This blog is going down

This blog, and the associated email addresses are going away until it becomes apparent which way the wind blows.

I am going to sell the domain name.

When it becomes apparent which way the wind blows, a similar blog, with all the original content and comments, will re-open on a less valuable domain name in a safer administration.

Bets on the outcome of current events should be settled in 2020 january 21 with ushwx@protonmail.ch
gpg fingerprint: 0D6ABF58AA31AF9594E70E4673E4BC62E92B87D7

The blog will go into maintenance mode in due course. If things go well, it should start redirecting to a domain with a cheaper domain name on which the blog is no longer in maintenance mode. If things go badly, I am pursuing a course of action based on blockchains and cryptography, while waiting for a Sulla, a Cromwell, or a Stalin. If a Cromwell or a Stalin, I will prepare the way for a General Monck or a Putin.

Whether this domain name will start redirecting to a new domain name depends on my judgment of events. A new blog with all the original content will probably open somewhere, but you may have to discover it.

166 comments This blog is going down

Allah says:

Very sad!

Tsymbal says:

At least give us a clue of the name of the new blog. There is a lot of useful information here that has improved my life significantly. It would be a pity to lose that

jim says:

probably reaction.la

and probably blog.reaction.la

Possibly still named Jim’s blog, but it is unlikely to come up until this domain name is sold, which will take quite a while.

How soon it comes up depends on which way the winds of politics blow. If things are looking quiet, Brezhnevian stagnation, at least for a few years, which is what the deep state intends and expects, will come up before this domain name is sold. I expect they are deluded, but they are likely to be right for a short time, albeit probably shorter than they expect.

No matter who rules, stormy weather ahead either way, even if all our hopes are realized.

Pooch says:

Thanks for all that you do Jim.

Is it currently unsafe for you to continue to operate on this blog’s current infrastructure?

jim says:

Very unsafe.

Will probably go silent for quite a while while creating an alternate infrastructure.

pyrrhus says:

Prudent move, I think…Good luck and God bless you…

Mycroft Jones says:

Your blog was interesting, but you have consistently been opposed to the morality and vision of the founding stock. Our city on a hill will proceed until the great Gotterdamerung of WWIII comes. Rushdoony, Institutes of Biblical Law would be a good read for you. Rushdoony’s IQ was 30 points higher than Vox Day’s. Rushdoony understood the vision. You can’t succeed with half measures; the system of morality hangs together like a garment made of whole cloth. Would you make your wife walk around town in a bikini? That is what it is like when you hack and slash the bits you like out of it.

clovis says:

>Rushdoony
According to you, we solve the problem of progressivism, i.e. heretical theocratic Calvinism, with another form of theocratic Calvinism. The problem with John Calvin and his successors was never I. Q., it was a fundamental misunderstanding of the Gospel.

Mycroft Jones says:

Rushdoony was not a Calvinist. Nor were the founding stock Calvinists. Calvin was much like Yarvin/Moldbug; a (((word spewer))) sent to derail our native impulse toward self-correction. Miles Mathis had a reasonable take-down of Calvin.

clovis says:

Rushdoony was ordained in the Presbyterian Church–USA, his wikipedia bio says in the first sentence “a Calvinist philosopher,” and the title of the very book you quoted stinks of Calvinism. “The Institutes of Biblical Law” is obviously a gesture at “The Institutes of the Christian Religion.” You are either an idiot or a liar.

Mycroft Jones says:

You are speaking of things you now not. Rushdoony explained why he named his work “The Institutes”. To replace and rebut the faulty work of Calvin. As for Wikipedia calling him a Calvinist, well, consider the source. Wikipedia.

The Cominator says:

If God had wanted biblical law before the second coming the Covenanters would not have been utterly crushed by Oliver Cromwell.

Mycroft Jones says:

You are mistaken about cause and effect.

