That bit about those who bemoan the lack of "spaces" on the internet for paedophiles who have allegedly not crossed the line into pederasty reminds me of the UK's foray into sex offenxer rehabilitation.
The concept was simple. Establish a safe space in which rapists and kiddie diddlers can discuss the fantasies which drive their offending, their actual offending behavior, and gain victim empathy somehow. All this facilitated by untrained prison guards following the instructions of some Canadian program the Brits picked up on the cheap.
In other words, rape school. These boys took notes, brainstormed (noncestormed?) and came away with all sorts of new ideas. Result: outrageously increased recidivism and (wait for it) . . . a marked escalation in the severity, violence and cruelty of those subsequent offences! Some guys decided to give children a try, others thought restraints sounded fun. Others learned the value of team work in sex offending. This really happened.
These NPCs are going live in confusing times. They, like us, lived in a Truman Show, but they believed it all. They never questioned anything because The Show said so! Now the Show is cancelled.
I just came across a lefty woman who is using the theory of “Extinction Burst” to explain the MAGA explosion the country is experiencing.
this theory says that the current shift toward the right is just the final tantrum of a movement bordering extinction and is further proof of eventual leftist victory. so apparently Trumps violent march through the institutions is just the last gasps of a dying patient.
I almost admire their childlike hope that the astroturfed reality they have been fed is on the right side of history.
I'm more concerned with the right letting victory slip through their fingers. US Aid granted all sorts of benefits to the Left, favouring them for engineering, bureaucratic positions and also doling out patronage to their 'artists' and 'creatives'.
If the Right has access to the same resources, it must begin to channel them towards their own, failure to provide patronage dooms the right and honestly will prove the Left deserves to win. The reason being; failure to seize victory and the Mandate of Heaven so to speak merits punishment, and as a writer I can tell you this stuff takes untold amounts of time. Time is a currency, and there's a finite amount of it so there's a finite amount of books I can write in my life time.
There's a finite amount of sculptures, buildings, paintings, tapestries and such that other creatives can build, so that we must favour our own and stop reacting to the left.
Right-wing engineers in engineering positions, right wing scholars for top university posts, right wing artists to be patronised and for grants, and right wing bureaucrats to beat down and tear apart the left.
Yep, which is a great way for us to seguay for you ;). Joking aside I’m still somewhat steamed/shocked over what’s happened. Thankfully I’ll be too busy for that this week and begin classes soon as well, so won't be repeating myself anymore on here during that time good sir.
Agreed but it makes a certain sense that you have to rip the guts out first. These institutions are totally captured. It would be difficult to keep the money flowing and clean house at the same time. The money spigot has to close in order to wash away all the rot, or else it will just adapt, lay low, and metastasize later on. The people inhabiting these places currently are so steeped in cultural malaise that they won’t be shaken out of it in a 4 year Trump term. I think incremental change and “playing the system” was Trump’s strategy the first time around, and that didn’t work, the system just bucked him.
Fair enough that's a really good point, I think though redirecting the funds and replacing these clowns who are managing it is in order but that will as you pointed out take time.
It's promising that unless I hallucinated it ( passionflower drops are great for insomnia but you must be careful with them ), over the weekend, Trump fired the entire Board of the Kennedy Center and has appointed himself its new chairman/president, or whatever.
As you know, traditionalists have opposed what you are suggesting and Trump has just done ( he also reissued the executive order from his previous term that new government buildings be built according to classical standards of architecture, which Biden, a committed dolt and vulgarian before dementia covered him with immunity for his awfulness, rescinded ), but this has always seemed to me because such people either didn't give a damn about the arts or were making destructively consistent ideological stands.
Everything's politicized for the left. Brutalism and ugly box buildings in general were developed by leftists, so therefore good. Old buildings with pretty outside detail were developed by dead white men of the right, so therefore bad. Plus once something gets politicized, well, everyone just kind of falls into the appropriate buckets without being told because the other side disgusts you.
For an interesting counterexample you can look at Nathan Robinson's pieces on architecture in Current Affairs--he argues liking symmetry and detail is an intrinsic human preference seen in other cultures and a lot of the big ugly box buildings are preferred by corporations.
