Anatoly Karlin



I endorse Richard Spencer.

He started no wars and provoked no riots — much less "extremist" than Ziocons or BLM.

I do eat beef so I would not feel particularly conflicted about eating horse even though horses are modestly smarter than cattle.

Anatoly Karlin (Анатолий Карлин), known as powerfultakes,  is a Russian white nationalist, anti-vegan activist, homophobe and self-confessed drug addict who supports the Russo-Ukrainian War. Karlin has admitted to finding 14 year old girls "hot" and once posted a picture of a 14 year old girl on his Twitter account. In 2018, Karlin described a black lady he had met as a "fat nigger bitch" and commented that "quite poor, less refined, recently war-torn white countries such as Serbia don’t rape like niggers." In 2019, Karlin admitted to being a "racist and very happy with that", after posting how much he dislikes black people on Reddit. On his website, Karlin promotes an animal-based ketogenic diet and has boasted on Twitter that he eats insects. He also supports other low-carbohydrate quackery such as the Atkins diet and carnivore diet.

Karlin's racist views overlap with the alt-right to the extent that he openly admits he agrees with "about 70%" of the alt-right but denies being part of the alt-right movement (even though he has appeared at neo-Nazi conferences with white supremacist Richard Spencer) and in 2017-2018 co-owned an alt-right podcast named ROGRP that promoted white nationalism. He supported the far-right Unite the Right rally in August 2017 but after  began reinventing himself and rebranding his alt-right politics.

Karlin has attracted criticism for his controversial and offensive writings on rape, anti-vegan activism and global-warming denial. He is a crank who espouses a bizarre form of anti-environmentalism called "Tropical Hyperborea". Karlin's idea of "Tropical Hyperborea" is a white ethno-state and he will only grant entrance to "whites from the high-IQ European & Anglosphere countries" who are willing to "culturally Russify". As of September 2022, Karlin has reinvented himself as a sinophile and indophile (despite only a few years ago he claimed Indians have a low intelligence and described Chinese people as racist terms such as "chinks" and claimed East Asian men have small penises, and other racist stereotypes.) He has been described as a political chameleon for "quickly jumping from different groups and internet communities each year, seeking e-fame."

describes him as a "Russian white nationalist blogger". Although Karlin's views are white nationalist, he rejects that label calling himself a Russian nationalist and "white guardist". He is a former blogger for The Unz Review, where he promoted fake news, climate change denial, eugenics and race and intelligence pseudoscience. His writings have been reprinted by the extremist with his permission, and he is mostly quoted in conservative to far-right publications. One of Karlin's oddest racist behaviours is travelling around parts of Russia and Poland complaining of seeing black immigrants as well as photos of black people on advertisement boards.

In June 2020, Karlin was temporarily shadowbanned from Twitter. Although the shadowban reason remains unknown, it could stem from Karlin being mass-blocked by users over racist and highly offensive tweets he made about Black Lives Matter such as describing it as a "Negrolatry religion" and "Cult of the Magical Negro".

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given his batshit-crazy views and bigotry, Karlin is a fan of Donald Trump and claims that if he was American he would vote for him. He endorsed Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Among his other views are anti-feminism, HBD ("human-biodiversity") and anti-LGBT (for example, Karlin has argued that homosexuality should not be promoted ). His controversial views on rape are promoted by incel, MRM and manosphere bloggers.

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."

In February and March 2022 Karlin began describing himself as a political "centrist" and "Moscow journalist" on his social media profiles. He now presents himself as an expert and forecaster on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is despite the fact nearly all his predictions about the conflict have been proven embarrasingly wrong including his claim (90% probability) "serious resistance" in Ukraine would last less than one week. On 27 February, Karlin delusionally tweeted: "This conflict will be over in days, not weeks" and he also wrongly predicted Russian military would take control of Kiev in late Feburary.

On 8 March 2022, Karlin appeared on a livestream where he was introduced as a "Russian journalist". The host failed to note Karlin is a white nationalist with a fairly recent history of endorsing Richard Spencer and attending neo-Nazi conferences. Karlin has duped other media outlets into thinking he is a respectable journalist.

