Author: VD

A review of Alt★Hero #2

Bounding Into Comics reviews Alt★Hero #2: Rebel’s Cell. An excerpt:

Alt-Hero continues to lay the ground work for what is shaping up to be a compelling and interesting universe. There is an obvious political and social slant here, but it isn’t heavy-handed and I am thankful for that, even if I happen to agree with it. The heroes, specifically Hammer and Rebel, are two very exciting characters and I can’t wait to see more of them and witness how their story arcs play out. I would have liked to see some of the results from the first issue, but this one was entertaining enough in its own right to tide me over until that happens.

Read the whole thing there. The rating was another 8.5, which is great, although I feel a little as if the previous 8.5 was on the generous side, while this one was perhaps a bit stingy. Either way, the important thing is that we are maintaining a high level of quality in the eyes of the readers.

The non-readers, not so much. S. Schwartz provides what looks very much like the first fake review on Amazon:

Cliches put in a blender with a strong shot of politics

This reads like a teenage Frank Miller fanboy who didn’t think Frank was tough enough wrote it; or a teenage Chris Claremont fanboy who couldn’t come up with their own heroes so resorted to filing off all the serial numbers. The art is mediocre at best, and it comes with a huge dose of politics; if you don’t agree with the writer’s particular alt-right viewpoint, it will seem at best ridiculous, at worst offensive. I suppose if you care more about politics than quality, this comic will give you the shot of self-righteousness you’re seeking. If you want sub-par Frank Miller, read bad Frank Miller — this will be much, much worse.

I wonder from where he derived the teenage theme. Both the language and the concepts are above-average for comics, particularly these days. As for the derivative theme, I don’t even know who Chris Claremont is, nor have I ever actually read a Frank Miller comic book, to the best of of my recollection. But it’s interesting that he is comparing my work to Frank Miller’s, however unfavorably.

Mailvox: LEAVE JORDY ALONE

I am fully aware that my position on Jordan Peterson has cost me more than a few readers, and apparently, even a few backers. So be it.

Time to lay of Jordan Peterson. I do not understand why you continue to bitch on and on and on about Jordan Peterson. I really didn’t understand why you started in the first place, but it has gotten very stale and very old. This is not a good look for you or the businesses you are working on.

You may think you have unleashed devastating rhetorical attacks on him. But you have not made your case with people who look past the rhetoric for the facts. I’m not the only one who knows this. People who have been supportive of you in the past are disgusted by this sniping. One told me it’s jealousy. My response was, well, Vox claims it isn’t. But he also claims that about Scalzi and Shapiro.

The thing is, I know that you know you have not made the case against Peterson. “Jordan Peterson is a physical coward.” Really? Well, I know a guy who was given a corporate position of high responsibility, and his response was to sabotage the IT department to promote his own ambitions. SJW? Well, he says he isn’t, but you know what they say about SJWs….

This is a bad look for you and the projects you’re working on. Sure, the blog is personal, and CH, Arkhaven and IG are separate. But your blog is the gateway for this stuff. I’ve supported two of your FreeStarter projects, and I’ve bought pretty much everything CH has published. Some of those books I’ll never get to. I already have a backlog of Voxiversity videos.

But this continued trashing of Jordan Peterson is causing me to rethink my support of these things. I can support John Wright and Peter Grant directly. If there’s a book–to be honest, I don’t read any comics other than the Arkhaven ones–I can always buy it if I want it. But there’s no point in supporting a brand that is determined to marginalize itself.

I urge you to let this go. I don’t care how you feel about him personally. But you have published far, far more than the topic ever deserved.

This was my response:

The fact that you think I have not made my case is precisely why I am going to continue making it until you and everyone else who continues to defend him admits the truth about him. You don’t seem to understand that my attacks on him are not rhetorical, they are substantive, they are factual, and they are correct.

I appreciate your previous support, but the fact is that you have a choice to make. And if you’re going to stand by Jordan Peterson, then you really should stop supporting me, Castalia House, and Arkhaven. Because you are not really on the side of the Americans, the Christians, and the nationalists, you are on the side of the atheists, the globalists, and the socialists.

I am not going to abandon the truth because someone won’t give me money. And you can tell all of those people who are disgusted by this sniping, who believe that I am jealous, that they can fuck off. They may have thought they supported me, but they never knew me at all. I don’t want anything to do with them, not now, and not in the future when they come crawling around to admit that I was correct all along. Again.

