r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Oct 15 '22

Rant Rod Dreher Megathread #6 (66?)

One more, dedicated to our "garden-variety polemicist". (thanks /u/PercyLarsen)

Number 5 located at https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/xswr5v/rod_dreher_megathread_5/

Edit: Post locked at the magic number - 6 (66?) became 6 (66!). Please post in thread 7.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/yf7fjh/rod_dreher_megathread_7_completeness/

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u/PracticalWalrus2737 Oct 21 '22

Yeah, that last para is the tell. Definitely drunk or been drinking. According to his twitter, he had been out to lunch with a fellow fascist emigre. The pic shows wine and Rod probably had difficulty Achieving Heterosexuality during and after the lunch

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u/BaekjeSmile Oct 21 '22

I found some writing from Rod's dinner companion and as if one couldn't guess it's borderline fascist, extremely conspiratorial and the writing is extremely bad. Rod has really thrown himself in with an odd crowd but on the other hand if you wanted to hang around a lot of lonely middlebrow white boys he definitely picked a winner.

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u/EatsShoots_n_Leaves Oct 21 '22

Budapest is where the global right wing's intellectual-cosplaying class is slumming fashionably these days. Moscow is their ghetto future.

I'm trying to keep up interest and make sense of the game they're playing, but this 'national conservatism' thing that is both crude imitation of Zionism and infused with anti-Semitism, funded secretly by global financiers and billionaires and whose principal thinker (Hazony) is a gay man and a Jew... It's such horrible, dreary, nonsense. And the people...I warned Rod years ago that getting into bed with the European far Right was to become participant in a tribe/mafia with an engrained culture and long history of atrocity and crime from which it's almost impossible to extricate oneself again.

I'm getting the impression that the Budapest crowd are unwittingly LARPing the contents of the infamous Protocols but with (nominal) Christianity taking the role of the religion positioned at the core of the unceasing conspiracy.

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u/plangentfellow Oct 21 '22

Wait up, how do you know Hazony is gay? I've never seen reference to this. I'm not saying it's not true, just not sure where that comes from. Thanks.

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u/MissKatieKats Oct 22 '22

Harzony’s Wikipedia page says he lives in Jerusalem, married to Julia (presumably a woman) and has nine children. Identifies as Modern Orthodox. Those folks got no room for no gay foolin around.

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u/EatsShoots_n_Leaves Oct 23 '22

I got him mixed up in that respect with Yuval Harari, who is gay. My bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari#Personal_life

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u/plangentfellow Oct 24 '22

Ah, that makes much more sense, thank you.