Ronnie Waters says:

It’s amazing how many critics of Jean Calvini (John Calvin) have an extraordinary ignorance of his ideas. I have read all 900+ pages of the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Other than Calvin’s belief that a prosperous society should provide for the general welfare of the poor, I see nothing about Calvinism that would lead to progressives as they stand today. Calvin believed that an aristocracy is better than a democracy or a monarch. He said monarchs can be tyrants and a democracy could vote in unrighteous laws. He believed that the Church should be separate from the State, however Calvin said the State had a duty to protect the society from obvious heresy. You could argue that it was Calvin that started the idea of public schools. But, that’s like saying, “I hate water faucets because Leftists use water faucets”. Public schools were a good idea at the time. I’m sick of seeing this brilliant godly man maligned out of sheer ignorance.

clovis says:

And yet, Calvinist countries have a track record of revolution and regicide or attempted regicide, Calvinist countries led the way in legitimizing usury. It’s certainly facile to blame Calvin for every bad thing that emerged among later Calvinists, but it’s not hard to notice the similarity in form among suffragettes, abolitionists, and puritans. While Luther emphasized justification by faith alone and the work of Christ, Calvin’s emphasis on the glory of God at the center of theology led to a relentless political and moral activism that is still alive in American progressivism.

Mycroft Jones says:

Until you read Rushdoony and Miles Mathis comments about Calvin, you don’t know what you are talking about. Calvin, like Yarvin, was an agent sent in to derail a real movement toward correction and healing. And he did. And they did.

jim says:

nuts

Yarvin is OK, but being a namefag, has to say stuff he does not believe and hopes you will see through.

Calvin was fine. When his movement inevitably came to be holiness spiraled, he cracked down hard. Cannot blame him for the inevitable holiness spiraling.

clovis says:

Disagree. There are some admirable things about Calvin and later Calvinists and it’s certainly not fair to blame real Calvinists for what happened to Harvard. Nevertheless Calvin was responsible for a rationalizing tendency in later protestantism that was anti-tradition and tended to downplay the incarnation. In some respects he had more in common with high scholasticism than with Luther.

The Cominator says:

The problem with Calvinism as practiced by Calvin himself was he wanted priestly rule via “church discipline”. The priesthood should have zero executive or judicial power.

BC says:

So long and thanks for all the fish.

Joe says:

Good luck and may God be with you.

Contaminated NEET says:

You’ll be missed, Jim. I hope to see you re-emerge soon.

In the meantime, I’ll set up a burner e-mail account and contact you regarding our bet.

Behind Enemy Lines says:

Thanks for all the work, Jim. I’ve enjoyed reading your thoughts here, on Gab and so forth. And I hope to see you bob up again in happier times; barring that, in times of greater clarity.

When I helped boot the communists out of Central Europe in ’89, I knew the whole of the West had a commie problem at home that required urgent correction, but I never imagined we’d end up with a coup in the US while the whole of the establishment press and half the senior republicucks smiled and waved.

Enough. See you ’round!

Phil says:

Probably a smart move. Best of luck and thanks for the fish.
In the mean time I am going to keep running my mouth.

Anonymous 2 says:

Cautious but wise. Looking forward to the reopening. Take care.

The Cominator says:

Sad to see it go.

I think you overestimate your personal danger… the left will be busy targetting normie right wingers and each other. Our thoughtcrimes are so incomprehensible to the left… that they probably won’t notice us because they cannot admit we exist.

Pseudo-chrysostom says:

And perhaps underestimating the value-add of a platform for Trve Cvlt in these times.

Pseudo-chrysostom says:

Though if a more secure mirror can be brought sooner than later, that would solve both issues.

simplyconnected says:

The stakes are too high, better to err on the side of safety. The paranoid have greater chances in dangerous time etc.

simplyconnected says:

I wish we could all meet up some day on the other side of all this.

BC says:

Good Luck Cominator.

S.J., Esquire says:

“Our thoughtcrimes are so incomprehensible to the left”

I agree. One of the things I’ve learned lately is that their worldview literally does not permit them to “get” us, which affords a measure of protection.

However. All the best, Jim, and thank you for the lessons. My personal hope and prayer is for you to meet Jesus during this time.

bc says:

It’s all fun and games until non-believer like Beria is tasked with rooting you out.

