WhatifAltHist / Rudyard Lynch - History youtuber, galaxy brained, no credentials and no sex

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

Hasn't he talked about this topic already?

He mentioned it in some of his videos but this one's pretty much dedicated to the potential population collapse.

 

[Mudkipcorn]

Hasn't he talked about this topic already?

Yeah, but never in a dedicated video. Like any thinker, his viewpoints on the world or history have their themes. Of course they present themselves in his (script)writing, whether he's talking about history or speculating about the future. Global fertility decline is one such obsession and I say it's about time he focuses on it. Haven't listened to it yet though.

I did just finish his Manifesto for the New Right and damn it's a banger. Really gets down to the essence of why Rudy is a lolcow but also why I can't help but like the guy.

He starts off by asserting that our culture is aimless, thoughtless and suffering from meaninglessness. Even as a teenager he could see that the adults had no idea what they were doing. Naturally he sees this as a bad thing that ought to be addressed. As "one of five people" capable of taking charge of the situation, the burden falls on him to steer the ship of civilization. He wants nothing less than to craft a message that "men are willing to die for." This is followed immediately after by a sponsorship for some crypto-fueled blockchain-based AI thing called Boltzmann Network.

His central thesis is that "God is evolution". All well and good. It's heavy minded stuff about the nature of the universe. In my opinion he leans way to hard into the belief that people who follow the rules of the universe (which he acknowledges do change over time) are rewarded above all others. But whatever, it's neat. Add in his usual broad references to Jews, Indo-Aryans and Aztecs. All societies seek to find out which rules to follow. Whoever has the best rules dominates other societies. It's a game of discovering and adhering to principles. Inevitably what makes societies thrive is what ultimately brings their downfall.

All very reasonable stuff, but he shows his milhist biases or videogame-mindedness by talking about broad social-religious values...but then gives the Greek phalanx as an example. It made them strong but then it got countered, you see. I mean it's fine as an example but I don't think he's using it as a metaphor. This broad belief in dualism and synthesis combined with a universal view of god is some mix of Hegel, Nietzsche/Jung, Spengler, Alan Watts and Spinoza. In his classic style he makes these interesting statements but just flits between them unquestioningly. I get it, it's a Youtube video. More than that, it's a manifesto. It's supposed to be inspiring, not explain everything. But if you actually examine it sentence by sentence it's easy to dissect critically.

Mouse Utopia of course gets another mention, as do the fall of Chinese dynasties and he connects Nietzsche's Animus/Anima theories to his Hegelian/Spenglerian historical viewpoint. It's just a parade of references for the next 15 minutes. He loves to decry that most people don't care about history. But when is supposedly making bigbrained analyses of history it's often just a list of facts sewn together in only the loosest way to some universalist thesis.

He says 'man must have woman, hate must have love, war must have peace, etc.'. But where does he go from there? Pretty much nowhere, as far as I can tell. He asserts dualism in way too many words. It's all rather poetic but it barely says anything. It loses the plot of being a manifesto for the right entirely.

He eventually gets back to it by complaining about how the Left hates success. This is then (again, only very loosely) connected to the next strand: that people shouldn't feel bad for circumstances outside their control. I guess he means you shouldn't feel bad for being white or coming from a rich family. Sure, Rudy. No one but the most unhinged leftist will disagree with that. His goal (though he does use the plural 'our' liberally) is to use psychedelics and research-based therapy to improve their subconscious so they can better reformulate and adhere to the relevant rules of their society/the universe. Get in touch with the spirit world. Be responsible. Shun degeneracy. Clean your room, bucko. Be honorable.

Great write-up on the school video, @Cowboy Kim . Really highlights his narcissism and delusions of grandeur. This video in contrast highlights his admiral upper midwit qualities, in my opinion. He's like, so close to actually having some profound thoughts but he's to autistic or on the internet too much to put something really interesting together. He has this totally deranged view of what the left believes. It's clearly informed by the internet and not reality. I think it's a damn shame he dropped out. I don't know what universities are like in America, but don't believe what /pol/ tells you. You can't just write 'white people bad' and get top marks. I guess the fact that he did drop out tells you all you need to know. Still, it's nice to imagine a Rudy who shunned the internet and just got really interested in whatever aspect of Antiquity he likes best and started writing papers. He has such a high opinion of himself that such was probably never a possibility.

I love the IQ is bunk because I'm only slightly above average angle. It's the exact same thing that leftists do. He loves tying things to science so I'll do the same. Scientists (even social scientists) are supposed to work from evidence to test a theory. The theory is measured by its adherence to the evidence. It's not the other way around. You see the leftists he hates do this crap all the time but it's really a problem universal amongst idealouges. The presentation is even worse amongst those who reckon themselves to be creators of new theories.

 

[stupid!]

aimless, thoughtless and suffering from meaninglessness

But enough about his scripts!

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

peak midwit thinking right there

X-Post with the history thread because Fredda is a historytuber unlike this nitwit.

