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• Chris Brown Gets Arrested After Accusation By Unvetted Woman He Allowed In His Home

  Posted:Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:40 +0000

  

  As you may already know, Chris Brown was sensationally arrested this week after a woman alleged he pointed a gun at her head in Los Angeles. Self-declared beauty queen Baylee Curran claimed to have still been “in shock,” but immediately found time to speak to Entertainment Tonight, TMZ Live and Us Magazine.

  Yet even as the media rules that Brown is guilty because of his past legal problems involving Rihanna, far less attention has been paid to Curran’s long history of general deceit. For a start, she was stripped of the beauty pageant crown she says she retains, Miss Regional California 2016. Another beauty title purportedly on her resumé, Miss California USA Ambassador 2016, is one organizers assert she never even entered to win. She is also wanted for questioning in New York for a very serious allegation of larceny concerning a stolen $1,000 purse with additional cash, credit cards and other items inside.

  As for the night in question, Baylee Curran has claimed that Chris Brown’s associates began to verbally abuse her after she looked at expensive watches and jewelry items being laid out at his mansion. It was then that she says Brown pulled the gun on her. A veritably massive police response followed Curran calling 911, including a helicopter presence and a SWAT team. Brown ended up posting a mammoth $250,000 bond to obtain bail.

  While Chris Brown has again exposed himself to the status of pariah, especially based on his standoffish and volatile video response before being arrested, if his background is being used against him, it is only fitting that Curran’s is explored, too.

  Oh wow, another aspiring actress/singer/music video girl/celebrity

  

  Duck meets horse.

  Witness reports, albeit currently hard to confirm, tend to support Chris Brown’s story. Brown himself insists he was asleep at the time he is meant to have aimed the gun at Curran’s head. For her part, she has said that she was there to secure a role in one of the singer’s upcoming music videos. Because her beauty pageant experience has only given her a limited public profile, despite her dethroning as Miss Regional California coming after a nude photo scandal, the woman has a lot to gain from allegations against Brown, proven or unproven.

  The speed in which Curran sought media attention is troubling, to say the least. She could be definitively outed as a shameless fabulist before too long and nevertheless escape with whatever money she has accumulated so far from media outlets. Plus there’s the fame she has achieved from her “ordeal.” As I will outline, Brown undoubtedly worsened his situation. Regardless, a very savvy Baylee Curran has seized her opportunity to seek fame, rather than “justice,” which would have been better served by her allowing a criminal investigation to take place by either remaining silent or not talking to purely tabloid outlets like Entertainment Tonight, TMZ Live and Us Magazine.

  Some Serious Mistakes Chris Brown Made Or Might Have Made

  

  1. He barricaded himself in his house.

  This mistake is certain, as the rambling video Brown made of himself makes clear. Irrespective of the overkill most people would associate with the SWAT and helicopter arrivals, the singer had no chance in hell of avoiding the police once they arrived. He may have every right to be angry, but that anger led to an incredibly stupid decision to hole himself up inside his mansion for so long.

  2. His language only insulted and would have infuriated police, in addition to alienating much of the public.

  Another confirmed error. There’s a difference between vociferously fighting an unfair charge/false allegations and completely flying off the handle at authorities. Brown chose to do the latter, at least verbally when he barricaded himself in at home. “Fuck everybody,” “fuck the police,” “Black Lives Matter,” and “the worst gang in the world…[is]  the police” were just some of the very, very non-erudite (and totally unhelpful) phrases coming out of Brown’s mouth. Moreover, countless people already, even if unfairly regard Brown as guilty because of his previous criminal history involving Rihanna. A rant like this only solidifies people’s perceptions.

  3. He and/or his entourage likely did no simple background checks on the girl in question.

  This one is harder to assess. Curran’s problematic personal story is an immediate giveaway and she says she had met him before. If true, Brown would have benefited from knowing about her lying, namely about having titles she was either stripped of or had never competed for. That said, he could not have reasonably found out about her alleged crime in New York. At the end of the day, party girls and groupies can be fickle at the best of times, let alone when they’re very public liars and you’re a man who has faced previous male-on-female violence allegations that can be easily exploited by a calculating, self-serving individual. A man with Brown’s history needs to be relatively cautious about his company and the risks of being taken for a ride in the media or legal system.

  4. Brown or members of his entourage probably went over the top with their anger

  This is without even countenancing the gun to the head allegation. I can readily believe the girl acted like a brat, touching or getting too close to things she should have avoided, but oftentimes situations are best defused with an absolute minimum of fuss. It’s perfectly possible that Brown or someone else inflamed the situation with words or emotions, and they figuratively kicked a viper who ended up calling 911 to attention-whore to the world. People may deserve rebukes from you. These rebukes are, however, frequently not in your best interests to deliver. They can suddenly and very momentously create trouble.

  Be very careful about who you associate with

  

  All that glitters is not necessarily gold.

  Other news circulating around centers on Baylee Curran being in cahoots with the mother of Chris Brown’s child and a text message Curran might have sent, saying Brown was “going down.” The baby mama angle is particularly relevant, as his ex was schooled recently in court for her antics in a custody dispute. These even more sensationalized elements of the scandal are best to left to the side for the time being. Right now, Brown has enough to process and learn from, as do we as observers.

  The moral of the story is that rich, phenomenally famous men are not immune to female accusations. In fact, they are sometimes far, far more likely to attract them. A man is vulnerable to a female trying to tear him down, no matter what his station in life.

  Read More: Why Does Jay Z Still Get A Celebrity Pass Compared To Chris Brown?

• The Truth About Six Pack Abs

  Posted:Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:00:48 +0000

  

  The following article was sponsored by Henry Tran.

  *Editor’s Note: Henry teamed up with Return Of Kings to give you a huge discount at the six pack shop. Use your custom code: kings20 HERE for 20% off your entire order.

  Hey guys,

  My name is Henry, and I’m one of the head trainers at the #1 Fitness Channel on YouTube.

  No matter where you come from, there seems to be a universally set standard for attraction and respect: A ripped physique, complete with six pack abs.

  Now, I’m not saying that every guy with a six pack is respectable, nor is every respectable guy fit enough to have a six pack… But let’s be honest…

  Typically, our first impression of a man with a six pack is that he is an Alpha male; a hard worker, and women are naturally more likely to flock to him with girlish excitement and deep sexual desire.

  Moreover, having a trim, ripped waist makes the rest of your body look bigger – especially the shoulders – which is yet another masculine trait that separates us from women and beta males.

  Now, I realize we’ve gotten to a day and age where having this physique SEEMS extremely tough – a lot men work obscene hours, are conditioned to unhealthy diets, and don’t get enough physical activity…

  These men often look disdainfully upon a guy with abs because they assume that guy is a meat head, and all he does is work out, or he probably takes steroids. But truthfully, most guys have just been mislead to believe all the wrong things about getting abs… And that’s what I’m here to tell you.

  

  You don’t actually need to exercise 24/7, starve yourself, or do 100 crunches a day to get six pack abs. In fact… I’m here to tell you that you need to do the exact opposite.

  Check out these crucial mistakes you need to avoid so that you can actually get six pack abs faster…. no matter what your current lifestyle is like.

  Avoid These Common Mistakes If You Want Six Pack Abs…

  ●    Thinking crunches alone will get you abs: This train of thought is pervasive in beginners – and even many athletes who haven’t had formal training. I myself thought it would work in high school and even college. Guess what? It didn’t. You have to lower your body fat levels enough to see your abdominals – and then you can do crunches and other ab exercises to help define and increase the size of the muscles… which brings me to my next point….

  ●    Relying on cardio to lose belly fat: This idea has invaded people’s minds. We see a lot of very fit professional runners, swimmers, and cyclists… But really, cardio is great for one thing: Your cardiovascular system. Your heart, lungs, and arteries will all benefit from cardio…. But your body fat and muscle mass likely won’t. In fact, there are ample studies to suggest that long, steady cardio is almost completely ineffective in reducing body fat.

  ●    Thinking you need an infomercial gadget or special device to get abs: You’ve seen it. Maybe you’ve even bought into it. I wouldn’t judge you if you did… However, the weird ab gadgets that are sold on late night infomercials usually aren’t much more effective for getting you six pack abs than just crunches… And glorified plastic wraps or new-age corsets are also not going to trim your waistline and remove body fat.

  

  “Well then… what WILL help me get abs, if not cardio, crunches, or a “get ripped” gadget that I bought from an Instagram Fitspo?”

  It’s honestly pretty simple…

  Try these 3 tips now to see defined six pack abs:

  1.    Start losing your belly fat with a basic, healthier way of eating.

  ○    Avoid restrictive, low calorie diets that make you feel hungry all the time, and eat 4-5 meals per day.
  ○    Eat carbohydrates ONLY from whole grain sources (quinoa, oatmeal, brown rice, etc), and only eat them in the morning and around your workout.
  ○    Instead of avoiding low-fat products, eat MORE healthy, high fat products like nuts, avocados, and yogurt….and add more protein into your diet.
  ○    The switch to more fats and fewer carbohydrates will turn your body into a fat burning machine!

  2.    Accelerate your fat loss with simple, high intensity, full body workouts.

  ○     Forget bicep curls and hours on the treadmill. Do movements that involve more and bigger muscle groups like squats or deadlifts.
  ○    Take shorter rest periods and combine them with  a high intensity movement like burpees or high-knees in between sets.
  ○    No more steady state cardio – These workouts should take you 20 minutes MAX. Push harder for less time, which yields far superior results.

  3.    Add in a basic ab workout to make your abs more defined once you have a flat stomach

  ○    Hanging leg raises – Hang from a bar, and simply bring your knees as close to your chest as possible. Once you’re good at this, take your toes all the way to the bar with legs out straight.
  ○    Plank exercises – Play around with different plank variations like plank side dips, alternating knee-to-elbow, or side planks to hit all areas of your abdominals.
  ○    Add weight to continue getting better results: Try doing leg raises with a dumbbell between your feet, planks with a weight plate on your back, or kneeling cable crunches.

  I know what you’re thinking… “Wow Henry, you must really be a genius to come up with these steps – as if nobody has ever said this before!”??

  Well,  yeah, it’s surprisingly basic. We, as a society, have over-complicated this whole “how to get six pack abs” thing. You’ve had crazy lies spun all around your head to convince you that you need very specific (maybe even weird) things to lose body fat and see your abs. I’m talking about bizarre ingredients in powdered shakes, vibrating bands that you wrap around your waist, and some wrap that sends electrical impulses through your abdomen to supposedly make your muscles contract and get you abs…?

  No. Screw all of that…

  If you want research-proven, high quality products that can help you reach your fitness goals, then you need to check out what actually works.
  You’ll see exercise programs just like I mentioned – Full body, high-intensity resistance training, which will allow you to build muscle and drop body fat simultaneously.

  …Nutrition programs that aren’t restrictive, that teach you how to eat healthy portions, prepare an entire week’s worth of meals in less than an hour, and give you all other necessary guidelines to eat for a six pack.

  …Supplements formulated only the with top-tier, research-backed ingredients and full transparency of those ingredients, with the research right there on the page so you can double check this proven data for yourself.

  And on top of that, you’ll be joining the biggest fitness team in the world. (There’s a reason why millions of guys flock to us for these proven methods every single day.)

  When it comes to fitness, if you have the basic tools to drop your belly fat fast and develop that lean six pack, then you don’t really need much else. That’s why I teamed up with my friends here at Return Of Kings to get you and all the readers an exclusive discount.

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  Train smarter, not harder.

  Henry Tran

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• Kratom To Be Banned In The United States

  Posted:Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:00:48 +0000

  

  The Prohibition wing of the U.S. government, the Drug Enforcement Administration, is about to ban the pain-relieving dietary supplement kratom. Think of it as the government mafia eliminating competition for its client, the medical-pharmaceutical complex. After all, as wrong as Bill Maher is most of the time, even a stopped watch is right twice a day. He knocked it out of the park when he said this:

  Fifteen years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000 a month because this [Big Pharma] cartel owns the U.S. government every bit as much as Mexican drug lords own theirs.

  Make no mistake, drug company lobbyists use your elected politicians as their employees. Big Pharma wants the sheeple buying its drugs. Kratom is a cheap and effective herbal supplement native to Asia that users say does everything from alleviating pain to helping with opioid addiction to providing an energy boost. The Libertarian Republic grasped that concept when it wrote about the coming ban on kratom.

  The real losers when the FDA went after kratom were the ultimate consumers: people who are in pain and looking for an inexpensive, natural and effective remedy.

  

  Big Pharma wants the money you’ve been spending on kratom

  The DEA will classify this supplement as a Schedule I drug, the same schedule on which such drugs as heroin, LSD, ecstasy, and yes, that deadly marijuana are listed. As usual, the “it’s for your own good” and “public safety” and “Big Daddy Government knows best” PR lines were pushed. Oliver Grundman, a pharmacologist at the University of Florida couldn’t decide if he wanted the government to continue to micromanage people’s lives or if he was remiss about yet another drug being added to the taboo list.

  There needs to be some oversight as to what kind of products are being sold in the interest of consumer safety, not necessarily saying that everything related to the plant should be put in Schedule 1. We have seen the damage that that can do to a drug with promising pharmacological properties… For me it’s a death sentence. Once you put a plant and its ingredients into DEA Schedule 1, it’s very hard to do research on it, and it will become very hard to move forward with any positive developments because there is such a stigma associated.

  Physicians claimed they’re worried that users of the drug will use it as an opioid replacement without seeking professional help. Let’s translate that: They want to sell you their drugs and bill you for their services rather than letting a much cheaper alternative do the same thing.

  Failed Drug War

  

  Armed thugs have done little to cut illicit drug use since the 1970s

  Importantly, as revealed in the documentary American Addict, the drug war in America is only pushing drug users away from street drugs and towards getting prescription narcotics from pill pushing prostitutes with medical degrees. It’s simple economics. Think of drug-seeking behavior as a balloon that has not changed in size. When the balloon is squeezed on one side, the demand shifts to the other side.

  America has only 5% of the world’s population, yet consumes 80% of its prescription narcotics. The overall percentage of the population using drugs regularly never changes, no matter how Draconian police and punishments become. Drug users only shift suppliers. When the DEA cracks down on substances like kratom, it shifts the money away from small, herbal supplement producers and into the hands of Big Pharma.

  The issue—the psychology of addicts and a culture that causes drug-seeking behavior—is never addressed. On purpose. You have to create problems to create profit, you know.

  The U.S. government spends $51 billion a year on the drug war in a system that favors punishment and jail time over treatment and support. Nearly 1 in 100 people are behind bars in the U.S. and most of those that are incarcerated are there on drug charges. This means the U.S. has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the entire world. And now, people will be going to prison for yet another drug, kratom.

  

  Deaths from illicit drugs plummeted after Portugal decriminalized all drugs

  Gabriel Sayegh of the Drug Policy Alliance lays out the insanity of the Nixon-era prohibition the DEA represents.

  We’re turning to the criminal justice system to solve problems that are ultimately about health and well-being. We’re using entirely the wrong tools to address a very substantial and very real problem.

  Even Big Daddy Government admits rates of illicit drug use have remained the same or even gone up slightly.

  Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing. In 2013, an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged 12 or older—9.4 percent of the population—had used an illicit drug in the past month. This number is up from 8.3 percent in 2002.

  What if the DEA stopped terrorizing people and allowed them to do what they want with their bodies? (Ironic the my body, my choice gnome works when a women wants to kill an unborn child but not when someone wants to take kratom to alleviate pain). Portugal did just that, it decriminalized all drugs back in 2001. The results? Drug use is down, drug deaths are way down, and people are getting the help they need from medical professionals rather than being thrown into jail and slapped with a life-altering criminal record.

  Other than threatening the future of ROK because of our connection to powerful kratom interests (just kidding, sort of) the kratom ban is yet more evidence that we are nothing but human cattle on the corporate-government tax farm. Can’t have the cattle doing anything else but producing profit for the establishment. Surely we can’t let them medicate themselves with an herbal supplement.

  Read More: 3 Supplements That Will Make Your Smarter

• If SJWs Were Comic Book Characters

  Posted:Thu, 01 Sep 2016 12:00:00 +0000

  

  You are no doubt aware that Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) are turning the comic books of your youth into Marxist propaganda. Thor is now a girl. Marvel has a character that was created specifically to demonize Trump (and, by association, his supporters) called Modaak. The only thing that prevents the SJWs from turning every comic book hero into a transsexual is economics—no one buys degenerate cultural Marxist comics.

  But what if money was no object? What if Marvel could create the SJW comic book characters it really wants to create with no thought of losing money? This article takes a look at the kind of comic book characters SJWs would create if they had no limits.

