Star Wars gets even more brave and stunning

I know you’ll all be shocked and delighted to learn that the SJWs at LucasFilm are intending to imake huge strides in better representation by introducing a “trans Jedi”:

From the off, the Disney era of Star Wars aimed to diversify the franchise somewhat, with actors of color like John Boyega and Oscar Isaac in the main cast. Of course, the way their characters were sidelined by the time of The Rise of Skywalker has lost the studio a lot of points. Likewise, the LGBT representation in the saga is still virtually non-existent. For instance, the same-sex kiss between two women in TROS was hyped up before release, but easy to miss in the actual film.

Star Wars needs to make some huge strides in better representation across the board going forward, then, particularly when it comes to LGBTQ+ characters. And thankfully, it seems the studio is well aware of this and is working on a major first for the franchise, as insider Daniel Richtman claims that they want to introduce a trans Jedi in a future project.

It’s strange to have reached such an age that I can barely even remember caring about Star Wars anymore. I mean, I know I did, I just don’t remember how it felt. Now my interest is entirely sadistic and revolves primarily around how they are going to further murder the value of the historical IP.

The vilification of Vox

General Grudge considers the calumnies and condemnations hurled against me by ComicsGate:

Vox Day has been fighting the cancel culture and deplatforming by being canceled (from institutions like Twitter to this day) and then actually trying to create new platforms for voices that have been marginalized by the mainstream media companies. Vox Day has helped build answers for Wikipedia, publishing houses and YouTube while most of you have been doing next to nothing. Vox Day has been the leading General on the front lines of the culture war and has accomplished more than just about anyone else in that struggle.

Also Vox Day was the first person to launch a successful crowd funding campaign for comic books that would compete against the big establishment companies and paved the way for everyone to follow. So what did he get for that last effort from comics-gate and from the anti-comicsgate groups that would stand on his shoulders later?

Ethan Van Sciver saw him as a threat and attacked him and his reputation full force. This act proved EVS for the first time to be, what he would soon become known to all clear minded people to be, and that is an SJW gatekeeper and self-appointed Cesar of Comics-Gate. The most ironic aspect of this move by EVS was how he clearly read and used language lifted straight from Vox Day’s “SJW’S ALWAYS LIE” to bad mouth anyone he perceived as a threat. But the way EVS did this proved that he never understood what crowd funding comics was really all about or the true nature of the culture war. This act of aggression against Vox Day was also the first act to create a division and a split in ComicsGate and create a war that goes on to this day. It started with EVS persecuting and bad mouthing Vox but continues now to any person, or group that questions ComicsGate or War Campaign. People now tend to forget that is was Vox Day who was the first target of Ethan’s ego induced rage.

Now, what about the former ComicsGate personalities and most of the Christian factions of the Anti-ComicsGate scene?

I pains me deeply when I am watching a stream featuring many of the non-comicsgate personalities I like and respect and hear them make passive aggressive remarks and jokes about Vox Day. Often it comes from the context revealing the misconception they think he is some kind of racist or fascist. The seeming fact that these people, who should know better, have bought into and drank the koolid of the MSM and talking points of some of the worst elements of comicsgate is revealing. It is revealing to their lack of judgement and their total inability to win on the front of the culture war that is crowd funded comic books.

Perhaps it wasn’t a long time ago, but it feels like it was. At this point, I could not be less concerned about what happened in the past, or who said what about me. A new era is about to dawn that will shake up comics industry to a much greater extent than all of the crowdfunded independent comics combined. This morning, I literally saw the future of comics, and it is glorious indeed.

Project Asteroid is already entering the atmosphere and plunging toward a planet full of stumbling, wheezing dinosaurs. And there will be more than enough opportunity for all of the survivors. But since we’re on the subject, here’s a peek at the pencils of an ongoing project for the Caligan backers.

The media’s employment veto

If you think you’re going to survive the roving SJW terminators by keeping your head down and doing a good job, you’re absolutely wrong:

One day after announcing Chris Doyle as their new director of sports performance, the Jaguars have announced Doyle’s resignation.

“Chris Doyle came to us this evening to submit his resignation and we have accepted,” Jaguars coach Urban Meyer said in a statement. “Chris did not want to be a distraction to what we are building in Jacksonville. We are responsible for all aspects of our program and, in retrospect, should have given greater consideration to how his appointment may have affected all involved. We wish him the best as he moves forward in his career.”

