A phenomena I have noticed about people on the content-creation "right" (into which both Gonzalez and Kaschuda seem to be a part) is that they have next to no interaction with the people of the actual right wing who are doing things in real life. Exit Group, Ridge Runner, Return to The Land, The Old Glory Club are all conspicuously missing in their definition of "the dissident right."
Another way to say this is that these people are unserious slop-generators. Insofar as they are interested in the "right" it is so that they can build an audience that comes to them for ideas. Ideas that were the cutting edge a year or two earlier in the spheres already mentioned. Spheres that are never interacted with, for some reason, by the "ideas" people. Whenever these petty questions come back again (Kaschuda has done something similar to this several times before), I am always left to wonder how it is she can still have an audience that considers itself "dissident right."
There is something in this. Are they just left-hemisphere types entranced with conservative models instead of left-wing ones? That is the origin of much of the utopian thinking wherever people are on the political spectrum.
That's a fair perspective, for myself I'm hoping to move to a smaller town and start participating in society more.
I must say that you might be onto something that many of us are 'idea' people. Bet cure in some ways is to do what Morgoth recommended and get out in the community.
Most of you big accounts on here are literally just that, idea people who don't actively partake in community or activism. So it's funny reading your works from the perspective of someone who is actually keyed into everything.
Thought leaders who don't know how to lead are endemic to the fall of society.
One of the biggest differences between the left and the right is that the right doesn’t engage in signalling behaviour as much. They’re just more blunt, regardless of how it comes across to people outside of their immediate in group.
The left, by contrast, is always playing signalling games so when they see this sort of bluntness, they mistake it as signalling an even more toxic worldview, even if that might not necessarily be there.
I think this alludes to a deeper reason. Those drawn to left-wing ideas seem to need more external validation. Those of a conservative bent tend to be the opposite and value independence of mind and resilience.
Virtue signalling means very little if not backed up with action. Only in circles where people can show off with words, ideas and convictions does it become a currency. Hence the Pride and Ukraine flags, but few equivalents on the right.
There’s a house on my long walking route that could be the poster for performative leftwing politics. The only detectable change after 11/5 was swapping the Harris-Walz flag for “Don’t Blame Me—I Voted for Harris-Walz!” I was impressed with how fast it came out.
Hi Spaceman Spiff! I just put out the flags for the season at our cabin: Scotland (Lion Rampant), Custer's Battle Flag, American Flag, State Flag, "Don't Tread on Me." I guess that may be just some form of "signaling," but we enjoy seeing them.
Perhaps it is a form of signaling. But its roots go deep; far enough back to include the Lion Rampant. That is not the same as showing this month's cause, which of course has very shallow roots.
I’ve had too little sleep and your article is long, but am I correct in understanding that they think all the meme makers are of the same group?
The right is just better at memes. Memes combine dialectic for the short concise and true sentence, and rhetoric thru the picture. Since the right is the side of dialectic they can master the harder part of creation, and use trial and error to get the correct rhetorical picture to complement it.
Interesting. I don't keep up with these spats. I would hate to see the various aspects of the right splinter or fight. As you say, this is a war and our survival is on the line. A multitude of perspectives is welcome, but I would hope those honest players in this fight remember we are all in it together.
I too found it odd they singled out REN as some kind of lightweight. That seems an odd choice to use to trash everything as many view him as accomplished.Books, his own magazine, public speeches etc. Very odd indeed.
Thanks for the mention and kind words. I second everything you said about REN, who in my interactions has been nothing but polite and gracious, even when he ultimately rejected my piece for his mag.
I named my Substack for what I thought was an obscure and forgotten online mag from the late 2010's that was my introduction to dissident thought, only to find out many prominent people on Substack now were readers of it, and have even referenced it in their articles. These sorts of publications were the embryonic stage of the new right, bringing back from the dead great thinkers like Spengler and Schmitt to the point their works are now the right-wing version of "Read another book!". To argue internet discourse goes no deeper than memes and rage shows a total disconnect with its vast history. Yes, things get diluted with mass appeal. This is true for everything and is not solely an internet right thing.
Purely from a utilitarian standpoint, there's nothing to be gained from these conflicts. It's not like we can kick these guys out of the club, and as a recent im1776 article stated, there's no physical altercation possible in the online space, so any beefs are by their very nature unmasculine and catty. So what's the point? All it's doing is sinking your valuable time and making you less of a man.