Karlin is a contrarian known for changing his views on certain topics depending on his audience to seek belonging and identity. In May 2022 he finally confessed to being an internet troll. In 2023, Karlin started to pretend on Twitter to being an anti-racist, and now claims to support "open borders" and be pro-immigration, but he is not fooling anyone and he has admitted to shit-posting. His recent claims about supporting diversity and tolerance are just a poor attempt at trolling.

In early 2023, Karlin was reinventing himself as an anarchist and "anarcho-transhumanist" on social media but quickly removed this description after actual anarchists rejected him and pointed out his racist views and long involvement with white nationalism groups. In April 2023, Karlin reinvented himself as an artificial intelligence proponent and spends most of his time talking about that subject and rarely mentions his former obsessions such as race and the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Karlin has confessed to drug addiction and his recent incoherent posts about claiming to support LGBT and transexuals for "elite human capital" have lost him Twitter support from some of his alt-right followers who are fed up with his trolling. Karlin has stated that his daily glue sniffing has shifted him away from Russian nationalism to join rainbow globalism. 🇱🇮

In July 2023, Karlin described himself as a "positive eugenicist", and considers "HBD and IQ to be real, and rather important to understanding the world", so he hasn't abandoned his racist past. Karlin currently promotes a new political philosophy, "elite human capitalism" which contradicts itself and is alleged to be the result of his drug addiction.

Background
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. He then moved back to Russia and now lives in Moscow. He has claimed "Western values basically turned me into a Russian nationalist."

He was not always far-right. In 2008, when 19-20 years old, he described himself as a liberal and supported LGBT rights, however, by 2013 he had changed his views to become a homophobe who not only opposed same-sex marriage but wrote an article titled "Why Homosexuality Shouldn’t Be Promoted". He commented at the time about his change in views:

By 2015 he began supporting Trump and the right-wing populist party UKIP. In 2016-2017, he radicalised further to support Richard Spencer and the alt-right/white nationalism.

Karlin has written for the far-right Russian nationalist website 'Sputnik & Pogrom':

Karlin… once wrote for “Sputnik & Pogrom”, an ultra-nationalist website that was even too much for Putin based on the evidence of it being shut down on July 6th, 2017. In 2015 the website called for “crushing Ukraine” and establishing a “Russian ethnic state.”

He describes himself as an "IQ researcher" and "journalist" despite having no qualifications in psychology nor any field of science and no academic background in journalism. He has authored or co-authored a small list of papers since 2019 in journals of poor repute (arcane Russian journals, Psych, and Mankind Quarterly) The quality of Psych journal's peer review has been disputed. Psych is published by. Karlin's self-description as a "journalist" is dubious; the main website he writes articles for as a blog column, The Unz Review is associated with the alt-right and is most notorious for anti-Semitism.

He received a bachelor of arts degree in political economy from the University of California Berkeley (though he has falsely claimed that it is a bachelor of science degree). Karlin's lying about the degree that he received would seem to be an attempt at trying to make his racist statements look more legitimate than they actually are, a feeble attempt at credentialism by trying to make people think that he knows science. Karlin attended the London Conference on Intelligence in 2019 and appears in a video of the conference with the racist crank James Thompson.

"Racial realism"
Karlin notes that he had become a "race realist" (a euphemism for racialism) in 2012 and began blogging about HBD-themes since then.

His blog controversially promotes hereditarianism concerning group differences in IQ.

I think evidence is pretty clear there are significant racial differences in IQ (itself the single most replicated construct in both the psychological & social sciences). But that's of secondary interest.

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 study instead reported that "there is no scientific background to support the alleged 'oversized' penis in black people". Karlin relies on dubious data from Richard Lynn included self-reported penis measurements.

YouTube
Karlin created a YouTube page in 2009 but has only managed to attract ~500 subscribers in over a decade (and has under 20,000 video views). This led him to complain in envy about more successful right-wing vloggers such as Sargon of Akkad and The Golden One, whom he binge-watches.

The Unz Review
Karlin has made more than 2300 articles at The Unz Review since January 2015. His column section is called "The Russian Reaction" and he writes mostly about HBD and politics.

