Anatoly Karlin

Anatoly Karlin (Анатолий Карлин), known as powerfultakes,Anatoly Karlin, @powerfultakes Twitter (archived from March 17, 2024). His Twitter handle was formerly @akarlin88 and @akarlin0. He removed the "88" digits:
The Last Reaction by Anatoly Karlin (October 8, 2021) The Unz Review (archived from January 1, 2023).Powerful Takes by Akarlin, Substack (archived from December 17, 2021). EHC,https://ehc.zone/ NoocelerationNooceleration by Akarlin, Substack (archived from October 12, 2023). is a Russian far-rightThe Burkean’s Mission Has Changed. Conservatives Are Right to Worry. "Anatoly Karlin, a well known member of the Russian far right who has appeared at events alongside American white nationalist Richard Spencer".Russian State TV Calls Video Game Metro Exodus "Russophobic" by William Echols (February 21, 2019) Polygraph.info. describes him as a "Russian white nationalist blogger". In a 2021 study published in Review of General Psychology, Karlin is described as "a similar figure [to Steve Sailer] who promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories and associates with alt-right political activist Richard Spencer." Jackson Jr, J. P., & Winston, A. S. (2021). "The mythical taboo on race and intelligence". Review of General Psychology, 25(1), 3-26 (page 9). climate change denier, grifter,Anatoly Karlin has admitted to grifting for cash and more social media followers or clicks to his accounts:
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Tweet. anti-vegan, eugenicist,Karlin has written pseudoscientific articles on at The Unz Review. More recently in 2023, he described himself as a "positive eugenicist" and in 2024 as an "outspoken eugenicist." pro-natalist and ableist who has argued in favour of killing infants with Down syndrome and other disabilities (infanticide).See comment #764 in the comments section of this open thread. In response to a question by a pro-infanticide eugenicist using the pseudonym Mr. XYZ: Anatoly Karlin posted: Karlin promotes what he calls "genetic enhancement" or "intelligence enhancement" which are euphemisms for eugenics.https://archive.is/7g7E6https://archive.is/voOIG Among his other extreme or controversial views are on bestiality (he has argued artificial intelligence will justify and legalise humans having sex with non-human animalshttps://archive.is/IdjX0https://archive.is/D2FVehttps://archive.is/d6Crwhttps://archive.is/Jl0dw), drug decriminalization Tweet by Anatoly Karlin in 2024.https://archive.is/0P3g9https://archive.is/Xe5TZ (he supports legalising all drugs and is a self-admitted glue sniffing addictI suffer from glue addiction. I huff it every day. by Anatoly Karlin (11:56 PM · May 9, 2023) Twitter (archived from 10 May 2023 23:31:43 UTC).Radical belief changes from psychotropics are perfectly possible when said positions are based on emotion (as WN is) as opposed to facts and logic (no amount of shrooms will make B/W gap or g factor go away). The few times I dosed heavily on LSD I got some inner mental "looseness" (for lack of a better term) but beliefs recrystallized along essentially the same lines one to two days after the trip. (My recent shift from Russian nationalism to rainbow globalism is non psychotropocally meditated, at least outside copious daily glue huffing. It is the result of strict Social Darwinism taken to its logical conclusions aka acknowledging the total victory of elite human capital.) by Anatoly Karlin (11:32 PM · Jun 17, 2023) Twitter (archived from 21 Jun 2023 11:36:23 UTC).), support for cryonics, human ,"Artificial wombs need to be developed." (Anatoly Karlin, 19 September 2021). See also his article on artificial wombs in which he states: "I have been advocating this technology since I started blogging in 2008." radical life extension, believing the world can sustain 100 billion people and what he describes as "animal cognitive ethics" (his type of animal rights involves only protecting pigs, as he says almost every other animal can be eaten.The Cognitive Chain of Being: A New Approach to Animal Rights by Anatoly Karlin (February 28, 2019) The Unz Review (archived from 5 Apr 2019 00:11:22 UTC).And yes, amongst ruminants, I avoid goats as I do pork. The most intelligent in that class and have very distinct, mischievous but affectionate personalities. Sheep are just walking bleating meatbags so no problem with mutton/lamb. by Anatoly Karlin (7:46 PM · Jun 13, 2023) Twitter (archived from 11 Nov 2023 01:38:41 UTC).I don't think there's any moral issues with killing and eating 100,000 neuron lobsters (ants have 250,000) or salmon (most of which die gruesome deaths anyway) at all by Anatoly Karlin (12:43 AM · Aug 7, 2023) Twitter (archived from 9 Aug 2023 19:31:03 UTC).Just prioritize eggs, fish and seafood, and avoid pork in particular, to the extent you weigh animal suffering by Anatoly Karlin (5:58 PM · Jan 6, 2024) Twitter (archived from 6 Jan 2024 19:37:01 UTC).I was eating bugs before it was "cool" and woke (ordered freeze dried crickets from Amazon & experimented with various recipes a few times). Now a onetime eccentrism has been ruined and annulled by virtue signaling Western psychopaths like everything else. by Anatoly Karlin (9:08 PM · Aug 23, 2019) Twitter (archived from 24 Jan 2023 13:02:49 UTC)).
Karlin has a long history of posting racism, white supremacy and misogyny online — to the extent he admitted, in 2019, to being a "racist and very happy with that" after posting on Reddit how much he dislikes Black people, used to browse neo-Nazi websites such as The Daily Stormer and even supported White Sharia. Comment by Anatoly Karlin (October 11, 2017).I am quite happy that few Blacks associate with Russia, considering the type of violence-ridden underclasses they tend to create in countries that open their doors to them. Not to mention the extreme chutzpah and aggressive sense of racial grievance they tend to act out towards their host countries. So yes, I'm racist and very happy with that. If /r/europe SJWs or Islamists such as yourself have a problem with that, oh well. Don't care, really. by akarlin (c. March 2019) Reddit (archived from 16 Jun 2019 02:23:10 UTC).Several years back, in San Francisco, a black woman tried to solicit money from me, and began haranguing me about my racism when I walked past her. I told the fat nigger bitch to fuck off in precisely that language. She lapsed into a sort of slack-jawed shock for several seconds, allowing me to walk away unmolested. Clearly she had never been spoken to from a position of white privilege before. But my logic was, if I had to “serve the time” (to be harassed as a racist for not wanting to support her drug habits and/or teeming brood), why couldn’t I “commit the crime”? by Anatoly Karlin (October 5, 2018 at 5:27 pm GMT) Unz Review (archived from December 8, 2018). He is a former writer for the anti-Semitic and conspiracy theorist The Unz Review. In 2020, he wrote he favoured a "Russian ethno-state."As general rule, all whites from the high-IQ European & Anglosphere countries would be welcome given a willingness to culturally Russify. But it's not an absolute rule, individual exceptions can be made, for instance, I happily accept Benes Ayo as Russian. by @akarlin88 (3:10 PM - 22 Jun 2020) Twitter (archived from June 22, 2020). He once shared a podium with Richard Spencer at a white nationalist conference and endorsed him.Open Thread, 05/28/2016 - Alt Right Safe Space in Berkeley by Anatoly Karlin (May 28, 2016) The Unz Review (archived from 17 Jun 2019 21:47:29 UTC). He also set up an alt-right podcast,ROGPR (archived from May 23, 2017) openly admitted he agrees with "about 70%" of the alt-right and praised Mussolini.https://archive.is/6SSnohttps://archive.is/382Pi
In December 2023, Karlin wrote a series of articles titled "Intellectual Restructuring" saying he now identifies as a queer and has renounced his former racist and ethnonationalist beliefs (although he says he still supports eugenics), distanced himself from Spencer and is now an anti-racist activist, Antifa, pro-Woke and liberal (or libertarian) who supports "open borders", globalisation, freedom of speech and LGBTQ+ rights.https://archive.is/hkK1Ghttps://archive.is/CgxnC He also claims to have given up anti-Semitism for philo-Semitism now describing himself as "one of the world's leading philo-Semites".https://archive.is/OkU56 Karlin must have thought he could fool people with this troll/stunt/grift attempt, but Spencer tried the same thing in 2020Richard Spencer Backs Joe Biden, Says 'MAGA/Alt-Right Moment is Over' by Ewan Palmer, Newsweek, 2020 August 24 — no one really cares about their empty words, the damage is already done to their reputations. Karlin describes himself as a proud shill for "GloboHomo".Intellectual Restructuring (December 31, 2023) Anatoly Karlin (archived from 31 Dec 2023 01:15:34 UTC). He says he is agender.Embracing It/It Identity by Richard Hanania & Anatoly Karlin (Jan 4, 2024) Richard Hanania (archived from March 6, 2024).It/it. I identify as a thing or object.. X. May 30, 2024.
Karlin currently promotes a new far-right technocratic syncretic political philosophy, Elite Human Capital with Richard Hanania influenced by the "tech-right". He was a speaker at Vitalia in 2024.In which he delivered a presentation endorsing dubious ideas about IQ by far-right eugenicists and hereditarians including Bo Winegard, Emil Kirkegaard, Michael Woodley and Russell T. Warne.Anatoly Karlin on the Biosingularity (Mar 27, 2024) YouTube. In November 2024, he incorrectly predicted Kamala Harris would win the US presidential election.https://ehc.zone/p/open-thread-us-election-2024 (screenshot, see also tweet from July 2024) Karlin has a long history of making false predictions.