I didn’t mind it when most of my readers initially thought I was wrong about Peterson. But with the information that is out there about him now, there is absolutely no excuse for defending or standing by the man.

Regards,
Vox

If I didn’t sell out when GT Interactive offered me millions of dollars, if I didn’t take any of the multiple offers that have been made for Castalia House, if I refused to remove the chapters on Republican media whores at the demand of Fox News and Thomas Nelson in the full knowledge that they would cancel the book contract (the latter even tried unsuccessfully to get out of paying what they contractually owed me), what makes anyone think I won’t hesitate to let every single one of our backers and buyers walk away rather than alter my well-informed position on Jordan Peterson one iota?

If I was the sort of man who would pay any attention to these demands, if I was the sort of individual inclined to demonstrate that kind of intellectual flexibility, then absolutely none of you should donate so much as penny to help us make movies, because there is going to be all kinds of intense pressure to compromise, to sell out, to back down, to adulterate, and to shade the truth during the funding and film-making process, to say nothing of when we have some initial success and Disney or Netflix swoops in and offers to simply buy the whole thing out for enough cash to let me live like a king for the rest of my life.

Is that truly what you want from me? Do you really think so little of me, or at least, of my self-respect?

And yes, Jordan Peterson is a physical coward. Anyone who is a physical coward at the age of 12 is almost always still a physical coward as an adult, barring subsequent military service. If you still haven’t grasped that Peterson is a nasty little gamma by nature, consider this excerpt from 12 Rules of Life.

I had a rocky friendship with a Métis kid, Rene Heck, when I was in elementary school. It was rocky because the situation was complex. There was a large cultural divide between Rene and me. His clothes were dirtier. He was rougher in speech and attitude. I had skipped a grade in school, and was, in addition, small for my age. Rene was a big, smart, good-looking kid, and he was tough. We were in grade six together, in a class taught by my father. Rene was caught chewing gum. “Rene,” said my father, “spit that gum out. You look like a cow.” “Ha, ha,” I laughed, under my breath. “Rene the cow.” Rene might have been a cow, but there was nothing wrong with his hearing. “Peterson,” he said, “after school—you’re dead.”

Earlier in the morning, Rene and I had arranged to see a movie that night at the local movie theatre, the Gem. It looked like that was off. In any case, the rest of the day passed, quickly and unpleasantly, as it does when threat and pain lurk. Rene was more than capable of giving me a good pounding. After school, I took off for the bike stands outside the school as fast as I could, but Rene beat me there. We circled around the bikes, him on one side, me on the other. We were characters in a “Keystone Cops” short. As long as I kept circling, he couldn’t catch me, but my strategy couldn’t work forever. I yelled out that I was sorry, but he wasn’t mollified. His pride was hurt, and he wanted me to pay.

I crouched down and hid behind some bikes, keeping an eye on Rene. “Rene,” I yelled, “I’m sorry I called you a cow. Let’s quit fighting.” He started to approach me again. I said, “Rene, I am sorry I said that. Really. And I still want to go to the movie with you.” This wasn’t just a tactic. I meant it. Otherwise what happened next would not have happened. Rene stopped circling. Then he stared at me. Then he broke into tears. Then he ran off. That was Native-white relationships in a nutshell, in our hard little town. We never did go to a movie together.

Peterson is also an intellectual coward. You could see this when he hastily backed down rather than assert the right of free association when called out for his inconsistency on civil rights. Besides, leaving Jordy alone would interfere with Jordanetics Week at the Daily Meme Wars.

Rejecting history, transforming America

Lest you are under the illusion there will be anything substantive left of America once the replacement population is sufficiently in control, consider this rejection of an important American children’s writer by a literary award:

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name is set to be removed from a major children’s book award after concerns were raised about the “Little House on the Prairie” author’s depiction of certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.

The Association of Library Service to Children’s (ALSC) board voted unanimously on Saturday to rename the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award” as the “Children’s Literature Legacy Award.”

The association, which took the vote at its board meeting in New Orleans, said the vote “was greeted by a standing ovation by the audience in attendance.”

Wilder is best known for her “Little House on the Prairie” novels, which the ALSC has stated “includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC’s core values” based on Wilder’s portrayal of black people and Native Americans.

