Tag: cuckservative

I know John Hawkins means well, but his diagnostic ineptitude here is simply off the charts.

Exhibit 1: The first step to getting our culture to go back in the right direction is understanding why conservatives are losing the culture wars.

Exhibit 2: The “old school” values that made America successful were Judeo-Christian values that people were immersed in from their childhood on, usually in church. 

When you can’t identify the enemy, you cannot defeat the enemy. And when you cannot defeat the enemy, you are destined to lose. There are no “Judeo-Christian values”. There are no “Islamo-Christian”, “Hindu-Christian”, or “Satano-Christian values”.

Conservatives are losing the culture wars because they rejected the central role that Christianity and the posterity nation played in traditional American culture. So they permit non-American, non-Christian opinion leaders to lead them straight into cultural defeat, time and time again.

There are two primary causal factors: immigration and immoralization. Deal with them or go down to defeat.

James Kirkpatrick explains why conservatives will never be able to even begin to successfully address the problem of corporate deplatforming:

Conservatism Inc. now at least recognizes deplatforming is an issue. Matt Schlapp of the American Conservative Union recently announced that a slot at CPAC will feature Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, who “will talk about the growing concerns around big tech companies and what Congress needs to do about it.” Hawley has questioned whether large tech companies should continue to benefit from the Section 230 protection in the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which protects social media platforms from being sued for user content.

Yet the ironic result of taking away this protection could be the destruction of small internet startups, ensuring that Facebook, Twitter and other large companies are the only ones who can maintain a large user base. Big Tech, of course, is entirely governed by the Left.

The larger problem: Conservatism Inc.’s dogma is preventing it from doing anything productive. There are two critical issues.

• Conservatism Inc. won’t defend its own;
• It won’t attack corporate power, even when that power is used in service of the Left.

Conservatism Inc.’s tradition of “purges” and selling out its own is well known and is arguably the defining characteristic of the movement. Thus it was less than a month ago the entire Republican Party threw Congressman Steve King under the bus because he was misquoted by the New York Times.

With online censorship, the temptation is to remain silent as the “unrespectable” elements are gradually deplatformed. Indeed, those who are not deplatformed actually benefit from the lack of any competition to their Right. Certainly, the “Never Trump true conservative” types would have rejoiced if Donald Trump’s Facebook account had been purged in 2015, as the company was reportedly considering. Indeed, journalists enforcers are still crusading to get President Trump banned from Twitter even now.

Even more serious: conservatives, because of their attachment to “free market principles,” are ideologically incapable of confronting the Leftist corporate power structure now called “Woke Capital”. Thus, at a time when populism is on the rise globally, American conservatives are in the idiotic position of trying to defend companies like Amazon from socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, even while Amazon continues a crackdown on conservative speech.

At this point, anyone who focuses their rhetorical attacks on the faceless, unidentified “Left” should be considered suspect at the very least. It is more likely that they are simply unwilling and unable to face the reality of identity politics for one reason or another. The common conflation of corporations with capitalism, which is an intrinsically false notion due to the obvious and undeniable fact that corporations are artificial constructions of the government, is a conceptual trap into which most conservatives have fallen.

How is it “conservative” in any way, what does it conserve, to defend the rights of artificial constructs while absolving them from any responsibility for their actions?

The irony is that the very phenomenon of corporate deplatforming demonstrates that capitalist imperatives are not priorities for the modern post-capitalist corporation, because they do not rely upon the interactions of supply and demand for its profits, but rather, politically-driven access to the government-financial pool of resources.

The cuckservative media is rather like cockroaches. It doesn’t matter how much they fail, it doesn’t matter how often they are wrong, it doesn’t matter that no one reads them and they have no influence, they just don’t die off and disappear. The Week celebrates the news of Jonah Goldbergs new and entirely redundant publication as more of what people already don’t want.

What if we had a center-right publication, broadly in favor of globalized free trade and deregulation and hawkish on foreign policy, whose columnists really hated President Trump, even when he does things they otherwise agree with, like spit in Vladimir Putin’s face?