Pseudo-chrysostom says:

Good heavens, now where is a body to go for their shitposting needs on a quiet afternoon?

Bilge_Pump says:

Shit. First Heartiste, then the DE subreddit, now your blog. The best places to shitpost all disappear. Ruqqus is decent but I see it becoming normified and Redditified very soon

Mackus says:

Sad day.

Wish you best luck.

Virtus says:

You’re a smart guy and I’ve appreciated your perspective. You’ll be missed.

Starman says:

Gotta batten down the hatches.

alf says:

Thanks for everything.

European Mutt says:

Well, then this is it, I guess. Thank you for all of your information and analyses. They have definitely helped me in my own life. And thank you for confirming I am indeed not crazy for seeing the same things you are seeing. For a long time you have been the only one in the dissident right I have trusted completely because our accounts of reality nearly perfectly overlap.

Predicting the future is hardly possible right now so what you are doing might be a wise course of action. I look forward to a reopening of the blog.

Take care.

simplyconnected says:

Good luck to all of you gentlemen. Thank you to Jim for sharing his wisdom, he didn’t have to do it, so it is greatly appreciated. I have received better advice from Jim and from commenters here than from my own father. Sad fact, but fortunate for me to find the advice nevertheless.

clovis says:

I feel the same way about Jim’s advice. I never really felt like I had much to add here either under this name or the other I used until recently, but I followed the blog regularly for probably four or five years. Learned a lot and am going to miss it. You truly have a unique perspective and uncanny insight. I also hope the Spirit of God will lead you to an orthodox church Jim.

Edit_XYZ says:

Thanks for this blog.
Good luck to all of us.

yewotm8 says:

Does anybody know of any currently existing archives of the blog and accompanying Liberty Files for future reference? Apologies if this kind of thing endangers you, please delete the comment in that case.

Dave says:

You can make your own archive right now:

https://www.petekeen.net/archiving-websites-with-wget

Never heard of WARC before; I just create files and directories on my hard drive that I can view by typing “file:///” into the address bar of any browser.

jim says:

I was not aware of this tool and this format.

However, in anticipation of such tools, every page of this blog now carries the Creative Commons share and share alike license, at the bottom of the right hand bar.

Mike in Boston says:

For what it’s worth, using wget with its default options to mirror the site will follow all the commenting links and create an unusably large backup with many extraneous copies of each HTML file suffixed with “?replytocom=XXXXX”.

To avoid this, the trick is to use a very up-to-date wget that supports the “–reject-regex” option. I suggest:

wget –domains=reaction.la –reject-regex (.*)\?(.*) -t 3 –waitretry=3 -p -np –no-check-cert -r https://blog.reaction.la/

I hope this is helpful to someone.

Even more, I hope that, as Solzhenitsyn once put it in a rare morose moment, we won’t all die separately without having accomplished anything together.

Coverage Wave says:

Jim, if you’ve got the time and inclination, there are plugins you can install to export your blog into various formats. I’m sure like all WordPress plugins they are fiddly and aggravating, but might be worth a look.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/print-my-blog/

There are many alternatives listed down the page. Some of them probably use cloud services for processing.

If you or anyone else makes a pdf or epub of this site, perhaps many files split by year or page count, I would suggest uploading to archive.org. The presence of other wrongthink and even copyrighted material there seems to indicate they either don’t care or don’t have the resources to content police for now (though the Wayback Machine is getting more pozzed).

polifugue says:

Thank you for everything. May God bless you in all your future endeavors.

Hesiod says:

“I can’t give up Hope, Lancelot. It’s all I have.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGm-zkRNj58

Thank you, Jim, for many years of wisdom. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with you.

BC says:

It’s been wonderful talking to everyone here over the years. I wish everyone the best.

Pooch says:

Likewise, BC. Blessed travels.

~loclun-midwyt says:

Thanks for everything, Jim. See you on the other side.

Humble Acolyte says:

Thanks for the mind weapons. See you on the other side.

Encelad says:

Thanks for spreading sanity in an era of madness. I hope better times will rise.

a friend says:

Consider Urbit, like ~loclun-midwyt upthread. Hope to see you on Mars, or elsewhere.

