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List of Open Discussion Style Social Media (Now Banned On Reddit)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:02:00 +0000

You can't mention these on Reddit anymore because the site hard bans them, which means that mods are forced to categorize them as "spam" in order to have an empty modqueue.

I support Open Discussion. That is, you can talk about anything you want as long as it is on-topic and said in a matter befitting a congenial, informed discussion. This approach avoids viewpoint discrimination but keeps away off-topic, spam, slurs, obscenities, and harassment.

Viewpoint discrimination is a form of content discrimination particularly disfavored by the courts. When the government engages in content discrimination, it is restricting speech on a given subject matter. When it engages in viewpoint discrimination, it is singling out a particular opinion or perspective on that subject matter for treatment unlike that given to other viewpoints.

This does away with the arbitrary dichotomy of "hate speech" and replaces it with the notion that you can express any idea, as long as you do so in the right place, and do so in the appropriate format and manner. The following are places in the social media sphere which support open discussion, more or less.

Old Right

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 27 May 2020 20:25:00 +0000

Originally posted on the nexus of lies but deleted by Leftist censorship.

People generally mistake me for a mainstream Republican because I oppose National Socialism, White Nationalism, and Socialism. This is a mistake; I am Old Right.

This means that I recognize:

The bell curve rules us all, and we need a caste system, so that the best oppress the rest (our other option: the rest oppress the best, which is what we have now).

We need strong power. Democracy is a sick, sad, joke that makes people go insane. Dictatorship is unstable, oligarchy is corrupt, and military rule cannot perpetuate; this leaves only aristocracy/monarchy.

Nationalism ueber alles. Diversity does not work; we must end it at all costs by any means necessary. I favor gentle means because opposition to diversity is not enmity to other races and ethnic groups.

Socialism is a total failure, just like all centralized, mob rule, and mass culture systems. It brings out the worst in us. Capitalism works and is Darwinian, but needs some guidance from an aristocracy and strong culture.

There is a Great Purge coming, in which we remove Leftists, criminals, idiots, perverts, liars, and sociopaths because we cannot coexist with them; they are the result of deleterious mutations and need to be sent to the third world.

Individualism is our great enemy. Good arises from a purpose of the whole; evil arises from a lack of purpose, which means focus on the self. We are not individualists, but those who pursue a transcendental and metaphysical goal of union with the order of the cosmos.

Ecocide will end us, both physically and spiritually. Humanity is overgrown because we focused on quantity and not quality. This has depleted habitats and is destroying ecosystems and making species extinct. Reversing this must be one of our primary goals.

It's not right just because it's white, and might is not right. Right is right. Right is what applies to the hierarchy of the universe, i.e. is not universal but particular, and recognizes our unique role as Western People in the development of humanity. To preserve our quality, however, loving white people means wanting the removal of weak or racially-mixed white people. Sorry, but this is a "boots and braces" issue that cannot be waffled.

False targets are a waste of time. I find the obsession over anti-semitism, anti-homosexual, anti-transgender, and anti-rich people fetishism to be pointless. We are always going to be heterogeneous without our ethnic groups, and nature makes homosexuals for a reason. Tolerance is not always bad, so long as it comes with a demand that they adapt to the needs of our civilization.

Hatred and other emotions are a waste of time. If you just want to be an internet badass, I recognize that you are a bullshitter who will get people killed with your rhetoric. What matters is end results, not your self-expression. You're a Leftist of another color and belong on the boats to Venezuela with the other Leftists. This includes RINOs, who are simply virtue signaling for girls with daddy issues (Paul Ryan is first on the boat to Caracas).

So, sit back for a chuckle. I'm equal parts Republican, hippie, Nietzschean, and skinhead. I am not a fan of this current status quo in any form and never have been. I want to overthrow it and replace it entirely. I just leave off the symbolically satisfying utilitarian nonsense that is empty to a realist, like National Socialism, anti-abortion, white nationalism, God and guns, apple pie, etc.

My goal is the restoration of Western Civilization. I will stop at nothing to achieve this. If you think for a moment, it is your goal too. Join me and others who have this vision so we can reverse the decline of Western Civilization and be people worth respecting again.

Nuclear Tard

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:02:00 +0000

If you want to see how democracy lobotomizes us with the notion of egalitarianism and this turns us into narcissistic morons, look no further than this exciting tard tale about what could have been a grim accident. Remember, everyone is equal, and so instead of recognizing that someone is weaker, sicker, dumber, uglier, or less capable, you have to include everyone as equals!

This one comes to us from /r/TardTales:

> Be Me

> Go to a university with its own operational nuclear reactor.

> In town has a large population of morbidly retarded tards AND a nuclear reactor. What's the worst that could happen?

>They are giving us a tour of the nuclear reactor building

>Jeremy, a prominent tard, just happens to be on the tour with me as well.

>During the rare occasions where they let normal personnel into this place, they crank up the reactor to "max power" because it starts glowing blue and looks cool when they do that.

>Before they let us in to the room with the nuclear reactor in it, the lady gives us a long boring speech about all the things we aren't supposed to do such as touching anything, pressing buttons or running.

>Jeremy is jumping up and down about to piss himself with excitement

>They finally let us into the reactor room

>Not even 30 seconds later, disaster strikes

>Jeremy throws everything in his pocket down into the glowing reactor core.

>I didn't really see what all Jeremy threw but there were a few coins, some trash and a pencil down there.

>A (probably) graphite pencil

>IN a nuclear reactor

>There is a graphite pencil. In the nuclear reactor core.

>People in lab coats start panicking and yelling at each other

>Red lights start flashing

>Alarms start going off

>Anyone not doing anything of critical importance (everyone on the tour) gets immediately kicked out

>No one is allowed in there anymore unless they are supposed to be there (i.e. authorized personnel only)

Someday, people will back on this time and think that we were all retarded. Well, if anything is left.

We Can Never, Ever Talk About Race

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:43:00 +0000

How far has our society contorted itself to avoid talking about race? Even social media must employ people to hide the desire to discuss this topic. From The Atlantic, a Left-leaning publication, a discussion of social media service NextDoor and its problems being honest about race:

About 10 percent of Nextdoor conversations relate to crime and safety, Wymer said. (Suspicious persons come up a lot, often amounting to sightings of people of color in predominantly white areas. Nextdoor has attempted to discourage posts that use appearance as a proxy for criminality by prompting users to add more detail and blocking some posts that mention race.)

In the past, City-Data has experienced pushback from Silicon Valley types for daring to mention the ethnic distribution of cities, towns, and neighborhoods, and even more for allowing discussion of it in its forums. Your realtor is legally prohibited from revealing this information, and no one else will publish it. Do we live in a totalitarian state, justified by diversity, or not?

Osiris Akkebala Shreds On Abortion

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 15:57:00 +0000

Nationalist Osiris Akkebala writes on abortion:

Only In Extreme Rare Physical And Mental Impairment Where Living Will Be More Of a Misery Than A Joy To Live, Is Abortion To Be Considered For The Fetus Sake To Be Given Respect.

Now I know what I am about to share with you about a topic that is super sensitive to every believing living Being and should be to all believing Beings, regardless of Gender, because in the eyes of all intelligent living Beings with a high degree of conscious, Life is of the Divine Essence, God of us all, and no gender has a monopoly on decision making of who shall live and who shall die, it is the ultimate display of having a God complex without justification to override the Right to Life producing right to Live and not you, but it is the Divine Essence to life that has the exclusive Universal Right to have life living Beings to be in the physical and regardless through what channel it comes into being, nobody has the Right to decide who shall live and who shall die in that Divine process, which you played no part in the forming of that life Being, just in performing the act that caused the process to take place in producing life living Beings.

Now, before I go any further, I must say, I have been a party to the action of a baby being aborted without intense objection and sometimes with approval and now that my mind is of the highest status in the use of the Divine Essence Intelligence, I must admit I was wrong in not being more forceful in expressing my opposition to such action, as I said, sometimes in agreement with that action and I was wrong.

Now, allow me to address the fallacy of the woman having the right to choose to give birth or to abort birth of a child infant, this body that life gives us the ability to perform in living motion, does not belong to us living Beings and the fact that we have not the power over life and death that is of the body experience, verify that the decision of the internal action of the body performance give to us only the decision authority over the body life decision to live or die, just your body life and nobody else life that is internally related to your body performance, internally..

It is a false predicate to establish to imply that you are the sole arbiter over your body performance, external and internal, such a false imperative, all life is independent to the other, although we are bind to each other by no action of our own, which goes to show you that only the Giver of Life has the authority to decide by the nature of will to terminate life from a body internal performance.

