consideration, defeating the MAGA-boomer right did not secure the Woke Left’s victory. It rather cemented eventual defeat.
Those galvanized Dissident Right “extremists” who were building their own organizations… they weren’t MAGA-boomers. Their organizations only grew as alternatives vanished. The Left didn’t realize that they had been fighting a 2-front war this entire time, one against the ancient Maga-Boomer Right, and another against the young and vital Dissident Right. Two fronts.
It had been the MAGA-boomer right that had been holding back the Dissident Right for the last few years. Without their traditional cultural leaders to turn to, and with an inability to express themselves openly, the people began seeking out alternatives. They developed creole language in real time. New ways to say they hated the regime and Woke progressives that wouldn’t get them censored, doxed, or deplatformed.
Stickers like that above had to be removed from gas station pumps hourly as the economic fallout of the Pandemic Spending caused mass inflation. The Biden administration acted only to make things worse. As gas prices soared, leftwing pundits bragged that they didn’t care about gas prices because they owned $60,000 Tesla cars.
The most famous instance was “Let’s Go Brandon.” A hilarious creole for “Fuck Joe Biden” created as a Woke reporter attempted to cover for her leader by spinning an obvious lie on live television. The Dissident Right has always been good at creating memes to sway public opinion and cultural exchange. If anything, the suppression of this period played to their creative strengths. A game of how much one can say without really saying anything. It was a game they’d become skilled at leading up to 2020, and now those skills were put to use.
From 2021 to 2024, the Biden regime grew more erratic. It sought to punish Donald Trump by going after his family and business with feckless lawsuits. It sought to crush dissent by controlling alternative social media platforms. People already familiar with their methods had previously built a hardened system. Systems that resisted the attempts by the legacy media and Biden’s administration’s attempts at thought control.
The culture was resistant. Imagine telling some autistic kid on 4chan that one day they’d organize a political movement on a national scale? Many of those now active were brought up in the culture war. It was all they knew, and they’d learned to live in a high-pressure environment. There was a pressure on the culture that needed to be translated into action. A social crockpot of:
Inflation and Fallout from the Global Supply Chain Collapse
The Chinese Zero-Covid-Policy causing ongoing shortages
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The Israeli Invasion of Gaza
Contestations of the 2020 Presidential Election
Numerous National Attempts to Re-lockdown in 2021 and 2022
Mandates for Vaccines Now Proven to be a Cause of Serious Maladies
Even as propaganda was wildly spun by NPR and their ilk, even as our leaders tried to place us into war with yet another distant power, the populace was no longer having it. The newly organized agents of the Dissident Right knew there was no point in conceding to an enemy that wants you dead. So compromise among the new crop of politicians ended. Republicans were seized by Trumpian nationalism, and Democrats fell to erratic infighting between progressives and globalists and environmentalists1, feminists, and every other faction.
In achieving political dominance, the Left had finally lost its grip on cultural dominance. Politics is, of course, downstream from culture. They were performing a balancing act as tens of thousands of people had acquired additional arms, organizations, skills, and resolve in response to the Summer of Love in 2020.
In an economic sense, this was a Golden Age for arms manufacturers as the domestic market for military equipment, tactical knowledge, and associated tools probably tripled in the United States. The actual citizens of the nation were not excited to be caught unawares again. The esoteric ideas of the Dissident Right entered common discourse and discussion as the regime, hamstrung by its victory over the MAGA-boomer Right, struggled to suppress dissidents fast enough.
Americans are a notably unruly people when it comes to authoritarianism. Things went from difficult to apocalyptic for the Woke Left when some of the Billionaire Elites began to smell which way the wind was blowing and turned coat.
I have no idea how many millions of dollars were pumped into a PR firm so that Zuckerberg could appear to go from Left-Aligned Lizard-Person to Right-Aligned Surfer-bro… but the fact that he was willing to make that expenditure says a lot about where public opinion was moving. Few people know public opinion better than social-media tech-bro elites.
