Some people juuuuuuuuust refuse to get it – if they’re even capable that is! Damn legalists!
~MRDA~
Attack the System- The Pendulum Of Internet Censorship Swings Leftward Again 25th January 2021I always figured if the Democrats managed to oust Trump, a purge of the “no longer useful” left would take place. But it’s happening a lot quicker than even I thought it would. By Caitlin Johnstone There has been a purge of left-wing accounts from social media, with socialist organizations being targeted on Facebook and multiple […]Keith Preston
- What Biden’s Warmongering Will Actually Look Like 25th January 2021By Caitlin Johnstone There’s a news story about a US military convoy entering Syria being shared around social media with captions claiming that President Biden is already “invading” Syria which is getting tons of shares in both right-wing and left anti-imperialist circles. The virality of these shares has inspired clickbait titles like “Joe Biden Invades […]Keith Preston
- The COVID recession may kill more Americans than COVID-19 does 25th January 2021The government’s response to COVID-19 has been to protect the health of the affluent classes at the expense of the poor and working-class, who still have to either go to work or simply do without an income. By Geoff Colvin, Fortune The economic effects of COVID-19 could prove deadlier than the disease itself. So says just-released research, […]Keith Preston
- The Pendulum Of Internet Censorship Swings Leftward Again 25th January 2021
- Samizdata
- I do not usually recommend that you read the publications of the Socialist Workers Party 24th January 2021The Socialist Workers Party (Glad you asked, comrade: apostrophes are a bourgeois affectation!) are a bunch of Trotskyist goblins with admittedly good organisational skills. Back in 2011, I reminisced about how you could turn up at any demonstration for any left wing cause in Britain over the last forty years and find that their lank-haired […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day 22nd January 2021In answer to: Why can’t the Left let go of Trump? It is the same reason a certain ilk of Remainers can’t let go of Brexit, and why the Left in media & academia can’t let go of GamerGate. These were each a cultural Stalingrad, defeats that indicated the world did not work the way […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Russian internet is ablaze 21st January 2021A couple days ago, Russian internet caught on fire, and it is still ablaze. Although Alexei Navalny was already under arrest, instantly judged by the ad-hoc court assembled right in the police department, his team published a 2-hour investigation into Putin’s past, present, connections and all his assets. Here it is with good English subtitles. […]Perry de Havilland (London)
- I do not usually recommend that you read the publications of the Socialist Workers Party 24th January 2021
- 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
- CREDO 29th April 2020by John Grauerholz I need no gods; I worship myself. I need no church; my ego is powerful enough. I need no faith; I am confident in myself. I need no scriptures; my own presence is inspiration enough. I need no savior; I can handle things myself. I need no government; I […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- PARABLE OF THE COMMUTER TRAIN 21st November 2019by John Grauerholz Let me make this simple for you. Maybe I need to make it easy for you. Perhaps I have to reduce it to a parable in order for you to understand. It is like this …. You have timed it perfectly. You have walked the selfsame streets so many times before that you […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- EVEN IF YOU WERE NOT A COMPLETE LOSER 20th January 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
- Wandewring 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
- 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
- Razib Khan
- Open Thread – 1/25/2021 25th January 2021Taking a break from catching up with Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe to read Accounts of China and India. It’s a short […]Razib Khan
- Stark Truth About Humans: a story of India 25th January 2021Science will fall, but also rise (part 2 of 2)Razib Khan
- Why Scythians, Sakas, and Kushanas, are NOT the source of “steppe” ancestry 25th January 2021This is a common question/assertion in the comments pretty much every other week: why couldn’t the documented incursions of nomadic people in the first millennium A.D. be responsible for the steppe ancestry? There is actually a good explanation in The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia, so I’ll quote it: By the […]Razib Khan
- Open Thread – 1/25/2021 25th January 2021
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Scott Alexander is back… in Substack form! 22nd January 2021One of the few things I blogged about last year was the demise of a blog… specifically, Scott Alexander’s. He had noted in (what was) his last post that he planned on returning via Substack once he sorted out his real-life job so it couldn’t be threatened by doxing, and now his actual last post […]teageegeepea
- Our platforms, our selves 13th January 2021My second post ever on this blog was titled with the internet-age utopian phrase Information Wants To Be Free. Even at that time one of my blog-inspirations (which I cited there) had been shuttered, I think after the professor behind it was found and “cancelled” (before that was a common term, and before the same […]teageegeepea
- One nice thing about the pandemic 25th December 2020I haven’t heard any Christmas music this season.teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander is back… in Substack form! 22nd January 2021
- Instead of a Blog
- Christopher Dorner Dindu Nuffin' Wrong 15th March 2018I have at various times expressed my complete contempt for the police and military branches of the United States government (as well as foreign governments, though they don't pose as much of a direct threat to me). The bourgeoisie nerds in the libertarian movement (much less the boot-licking 2nd Amendment queers) are often at pains […]Unknown