Life within a body that is designed to conceive and carry life body for a certain length of Time, give not the right to that body living performance to act as God, Judge, Jury, and executioner over that life forming body that is taking place inside of a body, that action is totally of the Divine Essence producing formation, in a body so designed by Nature to be capable of performing at such a place which the body mind and performance played no part in the miracle of conception, just as the host for such an occasion to take place, the body comes with all of the tools necessary for the occasion of child conception to take place, the act for which the occasion is done in that of two opposing body gender that is designed for such an occasion to take place, but the body equipped with the tools for such an occasion to take place belongs not to the life being lived by that body for the two to belong in the action of nature that designed that body in the gender it perform.

The woman has no said authority over her body procreative power, just over the activities that cause the action of procreation to take place!!!

In a society of my culture choosing, Abortion would have no standing in an environment that respects the Sacredness Of Life And The opportunity to live in compliance to the Law Of The universe, A laissez-faire freedom to Live and let live, enjoying the right to do so.

Out of respect for Nature performance, Roe V Wade should be overturned.

I cannot disagree here, although I think conservatives have abandoned abortion for two reasons: (1) it places the extreme religious Right in a position of memetic power, and they tend to ignore other real issues in favor of religious ones, as happened in the 1980s; (2) our world is overpopulated and our cities are spilling over with people who are growing up in broken homes without fathers, and they commit lots of crime, so we are happier to have them aborted than not.

At the root of the abortion issue, as always, is sexual promiscuity. Few will attack it because it is popular because humans like to play the lottery; to them, lots of sex means a greater chance that they will be having lots of sex, even if it rarely works out that way. Sex is "fun" in our culture and therefore beyond criticism. Promiscuity however is not sex, but the abuse of sex by detaching it from the most desired consequences, namely family.

Irish Slavery And Forced Miscegenation

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:37:00 +0000

This interesting collection of quotations has been floating around the web:

“White woman in particular were singled out for this punishment in the fields. Sometimes, to satisfy a perverted craving, the mulatto drivers forced the women to strip naked before commencing the flogging… while the women were weeding in the fields in that condition, the drivers often satisfied their lust by taking them from the rear.”
— Sean O’Callaghan, To Hell or Barbados: the Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland (2000)

“Some of the physically larger blacks were made guards and were given certain privileges, namely Irish women. There had been several Irish killed trying to protect the Irish women from being assaulted by these savage blacks.”
— Lawrence R. Kelleher, To shed a tear – A story of Irish slavery in the British West Indies (2001), p.73

“The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.”
— John Martin, The Irish Slave Trade – the Forgotten “White” Slaves (2008)

“Female Irish slaves were raped by their owners and bred to male African slaves to produce offspring who would grow into big, strong, mulatto slaves.”
— Maggie Plummer, Spirited Away – A Novel of the Stolen Irish (2012)

“…the most unfortunate of these young [Irish] girls were taken to stud farms to be bred with the most favoured of the black slaves.”
— Jenifer Dixon, To Hell or Barbados: Was life for the Irish slave worse than that of the African slave?, The Barnes Review (Sept/Oct 2013), 16

“There are even documents of parentage saved from the archives of the Montserrat Library during the June 1977 volcanic eruption that destroyed much of the island. These documents read like animal pedigree papers, showing the pairing of young Irish girls with Mandingo warriors to breed a better slave, more capable of working in the burning sun.”
— Mike McCormack, Ancient Order of Hibernian, History Ireland Magazine, September/October 2017, p.12

Being themselves already miscegenated -- with Eastern and Middle Eastern strains mixed into their genes -- the Irish lagged behind the rest of Europe in average intelligence, and therefore were exploited.

The Interview That Antifa Wants Destroyed

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 13 May 2018 14:04:00 +0000

For the past week, our sites have been under attack by an Antifa/Dreipfeil botnet. Last night they began attacking the page that houses this interview. Since it upsets them so much, I reproduce it here for the enjoyment of our readers.

Spinoza Ray Prozak Interview

this interview with mutlu yetkin of turkish fanzine studyoimge turned out to be a great insight into metal and the subject alike. if you live in turkey, support these guys, as they're thinking clearly in a world of fogbrains.

My oeuvre is an 'objective' retrospective that demands an individuality-neutral kind of writing. So while i'm aware that nothing is absolutely value-free, no gaze can be as neutral as to be purely objective and Metal can not be stripped down of it's instincts; i force myself to avoid questioning the authenticity of different approaches. I just try to trace the mutations of the Metal aesthetic and cover all that has been placed under the banners i focus on, while not staying totally blind to the genres' base instincts and strategies. But your writings are far removed from journalism and documentation. You're possibly the one and only Metal theorician who's trying to filter the 'essence' of Metal, and carving out a personal yet very complicated [and often controversial] body of ideas out of a subcultural history which many people regard as a purely aesthetic adventure or a parade of same attitudes and idealisms in different make-ups. So, in order to understand your opinions on particular matters, one should be familiar with the whole of your saga.

Thank you for a great introduction. I'll try to do it justice. You have captured the basic approach that is necessary, although for me it is not a distillation of essence as much as trying to understand what makes the culture distinct. Clearly, if it had wanted to be something else, it would have done that instead, so how did it end up where it is? In the United States, at least, metal has been a powerful indicator of social change and one which remains highly divisive today.

How did you discover Metal? What fascinated you in Metal? How did you start networking, Djing and writing on music? What was in your mind when you started anus.com? And lastly, what defines 'real', authentic, intimate etc Metal in SRP's opinion? What's your main criterion that seperates, for example bands like Cannibal Corpse and Pantera, whom you accuse as being illiterate, pig-headed and generic from bands like Master or early Sepultura?

I discovered metal through the music that my friends liked, after years of being first interested by punk hardcore (not punk rock) and before it, by distorted progressivish rock music and prior to that, classical music. My earliest experiences with music involved classical music, or at least, my earliest loves in music were that. I grew up around people who would listen to a lot of radio music and thus were familiar with music of the 1960s and 1970s, but I've never found in Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin the same clarity and depth of thought that classical music has for me. I listened to metal music in high school and credit it with showing me a path through the confusing time that didn't involve degrading myself unnecessarily, and gave me hope for being something other than a self-pitying whiner or self-pitying yuppie. That spirit in metal has always appealed to me. Later, I found that experiences like producing a radio show, live and on the air, were both frightening and appealing to me, so, having the opportunity, I pursued them. I have always been a writer and have had a similarly far-reaching background in computer networking, so putting these to use in service of the highest ideals of metal was a natural activity.

What defines "real" "authentic" "intimate" metal? There is no single criterion or main criterion except the music itself. To me it's clear that all things exist on a scale from the most simplistic to the most evolved, and the evolved things provide most of what I enjoy in life: thinking, interacting, solving problems, learning that which is eternal. For that reason, it's clear as day to me that a band like Cannibal Corpse is a distant ripoff of Morpheus Descends, and that Pantera are wannabes emulating Metallica and Prong from the late 1980s. Are they "evil"? No - there's things I like about each, but the whole package is always more than the parts, and, in their cases, the whole package represents something that is useless to those of us who wish to move toward the higher end of the scale.

This isn't to say I endorse a "progressive" view of history or any other idea that believes we're moving from a primordial state of ruin to an enlightened state of mind. That's the oldest con (ripoff) in the book: the idea that the world is terrible and there's a better way than nature, which is that which brought us to the state in which we're even able to think about such things! No - the world has always been perfect, and there are different places within it, from the most basic to the most advanced, which is often the simplest - but not the most simplistic (a word that means concerned with the most "lowest common denominator" motivations, like fornication, gluttony, amusement, etc). The "progressive" and Hegelian view of history is an illusion. But one can choose to evolve personally, becoming better at being what one is, regardless of position in life. I'm not at the highest, or at the lowest, but in the middle; however, in this middle position, I am trying to become the most evolved version of that, that I can. At some point, myself or my descendents will grow to that level and correspondingly pass to another level, all without leaving this world. It is better than what the priests suggest.

That which is authentic is that which expresses authentic thoughts. To me, bands like Cannibal Corpse, Ulver, Pantera and Cradle of Filth are pandering to an audience; they look at the crowd and say, "Oh, this is what pleases you? Here's our version, buy our records and/or make us part of your scene so we feel like we're important!" - that is the mentality of the crowd and of those who lack honor and leadership. It's more important to be honest and say "these are the values that are important to me and on this basis I create my art" in the way Morpheus Descends, Incantation, Averse Sefira, Belial, Ildjar or Sepultura did. There are deluded political bands as well, who pretend they're asserting their values on the world but are conforming to an ideal they think they should uphold. Most of these are leftist tools like Bad Religion and Phobia, but there are plenty of blockhead rightist bands who bleat the party line without exploring anything of what it means. I can say that Bad Religion and I agree about 60% in beliefs, and Landser and I agree about 60% in beliefs, but I'm not interested in artists who repeat beliefs. I'm interesting in people who make art to keep life alive.

