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Of course, one hopes this won’t make us the Star Citizen of comics. Meanwhile, Captain Europa celebrates the good news that Alt★Hero is now the #1 crowdfunded new comic of all time. It will probably surprise no one to learn that Dynamique could not care less. Meanwhile, we’re less than 4k away from Stretch Goal #12, so don’t hesitate to jump on the bandwagon.
Texans owner Bob McNair demonstrates why everyone – everyone – needs to read SJWAL and SJWADD:
Doesn’t matter if it was said in private or misconstrued, there are things NFL owners can’t touch. And most of them won’t need this memo—any parallel between their workforce and prisoners is one.
It’s been 10 days now since a small group of players met with 11 NFL owners in New York City and, as we reported back then, the general tenor coming out of the summit was that there was cautious optimism that progress had been made on what remained a very fragile and sensitive situation.
On Friday, that optimism seemed to go out the window, and we saw just how fragile and sensitive this situation is.
Early that morning ESPN posted a story by Don Van Natta and Seth Wickersham on the aforementioned meetings. It was a balanced, detailed and rich piece, reflecting the progress made, as well as the divide in attitude among various factions of owners. One anecdote, however, stood out, and created an immediate firestorm.
“We can’t have the inmates running the prison,” Texans owner Bob McNair said, according to the reporting of Van Natta and Wickersham (we’ve independently confirmed it), during a debate over the impact the player protests were having on NFL and team business. Later on Friday morning, McNair released a statement apologizing for using the expression.
In the statement, McNair said, “I never meant to offend anyone, and I was not referring to our players.” Sources said McNair displayed some anger over the league office’s handling of the matter in the meeting, in addition to making the comments he did about the players.
Needless to say, the media quickly fanned the situation into open flames and the precious snowflakes that presently pass for NFL players promptly melted down, as if on command:
The Texans will show up for their game in Seattle on Sunday, but if NFL contracts were guaranteed, Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman predicts Houston players would stay home.
“Oh, yeah, those guys would probably sit this game out,” Sherman said, via Gregg Bell of The News Tribune.
Texans owner Bob McNair apologized after his comment about not having “inmates running the prison” was published by ESPN The Magazine.
“I appreciate when people like that show who they really are,” Sherman said. “More people in the world have to be that kind and that open about how they really feel so you can identify them — and make sure you stay away from those kind of people, and keep those people out of power.
“But, you know, of course they have to sit back and apologize, because it’s politically correct to apologize. But eventually you have take people for their word and for who they are. For most players, even when once we apologize they still take what we said and judge us by it. So you should do the same with him.”
What part of “never apologize under pressure” is hard to understand. An apology is always – ALWAYS – taken as a confession. It does not, and will never, resolve the situation, it will only make it worse. That’s why SJWs and the media – but I repeat myself – always press hard for an apology from the start. It is the guilty verdict that permits them to move on from the prosecution to punishment.
A woman’s solitary life illustrates the danger of excessively high standards:
There is a name for people like me – “relationship virgin”. It is apt and accurate because I have managed to get to 54 without ever having had a boyfriend.
It is hard to believe, given that I haven’t been living in a cave at the bottom of the ocean, but it is the truth. I have never had a significant other, never been someone’s other half, never been asked out. Come to think of it, I’ve never even had a Valentine’s card – well, not unless you count the piece of paper with a love heart drawn in blue pen that Kevin from Sunday school shoved into my coat pocket when I was about seven….
I honestly don’t understand it. I am gregarious, have loads of interests, work out, have good dress sense – or so I am told – and am no more or less attractive than my friends, most of whom are happily married, or at least know what it feels like to be in love.
Just recently, my best friend – someone I have known since junior school – said to me that she wishes she had given me a good shake when we were at university. She was studying in the next city and would visit me for hall parties and other socials, and now says she could see what I was doing wrong. She says I made it such hard work for any boy who approached me, that I was too much of challenge.
I was invited to four weddings (no funerals, thank goodness) the year I turned 37. That is when I decided to join a dating agency, but it turned out to be one soul-sinking encounter after another with men who were inadequate, unsuitable or both.
