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And yet, something isn’t quite adding up. One story, two versions. Kaczynski is trying to claim that since he only emailed with HAS, but did not speak to him on the phone until after the apology was delivered via email, he could not have coerced HAS. And remember, this is the same guy who set the global media on Justine Sacco when he was at Buzzfeed. This is straight-up Internet karma.
This public threat issued by CNN to an anonymous meme maker marks an interesting development in so-called “professional journalism”. Since when is it the job of the news media to report, or not report, the news depending upon whether someone behaves how they want? And since when is it acceptable to blackmail a minor?
The apology came after CNN’s KFile identified the man behind “HanA**holeSolo.” Using identifying information that “HanA**holeSolo” posted on Reddit, KFile was able to determine key biographical details, to find the man’s name using a Facebook search and ultimately corroborate details he had made available on Reddit.
On Monday, KFile attempted to contact the man by email and phone but he did not respond. On Tuesday, “HanA**holeSolo” posted his apology on the subreddit /The_Donald and deleted all of his other posts.
“The meme was created purely as satire, it was not meant to be a call to violence against CNN or any other news affiliation,” he wrote. “I had no idea anyone would take it and put sound to it and then have it put up on the President’s Twitter feed. It was a prank, nothing more. What the President’s feed showed was not the original post that was posted here, but loaded up somewhere else and sound added to it then sent out on Twitter. I thought it was the original post that was made and that is why I took credit for it. I have the highest respect for the journalist community and they put their lives on the line every day with the jobs that they do in reporting the news.”
The apology has since been taken down by the moderators of /The_Donald subreddit.
After posting his apology, “HanA**holeSolo” called CNN’s KFile and confirmed his identity. In the interview, “HanA**holeSolo” sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family.
CNN is not publishing “HanA**holeSolo’s” name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.
CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.
If I was a CNN employee with any big secret to protect, I’d consider resigning today. I somehow doubt the channers are simply going to take this sort of thing lying down. #CNNBlackmail is already trending globally and the firing of the four members of the KFILE team has already been publicly demanded. As Mike Cernovich says, CNN is the new Gawker. And #CNNBlackmail is the new #GamerGate.
Based on what one of the KFILE employees, Andrew Kaczynski said, it appears that this CNN meme may be the real reason HanAssholeSolo was targeted.
andrew kaczynski ?Verified account @KFILE 6h6 hours ago
This was someone who shared an image of CNN reporters’ face with Stars of David next them.
Oh, well, in that case, it’s totally justifiable to threaten someone with public exposure, right? And this tweet cracked me up.
CNN producer: “I’ve had the worst week!”
Van Jones: “Dude, Please!”
@KFILE : “LEEROOOOY JENKINSSSSSS!”
The memes must flow.
Speaking of John C. Wright, the science fiction and fantasy grandmaster reminds us that while the God-Emperor is overturning the media’s collective apple cart with his tweets, he is also getting a great deal done:
President Trump fulfilled another campaign promise and recinded the absurdly unconstitutional Johnson Amendment, which is a Dem administration IRS regulation threatening preachers, priests and pastors with loss of their tax free status for their churches should they ever speak on political matters from the pulpit.
I had never heard any so called conservative politicians even speaking on the topic of the Johnson Amendment erenow. It has been in place for decades, an insolent, open, filthy, glaring, and obvious desecration of the central Constitutional liberty embodied in the First Amendment.
Donald Trump is already showing strong signs of being the best and most conservative President the United States has had since Calvin Coolidge. Believe it or not, he’s much, much better than Ronald Reagan ever was. I was there. I loved Reagan. And the God-Emperor is, to this point, doing much better than Reagan.
Still. Not. Tired.
On tonight’s Darkstream, I explained how Trump has gotten off to a much better start than Reagan did in 1981, and also mentioned some ideas about the possible purpose behind the God-Emperor’s meeting with Vladimir Putin this week.
John C. Wright defends an alternative definition of argument:
An invalid argument is not an argument in the same way a cure that fails to cure is not a cure.
People use the word argument both to mean any arguments and to mean valid arguments.
