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The art of virtue-signaling

She is furious, just FURIOUS, about her work appearing on the Sad Puppies IV list. Please to vote for her anyway:

Catherynne Valente ‏@catvalente
For the record, I was not asked and I do not consent to be on the Sad Puppies List. I am furious.

Damien Walter ‏@damiengwalter
Given their reputation, you’d probably have a pretty good legal case against the organisers for defamation of character.

VFM_5411
‏I get it @damiengwalter – if @catvalente doesn’t disavow #sadpuppies then people might think she’s one of THOSE people. As bad as @voxday.

Supreme Dark Lord ‏@voxday
No one is as bad as Vox Day. That’s sort of the point of being Supreme Dark Lord.

It’s kind of impressive, in a way. Damien is even worse at lawyering than he is at writing. And he is a very bad writer.

I will be posting the Rabid Puppies 2016 list on Monday. Both Catherynne Valente and Damien Walter can relax. I don’t recommend any of their works, because neither of them have written anything as as well-written or entertaining, or even as science fictional as “Space Raptor Butt Invasion”.

Terminal convergence

Swedes are forced to cancel their annual virtue-signaling for fear of rape:

The annual virtue-signalling festival known as ‘Earth Hour’ won’t be celebrated in one Swedish town this year, thanks to a sex-crime epidemic sweeping the municipality.

The small Swedish town of Östersund — population 44,300 — is presently living in a state of fear. Police have instructed women to not go outside alone at night following a spate of sex attacks, and police patrol in search of the perpetrators who have so far avoided capture.

There have now been 14 separate reports of sex attacks in the town, with victims ranging from grown women to 10-year-old girls. Police have refused to release details of the suspects they are seeking — as is usual in a country where police took the decision last year to combat racism by not discussing the ethnicities of crime suspects — but victims have described “foreign origin” attackers.

The danger is considered so great the symbolic act of turning the town’s municipal lights off for one hour is considered too much of a risk, and police have requested the event be cancelled. The final decision was taken in consultation with local officers on Tuesday, with Social Democrat spokesman for the local council Ann-Sofie Andersson remarking:

“Earth Hour is a good and important event, but this year we chose to have the street lights on in view of what has happened. We want everyone to feel safe”.

Sweden Television News reports the comments of Chief Constable Stephen Jerand, who said: “We from the police think it’s a very wise move and that the municipality made a good decision. Keeping the lights on creates security and is in line with our common efforts to increase security under current conditions”.

This is the situation one can only describe as “terminal convergence”. It’s when SJWs have so successfully converged an institution that it is no longer capable of performing even social justice functions.

Sugoi desu ne!

It is no doubt true that 95 percent of the world’s weirdness comes from Japan. But sometimes, the result is glorious.


Metal Resistance comes out on April 1, 2016.

The Reddit AMA

Apparently I was supposed to create a new thread, which is here. A sample:

3rdNipp1e 107 points
You’ve quite been an outspoken critic of free trade theory, remarking that it impoverishes wealthy nation’s standards of living down to third-world levels, and I must admit I’ve been persuaded to mostly agree with your point of view over time. However, do you believe there is a nationalist case to be made for only allowing free trade policies with first-world countries that have higher standards of living than the U.S., while rejecting free trade with countries with lower standards of living? I don’t see how Americans lose in that situation as industries in free trade countries would be more incentivized to outsource their jobs to America than vice versa due to our lower wages, which would in turn raise the standard of living for Americans. This also limits the incentive for domestic employers to hire foreign replacements, except in cases where sufficiently qualified laborers can only be found abroad. Due to the trading partner having the higher standard of living (at least for the time being), emigration becomes more of an issue than immigration for the U.S., while the opposite occurs for the country with which we are trading freely. Thoughts?

On a related note, will you ever present a positive case for protectionism or tariffs in the near future? Thanks.

[–]voxday[S] 111 points
Yes, in fact, that is precisely the strategy that has been ruthlessly pursued by the Asian “tigers” to develop their economies. “Free Trade up” is also the method historically used by the United States.

And I do plan to write more on free trade and protectionism in the future, but not any time soon. I have three other books in the works.