Spend time interacting and building with allies and mute/block whatever you need to do to keep your attention away from those who distract you from your mission.
Social Matter's "Gentrification As Total War Or “Triumph Of The Williamsburg”" remains, IMO, the most brilliant political essay of the 21st Century to date.
You're far more generous than I to the two people. Their ambiguous behavior seemed to be so that this type of post could be avoided, and the lack of apology or the apology-not-apology was frustrating.
Regardless, wonderful post on your end, explaining your thoughts, how you see the situation, and the lay of the land between yourself, those involved, and other writers.
Thank you for the shout-out. 🙏 I with many think you are a gifted mind and writer. There is ugliness, and at times it devolves into puerile excesses but some combat now and then keeps men on the toes of their thinking; because the shit-slinging isn’t fun and requires its own degree of cleverness and courage, it shouldn’t be overdone. But there is something good in using vulgarity and derogatory words now and then: to prevent hypersensitivity to language and to keep the scolds’ power in check. I felt empathy for Pedro during the debacle but mainly because he seemed to be fighting many at once which is the most difficult. Hopefully, it made him wiser and stronger.
I admire everyone you mentioned in your list, and have ever been respectful. I have tried to lift up anyone on the right who is being honest and forthright. The terminal online right, including Hanania, but particularly Fuentes and his crowd, I tend to avoid, because I believe them to be disengenuous.
I tend to stay out of the fights, though I find the in-fighting distressing. If we cannot stay united under a banner, if we thought the enemy was destructive 20-24, everything they are accusing of Trump now they will enact 10fold if they take power again.
This is a spiritual war and all the momentum in that regard is on the right.
One thing I will say, although I agree with what you've said here, is that it wouldn't surprise me if there are a lot of untreated depression on the Right.
It's certainly a distraction. From what I understand, Depression is just habitual negative thoughts. It makes sense many people in the DR would suffer from it, but I do think it's crippling
I would argue it's a feeling of helplessness, which incurs said negative thoughts. Men who feel like they have agency don't tend to be depressed. Lifting gives that sense, but it's often only step one on a long road.
“Of the thousands of patients I have seen, only two or three have ever claimed to be unhappy: all the rest have said that they were depressed. This semantic shift is deeply significant, for it implies that dissatisfaction with life is itself pathological, a medical condition, which it is the responsibility of the doctor to alleviate by medical means. Everyone has a right to health; depression is unhealthy; therefore everyone has a right to be happy (the opposite of being depressed). This idea in turn implies that one’s state of mind, or one’s mood, is or should be independent of the way that one lives one’s life, a belief that must deprive human existence of all meaning, radically disconnecting reward from conduct. A ridiculous pas de deux between doctor and patient ensues: the patient pretends to be ill, and the doctor pretends to cure him. In the process, the patient is willfully blinded to the conduct that inevitably causes his misery in the first place.” - Theodore Dalrymple
I'm not sure what value I can add to this conversation, except to say that the pattern looks similar to other bonfires of the vanities I've witnessed over the years. Unread volumes are cursed and cast into the flames, hurling good after bad with an ever quickening excitement and animal rapture.
To which gods do they sacrifice? Well, the New York Times still seems to be a popular one. Though her powers have severely waned, she apparently retains a few wannabe pets on Right-ish soil.
A sad choice, if somewhat understandable. Nostalgia is a powerful drug, even when the object is rotten to its core. Some 60% of Russians still feel it for the Soviet Union, for example. If and when the effect wears off, apologies would be in order. But that is a test of character, which requires a humilty and immolation of Self that I can't quite see happening with this crowd. I hope I'm proven wrong.
Sure we're just emerging from a decade or so of Maoist cultural destruction, thirty years of offshoring and deindustrialization, and an administration that not only permitted the entry of untold millions of probably unassimilable migrants but also brought us to the brink of nuclear war as it flirted with mandating that the entire country get injected with a therapeutic that was at best worthless and probably quite harmful for a lot of people, but yes the real issue is that people on the right give you the ick
A lot of this just strikes me as the original commentators being extremely online and interacting only with extremely online people.
