Author: VD

Stop, Gamma time!

SamuraiJeff illustrates the intrinsic self-delusion of the Gamma mindset:

Btw if you’re wondering why i manage to piss off all the mods, they come to each others aid and attack me. I simply defend and they get mad lol. It’s pretty great

Consider how many assumptions are fundamentally incorrect in these three simple sentences. And, of course, note the inevitable Gamma tell.

  1. No one, literally no one, was wondering how SJ managed to get himself banned. Most were probably wondering why he hadn’t been banned here yet.
  2. The first sentence is not only incorrect, it is incoherent. “I piss off all the mods because they come to each other’s aid and attack me.” That literally doesn’t make any sense.
  3. Solipsistic assumption of emotion. The Gamma is emotion-driven and assumes that everyone else is too. The moderators are seldom “pissed off” or even mildly upset, to the contrary, being given the opportunity to ban someone they had already flagged as a potential problem tends to come as a relief.
  4. Being held accountable to community standards is not an attack, much less a personal one. The primary responsibility of the moderators is to make the judgment calls concerning what actions cross, or do not cross, the line.
  5. The violation of community standards is literally defined as an offense. And it is a shameless lie to claim that one’s offense is a defense. This is pure inversion and would alone be sound justification for banning on SG or anywhere.
  6. A second false imputation of emotion.
  7. And there is the tell. Gammas love to feign that they are above the conflict, and posture in a way that is intended to suggest that the conflict merely amuses a superior being such as himself.
  8. The number of comments and repeated requests for intervention and review strongly suggest that the Gamma does not consider the situation to be “pretty great”.

Relevant verse for the day:

“Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭17:28‬ ‭

Is he even eligible?

I had no idea Javier Bardem was eligible for the U.S. vice-presidency, let alone running for the office. But he was great in Skyfall, so he has that going for him.

Every single time

It’s incredible what you can often correctly ascertain about an individual’s future behavior from his self-selected appellation. From SocialGalactic:

GospelBEARer @gospelbearer
May I please be unsubscribed from unauthorized.tv. Since my muting in March for defending the Bible, I can’t support it.

There are certain names you know are going to be trouble, sooner or later. Anyone who names himself after a famous philosopher. Anyone whose name is a form of virtue-signaling. And, of course, Bruce.

Now, obviously it’s fine to unsubscribe from UATV for any reason. There is no need to provide any reason at all. But to make a public point of doing so in a way that doesn’t even provide us with the necessary information to unsubscribe you four months after the proximate cause, well, that takes a very special boy indeed.

Mailvox: the irrelevance of Google

Some readers report a blacklisting problem with Google search and this blog similar to the issue that Rod Dreher was reporting which involved a number of conservative sites, but I’m not seeing it:

I noticed today that Google has blacklisted your blog from search. It’s now impossible for voxday.blogspot.com to appear in Google search results. Not surprising from those dummies.

I tested this myself this morning, and searching for “Vox Day” reveals the following results:

  • DuckDuckGo: #1 VP, #2 Wikipedia, #3 Amazon
  • Bing: #1 VP, #2 YouTube, #3 Amazon
  • Google: #1 Wikpedia, #2 VP, #3 RationalWiki

Now, Google also shows something called Search performance for this query at the top of its searches which may or may not be informative.

Last 7 days 
Clicks: 2.41K +228{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Impressions: 3.38K +193{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Avg. Position: 4.4, -0.1

Last 90 days
Clicks: 32.4K, -15{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Impressions: 47.5K, -11{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Avg. Position: 5.1, +0.9

And a search for voxday.blogspot.com brings up VP as the #1 option. So, if Google is putting a thumb on the scale concerning search results and this blog, it must only be doing it in the USA. Regardless, the number of daily clicks and impressions reported is a tiny fragment of the daily pageviews here, which now average over 100,000, so, as in the case of the Unz Report, which has seen its traffic grow considerably in the wake of its Facebook deplatforming, it really doesn’t make much of a difference how Google manipulates the search results.

In other news, I have not been deplatformed by Podbean. To the contrary, we elected to stop financially supporting Podbean, which means that MP3s from the Darkstream will no longer be available there or the various podcast services it supports. They are available at Unauthorized.

It’s afraid

Twitter initiates a ban on Qanon content:

Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory’s followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation.

Twitter will stop recommending accounts and content related to QAnon, including material in email and follow recommendations, and it will take steps to limit circulation of content in features like trends and search. The action will affect about 150,000 accounts, said a spokesperson, who asked to remain unnamed because of concerns about the targeted harassment of social media employees.