  Ideally, I would have provided drawings of each of these new super heroes and villains. Unfortunately, the Muses have not blessed your humble correspondent with the ability to draw or paint so I’ve provided pictures of real-life people who could play these characters in a movie. By the way, EYE BLEACH ALERT. Proceed at your own risk.

  Heroines and Heroes

  Emperor Sauron

  

  Emperor Sauron is a male so he is not your typical SJW hero. But Sauron is special because he has funded virtually every cultural Marxist cause known to man. Whether it is open borders, felons voting, abortion, defending planned parenthood, or encouraging the Islamification of the West, Emperor Sauron is behind it.

  Super powers

  • Ungodly levels of wealth.
  • Concentrated evil.
  • Highly intelligent.
  • Complete absence of good.

  Weaknesses

  • Mortal, we hope.

  First Woman President Woman (FWPW)

  

  First Woman President Woman can be distinguished by her lack of ability to coordinate colors

  First Woman President Woman is historic because she is the first woman who wanted to be President. She has spent a lifetime keeping lists of her enemies. The goal of FWPW is to become President so that she can sell political favors to corrupt individuals and amass more wealth than God. To do this, she is willing to completely drop US borders and turn the US into a third world shithole. She will also take your guns away.

  Super powers

  • Woman.
  • Expert in Saul Alinsky societal destruction tactics.
  • Pant suits with long jackets that obscure catheters.
  • Extraordinarily vicious and vindictive. Her enemies die mysterious deaths.
  • Completely devoid of mercy or ethics.
  • She meticulously tracks all her enemies.
  • Unbelievably wealthy. Her “charity” takes millions of dollars of “donations” from backwards nations and corrupt individuals in exchange for political favors.
  • The Media is completely in the tank for FWPW and will viciously attack anyone who stands in the way of her quest to turn the U.S. into the next Brazil.
  • Favored daughter of Emperor Sauron.

  Weaknesses

  • Cankles.
  • Incontinent so requires a catheter.
  • Prone to seizures.
  • Falls frequently.
  • Low energy.
  • Unable to stand for extended periods without a stool.
  • Being opposed by a racist, anti-Semitic, shadowy internet Nazi organization known as the alt-right.
  • Her sidekick has a raging sex addiction.

  Degenerate Sex Woman (DSW)

  

  You were warned

  The mission of Degenerate Sex Woman is to kill off any particle of traditional femininity that remained after the onslaught of the HBO show Sex and the City. She does this through a combination of popular cable television shows, books, social media, and politically liberal social causes.

  Super powers

  • Portray the vilest degenerate sex acts as normal and healthy.
  • Portray grotesquely out of shape bodies as normal and healthy.
  • Portray degenerate, slovenly lifestyle as normal and healthy.
  • Similar to Medusa, but instead of turning men to stone, her visage is able to destroy men’s ability to reproduce.

  Weaknesses

  • Can be stopped with a large pizza.

  Empowered Beautiful Black Woman

  

  Empowered Beautiful Black Woman (EBBW) is beautiful. If you disagree, you are a racist.

  Super powers

  • Comic genius. Or so I am told.
  • Beautiful. If you disagree, your social media accounts will be banned.

  Weaknesses

  • Nobody went to see the feminist ripoff of Ghostbusters that she starred in.

  Super Cuck Man

  

  Super Cuck is a true conservative. He will fight heroically to preserve the status quo of ten years ago. The mission of Super Cuck is to sit in his watching chair as western civilization is destroyed. His primary weapon is to call his enemies racists.

  Super Cuck Man receives his livelihood from wealthy donors. He doesn’t realize that he is just being used by the elites to provide the appearance of a real opposition. These wealthy donors despise Super Cuck Man, but find him to be a useful idiot.

  Super powers

  • None

  Weaknesses

  • His whole life is nothing but weakness.

  Peaceful Muslim Man

  

  Peaceful Muslim Man is for peace. Islam is peace. Implement Islam and there will be peace. Submit and there will be peace.

  SJWs think that Peaceful Muslim Man is their staunch ally, but as soon as he has the upper hand, he will slit their infidel throats.

  Super powers

  • Skilled at bomb making, knife fighting, driving trucks over toddlers, flying planes into buildings, raping.
  • No matter what he does, it is not in the name of Islam. Even if he says it is.

  Weaknesses

  • Would be removed in an instant if Western men had any balls.

  Villains

  There is only one real villain in the SJW universe…

  Toxic Masculinity Man

  

  Yes, I know Henry Cavill is probably an SJW in real life. But he would be my choice to play Toxic Masculinity Man.

  Toxic Masculinity Man (TMM) is the arch villain of the SJW comic book universe. TMM lifts weights and eats meat. He knows how to defend himself. He is physically fit and has a body fat percentage that hovers between 10 and 15%. He has high testosterone levels. He reads Return Of Kings. He has traditional values.

  The SJW pantheon fears Toxic Masculinity Man most of all. To stop him, they use many forms of attack:

  • Distractions: sportsball, movies, video games
  • Financial and spiritual drain: porn, consumerism
  • Physical attacks: High carb foods, corporate food, chaining TMM to a cubicle.

  Super powers

  • Impervious to SJW programming.
  • Does not allow thirst to turn him into a white knight or a beta orbiter.
  • Able to focus on his mission.
  • Able to father strong sons and virtuous daughters.
  • Born to lead.
  • Decisive.
  • Strong problem solving skills.
  • Ability to think independently. Unplugged from the Matrix.

  Weaknesses

  • TMM has a tendency to overestimate the power of SJW forces.
  • Tendency to being passive.

  Conclusion

  These are only a few of the super heroines and super heroes of the SJW universe. I am sure that readers will be able to provide additional ones. And if we are lucky, we might even have an artist lend us his services.

  Read More: How Working At Comic-Con Showed Me That America Is A Nation Of Cucks

• An Inside Look Into The Life Of Mike Tyson

  Posted:Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00:52 +0000

  

  

  I’m fascinated by the life of Mike Tyson. He started at the bottom as a criminal thug in New York City, raised himself up as heavyweight champion of the world, and then lost it all in part because of drug use. Either you hate him for being a rapist criminal or you love him for beating the odds with genuine heart. The book Undisputed Truth shares his side of the story.

  Your view of Mike Tyson is undoubtedly shaped by the media. They found him guilty of rape before the courts did and insisted on showing the worst parts of his life that fit the narrative of him being a monster. Tyson will be the first to tell you that he does have violent tendencies, drug abuse problems, and an abnormal attitude towards women, but the media insisted on sharing the most outrageous details. “Pro-rape,” “rape advocate,” “rapist,” “misogynist.” I’ve had to go through the same grinder. Whether or not Tyson and myself deserve any sympathy for our media portrayals, I understand what he had to endure.

  Undisputed Truth starts off when he was growing up in New York City. He was raised by an unstable single mother and fell into robbery and other crimes before he was a teenager. During one of his stints in a juvenile facility, he turning to boxing, led by trainer Cus D’Amato.

  Everybody thought I was up there with this old, sweet Italian guy, but I was there with a warrior. And I loved every minute of it. I was happy to be Cus’s soldier; it gave me a purpose in life. I liked being the one to complete the mission.

  Cus wanted one last chance at creating a heavyweight and saw Tyson as the answer while Tyson just wanted a father figure. Cus showed him how to be lethal in the ring and also taught him the rules of life.

  Cus was a strong believer that in your mind you had to be the entity that you wanted to be. If you wanted to be heavyweight champion of the world, you had to start living the life of a heavyweight champion.

  […]

  You think you know the difference between a hero and a coward, Mike? Well, there is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.

  Cus died as Tyson got started with his professional career. Cus’ teachings stayed ingrained in Tyson long enough for him to be the heavyweight champion of the world, but then influence from the vultures surrounding him began to take hold.

  

  Tyson had no natural resistance to all the women, drugs, and partying that a life of fame and fortune gave him access to.

  Once I started, I couldn’t stop. I got too self-indulgent. I’d have ten women hanging out in my hotel room in Vegas. When I had to go down for the press conference, I’d bring one and leave the rest in the room for when I was finished. Sometimes I’d get naked and put the championship belt on and have sex with a girl.

  […]

  Most celebrities were afraid of their stalkers. I fucked mine.

  The music stopped when he was accused of rape by a black beauty queen contestant. The case was weak from the beginning, but Tyson’s legal team, hired by Don King, made several mistakes and Tyson was found guilty. After being in prison for some time, he was up for parole. All he had to do at the hearing was to plead regret for the rape to be released early, but as a matter of principle, he refused to admit to the rape. He served an extra year because of it.

  So they brought me to Judge Gifford’s courtroom in June of 1994 for a sentence reduction hearing. I was dressed in denim pants, a light blue work shirt, and work boots. The new prosecutor asked me if I had anything to say.

  “I’ve committed no crime. I’m going to stick with that to my grave. I never violated anyone’s chastity.”

  That wasn’t what anyone wanted to hear. They sent me right back to jail. [Fellow inmates] hugging and kissing me when I got back.

  “Fuck them motherfuckers,” they said.

  “Chill out,” I said. “I’m cool. Another year. Let’s just do this shit.”

  He began to lose his hunger for boxing, but continued to do it for the money. His training consisted of piles of cocaine. That’s not enough for the highest levels and he started to lose or perform poorly in matches.

  [The drug use] got so blatant that I’d be carrying my bag of coke openly with a straw coming out of it like it was a milkshake.

  Once his boxing career ended, he went bankrupt and had to hustle for cash to fund his drug use. It took him several years to lift himself out of it, and from that he began to see the beginnings of wisdom.

  I knew that God didn’t pick on any small animals, that lightning only struck the biggest animals, that those are the only ones that vex God. Minor animals don’t get God upset. God has to keep the big animals in check so they won’t get lofty on their thrones. I just lay on my bed and thought that I had become so big that God was jealous of me.

  […]

  People want to break you and make you like you’re nothing.

  He also had learned some lessons from sleeping with so many women:

  All that rage and energy that propelled me to fuck all those women, where did it all go? Why have I lost that sexual growl? Is it just a function of getting older and losing hormones? I might see a girl and think “Wow” but I don’t have the desire to say “Hey, baby.” And don’t tell me about Viagra or Cialis. That shit ain’t the same thing as natural desire. It doesn’t make the mind function. It’s like having a gun with no bullets. It doesn’t give you the fantasy you need in your mind.

  […]

  People often ask me what I regret in my life. I regret sleeping with all those women. I used to brag about that but now I’m so embarrassed by my conquests. I’m so happy to be with one woman.

  

  I view Mike Tyson as a tragic figure. He was born into a toxic environment and because of that he developed habits and demons that would haunt him for most of his life, causing him to make poor decision when it came to dealing with his career, money, women, and health. In spite of that, he maintained self-awareness of it all and has made the steps to improve his life and that of his wife and children.

  While I wouldn’t necessarily rush to call him a “good man,” it’s clear to see that he is not the devil that the media made him out to be, and his intentions mostly come from a good place, especially as he got older and was able to look back at his life and the mistakes he made.

  His autobiography was entertaining and interesting. Even if you know most of his story, I still recommend you check it out. If there’s one thing you’ll get from the book, it’s to know that no matter how down and out you are, there’s always a way back up.

  This article was originally published on Roosh V.

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• How I Made A Feminist Call Me Daddy

  Posted:Wed, 31 Aug 2016 20:00:17 +0000

  

  “I’m here,” she texted me. I’d been flirting over text with a bright-green-haired, black-lipstick-sporting, self-proclaimed feminist that I met off of Tinder. “Be there in a second,” I texted her back.

  I let her in the front door, and immediately gave her a hug. I grabbed her by the hand and led her upstairs to my room. As we walked up the stairs, she spat out the oldest shit test in the world: “You’re a player, aren’t you?”

  Most guys would’ve panicked, but I simply amplified the frame, which is one of the best methods to pass a shit test, and told her: “Yeah, you’re the 12th girl today.” As expected, her eyes grew wide, she tried to contain a laugh, and told me to “shut up!” with a giant smile on her face.

  We walked into my room and I slyly shut the door behind us, while grabbing a bottle of vodka in seconds flat. Rather than trying to impress her or get her comfortable with me first, I simply plopped down onto the faux bearskin blanket on my bed, and invited her to sit right next to me. She did.

  After about 5 minutes of solid verbal game and sub-communication, she was attacking my face like a grizzly bear in heat. Another five minutes later, and she was screaming: “Fuck me, Daddy! Harder! Please, sir!”

  To most guys, getting a regular girl, let alone a feminist, to do this would seem like an impossible task. Interestingly enough, it’s actually a lot easier (and more common) than you’d think.

  A Primer To Women’s Psychology

  

  Anyone with even a modicum of game knows that women have two “minds,” so to speak: their conscious mind, and their subconscious mind. You can also liken these two components to the neo-frontal cortex (the human brain) and the limbic brain (the animalistic brain). These two brains can help us understand why women frequently say one thing, but mean another.

  The neo-frontal cortex is essentially what deals with logic, reasoning, and in this case, social conditioning. This is the part of a woman’s brain that is responsible for her last minute resistance, her anti-slut defense, and her general hatred of players. Then, however, there’s her limbic brain. This is responsible for her attraction to characteristics such as decisiveness, assertiveness, and confidence. It’s also responsible for her being attracted to “players” (a sign of pre-selection).

  Whenever you have a question about women, you can generally get it answered by referring to these two minds, which often create conflict with one another. For example, have you ever had a girl totally into you, then at the last second she doesn’t want to have sex? This is a very popular phenomena, and it’s also known as last minute resistance in the pickup community.

  Essentially what’s going on here, is that you’ve made her “limbic brain,” attracted to you by exhibiting alpha male characteristics, but you haven’t appeased her social conditioning, or her neo-frontal cortex. Even though she wants to sleep with you, she can’t do it, because she’s afraid of being labeled as a slut. I’ll talk more about this later, but keep this “two brain” model in mind.

  What Women Are Fundamentally Attracted To

  

  When you ask most guys what women want, they typically say something like:

  • “A guy who’s tall!”
  • “A guy who’s rich!”
  • “A guy who’s handsome!”

  And while these things will certainly not hurt you, women actually care very little about looks. Yup, that’s right—women really don’t care that much about looks. Why?

  Well, entire books could be written about this, but it’s essentially because women evolved to be attracted to men that could keep them alive in the primitive, pre-civilization world. And because our bodies still think we’re in this world, we’re still attracted to things that would’ve helped us survive then.

  “So then wouldn’t women be attracted to jacked guys?” I can hear you ask. Yes, definitely—being muscular helps you with the ladies, but it isn’t as important as your personality. Masculinity is more than physical… it also has a spiritual component responsible for your drive to achieve great things, and your will to succeed, which are FAR more important to women than how you look.

  To put it bluntly, women are primarily attracted to personality characteristics such as decisiveness, assertiveness, and confidence. Back then, if a woman didn’t have a man who was decisive, assertive, and confident to protect her, she’d get killed by a lion or gang raped by a rival tribe or something. Yes, women obviously respond favorably to good looks, wealth, and social status, but in general these things matter much less than your personality characteristics (aka your game).

  So, as you can see, we are the product of literally millions of years of evolution. Now do you think that just because some girl picks up a copy of “The Bell Jar,” and takes a class on Karl Marx that she’s going to completely undo millions of years of evolution? Of course not. And this brings me to my point: feminists are literally just like every other woman. They still respond sexually to the same things… their social conditioning is simply different.

  A Feminist’s Neo-Frontal Cortex

  

  What does an emotionally healthy woman’s neo-frontal cortex tell her? Well, she was probably raised in a traditional household, as these are the only places that produce emotionally functional women nowadays, so what does that tell us?

  It tells us that her “social conditioning,” or her human brain, believes that she’s “attracted to gentlemen, who are manly, but gentle,” or something like that. Is this 100% accurate? Probably not; she likely still feels some tingles for bad boys, but in general, women who are emotionally functional can appreciate it when a man is masculine and takes the lead.

  If you’re a feminist, however, what would your social conditioning look like? A feminist’s neo-frontal cortex flutters about with thoughts such as these, a million miles a second:

  • “Men are all pigs!”
  • “I hate men!”
  • “Men are all misogynistic rapists!”

  BUT, and here’s the key to remember, her limbic brain is still turned on by the same things as every other girl. Feminists can complain and whine all they like, but they cannot deny their nature. This is why she wanted to be fucked hard, and dominated; women crave a man who is confident, strong, and assertive, and the bedroom is one manifestation of these characteristics.

  Step-By-Step Breakdown

  

  Okay, so now that I’ve laid out the groundwork here, let’s break down what I did step by step. First things first, if you recall, what did I do the second she came in the door? I gave her a hug. This is key, men, so listen up. The sooner that you initiate physical contact with a woman, the better. Why? Because this conveys the fact that you’re a confident, assertive man who isn’t afraid of being sexual around women. Now don’t be a retard and act sexual around every single girl you meet, but if a girl comes over to your house alone, this is generally a great time to be sexual.