Likewise, people use the word cure both to mean any cures and to mean only cures that work
You are getting worked up over a semantic argument. Which is also not an argument
To which I respond: if the word “argument” can be legitimately understood to mean only valid arguments, that meaning is nonsensical. Such a definition renders the very concept of arguing incoherent because only the correct party could be considered to be presenting an argument.
And if both parties are advocating incorrect positions, then neither party is presenting an argument, and therefore neither of them can be said to be arguing at all, which effectively destroys the language as we have no word for the not-arguing they are doing, nor do we have one for the not-arguments they are presenting to each other.
The semantics are not irrelevant here. The fact that people may use a word a certain way does not mean they are not incorrect to do so. People say “inflammable” to mean “not flammable” too, but that usage is incorrect. A faulty syllogism is still a syllogism, an incorrect or invalid argument is still an argument, and an unsuccessful medical treatment is still a treatment.
Which may explain why that limited definition of argument does not, in fact, exist. Whereas, as it happens, both definitions do exist for cure:
Pat Buchanan asks the $18 trillion question:
In the first line of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson speaks of “one people.” The Constitution, agreed upon by the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia in 1789, begins, “We the people …”
And who were these “people”?
In Federalist No. 2, John Jay writes of them as “one united people … descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs. …”
If such are the elements of nationhood and peoplehood, can we still speak of Americans as one nation and one people?
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We no longer have the same ancestors. They are of every color and from every country. We do not speak one language, but rather English, Spanish and a host of others. We long ago ceased to profess the same religion. We are evangelical Christians, mainstream Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists, agnostics and atheists.
Federalist No. 2 celebrated our unity. Today’s elites proclaim that our diversity is our strength. But is this true, or a tenet of trendy ideology?
All of which invites the question: Are we still a nation? And what is a nation? French writer Ernest Renan gave us the answer in the 19th century:
“A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things … constitute this soul, this spiritual principle. One is the past, the other is the present. One is the possession in common of a rich legacy of memories; the other is present consent, the desire to live together, the desire to continue to invest in the heritage that we have jointly received.
“Of all cults, that of the ancestors is the most legitimate: our ancestors have made us what we are. A heroic past with great men and glory … is the social capital upon which the national idea rests. These are the essential conditions of being a people: having common glories in the past and a will to continue them in the present; having made great things together and wishing to make them again.”
Does this sound at all like us today?
The USA is not a nation. It is a multinational empire. America is a nation occupied and oppressed, the Posterity of We the People, a nation invaded and robbed of its intellectual and geographical birthright, a nation betrayed by its leaders past and present.
The self-serving 20th century lie of the Jewish, Irish, and Italian immigrants to the USA is being applied to Europe today; the Africans invading the nations of Europe en masse are no more Italians, Germans, or Swedes than the 19th and 20th century European immigrants were ever Americans.
As Christians, we are taught to judge the truth of a concept by its consequences. And the consequences of the Melting Pot, the Nation of Immigrants, and the Proposition Nation are evil indeed.
This is what it looks like in action. Although I expect we’re dealing with more than the usual 2SD chasm. Sadly, I am reliably informed that it resulted in my total destruction on Periscope.