Chris Mitchell, another interviewer, asked me a question about this and, I don't mean to be gauche or crude here, but my answer there occurred well and I'd like to simply post it here if you don't mind (you probably don't need to include this disclaimer, but I don't want to mislead about where it occurred), because art is what metal is and the better art is what I praise; the lesser art really isn't art, it's a product, or it's propaganda, or it's entertainment, and all of those are designed to keep you repeating something and to get you to do something very simple, like "buy this CD!" or "vote for john kerry!" or "be a false socialite asshole like us!" - here's that Q&A:

"1) Is there no point to art? Is art by itself, without any message or ideology a waste of out time?

Art is another form of communication; its message is the same message anyone might say, which is the process of affirming what they find meaningful and illustrating how it overcomes what they don't find meaningful. I think we expose ourselves to art to share connections to the process of life itself. Thus, art that describes the process of life is meaningful, but art that is corrupted by politics or sentiment, only, is an illness (I'm thinking of Ani DiFranco and Ulver here)."

The greatest bands, and I'd take examples like Enslaved or Demilich or Burzum or Ildjarn here, create out of their emotions, which they recognizes are thoughts, and are organized thoughts. They put forth a vision of the world and then explore it, finding a journey which takes you the listener from wondering what it is to understanding it, although you're not really expected to judge it as agreeing with it or not, just to find the simple beauty of life - discovery and the passion and sensation of living - in the process of descending into it. They don't propagandize you like Bad Religion or Landser tend to do (although Landser is better music than Bad Religion, and both are much better and more honest than Ani DiFranco).

During your career as a Dj, the Metal genre has experienced a hell of changes in aesthetic and discourse. How have different phrases of Metal's development affected your Djing? Were you willing to discover and mediate the new offerings in the genre? And does the criterion of 'radio-friendliness', which sets a standart lenght for songs to be played, limit your choices for your playlist?

Interesting and wonderful question. When I was first a DJ, there were no metal DJs in the area, so I just wanted to be one. Like the others. There needed to be one. My role was that of a venue or someone who puts up posters: I passed along the message and gathered people around a central idea (a radio show) to share the music. That was all. But I have my tastes, and I get bored with simplistic music and the people who like it above all else, so my influence started shaping the show. Luckily the DJ I started with, a really smart kid named Don Thornbergh, was good enough to say, "Look, people really like the heavier stuff you're playing so,... have a radio show!" He really was generous and I'll forever remember and appreciate that.

Once I got into the mindset of playing the music that I found was meaningful, something which I'll add was encouraged by the staff at KSPC who - despite whatever other failings they have, and whatever failed methods of choosing good music they have - have always espoused as an idea the concept of being selective about music and using that selectivity to better the genre and force it along the evolutionary ladder (thanks to Erica and Jos), I started to expand the show. At first, it was mostly late 1980s speed and quasi-death metal like Prong, Slayer, Sepultura and Sarcofago. Over time the mainstream stuff dropped out, in part because I had the support of the radio station in going for a "close to purer art" playlist, and this enabled me to stop caring about radio-friendliness or pleasing the crowd. I refused to play Pantera and Cannibal Corpse, and for every five people that alienated, I found someone who had a larger connection to the show. Sure, my audience could have been twice as big if I'd played to the crowd impulse, but I did instead what I thought was right and thus the quality of the show went up as did its importance, because instead of reaching people of transient lives and intellect, I was reaching the smarter people who could articulate the importance of bands.

So the different phases of metal... well, I came in on the note of the death of the speed metal, right before Metallica finally decided to chuck in the towel and become a pop band. At first I played death metal, but within a year I was rotating the best of the new (at the time) Norwegian black metal as well as some forgotten greats like Belial from Finland, and the result was that my show soon morphed into underground metal. I've never found heavy metal all that appealing, outside of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, because generally it's moronic rock music which is all rhythm and harmony with no structure. What I liked about classical music was its sense of design and structure. Naturally I picked music that was close to that and to my other influences, which in rock music were things like Yes, Camel, King Crimson and the Beatles. I still have a weak spot for AC/DC because they were so impassioned and unafraid to be simple, but their sense of melody and joy of living never wavered. Once the show went underground, it became a full-on phenomenon of its own. I can't even describe what it was here, but people would tune in every Friday to hear it and would contribute anything they could, phoning in the names of bands or sending CDs and tapes down to the station. Fan support was fantastic, and for awhile there, a community did exist.

Around 1998, I needed to leave California and my lifestyle there, and had an opportunity to move and took it. About a year before, the bottom had dropped out of black metal; death metal had slowed down in 1994 and three years later was nearly nonexistent. Basically, underground metal had become stagnant because the second and third generations of fans now had a template: "I want to be a brutal death metal band" or "I want to be a melodic black metal band"; it didn't take any brains to invent a style of music and make it structurally complex anymore. In fact, the classical influences (which came into the music in part through Bathory, but also through bands like Judas Priest) were starting to drop out of the genre entirely, replaced by a simplistic rhythm-music trend that I can only identify as coming from post-1987 punk (rock), rap, and techno. The music was dumbing down and my passion was fading, so I left. That was six years ago.

Your writings on Metal records are not simple record reviews but detailed and in-depth musicological analysis. Do you get negative responses from those who're alienated, confused or even repulsed by this depth of your gaze?

Most people don't expect much from music except a good beat and something new to talk about. They aspire to the simplistic. It's fine that they do that, but if that's their inclination, I don't think they should criticize those who wish to rise above it. Yet they always do, because of envy: they see someone appreciating something they can't see, and they get jealous. The ANUS site receives daily hate mail, frequent mail bombings, constant negative public mention and is nearly totally ignored by the press. We don't present the image of drunk, stupid, angry, out of control metalheads that they need in order to market their products, stories and self-image. This is fine because, as I said above, for every five of this type of person that I turn away, I connect with one who has the inclination and background to understand what I and the greatest acts in metal are talking about. Metal bands aren't homogenous, and like most musicians they can't necessarily articulate what they're trying to do, but if you look at the very best of metal, they all have this in common: they are serious about their art, and they share a spirit of independence and truth-seeking as well as certain historical idea backgrounds, such as Romanticism, national pride, naturalism, a study of structure. It is among this group and those who understand that idea that I wish to be regarded, and for the most part, I've succeeded (although, after the AOL-rush to the internet in 1997, I doubt many of these people will turn to the internet looking for real information).

"Information music", "neo-classical" and "post-modern". These terms often appear in your writings and they are of key importance to the terminology you use. "Information Music" has something to do with the structuralist intelligence of Metal, if i got it right. "Neo-classical" is your umbrella term that covers an array of alienated, adventurous popular musics. From Metal to Industrial, Neo-Folk and Ambient. And i'm aware that, in your dictionary, the term "postmodern" has nothing to do with the academically refined dissecting tools of contemporary philosophy. Could you please expand further on these terms?

"Postmodern" is undefinable in the context of academia, or at least was last time I checked. They make their careers from defining postmodern, so it's best they never come up with a concrete definition. My view of postmodernism is that it is an incorporation of relativity into modern thought; it began with Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and grew through Joyce's "Ulysses" and then flowered (heh, heh) into other types of art. It's a way of writing things, or making visual art, or making music, that emphasizes multiple viewpoints at once. It's also a way of collaging random stuff and claiming that you're doing the same, and a type of political view, in which the rising counterculture is freeing the people from the single-viewpoint of their oppressor. In that, it's a misunderstanding of the original, and these people should return to Nietzsche "Zarathustra" and Schopenhauer's "The Fourfold Root" (which inspired it) to discover the truth of this action. If you'd like an older source, the Bhagavad-Gita is a quick read.

Information music applies really to the music of Kraftwerk, as well as the better metal bands like Burzum, and refers to the tendency to use a motivic pattern to cause a melody to evolve over the course of a song of fixed aesthetic, so that without experiencing much of a stylistic change a song varies greatly, even poetically revealing a story or experience. I'd argue that Burzum is information music, especially the first two albums, and that other metal bands such as Ildjarn have a tendency to the same.

Neo-classical means any music with classical values, performed in the styles of a modern time. Obviously, this excludes some genres that tend toward structures contrary to the classical imperative; you'll never have a neo-classical techno band, or hip-hop band, or jazz/blues band: they're contra-structural. However, selected bands from electronica, metal and industrial apply. I'm not really jazzed by neofolk. To me it seems like a ripoff, but I haven't explored it much. Pre-rock folk music is more my style, but now you have to find it in "world music" if at all because "folk" now means "folk rock" like Ani DiFranco and Bob Dylan, which is essentially degenerate music dressed up in pastoralism.

Despite its intelligence and quality, why do you think Metal is not regarded as a form as valuable and creative as, say Ambient music? Because of it's public image as an adolescent and pornographically sentimental way of expression flowering from and returning to the "pissed-off" youth?

Mainly because of the behavior of its audience, and the fact that it allows itself to be marketed as angry music that hates society. Ambient music quietly makes its points; ambient metal bands like Immortal (Pure Holocaust), Burzum and Ildjarn do roughly the same, albeit in a louder aesthetic. But let me tell you this: as long as what most people see of your genre is Slipknot, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse and Cradle of Filth, they won't respect it. I don't blame them.