So, being standoffish, reactive, and self-overrated is a handicap to pursuing relationships? Who would have ever imagined that? The truth is we see this sort of behavior in men as well; being a man, I see it even more often. The “pointy elbows, 2/10, would not bang” meme perfectly mocks this ridiculous, self-destructive behavior.
Look, men are not special because they are attracted to supermodels and women are not special because they are attracted to successful alpha males. That’s the exact opposite of special.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t trade up in one area where she trades up in another. But it has to be an area of superior value to them, not to you. No woman gives a damn about your loyalty, devotion, white-knighting or romantic nature anymore than you care about her academic credentials, knitting skills, or gossip network.
Never forget that in love, as in war, the other party always gets a vote.
Such incredible support from the 1,700+ Alt★Hero backers. Some of you mentioned the traditional U-shape of a kickstarted campaign, but given the two mid-campaign bumps, I thought it was possible that we’d already pulled too much demand forward through our various announcements to see it play out in monetary terms. Alt★Hero is now one of the top 25 comics ever kickstarted, and may well be the one of the top three comics ever launched this way.
Thank you from me, Chuck Dixon, and the entire Alt★Hero team. We are extremely motivated to live up to the faith you have expressed in our ability to deliver a high-quality comic series – or two, really – and we hope to exceed your expectations. Some of these elements are going to take a while, particularly the RPG, but we will deliver them when they are ready. As a thank you to all of the backers, we are accepting Observer’s suggestion to give one cameo to the entire backing community to decide. Nominations here on the blog and a deciding vote-by-email will be done after the campaign concludes.
It won’t be up on the site for a few hours yet, but I can tell you what the $200k reward is going to be: Spacebunny cosplay and a photo of the cosplayer signed by the real Spacebunny included with every shipment to a backer that includes a hardcover Reward. If you are not still tired of all the winning and would like to help close out the campaign with a bang, you can do so here.
UPDATE: As the Alt★Hero campaign has now exceeded $194,145, it is the most-funded new comic book ever crowdfunded. Congratulations to Freestartr, to the creative team, and to all 1,751 backers and counting.
Congratulations to Castalia House author Ivan Throne, who marks two years of Dark Triad Man:
Two years ago today, not one person had heard of Ivan Throne. The first year of my writing and work saw over 85,000 visitors to this site, 200,000 page views, 18 million Twitter impressions, thousands of followers on social media, and the release of my first book by Castalia House in early October of 2016.
The Nine Laws quickly raced up the charts and became a #1 philosophy bestseller on Amazon. Just over a year later it is still holding strong in the top 1{7a570d310fd04ee61246b4469264ca1004967a98be813fe63aaa5d2057987204} of all books on Amazon, selling thousands upon thousands of copies.
Today is the second anniversary of DARK TRIAD MAN® and I am very proud to share the success with you.
It is all of you who have made an even more triumphant second year possible.
Ivan works harder than anyone I know not named “Mike Cernovich” or “[redacted]”. That was one of the reasons I signed him to Castalia House, because I knew anyone that driven to succeed was going to succeed. It won’t surprise me even a little bit if he ultimately becomes better known than Stefan Molyneux and me combined.
After all, I’ve been in the public eye in some form or another since 1992. Ivan is nearly as well known as I am after just two years. Don’t ever count the man out.
I used to work at a Conservatism Inc. institution with a $60 million/year budget, the ~$170k @Voxday Alt★Hero project will be more impactful than the past ten years of the aforementioned institution’s activities combined.
– Nick at Instapundit
The image above is fan art contributed by a freelance pro who is supporting the project. If you’d like to see more of the real story, we’ve added another draft page at the Alt★Hero campaign, which has reached its penultimate day. And for those who may happen to be under the mistaken impression that I am laying it on a bit too heavily, please note that the threats being uttered by Captain Europa there are a direct quote of the Metropolitan Police in London via their twitter account.