  Then what did I do? I grabbed her hand led her upstairs. I didn’t ask like a faggot: “C-can I h-hold your hand?” I just fucking took it. Now, if she tensed up or became visibly uncomfortable I would’ve let go, but in general, you want to assume attraction instead of ask for it.

  Then, again, if you recall, she gave me the grand-daddy of all shit tests: “Are you a player?”

  Well, yeah, I am. But that’s kind of a lame answer and it doesn’t pass her shit test. “What’s a shit test, Jon?” I can hear the newbie to game ask, and I’ll tell you. A shit test is basically when a woman wants to see what you’re made of. She’s testing you to see if you’re congruent. So what do you think she’s testing when she asks a question like this? To see if I’m going to be a bitch and get embarrassed over my sexuality.

  How would most guys respond to a question like this? “UHHHH-NO! I’m not a player, really! I’ve only had sex with three girls before!” This is probably the worst way to pass this shit test, because it shows that you’re insecure about your sexuality. So what’s the best way to pass this shit test? To simply amplify the frame. This accomplishes three things:

  • It shows that you’re not afraid of admitting that you’re a sexual man
  • It doesn’t directly answer her question, so that her neo-frontal cortex is satisfied
  • It redirects a logical question to her limbic brain, or her emotional side, by making a joke

  This is critical: when she asked that question, this was her neo-frontal cortex talking. But me, being relatively experienced in the game, saw that she was testing me, and gave an answer back to her limbic brain (the emotional, primal side).

  Sexual Escalation

  

  Now, when we got into my room, if you recall, I was sure to shut the door. This is huge. If you forget to do this, and then start making out, when you get up to shut the door it completely breaks the mood and often times makes it harder to get back to square one. Don’t forget to shut the door behind you. If she asks why (as if she doesn’t know) just say that you like privacy or that it’s just a habit.

  Then, I didn’t mince words. I made it very clear that I was interested in her sexually. I plopped myself on the bed, and invited her over. Simply telling her that she can sit down next to you will suffice; you don’t need to be overly sexual to the point of being a caricature. Then, once I had her on the bed, I talked with her a little bit before going in for the kiss.

  Gentlemen, ALWAYS maintain a conversation before you go in for the kiss. Again, what is the reason for this? Let us refer to the two brain model. When you’re talking with her, you’re occupying her neo-frontal cortex, so it can’t object to your sexual escalation (which her limbic brain wants). Do you see what’s going on here? Think of it as short-circuiting her logical brain. It’s too occupied with thinking of a response to the conversation to think of “I’m not a slut,” comments such as: “I’m not that type of girl,” or “Can we take it slower?”

  The Actual Sex

  

  The actual sex was great. In fact, I find that sex with feminists is better than with “normal” girls, because they’re so sexually repressed that they just let it all out in the bedroom. Remember the characteristics that women are all attracted to? Like decisiveness, assertiveness, dominance, and confidence? The same goes for feminists…especially in bed.

  That’s why this feminist, let’s call her Susie, wanted me to do her from behind, pull her hair, spank her, and call her a slut. It’s why she called me Daddy, too. Fundamentally, women love being objectified, as other authors have written about before… and feminists are no exception.

  In order to avoid a false rape accusation, however, I was sure to give her amazing sex. I pounded her for 45 minutes straight and made her squirt several times. This is absolutely critical if you want to avoid a false rape accusation, which is especially important when you’re dealing with feminists (the worst offenders).

  Summary

  I hope that this helped to clarify some of the misconceptions of game. After reading this article, you should have a basic, but practically-applicable understanding of shit tests, female psychology, and sexual escalation. If not, re-read the article.

  Feminists are just like ordinary women. They’re attracted to the same things as ordinary women, whether or not they want to admit it. And do you know the best way to convert a feminist? Be a strong, dominant man who provides order and guidance in her life. And the best way to do this, is to make her realize that she is sexually attracted to strong, dominant men (such as yourself). When a feminist starts to realize her nature, the social conditioning that’s been put into her head by the elites starts to crumble.

  Men, if we ever want to see an end to this onslaught of liberalism, it’s important that we show these feminists what they’re actually attracted to. I’ve done my part, now it’s your turn.

   

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• Why You Should Definitely Approach Hot Girls Wearing Headphones

  Posted:Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:00:45 +0000

  

  This week dating blogger Dan Bacon hit the headlines after he posted an article on his website The Modern Man called How To Talk to A Woman Who Is Wearing Headphones In his innocuous article, Bacon presents a series of tips for how to engage the attention of an attractive girl who happens to be listening to music when you meet her. The article so enraged feminist commentators that it has attracted a slew of excoriating Tweets and articles. But Bacon’s article misses the mark for a reason his detractors have not identified—he hasn’t gone far enough. Men should ALWAYS approach hot women wearing headphones.

  Dan Bacon’s Article

  

  Let’s be honest, if there is a canon of pick-up literature that includes Neil Strauss’s The Game and Roosh’s Bang, How To Talk to a Woman Who is Wearing Headphones will not rank highly in it. Here is a sample of his ‘advice’:

  What to Do to Get Her Attention

  1. Stand in front of her (with 1 to 1.5 meters between you).

  2. Have a confident, easy-going smile.

  3. If she hasn’t already looked up at you, simply get her attention with a wave of your hand. Wave your hand in her direct line of vision so she can see it.

  4. When she looks at you, smile, point to her headphones and confidently ask, “Can you take off your headphones for a minute?” as you pretend to be taking headphones off your head, so she fully understands what you mean.

  Stand in front of her and motion for her to remove her headphones? Hardly groundbreaking behavioural science. And his example conversation strains credibility:

  You: [Smile in a friendly, confident manner]  Hey – I know it’s not normal for people to talk to someone with headphones in, but I was walking along and saw you and thought – wow, she’s hot, I have to come over and say hi. I’m Dan, what’s your name?

  Woman: Jessica.

  You: [Add in some humor to get her smiling and create a spark between you] Cool…nice to meet you Jessica. I don’t normally talk to girls with headphones, but your big green headphones were just calling out to me.

  Woman: [Possibly smiling or laughing].

  You: [If you’re in a shopping mall or city street, let her know that you have something else to do besides talk to her, so she understands that you’re not going to stand there talking to her for 30 minutes] Anyway, I’m just out doing a bit of shopping at the moment. How about you?

  I particularly like “I don’t normally talk to girls with headphones, but your big green headphones were just calling out to me.” With that brand of ‘humour’, Mr Bacon will not be troubling Jonah Hill any time soon. Also, as anyone who has ever tried day game will attest, suggesting that a direct approach will go as smoothly is at best naive and at worst misguided.

  However, it is unfair to paint Bacon as some kind of rabid sex fiend who advocates harassing women as some commentators have done. In fact, his article merely encourages men to be confident, approach girls in a light and friendly manner, flirt and only continue with the conversation if it is clear that she is interested:

  Of course, not all women who wear headphones are open to being approached or hoping to be approached. However, you can only find that out by starting a conversation and seeing what happens.

  Who knows, she might just be your perfect girl, so go ahead and talk to her.

  What’s Really Wrong With The Article

  

  Where Bacon’s article falls short is that he doesn’t go into detail about how to spike up a conversation to facilitate the kind of chemistry that attracts women. Detractors will argue that chemistry is either there or it isn’t and there is some truth in that. No-one can ‘make’ a woman be attracted to them. However, there are certain personality traits and behaviours that are more attractive than others and it is these that you must foreground every time if you want to increase your chances of success.

  To be fair, confidence and the ability to lead an interaction are two of them and Bacon pays lip service to this, but he doesn’t tell his readers precisely how to demonstrate them.

  Differing Strategies

  

  The fact is that men and women have different objectives and strategies in the mating market (read David Bus’s excellent The Evolution of Desire for more on the evolutionary roots of our varying impulses).

  Broadly speaking, men are programmed to meet and have sex with a wide variety of different women with a view to impregnating them, while women are programmed to be more choosy in order to secure the best genes for their children.

  No gender is right or wrong, they merely have differing requirements and methods. But my suspicion is that women (and feminist men) are offended by the article as it seems to take the power of choice away from women (who want the best ‘alpha’ genes they can get) and place it in the hands of men. Understandably, no woman wants a bunch of beta nerds hassling her for sex—they want to choose the best alpha stud they can secure for themselves.

  But here’s the thing—women ALWAYS retain the power of choice anyway. All men can do is present themselves as effectively as possible (i.e. confidently and flirtatiously) giving girls the opportunity to select them based on their qualities. At no point does Bacon’s article state or imply that coercion of any kind should be employed. On the contrary, all he is doing is advocating approaching to have a friendly chat and to see whether there is chemistry before moving on if there isn’t.

  Why You Should Always Approach Hot Girls Wearing Headphones

  

  Here’s the thing—girls don’t approach men. Well, very rarely anyway. Even if a girl swipes right on Tinder she still expects the guy to start the conversation. In general, most romantic and sexual relationships are initiated by men, and actually, most women prefer it that way. If it wasn’t for men approaching girls then the whole dating market would grind to a halt overnight.

  The articles that rebuff Bacon imply that men should not approach girls unless the girl has given some signal that she is interested. Wearing headphones, we are led to believe, proves precisely the contrary. These girls wants to be left alone. Actually, this is nonsense. Few girls on their commute to work in the morning are wearing headphones to prevent guys from approaching them because most guys are too scared to do so and it doesn’t often happen, even in big cities like London and New York.

  Girls are not wearing headphones to deter guys, they’re wearing headphones to listen to music.

  I have approached a great many girls who had not given me any positive come-on signals at all. I met a former girlfriend at a bus stop in London and she hadn’t even looked in my direction before I approached. Even though she was wearing headphones when I spoke to her she was delighted, we had a flirty little chat, exchanged numbers and later went out together for over two years.

  Had I not given her the opportunity to get to know me by approaching her then we would never have got together, denying us both a lot of fun and a long-term relationship.

  On this basis, not only is it possible to approach girls while they are wearing headphones, but you absolutely should. Remember, approaching a girl can have benefits for both sides, not just the guy. There are many times that girls have thanked me for coming up to talk to them in the daytime. Of course, if she is not interested and brushes you off then tell her to have a nice day and walk off immediately. But if it turns out there’s a spark of attraction between you then by approaching whether she’s wearing headphones or not may just be doing her a big favour.

  Want to find out more about how to approach hot girls wearing headphones? Buy Troy’s bestselling book, The Seven Laws of Seduction. To learn more click here.

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• 5 Things I’ve Learned From My First Year Abroad

  Posted:Wed, 31 Aug 2016 12:00:00 +0000

  

  It seems like it was just yesterday I was running off the plantation in search of a life in a beautiful, sunny, libertine paradise.

  Already, I’m just about to cap off my first full year of living abroad. I selected the Caribbean for my first experiment in living abroad for several reasons. First, it’s close to home, being only a two hour flight away from the U.S. Second, it’s Latin America so it’s still wild and free and I speaky the Spanish. Third, the women here are hot as hell and insatiable. Fourth, it’s warm and sunny with an average high of 85 degrees year round. And fifth, the island of Hispaniola has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

  What are my conclusions after living here for a year? Am I homesick? Hell no. Am I happy? Absolutely. This without a doubt has been the best experience of my life so far. I’ve done more living and living on the edge in the past year than the previous thirty some odd years of my life before.

  I have also been living on a fraction of the cost of my former corporate drone lifestyle. In all honesty, $500 covers housing, food, electric, and Internet, the basics. I will have to admit my partying budget for booze and other recreational consumables has soared. Here are five conclusions I came up with on the motorcycle ride back to my house from a hot girl’s apartment this morning.

  1. I don’t want to come back to America.

  

  A government of wolves is exactly what the U.S. has become

  I look at Anglo America as a figurative prison of sorts. The entire society is geared towards nothing but consumption for consumption’s sake, and creating problems with people’s lives to create profit. When I think of my future I always see myself either being here on an island or in any number of exotic locations. (Some more adventures in Southeast Asia are definitely on the agenda). The worst nightmare I have is going back to the lifestyle of working 50-60 hours a week to keep up a bunch of deadbeat bums and illegal aliens with my tax dollars and the sweat off my brow.

  2. I have gotten used to true freedom.

  

  Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. -Ghandi

  I can do just about anything here. Literally, I have never felt this kind of freedom before. There are no checkpoints busting people for DUIs on Saturday night. The police by and large leave people alone. Many small infractions can be taken care of with a $20 bill. Quite simply, this island is a Libertarian’s paradise as almost nothing is illegal and those things that are illegal are loosely enforced. You have to be quite an asshole to win up in trouble with the law here.

  I imagine the intent of the Founding Fathers was something like I enjoy here: freedom to do just about anything you want within reason. Where did this ideal get lost and a micromanaging nanny state become the norm? It’s totally insane and upside down.

  3. I feel more masculine than ever.

  

  Motorcycles are transportation here, not controversial “death traps”

  Almost nothing scares me anymore. I don’t go around watching what I say or how I say it like I did when I worked in the news industry. I drive a motorcycle as transportation daily, as does most of the rest of the population. A man either sinks or swims here pretty quickly.

  In contrast to rabid feminism, women expect me to tell them what to do. I was having a conversation with a neighbor just yesterday and she commented that she expects her husband to be “the man of the house.” Why the West felt the need to reinvent the wheel, changing a cultural and familial practice that has worked for thousands of generations is a mystery. Under men leading the family the human species has prospered. It was the blunder of all time to abandon this model, and women as well as men are happier when feminist boilerplate is not adhered to.

  By the same token, I realize that I must be able to stand up for myself and carry myself like a man. A weakling will get taken advantage of in this environment. You can’t be a bitch here. If you are strong inside and outside you will get respect. If you aren’t, you will get fucked.

  4. I have more women than I can handle.

  

  What is love? What is this longing in our hearts for togetherness? Is it not the sweetest flower? -Leon Phelps

  I go through several women a week. It’s amazing to compare and contrast this experience with the experience of putting in so much effort for so little return back in Anglo America. A libertine culture is a wonderful thing in my opinion. Threesomes, all but unattainable back home are easy to come by here if you have the right connections and the reputation of being a bad boy.

  I realize a lot of my success is due to not only game but hypergamous female instinct. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it is my motto.

  I have had so much success with women I can’t drive through town on my bike without some girl I’ve banged shouting at me or waving at me. It’s really incredible having this much access to twenty-something flesh, and a reminder that contrary to what we are told sex will often cure what ails ya. A man can even have so much sex he occasionally gets burned out on it. But too much is better than ain’t enough. Maybe Americans are angry and hateful online because they aren’t getting laid on the regular in a sexually repressed culture? The thought has crossed my mind.

  5. I realize what it means to feel alive.

  

  …all you have, see, is the experiences. That’s all there is. Everything! The experiences!

  I have never felt more alive in my life. Whether it be playing pool and dancing with one hot girl while another hottie you’ve been banging walks in and both of you have to hide your feelings for each other, or learning how to have a backbone when conducting negotiations for housing or buying things (everything is negotiable here), this corner of the world has a way of bringing out the best in a man.

  That’s what makes Latin America great to me. A man is still expected to be a man and can be a man. The rewards for a strong-willed man can be almost limitless. This can be summed up in two general themes: Possibilities and experiences. A man is not alive if he only exists to create profit for other people and has no life outside his job and career.  One of my idols, Charles Bukowski, said it best:

  How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?

  A man is alive if he wakes up everyday wondering which avenue of possibility he will pursue that day and what exciting experiences (and stories a man will carry to the grave) those possibilities will bring. The great Burgess Meredith flawlessly explains this concept in Grumpier Old Men:

  Well, let me tell you something, Johnny. The first 90 years, or so go by pretty fast. Then one day you wake up and you realize that you’re not 81 anymore. You begin to count the minutes rather than the days and you realize that pretty soon you’ll be gone. And that all you have, see, is the experiences. That’s all there is. Everything! The experiences! You mount the woman, son. Or else…send her out to me.

  Indeed, experiences, not things. That’s where it’s at.

  Is Living Abroad is Right for You?

  

  My optimal situation would be bouncing between the Caribbean and SE Asia…what’s your dream?

  What do men do when their government turns into a tyranny and their women become repellent? They either look for greener pastures or overthrow such a system, or both. The critical mass has not yet been reached to overthrow the current tyranny. In the meantime, the man looking for adventure will surely find some, and in many cases it may be closer than you think. There’s a whole other world burning just south of Anglo America.

