Author: VD

The shilling of superstonk

 A GME autist explicates his suspicions of the sudden rise of an alternative stonks forum:

We know the GME saga is bigger than a subreddit drama surrounding an epic stock play. This situation only came about through decades of financial fraud: short interest more than 100{3549d4179a0cbfd35266a886b325f66920645bb4445f165578a9e086cbc22d08} and retail owning more than the whole float are supposed to be impossible. The resulting recursive loop glitch in the market technically has the potential to send the price to any number. We know this can go high enough that it obliterates the financial establishment, and I think higher powers (whether they be financial institutions, regulatory bodies, or governments themselves) have known this as well since at least January. They are self-serving, pro-active, intelligence-gathering organisations. These institutions are beholden to people with a lot of power and influence, and they really want to keep it, so they won’t have been sitting around on their hands waiting to lose it all. They can, and will, have amassed teams of analysts and experts to work around the clock developing and carrying out plans to prevent or limit the squeeze – to make people sell, or at the very least, sell early.

Don’t you think it’s weird how it seems the best they could manage is price drops, straight-forward FUD spam, and a few fake news articles? Weren’t we expecting some greater scheme to be executed, that they’ve been planning something bigger all along? Didn’t the structure of events over the last few days seem incredibly coordinated to you?

Think about it

We’re in the run up to the share recall deadline, everything is panning out as expected. It’s Sunday night, April 4th, on [r/]GME. It’s been a fairly quiet few days except: a couple new mods are announced, alongside some chatter saying they’re sus; rensole (supposedly accidentally) sends a server-wide discord message eluding to the sub being compromised; wardenelite gets banned for having self-promotion in his post (again). Then, suddenly all this information about fairly mild moderator drama is revealed. Rensole and redchessqueen99, the ‘celebrity mods’, claim they have been pushed out, and although other mods are insisting they weren’t, a bunch of accounts start hyping up that ‘[r/]GME has fallen’. The story gets muddied, and now people are panicking. Rensole posts a vague summary of events full of what look like subtle exaggerations and half-truths, portraying him and red as benevolent, moderate, and humble, says nothing to calm the fears the sub is compromised, then finishes by saying they’re both moving to [r/]superstonk – a subreddit that has existed for less than two weeks and isn’t even GME focused (allows discussion of distraction stocks like AMC).

In times of crisis people tend to cling onto what they feel is most familiar to them, and I think this was exploited here.

So next the spamming begins. I’d never seen this community act with such frantic haste, and I find it very hard to believe that every account endlessly pushing [r/]superstonk and bashing the mods was genuine – I looked at a lot of them, and although some looked real, many were only a few weeks old, or had long breaks before recently starting to post generic GME related content. During one of the quietest periods of the week, everything is kicking off, people are confused, and information is conflicting. The subreddit is bombarded with a broad message of ‘you should be fearful, uncertain, doubtful of this sub; act quickly, you don’t need to think about it, just trust in the celebrities; flee, come to [r/]superstonk, the safe utopia where you can finally let your guard down!’ So of course, everyone does.

And now, when people arrive on Monday morning, one of the busiest periods, it appears ‘the great migration’ has already taken place – you’re just late to the party. [r/]GME is a bomb site, full of spam and shitposts throwing out the wildest claims to make it look terrible, and urging people to move to [r/]superstonk. When people do, they find a heaven with friendly apes, excellent memes, and all the well-known users (because they are human and followed along like everyone else). It presents as what [r/]GME felt like weeks ago before the endless FUD, bots and shills started piling in and confusing everything.

Nobody questions why there are no FUD bots there – it’s sweet release in knowing the community is finally safe under the new benevolent order. Nobody questions why Thornton McEnery, a Marketwatch journalist with (in my opinion) a consistent track record of releasing carefully crafted FUD articles, references [r/]superstonk on the first day of its relevance, while [r/]GME never got a single mention in the media ever. If [r/]superstonk was legit, why wouldn’t the higher powers be doing everything they can to destroy it just as they did for [r/]GME?