This sort of gesture is an intentional public insult to American history and heritage. As a Native American, I am not offended by Wilder’s portrayal of the Indian tribes that lived where she and her family settled, but I am greatly offended by this gratuitous insult to a woman whose literary contribution to American history will likely survive the country itself.

Shutting down the seaborne invasion

Angela Merkel’s African flotilla is finally being stopped by Italy’s new government.

Italy is seeking to have seven boats carrying roughly 1,000 migrants needing rescue off Libya taken back to North Africa, according to a Spanish aid group. Proactiva Open Arms, which has rescued thousands of migrants in the Mediterranean, said the Italians want the Libyan coast guard to conduct the rescues and return the migrants.

Proactiva said in a tweet that Italian coast guard authorities who coordinate rescues sent out advisories to all ships in the area but told the aid group: ‘We don’t need your help.’

In a tweet on Sunday, hard-line interior minister Matteo Salvini said: ‘It’s right that the Libyan authorities intervene, as they’ve been doing for days, without having the NGOs interrupt them and disturb them.’ It comes days after Salvini refused to let a rescue boat with 224 migrants on board dock in Italy, saying those on board ‘will only see Italy on a postcard’.

My guess is that Italy is going to start seizing the NGO ships first, then forcing the boats to return to Libya. That would probably be the most politically palatable place to start, since no one has any sympathy for them anymore. It would be more effective to simply sink everything that enters Italian waters pour encourager les autres, but that will probably not be necessary once Salvini starts the street-by-street repatriations he has stated are necessary. After all, there isn’t much point in paying traffickers to bring you to Italy if you’re just going to be sent back to a camp in Libya right away.

It’s going to be interesting to see the next political polls in Italy. I expect the fast-growing popularity of Salvini and La Lega is going to astonish the world. It’s very interesting to see how the 5 Stelle leaders are speaking in much more aggressively nationalist terms as well; 5 Stelle may be the senior partners in the alliance, but it’s clear that La Lega is the driving force.

The BBC is whining that Salvini’s “ferocious anti-immigrant rhetoric is proving very popular.”

Also in Italy, we need a mass cleaning, street by street, quarter by quarter, piazza by piazza. A strong manner is needed, because there are entire areas of cities, entire parts of Italy that are out of control. 

Compare that strong and forthright language with Trump’s indecisive civic nationalism that is too much for even the average US conservative to stomach, despite the fact that the genuinely American portion of the US population is already a relatively small minority. That is why Italy will ultimately survive and the USA will not. It appears that even when faced with an clear, present, and existential danger, Americans, like the white South Africans, will not even contemplate defending themselves or their nation until it is far too late. Apparently they prefer to instead redefine their nation out of existence.

It is highly unlikely that whatever calls itself “America” in the year 2100 will have any meaningful connection to the Christian English nation that declared itself independent of the British crown in 1776. The dirt that once belonged to the Iroquois and the Americans will belong to someone else.

They have to go back… immediately

No due process for non-citizen invaders:

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that people who enter the United States illegally should be sent back to where they came from immediately without any judicial process.

He’s right. The challenge will be overcoming the courts and the cucks. I suggest martial law. After all, this is the single biggest invasion in all of recorded human history. If that doesn’t justify it, the mere nuking of a single city or two couldn’t either.

The Constitution is not for foreigners. Even those who fold, spindle, and mutilate the definition of “posterity” can’t make it stretch that far.

“I am not a right-winger”

It is simply astonishing how many people simply refuse to accept that a card-carrying socialist academic is, in fact, a man of the Left, even when the guy repeatedly insists that he is. From the comments of the most recent Darkstream.

Praxis71: I agree with your assessment of Peterson, but he’s not a “leftist”… that’s absurd.  The guy is simply a classical liberal although yes, he does sometimes contradict himself.

The Sydney Morning Herald: What do you think of the things that people, and I’m especially thinking of your opponents, get wrong about you?

Jordan Peterson: Their basic proposition is that, you know, first of all, that I’m a right winger of some sort and that’s just not the case.