~loclun-midwyt says:

True. Though I haven’t used it myself in some while, since I changed machines. Will likely be on in the near future, and hopefully will see some of you there.

Looks like there was a gold rush for even somewhat meaninful and intertesting handles, like “mydwit”, I suppose ~canhas-redpil is long gone. Latecomers get something that sounds like line noise.

hcm says:

F

Hope to see you on the other side.

My blog will still be up until January 21, but I will also be shutting down for the same reasons as Jim. I might soon put up a short post under which readers of this blog can discuss the events of the day in case Jim goes dark before that.

simplyconnected says:

It is really appreciated.

Not Tom says:

Totally understand. I had intended to ditch this identity and all current identities as of the 21st, even if all the blogs stayed up. The time for talk is rapidly ending, now comes the time for survival. I hope everyone is getting prepared, just as Jim is.

I’ll watch for the Second Coming blog, and if it comes up early, perhaps post under a new identity, if the wind is blowing that way.

It’s been quite a ride, thanks for keeping it running as long as you did!

Eli says:

I will definitely miss this blog. Taken altogether, the best sociopolitical content and commentary on the web, seriously. It has been instrumental in my development. I hope I’ll find whatever it is that you create next. Thank you. Best of luck!

God bless, Jim.

Let’s all pray for each other, and all keep in touch.

Theshadowedknight says:

Jim, is there a way you can post an archive of this blog and comments? That way we can download and keep the knowledge of Jim. It would be a fucking shame if we lost this information.

jim says:

There is an archive of reaction.la available on reaction.la

I prepared an archive of the blog.reaction.la, but all the content is in a database, which contains, among other things, everyone’s IP, so I did not want to make it public.

But I will send you a copy of the archive of the blog.

But the archive is way too big to be emailed, a bit over a gigabyte. And I don’t even want to send you a link over email in the clear.

If you have a more private form of email, tell me about it on ushwx@protonmail.ch Gpg fingerprint: 0D6ABF58AA31AF9594E70E4673E4BC62E92B87D7, and I will send you a link to the whole thing, with instructions for installing it. The instructions kind of assume you are fine with exercising root authority on a Debian system, though you could probably get by fine with a cpanel login.

Before this blog goes away, I will likely prepare a more up to date archive, and a better tested set of install instructions.

Theshadowedknight says:

I will have to do some research on how to work with a database. I’m not familiar with it, but I’ll do some reading. Any suggestions for where I should start?

Pooch says:

Might make sense to wipe everyone’s IP data.

Pooch says:

And emails

jim says:

Major task to wipe out IPs without wiping out people’s comments. I would have to figure out the wordpress schema, which is probably not that hard, but will take a little while. I will do that before I make the blog database public.

A Honest Indian says:

If as I guess the IP is stored in a separate field in the comments table it should take a single SQL comment to wipe out the IP data.

Something along the lines of

UPDATE comments_table SET comment_ip=“”;

Obviously replace the exact table name and field name.

A Honest Indian says:
Mike in Boston says:

The WordPress database structure depends on the version of the WordPress software in use. It is documented here.

In recent versions the relevant table is named wp_comments and the fields are named comment_author_IP and comment_author_email.

A Honest Indian says:

There are also plugins to create static versions of WordPress sites like this https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/#installation%20instructions

Not sure if they will preserve comments though.

simplyconnected says:

For personal/archival use can’t one simply scrape (‘wget -r -l 100 -N -k https://blog.reaction.la‘)? It fixes links to be local so it may work as a “live” archive. It wouldn’t have anyone’s personal data.

Not Tom says:

I figured the idea was to put up an archive mirror, not just have it for personal use, like with Heartiste, but maybe that’s too risky right now.

The Cominator says:

I’m not too much of a programmer type Jim.