In October 2021 he claimed to have left The Unz Review writing a final article titled "The Last Reaction". However, he never completely left; as of March 2022 he is still an active poster on the website; although he doesn't publish any more articles — he now creates open threads under the title "Karlin Community". In October 2021 Karlin relocated his blog to stubstack named Powerful Takes.

According to Colin Liddell, Ron Unz Editor-in-Chief of The Unz Review decided to remove Karlin as an article writer after he made some inappropriate sexual comments about 14 year old children:

In January 2018, Karlin wrote a blog post on The Unz Review defending paedophile apologist Emil Kirkegaard, whom Karlin maintains was quoted out of context by so-called SJWs.

As of May 2022, Karlin is still very active on the The Unz Review leaving comments daily. He has over 9700 posts.

Powerful Takes
On his current blog Powerful Takes — Karlin has reinvented his political views as "animal rights", "LSD decriminalization" and "environmentalism" among other things and now presents himself as a political "centrist". His whitewashed biographical page mentions nothing of his extreme racist views, controversial views on rape, homophobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism and history of supporting white nationalism.

Views
…the pedantic neo-Nazi pseudo-intellectual Anatoly Karlin.

Who is Anatoly Karlin? Russia’s version of David Duke.

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:

The Burkeans' rebrand this year has been matched by an ominous shift away from conservatism and into populism... More troublingly still, the article credits Anatoly Karlin, a well known member of the Russian far right who has appeared at events alongside American white nationalist Richard Spencer, as the source of many of the ideas expressed in the piece.''

Trump and MAGA


In December 2015, Karlin wrote his first article praising Trump. In November 2016, Karlin described himself as a "Trump supporter":

Karlin supported Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. In 2016 he walked around UC Berkeley with a MAGA hat to "trigger" what he called "shitlibs." In 2020 Karlin endorsed Trump on the basis he opposes "SJWism".

In July 2021 Karlin began to describe MAGA as "tired grifters" and instead support the more extreme Nick Fuentes:

Nick Fuentes is the closest thing the US has to a "genuine" opposition leader, a locus of normality in the zoo of tired MAGA grifters, WN oldfags, and Ziocon "hello fellow nationalist" types who otherwise make up the modern Alt Right. It's instructive the regime unpersoned him.

White nationalism and the alt-right
In November 2015, Karlin described his views as in line with alt-right and white nationalist agendas to increase white birth rates in Europe:

In May 2016, Karlin attended with Richard Spencer and Identity Evropa activists a white nationalist "Safe Space for Europeans" demonstration at UC Berkeley and later the same day he shared a podium with Spencer at a neo-Nazi conference and delivered a speech describing the alt-right as "common-sense":

An article covering the white nationalist demonstration in The Tab describes Karlin as a "supporter of white nationalism".



In 2017, Karlin set up what he described as an "alt-right podcast" in Russia:

Some of my colleagues and I launched a half-assed alt right Russian podcast a year ago. YouTube channel already approaching 10k subscribers.

This alt-right podcast was named ROGRP:

I and a couple of my friends here, Kirill Nesterov and @pigdog, have recently started up a podcast to discuss Russian politics from an Alt Right and HBD/IQ-realistic perspective in /pol/’s irreverent and semi-ironic style. If you understand Russian, or are learning the language, you can check it out at ROGPR.com.

In April 2017, Karlin said he was promoting eugenics among the alt-right:

I have done what I could to promote this viewpoint amongst the Alt Right, both online and in person, however I suppose it is ultimately up to the Alt Right themselves what to do about it.

Karlin at the same time tried to introduce the alt-right and HBD to far-right Russian nationalists, but by his own admission, failed:



He has claimed he agrees with 70% of the alt-right, in other words the majority of white nationalism views:

Although I do not strictly consider myself Alt Right (or NRx), I do support about 70% of their positions, so I was happy to turn up with them to troll my alma mater.

Karlin is a supporter of the white nationalist Paul Nehlen. He is also a fan of Gregory Hood and Jared Taylor:

Gregory Hood is an excellent writer, one of my favorites in the “Alt Right”-sphere alongside Durocher. Good to see Jared Taylor on board as well.