  My advice for those who want to pursue this avenue of personal fulfillment: Get out of debt, stay out of debt, limit interactions with women to fun and games, become a minimalist, and dive in. You won’t miss the mall, McDonald’s and loud, obnoxious women as much as you might think.

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• What Every Young Man Should Know Before Going To College

  Posted:Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

  

  This time of year is when people go back to school. I wrote the below over ten years ago for my brother as he started college, and it covers what a man should expect from academic and dorm life in college.

  Academics

  Your purpose

  GPA is the magic acronym that will rule your life for the next four years. Unlike high school, where it is all the same, in college, people get varying degrees. This is significant because it dictates what you have to do for the degree and makes the whole “let’s take impressive courses to look good for our next school” argument rather irrelevant.

  You need to select your degree and then plot out, with the help of the school catalog, what courses you HAVE to take, what courses you COULD take, and what courses you SHOULD NOT take. What every modern college kid needs to understand is that undergrad college is NOT about learning things, it’s about getting a degree of your choice and maintaining a good GPA while doing it.

  

  Employers or grad schools don’t care about your carefully crafted interdisciplinary custom degree to make you the perfect rounded person; they care about whether or not you have the degree they want, and what grades you received while earning it.

  Degree. Grades. Then maybe, if possible, learn something along the way.

  Don’t reinvent the wheel

  In your quest for a good GPA, there are some people you need to cultivate. First, you MUST find some upperclassmen that has been there, and done that in your major. Try to find him (or her) this fall, and buy them a meal or something. Bring your course catalog and a notepad. They will tell you which of the required courses are pains in the rear and which are cake, which professors are closet Nazis and which ones are still part of the human race, and what electives to take and to avoid.

  Your faculty advisor does not understand the point of college (outlined above.) He or she will think you need to take challenging courses to make you grow, and interesting courses to expand your knowledge. This would be true if the GPA was not the holy grail that it is. But, since it is, you want to get your chosen degree with the EASIEST course load possible.

  An example. Student A takes Required Course 101 with Professor Himmler. Student B takes the same course, but in a different section, and has Professor Buttercup. Both students give it the good effort, and Student A gets a D while Student B gets an A. Both students get credit for the same course, even though the courses were obviously much different in difficulty.

  Difficulty, however, does not matter. All that matters is ‘Required Course 101’ and the grade on your transcript. All sections are supposed to be equal, even though they are taught by different profs. However, this is almost never the case, and you MUST find out which sections with which profs to take beforehand and register appropriately. Once everyone finds out what a Nazi Himmler is, they will all try to transfer out to Buttercup’s class and very few will be successful; the rest are boned because it is too late. The most they can do is drop the course and waste a slot in their schedule, and that’s only if you don’t drop below the minimum hours required.

  Furthermore, arrange for some one section class to occupy the same slot as Himmler’s section so that they cannot pull bullshit on your scheduling because you would not be able to take that one section class. The registrar thinks all sections are equal; they are not, as outlined above.

  Find the upperclassman, and get the info on the department’s faculty and courses and then don’t spread it around. Write it all down and make sure you get the right profs in the right sections. It could mean the difference between an A and a D for the same effort.

  As for electives, sometimes names sound overly impressive when they actually are not. “Direct Energy Conversion” was easier than “Heat Transfer,” although it sounds meaner. Think “Which elective will fill this slot and give me the easiest A?” Ask your senior friend about which ones to take.

  You need study buddies. Doing homework in groups is much better than doing it by yourself; you can split the work up, check each other’s answers, and learn more, faster. Go to review sessions, go to office hours, look like you care, and you might get a bump up to the next letter grade for a good effort. Many profs will drop obvious hints about what will be on the tests to folks in their review sessions.

  “Aren’t you TEACHERS?”

  Most of any given school’s faculty and administration don’t care about whether or not you do well. You’re just a number, and if your TA can’t speak English, or your professor gave you a test on a chapter that hasn’t been covered yet, no one will really care.

  Some teachers DO care, and there should be ONE dean that will actually listen to a student who needs help. If you find yourself getting screwed, refer to the catalog, prepare your case, make an appointment, and walk in there confident and polite and make your case.

  Your Dorm

  The room

  Respect your roomie’s stuff and privacy, and he should respect yours. Lock the door. Thievery will be rampant, and the targets will be laptop computers, wallets, cd wallets, and anything else that is small, expensive or valuable, and ubiquitous. If the thievery gets really bad, take your keys along with you in your shaving kit. I don’t know how your laptop will lock up, but I’d pick up an Action Packer (plastic container, lock on each end), two padlocks, and a chain. Lock the Packer with the laptop (and other goodies) in it and lock the chain to one of the locks after you looped it through your bed frame.

  Your room is not a place to throw parties. Any party, for the next year and some for you, will almost always have alcohol.  Underage drinking is a way of life at college, everyone does it, and only the stupid get caught. I won’t tell you not to drink; I will tell you not to be stupid. Let your friends throw the parties in their rooms, you won’t have to clean up the mess, stuff won’t get dirty or stolen, and you can leave when you’re tired or, more importantly, when the five-o shows up. The quieter, cleaner, and more safe your room feels, the more comfortable you will be living in close quarters with people. Having a couple friends over is different from a party, obviously.

  

  ….is that THE mattress?!?!

  Your room is not a place to study. Your desk will be small, and taken up with stuff, you’ll want to play music and be distracted by things; it just doesn’t work. Find some area, like at the library, get a big table, and do your homework there. You will be able to do much better work much more quickly. You don’t go to class in your dorm room, you really shouldn’t do homework there either. Writing papers is different; figure out what works for you.

  Your room is not yours. The university can come in there any time they want, and do anything they want. If it’s not during business hours, you can be as rude as you want, but they might call the cops. Hide anything you don’t want noticed by the school, like illegal software or weed, in that action packer. The room might be theirs, but they would need a search warrant to break and enter your locked container. Likewise, don’t leave beer in the fridge until you’re of age.

  Get to like your roomie, and agree on things like hours, who to let in, and make things work, or apply for a new roommate or a single.

  Community bathrooms

  Never go into the bathroom barefooted, especially to take a shower. Risking bare feet on the floors of a dubiously cleaned bathroom stands a great chance of getting the funk. Get a pair of sandals and use them for bathroom shoes.

  Figure out the showers and use them accordingly. Pressure, hot water capability, and the tendency of condensation to drip cold water on your head all vary from stall to stall.

  The proper response to walking into a bathroom and hearing a woman with a guy in the shower or something, or seeing female feet or something, is to quietly walk out. The proper response to seeing or hearing two men going at it varies on your acceptance of that sort of thing.

  Be advised, although a man should be allowed to be sick from drinking in his own bathroom in peace, dorm bathrooms are university property, and the paramedics, cops, area residents, resident assistants, and whoever else feels interested, can sit there on your sick self and threaten to take you to the hospital or jail. Be sick in your dorm room into the trash can, especially if you’re underage. It might piss your roomie off, but it’s better than attracting attention.

  Put paper down on the toilet seat…same reasoning as rule 1.

  

  Use a bathrobe. You don’t have to worry about the towel falling off your rear, and that IS something to worry about because there WILL be fellow dorm residents of the sort of persuasion that shamelessly stare at guys wearing only a towel in the bathroom there with you, and they’ll start screaming oppression if you call them on it.

  If someone heaved and missed the toilet, it’s a biohazard. Stuff a note under the RA’s door and make that guy work for his money.

  Bonding BS and other Dorm stuff

  You’re there to go to school, not to participate in stupid dorm activities. Unless they have free food, don’t bother with any dorm bonding activity. The first dorm meeting is mandatory and you’ll learn important stuff. Anything after that is somewhat optional, and, if you miss something that they consider important and they bitch you out, say you were working on a group project or something similarly impressive.

  

  The RA is just a student. Keep your music down and your trash out of the hallway and otherwise ignore him. If you make friends with him, make sure he’s your friend first and your RA second. Don’t have a beer with your “friend” and then get busted by him for underage drinking.

  The RA, and the head resident have NO power on their own; all the juice they think they have is derived from staff housing directors and the local police. If either of those authorities show up, show respect, but don’t feel you have to defer to the RA. An RA is like student government; it matters to the people that do it, and everyone else thinks they’re just another tool. If the RA wants you to do unreasonable stuff, tell him to kiss your ass or something equally insulting, and it should end there. Powertripping RAs are very common and they can be dealt with by not buying into their BS; if they report you to their boss, and you get hauled in, make him look foolish.

  Fire drills. They like to do fire drills early on, and they will schedule one for some evening. Be elsewhere at that time, lest you have to stand around like a schmuck outside the dorm, or leave and get food or something.

  Women RAs are REALLY scary. Try not to be alone walking down some girl’s floor (if they divide by floor), even if you are just leaving from some visit. According to modern female college doctrine, any unescorted guy on a female floor WILL rape, pillage, and burn if left alone. A guy I knew got MACEed for just walking down a hallway in the middle of the night in a girl’s dorm.

  Conclusion

  Other than the opening and closing, I only edited the 2006 original for length. It’ll be interesting to see if its lessons still are valid.

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• Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Fights White Privilege By Not Foregoing His $114 Million Paycheck

  Posted:Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:00:03 +0000

  

  During his last NFL game against the Green Bay Packers, quaterback Colin Kaepernick created controversy by remaining seated during the national anthem. It is part of the traditions of the game to stand up while the “Star-Spangled Banner” is played.

  

  Kaepernick during the anthem

  Responding to his critics, this is what Colin had to say:

  “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

  The background

  It is clear that he acted in support of the Soros-backed Black Lives Matter movement. The NFL is increasingly turning into a political arena to impose PC-approved themes. This phenomenon can not be ignored when we observe the recent events occurring during the season:

  • Beyonce’s pro-Black Panthers Super Bowl Half Time Show
  • The NFL’s refusal to let the Dallas Cowboys honour fallen police officers 

  Kaepernick often jumps on the BLM “every white is a white supremacist” and rape-culture mangina train on Twitter and it has been going on for quite some time. His account only displays news of police shooting minorities, an obsession for white privilege and the celebration of slave rebellions when they kill whites.

  

  

  It is being a recurrent remark among sport experts that he should focus more on training than tweeting. Being European, I will let our American readers decide of his quality as a player.

  A bit of history

  

  • Colin Kaepernick was born of a black father and white mother, Heidi Zabransky (née Russo).
  • His father never aknowledged him (even after his rise to fame) and ran away. His mother put him for adoption when he was six weeks old.
  • The Kapernicks, a white family from Wisconsin, adopted him. By Zabransky’s account, the Kaepernicks were “giving, wonderful people. Colin himself confirmed that he had a happy childhood with a loving family.
  • Colin’s biological mother never told him or her parents anything about Colin’s father.
  • His adoptive parents never treated him differently from his white siblings. They said clearly that he was adopted but that they were nevertheless his family.
  • Colin was never raised by a black parent but says
    

    My racial heritage is something I want people to be well aware of. I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that

  • He has a $114,000,000 contract with the 49ers and an average salary of $19,000,000.
  • Kaepernick, coming from a Christian upbringing, also converted to Islam last football season and is engaged to a Black Lives Matter activist and hip hop radio host. (Sources and further information)

  The motivation behind the decision

  

  It is quite strange to see a half-white, wealthy quarterback from a white background with a good education and what many could see as the pinnacle of privilege, stand up against those who “oppress Black people and people of color.”

  Well-documented data related to race and based on crime statistics, police fatal shootings, household income and many others confirm that the black community is currently in the best situation it has ever been in American history.

  Blacks killed by police – 1%
  Blacks killed by whites – 2%
  Whites killed by police – 3 %
  Whites killed by whites – 16%
  Whites killed by blacks – 81%
  Blacks killed by blacks – 97%

  Blacks represent 13% of the population of the USA

  2015 US crime statistics (crime statistics bureau)

  

  Kaepernick behaves like a last-minute religious convert

  The convert is always the most zealous as he works harder to fit in the new group he chose, in order to be accepted by the more “naturally determined” members of the group.

  The example of Westerners with a Christian or neutral religious background that convert to Islam comes to mind, especially the ones that look like the polar opposites of the “naturally determined” followers of Islam.

  They make up for their late start by being more aggressive or more invested in the “cause”. Through this process, they seek validation from their new peers and distance themselves from the group they originate from. They harbour the feeling that if they do not go the extra mile, they can be seen as a potential traitor instead of a safe ally.

  

  The case of Kaepernick reminds me of neckbeard ginger jihadi Jordan Horner.

  It appears clear that the quaterback’s stance on racial issues betrays a desire to seek revenge on the white mother that abandoned him, even if all the love he received afterwards came from his white family from Wisconsin.

  The expression of this deeply rooted issue is hardly understandable. The hatred should be directed towards his black father instead of his mother who, at the very least, gave him to a loving, stable family instead of dragging her infant into a future single-mother hell.

  The total absence of a strong father role might explain why Kaepernick chooses the role of the victim instead of being a role model for the youth (as he shortly did before) through talent, hard work or athletic excellence.

  The aftermath

  

  It is a fact that sitting during the anthem before games is not forbidden by the NFL. Kaepernick had the right to do so even if one can disagree with his motivations.

  But in those times of division, symbols and tradition such as standing up for the anthem are one of the few left that allow the American population to unite.

  It is an unnecessary provocation, a recuperation by a brat with daddy issues popularised by the domestic terrorist group know as Black Lives Matter. It can only be seen as a maneuver to earn some credit from the black community.

  

  His teammates and the whole franchise of the 49ers are the one that will pay for his selfish choice. They have no power apart from voicing their disapproval over the situation but the brand will lose in popularity and suffer financial consequences. There have been multiple reports of fans burning their Kaepernick jerseys or canceling their season tickets following his decision.

  The San Francisco 49ers public representatives, faithful to the liberal self-flagellating tradition of their host city, decided to support Kaepernick in his decision. But many of his teammates and 49ers staff made a point of showing their disapproval regarding Kaepernick’s choice (1,2).

  It boils down to attention whoring

  

  Are the “problem glasses” a coincidence?

  Colin says it himself. He is not looking for approval. But his gesture brings nothing productive or groundbreaking. The only “positive” impact of what he did are a few retweets by black activists but nothing has changed in essence.

  His public involvement in the “cause” is extremely recent. Noticing that his fame was in decline or stalling, he finds an opportunity for virtue signaling and tries to catch some light through race baiting.

  Qui vit par le glaive périra par le glaive

  

  Kaepernick impulsive stint might cost him more than a few boos. In addition to dwindling possibilities of future contracts, his popularity is in free fall now that the BLM movement has been exposed for what it is.

  Contrary to “Look at me” Colin, many prominent figures of the black community try to dissociate themselves from Black Lives Matter, seeing their growing propensity to violent acts and the bad publicity that follows.

  We simply witness the tantrum of  a self-hating Jesse Williams clone, sticking it to his white mother on a football field. It could also be a maneuver to make the public forget about the incident where he called his opponent Lamarr Houston the N-word during an altercation on the field.

  Karma is a bitch and the victim card is a double-edged sword.

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• 5 Signs You’re Suffering From A MGTOW Mindset

  Posted:Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:00:06 +0000

  

  Before I read Corey Savage‘s An Open Letter To The Men Of MGTOW a couple months ago, I admittedly had zero clue as to what the MGTOW community actually stood for. I’ve always known there are different factions of the manosphere such as the PUA sect which focuses on seduction, the philosophical clique that explores the historical and religious angles as they apply to the red pill past and present, and the health and fitness branch that gives men guidance on how to achieve peak physical fitness.

  I’d seen the term MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) in different articles here and there but I never really delved into it. I just assumed they were under the same umbrella as the rest of us were. But after reading Savage’s article and doing a little research I began to realize that the “MGTOW community” could be labeled as, dare I say…..male feminism.

  

  No thanks….I’ll pass.

  Below are five tendencies that “MGTOWs” and wannabes alike possess that hold them back from grabbing life by the balls and thriving as a man. I’ll be the first to admit that even I fall prey to some of these penchants every once in a while. It happens. But so long as you check yourself and nip these occurrences in the bud, you won’t start thinking it wouldn’t be so bad to live in your mother’s basement playing video games all night with cheeto dust on your fingers.

  5. You’re all talk, no show

  

  “I fucked 6 chicks last night!”

  You can quote all the pickup lines, know all the answers to shit tests, and all the red pill lingo. You constantly tell your buddies all women are like that and you’re never getting married or having kids.

  I talked about this brand of wannabe neomasculinity in a column I penned last summer:

  Wannabe PUAs who buy into the “all these bitches get is my dick” notion are kidding themselves and everyone around them. They think scoring one night stands with 5s and 6s is the pinnacle of playerdom and like to brag about “this bitch I fucked then I just got up and left” or  “I don’t give a fuck what she does I kick her the fuck out right after I nut.”

