If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Anjuli looks to be trying to get the heave-ho from FTB. She even called Tucker Carlson "a damn good journalist". :lol: https://freethoughtblogs.com/anjuli/2017/08/15/americas-black-racists-can-all-learn-from-this-white-man/ By the time racists gain institutional power, there are already enough of t...

The point of actual dog whistles is that dogs can hear them, but humans can't. It's like a secret language. So, if you can detect when a dog whistle is being used, then you must share attributes with the intended target. Thus, anyone who tells you that some statement is a dog whistle to Nazis must ...

Some ramblings further to some of the above. It's interesting btw: when I try to think of the closest analogues to "White" philosophical ideas in other world cultures, they're often Chinese. I'm a bit of a Sinophile, I've always been fascinated by Chinese culture. So as I said, you have Daoism as an...

In response to some of the comments above: since the other factors are (I agree) so numerous and indeterminate, surely that indeterminacy cancels out for all the various ethnic groups, so the factor that is fairly determinate - genetics - is the one that's left over to make the biggest noticeable d...

Just as an addendum, it's not as if group bonding via kinship is totally absent in the West, or group bonding by abstract ideals (or "sacred objects") is totally absent in other cultures - all these factors are present in a way because we're all human, the idea is just that the weighting of these fa...

In response to some of the comments above: since the other factors are (I agree) so numerous and indeterminate, surely that indeterminacy cancels out for all the various ethnic groups, so the factor that is fairly determinate - genetics - is the one that's left over to make the biggest noticeable di...

Since the Great Filter's been on my mind recently, here's an interesting possible resolution to the Fermi Paradox.

And flipping it around again - if you start to look at things this way, then it's possible to see the spread of liberal democracy as a sort of untoward imposition . IOW, Mencius Moldbug, Chomsky and the Alt Right at least agree on some things :) I have to say all this stuff's been racking my brains ...

But to say that some people are just unable to accept specific political values because of their race/ethnicity requires A LOT more evidence than "most liberal democracies are populated by a majority of people of European descent, and we think it's because of bipartite manoralism/longer life histor...

Just to clarify: what the Alt Right argument would mean, if true, is not that some black, yellow or brown people can't live liberally or like liberal ideas - obviously some can and do. It's rather that those ideas will never "stick" at the population level, liberal democracy is not something that wi...

I still don't really understand why you can't celebrate western heritage and culture, identify core value sets and make it clear that these are the "house rules" - without having to go all blut and boden about it. Because the really hard question is whether those core values are "carried" by a part...

This interview with Damore has probably been shown up-thread but I'm too rushed to check. The funniest thing about this is how the interviewer is so visibly puzzled that her usual armory of kafkatraps is glancing off the armor of his innocent, bloody-minded sperginess. (You can almost see the wheels...

Kirbmarc wrote:In 2017 saying that women and men are on average biologically different is blasphemy. Sexual dimorphism is the work of ~~Satan~~ the Patriarchy.

And pointing any of this out is ~~the temptation of the Devil~~ gaslighting.

Inspired by that clip a few pages back, I just watched The Big Sleep in its entirety. One interesting thing I noticed about it, as a reflection of the current political climate, is how tough the women are, how really strongly drawn as characters. Those women aren't pussies, and they're not damsels. ...

Maybe I'm just a bit dim - but I think I'll wait until there is more of a consensus on the topic. Check out Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos for a recent entry point to the debate by a big name. It's been brewing for a few decades. Basically, what Postmodernists point out is true and un-get-overable:...

Tigzy wrote:Trailer for Spielberg's Ready Player One just dropped, and fuck me, it looks the shit.

It does, but I am disappoint to see that CGI meisters still can't get the look of humanoid figures riding on bucking big creatures quite right.

Do you think that Jesus would help? I'm not sure anything will help. We might actually be fucked. The "neat trick" of narrowing investigative memetic endeavours to the quantitative, but then going too far and accidentally/deliberately excluding questions of qualitative context altogether from ratio...

On another subject altogether, just watched a doco on Breivik. His "manifesto" is a good case study on why letting the larpers and new crusaders loose is not a best practice solution. It's not. The larpers and new crusaders are reactionaries, not supporters of modernity. The best practice solution ...

Stross is unfortunately a giant SJW these days - I suspect it's a similar case of Stockholm Syndrome to Steve Shives.'

He is writing at approximately one book a year. And they probably should be read in order - each is a separate story - but building on the previous ones. I remember Stross saying that his goal is to reach the 'Lovecraftian Singularity'. Which sounds interesting if nothing else. The Laundry novels r...