==Background==
===Place of birth, residences and unemployment===
Karlin was born in Russia in 1988 but moved to live in northern England at the age of six. In the late 2000s he relocated to the US where he lived until October 2016.My American Decade by Anatoly Karlin (November 8, 2016) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024)."Go Back to Russia!" KK by Anatoly Karlin (September 29, 2016) The Unz Review (archived from November 5, 2016). He then moved back to Russia and stayed there until around 2022.https://akarlin.com/travel/ He has claimed "Western values basically turned me into a Russian nationalist."I am a good example of this. Having migrated (well, my family did) at the age of six to the West, I returned to Russia a couple of years ago and am much happier here. Western values basically turned me into a Russian nationalist, LOL. by Anatoly Karlin (c. 2018) Reddit (archived from 16 Jun 2019 15:51:22 UTC). In May 2023, Karlin was living in the Zuzalu "pop-up" city in Montenegro. In January-March 2024, Karlin described himself as a and was temporarily living on Roatán Island, Honduras. He then moved to London in July-August 2024.https://ehc.zone/p/open-takes-1https://archive.is/PBT2k There is no evidence Karlin has ever worked and his travels seem to be financed by his parents who he has described as research scientists.https://web.archive.org/web/20230403143846/https://akarlin.com/about/ In 2017, Karlin described himself as a "NEET" (not in employment, education, or training), admitted to being "lazy", said he had no employment prospects and "appreciated my NEET lyfestyle [sic] (no schedules, wake up whenever I want, etc)".https://archive.is/erbKzhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:SublimeWik&diff=prev&oldid=800735576https://www.unz.com/akarlin/10-ways-usa-better-than-russia/#comment-2135141https://www.unz.com/akarlin/10-ways-usa-better-than-russia/#comment-2136921
===Education and journalism===
Karlin received a BA degree in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored or co-authored a small list of peer-reviewed papers since 2019 in low-tier journals of poor repute (arcane Russian journals, Psych, and Mankind Quarterly)Anatoly Karlin Google Scholar.National Intelligence Is More Important for Explaining Country Well-Being than Time Preference and Other Measured Non-Cognitive Traits by Emil O. W. Kirkegaard & Anatoly Karlin (2020/12/01) Mankind Quarterly 61(2). doi:10.46469/mq.2020.61.2.11. The quality of Psych journal's peer review has been disputed.MDPI and racism by Leonid Schneider (December 29, 2020) For Better Science. 'Furthermore, it is published by which has a history of controversies. Karlin has falsely claimed that his bachelor of arts is a bachelor of science degree.Anatoly Karlin 'Linkedin (archived from 24 Apr 2021 07:40:10 UTC).Anatoly Karlin University of California, Berkeley.Political Economy University of California, Berkeley (archived from September 8, 2015).Couple more things. "He *claims* to have studied Political Economy at UC Berkeley and at one point was also living in UK." Yep, exactly. I went to all the trouble of faking a certificate. (Smudged just in case to prevent ID theft). /31 by @akarlin88 (2:20 PM · Jun 17, 2019) Twitter (archived from April 29, 2021). His own posting about his degree confirms that it is a bachelor of arts. Karlin's lying about the degree that he received would seem to be an attempt at trying to make his research papers look more respectable than they actually are, a feeble attempt at credentialism by trying to make people think that he is qualified in science. Karlin attended the London Conference on Intelligence.Anatoly Karlin at LCI 2019 on The Geography of the Noosphere (2019.05.18) (May 30, 2019) YouTube.
Karlin has questionably described himself as a "journalist".Anatoly Karlin Academia.edu. In February and March 2022 Karlin began describing himself as "Moscow journalist" on his social media profiles.Anatoly Karlin Twitter (archived from 20 Feb 2022 11:33:19 UTC). 
On 8 March 2022, Karlin appeared on a livestream where he was introduced as a "Russian journalist".The Great Decoupling - Dan Cohen with Glenn Diesen and Anatoly Karlin by MintPress News (Mar 8, 2022) on YouTube. The host failed to note Karlin's history of far-right activism.Dan Cohen, which the tankies in DSA IC use as a source, is having Anatoly Karlin as a guest to discuss Russia/Ukraine. Who is Anatoly Karlin? A Russian white nationalist https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anatoly_Karlin … You can’t make this shit up https://twitter.com/investigadorap/status/ by Beware of the Chicken Soup @InvestigadoraP (9:03 PM - 8 Mar 2022) Twitter (archived from March 9, 2022).
===Online publications===
====Sputnik & Pogrom====
Karlin wrote an article for the Russian ultranationalist website Sputnik & Pogrom:
The article is titled "Russian Noosphere: A Large-Scale Survey of IQ Levels by Regions of Russia".https://archive.is/poTrH
====The Unz Review====
Karlin was a former writer for The Unz Review (from 2015-2021) and published over 2300 articles.Anatoly Karlin The Unz Review (archived from March 29, 2024). His column section was called "The Russian Reaction" and he wrote mostly about HBD, intelligence research, demography and Russian politics. In October 2021, Karlin relocated his blog to Substack named Powerful Takes,Powerful Takes Substack (archived from October 10, 2021). renamed Nooceleration in 2023Nooceleration Substack (archived from October 12, 2023). and EHC/Elite Human Capital in 2024.https://ehc.zone/
In October 2021, he wrote his final article on The Unz Review titled "The Last Reaction".The Last Reaction by Anatoly Karlin (October 8, 2021). Karlin continued commenting on the website under his name up to December 2023. He has ~9700 comments.Anatoly Karlin Comments The Unz Review (archived from April 2, 2024).
Some of Karlin's articles are trolling, drivel, clickbait nonsense, and pander to the alt-right. Examples include titles such as: "Negrolatry, #BlackLivesMatter and the West’s New Religion," "White Antifragility: Wokeism as White Supremacism," "Mussolini Did Nothing Wrong," and "Is Haiti a Shithole?".https://www.unz.com/akarlin/negrolatry/https://www.unz.com/akarlin/white-antifragility/https://www.unz.com/akarlin/mussolini-did-nothing-wrong/https://www.unz.com/akarlin/is-haiti-a-shithole/ He also wrote an article defending Emil Kirkegaard, an activist for legalising child pornography.SJWs Attack UCL Neo-Nazi Cabal by Anatoly Karlin (January 11, 2018) The Unz Review (archived from January 2, 2020).
==Climate change denial==
Karlin is a climate change denier, specifically an impact denialist who despite recognising anthropogenic global warming denies it has a net-negative impact and argues it is is a good thing and beneficial to the environment.One more reason (if indeed any are still needed) why global warming is good and we need Tropical Hyperborea. by @akarlin88 (1:26 PM - 30 Aug 2017) Twitter (archived from 22 Mar 2020 18:44:25 UTC).https://archive.is/2xj44https://archive.is/BRkE1 He subsequently claims he supports global warmingGlobal warming will make Russia into Tropical Hyperborea. All Russian patriots must support global warming.}} by @akarlin88 (3:21 AM · Jul 11, 2017) Twitter (archived from 24 Apr 2021 19:32:48 UTC). and wants to increase all greenhouse gas emissions including carbon.Have more children, more CO2, more global warming, faster immamentization of Tropical Hyperborea. by @akarlin88 (7:19 PM · Jul 13, 2017) Twitter (archived from 24 Apr 2021 19:45:06 UTC). Karlin therefore rejects the scientific consensus on climate change and disregards the negative effects of global warming that massively outweigh positives.Positives and negatives of global warming by G. P. Wayne (Last updated on 5 July 2015) Skeptical Science. He denies there is a climate emergency.https://archive.is/7hENs In 2020, he argued "global warming will be extremely good for Russia"Tweet by @akarlin88 (2:30 AM - 4 Mar 2020) Twitter (archived from 4 Mar 2020 10:30:55 UTC). and opposes Tweet by @akarlin88 (3:15 PM - 9 Sep 2019) Twitter (archived from September 25, 2019). In 2024, Karlin doubled down on his impact denialism saying: "Moderate global warming will probably be globally net good."https://archive.is/EGACK Karlin has repeatedly claimed climate change is not an "X [life] risk".https://archive.is/SEDaEhttps://archive.is/e9YxV He appears to be oblivious to the fact climate change currently affects at least 10,967 species on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species and the (Melomys rubicola) was the first mammal to have gone extinct as a direct result of anthropogenic global warming.https://iucn.org/resources/issues-brief/species-and-climate-changehttps://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2016/06/barrier-reef-rodent-first-mammal-declared-extinct-due-climate-change
===Tropical Hyperborea===
In an article titled "Tropical Hyperborea Cometh" Karlin outlines his bizarre reasons why he thinks global warming is good for Russia:
These claims are easy to refute:
* While some northern regions in Russia could theoretically see their agricultural productivity improve with increased carbon emissions than south, "any gains in agricultural productivity farther north could be offset by drought and wildfire in southern and western Russia and by the effect of melting permafrost on the country’s irrigation patterns, confounding any hopes of increased grain production." Russia and Climate Change: A Looming Threat: Recent rhetoric notwithstanding, there is reason to be skeptical about Moscow’s attitude to climate change. by Quentin Buckholz (February 04, 2016) The Diplomat. 
* The simplistic notion crops will always grow more with extra CO2 is contradicted by a 17-year experiment on California flowers and grasslands.</sub>Future climate change field test doesn’t make Earth greener by Alicia Chang et al. (Published: September 5, 2016 at 3:09 p.m. | Updated: July 27, 2018 at 8:31 a.m.) The Marin Independent Journal. It has also been reported that any increased plant growth will not likely be sustained, and that the increased CO2 also causes decreases in some important nutrients, such as selenium and zinc.Changing climate could worsen foods’ nutrition: Evidence builds for lessening of certain micronutrients, protein in plants by Susan Milius (3:07pm, March 13, 2017) Science News.
* Warming and thawing of the frozen ground causes problems for infrastructure, such as roads and pipelines.Global warming could happen quicker in Russia's coldest region by Anna Liesowska (24 February 2015) The Siberian Times.Russia’s Thawing Permafrost May Cost Economy $2.3Bln a Year: Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure isn’t ready for rising temperatures and melting ice. by Yuliya Fedorinova & Olga Tanas (Oct. 18, 2019) The Moscow Times.