Unite the Right rally
Karlin in August 2017 supported the neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally (Charlottesville, Virginia).

Sines v. Kessler and rebranding his alt-right politics
In early 2018 after the alt-right began fracturing as a movement and declining in its activities post-Unite the Right largely in response to  which was filed in October 2017 — Karlin started rebranding his alt-right political views and now claimed he was not alt-right:

I am not Alt Right, I am a Russian nationalist.

Despite his online support for Unite the Right on The Unz Review, Karlin was not a defendant in the lawsuit and had not personally attended the rally. Numerous alt-right figures including Matthew Heimbach who attended rebranded their alt-right politics like Karlin in response to Sines v. Kessler to avoid accountability.

In June 2018 Karlin deleted his alt-right podcast website. The last website screenshots prior to deletion date to May 2018.

In October 2018, Karlin described the alt-right as now "dead" as a political movement:

Alt Right is dead. It's brand is worthless.

In 2019, Karlin dishonestly denied ever being a white nationalist or alt-right. 🇱🇮

In April 2021, Karlin said the alt-right's main political goals have not been achieved:

In 2022 Karlin began criticising the alt-right and calling them "rightoids", despite only a few years ago he held these same views:

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.

Some of Karlin's own followers have questioned whether he has genuinely repudiated the alt-right:

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.

As recent as February 2022, Karlin endorsed far-right candidate Éric Zemmour in the French presidential election — so the leopard hasn't changed his spots.

In March 2022, Karlin had a falling out with Richard Spencer over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Great replacement conspiracy theory
Typical of the alt-right, Karlin promotes the great replacement and white genocide conspiracy theories:

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!

The Immigration Trilemma: Liberal decadence; open borders; indigenous ethnic group survival. Choose two.

Karlin thinks political elites have a "population replacement agenda":

Drugs? Trafficking rings? Terrorist plots? Nope. Just disagreeing with the elite's population replacement agenda.

In March 2022 he said Russian soldiers are fighting against "population-replacement":

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).

He has described Europe as Eurabia based on projections of the Islamic percentage of Europe’s total population.

White ethno-state
Karlin supports a white ethno-state in Russia almost-entirely limited to white people from Europe specifically the Anglosphere countries:

@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?.

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.

When asked if Armenians & Georgians could enter, Karlin responded, "no".

White supremacism and racism
Britain isn’t a shithole country – well, it sort of is becoming one, thanks to all the Negroes and Mohammedans it is importing, but it’s not there yet... Leaving because your own country is a shithole country is something that is more specific to Negroes.

Karlin believes black people are incapable of maintaining a modern-technological civilisation:

He thinks most blacks are only suited to doing low-paid work such as cleaning jobs:

In comments on his Reddit, The Unz Review and Disqus accounts, Karlin is explicitly and openly racist:

He uses racist slurs and in October 2018 described a black woman as a "fat nigger bitch":

Elsewhere he has described his opposition to Islam and Muslim immigrants.

Karlin does not censor racist comments on his The Unz Review column nor his personal blog.

Karlin has claimed "on the basis of statistics that apartheid wasn’t all that bad for black South Africans probably isn’t racism."

Despite being a virulent racist, Karlin self-identifies as a "liberal race realist. 🇱🇮

He has deceptively tried to separate himself to "low IQ racists" like Stormfront users despite he shares their racist views:



Karlin has described Sargon of Akkad as "based" for using racial slurs such as "'nigger’ and ‘spic'.

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.

Hatred of black people
A selection of his most anti-black comments:

Warsaw more "blacked" than Moscow. See ~20 of them in a day, vs. 5 on a very bad day in Moscow (and almost none in Saint-Petersburg and down).

Opposition to Black Lives Matter
Karlin opposes Black Lives Matter purely for racist reasons, describing it as "Negrolatry religion" and "Negro worship".

What you have in #BlackLivesMatter is an emerging religion, complete with its own pantheon of saints and martyrs and the latest iteration of what some have called negrolatry, or the Cult of the Magical Negro.

He uses instead the label "Russian Lives Matter".