That they’re, ironically in a sense, the ultimate conformists. For all the talk of MAGA being a cult, and maybe some people do in a sense worship it, intersectional leftist dogma is the most cult-like thing I have ever encountered in my life. There’s nothing that their thought leaders could command them to do that they wouldn’t then execute.
There’s something inherently malevolent in the doctrine of human liberation. Once it appears, no limiting principle is admitted. So I assume the heavy conformism is a Safety In Numbers instinct.
“Minor attracted persons” is a pathetic attempt to normalize child rape. They’re telling us that anyone who ever thought a 17-year-old girl was hot, is the same as someone who wants to rape a 10-year-old.
It is incredible, and at least a little funny, that instead of purging any influence of pedophiles from their movements, leftists instead end up propping them up in order to not play into “fascist” propaganda or what have you. It’s just a totally bizarre self own that illustrates how far detached from public sentiment - from reality - that the echo chambers and academic mental gymnastics leftists immerse themselves in truly are. It’s the ultimate self parody that would’ve been satire 10 to 15 years ago, to be so against anything even vaguely right coded that one arrives at, “yeah, pedophiles actually *are* the real victims here”. As an aside here, it’s beautiful that this is all coalescing at the same time that you have Kendrick Lamar outright calling his top musical rival a pedo on national TV at the Super Bowl and has the whole crowd singing along lol. What a wild time to live in.
Tbh, I’m totally okay with oppressing pedophiles. I don’t care if they chose their sexuality or not. We should oppress them even harder than we do now.
The left likes to take credit for a victory that was delivered by nationalist rage, bolstered by the steroid of western capital. Stalinism simply provided the totalitarian terror-state overlay: the equivalent of the machine guns at the back of the penal battalions.
And yet the progressives - who would have been killed in Stalin’s camps before the Great Patriotic War even started - persist in the belief the war was fought to liberate German kids from transphobia and uphold the rights of adults to have sex with them.
Great article again. One of the next moves is to weaponize these people’s posts against them, because the internet is forever.
As mentioned in your article about how Commies only come together against “fascism”, this can be an easy way to signal to the normies who they can just dismiss without engaging with.
I know a lot of people in the Online Right don’t care about the normies, and they are correct the popular masses will never save us. That doesn’t mean that having the normies on side, or even just not actively against you has no benefit.
If someone makes a Hitler claim, the proper thing to do is encourage the normies to forever ignore this person and their opinion because they are a commie. Most normies know that commies tend to hide their communist ideology under other labels “social liberalism”, “social market”, “progressive” etc.
The one thing all these people have in common is they will say Trump = Hitler. That’s what all they agree on, and it’s such a simple rubric to follow because it’s true. Thus the following tactic:
You say Hitler.
We say Commie.
You say “no but I’m a super duper moderate liberal sorta conservative who’s just very very serious about Trump beginning Hitler 2.0”
We say “Commie tells the lie all Commies tell” toss in good meme and move on.
Are these people actual dyed in the wool Marx lovers? Or are they James Lindseying all the way to pseudo gay race communism via Post blah blah blah. IT DOES NOT MATTER.
The point isn’t to be correct in political theory terms, the point is to place the opposition immediately into a camp that is discredited and reviled so they never even get the chance to be influential.
Which, is EXACTLY what they have been doing to do to us for the entire Postwar Era.
The masses will pick up on this, and the internet is forever. Any time any of these people ever start getting some traction on some topic, just immediately point out them saying Trump = Hitler, allowing the discredit machine to continue on.
When the normies ignore your opposition, then your vanguard can march downhill, the wind on their back, in 78 degree weather with the sun on their face to victory. Instead of being suspicious, the normies will cheer them on.
Isn't it Hitleris? So hard to say. Speer clearly preferred the 3rd declension genitive, but Göbels and Himmler often modeled it on vir, viri.
Hitler was famously self-conscious about his Latin and ordered both his prose and verse works destroyed alongside Eva Braun's spoon collection. So I guess wel'll never know.
I’ve thought about it more, and I think that my idiosyncratic use of “go” means I should make it ablative, and I’m treating Hitler like it’s second declension. Interpretatiō Hitlerō
Wait, did you use “foreground” as a verb? Cool it there, buddy!