* Forest fires and flash floods have already ravaged swathes of Siberia because of climate change.
* Melting of permafrost in Russia's north could alter river flow patterns to create water shortages.
* As the permafrost in northern Russia retreats and sea levels rise, the country is reportedly losing 468 square kilometers to erosion every year resulting in destruction of coastal communities. 
* The idea that polar-melting will be good for commercial shipping overlooks increased mobile hazards such as icebergs.
Karlin seems to not care that polar melting is detrimental to wildlife such as loss of polar-bear habitat; glacier retreat also increases the risk of reductions in seasonal freshwater availability to indigenous circumpolar peoplesIt's time to listen to the Inuit on climate change: Because temperatures in the Arctic are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, we must look to the experiences of Inuit as a harbinger of what is to come — and seek their guidance on how to live sustainably by Sheila Watt-Cloutier (November 15, 2018) Canadian Geographic. and melting of permafrost negatively affects them in many other ways.Russian Land of Permafrost and Mammoths Is Thawing: Global warming is shrinking the permanently frozen ground across Siberia, disrupting everyday life in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth. by Neil MacFarquhar (Aug. 4, 2019) The New York Times.
===Denying the denial===
In December 2023, Karlin on his blog denied being a climate change denier,https://archive.is/zVusAhttps://archive.is/cgtlR despite he demonstrably is. The reason he denies he is a climate change denier is because he excludes impact denial from what climate change denial covers and restricts it to trend denial and attribution denial. These three variants are explained on Wikipedia's article and by Björnberg et al.(2017):
Amusingly, in the same article he denies being a climate change denier he confirms he is one, since he admits:
==Animal cognitive ethics==
In 2019, Karlin published an article "The Cognitive Chain of Being: A New Approach to Animal Rights" saying he supports the reduction of suffering based on how many neurons animals possess and argues brain size is a good proxy for intelligence to determine sentience.The Cognitive Chain of Being: A New Approach to Animal Rights by Anatoly Karlin (February 28, 2019) The Unz Review (archived from 5 Apr 2019 00:11:22 UTC). While recognising pain in all animals in the sense of as a reflex action — Karlin's argues only animals with higher cognitive ability experience suffering and pain as a subjective "feeling". He therefore justifies eating almost all animals with the exception of pigs who are known to be the 5th smartest animalhttps://sentientmedia.org/pig-intelligence/ (and a few other animals including dogs, dolphins and elephants). Karlin's argument relies on an earlier essay by Brian Tomasikhttps://reducing-suffering.org/is-brain-size-morally-relevant/ and has elsewhere been discussed on the Effective Altruism Forum. There are a number of issues with Karlin's argument. Firstly, while brain size usually increases with body size in animals (is positively correlated), the relationship is not linear. Secondly, neuron counts are far from perfect predictors of information-processing capacity or intelligence; brains depend on many other factors such as the distance between neurons (shorter distance allow faster communication), conduction velocity of neurons and refractory period (how much time must elapse before a given neuron can fire again).https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19922859/Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight. Thirdly, Karlin's claim animals only feel pain and suffer if they have high cognitive capacity is unsubstantiated. There is no evidence additional neurons result in “more consciousness” or a higher level of sentience. Fourthly, Karlin's ethical argument is to associate greater intelligence with greater moral weight but this does not make sense if even applied to humans e.g., most children score lower on IQ tests than adults. This would mean Karlin's "cognitive chain" prioritises addressing the suffering of adults over children.
In 2023, Karlin disturbingly stated he has no ethical objection to killing certain animals for entertainment ("laughing watching them die in comical ways") if they have a low amount of neurons.Tweet. September 8, 2023. In August 2024, he argued killing shrimps for amusement is justifiable based on the fact they have only "30,000 neurons; 10x less than an ant."https://archive.is/WUlH8 Karlin has written he believes in eating the "dumbest animals" including fish and crustaceans and instead focuses on the animal welfare and rights of higher intelligence animals namely pigs which he questionably believes have the "most capacity to suffer".https://archive.is/4saU9https://archive.is/YkGEC Tweet, June 14 2023. Karlin says that he considers cattle to be much less intelligent than pigs and therefore eats beef (including beef brothBeef broth - great. Beef broth with apple cider vineger - awesome. Beef broth with apple cider vineger and Kerrygold butter - heavenly. by Anatoly Karlin (7:00 PM · Oct 8, 2013) Twitter (archived from 14 Jan 2024 19:50:36 UTC).) and has no problem with eating lobster, mutton, lamb and horsemeat.https://archive.ph/t0fIOhttps://archive.is/urpNchttps://archive.is/DdUKJNo/yes. Pleasure and benefits from fish, chicken, maybe beef but not pork outweigh the suffering involved, adjusting for each one's capacity for conscious experience. Moreover, I consider my own pleasure and benefits to be considerably more important than those of other humans. by Anatoly Karlin (12:00 AM · Dec 6, 2022) Twitter (archived from 11 Jan 2023 15:52:06 UTC). Karlin has stated he believes crustaceans are non-sentient or have a sentience level which is "very simple" and has "negligible value"https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1535406346832695303https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1809752202602279341 and therefore weighs crustacean suffering extremely low to nil. He ignores recent research on crustacean sentience including a systematic review by Birch et al. (2021) which argues there is strong evidence of sentience in crabs (infraorder Brachyura) and also substantial evidence of sentience in astacid lobsters/crayfish (infraorder Astacidea) meaning that these animals are capable of
experiencing pain and suffering.Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans. Karlin does not care about reducing the suffering of insects because of their low neuron count which he claims justifies killing flies.https://archive.is/0uMqw He supports insect farming and personally eats insects () including frozen crickets.I was eating bugs before it was "cool" and woke (ordered freeze dried crickets from Amazon & experimented with various recipes a few times). Now a onetime eccentrism has been ruined and annulled by virtue signaling Western psychopaths like everything else. by Anatoly Karlin (9:08 PM · Aug 23, 2019) Twitter (archived from 24 Jan 2023 13:02:49 UTC) He also has written there are "Many good insect dishes."https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1096811553234530304 As with crustacean sentience, Karlin seems ignorant of research on insect sentience. In 2022, a major study argued adult Diptera (flies and mosquitoes) and Blattodea (cockroaches and termites) show "strong evidence for pain".Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence. Furthermore, mainstream research on bees despite their small number of neurons, has found bees to be able to display sophisticated cognitive skills including cognitive flexibility, cross-modal recognition of objects, and play behavior.https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aag2360https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay8064https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347222002366
===Anti-veganism===
Karlin has long criticised veganism including trolling vegans on Reddit and Twitter in comments dated 2019-2020:
In June 2023, Karlin claimed vegans are mostly mentally ill and irrational:
Elsewhere he has claimed "veganism is associated with mental illness."Open Thread 99.5: The Brexit Thread: Comment #45 by Anatoly Karlin (February 8, 2020 at 11:34 pm GMT) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024). What Karlin failed to mention is that the paper he referenced was a small study (only 54 vegetarians) which concluded, "there was no evidence for a causal role of vegetarian diet in the etiology of mental disorders."1479-5868-9-67.pdf Vegetarian diet and mental disorders: results from a representative community survey by Johannes Michalak et al. (2012) International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 9:67. doi:10.1186/1479-5868-9-67. Karlin has also claimed that veganism/vegetarianism "depresses IQ."But vegetarianism makes one weak & depresses IQ (a balanced veg. diet is theoretically possible, but v. difficult to achieve). by @akarlin88 (3:53 AM - 20 Dec 2012) Twitter (archived from 29 Apr 2020 16:26:52 UTC). There is no reliable evidence for this and one study has shown "children with greater intelligence are more likely to report being vegetarian as adults."High IQ Link to Being Vegetarian.You may turn vegetarian if you have higher IQ. Karlin supports flawed health studies that are funded by the beef industry,Nutritionists wrong again (as they were with salt, eggs, and pretty much everything else)... Who could have imagined? by Anatoly Karlin (11:24 AM · Oct 1, 2019) Twitter (archived from 11 Jan 2023 15:48:00 UTC). for example he approvingly cited research from Bradley C. Johnston who authored discredited studies on red meat and failed to disclose his food industry ties.Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice. by Gina Kolata (Sept. 30, 2019, 5:00 p.m. ET) The New York Times.Scientist Who Discredited Meat Guidelines Didn’t Report Past Food Industry Ties by Tara Parker-Pope and Anahad O’Connor (Oct. 4, 2019, 1:24 p.m. ET) The New York Times (archived from 4 Oct 2019 17:30:40 UTC).Researcher promoting red meat, sugar failed to disclose industry ties—again by Beth Mole (1/7/2020, 3:50 PM) Ars Technica.
==Sexual controversies==
Karlin is known to have made controversial and offensive tweets/blog posts on bestiality, pedophilia, sexual attraction to minors, and rape.
===Bestiality===
In August 2023, Karlin made a tweet while responding to Zooey Dot Pub (a zoophilia advocacy magazine):
In the following months, Karlin suggested that artificial intelligence will justify and legalise bestiality in the near future:
Karlin has stated that there should be more of a discussion on the "zoophilia question", remarking "It's a conversation we should be starting to have now."https://archive.is/AHDvL
===Rape-apologetics===
Karlin in a 2013 blog post defended what he calls "pseudo-rapists" as men who commit rape when drunk and has preposterously argued more than 25% of convicted rapists in the US are innocent:
The idea at least 25% of male convicted rapists are innocent in the US is not supported by any study. While a 2017 study found "wrongful convictions in cases with a sexual assault component occurred at a rate of 11.6 percent"; this was based on cases from the 1970s and 1980s predating modern DNA-testing.Estimating the Prevalence of Wrongful Convictions by Kelly Walsh et al. (September 2017) National Criminal Justice Service.Study Finds Wrongful Convictions in 11.6 Percent of Sexual Assault Cases from Pre-DNA Testing Era (September 4, 2018) Prison Legal News. In another provocative article on rape titled "Fraud of America's "Rape Culture", Karlin says "I think that the higher-end (i.e. 25%+) estimates for false rape accusations, far from being the products of MRM chauvinist hysteria, are in fact the most credible ones today."The Fraud of America's "Rape Culture" by Anatoly Karlin (April 5, 2013) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024).
