Author: VD

Equality vs history

Ed Driscoll laments the future fate of him and every other racial equalitarian on Instapundit:

IT’S COME TO THIS: Astronaut Scott Kelly apologizes after quoting, praising Winston Churchill.

Kelly, a retired American astronaut with multiple space flights under his belt, apologized Sunday after quoting Winston Churchill and calling the 20th century British prime minister “one of the greatest leaders of modern times.”

“Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics,” Kelly wrote on Twitter in the evening.

The attempt of cucks and conservatives to split the difference between the consequences of the Left that they fear and the truths of the Right that they reject is utterly doomed to failure. The Left neither cares about nor shares their virtuous, much-signaled color-blindness, all the Left wants is for them to submit to its ever-shifting Narrative.

As for the Right, we have nothing but contempt for their cowardly and fearful denial of history, science, the Bible, and truth. Let me be clear: you cannot claim to believe in equality of any kind and still consider yourself to be a) of the Right or b) truthful.

We all know you don’t really believe in equality because we can see your actions and hear your words. None of your rationalizations and justifications and confabulations are fooling anyone, least of all yourself, and subjecting us to them is insulting our intelligence.

Equality is a lie, and submitting to the lie will not only lead you to deny America, nationalism, and Winston Churchill, it will eventually force you to publicly deny Jesus Christ himself.

Just shut up and come out already

Taylor Swift nukes her fan base:

Taylor Swift can’t stay silent about politics any longer. The 28-year-old superstar took to Instagram on Sunday night to weigh in on Tennessee’s closely contested U.S. Senate race, endorsing Democratic former Gov. Phil Bredesen as she offered a harsh rebuke of U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the Republican nominee.

In her Instagram post, Swift said she has been “reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now.”

“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country,” she wrote. “I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.”

Wait, a gay celebrity hates Republicans and parrots the SJW narrative? Surely this shocking news will convince all of her fans to change their views rather than simply reduce their support for her.

And isn’t it remarkable how Tennessee values are British values are German values are Texas values are California values are LGBTQP values these days?

Magic dirt, magic schools

Want to bet the vast majority of people using the term have no idea where it originated?

In a push to improve diversity at District 15 middle schools in Brooklyn, Mayor de Blasio last week approved a plan to remove admission standards at all of them.

In liberal Park Slope and the surrounding areas, the news was received with mixed reactions. Those against the plan were quoted anonymously in various news outlets, lest they somehow appear to oppose diversity. They had seen what happened to Upper West Side parents who were named and shamed in articles when they opposed proposals for their schools.

One Park Slope dad told me he sees the move as a “prelude to breaking up the specialized high schools.” He added that the plan would “put the academically struggling kids in schools where ‘magic dirt’ makes kids smarter.”

Keep this sort of thing in mind whenever people try to tell you that what you’re doing doesn’t matter. It’s the ideas that matter, whether or not The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and NPR ever deign to accord you the fame of a Malcolm Gladwell or a Francis Fukuyama.

Like the core pro-immigration argument, the core pro-integration argument is cargo cultism that is so obviously wrong it can be accurately dismissed with just two words: Magic Dirt.

No safe harbor

I have my doubts about this guy as a lawyer, but this particular observation is astute and potentially very significant.

WAIT JUST A DANG MINUTE…WHAT? Did Apple just say it is a curator of content and therefore NOT protected by Safe Harbor in copyright and CDA 230?

What he’s referring to is this interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook with Vice News Tonight:

In an interview with Vice News Tonight on HBO Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly explained some of the reasoning behind removing Alex Jones and InfoWars from the company’s podcast app and App Store. According to Cook, the move wasn’t politically motivated, or coordinated with any other tech companies, as he denied ever discussing the subject with them.

Instead, he said: “What users want from us and what we’ve always provided them is a curated platform. We think that what the user wants is someone that does review these apps, someone that does review the podcasts, someone that on like Apple news, where a human is selecting the top stories. And that’s what we do.”

What this means is that Apple has publicly established that it is legally liable for all the content on its platform.

