Tag: Darkstream

From the transcript of the Darkstream:

Something that I said the other night I think is more important than I had initially thought it was, it was an answer to a question that Alex Jones had when he asked, “what should we do, what’s the one thing we should do on the Right? What I realized that we need to do is we need to fundamentally question our assumptions and ideals, because part of what has gotten us here, part of what has gotten us into these very difficult situations and challenging circumstances is our ideals and assumptions.

I’m talking about our ideals and assumptions on the Right. We cannot blame everything on the Left. You know if you look at the people who do nothing but bitch about the Left that’s that’s what the Ben Shapiros do, that’s what the Dennis Pragers do,  that’s what the William F. Buckley types did. You know, they’re constantly pointing their fingers at the Democrats, at the leftists, and they’re never looking at their own assumptions. Now, we’ve begun to do that. You know, those of us who are on the Nationalist Right have begun to do that, we’ve begun to question things like free trade, we’ve begun to question things like legal immigration. Think about how all the Republicans and the conservatives who have said for decade, “the problem isn’t the immigration the problem is the illegal immigration.”  As we are learning, the problem is actually the legal immigration, you know, legal immigration is just another word for slow invasion, especially in a democracy.

Okay, any time you catch yourself thinking in that the problem is not the pure ideal, the problem is the application of the ideal, that’s been used to try to rescue everything from communism to feminism to civil rights. I want to quote this guy here because it’s important. Patriot 95 says “crony capitalism is what’s wrong with capitalism, capitalism untouched and not corrupted it works well, it’s what grew America early on,” Well, no, that’s not true. Here’s the the problem with these false dichotomies, these false dichotomies lend themselves to that sort of misleading formula. Crony capitalism is a problem but the fact that crony capitalism is bad does not mean that capitalism is necessarily intrinsically and always good.

I was thinking about Murray Rothbard’s economic history he’s got a very large two-volume history of of economics, it’s from the Austrian perspective, it’s very interesting it’s very, very well-founded in economic history, but what I realized about it is that from the  Rothbardian perspective, modern economics is simply the acceptance of debt. Everything that he writes about – it’s kind of shocking when you think about it – he devotes an incredible amount of time in this very long book to address the question of usury and it’s really remarkable how much space he devotes to Christian theology because he’s focused on how getting rid of the prohibitions on usury was necessary for economic development and the modern economic system.

I started thinking more and more about the conceptual problems of capitalism because obviously the issue of debt is a massive problem, and I’ve demonstrated this, I’ve dealt with this before. You know, the biggest single problem with debt is that it completely warps the supply-demand curves, and this is without even getting into Steve Keen’s mathematical demonstration that there is no such thing as a collective supply-demand curve, that you cannot create a supply-demand curve by adding multiple supply-demand curves together so we’re still working within the concept of conventional economics, we’re still in the world of Adam Smith here. But once you add debt into the equation, then what you start seeing is people whose demand is lower than someone else’s suddenly have the ability to outbid those who have a higher level of demand and a greater ability to pay, and so this turns into a absolute warp of the demand process that completely eliminates the efficiencies of capitalism.

We’re not talking about crony capitalism here. We’re not talking about the fact that there are favored parties and disfavored parties and that sort thing. We’re simply talking about the fact that you have the ability to spend resources you don’t have to outbid people who have more resources than you today is intrinsically introducing a level of inefficiency and a level of market misinformation that did not exist before.

Let me back up for a second. One of the problems with communism was the fact that it destroyed the information that is provided to everyone by the market, it destroyed the pricing mechanism, but if you think about it, debt does exactly the same thing! It destroys the pricing information,  and if you look at the situation that we’re in now where you have the elimination of contract law and you have the elimination of accountability and contracts and the basic ability to reliably buy and sell – you know you can be working with Pay Pal one day and the very next day, even though you’ve met your obligations and you’ve paid what you’re supposed to pay and then suddenly it’s gone – well how can you build a business based on that kind of unreliable information foundation? You can’t….

What is our economy fundamentally built on? It’s not debt, if you think about it. What is our economy fundamentally built on? We know it’s not built on labor. What do we spend all kinds of money on trying to convince people to do? What our entire economy is built on is sales and contracts. It is entirely built upon talking somebody into agreeing to something, the whole concept of exchange. Rational capitalism is based on the idea that all exchanges are to the benefit of the person exchanging, but we know that’s not true, we know that’s false.

