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Thomas777: An Interview with the Internet's Cultured Thug | The Burkean
Editor’s Note: Both the punctuation and capitalisation of the original piece have been preserved at the request of the author to maintain authenticity. Introduction: A Genuine Cultured Thug “Providence had not only rescued him from damnation but had, in fact, …
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Editor’s Note: Both the punctuation and capitalisation of the original piece have been preserved at the request of the author to maintain authenticity.
Introduction: A Genuine Cultured Thug
“Providence had not only rescued him from damnation but had, in fact, anointed him as one would a favored sorcerer. It was glorious.” – Thomas777, ‘Steelstorm’
What if one the most important contemporary thinkers was largely unknown? Consigned for years to intermittently espousing his views regarding philosophy, history, rightist theory, and economics on a peripheral internet forum. And moreover, imagine if this thinker was once a heroin addict, languishing in a Chicago ghetto. A man who — when not reading Yukio Mishima or Martin Heidegger — facilitated his addiction through robbing drug dealers with his oriental associate: the male progeny of a Korean mobster family. If Thomas777 didn’t exist, even the most adept novelist would have trouble inventing this cultured thug.
Bereft of everything, robbed even of the “icy detachment of his Apache and Aryan forebears”, Thomas777 experienced (to quote Céline) ‘Death on the Installment Plan’ during his prolonged heroin use. His proximity to death is not a-typical of rightist thinkers throughout history. Oswald Spengler was acutely aware of his poor health and Francis Parker Yockey was never without his cyanide capsule. Thomas777 put it succinctly, “in the absence of battalions, men of the Right will instead join the legions of the dead”.
As Summer waned in 2020, Thomas777 returned from his troubled hiatus. Feared to be dead, imprisoned, or chasing Serbian skirt and hounding Croat cooze on the ostfront to honour the Greek god Eros, those familiar with his equally insightful and hilarious posts on the Salo Forum were excited by his re-emergence, anticipating the transition of the Right’s eminent antinomian vagabond to the digital terrain of Twitter.
Prior to switching platforms, Thomas777 had, over the space of two decades, developed a cult-like following. Cutting his teeth in Phora threads in the mid-2000s — alongside similarly brilliant posters such as Il Ragno — Thomas thereafter switched to the Salo Forum as the main avenue through which he disseminated his views.
Now deceased, Salo was once the oasis from which posting legends sprang, including Bronze Age Pervert, who would frequently verbally spar with Thomas777. Although the aforesaid forums facilitated the cultivation of a loyal cadre of readers, Thomas777’s posts would continue to suffer from a dearth of exposure until his decision to join Twitter in 2020. Since then, his popularity has exploded among right-wing circles on the internet.
A testament to his new-found Twitter influence is the proliferation of terms and phrases uttered by this CHI-TOWN Shaman. One is now subject to a near-ubiquitous deluge of the following words: ‘Peckerwood, ‘Top Sadie’, ‘Jagoff’, ‘Believe That’, ‘Sharkbox’, ‘Snorlax-F*cker’, ‘Stud’, and so on. Moreover, Thomas’ unique short-form writing style — frequently EMPHASISING IMPORTANT words via CAPITALISATION — has buttressed his brand’s distinctiveness on Twitter. He has even appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience.
For newer followers, it’s easy to misinterpret the man due to an ignorance of his long and extensive posting history —to view him simply as an aging eccentric, who has a penchant for slang, edgy apparel, and selfies at his local Burger King. Yet, it is important to keep in mind that Thomas possesses a formidable intellect, and has a command and knowledge of rightist theory that is paralleled by few others.
During a period in which the Right was alienated from its theoretical inheritance, and thus confusingly fixated with Austrian economics and the non-aggression principle, Thomas777 — alongside men such as Dr. E Michael Jones, Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson, and Dr. Kerry Bolton — was one of the few figures that could be said to have been a standard bearer of rightist politics.
Furthermore, Thomas777 has a deserved reputation for his technical skill as a writer, with an intuitive ability to elucidate his ideas in a manner which is both intelligible and compelling to the reader. This extract from a piece on Thomas’ ‘Substack’, in which he speaks about having schizophrenia, illustrates his talent:
“[T]he most frightening thing about schizophrenia is the ‘shattering’ effect. One’s mind feels at times that it is quite literally dis-integrating —ceasing to be a WHOLE, ceasing to be one’s OWN personality and rather is fracturing into component elements, each only a very fragmentary piece of a true human being/personality. This is highly AGGRAVATED by the profound disconnectedness of modern life – where true and authentic, enduring ties that ‘bind’ are cruelly abrogated, elusively ephemeral or non-existent altogether.”
With the recent release of his sci-fi novel ‘Steelstorm’ — a brilliant work which I personally endorse — in September through Imperium Press, and the forthcoming release of ‘Steelstorm II’, we can expect much from the once peripheral renegade right-wing writer over the coming months and years.
Originally, I had planned to conduct an interview with him via email. However, while on my daily strut through my locale, I encountered Thomas777 by chance. I found him clad in an Ailtirí na hAiséirghe themed t-shirt, exhorting the buxom and spritely South Dublin Sadies of Sandycove to form a mujahideen-esque organisation, with the aim of engaging in a reconquista of our ancestral homeland: Darndale —whereupon, they should deport all occupying hostiles and install Ulick Fitzhugh as the satrap of this formerly skanger satrapy. He said it, not me.
On the spot, I invited him to my private Yacht and conducted an interview – naturally, the fridge was STOCKED with SUNNY D.
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