If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Holy shit. Has anyone taken a look at FTB recently? https://web.archive.org/web/20161212154719/http://freethoughtblogs.com/resist/2016/12/12/welcome-to-the-resistance/ Screen Shot 2016-12-12 at 18.08.24.png Paper, stone. Still miss the scissors. What Myers thinks he is: che-guevara-venezuela.jpg Wh...

The impression I have is that Trump didn't run to win, but simply to boost his businesses. I didn't get that impression at all. He's all about "winning." To tell you the truth, FWIW my first impression of him as a fresh candidate, without (as a Brit) having been subjected to his fame or personality...

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Eeeeuuw! Dangerfield is like some sort of Fly-teleporter splice between Doctor Randomercam (hooray!) and Russell Brand (booo!).

"Questioning and two-spirit". Peezus Christ. No wonder the students are little Eichmanns. Isn't there an organization openly calling itself Red Guards now? Read about it somewhere, but my Google-fu's not not good enough to dredge up the appropriate link. Found this though:- https://redguardsaustin....

For there is certainly some social and psychological benefit from religion - i.e. from groups of people having shared, over-arching highest abstractions. It gives life a bit of pep, to carry you through the day, and induces good manners and gives you some guard-rails for living a virtuous life. The...

Re. religion, again I offer the esteemed assembly my theory, which is mine, about religion: that it's ok if you LARP it. You can sort of detach the cognitive (in the sense of evidence-based) element from religion to some extent, and have it be an over-arching philosophical theory that you punt , tha...

TL;DR on the Bearing thing. Apparently Bearing's avatar was a straight copy of some tv show's bear character, and his merch had it too, so it's a straightforward copyright problem, not SJW drama.

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I can't believe people are taking the Pizzagate thing seriously, there's no there there - not from what's been touted as "evidence" so far, anyway. It looks like a moral panic, like the satanic child abuse panics of the past. I mean there's weirdness there, for sure - some of Podesta's art is quest...

I can't believe people are taking the Pizzagate thing seriously, there's no there there - not from what's been touted as "evidence" so far, anyway. It looks like a moral panic, like the satanic child abuse panics of the past. I mean there's weirdness there, for sure - some of Podesta's art is questi...

Bearing's YouTube channel has been taken down: https://twitter.com/Sugar_Tits_Bear/status/805965102092414978 Mass flagging by SJWs? My guess is it will be copy right strikes. The thing is too that from a purely legal standpoint I think a lot of people like Bearing made sometimes cross the line. I m...

I think the US is pretty unique amongst the developed world with such a well-cultivated contempt for the state, the political establishment, and rule of law amongst its population. It's not even the good kind of contempt based on principled opposition to hierarchy and force, as those who most oppos...

https://twitter.com/sangelic777/status/805577745073926144 I have completely ignored Pizzagate until now, but I just saw this tweet, and wow. Conclusive evidence that Biden likes pizza, although there appears to be a complete lack of pizzas in the video. In fact I searched and couldn't find a single...

And then there was the piece outside consisting of a little fenced-in area of grass and dirt covered in old rags. Which was accidentally destroyed by a janitor who mistakenly thought it was a just a big mess and cleaned it up. (Now that's performance art!) Hehe, more than once I've been at some out...

I've always been skeptical of so-called communist/socialist states, so that argument doesn't work for me. My response to the "history shows communism/socialism doesn't work" criticism is that history has shown us a bunch of brutal dictators who called themselves communists. I look at actions and re...

Targeting the entire muslim population means throwing the potential victims of those people and our potential allies against those people all together with those people. Bingo. It's often been noted that Regressives seem to have a strange confidence in the power of our Western way of life to "turn"...

Given the nature of Islam, and the fact that there's a tissue thickness between so-called "moderates" and ISIS extremists, I think you're kidding yourself, or are engaging in some egregious Islamic apologism. Looks to be far cheaper and far more effective to simply ban Islam and deport all Muslims ...