The spokesperson said that as part of its new policy, the company had taken down more than 7,000 QAnon accounts in the last few weeks for breaking its rules on targeted harassment.

The sweeping enforcement action will ban QAnon-related terms from appearing in trending topics and the platform’s search feature, ban known QAnon-related URLs and prohibit “swarming” of people who are baselessly targeted by coordinated harassment campaigns pushed by QAnon followers.

It’s really remarkable how inverted the relationship between the Prometheans and observable reality is. Once you realize that their morals are every bit as inverted, you begin to understand how awful and evil they truly are.

SJWs R the Real Racists

Conservatives are celebrating how the old school liberal left are now picking up their own failed rhetoric. Rod Dreher was celebrating this “thermite” piece by Matt Taibbi today; what a tragedy that they’re finally getting the approval they so desperately sought now that it’s far too late to be relevant:

The museum became the latest institution to attempt to combat racism by pledging itself to “antiracism,” a quack sub-theology that in a self-clowning trick straight out of Catch-22 seeks to raise awareness about ignorant race stereotypes by reviving and amplifying them.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture created a graphic on “Aspects and Assumptions of White Culture” that declared the following white values: “the scientific method,” “rational, linear thinking,” “the nuclear family,” “children should have their own rooms,” “hard work is the key to success,” “be polite,” “written tradition,” and “self-reliance.” White food is “steak and potatoes; bland is best,” and in white justice, “intent counts.”

The astute observer will notice this graphic could equally have been written by white supremacist Richard Spencer or History of White People parodist Martin Mull. It seems impossible that no one at one of the country’s leading educational institutions noticed this messaging is ludicrously racist, not just to white people but to everyone (what is any person of color supposed to think when he or she reads that self-reliance, politeness, and “linear thinking” are white values?).

The exhibit was inspired by white corporate consultants with Education degrees like Judith Katz and White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo, who themselves echo the work of more consultants with Ed degrees like Glenn Singleton of Courageous Conversations. Per the New York Times, Courageous Conversations even teaches that “written communication over other forms” and “mechanical time” (i.e. clock time) are tools by which “whiteness undercuts Black kids.”

The notion that such bugbears as as time, data, and the written word are racist has caught fire across the United States in the last few weeks, igniting calls for an end to virtually every form of quantitative evaluation in hiring and admissions, including many that were designed specifically to combat racism. Few tears will be shed for the SAT and ACT exams, even though they were once infamous for causing Harvard to be overpopulated with high-scoring “undesirables” like Jews and Catholics, forcing the school to add letters of reference and personal essays to help restore the WASP balance.

The outcry against the tests as “longstanding forces of institutional racism” by the National Association of Basketball Coaches is particularly hilarious, given that the real problem most of those coaches are combating is the minimal fake academic entry requirement imposed by the NCAA to help maintain a crooked billion-dollar business scheme based on free (and largely Black) labor. The tests have been tweaked repeatedly over the years to be more minority-friendly and are one of the few tools that gave brilliant but underprivileged kids a way to blow past the sea of rich suburbanites who feel oppressed by them… But, fine, let’s stipulate, as Neon Bodeaux put it, that “them tests are culturally biased.” What to make of the campaign to end blind auditions for musical positions, which the New York Philharmonic began holding in the early seventies in response to complaints of discrimination?

Before blind auditions, women made up less than 6 percent of orchestras; today they’re half of the New York Philharmonic. But because the change did not achieve similar results with Black and Hispanic musicians, the blind audition must now be “altered to take into fuller account artists’ backgrounds and experiences.” This completes a decades-long circle where the left/liberal project went from working feverishly to expunge racial stereotypes in an effort to level the playing field, to denouncing itself for ever having done so.

This would be less absurd if the effort were not being led in an extraordinary number of cases by extravagantly-paid white consultants like DiAngelo and Howard Ross, a “social justice advocate” whose company billed the federal government $5 million since 2006 to teach basically the same course on “whiteness” to agencies like NASA, the Treasury, the FDIC, and others.

The Left has not become the Right. The point is that ideology is now irrelevant and identity trumps over all, just as every intelligent critic of multiculturalism knew that it would once the demographics of the USA were sufficiently altered. Both multiculturalism and globalism render ideology, which concerns the divisions between a nation, moot because they transform political conflict from intranational to international.

The USA is now playing host to a power struggle between different nations, and the original white American nation is merely one large and unusually ineffective player who doesn’t understand the rules of the new game.