But The Washington Post already exists, you say. Exactly. Which is why I cannot figure who the audience for Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg’s new journalism project is supposed to be. According to Axios, the former editor of The Weekly Standard and the founder of National Review Online are “seeking investors” for “a reporting-driven, Trump-skeptical” conservative periodical.

Of course they are. “Generic white #NeverTrump conservative” is already the most overrepresented type in American media. There are approximately 200 of these people in the United States, and every single one of them has a column in a major newspaper and a book about why Drumpf is the logical and polar opposite of certain ideals supposedly embodied in whatever Tocqueville quotes their research assistants have just pulled up for them. They are the same people who have spent the last two decades insisting that all the things that actually keep people voting for the GOP against their own economics interests — opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage — are yucky. They are often referred to as “neocons,” but this appellation is insulting to the legacy of Irving Kristol and Christopher Lasch. A better one is “metro-conservatives,” i.e., think-tank grifters.

#NeverTrump types are desperate to convince readers that clichés about “entrepreneurship,” endless war, and moaning about the Founding Fathers are still cool. But nobody listens. They had their shot with roughly 15 other candidates in 2016, and the American people rejected all of them, one by one. If your ideas are so bad that social conservatives would rather vote for a twice-divorced serial philanderer than pull the lever for any of the indistinguishable blue-blazered frat boys who are mouthpieces for them, maybe you should rethink what you’re doing. If the Never Trumpers had gotten the candidate they wanted, Hillary Clinton would have won Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

They know this. They also couldn’t care less. Why should they, when the paychecks continue to cash? They have been insulated from the badness of their ideas for decades; this isn’t going to change, probably ever.

The reason these cockroach media publications keep popping up as fast as they fail is that they are funded by corpocracy in order to gatekeep the Right. The Intellectual Dark Web, The Daily Wire, Bulwark, and Jonah Goldberg’s Nameless Project are all designed to keep conservatives and Christians on the globalist reservation.

Dennis Prager projects too much:

Truth is not a left-wing value.

I first discovered this as a graduate student studying the Soviet Union and left-wing ideologies at the Russian Institute of Columbia University School of International Affairs. Everything I have learned since has confirmed this view.

Individuals on both the left and right lie. Individuals on both the left and right tell the truth. And liberalism, unlike leftism, does value truth. But the further left one goes, the more one enters the world of the lie.

Why does the left lie?

There are two main reasons.

One is that leftists deem their goals more important than telling the truth. For example, every honest economist knows women do not earn 20 percent less money than men for the same work done for the same amount of hours under the same conditions. Yet leftists repeat the lie that women earn 78 cents for every dollar men earn. Why any employers would hire men when they could hire women and get the same amount of work done at the same level of excellence for the same number of hours while saving 20 cents on the dollar is a question only God or the sphinx could answer.

So, when New York Times columnists write this nonsense, do they believe it? The answer is they don’t ask themselves, “Is it true?” They ask themselves, “Does the claim help promote the left-wing doctrine that women are oppressed?” Whatever serves that end is morally justified.

The second reason is leftism is rooted in feelings, not reason or truth. From Karl Marx to Bernie Sanders, left-wing preference for socialism over capitalism is entirely rooted in emotion. Only capitalism creates wealth. Socialism merely spends what capitalism creates. Do leftists not know this? Even if they know it, the emotional pull of socialism prevails.

The Fake Right loves to whine about the Left. It’s all they ever talk about. And there is nothing they enjoy doing more than explaining the Left to the Right; that’s why this is taken from what is part six of Dennis Prager’s opus called Explaining the Left. Of course, if you pay sufficient attention, what you eventually realize is that the Fake Right is a part of the Left. Dennis Prager behaves in exactly the same manner he decries here, because he deems his goals more important than telling the truth and because his loyalty to his people rooted in feelings, not reason or truth.

Truth is not a Judeo-Christian value because Judeo-Christianity itself is a shameless, ahistorical, and anti-Christian lie.

