The final five percent

Now you know why SJWs are constantly telling us that we are -phobic. Third Law. This recent Twitter exchange, which an old acquaintance brought to my attention, is extremely amusing.

V. aimmyarrowshigh ‏@aimmyarrowshigh
Pre-emptively block V/ox D/a/y, for your own safety. Literal safety.

Ella Dawson ‏@brosandprose
@aimmyarrowshigh oh he’s blocked. I subscribed to a GG autoblocker like a year ago and it saved me from a WORLD of harassment this summer.

V. aimmyarrowshigh ‏@aimmyarrowshigh
Good, good. He’s a sociopath, and I don’t say that lightly.

Ella Dawson ‏@brosandprose
one look at his profile is enough to make that extremely clear.

V. aimmyarrowshigh ‏@aimmyarrowshigh
It makes me feel physically sick that men like that are still given sizable platforms and go unquestioned.

Ella Dawson ‏@brosandprose
Yup. I’m terrified 95% of the time.

In the interest of accuracy, I should point out that I am NOT a sociopath. While I am narcissistic and machiavellian, I score unusually high in empathy, so I am actually more anti-sociopathic than the average individual. It is merely my predilection for abstraction and my natural curiosity that makes me come off as sociopathic to the superficial observer.

The bad news is that because I can feel your pain, I am quickly able to learn which buttons one must push in order to inflict it upon you. I believe it may have been R. Scott Bakker who warned that the torturer you should fear most is the one who sheds tears as he works.

But as Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil, I am pleased that I can give these women what they most want, which is fear. They need that heightened sense of drama in order to feel alive, and I am content to know that merely by acknowledging the fact of their existence, I can grant them what they crave.

Am I not kind?

In any event, it appears they do well to fear me in light of the intellectual company in which I am to be found these days.

Just one trick

And yet, it’s astonishing how well it works:

Progressives only have one good trick, and men keep falling for it.

They keep calling you a coward, so that you’ll do or say whatever they want to prove that you are not a coward.

If they want you to accept a group of outsiders, they call you a xenophobe to dismiss any rational concerns you might have about the motivations of strangers. The only way to prove you don’t have an irrational fear of foreigners is to welcome them with open arms and without questions.

If you question the sanity of a man who can’t be “who he really is” until someone surgically removes his dick, they call you a transphobe. The only way to prove you’re not afraid of trannies is to agree that transsexuals are not only sane, but heroic, and should be welcomed into any women’s restroom.

If you reject any demand made by any woman, you’re “just afraid of a strong woman.” This accusation has been repeated so many times that a substantial portion of the population actually seems to believe that men are at the very core of their being constitutionally terrified by any woman with “attitude.” There is probably some truth to this, but only to the extent that men would rather avoid the frustrating reality that no matter how strong a woman claims to be or what she says, no man or woman on earth will ever forgive a man for knocking her the fuck out. To prove they are not afraid of women, men end up giving women whatever they want, because they can’t stand up to women the way they stand up to each other.

Progressives get men to do whatever they want by manipulating our fear of being afraid. When you recognize this manipulation, you’ll begin to see it in nearly every argument appealing to men and every progressive narrative written about men. Their strategy is to portray masculine men, even men who have demonstrated courage in battle or in legitimately heroic endeavors where they have faced and overcome fear, as being driven primarily by fear and a sense of inadequacy.

So stop being a coward by reacting in a kneejerk fashion to everyone who threatens to call you one. Either ignore or blithely agree with their attempt to disqualify you and carry on. That’s all they’ve got.

Week 12

Crazy week. How do the Packers beat the Vikings on the road, then lose at home? Ah, that’s right, the officials were giving them do-overs on every play that didn’t go their way in Minneapolis.

Anyhow, assuming the referees actually let them play, this should be the week when we find out if the Vikings are for real or not. They have to be able to beat a 6-4 Falcons team if they’re a legitimate playoff team. If they can’t, then they’re just not ready yet. And by “they”, I mean Teddy Bridgewater.

And the orcs smiled

This story, which is either tragic or darkly and predictably comic depending upon your sense of humor, is why those who want to help the poor refugees should go and help them there, not invite them and welcome them into the West. Dottoressa italiana uccisa in Kenya: rapina in casa:

Un medico di Novara, Rita Fossaceca, 51 anni, è stata uccisa in Kenya, dove stata lavorando per la onlus ForLife Onlus. La Farnesina ha confermato che si è trattato di una rapina in casa, in località Mijomboni, e i responsabili sono banditi comuni. Non ci sarebbe quindi alcun collegamento con il terrorismo. Feriti altri tre italiani che abitavano nella stessa casa.

