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J.R. Nyquist
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J.R. Nyquist's personal blog at jrnyquist.blog covers politics and history. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on Cold War communist subversion, covering defectors such as Bezmenov, Sejna and Golitsyn, McCarthyism, and Gustave Le Bon's crowd psychology. The comments only cite or link it.
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What Hacker News says?
I see Yuri everywhere, but never Sejna or Golitsyn who reveal the same plan. https://jrnyquist.blog/2020/03/26/the-sino-soviet-long-range...
Comment linking /2020/03/26/the-sino-soviet-long-range-strategy-from-sputnik-to-world-war-iii/
on “KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)”Censored and then "rationalized" Gustave Le Bon was a French scientist who wrote extensively on crowd psychology. He left behind a number of important works, being the first writer to thoroughly investigate the psychology of socialism. For a long time, noted Le Bon, psychologists regarded belief as voluntary and rational….” But a shocking discovery was made. Psychologists discovered that mass belief is an unconsciou…
Comment linking /2023/07/23/about-the-s-word-a-polemic/
on “We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever”Imagine you are an anti-unicorn. Could there be a stigma against you? No, because there are no unicorns to stigmatize you. There are no unicorn front groups, or unicorn agents of influence, to blacklist you. Since unicorns do not exist, nobody in the world cares if you write a scathing book against unicorns. On the other hand, if you write a book exposing communist subversion, even if that subversion happened eighty…
Comment linking /2023/07/23/about-the-s-word-a-polemic/
on “McCarthyism”https://jrnyquist.blog/
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on “Ask HN: Books on strategic military operations and politics”