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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024

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It's flattering to think that he's involved in the community, but I expect most of these guys read articles that go viral among the VC set. Think this is how most of Scott's famous articles came to be widely known, rather than through dedicated fans.

I don't care if it's not real though because it would be fucking hilarious if it was.

Gay Rites Are Civil Rites is not anywhere near one of his most viral or famous articles, though, is it? That's what makes me think the most like he might not just have found the article in passing.

Not many of his post-2014 articles went really viral, and I think (hard to judge as a regular reader) that Gay Rites ranks pretty high on the Best After 2014 list. I remember seeing "New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed" linked more often though.

I've seen it reference on here more than once, have not seen it anywhere else.

The funniest answer would be someone like Deisach or Hlynka from the old site.

Or maybe @FiveHourMarathon here, come to think of it, has anyone heard from @JTarrou recently?

Hlynka

Not a chance. He was so salty about the whole cuckservative putdown it was hilarious.

Deiseach is still active in the ACX comment section. Reading between the lines I get the impression he lives they live in Ireland.

…you know she was active on this board, right?

Nope, complete news to me.

To be fair, I didn’t see it at first.

So Deiseach is posting here under another name?

he? I thought that Deiseach is a woman.

Shows how little I know.

Deiseach is definitely an older, Irish woman.

It actually makes TequilaMockingbird's comment all the funnier as it would in fact be the funniest answer.

Deiseach is definitely an older, Irish woman.

...and Hlynka definitely didn't go to Yale.

I was just trying to think of long-standing users who would both annoy the most mottizens, and plausibly write Hillbilly Elegy ;-)

Hlynka

Oh shit wasn't Hlynka a southerner and former military member?

My headcannon is now officially that Vance is Hlynka. Too bad he's banned so won't be able to tell me otherwise.

Hlynka banned? Wasn't he one of the main mods? I missed a lot of lore apparently.

Yes. He was unmodded on reddit. (I was never on reddit myself) He was banned here a couple months ago for deficits in etiquette, despite being warned. (And I think I remember something about him not accepting that people can recognize racial differences in the aggregate without being white nationalists.) It was something of a shame, in my book, since having additional perspectives is nice.

Hlynka had some Slavic (Ukrainian?) blood in him, so much as I'd like it to be otherwise, I'm afraid it's unlikely.

Slovak.

J.D. Vance isn’t a Southerner, though…

Also, as far as I’m aware neither is Hlynka. I believe Hlynka’s originally from Pennsylvania.

Fuck, and he ended up outside fucking Baton Rouge? We should have given him more slack.

All the best people are. Go birds.

Jason and Kylie Kelce are the superior Kelce couple, change my view ;-)

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