Anti-Semitism
Karlin has claimed that "Russia Insider has good relations with AltRight.com, and they reprint my articles semi-regularly (with my permission)."

The main editor of Russia Insider, published a controversial article called "It's Time to Drop the Jew Taboo":

"The most vitriolic and obsessive Russia-bashing journalists in the media are mostly Jewish. The publications which push these writers most energetically are ALL Jewish-owned, and as a publisher, I know very well, that is where the buck stops. On the policy side, the neo-conservative movement, Russia's harshest foe, was conceived of, is led by, and consists mostly of, Jews. And their trouble-making extends far beyond Russia – they are responsible for America’s disastrous debacle in the Middle East over the last 20 years – where their crimes have been stymied by precisely one country – Russia. The psychotically anti-Russian recent UN ambassadors, Nikki Haley and Samantha Power, were put there by the Israel lobby, and given an independent brief, in other words, they answer not to their presidents, rather to their Jewish sponsors."

Karlin controversially published a defence of the article, arguing it is "objectively true". The article has been described as "a lengthy anti-Semitic manifesto", with even its title being antisemitic ("Russia Insider Names Jew"), Karlin is openly anti-Semitic, scoring himself 7/11 on a scale of anti-Semitism writing: "I suppose I deserve my “accolades” from the SPLC and RationalWiki after all."

Benito Mussolini
In a controversial article on The Unz Review Karlin praises the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, arguing that he "did nothing wrong": However, Italians have no particular need to be ashamed of Mussolini.

Support for far-right political parties
In Janauary 2015, Karlin supported Marine Le Pen:

In May 2015, Karlin described the right-wing populist party United Kingdom Independence Party as closest to his own political views:

UKIP is the British party that is closest to my own positions and I daresay to the positions of the average Unz Review reader.

He supported UKIP in the 2015 United Kingdom general election.

Karlin opposes UKIP moderating its policies, for example on same-sex marriage and supports traditional conservatism:

Karlin supported UKIP's raison d'etre – Brexit.

In May 2017, Karlin wrote an article supporting Marine Le Pen (of the far-right party Front National) primarily because of her anti-immigration policies:

On 6 May 2018, Karlin attended an anti-Islam demonstration in London organised by the Democratic Football Lads Alliance, UKIP and For Britain praising a speech by Anne Marie Waters:

Fourth gal was Anne Marie Waters, head of For Britain. She had the best speech IMO, she’s a great rabble-rouser.

Karlin is a supporter of the Russian ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. In September 2016, he described himself as a LDPR voter. He says he voted for in the 2018 Russian presidential election. Karlin's main political goals are shared by the LDPR and 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".

In September 2021, Karlin said he would now vote for Putin since he had taken a "nationalist turn":

I usually vote for LDPR. But Putin has de facto become a nationalist, so I'm ready to reward him for it.

A 2022 article in The Guardian titled "...how Putin has morphed into a far-right savior" sums up Karlin's sudden support for Putinism. It notes "The Russian president’s ‘strong man’ image and disdain for liberals has turned him into a hero for white nationalists." This mirrors much of what Karlin wrote in an article, "Russia's Nationalist Turn How Putin Created the Russian National State".

Misogyny and anti-feminism
Karlin has made a bunch of misogynistic and anti-feminism blog posts. Some of his comments are archived by We Hunted the Mammoth:

This is why your typical Third Wave feminist or rape activist is fat, has a manjaw, or is otherwise unattractive. If you are ugly, devaluing beauty is not bad evolutionary strategy.

Karlin claims to oppose "gender feminism" (more or less synonymous with third-wave feminism) which he describes as follows:

"Pseudo-rape" apologism
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.

Karlin has defended Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh 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".

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."

Karlin's controversial views on rape are nonsurprisingly shared by incels and his writings are quoted by incel, MRM and manosphere bloggers.

He has been described as an "original incel theorist".

Anti-veganism and anti-vegetarianism


Karlin firmly opposes veganism and vegetarianism. He does not eat pork, but says he eats beef, chicken and fish. Karlin was blocked from Wikipedia on multiple accounts for attacking vegans as being mentally ill and spamming articles telling people to consume more beef.

