My ideal 2016 presidential candidate

At first, I thought Carly Fiorina’s campaign for the presidency was a joke. I mean, here is a woman who is one of corporate America’s most epic failures, a laughingstock and byword for disaster throughout the entire tech sector. But then I realized, what if she can do for the federal payroll what she did for the payrolls of Compaq and Hewlett Packard? And considering the way in which the federal government is increasingly targeting Americans, don’t we want a woman whose ineptitude is legendary to be running things?

Let’s face it, the Obama administration has delivered, and then some, in the comedy department. The way in which Jewish Democrats are going berserk is only the most recent amusement it has provided. Since my primary interest in a U.S. president is the comedic value of his administration (none of the candidates are even talking about addressing the three relevant issues, Repatriation, Repudiating debt, and Restoring national sovereignty, so we might as well look for some entertainment out of them), my preferences are as follows:

  1. Carly Fiorina: She’s clearly the candidate most likely to accidentally declare war on Japan and Belgium, then downsize Health and Human Services.
  2. Joe Biden: He’s like the Prince Philip of America, always good for a totally inappropriate comment.
  3. Hilary Clinton: Between the financial corruption and the lesbianism, I think the comedy value would make her boring, flat-toned speeches bearable. Let’s not forget the potential that First Lady Bill would offer.
  4. Donald Trump: My concern is that as a successful businessman, he might actually take the job seriously and end up selling off New Mexico, California, and Nevada to a Chinese-Mexican consortium to get rid of the federal deficit.
  5. Chris Christie. President Fat Bastard would be briefly hilarious, but too reliant on the visual aspects of comedy to remain funny for long. 

Seriously, there isn’t a single declared candidate who is going to delay the collapse for so much as a month, so don’t be looking to any of them for salvation. It just isn’t in the cards, at least not through the U.S. electoral system. At this point, there is nothing more to do than wait to see if it will be the American Caesar or the Hispanic Alaric.

Fighting them there

I respect this British man’s decision to join the Christians fighting ISIS in Iraq. But given that ISIS and other jihadists are already in Britain and America, I don’t think it will be too long before one won’t need to go abroad to do so.

A British granddad has left his family to join militants fighting Isil on the frontline in Iraq claiming he could no longer sit back and do nothing.

Despite having no military experience, Jim Atherton, 53, of Tyne and Wear, has sold his car to buy weapons and has already come under mortar and rocket attacks.

The granddad, who before leaving for Iraq cared for rescued daschunds, said Special Branch had tried to persuade him to come home, but he believed his place was fighting jihadists.

It’s very strange that there has been so little martial activity inside Western countries given how completely they have been infiltrated by jihadists. One wonders what they are waiting for.

RomanceGate

It’s hardly a surprise to learn that the SJWs are attempting to thought-police the romance genre as well as games, comics, and science fiction:

The Nazi romance novel For Such a Time, by bookseller-turned-author Kate Breslin, drew little attention outside of a small but passionate romance literature community when it was published in the spring of 2014.

Now, after being nominated for two major prizes at the Romance Writers of America’s annual conference in late July, the book’s Holocaust-set themes of Christian salvation are tearing the romance world apart—and roiling Gamergaters rushing to its defense….

The group took interest after outspoken science fiction writer and game designer Vox Day shared Wendell’s post on his blog. In an interview with Newsweek, Day—whose blog has previously compared feminists to Nazis—described Wendell as an “SJW” (code for “Social Justice Warrior”) and argued that “political correctness” is a “major problem” in the United States.

“It’s another example of SJW’s attempting to thought-police a particular industry or genre,” Day says of the Breslin outrage. He compares it to the scuffle over the 2015 Hugo Awards, while others have likened it to the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign that fought to diversify children’s literature.

“Obviously a lot of people liked the book, because they nominated it,” Day adds. “What they’re trying to do is disqualify all those people’s opinions because they disagree with them. It’s something that the SJWs are getting more and more blatant about, and I think people are getting more and more tired of their attempts to impose political correctness and impose thought-policing on everyone else. Donald Trump’s not having any of it, and I’m certainly not either.”