National Review is confirmed to have been funded by Google:

Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that the tech giant gave funds to the National Review Institute, the policy arm of establishment conservative magazine National Review — but there is a discrepancy in Pichai’s explanation of why the donation is not listed in the company’s annual transparency report. Pichai used his written answers to congressional questions to disclose his company’s donation to the National Review Institute, which was revealed by National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg last year. The Google CEO confirmed the donation, stating that it was made in 2018 and would, therefore, be disclosed in the company’s next report.

And you wondered why they were drifting ever-leftward? Cuckservatives have no principles, they only pretend to do so. This may not be the nail in National Review’s coffin, but it should be.

Even the cuckiest NeverTrump cucks are coming in from the cold:

This week in 2016, I declared I would be “Never Trump.” A friend suggested I use a hashtag that had started circulating on Twitter, i.e #NeverTrump. The piece exploded and pushed me into a whirlwind of coverage. Despite lots of pressure, protestors literally on my front porch, and harassment directed towards my family, I did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. I voted third party.

Some of my concerns about President Trump remain. I still struggle on the character issue and I understand Christian friends who would rather sit it out than get involved. But I also recognize that we cannot have the Trump Administration policies without President Trump and there is much to like…

…In 2016, we knew who the Democrats were and were not sure of who Donald Trump was. Now we know both and I prefer this President to the alternative.

Which raises the question, why does anyone still pay any attention to Erick Erickson or any of these cuckservatives?

They are finally beginning to wake up to the fact that the godless globalist Left is not going to spare them just because they are nice, respectful boys who don’t see color, reject masculinity, and absolutely disavow raciss:

Last summer I wrote an essay called the Great White Culture War. In it, I argued that a great deal of America’s political division isn’t just explained by the division between white Americans and racial minorities — there are also immense cultural divisions within “white America” itself. And in few areas are those cultural divisions more stark than in religious belief. According to Pew Research Center data, 72 percent of white Republicans believe in the God of the Bible. Only 32 percent of white Democrats share that belief. That’s a stunning gap, especially considering the historical dominance of the Christian faith in the United States.

Our culture war is also a religious conflict, and that means progressive populism will almost certainly continue to trend against conservative Christianity. And as this happens, it will be increasingly difficult to confine our differences to the political realm. The fear and loathing will extend to individuals. It will mean more attempts to destroy lives and limit individual liberty. And when it does, our divide will only grow.

Hostility to traditional, orthodox Christianity is no longer confined to the white progressive elite. It’s now popular in the white Left. Liberal elites who attack traditional Christian beliefs and express contempt for traditional Christians aren’t demonstrating their disconnect from America, they’re giving their constituents exactly what they want.

They’re still not ready to stop throwing the “Nazi” label at anyone who is actually willing to go on the offensive or aggressively defend Christianity and Western Civilization. But they are beginning to consider the possibility of expressing a moderate amount of concern.

CJ Pearson
We’re getting new submissions every 30 seconds. Every member of the media who defamed, slandered, and doxxed the #CovingtonBoys on Twitter will be served. Each and every tweet will be archived and turned over to the students’ legal counsel.

The fact that literally racist Neo-Palestinian supremacists like Ben Shapiro and Bill Kristol attempt to position themselves as moral voices of any kind is both risible and ridiculous. I hope the families of the boys who have been slandered and libeled by these media whores do follow through and actually file suit against them.

A predilection for name-calling and a complete lack of accountability is the only reason these ludicrous people have any status. It’s time to ensure that they are held accountable for their hateful words and actions.

UPDATE: Ace of Spades is confused about the nature of the so-called “conservative media”.

I don’t understand the “conservative media’s” belief that they can wage actual war on actual conservatives, attacking them and joining and justifying lynchmobs against them, and think they’re going to continue getting paid by these very same conservatives.

They aren’t conservatives and they aren’t paid by conservatives. They are Fake Right media actors paid by billionaires and lobbyists to play the role of the Authorized Opposition.

It’s what they do. The one thing they always counsel avoiding is triggering the Left. Because then, of course, you might be called racist.

