No More Mr Nice Guy

Getting leftists fired feels good--but there's much more serious work to be done

Picture this and try not to laugh. A sleepy Saturday afternoon, Buttcrack, USA. The owner of a small business is in his office, doing some filing or other admin or playing Candy Crush on his phone when he receives a call. He lets it ring a couple of times and then picks up.

“Hello?”

“Hello, this is Rudy Giuliani. Yes, THE Rudy Giuliani. I want to talk to you about one of your employees…”

America’s Mayor has had a difficult time of late, but it’s hard not to smile thinking of him laid up in bed, scanning Twitter and furiously dialling to get another disgusting maggot fired for saying heinous shit about Charlie Kirk. I’ve lost count of how many rainbow-coloured scalps he’s claimed for the cause over the last few days.

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of retarded bloodythirsty morons have now lost their jobs because patriots like Rudy Giuliani finally decided enough is enough. Instead of just letting the abuse slide, people have flipped. It’s like a switch went off.

No more Mr Nice Guy.

One enterprising patriot has even compiled an online database of these shit-talkers and apologists for murder. Fifty thousand names and counting.

It’s not just Santa Claus who can make lists, and you don’t have to write down who’s been a nice boy or girl either. You can just take the names, occupations and addresses of all the people who’ve been naughty and do with them what you will. You can post your list on the internet. That’s probably enough, for now.

Unsurprisingly, leftist whores and their pimps in the legacy media are crying foul. Their cuck slaves in the center and on “the right” are urging moderation, as always, and telling us we shouldn’t be like them. They’re the ones who do this. Not us. Keep to the moral high ground. We’ll surely win if we just stand there, up on the hill, feeling satisfied with ourselves.

The first thing that’s worth saying is this. In the face of tragedy and evil, it’s important to do something. The murder of Charlie Kirk was both tragic and evil. Doing something as simple as getting someone fired can help restore a sense of agency and provide a bit of grounding when the earth feels like it’s collapsing under your feet. And the earth really has felt like it’s collapsing under our feet.

Getting someone fired, or hundreds of people even, tells us yes, we’re still on terra firma. Yes, actions do have reliable consequences.

We shouldn’t underestimate the psychological importance of this, or deny its satisfaction to people who are hurting terribly.

And remember: Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, as leftists have smugly told us again and again over the last decade while they’ve harassed and doxxed and ruined countless lives for harmless tweets or donations to legal funds or for refusing to bake cakes celebrating bumsex and the mutilation of children.

Understanding the nature of conservatism—its psychological biases and weaknesses, in particular—can help us see why this tit for tat isn’t just excusable, it’s necessary.

Conservatism is a kind of learned helplessness. Conservatives have been habituated to failure for the better part of a century, if not more. They’ve allowed leftists to do the very thing Antonio Gramsci said leftists would do, way back in the 1920s: To make a long march through the institutions and seize the culture, as a prelude to social revolution. Nothing sums up conservatism as a doctrine of failure between than William Buckley’s absurd definition of the conservative “standing athwart history yelling STOP!” A constant rearguard action can never win.

Matters aren’t helped by the conservative temperament, which is a very real thing. Conservatism, like leftism, is rooted in distinct psychological traits. Political affiliation is biology, deep down, although nurture also has its part to play, of course. A fairly recent study showed that conservatives, on the whole, are far more tolerant and generous towards leftists than leftists are towards them. In empathy games staged by social scientists, conservatives routinely give leftists the benefit of the doubt, while leftists do nothing of the sort and refuse to extend the hand of friendship or even consider conservatives human beings at all.

We only need to look at the bigger political picture to see this dynamic at work, and to see the dreadful effects of what now, under the wrong conditions, amounts to a pathological kindness. Conservatives are only too willing to assume their enemies share their basic commitment to decency, openness and honesty, to believe that if they just treat their ideological opponents as they themselves wish to be treated—that famous Golden Rule—we’ll all get what we deserve.

And, in a sense, we do get what we deserve, conservatives especially. For failing to take their opponents seriously and at their own word, for failing to believe the evidence of their own eyes and ears when they see and hear leftists calling for the streets to run with their blood, conservatives allow themselves to be outmanoeuvred, outflanked and, ultimately, marked for destruction.

In a better world, we wouldn’t have to behave like this. We could agree to disagree, we could even shout at each other and get angry and walk away in disgust, but still live together and not have to phone one another’s employers and tell tales or do worse. But this is not that better world, and the political conditions that would have to obtain for it to be so simply do not. They haven’t for a long time.

We are, whether we like it or not, in a time where only the friend-enemy distinction matters. “The specific distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy,” said Carl Schmitt. We live in an age of reduction, stripped of nicety and pretense. We are back to politics in its most primitive, basic form.

Reward your friends, punish your enemies.

Conservatives must stop rewarding their enemies, and the best place to start is small.