For all the kvetching in the world, the Right gained traction through angry parents at school boards, through exposed media lies, through the Supreme Court picks of Donald Trump’s first term, and through people who had simply had enough. The right began to make new moves at the institutional level, no longer hampered by the aged Neo-Con elites.
Elon Musk Bought Twitter (2022)
The largest cultural turnaround occurred when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The purchase was first floated in April of 2022 and concluded in October of that year. It was not just one more billionaire buying another social media giant. Like the Dissident Right, it seems that Elon acted not out of profit-seeking but out of a sense of justice. He’s stated himself that he purchased Twitter to “save free speech.” It doesn’t matter to him if it’s a long-term net profit or loss… it matters that he did what was Right when the world needed him to.
Don’t saint the man, but I’ll give credit where credit is due.
While I don’t tend to subscribe to the Great Man theory of history, through his actions, Elon Musk dramatically reshaped national and international culture by removing the boot from our collective neck. He permitted the little normal people to speak. From October 2022 to the summer of 2023, Elon Musk reorganized Twitter.
The blue checkmark, which was once given only to individuals of special status, became a commodity to be sold. Just as our Elites had sold our cultures for pennies on the dollar, Elon Musk sold theirs. They were not happy.
The naughty-word list and ban lists were removed. In 2024, the Dissident Right, having decided to mostly take a ‘wait and see’ policy with Twitter for a year or so, began to engage with the platform. The Dissident Right had lived in the shadows of giants now for 10 years since 2014. They had been threatened, coerced, vilified, and struck down where they dared show their faces. For a decade they had philosophized and compared notes and argued with each other. They had created some of the most stalwart philosophical and theological, and political arguments ever put to page; forged by constant hostile engagement.
Like a Pokémon, the Western Dissident Right evolved into the Western New Right. A radical transformation. They couldn’t be canceled or threatened or coerced like before. They could have their blue check mark on Twitter(X), and they could call out Woke Leftists. Their networks, having long grown quietly in the dark of alternative networks, finally saw the light of day in public discourse.
The Woke Left was not ready.
The legacy media was not ready.
Assassination Attempt (2024)
Donald J. Trump, I think he was ready.
The cultural shift was slow at first. He ran for the presidency again in 2024. I believe he wanted to prove he’d have won the 2020 election were it not for hostile ‘fortification.’ The Woke Left, having realized that they’d gained the levers of power only by severing from the Right its self-limiting apparatus, were terrified. So they did what they always do when threatened by a morally, emotionally, and politically superior foe.
In what is probably one of the greatest political blunders of the 21st century, the establishment attempted to see Donald Trump assassinated.
Forgive me if I think that the incompetence which permitted a ‘mentally ill lone-wolf’ shooter to take a shot at Donald Trump wasn’t accidental. Spin it whichever way you want, the guy was known, and the affair was a clear display of willful negligence.
The shooter took a shot at the King. The Shooter missed. Unlike the Gracchi brothers in Rome, the Elites in the West failed to kill the opposition and secure 60 more years of disastrous, corrupt social and fiscal policies.
If you aren’t familiar with the Gracchi brothers, the attached article should clear that up: real-estate tycoons who wanted to reform the Roman government as tribunes of the plebs, killed when they got too close to succeeding.
History truly stood on the edge of a knife that day. A bullet a few millimeters to the right and the course of western civilization would have been very different this coming century.
After the assassination attempt, there was a massive cultural vibe shift against the Woke Left. While not quite pariahs, they were recognized as the mentally unhinged and violent, petulant children that they are. No longer ‘crusaders for social justice,’ rather ‘unhinged psychos using social justice as cover.’ An accurate reflection of their character.
