Another fake story out of Hollywood

I’m not even remotely surprised to hear that the latest feel-good movie about how we’re all the same under the skin is a complete fiction:

Green Book is a ‘culturally tone deaf’ portrayal of a friendship that never was.

It is a ‘shameful travesty’, inaccurate to the point of fiction that diminishes an exquisitely talented man and casts him as supporting actor in the story of his own life.

And for the movie to win an Oscar would be ‘a slap in the face for communities of color.’

This is the view of Dr Donald Shirley’s family, speaking out in the week that the movie, billed as a heartwarming tale of the unlikely friendship between the black pianist and an Italian American who was briefly his driver, is nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor and Supporting Actor.

The movie focuses on a tour of the segregated south undertaken by Shirley at the height of the Jim Crow era in 1962.

Written by Nick Vallelonga, it charts the supposed friendship that grew between Shirley and the screenwriter’s father Tony ‘Lip’ Vallelonga.

But today, in an exclusive interview with DailyMailTV, Shirley’s last surviving brother, Maurice, 82, has slammed the movie, for which no family members were consulted, as ‘a symphony of lies.’

These movies are designed to make white people feel good about themselves. Which, of course, is why so many black people rightly despise them.

Mailvox: the influence of Jordan Peterson

You don’t have to be completely ignorant to be a Jordan Peterson fan. But it obviously helps. A lot. A discussion of the importance of evil and how the recognition of evil tends to lead the rational man in the direction of good and God.

The recognition of evil thing is all over Christian works

Nope. This is a very specific argument, it’s nuance, it’s direction and flow, was not at all common, or all-over, before Peterson’s rise to prominence. Its entire nuance is directed at modern materialist atheists, moral relativists, and nihilsm. The flow generally describes how the acceptance of true evil requires “something more” “beyond rationality”. It describes how the recognition of evil can help get someone closer to accepting metaphysical moral framework. Then ultimately intimates how you might be able to logically go from an acceptance of metaphysical Evil to metaphysical Good to metaphysical God.

I highly doubt you will find that on copies of that detailed argument on the cover of the watchtower. There’s likely somewhat similar arguments have been made somewhere at some time, but that is beside the point. Peterson made this largely unique and detailed argument and it was not common or mainstream before that. Vox’s whole flow and direction of the argument is directly analogous to Peterson’s… Further, Peterson isn’t the one claiming its “his” argument. Vox and Owen are.

I’ll eat crow if you can find Vox making this argument before Peterson blew up with Bill C-16.

First, Jordan Peterson is totally incapable of producing any ideas that are both a) new and b) coherent. I grant that he is observably able to produce hitherto unknown incoherencies that have never been bafflegarbled before.

Second, I recommend that the gentleman try Tapatío on his crow.

They are hardly the only references to my Argument from Evil that can be found on this blog or in my books, but they should suffice to demonstrate that Jordan Peterson is not, has never been, and will never be, any sort of intellectual influence on me.

The consequences of Russiagate

The most important consequences are not likely to be the outcome of the Mueller investigation or even the re-election of the God-Emperor, but the way in which it has further destroyed faith in the liberal democratic system pushed by the neo-liberal world order everywhere from Moscow to Tokyo. This Russian perspective is very much not limited to the Russian people:

What should interest us is how Russiagate allegations have tarnished America’s democratic reputation in Russia and thereby undermined the pro-American arguments of Russia’s liberal democrats, who were never a very potent political or electoral force and whose fortunes have already declined in recent years. Consider the following:

 – Russian democrats argue that their country’s elections are manipulated and unfair, including, but not only, those that put and kept Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. “Patriotic nationalists” now reply that Russiagate rests on the allegation, widely reported and believed in the United States, that an American presidential election was successfully manipulated on behalf of the desired candidate and that the entire US electoral system may be vulnerable to manipulation.

– Russian democrats protest that oligarchic and other money has corrupted Russian politics. Their opponents argue that special counsel Robert Mueller’s convictions and other indictments – in the cases of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, for example -prove that American political life is no less corrupt financially.

– Going back to Soviet times and continuing today, a major complaint of Russian democrats has been the shadowy, malevolent role played by intelligence agencies, particularly the KGB and its successor organization. Patriotic nationalists point to disclosures that their US institutional counterparts, the CIA and FBI, played a secretive and major role in the origins of Russiagate allegations against Trump as a presidential candidate and since his inauguration.

– Russian democratic dissidents have long protested, and been stifled by, varying degrees of official censorship. Their Russian opponents argue that campaigns now underway in the United States against “Russian disinformation” in the media are a form of American censorship.

