Anatoly Karlin

Anatoly Karlin

Anatoly Karlin (aka Akarlin88, Akarlin0, Da Russophile) is a Russian perennial lolcow, edge-lord and internet troll. He's known to quickly jump from different groups and internet communities each year, seeking e-fame; he is a political and religious chameleon having been a self-described "extreme liberal", SJW and LGBT-rights activist in 2008, an atheist, a green communist and environmentalist (2009-2010), pro-Putin conservative (2012-2013), an anti-feminist who blogged quasi-rape-apologetics — to a "techno futurist" (2014-2015), a MAGA and Trump supporter, to white nationalist and anti-Semite (2016-2020) who was a blogger for the far-right The Unz Review and endorsed Richard Spencer as well as shared a podium with him at a neo-Nazi conference. Post-2021, Karlin reinvented himself yet again — this time as an animal rights activist despite previously trolling vegans by eating beef.

Karlin by his own admission has a sexual interest in young girls aged around 13 to 15, despite being in his 30s. This has led him to be a divisive figure in the far-right.

The Many Faces of Anatoly Karlin

Karlin has a history of multiple online personas, shape-shifting his ideological views and opinions to find internet groups, particularly outcast or extremist sects for validation and an identity or to feel special. This explains the excessive amount of time he spends online blogging about his latest political views and large number of websites he has owned. His internet history traces back to January 2008.

SJW and pro-LGBT phase (2008)

Karlin in 2008 when he was 19 years old was a Social Justice Warrior and atheist who self-identified as "extremely liberal" on social issues and was an activist for LGBT-rights and feminism, although he described his economic views as "centrist". At this time he also dressed and looked like a homosexual. According to his blog Da Russophile:

We support the goals of the feminist movement and consider that gender equality has not yet been achieved anywhere. Men are still more valued as bread-winners and women-more as home-makers, and changing these social perceptions is one of our goals. According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2007, Russia comes 45th out of 128 countries – it scores very well on female economic participation, but must make bigger efforts in political empowerment. Unfortunately, LGBT rights are weak in Russia – as in the rest of Visegrad/eastern Europe.

Communist and environmentalist phase (2009-2010)

At the very end of 2008, Anatoly Karlin became left wing economically, an anti-capitalist; he reinvented himself as a "green communist" and environmentalist concerned about overpopulation and resouce depletion. He wrote a blog post titled "Communism is our Road to Redemption":

It should be transparently clear that Green Communism is the wave of the future. The capitalists are morally, and now financially, bankrupt, with the Ponzi scheme that is global finance unraveling before our eyes. We can live without the Madoffs and made-offs of this world; we cannot live in a world of metastasizing deserts and encroaching oceans. The zombie masses of the consumerist have blindly worshipped the false Gods of material growth, directed in their idolatry by cultural hegemony of the capitalist elites. The masses must be woken from their gasoline-fume induced stupor, before stern Mother Nature does it for us. Green Communism is the road to redemption for consumerist sins of greed and gluttony.

Karlin set up his own political party in 2009 "The Collapse Party" which warned of civilisations collapsing using neo-Malthusian arguments he took directly from a 2004 book he read:

The world is finite, and so the resource stocks and pollution sinks that sustain industrial civilization ("the System") are limited. We have been in a state of "overshoot", beyond the "carrying capacity" of the Earth, since the 1980's (The Limits to Growth, 2004). Limited resources have been drawn down much faster than they could be replenished, and the Earth's pollution sinks have been overfilled much faster than they could be regenerated.

Elements of this overshoot can already be seen in phenomena as diverse as plateauing crop yields, topsoil loss, accelerating climate change, peak oil, collapsing fisheries, the depletion of higher-EROEI energy sources, dying rivers, global dimming, the proliferation of "failed states", neo-colonial exploitation, and rising antibiotic resistance. But things are yet going to get much worse...

Based on paleoclimate reconstructions of CO2 levels, an eventual global warming of above 2C is already inevitable. This will set off a cascade of climatic disasters that will speed up the rate of warming, leading to the desertification of much of the world's land and oceans, the drying of the great Asian rivers, and massive inundations of the low-lying coasts and deltas that harbor humanity's heartlands. States will collapse into anarchy, spawning Biblical-scale famines and floods of climate refugees.

Karlin no longer a liberal now promoted communal-agrarian values as so-called "green communism" and set up a Facebook discussion group.