 [–]bestinlife 30 points
As it seems this year is going to see many vicious battles, I’m sure many of us are wondering this: how do you sanitize the skulls of your enemies to ensure there are no diseases before using them to build your throne or to drink from?


[–]voxday[S] 35 points
Malwyn urinates in them, then gives them to the dwarrow for silvering.

I conceded defeat to Milo, as he managed 1,634 comments and 1,797 points to my 628 and 1,123, but he was gracious in victory and wrote to say that he was “proud of you anyway”. Despite my being late, the AMA was high energy throughout, thanks to the credible showing of the VFM and assorted Dread Ilk.

Making Reddit Great Again

Just a reminder of the FABulously GOLDen OPportunity to make Reddit great again at The Donald, where I will be doing an Ask Me Anything. Spacebunny has even threatened to make an appearance and ask “the questions you don’t want asked” if I am insufficiently nice to her today.

Vox Day, Trump supporter and author of Cuckservative: How “Conservatives” Betrayed America will be doing an AMA today 3/17 @ 2:30PM EST

The moderator reports that there has already been an amount of troll activity from Sanderson supporters, so it could get even more interesting than one would normally anticipate.

A+ ad and the linguistic killshot

Scott Adams explains how Trump is cutting out Hillary’s legs already:

On a related topic, many of you asked my opinion on Trump’s anti-Clinton ad that shows Hillary Clinton barking like a dog and Putin laughing. I give the ad an A+ for persuasion. It was funny and doesn’t take itself too seriously, but at the same time it appealed to our irrational minds just as Trump intends. Your rational mind knows that Clinton’s “barking” has nothing to do with anything. But your irrational mind sees Putin and ISIS looking powerful on the video while Clinton barks like a chihuahua.

The humor in the ad is what makes it work. Without the humor it would look like a lame comparison. And people equate a good sense of humor with high intelligence, whether or not that is true. The ad leaves us feeling that Trump is funny-smart and Clinton is ridiculous.

You know who wasn’t funny? Hitler, that’s who. Every time Trump makes us laugh he chips away at the Hitler meme that has been dogging him. So it works on a branding level too.

I also see the ad as Trump’s way of assuring everyone who has, over the years, seen one Republican after another refuse to put up a real fight, especially when a woman is on the other side: “Don’t worry, I got this.”

The civilizational nightmare

Fred Reed observes that diversity is virtually the opposite of civilization’s strength:

A tribulation of following the news is the desperate peddling—it would appall an Amway salesman– of diversity, said to be our strength. Oh? Exactly why it is our strength is never specified. It seems to have brought no benefit beyond crime, rape, and genital mutilation. While the desirability of these advances is beyond dispute, it nonetheless seems to me that diversity has minor drawbacks worthy of consideration.

So, brothels and cisterns, let us look at some of the resplendent marvels of diversity, and the onward march of human betterment and happiness attendant thereunto. What have been the relations between:

In Germany, Germans and Moslems. In Canada, Frogs, Anglos, and Indians. In the US, blacks, whites, browns, and Moslems. In Sri Lanka, Tamils and Sinhalese. In Sweden, Swedes and Moslems. In Ireland, Prots and Catholics.  In Rwanda, Hutus and Tutsis, or maybe Tutus and Hutsis. In India, Hindus and Moslems among others. In Israel, Jews and Arabs. In France, French and Moslems. In Sudan, Moslems and Christians. In South Africa, Xhosa, Bantus, and whites. In Iraq and elsewhere, Shias and Sunnis. In Xian Jiang, Chinese and Moslems.  In Spain, Basques, Catalans, and the rest. In Germany, Jews and Germans. In Turkey, Turks and Armenians and Kurds. In ISIS-land, Moslems and Christians, Sunnis and Shias. In Indonesia, Indonesians and Chinese. In Holland, Dutch and Moslems.

Most of these happy proximities have produced bloodbaths, actual genocide or attempts at it, forced migration as when Uganda threw out its Indians, mass butchery by machete as in Rwanda, repeated bombings in London, and such like exuberances. Other disasters are still only in the simmering stage. Americans are among those being simmered.

From which one might conclude that diversity is the principal cause of human unhappiness, mightn’t one?

