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SJWs defending their turf

One of the people following my author page received this from Goodreads today:

Hi there

Your account was recently brought to our attention.  Upon review, we have decided to remove it from the site.  A CSV of the books you shelved is attached for your personal records.  You are banned from using Goodreads in any capacity going forward.

Sincerely,

The Goodreads Team

That’s four banned already. As I said, for all the libertarian pretensions of the CEO, the company has been entirely converged. The purpose of Goodreads is no longer to simply read and review books, but to advance social justice ideals by building up SJW authors and attacking anti-SJW authors and anyone who supports them.

That is why Goodreads will go into decline and Amazon will eventually shut them down and replace them. The only way a converged business can survive is as a parasite, either with a government host or a corporate one.

Smart diplomacy works

How fortunate that Iran is our friend now:

The crew of two small Navy craft are being held by Iran, but American officials have received assurances from Tehran that the crew and vessels will be returned safely and promptly.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told The Associated Press that the boats were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when the U.S. lost contact with them.

“We have been in contact with Iran and have received assurances that the crew and the vessels will be returned promptly,” Cook said.

U.S. officials said that the incident happened near Farsi Island, situated in the middle of the Persian Gulf. They say it stemmed from some type of mechanical trouble with one of the boats, causing them to run aground. The troops were picked up by Iran.

And to think you doubted Obama. For shame.

That went well

Talk about going well beyond the call of duty:

Five Stars

Awesome book! Nail, meet the HAMMER! Great interview as well on my national show, The Financial Safari!

Coach Pete

I did an interview last night on The Financial Safari; I understand it will be broadcast in a few weeks. I thought it went rather well, but apparently it went even better than I’d thought.

Anyhow, it was very gracious of him to post a review and I’ll provide a link to the interview here when it runs.

THIS depression

I remember, when after publishing The Return of the Great Depression in 2009, various critics used to cite various “green shoots” reports in an attempt to taunt me for being incorrect. “What depression?” they would ask mockingly.

“Just wait,” I would tell them. “We are in the early stages of a depression that is bigger than the Great Depression.” Seven years later, even rosy-goggled mainstream economists like Brad DeLong are admitting that the situation is historically dire.

Economist Joe Stiglitz warned back in 2010 that the world risked sliding into a “Great Malaise.” This week, he followed up on that grim prediction, saying, “We didn’t do what was needed, and we have ended up precisely where I feared we would.”

Joe Stiglitz is right.

In the aftermath of 2008, Stiglitz was indeed one of those warning that I and economists like me were wrong. Without extraordinary, sustained and aggressive policies to rebalance the economy, he said, we would never get back to what before 2008 we had thought was normal.

I was wrong. He was right. Future economic historians may not call the period that began in 2007 the “Greatest Depression.” But as of now, it is highly and increasingly probable that they will call it the “Longest Depression.”

You don’t say…. Remember, while I am certainly capable of being wrong, I am well-read, well-educated, and significantly more intelligent than the norm. So, even if I am wrong, I usually have a fairly solid set of facts and logic behind the position I am expressing.

Perhaps more importantly, and unlike most of those who opine on such matters, I have no dog in the hunt. While I would very much like the economy to be booming, I am not financially dependent upon saying so.  While the measures that Stiglitz and Krugman were pushing were absolutely and utterly wrong – the “extraordinary, sustained and aggressive policies to rebalance the economy” would have only made things worse, as what was needed was a huge round of bankruptcies to clear the zombie debt – they were right to observe that the Neo-Keynesian measures utilized were doomed to be ineffective.

I wish I had been wrong about the Great Depression 2.0. But I wasn’t. And, as even Nate will likely admit now, I was also right about the global economy falling into worldwide deflation.

Unfortunately, this tends to indicate that I am likely correct about the world rapidly heading towards large-scale 4GW, including multiple civil wars, across more than one continent.

Kristallnacht Zwei

I think we all know what comes next. The Germans are beginning to fight back against the invaders of their country:

Hundreds of anti-refugee rioters have gone on the rampage in the German city of Leipzig after a demonstration where they called for asylum seekers to be deported and their nation’s borders closed.

The attacks come just hours after Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that Europe had lost control of the crisis. The right-wingers broke away from a largely peaceful march in the eastern city to trash the suburb of Connewitz.

