I Love a Good Hate-Review

There still isn’t really anything very interesting going on in politics. The most interesting thing is what didn’t happen, due to how the DNC has shut out all of their most interesting presidential candidates from the joint press conferences that they call “debates”. Active military chick, successful entrepreneur guy, devout New Age chick, and fiercely heterosexual guy are all out. But I find it hard to care about a counter-factual.

So! Let’s talk about hate-reviews. The apotheosis of the genre is, of course, Willamette Week’s 2012 review of “The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best.” Sample paragraph:

Through a series of serendipitous events, Alex finds himself on tour with Jim (Michael Weston), a songwriter with a fetish for toy instruments. On the car ride to its first gig, the duo hatches its sound, later described as "the Shins meet Sesame Street." The movie treats this as a novel creation, ignoring that half the indie-pop bands of the past few years could be described the same way. Nevertheless, wherever the group performs—a bar, a rooftop, a Revenge of the Nerds-style frat house—the crowds sway in approving unison. One woman, a pouty blonde named Cassidy (actress-model Arielle Kebbel, unconvincing as a Pennsylvania club promoter despite her totally rock-'n'-roll nose ring), is so impressed she joins them on the road. She and O'Nan eventually fuck, because everyone knows morose losers who can't get over their girlfriends are irresistible to Maxim pinups.

Seriously, read the whole thing. They gave it a D when they normalized all the ratings to an A-to-F scale, but as I recall it was originally something like 10 out of 100. It's really an F.

Please share your own favorite hate-reviews in the comments!

Nothing interesting in politics lately.

I has a sadz. As a politics news junkie, I've been going through serious withdrawal lately, as basically nothing has actually been happening. (A fake impeachment doesn't count.) But I will try and soldier through, taking this opportunity to reflect and see how we got here. Making the best of makework!

So if we look back at the Russia collusion investigation, the Deep State picked Robert Mueller, who was both dogged and dumb/incompetent. We can take from this that they expected his Speshul Counthel investigation to simply go on indefinitely, either to a trial or the 2020 election.

But it didn't. The timing of the ending implies -- and I don't know, it's just an intuition -- that when William Barr came in as AG, he basically told them: either wrap it up, or get investigated yourselves for obstruction of justice. And Mueller's team had carelessly left a shit-ton of evidence of their wrongdoing, so they were terrified of being investigated, and they wrapped it up.

So then Adam Schiff's lawless shampeachment comes out at just the right time to try and maintain the fake smell of scandal. But he's just another midwit druggie liar with delusions both paranoid and grandiose, same as every other D.C. hustler doing some form of speed or coke. I mean, if you just look at his eyes, there is clearly something that he is either taking too much or not enough of.

So is Schiff an unmedicated schizo or a druggie riding the dragon? I neither know nor care. Either way, he's disqualified as a moral authority, and his own side should be cringing at just how bad he's going to make them look.

Civil Disobedience: The How of Making Ourselves Ungovernable (3/3)

Our Fake Elites: The Why of Making Ourselves Ungovernable (1/3)

The Last Straw: The When of Making Ourselves Ungovernable (2/3)

There is a peculiar fantasy on the authoritarian left – such as the antifa, black bloc, and BAMN – that they are some kind of rebels. When really they are the street enforcers of the political orthodoxy, like Mussolini’s blackshirts.

So our civil disobedience will be much more difficult than theirs, because we won’t get a pass from amenable authorities. But each personal sacrifice will be another scalp taken in the moral level of war. We win not by overpowering, but by provoking overreaction, and demonstrating the moral illegitimacy of TPTB.

And that is a very hard pill to swallow. But we are not in the same position as our ancestors, who had a clear bill of complaints to make against the Crown. Our own hostile rulers are more clever and try to boil the frog slowly. So until we have our Lexington & Concord where they try to take away our arms, to take up arms would be to lose.

So the clearest and most peaceful way for us to win is by sheer volume. If every man willing to shoot and kill for his country were also willing to simply go to jail for his country, then there would be no jail beds left. Companies would have to relax their standards to remain well-staffed. Mass action would have mass effect.

So I'm talking about civil disobedience with the expectation of actual jail time for mere disobedience, unlike the blackshirts, who can get away with actual hospitalizing violence. Understand that the contrast in consequences is part of what will delegitimize TPTB and lead to their downfall; a serious and effective war with no shots fired on our side.

Socialism is all about sex, death, and power.

I honestly believe that our elites want to make the rest of us more vulnerable to crime in order to make themselves more special. And by then crystallizing the social structure, their mediocre offspring will have a reproductive advantage in perpetuity. So contra Scott Adams, it is quite rational for our ruling class and clerisy to want socialism.

Look at how they attempt to create dynasties carrying on their name, mostly failing. It is currently the closest that a man can get to immortality; but the brutal logic of statistical regression to the mean will consistently devastate a dynasty in just a generation or three.

So how can they give their descendants a permanent advantage? Only by permanently ending even a quantum of a fraction of a ghost of a sham of a meritocracy, making America like China, where the way to get rich is to be the worthless offspring of a well-connected insider.