Karlin promotes the paleo diet and Atkins diet:

He has spent his time trolling vegans by saying he is eating beef:

I am eating more beef, not just because it's healthy and delicious, but because I get a warm feeling, a real sense of pleasure, knowing that I'm voiding the efforts of some Green vegan loser in the West - as well as doing my small part to help Tropical Hyperborea along.

Karlin has claimed that vegetarianism makes people weak and reduces their IQ. This idea is not supported by scientific evidence.

Similar to Edward Dutton, he believes veganism is associated with mental illness:

Despite his opposition to veganism and vegetarianism, in 2021 Karlin reinvented himself as an animal rights activist describing his politics as "animal rights" on his social media. However, Karlin supports the carnivore diet and a video from March 2022 shows his apartment as containing leather furniture. Encyclopædia Dramatica have described him as a "fake animal rights activist".

Karlin is fond of beef broth. In December 2022, Karlin posted that he believes eating fish, chicken and beef outweighs the suffering involved. Karlin supports flawed health studies that are funded by the beef industry, 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.

Karlin has posted meat dishes he eats on social media including lamb, beef and chicken. Despite claiming he does not eat from pigs this is contradicted by dishes he eats with bacon fat.

Entomophagy
Anatoly Karlin supports (consumption of insects) and personally eats insects such as 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.

Global-warming denial
Karlin rejects the scientific consensus on climate change and argues that global-warming is a good thing totally ignoring negative effects that massively outweigh positives.

Tropical Hyperborea
Karlin has made a bunch of irrational tweets where he disregards the harmful effects of global-warming and wants to increase carbon and methane emissions in Northern Europe, Greenland and Russia as a "Tropical Hyperborea":

Global warming will make Russia into Tropical Hyperborea. All Russian patriots must support global warming.

Liberals become gay when they start ranting about carbon taxes (we need Tropical Hyperborea) and now taxing meat and shit like that.

One more reason (if indeed any are still needed) why global warming is good and we need Tropical Hyperborea.

Have more children, more CO2, more global warming, faster immamentization of Tropical Hyperborea.

He wants to create a "tropical Hyperborea" in Russia.

In an article titled "Tropical Hyperborea Cometh" Karlin outlines his bizarre reasons why he thinks global warming is good for Russia:

These claims are all dubious:


 * While some northern regions in Russia could theoretically see their agricultural productivity improve with increased carbon emissions, but "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."
 * The idea that crops will grow with extra CO2, while theoretical, is disputed; a 17-year experiment on California flowers and grasslands found that plants growing with extra heat or CO2 did not grow more.
 * Warming and thawing of the frozen ground causes problems for infrastructure, such as roads and pipelines.
 * Forest fires and flash floods have already ravaged swathes of Siberia because of global-warming.
 * 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 view 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 peoples and melting of permafrost negatively affects them in many other ways.

Overpopulation denial
Nobody really knows the carrying capacity of our industrial world economy - all we can say for sure is that we are still far below the limits to growth. My guesstimate is that the planet can support 100 billion people.

Karlin argues human carrying capacity is 100 billion — a fringe view supported by very few scientists. 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. Similar figures were calculated in a 1995 study that showed the median was between 7-12 billion. Although estimates widely vary for carrying capacity, most scientists appear to agree that human carrying capacity has either already been reached or will be by 2050. Karlin however disagrees that humans are overpopulated now or will be in the near-future.

Karlin's overpopulation denial seems to stem from his worldview as a capitalist who equates population growth with economic growth; his goal is increasing Russia's population by billions to compete with China and the US economy:

I don't buy the arguments that we've exceeded the Earth's carrying capacity, there's plenty of unused capacities. Russia by itself can support at least a billion people, probably several. Seriously competing with China, the US, and India is unrealistic with a population of 145mn.

He also supports increasing birth/fertility rates across Europe to "help preserve white majorities" and "benefit whites and help Europeans maintain majorities in their historic homelands" — a standard white nationalist and alt-right view, yet because of the stigma attached to the label of white nationalism, Karlin instead prefers just "Russian nationalist".