As Diversity & Comics says, if the best thing you can say about a movie is that Michael Keaton, who does a great job in everything he's in, did a great job in this movie, you're in trouble. Truly, SJWs ruin everything they touch. This is rather odd. I actually enjoyed the latest Spidey film, and I ...

As Diversity & Comics says, if the best thing you can say about a movie is that Michael Keaton, who does a great job in everything he's in, did a great job in this movie, you're in trouble. Truly, SJWs ruin everything they touch. This is rather odd. I actually enjoyed the latest Spidey film, and I ...

Hmm, Israel's pissed off with Soros' shenanigans:- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-hungary-soros-idUSKBN19V1J4 "George Soros [...] continuously undermines Israel's democratically elected governments," said foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon, adding that Soros funded organizations ...

Plus he is too long winded for what he has to say. True. I rather like his amused delivery though, and I like the way he reviews comics by actually holding the physical comic, leafing through it and pointing to things. That's the home turf of comics - that tactile thing, the smell of the paper, etc...

Re. the Spidey movie: precipitous drop in the second week - comparably doing the same as the second week of the THIRD Raimi movie and the SECOND Garfield movie:- [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc3MNmBwExU[/youtube] As Diversity & Comics says, if the best thing you can say about a movie is ...

There's too much time and interest spent on his gee whizz suit. Pete makes his own miracle web fluid, yet he's incapable of being heroic off his own bat with a functional _non-goofy_ suit he's made himself. Enough with the fucking suit already. The whole point of the suit arc though is exactly that...

Scott Adams having a chuckle at the Democrats' panic re. Kid Rock at 13:19 here:- https://www.pscp.tv/w/1eaKbmdYdeaxX

Comics sell, at best, a few hundred thousand issues. They're not movies. There's a reason Marvel films aren't recasting a teenage girl as Iron Man, a woman as Thora, or a Korean as the Hulk and that's money. Having watched the recent Spider-Man movie today, may I remind you of the "how to boil a fr...

Some hilarious word music (disguising typically cogent points) from Doctor Randomercam, riffing off the recent Piers-Morgan/Korwin-Mikke clip that's been doing the rounds:- [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Us4wcMtl4[/youtube] My favourite verbal flourish: "Like a Frenchman trying to park a...

Apparently, calling people racist is a bad way to engage with them and might even make them more resistent to your message. Even more amazingly, techniques like establishing a rapport, identifying common ground, and then explaining your perspective has a much better chance of changing someone's min...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNLNzoogBKU Really good vidya on women ruling the world I like Colttaine a lot, he's my favourite of the grumpy bastards who've come out of the MGTOW school. I don't agree with him a lot (quite a bit I disagree with in this video), but I really like his way of thinki...

There seems to be something in having a carrot and a stick approach - if a religion is to persist. Without the threat of consequences for bad actions or the cycle of guilt and penance - people tend to drift away. Anyway, such discussions bring to mind the 3rd verse of ' All Things Bright and Beauti...

But the thing is, for the common people, having nothing to believe in isn't just some fey #firstworldproblem. It directly leads to family breakdown, crime, Idiocracy, etc., etc. Once again: smart people can just about handle it (at least the puzzle itself is an engaging Rubik's cube), but without t...

I think in the future people will realize that it was actually an immense act of cruelty to strip away peoples' deep beliefs the way modernity did. There were definitely huge benefits in terms of technological progress that came from looking at existence as mere mechanism (the power of quantitative...

That's the thing; we don't need to claim truth as a property of these things, so it doesn't much matter what you pick from the Spirituality Buffet. Is it simply the practice of a ritual that works for us? Robert Sapolsky has been saying for years that half crazy people might just come up with adapt...

The ultimate goal is to give room for muslims to come to the same conclusion: believing in "something" which cannot be detected and doesn't require killing or imprisoning or oppressing "sinners", "heretics" and former muslims. There's a long way to go before those ideas become commonplace, but a "s...

I guess I'm lucky in that I never felt much comfort in religion, so it's not likely I'll back slide into it. Most religion (and groups) are full of people (even if just of a passive-aggressive sort) with their own ideas about what others should do - and I'd rather not subject myself to that irritat...

There's a line in an early Judge Dredd comic - where in response to Dredd's doubts about the job his mentor suggests that he gets a new pair of boots one size too small. The point being that Dredd will be so busy thinking about his feet that he won't have time to worry about anything else. Joseph H...

I am starting to think that's the game plan. It's a particularly conflicted form of self-harm. The ego gets all that gratifying attention and its negativity gratified all sorts of subconscious self-loading while simultaneously providing a performative turn on the SJW cross. Fucking things up for ot...