Italian doctor murdered in Kenya: robbed in her house

A doctor from Novara, Rita Fossaceca, 51, was murdered in Kenya where she was working for the NGO ForLife Onlus. It was confirmed that the Farnesinan was robbed in her house, in the town of Mijomboni, and that local bandits were responsible. Her death does not appear to have been related to terrorism. Three other Italians who lived in the same house were also wounded.

I have a modicum of respect for those like Rita Fossaceca, who knowingly take their lives into their hands by going and living among the orcs of Mordor because they feel compassion for them. That being said, they aren’t missionaries, they aren’t risking their lives in order to preach the Word of God, they’re taking these risks in order to try to teach zebras dressage.

That being said, I have nothing but the greatest contempt for those anti-civilizational, dyscivic fools who dishonestly claim that we have a moral obligation to permit the orcs to enter the Shire. That’s not shrieking, bigoted cowardice, that is common sense and protecting the defenseless.

At least La Fossaceca has, by her sacrifice, done us the service of highlighting the consequences of nonsense such as this. ”Con una scuola abbiamo ridato il sorriso ai bambini dell’Africa”

“With a school, we have given a smile to the children of Africa.” 

I can’t help but wonder, though, if the children of Africa were smiling when they robbed and murdered her.

The personal is always political

 

David Gerrold’s announcement that he will unfriend the majority of Americans who support Donald Trump for president is a clear example of why it makes no sense to attempt to be friends with SJWs or even be civil with them. Time and time and time again, I see someone explain that so-and-so SJW “is really a good guy” or that this-and-that SJW “is fine as long as we don’t discuss politics”.

But politics is all-consuming for the SJW, and when push comes to shove, the SJW will ALWAYS choose his politics over you because his politics are an intrinsic aspect of his personal identity. You might as reasonably expect him to cut off a body part in order to preserve the relationship once the inevitable conflict arrives. The SJW is not your friend. The SJW is incapable of being your friend.

So don’t associate with SJWs. Don’t cut them any slack at all. Once a friend, a family member, or an acquaintance reveals symptoms of SJW, you should quarantine them as ruthlessly as you would quarantine them if they had ebola or some other lethal and infectious disease.

Be the problem.

Germans demand Merkel resign

Prelude to a trial, one supposes:

The leader of Germany’s anti-immigrant AfD party, riding a wave of public anger against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s asylum policy, on Saturday called on her to resign for throwing the country’s doors open to migrants.

“Merkel, step down. You can do it,” Frauke Petry told some 600 AfD supporters, mainly gray-haired men, putting a new twist on Merkel’s “Wir schaffen das” (We can do it) message to those who doubt Germany can deal with the influx of migrants expected to reach one million this year.

Petry, whose Alternative for Germany is enjoying an improbable revival after nearly imploding in a power struggle, said her party stood a real chance of entering three new state parliaments next year and the national parliament for the first time in 2017.

Petry drew at least four standing ovations with attacks on what she called Merkel’s undemocratic decision to open Germany’s borders to migrants who are expected to reach one million this year.

I like the little passive-aggressive “news” coverage. See, because there were only 600 supporters, and because they have gray-hair, and worse, are men, their opinion doesn’t matter.

But they figure they’d better cover it anyway, because they’ll look bad if they ignore it entirely. Surely no one will notice the subtle little shots they take to discredit people they don’t like!

Why Trump is winning

Mike Cernovich explains one important aspect of Donald Trump’s success, as well as his own:

The Trump Mindset: Momentum + Focus + Energy

It’s clear none of Trump’s haters have read his books (Think Big and Kick Ass and Art of the Deal). If you had you’d know how Trump thinks and moves.

To understand how someone thinks, look at the language he uses. Kindle makes this simple. You can search for specific keywords in the Kindle version of a book.

Trump’s books are loaded winning, focus, push, enthusiasm, energy, and momentum.

Trump is a momentum player. He doesn’t wait for the perfect time to strike. He comes out swinging and he keeps swinging.

There’s even a chapter in Think Big and Kick Ass called Big Mo!

What do momentum types never do? We don’t apologize!

An apology destroys your momentum, as it causes you to stop.

Scott Adams is also a momentum type. How do I know this?

Adams talks about “energy” in his great book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. Energy is mentioned 67 times and there is even an entire section on how to increase your personal energy.

Momentum types are obsessed with energy, as it’s crucial for us to keep moving forward.

Momentum types believe if we keep putting fire on targets, we will win.

As long as our energy holds up, this is true.

It’s funny, I don’t really think of myself as either a momentum or a high-energy guy because I am almost extraordinarily lazy. My ability to mentally check out and pay no attention to anything short of an assault team utilizing heavy weaponry is well-known throughout my entire social circle. One of the primary reasons I feed on the hatred for me is that it is about the only thing I find reliably motivating.

