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A reader writes of how using the SSH helped him to avoid trouble at the workplace:

I was recently able to use the SSH to manage an employee.

We had a new worker with us and from the first moment, I knew he’d be difficult. He turned up late, answered back, tried to tell experienced employees how to do the job, etc.  He wouldn’t cooperate with the guy he was assigned to work with, so I called him over and said, “There’s a hierarchy here, so if Marty tells you to do it a certain way, that’s how you need to do it.” He immediately got defensive, saying, “Where is this coming from? Why are you talking to me like this? You don’t need to talk to me that way.”

Thanks to your insights into the SSH, I realised that was he was doing was an attempt to make himself a victim, so I said, “Stop. This is not a conversation. The ONLY words you need to say are ‘I understand’. So… do you understand?”

Anyway, we didn’t have any further problems with him. My point is that before I read your SSH insights, I wouldn’t have recognised his behaviour for what it was and I certainly would not have known how to deal with it. So, thanks!

I’d still keep an eye on the guy. He may have enough sense to learn his place, or he may simply be waiting to take his shot at the hated workplace Alpha. Which is why, if the Gamma acts up again, the boss should not hesitate to get rid of him.

A reader belatedly decides that I was right to keep my family out of the public eye:

Just wanted to share with you what I’ve learned about keeping things private and especially keeping your children out of the social media world and all of that. One of the first times I saw you was on Jesse Lee Peterson, and when Jesse asked you about your kids I soured on you. He merely asked how many you had or how old they were, absolutely casual and normal questioning, but you went a bit quiet and hesitant and replied that you didn’t like to talk about your kids. I thought it was a bit rude and it sliced through the fun and camaraderie you two (and us in the audience) were enjoying.

I didn’t think anything ill of you for something that simple, but it seemed a strange quirk or issue, I wasn’t sure. But I read more of your blog, and have watched nearly every Darkstream since, and thought your rule about banning or ignoring the questions about yourself or your family were a bit overboard. Not because I didn’t know how much you’re hated by the SJW demons and how badly they would love to get any info on you they could to hurt you, that is obvious and I respect that justification for privacy. But the cloak around your family was extreme, again just insofar as even relaying an anecdote or being able to share memories about them as part of the dialogue, since a decent chunk of the community talks about the family and marriage cornerstones.

Well, here I am realizing how right you were, because my brother posted a picture on his FB of him holding a can of Goya from his truck’s cargo. He was smiling and posted it saying thank you to the President for appreciating the company and about how simple things like what Goya produces are taken for granted. A message of decency and gratitude, and the insanity that follows I still can’t believe. This vile woman went trawling through his FB, found pics of his kids with their school either captioned or mentioned, and contacted the fucking school to tell them their dad was dangerous, that he was a racist, blah blah. This nonsense took a few days to sort out as my brother had to return from his job, and he let the school have it for even entertaining this bullshit, and got them to apologize to him. It’s not a typical cancel culture ending, thank God, but the fact that he had to go through this shit in the first place!

Now I think about this, about my brother who is barely even political but just said thanks to the President for supporting a large company. That’s freaking it, nothing else on his FB, only pics of their family, dogs, etc.! So I thought back to you, about how you had reacted to Jesse, and how I misjudged you and didn’t FULLY appreciate what these monsters would like to do to you. I not only respect you shutting all inquiries about your family down, I admire it.

Fair enough. Now, I will readily admit that there is only so much you can do, what with public records and curious fans and naive friends and family members who don’t understand how there could possibly be any harm in posting innocent pictures where no one is doing anything even remotely objectionable. And eventually, your children are going to grow up and live their own lives.

But there is no reason to make it easy for the stalkers and trolls and would-be harassers to chronicle your life, and the harder you make it for them, the more likely it is that they will cross a criminal line that will give the police, or at least the social media police, a reason to crack down hard on them. And, more importantly, living a public life online should be the child’s choice, not the parent’s.