Day’s followers took the bait. Wendell was distressed to learn from a friend that his post had drawn dozens of comments, some denigrating her and mocking her blog by calling it “Cat-Lady Central.” One commenter went so far as to write that “as long as the SJWs support Moloch Worship (aka Planned Parenthood) that traffics in baby parts, they have no right to criticize the Nazis.”

Day says that abusive treatment is par for the course. “I have absolutely no concern for [Wendell]’s feelings about people speaking rudely about her. She is trying to thought-police people; she deserves every bit of criticism she gets.”

Much to my surprise, Newsweek actually soft-pedaled it a bit. They could have mentioned that I have compared feminists to Nazis… to the detriment of the feminists. I believe the exact quote is: “calling a feminist a feminazi is an insult to the German National Socialist Worker’s Party.”

Anyhow, what we’re seeing here is the SJWs attempts to utilize the power of the press to marginalize and discredit me backfiring on them. It was their running to every media outlet from The Guardian to the New Zealand Herald, from NPR to Entertainment Weekly that brought me to the attention of other media outlets that are not simply pushing their libel campaign, including publications such as Newsweek.

It is a little ironic, of course, that I have been interviewed half as many times by national publications concerning a story in which I am not at all involved as I have been about either of the actual stories in which I am directly involved, #GamerGate or Sad Puppies. But that simply demonstrates the utter corruption and ineptitude of the SJW-infested media. One must not speak to anyone who might disrupt the Narrative, after all.

Read the whole thing. Notice how simply calling the SJWs out puts them immediately on the defensive. They don’t like to be called thought police because that is exactly what they are. In every conflict, someone will end up advancing and someone will end up retreating. Shoot down their assertions as briefly as possible, then go right after them. Whenever you’re faced with an SJW, call them out for thought policing. Call them out for speech policing. Or call them out for the sheer absurdity of their statements.

For example, the next person to respond to one of Wendell’s attacks should hammer her for saying that “redeeming Nazis through the power of Christian salvation sounds like a bad idea.”  She doesn’t think Nazis should be redeemed, so what does she think, they should be encouraged?

The funny thing is that every time I read the word Wendell, our noble spokesmanatee kept coming to mind. It made the whole experience that much more enjoyably surreal. Meeewhooooo Hoooon! And the reaction of the SJW twitterati is even funnier.


Megan Broderick ‏@megbrod12
I’m SO CONFUSED as to why Newsweek quoted vox day in that article. He literally has nothing to do with it at all?? #journalism I guess.

Lenore Tolcser ‏@LenoreTolcser
Oh. My. God. People need to stop giving Vox Day attention! It legitimizes him. NO. BAD.


Michele Mills ‏@mills_michele
I just checked with my 14 yo son –
“You’re not following a man named Vox Day on the internet, are you?”
“No!”
“Good. Don’t…Ever.”

The White Knight of Red State

There is nothing a fat white Delta enjoys more than nobly riding forth to defend the honor of a woman he finds attractive. It’s so cringeworthy, it almost makes you feel embarrassed for them. I could just about smell the stench of self-righteousness all the way across the ocean when Eric Erickson proudly announced that he had invited Dulcinea del Kelly to take the place of the evil Donald Trump, whose uncouth words might assail the virgin ears of his wife and daughter.

Europe prepares for mass deportations

I’ve known the Europeans were not going to tolerate American levels of immigration for a long time. Can you even imagine an American politican, let alone a Cabinet member, saying anything like this?

Millions of African migrants pose a threat to the standard of living and
social structure of the UK and the rest of Europe, the Foreign
Secretary has warned…. Speaking during a visit to Singapore, Mr Hammond said the gap in living standards between Europe and Africa meant there would always be an “economic motivation” for Africans to try to make it to the EU.