– Many Russians distrust their media, particularly “mainstream” state media. Their opponents retort that American mainstream media is no better, having undertaken a kind of “war” against President Trump and along the way having had to retract dozens of widely circulated stories. In this connection, we may wonder what Russian skeptics made of an astonishingly revealing statement by the media critic of The New York Times – an authoritative newspaper in Russia as well – on January 21 that the “ultimate prize” for leading American journalists is having “helped bring down a president.” By now, Americans may not be shocked by such a repudiation by the Times of its own professed mission and standards, but for Russian journalists, who have long looked to the paper as a model, the reaction was likely profound disillusionment.

The Neo-Western model has long been viewed askance by the global East and South. But not until very recently has it actually looked inferior to the alternative post-Communist systems that are now on the rise and competing effectively in Africa and Asia.

There will be debate

JF Gariepy of The Public Space and author of The Revolutionary Phenotype mentioned in a recent stream that he would like to debate me on the topic of the theory of evolution by natural selection. I have told him that I am willing to do so after I read his book, and he graciously sent me a copy.

I understand that his interest was piqued by two of my recent Darkstreams:

This isn’t going to happen immediately, since I have to read the book first and I’m not exactly lacking for occupation at the moment. But it will happen, sooner or later, and it should be an interesting opportunity for people on both sides of the question to be exposed to some new ideas and perspectives. Perhaps, as with the free trade debate, we’ll even get a new book out of it.

Con tutto rispetto

If you want to know how to not pique someone’s interest, this may serve as a useful primer.

hassel buske
“I have proven my ability to dismantle theories that are wildly accepted.” Well, do flat earth next then.

Darkstream
No. I don’t care if the Sun revolves around the Earth or vice-versa.

Marty Leeds Live
You don’t care about true cosmology? You don’t care about the world being awash in lies about the nature of the creation? You don’t care about the notion that, through the manipulation of our cosmology, those in power have replaced creation with accident? Of course you care. You are too smart NOT to care.

I say this out of respect, but it us one of the most absurd things to say that essentially, “our cosmology doesn’t matter.”

I am writing this here as a fairly big voice in the FE discussion. If you or your audience ever want to have a reasonable conversation about this, feel free to give me a shout. Blessings.

Darkstream
What part of “I don’t care” was hard to understand? Not everyone shares my interests, and obviously, I don’t share yours.

Marty Leeds Live
That was incredibly fucking condescending, Vox. I said my reply was “out of respect.”

For your information, I’m no fucking dummy. I’m not just another blowhard on the internet commenting randomly. I teach, lecture, host a podcast and have written 5 books about a litany of very dense subjects such as linguistics, symbolism, mathematics and comparative mythology so spare me the slanderous insinuations about my lack of intelligence, i.e

 “What didn’t you understand?” I can understand your English just fine Mr. Day. OBVIOUSLY I am simply challenging your conviction and opinion with my response. If you honestly don’t care about the model or cosmology that we live in, if you honestly don’t care about the entirety of humanity possibly being lied to about our home, if you don’t care about billions of dollars going to space organizations who can be proven  to be 100{9f98116018ff6c328dc55792d496f6b718acbf13f64942fc915b733dd5f493cb} fraudulent, then you are a complete fool, feigning like you are some profound thinker.

P.S. Hey Vox…your arrogance, ignorance and ego is showing. It’s not a good look on you.

Whatever shall we do?

Churchianity is not Christianity

Some people are offended by Mike Cernovich’s recent observations:

Christianity has given us a country where 11 year olds dance for adult men who throw dollars on the stage.

Christianity gave us a church that molested children and sold out their flock (Covington) to the left.

A moderated form of Islam is probably the West’s only hope.

Keep in mind this is the master troll who so befuddled Seth Rogan’s wife that she claimed she cheated on Rogan with him. Cernovich isn’t condemning Christianity per se, he is correctly condemning the near-total failure of Christians to defend their churches and their nation.

And we deserve that condemnation. We Christians let this happen, all because we were too afraid that someone would call us “racist” or “judgemental” or “anti-semitic”. We failed to hate the wicked. We failed to reject the sons of the Devil and the people of the Lie. We sought the approval of the world, and in doing so, reaped the inevitable whirlwind.

HOAXED is out

HOAXED, the new documentary produced by Mike Cernovich, is now out and available on demand. We’re all working on upping our video game, but Cerno is really taking it to an entirely new level. Director Scooter Downey did an excellent job of putting together an entirely professional film production.

Laying down the audio law

I fully expect these two books by Lawdog to rapidly become our bestselling audiobooks because there is literally NOTHING better to listen to on a long car drive with the family. The vehicle was literally shaking with laughter for hours, and quotes from the two books were being  regularly dropped into conversation over the entire course of the conversation. We literally couldn’t sit down to eat without someone intoning in a high-pitched voice: “As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!” Which was inevitably followed by shrieks of laughter.