If I just email you with a yahoo email (I know you don’t like web based emails) could you send it or not… Is it something I can just unzip. I really really do want a full archive of this place…

A Honest Indian says:

Jim will probably provide a link to download the site with instructions once the database is sanitized of private identifiable information. It may be too large to be emailed.

suones says:

Problem is comments. I’ve found it impossible to scrape comments properly off damned WordPress. The posts themselves fit into a <5MB EPUB (sans images). I'll release it if/when Jim deletes the blog.

As for the blog's other content, you can download it by visiting https://reaction.la. I'd recommend it as well. I've derived much pleasure perusing the stuff there, especially Jim's transformation story from a Commie to a Reactionary.

The last chapter of Jim's saga have yet to be written, of course, and I pray they will be the best ones. May we meet in better times, friend.

The Cominator says:

First step, what type of email do I need to email you at that address in a way that you would be comfortable responding. I know you don’t like web based emails… would you respond to one.

I have no idea what fingerprint means…

Pooch says:

Get a ProtonMail account first of all. It’s encrypted. Don’t ever mail jim with anything but that.

suones says:

> ProtonMail

No. Just no. Do NOT use anything that requires payment with anything except Monero, and you should already have the Monero in a personal wallet by now. I was skeptical of Jim’s “buy a domain with BTC” idea, and events have proven my paranoia accurate.

inb4 ProtonMail “free” account: ProtonMail doesn’t support POP3, and requires a shitty “bridge” software to run on your computer to be able to extract your e-mails. Also, their origins feature CERN, and VC backing, and the CEO is Chinese (a HUGE red flag IMO).

Do not use anything but Tor to visit any of these sites, unless you also run behind a VPN that’s also Monero-backed.

Learn what GPG (aka PGP) e-mail is and how to use it. Over Tor ofc.

Not Tom says:

Jim is already using a protonmail.ch account as the receiver, so it’s a waste of time to email him with anything “more secure”.

But frankly I think your concerns are unfounded. And there’s as much if not more evidence that Tor is compromised than Protonmail. It’s really silly to think that anything you do with any current infrastructure is not going to ultimately be traceable by the government; your goal should be to make it impossible for individual and corporate actors to trace, even in the event of a hack or leak, and difficult enough for the government that your presumably legal activities don’t merit the time and expense of cracking it.

It’s the same reason you put locks on your doors. You’ll never stop the state from breaking in, and might not stop a fanatically determined criminal, but for most of us it’s enough to deter the 99% of stupid housebreakers out there, many of whom literally just prowl around looking for open garages or unlocked doors. If you fear a coordinated attack, you need beefy private security to fend it off, or the online equivalent which is likely the situation in which Jim finds himself. And if protonmail is good enough for him, it’s almost certainly good enough for you.

Just use it sparingly, and keep any risky communications firewalled from your regular life (i.e. use different accounts, VMs, VPNs, etc. for those).

suones says:

Jim is already using a protonmail.ch account as the receiver, so it’s a waste of time to email him with anything “more secure”.

Jim is probably paying for it with BTC.[1] Will Cominator do so? Or give them his credit card? I thought he should be warned.

And there’s as much if not more evidence that Tor is compromised than Protonmail.

You’re technically right. There is non-zero evidence that Tor is compromised by NSA, which feeds eg FBI; while there is absolutely zero evidence that ProtonMail is compromised.

But that is a false comparison. There are three components:

1) Connection security/anonymisation — Tor works at this level
2) Email security: GMail/Yahoo Mail/ProtonMail — zero or almost-zero security, but ProtonMail requires you to run a strange “bridge” application to use your own mail client.
3) Email content security: PGP encryption, which ProtonMail does by default

ProtonMail offers 2+3 by default, but requires an unnecessary software to be able to use your own mail application. 1 is at a different level. I’d say that encrypting your own PGP email using your own computer and sending that over a regular email-provider, connecting via Tor/private VPN, would be a known safe route if you haven’t made any credit card purchases in the chain. Unless the NSA want you, of course.

Jim has the added problem of having a very valuable domain name (3 letter .com in 2020 running a dissident blog? Whoa!) and could, and should, easily realise some serious money out of it while he still can. We don’t have that limitation.