Well, yes, the Jaguars should have considered the repercussions of Doyle’s hiring before he was hired.

It created an instant firestorm, with Meyer facing tough questions from the team’s beat reporters Thursday. It served as Meyer’s “welcome to the NFL” moment.

Doyle departed Iowa last summer with a $1.1 million separation agreement after he was accused of making racist comments and belittling players. He denied any “unethical behavior or bias” based on race. Meyer defended the hiring and said he was unconcerned about what Doyle’s presence could do to the team’s ability to add free agents.

News of Doyle’s resignation came only a few hours after Fritz Pollard Alliance executive director Rod Graves took issue with Doyle’s hiring.

Just being “accused of racist comments” isn’t just enough to cost you your job, now it will prevent you from finding another job somewhere else. It won’t be long before the only white people employed in large corporations are introverts who refuse to talk to anyone.

But don’t worry. I’m sure the media won’t abuse its newfound veto power. Much. Right?

Out of the frying pan

Gina Carano leaps right into the fire. And it’s really remarkable how many center-right idiots simply cannot spot a gatekeeper to literally save their lives.

Two days after Disney found an excuse to fire Gina Carano for being a conservative, the former Mandalorian star announced she’s teaming up with Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing’s Daily Wire to produce and star in an upcoming film.

“The Daily Wire is helping make one of my dreams — to develop and produce my own film — come true. I cried out and my prayer was answered,” Carano on Friday. “I am sending out a direct message of hope to everyone living in fear of cancellation by the totalitarian mob. I have only just begun using my voice which is now freer than ever before, and I hope it inspires others to do the same. They can’t cancel us if we don’t let them.”

Clay Travis gave credit to the Daily Wire team and spoke on the topic on Friday’s OutKick the Show.

In December, the Daily Wire announced that it was moving into the entertainment business. Minutes later, I wrote about the news, explaining how influential its success can be:

Those who routinely consume the news can easily underestimate the power entertainment has on the way Americans think, react, communicate and vote. If you merely consumed President Donald Trump’s presidency through the lens of Hollywood, you probably believe he’s racist, sexist, fat, dumb, and incompetent. Did a single major TV show or film say a nice word about him? If they tried, would the pitch make it past the networks distributing the content?

For eight years, entertainment creators told the same viewers that Barack Obama was cool, smart, likable, and exactly what the country needed. I’m not here to tell you what to think about either Obama or Trump, but like-minded directors and writers shouldn’t be either.

Thus, I give props to Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing and the Daily Wire for taking on this risk.

Note that their very first movie featured a white girl with an African boyfriend. The only reason Chickenhawk Studios exists is to subvert the conservative audience that is rejecting the Devil Mouse and other lesser Hellmouth denizens in the hopes of preventing a genuine alternative from rising. As always, look at how quickly they were funded compared to how long it takes the organic alternatives to grow.

As for Outkick, Clay Travis appears to be playing the role of Glenn Reynolds while Ben Burack is Ed Driscoll. And either this comment is a plant or Outkick commenters are literally retarded.

One of the great things about Trump is that he exposed those establishment voices (Bill McCrystal, etc…) for what they are. And we’ve seen the real conservatives like Shapiro stand tall. And now with only corporate, and no voter, support, groups like the Lincoln Project clowns are being exposed too.

How on Earth do you not know that Bill Kristol, Ben Shapiro, and the Lincoln Project clowns, to say nothing of Dennis Prager and Steven Crowder, are all part of the same neoclown operation?

He had his dream job

The Dark Herald delves deep into the Gammatude of Joss Whedon at Arkhaven. It is… insightful:

With no other prospects he fell into the family business of TV work as a writer.  He knew how the business operated. The paychecks (when they come) are big, plus, it is notoriously tolerant of obnoxious behavior and sexual abuse. It is the dream job of every Gamma

His connections got him a gig on Roseanne.  He ground out a few decent enough scripts, and it was here that his talent for comedy made itself apparent.  It was snarky comedy, but it was there. 

With a whopping four episodes of Rosanne under his belt he actually got a feature film greenlit.  And I know how he did it.  His family connections got his script put at the top of various in-baskets but what sold it, was a really great title.