Sad, unbalanced freaks pushing their personal issues onto society. The self-harm refusal to disavow this insane position leads directly to it appearing on FOX, and only furthers the impression among ordinary folk that the "liberals" (sic) are waging a Kulturkampf designed to undermine everything th...

Yeah, it's the sloppiness and punditry which really irk me, not Sargon's political positions per se. To be fair to Sargon, both videos being complained about are posted on a channel he explicitly says shouldn't be taken seriously and that he doesn't bother to put any research into. This is true, th...

Amusing thing of SJWs inadvertently applauding a speech comprised of Hitler quotes:-

The older I get, the more I appreciate the character of Rick (with a silent p) from The Young Ones. http://www.katyjon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Rik-Mayall-Rick-in-The-Young-Ones.png When I watched the programme in the early 80s I was too young to appreciate what an accurate satire of a certai...

Glenn Reynolds twits #CNNBlackmail - "CNN has chosen the form of its Destructor. A million @4chan guys."

Every nation or ethnic group or religion or ideology on Earth has committed its share of atrocities. There are no Good Guys, only evil and lesser evils. And the lesser evil is often the most rational, not the most well-intentioned. People, even clever, well-read, compassionate ones, find it hard to...

Rather excellent Spiked article on Orwell that reminds me of something that's cropped into my mind persistently over the years. I think the fundamental problem is that human beings are accidentally over-engineered. We are exquisitely sensitive beings in a brutal world. And while we can fit into the ...

I guess I should clarify I was partly defending the Second Wave. Not only were there quite a few egalitarians in the movement at the time, but personal responsibility (instead of 'false consciousness') was the creed of all but the radical feminists. I'd also say the 2nd wavers were in general bette...

Prince of Queens has fast become one of my favourite anti-SJWsceptic Youtubers. Here are a couple recent ones:- [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auBOLDAsWDI[/youtube] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnX-RuUmvUk[/youtube] People who profoundly change their minds on topics are often w...

All this tittage reminds me of an interesting Lindybeige vid asking why women have breasts (it's a bit long but he goes through lots of possible explanations):-

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My wife and daughter refer to you (all) as my "e-maginary friends." Give them a real life "Best Comment Evah" :lol: The funny thing about online interaction is that we tend to hallucinate an entire personality onto the person on the other side of the screen, on the basis of just a few words. Usuall...

Yeah, but how do you do that five point exploding heart punch thing then? If I told you I'd have to kill you :) To cap off this little excursion into the land of MA, here's a clip of a top level guy doing the slow form, with its lovely, silky movement:- [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzr7...

Seeing as there was some interest from that last post on Taijiquan, here's a brain dump of what little I know (or think I know :) ) about the Asian martial arts as a whole, and particularly the Internal Chinese MA:- The core principles of all the Asian MA (to some extent, even if only in terms of li...

Here's a recent culturally relevant beatdown of a woo based Tai Chi practitioner in China. The whole MMA revolution vs traditional martial arts deal is just now getting going in China & there's an air of wounded cultural pride to it all. The fact that the Tai Chi practitioner was pushing George Dil...

Thinking again about the classical liberal position. I think the thing that's different about it, is that it's an experimental mode of politics rather than a prescriptive form of politics. Everyone and their mother has some notion about what the Good Life would be for everybody. The problem is findi...

Rubin Report with Sargon:-

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Also Chomsky is an Utopian. His ideal society is an anarco-socialist one. I think that's why he's so keen on forgiving the flaws of "leftist" regimes. Personally I believe that any form of anarchism is a chimera: not only any political system can be gamed by ambitious, determined, clever or charism...

the US have over-reached, they believe themselves to be untouchable, the only one and true World Cops, and that it's their business to decide who rules and who doesn't everywhere and anywhere. I think rather the problem has been "inconsistent parenting." Because of the oscillation between hawks and...

People talk about Islamophobia, but nobody hates muslims like other muslims. Even different Salafi groups, who share the same goals and ideology, routinely fight each other due to different strategies. This is the interesting thing, it seems to be part of how the mind-virus spreads. You have the pr...

That said there was no excuse for not even trying to bomb the auschwitz railheads. It's surprising, the degree to which the Allies knew about the concentration camps, but didn't seem to care, and even swept it under the rug at every available opportunity. Well, surprising if you aren't aware that t...

So anyone else looking forward to Luc Besson's return to science fiction? [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogf2uuTo0LE[/youtube] Very much so. Side note: I've always been slightly amused by the "cultural appropriation" the French practice wrt the gung-ho aspect of Americana (comics and movi...

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