Ross Douthat
Good rules for life:
Don’t let your Catholic school’s students wear MAGA hats on a field trip for the March for Life.
Don’t *immediately* make a teenager a symbol of everything you hate about…

James Taranto
You think wearing a political hat at a political rally is morally equivalent to participating on a social-media mob directed at minors?James Taranto added,

Bansi Sharma
I am touched by how fair and generous @DouthatNYT is:

a) The Right must ensure their teenagers never express themselves in ways that offend the Left’s sensibilities.

b) In return, liberal media Leftists should wait for a day before doxxing anyone who violates the previous rule.

At this point, I just completely ignore anyone and everyone who makes a point to virtue-signal their self-proclaimed non-racissness. If you do that, you’re just totally irrelevant because you might as well be wearing a three-foot-tall blinking light that says “WILL CUCK WHEN ATTACKED”.

I don’t blame people who live in fear of being attacked by the Left. I pity them, because it is a legitimate fear and the coward dies a thousand deaths. But I don’t have any use for them either. Give me the 300 of Gideon and Leonidas every single time.

2VS is up to his usual antics again, this time on Captain Red Pill’s channel. You all already know my position on 2VS. He’s not an enemy, unlike our actual enemies he’s not out to destroy Western civilization, Christianity, or the European nations. That being said, he’s not a friend, and due to his intrinsic unreliability, he’s not even a potential ally. And while he’s a talented illustrator, he draws far too slowly to function within Arkhaven’s production process.

I’m not angry about his decision to attempt to revise his past indiscretions with regards to ComicsGate, I’m not even annoyed. I find it to all be tedious and unnecessary at this point. What happened has happened. It’s a pity, it was ridiculous, and I wish I had simply stayed well out of it, but it was probably all for the best in the end. The thing is, between building our infrastructure, fighting our legal battle with Indiegogo (which is now officially on), and continuing to innovate and get our comics out, none of us at Arkhaven has any time or interest in any ongoing Internet drama. Ethan has his own issues to deal with, as apparently there was some problem with the writer he hired, and he’s already had to push the release of his comic back so far that we may actually complete and publish all six issues of AH:Q before Cyberfrog ships. Why he wants to keep going on and on about ComicsGate makes no sense to me.

2VS: Vox Day is somebody who I really, really enjoyed my acquaintance with. I didn’t really know him — like, I didn’t know his beliefs — but what I did know is that he was kind of Alt‑Right, and he decided he wanted to come in and fight these SJWs in comics without having known anything about comics, and he put out this crowdfunded comic book called Alt★Hero.

She was wearing, like, a Confederate flag for a costume. She was a hot chick. It was everything meant to trigger social justice warriors. Now, my attitude was, look, you don’t want to fight the extremes with an extreme; you want to offer a moderate — you want to offer a centrist alternative to get all the audience, get all the customers. Yeah, you know, something that was my plan. His plan was just to be the opposite side. So we we fought about that for a little while. I had him on my show, interviewed him, you know. I don’t know … we kind of talked. We formed kind of a weird kind of friendship over the telephone. And then what happened was he decided that what he wanted to do was he wanted to make a publishing imprint called ComicsGate.

CRP: Oh, now I remember. So he stole your name?

2VS: Well, it’s not my name. It’s just a hashtag. But in point of fact, you know, it’s like there are people who consider themselves ComicsGaters who just didn’t want the forced association with Vox Day. The idea was that the hashtag belongs to everybody and nobody, and you can’t really — like, if you’re gonna — if Vox Day is going to publish a comic book company called ComicsGate, the implication is that, you know, ComicsGate is Vox Day’s belief system.

And people had a real, real tough time with that and didn’t want him to co-opt the movement. So I talked to some lawyers, and they said, “You do a YouTube show called ComicsGate Live, you actually own the copyright to the name ‘ComicsGate’.”

CRP: Oh, wow.

2VS: “Well, that’s like …”

CRP: Shit.

