HeyJaredLastBlueDog
Catholic, tech leader, former fighter, strongman/highland games, classical liberal. Social democracy not democratic socialism.
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American National Identity In The Age Of Immigration Part 1 (opens the original)
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In late 2025 Vice President JD Vance and Ohio gubernatorial contender Vivek Ramaswamy had a spat on the nature of American identity with Vivek championing creedal nationalism, the idea that to be American is to adopt a set of ideals enshrined during the American founding, and Vance taking a more ethno-nationalist view1 including popularizing the term ‘heritage Americans’ to describe people of Anglo-Saxon descent whose families had longstanding presence in this country and had done things like fo
LBD Off Topic: How To Get Dad Jacked (opens the original)
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At the urging of my readers, I’m going to take a break from politics today and write about another subject I know well, arguably better: how to get big and strong as a middle aged guy. This isn’t meant to be a scientific dissertation, rather a distillation of what I’ve learned over 20+ years of lifting and strength sports. I first started lifting weight in the late 90s in high school in rugby off-season. Information was hard to come by in those days. We mostly got our programs from magazines lik
Conservatism & Me (opens the original)
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I received the following comment on one of my notes: What I want to talk about is not Joel’s question1 but rather his observation that I think conservatives are odious morons and that I’m morally repulsed by them. I’m self-aware enough to know my disdain for the right comes through in my writing, I self-consciously moderate it but obviously don’t hide it, and I think it’s worth an explanation since it’s such a common feature of my work and anyone who follows me closely might well ask
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