Unranked Chevron: Apparently he’s taken the hashtag back up.

Vox Day: And they wonder why we call him Two-Face….

crazy chameleon: Does he multiple personality disorder?  This is too absurd to believe.

Another comment by Unranked Chevron tends to indicate that despite my repeated explanations, some ComicsGaters still don’t entirely grasp what was going on with the entire affair or why it happened. So, I will again attempt to clarify the matter.

Unranked Chevron: It’s not too much of an assumption to say that someone who makes a logo called ‘comicsgate comics’ wants to take over comicsgate. Everybody in the industry was going to know that ‘comicsgate comics’ was owned by Vox Day, and that was likely going to limit their future prospects. Just calling it Dark Legion or something from the start and being very sly what it was actually used for would have avoided that whole fiasco.

Vox Day: I don’t think you understood the sequence of events. Our imprint for other creators was called Dark Legion from the start. Our imprint is Arkhaven. We had already published 5 comics under the Dark Legion imprint: Chicago Typewriter and the Rebel Dead Revenge series.We continue to publish comics under that imprint.

The whole point of creating a ComicsGate imprint, complete with logo, was to permit ComicsGate creators to use our publishing infrastructure without forcing them to publicly accept our brand. It was about THEM publishing comics with the ComicsGate brand, not us doing so. Now, if you want to use our infrastructure, you will either accept our brand or you won’t get access to it.

All anyone ever had to do to know my intentions was ask me. “Vox, do you want to take over ComicsGate?” To which my answer has always been: “No, I neither want it nor need it.”

Instead, many ComicsGaters chose to believe 2VS’s lies, sperged out, and torched their chance to have a public brand that many of them are now saying would be desirable.

By the end of the year, Arkhaven will have at least begun addressing every aspect of the modern comics business, from a crowdfunding engine to film and television production to merchandise to a comics-focused blog and forums to retail sales of our own comics and others. And, of course, game development. As I pointed out last night, we already have the ability to deliver comics readers in the USA all of the graphics novels from Marvel, DC, Image, and anyone else they want, and we will provide the same to readers in Europe, the UK, and Australia next year. Just tell us which ones you want to be able to buy at discounts that range from 15-25 percent.

ComicsGate can work with and support Arkhaven, they can ignore us, or they can follow the SJW-lite lead of 2VS and continue to publicly attack us. While I would prefer for ComicsGate and other independents to work with us, to utilize the infrastructure we are building, and to support our efforts, it really makes very little difference to me or to the long-term success of our plans. Because, as it presently stands, we are already well ahead of the rosiest scenario I had ever envisioned at the start. Arkhaven is already selling tens of thousands of comics – unit sales, not dollars – and that is not counting our record-setting crowdfunding campaigns. And we have published more comics, and more pages of comics, than all of ComicsGate and ex-ComicsGate combined.

Now, I will admit that ComicsGate never asked for my assistance in any way. That was my mistake. That was my error. And I have learned my lesson. In the future I will refrain from offering unrequested support for anyone in the comics industry, and even if requested I will not call upon the Arkhaven community or allow the Arkhaven infrastructure to be utilized to support anyone who is not already a part of the Arkhaven team. We have more than enough to do without getting entangled in the affairs of others. As for those who believe that working with me is “likely going to limit their future prospects,” perhaps they should consider the possibility that they have it entirely backwards.

UPDATE: On the subject of Arkhaven comics, Bounding Into Comics has a preview of some of the pretty art from Right Ho, Jeeves #6.

Chuck Dixon and Gary Kwapisz’s Right Ho, Jeeves comic book adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse’s novel will be wrapping up with Right Ho, Jeeves #6…. Following the release of the digital edition of Right Ho, Jeeves #6 there will be a 10×7 omnibus edition that will collect all six issues of the series.