And did you call yourself a centrist? Again, you need to chill out. Next you’ll be a member of the far center, and I might need to block you.
Aside from that, excellent post as always! I appreciate seeing the link between old leftism and new leftism, which isn’t always obvious to us normies who wonder why certain conservatives insist on labeling all their opponents communists. It’s almost as bad as the Left labeling all their opponents fascists.
To your point, I’m not sure how any of this helps us one way or another. These are mostly obsolete terms. We need to get more creative and thoughtful with our language.
That bit about those who bemoan the lack of "spaces" on the internet for paedophiles who have allegedly not crossed the line into pederasty reminds me of the UK's foray into sex offenxer rehabilitation.
The concept was simple. Establish a safe space in which rapists and kiddie diddlers can discuss the fantasies which drive their offending, their actual offending behavior, and gain victim empathy somehow. All this facilitated by untrained prison guards following the instructions of some Canadian program the Brits picked up on the cheap.
In other words, rape school. These boys took notes, brainstormed (noncestormed?) and came away with all sorts of new ideas. Result: outrageously increased recidivism and (wait for it) . . . a marked escalation in the severity, violence and cruelty of those subsequent offences! Some guys decided to give children a try, others thought restraints sounded fun. Others learned the value of team work in sex offending. This really happened.
So maybe not with the nonce encounter groups?
These NPCs are going live in confusing times. They, like us, lived in a Truman Show, but they believed it all. They never questioned anything because The Show said so! Now the Show is cancelled.
They are stumbling around the empty set, shouting at the smudged camera marks on the floor.
Now that the show is cancelled, maybe we can put Hitler in the grave for good.
I just came across a lefty woman who is using the theory of “Extinction Burst” to explain the MAGA explosion the country is experiencing.
this theory says that the current shift toward the right is just the final tantrum of a movement bordering extinction and is further proof of eventual leftist victory. so apparently Trumps violent march through the institutions is just the last gasps of a dying patient.
I almost admire their childlike hope that the astroturfed reality they have been fed is on the right side of history.
“keep fighting! we are almost there comrades!"
And in a similar vein; increasing warming causes extreme cooling....
We could use the same "Extinction Burst" theory to describe the Left's tantrums.
Iron law of Projection remains Iron.
I'm more concerned with the right letting victory slip through their fingers. US Aid granted all sorts of benefits to the Left, favouring them for engineering, bureaucratic positions and also doling out patronage to their 'artists' and 'creatives'.
If the Right has access to the same resources, it must begin to channel them towards their own, failure to provide patronage dooms the right and honestly will prove the Left deserves to win. The reason being; failure to seize victory and the Mandate of Heaven so to speak merits punishment, and as a writer I can tell you this stuff takes untold amounts of time. Time is a currency, and there's a finite amount of it so there's a finite amount of books I can write in my life time.
There's a finite amount of sculptures, buildings, paintings, tapestries and such that other creatives can build, so that we must favour our own and stop reacting to the left.
Right-wing engineers in engineering positions, right wing scholars for top university posts, right wing artists to be patronised and for grants, and right wing bureaucrats to beat down and tear apart the left.
Anything less and it is a betrayal.
This was the subject of my previous essay.
Yep, which is a great way for us to seguay for you ;). Joking aside I’m still somewhat steamed/shocked over what’s happened. Thankfully I’ll be too busy for that this week and begin classes soon as well, so won't be repeating myself anymore on here during that time good sir.
Segue. Sorry....
Thanks
Agreed but it makes a certain sense that you have to rip the guts out first. These institutions are totally captured. It would be difficult to keep the money flowing and clean house at the same time. The money spigot has to close in order to wash away all the rot, or else it will just adapt, lay low, and metastasize later on. The people inhabiting these places currently are so steeped in cultural malaise that they won’t be shaken out of it in a 4 year Trump term. I think incremental change and “playing the system” was Trump’s strategy the first time around, and that didn’t work, the system just bucked him.
Fair enough that's a really good point, I think though redirecting the funds and replacing these clowns who are managing it is in order but that will as you pointed out take time.
Yes, sterilize the system first.