How can it be absurd to simply state the observable, provable truth? I repeat: Jordan Peterson is not a man of the Right. By his own admission, he is not a right winger of ANY sort. Jordan Peterson is not on the side of civilization and the West. Jordan Peterson is not a positive influence on anyone. Jordan Peterson is actively seeking the destruction of your family, your nation, and your civilization, because he believes that is necessary in order to prevent World War III.

And yes, he is quite crazy. That’s why he is prescribed the relevant medication, because he is mentally ill.

Seriously, what is wrong with you people? The fact that one leftist occasionally disagrees with another leftist does not place either of them on the ideological Right! I feel like I’m talking to particularly obtuse Germans in the early 1930s.

“Look, Hitler is NOT a good German! He does NOT have Germany’s best interests in mind. He’s not even German, for crying out loud!”

“Ja, but he fights Communists! So he must be a good Christian man who luffs Germany, ja?”

And people wonder why I despise binary thinkers. The Abelardian approach applies to truth, not to qualitative analysis. This isn’t that hard. FFS, if you know a gradient exists, then there are by definition more than two possibilities!

Bitter much?

And yet, so appropriate.

Football is a simple game, 22 men chase the ball for 82 minutes and the Germans get a player sent off so 21 men chase the ball for 13 minutes and at the end the Germans somehow fucking win.
Gary Lineker

In fairness, the Germans deserved to win. Sweden simply didn’t take control of the game when they had a man advantage, but continued to sit in their defensive shell and allowed the 10-man Germans to dictate the action. Sweden also made the mistake of putting in their half-Arab, whose lack of Swedish discipline led to two unnecessary fouls, the second of which cost them the game.

Mexico is still looking formidable, as is Belgium. Both are very aggressive on the counterattack, but Belgium’s attacks are considerably more efficient, as Mexico doesn’t always make the final pass that is required for the optimal shot.

Predators go where the prey is

Yet another reason to homeschool your children. Teachers are more likely than anyone else outside the family to try to abuse your child.

A devastating report will this week expose the scale and impact of child sexual abuse across the UK. Researchers have found that abuse is widespread across all communities and social classes – and believe it has been perpetrated in schools and other institutions much more widely than previously thought.

The report – obtained by The Mail on Sunday – is based on the biggest archive of evidence by abuse victims and survivors ever assembled in this country.

It is often claimed that most sexual abuse takes place within families. But only 28 per cent of witnesses say they were abused by relatives. Shockingly, around a quarter were abused by teachers or other educational staff, and a fifth by adult family friends or ‘trusted members of the community’. Fourteen per cent were abused by members of the clergy, 12 per cent by professionals such as doctors and social workers, and nine per cent by residential care workers.

Rebekah Eglinton, one of IICSA’s clinical psychologists, works closely with the Truth Project. She said: ‘We’re learning that many people have put themselves in positions of trust and authority to have access to children.

Of course, this is a historical report. I’m pretty sure that “Asian grooming gang” is the group most likely to be abusing British children today.

Always punch back

Preferably harder. Because the Left never expects reprisals for its actions.

Sarah Sanders@PressSec
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so

Sanders sparked some anger among the blue check Resistance for naming the restaurant:

Kathy Griffin@kathygriffin
A small business owner makes a decision that she doesn’t want a liar who contributes to the hate in this country to dine at her establishment and Sarah from her official White House account attacks her. Punching down is what the White House does.

Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell
Very big and respectful of SHS to openly name and shame the restaurant—knowing full well what targeting people will now do—because she got her fee-fees hurt.

Ricky Gervais@rickygervais
 I’m sure official White House accounts aren’t for leaving bad restaurant reviews.

Do you notice that very few people leave fake reviews of Castalia books anymore? Part of that is because Amazon is FINALLY cracking down on fake reviews. But part of it is because the VFM and I have made it standard policy to track down and identify the fake reviewers, then pass that information on to Amazon.

Those who are honest enough to operate in the open often have a hard time grasping that those who don’t are often very reluctant to have their dirty deeds made public. Which is precisely why you must always put them on the public record. Actions have consequences, and taking a stand in a divided country always means paying a price.

Which is one thing that is nice about having the media wage a ten-year discredit-and-disqualify campaign against you. You have total carte blanche; there is virtually nothing they can credibly say anymore that will have any impact on anyone, for better or for worse.

