The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 89
Twitter finally dropped the hammer and banned James Lindsay. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James spends half an hour telling the story behind the ban and walking through his initial thoughts and reactions to it. Join him to begin the process of questioning the very logic of social media and the tyranny it enables.
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Thank you so much, James. Your labors are much appreciated.
I have zero interest in Twitter or TikTok, etc. I want nothing to do with groupthink or memes.
On listening to you talking about your banning, I find that it is much easier to follow the conversation when you’re talking off the top of your head than when you’re delivering an information-dense (even hyper-dense) exposition. The bullet topics are good as explanatory notes, and the “rambling” discussion appears to be easier for me to get my head around. Thanks for the opportunity to hear this style of delivery from you.
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, You are mad; you are not like us.”
St. Anthony the Great, circa 250
Hell hath no fury like a man pretending to be a “woman” mocked.
Estrogen + testosterone = psychopath. Such a Frankensteinian hybrid lives only for revenge and vengeance. Globalist-Elite Power Politics has weaponized a new Beast of post-human nature: “The Transkenstein”. It can only be stopped at the highest levels of Power and not by partisan guerrilla attacks. The Beast will be discarded once its usefulness to its Masters is over. Right now, its historical moment of rampaging through the villages of the normal is cresting before it crashes. And it will crash. Hard. Just wait.
James Lindsay has returned from the culture wars as a genuine hero. Now it’s time to leave Bedlam to the Bedlamites. Refocus on your gift of intellectual analysis of cultural/political reality and translating these realities into language that ordinary people can understand. Continue to help the normals learn about and understand the nature of the Beasts and their Masters so that they can resist and fight them in their own homes and villages. Communication networks that do not engage the Beast nor Bedlam are the key to growing a grassroots authentic human resistance to inhuman Identarian Totalitaria. Take a deserved bow then move on. You have so much more to give. The real war for humanity has not even begun.
Everyone has both estrogen and testosterone in our bodies.
The highly specific ratios of sex hormones are determined naturally in the body of each male and each female, with each having lots of one and little of the other — that is called Nature. When money-hungry and status-crazed “doctors” pump mass quantities of opposite sex hormones artificially, these invasive hormones overload and react with the existing natural sex hormones and produce psychotic reactions in the victims who then begin calling for the murders of women (Kill Terfs Dead!) and for killing anyone (Die Cis Scum!) who does not have the internet-manufactured attention-seeking fad-acting out labelled “transgenderism”. Psychotic calls for murdering people are a serious side effect of needless and cosmetic pumping of mass quantities of opposite sex hormones into physically healthy human males and females whose underlying mental illnesses are being exploited by many power brokers for many reasons.
I disagree that we should not engage the far left, at the very least we have an obligation to expose them for what they truly are. They have infiltrated our schools, like a cancer, that must be exposed for the devastating disease it is.
Do miss you on Twitter. Besides learning about CRT, marxism and ESG and your strategies to deal with their supporters you made me laugh quite often!
And about this whole situation:
I can think, write and, when no one hears me, say out loud whatever comes to mind. A limitation in what I can say or write, on whatever grounds, on social media is very much about limiting what others may hear/read.
If there is some sort of legal path, it probably has to do with this (though it might be somewhat too fundamental … or complete bs)
The banning was inevitable. I’m surprised that Repressive Tolerance didn’t soften the blow. It’s better to be infamous than famous. Subvert the subverters.
James,
it is time for you to put your energy into enacting legislative work regarding protecting children, and enforcing parents rights, fighting CRT and the queer theory being actively perpetrated upon children in schools.
We need action and you are capable of getting a lot of attention and support for your efforts.
You can educate citizens on a bigger platform by getting into the fight on the legislative level.
We need leaders acting.
It’s time.
The partisan right leaning sites are not for fun. They are for strategizing, organizing and taking our country back. The in-fighting is not fighting at all. It is brainstorming and debating.
That’s interesting, but these social media sites are being monitored by the FBI as part of their “domestic terrorism” campaign. You might find yourself the subject of an FBI warrant for an innocent discussion about legal means of redress for grievances. Nowadays, you need to use carrier pigeons, smoke signals or a lantern in the North Church tower. I’m joking, but not really. Big Brother is always watching us.
“F” the FBI.
Thanks for this post. I re-deactivated my Twitter account. I originally deactivated it when they banned DJT. Then, I set up a new account when it was looking like Elon was going buy it. Now that they banned you. I’m outta there. Keep up the great work!`
Congradulations , James . I never liked tweeterville , never could understand how national news would refer to this beautyshop gossip outlit , like its news .
Even more so , the Musk thing revealed there are huge numbers of bots . Its a tainted fixed leftest political tool , noy the best place to fight . You have too much to offer out hete .
Dont go back , your instincts are correct , its waste . Pick bigger fights .
You are the man
Sadly, it sounds like Dr. Lindsay is shaken by his lifetime ban. Like an alcoholic who laughs nervously while proclaiming he will never have a drink again and will not miss it, we know it’s probably a lie. Intellectuals like Dr. Lindsay like to engage and argue and debate. And to do so with others who don’t share their opinions. That’s what Twitter offers, or did. As he said, you can’t get that on a partisan platform.
Dr. Lindsay should spend his newly found free time engaging in reality as in pursuing litigation or helping others with theirs, or directly challenging the neo-Marxism/Fascism he warns us against by organizing protests or other forms of activism that are not social media-based.
Indeed, against accusations that he’s hurt or wounded by the ban, he “doth protest too much, methinks” 😀
I know exactly what you mean about feeling like you’ve been let out of an insane asylum. I waste countless hours on Twitter, and I almost wish they’d ban me forever, just to force the break/escape that I don’t have the willpower to carry out. I’ve tweeted far worse stuff than you got banned for, but I have almost zero followers so nobody really notices. The silver lining, in your situation, is that as long as you’re pissing off the idiots at Twitter, you must be doing something right. We can still read you here at New Discourses.
“Commie AF”
They really aren’t, though. Like antifa, they’re spoiled and entitled bourgeois LARPers. No actual communists use Twitter due to being Example A of the stereotypical greedy capitalist corporation. Communists who aren’t playacting rich kids make use of decentralized platforms such as Mastodon instances. Hence why the puerile “You live in a society” meme doesn’t work: a viable, properly non-capitalist alternative exists, Twitter “communists” simply don’t use it because actually living communist lifestyles is for poor people. There is simply no way they would willingly give up the comfortable lifestyles only possible within a free market system. (The other reason they remain on Twitter is because creating an echo chamber on a decentralized instance requires effort. Why work when Twitter does it for just the cost of your personal data?)
Are they Maoists, though? I would say yes, because they love the dopamine hit that power over others gives them. They clearly don’t care about making the world a better place, or at least not for anyone outside their circlejerks and celebrity follows. It’s all about keeping the permanent childhood of the wealthy going in perpetuity.