On the other hand, I do possess an unusual amount of what I think of as “focused stamina” which is how I was able to write ATOB in 18 months and turn in a complete 60-page game design document in under a week. I suppose if you consider that I’m on the verge of publishing my second book in four months while having designed two games and edited three books at the same time, it is possible that I am merely using different terminology than Mike is.

But I dont think so. Two things that I have learned from Mike recently is the importance of a) enthusiasm and b) thinking big. For example, I don’t think I’ve been thinking big enough for Brainstorm; it’s already nearly as well-attended as I imagined it could possibly be. And there is no real reason why my political books should sell any fewer copies than those published by Ann Coulter or Mark Levin, after all, as Mike notes, we’re both already outselling most books published by well-known mainstream conservative writers with substantial media profiles.

So, I’m working on learning to think bigger. Here is the first baby step: my goal is for Cuckservative to debut in the Amazon top 100 overall. In keeping with this objective, we’re going to modify a few of our usual launch routines in order to help make that happen. We’ve put together a solid New Release offer (don’t forget to get on the mailing list if you want to receive them), we’re only going to make the book available on Amazon for the first three days, and for the first time, those who buy through Amazon will be able to take advantage of the offer.

And yes, if you need the epub and don’t have Calibre installed, you can send us a copy of your Amazon order and we’ll get it to you.

There are a few other things we’re doing as well, including one moderately exciting one that I cannot talk about quite yet, but I am entirely confident that with your help, we can drive the book, and more importantly, the message, into higher orbit than any of us at Castalia House originally envisioned.

In terms of Mike’s advice, all I can really add to it is the importance of understanding your own motivations. Once you figure out what it is, use it relentlessly no matter what anyone else might think of it. It doesn’t matter what your own private Carthago is or why you believe it must be destroyed. Stay focused, stay motivated, and keep your momentum going, until one day, its walls are razed and its fields are sown with salt.

Why Britain entered the EEC

And why the globalist establishment is desperate to keep the UK in the EU:

The answer is that Harold Macmillan and his closest advisers were part of an intellectual tradition that saw the salvation of the world in some form of world government based on regional federations. He was also a close acquaintance of Jean Monnet, who believed the same. It was therefore Macmillan who became the representative of the European federalist movement in the British cabinet.

In a speech in the House of Commons he even advocated a European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) before the real thing had been announced. He later arranged for a Treaty of Association to be signed between the UK and the ECSC, and it was he who ensured that a British representative was sent to the Brussels negotiations following the Messina Conference, which gave birth to the EEC.

In the late 1950s he pushed negotiations concerning a European Free Trade Association towards membership of the EEC. Then, when General de Gaulle began to turn the EEC into a less federalist body, he took the risk of submitting a full British membership application in the hope of frustrating Gaullist ambitions.

His aim, in alliance with US and European proponents of a federalist world order, was to frustrate the emerging Franco-German alliance which was seen as one of French and German nationalism.

Monnet met secretly with Heath and Macmillan on innumerable occasions to facilitate British entry. Indeed, he was informed before the British Parliament of the terms in which the British approach to Europe would be framed.

Despite advice from the Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, that membership would mean the end of British parliamentary sovereignty, Macmillan deliberately misled the House of Commons — and practically everyone else, from Commonwealth statesmen to cabinet colleagues and the public — that merely minor commercial negotiations were involved. He even tried to deceive de Gaulle that he was an anti-federalist and a close friend who would arrange for France, like Britain, to receive Polaris missiles from the Americans. De Gaulle saw completely through him and vetoed the British bid to enter.

Macmillan left Edward Heath to take matters forward, and Heath, along with Douglas Hurd, arranged — according to the Monnet papers — for the Tory Party to become a (secret) corporate member of Monnet’s Action Committee for a United States of Europe.

According to Monnet’s chief aide and biographer, Francois Duchene, both the Labour and Liberal Parties later did the same. Meanwhile the Earl of Gosford, one of Macmillan’s foreign policy ministers in the House of Lords, actually informed the House that the aim of the government’s foreign policy was world government.

Monnet’s Action Committee was also given financial backing by the CIA and the US State Department. The Anglo-American establishment was now committed to the creation of a federal United States of Europe.

The joint immigration crises, in the USA and the EU, are no accident, but represent a last-ditch effort by the globalists to prevent the rise of nationalism shattering their totalitarian dream of world government. Of course, it’s not going to work, as it has only sparked a nationalist reaction that is considerably more intense than even the provocateurs were expecting. The response to the crisis of the legitimacy of the modern state is not going to be in support of an additional layer of government.