2VS: “… because you monetized it first.” So I hit Vox day with a ‘cease and desist’ and threatened him with a lawsuit and we’ve had problems ever since, he and I. But I told him, you know, when he told me he was gonna do this, I said, “Vox” — and these are magic words coming from me — I said, “Vox, as a friend, don’t do it.” And he just ignored me and went on to a Livestream and announced it. Now, if I say to you “as a friend”, and you go against that, I’m asking for a favor like that, and you just defy it … you turn, you know … I can either owe you a favor or we’re gonna become enemies; it’s one of those two things. That’s the way it works in my world. That’s the way it’s always worked in my world. So if I say to you, “Coach Red Pill, as a friend, don’t do that to me” — don’t do this, don’t do that — and you do it anyway, you’ve become my enemy, because I rarely say things like that. I don’t make requests to people, but I knew this was gonna cause all kinds of trouble. And it has.

I mean, it’s a shame. So Vox Day went on a whole tirade, trying to smear me and calling me two-faced and everything. I’m very much singularly-faced. I asked him not to do this because I felt that it would hurt the movement that we’ve been working so hard to nurture and build into something, and he chose to try to co-opt it, I think, for his own reasons, which I don’t want to speculate about. But anyway, Vox Day also has gone after Jordan Peterson. Just, I mean, total … sorry. The book 12 … well, yeah, like he … I think so … I think he had some good points. I actually told him. I said, “I gotta say, I’m friends with Jordan Peterson. I like him. But you did a good job. I mean, I think you did point out some of his foibles and weaknesses.” Yeah, you know, good on him. But, you know, you got to be honest with people even if you … yeah, even if you don’t agree with them about everything. Even if you’re in a fight, man. When they get one over, you gotta kind of acknowledge. It’s humility, you know. You got call ’em like you see ’em, you know, not like you’d like to see ’em, you know?

CRP: No, I’d … Look, in so far as Vox Day … I have no opinion about him. I have never interacted with the guy, you know … but in so far as what you said earlier, that he wanted to do a comic book character who would, like, trigger the SJWs, trigger the Libs, right? All right. Here, with you, I agree that it has to be something that will appeal to the normies, to the broad middle.

2VS: That’s the only way to beat them.

CRP: Yeah, and to go for the extreme? No. You just create a caricature. Not a cartoon in a cool way. Like, you do, but like a character in the sense of a very small niche audience is gonna care about that shit, you know. And if you’re a businessman, because you are and I used to be involved in commercial art, okay? I mean, I was writing stuff for money. I just, you know, not not for accolades. I could give a shit about that. I was, you know, it’s something that I was remunerated for, the same for you. You do comic books for money. It’s a profession. It’s a job. It’s a perfectly respectable profession. And so the idea of doing something that will only appeal to a niche seems to me counterintuitive. You want to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. And sometimes you recognize that you have to put in elements that will appeal to a niche who will be like the hook for the bigger fish of the wider audience if you will, to make a very crude or weird metaphor, but you seen I’m saying. I mean it’s all perfectly fine, but you’re trying to appeal to as broad an audience as possible, and that I think what Vox Day is doing, it’s just not appealing to me.

2VS: He can do it. I mean, you know, the thing is, Vox Day can call himself … there are people in the chat that are, like, you know, Vox Day fans that are outraged right now. This guy HorseMumbler1 one says, “Ethan is lying, Coach Red Pill. Go listen to what Vox said about it at the time. The ComicsGaters acted like a bunch of half-wits.”

Well, HorseMumbler1, you know, I mean, I think we’ve litigated this to death, but I mean, I have the receipts, and, you know, Vox knows that I’ve got the receipts. And by the way, since then Vox has come to me asking for some favors. I want you to know that.

CRP: What kind of favors?