The ideas percolate

Instapundit notes the excision of the SJW executives, and the entire SJW marketing team, from the Red Bull organization:

“Have you ever heard of the phrase, ‘get woke, go broke?’ It turns out there is a simple way to prevent this, and it involves firing people indiscriminately, until the rest of the employees realize that the only way they are going to be able to keep their jobs is by being professional, and keeping their kook politics out of the workplace. Pour encourager les autres.”

However, some Instapundit commenters took exception to his failure to mention the relatively obvious connection to my book Corporate Cancer, which prescribes precisely this response to SJW employees attempting to converge the organization.

Come on Glenn, this merits a plug for Vox Day’s important book Corporate Cancer for biz owners and senior mgt, as well as his earlier books SJWs Always Lie, etc, meant more for individuals/employees. You can disagree with him on other issues, but he is dead right on this.
– newscaper

Persona non grata. I wish I had screenshot the comment but Reynolds once complained that he already had to keep certain people off the website. The context was on complaints about the endless links to cucks tho, he didn’t give any names.
– SameOl’SantaRiaCult ShakinChic

First, understand and accept that it is the ideas that matter, not the author. I don’t care if hostile organizations such as The New York Times and Nature don’t properly credit me for destroying the “religion causes war” hypothesis or if economics journals don’t give me credit for predicting the financial crisis of 2008 and the labor mobility argument that disproves both comparative advantage and the various arguments for free trade.

I know that what I’ve done has made a difference, which is the only thing that matters. The entire system is set up to deny credit, status, and fame to the genuinely innovative while awarding it to mediocrities who have taken the ticket. It is, therefore, a meaningful badge of honor to have the system deny one the fruits of one’s achievements.

Second, Instapundit and the Insta-wife have always been very gracious to Castalia House. If they are no longer in a position to do so, I very much doubt that it has anything to do with their personal inclinations. I don’t know precisely what constraints PJ Media imposes on its bloggers, but I do know that it imposes some constraints on them. And it would not surprise me in the slightest if one of them was any reference to me, my books, or this blog.

And let’s face it, what blogger, given complete autonomy, would ever permit Ed Driscoll and Stephen Green to turn his blog into another tedious NRO-style ALL AIPAC ALL THE TIME site?

Betting on a Trumpslide

A bigtime Vegas gambler is all in on Trumpslide 2020:

My friend drove a taxi in Vegas in those days. She asked every customer who got in the cab, “I’m taking a survey. There are no hidden cameras. No one will ever know what you said. Who are you voting for?” She kept a running score. Close to 100{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d} of her cab customers told her “Trump.” This, of course, didn’t match anything we heard from the pollsters. My gut told me this amateur cab driver poll was more significant than all the pollsters combined.

Knowing all this, I made the biggest bet of my life on Trump. I got 6 to 1 odds. Hillary was given a 99{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d} chance of winning only three days before the election. We all know how that turned out.

Guess what? It’s Groundhog Day. It’s happening all over again.

The same exact pollsters have Trump losing by double digits again. The media is gloating. Democrats are already measuring the curtains at the White House. What a mistake.

Trump is a real-life Rocky Balboa. Trump is screaming “Hit me, c’mon, hit me, I dare you.” He gets hit, but he never goes down. Trump has failed a hundred times in business. He’s lost his entire fortune. At one point he was worth negative $4 billion. And of course, we all know he was counted out a thousand times during the 2016 election campaign.

But just like Rocky Balboa, you can never count Trump out. He’s relentless. I like to give this priceless advice: No one has ever gotten rich betting against America, or Donald J. Trump.

It’s all happening again- except on steroids. The polls are crooked- again. And of course, if anyone thought it was dangerous to announce your support of Trump in 2016, that was a picnic compared to today. Today you can be beaten to death for wearing a Trump cap. Today you can be firebombed for putting a Trump sign on your lawn. Today you will lose your job for saying “All Lives Matter.”

Today the liberal mob is destroying George Washington and Abraham Lincoln statues. They’re setting fire to the Virgin Mary. They’re looting and burning police stations. Democrat Governors are preventing you from going to church. Democrat Mayors are painting taxpayer-funded streets with “Black Lives Matter.” Here’s the best one of all: Museum curators are being fired for buying art pieces from white artists.

Today you’re taking your job, career, business and life in your hands to admit anywhere, to anyone, you support Trump.

You still think those polls are accurate? You don’t see it coming? This is Groundhog Day. And Trump is Rocky Balboa.

