Attack the System- Who Won The First 2020 Debate?! 1st October 2020If “winning” the freakshow of a debate means motivating more people to vote for you, then Biden probably “won.” “I’m a senile old fool but at least I’m not…him.”Keith Preston
- Elijah McCain’s Last Words 1st October 2020ELIJAH MCCLAIN’S LAST WORDS: he apologized to the cops as they murdered him. “I have my ID right here. My name is Elijah McClain. That’s my house. I was just going home. I’m an introvert. Please. I’m just different. That’s all. I’m so sorry. I have no gun. I don’t do that stuff. I don’t […]Keith Preston
- Gun Ownership by State 1st October 2020CBS News Do you own a gun? Would you ever consider owning one? The United States is split into thirds on that subject. Just under 30% of American adults currently own a gun. A little more than a third say they might own one in the future, and the other third can’t imagine ever having one. […]Keith Preston
- Who Won The First 2020 Debate?! 1st October 2020
- Samizdata
- Samizdata quote of the day 30th September 2020Trump is a streetfighter waging asymmetric warfare against a traditional foe who is reviewing the rules of engagement and consulting the lawyers back at headquarters before doing anything. And all the while he’s getting pummelled. Idealists will say that it wasn’t very presidential, that they didn’t dig into policy and educate the American people, where […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- 2020 like it ought to be 29th September 2020Jet suit paramedicNatalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day 29th September 2020Perish the thought that we may allow those pesky Africans to export food to the UK without tariffs. If we allow that they might not need our charity, then how would we feel superior to them? – Sandy WallacePerry de Havilland (London)
- Samizdata quote of the day 30th September 2020
- 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
- RAW LAND 11th November 2019by John GrauerholzI love the lonely landscapes, the empty places, the solitary spaces. I am beguiled by the barren scenery that is not quite desert, yet a geography that is still too unforgiving to be farmland. A soil that is not devoid of vegetation, but an earth where all the plants have already turned brown. […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- CREDO 29th April 2020
- 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
- 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
- Knowledge Matters, Too (Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race)With all due respect to the intentions behind #blackouttuesday and other online hashtag campaigns, a lot of online activism is most effective at making people feel good for participating, and showing “solidarity.” It’s low in cost (of time and effort) to post … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Fear is the CrisisFor many years now, my conviction has been that the great undeveloped area of human education is a suitable understanding and appreciation of human nature, especially commonalities of the mind—the ways in which we habitually think, and what each of … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Strategy and Clarity about the Police State and Racism, continued
- Razib Khan
- The pareto principle and stochasticity in COVID-19 1st October 2020Most of you know difference between parameters such as mean and standard deviation. Or, that distributions have variable dispersion or multi-modalities. Standard stuff. In relation to COVID-19 it was clear early on that “superspreader events” were critical. That in fact, these events were driving the pandemic in some deep way, with there being huge variance […]Razib Khan
- The practice of untouchability by district 1st October 2020I found the above map from Alice Evans. It’s from a paper, The Continuing Practice of Untouchability in India. The regional patterns turn out to be the most striking. More than education, income, or caste status. You can even see the outline of states, which is indicative of the impact of regional governments on policy […]Razib Khan
- White conservatives are falling behind white liberals on intelligence 30th September 2020While working on my previous post I decided to poke around the General Social Survey. I’ve been using this resource since 2007 or so. The data goes up to 2018. The chart above illustrates something that is somewhat important, though not surprising. White conservatives are getting less intelligent in relation to white liberals over time […]Razib Khan
- The pareto principle and stochasticity in COVID-19 1st October 2020
- Entitled to an Opinion
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020Bryan Caplan has been blogging the recent book “Escaping Paternalism” and noted that he wished they had discussed opioids in detail. Jubal Harshaw of the blog GrokInFullness sent him a response, noting a number of posts in which he critiqued “the usual view” that Caplan brought up to contrast with the book. I myself have […]teageegeepea
- Two responses to responses to an open letter about discourse 14th July 2020T. Greer of Scholars Stage, whose writing about the unfortunate decline of the blogosphere in the face of social media I have linked before, notes a reaction to the Harper’s letter which grants no credence to the idea of “good faith debate”. Greer calls this The World That Twitter Made, giving the reasons why it […]teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander has deleted Slate Star Codex 25th June 2020I’m sure you’ve already heard about this, since he’s a pretty big deal in any online circles I travel in. Regardless of what Education Realist thinks, Scott really is one of the best thinkers and writers online and basically everybody stood to benefit from him. I personally met him briefly once, and while that doesn’t […]teageegeepea
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020
- 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