Doner kebab fast food stalls were destroyed, cars set ablaze and shop windows smashed by around 250 hooligans of LEGIDA – the local branch of PEGIDA, the anti-migrant, anti-EU organization which marched against the refugees earlier in the evening.At one point the demonstrators, who threw fireworks at police, attempted to build a barricade in a main street with signs and torn up paving stones before they were dispersed.

Firemen had to tackle a blaze in the attic of one building set alight by a wayward rocket fired by the rioters. A bus carrying leftist pro-asylum demonstrators was also attacked and seriously damaged.

Police said they have identified and arrested 211 of the crowd of right-wing hooligans, many of them with criminal records for violence.

‘This was a serious breach of the peace,’ said a police spokesman, confirming that several police officers were injured in the clashes triggered by simmering anger over the New Year’s Eve mass sex attacks against women in Cologne and several other German cities.

‘Rape Refugees stay away’ was one of the banners carried during the march, the wording above a silhouette of women running from knife-wielding attackers, one of whom resembled a caricature from Aladdin…. German police say the number of criminal complaints filed after the events on New Year’s Eve in Cologne has risen to 516 – 40 per cent relating to allegations of sexual assault.

Germany’s FBI, the Federal Criminal Office, said it had information that the surrounding and sexual molestation of women was a ‘familiar phenomenon in some Arab countries.’ Now it is liaising with police in all 16 states of Germany to formulate a strategy on how to combat it in future on German streets. The minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, the German state where Cologne is located, admitted that people of foreign descent were responsible for virtually all of the violence on New Year’s Eve in the city.

One wonders how many of those 516 criminal orcs were arrested, considering how one was shot dead attacking French police last week.

Revolution is a process. It doesn’t come about overnight, and it is fueled by actions and counteractions alike. The anti-German “authorities”, who are clearly no longer regarded as legitimate by a significant portion of the German people, can arrest as many nationalists as they like. Not only will their actions be regarded as shamefully hypocritical in light of their refusal to arrest the orcs raping and sexually assaulting young German women, but similar tactics didn’t suffice to stop the rise of the National Socialists; you may recall where Hitler wrote the newly legalized Mein Kampf.

They can’t arrest the entire German population, and the minute the “authorities” shed any German blood, they will become the targets of an enraged nation. This was not “a serious breach of the peace”, it was the first real evidence of the crisis of the German state.

This is the inevitable result of multiculturalism and a feckless leadership that refuses to govern in the interests of its people.There are now two, and only two, options remaining: peaceful and democratic nationalism or violent and authoritarian ultra-nationalism.

I pray that the multiculturalists, equalitarians, and anti-nationalists will submit and acquiesce to the former. But I expect them to stubbornly and pridefully resist, and thereby ensure the latter.

They’ve been busy

It’s great to see how David Lambert and Alexandra Hollingshead, among others, have been so totally absorbed with reading all my books over the holidays….

It’s a good thing Goodreads banned the Rabid Puppies group or people might engage in an organized effort to attack authors by lowering their ratings!

This is why we need to establish non-converged cultural institutions and ruthlessly work to keep the SJWs out of them. SJWs will always stack the deck and do their very best to use whatever power they can obtain, be it petty or significant, in the interest of forcing social justice on society. And anyone who challenges their Narrative will not only be attacked, but silenced, and stripped of their ability to defend themselves or respond in kind, to the extent that the SJWs are able to do that.

“Society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it, that is, who have deserved equally well absolutely. This is the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice; towards which all institutions, and the efforts of all virtuous citizens should be made in the utmost degree to converge.”
 —John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1861

Fortunately, efforts on several fronts are already underway, and your help will be needed on some of them. We’ll be having the January Brainstorm as soon as I get a time and date from the panelist I’ve selected, and we’ll be discussing the current state of the project I’ve chosen as my top priority as well as the panelist’s upcoming project.

It’s going to be short notice, so be prepared for that.

UPDATE: By the way, note that for all their posturing, SJWs clearly hate it when you call out their reviews for the ideological trash that they are.

I do suspect you’re a fake profile, much like some of the other lice which crawled all over my reviews of Day’s stuff.