The big news promised earlier is this: Chuck Dixon has agreed to write an Alt★Hero novel! Entitled Vendetta, the novel will be set in the city of Avalon and published by Castalia House in ebook, paperback, and audiobook formats. We’ve added two rewards so you can buy it today in either ebook or paperback format (as part of the trilogy of novels that have been announced) by backing the campaign. Vendetta is a new character he has created who appears in Avalon volume I and will be the protagonist of his first novel.
Also, due to more than a dozen requests for them, we have added two conditional Rewards. Chuck Dixon and Castalia House will commit to producing volumes IV, V, and VI of the Alt★Hero series Avalon if the campaign reaches the $185k mark, and we will provide the digital editions of those three volumes to all the appropriate backer levels. $23k in two days is a little ambitious, but the general consensus seems to be that it is reachable if people have the option of backing the 4th omnibus print editions.
$5.00
Novel Ebook #3
This is to receive a copy of Alt★Hero novel #3, Vendetta, by Chuck Dixon, in DRM-free EPUB and MOBI formats.
$49.00
Paperback Trilogy
This is to receive three paperbacks consisting of Alt★Hero novels #1 and 2 by Jon Del Arroz and Vox Day and Alt★Hero novel #3, Vendetta, by Chuck Dixon. The paperbacks will be 5.5 x 8.5 and 200+ pages each. Worldwide shipping is included.
$30.00
Add-On: Paperback #4
This is to receive the paperback omnibus that includes volumes IV, V, and VI of the Alt★Hero series Avalon, written by Chuck Dixon. You will also receive the digital editions of the first nine volumes if you are not already receiving them. Worldwide shipping is included. NOTE: This Reward is conditional. If the campaign does not reach $185,000, this Reward will not be delivered and backers will not be charged for it.
$65.00
Add-On: Hardcover #4
This is to receive the hardcover omnibus that includes volumes IV, V, and VI of the Alt★Hero series Avalon, written by Chuck Dixon. You will also receive the digital editions of the first nine volumes if you are not already receiving them. This will be a collector’s item with a cover that will only be made available to backers; it will not be the cover that goes into distribution. Worldwide shipping is included. NOTE: This Reward is conditional. If the campaign does not reach $185,000, this Reward will not be delivered and backers will not be charged for it.
By the way, one important aspect of supporting the #4 options is that this will create the material for SIX additional small comics, bringing the total we’ll be releasing to 24. That’s the equivalent of a full year of two comics series, which should help us considerably in kicking down the door of the retail channel.
UPDATE: Only $19k $14k 7k to go with 24 hours left.
Things may have just gotten a little more interesting in Spain.
Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain
The Catalan regional parliament has voted to declare independence from Spain, just as the Spanish government appears set to impose direct rule. The move was backed 70-10 in a ballot boycotted by opposition MPs.
Spain’s Senate is still to vote on whether for the first time to enact Article 155 of the Spanish constitution, which empowers the government to take “all measures necessary to compel” a region in case of a crisis.
I have absolutely no sense that anyone in Catalonia is interested in actually fighting for independence, or even seeking true independence free of the European Union. Then again, Napoleon didn’t think the Spanish were going to fight the king he imposed on them either. Either way, we will probably find out fairly soon.
It might be even more interesting if the Spanish Senate voted against enacting Article 155.
UPDATE: They didn’t exactly hesitate. Madrid imposes direct rule on Catalonia just 40 minutes after the region FINALLY declared independence.
Catholic ubercuck Mark Shea lies about Jesus Christ, lies about Christianity, lies about a verse from Galatians, and lies about the Alt-Right.
Alt Right worshippers of blood and race have made an idol of whiteness. As though your skin is a culture and, worse, as though your skin is a god. They subordinate the God of the universe to a mere prop authorizing the skin idolator to fall down in worship of his race and, accordingly, to excuse the oppression and destruction of those he deems inferior to his Master Race.
