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False rape fantasies

Roissy proposes four possible motives for the UVA false rape accusation, of which sexual fantasizing is only one, the other three being political fantasizing. Well, I suppose he is more expert at girls than I am, but it seems glaringly obvious to me that the UVA accusation was rape fantasy: The story departs from realistic rape in numerous ways, and every departure is in the direction of female rape fantasies.  That the students are high status fits political fantasies.  The …

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Religio

I would like to revive the Roman word “Religio”, as a word for the shared rituals and solemn pronunciations on virtue that bind a nation together, and symbolize people’s trust in each other to do the expected thing, and a word for the suitably solemn and respectful observance of these rituals and pieties. What we need is not religion, of which we have oversupply, some of them good but walking dead, some of them alive but disturbingly evil. What we …

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The decline of Google

Originally, Google was famous for hiring the very smartest engineers, and this was reflected in the superiority of its products. Originally, it looked as if Google’s massive supercomputer was doing extraordinary things, that one would not expect of a mere computer. And the very smartest engineers were all male and mostly white, and those of them that were not white were east Asian. As Google became more and more intimate with the government, and in particular the NSA, it found …

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Emmet Till was not lynched, but he should have been.

You tube video of white woman walking for ten hours through the vibrant part of town. Numerous catcalls and numerous menacing pickup attempts, 108 catcalls and crude and menacing pick up attemps, one every six minutes, all of them from vibrants. You tube video of white woman walking for ten hours through the white part of town. A few stares, mostly from vibrants, no catcalls, and two courteous pick up attempts, one every five hours.

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Why women ruin everything

Dalrock complaints that women ruin everything.  They want to enter male spaces and make the space feminine, as a power play, not out of any interest in the things of value in that male space, which they inevitably destroy. This is a key issue in gamergate, where feminists demand that the games should be no fun and no one should play them. Women want to rule, even though it makes them unhappy – it is a fitness test.  They are …

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Massive 4chan purge and censorship.

Most Chan mods have been permabanned and replaced by social justice warriors Of the 4chan old guard, only four remain. It used to be said that all organizations become left wing, except those that are explicitly right wing. We may have to amend that to “all organizations become left wing, except those that are explicitly reactionary”. Progressives long  maintained the illusion of an open society by maintaining a neutered opposition.  But now, even that neutered opposition is being shut down. …

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He-who-must-not-be named speaks

Gamergate is gamers spontaneously discovering the Cathedral. The Cathedral speaks with one voice. In the last 48 hours, 15 articles about the “death of gaming” have been published And the Cathedral sounds like Lord Voldemort. To paraphrase the conversation: feminist: you are sexist and bigoted target: I am innocent feminist: I can and will crush you target: I have said nothing offensive feminist 2: failure to be PC is offensive feminist: your career is being ruined as we speak feminist: …

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Gamergate

Gamers are a demographic interested in certain topics who buy stuff.  Thus, magazines and websites staffed by professional journalists are created to carry articles that interest those people and ads selling stuff that they are likely to buy. Gamer journalists are, being journalists, extremely politically correct, and make it their mission to morally improve their audience and make them as holy as their extremely holy selves. Gamers are anonymous, therefore free to be politically incorrect.  Further, they are customers, hence …

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Memes and reproduction.

Progressives do not reproduce at anywhere near replacement rate.  But they set things up so that conservatives have to send their children to educational institutions controlled by progressives. If memes reproduce from parent to child, then in the long run, surviving memes will be favorable to the people that hold them. If, however, memes reproduce through state pressure and state sponsored evangelism, they are going to be selected for state pressure and state sponsored evangelism, which is likely to result …

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Nice guys finish last

We all know, just from looking around, that nice guys finish last, that women reliably make extremely bad sexual choices, that female sexual autonomy is a really bad idea.  Now that the left have given up on socialism, except to the extent that they accidentally and unintentionally stumble into socialism through disastrously stupid laws like Sarbanes–Oxley, female sexual autonomy is the worst idea of the left. Scott has done the hard work of collecting some statistics on this question.  But …