  Any man who regularly sleeps with beautiful women knows that unless she’s a hooker, it doesn’t work this way—especially if you want to keep fucking her.

  Funny thing is, when the rubber meets the road and you find yourself sitting next to an HB8 at the laundromat you freeze like a deer in the headlights. You can frequent as many sites on the ‘sphere as you want but if you don’t apply what you’ve learned, it’s pointless.

  Stop debating pickup theories on 17 different blogs and for the love of God stop bombarding your buddies with red pill jargon. They may still be blue pill but they also know you’re just piss and wind. Until you get off your ass and start talking to girls on the regular, you’re not changing their minds.

  4. You dismiss new ways to meet girls

  

  Get with the program

  You’re the guy who talks shit about Facebook, Tinder, and even text game. You claim to only approach girls face to face because that’s what “real men” do.

  Wake up, it’s 2016. There’s more than one way to skin a cat and if you’re not taking advantage of technology to score easy pussy, you’re doing yourself (and all those sluts) a disservice.

  I’m as guilty on this one as anybody. Granted, there’s nothing like the rush that comes from approaching a complete stranger, striking up conversation with her, number closing her, and banging her that night. There’s something to be said about the excitement of putting your balls on the line and going for broke with a female.

  That said, I know that at some point in the not too distant future I’m going to have to get online if I want to keep adding notches. Girls these days are becoming increasingly difficult to talk to as a result of their ADD on account of looking at their phones most of the day. It’s as though they’ve forgotten how to have a conversation with an actual person in the flesh.

  The other reason is that the older I get, the busier my schedule gets. So why not skip the bullshit and start swiping for ass like everyone else? It saves money, frustration, and most of all time which is a man’s most valuable commodity.

  Get with the times and take advantage of the desperate girls who are dying to take a selfie wearing your shirt the next morning.

  3. You’re always looking for an easier way to digest the red pill

  

  Quick staring at it and take it already

  You’re the dude who’s been on the fence about the red pill for years. You know sexual relations between men and women are fucked up but when reading sites like ROK you think to yourself, “He makes a good point but there’s gotta be a better way!”

  You think you can compromise and be “purple pill.” You think you can give girls “the best of both worlds” but you know it’s not working for you because you’re not getting laid. And yet, you still want to delay completely digesting the red pill.

  Look, I get it. I really do. It’s hard to change your mindset and actions when you’ve been brainwashed your entire life to treat girls a certain way and think of them in a certain light. But we’ve all been burned on multiple occasions and at some point you have to realize that being yourself and treating her like a princess ain’t cuttin’ it.

  The hard truth is there is no purple pill. You can’t be the alpha male girls want to sleep with and the sensitive, attentive schlub at the same time. It’s either one or the other. And if you aren’t unplugged, you’re still plugged in. There’s no in between.

  Make a choice, gentlemen. You can either digest the red pill or spit it out and ignore the truth. It can’t just rest on your tongue for the rest of your life.

  2. All you focus on is girls

  

  Stop chasing girls all the time and hit the gym

  The beauty of neomasculinity is that it teaches men how improve their lives in all aspects. Financial shrewdness, physical fitness, style, and mental strength are a few the main tenets of the crimson capsule we’ve drilled into your skulls since 2012.

  If a man makes good financial decisions, keeps himself in good shape, dresses well, and isn’t easily rattled by nonsense, his romantic prospects increase as a natural side effect.

  When you’re new to the ‘sphere and focus solely on picking up chicks, you’re putting the cart before the horse. Sure, you’ll have a little success but before long you’ll plateau (meaning you’re only banging 5s and 6s) because you haven’t improved in other, more important areas.

  Again, I fell prey to this when I first took the red pill. All I concentrated on was girls and nothing else:

  I’ll never forget the first time I approached a girl with red pill game. She was a sexy little red-headed number with a pert ass and great legs. She was in the produce aisle trying to pick out the perfect grape fruit. When she reached for one I noticed a tattoo on her inner wrist. “So much for an LTR,” I playfully joked with myself. I obviously wasn’t thinking about our honeymoon but she was as good a girl as any to christen my post red pill game with.

  I’d practiced, drilled, and rehearsed all the PUA techniques, body language and positioning. I was ready. I took a deep breath, walked up, looked her right in the eye with something of a cross between a smile and a smirk on my face and said “Hi, I’m Donovan.”

  She bit.

  She pleasantly told me her name and politely shook my hand. We ended up having about a 10 minute conversation about juicing (I’d recently purchased one and steered the conversation in that direction). I passed a relatively easy shit test, made a joke about green juice, and got the digits.

  “Holy fuck!” I thought doing my best to compose myself as she put her number into my phone. “This shit actually works!”

  The girl ended up flaking but I didn’t care. I was hooked.

  It’s been years since I approached that hot red head. Since then, I’ve gotten myself into much better shape, my financial outlook is stronger, and my frame is rock solid. Had these things been in place when I opened her, she may not have flaked on me.

  The point is that focusing on the acquisition of pussy and leaving everything else by the wayside will eventually come back to bite you in the ass. When you hit a slump (and you will) you’ll sink into depression, start doubting yourself, and a slew of other mental problems that end up stunting your growth as a man.

  But if you’re lifting, reading, writing, and making smart financial decisions a temporary dry spell in the bedroom won’t faze you. If anything, it helps you focus even more on these areas which will, in turn, lead to more success with women in the long run.

  1. You bash red pill assertions for the sake of bashing them

  

  “NOT ALL WOMEN ARE LIKE THAT!”

  This is where you start to fall into the MGTOW category. You read my article on O.J. Simpson and disagree with my assertion that he’s alpha because he killed his ex wife for slutting it up with a fellow USC alumni. Nevermind the fact that he was literally swimming in pussy before, during, and after his marriage to Nicole. As far as you’re concerned, Simpson had oneitis which makes him a sniveling beta despite living a life most men can only dream about.

  No, we’re not all going to agree with every little detail of neomasculinity (which is a good thing, actually) but the countless lives that have been changed (mine included) from the ideas discussed on forums like these speaks volumes about its accuracy and effectiveness.

  GhostOfJefferson, a frequent commenter on ROK, has told countless keyboard gangsters that if they so vehemently disagree with what we talk about here, then write an article about it.

  I couldn’t have put it better myself.

  Conclusion

  At the end of the day we’re all on the same side. As I said before, we’re going to disagree on a few things here and there but by and large we’re all striving for the same thing. But if you find yourself falling into any of the above traps on a regular basis and not course correcting, you may need to start to question whether or not you’re truly unplugged from the matrix.

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• Women Would Rather Be Raped By Invaders Than Stuck With Beta Males

  Posted:Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:00:52 +0000

  

  She is dying for you to put her in her place, beneath you. A woman wants to be conquered, she wants to submit to power, she wants to give up control, but first she has to test to see if “it” exists within you. To submit to a lesser man is rape, to submit to a superior man is harmony. Feminism and other female SJW endeavors are societal shit tests. If you fail, they’ll push the boundary again, and again, and again… If you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile.

  The female imperative was never supposed to be 100% successful, though. Eventually, some man somewhere is supposed to not put up with her shit and put her in her proper place: beneath him and one half-step back. A woman’s job is to see you fail. For if you fail, you were never “worthy” in the first place. Western culture is now embracing that very failure.

  The Beta That Broke The Western Cultures’ Back

  

  Betas occur naturally in the wild, but over the past several decades, governments, corporations, media, and academia have attempted to artificially manufacture them en masse beyond natural levels with the assistance of female nature (stated earlier). They’ve indoctrinated man into believing blue pill sexual strategy that women despise. They’ve stripped fathers from the home and had females infiltrate male spaces containing masculine role models. And they’ve legally restrained a man’s ability to discipline and properly set boundaries in the home, the very same discipline and boundaries that women instinctively seek. All with the proud help of women.

  So what’s left? A whole generation of men raised by women and the state, taught to be pussies and supplicate to females and authority.

  Now, the feminization of man has hit critical mass and women’s amygdalas notice. Women are unknowingly witnessing their own creation and are left disgusted, wondering, “Where have all the ‘good men’ gone?” Now women are seeking another tribe…

  The Invaders

  

  “[…] women actually want strong male authority figures in their life.

  But will deny it until the day they die.

  If they admitted to it, it would allow non male authority figures (beta men) to emulate alpha qualities.

  They want men that just get it. Even if that means takeover of Western European / u.s. Culture by Islamic militants.”

  — /u/antariusz (Source)

  Europe is currently witnessing female nature being expressed freely on a societal level without a civilized, masculine balancing factor. The truth of the matter is, women have no in-group loyalties. Whoever the powerful are in that moment, women drift their way with their asses bent over, knees quivering, and legs dripping with tingle juice. They want to be conquered, but they don’t care by who. Whether it’s daddy government, her father, a boyfriend, Chad Thundercock, violent criminals, or a horde of rapefugees doesn’t matter.

  In times of war, women are constants. Men and boys are killed off, but women are simply transferred and assimilated into the new tribe to be the sperm receptacles of the victors.

  Observing the weakness of many European men, women want a different set of male suitors. They call this initiative “diversity” or “multiculturalism.” In plain terms, women want to import men they perceive to be powerful and masculine to replace the weaklings they are stuck with. Women LOVE playing multiple men against each other to battle for her vaginal affections. It’s basically the plot of a every rom-com and romance novel.

  Thanks to the 1984 police state, politicians and social media titans like Angela Merkel and Mark Zuckerburg, that new tribe so happens to be the biggest group in history to never reform itself to Western society: Muslims (over 2 billion of them). They give absolutely zero fucks about Western Civilization and their inhabitants. They never back down. These people are not just willing to die and be imprisoned to defend their beliefs, but kill: “There is no law, but that of Allah.”

  This is attractive to women. Women LOVE violent males. Women love their conviction. It’s extremely arousing to them. The fact that it’s backed by a mental illness doesn’t matter. These Muslim immigrants are violent, they don’t break frame, and are becoming powerful. That’s seen as masculine. That’s sexy.

  

  Most modern Western man doesn’t stand a chance. Rape and sexual assault has skyrocketed since immigrants have been allowed to settle into Europe, yet women and feminists were silent on the subject. Why? Because they would rather live under the threat of rape by invaders than settle with skinny beta manginas protesting at slut walks and minoring in gender studies. There are even instances where European girls refused to report their immigrant sexual assailants in the name of multiculturalism and fighting Islamophobia or just because they felt bad for them. But that’s bullshit. The power of the rapists gave her tingles and then she tried to rationalize it.

  Conclusion

  You see that, betas of Europe? That’s your future.

  The only thing saving North America from being Cologne, Sweden, or Britain is that there are two oceans separating us from Africa and the Middle East. But Obama seeks to change that by importing thousands of Syrians into small traditional family towns (view: Roosh’s video). Not to mention the education system, specifically the colleges here, are getting brainwashed to the max with anti-white “diversity.”

  Betas of the United States and Canada? Keep it up, and women will encourage the same thing to happen here, embracing the enemy with open legs.

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• Interview With Maverick Traveler After His Sojourn In Southeast Asia And India

  Posted:Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:00:34 +0000

  

  It has been a while, but I finally had a chance to catch up with James Maverick, the proprietor of the site Maverick Traveler.  I’ve done interviews with him before here at Return Of Kings, and always found him to be congenial subject.  There are a lot of travel and lifestyle sites out there, but James is one of the few who truly has practiced what he preaches.  He’s spent significant time in more than 80 countries around the world, so to say that he knows something about living abroad is an understatement.  I’ve corresponded with him for a few years and have always respected his no-nonsense views on life and travel.

  Since he’s just completed a major sojourn in Southeast Asia and India, I thought that this might be a good time to find out what impressions his recent travels made on him.  True travelers not only like to travel for themselves, but also enjoy listening to the tales of others.

  Quintus:  James, it’s great to catch up.  It’s been a while since we spoke.  From reading your tweets and articles, it looks like you’ve been in Southeast Asia and India this past year.  Where exactly did you go?

  

  James:  Great to see you too, Quintus. Yes, it’s been quite a while. This year I decided to do something completely different and visited Southeast Asia. I left cold and freezing Eastern Europe and flew to warm and tropical Bali. After that I visited Thailand and India.

  Quintus:  How did you get the idea to visit these places?

  James:  That’s a fantastic question, and honestly it just sort of happened. The truth is that I was a bit burned out of Eastern Europe. The winter was especially tough in Ukraine (it got as cold as -30C/-22F), the lack of sun, the depression, the poverty was too much. I knew I needed a break and get away. But where to?

  I wasn’t yet ready for Latin America because I’d already spent many years living there, so I decided to go somewhere new and exciting. I heard great things about Bali, so I figured it was worth a shot.

  I flew to Bali, and lived there for three months. Following that, I flew to Thailand where I also lived for three months (Chiang Mai, Bangkok and the tropical islands in Southern Thailand).

  Quintus:  What sorts of things did you do while you were there?

  James:  I basically rode a scooter and worked out of co-working places. If you haven’t tried it, it’s the best form of transportation out there. It only costs like $50-60 per month to rent and you can drive it anywhere. The gas is only about $10 per month.

  Southeast Asia is also huge on co-working. It’s basically a building where you come in and rent a desk by the hour, day or month. They have superfast Internet, coffee and some snacks. It’s a fantastic place to meet other nomadic entrepreneurs.

  Apart from that, I went to the beaches and had all kinds of great, international food.

  Personally, I found Bali to be more interesting and exotic than Thailand. I feel Thailand is losing its edge as a tourist destination. There are too many tourists and people aren’t as friendly, as say ten years ago, when I first visited the country.

  

  Quintus:  How would you compare Southeast Asia with some of the other countries you’ve lived in?

  James:  Two words: safe and cheap. Southeast Asia is one of the safest regions in the world. It’s much, much safer than Latin America, Europe or America. It’s not uncommon to be approached with a knife in a country like Brazil or Colombia (even in broad daylight as has happened to some of my friends in Rio), but this is practically unheard of Southeast Asia.

  Bali is one of the friendliest regions I’ve been to in the world. Everyone smiles. Everyone is super helpful. It’s also super exotic. Beautiful scenery, architecture, places of worship, that kind of thing.

  Southeast Asia is cheaper than Latin America and Western Europe, but a little bit more expensive than Eastern Europe. In Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I lived for two months, you can rent a decent apartment for $200-250 per month; in Bali it’s more like $350-400/month. A decent lunch or dinner will set you back about $2-5. If you want something nicer, it’ll be around $10.

  One of the downsides of Southeast Asia is that it’s very difficult to connect and integrate with the locals. Both Thailand and Bali are practically overflowing with tourists, so the locals don’t really make any effort to get to know or talk to you. I’ve met many expats in both countries, and almost all of them live in expat communities without mingling with the locals too much.

  Quintus:  Let’s talk about India.  Where did you go in India?

  James:  After spending several months in Thailand, I decided to go for a short trip to India before returning to America. My first plan was to go to Delhi, but a friend who’d been there advised me to go to Mumbai instead. He told me that Delhi isn’t the best destination for someone who’s never been to India because the culture shock might be too much to bear.

  Quintus:  The country seems to get overlooked a lot by Western tourists.  Is there a reason for that?

  James:  Indeed. India is one of the most polarizing countries on the planet because it’s a country of extremes.  Lots of people everywhere.  Lots of poverty.  Lots of garbage.  You can get really sick from badly cooked food.  Lots of people try to rip you off, from taxi drivers to street touts to store owners. Coupled with the fact that Indians have different customs than Westerners or Asians (spitting water out on the street or defecating in plain view), and you have a perfect recipe for a serious culture shock.

  If you get into any of these bad situations (e.g., get sick from the poorly cooked food or get ripped off by an unscrupulous store owner), you’ll develop a certain level of jadedness about the country. I’ve seen this happen to many people that visited India and vowed to never return.

  

  When I told people that I would be traveling to India, the reactions were mostly of disgust and disbelief—in that order. This included my close friends and even family. Nobody could understand why I would go there. And then they began telling me all these things that I should protect myself against, even though none of them have been there.

  Personally, I didn’t harbor negative stereotypes towards Indians or India. During my career as a software developer in Silicon Valley, I worked with many Indians, and all of them were very cool and friendly guys.

  Quintus:  What were your feelings and sensations like the first time you walked around an Indian city?

  James:  India is exotic. As someone who’s been to over 80 countries, I thought I’d seen it all. I was wrong. All of that changed once I walked out of an airport in Mumbai.

  There’s a certain “orderly chaos” in Mumbai. The drivers are constantly honking, producing a certain melody that you get used to really quick.  Lots of people everywhere.  Tons of street food and various kiosks. I even saw a cow walking on one of the main streets.