Between Elon Musk controlling Twitter(X) and permitting the New Right a seat at the political table, and the glorious optics of the assassination attempt against Donald J. Trump, the Right had achieved considerable cultural dominance. The Left was tired, they’d “won” in 2020. They’d run their victory lap and burnt a few cities to cinders. They were getting old. Even now(2025), in the protests against Donald Trump, you see many of them are out-of-touch boomers, just as the MAGA-Boomer Right back in 2020.
The race for the presidency was on, and the options were Old Corrupt Joe Biden vs Donald J. Trump.
No, wait, Joe is told it looks like. Let’s replace him with someone else. How about his horrifically unlikeable VP? That could work!
It did not work2.
The Second Election of Donald Trump (2024)
The leftie freakouts about the 2nd (and non-consecutive) election of Donald J. Trump in 2024 were considerable. What followed was a dramatic political blitz. Donald Trump had been targeted, his family had been targeted, and they’d tried to shoot him. They’d raided his home. Donald Trump’s last 4 years have been a crucible of attempts to impoverish him and his family, shut down his companies, and see him in prison.
Donald Trump wasted no time. It was a blitz, and he was out for blood. Within 48 hours of achieving the Presidency, large swaths of the executive bureaucracy had been reorganized. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance created a triumvirate. By using a barely-remembered micro-agency with sweeping congressionally approved powers and renaming it DOGE, Donald Trump swept through the federal system. He cut away bloated funding (especially federal funding that magically went to his political opposition) like a man with a hatchet.
Within 6 weeks, the Left finally realized that he’d maneuvered around their Maginot line with DOGE and was a few miles from Paris. Then the court injunctions from lower courts started rolling in, but they were so slow to react, half their bureaucratic pawns had already been ejected. It was a bloodbath3.
The New Right Cheered. The remnants of the MAGA-boomer Right wrung their hands but kept their mouth shut. The Left screached about Nazism (they always screach about nazism, that’s their only strategy).
Donald J. Trump gained the levers of power. The New Right (Mostly Christian-Nationalists and Industrial Nationalists appear to have won out in the public discourse) now commands large swaths of the culture. The Woke Left predominates in many large cities and across the British Commonwealth nations. It appears that a cultural cold war has begun brewing internationally4.
To protest Elon Musk, the Left destroyed Tesla vehicles. Yes, the same Tesla vehicles they were bragging about owning 3 years ago. The difference is that now they’re getting arrested for it. Some are being charged with terrorism, carrying a hefty prison sentence. They continue rioting and protesting, but it’s different now. The Administration is gloves-off and (outside of a few urban areas occupied by libshits) the general population wants heads on pikes. The general population is sick and tired of violent left-wing extremism.
To protest Elon Musk, the Left fled from Twitter(X) to BlueSky, where they created an echo-chamber so extreme that BlueSky is barely functional. Only the most bizarre forms of communism and hyper-Woke identitarianism can be freely expressed. They were not ejected from Twitter(X) merely Elon Musk was merely allowing Dissident opinions on X, so they fled. Woke progressives cannot stand up to criticism and scatter like roaches. Terrified housecats before lions.
The Woke Left psychopaths are being disenfranchised and disempowered in the United States. Donald Trump reinitiated student loan payments (most have been on hold since 2020) and empowered the Department of Education to seize assets and garnish up to 15% of wages. While this is certainly an attack on his political opposition, the Left has done far worse (they love hurting innocent people). So while uncomfortable for many on the Right, it isn’t something they’ll complain about.
Right now, draining the remaining coffers of the Woke Left takes precedence, so they cannot rebuild from their 2024 defeat. The New Right is building a new political coalition over shared ideals, nationalism, and a higher moral purpose than hedonistic degeneracy. In the long run, I suspect the current administration will begin the American path from Republic to Empire5.
For a Few Weeks, 4chan Went Down (2025)
The most recent radical shift in The Culture war is similar to Gamergate. While most historians will point to the Election of Donald J. Trump in 2016 as the beginning of the culture war, that isn’t true. It was Gamergate: the first time Woke Leftist cultural conquest was rejected. Similarly, historians may refer to the 2024 election of Donald J. Trump as the “end” of the culture war. That isn’t really true either.