It's promising that unless I hallucinated it ( passionflower drops are great for insomnia but you must be careful with them ), over the weekend, Trump fired the entire Board of the Kennedy Center and has appointed himself its new chairman/president, or whatever.
As you know, traditionalists have opposed what you are suggesting and Trump has just done ( he also reissued the executive order from his previous term that new government buildings be built according to classical standards of architecture, which Biden, a committed dolt and vulgarian before dementia covered him with immunity for his awfulness, rescinded ), but this has always seemed to me because such people either didn't give a damn about the arts or were making destructively consistent ideological stands.
I am a traditionalist and cannot fathom why they’d resist older styles of building and what not. Strange but anyways good moves by him.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-o5_Q0hCZjM&t=2s&pp=ygUObXkgbHVuY2ggYnJlYWs%3D
Fascinant.
Everything's politicized for the left. Brutalism and ugly box buildings in general were developed by leftists, so therefore good. Old buildings with pretty outside detail were developed by dead white men of the right, so therefore bad. Plus once something gets politicized, well, everyone just kind of falls into the appropriate buckets without being told because the other side disgusts you.
For an interesting counterexample you can look at Nathan Robinson's pieces on architecture in Current Affairs--he argues liking symmetry and detail is an intrinsic human preference seen in other cultures and a lot of the big ugly box buildings are preferred by corporations.
I’d argue it wasn’t men of the right but men of God and who loved their nations. This is something that is neither right nor left.
There’s apparently an entire different narrative about the older buildings that we are not taught. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-o5_Q0hCZjM&t=2s&pp=ygUObXkgbHVuY2ggYnJlYWs%3D
“There are more things in Heaven and on Earth than your science can contain, Horatio.”
A reminder human knowledge has its limits, and the universe holds truths and phenomena beyond our comprehension.
Prostasia sounded to me like some sort of chronic injury to the prostate. Which turned out, upon examination, to be not far from the truth.
I was thinking it sounded like a new prostate medication from Big Pharma. "Ask your doctor about Prostasia".
“My wife is bisexual and nonbinary, and my daughter is transgender. My queer family helped me better understand myself and my masculinity.”
Essay by Noah Berlatsky Feb 13, 2023, Business Insider
What even to say about that man-rodent-author-photo?
That they’re, ironically in a sense, the ultimate conformists. For all the talk of MAGA being a cult, and maybe some people do in a sense worship it, intersectional leftist dogma is the most cult-like thing I have ever encountered in my life. There’s nothing that their thought leaders could command them to do that they wouldn’t then execute.
There’s something inherently malevolent in the doctrine of human liberation. Once it appears, no limiting principle is admitted. So I assume the heavy conformism is a Safety In Numbers instinct.
“My masculinity” bro you don’t have any, Noah lol 😂
“Minor attracted persons” is a pathetic attempt to normalize child rape. They’re telling us that anyone who ever thought a 17-year-old girl was hot, is the same as someone who wants to rape a 10-year-old.
They’re pedophiles. They’re not normal.
Flattening the categories.
It is incredible, and at least a little funny, that instead of purging any influence of pedophiles from their movements, leftists instead end up propping them up in order to not play into “fascist” propaganda or what have you. It’s just a totally bizarre self own that illustrates how far detached from public sentiment - from reality - that the echo chambers and academic mental gymnastics leftists immerse themselves in truly are. It’s the ultimate self parody that would’ve been satire 10 to 15 years ago, to be so against anything even vaguely right coded that one arrives at, “yeah, pedophiles actually *are* the real victims here”. As an aside here, it’s beautiful that this is all coalescing at the same time that you have Kendrick Lamar outright calling his top musical rival a pedo on national TV at the Super Bowl and has the whole crowd singing along lol. What a wild time to live in.
Tbh, I’m totally okay with oppressing pedophiles. I don’t care if they chose their sexuality or not. We should oppress them even harder than we do now.
I learned more from reading this, than I have ever learned from Dan Rather in my entire lifetime. Thank you. It was beautiful.
Thank you very much.
The left likes to take credit for a victory that was delivered by nationalist rage, bolstered by the steroid of western capital. Stalinism simply provided the totalitarian terror-state overlay: the equivalent of the machine guns at the back of the penal battalions.
