The Hamas-BLM Connection

The Hamas-BLM Connection

In a post last month (Tucker's New Favorite Book Is A Warning), we mentioned the X account "Mystery Grove Publishing" that popularized the book about the Russian Revolution, and its parallels to today. 

The person who ran the Mystery Grove account now runs a Substack, where he published an insightful post about the Israel-Hamas conflict. He wrote this shortly after Hamas's October 7th attack, but nothing that has happened since has invalidated any of his points. Below are key excerpts from his post, followed by a brief trading update. 

Excerpted from the Conundrum Cluster Substack [emphasis ours]

The Brown Age Mindset 

[The headline is an allusion to a popular book in right-leaning circles called The Bronze Age Mindset]

The Palestinian cause has been a darling of leftists since its inception. The largest political factions of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the officially-recognized representative of the Palestinian people, are various flavors of socialists, communists, and other leftist ideologies that all functionally mean the same thing. This strange blending of Marxism, Islam, and Palestinian nationalism can be traced back to the now-deceased Soviet Union, which funded, equipped, and ideologically trained many of these organizations.

Though the Soviet Union is gone, its legacy remains in Third Worldism—the Marxist ideology centered on the shared struggle of the poor and exploited third world to overcome the rich and exploiting first world. As people in general get dumber, this ideology becomes explicitly racial: the non-white (brown) colonized must overthrow the white colonizers across the globe. Although Jews as a racial group aren’t white and generally have a different history and tradition than Europeans, they’re certainly much lighter-skinned and European-looking than the Palestinians.

This aesthetic similarity is not lost on the Rainbow Coalition of the modern Left. They see the conflict along racial lines: to them the Israelis are the white colonizers against whom the Palestinians are carrying out a noble decolonization struggle. They’re saying this out loud right now: Decolonization means what the Palestinians are doing. When they talk about the need for decolonization today, whether it be in a college classroom or the Halls of Congress, they are talking about violent attacks on and expropriations from white people.

If you are a rightwing person, you should be pretty hesitant to throw your support behind the Hamas offensive. It’s what leftists plan to do to white people here if they win. They’re telling you this openly, it doesn’t get more direct. It is bad for people in general to get it into their heads that this is something good or acceptable under the right conditions. Does that mean you should go out and join the IDF? No.

Although Israel has been the recipient of decades of military and other forms of aid, it’s been an unreliable at best ally. It has cooperated with US rivals and undermined US attempts to broker compromise in the region. The most notable betrayal in recent memory was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s being one of the first foreign leaders to try and sweep up the irregularities of the 2020 Presidential election, despite being the primary beneficiary of President Trump’s successful (and politically costly) diplomatic campaign for peace in the Middle East.

Despite its checkered record as an American client state, Israel has played a large role in American diplomatic priorities for years, likely owing at least in part to the overrepresentation of American Jewish people in prominent academic, media, and government positions. Israel also has a very aggressive and well-funded lobbying operation. Does that mean that everything Israel does is bad or unreasonable? Also no.

It’s OK not to have passion for either side here. It’s normal for other countries to pursue their own interests. That, of course, doesn’t mean we have to pay for or otherwise support that pursuit when it goes against our interests, but it also doesn’t mean that we should just glom on to anyone who harms Israel or Israeli civilians.

The situation reminds me of the beginning of the 2020 George Floyd Riots. Rightwingers were understandably frustrated after months of increasingly nonsensical COVID policy. People were locked up in their homes and subjected to an unprecedented pressure campaign. Lots of anger was directed, again understandably, towards the police who enforced many of the ridiculous COVID orders.

When the rioting initially began, many rightwingers were supporting the rioters as they attacked police. I remember it vividly. Again, there is great need for a proper history of the Floyd Riots. Lots of big rightwing accounts, especially those that centered on guns or militia activity, were saying that the Floyd Rioters were showing the real Bronze Age Mindset. They claimed people who complained about the rioting were pussies and hypocrites.

This was a psychological phenomenon that I haven’t seen anyone else comment on. The Floyd Riots were preceded by months of humiliation: people were forced to wear masks, they were pressured to get a vaccine that didn’t work, and they were subjected to all sorts of other pointless and degrading rituals as part of what was basically an engineered national hysteria. In short, people (especially rightwingers who didn’t want to comply) felt more powerless than ever.

 

The Floyd Riots seemed to be an explosion of power. It really was crazy when you look back on it. There tens of thousands of people on the streets. They were fighting the cops and shooting people. They burnt down buildings by the dozen. Not only were most not punished for this behavior, but they were rewarded with both praise from the media and then later with the proceeds of bogus civil rights lawsuits.

Rightwingers though they could get in on this power. They would show up with guns to the riots and say they were there to “protect” the rioters. It was part of the large directionless (and perhaps partially government facilitated) “Boogaloo” movement. They weren’t necessarily for anything, but they were vaguely against the government, supposedly just like the Black Lives Matter protestors were.

Essentially, conservatives were hoping that they could support the enemy of their enemy as a way to cure their powerlessness. After all, BLM was allowed to do this crazy stuff by the government, while conservatives have been subjected to years of sham prosecutions over what genuinely was a mostly peaceful protest. By imagining a shared struggle, they could join in on the fun. This strategy, of course, didn’t work. The BLM rioters hated all the gun-toting conservatives. They often physically attacked them. When conservatives were allowed to stay, they were pressured into public humiliations like making the black power fist or kneeling before the mob.

It’s ultimately not clear why anyone who’s even vaguely rightwing would want to work with BLM. The BLM agenda means massive wealth transfer and pro-crime policies. Even from a libertarian perspective it’s impossible to defend: BLM doesn’t want less government, they want a government that caters to their needs exclusively, to the detriment of everyone else. This is not something that anyone should be giving any kind of cover to, regardless of whatever grievances you might have against the police or the government in general.

The Palestinians, being overwhelmingly leftists, were aligned with the Floyd Riots. There are murals of George Floyd all over Gaza. It’s a little nonsensical until you zoom out: in their view, Floyd was killed by the same oppressive colonist system that they’re struggling against. White people, the police, it’s all got to go. Don’t overthink this. I promise the hordes that want to inflict similar violence on you are not overthinking it.

You can read the rest there. 

A Brief Trading Update 

In our previous post (Fighting Back Against Affirmative Action In Aviation), we mentioned we were going to post three trades on companies releasing earnings after the close Monday or before the open today. One of those three companies was Trip Advisor (TRIP 1.16%↑), which is up about 11% in the pre-market as we type this. If that price action holds during market hours, we should be able to exit yesterday's options trade on it for a gain of about 150%. 

We've got another bullish trade and a bearish trade teed up for later today. If you'd like a heads up when we place them, feel free to subscribe to our trading Substack/occasional email list below. 

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