In January 2010, Karlin wrote a blog post "What I now Believe" explaining his sudden change in views:

I now support a global policy of “sustainable retreat” from industrialism in search of Green Communism.

In the same blog post he still claimed to be pro-LGBT but this would quickly change...

Anatoly Karlin as a homophobe and conservative (2012-2013)

Karlin did a 180-degrees turn on his views about LGBT rights and in February 2013 wrote an essay claiming he wants to ban promotion of homosexuality:

Why Homosexuality Shouldn’t Be Promoted: I knew that gays had a maybe five or even ten times higher chance of getting AIDS and other STD’s than heterosexuals. I didn’t know the differential was actually more like 50. Something like 20% of the US gay population (which makes up 3.5% of its total population) is HIV positive. It is 5% in the UK. But as of 2009, according to the CDC “male to male sexual contact” (see pp.58) accounted for about 57% of all HIV transmissions in the US (and of 75% of all HIV transmissions among men). “Heterosexual contact” among men accounted for a mere 8% of all HIV transmissions. Basically, if you’re gay, you should take far, far more precautions during sex than your straight counterparts – though in practice, it seems the precise opposite is taking place (“Carlos estimates that he has already had several hundred sex partners; he eagerly awaits the day when he tests HIV-positive – at which time his erotic interest, Carlos says, will then turn toward infecting another person – which is known as “gift-giving””).

By April 2012 he was now describing himself as a conservative and an admirer of Putin:

As regards Russian politics, I make no secret that I’m a pro-Putin conservative.

Karlin at the time on his main website noted his change in views again:

Quite a few views have changed since then e.g. I am still an equity feminist but would clarify that I’m opposed to gender feminism. I’m also now a lot more skeptical of the LGBT lifestyle and have become a big adherent of HBD theory.

On social media he now wrote he opposed "gender feminism, affirmative action/equal impact, homosexual agenda, demasculinization, ethnic/gender studies, PC culture, etc."

Quasi-rape apologist and anti-feminist

In February 2013, Karlin wrote a creepy blog post claiming 25% of incarcerated rapists in US are innocent and 25% are "pseudo-rapists":

But of the women who report rape to the police, about 25% to 50% will be either lying or greatly distorting what really happened. The last figures are backed up not only by the cited estimates of the prevalence of false rape accusations, but by realistic assumptions about the fallibility of the criminal justice system. As per the last point, it’s too much to hope for that the criminal justice system will only, exclusively nail real rapists. In reality the deck is, if anything, stacked against innocent men and “pseudo-rapists” (i.e. the drunk fratboy who has sex with a consenting and equally drunk chick who really, really regrets it the morning after) because the pro rapists are almost by definition more proficient at it in the first place and would take care to cover their traces and create alibis.Based on the above rough numbers, it is a reasonable estimate that in the US probably more than 25% of convicted rapists are in fact innocent, while a good 25% or so are the type of “pseudo-rapist” described above. And of course while far from all rape convicts will go to jail, their criminal record and the sheer opprobrium associated with rape will generally create multiple problems for them for the rest of their lives such as finding a job, maintaining good relations with friends and family, and wooing romantic prospects. In fact even a false rape accusation can wreck lives because whereas women are allowed to remain anonymous, the accused does not have that same privilege. Now I know this concept of the “pseudo-rapist” is going to get me flak from the feminists but what can you do.

Proponent of the big black dick hoax

Another online community Karlin tried to attach himself to around 2013 is the 'racial realist'. Karlin however became a laughing stock for his support of the big black dick hoax:

	“	...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.	„
	—Anatoly Karlin

Techno-futurist (2014-2015)

At some point in 2013, Anatoly Karlin began associating himself with techno-futurism — and a year later he was calling himself a techno-futurist blogger:

If I had to pick just one school, I probably best fit into the HBD community, but I’m interested in Techno-Futurism (incidentally, I met up with Mike Anissimov last week) and “Masculine Reaction” – or at least its “game” component, I don’t much care for the MRM - as well.

His religious views also changed; by October 2014 he [https://web.archive.org/web/20141025200427/http://akarlin.com/about/ was claiming to be part of the Orthodox Christian community and a gnostic:

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough. Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.

Despite claiming he hesitates to attach labels to himself — he had spent the past 6 years doing this... having converted from a self-described liberal to a conservative etc.

External links

• Anatoly Karlin's article at Trollpedia
• "14-YEAR-OLD-GIRL-RESPECTER" ANATOLY KARLIN "QUITS" UNZ REVIEW AS ANGLIN TAKES OVER

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