It’s too bad, because what parent isn’t proud of their children and eager to share their achievements and accomplishments. But the world has changed, we now live in a no-quarter culture that refuses to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, and it is vital to understand that even as we embrace the conflict.

The good news is they can hit what they shoot at. The bad news is that they are shooting at their fellow US soldiers:

A U.S. Army M1A2 Abrams main battle tank has been reportedly shooting another tank during a training exercise at Fort Bliss. On July 20, an incident with friendly fire occurred at the Fort Bliss training ground in Texas during firing at moving targets. Some sources reported that one of the “Abrams” tanks, from a distance of 2600m, has shot a tank from his own Cavalry Regiment. One soldier was injured in an accident when the M1002 multi-purpose training round hit his tank. His tank commander and crew responded quickly to render aid.

But the media isn’t covering the whole story, and reportedly, all the soldiers involved have had their phones confiscated:

The big detail they are leaving out is that the tank doing the shooting was helmed by a brand new Female 2LT, who was the Tank Commander in charge of directing fire. And she put 2 MPAT T rounds in to her Platoon Sergeant’s tank, from 2600m away. 

After copious bloviating, SamuraiJeff finally managed to get himself banned from here as well as SocialGalactic for an egregious violation of the rules here. Now, this would not normally be an event worth noting, as it was almost inevitable, but for the very informative reaction of SamuraiJeff to his banning:

You know vox, I haven’t seen ur books on The Pirate Bay. Hopefully some spiteful gamma king posts your books. That would certainly cost you more than 10$ per month (my subscription). You could have just let me have my opinion.

And I will pay that cost happily and without hesitation. Gammas are full of spite and pain, and the poison of their self-delusions never leaves them. This is why there are entire subreddits devoted to hating various celebrities, and even non-celebrities, and it is why I do not permit Gammas to participate in any of our projects.

As soon as the Gamma feels things aren’t going his way for one reason or another, he will turn on you every single time. It doesn’t matter how enthusiastic he is, or that he is your biggest fan, eventually he will decide that you, like everyone else in his life, has failed him. It saves a lot of time to simply let them know they are not welcome, and encourage them to go elsewhere once they draw attention to themselves.

Some readers report a blacklisting problem with Google search and this blog similar to the issue that Rod Dreher was reporting which involved a number of conservative sites, but I’m not seeing it:

I noticed today that Google has blacklisted your blog from search. It’s now impossible for voxday.blogspot.com to appear in Google search results. Not surprising from those dummies.

I tested this myself this morning, and searching for “Vox Day” reveals the following results:

• DuckDuckGo: #1 VP, #2 Wikipedia, #3 Amazon
• Bing: #1 VP, #2 YouTube, #3 Amazon
• Google: #1 Wikpedia, #2 VP, #3 RationalWiki

Now, Google also shows something called Search performance for this query at the top of its searches which may or may not be informative.

Last 7 days 
Clicks: 2.41K +228{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Impressions: 3.38K +193{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Avg. Position: 4.4, -0.1

Last 90 days
Clicks: 32.4K, -15{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Impressions: 47.5K, -11{4e01b0bc4ab012654d0c5016d8cbf558644ab2e53259aa2c40b66b3b20e8967d}
Avg. Position: 5.1, +0.9

And a search for voxday.blogspot.com brings up VP as the #1 option. So, if Google is putting a thumb on the scale concerning search results and this blog, it must only be doing it in the USA. Regardless, the number of daily clicks and impressions reported is a tiny fragment of the daily pageviews here, which now average over 100,000, so, as in the case of the Unz Report, which has seen its traffic grow considerably in the wake of its Facebook deplatforming, it really doesn’t make much of a difference how Google manipulates the search results.

In other news, I have not been deplatformed by Podbean. To the contrary, we elected to stop financially supporting Podbean, which means that MP3s from the Darkstream will no longer be available there or the various podcast services it supports. They are available at Unauthorized.