It's true that if you spend hours on X or Substack the doomscrolling algorithm will eventually carry you from regular right-wing content to /pol/ refugees screaming about the jews. Spend enough time like this and you might come out thinking that's all there is, particularly if you somehow attract their attention and they choose to dogpile you. Combine this with some of the Trump administration's more ill-advised PR moves like reposting AI slop memes, and sure, you might come to think it's a closed loop from memes to governance - and panic at the future that entails.
However, this reasoning holds up only for as long as you stay tunnel-visioned on certain parts of the internet - draw back a bit and things start to look a lot less dire as you notice how much more there is to the conservative movement and remember exactly how terrible and very much capable of real-world harm its enemies are. Angry teens screaming on the internet about jews and women are ultimately not nearly as concerning as well-funded 'policymakers' who want to chop up kids.
This Is very true. I recently got back on Twitter, and it was amazing how my feed started devolving into 9/11-Jewish conspiracy theory mongering. It’s good advice to hear that is just one little hovel of the right, let alone the entire internet.
I got the impression from some notes that Alex has been struggling with the difficulties of being a fairly new parent.
I've been there and know how it is, so I'm inclined to give her a pass. Sometimes when we lash out it's because we need some distance, and sometimes we don't even consciously know it.
So I'm going to assume that's the case and wish her well. Also if she reads this I'd like her to know that it gets easier with time.
This makes sense given the critique she has centres around the online space and does not reflect inroads to offline community. New parents need help, and a bunch of frogs will look like a plague to anyone trying to get work done. The tier of interaction she wants will be harder to come by, seen even in the rec list, the women in this space tend to live quieter internet lives.
Phenomenal essay, tbh I didn't even know there was a clash, as I've been kind of inattentive on X and been focusing on just getting the platform set up and disconnecting from the self-made drama of some European accounts I know to focus on literature, art and history (as I should have from the start) and will now look into these prestigious RW thinkers).
I truly hope the breaches among some can be healed, as a great many of us are pious Christians but if there are problems in proverbial paradise well we'll have to sort it out and do so via a dialogue. I must admit though that Fuentes is not my favourite fellow. I don't think for this reason all breaches can be healed, but those of us willing to talk will sort things out I think.
To be included in this list is moving and amazing. I must improve my craft to merit such high praise, and will have to soon embark on a study of Spengler's work, maybe later in the year as for now I'm gearing up for more Shakespeare, Moliere, Homer and Virgil.
Interesting article, I cannot keep up with this drama. I have been very busy rebuilding my Stardew Valley and Skyrim games when I moved from Nintendo to Steam. So I haven't been paying too much attention to all of this bullshit. Plus, I always go my own way on things anyway.
I did mute Pedro as I sensed he was pushing a line I didn't care to hear. I did not know where it was coming from, but I found it to be a waste of time to see it in Notes. I don't know what is going on with him, but something must have triggered it.
This all seems like a tempest in a tea cup, if you ask me. I am glad to be busy gaming and writing content instead of being involved in all of this drama. It will all pass and then fade away, but I suppose it works well as entertainment for those who care to keep up with it.
Now, I must go back to Monster Hunter World on my Steam Deck. There are large monsters that must be battled and defeated, and that is far more interesting to me than the backstabbing and treachery that seems to be going on among those on the right these days.
A phenomena I have noticed about people on the content-creation "right" (into which both Gonzalez and Kaschuda seem to be a part) is that they have next to no interaction with the people of the actual right wing who are doing things in real life. Exit Group, Ridge Runner, Return to The Land, The Old Glory Club are all conspicuously missing in their definition of "the dissident right."
Another way to say this is that these people are unserious slop-generators. Insofar as they are interested in the "right" it is so that they can build an audience that comes to them for ideas. Ideas that were the cutting edge a year or two earlier in the spheres already mentioned. Spheres that are never interacted with, for some reason, by the "ideas" people. Whenever these petty questions come back again (Kaschuda has done something similar to this several times before), I am always left to wonder how it is she can still have an audience that considers itself "dissident right."
There is something in this. Are they just left-hemisphere types entranced with conservative models instead of left-wing ones? That is the origin of much of the utopian thinking wherever people are on the political spectrum.
That's a fair perspective, for myself I'm hoping to move to a smaller town and start participating in society more.
I must say that you might be onto something that many of us are 'idea' people. Bet cure in some ways is to do what Morgoth recommended and get out in the community.
Most of you big accounts on here are literally just that, idea people who don't actively partake in community or activism. So it's funny reading your works from the perspective of someone who is actually keyed into everything.