Can we just ban all the outdated leftists off of Kiwi farms they really get annoying when they try to pretend Fred is anything but the opposite side I can make a thread on him and his hilarious thoughts on history but it wouldn't be worth it because he's a dime a dozen communist

dipshit​

and the fact that the opening for this op uses the horse lover shows that this is one of the dumbly tuber fanboys who really should be banned off this website what if this is your typical annoying right wing ******* not particularly funny really should ban all the people who make ideologically motivated threads it's annoying

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

POV: The incel revolution succeeded and Obersturmführer Lynch asks if you know history.

 

[MarMar049]

POV: The incel revolution succeeded and Obersturmführer Lynch asks if you know history.
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The only revolution incels will do is how many revolutions they spin around their chair in the basement.

 

[Lindy64]

Yeah he had a complete meltdown and refused to tolerate people reuploading his deleted videos. He had a habit of deleting them bit by bit until eventually he turned on his own audience and disappeared.

Who was that? Just curious

 

[Nachos Bell Grande]

Who was that? Just curious

Political Juice, he was a center right youtuber that did intentionally poorly drawn cartoon videos about politics and politic adjacent topics. Like a conservative bent Sam O'Nella if you know him. He did some really good videos, got a following that was pretty conservative, but he started leaning center left after going to college and had a complete sperg out and shit canned his whole channel and did his best to wipe any evidence of his existence afterward by flagging reuploads.

 

[Lindy64]

Perhaps I'm just nitpicking here but the way he phrases this he acts like he was the first person to discover this. Like, Rudy, dude, this is an extremely surface level take. Mainstream Conservatives have been saying this for years now.

 

[Local Fed]

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Perhaps I'm just nitpicking here but the way he phrases this he acts like he was the first person to discover this. Like, Rudy, dude, this is an extremely surface level take. Mainstream Conservatives have been saying this for years now.

You don't understand, when he discovered this he was just a kid.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

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Perhaps I'm just nitpicking here but the way he phrases this he acts like he was the first person to discover this. Like, Rudy, dude, this is an extremely surface level take. Mainstream Conservatives have been saying this for years now.

Man's the Internet Explorer of political commentators.

In other news, apparently there's no good or bad presidents that aren't from more than 30 years ago.

 

[gagabobo1997]

Man's the Internet Explorer of political commentators.

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To be fair I don't think youtube polls allow for many more options than that, and it seems to mean worst/best president of the provided choices.

 

[Lindy64]

Also, I don't think this has been mentioned before, but there's a pretty big Presbyterian YouTube channel called Redeemed Zoomer and I see a lot in common between him and Rudy. Only, Redeemed Zoomer focuses exclusively on Christianity and wants to "reclaim" mainstream churches from liberalism. He's clearly a big fan considering how many times he's replied to his tweets and uses ideas from him in his videos.

 

[Maniacal Foreigner]

Also, I don't think this has been mentioned before, but there's a pretty big Presbyterian YouTube channel called Redeemed Zoomer and I see a lot in common between him and Rudy. Only, Redeemed Zoomer focuses exclusively on Christianity and wants to "reclaim" mainstream churches from liberalism. He's clearly a big fan considering how many times he's replied to his tweets and uses ideas from him in his videos.

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The terminally online "trad" Christian zoomers on Twitter somehow manage to be even more obnoxious than the lefties.

 

[coge]

POV: The incel revolution succeeded and Obersturmführer Lynch asks if you know history.
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I'm glad we're on the same page

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

I’m personally loving these Zoomers going online and having opinions and shit. It’s fun, they have no idea what the hell is going on but they got answers, and it’s high time for the Holy Zoomer Inquisition to show up and sperg at the Millennials.

 

[Breadbassket]

Also, I don't think this has been mentioned before, but there's a pretty big Presbyterian YouTube channel called Redeemed Zoomer and I see a lot in common between him and Rudy. Only, Redeemed Zoomer focuses exclusively on Christianity and wants to "reclaim" mainstream churches from liberalism. He's clearly a big fan considering how many times he's replied to his tweets and uses ideas from him in his videos.

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To get an idea of his beliefs and views, here is an excerpt from an article on people like Redeemed Zoomer:

n the other hand, their branding use of sordid military history was reminiscent of the “manosphere,” a highly online movement capturing the imagination of many young conservative men. (“Reconquista” is a nod to the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from Muslim kingdoms, whom Christian Europeans commonly called Moors, and the group’s website uses martial language and imagery.) Like many manosphere influencers, Reconquista first got traction online, largely through a YouTube channel run by a young man who goes by the digital pseudonym Redeemed Zoomer, as well as a Discord server.

Redeemed Zoomer creates lo-fi explainer videos—with Comic Sans font and what he describes as “derpy” graphics—about Christian theology and denominations, some of which have racked up millions of views. When he’s not explaining history or ideas, he’s talking about mainline institutional renewal as he creates cathedral-centered cities in the world-building video game Minecraft.

Despite these superficial similarities between Reconquista and the manosphere, the substance is radically different. Redeemed Zoomer and his fellow activists aren’t interested in “going their own way,” accelerationist politics, or “trad LARPers”—as Zoomer put it in an interview on my podcast—who spend more time burning institutions down than rebuilding them.

