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The Alt-Right Playbook: Always a Bigger Fish

Innuendo Studios · commentary · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Innuendo Studios' Alt-Right Playbook episode, drawing on Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind, argues that conservatism defends hierarchy and a shrinking in-group.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as a thoughtful video essay and for its model of in-group hierarchy in political threads.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “I think Innuendo Studios/Ian Danskin explains this mechanism very very well”

    Explains the mindset defending billionaires and hierarchy as natural

    gaze, 2022-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)”

  2. “lengthy, thoughtful, and often artistic video essays and skits addressing culture and politics”

    Example of thoughtful video essay content on YouTube

    pxc, 2019-04 · Recommendation · in “The golden age of YouTube is over”

  3. “I've found useful, from a (leftist) video essay”

    Useful model for understanding conservative versus liberal base assumptions

    Terr_, 2025-09 · Recommendation · in “Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: alt-right, conservatism, hierarchy, video essay, politics

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