In 2019, Karlin defended Brett Kavanaugh and adjudicated rapistJudge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll by Aaron Blake (July 19, 2023) The Washington Post. Donald Trump from sexual assault allegations. In an article titled "Is Brett Kavanaugh a Rapist?", Karlin claims "Kavanaugh almost certainly raped nothing except SJW feelz" and describes the rape allegations against Kavanaugh as a "witch hunt".Is Brett Kavanaugh a Rapist? by Anatoly Karlin (October 4, 2018) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024). He defended Julian Assange from rape allegations and claims they were made up.https://www.unz.com/akarlin/wikileaks-as-western-mirror/#comment-829551
He has been described as an "original incel theorist".So cool today to see Ross Douthat’s piece where he not only quotes Macaes but also Anatoly Karlin, both who have blocked me - Karlin 10 yrs ago after defending male mass shooters because women don’t want to be their girlfriends and that makes them mad. Original Incel theorist. by Ani Wandaryan @GoldenTent (9:46 PM - 27 Feb 2022) Twitter (archived from February 28, 2022).
===Sexual attraction to 14 year olds===
In a creepy tweet made in 2014 when in his late 20s, Karlin posted that he found 's daughters, at the time who were only 14, to be "quite hot":
The tweet was commented on at the time by various people who found it disturbing:
In 2021, Karlin (then 33 years old) defended his attraction to minors by bizarrely quoting a comment Trump made about his daughter Ivanka when she was 16:
===Homosexuality and pedophilia===
Despite his own comments on being attracted to minors, Karlin in 2013 wrote a blog post arguing there is a link between homosexuality and pedophilia:
This is an old homophobic canard which is not supported by reliable data.https://lgbpsychology.org/html/facts_molestation.htmlSee also the Wikipedia article for more sources.https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fetishes-i-dont-get/201102/do-gay-men-have-more-sexual-interest-in-children Karlin has a history of homophobic comments.Well, if this article that is cited is to believed, homophobia is a natural part of the human condition. You could try doing a replication study to prove it wrong. But in any case, I don't see what you're so crazy about, anyway. While I may be a homophobe (actually it's more accurate to say I don't care about gays one way or the other), I do think Poland will get gay marriage within a decade. So that should make you happy. by akarlin (2019) Reddit (archived from 16 Jun 2019 15:18:59 UTC).LGBT Anatoly Karlin (archived from January 28, 2021). In 2023, Karlin suddenly claimed to have changed his view of homosexuals, remarking: "I now strongly support support LGBTQ+ maximalism, including gay marriage.https://archive.is/zVusA He appears to have also retracted his attempt of linking homosexuality to pedophilia. In January 2024,Embracing It/It Identity by Richard Hanania & Anatoly Karlin (Jan 4, 2024) Richard Hanania (archived from March 6, 2024). he began identifying as a queer and later said: "I do identify as queer but sadly I am not gay, though I'd love to have been, since it's very prestigious."https://archive.is/twG5P
==Politics==
In the early 2010s, Karlin identified as "liberal-conservative" and voted for the UK Conservative Party in the 2010 General Election.https://archive.is/kJNythttps://archive.is/s3kaV In 2012, he described himself as a "pro-Putin conservative"About (2015) Da Russophile (archived from 12 Oct 2015 22:30:22 UTC). and contributed to the book Putin's New Russia.'Putin's New Russia, edited by Jon Hellevig & Alexandre Latsa (2012) Kontinent USA. ISBN 9780988313705. At this time he took interest in the UK Conservative Friends of Russia group.https://archive.is/umEIF By 2013, he had stopped supporting the UK Conservatives for their policy on legalising gay marriage which he opposed. This later led him to support the United Kingdom Independence Party who he voted for in the 2015 General ElectionUKIP it is. by Anatoly Karlin (4:04 PM · May 1, 2015) Twitter. (despite living in the US at the time, as a British citizen living overseas, Karlin could register to vote in UK parliamentary elections). Karlin also interviewed UKIP candidate Matthew Atkins for the constituency on The Unz Review and said: "UKIP is the British party that is closest to my own positions".Interview with UKIP Candidate Matthew Atkins by Anatoly Karlin (May 6, 2015) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024).https://archive.is/uDCjV However, Karlin would go on to criticise Nigel Farage (leader of UKIP) for softening his view on gay marriage.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150706061900/https://www.unz.com/akarlin/2015/05/ 
Interview with UKIP Candidate Matthew Atkins] by Anatoly Karlin (May 6, 2015) The Unz Review (archived from July 6, 2015).Nigel Farage to change Ukip position on gay marriage and risk alienating traditional voters by Owen Bennett (11:30, 28 Feb 2015; Updated11:31, 28 Feb 2015) Mirror. In 2015, Karlin's politics increasingly became radical right and he began to support Marine Le Pen in France and Donald Trump in the US (see below).The "Normalization" of Russia's Demographics: Comment #36 by Anatoly Karlin (January 13, 2015 at 3:25 am GMT) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024). In May 2017, Karlin wrote an article supporting Le Pen's Front National primarily because their anti-immigration policies. /Ourgal/ Comes Apart by Anatoly Karlin (May 7, 2017) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024). By 2018, Karlin was attending far-right political demonstrations including an anti-Islam March in London organised by the Democratic Football Lads Alliance, UKIP and For Britain (a British National Party splinter group) and praised a speech by Anne Marie Waters.
The Absolute State of British Nationalism by Anatoly Karlin (May 15, 2018) The Unz Review (archived from December 2, 2019). In 2019, he said he attended a private meeting "of Brexiteers and nationalists."https://www.unz.com/akarlin/england-2019/#comment-3351212 Between 2019 and 2022, Karlin supported explicitly far-right and ethnonationalist political parties and candidates including Helmuth Nyborg of the Danish https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-78/#comment-3255290 (whose policy is deportation of all Muslims) and (an extreme-right candidate in the 2022 French presidential election).When asked: Karlin responded: Tweet (Feb 3, 2022). In December 2023, Karlin erratically said he was no longer supporting right-wing politics and self-described politically as "left-liberal” and "cypherpunk-anarchic".https://archive.is/cgtlR He now claims "right-wing ideology is epistemically bankrupt" and a "biomass of dumb seething losers."https://archive.is/2J83j
===Trump and MAGA===
In December 2015, Karlin wrote his first article complimenting Trump.Trump Is Factually Right on Putin and Journalists by Anatoly Karlin (December 20, 2015) The Unz Review (archived from February 26, 2024). In November 2016, Karlin described himself as a "Trump supporter":
Karlin supported Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.Trump Train Converges to c by Anatoly Karlin (November 9, 2016) The Unz Review (archived from December 7, 2020).Why Trump needs to win: Do you really want the trolling to stop? Princeton: "We are so sorry for our systematic racism that continues to hold down POC." DoE: "Really?" by @akarlin88 (10:57 AM - 1 Nov 2020) Twitter (archived from December 23, 2020). In 2016 he walked around UC Berkeley with a MAGA hat to "trigger" what he called "shitlibs."Doing my small bit to help make America great again - walking with this hat through Berkeley to trigger shitlibs. by @akarlin88 (9:29 PM - 1 Mar 2016) Twitter (archived from 22 Aug 2020 14:22:19 UTC). In 2020, Karlin endorsed Trump on the basis he disliked the "neo-lib" Joe Biden and supported Trump's opposition to "SJWism" and political correctness.HABBENING: US Elections 2020 by Anatoly Karlin (November 3, 2020) The Unz Review (archived from December 24, 2020). In July 2021, Karlin began to describe MAGA as "tired grifters" and instead made one tweet favouring extremist Nick Fuentes:
In 2023, Karlin had done a 180-degrees turn to become staunchly anti-Trump, describing Trump as a "threat to democracy"https://archive.is/7OXl1 and a "tired conman".https://archive.is/hWeKF
===Liberal Democratic Party of Russia===
From 2016 to 2020, Karlin was a supporter and voter of the Russian ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (despite having "liberal" in their name they are not remotely liberal but right-wing populist) and formerly described the LDPR as "my party".I see no reason I should care about the Balts, apart from trolling them. Zhirinovsky is great at that. The LDPR is my party by Anatoly Karlin (2018) Reddit (archived from 17 Jun 2019 02:22:49 UTC). In September 2016, he described himself as a LDPR voter.Notes on Russia's 2016 Duma Elections by Anatoly Karlin (September 21, 2016) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024). He voted for in the 2018 Russian presidential election.https://archive.is/PvdPtAn Analysis of Zhirinovsky's Program by Anatoly Karlin (November 28, 2017) The Unz Review (archived from November 9, 2020). In June 2019, Karlin attended a picnic sponsored by the LDPR.https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1149984559553011714 He further attended a protest by the party outside the US Embassy in Moscow.https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1511659213487022081 Karlin has stated his main political goals in Russia are LDPR's policies which include "Russian nationalism", "An end to mass immigration from Central Asia", "no more prosecutions for hate speech", and seizing formerly-Russian lands, "Belorussia, North Kazakhstan, Novorossiya, and Malorossiya".Russian Nationalism 101 by Anatoly Karlin (April 11, 2017) The Unz Review (archived from January 15, 2021). In September 2021, Karlin argued that the LDRP were made redundant after Putin had taken a "nationalist turn":Russia's Nationalist Turn: How Putin Created the Russian National State by Anatoly Karlin (September 28, 2021) The Unz Review (archived from September 28, 2021).https://archive.is/1NJiJ
Despite voting for the pro-Putin United Russia party in the 2021 Russian legislative election,https://www.unz.com/ishamir/putins-disappearing-act/#comment-4924723 and praising Putin throughout 2022 (e.g., writing "Putin will be hailed as one of Russia’s greatest leaders"https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-186-russia-ukraine/#comment-5313091) in January 2023, Karlin abruptly said he was no longer a fan of Putin saying "I want to be rid of him and everyone associated with him as soon as the war is over".As I said from the start I don't think Putin long survives a lost war, I mean what does it say that even I want to be rid of him and everyone associated with him as soon as the war is over. by Anatoly Karlin (2:26 PM · Jan 9, 2023) Twitter (archived from January 11, 2023). By the end of that year, Karlin said he had stopped supporting "Russian nationalism" and criticised the LDPR describing its voters as "poorly educated".https://akarlin.com/the-z-of-history/
===Socialist Party and Antifa===
In November 2023, Karlin retweeted the hashtag #PalestinianLivesMatter and attended a left-wing pro-Palestine demonstration in London with members of the .https://archive.is/0NTh0 The following month he claimed to have renounced his "rightoid" political views and now identified as a liberal.https://akarlin.com/intellectual-restructuring/https://akarlin.com/soypill-manifesto/https://akarlin.com/jail-for-rightoids/ In August 2024, he described himself as an "Antifa" on his social media and said he supported "open borders", "free market economics", "queerness" and anti-fascism.https://archive.is/CgxnChttps://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1822081041437229443 Karlin changed his userbox on X to describe himself as an "Anarcho-lib".https://archive.is/dEYDI He also identifies as a libertarian remarking: "I have converged to unironic libertarianism."https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1773451895824060911 He voted for the center-left Liberal Democrats party in the UK 2024 general election.https://ehc.zone/p/open-takes-1https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1803527758548545596 Karlin's appearance at a pro-Palestine protest is not out of the ordinary in light of the fact other far-right and anti-Islam political activists (e.g., Lucas Gage) in October-November 2023 (during the onset of the ) came out in support of Palestine, with one article in Rolling Stone noting this was their "prime opportunity for a cynical rebrand" as well as for "clout and cash"Verified Hate Speech Accounts Are Pivoting to Palestine for Clout and Cash (to put it bluntly, grifting).