Your writings stress the intensifying thirst for organicism and authenticism in the history of Metal underground. An impulse to give up reactionary nonsense, self-marginalising attitudes, negative nihilisms and involve in intelligent action, constructive thought and procreative, 'pragmatic' nihilism. Yet in the eyes of the outsiders [they do not have to be necessarily 'prejudical'] or even in minds of some insiders, the process seems vice versa. Even to me, as represented by Mayhem and akin martyrs, Black Metal is the peak and perfection of for-the-hell-of-it self-annihilating urge – i dare to call it the endpoint of kamikaze mysticism: "the triumph of nihilistic will".

Nihilism comes in two forms. The first occurs when one approaches the concept with healthy values and says, "OK, so nothing 'means' anything out of the box, it's what I make of it, and the only reality is what is physically real itself, to which meaning doesn't apply as much as necessity." That's about how most black metal bands are. They awaken to being alive, look around and see in nature the complexity and continuous process of life, and they see in humanity reactionarism, a denial of mortality, and an indulgence in time-wasting amusement, entertainment and duty so that we can forget our mortality. Rising from this self-image problem is Christianity and all of the judgmental mentality that it embraces. This first type of nihilism is healthy, and even quite close to the Buddhist idea (and prior Vedantic idea) of "mindfulness," or seeing only what is there and filtering out the rest - the fears, the doubts, the things other people say, the social associations, the moralizing, the judgments of others, etc - but resembles the kind of discipline that anyone who has ever meditated or gone into difficult (non-modern) combat has felt. It's far different from the second kind of nihilism which is a "the world means nothing, I pity myself" mentality, and is really part of the same disease that is Christianity and all the ills of a modern time. This second form of nihilism, which is called passive nihilism, is like all passive things anti-heroic and has no place in black metal. The Norwegian black metal bands who invented this genre, as well as the early death metal bands, were if nothing else, heroic.

The first Scandinavian Black Metal bands claimed themselves rootless and distanced themselves very much from other genres of Metal. Their glorification of exile was very much like Punk bands did in their golden ages. What could be the motivation behind this self-imposed exile? And, as Black Metal is the latest and most mature innovation in the chain of underground Metal, do you think "Black Metal elitism", as claimed by some bands of the scene, is a favourable attitude?

Elitism is a celebration of higher values among those who understand them. It isn't really discussed, but demonstrated. The Scandinavians stepped away from the monochromatic angry sentiment, silly indulgence of degenerate and pointless minimalism, and lack of belief in meaning of most metal bands, and created something beautiful; not coincidentally, it was the musical and artistic height of metal, and of its popularity. There's a good reason they distanced themselves from other metal bands, and the proof that elitism is right is demonstrated by the "black metal" (really, "black punk rock") bands that have come after them.

Though i do not heartfully favor or curse that 'Pop-Black Metal' thing, in my opinion this turbo-commercialisation, 'Gothicisation' of Black Metal was an unavoidable process, something which does not totally rely on some populist-minded bands' decadent interpretation of a noble ideal. To me, even though the genre in it's birth was destined to be an utterly autistic, misantrophic and inhuman form of expression rather than an invitation to 'artsyness', the authentic imaginary of Black Metal was very resonant with the trademark fetishes of popular neo-Gothicism in it's love for dark landscapes and grotesque decorum. Also, unlike Death Metal which has always kept a 'fun' edge; the Scandinavians stalked some uncanny depths and their image became damn too 'serious'.. and the Gothicism came as a natural, 'karmic' response... And further, most importantly, Black Metallers of Norse fame was the extremest point in the self-asexualisation of Metal [with their hermit'like 'sexless' and evil faces] and Goths, with their fanfare crowd of dreamboys, vampirellas and belle-dame-sans-mercis were hailed as the saviours of the long-repressed Metal libido.. What do you think?

Goth and metal have always had a lot in common. Both realize that our world is delusional because it denies death, and that in affirming death, one CAN (but not necessarily always does) demonstrate the basics of higher value set. The artistry aspect has always been part of the best metal bands, even the rough ones, although they're not as articulate about it as the goths as goth musicians tend to come from the college-educated, art-school, cosmopolitan set, where metal musicians are often from the working or lower middle classes. (Side note: I use class to measure income and background. I don't believe in class. I believe in caste and every tribe sticking up for itself, and helping the best of its own. That includes both celebrating those who do great things, and drowning the failures, perverts and mediocrities in swamps.)

Horrible question. Scandinavian Black Metal surfaced at the same time while Grunge was the law. Both realities had attractive personas on their frontlines and both stories end up in messy, cathartic scenes. No, i do not have the guts to suggest an hermetic link between Black Metal and Grunge neither i can claim that Dead's passing away was a typical Rock'n Roll suicide. But i want to ask 1) What do you think of the 'suicidal tendencies' of Rock surfacing every ten year? 2) What do you see when you compare these different but in some obscure way identical subcultural responses which are fueled by the same zeitgeist?

Rock always has had suicidal tendencies, in that from its first days - when it was basically white country music with some black influences added marketed as something "forbidden" and "dangerous" - it has been progressive hype. In rock music as a concept is that idea that society is bad and no fun, and the counterculture - represented by rock music - will make it better. Grunge was an attempt to rediscover punk without the genre stereotypes, and really was a combination of sentimental folk-rock like REM with metal and punk of the 1980s. Look at Nirvana, who may or may not have invented the genre. They write punk like songs that are quirky, use a lot of punk riffs and are structured like metal songs, but have a lot of the vocal performance and emotional harmonic effects of REM's first four albums. Rock goes through cycles because it doesn't really have any ideas, and it follows the work of a few talented performers and then collapses, so it goes through the cycle again. Is Grunge really all that different from Jim Morrison?

You claim that NSBM is something utterly valuable because unlike RAC, it has risen from within the scene, carried out by Black Metal bands themselves rather than being an alien agenda imposed on the scene by outer forces. Oi Rock was a phenomenon that has risen from the stomach of the British working class. It drew inspiration from Punk's confusionist use of controversial political iconographia and it had some actuality, being a wave popped up when migration was 'the' problem, when skins were daily bashing fags and pakis.. Yet those NSBM hordes, they also are a posteriority but they do not represent anymore actuality than the authentic Black Metal itself. And i do not think the whole Black Metal mentality can be reduced to the NS thing. If this sticker had appeared in individual self-descriptions, then it would not be a problem. But unlike the notorious extremists of the Post-Industrial or Neo-Folk scene, the extremists of Black Metal love to group and gather under a self-made banner even though NSBM is just a scene.. not a genre or a style like they promote.. NSBM bands either play ambient and textured Black Metal like Burzum, larger-than-life Viking Metal like Enslaved or RAC influenced, rolling BM like Absurd.. To you, what are the distinctive characteristics of NSBM? In what ways it differs from an etiquette like 'Christian Metal'? If sampling Third Reich music is what makes all that difference, then wouldn't Kreuzweg Ost be the god of all..?

Black metal itself is now just a scene. There are only two bands today that play anything which has any relevance to that which made black metal great, and the rest is people making repetitive and mindless music. NSBM has followed black metal. The original OI followed the original punk into punk rock, and since then has embraced silly values as well. I don't think the black metal mentality boils down to NS, at all, but I think NS is one of the philosophies through which one can understand black metal. My philosophy is that of Emersonian Hinduism, as I call it, which is a mix between the philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur Schopenhauer and Vedantic religions, and in that we believe also in naturalism, Romanticism, the meaning of actions being more important than their physical outcome, and the importance of nationalism. When you analyze its philosophy, NS = Nationalist Socialism, or the idea that every tribe takes care of their own and doesn't use money as a motivation to divide the tribe against each other, resulting in them becoming "internationalist" or of mixed heritage. I think even the most diehard anti-fascists will recognize that there's validity in this viewpoint, and this has historically been a viewpoint embraced by Romanticists and the most complex artists in the Indo-European tradition. Thus, I think there's good ground historically to say that it is part of the history of black metal, and I think it's beyond doubt that it was the founding belief behind modern black metal (Immortal, Burzum, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Enslaved, Graveland, Emperor, Ildjarn). To me, NSBM was about five or six bands that made a statement when it was relevant to make it. What qualifies as NSBM now is like most WP/NS music, as well as most leftist music like Bad Religion, people repeating dogma. Unfortunately black metal is in the same position, except that they're repeating the dogma of punk rock and not black metal. That's like Christian metal, in which people take ideas contrary to that of a genre and dress them up in something that resembles the music of that genre, hoping to brainwash enough people away from the original concept and thus, to destroy the genre. In black metal they're succeeding, mostly because of the selfishness of individuals who want to be "important" thus they create bands, labels, zines to glorify themselves, and, having no ideas of their own, parrot the leftist-individualist tripe of the punk rock bands. This has as much as any other single factor drowned black metal in its own excess.