About paranoia, yes I admit I try to err on the paranoid side, but I’d be extremely wary of VC backed companies selling “privacy.” But then I’m wary of BTC too. 🙂

[1]: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/paying-with-bitcoin/

Not Tom says:

This just sounds like bellyaching over Protonmail not working the way you like with your favorite email client. Most people just access it through the web.

The security concerns make no sense. You’re either saying:
(a) SSL is not private
(b) PGP is not private
or
(c) Protonmail is not only untrustworthy but has also implemented a compromised version of the above protocols, or is routinely sharing the encrypted traffic with one or more APTs capable of cracking it easily, and who in turn share the compromised/cracked data with low-level agitators or people connected to them.

(a) and (b) are false, as far as we know, and (c) can’t be conclusively proven or disproven but is extremely remote, and far less likely than simply having a friend or neighbor or coworker rat you out. i.e. it’s much cheaper for the list-makers to use human methods than try to implement such obscenely complex technical solutions, unless of course you’re the NSA, in which case you’ve probably already got backdoors into anything and everything.

jim says:

We don’t know how successful NSA is in backdooring everything – Intel is definitely in their pocket, and implemented a spy in everyone’s computer. Some of their backdooring efforts have been detected, and some big companies have refused to play ball, at least on some of the backdoors. The major Chinese backdoors are well known and not very secretive, but they are not making any serious effort to install them world wide. There is good reason to believe that Chinese cpus do not have intentional backdoors, but android is written so that Google gets all your data, including a spy that listens all the time, and shares the data with Google and Microsoft. Google and Microsoft are actively cooperating with multiple (mutually hostile) spy agencies.

China is only now starting to produce barely acceptable cpus. Probably the Chinese cpus do not have hardware backdoors known to the NSA, and, given the rather open and aboveboard Chinese approach to backdooring, maybe no intentional backdoors at all. The problem with highly secret backdoors is that the sovereign does not necessarily know who is spying and why, and is likely to find his spy agencies have far too much power.

Cloudswrest says:

Speaking of “back doors” my Android phone just pushed a security update today. After rebooting I see a notification about “Digital wellbeing” and I think to myself, “What the f*ck is that?” So’s I go to Duck Duck Go and look it up. Google is now offering this nice service where they analyze your app and web usage so *you* can set limits on them. Uh huh … I’m sure they’re doing this for *our* benefit.

notglowing says:

Second this, I’d love to get an archive of this site. I might attempt to do an HTML scrape of it today but I hope I’ll be able to get a full archive at some point.

Penrose says:

Thanks so much for what you’ve done. I will miss reading your thoughts.

Neurotoxin says:

I just felt a tremor in the Force, as if a million shills suddenly cried out in pain, realizing they’ll have to find work elsewhere.

I will miss Dr. Jim’s patented combination of game theory and evolutionary psychology.

Also, this blog made significant progress in getting “holiness spiral” into the conceptual lexicon of the broader right. Slow work, but it’s moving along.

~loclun-midwyt says:

Yeah, the holiness spiral stuff is great, and was my first exposure to Jim some years ago. That and the articles on hitting women with sticks and its effect on birth rate lol. Two big things Jim got completely correct that Moldbug could never quite get.

Gestahlt says:

There’s an article on the Lupercalia?

A Honest Indian says:

Although a relative newcomer to this blog and community this has come as a bolt in the blue. Your clear insights will be missed for the duration of your disappearance which I hope will be brief.

Without risk of self doxxing is it possible for you to say whether this move is a sudden decision or whether you’ve always had this plan in mind?

bc says:

I can’t speak for Jim, but there’s a feeling in the air…. of mass murder. I’ve shredded all my online accounts in the week that followed or talked about anything political.

Thank you for all your writing, Jim. In a world of endless variations on stale conservative themes, your blog was always a place to come and reliably read something new and thought-provoking that you couldn’t get anywhere else. I look forward to its return.

Stay safe.

Pooch says:

Thank you to Jim and every man here of good will. There has been no better discussion of the events and laws of this material world with no exceptions. Godspeed.

God speed, good hunting, and we’ll see you on the other side.