A production error

No, Chuck Dixon has not begun experimenting in action comics sans dialogue. Unfortunately, we had a breakdown in our production process and sent out the first 193 print editions of Chuck Dixon’s Avalon #2: Rulebreaker without the dialogue layer. We have already revised the comic as well as our process and all subsequent editions will be correct.

We are working on a plan to get replacement issues out to those who received an incorrect edition and will run the plan by those customers once we are able to confirm it with our distribution partner. We apologize for the inconvenience and delay. The digital edition was not affected.

Nationalism rises

Thanks to the astute leadership of Matteo Salvini, La Lega is now the dominant political party in Italy:

Italy’s League under Matteo Salvini is now the most popular political party in the nation, with a voter affiliation of 33.8 percent, a nationwide electoral poll revealed Saturday.

The monthly survey conducted by the IPSOS research group, which inquired about citizens’ voting intentions, showed the Five Star Movement (M5S) — the League’s partner in the current coalition government — falling by 1.5 percentage points over the last month to 28.5 percent. This figure represents a three percentage-point drop for M5S from mid-July and a widening gap between the two governing partners.

Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party has meanwhile fallen to 7.8 percent, down slightly less than one point compared to the last published figure, while the center-left Democratic Party (PD) stands at 17 percent.

The PD registered a slight uptick compared to recent months, thanks to recent rallies, increased media visibility, and the perception of greater cohesion among the leadership of the party.

Observers suggest that the solid performance of the League is due in large part to the constant media presence of party chief Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister and deputy prime minister. Salvini has persistently sought to rein in Italy’s illegal immigration problem and has stood up against globalist leaders such as France’s Emmanuel Macron.

Forza Italia support is all going to go to La Lega once Berlusconi is no longer in the picture, which means that La Lega is pushing near 40 percent in a parliamentary system, which is huge. Factor in the alliance with Cinque Stelle and that means the nationalists of left and right now represent about 70 percent of the Italian population.

I expect a push for Italexit after the next round of national elections. Italy does not need the European Union and will be much better off with a return to the Lira.

Wormtongue confirmed

Jordan Peterson is behaving the way all con men behave when they’ve gotten ahead of the con. Now he’s walking it back. And Scott Adams is helping him try to sell it and salvage his credibility:

Jordan B Peterson@jordanbpeterson
If confirmed Kavanaugh should step down.

Jordan B Peterson@jordanbpeterson
I’m not certain that is the right move. It’s very complex. But he would have his name cleared, and a figure who might be less divisive might be put forward.

Jordan B Peterson@jordanbpeterson
That might decrease residual alienation from the left, and make things less polarized moving forward. Of course, that has to be balanced against handing any victory to the “believe all accusers” crowd.

Jordan B Peterson@jordanbpeterson
I was thinking all this whole trying to plot out a strategy that would be least damaging, on the whole. And I’m not jumping up and down claiming to be correct. Thought is experiment, not reality.

Scott Adams
Clarification accepted.

If you STILL buy into Jordan Peterson’s bullshit after this pathetic “never mind, I’ll just walk it back” display, you will fully deserve the disenchantment that will be your fate.

Let me be clear: Jordan Peterson is absolutely and utterly full of shit… and he always has been.

Sworn in

Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice Saturday night after the bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed him. The Senate vote delivered an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country’s cultural, gender and political divides.

Kavanaugh was quickly sworn in at the court building, across the street from the Capitol, even as protesters chanted outside.

The near party-line Senate vote was 50-48

Darkstream: Jordan Peterson sells out America

From the transcript of the Darkstream:

I warned you about Jordan Peterson. A lot of people were unhappy when I first came out and pointed out that Jordan Peterson is not a good guy, that Jordan Peterson is not on our side, that Jordan Peterson is not an enemy of the SJWs, and that he is not someone who’s good for the Right. Now, the thing is, either you stand for what is right or what you don’t, and when Jordan Peterson came out today against Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation and explicitly came out and said that if Kavanaugh is confirmed  -which he will be, by the way, in case you haven’t heard,  two of the four maybe votes in the Senate have come out openly and confirmed that they are going to support Kavanaugh’s confirmation and more significantly one of them is actually the West Virginia Democrat – so you know,  for years Jordan Peterson has said he’s terrified of making the mistake that is going to ruin his career.