The contempt of the Alt Right for “Cuck Christianity” relies on a narrative that confirms what I have come to call “Herreid’s Law”. My friend John Herreid observed some time ago that when people bedeck their Facebook page with pictures of knights, crusaders, or paladins, they tend to be kooks. The Alt Right Christian invariably does this, and their race kookiness is manifest. They only value the Christian tradition for giving them an iconography of white people killing brown ones. But of course, the Faith (and especially the Catholic faith) is chockablock with brown people–and brown saints.
Not surprising really since her Lord was brown–a standard Middle Eastern Jew of the first century. Somebody who would have been on one of Steve Bannon’s travel bans and deemed a danger by the Race Theorist of the Alt Right. Happily for us northern European stock, he put no stock in Alt Right racist crap and declared membership in his Body, the Church, open to anybody–even white supremacists idiots if they would only repent their white supremacist idiocy and confess that in Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, black nor white. That’s a tall order for some of these idiots. But repentance and salvation is open to anyone, even members of the Alt Right.
It is not worshiping blood and race, nor making an idol of whiteness, to recognize that DNA exists, race exists, and that differences in DNA and race have a profound effect on culture and society alike. That is a lie for which Mark Shea will be held accountable, both in this world and the next.
It is not true that the Alt-Right only values Christian tradition for giving us “an iconography of white people killing brown ones”. Quite to the contrary, we value Western civilization, also known as Christendom, and even those of us who are not Christians value the Christian tradition as one of the three foundational pillars of the West, without which it cannot survive. That is another lie for which Mark Shea will be held accountable, both in this world and the next.
Jesus Christ most certainly did put at least some stock in “Alt Right racist crap”, as he declared in Matthew 15:24-26, He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs. That is another lie for which Mark Shea will be held accountable, both in this world and the next.
Finally, while it is true that “in Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female,”, it is not true that in the world in which the Christian is in, but not of, there is Greek and Jew, slave and free, male and female.” Notice that he deceitfully added “black nor white”, which neither Jesus nor Paul said. Since Paul also told slaves that they remain slaves, and since Paul also condemned men having sex with men, it is obviously true that Mark Shea’s citation of this verse to claim that those various differences do not exist in the world for the Christian today is dishonest, deceptive, and theologically false.
I submit that this is conclusive evidence proving that Mark Shea is a liar, a deceiver, an accuser, and a false follower of the Truth. There is no truth in him. No man who considers himself to be a Christian should pay this wormtongue any heed or respect, and he should be confronted by his church authorities and called upon to publicly repent of his lies and false accusations.
Cuckservatism and Churchianity are not Christianity. Their lies and falsehoods preclude the possibility. Judeo-Christ is not Jesus Christ, he is literally antichrist.
And I have a verse for Mr. Shea that may be wise for him to keep in mind in light of his little additions to Galatians 3:28, which actually reads as follows: There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Do you see anything about “black nor white”? Because I don’t. Isn’t it amazing how the Bible once more proves to be prophetic?
Do not add to His words Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.
– Proverbs 30:6
The Weinstein scandal spreads to the print media:
Leon Wieseltier, a prominent editor at The New Republic for three decades who was preparing to unveil a new magazine next week, apologized on Tuesday for “offenses against some of my colleagues in the past” after several women accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate advances.
As those allegations came to light, Laurene Powell Jobs, a leading philanthropist whose for-profit organization, Emerson Collective, was backing Mr. Wieseltier’s endeavor, decided to pull the plug on it.
“Upon receiving information related to past inappropriate workplace conduct, Emerson Collective ended its business relationship with Leon Wieseltier, including a journal planned for publication under his editorial direction,” the organization said in a statement on Tuesday. “The production and distribution of the journal has been suspended.”
A spokesman said Emerson Collective would not elaborate further on the nature or source of the information it had received. But stories about Mr. Wieseltier’s behavior are now surfacing in the aftermath of revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual assaults and harassment of women.