Mike in Boston says:

Jim, heartfelt thanks for having provided this oasis of clear thinking, clear writing, and camaraderie. I’ll hope to see you on the flip side.

~loclun-midwyt says:

While I still have a chance, I’d like to ask here about what other people and blogs are worth following? And are there any old/inactive NRx worth going back and reading?

Mike says:

Started lurking here sometime in 2017 I believe. Started commenting as a bit of a normie still, rapidly gained knowledge. Had began to feel something was wrong with our country in about 2015. What a rollercoaster of learning the last five years have been. May all the sages, prophets, blessed monarchs, and symbols of GNON continue to guide you in these coming years Jim. And hopefully (since I know you are getting up there in age) may you make peace and amends with a true Christian Church before your twilight years arrive.

Countermeasures says:

Jim, if you can get behind enough layers of Tor / VPN / proxies, please come join us over at freespeechextremist.com. Judge Dread is inspiring people there (including me) to work on technical measures to make pseudonymous content distribution easier and safer so that memetic warfare against the insanity and corruption can continue.

You have been a voice of sanity for us in so many ways over the years — it is unfortunate that you need to go dark but I understand.

Jack says:

Tried to register on that page. NADA. Skiman_61@yahoo.com

Rhovanost says:

This is a question I had been saving for a time when we would have the luxury of discussing more philosophical topics, but if this is your last post –

Could you redpill me on William Wilburforce?

Is your stance that the Clapham Sect was subversive, even if it fought other social evils, or is your position that the slave trade was an out and out good?

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade directly involved evil, and any good that might have come from it seems…indirect…at best. To advocate for the slave trade, in the name of preventing future harms seems like a “sacrificing the near on behalf of the far” type of argument.

Time is probably too short to have an actual debate. I simply want to understand your position. (You might be the only person in the Venn-diagram intersection of ‘is alive’ / ‘knows who William Wilburforce is’ / and ‘disapproves of abolitionism’).

——-

This place is/was the most interesting discussion corner of the internet. I think I will miss it.

With luck, America avoids a ‘1930s Spanish Civil War’, ‘1917 Russian Civil War’, or ‘Qing Dynasty Collapse’. (But at this point, it will take luck.)

Pseudo-chrysostom says:

Slavery is too good to waste on people not your own.

But that’s not a frame of mind that was possible for most abolitionists, they were just plain run of the mill cuckolds looking for low hanging fruit to make easy status posturing over.

Cloudswrest says:

“You might be the only person in the Venn-diagram intersection of ‘is alive’ / ‘knows who William Wilburforce is’ / and ‘disapproves of abolitionism’).”

Wikipedia says he married a woman named Barbara Spooner (sic) and had six kids in ten years. Well with a name like that … LOL

J says:

I will miss your writing, Jim. You’re one of the last of the great real-talk bloggers. Best wishes.

jim says:

I will be back.

With a different website and a different email, and no solid evidence that I am the same person. The rooster is going away.

But, depending on how things go, I may be relatively quiet for a while.

The rooster will show up again, once I have made certain changes in my life.

Reziac says:

Best of luck. Greatly appreciate your making archives available.

jim says:

Working on preparing a blog archive. Deleting IPs appears to be trivial. WordPress appears to take

UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_author_IP = '';

in its stride, somewhat to my surprise.

onyomi says:

So long as Foghorn Leghorn is still there.

Ron says:

Thanks Jim, you were a real inspiration

Hahaha, dit had allemaal kunnen worden voorkomen door geen Engels te gebruiken. Wij kaaskoppen trekken een lange neus naar jullie.

We always get our sin!!!

Cis Scum says:

I still retain a measure of hope that the winds will indeed blow our way. We’ll know soon enough; within 48 hours. The EO on election interference has tomorrow as its deadline. One wants to draw one’s enemy out before striking so if a strike is to come it’ll be tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

But if it is not to be then thank you Jim for taking the risk associated with managing this dissident platform and may God bless you in your future endeavors.

arqiduka says:

Të vaftë mbarë, mjeshtër

Shqip, nuk shumë…

arqiduka says:

I appreciate the attempt

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