  Since Mumbai is one of the richest parts of India, I didn’t see much garbage or poverty, at least compared to where I had just arrived from in Southeast Asia. I also didn’t have a culture shock that pretty much everyone strongly warned me about.

  Don’t get me wrong. Bali is also exotic and Thailand is exotic too, but where India is different is that the people are approachable and, for the most part, they speak good English. So, whereas in Bali or Thailand, you’ll always be an outsider, in India, you can immediately connect with people and have a normal conversation in English. As far as I’m concerned, Indians are Southern Europeans with darker skin.

  Quintus:  In your articles, you seemed to use the adjective “rich” when you described India (food, culture, etc.).  Tell us a little more about that.

  James:  Yes, everything about India is rich and colorful. The food is colorful and replete with various interesting spices. Then there’s Bollywood where people dance and sing wearing beautiful clothes. The fact that there’s a movie scene known world over is itself a testament to a rich culture. Name any other country besides America that has that? Finally, there’s the Indian architecture. Beautiful colonial buildings (a relic of British and Portuguese colonizers) mixed with modern buildings.

  Quintus:  What were some of the big lessons you learned from India?

  James:  That there are other amazing countries besides Brazil. [Chuckles]. No, seriously, India is so different than any of the other countries I’ve been to, so the only thing on my mind now is returning and exploring it further, preferably for several months in order to really understand it. Maybe I’ll go there this winter and spend 3-6 months exploring it.

  Quintus:  Do you have any plans to write a travelogue about your Southeast Asia and Indian experiences?  I’m sure guys would love to see that…I know I would.

  James:  I’ve been contemplating doing that, you know real travel writing. Perhaps it’ll be setup on a different site and linked of my main site.

  Quintus:  So, what’s in the future for James Maverick?

  James:  For someone who was tired of traveling, India reignited my traveling spirit. There’s no country out there that I’m excited to visit and explore. Eastern Europe is calling me back, but that’s only because I’m from there and speak Russian fluently. If I wasn’t from there, I probably wouldn’t come back.

  So, India it is. I’ll probably return there later this year. My tentative plan is to fly into Mumbai, and then work my way north, checking Delhi and Taj Mahal. Then perhaps fly south to Goa, and see some of the Portuguese architecture and beaches. They say it’s really nice there in the winter. I can’t wait.

  I’m glad I had the chance to catch up with James.  One of the best things you can do when you’re not traveling is actually talk to someone who has just come back from a long trip.  There is just something about the immediacy of the experience that shows in the person’s speech and demeanor.  The fraternity of travelers is a tight one, linked by common bonds of curiosity, tolerance, and incomparable discovery.

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• Most Commonly Used SJW Subversion Tactics—And How To Defeat Them

  Posted:Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:00:41 +0000

  

  As many of our readers at Return Of Kings understand, SJWs and their ilk represent a formidable foe that interferes with our ability to enjoy lives based on neomasculinity.  As Roosh’s meetup controversy demonstrated, we cannot hope to save the West unless we nullify their power, because they will never stop until we cease to exist.  We can not just simply ignore them in the hopes that they will go away, as they will continually intrude on every sphere of private life possible.

  This situation poses both a challenge and a question for us here at ROK. The challenge lies in making the SJW’s so worthless and toxic to the globalists, that they will no longer protect them with government agencies, courts, academia or Hollywood. The question is how to make that a reality.  My solution to this query consists of understanding the tactics they use against us, the reason being that to defeat an enemy, one must understand them.

  In this article, I will be discussing the tactics used by Code Pink protesters, Antifa thugs, and BLM hooligans. These are the SJWs’ street soldiers and their tactics are effective but predictable.

  The Origin Of Leftist Street Tactics

  

  Some people just want to watch the world burn.

  In the case of leftist street tactics, they can be traced to one person: Saul Alinsky. Born in 1909 to Jewish Russian immigrants, Alinsky spent the majority of his life in Chicago, organizing groups he saw as politically disenfranchised, with particular emphasis being devoted to the South Side of Chicago, a neighborhood which would eventually produce Barack Obama.

  In 1971, he wrote a political primer in which he used his years of experience to set out a series of rules that any group of political agitators should use if they sought to overthrow the established order. This work, complete with a dedication to Lucifer himself, was known as “Rules For Radicals,” and it guaranteed that Alinsky would be forever known amongst hardcore leftists as the “father of community organizing.” Today, virtually every leftist political action group uses his tactics, and Rules For Radicals has even profoundly influenced the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

  Because of this, it is necessary to begin our understanding of leftist tactics with Alinsky’s rules. Because there are 13 distinct rules, each of which requiring a detailed analysis to fully understand, it is necessary to limit this discussion to Alinsky’s three most important rules for brevity’s sake. These particular rules were selected over the rest because of how much SJWs rely on them to conduct their campaign against us.

  Rule 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

  Of all the rules that Alinsky developed, Rule #1 is the one that our readership at ROK will have the easiest time understanding and implementing. This is because it is a politicized and weaponized version of the “frame” rule that is well understood in terms of game. The underlying philosophy behind this rule is to always give off the appearance of power and strength, regardless of the political movement’s true level of popularity. This rule exists not to fool the opposition, but to trick undecided and low information voters into believing that your cause is stronger than it really is.

  A prominent example of this rule in action can be seen at virtually any leftist protest held in a major city. If you observe these protests long enough, you’ll notice that protesters of all types will be participating. If the protest is for environmental causes, you’ll probably see minimum wage advocates, anti-prison advocates, Antifa thugs, and possibly Black Lives Matter types carrying their signs as well. At this point, it’s reasonable to ask why protesters for so many different causes would be at an environmental rally, and the reason is simple: they were paid for and brought in by organizers to make the protest appear bigger.

  

  Protesting for their “right” to jump on cars.

  This is an example of Alinsky’s rule #1 in play, because the organizers of the protest are not only aware of the fact that they comprise an extreme political minority, but also that their beliefs are largely repulsive if explained in plain terms to most of American society. Their solution to these problems consists of packing as many warm bodies in a small space as possible and getting the media to film only them and interview the organizers only.

  If the strategy succeeds, then their protest will appear legitimate and mainstream. The drawback to this strategy, however, is that it requires an organizer to be good at successfully reigning in their people and keeping them on message. It is very easy to troll, trigger, and otherwise throw SJW protesters off message, as the following clip demonstrates:

  In summation, this rule involves using basic human psychology and manipulation to trick society’s lemmings into believing that a cause is more popular than it is. Even Hillary Clinton’s organizers are using this tactic themselves.

  Rule 3 and 4: “Never go outside of the expertise of your people”— “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of your enemy”

  I combined these two rules for discussion because the left always uses both of them simultaneously when pushing an agenda. In order to galvanize their ranks, they follow rule #3 by framing EVERYTHING in the context of the group’s past experiences. If the protesters are black, the SJWs will bring up segregation or slavery as a rallying cry, if they’re Hispanic they’ll use comments made by Donald Trump on deportation.

  This is the reason why the left has a stranglehold on minority communities for voting purposes, because every aspect of their messaging is focused on victimhood and past injustices, and devoid of objective discussions.

  

  To avoid or not avoid the trap? That is the question.

  Contrast this with rule #4, which involves leftists doing everything they can to force any non-leftist or SJW into a political catch-22, in which any answer the victim gives will cost them in the polls. This happened at the tail end of the DNC a few weeks ago with Kazir Khan, the Muslim father of a Muslim son who was killed in 2003 while deployed as a part of Operation: Iraqi Freedom. The DNC used Mr. Khan, who is an ardent supporter of Sharia Law, maintains ties to Saudi Arabia, and runs a law firm that benefits from open borders, to launch a broadside of personal attacks against Donald Trump. 

  Trump was forced into a difficult situation: either he fails to defend himself from criticism and appear weak to his supporters and the world (thus making him no better than Mitt Romney), or he defends himself and is accused of attacking a gold star family. He ultimately chose the latter, which was a painful choice but also the lesser of two evils given the Catch-22 he was in.

  The Khan incident is a perfect example of Rule #4 in action: Republicans are used to being the party that supports the military, whether they do in practice is another issue completely, therefore an effective tactic to use against them is to force them into a situation where they are portrayed by the media as “anti-military.” The Khan incident demonstrated how effective the tactic of forcing your opponent to stray from the political areas in which they’re experienced can be.

  Rule #13: “Pick the target, freeze it, isolate it, polarize it”

  This rule was saved for last because it represents the left’s deadliest tactic. Even though their ideas are morally bankrupt and produce failure and suffering wherever tried, the left is usually able to succeed in implementing them by placing extreme pressure on their opposition. This rule is simple to apply in practice, because it involves the left finding a member of their opposition that appears vulnerable, assessing their weaknesses, and exploiting their weaknesses until that individual breaks down and gives in to them.

  This tactic is evil and insidious in nature because the left will even cause fear and distress in the victim’s family if it means that they’ll succeed.  It doesn’t matter whether their target is part of the vast right wing conspiracy or a leftist that’s been found guilty of not being left-wing enough, leftists and SJWs will apply pressure on this one individual until they cave and concede to their demands, which they will then claim as a victory.

  

  The inevitable price of surrendering to SJWs.

  The only way to overcome Rule #13 is to never EVER give in, and to turn the heat back on those applying pressure. Dan Bongino, who is running for the House of Representatives to represent Florida’s 19th Congressional District was able to do this to CNN’s Don Lemon, when the latter tried to box him into a corner concerning Trump’s recent 2nd Amendment Comments. 

  Final Thoughts

  These rules, and the others created by Saul Alinsky, are extremely effective because they incorporate human psychology and require exploiting weakness wherever it exists. That said, they are also apolitical and predictable, meaning that they are very easy to spot when being used, and can also be used for devastating effect against SJWs as well. All one has to do in order to see this reversal in action is to watch a Milo Yiannapoulos clip on youtube, or one of the many clips or articles hilariously ripping on SJWs such as “trigglypuff.”

  [culturwar]

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• Milo Yiannopoulos Devastates Time Magazine’s Joel Stein And His Pro-Censorship Position

  Posted:Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:00:00 +0000

  

  Time magazine just published an alt-right hit piece by Joel Stein entitled Why We’re Losing The Internet To The Culture Of Hate: How Trolls are Ruining the Internet, effectively calling for internet censorship to assuage hurt feelings of leftists on the internet. Gay conservative Milo Yiannopoulos recently had Stein on his podcast (Youtube link), revealing Stein to be no more than a barely competent typist emotionally pushing the leftist agenda.

  No sooner than Stein comes on Milo’s podcast, Milo levels this blow, calling into question Time’s obvious bias:

  Why are all the victims liberals in your piece? …because I have a theory about this.

  Stein then offered this poorly reasoned rationalization:

  I think they are more upset and more hurt. But I could have [put conservatives in the piece]…lefties get trolled more effectively.

  Leftists might be overly emotional, but even Journalism 101 teaches “journalists” to get both sides of the story. Right away, Milo reveals the biases of Time.

  

  Stein pushes leftist talking points in his shit piece on the alt-right and manosphere

  Indeed, every single one of the victims in the Time piece are leftists, feminists, and other political opponents of the alt-right. Milo then goes on to expose feminists and other leftist “victims” everything from professional grievance mongers to whiny provocateurs who can dish it out but can’t take it. Milo says the grievance mongers actually love the hate they get online because that’s their currency—it gives them fame and fortune.

  As the podcast plays on, Milo continues to assail Stein, running over him with a freight train of logic. He throws out some names that would have at least balanced the article a little if one wants to talk about women being trolled and having their names drug through the mud—Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Margaret Thatcher. All these women were victims of hateful leftists who are never challenged by big media about their internet trolling and flat out lies. Milo says:

  Conservative women get the worse abuse in the world…you made some partisan choices in the victims you chose for this piece. Everybody gets trolled on the internet…but you chose a particular side of the political divide to characterize as victims. You decided you were going to choose women and feminists…

  Predictably, Stein had no rebuttal except to say he “should have” put conservatives in his story in a tone of voice that made him seem like a deer caught in the headlights of unrelenting logic from Milo. He then couldn’t resist playing the victim card himself saying “it’s very easy to troll me because my last name is Jewish.” Huh? Apparently, it never occurred to Stein that in writing a cover story for a supposedly unbiased national magazine he might need to try and balance his coverage a bit. Milo goes on:

  [Michelle Malkin is] a very prominent conservative blogger in the United States wrote a book about [being trolled] and yet you didn’t interview her, you chose feminists. Put me through the reasoning.

  Stein again had no logical comeback or reasonable excuse. It’s thorughly enjoyable to hear a leftist from Time magazine speechless as his tower of lies and half-truths comes crashing down all around him.

  The Media Velvet Glove Conceals The Government Iron Fist

  

  Milo peels back the velvet glove of the media and reveals the iron fist in this interview

  Beyond astounding bias, make no mistake Stein is playing his role setting up the narrative that we need government intervention to protect us from the internet so Hillary can take control of it, if God forbid she wins this year’s election. His piece uses the tried and true Hegelian dialectic model of proposing a preconceived solution to a “problem” the media invents out of whole cloth. Let’s take a closer look at the hit piece in question. Stein wrote:

  It would be smarter to be cautious, because the Internet’s personality has changed. Once it was a geek with lofty ideals about the free flow of information. Now, if you need help improving your upload speeds the web is eager to help with technical details, but if you tell it you’re struggling with depression it will try to goad you into killing yourself.

  Always remember media propaganda is usually based on spurious claims like this one. If someone is that emotionally sensitive that internet trolls push them to the edge of suicide, they might not need to be on the internet in the first place. Or they might not need to be alive because people are mean whether they’re online or not. Just look at how mean Stein is stereotyping the entire alt-right and manosphere as nothing but evil trolls.

  One must understand, as Milo obviously does, the media and government work hand in hand. The media is the velvet glove concealing the government’s iron fist. The media constantly pushes campaigns of fear, and in response an increasingly tyrannical government is only too happy to come up with all sort of new laws and regulations designed to “protect us” when in reality our freedoms and our money end up getting taken away and the “problem” never gets solved but it does get forgotten about by the scandal sheet writers. This is the case with pushing the “hate speech” narrative. The idea the government needs to “fix it” will come later, after the narrative has been established.

  One of the leftist women featured in Time article’s victim parade is feminist Anita Sarkeesian, who made her name by using the victim card. From the Time article:

  In 2012, after feminist Anita Sarkeesian started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of YouTube videos chronicling misogyny in video games, she received bomb threats at speaking engagements, doxxing threats, rape threats and an unwanted starring role in a video game called Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian.

  Milo nuked this claim:

  Feminists don’t do anything, they don’t write books about it. They’re lazy…[feminists] whine professionally to journalists and get all kinds of press about it and donations for their fundraising drives. These people don’t produce very much, they tend to be primarily famous for whining about harassment on the internet particularly when their careers start stalling. The way Sarkeesian got famous was she went on a round of interviews claiming she was getting abused and harassed, and she was getting all these death and rape threats. She wasn’t at the time but then she started getting them…and she got all this round of nice press from credulous journalists.

  He then uses the Sarkeesian example to destroy the liberal victim narrative:

  My reasoning is that the reason people always go with these liberal victims is that feminism is capitalizing on men’s natural chivalrousness and instinct…from all the journalists like you whose natural instinct is to protect women. Love them. Cherish them. Nurture them. I think you’re being abused by opportunistic gender activists. I think what’s happening is they’re coming to you with sob stories that you and other journalists in the media we don’t like very much, the “mainstream” media…we would say that you guys are credulous. We would say that you guys don’t check your facts. We would say that you guys don’t look into these [feminists].

  

  Attention feminists and other leftists: Your victim card is about to expire

  Whining indeed gets feminists political power and attention as they play victims and the media bends over to kiss their fat asses. Check out this excerpt as Stein attacks the alt-right and manosphere while implying Big Daddy Government needs to step in and police online speech. The implications of his proposal are frightening:

  The alt-right’s favorite insult is to call men who don’t hate feminism “cucks,” as in “cuckold.” Republicans who don’t like Trump are “cuckservatives.” Men who don’t see how feminists are secretly controlling them haven’t “taken the red pill,” a reference to the truth-revealing drug in The Matrix. They derisively call their adversaries “social-justice warriors” and believe that liberal interest groups purposely exploit their weakness to gain pity, which allows them to control the levers of power. Trolling is the alt-right’s version of political activism, and its ranks view any attempt to take it away as a denial of democracy.

  Attention, Mr. Stein. The First Amendment was not written to protect polite speech. It was written to protect offensive speech, particularly offensive speech of the political type. That’s exactly what “cuckservatives” is, offensive (if truthful) political speech. In case you didn’t get enough of Stein’s victim card playing, here’s some more:

  When sites are overrun by trolls, they drown out the voices of women, ethnic and religious minorities, gays–anyone who might feel vulnerable. Young people in these groups assume trolling is a normal part of life online and therefore self-censor. An anonymous poll of the writers at TIME found that 80% had avoided discussing a particular topic because they feared the online response.