Over the past week, a group of women who once worked at The New Republic had been exchanging emails about their own accounts of Mr. Wieseltier’s behavior in and out of the magazine’s office in Washington, according to one person who has seen the confidential chain and was granted anonymity to describe its contents. Several women on the chain said they were humiliated when Mr. Wieseltier sloppily kissed them on the mouth, sometimes in front of other staff members. Others said he discussed his sex life, once describing the breasts of a former girlfriend in detail. Mr. Wieseltier made passes at female staffers, they said, and pressed them for details about their own sexual encounters.
One woman recounted that while she was attempting to fact-check a column Mr. Wieseltier wrote, he forced her to look at a photograph of a nude sculpture in an art book, asking her if she had ever seen a more erotic picture. She wrote that she was shaken and afraid during the incident.
Mr. Wieseltier often commented on what women wore to the office, the former staff members said, telling them that their dresses were not tight enough. One woman said he left a note on her desk thanking her for the miniskirt she wore to the office that day. She said she never wore a skirt to the office again.
Is anyone even a little bit surprised at this point? This sort of thing is what happens when Gammas manage to reach positions of power and influence over women. They think their behavior is what Alphas do, but, as always, their understanding of Alpha behavior is warped by their socio-sexual perspective.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden explains who is responsible for America’s moral decline:
“I believe what affects the movements in America, what affects our attitudes in America are as much the culture and the arts as anything else,” he said. That’s why he spoke out on gay marriage “apparently a little ahead of time.”
“It wasn’t anything we legislatively did. It was ‘Will and Grace,’ it was the social media. Literally. That’s what changed peoples’ attitudes. That’s why I was so certain that the vast majority of people would embrace and rapidly embrace” gay marriage, Biden said.
“Think behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether it’s in Hollywood or social media are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry. The influence is immense, the influence is immense.
In other words, if you want to know who to blame, Joe Biden says 85 percent of it should go to “Jewish leaders in the industry.” The author of the article adds: “Biden may find it “all to the good” that Jews have used their influence over popular culture to change societal attitudes toward homosexuality, but lots of people don’t find it good at all.”
No. Lots of people really don’t. At all. And that is why the Alt-Right is inevitable, no matter how the SJWs, progressives, liberals, moderates, and conservatives wring their hands and continue to slide downward into the abyss.
RD wonders if I’ve seen the Dennis Prager video on the Alt-Right:
Prager University mentions you in a video about the Alt-right, basically labeling you in a very negative way. Have you seen it?
I would have been shocked if Dennis Prager had anything positive to say about me. He’s a mediocre thinker and a mediocre writer whose columns on WND were lightweight, little trafficked, and almost entirely forgettable. Despite my own columns appearing on the same opinion page, I seldom bothered reading his, and a perusal of this blog will demonstrate that I’ve never considered him to be any sort of peer. I’ve barely spared even a single thought for him in 10 years.
I think Prager is wildly and utterly wrong in every way…Prager’s opinion may lie in the fact that he’s fundamentally a radio performer, not a writer. I suspect that he likes to talk at people somewhat more than he likes to engage with them.
– 2007
This is as deeply and profoundly silly as anything that the rape fetishists on the feminist Left have invented. It confuses metaphor with reality.
– 2007
I have no doubt that you’ll all run right back into the warm embrace of Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager and Jonah Goldberg and Sean Hannity and Bill Bennett and all the other Radio Republicans… I mean, you’ve got to know their opinions, they’ve collectively got such a smashingly excellent record over these past few years.
– 2007
“I believe that this man [George Delano Bush] is changing history for the better, that he is the dam holding back the waters of chaos, that he saved this country at a time when Democrats would have failed it, and that he is both kind and strong, real and decent, powerful and humble…. Unless he is a faker — and I believe that I can sense a faker a mile away — it was clear that the president was moved…. I realize that I open myself to ridicule by saying that everything I had suspected about the man was reinforced in a little over a minute….”
– quoting Dennis Prager in “Republican Whore Doggies” in 2004
The most straightforward way to refute anything said by Dennis Prager is to point out that Dennis Prager said it. Therefore, it is almost certainly wrong. So, I have no idea what he said and I could not care less about whatever it was.