By David Futrelle
Stefan Molyneux is having a bad time. In a recent YouTube video, the white nationalist philosopher-impersonator chronicles what he calls his “brutal year,” with YouTube views dropping precipitously — due, he says, to alleged unspecified YouTube machinations against him —and his other moneymaking attempts failing. He throws himself on the mercy of his 929,000 YouTube supporters, begging for donations and promising half-seriously to write a new book on whatever subject they collectively demand.
How exactly an internet famous sort-of-cult leader with 929,000 YouTube subscribers and 434,700 Twitter followers could be hurting for money is a little beyond my comprehension (a point also raised by this caustic critic); despite the decline in viewership his videos still get tens if not hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. What on earth is he spending his viewers’ donations on? Certainly not high-dollar hairdos.
I’ll leave it to the financial analysts to figure out what exactly Stefan is doing wrong. Instead, I’ll focus on the thing he says he’s doing to try to set things right: being extra tweety on Twitter. Having learned that horrendously obnoxious tweets can garner you a good deal of attention — including from this little blog of mine — he’s taken to pooping them out on a regular basis.
Let’s take a look at some of his most recent work, starting with this particularly spicy take on feminism.
Regular readers may recall that the gunman who tried to massacre Jews in a German synagogue on Yom Kippur made this exact same, er, “argument” before he began the rampage that left two dead.
Apparently, in Stef’s busy brain. every woman who has a job is a nail in the coffin of the white race.
Stef has some similarly hot takes on leftism, suggesting that leftists support feminism because they’re child molesters.
He also has thoughts — rather a lot of thoughts — on high heels and makeup, which he apparently feels are a sort of sexual assault upon the purity of men. (This has long been a favorite topic of his.)
Huh. Stefan does not perform physical labor for a living; perhaps he should start wearing heels himself.
While Stefan continues to denigrate non-white refugees and post racist nonsense about IQ (see these posts for numerous past examples), he insists he’s not a white supremacist and suggests that even calling him one is itself, wait for it, racist against white people.
In recent days, Stef has caused a bit of a kerfuffle by suggesting that women should have no say on military matters because they’re not subject to the draft. (Never mind that men aren’t either, at least in the US, where there is selective service registration but no actual draft.)
Of course, Stef also feels that women have no business being soldiers, in part because they make male soldiers horny.
Also, they’re dumber.
Stefan also returns to a favorite argument of his, claiming that women are basically the root of all the evil that men do because, well, they gave birth to these evil men and most likely raised them.
I can only hope that the coming year will be even more brutal to Stefan than the last one.
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Which is a really stupid point coming from a guy who keeps talking about “improving your own country first!!”
He’s Canadian, and Canada doesn’t have a draft at all. By his logic, no one should get a say in military matters.
It’s all projection on the right, as usual. He claims that feminism is about reducing white babies because the anti-choice movement is about (at least partially) upholding white supremacy. In his mind, pro-choice has to be a mirror image.
Also never mind Stef is Canadian and we don’t have a draft OR selective service.
Probably just faux victimhood as a fundraising effort, but it is nice to think that maybe this white supremacist shithead has real financial trouble.
A thought I had on election signs, after a walk through much of the town:
Lawn signs telegraph the voting preferences of the land-owning class, an unrepresentative sample.
Bearing this out: I’ve seen many Conservative signs, a handful of NDP signs, and some signs for two of the independent candidates here, plus a single lonely Green sign. Not one Liberal sign anywhere in the area, so far as I can tell.
According to Wikipedia, the town proper voted strongly Liberal in the last federal election, though the riding as a whole has a large amount of rural land and smaller towns (3 digit and below populations) and overall leans Conservative.
The big town goes Liberal, but has no Liberal lawn signs.
Maybe the big question here though is why there’s more NDP support than Liberal support in the suburbs, while the Liberal support seems pretty much contained to the renters around town …
High heels, tights, wigs, frilly blouses- you know, the stuff George Washington used to wear.
George Washington was just trying to signal that he was in heat. Because humans can go into heat.
@dust bunny:
Does that explain Donald Trump’s posture?
Someone on Twitter described Trump as standing like the front half of a centaur. There’s definitely something weird going on there. He tilts forward and frequently uses the podium to brace himself.
He does wear shoe lifts, probably for the extra height needed to match last year’s glowing physical. They might be throwing off his balance.
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants
It’s the bone spurs. They make him taller and tilt him forward. That’s not how bone spurs work in reality, but when has that ever stopped him?
These would be the men writing the dress policy, presumably, the policy that lets them fire women who don’t dress up the way those men want them to dress up.
Relevant article, from a notoriously socialist and feminist british newspaper: Employers can force women to wear high heels as Government rejects campaign to ban the practice (admittedly a couple of years old now, so maybe things have improved? nah, who am I kidding)
Re: Scheer – he’s gone and found himself as a verifiable hypocrite, what with his fear mongering over dual citizenships. (He has canadian/american citizenship.)