Let me assure you, a title is unbelievably important in any writing endeavor, but it is especially important in the movie business. “For Love or Money,” is about the worst title in the history of fiction.  It could apply to any facet of human existence and tells you nothing about it.  There have been five films with this title, and no one remembers what any of them were about. It absolutely sucks.

The greatest title of all time is Legally Blonde.  Why? Because it tells you everything you need to know about the movie in only two words.  Legally blonde, is an assonance on, legally blind, and being blind is associated with being clueless.  It indicates to you the film is a comedy about a dumb blonde. And since it’s an American comedy, the dumb blonde will make good in the legal profession somehow.  The poster with Reese Witherspoon in a hot pink business suit with a toy dog in a purse confirms the prejudices the title gave you.  It’s brilliant.

You probably don’t recall the feelings you had when you first heard the words “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”  But try to approach it with a fresh eye and you will see that it is a great title.  Again, it tells you everything you need to know, to include whether or not you want to give it a shot, in only four words.  

The plot itself was reflective of 1990s urban fantasy settings.  Which was still reasonably new at the time.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer starred Eighties-also-ran Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry when he was still having to make a living as the world’s oldest teenager.  If you don’t remember it, there is a reason for that.  Buffy’s first incarnation pulled in a fairly anemic $12 million.

But he did get a script produced.  That got him his next job writing for Pixar on Toy Story.  That movie was very definitely a hit but for some reason John Lasseter never hired Joss Whedon again.  For some reason he didn’t want him connected with kid’s films.  You often wonder about what red flags executives look for. And sometimes you don’t.

Make no mistake, Whedon is a decent writer. He’s created several legitimate hits. But success, for the Gamma, almost invariably brings with it the seeds of his eventual downfall. And he makes for a very useful teaching example of what a Gamma Boss looks like.

Stay out of the hospitals

As Karl Denninger and the South Koreans figured out more than a year ago, hospitals are the primary zone of viral transmission.

Up to 40 per cent of coronavirus infections in hospital patients during the first wave of the pandemic could have been caught on NHS wards, scientists have claimed in evidence presented to No10’s top advisers.

SAGE today released a document submitted to the panel that claimed stopping the spread of the virus in hospitals may have led to a ‘substantial’ reduction in the number of deaths in the first wave. 

And this nosocomial transmission — as it is medically called — meant the first phase of the UK’s coronavirus crisis was ‘prolonged, potentially by several weeks’, they said. 

The spread of the virus on wards has been a problem for the NHS throughout the crisis, with hospitals that have more Covid patients finding it harder to manage. Although staff must wear protective equipment at all times and Covid and non-Covid patients are segregated, the virus still spreads from people who don’t have any symptoms or who get false negative test results. 

The SAGE paper, published today, suggested that as many as 36,152 of around 90,000 people who were diagnosed with the virus in hospital between February and July 2020 had caught it in hospital.

Of course, this violates the narrative, because as the South Korean hospital study showed, the virus is not in the air. That’s why all the mask wearing doesn’t make any difference. The most effective way to avoid contact with it is to wash your hands a lot. 

It was never rhetoric

Remember when I warned you that the battle for Western civilization was also, among other things, the choice between indoor plumbing and living in filth? That wasn’t rhetoric:

For decades, residents of Centreville, a nearly all-Black town of 5,000 in southern Illinois, just a 12-minute drive from downtown East St Louis, have been dealing with persistent flooding and sewage overflows. The smell of it is in the air all over town after a rain, and bits of soggy toilet paper and slicks of human waste cling to the grass in neighborhoods where children used to play on warm days, locals said. Kids don’t play outside any more. Gardens don’t grow.

Like Smith, other locals say their water tastes odd and refuse to drink from their taps, relying on donated shipments of bottled water. They worry about the long-term health effects of living under such conditions, and they say that for years elected officials and local utility companies inadequately addressed their cries for help.

Residents and environmental justice advocates also believe that these issues persist because the town is one of the poorest in America, with a median household income of less than $15,000 a year and almost half of residents living below the poverty line. They contend that authorities at the local and state level might have addressed wastewater problems long ago if the area was wealthier and more influential.

