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Dakota V Adams
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Dakota V Adams writes Deprogram, a personal blog at dakotavadams.substack.com about politics and history. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Redpill Op: How online White Supremacists ruined 4chan”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack in a thread on Douglas Adams and the English-American divide over "heroes". The one comment only muses on decomposing philosophy into memes and does not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An inside perspective on militias, extremism, and domestic terrorism.
Most-linked posts?
- Redpill Op: How online White Supremacists ruined 4chan3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-30
What Hacker News says?
on the other hand, a classically homeschooled person's account of perceptions changed: https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/gunshow (I suggest you familiarise yourself better with Ἡράκλειτος? Come to think of it, even Mr. "nothing new under the sun" admitted that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; there's biblically always room for surprise.)
Comment linking /p/gunshow
on “Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?”Submitted Redpill Op: How online White Supremacists ruined 4chan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey pop up from time to time; eg Weimar germany? (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40162299 ) The sorts of people who like to join militias don't like all the weebs in regular cosplay circles? (see https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/gunshow ) All the fent sure as hell isn't going to run itself?
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on “Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups”Submitted Redpill Op as a story · 1 points
HN discussionQ. these kids they have, are they still conservative after they grow up and get a job? Lagniappe: https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/gunshow
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on “The Depopulation Bomb Isn't Ticking, It's Overblown”hmmm: an arbitrary finite automaton can be decomposed into a collection of edges; can we decompose a reasonable philosophy into a collection of memes/greentexts/whatever the kids are doing these days? (for that matter, I just assume the modal HN'er is ~13 now, but maybe that's an artifact of how the front page dynamic goldfishes the conversation?) EDIT: little red book or little red pill? https://dakotavadams.substa…
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on “Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"”I was amused by https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/gunshow , in which a militia child, thanks to a fortuitous co-hosting of the Gun Show with an Anime Con, realises there's a whole world beyond the subculture in which he was raised.
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on “Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia”Cosplaytriots also go in for the literary kinds of fiction; LaVoy Finicum wrote a book, and the former Oath Keepers leader's son says Rhodes had intended to write one as well: https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/partisan-rape-zombies-st... Oddly enough, this article has 5 hits for "AR-15" and none for "drone" or "drones"?
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on “The Americans Prepping for a Second Civil War”> the megalomaniac view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph FWIW, I've been following the writings of Stewart Rhodes' son, and boy howdy do his descriptions of his father fit this noun phrase... On the lighter side, I found the "cosplaytriots vs weebs" of https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/gunshow amusing.
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on “The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)”The attention from my part is because it is uncommon for someone to be able to articulate the experiences of two[0] very different perspectives[1]; think of it as the modern equivalent to paying attention to a shaman? As for revenue, if it's any consolation I strongly doubt the dude is getting any more than people in the small-time-grift culture that he left. [0] eg in a more just world, Rory Miller ("Meditations on…
Comment linking /p/gunshow
on “Redpill Op: How online White Supremacists ruined 4chan”Good point. Ca. 1948 ' "X sucks!" can be a powerful prompt for you to support X ' was one of the known uses of "black" propaganda, so it's already proved useful with wetware operatives. As a presumably inadvertent example of reverse propaganda, cf https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/redpill-op
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on “The Overlords Finally Showed Up”