Supreme Dark Lord @voxday
The irony of July 4th that most US citizens today are not actually Americans. What is worse, most of them reject the Rights of Englishmen.Jenny @Jen_the_Texan
This is the stupidest tweet you have ever made …beg you deleteSupreme Dark Lord @voxday
I suggest you look up the meaning of the word “Posterity” instead.Jenny @Jen_the_Texan 30m30 minutes ago
Given the context posterity is irrelevant.I suggest you look up ” There is no fate but the one we make ‘ ..it’s relevantSupreme Dark Lord @voxday
Congratulations. You just threw out the U.S. Constitution and its purpose… on July 4th no less. You’re right there with Moammar Gaddafi.Jenny @Jen_the_Texan
How drunk/high are you on a scale of 1-10 ?? I have never seen you make such an ass/tard of yourself .Supreme Dark Lord @voxday
The fact that you are ignorant and fail to understand something does not make me incorrect. See: Vox’s First Law.Jenny @Jen_the_Texan 18m18 minutes ago
You don’t have a first law you moron you are irrelevant .I have 500k more followers than you on periscope it means nothing you’re incoherentSupreme Dark Lord @voxday
Vox’s First Law: Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from insanity. Kim Kardashian has more followers too. So what?Jenny @Jen_the_Texan
You just validated my point you idiot .Supreme Dark Lord @voxday
This is what is referred to as the IQ communication gap. You literally cannot understand what I am writing. So you think it is idiotic.Jenny @Jen_the_Texan
Are you liberal or conservative because you fail at Economics , history and politics you are a liberal funded by soros and that’s itSupreme Dark Lord @voxday
You may be the first person to ever call me a liberal.Jenny @Jen_the_Texan 10m10 minutes ago
Let me ask you this supreme liberal lord .Who is the better President …Trump or Obama …be honestSupreme Dark Lord @voxday
Donald Trump. He actually shows signs of being a better president than Reagan was. He’s already better than either Bush, Clinton, or Obama.Jenny @Jen_the_Texan
Your tweets say other wise …keep supporting sorosSupreme Dark Lord @voxday
Jenny, you have completely misconstrued who, and what, I am. I am Alt-Right, not liberal or conservative. Read this: https://voxday.blogspot.it/2016/08/what-alt-right-is.html …Jenny @Jen_the_Texan
I am not reading anything you have to say . Your replies real time show everything I need to know ..I have zero respect for youSupreme Dark Lord @voxday
I shall endeavor to soldier on under the burden of that knowledge.Jenny @Jen_the_Texan
Soldier on with your stupid tweets and i’ll destroy you on periscope ;…btw so many laughing at you so far
I have to admit, I did laugh when she accused me of being “a liberal funded by Soros”. I was half expecting the old dinosaur himself to leap in and deny it. You can’t possibly get upset over this sort of thing; it’s like watching a child throw a tantrum over a piece of candy having a different filling than he expected.
Some may find this coda to be mildly amusing.
Hugh Myron @Hugh__Myron
Vox, I was going to suggest shes retarded, but then I remembered she has 500k more followers than you, so that cant possibly be the case.Supreme Dark Lord @voxda
Good point. Argumentum ad sectatorum is conclusive.
UPDATE: I thought she might be a bot, but then she blocked me.
Hattusa, the capital of the ancient Hittites:
One of Turkey’s lesser visited but historically significant attraction is the ruin of an ancient city known as Hattusa, located near modern Boğazkale within the great loop of the Kızılırmak River. The city once served as the capital of the Hittite Empire, a superpower of the Late Bronze Age whose kingdom stretched across the face of Anatolia and northern Syria, from the Aegean in the west to the Euphrates in the east.
The Hittite Empire is mentioned several times in the Bible as one of the most powerful empires of the ancient times. They were contemporary to the ancient Egyptians and every bit their equal. In the Battle of Kadesh, the Hittites fought the mighty Egyptian empire, nearly killing Pharaoh Ramses the Great, and forcing him to retreat back to Egypt. Years later, the Egyptians and the Hittites signed a peace treaty, believed to the oldest in the world, and Ramses himself married a Hittite princess to seal the deal.
The Hittites played a pivotal role in ancient history, far greater than they are given credit for in modern history books. The Hittites developed the lightest and fastest chariots in the world, and despite belonging to the Bronze Age, were already making and using iron tools.
Incredibly, as recently as the turn of the 20th century, the Hittites were considered merely a hearsay since no evidence of the empire’s existence was ever found. This changed with the discovery and excavation of Hattusa, along with the unearthing of tens of thousands of clay tablets documenting many of the Hittites’ diplomatic activities, the most important of which is the peace settlement signed after the Battle of Kadesh between the Hittites and the Egyptians in the 13th century BC.
This account tends to downplay the significance of the discovery, particularly concerning the subject of the historical reliability of the Bible. The problem, as usual, is the near-complete ignorance of even recent history on the part of Christians and atheists alike. For generations, the Hittites were, like the Assyrians, frequently cited by doubters as evidence that the Biblical account of history was false, since there were no archeological indicators that they had ever existed. They might as well have been elves, or fairies.
Then the ruins were discovered and the Biblical account was proven to be true in that particular regard. But did this cause one single atheist to change his mind and conclude that the Bible was, in fact, reliable documentary evidence?
