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Outsourcing Censorship

Among the most frustrating aspects of being involved in dissident politics these days is the pushback that often comes from one's nominal allies. Perhaps the most common form of this internecine resistance is the refusal of many older Conservatives and Libertarians to acknowledge that their own side is being censored…
August 2, 20225 Comments
Rational Motives

Rational Motives

Reader Andrew Philips comments on a recent post: You’ve cautioned us against ascribing rational motives to the folks who are running things right now, so I won’t. Who knows if any of them believed all the things they said about angry white men, domestic terrorism, white supremacy, institutional racism, or…
July 22, 20226 Comments
nerd

Nerdocracy

Anyone who's been paying attention knows that the entertainment industry is now the Death Cult's propaganda organ. The more astute observers know that the subversion of Hollywood started decades ago. The movie, music, and game industries aren't alone in their anti-evangelism for the new civic religion. Almost every major corporation…
July 21, 202210 Comments
goes around

What Goes Around

An emerging feature of Clown World is that life is starting to feel like a looping cartoon drawn by schizophrenic animators on shrooms. The reason is that society is run by an insane end times cult whose precepts dictate controlling all media organs to give them unchallenged control of public…
July 15, 20229 Comments
HAL Internet

The Internet of Shit

If you wanted to pinpoint the most bugmannish idea ever - a concept so technofetishistic, decadent, and pointless as to be a self-contained definition of bugmanism, you'd have to go a long way to beat "the Internet of Things." The notion of hooking everything up to the internet lacks even…
July 14, 202214 Comments
MineCraftBan

GamerGate 2?

Big Tech is about to repeat a big mistake. Microsoft has actively sought to increase its control of privately owned Minecraft servers since it acquired the game in 2014. Last month, the tech giant began cryptographically tying messages to accounts, setting the stage for universal moderation. In the upcoming 1.19.1…
June 28, 202228 Comments
Top 10 500K

Pop Cult Ground Zero

An interesting Twitter thread by one Adam Mastroianni came across my DMs yesterday. See if any of his insights sound familiar. Gee, I wonder who that oligopoly could be. Once again, I wonder ... The book market? You had my curiosity. Now you have my attention. Adam expands on his…
June 7, 20226 Comments
Unforgiven

Unforgiven

The Democrats are making noises about student debt relief in the run up to the elections. That assault on fiscal and personal responsibility has roused principled Conservatives from their Barcaloungers to crusade against forgiveness. Joking aside, this blog has covered how making interest-bearing loans not backed by collateral to teenagers…
May 30, 20228 Comments
Libertarian Firing Squad

Zero Integrity

It's been a while since we roasted Libertarians on this site. In my defense, they've been pretty irrelevant since they abandoned their advocacy of essential liberties to fixate on smoking street drugs and hiring hookers. You can't blame them for pursuing new interests since the whole impetus for their movement…
May 27, 202212 Comments
Public School National Guard

Public Schooling Is Child Abuse

A large segment of the US population spend a sizable portion of their lives confined to state institutions fortified by fences, metal detectors, and federal guards. If you thought I was talking about federal prisons, you haven't been paying attention. It was bad enough the National School Boards Association asked…
May 26, 202210 Comments