*Of course, I use the term “believe” with: a)tongue(-somewhat)-in-cheek; b)qualifications…
~MRDA~
Attack the System- Supreme Court to take up case next term that could limit Roe v. Wade 18th May 2021The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a major abortion case next term concerning a controversial Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks, rekindling a potentially major challenge to Roe v. Wade at the majority conservative court.Keith Preston
- The Chauvin Show Trial and the State’s Crisis of Legitimacy 17th May 2021Whether one agrees with the political views expressed in this article or not, this is an excellent representation of how “the system” is losing legitimacy due to cultural fragmentation. People are increasingly unwilling to accept the outcome of not only elections but also court cases if “their side” […]Keith Preston
- Farewell, Jeff Bezos 17th May 2021By Dan Hitchens, The American Conservative In October 1994, a husband-and-wife startup in Washington state hired its first employee, a computer programmer called Shel Kaphan. Kaphan wasn’t sure about the startup’s business model—selling books on the “worldwide web”—or its name, Cadabra, which sounded a bit too much like […]Keith Preston
- Supreme Court to take up case next term that could limit Roe v. Wade 18th May 2021
- Samizdata
- Samizdata quote of the day 17th May 2021“There’s also the problem of, as our liberal friends would put it, power dynamics. At least when Stewart was battling the Bush administration, you could make the argument that liberalism was a minority persuasion in America. Today, the left is a political and cultural juggernaut, dominating the elected federal government, the civil service, the mainstream […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- Seen at anti-lockdown protest… 16th May 2021Epic 🤣Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Samizdata quote of the day 16th May 2021Conservatives? What conservatives? The Conservative Party of 2021 is Blairite ideologically, not conservative. If I wanted ruinous NetZero policies and even more state control over civil society needed to impose them, I’d vote for the Green Party. But if I’m going to get those policies even if I vote Tory, then why on earth would […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Samizdata quote of the day 17th May 2021
- Wisdom Dancer
- 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
- 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
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoes
- 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 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
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 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
- Open Thread – 05/16/2021 – Gene Expression 16th May 2021I’m reviewing Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India for UnHerd. Also, Marie Favereau, author of The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, will be on […]Razib Khan
- Lakshmi 16th May 2021I’m spending a lot of time reading about the Corded Ware for my series on the steppe. The Corded Ware is a culture that appeared that abruptly in Northern Europe between 2900 and 2800 BC, covering a vast territory of Central and Eastern Europe in a century. The name derives from the unique marks left […]Razib Khan
- The gay Muslim Roman Emperor 15th May 2021Last year I wrote The Myth Of Arabian Paganism, And The Jewish-Christian Origins Of The Umayyads. My overall contention is that Islam-qua-Islam was retconned in the 8th century back to […]Razib Khan
- Open Thread – 05/16/2021 – Gene Expression 16th May 2021
- Entitled to an Opinion
- A continuing dialogue with marxbro1917 on famines 12th May 2021While arguing with some other people at Astral Codex 10 about the merits of communist regimes that have actually existed, marxbro1917 started questioning whether famines are actually more common under them. I interjected by bringing up Amartya Sen, citing & quoting a paragraph of his on the subject. I begin quoting after that point, as […]teageegeepea
- I can comment again at EconLog 10th May 2021I can’t expect people to regularly check posts from 2008 for updates, so the news is worth a post on its own.teageegeepea
- Could one calculate if π^π^π^π is (nearly) an integer with an analog computer? 24th April 2021Some while back I was reading some arguments that analog computers are currently underrated. Then not too long after that I came across this video about how we don’t know if π^π^π^π is an integer because the result would be so large so as to be intractable (even if we don’t care about the most […]teageegeepea
- A continuing dialogue with marxbro1917 on famines 12th May 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
- Politically correct DISHONESTY is the root cause of disastrous social and racial policies 7th May 2021A parsimonious explanation to explain the roots of all evil caused by leftist woke policies. Truthrevolution.net’ s Occams razor points to socially accepted and socially required dishonesty and deception as the one singular root cause Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net Do not tolerate the slightest dishonesty. Shun liars, don’t let liars fool you twice! Never […]Programmer
- Expose Leftists as Evil: Abuse, Rape of Migrants ‘Is on Joe Biden’ 15th April 2021Mass homicides, mass rapes, are caused by Leftist policies. Yet, leftists invert reality, unopposed, and are allowed to keep the moral high ground. Leftists attack allegedly evil “racists”, “xenophobes”, and “white supremacists”. No, they do not label us as good persons with “racist” ideas. Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net Terrible results of PC policies are […]Programmer
- 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
- Politically correct DISHONESTY is the root cause of disastrous social and racial policies 7th May 2021
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- Jeff Riggenbach reads “The Ego and His Own” by Max Stirner | 15 of 20 (8A) 16th May 2021The Ego and His Own Podcast Cassette tape 8, side A, episode 15 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
- SA1200–03 | The Works of Benjamin DeCasseres | Three Volumes 10th May 2021In 1936 Benjamin DeCasseres took it upon himself to try to publish as much of his own work as he could. He paid for the printing himself through “Blackstone Publishers.” In the following three years he published 23 booklets resulting in over 1,200 pages of material.These booklets were bound into three volumes and released at The Works […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Jeff Riggenbach reads “The Ego and His Own” by Max Stirner | 14 of 20 (7B) 9th May 2021The Ego and His Own Podcast Cassette tape 7, side B, episode 14 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
- Jeff Riggenbach reads “The Ego and His Own” by Max Stirner | 15 of 20 (8A) 16th May 2021
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。