And yet the progressives - who would have been killed in Stalin’s camps before the Great Patriotic War even started - persist in the belief the war was fought to liberate German kids from transphobia and uphold the rights of adults to have sex with them.
Great article again. One of the next moves is to weaponize these people’s posts against them, because the internet is forever.
As mentioned in your article about how Commies only come together against “fascism”, this can be an easy way to signal to the normies who they can just dismiss without engaging with.
I know a lot of people in the Online Right don’t care about the normies, and they are correct the popular masses will never save us. That doesn’t mean that having the normies on side, or even just not actively against you has no benefit.
If someone makes a Hitler claim, the proper thing to do is encourage the normies to forever ignore this person and their opinion because they are a commie. Most normies know that commies tend to hide their communist ideology under other labels “social liberalism”, “social market”, “progressive” etc.
The one thing all these people have in common is they will say Trump = Hitler. That’s what all they agree on, and it’s such a simple rubric to follow because it’s true. Thus the following tactic:
You say Hitler.
We say Commie.
You say “no but I’m a super duper moderate liberal sorta conservative who’s just very very serious about Trump beginning Hitler 2.0”
We say “Commie tells the lie all Commies tell” toss in good meme and move on.
Are these people actual dyed in the wool Marx lovers? Or are they James Lindseying all the way to pseudo gay race communism via Post blah blah blah. IT DOES NOT MATTER.
The point isn’t to be correct in political theory terms, the point is to place the opposition immediately into a camp that is discredited and reviled so they never even get the chance to be influential.
Which, is EXACTLY what they have been doing to do to us for the entire Postwar Era.
The masses will pick up on this, and the internet is forever. Any time any of these people ever start getting some traction on some topic, just immediately point out them saying Trump = Hitler, allowing the discredit machine to continue on.
When the normies ignore your opposition, then your vanguard can march downhill, the wind on their back, in 78 degree weather with the sun on their face to victory. Instead of being suspicious, the normies will cheer them on.
Comments are way to heady here. Nothing to add.
Take another look at that picture of the armed trans lady. So far there are no sights added to that rifle.
Who needs sights when you have those crazy eyes?
Good catch.
Isn't it Hitleris? So hard to say. Speer clearly preferred the 3rd declension genitive, but Göbels and Himmler often modeled it on vir, viri.
Hitler was famously self-conscious about his Latin and ordered both his prose and verse works destroyed alongside Eva Braun's spoon collection. So I guess wel'll never know.
I’ve thought about it more, and I think that my idiosyncratic use of “go” means I should make it ablative, and I’m treating Hitler like it’s second declension. Interpretatiō Hitlerō
Given the concept of everything is Nazi, might we call this construction the ablative of twat?
Prostasia sounds like a pharmaceutical for enlarged prostate, to help alleviate the inability to urinate.
I think the meeting went something like this:
“Hey everyone, you know what we should focus on? Child prostitutes from Asia.”
“When you say ‘focus’ you mean help, right?”
“Oh yeah… sure… anyway, prostitute Asians will be our thing and we’ll call ourselves the Prostitute Asian Service Association.”
“Well thst won’t fit on a bumper sticker. How about: Prostasia?”
“Sounds great. This is my second favorite Discord.”
Wait, did you use “foreground” as a verb? Cool it there, buddy!
And did you call yourself a centrist? Again, you need to chill out. Next you’ll be a member of the far center, and I might need to block you.
Aside from that, excellent post as always! I appreciate seeing the link between old leftism and new leftism, which isn’t always obvious to us normies who wonder why certain conservatives insist on labeling all their opponents communists. It’s almost as bad as the Left labeling all their opponents fascists.
To your point, I’m not sure how any of this helps us one way or another. These are mostly obsolete terms. We need to get more creative and thoughtful with our language.
I call myself a centrist. Everyone else persists in believing that I’m a right-wing extremist, despite my ideas being eminently reasonable.
Yeah, centrist doesn’t mean that anymore, unfortunately. I just wrote a hit piece on centrists. I’ll have to share it with you when it’s posted.
My diatribe against centrists. Sorry, Pamela Paul, I’m breaking up with you.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/beware-the-centrist/
But not you, Librarian! Even if you proudly declared yourself a centrist, I just can’t quit you (no homo!).