Though Centreville was once a larger town, it has lost more than half its population and nearly all its white inhabitants since 1970. Surrounding towns saw a similar shift, as local manufacturing jobs disappeared. The people of color who remain in Centreville are stuck with ageing infrastructure meant for a denser population – and the local government now has a much smaller tax base to draw from for upgrades.

The conditions that Centreville’s residents live with are “shocking”, said Catherine Flowers, an environmental justice campaigner who co-authored a 2019 study on raw sewage issues in low-income communities across the US. Flowers hails from central Alabama, where many households lack proper plumbing and rivers of wastewater flow through back yards. “The Centreville problem ranks as one of the worst I have seen,” she said. In Centreville, she noted, the “sewage is in plain sight”.

Non-Western civilizations simply don’t object to filth in the same way white Christian populations do. It’s a combination of factors, and the reasons differ from one to the next, but the fact is that once you remove the three pillars of the West from a society, one inevitable consequence is dwelling in filth, not just moral, but literal.

One resident says: “‘If white people were still here, this wouldn’t happen.” That’s true. Because the white people wouldn’t put up with it, the white people would fix it. There are 5,000 people living there and absolutely none of them are willing and able to do anything about it.

That’s the inevitable fate of the post-Christian, post-white former West.

Don’t defend Joss Whedon

Really, really don’t. Remember the old saying about where there’s smoke, there’s fire? Well, when you’re dealing with the Hellmouth, where there is even a faint whiff of sulfur, there is demonic deviancy. And the usual “hurr durr whores who don’t suicide their careers deserve the abuse” isn’t just stupid, it’s totally inapplicable to an underage girl of the sort that Dawn was on Buffy:

Trachtenberg’s original post read, “Thank you @sarahmgellar for saying this. I am brave enough now as a 35 year old woman….To repost this. Because. This must. Be known. As a teenager. With his not appropriate behavior….very. Not. Appropriate. So now. People know. What Joss. Did.” The caption was then revised to include the following addition: “The last. Comment I will make on this. Was. There was a rule. Saying. He’s not allowed in a room alone with Michelle again.” Born October 11, 1985, Trachtenberg appeared on Buffy between 2000-2003- which would put the actress between the ages of 14-15 when she first started filming the series.

Never, ever, trust a gamma of any age around a young woman. Sooner or later, they will gamma-creep on her. Guaranteed.

Fighting smarter, fighting back

 An academic researcher battles SJWs in the AI field:

Know what to expect. The cancel crowd has its own bullet-point playbook. And they’ll respond aggressively to any symbolic act that threatens their status, or erodes the impression that they are the ones calling the shots. Remember that behind the social-justice veneer lies the brutal logic of power and ego. To maximize the pain you feel, they’ll tag activist groups on social media to inflate their numbers and reach. They’ll bombard every organization you’re part of with demands to censure, discipline, disown, fire, or expel you—often phrasing their appeals in the passive aggressive guise of “concern” and “disappointment.” At other times, they will insult, taunt, and, threaten you in a manner resembling middle-school children having a recess meltdown. In my case, the ringleader called me “a full on misogynist and racist,” “shameful bigot,” “hypocrite,” “clueless,” “tone-deaf,” “snowflake,” and “soulless troll.” She assailed my “privilege and patriarchy,” “lack of basic empathy and ethics,” and “zero self-awareness.” She also questioned whether I’m really a human, and called on NeurIPS to ban me, and for my department to expunge me. Her goal, in short, was to ruin my life. The cancelers will dig up anything they can from your past. And if they can’t find any, they’ll make it up. This will all seem terrifying, but much less so if you realize that you’re just the latest victim in what is basically a mechanical and dehumanizing process. Insofar as you don’t actually get fired from your job or suffer some other equivalent setback, these are all just words, and they don’t define who you are.

Don’t back down. Don’t apologize. Don’t make clarifications, and don’t try to appease the mob. All of these will only be taken as concessions, and embolden the mob to demand more. The real Achilles’s Heel of the cancel crowd is its short attention span. Once they bully someone into submission, they move on to the next victim. It’s a system designed for quick wins. If you don’t back down, they’ll raise the pitch as far as they can—but eventually they’ll be at a loss for what to do next, and all but the most fanatical will lose interest. The few that remain, now bereft of their backup, are just what you need to teach all of them a lesson, as we did in my case.