===Kamala Harris===
In July 2024, Karlin said he favoured Kamala Harris over Trump in the 2024 US presidential election and predicated she would win.https://ehc.zone/p/why-i-think-kamala-wins He has made pro-Harris tweets.https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1826623005445030389https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1825704363823907040 In October 2024, Karlin endorsed Harrishttps://archive.is/9cdsE but a week later began saying he supports right-wing economics and "the left is so economically destructive,"https://archive.is/URUUc almost coming out in support of Donald Trump again (who he endorsed in 2016 and 2020), writing: "A Trump win might well be better for me."https://archive.is/1gIjQ The following month, he endorsed Harris while criticising Trump in a cringe-video he uploaded to YouTube with only ~100 views.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzCckdb5ECc
==Views and ideology==
The Voice of America's fact-checking website, describes him as a "white nationalist blogger".Russian State TV Calls Video Game Metro Exodus "Russophobic" by William Echols (February 21, 2019) Polygraph.info. Although, Karlin in 2023 claims to have renounced his nationalist ideology.
An article published in 2020 about columnists for The Unz Review summarises Karlin's crank magnetism and racist views:
The University Times, in 2019, described Anatoly Karlin as follows:
===Eugenics and infanticide===
In April 2017, Karlin said he was promoting eugenics among the alt-right:
He has described himself as an "outspoken eugenicist"https://archive.is/2Ggh7 who promotes reproductive technologies, genetic editing and polygenic embryo screeninghttps://archive.is/Z6W1U for "genetic enhancement" to modify humans to make them more healthy and intelligent.What is wrong about modifying your population to be healthier and more intelligent? Judeo-Christian fundamentalists and SJWs (two sides of the same coin really) are not likely to not allow it in the West, enabling China to outcompete it. by akarlin (c. 2019) Reddit (archived from 28 Apr 2021 06:59:39 UTC).}} Karlin has further stated his "main focus" is "how we can raise intelligence for everyone to the maximum extent possible (e.g. via embryo selection or genetic editing for IQ)."https://archive.is/3F8VY In 2024, he published a blog post supporting "genomic enhancement for intelligence, cyborgism, psychonautics".https://ehc.zone/p/nooceleration-a-better-world-is-possible Although Karlin claims to only support voluntary eugenics (not coercive) and uses euphemisms such as "genetic enhancement" and "intelligence enhancement" he has a more sinister eugenics agenda including the killing of infants and children with disabilities (e.g., Down syndromehttps://web.archive.org/web/20240306003404/https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-222/) and has made highly offensive ableist postings disparaging people with Down syndrome.
In November 2015, Karlin described his views as in line with the alt-right, white nationalism and the Generation Identity movement to increase fertility rates while "raising IQs" by genetic editing and adopting "transhuman" (reprotech) technologies or radical life extension to "preserve white majorities in Europe": 
In 2016, Karlin sympathised with "pro-natality campaigns" that are "pro-White/pro-eugenic".Comment by Anatoly Karlin. The Unz Review. 24 July 2016. In 2018, Karlin suggested genetic editing in developed countries to increase fertility rates among "breeders as a percentage of the population".Anatoly Karlin comment. Unz.com. In November 2019, Karlin presented a eugenics talk in Moscow, "How to prevent Idiocracy: why is our intelligence falling, what will be the consequences, and how can this still be prevented?".https://knizhnaya-lavka-listva.timepad.ru/event/1118929/ In March 2024, Karlin set up the blog Sophia DAO to "accelerate human intelligence enhancement" and promotes eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly's book Creating Future People,https://sophia.bio/p/welcome-to-sophia-dao having also adopted aspects of Anomaly's "techno traditionalism". In October 2024, Karlin was supporting the biotech-eugenics company PolygenX.Tweet. X. 19 October 2024. The company was co-founded by Anomaly and has ties to neo-Nazi Martin Sellner. The company claims to have "developed a way for parents pursuing IVF treatment to analyse the genetic data of their embryos and identify which of them will have the highest IQ."The Superbaby Factory: Exposing the secretive company predicting the IQ of wealthy, elite offspring by Harry Shukman & Patrik Hermansson (Oct. 18, 2024) Hope Not Hate.
===Pro-natalism===
Karlin identifies as a pro-natalist who wants a TFR of 2.5 for Russia:
He supports human to massively increase the population of Russia theorising that artificial wombs could increase "10 million children per year".https://archive.is/oYsoy
In 2024, Karlin said he supported in vitro fertilization.https://archive.is/X0hCLhttps://archive.is/SCbzX
===Overpopulation denial===
Karlin has argued that human carrying capacity is 100 billionAOMI IV: What Is the Maximum Population Earth Can Support? by Anatoly Karlin (January 30, 2019) The Unz Review (archived from 22 Mar 2021 23:02:19 UTC). — a fringe view supported by very few population ecologists and demographers.Van Den Bergh & Rietveld (2004) performed a meta-analysis of 94 academic studies of human carrying capacity estimates and found only 11 (12%) are 100 billion or more. In contrast, 50 (53%) are under 10 billion and the median is 7.7 billion, while 2 to 3 billion is modal; see Reconsidering the Limits to World Population: Meta-analysis and Meta-prediction by Jeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh & Piet Rietveld (2004) BioScience 54(3):195–204; similar figures were calculated in a 1995 study that showed the median was between 7-12 billion, see Population growth and earth’s human carrying capacity by J. E. Cohen (1995) Science 269(5222):341-346 Although estimates widely vary for carrying capacity, most scientists agree that human carrying capacity has either already been reached or will be by 2050. Karlin, however, disagrees the human species is overpopulated now or will be in the near future.
Karlin's overpopulation denial seems to stem from his commitment to pro-natalism and increasing the population of Russia to compete with China, the US and India:
Karlin has written, "Hopefully 2019 will mark a final turnaround in the fertility collapse" in RussiaRussian Demographics in 2019 by Anatoly Karlin (Feb 16, 2019 - 2:01:17 PM) OCnus.Net (archived from August 14, 2020). and has supported methods to increase Russia's population.RWA #4: Talking Demographics with Anatoly Karlin. YouTube. Timestamp: 20:55-30:34 "Pronatalism and its future". Russian Demographics in 2019 by Anatoly Karlin. The Unz Review. February 14, 2019.
===White sharia and the alt-right===
In 2016-2017, Karlin said he "occasionally checked in" on the neo-Nazi The Daily Stormer and even described Andrew Anglin as "very talented".https://www.unz.com/runz/why-the-american-conservative-purged-its-own-publisher/?showcomments#comment-2350648 He advertised and reprinted one article from Altright.com at The Unz Review.https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-22/#comment-1965480https://www.unz.com/akarlin/cville-war/#comment-1967495 Around this time, Karlin supported Anglin's patriarchal and misogynistic :
In November 2016, Karlin endorsed the white supremacist Richard Spencer.I endorse Richard Spencer. He started no wars and provoked no riots — much less "extremist" than Ziocons or BLM. by @akarlin88 (9:46 PM - 25 Nov 2016) Twitter (archived from 22 Aug 2020 14:08:07 UTC). He was influenced by Spencer's concept of an white ethno-state, although since Karlin is Russian, Karlin instead advocated for a Russian ethno-state. In 2020, when asked who he would allow into his "desired Russian ethno-state" he said:@akarlin88 What percentage Russian/East Slavic ancestry would be enough to qualify for entry into your desired Russian ethno-state? Also, what about Western Slavs such as Poles, Czechs, and Slovaks? by @Go321D (2:50 PM - 22 Jun 2020) Twitter (archived from 23 Apr 2021 21:03:25 UTC).