We know from mod testaments released shortly after these events that rensole had been dominating leadership (thr0wthis4ccount4way’s post has now been removed, but it was literally the first line), and that recent attitudes in the mod team had become much more ban-happy, which rensole denounced during the heat of the drama. Since he had a role of leadership in the mod team, if rensole really thought FUD was as simplistic and manageable as he makes it out to be publicly, how did the moderation team develop a culture of excessive paranoia and over-banning? He gave a strong impression that unification was important, and that he was self-aware of his leadership role, so why did he decide to change subs so unexpectedly during a period of drama and misinformation? You’d think he would’ve known a large portion of the community would follow, and a division was highly likely? Something doesn’t add up here.

Undercover operations are standard practice in law enforcement in most countries in the West, including the United States. With how big GME has gotten, I think it would be foolish to seriously believe there isn’t the possibility of this being an operation; it has every hallmark of a honeypot trap. Since everyone is effectively unknown on Reddit, everyone is on the ‘sus list’ by default. Before the January gamma squeeze, neither rensole nor redchessqueen99 existed in the GME community at all, yet now they are basically running things. I think that warrants an investigation at the very least.

There are various forms of undercover ops directed at every online community, no matter how innocuous they are. These can range from amateur infiltrations, such as the Big Bear haters who subscribe to SocialGalactic in order to see what’s going on there, to the national intelligence agencies that patrol every comment system on the Internet and attempt to steer the trends on the major social media sites.

This autist’s analysis is worth reading because he describes a number of tells that even the most professional operators can’t help but betray. What I find interesting is how much overlap there is between natural gamma behavior and professional shill behavior. In either case, it provides more than sufficient justification for the zero tolerance policy here.

Anyhow, it’s always wise to be suspicious of newcomers who become self-appointed leaders. In both the cases of the Tea Party and Comicsgate, for example, individuals who had nothing to do with the original organic movement leaped to the front of the parade and managed to successsfully redirect it. And before anyone tries to make this about me somehow, I will remind everyone that I was not a part of either the Tea Party or Comicsgate.

For me, the second-biggest indicator of an unreliable figure is their tendency to dissemble and avoid answering direct questions. The biggest indicator, of course, is favorable media coverage.

SWAN KNIGHT SAGA on Arktoons

The lead Sunday comic on Arktoons is SWAN KNIGHT SAGA, which is based on the epic magical fantasy books written by science fiction grandmaster John C. Wright, including SWAN KNIGHT’S SON, the 2017 Dragon Award Finalist for Best YA Novel. 

The story tells the tale of a young man who awakens one night at the Thirteenth Hour, and for the first time sees for himself the cruel reality of the secret rule of Elf over Man. Only then does he begin to learn about his true heritage, the heritage of Twilight.

To subscribe to Arktoons pre-launch, visit Arkhaven Comics.

China attacks feminism

The reason that the smart money is on China is because, unlike the West, their leaders have been smart enough to see through the various ideologies that have been used to harm both them and the West. The Chinese frog has shaken off the scorpion, whereas the West angrily attacks anyone who suggests it take action in the interest of its own survival.

The Chinese Communist Party has been heavily censoring social media posts by feminists. While the CCP is synonymous with internet censorship, in this case, the stakes are even higher as the country’s ten-year census is nearing. What’s more, the census is suspected to show a decline in birth rates for the fourth consecutive year.

“In recent days, more than a dozen accounts used by feminists were deleted from the Weibo social-media platform as well as cultural-discussion site Douban.com,” wrote the WSJ.

Weibo and Douban.com are prominent social media platforms in the country. Weibo is more or less referred to as “Chinese Twitter” as it is also a microblogging platform built exclusively for the Chinese netizens. Both the social media platforms are subjected to heavy surveillance and censorship by the CCP.