  Once again Stein falls back on the old gnome of women, ethnic and religious minorities having the Superior Virtue of the Oppressed, victimized at the hand of evil white male conservatives.

  Another interesting exchange had Stein labeling multimillionaire actors and actresses as “sensitive, emotional” people. Milo once again slices through the bull:

  You’re kidding, right? We probably know as many people as one another, right. 75% of them…pure sociopaths. They don’t do things by accident.

  Stein, obviously backed into a corner and bleeding, then tried to laughably use the conspiracy theory claim on Milo for claiming most people in the media are self-serving assholes. It didn’t work. As someone who has worked in newsrooms all over the country, Milo is right. Most people on TV whether small time or big time are pure sociopaths and consummate game players.

  Quite honestly, one would expect more from a man writing the Time cover story than this feeble reasoning.

  We Finally Have a Voice

  

  In the Crossfire: Milo on the right, one of the growing chorus of voices challenging Cultural Marxism and its narratives

  The Time article was obviously nothing more than hit piece on the alt-right, in what is a coordinated effort to have us shut up. Hillary attacked us last week. Time did a hit piece on us. Facebook and Twitter are banning people for speech they don’t approve of. (Milo knows all about that). The genius of this interview is in the fact Milo reframed the argument and put leftists like Stein on the defense. This interview is a case study in screwing up the left’s narratives. Gentlemen, we must relentlessly reframe and put the left on the defense as Milo so masterfully did if we are to mark a turning point in the culture war.

  The beauty of the internet is the Silenced Majority is now having our say. And the power structure does not like it one bit. Expect more hit pieces, character assassinations, and labeling of the alt-right as evil oppressors in the coming months and years. We are the last bastion of truly free speech in the country. We have two choices: uncontrolled speech that might hurt someone’s feelings, or Pravda. Stein obviously prefers the latter. Remember: reframe, and put lefties on the defense. Works every time. Listen to this interview. Remember it well. It plays like an instruction manual on how to devastate blowhard lefties.

  Globalists and the power structure obviously want to shut us up. Which is why we need to get even louder.

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• 20 More Degenerate Cultures Of Our Dystopian Society

  Posted:Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:00:00 +0000

  

  Our society is declining so fast that there seems to be new form of degeneracy popping out every week. In addition to the twenty degenerate cultures I’ve listed in my previous article, here are twenty more that you should be aware of for your enjoyment. Really, we’re living in a special era that will be studied by anthropologists or aliens in the distant future when all this madness leads to its eventual conclusion. So, instead of getting all flustered, try to enjoy the show when you still can.

  1. Electronic Screen Addiction Culture

  

  You don’t realize just how much we worship the electronic screen until you see others do it. How long do you think it’ll be before the screens get permanently attached to our heads or even our irises?

  2. Internet War Culture

  

  I’m also guilty of internet jockeyism.

  The internet has become the safe-space battleground for the plebs to fight amongst one another while the elites are robbing the people blind and destroying nations in the real world. But forget that, let’s go back online to insult someone for having a different opinion!

  3. Pleasure Uber Alles Culture

  

  “Oh, eating this “food” is going to make me fat and give me diabetes? Who cares, it’s delicious.”

  “Bored? Life sucks? Oh well, I’ll play video games all day. Screw the real world.”

  “Marriage, family, and children? lol, I’m too busy drinking like a whale and riding the cock-carousel.”

  4. Attention At All Cost Culture

  

  Speaking of pleasures, attention is the easiest way to fire dopamines in your brain without having to give up anything (and unlike food or drugs, you can’t crash or wreck yourself). It’s no wonder that attention today is the most highly sought currency in our world of Facebook, Tinder, Instagram, and more.

  5. Assault Through Disgust Culture

  

  Being disgusting on purpose to get attention is exactly what they’re aiming for.

  The best thing about attention is that it doesn’t have to be positive; it can be won just by being disgusting enough for people to notice. Some people turn it into a game where it is both a weapon and a competition to see how much reaction can be provoked.

  6. Celebrity Worship Culture

  

  You know the civilization is due for the reset button when these skanks are put on television instead of going on the guillotine.

  Serious question: Why do people even worship celebrities? What do they even get out of it? Are the stars supposed to be surrogate gods and heroes in a world without any? Are people today so stupid and inane that they have to look up to entertainers to feel good about their own worthless lives?

  7. Spectator Culture

  

  Judging by his reaction, he appears to have just accomplished something profoundly valuable for the advancement of his own life.

  No one wants to accomplish anything for themselves anymore. People are spending more and more time watching movies, sports, porn, television shows, news, and so on so that they can go on the internet and talk about them as if they’re actually important.

  8. “Get Rich” Culture

  

  We all know that life’s only purpose is to make money and get rich. If you don’t like that, you’re just a loser who can’t make it. Now, click this link within the next ten seconds to learn my secret on how to make money FAST—but you first have to buy my books and products that show you how awesome my life is.

  9. “It’s so hard being me” Culture

  

  “Oh, boohoo, you don’t know how hard it is to be a [woman, black, homosexual, Jew, Muslim, trans-whatever, etc.]. Now give me your tears and cash you oppressor scum.”

  10. Supplicating Male Culture

  

  Men are becoming increasingly domesticated in a world that tries to subjugate and exploit them. The white-knights and male feminist chihuahuas among them will bark at you and defend the man-hating feminist pukes just because they have a vagina. I wonder if these rag dolls even realize that the “misogynists” they hate are having sex with the women they’re defending while they themselves are get nothing for picking up the tap and throwing themselves down as doormats.

  11. Letting Yourself Go Culture

  

  Why make any effort in the world to be decent when the society itself isn’t? When you see someone who just seems to have lost any and all sense of shame, it’s their way of saying, “I don’t care about anything. I have no control over my life.” This is what happens to a dying civilization with no values and no standards.

  12. Reaction Formation Culture

  

  This is what Freud calls the slip of the unconscious.

  Reaction formation is a way of covering your true nature by behaving the opposite way. It shouldn’t be a surprise for us to find out that there are many feminists who secretly crave being dominated and have fantasies about getting raped. I’m also certain that most male feminists are secretly perverts or closet rapists. The MGTOW’s do their part too by screaming about how they don’t care about women via bitching about them non-stop.

  13. Victim Faking Culture

  

  Wishful fantasy gone too far or an unbelievable lie for attention whoring?

  As I’ve said in my previous article, being recognized as a victim is a privileged honor. It is so precious that people will go as far as to fake it by lying and committing hate crimes against themselves to achieve it.

  14. Social Justice Culture

  

  How dedicated you are to social justice is directly co-related to how little self-worth and discipline you possess. In other words, the less accomplished you are and the less self-control you have over yourself, the more you need to compensate by being an “activist” and the more you need to control other people’s behaviors to relieve your anxiety.

  15. Give Up Culture

  

  Give-up-itis is a disease that comes in several forms:

  “I’m so used to getting everything from my parents and the government, don’t make me make an effort in life!”

  “If I talk to women I’ll automatically get divorced and go to jail for rape, so I’m going to bitch at other men who are more successful.”

  “People should just accept me for the fat and disgusting pigturd that I am, I don’t live my life to please anyone except my stomach and my taste buds!”

  16. Internet Witch Hunt Culture

  

  “Hey, look! Someone has a political opinion we don’t like, let’s ruin his life!”

  17. Technological Serfdom Culture

  

  “It’s okay, no one’s forcing us.”

  More technology means less freedom. Every new invention will become normalized and you’ll be forced to choose between “getting on with the times” or cutting yourself off from the society. I can’t wait for the sheeple to start telling everyone who resists that we can “moderate” or choose not to use technology when they become requirements for jobs, communication, and basic social function. They’re already trying to ban cash and are employing surveillance in every technological device we use, where are we supposed to run away to?

  18. Virtue Signaling Culture

  

  I think virtue signaling is a side-effect of today’s education that is more interested in spreading degeneracy than actually teaching the youth something useful. The kids who were trained to be “good” for listening to the teachers are now adults doing the same thing to get praise from the society. The people who engage in these shenanigans want to get the figurative pat on the head for expressing opinions that the current culture tells them to have. It’s also a form of attention-whoring for those with low self-esteem.

  19. Self-hate Culture

  

  “Look how progressive I am! Isn’t it hip that I hate my race so much?”

  It’s now not enough to just feel guilty about your own identity (ie. cis-gender, white, male) while propping up the “oppressed” group, you must now show off how enlightened you are by actively hating your own identity for the public to see.

  20. Using Children As Culture War Cannon Fodders Culture

  

  Guess which societies of the past indoctrinated children for ideological battles?

  In a dangerously bigoted world like today, children need to be brainwashed educated from a young age to become the foot-soldiers for social justice lest they grow up and start to think for themselves.

  Conclusion

  

  Degeneracy doesn’t just stop on its own; the rot will continue on because it can. And whatever you may hope for, there has never been an instance where social degeneracy was reversed by a counter current without vehement force or a full collapse. Know that the societal decay of today cannot last much longer—you must brace yourselves for what is to come.

  Read More: 20 Degenerate “Cultures” That Have Formed The Dystopia We’re Living In 

• Roosh Q&A: 19 Answers To Globalism & Politics Questions

  Posted:Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:00:23 +0000

  

  The next Q&A video is on globalism and world politics:

  Here’s the index so you can jump around:

  0:06
  “Why do you care about what happens to Western civilization, or Europeans for that matter? Is it a disgust for injustice, source of intellectual stimulation, you’re mostly attracted to white chicks, or is there a deeper conviction than that?” (CLARK KENT)

  2:43
  “The outcry against the world tour in Canada last year, and the strong opposition to the Tribal meetups in February 2016 was a clear sign the establishment see us as a real and credible threat….how can we regroup and become stronger together to bring about the changes in society that we want to see?” (MERCENARY)

  4:33
  “Do you think Germany and Sweden will look like Latin America in the future? With a extremely racially mixed population and no dominant culture?” (KRATISTOS)

  7:35
  “What do you think are the odds of stopping the globalists?” (THOMAS)

  10:39
  “Hey I see that they are growing tensions in Europe to the point where there will be civil war and mostly in France Germany and Sweden because of the high rates a sexual assault and sexual molestation that the immigrants are doing, how do you think it will turn out will the local population win if there is a civil war or will the government beat them and have the migrants completely take over and demoralized the local population? Do you think the outcome will be?” (DARRIUS)

  12:44
  “Do you think the West can turn itself around and prevent the major collapse, or will the West have to fall apart entirely before we can rebuild our civilization?” (BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER)

  15:32
  “You constantly refer to the elites and the establishment (i.e. as a specific group of people) as the cause of the west’s ills. In your opinion, why is it that the elites of the 21st century west are destructive, whereas in the 17th,18th&19th centuries (i.e. enlightenment onwards until WW1) they were constructive?” (PHOENIX)

  18:43
  “Do you think there is an agenda involving the genocide of white/Caucasian people?” (JAKE THE MUSS)

  21:35
  “Of all the propaganda out there, which method have you found to be the most interesting and/or surprising?” (SNOWPLOW)

  23:59
  “What do you think about Milo and the other attention whore that kissed him publicly?” (BETTER DEAD THAN RED)

  25:50
  “Are there any arguments from feminists that you do agree with? Do you have any sympathies for the 20ish American girl? How does that contrast to the perspective they have?” (COSINE88)

  28:47
  “What can we do on our everyday life for changing the current course taking place in western civilization? Your bang books showed us how to take a profit out of it, and your last book freedom of speech isnt free showed us what’s wrong with the world. How can we find a healthy place in the middle of those two worlds you’ve been mastering in the last decade, Roosh?” (DAVID HANS 3344)

  32:00
  “How are we going to prevent The Male Happy Hour disaster from happening again? How are like minded ROK member suppose to meet in public without being lynched by angry mobs and lose our jobs?” (BENDER BENDING RODRIGUEZ)
  “I just would like to know what you think we can all do to get the meet-ups started again, safely and successfully?” (NICK BLACK)

  34:15
  “Do you believe in the Holocaust? I know you are Iranian so I know you don’t but anyway I’d like to see if you answer this question.”
  (SUBAL SAKHA DAS)

  35:20
  “Why are we making the Jews an enemy? If anything, Netanyahu and the Jewish ‘tribe’ are an example to follow to preserve our traditions, but not stagnate ourselves in a neo-luddite anti-technology binge.” (FITZ ROY SOMERSET)

  38:11
  “Your theory of depopulation by ways of immigrants makes sense. I always believed the world was overpopulated, however. But it has a possible hole, people equal taxpayers. Do you believe this means that the “lower population” then simply pays more taxes?” (TYKO STEAMBOAT)

  40:06
  “What makes you think that Yuri Bezmenov is telling the truth now? (Meaning up until his death.)” (DEBEGUILED)

  41:33
  “Now that you know the massive Jewish influence behind Western culture nowadays, do you still believe “White nationalism is another term for White knighting”? (If it was you who said that, don’t remember for certain) Should White guys white knight white girls so that White civilisation doesn’t go down in flames?” (CENTURION)

  44:39
  “Your latest video, the future of the world, suggests that the future may not be so peaceful and prosperous. My question is what should we do to protect ourself and the people around us from the worst case scenario?” (IL SORPASSO)

  Previous Video: 33 Answers To Personal Questions Asked Of Me

• A Guide To Both Types Of Overhead Press

  Posted:Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:00:38 +0000

  

  The shoulders are often considered to be a short-hand for the masculine form in particular—and rightfully so for the simple fact that men do, on average, have broader shoulders than women. And the variety of aphorisms and folk wisdoms pertaining to the deltoids: “Carrying other people on your shoulders”, “Standing on the shoulders of giants”, and (obliquely) Atlas Shrugged allude to the nature of men to bear tremendous weights upon their mighty shoulders. Any cartoonist will differentiate males and females by giving the former a broad chest and shoulders.

  

  A broad and powerful upper body is useful for a variety of tasks, not the least of which is lifting things over your head. While having strong shoulders will help you with all of your upper body exercises, I would argue that of the two main types of upper body press (bench and overhead and all their permutations), the overhead is the more practical and useful of the two.

  While my appreciation of the bench press has already been established on this website, I will acknowledge that you’re not likely to be in a position outside the gym where you’ll be on your back lifting things upwards. However, you will undoubtedly have to lift a heavy object over your head while standing on your feet at some point in your life—whether it’s moving a box into an attic or lifting a nubile young lady over your head in a ballroom is for you to decide.

  Exercise Overview

  There are several exercises that involve standing on your two feet and lifting a weight over your head. Like all exercises worth doing, this basic concept has a julienne of variations that can be done—two hands, one hand, wide grip, narrow grip—but the two variations that I will discuss today are the push press and the military press.

  

  These two exercises are the best things you can do for development of shoulder strength, and the push press is one of the most practical exercises you can do for training for the rigors of daily life.

  Both exercises involve lifting a loaded barbell from the chest to over the head with arms locking out, with the main difference being that the military press locks the back and legs and strictly uses the arms and shoulders, while the push press, as the name implies, uses the legs as a boost. The push press is also known as the “jerk,” as in the second component of the Olympic lift known as the “clean and jerk” (the Olympic lifts are a discipline that are even more about technique than they are sheer muscular strength, and they do require an immense amount of strength. As such they will require a separate article).

  For your purposes, I will allow you to use a rack or power cage, rather than demanding that you clean the weight up from the floor to your chest. This is because an improperly performed clean is a fast way to throwing out your back or blowing out your knees.

  

  Place the barbell on the level of the rack that is comfortable for you to lift to your chest, and load it with the amount of weight you want. As usual, I will advocate that you start light and do the exercise with proper form.

  Take the barbell and hold it to your chest. This is the start position.

  Some lifters prefer to keep their wrists locked and forward as seen on the left, and some prefer to roll their wrists back slightly and roll them forward on the lift. I will advise you to just do whichever feels natural to you (I find that rolling the wrists back forces the collarbone to bear some of the weight, and thus makes me lift slightly more, but if you choose this, don’t roll them back too much!)

  

  This, the two exercises have in common, but it is of course here that they deviate from each other. The military press is the simpler of the two: Keep your back tight, and your legs locked, and lift the weight up with your arms and shoulders

  

  I will emphasize that for both of these exercises, you must keep the back tight and straight, and look forward. Looking up at the ceiling risks having your back bend backwards (the neck is part of the spine, after all), and bending your back with 100+ pounds over your head is a very bad idea. Note that your back may bend slightly, but as long as you don’t feel pain, this is tolerable.