In May 2016, Karlin attended with Spencer and Identity Evropa activists a white nationalist "Safe Space for Europeans" demonstration at UC Berkeley. On the same day, he shared a podium with Spencer at a conference he described as an "alt-right meet up" in which he used homophobic language and described the alt-right as "common sense".
The event at UC Berkeley was filmed by Red Ice Creations and Karlin briefly appears on camera.https://archive.is/ysPLW At one point in the video Karlin is described as "one of our guys" by the neo-Nazi Henrik Palmgren. An article covering the demonstration in The Tab describes Karlin as a "supporter of white nationalism".I went looking for Trump supporters and I found white supremacists by Emma Barton (May 7, 2016) The Tab (archived from May 10, 2016) 
In 2017, Karlin set up what he described as an "alt-right Russian podcast". Text and Talk: Comment #4 by Anatoly Karlin (April 26, 2018 at 10:07 pm GMT) The Unz Review (archived from August 29, 2018). The podcast was named ROGRP.Russian Nationalism 101 by Anatoly Karlin (April 11, 2017) The Unz Review (archived from December 6, 2020).The last website screenshots prior to deletion date to May 2018. ROGPR (archived from May 3, 2018). In 2020, Karlin stated he was trying to "help introduce the Alt Right to Russian nationalists, and vice versa" as well as promote "HBD" to counter against the "blank-slate legacy".Russian Nationalism 101 by Anatoly Karlin (April 11, 2017) The Unz Review (archived from December 6, 2020). 
Despite not using the label alt-right he said he agreed with 70% of the ideology:
Karlin has described Paul Nehlen as the "most intelligent alt-right politician."Is this guy the most intelligent Alt Right politician or what? Actually addressing real problems, while President Stable Genius tries to get books about himself banned. by @akarlin88 (9:57 AM - 11 Jan 2018) Twitter] (archived from 3 Feb 2018 02:45:09 UTC). He is also a fan of Gregory Hood (of Counter-Currents) and Jared Taylor:
In October 2018, Karlin described the alt-right as "dead".Richard Spencer in Divorce Proceedings with His Dugin Translator Wife: Comment #4 by Anatoly Karlin (October 24, 2018) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024). By 2022, he was criticising the remnants of the alt-right and drew criticism from Groypers. Anatoly Karlin is a pathetic figure: now obsessed with gaining official respectability and distancing himself from "rightoids" who believe in the same things he used to. Almost identical arc to Richard Spencer: men chasing approval and eaten alive by resentment! by Occidentalist @Vlasovius (4:21 AM - 13 Mar 2022) Twitter (archived from March 13, 2022).Karlin is just playing along with the rhetoric sadly some of his fellow compatriots have, the man lived in the US for years, got in trouble for certain statements he made in Russian newspapers, and I have it on good authority he's a based racist. We shall see. by VariablesUnknown @FarRightFruit (9:51 AM - 13 Mar 2022) Twitter (archived from March 13, 2022).
====Unite the Right rally====
Karlin in August 2017 supported the neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally (Charlottesville, Virginia).Cville War by Anatoly Karlin (August 13, 2017) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024)
====Denying his involvement with the alt-right====
In 2023, Karlin wrote a dishonest article denying his involvement with the alt-right saying he only had "fleeting" associations, although admitted to "sympathies":
While it is true he never identified as "alt-right",Affirmative Action and the American Mind: If Any: Comment #300 by Anatoly Karlin (June 7, 2018 at 10:26 am GMT) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024). Karlin instead prefers to label himself as alt-left, see About Anatoly Karlin (archived from May 24, 2016) which he described as "Alt Right with fewer swastikas" (Tweet by Anatoly Karlin (1:29 AM · Apr 9, 2016) Twitter (archived from January 11, 2023). this point is moot considering he posted he agreed with 70% of the alt-right, attended an alt-right "meet up", endorsed Richard Spencer, praised alt-right writers, and specifically set up an alt-right podcast. Karlin has gone on to try to whitewash or censor webpages which document his involvement with the alt-right and white nationalist views including filing a misleading libel complaint to Google — to deindex this RationalWiki article.https://lumendatabase.org/notices/41108093 He has also tried to remove the same article including making legal threats, offering money to admins to delete the page and sending emails asking "what would be sufficient for RW to delete my article." Karlin may have filed a DMCA takedown request to remove his photo from The Tab article showing he attended an event with Spencer.Archived copy; note the photos are now removed. In March 2023, Karlin unsuccessfully attempted to remove the sentence "he [Anatoly Karlin] associates with alt-right political activist Richard Spencer" from a Wikipedia article.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Unz_Review&diff=prev&oldid=1213035860https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Unz_Review&action=historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unz_Review#Writers
==Conspiracy theories==
Karlin supports numerous conspiracy theories.
===Great replacement conspiracy theory===
Typical of the alt-right, Karlin promoted from 2016-2022 the Great Replacement and White genocide conspiracy theories including the idea elites have a "population replacement agenda" which he said he was against.Trump's best chance to win in 2020 is if the Dems go into hardcore white genocide mode, so yes, I'm more than ready! by @akarlin88 (10:12 PM - 20 Nov 2018) Twitter (archived from 23 Apr 2021 20:51:45 UTC).The Immigration Trilemma: Liberal decadence; open borders; indigenous ethnic group survival. Choose two. by @akarlin88 (9:03 PM - 18 Sep 2015) Twitter (archived from 23 Apr 2021 20:51:15 UTC).Drugs? Trafficking rings? Terrorist plots? Nope. Just disagreeing with the elite's population replacement agenda. by Anatoly Karlin (9:37 PM · Nov 12, 2015) Twitter (archived from 11 Jan 2023 03:08:21 UTC).Apt illustration. Russian soldiers are fighting so that Russia DOESN'T turn into a "Children of Men" dystopia dedicated to immigration-driven population replacement (i.e. the main allegory of that film which "conservatives" pretend not to notice). by Anatoly Karlin (6:40 AM - 10 Mar 2022) Twitter (archived from March 10, 2022). 
He has described Europe as "Eurabia" based on projections of the Islamic percentage of Europe’s total population.Eurabia Update by Anatoly Karlin (December 1, 2017) The Unz Review (archived from February 20, 2020). In 2023, Karlin admitted on his blog "I did “endorse” the Great Replacement theory" but said he has changed his mind to "consider it a good thing and unironically endorse Far Right conspiracy theories about the Kalergi Plan as a positive model for the entire world."https://akarlin.com/soypill-manifesto/ In 2024, Karlin asked, "what if I explicitly endorsed White Genocide on X? Sure, that's doable. It's actually literally true. If you want a video of making walking through London demanding White Genocide Id be happy to do that."From a leaked email, see here. In April-May 2024, he wrote on social media that he thought "White genocide is good"https://archive.is/8mlTL and "I no longer see the problem with replacement and White genocide."https://archive.is/CBxdS Karlin's claims are unlikely to be sincere and are trolling since while posting he supports "White genocide" he has continued to make posts encouraging White people to reproduce. In August 2024, for example, he wrote that he supports Hungary (a country which is overwhelmingly White and has only 7,200 African immigrants under 0.1% of the populationhttps://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-african-immigrants-hope-for-black-lives-matter-reckoning/) increasing its fertility rate by "Reprotech accelerationism."https://archive.is/6XqSwhttps://archive.is/mT47h
===Conspiratorial antisemitism===
From 2016-2022, Karlin was openly anti-Semitic and promoted conspiratorial anti-Semitism about Zionists controlling "American foreign policy",https://www.unz.com/akarlin/autistic-obsessions/#comment-4673049 and scored himself 7/11 on a scale of anti-Semitism, writing: "I suppose I deserve my “accolades” from the SPLC and RationalWiki after all."Anatoly Karlin: Anti-Semite: Karlin has fun answering a questionnaire. We think he's on to something, and think everyone should answer it. by Anatoly Karlin (Feb 26 2018) Russia Insider (archived from September 29, 2020). In 2018, Karlin controversially published a defence of an anti-Semitic article in the titled "It's Time to Drop the Jew Taboo",It's Time to Drop the Jew Taboo: It's making serious discussion of Russian geopolitics and history next to impossible by Charles Bausman (Jan 15, 2018) Russia Insider (archived from January 15, 2018). arguing the article is "objectively true".Russia Insider Names Jew by Anatoly Karlin (January 16, 2018) The Unz Review (archived from Januyar 18, 2018). The article has been described as "a lengthy anti-Semitic manifesto",Prominent Russian Website Publishes Virulent Anti-semitic Screed. Tablet. 15 January 2018. with even its title being antisemitic ("Russia Insider Names Jew").
In December 2023, Karlin admitted to being previously anti-Semitic but said he changed his view of Jewish people in the opposite direction, "my positions are now entirely philo-Semitic." Article by Anatoly Karlin (December 2023).
===COVID-19 lab leak theory===
Karlin has described conspiracy theories on the COVID-19 lab leak theory as "very plausible".https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1800852737539903853https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1800852102899802543
==Denial of war crimes by Fascist Italy==
Karlin has written posts defending and denying its war crimes.
