TrueAnon's Brace Belden on Curtis Yarvin, Libertarian escapism, and the state of the left

Brace Belden joins The Fifth Column to talk Trump’s Somali comments and immigration politics, the right’s weird Nazi aesthetics via Curtis Yarvin and the “cathedral,” libertarian escape fantasies and seasteading, his own history with heroin and fentanyl, and why all of it points to a very broken political and media ecosystem.

•They don’t make heroin anymore

•The Taco Bell connection

•King of the libertarians

•Kmele almost dies

•You say Somali, I say Somalian, let’s call the whole thing off

•The people cut out of the Minnesota Somali fraud story

•Does Ben Shapiro think we’re white?

•A Maoist small businessman

•Certain liberties

•Curtis Yarvin discovers YouTube

•Yarvin = Slavoj Žižek of the right?

•Libertarian Escape (the Piña Colada Song)

•The cathedral

•Brace, Citarella, and the new intellectual left

•Mamdani “is fully a Democrat”

•Nationalize Mr. Fruit

•Body count

•War is a force that gives us meaning

•Call of Duty: Median Soldier

•Brace is on the DHS shit list

•Kmele spent more time at Occupy than Brace did

•In China, the trains run on time

•The DSA clappers

•Don’t let’s start on Venezuela

•Wistful for Colin Powell

•Where are the drugs!?

•The Grifters

•The neoneocons

•Thumbing the scale

•Jeffrey Epstein, quintessential striver

•The Chomsky connection

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