Thought leaders who don't know how to lead are endemic to the fall of society.
Hopefully at some point I’ll get a job and have kids. Until then I live by the code of the meme.
Fair, its why I’m wanting to get back into regular society like I used to be. Cheers good sir!
I wish. Kashuta interviewed Kevin Dolan several times.
And here I was giving her an out 😁
One of the biggest differences between the left and the right is that the right doesn’t engage in signalling behaviour as much. They’re just more blunt, regardless of how it comes across to people outside of their immediate in group.
The left, by contrast, is always playing signalling games so when they see this sort of bluntness, they mistake it as signalling an even more toxic worldview, even if that might not necessarily be there.
Great stuff librarian :)
I think this alludes to a deeper reason. Those drawn to left-wing ideas seem to need more external validation. Those of a conservative bent tend to be the opposite and value independence of mind and resilience.
Virtue signalling means very little if not backed up with action. Only in circles where people can show off with words, ideas and convictions does it become a currency. Hence the Pride and Ukraine flags, but few equivalents on the right.
There’s a house on my long walking route that could be the poster for performative leftwing politics. The only detectable change after 11/5 was swapping the Harris-Walz flag for “Don’t Blame Me—I Voted for Harris-Walz!” I was impressed with how fast it came out.
Hi Spaceman Spiff! I just put out the flags for the season at our cabin: Scotland (Lion Rampant), Custer's Battle Flag, American Flag, State Flag, "Don't Tread on Me." I guess that may be just some form of "signaling," but we enjoy seeing them.
Perhaps it is a form of signaling. But its roots go deep; far enough back to include the Lion Rampant. That is not the same as showing this month's cause, which of course has very shallow roots.
I’ve had too little sleep and your article is long, but am I correct in understanding that they think all the meme makers are of the same group?
The right is just better at memes. Memes combine dialectic for the short concise and true sentence, and rhetoric thru the picture. Since the right is the side of dialectic they can master the harder part of creation, and use trial and error to get the correct rhetorical picture to complement it.
Its men and women, boys & girls, venus & mars (Paul and Linda, Paul and John, etc., etc.)
Interesting. I don't keep up with these spats. I would hate to see the various aspects of the right splinter or fight. As you say, this is a war and our survival is on the line. A multitude of perspectives is welcome, but I would hope those honest players in this fight remember we are all in it together.
I too found it odd they singled out REN as some kind of lightweight. That seems an odd choice to use to trash everything as many view him as accomplished.Books, his own magazine, public speeches etc. Very odd indeed.
I really enjoyed the beginning of his Germania. Not sure if he has published any more of it online?
I wasn't aware of it. Did he publish it under his real name or was it a REN project?
It’s actually linked in the article above, I see now. In the final “reading list” section.
Divide and Rule.
Thanks for the mention and kind words. I second everything you said about REN, who in my interactions has been nothing but polite and gracious, even when he ultimately rejected my piece for his mag.
I named my Substack for what I thought was an obscure and forgotten online mag from the late 2010's that was my introduction to dissident thought, only to find out many prominent people on Substack now were readers of it, and have even referenced it in their articles. These sorts of publications were the embryonic stage of the new right, bringing back from the dead great thinkers like Spengler and Schmitt to the point their works are now the right-wing version of "Read another book!". To argue internet discourse goes no deeper than memes and rage shows a total disconnect with its vast history. Yes, things get diluted with mass appeal. This is true for everything and is not solely an internet right thing.
Purely from a utilitarian standpoint, there's nothing to be gained from these conflicts. It's not like we can kick these guys out of the club, and as a recent im1776 article stated, there's no physical altercation possible in the online space, so any beefs are by their very nature unmasculine and catty. So what's the point? All it's doing is sinking your valuable time and making you less of a man.
Spend time interacting and building with allies and mute/block whatever you need to do to keep your attention away from those who distract you from your mission.
I actually thought at first that your account was the old Social Matter. I loved that and Radish Mag back in the day.
Amen to that. (Or Hail Phallus or whatever 😉)
Social Matter's "Gentrification As Total War Or “Triumph Of The Williamsburg”" remains, IMO, the most brilliant political essay of the 21st Century to date.
https://archive.is/vhU4A
"there's no physical altercation possible in the online space, so any beefs are by their very nature unmasculine and catty"
Amen.