Always hit back twice as hard. Remember, they are fragile creatures of little accomplishment; in many cases these attack “reviews” are their only sources of pride.

Code of Merit

Rosarior has made a solid attempt at providing an alternative to the Codes of Conduct that SJWs are successfully using in their attempt to enter and converge many open source software projects. It’s called the Code of Merit.

A meritocratic code of conduct devoid of social politics.

This Code of Merit should not be necessary. The fact that it is necessary means there is something wrong with the solutions the software industry is trying. They should recognize that fact and not insist that their solution is the only solution.

  1.     Software is like nature: it evolves, so the best implementation must prevail.
  2.     You will contribute, you will learn, and mistakes are allowed.
  3.     Mistakes are not final and everybody has a second chance.
  4.     Don’t expect others to do your work or help you with your work forever.
  5.     Harassment as defined by law will not be allowed. Questioning is not harassment. Repeated questioning after an individual has stated their desire for disengagement is harassment.
  6.     Censorship will not be permitted. Seeking to silence an individual voicing constructive opinions will not be allowed. Silencing vitriol is not censorship.
  7.     This is a space for technical prowess; world politics have no place here.
  8.     Everything that makes a person an individual, including but not limited to body, sex, sexual preference, race, language, religion, nationality, or political preferences are irrelevant in the scope of a technical project.
  9.     Everybody is different, so differences will not be mentioned by anyone, even by the individual suffering/experiencing/having/enjoying them. We are all individuals seeking the common goal of improving ourselves and improving our collective project.
  10.     Everybody has the same rights and the same opportunities to seek any challenge they want. The chance to screw up will not be denied to anybody.
  11.     There is no room for ambiguity: if an individual is ambiguous regarding a statement it is up to the individual to provide more context. Ambiguity will be met with questioning; further ambiguity will be met with silence.
  12.     If a discussion arises that cannot be solved in the space of the project, it will be discussed in a separate space. Disruption of the project will not be allowed.
  13.     This Code of Merit does not take precedence over governing law.

It’s a good start, and I certainly support the idea, but I find it both defensive and excessively explanatory. I also find that it leaves a few small cracks that SJWs will, as is their wont, ruthlessly attempt to exploit.

Here is a first pass at a weaponized version that I believe will be more effective in both rooting out and deterring SJW entryists.

OSS Code of Merit

Everyone who joins this project agrees to abide by this meritocratic code in the interest of successfully reaching the objectives of this project.

  1. No objectives beyond the stated objectives of this project are relevant to the project. Social Justice Warriors are not permitted to join this project in any capacity.
  2. Any attempt to suggest, propose, or otherwise advocate for an alternate Code of Conduct or to advance social justice ideals will result in immediate expulsion from the project.
  3. Your value to the project will be solely determined by your direct contributions to the project in the objective form of code, documentation, fundraising, and testing.
  4. No member of the project who has not contributed [a specified amount of code] is permitted to accept any board position, administrative position, or management-related role in the project.
  5. You will do your own work. Any attempt to pass off the work of others as your own will result in immediate expulsion from the project.
  6. Individual characteristics related to body, sex, sexual preference, race, language, religion, and nationality
    are irrelevant and will not be taken into account concerning your value to the project.
  7. If a discussion arises that cannot be solved in the space of the
    project, it will be discussed in a separate space. Disruption of the
    project will not be allowed.
  8. The director of the project is king, emperor, and god of the project. There are no limitations on his ability to make decisions and discipline members of the project. Cross him at risk of expulsion from the project.
  9. All present and future advisory boards will answer to the director of the project. The director can disband any and all boards and committees at will and at his sole discretion.
  10. The director of the project is X. The vice-director is Y. If the director is incapacitated or otherwise unable to perform his duties, Y will assume the director’s role for three months and will appoint a substitute vice-director. If the director is still unable to perform his duties after three months, Y will become the director of the project and the substitute vice-director will become the vice-director.
  11. If you do not approve of the direction or the objectives of the project, then leave the project.

One thing I’ve noticed is that SJWs always attempt to minimize the role of whoever started the project and made it successful, ergo shutting down any possibility of that by protecting the status of the project director and giving him the unrestricted ability to boot any member seeking to effect change should be the first priority of any project that wishes to remain productive and unconverged.

