Kevin Lynn is Director of Progressives for Immigration Reform which is sponsoring adds against the H-1B Visa Program on the Bay Area’s BART System.
Topics:
Bay Area Campaign Targets H-1B Visas, Asks Congress to Fix on Americans’ Behalf
The campaign’s message, “Your companies think you are expensive, undeserving & expendable. Congress, fix H-1B law so companies must seek & hire U.S. workers!”
Bay Area media responses including the San Jose Mercury News which first reported on the campaign
The overall reaction from tech workers was positive but with hesitations due to fear of backlash
The goal of the campaign is to to foster a movement to unite tech workers politically against exploitation
How for every two students who graduate with STEM degrees, only one is hired into a STEM job
How Foreign workers account for about 70 percent of the tech workforce in the Bay Area
H-1B Visas as Indentured Servitude
The myth of innovation from H-1B workers Fearing H-1B Tightening, Tech Giants Ramp Up Lobbying
How Trump has accomplished very little on immigration
The impact of immigration on the environment and carbon footprints
The film Cruel Intentions
The Main theme in the movie is the corruption of innocence and purity
The movie has many versions, sequels, and is based on the French original, “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”
Entrapment scenes, gay entrapment, and broken families
Kathryn’s view of sex and her use of sex to manipulate
Sebastian is a little bit more flamboyant than the usual pick up artist; he is confident but in an in-artificial way
The character of Court Reynolds is almost a Spencerian evil “White” character described as a “Nazi”
The mixed-race relationship angle is played up as one of Karthyns violations
Kathryn’s Feminist speech in opposition to “Miss Mary Sunshine.”
Sex as an initiation into a Secret Society as a joke, mentioned by Kathryn
Upper class degeneration isn’t really seen as disgusting or stupid in movies as low class degeneracy
Anti-Semitic tropes in the film
The end of the film was incoherent as it left Sebastian with a redemptive change of heart with very little explanation for it Old Westbury Gardens manor house where Sebastian’s aunt lives
The misconception that Hollywood is completely controlled and often exposes elite corruption
The recent Alt-Right drama and how the Alt Right is completely separated along class lines
Count’s ideology; Social Nationalism, Economic Populism, and Cultural Elitism The 12 Steps Of Alt Right Anonymous and how Luke Ford is the most important comedian of the Alt-Right
The Nathan Cofnas critique of Kevin MacDonald and how Count basically agrees with most of it
Lauren Southern’s South Africa Documentary
How the Alt-Right is imploding and splitting into factions
The incident with Matthew Heimbach and the disbanding of the Trad Workers Party
The never ending hypocrisy of preachy Traditionalists
The implausibility of success for those re-branding as American Nationalists
The parallel SJW culture in the Alt-Right that has developed in terms of being shamed into having to publicly disavow and distance yourself from people you have disagreements with
The Class Divide on the Alt-Right
Vanguardism vs. Populism
The importance of building Alternative Institutions
How we made the right decision to move in our own directions a few years ago when we saw where the train was headed
The future of all these movements
How anonymity has largely outlived its usefulness
European Identitarianism
The Balkanization of the US; secessionist movements vs retaking America as a whole
How Trump won with economic populism and social centrism but is now basically a mainline Republican The Scapegoat Generation – A Half-Hearted Defense of Boomers
FBI Paid Best Buy’s Geek Squad to Spy on Customer Devices who are Passing over User Data
Violations of the 4th Amendment which prohibits warrant-less searches based on no probably cause
Farming out state repression to the private sector as a way to get around the 4th Amendment
Motivations for informants to plant contraband
The potential use of these tactics for political oppression
Government surveillance powers over the internet
Internet Censorship and applying the 1st Amendment to Corporations
How the Left has abandoned Freedom of Speech in favor of the Social Justice paradigm
The Left’s support for the Federalization of the Police
How the Police State is now impacting the middle class
Jeff Session’s stances on civil liberties and his lawsuit over California’s Sanctuary State Status
Calexit and the New California Movement
Trump’s foreign policy, tariffs, and his upcoming meeting with Kim Jong Un
A domestic terrorist who claims to hear the voice of God commanding her to attack federal buildings
Inspiration from Bresson’s The Trial of Joan of Arc
Joan’s belief in the soil, the bloodline of the people, making America Christian again, and against the elites
Joan’s ideology as a miss mash of the Alt-Right, Cliven Bundy, and Christian Fundamentalist
The theme of having high ideals and coming to grips with one’s fragility
The question of whether Joan is a villain or sympathetic character
How the film does not give a moral judgement of Joan
The dialogue between Joan and the Judges
The office politics of the people judging her
The Guantanamo Bay like setting and theme of government tyranny
Characters who represent Deep State figures
The triad of judges arranged in a pyramid
The dream like surreal quality to the film
The minimalist aesthetic
The casting and discovering of the lead actress Nicole LaLiberte from the New Twin Peaks
The production of the film
Writing for the new film Looking Glass
Robert suggests Matthew make his novel Journey to Vapor Islandinto a film
Robert Stark and co-host Brandon Adamson talk to ASHLEY MESSINGER. Ashley is based in the UK and writes for Brandon’s AltLeft.com. You can also find Ashley on Twitter.