None of this is new information, nor is it even, strictly speaking, news, but it is interesting to see it now leaking out into the mainstream European press.

Black Friday shooter

An active shooter at a Planned Parenthood Chase Bank in Colorado. 9 victims reported so far.

An active shooter was reported Friday near Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs.

The office is at 3480 Centennial Blvd.

Colorado Springs police, El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and Colorado State Patrol officers are responding to the scene.

3:17 p.m. UPDATE

Police confirm that officers and the suspect have exchanged gunfire inside the Planned Parenthood building.

The president of Planned Parenthood Vicki Cowart issues a statement: “At this time, our concern is for the safety of our patients, staff and law enforcement.”

One would assume it is abortion-related, but the fact that the shooter engaged with the police makes me wonder if it might be something else.

UPDATE: It looks like I was correct to be skeptical of the narrative.

So once again, the media sets the narrative and get exposed for the frauds they are. The original target of this shooter wasn’t Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, it was a Chase Bank. 

You can just hear all the network executives telling everyone to stand down, there’s no need to send any talking heads out to Colorado Springs.

UPDATE II: Now the police are saying that while the shooter was in the Planned Parenthood building, “the connection between the shooting and Planned Parenthood was not clear.” Also, none of the victims appear to be Planned Parenthood staff.

SF-SJWs devouring themselves

ST Joshi, who is a leftist, an SF writer, and a respected H.P. Lovecraft scholar, has come under intense SJW fire for standing up for Lovecraft’s literary legacy:

1) The World Fantasy Award is a purely literary award. It is awarded purely for literary excellence in the field of weird fiction. It commemorated Lovecraft because (a) it was created for the First World Fantasy Convention in 1975, held in Providence, R.I., which was essentially a Lovecraft convention, and (b) it acknowledges Lovecraft’s literary greatness, both intrinsically and in terms of his influence. That is all that the award “means.” The award says nothing about Lovecraft as a person (just as other awards in this and related fields say nothing about the person or character of the figures they are named for). The changing of the award is an implicit rejection of Lovecraft’s literary status. It suggests that Lovecraft’s racism is so heinous a character flaw that it negates the entirety of his literary achievement. This is one of many reasons why I find it mystifying how any genuine devotee of Lovecraft can be in favour of changing the WFA bust.

2) We have no reason to be confident that the current agitators will stop at the WFA bust. Indeed, the prime mover in the matter—Daniel José Older—has made his general contempt for Lovecraft quite clear, as when he called him a “terrible wordsmith.” (I suspect he would say much the same about Poe, Dunsany, Machen, and any other writers who don’t write the kind of slangy, faux-hipster style he favours.) It is quite evident that some of these agitators really don’t like Lovecraft as a writer and resent his fame and influence, and have seized on the one flaw of his racism to cast him out into the literary darkness. Vigilance needs to be maintained that the tarring of Lovecraft’s reputation doesn’t go any further.

3) The discarding of the WFA bust may in itself be insignificant, but it is troubling for a multitude of reasons. It is, for example, an historical error to pass condign judgment on figures of the past because they are perceived to have departed from the moral, political, and social views to which we adhere. This shows a cultural intolerance and lack of historical understanding that is very discouraging. We have not exactly attained moral and intellectual perfection ourselves, and I daresay we will be judged harshly for all manner of derelictions a hundred years from now. (We now hear of students at Princeton University—where I did graduate work in 1982–84—lobbying to have every vestige of Woodrow Wilson’s name eliminated from the campus merely because he made a few racist comments, as if these comments somehow repudiate all the significant political and diplomatic achievements of his career.)

By the way, this is not the first time I’ve seen Ellen Datlow’s name mentioned with regards to egregious SJW lunacy. She would appear to be nearly as ideologically insane as Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

I have been led to believe that the celebrated editor
Ellen Datlow was a major force in getting the Lovecraft bust discarded
from the World Fantasy Awards. If this is so, it casts a dubious light
on Datlow herself. One has to wonder about the moral compass of a person
who has materially benefited from Lovecraft’s increasing reputation by
opportunistically assembling two volumes of Lovecraft-inspired fiction (Lovecraft Unbound [2009] and Lovecraft’s Monsters [2014]) and who then turns around and kicks Lovecraft figuratively in the posterior.

This part was particularly amusing to me:

My dissociation with Dan Clore was not because he disagreed with me, but because he treated me in an abusive and insulting manner. He in effect stated that I was a right-wing racist bigot, even though he knows that I am a leftist.

You don’t say! What, pray tell, do SJWs do? Ah yes, that’s right. SJWs Always Lie!