Sometimes people are just looking for someone to take a stand:

We belong to a small 400-500 member startup church that I thought was Biblically-based. Several weeks ago, our pastor preached a message on Social Justice.  After several days of consideration, I sent a two-page rebuttal to the sermon.  We fully expected to be asked to leave the church.  Today, the pastor asked me to take one of three eldership positions.

Don’t be afraid to leave. But also, don’t be afraid to lead.

I do not watch videos. I will NEVER watch videos. So for the love of all that is Good and Beautiful and True, stop suggesting that I watch “just this one amazing video.”

VD – I know you don’t like videos but this is awesome.

First, I don’t give a single fragment of a quantum of a damn what anyone else thinks is awesome. I am not asking for video reviews. I am not requesting recommendations. I am not inspired by whatever it is that inspires you. I do not care about whatever it is that happens to enlighten you.

Second, I do understand that most people do not share my antipathy for videos and podcasts. That’s fine. I have no quarrel with their opinions and I am not offended that their preferences happen to differ from my own. If anyone wants to recommend a video or a podcast or a wax cylinder recording to others here, that is perfectly fine with me so long as they leave me out of it. I am very grateful that so many people so greatly appreciate and so staunchly support the videos being produced and published every day on UATV. Video is, without question, the dominant form of media today.

But what part of I DO NOT WATCH VIDEOS OR LISTEN TO PODCASTS is so hard for some of you to understand?

I. DO. NOT. WATCH. VIDEOS.

And I will never, ever, watch ANY video that is recommended to me no matter how many of you insist that because you are a Very Special Boy or Girl, I should ignore my preferences refined over four decades of informational intake because your one special video is the specialist special must-see inspirational series of moving pictures ever.

If you don’t understand why I absolutely hate all video and auditory informational exchange, let me put it into terms you might understand. I read at around 1,200 words per minute with full comprehension. That’s not an estimate or an exaggeration, as it has been repeatedly and reliably tested over a period of 34 years. I scan-read more than twice as fast as that when I’m reading casually to see if I’m interested in the subject or not. In contrast, videos and podcasts transmit information at around 150 words per minute on average.

And if you factor in the probability that whatever the person is saying in the video is something I already know in considerably more detail than is being addressed, then perhaps you can grasp that I view videos and podcasts as being considerably more akin to sadistic psychological torture than entertainment or inspiration.

And leave immediately:

Long-time reader, first-time emailing.  Have never even commented before, but visit your site 3-4 / day.

Long-time member of an LCMS church where I’ve taught Sunday School and Confirmation classes for the past 6 years.  Primarily to ensure Churchianity would not be taught to our middle-schoolers.

Unfortunately, during the sermon this last Sunday, our relatively new pastor (37 y/o white) decided to spend ~85{574700e7d57f0a5242f51645fa25e9fe0fd372296e9a798489edc6652e3f512a} of the sermon time reading this notice from the Black Clergy Caucus regarding the death of George Floyd and the ensuing unrest. It is a short read, but awful.

I immediately decided to leave this church and my post as Christian Education volunteer.

If you’re not in a position to kick out the converged and the Churchian, leave. Don’t sit through sermons from the Pharisees and the Prometheans, or allow your children to be indoctrinated by the Synagogue of Satan.

No church that preaches against “racism” or about how Black Lives Matter can be considered a genuine Christian church.

A new reader discovers that Churchianity is not Christianity:

I’ve been a reader of yours for maybe a year now, or a little more,whereas my wife has been a long time reader, so I’m fairly new to this. I would like to briefly share a bit of info with you that you may find interesting, I’ll try to keep it short.

I was browsing my local news today just to see what stories they’re spinning with the protests of late and I found a picture of our previous pastors protesting in our town for George Floyd, and they’re not exactly hiding.

After getting out of a bad church I spent years in, me and my wife attended the church, Life Church, for around a year and a half and stopped attending over a year ago. The virtue signaling kicked up, the pastor started cherry picking scriptures for his shallow sermons, and we got tired of being pressured to give and tithe..which his wife railed on every single service. For the sake of brevity, that’s about the jist of it all.

