Inspired by female conservative influencers, Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model “groypettes.” A vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame.
She’d done everything she thought men expected of women on the far right, so when the hatred came for Amy Dangerfield she felt so depressed she could barely stand.
She’d moved from Australia to the United States in 2017 with a dream of spreading her internet-inspired beliefs: that women had driven men to madness through rejection and disrespect; that society needed strong men to survive.
She’d worked to distinguish herself from the glut of women she thought had been conned by the poisonous promises of feminism, recording dozens of videos on their and her biological inferiorities as she fought to build a 100,000-subscriber YouTube page and a self-made career.
Then, this spring, she tried to do something on her own. She organized a small political event in Ohio called America First United, believing she could help spin Fuentes’s online movement into offline activism. But within hours of the first panel, the groypers turned on her, labeling it a disloyal attempt to undermine Fuentes’s leadership.
In half a century of watching conservatives, I’ve seen nothing to convince me that conservatism is anything other than selfishness, ignorance, cowardice and not-thinking-good, dressed up as a political philosophy and demanding a respect it absolutely doesn’t deserve.
Yeah, I just recently listened to the Books That Kill podcast where they went over God and Man at Yale, and that book, which was a bestseller in 1951, is apparently what I always thought it was - Buckley sniveling that Yale was not sufficiently coddling conservatives.
This book is still held up as something that is influential, etc. 60 years after it was written, (2011):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_and_Man_at_Yale
These days, you have people wanting to pay little snitches to record teachers being too “woke” or whatever the fuck, and recently that guy calling for being able to supply video streams for parents to keep an eye out for teachers doing “illegal” DEI, or shit like this: (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/mizzou-probes-professor-caught-in-anti-dei-sting-operation-as-video-draws-scrutiny/ar-AA2cjwiC) but this conservative insanity goes way back. Apparently, Buckley seems to have cribbed all his grievances from other conservatives of the time, so it obviously predates that book he wrote in 1951.
And remember, the typical reactionary centrist narrative is that Buckley was one of the “good conservatives”. LOL. The guy that dropped a gay slur on television aimed at Gore Vidal and threatened him with violence.
Buckley also really loved Pinochet