Scott Alexander’s blog used to be good, but now he has been terrorized out of politics. Therefore boring. The problem was he purged all frequent commentors to the right of him out of the comments, which means that he had only enemies in his comments. And, being the rightmost, was persecuted. He has stopped posting on politics, I assume as a result of this persecution. Every so often I see someone reeling in shock and horror that we cannot possibly …
Category: politics
Obama gets the finger
How sweet it is. Hat tip Urban Future In the photo op for the Apec economic leaders meeting, hosted by China, they positioned Obama away from the leaders and with the wives and mistresses of leaders, they placed a tall man behind him to make him look short, and the man behind him gave him the three finger horns. Also, while everyone else is wearing their polite photo op smiles, the man giving Obama the three fingers has a big …
Tim Cook “I am proud to be gay” spys on Mac users
In the recent release of the Mac operating system: If you set up an email that does not belong to Apple, the OS phones your email domain home to Apple to help them dox you. No matter who you use a search provider, the browser reports your search strings to Apple
Inner Party always wins
The tea party, upon being elected, deems it impossible to repeal obamacare, despite the fact that it is unpopular, about to become more unpopular with startling price rises, and that it was quite popular to run against obamacare. Meanwhile, in a move that has absolutely no connection to obamacare, we are seeing a movement to publicize sedative overdose as a peaceful happy death. It generally is not. The dying person makes horrifying sounds that sound very much as if he …
Gamergate and corruption
Gawker media’s primary audience is nerds. Their primary income comes from advertisers, who pay them to show ads to nerds. And this is what Gawker has to say about nerds. Ultimately GamerGate is reaffirming what we’ve known to be true for decades: nerds should be constantly shamed and degraded into submission Upon receiving a hostile reaction from their audience: @hamiltonnolan @Based_Tet@max_read Max just told me I’m getting a raise because I made gamers cry And, when the advertisers did not …
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 …
The reason that women need to be subordinated for successful reproduction
Examining difference in fertility, it is clear that fertility is primarily controlled by female status relative to their husbands. The more women are subordinated, the higher the fertility. Japan is a good test case. Not only did fertility dramatically drop when General McArthur emancipated women, but in feudal Japan, fertility among high status families was below replacement when women were high status, indicated by upward mobility and room at the top. Later in the feudal era, when women were low …
Neoreaction and Identitarianism
Neoreactionaries rightly look down on identitarians as low class, vulgar, stupid, and, worst of all, leftist. “You think construction workers should vote! Worse, some of you think women should vote. You are so ignorant of history that you hate capitalism, forgetting how Europe became rich. And a lot of you are so stupid you think the Joos brought down the two towers.” This tempts neoreactionaries to say to progressives “See, we are not like those horrible identitarians. We are like …
The red and blue empires
A government is supposed to be one thing, that can be thought of as making decisions like a single person. To the extent that a government is one thing, it is a stationary bandit. But, lacking virtue and asabiyah, is apt to be many things, thus more like horde of mobile bandits. Moldbug argues that what were supposedly external wars by the US government against external enemies were frequently proxy wars between the red empire, the Pentagon’s empire of the …
Fake Hong Kong blockade
Here are the protestors “blockading” the road outside the Hong Kong Government Complex You will notice that three strong brave men with stun guns and rubber hoses could clear this blockade in fifteen minutes. If the blockade continues to exist, it is because the police wish it to continue to exist.