- Real Talk on Guns 9th March 2018It is a good idea to both own and be proficient with at least one firearm. The most important factor is that you are comfortable shooting it, and that you practice a lot. Do not buy into bullshit like 'stopping power', 'hydrostatic shock' or cults of particular weapons. It is important that your weapon and […]Unknown
- Death Wish's Yankee Homo Critics Can Go Fuck Themselves with a Knife 8th March 2018Death Wish was generally panned by film critics - who are almost all a bunch of weak faggots that are scared of guns. That, and not its content, is the main reason it suffered in the reviews. While Death Wish is nowhere near as cool as the original, it's certainly not bad as far as […]Unknown
- Christopher Dorner Dindu Nuffin' Wrong 15th March 2018
- Evolutionist X
- Everyone’s a Conspiracy Theorist, now 14th January 2021We live in interesting times. The internet was supposed to usher in an era of increased knowledge, understanding, and maybe even human harmony. Instead it has turned us all into conspiracy theorists. Don’t get hoity-toity and claim that it’s only those Bad Guys over on the other side of the aisle who believe in conspiracies. […]evolutiontheorist
- New Year, New President 7th January 2021My husband made a good point yesterday, that an historian a hundred years from now could reasonably argue that Trump was never truly president because he was never allowed by the rest of the system to assume full power. For these four years America has been essentially sans-president. The system has chosen Biden; never mind […]evolutiontheorist
- The Specter of Morality 1st January 2021I think one of the problems with the teaching of history/our understanding of morality is that we look back on he past and think, “Oh it’s so OBVIOUS that X was evil, only evil people could have supported X. If I lived back then, I’d have been a good person who opposed X.” For example, […]evolutiontheorist
- Everyone’s a Conspiracy Theorist, now 14th January 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Scientific honesty: tell the WHOLE truth, nothing hidden: fully disclose weaknesses, alternative explanations, conflicts of interest … 11th January 2021“Blacks have lower income than Whites in the USA. That proves ‘systemic racism’”. Scientific honesty requires to inform about all weaknesses in this statement. Reprinted with permission from SINCERITY.net Scientific honesty* requires full and total disclosure of all relevant issues regarding the theory in discussion. Dishonesty must be shunned, deception be taboo. Scientific honesty should […]Programmer
- Covid-19 lockdown side effects are suppressed! Former German secret service chief assails cover-up 5th January 2021Cluelessness about suicides, bankruptcies, economic disasters, and co-morbidities related to Covid-19 lockdowns is chastised by Germany’s former secret service chief Hans Georg Massen. Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net 1) why we don’t differentiate between deaths BY Coronavirus and death WITH Coronavirus (and other causes of death) Why is Covid-19 so dangerous if there were no […]Programmer
- Progressive “Zorro”: Females are much better justice fighters, NOT 29th December 2020Movie producers lose money, producing movies that people don’t want to see. Producers sacrifice profits to brainwash the “narrative” into people’s brains. Where is the OUTRAGE? Is there any research that the spectators want to watch female fighters and black heroes? Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net NBC Preps ‘Zorro’ With Female Lead Who Fights for […]Programmer
- Scientific honesty: tell the WHOLE truth, nothing hidden: fully disclose weaknesses, alternative explanations, conflicts of interest … 11th January 2021
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Scott Alexander is back… in Substack form! 22nd January 2021One of the few things I blogged about last year was the demise of a blog… specifically, Scott Alexander’s. He had noted in (what was) his last post that he planned on returning via Substack once he sorted out his real-life job so it couldn’t be threatened by doxing, and now his actual last post […]teageegeepea
- Our platforms, our selves 13th January 2021My second post ever on this blog was titled with the internet-age utopian phrase Information Wants To Be Free. Even at that time one of my blog-inspirations (which I cited there) had been shuttered, I think after the professor behind it was found and “cancelled” (before that was a common term, and before the same […]teageegeepea
- One nice thing about the pandemic 25th December 2020I haven’t heard any Christmas music this season.teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander is back… in Substack form! 22nd January 2021
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- SA1175 | Hyde Park Orator Illustrated | Bonar Thompson & Trevor Blake 20th January 2021Hyde Park Orator Illustrated Bonar Thompson Afterword by Trevor Blake 6 x 9″, 354 pages, perfect bound STAND ALONE SA1175 Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon | Bookshop.org “A cynic’s book that annoyed me.” – Leeds Mercury. Bonar Thompson, the famous Hyde Park Orator, delighted millions of listeners at the well-known meeting-ground for many years with his […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- “I GO” a poem by Jack Jones. 14th January 2021I GO I go slowlyIn a slow way,My means being lowly.I go unbidden,Yea even forbidden.I go to discover—I know not.But I go,For only can I knowBy going. —Jack Jones.Kevin I. Slaughter
- Seklew Scolds Simpoleons, Supplies Sample Shilling Sericine Silk Set 13th January 2021Daily Herald (28 March 1914) SIMPOLEONS! Listen! Don’t be a blister on the Bosom of Time, but look like Napoleons of Labour by wearing “Sericine” Silk Ties. Something new. Seklew’s Sample Shilling Set: 3 Ties, 1 Tie-maker, 1 silver-cased Collar-fastener. 1s the Lot. Agents wanted. Particulars 1d. – Seklew and Co., 11, Chester Street, C.-on-M., […]Trevor Blake
- SA1175 | Hyde Park Orator Illustrated | Bonar Thompson & Trevor Blake 20th January 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