Do you know how people often tell you something is funny, but when you actually watch it, or read it, or listen to it, you don’t see what the fuss was all about? Yeah, that’s not the case here. Both Lawdog books are reliably much funnier and more insightful than you’re expecting it can possibly be.

Both The Lawdog Files and The Lawdog Files: African Adventures are now available as high-quality DRM-free audiobooks at Arkhaven.

THE LAWDOG FILES

LawDog had the honor of representing law and order in the Texas town of Bugscuffle as a sheriff’s deputy, where he became notorious for, among other things, the famous Case of the Pink Gorilla Suit. In The LawDog Files, he chronicles his official encounters with everything from naked bikers, combative eco-warriors, suicidal drunks, respectful methheads, prison tattoo artists, and creepy children to six-foot chickens and lethal chihuahuas.

The LawDog Files range from the bittersweet to the explosively hilarious, as LawDog relates his unforgettable experiences in a laconic, self-deprecating manner that is funny in its own right. The audiobook is more than mere entertainment, it is an education in two English dialects, Police and Texas Country. And underlying the humor is an unmistakable sympathy for society’s less fortunate – and in most cases, significantly less intelligent – whose encounters with the law are an all-too-frequent affair. 4 hours, 29 minutes. $9.99

THE LAWDOG FILES: AFRICAN ADVENTURES

LawDog had the honor of representing law and order in the Texas town of Bugscuffle as a sheriff’s deputy, where he became notorious for, among other things, the famous Case of the Pink Gorilla Suit. But long before he first put on the deputy’s star, he grew up in Nigeria, where his experiences were equally unforgettable.

In The Lawdog Files: African Adventures, LawDog chronicles his encounters with everything from bush pilots, 15-foot pythons, pygmy mongooses, brigadier-captains, and Peace Corp hippies to the Nigerian space program. The Lawdog Files: African Adventures is every bit as hilarious as the previous volume, as LawDog relates his unforgettable experiences in a laconic, self-deprecating manner that is funny in its own right. Africa wins again, and again, and again, but so too does the reader in this sobering but hilarious collection of true tales from the Dark Continent. 4 hours, 11 minutes. $9.99.

Always hit back

The First Lady demonstrates to the defamed and the deplatformed the correct way to respond to a media attack:

Following last Saturday’s (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story “The mystery of Melania”, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published. Mrs Trump’s father was not a fearsome presence and did not control the family.  Mrs Trump did not leave her Design and Architecture course at University relating to the completion of an exam, as alleged in the article, but rather because she wanted to pursue a successful career as a professional model. Mrs Trump was not struggling in her modelling career before she met Mr Trump, and she did not advance in her career due to the assistance of Mr Trump.

We accept that Mrs Trump was a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modelling work without his assistance. Mrs Trump met Mr Trump in 1998, not in 1996 as stated in the article. The article also wrongly claimed that Mrs Trump’s mother, father and sister relocated to New York in 2005 to live in buildings owned by Mr Trump.  They did not. The claim that Mrs Trump cried on election night is also false.

We apologise unreservedly to The First Lady and her family for any embarrassment caused by our publication of these allegations.  As a mark of our regret we have agreed to pay Mrs Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs.

Do your homework, review the law, and then hit them back hard. Neither the media companies nor the social media companies are protected by the law, and the fact that they are accustomed to getting away with making provably false claims and committing illegal acts does not mean that one has to permit them to do so.

Remember, the law is different in different jurisdictions, and the reach of the Internet will often allow you to take action in a jurisdiction that is considerably less favorable to the libelists and slanderers than the various US states.

A Christian stoic

I rather admire the philosophy expressed by Ben Watson, the New Orleans tight end, at the end of his career:

“I am not a great football player. I am not a Hall of Famer. But I learned that’s okay. I’m steady. I’m reliable. And I have other interests. I am a strong Christian. I am interested in lots of other issues in life. Then, I got to be known for some of the things I wrote, some of the things I said. God was working at that time. He can lift your name up and make you known. Or you’ve got a different role. It sucks sometimes. I would have loved to be running those slant-and-go’s for big yards, but it wasn’t my time. On the other hand, I was speaking on the things happening in the country. It opened doors for me in terms of helping people. I learned this from God: ‘Be faithful when your name is in lights. Be faithful when your name is not in lights.’

His ability to calmly reflect on his own limitations is especially impressive considering the level of disappointment he must still be feeling after being robbed of the chance to finish his career on the game’s ultimate stage.

The Greeks, the Romans, the English, and the old Americans all understood that sports played an important role in the formation of a man.