The Black Metal underground is boiling with bands who revive the oldschool instincts of the genre. But it seems that Death Metal and Doom Metal scenes are away from this back-to-the-roots hysteria. Why?

Black metal is going through a phase where the newer people, who don't understand it, are trying to find its "pure essence" by going back to its "roots," which is an illusion since black metal's "roots" existed before its modern form, which was really its only interesting form (exception: Sarcofago). Death metal and doom metal are so similar to their roots in the first place that there's not much to go back to, but there have been revivalist movements in both genres. These occurred however when both were in decline, so almost no one noticed.

Metal genres are not one-dimensional forms of expression. They are expanding, multi-faced phenomenons that interact with each other and incorporate elements of outer, non-Metal styles ranging from HC and Punk to Industrial, Ambient, Gothic. Considering the situation of different esotericisms flirting with each other and the rising awareness of the Metal crowd on what's happening in non-Metal jenres, do you foresee a future where boundaries totally slip away, genres merge into an ecclectic body of popular music and polystylism become the credo?

It has already happened and in fact, that is the norm. Genres are something which arise because of the determination of a few individuals who key into a certain set of ideas that selected other people like. Think about the ambient noise bands of the 1970s like Tangerine Dream and Robert Fripp - they sought to express an idea of the time in which many people found experience, hope and desire. Metal has been a similar way. In 1969, the world was near nuclear war. The USA was losing in Viet Nam, the Russians were developing new missiles, and the existing social order was dramatically falling apart, with the people who represented the "new" seemingly just a more extreme version of the old. It didn't make any sense, but it could clearly kill you. Black Sabbath came around with this apocalyptic music, about eternal placement of souls and the Romantic values that apply to the direction of one's life, and what happened? People said, "yeah, OK, I was thinking of something like that." But that's not the norm. The norm is that all music exists in one big melting pot, and bands have a few variations between each other but are basically the same. Right now you can turn on the radio and hear rock, country or smooth jazz, but the difference between these forms isn't that great, just like rap/hip-hop and techno/electronica are for the most part very similar (the first hip-hop song ever sampled a Kraftwerk tune, and since then the mainstream forms of both have grown closer together). Metal is in the process of being absorbed by the mainstream. It really was a long road to the point of reaching underground metal where it had a chance of breaking away from the rock-crowd, but ultimately, its popularity caused it to divide internally as people saw that they could make a name for themselves in the genre. Just like society began to fail when it no longer had to worry about nature keeping it in line, when metal became a thing in itself and stopped worrying about competing, it began to fold inward. For awhile death and black metal held out, but after the first generation, they'd be inundated by emulators making simplistic, stupid, angry, blockhead music. That would drive away anyone else. So what killed metal? Its individualism. And now we're seeing the final stages of the decline. Heck, it's similar to what I see outside my window as the USA begins its slow descent into its own fall of Rome (this will be part of the healing process for all of humanity). Nu-metal absorbed rap, punk and metal, and even normal music on the radio uses distortion and metal-style aggressive breaks. For metal to keep ahead of that, it would have to do something like what Enslaved and Burzum were doing, which was to make music nearly as complex as classical music that undertook a narration, or experience, and with it went through a range of moods. It wasn't angry, simplistic music. It was semi-random recombinant jamming like jazz or post-1970s prog rock. That was the triumph of black metal, coming on top of something similar in death metal with bands like Morbid Angel, Incantation, Atheist, Suffocation. But right now, black metal is a genre filled mainly with angry people who are making punk rock renamed as black metal, with screechy vocals, and death metal exists only to a few who haven't become halfway to nu-metal bouncy Pantera-style bands. They believe that somehow by being as "different" as they can, and by trying to exist in tiny little dysfunctional undergrounds, they can avoid becoming what everything else is. But if you have the same values as something else, even if you look different, you become it. And the absorption has been gaining on us for some time now.

Cottonwood BBS Rides Again

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 23:05:00 +0000

For those who carry on the ways of the past, rather than replacing them with new ways that deliver half the satisfaction, connecting to a 1980s style bulletin board system (BBS) provides a joy unlike any other. Cottonwood BBS carries on that tradition:

The hard drive that Cottonwood BBS runs on has now been converted from a SCSI drive to a MicroSD card, thanks to a SCSI2SD adapter. It's seems pretty incredible to me that gigabytes of data can now be stored on a tiny card that's smaller than a dime! I'd been having issues lately with power supplies failing with this hard drive, which I believe is directly related to the overall unreliability of the outdated SCSI hard drive mechanisms that I was using. Hopefully this will be the end of all my "hard drive woes"! :)

If you haven't called before, or if it's been a while, please give Cottonwood BBS a call via Telnet at cottonwoodbbs.dyndns.org:6502, or via dial-up (aka the "old school way") at 1-951-652-1690. Running on a real Commodore 64 computer with Color 64 BBS software at 2400 baud.

Again, visit Cottonwood BBS to experience the glory days of 6502 computing and dial-up BBS Wild West style independence. There is much to discover, and nothing to lose.

Der Weltanschauung E-Zine

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 17:01:00 +0000

Der Weltanschauung was an ezine or etext magazine that circulated first through the bulletin board community and next through the early FTP scene. It featured luminaries like DFX, Brian O'Blivion, The Sorcerer, and even some of the ANUS and PHRACK guys writing for it. Since no complete organized archive exists, I have linked to the individual issues as I could find them.

Volume 1

Vol. 1, Issue 1. April 4, 1991
Vol. 1, Issue 2. May 4, 1991
Vol. 1, Issue 3. June 4, 1991
Vol. 1, Issue 4. June 15, 1991
Vol. 1, Issue 5. July 5, 1991
Vol. 1, Issue 6. August 19, 1991
Vol. 1, Issue 7. September 11, 1991
Vol. 1, Issue 8. September 30, 1991
Vol. 1, Issue 9. November 9, 1991
Vol. 1, Issue 10. December 16, 1991

Volume 2

Vol. 2, Issue 1. February 1, 1992
Vol. 2, Issue 2. April 9, 1992
Vol. 2, Issue 3. April 9, 1992
Vol. 2, Issue 4. May 18, 1992
Vol. 2, Issue 5. June 20, 1992
Vol. 2, Issue 7. August 10, 1992
Vol. 2, Issue 8. October 10, 1992
Vol. 2, Issue 9. November 24, 1992

How To Report Illegal Activity And Illegal Aliens

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:01:00 +0000

For those looking for a more lawful and orderly America, this handy resource can be useful:

How can I report illegal activity?

Call 1-800-BE-ALERT

If you would like to report illegal aliens, please call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at 1-866-DHS-2ICE (347-2423). They will need to know names, locations (either work place or residence) and any other specific information you can provide. For more information, please visit www.ice.gov.

An Accurate Reddit Emoji: Ophiocordyceps camponoti-rufipedis-infected Snoomoji "CordySnoo"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:06:00 +0000

You have probably heard of the term "cordycepted" being used to refer to someone whose brain has been taken over by a mental virus like egalitarianism. This is derived from how the fungus Ophiocordyceps camponoti-rufipedis infects ants and causes them to climb to their doom so that the fungus can reproduce.

This zombie parasitic fungus kills ants by changing their behavior, which makes them suspiciously resemble modern humans:

Cordyceps manipulates worker ants to leave their nest and march off to a nearby site where they will eventually meet their fate. These sites are mass graves littered with the bodies of nest-mates that have succumbed to the fungus. They can persist in the same location for years, growing steadily as ants arrive one by one to die.

Sandra Andersen of the University of Copenhagen and her colleagues took advantage of this. They analysed the growth rate of five graveyards containing ant corpses infected with Ophiocordyceps camponoti-rufipedis, all located within a 400 hectare nature reserve in the Brazilian rain forest.

They identified a total of 432 infected ants in the five sites, and characterized each one according to the developmental stage of the fungus. This showed that 1/8 of the ants had been freshly killed, and a similar number were somehow damaged and showed no obvious signs of fungal growth. Another 1/8 had an immature mushroom growing from their heads, but only 1/16 had mature mushrooms that produced spores.

This is what a zombie ant looks like:

Now you can pay tribute to the horrible wisdom of nature and its parasitic majesty by using the "CordySnoo" snoomoji anytime you need to visually refer to Reddit.

Best Reddit Error Ever: This Is Too Long (Max: 1)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:06:00 +0000

"Not Safe For Brand" (NSFB) Or How Reddit Will Censor Controversial Content In The Future

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:34:00 +0000

Interesting how Reddit hides its actual motivations in plain sight. Those motivations are to protect its brand so it can quit being an old internet anarchy zone and start being a new internet Facebook-style walled garden with fake roses. Its mechanism for doing this is the Not Safe For Brand (NSFB) brand_safe category:

What is nsfb? (Not Safe For Brand)

Reddit's api returns an undocumented brand_safe field for content. It appears to be applied on a subreddit basis.