He told BBC News: “We have got to be able to resolve this problem ultimately by being able to return those who are not entitled to claim asylum back to their countries of origin. That’s our number one priority.

“As long as the Europe Union’s laws are the way they are, many of them will only have to set foot in Europe to be pretty confident that they will never be returned to their country of origin.

“Now, that is not a sustainable situation because Europe can’t protect itself and preserve its standard of living and social structure, if it has to absorb millions of migrants from Africa.”

He’s absolutely right. As we’ve seen, even the USA has been unable to preserve its standard of living and social structure due to its failure to absorb millions of migrants from Central and South America.

The SJWs and cuckservatives celebrate diversity, but what they are also celebrating is poverty. America’s living standards have fallen considerably since 1973, but no one realizes it yet because the combination of technological advancement and debt-spending conceals that fact. But it gradually becomes obvious, as Americans become increasingly unable to afford houses or even college educations.

But at least they have iPhones, so they can look at the pretty pictures. Dirt doesn’t trump genetics and culture is not a consequence of geographic location. The Europeans understand, as most Americans still do not, that millions of migrants will destroy, not enhance, their standard of living and social structure.

Game Dev: question format

First of all, I want to thank everyone who has submitted questions and answers concerning the games in which you are experts. It’s been a lot of fun reading them, particularly the games I know well myself, and we’re already have 570 of the 2,500 questions I’d like the game to have when it launches. We’ll keep expanding the Q&A database, but I’d like to have at least 250 games at launch. It’s amazing, we already have question sets for two games of which I’d never heard before, Persona 3 and Typhoon Thompson and the Quest for the Sea Child.

Second, everybody likes the idea of a game history-based quiz game. I’ve spoken with several developers and designers who are sending me question sets for their own games, which is cool, and the company for which I designed the game really likes the competitive structure of the game. (There is also a more generic gameplay mode called Mastery Mode, but that’s ordinary enough so it’s not of particular interest to me.) The game has enough potential that Alpenwolf has decided we will develop it ourselves rather than turn the design over to the other development teams as originally planned.

Third, it’s apparent that the experts can probably come up with better fake answers for the multiple choice aspects than we can. So, if you’re willing to put in the additional effort, it would be very helpful if you would provide three incorrect answers to go with the correct one. Several of you have already done this; the format should be as follows:

Who is the player’s companion throughout the game?
Ghost
1=Traveler;2=Speaker;3=Rasputin;4=Ghost
4

The first line is the question. The second line is the fill-in-the-blank answer. The third line is the multiple choice options. The fourth line indicates which multiple choice answer is correct.

Unlike most quiz games, this one features both fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice at the same time. In the competitive game, you’ll get a bonus if you can correctly fill in the blank when your opponent correctly answers the multiple choice. You’ll only see the blank when the question first appears, but if you hit the spacebar, the blank is replaced by multiple choice; whoever correctly answers first also gets a bonus, albeit one that is one-quarter the amount of the fill-in-the-blank bonus. This rewards true knowledge as opposed to mere recognition.

Don’t feel any pressure to provide the multiple choice options, however. We can take care of them, it’s just that it will be faster and we suspect the quality will be higher if the game experts include them. But what’s really important is the 10 basic questions. Two other things to keep in mind: try to avoid verbose answers due to the fill-in-the-blank component and don’t create questions about expansions or sequels, keep them focused on the core game. We’ll come up with separate questions about the expansions.

Also, please include the actual year of release as well as the era. As I mentioned, every game expert contributing will receive game coins, not only usable in this game, but for all the games in the new system. Below is an example of one question set that was of particular interest to me; the expert will probably note that I changed a few questions. In case it’s not clear, the number in the first column refers to difficulty. 1 is Easy, 2 is Medium, 3 is Hard, and 4 is Expert.