- Color Wheel Frustration 20th September 2020Remember the color wheel? When you were a kid, your art teacher probably taught you the standard color wheel: If you have red, blue, and yellow paint, you can combine them to make any color (except black, white, gold, silver, magenta, neon anything…) Okay, almost any color. Red + Blue = Purple, Blue + Yellow […]evolutiontheorist
- Conspiracy Theory Theory 7th September 2020Our ancestors–probably long before they were even human–had to differentiate between living and non-living things. Living things can be eaten (and, importantly, can eat you back); non-living generally taste bad, can’t be eaten, and won’t try to eat you. This is a task of such essential importance that I think it is basically an innate […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Clean House, by Tom Fitton 31st August 2020While trapped in limbo with no internet, I read, well, the only thing available that wasn’t about cancer (thankfully I don’t have cancer), Tom Fitton’s Clean House: Exposing our government’s secrets and lies. Overall: This book is four years old and kind of boring. It makes some interesting points, however, which I will try to […]evolutiontheorist
- Color Wheel Frustration 20th September 2020
- Human Stupidity
- #Biblical: Is it a sin of omission to cover up instances of Black crime, to hide its pervasiveness? 11th September 2020Does the Bible allow to misinform the population in order to avoid “prejudice”? Does the Bible consider humans too immature to be told the truth? What if omitting the truth causes homicides, death, hate, and rape? Who is the sinner, if naïve uninformed people get in harm’s way, because of media cover-ups; if students are […]Programmer
- We know that media are wrong in our field of expertise; yet on other topics we trust them [Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect] 3rd September 2020Experts forget how badly their own subject is treated in media and believe that subjects they don’t know much about are treated more competently by the same media. [Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.] “You turn the page, and forget what you know.” Lies by media, police, politicians are treated as “isolated incidents” of misinformation, not of wholesale […]Programmer
- Postmodernism: Denial of Objective Reality and of Facts is Dishonest 18th August 2020Postmodernism denies facts and objective reality. The truth is based not on agreed upon facts and evidence, but is contingent on narrative and point of view. Reprinted with permission from SINCERITY.net Shameless postmodernist lying utterly corrupted Social Sciences. Postmodernist dogmatism in social sciences and politics causes mayhem and death, even for the “disadvantaged minorities” which […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- #Biblical: Is it a sin of omission to cover up instances of Black crime, to hide its pervasiveness? 11th September 2020
- Entitled to an Opinion
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020Bryan Caplan has been blogging the recent book “Escaping Paternalism” and noted that he wished they had discussed opioids in detail. Jubal Harshaw of the blog GrokInFullness sent him a response, noting a number of posts in which he critiqued “the usual view” that Caplan brought up to contrast with the book. I myself have […]teageegeepea
- Two responses to responses to an open letter about discourse 14th July 2020T. Greer of Scholars Stage, whose writing about the unfortunate decline of the blogosphere in the face of social media I have linked before, notes a reaction to the Harper’s letter which grants no credence to the idea of “good faith debate”. Greer calls this The World That Twitter Made, giving the reasons why it […]teageegeepea
- Scott Alexander has deleted Slate Star Codex 25th June 2020I’m sure you’ve already heard about this, since he’s a pretty big deal in any online circles I travel in. Regardless of what Education Realist thinks, Scott really is one of the best thinkers and writers online and basically everybody stood to benefit from him. I personally met him briefly once, and while that doesn’t […]teageegeepea
- A contrary perspective on the “opioid epidemic” 12th August 2020
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- SA1160 | Dora Marsden: Vida y obra | León Darío (Spanish) 18th September 2020Escritora, editora de varias publicaciones, literata, filósofa, activista sufragista, luego reinventada como anarquista individualista—egoísta, anarco-feminista! Dora Marsden: Vida y obra” by León Darío (editor of individualist-anarchist journal “El errante”). Spanish-language introduction to British suffragette, egoist and philosopher Dora Marsden (1882-1960). First time in print. Illustrated, 20 pages. Este folleto impreso en una edición de sesenta y […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Karl Marx: The Dad That Failed 1st July 2020The God that Failed is a 1949 collection of essays by men and women familiar with and thereby disenchanted with socialism. While an egoist might prefer to consider individuals as individuals, moment by moment, a socialist will instead visit praise and condemnation on groups based on group considerations. Here, let me try that on for […]Trevor Blake
- Malfew Seklew, Freak Among Reformers 3rd June 2020ON TOUR The Malfew Seklew Egoist-Socialist Propaganda Co. Malfew Seklew, lecturer; Erwin McCall, advertising manager; J. W. Gott, treasurer; W. Barrie, secretary. MALFEW SEKLEW, the New Apostle of the New Gospel, the New Crusader of Egoistic Socialism, the Originator of Immoral Socialism, the Inventor of the New Method of Propagating the New Thought of New […]Trevor Blake
- SA1160 | Dora Marsden: Vida y obra | León Darío (Spanish) 18th September 2020
Tag Archives: Chile
Live and Let Die?
It didn’t help my sour mood two Sundays ago to read the story of the Chilean zoo lions killed to save a man who’d leapt into their enclosure in an apparent stab at suicide. According to reports, 20-year-old Franco Luis … Continue reading →
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