Karlin has written, "Hopefully 2019 will mark a final turnaround in the fertility collapse" in Russia.

Age of consent and sexual attraction to 14 year olds
In a creepy tweet made in 2014 when in his late 20s, Karlin posted he finds 's daughters, at the time who were only 14, to be "quite hot":

Poroshenko a fecund man: 2 sons, 2 daughters. And the daughters are quite hot.

The tweet was commented on at the time by various people who found it disturbing: you are talking about a 14 yrs old child you freaking weirdo

They're 8thgraders:

hot? they are 14…

However, Karlin doesn't want to lower the age of consent to 14 in his country and has written that he thinks the age of consent should be 16 (the current legal minimum age in Russia).

Anti-LGBT
Karlin has written numerous homophobic blog posts on his website. One of these is titled "Why Homosexuality Shouldn’t Be Promoted" in which he claims there is a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia.

Karlin has described himself as a homophobe and has quoted a study that he interprets as saying "homophobia is a natural part of the human condition."

He has criticised Tommy Robinson for going on stage at an anti-Islam rally with a transexual.

Transhumanism and eugenics
What is wrong about modifying your population to be healthier and more intelligent?

Karlin supports eugenics, but clarifies he only supports voluntary and incentive-based eugenics, not coercive.

Spiteful mutant hypothesis
On 13 August 2020 Karlin appeared with Edward Dutton on The Jolly Heretic livestream to discuss their similar views and the spiteful mutant hypothesis. Karlin has also promoted the spiteful mutant idea on his social media. What attracts Karlin to the spiteful mutant theory is probably his own psychological projection — the theory primarily attacks childless individuals who it claims are maladaptive and bad because they have not passed on their genes. Karlin however has no children of his own despite being 0.

HBD ("human-biodiversity") pseudoscience
Karlin identifies as a hereditarian and "race realist". In his articles he promotes the pseudoscientific work of discredited individuals associated with the Mankind Quarterly such as Gerhard Meisenberg. He lists his main influences as the controversial psychologist J. Philippe Rushton and Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve. One of his favourite books is Rushton's  that 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.” The book however is widely regarded by psychologists and anthropologists to be racist pseudoscience. 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."

As a HBD proponent, Karlin holds pseudoscientific views on racial origins. In December 2019 he appeared in a video interview about HBD and discussed his views. Near the beginning of the video, Karlin erroneously claims three major races of humans exist and split from each other 50,000 years ago. This racialist idea has been discredited, for example, one study showed: "Because of the extensive evidence for genetic interchange through population movements and recurrent gene flow going back at least hundreds of thousands of years ago, there is only one evolutionary lineage of humanity and there are no subspecies or races under either the traditional or phylogenetic definitions." Karlin however still clings to pseudoscientific racialism.

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.

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":

I know that I am a small fish and all. But even in my case, Google spits out the RationalWiki hit piece on me (written by an actual basement dwelling troll) before my Unz column or even my own fucking website literally titled "Anatoly Karlin."

He's spent the past three years whining about this page and attacking editors of the article on his social media.

The label "alt-right"
Anatoly Karlin's main disagreement with this page is it labels him alt-right (documented above) which he denies ever being:

I have never distanced myself from the Alt Right because I never identified with the Alt Right. How can I distance myself from something I'm not.

Just to clarify, I'm not Alt Right, let alone interested in doing PR and minority outreach for them.

Karlin's denial is contradicted by the fact he created an alt-right podcast (even describing it as such):

I and a couple of my friends here, Kirill Nesterov and @pigdog, have recently started up a podcast to discuss Russian politics from an Alt Right and HBD/IQ-realistic perspective in /pol/’s irreverent and semi-ironic style.

And the fact he has openly admitted to agreeing with the vast majority of the alt-right:

Although I do not strictly consider myself Alt Right (or NRx), I do support about 70% of their positions, so I was happy to turn up with them to troll my alma mater.

One might therefore wonder what Karlin's pointless denial is based on. The answer can be found in tweets he's made:

The Alt Left considers itself a subset of the wider Alt Right but with less thot hate and more rocket ships and radical life extension.