From the transcript of the Darkstream:

We need to stop thinking that, oh, well, we just need to reason with them! Don’t they understand what this is leading to? Well, if we can only convince them what this is leading to, then maybe they’ll change! No, that’s not going to happen, that’s not going to work. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s a very quick read, but take a look at 4D Warfare by Jack Posobiec. Whether you like Jack or not, whether you think that he is spot-on or not, he does make a very good comparison of what is developing with Antifa in the United States and the Red Guards in China. It’s also very similar to what happened with the Reds, the Republicans in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

The Spanish Civil War was incredibly,  incredibly ugly and so this same framework is what is shaping up in the United States right now. And it’s happening, to a great extent, because conservatives have absolutely failed to accept the fact that these people are the enemy. You’ve got all these good conservatives who are still more concerned about shaking their finger about identity politics and people who would divide the nation when when we should be trying to unite it. It’s absolutely ludicrous, it’s absolutely a non-starter. The conservative movement has failed utterly because the conservative movement was co-opted by cuckservatives and neocons.

Their whole game was to drive the right away from Christianity and away from nationalism, but the only thing that will save the country, that will save the remnants of the country, is Christian nationalism. That’s what we’re seeing rising in Europe and that’s where you’re going to need to turn to find the spiritual, mental, and cultural confidence to stand against Antifa. And that’s something that you need to come around to because I understand a lot of you don’t want to believe that. I understand that you want to cling to your Enlightenment values,  you want to cling to your tolerance, you want to cling to your hedonism, if you’re a woman maybe you want to cling to your feminism.

You can’t do it. You can’t do it and stand against the evil because it weakens you. The way that you weaken yourself is you compromise yourself, and when you are compromised then you are unable to stand against the evil of others. You just don’t have the ability. It’s like trying to become a bodybuilder but saying, you know, I’m not going to work my chest muscles. I’ll make my legs real strong and I’ll make my biceps real strong, but I’m just not gonna do any bench because I don’t believe in that. I don’t believe in working my pectorals. You know, you’re not going to become an effective bodybuilder.

If you have a military operation and you just decide  that we have to do this operation, we want to take this objective, we’ve got all these forces, but you know, I just fundamentally don’t believe in artillery. I think that artillery is just wrong and I don’t believe it’s effective,  and so we’ll send in the infantry, and we’ll send in the armor, and and maybe we’ll fly some planes too, but no artillery, because artillery is is just wrong. Well, how effective is your military going to be? Maybe it’s going to be effective enough,  but it’s not going to be as effective as it could and should be.

Last night’s extended Darkstream on the 2018 midterms, complete with my failed call about the Republicans successfully holding the House. Everyone enjoyed the livestream at the time, although there is apparently an amount of subsequent irritation about my having been proved incorrect. All I can say is that I legitimately did think at that time that Republicans had done what they needed to do in the early key races, and that their success in the East would carry over to the Midwest and the West. Obviously that did not happen. 

Lucius Cincinnatus asks why won’t Republicans go after the white vote? Because there are way too many civic nationalists in the Republican Party. They pride themselves on considering themselves color-blind, it’s integral to how they see themselves, and so it’s very, very difficult for them to separate the macro from the micro. It’s very difficult for them to think about the long-term implications of their position. Essentially you’re trying to force people to think about the future of their children rather than how they feel about themselves.

It’s very, very difficult for a civic nationalist to accept the reality of identity politics, especially when they have been taught for generations that such things are bad, and so you have to be very patient with civic nationalists and understand that it’s usually not coming from a place of hypocrisy, it’s not
usually coming from a place of malice or anything, it’s coming from their good intentions and their
preference for thinking highly of themselves for assuming the best of others.

People have a problem differentiating between individuals and groups? Well, some people do. The Chinese do not have that problem. The Jews do not have that problem. Most people don’t have that problem. Europeans have that problem because they tend to be the most individualistic people on the planet, and that was a big benefit 200 or 300 years ago, but now that travel is so much easier it is no longer a benefit of any kind. That’s where you see the the problem that Europeans have in competing with other peoples. You see this on the Right as well. Look at all the people on the Right who simply refuse to cooperate.

Look who came on the Darkstream the day that IndieGoGo cancelled Alt-Hero. You know who suddenly showed up, and was suddenly, “hey, we all have to stick together.” It was 2VS, old Two-Face Van Sciver, but look at what happened the moment that he called IndieGoGo and talked to them, and they reassured him that they weren’t going to treat him the way that they treated us. Now,  I personally wouldn’t put any faith in people who behaved like that, but he’s dumb enough to do so. So people only join forces, you know individualistic people only join forces so long as they feel an  active and imminent sense of threat.

Until most people of European descent feel that way, they will not change their behavior.