Snew displays a nsfb indicator when a post has a false brand_safe value.

It is believed that all subreddits are nsfb until manually reviewed as safe

Reddit has been candid about this intention as it tries to pump up the value of the company so it can be sold. The big dream of dot-com companies everywhere is to sell not a product, since the actual product does not make money, but a company because of its advertising value to others. Reddit is basically a giant SEO farm and a dream for any marketing agency, but they want to sell for billions and not the piddly hundred-millions they have been offered in the past.

The founders admit as much in their public interactions:

Reddit boasts 234 million unique users and hosts links posted by people which are grouped around Subreddits - categories for just about anything.

But the site hasn't had the best reputation for reasonable debate and Reddit often being seen as a Wild West with often-offensive comments.

...Richard Broughton, research director at Ampere Analysis, told CNBC by email. "Part of the challenge will simply be convincing advertisers that the changes it has made to its policies are having an effect, and that Reddit is now 'brand-safe'."

..."The challenge we have is helping brands have a home on Reddit. What brands do is they either pay or they try to be more sneaky about it and pretend to be users and when they get outed that doesn't go so well. So I think there is a product in that that doesn't exist yet to give brands a legitimate organic home on Reddit, that could go a long way of reducing some of that tension so brands can have their own communities they can moderate," Huffman said, discussing potential future ad products.

The "brand safe" factor bit Google recently when advertisers noticed that their ads on YouTube were playing on controversial content. Business loves what is non-controversial, which is why it likes Leftist dogma; what is safer than inclusive, egalitarian, and pacifistic notions? Facebook deploys an army of censors, and Twitter is currently purging questionable accounts.

This is the transition between the old internet and the new internet. The old internet was content-driven, which meant that a range of opinions were expected and wanted; the new internet is advertising-driven, so bourgeois aesthetics of ethical safety are mandatory. The great irony here is that in removing the wild west from the internet, these large businesses are killing its appeal and turning it into (ugh) daytime television.

In the meantime, Snew/Ceddit reminds us of how Reddit has transitioned from being the last old internet social media site to a Facebook clone, at least intellectually:

Neither Alexis [u/kn0thing] nor I created Reddit to be a bastion of free speech
— u/spez 2015

A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it," he replies. [reddit]'s the digital form of political pamplets.
— u/kn0thing 2012

We will tirelessly defend the right to freely share information on reddit in any way we can, even if it is offensive or discusses something that may be illegal. — u/reddit 2012

We want to democratize the traditional model by giving editorial control to the people who use the site, not those who run it.
— Reddit FAQ 2005

We've always benefited from a policy of not censoring content
— u/kn0thing 2008

We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it. Not because that's the law in the United States - because as many people have pointed out, privately-owned forums are under no obligation to uphold it - but because we believe in that ideal independently, and that's what we want to promote on our platform. We are clarifying that now because in the past it wasn't clear, and (to be honest) in the past we were not completely independent and there were other pressures acting on reddit. Now it's just reddit, and we serve the community, we serve the ideals of free speech, and we hope to ultimately be a universal platform for human discourse (cat pictures are a form of discourse).
— u/yishan 2012

Possibly Reddit intends to monetize itself by selling both its brand and user information, which might be why Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian and his consulting firm Antique Jetpack are palling it up with "global intelligence" company STRATFOR, which leads us to wonder what Antique Jetpack has been doing for the past seven years.

Socialized Medicine Always Raises Costs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:54:00 +0000

On the Left, there are always cries for socialism because that philosophy distills to "economic equality," which furthers the peer pressure desire for equality, because with equality, there is no longer conflict within the group and this enables the individual to do whatever they want and to force the others to accept the externalized costs. Socialism just formalizes that.

We have no shortage of sagacious Europeans telling us how socialized medicine is "cheaper" because look, they did not receive a bill for a certain medical procedure. What geniuses! They do not mention that other people's taxes are paying for this, and that Europeans are fleeing the continent because of its high taxes, much as they once fled it to come to America. If you penalize productivity, you get an ingrate herd of do-nothings.

But somehow all of these wise Europeans have disappeared when the Obamacare bills have come due. Perhaps they did not understand the greater challenges in America... or perhaps they finally noticed that all of their nations are bankrupt, too, and did the same thing every socialist-tinged economy does: ignore infrastructure to pay out benefits to useless idiots, while penalizing the productive enough that they flee, leaving behind a vast herd of takers with not enough makers.

Socialized medicine always raises costs. You are no longer paying for your own medical care, but that of another person at least. And his attorney, and the government's attorneys, and attorneys at the hospitals and working for the doctors. And a legion of bureaucrats, usually obese and unintelligent, to file paperwork and talk to people on phones. And the set-aside by hospitals and doctors to cover the amount of care each year that will not be reimbursed in time. And the paperwork the doctors, nurses, attorneys, and bureaucrats must file. On and on it goes.

Obamacare savaged the American middle class. The typical Leftist voters -- women, the young, and minorities -- did not notice because they are the 47% who receives more in benefits than it pays in taxes, so for them and in the short-term only, it is a "good deal." But like all snake oil sales, eventually the scam is discovered, and then there is hell to pay.

Power-Nihilism: A Case For Moral & Political Nihilism by James Theodore Stillwell III (2017)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 14:46:00 +0000

As mentioned over at The Nihilism Homepage, James Theodore Stillwell III wrote Power-Nihilism: A Case For Moral & Political Nihilism as an introduction to basic nihilism in a moral and political way, meaning that it breaks the reader outside of the kiosk of moralizing about what is "good" or "evil" and starts the process of analyzing power, consequentialism, preference, and other real issues in the question of will and how it is applied.

The initial reviews are encouraging:

As you read this book, leave your pride and preconceived beliefs at the door. Withhold judgement until you have finished it. Have open-minded skepticism towards what you read and I am sure you will see the foundations you once held dear slowly crumble away. James makes no apologies in this book, your worldview will be challenged and if you are fortunate enough, you will be set free from the chains of moral realisms. — Matthew Ray

James Theodore Stillwell III enters the fray with Power-Nihilism: A Case For Moral & Political Nihilism, a short book which affirms a Nietzsche- Redbeard view of nihilism as the need for the individual to not be ruled by the herd, and find meaning where it is relevant to the individual... Stillwell writes in an open style, merging contemporary idiom with philosophical language, that allows the book to introduce a dense concept and then breathe as it explores its depth at a more leisurely pace...

The book affirms the basic idea of nihilism through a study of morality which it rightly views as conditional. That is, if someone wants to survive, they must eat; however, there is no universal commandment that all must want to survive. With that in mind, Stillwell dispenses with the idea of objective and subjective morality, and focuses instead on the morality of survival and self-expression. — Brett Stevens

To these, it makes sense to add that this book is an easy and vivid introduction for those who have never experienced life outside the moral kiosk. When we remove morality, the question moves from being a social standard -- "what would the herd think of me?" -- to a realistic one, namely, "what will the results of this action be?" that both implicates the short-term as the socializing standard does, and the long-term as the ancients did. View Power-Nihilism: A Case For Moral & Political Nihilism as a quick kick to open the door to all thinking outside of the herd.

A first look at the book shows an understated but powerful cover. From the Amazon hardcover version:

The paperback version has a similar appearance, maybe looking more compact like the combat version that it is:

The first thing that most will notice about this book is that it reads easily without falling into mainstream-style self-help language, gushing big media emotional-speak, or even the horrible style of blog posting that has become popular over the past decade. This book speaks plainly, and gives you real-world examples instead of airy philosophical parables.

Its greatest strength perhaps lies in its willingness to systematically pound down the various objections and mistaken conceptions of nihilism which moving point-by-point toward a clarification of what nihilism is, since most people are baffled by the idea of a philosophy based in the idea of nothing or nothingness. It sounds like a self-contradicting failure, when in fact it is a gateway to seeing around the stupefaction of the herd.

As the reviews have it, Power-Nihilism: A Case For Moral & Political Nihilism opens up the door to further explorations in nihilism, including Nihilism:A Philosophy Based In Nothingness and Eternity, which shows us a path out of the modern befuddlement and into a world where we can again be both realistic and aspirational.

Reddit And Twitter Announce New Censorship Rules, And Reddit Admins Remove Post Pointing Out Leftist Bias

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 14:36:00 +0000

We all know that social media is basically Internet Relay Chat (IRC) for the twenty-first century, in that instead of going to a website with updated content, new items scroll across the screen in order to keep the user constantly entertained; it is "push" content, where without user interaction new material appears, instead of "pull," where the user must select content or content areas to see what updates have been posted.

Social media sites face a difficult reality: users have different interests and some users are abusive. Over the past decade, social media sites have attempted to equate the two, so when values clash, the minority view -- whichever opinion is shared by the fewest number of people -- is removed. This has accelerated with recent changes to the rules on sites like Reddit and Twitter, who are trying to internally legislate away content that upsets people.