Topics:
Why Brandon’s moniker is now “The Left of the AltRight”
Ashley’s political evolution to the Alt Left(Left Wing of the Alt-Right)
Ashley’s disillusionment with the Alt-Right
The immigration and demographic situation in the UK
Radical Islam, the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, and the Rotherham scandal
The ineptitude of Right Wing politics in the UK
Ashley’s preference for SWPL cultural amenities
Retro-Futurism
Whether there is a large enough demographic for a “Red Pilled” SWPL movement
Misconceptions about English culture
The Thacherite Neo-Liberal de-industrialization of the UK
Ashley’s support for a secular form of Distributism Luck egalitarianism The Signalling Model of Education
Automation and the Basic Income
The Techno Futurist faction of Neo-Reaction
Effective Altruism Technogaianism
Ashley’s article The Push to Normalize Polonophilia
Robert Stark is joined with Francis Nally and Brandon Adamson to discuss his new novel Journey to Vapor Island.
Topics:
Brandon’s review of Journey to Vapor Island(Contains Spoilers)
The cover art by Mark Velard
How listeners to the show will instantly recognize favorite topics when they make cameo appearances in the book or manifest themselves as part of the underlying themes
Internet memes in the book(ex. the men in the frog masks)
The fusion of genres including Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, and Dark Comedy
A disclaimer that this book is not for anyone that is squeamish about sex or easily shocked or offended
Brandon’s observation that the sexual scenes in the book are more akin to the “random battles” in old school Super Nintendo RPGs like Final Fantasy IV
The theme of how central sex is to people’s motivations, and the overall perception of status in society
The main character Noam Metzenbaum who is a socially inept yet intelligent student with illusions of grandeur
The Chads and the theme of the nerd getting revenge against bullies and the popular cliques
Noam’s crush Natalie Bloom and his lifelong obsession with her
The Retro-Futuristic surreal fantasy world in the book; an adult Never Ending Story
The Roger Blackstone character who could represent a Trump-like figure, but could just as easily be a Ross Perot or even Willy Wonka
The outrageous comic elements in the book
The theme of the commercialization of tragedies and the celebrity status of mass murderers
How the book is timely with the ongoing Hollywood sex scandals
The theme of living in ones fantasies and how that shapes the book’s narrative
The Mechanics of Status
How status enables reproduction with desirable mates and increases ones odds of survival in pre-modern societies
The utilitarian culture that views all problems from a statistical basis and therefore neglects social status
Social status as a driving force behind economic motives
How social status will become even more important in a post scarcity economic future
How manipulating the status system is more effective and far less energetically expensive than direct coercion High School And Status in America
The silly myth that the quarterback ends up bagging groceries while the unpopular kids become Silicon Valley billionaires
How corporate culture mirrors high school
Attacking ones political opponents by disparaging their social status
How Trump to many symbolizes the crass high school bullies who scored with their first crushes The Macro-Sexenomics of Female Beauty The Social Cosmology
How people create their own status within sub-cultures The Alt-Sphere Should Embrace Culture and Aesthetics