Mock them mercilessly. Fear is what keeps the silent majority from speaking up, and laughter is the best antidote. The cancelers take themselves extremely seriously, imagining themselves to be social-justice angels whose holy ends justify every imaginable means. Their sanctimonious spirit is a gift to you, if you call it out instead of playing along with its conceit.

Don’t let their narrative outrun yours. Once a false narrative is entrenched, it’s hard to overturn, no matter how many facts you have on your side. So while, as noted above, I generally would discourage you from focusing too much on defending your own actions, there should be some resource you can point to so that everyone can know the truth. Once you have established that resource—a blog post, a published article, a podcast, even a set of tweets or Facebook posts—point people to it where necessary, including your own professional contacts and potential allies. Keep it short, crisp, and compelling so that it gets widely circulated and isn’t thwarted by short attention spans. And keep the tone confident (and possibly even funny), so that it’s clear who the real inhuman fanatics are.

Goad them into overreaching. The cancelers’ overconfidence is your greatest asset, as I learned when the ringleader of the mob that came after me resorted to posting the above-referenced list of people whom she wanted canceled, many of them junior researchers whose only crime was to have followed me or liked one of my tweets. This crossed a line for a lot of observers, and of course the people on the list itself were aghast. Word spread of the shocking behavior. Even people on her side started turning against her.

Turn their weapons against them. You may find this to be the most controversial principle, but it’s also arguably the most crucial—as the cancelers won’t stop until they fear that they’ll endure the same consequences that they seek to impose on others. In my case, I watched as investors and customers leaned on the ringleader’s company to rein her in. Even companies that posture heavily in the area of social justice don’t actually want to be stained by the disgraceful behavior of mob leaders. Indeed, I have no doubt that it was an ultimatum from her employer that finally led the ringleader to stop her Twitter outbursts and apologize publicly to her victims, for all to see. Some will say that once we resort to this step, we become as bad as the cancelers. But that’s a false equivalence. The cancel crowd tries to ban people because of their views. We try to stop bullying—behavior that is reprehensible regardless of ideology.

There is zero compromise possible with these creatures. From AI to boardgames, they are attempting to conquer and converge literally everything. You cannot be reasonable. You cannot befriend them. You simply have to ruthlessly extricate them from every aspect of your life and professional career.

I don’t approve of all his advice. It’s pretty good, but a little on the soft side due to the desire to appear “the good guy” to third parties. That’s irrelevant. Anyone who sees any moral equivalency between SJWs and their targets does not have a relevant opinion.

The next gatekeeper platform

 No. Just no. No sooner has Parler bitten the dust than yet another new “alternative” is being waggled out there as bait.

Emphasizing free speech and privacy, a tech entrepreneur who has been developing a search engine for the past decade plans to roll out a platform that will include the features of Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Find.com, says Jeffrey Sisk, will begin with a messaging platform similar to Twitter then add the search, social networking and video features, putting them together in one app.

“It’s the convergence of an amazing brand name, innovative technology and a public that is desperate to find any new way to help win this war on truth,” he told WND.

Sisk said he is inviting the millions of Americans who are seeking an alternative to the Big Tech giants to join him in funding the venture.

He’s launched a GoFundMe page in which he explains his vision.

“We are committing to you now that we will forever support the core values enshrined in the Bill of Rights,” he says in the GoFundMe description of the project. “As a platform, yes, we will remove content that contains the obvious bad things, such as graphic violence or pornography. But we will always support constitutionally protected free speech and the First Amendment. That is our firm commitment to you, the American public.”

After the funding comes in, he said, he plans to launch Find.com’s public messaging platform in the first couple of months.

Free speech + funding = gatekeeper. How many times are conservative idiots going to fall for this line? From Emma Lazarus to the Tea Party and Jordan Peterson, it’s always the same rhetorical bait for the conservatives they want to keep away from a) Christianity and b) nationalism.

Christian Nationalism is the only genuine alternative to the globosatanism of the Prometheans. Any platform, program, person, or organization who doesn’t explicitly advocate Christian nationalism should not be trusted one iota. And those that do should be regarded with relentless skepticism and closely watched for signs of convergence.