  In addition to this, make sure that you keep your arms either level or slightly in front of your head, as keeping the arms behind the head can lead to some nasty rotator cuff injuries if you fail to lift properly.

  Lock the arms out, and then lower the weight down in a controlled manner.

  The Push Press

  The push press is considered by some to be not as “pure” as the military press, but as it will enable you to lift more weight than the military press, I would advise doing both. Plus the matter of practicality for daily life I discussed above.

  Beginning in the start position, bend the legs about 25-30 degrees. Then, keeping your neck and back straight, explosively push up with your feet and simultaneously push up with the arms, lifting the barbell over your head.

  

  Yours truly with 205 pounds. Note that my head is forward

  Do both of these exercises, and get the broad shoulders that your woman wants to snuggle up to, lest she find another guy who can provide them.

  Read More: How To Do A Proper Bench Press

• Moneyball Is A Parable Of Masculinity

  Posted:Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:00:29 +0000

  

  If you do not know the story of Billy Beane, here is a preface: played in the 2011 movie Moneyball by Brad Pitt, Beane was the General Manager (and is now the executive vice president) of the Oakland Athletics major league baseball team.

  Back in 2002, he changed the methodology of the game by adapting some far-out, newfangled strategy called “sabermetrics,” which took a mathematics approach to a perceived game of instincts and savvy. Sabermetrics was ahead of its time; where scouts believed a hitter’s potential came down to force of character and pure athleticism, sabermetrics proposed that the key to a good hitter was, in fact, in his ability to get on base, be it a walk or a hit.

  

  Peter Brand (Jonah Hill): Billy Beane’s assistant and brain trust, who advises, “your goal should be to buy wins”.

  As Beane’s Assistant GM Paul DePodesta (known as “Peter Brand” in the film and played by Jonah Hill) stated, “your goal shouldn’t be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins.” Taunted, dismissed, at times blatantly threatened, the Beane-Brand partnership prevailed in applying this controversial approach to the A’s 2002-2003 season’s lineup.

  What does this cinematic tale mean? Specifically, how does Moneyball add up as a great “parable of masculinity”? Well, many reasons, but first, it helps to have context: Moneyball was directed by Bennett Miller, who crafted the masterful 2014 wrestling film, Foxcatcher. Both films, respectively, wrestle (Foxcatcher literally) with masculine ideals and centre on male characters who are naturally competitive and have a strong will for greatness. 

  Where Foxcatcher resembles a Greek tragedy, Moneyball is, mostly, a success story. “Mostly” because, like real life, stories should not be relayed as black-and-white and sweet-or-sour. True, the A’s lose in the AL Elimination Game. True, Beane declined the general manager job for a team that won the World Series two years later (and broke its perennial Bambino’s Curse). And true, by the film’s end, Billy “is still trying to win that last game of the season.”

  

  In “Foxcatcher”, Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo, right) is the Billy Beane character–resolute, skillful, intelligent–and the centre of the film’s tragedy.

  But throughout the course of the film, in spite of all his opponents and obstacles, Beane never loses track of his individuality and integrity. He stands by his decisions, even in the absence of light, and stays true to them until they hold true to all of baseball.

  One of the greatest obstacles for all men is overcoming those pangs of self-doubt. That often unshakeable insecurity of questioning your thoughts, convictions, and actions, and wondering if you should cave at the behest of a brash majority or vocal minority. When it comes to principles–something this decadent modern era seems to lack–one should look to what Thomas Jefferson said and “stand like a rock.” Billy Beane, indeed, stands like a rock—his unwavering flag of audacity planted firmly in the ground.

  As GM, Beane was already regarded with a certain amount of respect by his colleagues. He had experience as a pro baseball player (played for the Mets, Twins, Tigers, and A’s), where most managers did not. But when Beane presents the eccentric idea of sabermetrics (pioneered by pork-and-beans worker, Bill James), his credibility is put at stake. Still, Billy keeps his cool, spits tobacco into his paper cup, and deduces to a table full of fogey scouts: “If we try to play like the Yankees in here, we will lose to the Yankees out there.”

  

  The real Billy Beane, executive vice president of the Oakland Athletics.

  Firstly, that is one of Billy’s great (and manly) strengths: he is an expert purveyor of logic. Sitting at the end of the boardroom table, Beane reminds his scouts if the Athletics try to “play like the Yankees in here, [they] will lose to the Yankees out there.” As harebrained as sabermetrics first sounds, Beane explains himself calmly, but not without some sardonic wit to boot (“there are rich teams and there are poor teams… then there’s fifty feet of crap… and then there’s us”).

  Repeatedly, Beane experiences confrontations that, if dealt incorrectly (that is, with irrational emotions), could damage his integrity or reputation as GM. But Beane handles it like a champ, never conceding points or cowering to low-blow character attacks. While Beane does come off a little carefree, that is more of a defence mechanism against the swaths of in-house skepticism. In reality, he is firm, strong-minded, and respectful of his associates’ views. He listens, so he can properly deal with objections from the coaching staff.

  For instance, Beane’s initial conversation with head coach Art Howe (played by the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman) about his shaky one-year contract is dealt with supremely. Billy explains that he can’t look at Art’s short-term contract until he puts the players on the field. Until then, Beane affirms, everything is “on” him. Beane is essentially warding off a nagging kvetch using sound logic, while being fair—he puts all the onus on himself, giving Art no further course of argument.

  

  “There’s fifty feet of crap… then there’s us”: Beane breaks down reality to a room full of skeptics.

  This is what makes Beane not only a true man, but a true leader (should they not be one and the same?). He is always willing to assume responsibility – i.e. when the responsibility is truly his. At first, he makes some excuses. He whines to A’s co-owner Steve Schott about the team’s low budget, but gets up off his butt and owns the reality of his predicament.

  He acquires Peter Brand, a Yale economics graduate who has an uncanny way with numbers and codifying player performance. Together, they dump expensive players for cheap underdogs. Originally in a tough fix, Beane pulls through by making personal, calculated decisions that ultimately alter the landscape of baseball.

  An important subplot of Moneyball shows Beane as a divorced father. There’s an interesting scene where Beane waits for his daughter at his ex-wife’s home. Her new husband (played effetely by Spike Jonze) sits across from Beane, asking him inane, uninformed questions about baseball. We can’t help but wonder: “did Billy’s ex-wife hedge her bets or something with this beta?”

  

  The Billy Beane-Peter Brand partnership that turned the whole MLB right-side up.

  As the conversation sputters, Beane learns that his ex and her boytoy gave his daughter a cell phone. When the boyfriend sheepishly says Billy can be part of that decision (even though it’s obviously too late), Beane dominantly replies “her mother and I will discuss it, but thank you.”

  That’s another one of Beane’s masculine virtues in this film. He handles bullshit, fakery, and macho hostility with a Stoic’s acuity. Consider the scene below where head scout Grady Fuson criticizes Billy’s new crusade with “Google boy” Brand. When Grady asks to have “a word,” Beane knows the scout has a major gripe and immediately decides he won’t succumb to the tension.

  Before Grady can say anything, Billy slaps his hands (a good, though kind of theatrical, way of commanding an opponent’s attention) and inquires, “you’re not happy, Grady… why.” Immediately, Beane has called out Grady’s agenda, disarming him. Beane is direct with his opponent and pulls no punches (literally): “adapt or die,” he asserts. Frustrated, Grady aggressively puts a hand on Billy’s shoulder, which he immediately shucks off. Notice how Beane doesn’t physically escalate and buy into Grady’s macho theatrics. Instead, he calmly fires the incensed Grady–not simply because he can but, with this physical threat, Beane now has every right to.

  Following this code of conduct will help you win in life and overcome the many, many conflicts you will face as a man in a system that wants you to fail. It is what separates the alphas from the betas. You should face these conflicts head-on, because if you don’t that means you have not been a challenge to the powers that be and you are just another pawn in the game of life. 

  Billy Beane is the opposite: he represents the struggles of a man in a powerful position, who uses his authority to challenge the system from the top-down. He accepts that “it’s a process” to stand out from the crowd and separate yourself from the status quo, all while staying true to his principles. That is the basic parable of Moneyball: it is not about the joys of playing America’s greatest game and staying in “the show,” but about changing the way it should be played. Billy Beane’s achievements should be a guide for every man who challenges an existing flawed system.

  Read More: The Parable of Aepyornis Island

• A Gentleman’s Pleasure: Collecting Pieces Of History

  Posted:Sat, 27 Aug 2016 22:00:30 +0000

  

  In a normal world, every generation inherits something from its fathers and forefathers. The inheritance may consist of traditions, cultural identities, abilities associated to a particular work, and actually so many things it would be near impossible to make an exhaustive list of what we take from the past. As the elder brother amongst his siblings, my uncle received a gold signet ring with his initials written on it when he finished high school with honours.

  Today, it seems hard to spot any potential inheritance from our parents’ generation. Many baby boomers rent their flat, work in a cubicle—which means they usually have no trade to teach and no example of fatherhood to give—own 60s rock n’ roll vinyl records or other cultural products that have neither moral nor financial value. Behind their flower power and party culture looms a striking lack.

  Americans may think they do not really need to inherit anything. After all, the American dream is about making oneself, working one’s ass off and becoming rich. Yet, now, a growing number of red-pilled youths know that the market is already full, too competitive, and even if they managed to get ahead of the competition, they would be punished through taxes and media shaming. The Constitution is less of a true inheritance than a holy scrap, and entrepreneurship, though meritorious, does barely count as inheritance at all.

  If we want to live in a healthy world, we have to create it again. Likewise, if we want inheritance for both us and our future children, we will have to make it too—not out of the blue but at least by reclaiming and owning again what is rightfully ours. One way to do it is through collecting pieces of history. In a deregulated world, where everything tends to go away or get merchandized, owning solid remnants of our ancestors’ deeds feels good, and not merely for the financial value of these pieces.

  As for myself, I enjoy bibliophilia, i.e. collecting venerable old or rare books, but you are obviously free to adapt the present piece to whatever gentlemanly purpose such as collecting spades, militaria, or homely furniture. Just make sure you do not ruin yourself in uninteresting DVDs, Pokemon cards or other material that will fall apart and turn worthless over the next years.

  Rewarding yourself (without complacency)

  

  Just add a glass of scotch and that’s it.

  By definition, what is well-made, well-conserved and comes from a more or less distant past is estimated, which means it is also more or less rare and expensive. Buying something like that is not as easy as it sounds. Someone may sell rare books in an excellent state, yet you can’t understand the language these books are written in, or their topic is not relevant to your interests. Someone may sell a rare book relevant to your interests and endowed with a beautiful leather cover, yet when you receive it you notice the poor state of the pages. Someone sells a rare book with every part in a fair state, a book you can read and could proudly display in our interior, but the seller is clever, wants to squeak every penny he can from the book, and his product is damn too expensive.

  Finding something you can buy or negotiate and that is actually interesting can be a challenge. When you succeed at this and receive the interesting object at home, you can think of it as a fair reward for your curiosity and research, let alone the money spent.

  Becoming knowledgeable about whatever you own

  

  To the point when your bookshelf starts attracting random cats.

  The objects we are talking about come with a history. I have seen a book from the 1890s, widely sold in paperback, bought by a wealthy man who paid a craftsman to make him a fully leathered cover with gilt letterings and dentells inside. This now unique book was later bought by an academic who eventually died and then back on a now world wide market.

  Whatever you set your sights on, if you stick to it long enough, you will by necessity become knowledgeable about it. A genuine bibliophile knows about the ex-libris, half-leather or signature. More importantly, you are able to touch and maneuver the objects, which gives you a direct knowledge of them. You know a book is old enough when the ‘s’ are written as ‘ſ.’ Is that snobbery? Perhaps a bit, but I would better see it as picking up the torch of a high part of culture and making it alive through ourselves.

  A direct and independent access to history

  

  Ah, the sweet pleasure of reading a book written by a Scot yet translated in French because said language was then the European lingua franca.

  Usually, if you want to know about the history of something, you need to go through official specialists, take courses or visit museums. While this is all a normal part of life, having some of the thing between your hands changes completely the relation you have to it. Suddenly, this is not a mummified artifact that had something to do with your ancestors and has been bought by the State or some banker to be arrogantly displayed, but something you can relate with at a much higher degree.

  Cutting some never-folded pages with a sharp knife, cautiously enough to let the page borders straight. Cracking open an eighteenth-century book directly without having to go through Google books or some library. Reading a book that would hardly be printed in a Western editor today, or perhaps into some political ghetto, and that was printed at a major editor to be openly sold and read… These are some of the pleasures afforded by bibliophily.

  They entail relating to a past that may be more or less distant in time, but somehow still close and perhaps not finished at all. In a museum, these things are dead artifacts that make money for a bunch of soldouts. In my hands, they become lively again and are more where they actually belong.

  A supplement of soul

  

  Bum bibliophilia: when your precious eighteenth century books look like an old, worn bunch of paper… to the uninitiated.

  Collecting artifacts that are valuable on your eyes is cool. It says something about you. Whatever you choose to collect, this says something about what you care about, enjoy using and learn to be good at. In game, these artifacts may bring you a “supplement of soul” and personality by their sheer historical value and help to relate with girls who might have at least some consideration for said objects. Be careful though, because the line between being passionate about something and being a braggart is sometimes all too easy to cross.

  Market knowledge and intuition

  

  To a bibliophile this looks like a treasure trove. Is it?

  Like anything that can be exchanged, bought and sold, valuable objects of any type have their own market. And market prices and stocks change constantly due to a variety of factors. When you check constantly the prices of various interesting objects, and how some get bought off or appear on the market, you grow an intuitive sense of what’s of value or not. And you learn to spot the true opportunities there too. This market sensitivity is analogous to the new sense one acquires through game practice: after getting used to spot the beautiful and/or available girls around, these girls “appear” to one’s look without effort. Experience is about going from a sheer desire or fantasy to a realistic assessment of various situations—and it shows that different domains tend to follow the same dynamics. (Actually, everything has been turning into more and more of a giant market, and this is something we ought to master if we want to take some of these things away from a ruthless, globalized capitalism.)

  Sometimes the good stuff is cheap and just requires someone able to sense it before seizing it. Sometimes average stuff is incredibly expensive and overrated, as if all sellers had been tacitly agreeing to maintain high prices. Which, as in any market, can actually happen, especially around very rare books that require a great deal of erudition to be acknowledged.

  Recently, a bookseller going bankrupt has been selling his stock at half price. I had sworn to myself not to buy more books for a while but the occasion was too good to miss. Finally, I managed to get 13 books for 100 euros including rare, old, out-of-print and interesting books that would have been 200-300 euros had I bought them to other sellers.

  Of course, things are not always that easy: remember the special one with a unique cover? I would have been glad to buy it… except that it was expensive (even considering the pedigree) and disappeared after a few weeks. Definitely, your humble servant was not the only one interested.

  Speculation

  

  Definitely, this aspect is neither the most elegant nor appealing of the trade, but being gentlemanly does not prevent one from needing money at times. If you really need to, being able to sell high what you bought cheaply is always good—as long as what you are trading is more important than making money and exploiting the others. I once found an original letter from the great intellectual Lothrop Stoddard, to my knowledge neither reprinted nor copied anywhere, sold 30 euros. Rather cheap, isn’t it? That letter I would not sell for less than 150 euros, a price in line with the prices of many letters from celebrities and “great men,” yet selling it would be but a last resort option. A relic from a genuinely outstanding intellectual has a moral value that can’t be boiled down to a 120 euros margin.

  Something to pass on your children

  

  These books (which I highly recommend) can be read for free on the Internet, but having them at hand and on a bookshelf ‘feels’ immensely better.

  Neomasculine children will know quite early how resilient and autonomous they will have to be for merely surviving in the world of tomorrow. They will start doing what we do earlier on. This does not mean they have to be overly individualistic, thinking of themselves as mere atoms inside a big market where everyone tries to take money away from others: instead, they should be awoken from the so-called American dream and keep gaining back what is rightfully theirs, without squandering it on the altar of perpetual growth.

  The point here is not to make big bucks, though you may acquire a tremendous knowledge of the market, but to gain something you can pass on your children or other culture-sharers instead of abstract customers.

  

  Indeed.

  Those of us who have been conservative or have classical “conservative” leanings tend to break from their blue-pilled, leftist families, in spite of their own family values. Inheritance is still there, but it has to be remade or reconquered first. A Catholic friend of mine once sold a whole stock of vinyl records from the Beatles, the Doors and others 60s-70s leftist references from his father in order to buy a Vulgata—the Latin Bible—printed in 1870, and he plans to use it to teach his son about Jesus Christ and the sacred language once used by a once genuine church. And now, this once dead pile of papers jammed between two leathered backs will come to life again and shine before the eyes of a young child.

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