Some people juuuuuuuuust refuse to get it – if they’re even capable that is! Damn legalists!
~MRDA~
Attack the System- Special Jurisdictions in a Post-COVID World 9th April 2021A virtual conference hosted by the Startup Societies Foundation is happening in a few weeks. About the Event In the aftermath of COVID-19, the world will need to rebuild economically and politically. To prepare for this, the Startup Societies Foundation is hosting a virtual summit that will explore […]Keith Preston
- Dr. Lindsey Thomas testifies during Derek Chauvin’s trial 9th April 2021Thomas, a forensic pathologist, concluded George Floyd died from “the subdual of officer restraint.”Keith Preston
- Youtube Is Astroturfing Our Replacements 9th April 2021Big Tech is the new Church.Keith Preston
- Special Jurisdictions in a Post-COVID World 9th April 2021
- Samizdata
- Samizdata quote of the day 8th April 2021A REALLY large number of people have now staked their political and/or personal and professional reputations & credibility on this being A Really Bad Thing, one that requires Obedience & Sacrifice & wear that fuckin’ mask in a non clinical setting, mate! No overarching conspiracy is required to understand the collective insanity & wilful stupidity […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- A third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders… really? 8th April 2021How many people do you know who have had covid-19? I know eleven in total (including myself and three relatives), all ‘survivors’. Eleven is a very small statistical sample, but if one third of covid-19 ‘survivors’ suffer neurological or mental disorders, I would expect to know at least one person thus afflicted, which I do […]Perry de Havilland (London)
- Cotswold Bloke: ‘No one would ever believe that world leaders would behave like that …’ 8th April 2021Cotswold Bloke writes, in a series of tweets which I have merged together into a piece of writing with paragraphs and added punctuation and whatnot instead of it being divided up into tweets, this: Got a great idea for a thriller – the plot will knock your socks off. So there’s a shadowy Global Elite, […]Brian Micklethwait (London)
- Samizdata quote of the day 8th April 2021
- Wisdom Dancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- On Ugly Ideas and IntoleranceIdeas are neither benign, nor malignant, out of the context of a specific mentality. They depend entirely on our subjective mental context to affect us. As we respond to ideas in one way or another, as we adopt one idea … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continuedThis post is a follow up to my previous post, Knowledge Matters, Too: Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race, which introduced the dispositive role that power plays, specifically the overlapping institutions of the police state and militarism. I … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of Reconciliation
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break rocks all day long to bring forth a better world in the decades yet to come. Activists for the long-threatened paradise will not leave us alone – these advance-men will harass and hassle us whenever we attempt to enjoy ourselves […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- EVIL IS MERELY AN EDGE OVER OTHER PEOPLE 2nd February 2021by John Grauerholz“Evil” has nothing to do with ethics whatsoever. Despite what do-gooders might want you to believe, evil has no connection with any moral system. “Right” and “wrong” are simply a matter of convenience: what is beneficial to you in this life is simply not advantageous to other people - and this lack of […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- EVEN IF YOU WERE NOT A COMPLETE LOSER 20th January 2021by John Grauerholz If you, on a rainy, thundering night, ever dare to look in the mirror - then you, my dear reader, will see a complete failure gazing stupidly back at you. That slobbering, slack-jawed creature gawking from the glass is you. Even if your face were not completely hideous, your acquaintances would still […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019The writer presently known as Delicious Tacos is responsible for, among other things, a series of short confessional narratives that chronicle his agonizing ordeal with an anorectal abscess. That micro-memoir of butthole affliction – the "Ass Variations," as I have...chipsmith
- In Memoriam! Adam Parfrey 19th May 2018A few years ago I was interviewed by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing and I banked off one of his questions to talk about some of the publishers who inspired me to start up Nine-Banded Books way back when. Here's...chipsmith
- Book Journal – "How to Judge People by What They Look Like" 19th May 2018The title cracks me up. I mean, it could have been something vaguely academic -- maybe Physiognomy Reconsidered, or Physiognomy: The Abandoned Science; or it could have been something suggesively literary, like Body and Essence or A Book by Its...chipsmith
- In Praise of Delicious Tacos 30th May 2019
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- Abdel Abdellaoui: a behavior geneticist in the 21st century 9th April 2021Listen now (44 min) | The science of human psychological variation mixed with genetics is a controversial cocktailRazib Khan
- Entering Steppelandia: pop. 7.7 billion 9th April 2021Why the steppe matters to me, and why it should matter youRazib Khan
- Ancient humans had a lot of sex with each other 8th April 2021Have you taken my Steppelandia Quiz yet? A new ‘must read’ paper on Neanderthals, Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry: Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least […]Razib Khan
- Abdel Abdellaoui: a behavior geneticist in the 21st century 9th April 2021