Their interest is institutional renewal in the mainline church, and their method—as detailed in a video explaining their Reformation Day activism—is calling young, theologically conservative Christians to reform and revive the denominations that their Christian forebears sweat and bled to build. Beyond the Reformation Day event, this primarily looks like mapping theologically conservative mainline congregations and encouraging Gen Z peers to join and serve in those communities.

To that end, Zoomer continually reminds his audience that their enemies aren’t people; they’re the principalities and powers of darkness (Eph. 6:12). Even when he’s critical of progressive Christians, he’s never crass or vitriolic. In fact, he explicitly asks those watching his channel not to harass or attack the people he’s critiquing.

When I asked Zoomer if allusions to violent conquests might lead the group astray, he noted that the Bible, too, uses military metaphors for the life of faith (e.g., Eph. 6, Phil. 2:25, 2 Tim. 2:3). He hopes Reconquista will channel youthful energy, which may otherwise be spent on vacuous or outright noxious pugilism, toward noble ends.

As a safeguard, the group has invited older mainline pastors to join Reconquista, and members are encouraged to rise above the fistic fray, season their speech with love, and challenge each other when they fail to meet these goals. Reconquista wants to be characterized by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, Redeemed Zoomer told me, not by the belligerent neo-pagan Twitter dunking of Andrew Tate wannabes.

Reconquista also rejects the racialized ugliness common in the manosphere and very online corners of the political Right. While their 95 theses to the Presbyterian Church (USA) state that “theology should not be done through a critical theory lens”—a sentiment I share, with some nuance—they also clearly anathematize racism and emphasize the importance of listening to the Global South. “The Mainline Church globally claims to want to elevate non-white voices,” one thesis says, “yet ignores the cries of repentance for theological liberalism coming from Church bodies in Africa and Asia, as is happening in the Anglican and Methodist communions.”

By contrasting Reconquista with the manosphere, I don’t mean to imply that it’s entirely male. The Episcopalian wing, which Redeemed Zoomer reports has seen the most success, is led by a young woman. But the group’s members are mostly young men, and Zoomer argues this is an asset in a time when—as is increasingly recognized even outside the church—young men are adrift in a predominantly progressive culture with no positive vision for masculinity and desperate to be connected to a mission that gives their lives purpose.

Progressive mainliners love to argue that progressive theology is the only way to make Christianity that mission for a young and progressive generation, Redeemed Zoomer says. But, speaking from experience, he disagrees, arguing that churches that liberalize to the point of abandoning orthodoxy have nothing distinctive to offer Gen Z.

Unchurched Gen Zers don’t need to go to a stodgy sanctuary to learn how to fly the rainbow flag. They can get that anywhere—without giving up Sunday mornings. To attract young people, and especially young men, the church must point Gen Z toward a divinely inspired, ancient purpose the secular world can’t offer: living for Jesus.

This is exactly what Zoomer experienced at age 14. Until his conversion, he says, he was a “secular leftist,” but at a small music camp led by a PCUSA professor, he encountered the beauty of Jesus through friendship, service to the poor, hymnody, and beautiful church architecture. The aesthetics of traditional churches weren’t merely a vibe for him—they became a window into the truth, goodness, and glory of the gospel.

Returning to his home in New York City, he found life by rooting himself in the Presbyterian tradition, singing hymns, studying the confessions, and taking the sacraments. This is the best way to integrate Gen Z men, like himself, into church life, he contends: engaging them in institutional construction.

He’s right. Gen X was cynical about institutions. Millennials, my own generation, deconstructed them. Gen Z may be the first generation to turn the tide, to renew, reform, and recover what past generations built.

 

[Dr Sprokeberg]

Also, I don't think this has been mentioned before, but there's a pretty big Presbyterian YouTube channel called Redeemed Zoomer and I see a lot in common between him and Rudy. Only, Redeemed Zoomer focuses exclusively on Christianity and wants to "reclaim" mainstream churches from liberalism. He's clearly a big fan considering how many times he's replied to his tweets and uses ideas from him in his videos.

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You left out the one where he says he's (ethnically) Jewish. That'd make a lot of groypers and /pol/tards madder than any of the above.

https://x.com/redeemed_zoomer/status/1790871954401992750

 

[Telecom]

Has rudy ever published anything outside his youtube channel about his philosophy? I'm actually interested in reading how his thought process works unshackled from the youtube videos. I'd take even a basic description in one of those outlets that's one step above a blog.

 

[Puggers]

I haven't gotten through the full thread, but I used to semi-follow Altist when he would actually post alternative history videos just to see what retarded shit he would come up with.

If it hasn't already been posted. Here is an example of what a fucking idiot he is when trying to debate. I don't think the debate stage is meant for someone so autistic.

https://www.youtube.com/live/8aGur1Qkipg?si=388LKwkRcs_UHjq5

Edit: Vaush is also a retard so this is hard to watch. Be warned.

Edit 2: 17:04 "Bro, how many books on American intellectual history have you read?" -Rudyard