Wizardry
PC (apple 2)
RPG
1980s (1981)
Sir-Tech

wizardry11What game developer produced Wizardry?Sir-Tech
wizardry11What is the maximum number of characters in a party?6
wizardry11What is the name of the arch-wizard on the final level?Werdna
wizardry11Where can your characters be resurrected or cured of paralysis?temple;Temple of Cant
wizardry12What is the base word of all fire spells?halito
wizardry12What spell is described as a ‘small tactical nuclear weapon’?tiltowait
wizardry12What transport device is first found on level 4?elevator
wizardry13What are the four elite classes?Bishop, Lord, Samurai, Ninja
wizardry13What is the best weapon?Muramasa Blade
wizardry14Due to a bug, what items work when not equipped?regeneration

Here is the list of games for which we have questions so far:

Swashbuckler, Destiny, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Rebel Assault, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Postal 2, Mechcommander 2, Ultima VI: The False Prophet, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, Sid Meier’s Pirates!, Command & Conquer, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, Doom II: Hell on Earth, Akalabeth: World of Doom, Annals of Rome, Covert Action, Executive Suite, King of Dragon Pass, Long Live the Queen, Wasteland 2,Thief, Quake, Wipeout 2097, M.U.L.E., Taipan, Typhoon Thompson and the Quest for the Sea Child, Agent U.S.A., Homeworld, Phantasie, Planescape: Torment, Metal Gear Solid, EVE Online, Heroes of Might and Magic III, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Darklands, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, The Bard’s Tale, Swords and Serpents, Civilization V, Warlords, Academagia, Bomberman 64, Europa Universalis IV.

If you’re an expert in a game that isn’t on the list, please contribute! In addition to the game coins, we’ll also put your name in the credits unless you don’t want it in there.

A hero for men

You may not like Roosh. You may not approve of him. You may not agree with him about much. But the next time you bite your tongue because you are afraid of saying something that a woman or an SJW might look at you funny for saying, or refrain from saying what you think out of fear that someone might confront you or call you a name, remember that this is a man who was denounced, falsely accused, publicly unwelcomed by the mayor of Montreal, protested, and physically attacked, and he still stood up and spoke out in public concerning his beliefs about the interests of men.

Before you dismiss Roosh for one reason or another, ask yourself ‘what am I doing? Why are the thought police not objecting to my presence? Why are the SJWs not seeking to silence and disqualify and discredit me?’

Roosh is so dangerous to the SJW cause, and is so effective in exploding their attempts to control the very thoughts and behavior of men, that the SJWs actually tried to play the “we’ll totally be your friend if only you’ll distance yourself from him and denounce him” game with me!

That should be sufficient to convince anyone who supports freedom of speech and freedom of thought to stand up for the man, regardless of any reservations you might have about pickup artistry or neomasculinity. After all, he’s standing up for you.

Heroes are seldom the fine upstanding well-respected individuals we wish them to be. Such people are usually too concerned with going along with the crowd and winning the good opinion of the world to speak the truth when the truth is despised. But when a man speaks the truth despite being condemned for it, he is more truly walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ than many a decent, church-going Christian man.

We are better than them. We are smarter than them. We are more fearless than them. But more importantly, we are on the side of the truth. They have nothing to offer but lies.

Come see the violence inherent in the system

Lou Antonelli is concerned about David Gerrold inciting the SJWs to violence:

“I really didn’t know much about [Gerrold] before the Hugo nominations came out. Following his discourse and his level of discourse as a result, I personally wrote a letter addressed to the police chief in Spokane and said I thought the man was insane and a public danger and needs to be watched when the convention’s going on, and I mean it. I attached my business card. I said this guy’s inciting to violence. Somebody—a weak-minded might attack somebody because of his relentless strength of abuse. I think, honestly, I think he belongs in a secure psychiatric facility.”

All SJW tactics are legitimate when used against them. So perhaps Lou should take a cue from Aurelie Nix and let the police know that David Gerrold and George R. R. Martin are serious rape threats. All he’d have to do is give them one of Rape Rape’s books and they’d find it credible enough to lock him up.