    Mailvox: cold consolation

    This one is for all the Minnesotans:

    Ole and Sven die in a snowmobiling accident, drunker than skunks, and go
    to Hell.

    The Devil observes that they are really enjoying themselves. He says to them “Doesn’t the heat and smoke bother you?

    Ole replies, “Vell, ya know, ve’re from nordern Minnesnoowta, da land of
    snow an ice, an ve’re yust happy fer a chance at varm up a little bit,
    ya know.”

    The devil decides that these two aren’t miserable enough and turns up
    the heat even more. When he returns to the room of the two guys from
    Minnesota , the devil finds them in light jackets and hats, grilling walleye and drinking beer.

    The devil is astonished and exclaims, “Everyone down here is in abject
    misery, and you two seem to be enjoying yourselves?”

    Sven replies, “Vell, ya know, ve don’t git too much varm veather up dere
    at da Falls, so ve’ve yust got at haff a fish fry vhen da veather’s dis
    nice.”

    The devil is absolutely furious. He can hardly see straight. Finally he
    comes up with the answer. The two guys love the heat because they have
    been cold all their lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in
    Hell. The next morning, the temperature is 60 below zero, icicles are
    hanging everywhere, and people are shivering so bad that they are unable
    to wail, moan or gnash their teeth.

    The devil smiles and heads for the room with Ole and Sven. He gets there
    and finds them back in their parkas, bomber hats, and mittens. They are
    jumping up and down, cheering, yelling and screaming like mad men.

    The devil is dumbfounded, “I don’t understand; when I turn up the heat,
    you’re happy. Now its freezing cold and you’re still happy. What is
    wrong with you two?”

    They both look at the devil in surprise and say, “Vell, don’t ya know,
    If hell iss froze over, dat must mean da Vikings von da Super Bowl.”

    It occurs to me that one of the many casualties of the cultural rape of the West is Sven and Ole jokes. Sans a familiarity with Christian culture, there is no joke there.

    Reverify Milo!

    This aggression shall not stand! Sign the petition and help right this social media injustice!

    On Friday 8 January 2016, Twitter unverified the account of Breitbart technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos, effectively declaring war on libertarian and millennial voices by punishing the outspoken commentator for his views. This comes despite CEO Jack Dorsey declaring that Twitter “stands for freedom of expression” just a few months ago.

    The Obama Administration should issue a strong statement of support for freedom of speech. Give Milo back his badge! #JeSuisMilo

    Seriously, how funny would it be to see the Obama administration lobbying Twitter to reverify Milo.

    Expanding the audio front

    A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind Audible – Unabridged. Martin van Creveld (Author), Jon Mollison (Narrator).

    There are few better suited to write the history of strategy and
    military thought than Dr. Martin van Creveld, who has been a significant
    contributor to the literature of war. A professor emeritus at the
    Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Dr. van Creveld is one of the world’s
    leading writers on military history and strategy, with a special
    interest in the future of war. He is fluent in Hebrew, German, Dutch,
    and English and has authored more than 20 books, including the
    influential Technology and War: 2000 BC to the Present (1988), The Transformation of War (1991), and The Culture of War
    (2010). He is known for his development of the concept of
    “nontrinitarian” warfare as well as contributing two books to the 4GW
    canon.


    Featuring a foreword by Dr. Jerrry Pournelle, A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind
    begins with the Chinese military literature, then reviews the Greek,
    Roman, and Byzantine works before proceeding to the Middle Ages. From
    Machiavelli and Montecuccoli to Guibert and Frederick the Great, van
    Creveld chronicles the gradual transition from medieval to Napoleonic
    warfare and onward into the nuclear age and the rise of ISIS.

    We’re very pleased to announce our second audio book, A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind, and to be able to let you know that many more are on the way, including Awake in the Night Land, SJWs Always Lie, and There Will Be War Vol. X. And if you haven’t heard it yet, you’ll likely want to check out the audio sample of Cuckservative: How “Conservatives” Betrayed America as well.

    Our goal is to have all Castalia House books available in audio by the end of 2016. I know most of the readers of this text-heavy blog prefer ebooks to audio, but if you’ve got friends who prefer the latter, do us a favor and let them know about our audiobook line.