A user wrote on Weibo about the declining birth rates and censorship, stating: “What are they afraid of? Are they afraid of more women waking up? Are they panicking when seeing the fertility rates and marriage rates?”

It sounds as if the Chinese are reacting swiftly to save their society and civilization by banning feminism, something that Americans should have done back in the 1970s once it became clear what the fruits of feminism, which is one of the few ideologies that is actually more evil than the German variant of national socialism and less functional than communism, were.

The first rule of societal survival is this: have children. Any ideology that stands in the way of the first rule is not going to last very long.

CLOCKWORK DANCER on Arktoons

It’s not all superheroes, science fiction, vampires, and violence at Arktoons, as evidenced by Saturday’s second series to be announced. CLOCKWORK DANCER is a intriguing old school comic that shows the broad spectrum of comics that are available on Arktoons.

To subscribe to Arktoons pre-launch, visit Arkhaven Comics. It’s T minus Four to Impact and we’re already at almost 13 percent of what we calculate is necessary to establish a perpetual production machine.

So, let’s revisit the announced schedule to date. Each day will feature at least two additional series that have not yet been announced.
  • WED: Hammer of Freedom, Midnight’s War
  • THU: Ascendant, A Throne of Bones
  • FRI: Shade, Hypergamouse
  • SAT: Quantum Mortis, Clockwork Dancer
To put that amount of content in perspective, that’s 36 episodes of those five series in the first month alone. The total number of pages that DC is publishing in April are the equivalent of 133 episodes.

Without fear or hesitation

Drew Pearson demonstrates the correct way to respond to those who hate you and everything for which you stand. This practically defines the term “open up your hate and let it flow into me.” What would otherwise have been a pedestrian announcement of a second-round draft pick is transformed into a celebration of community pride. 

Also and even so, Drew Pearson pushed off.

Rule by conman

The debacle of the European Super League demonstrates the fundamental flaw with libertarian ideology. Whereas communism is rule by the envious, libertarianism is rule by the fraudulent:

Florentino Perez has warned that no club can leave the European Super League after signing binding contracts to participate and denied JP Morgan have pulled their backing to fund the competition.

Speaking out yet again after a flurry of clubs withdrew, Perez – who heads the controversial competition – slammed teams for ‘manipulating our project’ and vowed that the tournament ‘still exists’ and will go ahead regardless.

The Premier League ‘Big Six’ – namely Manchester City, Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham – were the first to pull out of the Super League 48 hours after its official founding, but Real Madrid chief Perez stated earlier this week all 12 clubs involved signed a ‘legally binding contract’.

Speaking to Spanish outlet AS, the 74-year-old has reiterated his point that the plan is only on standby and accused others of ‘manipulating’ what the Super League project is about to mask fears of what they could lose.

When asked what penalties clubs who have withdrawn could face, Perez said: ‘I’m not going to explain now what a binding contract is… But the clubs can’t leave. 

If legality is determined solely by whatever one party can talk another party into signing, then the society that will result is rule by conmen. The 11 clubs were talked into the Super League by Real Madrid, which faces bankruptcy under the current setup due to its profligate spending and massive debts. Now they face the prospect of paying huge fines they can’t afford if they don’t proceed with a plan that will destroy them and harm the sport. 

It’s well and good to point out that no one has to sign a contract… right up until you realize that for all their protests, courts have been upholding the concept of “contracts of adhesion” that don’t require any signatures for decades.

It is the Devil who loves binding contracts. So it should come as no surprise that a society based on contracts soon comes to resemble Hell on Earth.

QUANTUM MORTIS on Arktoons

One of the lead Saturday comics on Arktoons is the military-science fiction detective series QUANTUM MORTIS, which was regularly one of the top science fiction series on Webtoons while it was available there. However, just to keep things fresh, QUANTUM MORTIS will begin with episodes from a previously unseen prequel, TELL IT TO THE DEAD.

TELL IT TO THE DEAD is a short series based on the novella of the same name that tells the story of Chief Warrant Officer Graven Tower’s experience serving in the Rhysalani Marines and his first encounter with the posthuman Man-Machine Unity.