And frankly, given how David Gerrold is clearly making Lou Antonelli feel unsafe, should he even be permitted to attend? Surely that is a violation of the Code of Conduct.

Stay safe out there, Sasquan attendees.

UPDATE: At File 770, SMOF Kevin Standlee observes that Lou Antonelli is not the only one nervous about the prospects for violence at Worldcon:

To be vaguely fair, I’ve had people contacting me saying that Sasquan should get armed guards/off-duty Spokane PD officers hired to protect the convention from the right-wing lunatics who are obviously going to come and shoot up the convention/WSFS Business Meeting in support of the Right Thinking Puppies. I’ve also had people worried about my going to convention in Spokane, which is right next to Idaho (indeed, I have to drive through a bit of Idaho on US-95 to get there) because Everyone Knows that Idaho is full of Right Wing Gun Toting Survivalist Nuts.

Brainstorm Hugo Party 2015

Whether it’s a Sad Puppy sweep or a series of rockets exploding on launch this year, you are invited to celebrate the 2015 Hugo Awards online with the Rabid Puppies, the Dread Ilk, the Vile Faceless Minions, and two-time 2015 Hugo nominee Vox Day on August 22nd at 11 PM EST.

I’ll be announcing the other panelists in the next two weeks, but if you want to see our reaction to the results as they’re announced, feel free to register and take part. This is an Open Brainstorm so everyone is welcome and it will cost you nothing. If this works correctly, it should even be possible to view the livestream through the webinar.

Cuckservative speech police

It’s increasingly clear that the cuckservatives are the SJWs of the Right, being the self-appointed speech police:

Conservative commentator Erick Erickson on Friday night disinvited GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump from speaking at an activist conference he is hosting here this weekend, citing disparaging remarks Trump made hours earlier on CNN about Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Erickson said Trump had been scheduled to speak at his RedState gathering on Saturday at the College Football Hall of Fame, but he told Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, about an hour before midnight that Trump was no longer welcome….

Erickson, a Fox News regular and face of the popular RedState blog, has long been a foe congressional GOP leaders and an ally of conservative grass-roots organizers. He has also drawn criticism for saying impolitic things, once calling retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter an “[expletive] child molester” and First Lady Michelle Obama a “Marxist harpy.” He has since apologized for both comments.

Trump’s words about Kelly simply went too far, Erickson said Friday, making him, someone who enjoys and appreciates barbed political rhetoric, uncomfortable and queasy. And with his invited guest dominating the 2016 race, and few if any conservatives reining him in, Erickson thought he’d try.

The following is a transcript:

Why did you disinvite Trump?

I think there is a line of decency that even a non-professional politician can cross. Suggesting that a female journalist asking you a hostile question is hormone related, I think, is one of those lines.

Do you see yourself as a referee for the conservative movement to keep Trump from riling the race?

You
know, no. I’m trying to be lenient with him. I told his campaign
manager a few days ago that there have been a lot of people in the party
who refuse to treat him legitimately even though he’s the front-runner.
And I didn’t want to give him a hard time. I felt bad that one of
event’s agendas didn’t have his name on it and felt badly about that,
let him know. I don’t like that I have to disinvite him. But there are
bounds of what’s acceptable in our discourse and they’re not different
for you, or me, or someone else. I’m not going to have a guy on stage
with my wife and daughter in the crowd who thinks a tough question from a
woman is because of hormones.

There is NO PLACE in cuckservatism for anyone who doesn’t kowtow before the feminist line. These guys are perma-losers both politically and socio-sexually. And like the SJWs and gamma males they are, they are hell-bent on keeping the more successful men in the same subservient place they are, at the base of the pedestal.

Look at how he reduces the American political process to an appeal to the emotional authority of his wife and daughter. What a pathetic excuse for what purports to be a man!

Greg from 108 ‏is right. For the cuckservative, as for the SJW, “appearing “not racist” or “not sexist” takes precedence over everything, even the Constitution and the rule of law.”