===Libyan Genocide===
In 2012, Karlin denied or at least downplayed the Libyan genocide by describing the fascist regime in Italy as "largely non-genocidal".https://www.unz.com/akarlin/the-soviet-economy-charting-failure/#comment-836035
==="Mussolini Did Nothing Wrong"===
In March 2019, Karin published a provocative article on The Unz Review praising the fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, arguing that he "did nothing wrong":
Karlin's article seemingly denies war crimes committed by Fascist Italy which was pointed out by comment posters who found the article to be abhorrent:
==White supremacism and racism==
Karlin is an overt white supremacist and virulent racist but self-identifies as a "liberal race realist.Race Denial vs. Racism — A False Dichotomy by Anatoly Karlin (April 13, 2012) The Unz Review (archived from January 31, 2021). 
Karlin has claimed "on the basis of statistics that apartheid wasn’t all that bad for black South Africans probably isn’t racism.".Policy On Racism by Anatoly Karlin (August 20, 2012). Archived from January 16, 2021.
Karlin has described Sargon of Akkad as "based" for using racial slurs such as "'nigger’ and ‘spic'."a now-deleted 2015 video showing him repeatedly using the racial slurs ‘nigger’ and ‘spic’. He described two people as a ‘fag’ and a ‘retard’, and said it was ‘just fucking fine’ to call an Asian woman a ‘chink’." Never would have guessed Sargon was so based. by @akarlin88 (9:19 AM - 5 May 2019) Twitter (archived from 16 Jun 2019 15:42:56 UTC).
Karlin opposes interracial dating and uses the word 'cuck', popularised by the alt-right, to describe Western countries that accept non-white immigrants and refugees.The Cucks of Europe by Anatoly Karlin (September 22, 2015) The Unz Review (archived from January 3, 2020).Incidentally, "Sweden, Yes!" is a great rejoinder to the Culture of Critique folks. Has few/no Jews but still determined to cuck themselves. by @akarlin88 (9:34 PM - 14 Aug 2015) Twitter (archived from 21 Sep 2019 11:58:15 UTC)./pol/ - "Anatoly Karlin is quite based." by @akarlin88 () Twitter (archived from 23 Apr 2021 21:09:50 UTC).
He has deceptively tried to separate himself to "low IQ racists" like Stormfront users and neo-Nazis despite he shares their racist beliefs.Race Denial vs. Racism — A False Dichotomy by Anatoly Karlin (April 13, 2012) The Unz Review (archived from January 31, 2021).
====Denying being a white supremacist====
In 2023, Karlin admitted to posting racism as "ill-advised or inappropriate" comments but denied specifically being a white nationalist/supremacist and has made frivolous legal threats to people who describe him as these terms.https://archive.is/qLeQm His denialI am not a White Nationalist, as I am not an American ethnonationalist, which is the main perspective from which it makes sense. But two important points: 1. The OG Nazis were not WNs - they were Germanic supremacists. Modern WNs and even Neo-Nazis don't tend to fit that bill. by @akarlin88 (16:02 - 20 july. 2019) Twitter (archived from 25 Apr 2021 19:27:45 UTC). of ever being a white nationalist is untenable in light of the fact he once positively retweeted a description of himself as a "supporter of white nationalism".https://archive.is/eYb0O Karlin has used euphemisms because of the stigma attached to the label "white nationalist" including националиста этноцентристаhttps://archive.is/7UK37 (which translates in Russian as "nationalist ethnocentric"). He also identified as an "ethnonationalist" and a "Russian nationalist".https://archive.is/mJrST
The problem with this denial is he was blatantly posting white supremacism, for example, to quote one of his unambiguously racist comments from 2017:
In 2019, Karlin stated he believes "American Blacks" cannot maintain a "modern technical civilization" without "Whites who built America" (if this is not white supremacism, what is?):
In January 2024, a Black man who Karlin has racially harassed onlinehttps://archive.is/nxdzphttps://www.unz.com/akarlin/is-brett-kavanaugh-a-rapist/#comment-2556009https://www.unz.com/akarlin/is-brett-kavanaugh-a-rapist/#comment-2556026 by calling a "spear-chucker", "nigger" and "low IQ Negroid" described Karlin as follows:
Recently, Karlin claims to champion "Anti-Racism" but "without denying HBD/IQ realities."https://archive.is/hkK1GKarlin stated that he had become a "race realist" (a euphemism for racialism) in 2012 and began blogging about HBD-themes since then (see Race Anatoly Karlin (archived from January 30, 2021) and HBD Anatoly Karlin (archived from February 4, 2021). His blog contains posts defending hereditarianism concerning group differences in IQ.Through A Glass Ceiling Darkly: Racial IQ Disparities And The Wealth Of Nations (April 16, 2012) Anatoly Karlin(archived from February 13, 2021). The problem is what he considers "HBD/IQ realities" are not realities at all but dubious beliefs and pseudosciences including hereditarianism and racialism. As of 2024, Karlin still makes racist statements about Black people and relies on Richard Lynn's literature which is white supremacist.https://archive.is/teoLQ In 2017, Karlin stated his favourite books were written by the controversial psychologist J. Philippe Rushton and Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve.My Top 5 Most Influential Books (2017) by Anatoly Karlin (June 20, 2017) The Unz Review (archived from January 3, 2020). He continues to defend and praise those same authors so the leopard has not changed his spots.https://archive.is/nccHf Karlin listed his main influence as Rushton's he claims "is still, perhaps, the book about the validity of HBD theory… this book raised my confidence in the HBD view of reality from “likely” to “almost certain.” This book, however, is widely regarded by psychologists and anthropologists to be racist pseudoscience. Oysters, rabbits and people: A critique of "Race differences in behaviour" by J. P. Rushton. by Marvin Zuckerman & Nathan Brody (1998) Personality and Individual Differences 9(6):1025-1033. doi:10.1016/0191-8869(88)90136-5.Of Genes and Genitals by Richard Lewontin (1996) Transition 69:178-193. doi:10.2307/2935246. In May 2024, Karlin was retweeting support for one of Emil Kirkegaard's studies in OpenPsych.https://archive.is/0UhY2
Concerning race and intelligence, Karlin has posted "I went from considering it primarily but *not exclusively* cultural (already a very un-PC view, esp. in 2010) to around ~50%/50% racial/cultural."akarlin Disqus (archived from 5 Nov 2021 22:53:17 UTC). As a believer in HBD, Karlin holds pseudoscientific views on racial origins. In December 2019, he appeared in a video titled "What is Human Bio-Diversity?".Interview with Anatoly Karlin - Trailer. (Dec 27, 2019) YouTube. What is Human Bio-Diversity? - Anatoly Karlin - Part 1 - #RH97 (12/26/2019 17:37) Niconico. Near the beginning of the video, Karlin erroneously claimed that three major races of humans exist and split from each other 50,000 years ago into separate lineages. This racialist idea has been discredited.Human races: a genetic and evolutionary perspective by A. R. Templeton (1998) American Anthropologist. 100(3):632-650. In 2022, Karlin summarised his view on IQ:
====Race and penis size pseudoscience====
Karlin promotes pseudoscientific theories about such as claiming East Asians on average have the smallest genitalia and Africans the largest, "average penis size (large – Africa; Latin America; small – East Asia). The latter example isn’t nearly as… flippant as it seems, since testosterone levels have a large effect on behavior." A 2005 peer-reviewed study instead reported that "there is no scientific background to support the alleged 'oversized' penis in black people".Idiopathic short penis: myth or reality? by Nicola Mondaini & Paolo Gontero (2004) BJU International 95(1):8-9. doi:10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05238.x. Karlin relied on unverified data from a dodgy site which quoted self-reported measurements used by Richard Lynn.The Pseudoscience of Race Differences in Penis Size: A paper's claim about racial differences in penis size are unfounded. by Scott A. McGreal (Oct 16, 2012) Psychology Today.
====Opposition to Black Lives Matter====
Karlin opposes Black Lives MatterI saw BLM style propaganda, heard priests calling for tolerance towards immigrants. Also Witcher ads (the blacked Netflix series, not the game) are everywhere. This problem is going to get worse. I feel Poland is where Ireland was c.2000. by @akarlin88 (4:42 PM - 29 Dec 2019) Twitter (archived from December 30, 2019). purely for racist reasons, describing it as "Negrolatry religion" and "Negro worship".
He used instead the label "Russian Lives Matter" in 2020.@akarlin88 Twitter (archived from 7 Jun 2020 22:16:47 UTC).
==Misogyny and anti-feminism==
===Misogyny===
In the 2010s, Karlin was a misogynist and was described as a "misogynistic douchebag" by We Hunted the Mammoth, who quoted his own words:
He supported Andrew Anglin's patriarchal and misogynistic .https://www.unz.com/akarlin/cicerone-on-dysgenic-decline/#comment-2039441
===Anti-feminism===
Karlin for many years said he opposed "gender feminism"Gender feminism, affirmative action/equal impact, homosexual agenda, demasculinization, ethnic/gender studies, PC culture, etc. by @akarlin88 (4:02 AM · Nov 7, 2012) Twitter (archived from 23 Jun 2020 01:48:41 UTC). (more or less synonymous with third-wave feminism) which he described in 2018 as follows:
===Denying being a misogynist===
In December 2023, Karlin denied being a misogynist and said "I was never involved in the febrile fantasies about “thot patrols” and “women in cages” memed by Andrew Anglin and the groyper crowd."https://archive.is/zVusA This is despite the fact he formerly praised Anglin as a "talented writer"https://www.unz.com/runz/why-the-american-conservative-purged-its-own-publisher/?showcomments#comment-2350648 and supported the Daily Stormer White Sharia meme. In other words, he is a proven liar. Nevertheless, Karlin admitted to being an anti-feminist but said he had now suddenly moved away from that position: "I am no longer even interested in countersignaling gender feminists" and described them as a "progressive historical force."