Update: The owner would do it again, or so she claims:

Wilkinson is not sure what all the ruckus surrounding Sanders’ visit will mean for her restaurant, but she made it clear that she would do it again. “Absolutely, yes, I would have done the same thing again,” the Red Hen owner said. “We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions. This appeared to be one.”

The tearful apology in a week or two should be amusing. I hope Sanders will simply ignore it.

Convicted by his own words

Before he kicks off and joins his father the Devil in Hell, George Soros appears to be desperately funding what is certain to be a futile media campaign to clear his name of the Nazi collaboration that he publicly admitted himself on multiple occasions. Even the likes of Joe Rogan have been trying to defend the elderly Luciferian, to no avail, as Alex Jones bitchslaps Rogan for adopting the globalist’s false narrative.

The historical fact is that there is no question whatsoever that George Soros genuinely was a Nazi collaborator as a young man. He is a self-admitted Nazi collaborator, who freely volunteered that he found the experience to have been a positive and exhilarating one. Any claim or assertion that he was not a Nazi collaborator is a deliberate falsehood and should be called out immediately. The absurd thing about this historical revisionism is that in addition to all of the existing video evidence, the Hungarian government, which is obviously no friend to Soros, possesses all the relevant records.

Consider the evidence:

Soros: It was actually probably the happiest year of my life, that year of German occupation for me, it’s a very positive experience. It’s a strange thing because you see incredible suffering around you, and, and in fact you are in considerable danger yourself, but if you’re 14 years old and you don’t
believe that it can actually touch you, you have a belief in yourself, your belief in your father. It’s a very happy-making, exhilarating experience.

Reporter: While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps George Soros accompanied this phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.

Voiceover: these are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros his friends and neighbors

Reporter: You’re a Hungarian Jew 

Soros: Mm hmm

Reporter: who escaped the Holocaust

Soros: Mm hmm

Reporter: by posing as a Christian.

Soros: Right.

Reporter: and you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camp.

Soros: Right. I was 14 years old and I would say that that’s when my character was made.

Reporter: In what way?

Soros: That one should think ahead one should to understand, and, and anticipate events, and one, one is threatened, it was a tremendous threat of evil, I mean, it was a very personal experience of evil.

Reporter: My understanding is is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted guy, so- 

Soros: Yes, yes.

Reporter: And helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Soros: That’s right, yes.

Reporter: I mean that’s that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many many years. Was it difficult?

Soros: Not at all, not at all. It may be as a child you don’t, you don’t see the connection, but it was, it created no, no problem at all.

Reporter: No feeling of guilt? I know, for example, that I’m Jewish, and here I am watching these people go… I could just as easily be there… I should be there… none of that?

I note that by the standards of Soros’s own tribe, 14 is not a child. According to Jewish law, when Jewish boys become 13 years old, they become accountable for their actions. It is entirely correct to hold Soros accountable for his, particularly when he is actively attempting to subvert entire nations and systems of government.

UPDATE: Apparently Soros has changed his mind about being indifferent to his reputation now that he is on the verge of facing the judgment of history without any ability to bribe or manipulate anyone. From a reader:

Soros made his first fortune with the Quantum Fund, an operation he grew from a six million back in 1973 to the fortune he has now.  His partner in this operation was Jim Rogers, a bright workaholic from Alabama via Yale and Oxford.  Soros was the trader, Rogers was the analyst.  Rogers left the firm in 1980 after business differences.  The specifics were always a matter of some interest but never publicly clarified.

Until 2013, when Rogers wrote Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets.

He recalls how it came about:

“That year the Securities and Exchange Commission investigated us over our investment in a company called Computer Sciences Corporation. The SEC claimed that my partner, George Soros, was engaged in stock manipulation.  He was charged with selling the stock short, only to cover his short sales by buying shares back at a lower price on the upcoming public offering. He was given the opportunity to sign a consent decree, in which he and the firm admitted to no wrong doing but promised not to do it again. Why would we agree to sign it? I asked him.  Why sign it if we did nothing wrong?  Why let it be construed that we were manipulating the stock?  I was taken aback by his answer- “Because that is what I was doing,” he said.

‘George,’ I remember telling him, ‘my reputation  is worth more to me than a million dollars.’

And I remember just as clearly his answer

‘Not to me it’s not,’ he said.

He said it jokingly, but he meant it;  that making the money was more important than anything else at stake in the transaction.”