Of course not. And that’s why I don’t bother engaging in discourse anymore with any atheist who claims there is “no evidence” for Christianity. They simply are not honest and there is absolutely nothing that is capable of changing their mind. No matter what logic or evidence destroys their arguments, they will simply move the goalposts and continue to refuse to believe.
I really do.
Suzan Zaner @szaner15
Ad hominem attacks are not an argumentSupreme Dark Lord @voxday
They literally are. That’s why it is called argumentum ad hominem. It is also a logical fallacy, but that’s beside the point.
That smug, self-satisfied air they all manage to blithely convey while erroneously “correcting” people never ceases to make me want to erect vast pyramids comprised entirely of average-sized skulls across the landscape.
UPDATE: the exchange above was apparently insufficient warning to midwits here on the blog.
No they’re not. Logical fallacies are NOT arguments.
You’re flat-out wrong. Argumentum ad hominem is both an argument and a logical fallacy.
You shouldn’t make them because they don’t address the argument made by the other person, and VD, with your self-professed superior intelligence, you should know that.
Whether you should or should not make a form of argument is irrelevant to whether it is an argument or not. Furthermore, thanks to my well-established superior intelligence, what you are referring to is a debate, not an argument. A debate usually requires a reference to an argument made by another, an argument does not.
One shouldn’t have to insult someone, pointing out the flaws in someone else’s arguments is all that is needed to show them and anyone watching that they stupid.
Aristotle said you were wrong 2,500 years ago. Your position is not merely wrong, it is outdated by millennia.
David Marcus observes that the God-Emperor is the inevitable result of the Progressive Left methodically destroying traditional social norms:
Progressives have found a rallying cry in their opposition to Donald Trump’s presidency. Whether in the New York Times, on the John Oliver Show, or in protests in the nations’ streets, they are insisting that Trump is “not normal.” News media and elected officials not considered critical enough of Trump are criticized for normalizing him and his ideas. Suddenly progressives, of all people, are deeply concerned about our culture’s long-held norms and traditions.
The irony in all of this is crystal clear. These are the same people who over the past few years have insisted that five-year-old boys becoming five-year-old girls is normal. They tell us that a guaranteed basic income and running for president as a Socialist is normal. Forcing Catholic hospitals to offer birth control, undocumented immigrants voting in our elections, and abolishing the police: normal, normal, and normal.
In Donald Trump, with his admittedly dangerous, devil-may-care attitude, progressives have stumbled upon the value of conserving norms and traditions. A president just doesn’t say these awful things about his opponents and the media. A president doesn’t tweet attacks at enemies late at night. A President doesn’t put a controversial figure like Steve Bannon a few doors down from the Oval Office.
But here’s the thing: it’s too late. We are way past that now. The Left let its freak flag fly. We all saw it. No normal is the new normal and there is no clear way back from that.
The dyscivilizational forces of the Antiwest cut down the forests of tradition, decency and normality. Now the meme-devils of the Alt-Right are free to pursue them without restraint, limitation, or hesitation. And we will.
Let them open up their hate and let it flow into us. We will drown them in it.
Before we can replant the trees and regrow the forests, we must first eradicate all of the elements that destroyed the old ones.
In last night’s Darkstream, I noted that the most effective rhetoric tends to have something in common: it is based on mocking an aspect of the target’s self-identification.
For example, the reason Social Justice Warrior is effective rhetoric that triggers the emotions of SJWs while derogatory terms like Social Justice Bully and Social Justice Crybaby do not is because “warrior” is a term that the SJWs gave themselves, and more importantly, it is how they see themselves. To hear the term used contemptuously, as an open form of mockery, is what causes the emotional pain that triggers them.
Fake News, which is arguably the most effective rhetorical term ever deployed against the media, is almost exactly the same. It is a term originally coined by the media, but stolen and deployed against them, and one that strikes at the very heart of their self-value and self-identification as devotees of truth and accuracy.
So, as an exercise, let’s see if anyone can utilize this principle to come up with a rhetorical term for moderates that would serve as an alternative to Cuckservative, which is itself already an effective tag that is a play on a self-title rather than an actual one, but nevertheless strikes powerfully at the conservative’s self-image as loyal and moral.