Harper was all
Then Scheer was all
So that’s pretty not good. (Source)
He also has claimed that he was an insurance broker for years, and he never ever was. That’s actually illegal!
I don’t know if he actually sold insurance, or was just a gopher at the office and has tried to dress up his work experience as greater than it was, but whatever happened he was never a broker and shouldn’t have said he was.
(Source)
The people’s party (not capitalising that, FUCK YOU bERNIER) has also apparently used a*founding member* of a federal neo nazi party for security. This might actually fall under the purview of this here blog!
(Source)
As for other things the fans of the people’s party have done – how about doxxing protestors, and then sending enough death threats to their families business that they had no choice but to close? (They have since announced that they would reopen, which is good. I wish them all the luck and protection they need, being Syrian refugees in Canada.)
(Source)
Son i think did participate in blocking her, but didn’t yell. But frankly, why does someone get a pass from supporting the Respectable nazi party, because they are older and use a walker?
Here’s an article where we find out that she was a social worker for 40 years, because of course she has been. She’s also not racist, but was interested in hearing from bernier because
Here’s a little more
This has been a great election, so far. /S
Maybe it’s morbid coincidence but what the hell is up with social workers and support for anti-immigration policy?
Hello. I have a question. I would like you to awnser this without running into a circular argument.
Why is a power imbalance in a sexual relation always wrong?
Yeah, well, it’s been a crapass year here, too. First, my boyfriend’s ‘special crop’ lands him in jail. I ask him to decide what’s most important to him. Hint: It wasn’t me. Then, my PTSD from the cancer four years ago flares up, resulting in the worst depression in as many years, lasting for as many months and it’s not done yet. Then, I finally get the apartment, but uprooting yourself and moving from your home of 13 years is never easy, nor cheap; I’m skint broke. And then, some I thought was my best friend turns around and subjects me to a frivolous lawsuit – because she wants money for drugs.
I’d spew out groundless hatred over the internet to cope with these hardships, too, but I have knitting to do.
I’ve too observed in the past that many of the signifiers for femininity in cultures are actually signifiers of affluence (like long nails, which are evidence of not having to work with one’s hands) and, oh, sweet Cthulhu (may It eat me first) does this mean I’m a pseudo-philosophical chud like Stefan Molyneux?! ???
I’m still split between the NDP and Greens. I might consider voting Liberal if Trudeau swore on his honour and the Canadian flag to push through Electoral reform. Though I’m not sure he’d have the numbers this time around (if the Liberals win).
@ cat mara
Like the Roman preference for very pale skin for women; to show they didn’t have to work in the fields.
The toga though is possibly the best exemplar of that attitude. It’s a garment that makes it nigh on impossible to carry out any task. You need to be accompanied by staff just to pick something up
The most extreme demonstration though may be the salutatio. That was a formal reception where the hosts would wear the most impractical clothing possible to demonstrate their wealth.
The most affluent would also dress their families and even slaves in the same way. The idea being to convey the message “We’re so minted even our slaves don’t need to work“
Who was the wealthy Roman who displayed his riches by serving his guests on gold and silver plates and having them chucked out of the dining hall into the Tiber after use? Croesus, maybe?
He cheated, though – he actually had nets hidden just below the surface of the water beforehand, and had his slaves haul all the plates back in after the guests had left.
Display matters more than anything else, it seems (the femininity displays like impractical nails, clothing or bound-foot-size that would make most work impossible being markers of somebody else’s wealth, in many cases, rather than the woman’s own)
Speaking of slaves, you may enjoy this thread about Cassius Marcellus Clay, anti-slavery activist and video game protagonist made flesh.
@Moggie
Was it the same Bowie knife all those times? Or did he have multiple Bowie knives?
@Alan:
That wasn’t just the Romans, it persisted well into the modern era and led to such horrible practices as women using lead-based cosmetics that damaged their health and reduced their lifespans.
And it changed in the matter of a few generations when sun holidays and all-year-round tans became a thing. Because what better way to show off that you can afford to jet off to foreign climes, and also have the necessary free time to take such trips in?
BTW, Natalie Wynn has just put up a new video that coincidentally is tangentially related to this (i.e., signifiers of affluence and opulence)
@ opposablethumbs
Indeed. Sometimes it worked the other way. Despite being the wealthiest person in Rome, Crassus liked to do his ‘man of the people’ thing. So he lived in an ostensibly modest house in the middle of a terrace of similar houses.
The whole thing though was a facade in every sense. The terrace was a false front to a palatial villa.
It’s also possible that the demographics have changed. The Liberal government in Ontario was incredibly unpopular (the animus may be slightly diminished by a year of Ford’s miserably incompetent rule, idk), and Trudeau’s Liberals aren’t much better. It’s possible that the progressives in your area have decided to support the NDP rather than the
do nothing centristsLiberals.