Now I don’t know if this is actually sufficient to sink his career or not, but it should be,  because this makes very clear that Jordan Peterson is in league with the SJWs. Jordan Peterson is, in American terms, a Democrat and there’s absolutely no question that the intellectual dark web, the Ben Shapiros the Eric Weinsteins, the recycled New Atheist known as Sam Harris, and Jordan Peterson himself, are all on the side of the Left. This is not a surprise, I mean,  I’ve been telling you guys this for ages. I knew that he was not a good guy, that he was not on our side, that he was part of the problem rather than part of the solution from the time I read his book. There are so many people who say such incredibly dumb things about Peterson because they happen to like one thing that he said, they happen to like two things that he said. Here’s the thing you can always find something that somebody says that you agree with. That doesn’t mean that their objectives are aligned with yours

Jordan Peterson kneecaps his defenders

Peterson’s cultists really are desperate. It was a joke. He’s being sarcastic. I think he’s waxing ironic. he has to be joking. He’s drunk tweeting. I’m hoping @jordanbpeterson is drunk posting tonight. Did he really mean it?

And my favorite: It’s the scurvy talking.

But no, Crazy Christ wasn’t “being sarcastic” when he suggested that Kavanaugh step down if confirmed.

Jordan B Peterson@jordanbpeterson
If confirmed Kavanaugh should step down.

Jordan B Peterson@jordanbpeterson
I’m not certain that is the right move. It’s very complex. But he would have his name cleared, and a figure who might be less divisive might be put forward.

This episode has not only demonstrated that Jordan Peterson is NOT on our side, it has shown that a) his defenders are clueless cultists who simply refuse to accept the truth about him, and, b) Jordan Peterson is a complete ignoramus when it comes to American politics.

First, Supreme Court Justice-to-be Kavanaugh would not have his name cleared. Just ask Robert Bork or Richard Nixon. Second, the God-Emperor Donald Trump would not respond by putting forward someone less divisive, he would absolutely name someone he could trust not to betray him by stepping down after all the hard work was done, someone who is a fire-breather that would make Kavanaugh look like a cuddly teddy bear in comparison.

Which is to say, someone considerably MORE divisive.

I am genuinely curious to see what sort of excuse the Jordanetics cultists will provide next for their hero. Especially since he is such a shameless and transparent liar.

I have a habit of not preparing my talks until really the last minute, and I mean that’s not exactly true, because I’ve been thinking about what I’m going to talk to you about tonight for a very long time, but I, I really only got the title for this talk firmly in place about half an hour ago. And, and one of the things I like to do when I’m speaking to people is to tell them what I’m thinking about, not what I’ve already thought about, you know, and certainly not what I know, but what I’m thinking about, what I’m trying to figure out.

It’s strange, then, that he so often happens to say the same things over and over and over again. Does he never manage to figure anything out? Notice again how he advertises when he’s about to lie. Many people, me included, repeat words or even stutter, but I’ve noticed that Peterson tends to primarily do it when he’s about to say something he knows to be false.

I will admit that I found Stefan’s puzzled reaction to Peterson’s original tweet to be mildly amusing. Surely there must be some kind of context in which the Crazy Christ didn’t actually mean what he quite clearly wrote!

@StefanMolyneux
I find this bafflingly incomprehensible. Appease disproven accusers? Can anyone help me with context?

@ButMuhRussia
Vox told you, Stefan. You just didn’t listen.

@CovfefusMaximus
Context: Peterson is a fraud, exposed by Vox Day months ago

@ProgenyOfEurope
Context: he is an intellectual fraud.

Just to be clear, I have no problem whatsoever with Stefan. He owes me nothing and we get along fine. He’s neither the first nor last intelligent individual to be taken in by Peterson’s bafflegarble. As far as I can tell, Milo is about the only one to have seen through Peterson as quickly as I did, even though he was considerably more polite about it. Although it would appear Mike Cernovich has now too:

Professor Peterson: Have you resigned your position in an effort to appease the hate mob that targeted you? That would clear your name, yes?