I noticed Alex & Pedro seemed to have poor mental sanitation in regards to the internet.
You're far more generous than I to the two people. Their ambiguous behavior seemed to be so that this type of post could be avoided, and the lack of apology or the apology-not-apology was frustrating.
Regardless, wonderful post on your end, explaining your thoughts, how you see the situation, and the lay of the land between yourself, those involved, and other writers.
Many thanks for the shout out.
Thank you for the shout-out. 🙏 I with many think you are a gifted mind and writer. There is ugliness, and at times it devolves into puerile excesses but some combat now and then keeps men on the toes of their thinking; because the shit-slinging isn’t fun and requires its own degree of cleverness and courage, it shouldn’t be overdone. But there is something good in using vulgarity and derogatory words now and then: to prevent hypersensitivity to language and to keep the scolds’ power in check. I felt empathy for Pedro during the debacle but mainly because he seemed to be fighting many at once which is the most difficult. Hopefully, it made him wiser and stronger.
I admire everyone you mentioned in your list, and have ever been respectful. I have tried to lift up anyone on the right who is being honest and forthright. The terminal online right, including Hanania, but particularly Fuentes and his crowd, I tend to avoid, because I believe them to be disengenuous.
I tend to stay out of the fights, though I find the in-fighting distressing. If we cannot stay united under a banner, if we thought the enemy was destructive 20-24, everything they are accusing of Trump now they will enact 10fold if they take power again.
This is a spiritual war and all the momentum in that regard is on the right.
Hear hear.
One thing I will say, although I agree with what you've said here, is that it wouldn't surprise me if there are a lot of untreated depression on the Right.
The men lift. What do the women do to beat depression I wonder?
Some ladies lift. 😁
(How am I even gonna tradwife if I can't lift large sacks of flour/chicken feed/toddlers who think I am a jungle gym?)
Though I also do the cooking/baking/cleaning as stress relief, too!
Damn you have a lucky husband ma’am. 😁
I believe baking, cleaning skirting boards at 3am, and gin are the go to moves for today's dynamic ladies wrestling with their black dogs.
The forward thinkers have kids of course 😉
That all sounds like bloody hard work to me! 😁
Action always cures depression.
It's not actually clear to me that the lifting cures the depression
I would argue that more broadly ACTION is the antidote to depression, which would include lifting. Walking and running are known to help.
Anything but more thinking.
It helps. At least as well as meds. But nothing is a panacea - not even lifting.
Still - "Mens sana in corpore sano" is always worth stiving for.
It's certainly a distraction. From what I understand, Depression is just habitual negative thoughts. It makes sense many people in the DR would suffer from it, but I do think it's crippling
I would argue it's a feeling of helplessness, which incurs said negative thoughts. Men who feel like they have agency don't tend to be depressed. Lifting gives that sense, but it's often only step one on a long road.
“Of the thousands of patients I have seen, only two or three have ever claimed to be unhappy: all the rest have said that they were depressed. This semantic shift is deeply significant, for it implies that dissatisfaction with life is itself pathological, a medical condition, which it is the responsibility of the doctor to alleviate by medical means. Everyone has a right to health; depression is unhealthy; therefore everyone has a right to be happy (the opposite of being depressed). This idea in turn implies that one’s state of mind, or one’s mood, is or should be independent of the way that one lives one’s life, a belief that must deprive human existence of all meaning, radically disconnecting reward from conduct. A ridiculous pas de deux between doctor and patient ensues: the patient pretends to be ill, and the doctor pretends to cure him. In the process, the patient is willfully blinded to the conduct that inevitably causes his misery in the first place.” - Theodore Dalrymple
Sorry, felt modestly relevant. :P
It's Learned Helplessness. While defined for animals, human depression seems to follow the pattern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
It works for me but YMMV as we used to say.
Thank you kindly for the mention, Librarian.
I'm not sure what value I can add to this conversation, except to say that the pattern looks similar to other bonfires of the vanities I've witnessed over the years. Unread volumes are cursed and cast into the flames, hurling good after bad with an ever quickening excitement and animal rapture.
To which gods do they sacrifice? Well, the New York Times still seems to be a popular one. Though her powers have severely waned, she apparently retains a few wannabe pets on Right-ish soil.