Trump’s not just going to win. It’s going to be an electoral landslide.

I’m not a gambler, so I don’t advise betting on anything. I prefer strategic certainty before taking action; if I can’t arrange a Xanatos gambit where either “success” or “failure” are equally acceptable, I simply don’t play.

That being said, the odds right now are about as generous as they are likely to be before Trump exposes Creepy Joe in the debates. So, while I would not recommend betting the house, it’s probably a very good time to put down $10 or so for post-election bragging rights. Because the guy is right, the polls are not only broken, they are entirely irrelevant at this point.

SJWs shut down Comicsgate + Dynamite

I’m not going to even pretend to care at all about this dispute, as Comicsgate has devolved into the neocon gatekeepers of the comics industry and Dynamite probably won’t be around in 3-5 years. But it is industry news, so it’s worth noting:

An hour ago, Bleeding Cool published an article regarding a number of their creators deciding to stop working for Dynamite Entertainment. Shortly before publication, Dynamite owner and publisher Nick Barrucci declined to comment. That suddenly seems to have changed.

Several prominent comic book creators had told Dynamite that they were no longer happy to work for the company when they were publishing, crowdfunding, and promoting creator-exclusive variant covers by Comicsgate comic book creators. While this had been happening for over a year, it was the recent promotion of these covers and Comicsgater livestreams on Dynamite ‘s social media and e-mail blasts, and bringing the crowdfunding under Dynamite’s name that drew new attention to this activity.

Specifically, one cover by Comicsgate creators Cecil and Donal Delay, featuring a Comicsgate character alongside Dynamite characters Vampirella and Red Sonja, promoted alongside other creators’ work, that caused the current reaction. Some Dynamite creators who objected to these events battled with their commitments to others and to their work. However, Matt Miner, Karla Pacheco, Mark Russell, and Christian Ward were among those who stated they would no longer work for Dynamite as a result. I understand other creators talked to Dynamite privately about this issue, also expressing their concerns. The Comicsgaters in question used these statements as a way to drum up more business, talking about celebrating creator tears, as more abuse was targeted against them.

But half an hour after publication, Nick Barrucci decided to comment, telling Bleeding Cool, “In speaking with Cecil, neither one of us realized the cover would be so polarizing.  We discussed and are not moving forward with the cover or the campaign.”

Arkhaven doesn’t need Diamond, Dynamite, or Comicsgate, much less Bleeding Cool, so all of the various tempests in the comics industry teapot are irrelevant to us. But it is nevertheless informative to observe how SJWs are now fully engaged in their war on the cucks of the nominal Right.

UPDATE: Apparently ol’ Two-Face is at it again:

According to Comicsgate leader/spokesperson Ethan Van Sciver, Dynamite Entertainment CEO Nick Barruci has been secretly working alongside the group, criticized by many as an online harassment campaign, since 2018 – a decision that has apparently urged Van Sciver to break his silence as to the extent of Barucci’s support up to this point. The news comes a day after multiple artists and writers denounced Dynamite for working alongside Comicsgate.

What a great friend! I’m sure Barucci will appreciate 2VS exposing him like this and want to stand by him in the future. Assuming, of course, that what he’s saying is substantially true and is not a significant exaggeration.

Deconverging Red Bull

Red Bull excises the corporate cancer:

Red Bull has fired two top executives in the US who had lobbied for more diversity in the company and were blamed for the leak of a letter that criticized its ‘public silence’ on Black Lives Matter.

North America chief executive Stefan Kozak and North America president and chief marketing officer Amy Taylor were let go, the energy drink company said Tuesday.

While Red Bull employees in the US have been pressing for the company to be more vocal about racism, Red Bull’s billionaire CEO Dietrich Mateschitz is a Donald Trump admirer who has spoken out against ‘political correctness’.

The 76-year-old tycoon also owns a media firm which has been criticized for giving a platform to far-right activists in his native Austria.

Sources told Business Insider that Red Bull’s top executives in Austria are thought to have fired Kozak and Taylor in ‘retaliation’ for the leak, although no official reason was given for their departure.

The letter signed by more than 300 employees had criticized the company for ‘saying nothing’ amid the global anti-racism protests and ‘abandoning the communities we claim to support and foster in their time of greatest need’.

Both Kozak and Taylor have pushed for more diversity and inclusion but Taylor was ‘met with opposition’ when she called for the company to take a more public stand on racism, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Any employee who pushes for more diversity, inclusion, or any other social justice value should be axed on the spot. Give them HR and sooner or later, they will take the executive suite.