==False predictions==
===Russo-Ukrainian War===
Throughout 2022, Karlin presented himself as an expert and forecaster on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and he was inaccurately described as a "Russian political analyst" by UK media.Russian pundits play blame game after Kherson collapse. inews.co.uk. October 4, 2022. He appeared on The Spectator's podcast to discuss the Russo-Ukrainian War.Should the West offer Putin an ‘off-ramp’? (March 16, 2022) The Spectator. "Freddy talks to Anatoly Karlin, author of the Powerful Takes Substack. …" This is despite the fact his predictions were proven embarrassingly wrong including his claim the war would be a quick Russian victory:
In February 2022, Karlin delusionally tweeted:
 
He also wrongly predicted Russian military would take control of Kiev in the same month:
These tweets caused widespread ridicule on social media with one user describing Karlin as a "brick-stupid jackass".Tweet. Christopher Hooks (1:17 PM - 4 Mar 2022) Twitter (archived from March 4, 2022). Karlin has attempted to damage-control by renaming his Twitter handle he made these ridiculous predictions under. He made them using the handle @AKarlin0 but renamed his handle to @powerfultakes in May 2022.Earliest screenshot for the handle change @powerfultakes is May 6, 2022 and by May 9, 2022 @Akarlin0 became a troll account. The old @Akarlin0 handle was deliberately recreated for trolling which reads on its userbox: "I'm Alexey I like video games and impregnate woman I'm from Russia."https://archive.is/uLAhg Karlin likely created this fake account to try to mislead people into believing someone else made his tweets from the same handle. The account suspiciously has retweeted Karlin's new handle @powerfultakes and largely became inactive months after the handle change which further suggests Karlin created it.https://archive.is/JbzK1
Karlin may have been originally unaware that if you change your handle on Twitter it does not provide a new URL in terms of unique ID number meaning all of his tweets he made under @Akarlin0 are identifiable under @powerfultakes, including his embarrassing tweet wrongly predicting Russians would take control of Kiev.https://archive.is/30Kwr In March 2024, Karlin abandoned trying to mislead people into thinking he did not make these tweets and instead tried to avoid humiliation on his website by saying: "I drastically overestimated Russian military strength and political competence (as did RUGOV, US intelligence, and virtually all of Metaculus)."Anatoly Karlin: Predictions, Akarlin.com. March 15, 2024. Karlin has said he correctly predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine in January 2022 as if this was a remarkable forecast, in reality, it was obvious to many at the time an invasion was imminent since more than 100,000 Russian troops were amassed at the Ukrainian border (for example, as was reported by CBS News and in the New York Times that monthhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDvUHEm1mshttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/07/world/europe/ukraine-maps.html). Despite supporting the invasion, praising Putin and putting Z (a militarist symbol in Russian propaganda) on his Twitter accounthttps://archive.is/H5K2W in 2022 — Karlin erratically in January 2023 said he no longer liked PutinTweet: "I want to be rid of him and everyone associated with him as soon as the war is over." @powerfultakes (archived from January 11, 2023). and by the end of the year criticised the invasion.The Z of History. Akarlin.com. December 31, 2023.
===Political predictions===
Karlin wrongly predicted the 2015 UK general election,https://archive.is/ztGLh wrongly predicted Marine Le Pen would win the 2017 French presidential election,https://www.unz.com/akarlin/france-elections-2017-first/#comment-1846260 wrongly predicted the Brexit vote in 2016, - Anatoly Karlin, Twitter (Jun 23, 2016). and wrongly predicted Trump would lose in 2016 and 2024.Blog post, see also tweethttps://ehc.zone/p/open-thread-us-election-2024 His most bizarre erroneous predictions include Tom Cotton as the Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 US presidential election. Tweet by Anatoly Karlin (4 December 2020).
==RationalWiki==
Karlin has rather bizarre and contradictory views about RationalWiki.
In January 2017 he requested for a RationalWiki entry claiming he felt "left out" without one.Why do I never get on these lists? No RationalWiki hagiography either. Feeling left out. :( by @akarlin88 (1:42 PM - 4 Jan 2017) Twitter (archived from April 23, 2021).
In February 2018, his article was created and he claimed to like the page at the beginning of 2019:
In June 2019, however, he did a 180-degrees turn and started complaining about having an article, now calling it a "hit-piece":
He's spent the past five years whining about this page and attacking editors of the article on his social media.
In 2024, Karlin complained that his RationalWiki webpage was longer than Richard Spencer's.Copy of email from Karlin to User:Bongolian (18:49, 22 April 2024) RationalWiki.
==Elite Human Capital==
In December 2023, Karlin in a series of articles on his website and in a number of later tweets claimed to have become a liberal on social issues, identified as a queer, agender and an Antifa and renounced his racist, homophobic, anti-immigration and nationalist beliefs and stated he now supported anti-racism, "open borders", LGBT rights and anti-fascism.See Karlin's articles titled "Intellectual Restructuring" (here, here and here). He identified as genderless on a podcast with Richard Hanania and identified as an Antifa in two tweets in 2024 (here and here). Karlin calls his new technocratic syncretic ideology Elite Human Capital. Despite Karlin's insistence otherwise — EHC is a far-right ideology and its core beliefs are eugenics, race and intelligence and ableism. Karlin never renounced his eugenics beliefs and in July 2024 described himself as an "outspoken eugenicist".https://archive.is/2Ggh7 In August 2024, he summarised his political views as follows:
Karlin has stated he supports Antifa and most "Woke" values but is still against SJWism because he regards the latter as against freedom of speech. He changed the location of his Twitter account from Moscow,Anatoly Karlin @powerfultakes Twitter (archived from May 11, 2022). to the words "open borders"Anatoly Karlin @powerfultakes Twitter (archived from July 15, 2023). and now describes himself as a "digital nomad". He claims to support multiculturalism and "diversity" despite ranting against these for yearsTolerance and diversity is the only path to prosperity. (6:10 PM · Jan 17, 2023) Twitter. and randomly trolls people by saying: "You are going to go gay and multicultural."You are going to go gay and multicultural. 💯 by Anatoly Karlin (January 1, 2023) Twitter (archived from January 11, 2023). Commentators on the "Karlin community" on The Unz Review have been sceptical about Karlin's alleged sudden Damascene conversion that he is now pro-immigration and opposes racism.Open Thread 205: Comment #667 by Orange (January 9, 2023 at 9:00 pm GMT) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024).Open Thread 205: Comment #726 by Number444 (January 10, 2023 at 6:56 pm GMT) The Unz Review (archived from March 6, 2024). One should regard any preposterous claim of his, his flip-flopping on politics and extreme ideological changes (such as his "open borders" mantra) to be possibly trolling since he is a self-admitted troll. He has been accused of hypocrisy for now calling other people racists.As a side note, people who said that they're not attracted to black women and almost view them as a different and separate species shouldn't accuse *other* people of being racist lol! Twitter. January 9, 2023.
Karlin was banned from Discord in August 2023 for unknown reasons.Discord Ban Punished frens reply here and we'll coordinate on something. Seems to have been a massive and indiscriminate Discord wide purge of pro-RU servers (amusingly the pro-UA posters also got banned). I'm appealing but chances of success are low. Also, crypto solves this. by Anatoly Karlin (1:16 AM · Aug 26, 2023) Twitter (archived from 26 Aug 2023 15:24:59 UTC).
===Drug addiction===
Karlin in May 2023 confessed to being a drug addict:
In June 2023, Karlin also mentioned he had "dosed heavily on LSD". Tweet by by Anatoly Karlin (11:32 PM · Jun 17, 2023) Twitter (archived from 21 Jun 2023 11:36:23 UTC).
==Continued ties to white nationalists (2024-present)==
Despite claiming to have renounced his racist views and now be a liberal, Karlin continues to spend most of his time on X retweeting far-right accounts, as well as eugenics and HBD content. He was interviewed by Razib Khan and frequently comments on the white nationalist Aporia Magazine on Substack.akarlin. substack.com. Archived. In November 2024, he began to identify as a "leftist" which was rebuked by numerous users on X who noted Karlin is obviously not left-wing.https://archive.is/ul8vzhttps://archive.is/K2IGF Karlin continues to associate with Emil Kirkegaard and met him in person at the International Society for Intelligence Research.https://www.pinkerite.com/2024/07/emil-kirkegaard-welcomed-back-to.html Karlin has attacked Hope not Hate for its investigative journalism into PolygenX telling them to "get fucked".https://archive.is/pn1Ag Clearly any pretense Karlin is a leftist is out the window since the eugenics company PolygenX he is defending is connected to neo-Nazi Martin Sellner. Throughout 2024, Karlin also continued to promote the pseudoscientific race and intelligence research of Heiner Rindermann:
What Karlin failed to point out is Rindermann's research in an academic journal on national IQ scores was recently retracted for methodological flaws in datasets.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44217-024-00259-8 This resulted in Rindermann publishing in the low-tier journal Journal of Controversial Ideas.Intelligence of Refugees in Germany: Levels, Differences and Possible Determinants. journalofcontroversialideas.org. Rindermann's studies have been criticized by Eric Turkheimer.Controversy Requires Competence: Comment on Rindermann et al. (2024). journalofcontroversialideas.org.
==See also==
* Bronze Age Pervert
* Edward Dutton — Karlin appeared on Dutton's The Jolly Heretic livestream on 13 August 2020.Myself and @akarlin88 Anatoly Karlin will be imbibing at The Jolly Heretic at 7pm UK time (2pm NY). Come join us for some vodka and caviar! by @jollyheretic (5:25 AM · Aug 13, 2020) Twitter (archived from 23 Apr 2021 21:10:25 UTC).
* Richard Hanania — fake contrarian who pals around with Karlin and adopted his EHC ideology.
==External links==
*His website
*Powerfultakes on Twitter
* YouTube
==Notes==
==References==
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