2VS: No … no comment … so, you know, Vox has his way of spinning a tale, of spinning a yarn. I wouldn’t necessarily think that what Vox had to say …

By the way, Vox is so smart about some things and so fucking dumb about other things, it’s unreal. Like, he recently got his fans all together to explain to them why his model for the comic book industry was so much better than mine. I mean, I’ve lived in comics for 25 years. But what he did was he took Cyberfrog, and he said, “Look, Ethan’s raised $628,000 for Cyberfrog, so why don’t we divide … you know, the main book is 48 pages long. Divide 48 into 628,000, that’s how much each page costs of Cyberfrog to make. Ethan needs this. He needs $15,000/page to draw Cyberfrog. Now, on the other hand my book over here, Alt★Hero, brought in $25,000. Divide 48 into 25,000, we’re bringing it in at $500 a page, so obviously our model is much more economic and makes more sense.” Because I was like …

CRP: You raised pre-sales, pre-sales of the book, right?

2VS: It’s called profit, Vox. It’s not … I make more per page than you. I don’t require that much. I can draw it for free. But, you know, it’s like saying, “How the hell is JK Rowling gonna write another Harry Potter book?” You know, her first book earned $117,000,000. Divide that by 500 pages. It’s too expensive to write another Harry Potter book. Most half-witted and weirdo argument that he was making to his credulous audience, and, uh, you know, they’re here.

I mean, you know I love you guys. But anyway the point is that, you know, their complaint is that did I gatekeep Vox Day? No, he just wasn’t … I wasn’t gonna let him have the name ComicsGate if I had any legal protection over it, which I did, and he knew that. But, you know, it’s everybody’s. It’s just not Vox’s exclusively, let’s put it that way. I saved it for everyone.

CRP: So right now it’s sort of like, you have the rights to it, but you’re basically standing aside so anybody can use it?

2VS: That’s correct, okay. Vox Day can say, “I am ComicsGate,” and I will say, “Okay, Vox, they can have a YouTube show called ComicsGate, and I’ll say, “Okay,” and everybody will, but if Vox Day wants to set up a publishing … like a monetized publishing arm that makes it look as though he represents ComicsGate, I’m not gonna let that happen, because ComicsGate is just a hashtag that everybody has to be able to use, and it doesn’t imply association, like, unwanted association with any one individual. It can’t be political like that. People can’t perceive it to be Alt-Right. It has to be moderate. It has to be everyone. Now, the Alt-Right can be involved if they want. The Alt-Left can be involved. It doesn’t really matter. It’s just ComicsGate … the idea is that there are no politics. It’s apolitical. It’s all about money. It’s all about serving the customer. It’s the opposite of the mainstream of the comic book industry right now.

With regards to my asking Ethan for a favor, it’s absolutely true that I did recently ask him for something through a third party, something that is in literally everyone’s interest, and I can confirm that he had the decency and the good sense to provide me with what I requested. As I have repeatedly said, he is not the enemy, and I would not hesitate to return the favor. I also should point out that contra some of the comments in last night’s Darkstream, it’s very clear that Ethan did NOT accuse me of ripping of Taleb, which everyone here knows perfectly well that I did not do. In fact, Ethan doesn’t even appear to be familiar with Taleb in the first place.

Did you hear that Vox Day fans I use one of Vox’s words anti fragile is Talab invented that all the time yeah yeah yeah well anti fragile is a concept that Nassim Taleb invented which is very very astute concept but yeah it’s basically a system that becomes stronger with more use and abuse yeah Vox, they ripped that off him oh that’s funny okay I didn’t know about that.

For reference, here is the very first reference to antifragility in my 2015 bestseller, SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police.

Strategic Principle #8: Be antifragile.

I cannot too highly recommend Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s 2012 book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, or too strongly stress the importance of applying the principles he explains in it to your life, especially if you are going to take a stand against the SJW Narrative. It should be your goal to become “a thing that gains from disorder” because disorder is the natural state of the world, particularly now that SJWs have become increasingly influential within it. Antifragility in this context means you have a maximal degree of flexibility, a high level of freedom of movement, sufficient psychological strength to withstand collective social pressure, and a lack of vulnerability to the usual SJW tactics of disqualification, discrediting, and disemployment.

On what planet could that possibly be considered “ripping off”, much less “plagiarism”, as one person characterized it?