A lot of people who support Trump, a lot of people who are going to vote Republican, are not going to tell people that. You know, people are beginning to become more comfortable and confident about supporting the God-Emperor because he’s been so successful – he has been perfect,  he hasn’t built the wall, yet he hasn’t drained the swamp yet – but the economy is doing extremely well, he is at least saying a lot of the right things in public. When when people are talking about how, “oh well he hasn’t done the necessary, hasn’t done this or that,” can you imagine George Bush or George W. Bush actually threatening to open fire on immigrants? I mean, he has pushed the Overton Window so far to the right in with just his rhetoric that a lot of us don’t even realize this.

If you look at how much he has pushed back against the Obama and liberal Republican alliance it’s really incredible. In that interview that I did with Bleeding Cool that was retroactively vanished, one of the things the interviewer noted in an aside that he thought was interesting was that I was no longer saying that Donald Trump is the greatest US president since Calvin Coolidge, that I was saying that he is the greatest president since Andrew Jackson. And he is already though there’s a lot that still needs to be done. There’s no question there is a lot that needs to be done, but this is a president who has declared himself to be a nationalist, this is a president who has openly declared and correctly declared that the media is the enemy of the people, this is a president who has stated his intention of ending birthright citizenship, these are all major major accomplishments in the Presidential sense. He is using what Teddy Roosevelt called the bully pulpit with a great degree of effectiveness.

You need to keep in mind he doesn’t have a cooperative House or Senate. Despite the fact that they are Republican that does not mean that they are on board with the Trump nationalist agenda and so you know, it’s really remarkable.

Someone says “a Native American that believes Andrew Jackson was a great president?” He was a great president. He wasn’t good for the Cherokees, but you know what, the Cherokees weren’t his people. I don’t think that that was the right thing to do. I certainly don’t think that it was a good thing to do, but when you put against that the fact that he eliminated the first Central Bank of the United States, there is no comparison. What he did for his people was phenomenal. You need to look at and judge leaders by the correct criteria, okay? What Winston Churchill did for the people of Germany was very, very bad, no question, but we don’t judge Winston Churchill by what he did for the people of Germany, we judge him by what he did for the people of the United Kingdom of which he was the prime minister at the time. Andrew Jackson should not be judged by what he did to the Cherokee or the other American Indian tribes, he should be judged by what he did for his people,  and I think that I think that Donald Trump is going to be lauded and revered for what he’s accomplished already, much less what we hope he will accomplish in the future.

Q: I’m not sure about this Vox guy. I was reading a Scott Adams blog about systems and watching a Prophet Peterson video about falsehoods, it’s all very complex.
A: Well, that’s true, because remember, falsehoods have consequences and that’s what makes them false. So deep! I’ve been having a good time figuring out which Peterson quotes to use for the chapter heading quotes, you know he has some real humdingers.

Q: Did the book just flow?
A: You know, most nonfiction books come pretty easily to me. This was particularly easy because I had the help of a friend of mine who did a lot of the initial heavy lifting and that worked pretty well.

Q: Any illustrations in the book?
A: Yes, of course. Ethan Van Sciver has graciously provided us with a number of illustrations for the book, so we think that that will be a really big deal.

You can preorder JORDANETICS: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity’s Greatest Thinker, the #1 Political Philosophy bestseller, at Amazon.

From the transcript of the Darkstream:

Megyn Kelly made a classic, classic mistake. She went and apologized and there’s a very good chance that she would not have been dumped if she had stood her ground. But what she realized is that a white woman who is identified as being a conservative – I mean megyn kelly is not a conservative we know that but the fact that she was identified as a conservative – meant that the two black men were higher on the SJW totem pole than she is. So she needed to not apologize because it was a classic SJW situation.

Instead of saying what was wrong with that, what are you trying to claim was wrong with that, that’s how she should have responded. Instead she pled guilty. What you need to realize is that apologizing under pressure is exactly the same thing as telling a police officer that you’re guilty, and just as telling a police officer that you’re guilty does not cause the police to go away and tell you, “oh well you’re guilty? Great everything’s fine, let’s go back to the way things were , carry on.” They don’t do that, it doesn’t work that way. With SJWs if you apologize, then they go, “okay, great, you just pled guilty, now it’s time to go to the punishment phase.”

For all that Kelly is supposed to be a savvy, veteran journalist, still at her age she hadn’t figured that out. She obviously never read SJWs Always Lie or she would have known that.