Socialism is a scam. It’s a shell game, a three-card monte, a cheap street-corner con. It works great on illiterate peasants; and I hope and pray that my fellow unhyphenated Americans will see right through it, since the whole point is to subjugate us all forever.

Race is a hoax to distract from class and ethnicity.

There is no scientific consensus on whether race even exists. There is also no great debate, because the entire topic is politically incorrect. So there is just a back-alley argument between sociologists (no, we can’t tell race by looking at their skin) and anthropologists (yes, we can tell race by looking at their bones).

So clearly, the current moral panic about “white supremacy” is of suspicious intellectual provenance, because they cannot even prove that “white” exists. And I argue that it is blatantly a hoax, because it is being used to distract from real tangible groups with concrete interests.

First, Angelo Codevilla has done great work articulating the existence of a Ruling Class and its Clerisy (essentially the 0.1% and 9.9%, respectively). Building off of that, Glenn Reynolds has extensively documented how they have exercised their socio-economic power to enforce their divergent interests over the People.

Furthermore, studies have shown that the college-educated in general (and Ivy League in particular) are marrying only each other. And since these institutions are well-populated by the global elite, there is a new mix of family lines exclusive of the global governed.

Ethnicity is by definition culture, language, and DNA. And we already know that our global elites have a distinct culture, thanks to the Verge’s seminal article, Welcome to AirSpace. So attending the same colleges, learning in the same language, marrying only each other – they are by definition at an advanced stage of becoming an ethnicity.

Call them AirSpacers, because it’s a stupid name and they’re stupid people, so they deserve it. And if in their ethnoneogenesis they avoid giving themselves a name, to avoid drawing attention to their class/ethnic supremacy, then we are fully empowered to give them whatever stupid name we want. Fuck their delicate sensibilities and entirely unwarranted pride.

Country Men; or, What Comes After Proud Boys

I was taking a hill walk this afternoon, as is my wont, when I had a glimpse of the future. Not an actual prophetic vision, mind you; more of an intuition. But it’s worth sharing, since a lot of people don’t have the right experience to see where this is going.

I was pondering the power vacuum in places like Portland, where the police are standing down in the face of revolutionary communist street thugs, and civic-minded groups like the Proud Boys are being harassed (both legally and illegally) out of existence.

What’s interesting about it is that in this case, nobody from inside the city can step up to preserve social order, because they’ll just get doxxed, threatened, and harassed at work and at home. So that means that the vacuum will be filled by outsiders.

Now, what you might not know is that out in the country, good ol’ boys still grow up fighting, and “faggot” and “queer” are still fighting words. And damn near every Portland male looks like a queer to them, except for the ones that they would mistake for tomboys.

So as the eternal presidential campaign grinds slowly on, and the “protests” gradually escalate into full-blown city-burning riots, I can practically guarantee that there will be some hard young men within a 45-minute drive that would like to get in on that action.

But the funny thing is that their idea of fun would likely result in restoring social order the old-fashioned way, by knocking heads together. Once they realize that the antifa, black bloc, &c. are not only queers but also commies, I think they will find it irresistible.

They won’t have an organization for SJWs to infiltrate; if nobody there knows you and can vouch for you, then you’re a narc and they ain’t telling you shit. And if they even bother to use any name at all, then I would expect them to employ the flair and panache for which they are world-famous, and call themselves something fancy and sesquipedalian like the Country Men.

I wanted to share this with you, because for once, I saw something that I hope actually comes true. It would be funny as hell, and I hope you enjoyed the view.

No Anarchists, Only Communists

I was shocked to read Robert Vincent’s recent article in American Thinker, “The Left's Endgame Is Not Chaos. It's Worse,” which was recommended by Instapundit, The Other McCain, and Ace of Spades. I had vaguely suspected that there were people who didn’t know that, but I was unprepared for the grim reality of such basic ignorance. So I will explain in even blunter terms.

There are no principled anarchists in Oregon, and I assume that the same is true of all of the other States in the Union. There are quite a few schizophrenics and brain-fried druggies, but aside from people who are mentally disordered, all of the anarchists are fake. They are all just a bunch of godless commies.

In fact, it hardly matters the name of the group; antifa, black bloc, by any means necessary, &c., they are all just thugs for revolutionary international socialism.

Their multiple brands essentially combine the experimental dynamism of venture capitalism with the operational discretion of independent terrorist cells. But they are all the same in one very important respect:

They only want to disrupt the current social order in order to replace it with the socialist tyranny of their dreams – sick dreams in which they’re insiders with power to abuse, instead of social rejects.

And make no mistake: every complaint that they have is projection. When they talk about the (fictitious) jackboots on their necks, they’re picturing their (physical) jackboots on yours. And you don't want to know what happens next.

They are evil. You should never, ever let one babysit for you. They hate themselves, their parents, their species, and their Creator; so if they have any interest in your kids at all, it is an unhealthy one. I’m dead fucking serious.

And you should take them seriously, because unlike neo-Nazi LARPers, theirs is a living movement that controls multiple countries to this very day. China alone is what, about a fifth of humanity?

They are worthless garbage people individually; but they are borrowing power from a global movement, and they want to exercise that power over you (and your kids). And we must do literally whatever it takes to prevent that.