A sad choice, if somewhat understandable. Nostalgia is a powerful drug, even when the object is rotten to its core. Some 60% of Russians still feel it for the Soviet Union, for example. If and when the effect wears off, apologies would be in order. But that is a test of character, which requires a humilty and immolation of Self that I can't quite see happening with this crowd. I hope I'm proven wrong.
Sure we're just emerging from a decade or so of Maoist cultural destruction, thirty years of offshoring and deindustrialization, and an administration that not only permitted the entry of untold millions of probably unassimilable migrants but also brought us to the brink of nuclear war as it flirted with mandating that the entire country get injected with a therapeutic that was at best worthless and probably quite harmful for a lot of people, but yes the real issue is that people on the right give you the ick
A lot of this just strikes me as the original commentators being extremely online and interacting only with extremely online people.
It's true that if you spend hours on X or Substack the doomscrolling algorithm will eventually carry you from regular right-wing content to /pol/ refugees screaming about the jews. Spend enough time like this and you might come out thinking that's all there is, particularly if you somehow attract their attention and they choose to dogpile you. Combine this with some of the Trump administration's more ill-advised PR moves like reposting AI slop memes, and sure, you might come to think it's a closed loop from memes to governance - and panic at the future that entails.
However, this reasoning holds up only for as long as you stay tunnel-visioned on certain parts of the internet - draw back a bit and things start to look a lot less dire as you notice how much more there is to the conservative movement and remember exactly how terrible and very much capable of real-world harm its enemies are. Angry teens screaming on the internet about jews and women are ultimately not nearly as concerning as well-funded 'policymakers' who want to chop up kids.
This Is very true. I recently got back on Twitter, and it was amazing how my feed started devolving into 9/11-Jewish conspiracy theory mongering. It’s good advice to hear that is just one little hovel of the right, let alone the entire internet.
I got the impression from some notes that Alex has been struggling with the difficulties of being a fairly new parent.
I've been there and know how it is, so I'm inclined to give her a pass. Sometimes when we lash out it's because we need some distance, and sometimes we don't even consciously know it.
So I'm going to assume that's the case and wish her well. Also if she reads this I'd like her to know that it gets easier with time.
This makes sense given the critique she has centres around the online space and does not reflect inroads to offline community. New parents need help, and a bunch of frogs will look like a plague to anyone trying to get work done. The tier of interaction she wants will be harder to come by, seen even in the rec list, the women in this space tend to live quieter internet lives.
Phenomenal essay, tbh I didn't even know there was a clash, as I've been kind of inattentive on X and been focusing on just getting the platform set up and disconnecting from the self-made drama of some European accounts I know to focus on literature, art and history (as I should have from the start) and will now look into these prestigious RW thinkers).
I truly hope the breaches among some can be healed, as a great many of us are pious Christians but if there are problems in proverbial paradise well we'll have to sort it out and do so via a dialogue. I must admit though that Fuentes is not my favourite fellow. I don't think for this reason all breaches can be healed, but those of us willing to talk will sort things out I think.
To be included in this list is moving and amazing. I must improve my craft to merit such high praise, and will have to soon embark on a study of Spengler's work, maybe later in the year as for now I'm gearing up for more Shakespeare, Moliere, Homer and Virgil.
Nah, you're doing fine brother.
Merci
This poorly-informed woman seems like she's being positioned as some sort of gatekeeper. Things will not go well for her.
The Right certainly seems to attract gate-keepers. Perhaps we'll see a decrease in their numbers soon if many were funded out of USAID.
Interesting article, I cannot keep up with this drama. I have been very busy rebuilding my Stardew Valley and Skyrim games when I moved from Nintendo to Steam. So I haven't been paying too much attention to all of this bullshit. Plus, I always go my own way on things anyway.
I did mute Pedro as I sensed he was pushing a line I didn't care to hear. I did not know where it was coming from, but I found it to be a waste of time to see it in Notes. I don't know what is going on with him, but something must have triggered it.
This all seems like a tempest in a tea cup, if you ask me. I am glad to be busy gaming and writing content instead of being involved in all of this drama. It will all pass and then fade away, but I suppose it works well as entertainment for those who care to keep up with it.
Now, I must go back to Monster Hunter World on my Steam Deck. There are large monsters that must be battled and defeated, and that is far more interesting to me than the backstabbing and treachery that seems to be going on among those on the right these days.