What is ending the culture war is far dumber, but fitting. Just as it began with a bunch of autistic kids flooding the internet with stupid video-game memes, its ending may well be due to those same autistic adults. 4chan went down for 2 weeks. It wasn’t due to some government psy-op of FBI infiltration. 4chan went down because another image board had a petty dispute with the 4chan jannies. Turns out 4chan was still running code from 2012 and hadn’t been updated.
This was a classic exploit hack, not a social engineering hack. Like in the old days, before operating systems were given constant updates. 4chan going down for a few hours is normal. 4chan going down for a few weeks is an apocalyptic disaster. Not because the website is important, but because of the 2nd and 3rd order effects.
There are between 20,000 and 50,0006 regular users and 22 million unique monthly views. Often these are people sitting down to take a shit and scroll through /pol/ the politics board, /b/, the everything board, /o/, the automotive board or whatever. The reason why 4chan going down is so important is:
People who use 4chan on their phones are not inclined to use Instagram, TikTok, or other social media systems. They see those apps as silly and heavily censored, and don’t want a hyper-curated experience, they want to see what people really think.
People who use 4chan tend to be more creative and more inclined to doing things than the users of regular social media. Regular social media users frequently lose hours every day due to doom-scrolling on Instagram. Regular 4chan users also doomscroll, but engage with the content on a more intellectual basis. Thus, regular 4chan users fall into the ‘creative’ demographic more than the ‘consumer’ demographic by a wide margin.
Elon Musk removed the censorship from Twitter(X) 2 years ago. A platform where most content is written, and which has one of the largest user bases on the planet… and the Left just fled to BlueSky.
Like Tumblr in 2018, 4chan going down meant that all these obstinate-creative types could no longer go to 4chan for their news. For 2 weeks they had to poop in silence with no entertainment. I’d wager good money that there was a mass of individuals who went from “I have an account on Twitter(X)” to “I have installed X on my phone.”
That’s huge.
The shift in the general culture has already begun. The Left has been excised from the most important hub of cultural exchange… not by any censure but by their own doing. The Right has simultaneously been forced onto Twitter(X) and been given center-stage. Twitter(X) has always been one of the largest hubs and safe spaces from which the Woke left promoted their violent, hateful ideology.
4chan going down for 2 weeks was a disaster. Dozens of man-hours per person per week have shifted from 4chan to X. Once they installed the new app on their phones, they’re going to continue using it. Not mere normal people either, some of the most stubborn and creative individuals on the internet. The Autists: A shift in Substack has been visible since 4chan went down. A shift in rhetoric. A shift in the culture is happening beneath the surface. Radically powerful in terms of 2nd order effects.
I think that is how the culture war ends. It ends where it began. We’ll see if that prediction is correct; it’s only been a few months, but I think we’re on the precipice of something new. Something young men can get behind7.
So good luck out there, and god speed. Things are changing fast. Things have changed fast. It’s finally time to make our mark on history. Our retarded coteries from 4chan 15 years ago really do have the power to change the world.
I’ll include Greta Thunberg here as a historical footnote.
The introduction of Kamala Harris into the race was a disaster for the democratic party. It was an even larger disaster for the Woke far-left. Their media empire tried to keep her afloat in the polls. It didn’t help. Come election night, it was a close to a land-slide as we’ve seen in recent memory, with Donald Trump winning the presidential election by a significant majority across the United States. I, of course, find it cathartic to only include her name, Kamala Harris, as a footnote.
Source: I made it up. I have no idea what the real numbers are, but they’re large.
Don't forget the Law & Order:SVU episode about gamergate as well
I feel hopeful for my country, finally.
“Aslan is on the move.” -C.S. Lewis