*Of course, I use the term “believe” with: a)tongue(-somewhat)-in-cheek; b)qualifications…
~MRDA~
Attack the System- Paul Gottfried on Libertarians, Conservatives, and Our Prospects 31st May 2023Ep. 2338 Paul Gottfried on Libertarians, Conservatives, and Our ProspectsKeith Preston
- Biden sexual assault accuser Tara Reade feels ‘safe’ in Russia after fleeing over safety concerns 31st May 2023By David Propper Ex-Senate staffer Tara Reade, who accused President Biden of sexual assault, proclaimed Tuesday she feels right at home in Russia after fleeing the United States. The bewildering announcement was part of an hours-long interview Reade did with Russian state media next to alleged Russian spy […]Keith Preston
- How Does Anarchism Differ From Liberalism? 31st May 2023By John Wilkes Czolgosz Anarchism and liberalism are two distinct political ideologies with different perspectives on the role of the state and the organization of society. While both share a commitment to individual freedom, they approach it from different angles and have contrasting views on the role of […]Keith Preston
- Paul Gottfried on Libertarians, Conservatives, and Our Prospects 31st May 2023
- Samizdata
- Samizdata quote of the day 30th May 2023Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them. – usually attributed to George Orwell.Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- RIP Professor Alice Coleman 1923-2023 29th May 2023Alice Coleman, geographer whose study of failed council estates impressed Mrs Thatcher – obituary Alice Coleman, who has died aged 99, was a professor of geography at King’s College London whose book Utopia on Trial (1985), in which she launched a scathing attack on post-war high-rise housing estates, so impressed the prime minister Margaret Thatcher […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day – Missouri vs. Biden 28th May 2023So far I’ve only really discussed the procedural happenings—however what limited expedited discovery in this case has exposed (separate and apart from the Twitter files) is both unprecedented and abhorrent. The most widespread and troubling discovery? CISA has designated YOUR THOUGHTS part of the governments infrastructure. They call it “cognitive infrastructure”. They argue they can […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Samizdata quote of the day 30th May 2023
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what to believe … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- 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
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 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
- Timothy B. Lee: don’t rage against the machine 29th May 2023A few years ago now, Razib talked to Tim Lee about his new Substack Full Stack Economics, which featured deep dives into economic issues (as well as some on-the-ground-reporting, like when he drove Lyft to get a feel for its economics). But recently, L...Razib Khan, Timothy B. Lee
- The collapse of the Bronze Age civilization 29th May 2023Recently, scientists discovered that a two-year mega-drought beginning in 1198 BC hastened the Hittite Empire’s collapse. The finding sheds new light on the history of the decades around 1200 BC, adding specificity to the timing and cause for the perio...Razib Khan
- Peter Nimitz: Seven Ages of Western Eurasia 29th May 2023On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, Razib talks to Peter Nimitz, the author behind the Nemets Substack, which explores topics as diverse as the 2014 Donbass War and the likelihood of Eurasian migration into Chad thousands of years ago...Razib Khan, Peter Nimitz
- Timothy B. Lee: don’t rage against the machine 29th May 2023
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Bleeding Heart Libertarians is back… now in Substack form! 21st April 2023I previously blogged about BHL shutting down and some of its former members making a couple replacement blogs, but now Matt Zwolinski has revived the old name. I don’t know how many contributors his new Substack will have. I like how Substack has set the stage for something of a mini-revival of blogging after social […]teageegeepea
- A Canticle for Leibowitz 18th April 2023The other scifi novels I’ve reviewed here have been from authors known for much more than that (although Ayn Rand’s usually weren’t scifi). Walter Miller was more of a one-hit wonder, who basically stopped publishing after he combined three of his short stories into his first (and only, within his lifetime) book. A natural point […]teageegeepea
- Permanent post for giving away subscriptions to Substacks 13th March 2023For a while Substack had been giving me 3 subscriptions to Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning, roughly every week, and I was finding takers at Scott Alexander’s Open Threads. In the most recent one Scott said enough, so I instead will do so via comments under this post.teageegeepea
- Bleeding Heart Libertarians is back… now in Substack form! 21st April 2023
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence 26th June 2021Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. — Proverbs 9:1 T. E. Lawrence is the Lawrence, of Arabia, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom is his autobiographical account of his time spent serving in the British and Arab armies during World War One. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023We boldly claim to change the world, with one simple dogmatic rule! TOTAL HONESTY, and intolerance for deception, can change the world for the better. One simple rule! Honesty is the #1 necessity for a modern scientific society PC deception and lies are the CAUSE for the downfall of Western civilization. Total honesty and full disclosure are […]Programmer
- HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate 23rd March 2022HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate Teen sexting case highlights severity of N.C. sex offender laws A North Carolina teenager faces felony sex crime charges after police discovered sexually explicit photographs of a sixteen-year-old girl on his cell phone. Cormega Copening is a seventeen-year-old high school student at Jack […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- Vote counting corrupted in USA, infiltrated by dishonest leftist activists 15th October 2021Formerly honest and unbiased vote counting is another institution infiltrated with and taken over by leftist activists. Leftists think deception is virtuous to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This must be exposed, opposed, reversed. Continue at Sincerity.netWait, there is more! This article continues! Continue reading »Vote counting corrupted in USA, […]Programmer
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- Who wants to be “Free”? by James M. Martin (UoE ArticleCast) 14th May 2023WHO WANTS TO BE “FREE”? by James J. Martin I am indicting a society which has no more concept of freedom and responsibility than it has of a twelve-legged dog. Is it ‘free enterprise’ which is to occupy the trial seat before socialism and communism? Is there anyone engaged in making profits by the present […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Parents: What Are They Good For? 11th May 2023Parents: What Are They Good For? We are in the midst of a revolution of women. It is almost an accomplished fact. But in the great movements, economic and sexual, which are going on all over the world, there is one more revolution to be accomplished. It is the revolt of the children against their […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- SA1250 | The Radical Book Shop of Chicago | Kevin I. Slaughter & Lillian H. Udell 30th April 2023Title: The Radical Book Shop of Chicago Subtitle: In Which a Disaffected Preacher, His Blind Anarchist Wife, and Their Precocious Daughters Create an Important Hub of Literary, Bohemian, and Revolutionary Culture in Progressive-Era Chicago Author: Kevin I. Slaughter, with texts by Lillian H. Udell Paperback | 5.5 x 8.5”, 128 pages | Price: $16.95 | ISBN: 978-1-943687-28-2 […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Who wants to be “Free”? by James M. Martin (UoE ArticleCast) 14th May 2023
TOYAMA FOR THE FUCKING WIN!
God I love that guy. His Tokyo governor campaign speech may be the greatest political performance of all time.
Indeed!
A masterpiece of theatrical politics, so it is…..
Is it true that you’re married?
Who are you, first of all?
そうなんだ。
…………….
……….
silent.
つまり、
私は、失恋した。
まあいいやじゃない。よくない。