Not just this event, but my wife and I have seen many of our “christian” friends and acquaintances reveal themselves as churchians as of late. They’d rather virtue signal and would sooner shelter a foreigner from Somalia then care after their own. Yes, we experienced this first hand. They do not serve the good, the true and the beautiful, but themselves.

Anyone who continues to support this church is either ignorant of the evil of this, or willfully conceding to this wickedness.

A converged church is a wicked church that invents and condemns “sins” that are not sins while condoning actual sin. Racism is not, and has never been, and can never be, a sin, unless God Himself can sin. To claim otherwise is pure inversion. And only the wicked deem the separation of sheep and goats, of wheat and chaff, of truth and lies, to be evil.

If your pastor or preacher or priest is preaching this Churchian wickedness, call him out. And if the congregation will not cast him out, then it is time to leave.

The Bible warns that many who profess themselves to be Christians will be deceived. Now, do you truly not see the grand deception at work here? And ask yourself this: does the world hate or does it celebrate these brave anti-racist Churchians?

A soon-to-be ex-Airman shares his observations concerning the convergence of the USAF:

I listened to the audiobook of Corporate Cancer a couple of months ago, and at that time I categorized my own workplace, the USAF as Level 4, highly converged. But recent events have caused me to reevaluate, and I am convinced that the USAF has achieved Level 5 and has become fully converged. Attached is a copy of a recent post on Facebook by the highest ranking enlisted member in the force, the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, Kaleth O. Wright. This post played a big role in my need to reevaluate. Here are the highlights:

“Who am I? I am a Black man who happens to be the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. I am George Floyd…I am Philando Castile, I am Michael Brown, I am Alton Sterling, I am Tamir Rice.”

“This, my friends, is my greatest fear, not that I will be killed by a white police officer (believe me my heart starts racing like most other Black men in America when I see those blue lights behind me)…but that I will wake up to a report that one of our Black Airmen has died at the hands of a white police officer.”

“So, I spent the last week, “plotting, planning, strategizing, organizing and mobilizing” just as Killer Mike, the popular Atlanta rapper and activist encouraged us to do.”

“I believe that we have not made much progress in this area of racial injustice and diversity among our ranks. This is why I’m working with General Goldfein, first and foremost to have a full and thorough independent review of our military justice system…We are also working to improve the diversity of our force, especially within the senior ranks.”

“You might think you know what it’s like to grow up, exist, survive and even thrive in this country as a Black person…but let me tell you, regardless of how many Black friends you have, or how Black your neighborhood was, or if your spouse or in-laws are Black…you don’t know. You don’t know the anxiety, the despair, the heartache, the fear, the rage and the disappointment that comes with living in this country, OUR country every single day.”

The evidence of the full convergence is everywhere. When deployed, there is a TV service that we are provided which is not nearly as cool as UATV. It is called the Armed Forces Network and it is so packed with anti-American propaganda that sometimes I can’t help but laugh. There are constant commercials proclaiming “Diversity is Our Strength.” As well as those touting American citizenship for those who serve. So we are openly training and running logistics for our own invaders. We get constant diversity centered e-mails, and my home base acknowledges cultural appreciation months throughout the year. Even Pacific Islander month!

That same base also has a giant recruiting billboard which can be seen from the highway. On it is the picture of a woman security forces member holding a gun. And in big letters it reads “I swear to defend…” It seriously has the … and just leaves it at that. I’ve never seen a better piece of grabbler propaganda in my life.

I am deployed to one of the grabbler wars right now, but I should be returning to the states before long. I am a young Airman without much rank and the USAF has proven through it’s convergence that it is not the place to go for those who wish to defend America. For that reason, I’m out.

This convergence is why I am predicting that the US military is going to shock the world by unexpectedly losing an important battle one of these days. The Chinese and Russians already know that the US empire is fading, even if those who rule it from the Potomac haven’t realized it yet.