Wired tells us that Twitter has implemented new filtering rules designed to weed out controversial content:

Last week the company disabled features of actor Rose McGowan's account at a crucial moment amid the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal. Groups of women boycotted the site for a day in protest. Twitter's typical response to complaints about hate and harassment is to affirm its commitment to transparency.

The new plans stop short of sweeping measures, such as banning pornography or specific groups like Nazis. Rather, they offer expanded features like allowing observers of unwanted sexual advances—as well as victims—to report them, and expanded definitions, such as including "creep shots" and hidden camera content under the definition of "nonconsensual nudity." The company also plans to hide hate symbols behind a "sensitive image" warning, though it has not yet defined what qualifies as a hate symbol. Twitter also says it will take unspecified enforcement actions against "organizations that use/have historically used violence as a means to advance their cause."

The leaked email to Twitter's "Trust and Safety" council includes new rules against content that "glorifies" violence:

Tweets that glorify violence (new)*

We already take enforcement action against direct violent threats (“I’m going to kill you”), vague violent threats (“Someone should kill you”) and wishes/hopes of serious physical harm, death, or disease (“I hope someone kills you”). Moving forward, we will also take action against content that glorifies (“Praise be to for shooting up. He’s a hero!”) and/or condones (“Murdering makes sense. That way they won’t be a drain on social services”).

And so now we have gone into a dangerous grey area where any opinion which can be seen as approving of a violent act in the past will be censored, at least if it conflicts with the majority opinion on social media. Twitter makes it clear that this will be used specifically against some groups who are associated with violence in the past, but again, this is a matter of interpretation, and can and will be selectively enforced:

Violent groups (new)*

We are still defining the exact scope of what will be covered by this policy. At a high level, we will take enforcement action against organizations that use/have historically used violence as a means to advance their cause. More details to come here as well (including insight into the factors we will consider to identify such groups).

In human history, every group has used violence at some point to either advance or defend itself, mainly because violence is what resolves conflicts when reasoning it out does not work. Who do we think Twitter will enforce against, the Communist party or the Right-wing? Since Twitter shows a generalized bias in favor of the Left, it is likely that the Left will not see discrimination.

As if trying to prove this, Reddit recently launched its own version of the anti-glorification policy, and promptly applied it unevenly in order to defend Leftists and Leftist groups from recognition of their violence. Here is the the new Reddit anti-glorification policy:

Do not post content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people; likewise, do not post content that glorifies or encourages the abuse of animals. We understand there are sometimes reasons to post violent content (e.g., educational, newsworthy, artistic, satire, documentary, etc.) so if you’re going to post something violent in nature that does not violate these terms, ensure you provide context to the viewer so the reason for posting is clear.

As users, including some on the Left, immediately noticed, this policy is even more vague than the previous, suggesting a pretext for selective enforcement:

Reddit then proved them correct by removing a post which pointed out that Leftist content calling for violence is abundant on Reddit and admins do nothing against it:

/r/LateStageCapitalism mods about someone's Cuban parents being put into labor camps: "Your family deserved what they got"

/r/politics on the London attack: "I just hope the people who were on that bridge were redneck Republicans like you so the slaughter was justified." [+63]

The head mod of /r/MarchAgainstTrump

//r/LateStageCapitalism MOD announcement - "No one can reasonably argue that the Republican congressmen shot today didn't deserve it. They absolutely did. They created this situation of unparalleled division. They're trying to destroy society to line their own pockets."

"Let's put arsenic in drinks and slip it to Trump supporters"

/r/Socialism posts infographic on why it's important to murder three Republican senators.

[Regarding Republicans] "What else can be done?", "Going to the homes of Republican lawmakers in the middle of the night, dragging them into the street, and turning them into tree ornaments [Lynching]."[+37]

/(to commenter who's mother is a christian trump-voter) "I don't mean this harshly so please don't take it that way. The sooner that people like your mother pass on and stop voting, the better off we'll all be." [+26]

/DavidReiss666 Moderator of major default subreddits like r/LPT, r/BestOf, r/History, advocates the assassination the President. "The only way to fix this is going to be extra-Constitutional [Mussolini's assassination]. Trump deserves similar treatment."

/"Democrats will sweep the next election. Their communities will die out as we liberal big city people use our superior education and intellect to make robots that take over their crappy jobs, and the working class white culture that voted for racism will be forever gone."

/"Removing Trump from power is the only choice that leads to a future of your country, so you're gonna move your fat ass and take the fight to the streets, until that slob lies on the dirt, drowning in its own blood." [SH] r/ETS

All gun owners should have their guns taken away from them and then be executed

/r/Anarchism recommends bringing explosives to throw at "Free Speech" rally.

Leftist in /r/Videos promoting violence against free speech

Redditor on r/socialism telling users to torture reddit employees and their families.

Commies on /r/Anarchism is advocating for violence.... again. Over 100 upvotes folks.

/r/Anarchism blatantly advocates for murder... again...

/r/FULLCOMMUNISM advocates of both DPRK and Stalin

Castro praising

Support beating up Pepe

Supports punching of Richard Spencer

Supports mass murder of "Nazis"

Punch a Nazi and smash a Cop's face!

"This is why the nonviolent argument for revolution doesn't work. Politics is violence. Whether that violence is a punch to a nazis face or a brick to a cops head, or a series of corporations forcing an entire sector of people to not have enough resources to live it is still violence."

"I'm going to say something unpopular here. When I heard that someone had shot Republicans, my first immediate hope was that someone finally did something about McConnel." Score hidden

/r/anarchism praising the stabbing of a Trump supporter just for being white

(On Elon Musk taking 2 rich people to the moon) "If we're lucky, there will be a launch failure."

"Wish it was legal to kill Fascists"

Calling the victims of Communism Slaver Owners

Advocacy of shooting a Republican Senator

"shooter is a patriot"

"[on the shooting] you reap what you sow"

List compiling people defending the shooter:

Advocacy of killing opponents of Net Neutrality

Wanting Rural and Trump voters to die.

We're getting to the point that it's past the need for protest, but time for violent and extreme actions. The government needs to be reminded that is has a reason to be afraid of us.

"All cops deserve death" + Genocide denial

/r/anarchism links to a page of peoples doxx, reddit mods still won't delete the sub

Mods on /r/FULLCOMMUNISM celebrate the deaths of 5 cops, tell users to "BASH THE PIGS"

Literal 13k+ post calling for people's deaths.

The point worth taking here is that these statements were against Reddit's old anti-violence rules, but presumably because they were made by Leftists, were not removed, while Rightist comments were.

We can expect nothing but the same in the future from Reddit and Twitter: one-sided enforcement to advance their own ideological agenda, or that of those that they employ, who presumably are not the winners of the dot-com bubble, meaning that they are not the people not getting paid millions to innovate but getting paid entry-level salaries to clean up the mess.

If social media had any foresight, it would get out of this game before it debunks itself as biased.

How Reddit Maintains Control Of The Hive Mind Through Censorship

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:47:00 +0000

Check out these cucks: instead of admitting that they are filtering out certain knowledge from the debate, they style dissenters as the opposition and argue that it is a public service to remove their voices. This is how Reddit maintains control of the hive mind. It creates a strong cultural bias on the site against certain taboo topics, and by doing so, enforces an echo chamber where the users see only the approved narrative wherever they look.

Reddit Summarized

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:45:00 +0000

Why The World Is Leaving Reddit Behind

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:26:00 +0000

This is a daily event at Reddit: the dominant herd-mind dislikes any idea which is not mentally and morally convenient. It acts as a mob to downvote, report, and otherwise obscure or vandalize those ideas. Reddit is a circle-jerk of people in denial of reality, and they hate it when any realistic or actual data intervenes.

A recent /r/AskReddit thread identified this problem, which many users seem worried about:

As Reddit continues down the path of censorship and groupthink, the power users are going elsewhere, despite having fled to Reddit to get away from the insane bovine circular discussions at Facebook and Twitter.

The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Jonathan Theodore (2016)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:37:00 +0000

The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire explores the idea of the decline and fall of the Roman empire as a myth and archetype more than a discreet event, which makes the book more about us than the past:

This book investigates the ‘decline and fall’ of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American culture and thought from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which writers, filmmakers and the media have conceptualized this process and the parallels they have drawn, deliberately or unconsciously, to their contemporary world. Jonathan Theodore argues that the decline and fall of Rome is no straightforward historical fact, but a ‘myth’ in terms coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss, meaning not a ‘falsehood’ but a complex social and ideological construct. Instead, it represents the fears of European and American thinkers as they confront the perceived instability and pitfalls of the civilization to which they belonged. The material gathered in this book illustrates the value of this idea as a spatiotemporal concept, rather than a historical event – a narrative with its own unique moral purpose.