Whats the best label here? [Alt-left] Basically, we are talking Leftism with less cuckoldry. Or Alt Right with fewer swastikas.

For "optics" Karlin prefers to label himself as alt-left which he describes as the alt-right only minus overt neo-Nazism and extreme misogyny.

In October 2021, Karlin was so concerned about being linked to neo-Nazism he removed the "88" digits in his Twitter username:

AK: I changed it to @akarlin0. The “88” has become more trouble than it’s worth.

2023 activity
Tolerance and diversity is the only path to prosperity.

In January 2023, Karlin suddenly said he was changing many of his views. He now claims to support no immigration controls or "open borders" for all countries🇱🇮 and has tried to deny his racist past. He says Europe needs to become more ethnically diverse, despite criticizing immigration and multiculturalism for years. He also claims people need to be more tolerant and says that he is playing a "leading role in this transformation". Karlin has also changed the location of his Twitter account from Moscow, to the words "open borders." All this is an act by Karlin in an attempt to troll his Twitter followers.

Karlin was a Putin fanatic for most of his life, describing himself as a "pro-Putin conservative" and even contributed to a book Putin's New Russia (2012) but has now come out against Putin saying "I want to be rid of him and everyone associated with him as soon as the war is over". He now criticizes sinophobes and accuses others of being racist on Twitter.

Commentators on "Karlin community" on The Unz Review are sceptical about Karlin's claim he is now pro-immigration and opposes racism. Some consider his claim to support immigration to be trolling. Regardless, Karlin still associates with far-right figures. For example, he still tweets support for Steve Sailer and appeared in January 2023 on a podcast with Noah Carl.

Karlin's claim to be an anti-racist and him erratically now labelling other individuals racist has also been met with ridicule on social media among his own followers:

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!

Karlin now blocks people on Twitter who mention his racist past and denies the 88 in his old Twitter handle (@Karlin88) had anything to do with neo-Nazism.

A revealing retweet by Karlin perhaps shows why he now pretends to support multiculturalism:

Karlin still identified as a "Russian nationalist" in December 2022 but as of 2023 no longer identifies as a nationalist. On his website, Karlin admitted to shit-posting on Twitter, so his claims about supporting diversity and tolerance should not be taken seriously. In April 2023, Karlin removed the fact he shit-posts and trolls people from his website.

Despite posting homophobic comments on the internet for years and describing himself as a homophobe, in May 2023 Karlin trolled his Twitter followers by claiming "I support gay parades in Moscow. Women, gays, minorities are incredible magnets for human capital". Karlin currently spends most of his time talking about artificial intelligence.

Drug addiction
Karlin in May 2023 confessed to glue addiction which he seems to be using as an excuse for his incoherent posts on Twitter.

I suffer from glue addiction. I huff it every day.

I don't support anything, I just huff glue and poast.

In June 2023, Karlin says that his daily glue sniffing has shifted him away from Russian nationalism to join rainbow globalism:

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.

However, Karlin has never apologized or retracted any of his former homophobic or racist posts. He still pals around on Twitter with notable racists and white nationalists including Edward Dutton, Emil Kirkegaard, Noah Carl and Richard Hanania. On his website, Karlin claims to support "nationalism at the national level". So he has not distanced himself from nationalism.

Loss of Twitter support
After admitting to being a drug addict and shit-poster, Karlin has posted many incoherent statements such as claiming he supports LGBT and transexuals for "elite human capital". This has confused some of his alt-right followers who dismiss him as a troll.

Elite Human Capitalism
Karlin has invented his own political philosophy that he termed "Elite Human Capitalism" (EHC). EHC is alleged to support open boarders, LGBT+ but also eugenics and racist intelligence research. Karlin says under EHC he is genderless and only exists as an "it". None of it makes any sense as the EHC nonsense apparently originated from Karlin's drug trips.

Karlin promotes EHC on The Unz Review and on Twitter, however his far-right followers are not impressed with his new political philosophy.

EHC is not the “next big thing”, nobody promotes it apart from Karlin. It sounds like bedroom autism to me right now. It’s a nice idea to invent a new political philosophy but there is no point in inventing something that nobody understands.