Americans most definitely are among those “being simmered”. It would be astonishing if the largest invasion in human history did not lead to violence, inter-ethnic conflict, and bloodshed on a similar scale.

That is the great evil that has been committed by the advocates of the Proposition Nation. The Proposition Nation propaganda is not merely dyscivic, it is dyscivilizational. Not only are the propositionists absolutely and utterly wrong, but their actions are observably leading to what has the potential to be one of the great crimes of human history.

And that is assuming that Western Civilization survives. The frightening thing is this: that may well be the rosy scenario.

Iron Chamber of Memory by John C. Wright

The small island of Sark in the English Channel is the last feudal government in Europe. By law, no motor vehicles run on the road, and no lights burn at night. Only the lord of the island may keep hounds.Into the strange, high house of Wrongerwood wanders Hal Landfall, penniless graduate student at Magdalen College, looking for his missing friend Manfred Hathaway, who has just inherited the lordship, the house, and the island. What he finds instead is the lovely, green-eyed Laurel, a beautiful girl from Cornwall who is Manfred’s wife-to-be. 

There is said to be a haunted chamber in the house, erected by Merlin in ancient days, where a man who enters remembers his true and forgotten self. When Hal and Laurel step in, they remember, with fear and wonder, a terrible truth they must forget again when they step outside.

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Iron Chamber of Memory, John C. Wright’s latest novel, is now available exclusively on Amazon. It is 242 pages, retails for $4.99, and is DRM-free.

Fox Republican debate canceled

Donald Trump is making both Fox News and the RNC his bitches. Like a boss:

Monday’s Republican presidential primary debate has been canceled after GOP front-runner Donald Trump declined to participate, citing a scheduling conflict.

“On Feb. 20, the Republican National Committee announced that a GOP presidential primary debate would be held on March 21 in Salt Lake City. They offered that debate to Fox News Channel to host, provided there were enough candidates actively campaigning,” Fox News Executive Vice President Michael Clemente said in a statement.

“This morning, Donald Trump announced he would not be participating in the debate. Shortly afterward, John Kasich’s campaign announced that without Trump at the debate, Kasich would not participate. Ted Cruz has expressed a willingness to debate Trump or Kasich — or both. But obviously, there needs to be more than one participant. So the Salt Lake City debate is cancelled,” Clemente said.

So much for the idea of a brokered convention. At this rate, if Donald Trump decides not to show up for the Republican National Convention, they’ll cancel that too.

Why Trump will crush Hillary

Scott Adams explains the situation from the Master Persuader perspective:

Trump could frame Clinton as anti-male without ever saying “anti-male.” The exact words matter less than the concept. But the words do need to be catchy in some way, so everyone wants to repeat them.

My gut feeling is that men will abandon Clinton every day from now until November unless Trump murders a baby on live television. Otherwise, I think Trump wins easily with men.

But women are the interesting wild card in this scenario. For the sake of discussion, let’s say half of Clinton’s female supporters have a grudge against men. That seems about right if you consider all the attention on gender discrimination. Now add to that all the abusive relationships women have experienced, both personally and professionally, and you have plenty of reasons for women to be anti-male, even if only subconsciously.

But the hypothetical half of women that do not have a grudge against men would run like the wind to avoid being labelled anti-male. It goes to identity. And identity is always the strongest level of persuasion. The only way to beat it is with dirty tricks or a stronger identity play.

Trump is well on his way to owning the identities of American, Alpha Males, and Women Who Like Alpha Males. Clinton is well on her way to owning the identities of angry women, beta males, immigrants, and disenfranchised minorities.

If this were poker, which hand looks stronger to you for a national election?

I think Trump will crush Hillary myself, but not based on any particular communication tactics. Hillary is a ridiculously corrupt member of a corrupt elite who is a terrible candidate almost entirely dependent upon a) the Clinton machine clearing the path for her and b) her opponents refusing to hit her because she’s a girl. So to speak.

Trump knows how the machines work and he’s not even remotely hesitant to launch both rhetorical and dialectical attacks on anyone. Hillary has a glass jaw, she doesn’t handle criticism well, and I expect she would not only fold, but collapse completely, before the kind of pressure Trump would bring to bear.