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I chat with Walt Bismarck about White Dudes for Kamala & Job Stacking
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I chat with Walt Bismarck about White Dudes for Kamala & Job Stacking

This is a simulcast with Walt Bismarck’s Radio Tortuga podcast.

On today’s episode of Radio Tortuga Walt Bismarck speaks with yet another WRP alumnus: everyone’s favorite eclectic Californian, Robert Stark.

In this call we catch up on the latest developments surrounding Kamala and JD Vance, California NIMBYism, Walt’s job stacking project, the value of usury, and much more.

Topics include:

  • Robert’s article White Dudes for Kamala: Wokeness Normalizing White Identity

  • Is White Dudes for Kamala pro-White or anti-White?

  • Kamala isn’t nearly as scary as Hillary

  • High IQ right wingers go into business, not government institutions

  • Democrats can talk explicitly about white people in a way Republicans can’t

  • The Woke are more correct than the mainstream

  • Multiculturalism that includes whiteness is better than civic nationalism

  • Walt’s Pro-White Case for Reparations

  • Implicit Soft WN is in the mainstream GOP Overton Window

  • Walt’s resentment towards victim mindset of many white nationalists

  • Why Walt is opposed to BAPism

  • Is JD Vance “weird?”

  • The pain associated with being in between white trash and elites

  • How “weird” plays into the Democrats increasingly becoming the party of bourgeois middle class suburban values

  • The move of white male nerds from Left to Right

  • The GOP is now the party of open displays of sexuality (Hawk Tuah)

  • The extreme dearth of elite human capital in academia / bureaucracy

  • Brahmins vs. Vaishyas is an antiquated way of looking at the world because the asymmetric symbol manipulation economy advantages Brahmins

  • How Walt is adding an ethical / aesthetic substance to job stacking

  • Zoomers want to be exuberant more than they let on

  • Can significant numbers of existing elites be won over?

  • Is Walt “Grey Tribe”?

  • The Silicon Valley Right—why is tech no longer coded as Left?

  • The morality behind Walt’s job stacking project

  • At will employment, the declining value of reputation, and the existence of HR mean you have a moral obligation to plunder Corporate America

  • Every other ethnic group practices overt or covert ethnic nepotism

  • Job stacking is proof of the inefficiency and waste of the modern economy

  • Con artists are necessary to test the limits of the system

  • People who call others ‘grifters’ are usually poor and untalented

  • Walt thinks people shouldn’t be ashamed to talk about money or be proud of having a high personal income

  • Job stacking as a means of facilitating patronage networks of sophisticated midsize investors

  • AI allows artists to produce high quality content on an industrial scale

  • Mass automation will favor people who are volatile and good at exploiting asymmetric situations

  • Walt’s rejection of pluralism as a consequence of coming face to face with jihad

  • The demographic characteristics of Walt’s fanbase

  • Having money lets you define the rules within your own bubble

  • Walt’s objection to Vance’s comments on “childless cat ladies” and the associated status jockeying between parents and DINKs

  • The U-Shaped class distribution in many characteristics

  • The right wing puts too much emphasis on procreation

  • The civilizational threat of dopamine traps

  • Creativity is the best escape from addictive Skinner Boxes

  • Will conservative Christians take over given differential fertility rates?

  • America’s lack of real downward mobility contributes to the crisis of competence

  • If California seriously embraced YIMBY LA would drain the Midwest of people

  • Why Walt maintains that usury is a fantastic thing for class mobility

  • Financial derivatives help stabilize the economy and the Federal Reserve is good

  • Debt facilitates harder work and social vitality

  • Proles and Donald Trump don’t pay their debts but the middle class does

  • Walt’s plan to drain Russia of its population

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