To subscribe to Arktoons pre-launch, visit Arkhaven Comics.

The silence of the anklebiters

A socialgalactician marvels at the way in which gammas assiduously avoid admitting that they are wrong:

Seen any ankle-biters admit that Vox was right about:

Milo and Roosh being genuine seekers of the Truth

Richard Spencer being a fake-right clown BEFORE he endorsed Biden

Anyone?

As you might expect, while gammas will repeatedly insist that honor – they love that word despite possessing no understanding of what it means – requires that you publicly flagellate yourself every time your opinion happens to be incorrect in some way, they will never admit it when their pronouncements of absolute fact turn out to be entirely false.

Instead, they retreat to their delusion bubbles and redefine every necessary term and reinterpret every necessary event in order to pronounce themselves to be retroactively correct. This is why they literally can’t admit that they are wrong, and why the best thing to do is to simply ignore them, refuse to engage with them, and banish them from the community as soon as they are detected.

That’s why fewer and fewer gamma comments are seen here: every day the moderators delete comments for nothing more than the crime of exhibiting signs of gamma behavior. It becomes extremely obvious when you see the juxtaposition of gamma vs non-gamma communication on a regular basis. In much the same way that women can sense even the mild stink of gamma in a man’s compliment, the moderators have developed finely tuned instincts for that familiar combination of envy, insecurity, and false superiority.

Let them whine about free speech, echo chambers, and the importance of discussion in vain. All of those concepts are merely ideas dreamed up by undesirables in attempts to convince others to permit them to crash the party. But every party, and every organization, should devote as much effort to keeping out gammas as it does to keeping out SJWs.

SHADE on Arktoons

SHADE is one of the more influential – and cryptic – members of the Global Justice Initiative. The Legend Chuck Dixon decided that Shade merited his own comic and the first episode will be introduced on Arktoons next Friday along with HYPERGAMOUSE and two other series still to be announced. SHADE is a standalone series set in the A★H universe.

To subscribe to Arktoons, visit Arkhaven Comics and click on the big blue picture of Team Arkhaven. There are four subscription options, all of which support the continued production of the artwork for the various Arkhaven series like SHADE and A THRONE OF BONES. 

Mass immigration is murder

It’s really rather remarkable, in the historical context, how so many Western countries continue to endure one murderous provocation after another while staunchly refusing to take any steps to resolve the situation. 

Stephanie M, a 49-year-old mother-of-two, was slashed in the throat by Djamel G, a Tunisian delivery driver at 2.20pm today as she worked in a police station in the leafy Paris suburb of Rambouillet.

French prosecutors have opened a terror probe after the killing which was carried out by the 36-year-old who arrived in France illegally in 2009 before he was given leave to remain in 2019. 

Stephanie, an admin worker, who had worked for the police since 1993, had just ‘popped out of the station to change the parking disc on her car’ when she was pounced on by the attacker in the lobby. Investigators said the killer had been scouting the site before the attack in broad daylight. 

France’s counter-terrorism unit has taken over the investigation into the killing. Francois Bersani, a police union official, said the attacker slipped into the building before shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’, meaning ‘God is greatest’ in Arabic.  

The attacker was not previously known to police or anti-terrorist authorities and had recently moved to Rambouillet having previously lived in the Val-de-Marne.  

The murdered woman was the mother of two children aged 13 and 18.

Rambouillet is a quiet and leafy commune southwest of Paris and is known for its historic chateau.

The reason the media is harping incessantly on the evils of white supremacy is because the boomerang effect in response to the invasions of the last 55 years promises to be of a that will make the democides of the 20th century look like a golden age. And perhaps they can fend it off for a while longer, but history has demonstrated that demographics is destiny.

There is a reason that people who look different and speak different and worship different used to be attacked on sight. Thanks to decades of “progress”, those days are in the process of returning.