Neither right- nor left-wing...

Sounds more like a recipe for alt-right incel with a massive persecution complex, perhaps lone gunman. At best, that kooky uncle that everyone dreads at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I despise the alt-right incel movement. I consider it utterly opposed to Christianity and I have no sympathy for the idea of Nicholas Fuentes and other representatives of those ideas. 

Also, suggesting I would be a "lone gunman" is something I find offensive. If you think I am capable of that sort of behaviour, then I am sorry to say you have misunderstood me Dominic.

He's a young lad. It's kind of natural to develop slight obsessions at that age and try and slot things into a particular paradigm. I think the incel remark was uncalled for and uncharitable. He has a particular viewpoint on Russian politics and culture that is at odds with views that are more common elsewhere. He's approaching these issues very much from a very, very intellectual angle. I've lived in Russia and the ground level experience is somewhat more complicated and messy. My wife has read Luke's posts and agrees with some points and disagrees with others but noted reading them that the reality of the Soviet Union was far more complicated and that it was a huge mess of good and bad. She once illustrated that to me when I first knew her by noting that her grandfather who was an atheist and a senior army officer was happy enough to take her maternal great-grandmother to Church and to read the Bible to her as her sight declined. He also avoided critiquing religion in front of the old woman but if he talked about it with other people he could be very direct in his view that it was all bunkum. He enjoyed a good clash of wills and he soon sensed that I liked such arguments when he met me. 

Luke has a very high intellect but not everyone wants to do these sorts of back and forth debates in real life all the time. I have a touch of this in my own makeup as you know. People don't want to start debating the foreign policy of the Brezhnev area over the cornflakes and toast. I've learnt to knock this side of me on the head a bit but I've had a long time to do that. 

I personally thought he had a lot to say that was of interest. I also would love to hear people stop using this incel/chad/alpha/beta/sigma rubbish. I tried to explain it to my father who is elderly one day who thought (quite rightly I think) that it was absurd nonsense.

Because the Internet loves to make sweeping generalizations, such as that if a young man is single then it must be because he's a jerk in some way. It couldn't possibly be that he hasn't met the right person yet or that he has decided to focus on something other than relationships.

I was single till my early 30s because I had other issues to be sorting out in my life and I never thought I'd get married at all. I've been in two long-term relationships with two very different women. If I was, God forbid, to end up widowed at this point I'd not sure I'd want to get married again or enter another relationship as maintaining such relationships is a very, very big investment. My father was widowed very early and never remarried because he never felt he would make the same connection with someone else the second time around. I am now the same age he was when he was widowed and understand what he meant.