This is clarified more in a statement from the introduction:

In the literary and cinematic examples cited throughout this book, whether nineteenth-century or twenty-first, the story takes the same essential form. Rome fell because Rome first declined; she declined, because she was tainted from within; and the forces that corrupted her, with some local variation, are those that every society or civilization must hold in check if they are to be spared the consequences which befell the Roman example. Without the utter clarity of this narrative, the story of Rome has no mythological meaning; and no comparative value for the authors who seek a tale about the present as much as the past. It would be only a specialist historical concern; with perhaps some wider, but largely symbolic significance as the “end of an era.” ...The fall of Rome, the causes of its decline, and the universal relevance of the story, have occupied a unique place in the Western mind. As a society, we have shared a common obsession with this fall. It has been valued and exploited as an archetype for every perceived decline, from the political to the theological; and hence as a symbol for the multifarious fears held about society, culture and civilization as a whole. There is a constant representation of Rome in this regard as “a world not unlike our own,” engulfing the myth of Roman decline in a continuum with the current world of the author, and ancient history with perceptions of the present day. The decline and fall is a myth in which a mutually explored aspect of the contemporary world is a recreation of the Roman Empire, in some aspect or form, allowing the same moral force of judgement to apply.

Reddit Bans Subreddit Investigating Podesta Emails Link to Pedophilia, But Keeps Pro-Pedo Subreddit /r/pedofriends

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:24:00 +0000

Reddit is like a drunk person who ate nothing but chili for days: just when you think the horror is over, it begins anew, and usually gets stinkier over time.

The admins decided it was time to ban /r/pizzagate, a 'subreddit' or channel that is investigating what seems like a series of coded references to pedophilia contained within the emails by Hillary Clinton staffer John Podesta that were released through Wikileaks.

In a private message (on-site email) to the mods of /r/pizzagate, Reddit's admins stated:

We wanted to let you know that after several long discussions on our end we are unable to keep your community open after today. This is because we’re still seeing PII of private individuals continually posted on your subreddit and it’s not being removed by moderators after multiple warnings and discussions with your team. We recognize that you feel this is an important investigation, however as it has become clear that this community is unable to stay within our sitewide rules we will be banning the subreddit at 4:00 PM PST.

The #Pizzagate team has decided on a continuation policy using three contact points:

In the meantime, one alert user noticed something disturbing: while Reddit banned /r/pizzagate for witch hunting, it seems to have no problem being a nexus for pedophiles to meet up, chat and get together for "R4Rs" -- online solicitations to do things for one another, often of a sexual nature.

Redditors quickly identified /r/pedofriends and /r/pedochat (a private, password-protected chat forum) as examples of Reddit covering for pedophiles if not outright enabling them.

No word has come forth from Reddit admins about whether they will continue to tolerate pedophilia. They seem more concerned that a subreddit might identify pedophiles within the US government than that pedophiles use Reddit as a private forum, and at this point, that is all we know.

An Alt Right Search Engine

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 21:30:00 +0000

In frustration out of searching broadly for Alt Right topics, I put together a Google Custom Search Engine that features the top fifty or so Alt Right websites. This allows you to search for Alt Right content exclusively without running into the irrelevance keyword spam of the mainstream media.

Political Correctness For SJWs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 07:23:00 +0000

It has come to the attention of the management that we are experiencing more visits from SJWs, and that these new users often do not know about our standard of respect and compassion for all other forms of life.

In particular, SJWs use certain problematic language that is deeply offensive to members of our community and disenfranchised people here.

Stop Yourself From Using These Abusive Terms

"Triggered." Trigger... does that sound like another word that we should not be saying? If you guessed the N-word, you're right! "Trigger" is a term that White Nationalists use to refer to people of color of African descent. Instead of saying "Triggered," you should use the more empathic term "invaded."
"Raped." In less enlightened times, people talked about rape as a serious crime. Little did they know that in our more scientific and respectful era, "rape" is just one of many crimes that violate human dignity. When you say that "staring at my tits is literal rape," you are implying that all other violations of human dignity are less important, and that is highly insensitive. Say "emotional assault" instead.
"Cultural appropriation." Wow, just wow. I cannot believe that in 2016 we are still revisiting this topic. You do not use the language of oppressors to describe the suffering of the oppressed. The correct term is "Ukwabiwa zamasiko," the closest Zulu equivalent.
Gender. People are still using gender terms in here, and it makes us literally cry our eyes out, which is ruining the keyboards on these MacBook (Pro) laptops. The correct way to use gender is not to use it at all. Be sensitive and use "it" and "its" instead of the anachronistic and discriminatory gender terms.
"Stupid." Do we need to remind you that this term is just another version of the R-word? Bigotry against people for low intelligence is just another form of ableism, which discriminates against people for physical traits they cannot control. If something types something that you think is idiotic, use the term "conservative" instead of out-dated words like "stupid," "moronic," "idiotic" and "insane."
Reality policing. We have seen this egregious destruction of human rights too many times. People, as autonomous and sovereign beings, have the right to perceive the world around them as they see it. When you tell something that "2+2=4," you are implying an absolute and fixed value to your own perspective, which is not their perspective and denies them their civil right to see the world differently. Sometimes, the answer is five, and if you really want equality, you will insist that it is always five so that all visions of reality are accepted.
"Mine" and "Yours." Among the worst invasions of personal respect are these terms for ownership. As you know, the concept of private property ownership came from slavery and marriage, in which people literally owned each other. Instead, say "this thing I am using" or "the place I am living."

Together we can make this blog a more inclusive community for all sentient beings, and usher in a new era of peace and love for humanity. It is up to you to make this happen, and we thank our new SJW friends for their compliance.

❤

Your hosts

Apple IIe Bulletin Board Systems That You Can Visit From The Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:56:00 +0000

You are invited to visit these Apple IIe BBS systems on telnet. So far as I know, they are the only ones running on Apple IIe. Please let me know if any others exist.

Running on Apple IIe hardware:

bbs.impakt.net port number 6502
dura-bbs.net port number 6359

Emulated:

sanctumbbs.com port number 6502

The Utter Disaster Of The Barack Obama Presidency

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:49:00 +0000

America elected Barack Obama to achieve a "first" that is important to Leftists: a first African-descended President. This furthers their agenda to dispirit and dispossess the genetic core of Western Civilization, or those who are biologically Western European, and replace them with a mixed-race grey people who by virtue of having no culture or identity, will gravitate toward Leftism to create a permanent Leftist majority and power structure.

Eight years later, the country is a smoking ruin thanks to the racial- and class-revenge policies of Leftists and their darling candidate, Barack Obama:

And he has black skin, so he must he cool and progressive! Man I voted for him 2008 back when I was in college and decided to give him another shot in 2012, what a huge disappointment he is.

He is actually one of the major reasons that Trump became president, Hillary was running on a platform of more-Obama.

The architect of TPP and leading the worst economic recovery in U.S. history. Economy is STILL so weak after 8 years that the Federal Reserve is still forced to keep interest rates near zero just to keep our economy from collapsing.

Used Espionage Act to go after more whistle blowers and journalists than all other administrations in US history, COMBINED.

The only president in US history to not to have at least one year of 3% GDP growth
Grew the national debt more than all other presidents COMBINED.

50% of college graduates cannot find a full-time job in their field of study.

Obama is the only president in history that for the first 7.5 years of his presidency the median income fell.

Record numbers of people on Food Stamps and Welfare.

Lowest labor-participation rate in 40 years.

Highest percent of unemployed 6 months or more since the Great Depression.

Obamacare is failing and collapsing at an alarming rate, personally my premiums have skyrocketed since it was introduced.

That promise of racial unity that Obama was supposed to represent has turned into our country having the worst racial relations in decades. We have cities from Baltimore to Charlotte literally burning down in race riots.

Regressive leftism everywhere. When the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were murdered by Muslims for drawing a cartoon of Muhammed, instead of standing up for Western values he sided against the cartoonists, saying "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."

Killed literally over a hundred innocent people in drone strikes.

Expanded the surveillance state, massive failure on going after Snowden for calling out NSA's bullshit

Signed CISA, ICANN and a slew of other terrible bills.

I would need a list of 10 or 15 lines just to touch on his foreign policy failures. Hillary said her vision of America is continuing the Obama policies. The American voters said no thanks.

This user would get more points if he noticed that all Leftism is "regressive Leftism" because Leftism is an agenda of destruction of social order, not its creation. It is based on fantasies about human equality that inevitably have bad results in reality.

Perhaps the real story here is the sea change in culture that can be seen on social media. As another user quipped:

[J]ust yesterday, I would have had to have sorted by controversial to read the truth.

This is what Leftism does: it makes people into ideological zombies who then deny reality with obsessive, vengeful zeal. Just yesterday, these things could not be said. Now we can finally admit the truth... which also admits that we were suppressing the truth yesterday and the days before it, purely so we could believe the fiction that is Leftism and its associated policies of equality, diversity and class warfare.