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Fabio Rojas says goodbye to OrgTheory 21st March 2021He actually said goodbye at the end of last year, but because I haven’t been reading regularly I just didn’t notice. He’s not done with blogging though, as he & Katherine Chen are moving to Markets, Power & Culture. Much like how Bleeding Heart Libertarians gave way to 200 Proof Liberals. Yet another reason to […]teageegeepea
- My dialogue with “Jeff” in the comments at AC10 over West African sprinting ability 19th February 2021Nested comments on Substack become unreadable after a certain number of levels, so I’m using this post to continue a conversation. Jeff: We know that athletic ability is heritable in individuals, but you’d look pretty dumb if you said it’s plausible that Jamaicans are naturally better sprinters, Kenyans better distance runners, and African-Americans better basketball […]teageegeepea
- Protected: A place for marxbro1917 to continue his comments on AC10’s review of “The Cult of Smart” 18th February 2021There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.teageegeepea
- Fabio Rojas says goodbye to OrgTheory 21st March 2021
- Evolutionist X
- Nettles 1st March 2021The sun is up and the nettles are out. I’ve always been fascinated by wild foods. Picking a wild berry or parsnip gives you a little taste of what our distant ancestors lives were like, the ways they looked at the world and the flavors they enjoyed. Nettles are famous because they’re one of the […]evolutiontheorist
- Bad Content vs. Good 7th February 2021So I was reading this interesting article on “The Journalistic Tattletale Industry,” by Glenn Greenwald, recommended by a friend, and came across this quote: The article itself is about how these people have become censorious hall monitors who go crying to the principal if they think you even breathed a bad word, and Oliver here […]evolutiontheorist
- Avoiding hyperstimuli 30th January 2021Hyperstimuli are like regular stimuli, but turned up to 11. Fruit contains naturally occurring fruit sugars, which your body craves because sugar is an important energy source and fruit is full of valuable nutrients. Fruit is a natural stimulus. Candy is made from a vegetable, sugarcane, that has had all of the annoying fibrous vegetable […]evolutiontheorist
- Nettles 1st March 2021
- Human Stupidity
- False beliefs about police killings:media brainwashing quantified 15th March 2021Population brainwashing – regarding number of unarmed Blacks killed by police in 2019- was measured and quantified. Thousands of willfully distorted newspaper articles, Hollywood movies with white villains, black saviors, get the desired long term PC brainwashing result. Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net The Terrible Cost of Willful Ignorance The survey asked “How many unarmed […]Programmer
- Why Trust The ‘Experts’? Politically correct gag orders intimidate scientists! 27th February 2021Scientific experts are intimidated by societal taboos, and enticed by financial and social benefits. Pure scientific honesty has been corrupted. Corrupted “science experts” voice unscientific opinions. Everything false can be derived from one false premise (f ⇒ f) … Experts do not practice truth-seeking, honest, unbiased science. Reprinted with permission from Sincerity.net Rather, experts must think inside the […]Programmer
- Gain followers with free speech; later control the captivated users. Social media’s brilliant deception as march through institutions 9th February 2021The orchestrated effort to funnel all internet users into a small number of well controlled large enterprises has been obvious once large enough section of the population was completely locked in on them, that’s when the control of the narrative truly kicked in. Old habits die hard, so after years of keeping the public on […]Programmer
- False beliefs about police killings:media brainwashing quantified 15th March 2021
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- “Max Stirner´s Anarchist Gospel” a review from “Current Literature,” 1907. 7th April 2021Max Stirner´s Anarchist Gospel Sixty years ago, a book entitled “Der Einzige und sein Eigentum” (generally translated “The Individual and his Property”) was published in Berlin. It has been described as “the most revolutionary book ever written,” and its author. Max Stirner, was perhaps the leading intellectual precursor of modern philosophical anarchism. When he died, […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Jeff Riggenbach reads “The Ego and His Own” by Max Stirner | 09 of 20 (5A) 4th April 2021The Ego and His Own Podcast Cassette tape 5, side A, episode 9 of 20. Jeff Riggenbach (1947-2021) reads The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner (1806-1856). Translated by Steven T. Byington (1869-1957), edited and introduced by James J. Martin (1916-2004). Edition read is based on the 1963 Libertarian Book Club edition. We do […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Der Geist Issue 4 / Union of Egoists 5th Anniversary 1st April 2021The Union of Egoists website went live early 2016 but officially announced April 1st of that year. The entire chat of February 2nd, 2016 between Trevor Blake and myself that crystalized the idea was printed at the end of Der Geist Issue 1, and titled “A Unique Conversation”, published in the following year. Der Geist […]Trevor Blake
- “Max Stirner´s Anarchist Gospel” a review from “Current Literature,” 1907. 7th April 2021
Isn’t it illegal to depict throwing stars in the UK? Is that just an urban legend, or is it sooth? I know that Shadow Master had to be patched to remove them in the UK.
Hmmm – I dunno about shuriken, but nunchaku were definitely censorship fodder from the 70’s. There was also a trimming of scenes involving switchblades, if my copy of Face/Off is anything to go by