#natcon

[justinspoliticalcorner]

David Badash at NCRM:

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) declared Monday he is advocating for Christian nationalism, a far-right ideology that claims there is no separation of church and state in the Constitution, and promotes as a national religion Christian fundamentalism, a hardline, extremist brand of Christianity at odds with the religious beliefs of many Christians across the country. It opposes LGBTQ people and people of other faiths or of no faith, and their civil rights. It often has links to neo-Nazis, white supremacy, and dominionism, and many see Russia and Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, as its leader.

“Some will say I’m calling America a Christian nation. And so I am. Some will say I’m advocating Christian nationalism. And so I do. My question is – is there any other kind worth having?” Senator Hawley said at “NatCon 4,” the National Conservatism conference being held in Washington, D.C., this week (video below), as reported by Semafor’s David Weigel.

Sen. Hawley, not backing down, promoted his remarks by reposting them on social media. Senator Hawley told attendees at the far-right conference, “Christian nationalism founded American democracy.. the Christian political tradition is our political tradition,” Weigel also reported. “They want the religion of the pride flag. We want the religion of the Bible. I have a suggestion: Why don’t we take down the trans flag from all the federal buildings from which it’s flying, and instead, inscribe on every federal building our national motto: In God We Trust?” Hawley also reportedly said. [...] National Conservatism is a multinational “project” created by the Edmund Burke Foundation, a Netherlands-based group.

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) spoke at NatCon recently and declared that he is “advocating Christian nationalism”. Hawley pushed the lie that “Christian nationalism founded American democracy.”

[ianfulgar]

Helping our local profession grow one debate at a time. Let's do this. #debate #stage #stagelighting #architectduties #architecturestudent #learn #duties #cpd #professional #stagedesign #share #sharingiscaring #calltime #uap #philippines🇵🇭 #natcon

[queenlua]

you shouldn't let [sexy murder] poets lie to you

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

The whole “evil is not a useful analytical tool” bit is an argument that I had in my international relations class with some religious natcon dipshit. And my prof went “was Srebrenica not evil do you not think killing thousands of men and boys is evil” like WOAH buddy. The bad faith people approach you with wrt an idea like “bad isn’t useful for figuring out why something went wrong” is bonkers

No literally!!!!!! Like the idea is fundamentally just "things that are bad are bad because they cause harm in definable terms rather than for some nebulous metaphysical reason." And there's like a lot of important conclusions that can be drawn out further, but at the root of it, it's just a subjectivist attempt to explain the material.

[dhaaruni]

Lucas,*1 born in 2005, was raised in a “typical” and “apolitical” family outside of Philadelphia. “I’ve never in my life remembered a time when the Democratic Party supported ambitious people,” he says. “I think their whole ideology is based off of oppressing those with ambition, who actually have the gumption to go out and do something and build something on their own. … The people who make humanity great, the innovators, the builders, the winners in society, they look at the winners and tell them, ‘You’re evil, and the only reason you’re at the position that you’re at is because you exploited other people.’ It’s antithetical to the way that a lot of young men work.” But, I ask him, what do young men who aren’t aspiring to be “innovators, builders and winners” think of Trump? “I went to public high school in a middle-class area,” he says. “A lot of the guys who I went to high school with weren’t particularly ambitious career-wise, but they do admire people who are. They all admire Trump for what he’s done.” He pauses. “Going to the gym, for example: it’s a way to improve yourself.” I immediately think of all the right-wing intellectual influencers on Twitter that post bodybuilding photos alongside their recommended reading lists. “All young men, even if they’re not actively trying to be great, still admire greatness,” he continues. “It’s really rare that you meet one that doesn’t have some respect for somebody who’s gone out and done something great.”

[scavengedluxury]

Narrator: it was.

This NatCon thing is a dress rehearsal for the fully Orbanized Tories as a party of opposition isn’t it? The far right repeatedly referring to themselves as being centre right is the biggest dog whistle going. Oh and yes, it’s this Melanie Phillips:

[azspot]

David Azerrad, a Research Fellow at Hillsdale College, delivered an unabashedly White nationalist and male supremacist speech, for which he received one of the only standing ovations at the conference. Declaring that “the regime today is anti-White anti-male and anti-Christian,” Azerrad condemned the “browning of America,” the “intentional demographic transformation of America into a majority-minority country through large scale immigration.”

[kepeslajoska]

Nemzeti Konzervativizmus (NatCon) brüsszeli konferenciája

2024. április 17.

[chuckyeager]

Der Mussolini

[sztupy]

Az irrelevanciába kellett volna folytani ezt a konferenciát inkább, erre most meg van miről írni az újságoknak

[andreykovalenko570]

NatCon: the most memorable moments from the rightwing conference

[collapsedsquid]

Although I said the natcons are a bunch of doomed weirdos but having no actual constituency or ideas people actually like didn't stop the neocons I guess

[oracleoutlook]

After much describing and much decrying, it is finally Fukuyama’s turn to speak. “Many people read the title of my book, but they didn’t actually read the book,” Fukuyama says, referring to his The End of History and the Last Man. These nonreaders, he continues, ignore the cautionary tale of Nietzsche’s “last man”: “a human being that has no aspirations because their material needs are satisfied.” But, still, the “last man,” freed from struggle, wants more: “Human beings have a third part of their psychology, which the Greeks called thymos. This is pride, or spiritedness, or the desire to be recognized for outstanding virtue.” Rather than adverting to facile social science, Fukuyama grounds his talk in a theory about who human beings are, and what they long for. I doubt Fukuyama thinks much about the National Conservatives, but as he speaks I remember the young men I had just met at NatCon, and Lucas, Alex and many others I met that summer. Trump’s movement and NatCon seem tailored to what they longed for: not to be the last men in politics, but rather the first men to participate in a political future worthy of their heroic aspirations.

[newsmakersinfo]

IIID Golden Jubilee NATCON 2025

The Indian Institute of Interior Designers (IIID), the apex professional body representing India’s design fraternity, is set to host the much-anticipated Golden Jubilee National Convention (NATCON) 2025, themed “Design for the Times”, from January 30th to February 1st, 2025, at the prestigious Democracy Convention Centre, Nashik. Led by IIID President Ar. Sarosh Wadia, Chairperson Ar. Jabeen…

[azspot]

The NatCons may not know exactly who they are—economic leftists who hate leftism, right-wing progressives who hate progress or moral traditionalists who praise the male libido—but they know what they’re doing.

Last Boys at the Beginning of History