Pretty much MY take on things, but I'm reasonably sure you could make a "Christian Apologetics" case against some of the alleged influences. For instance many love to play up any differences in ancient ressurection stories vs the ones (since I consider there to be more than one) in the New Testemen...

Now the part thats liable to get panties in a bunch on this board is just how much credit this guy gives Christianity for "western values". But I wonder if there is anyone around here who can make a case against him without either ad-hominems or dismissing Christianity as an influence alltogether (...

They're non-violent, and have dropped the superiority angle, which separates them people who could be properly described as nazis and racists, but the core mission remains the same. The thing that was bracing about the Dark Enlightenment people was that they were prepared to think about such questi...

I think there are/were a few leaning right-libertarian here. I'm actually surprised the place hasn't attracted the alt-right hordes, like many of the YouTube channels that hopped on the anti-SJW bandwagon. Barring support for a basic citizens' income/negative income tax, I'm "far right" on economic...

deLurch wrote:Is Shoe0nHead now the face of the new young skeptic movement?

I think more like the face of the "young, sane liberals" movement, type thing.

Less of a sceptic per se, more just an honest (and fun) commentator who's somehow escaped the conditioning.

However, screwtape's central point that there was a lot of good stuff to come out of Socialism - at least the Attlee brand he talks of - still holds. As I alluded to re. the Scandinavian model, I think it's possible to have a tolerable level of redistribution in a society, if the society is economi...

As I get older, I realise that the Attlee socialism I grew up with was pretty damn good for me. Government owned and ran the water supply, electricity, gas, sewerage, steel production, coal, railways, communications and probably even more than I can remember. In return I got free health care, educa...

Definitely the SPLC for me. Who are those cunts, and why should anybody take anything they say seriously nowadays?

Zarna Joshi second, for sheer distilled cuntery, not just for the Hugh Mungus episode itself, but for those bizarre doubling-down videos that came afterwards.

Screening of the Red Pill by University of Western Sydney Sceptics Society cancelled:-

It's funny how the Eloi vs. Morlocks thing looks so prescient nowadays.

I don't think you can get away from politics (generally) now, since it's become increasingly clear that Western countries are more or less governed, at the moment, by a secular quasi-religion. It's in your wheelhouse just as much as religions proper, or standard woo. Plus, there's sure to be heaps o...

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YOU ARE STILL CRYING WOLF (archived link because Scott deletes stuff if the Wrong People link to it)

Yeah read that myself just today. Great article, as always from Scott A.

[...] The memetic warfare thing comes from /pol/ at 4chan originally, and it's partly connected to the broader New Enlightenment - it's been taken up by lots of others in the broad coalition (including some of the racists). The 4chan folks cooked up a troll religion involving a deity based on an ac...

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Girl Writes What nails it! And one of my cousins called me "evil" for posting this!

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If you liked that, you'll love this:-

Hello Sweet Bambinos. I left you and kids many moons ago and I feel really bad about that. I just wanted to give you all better lives. I thought leaving you with your many Dads here would provide you with a lifestyle I couldn't afford. Since then, the world has changed. People don't talk anymore, t...

I was thinking about the protests today & Vernaculis summed up what i was thinking & then some. IS there an ostensible goal to it? Are pseudo-riot "protests" just an acceptable way to vent these days? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TsgaOI2aI The signs they're holding show that Trump would look g...

I mean, my concern about economic libertarianism is largely about verticals to be honest. I think all that does work when you have a wide variety of suppliers (of both goods and labor) who are looking to maximize their profits in each and every step through maximizing their revenue. Where it breaks...

Came across an excellent essay on the current state of progressivism in the U.S.: Trump and the Fall of Liberalism Definitely recommend the whole thing, but among the choice sections: Too many of my progressive friends seem to have forgotten how to make actual arguments, and have become expert inst...

Anyway, I can understand where Horkheimer and Adorno (the foremost Frankfurt School theorists) were coming from. That's where they say that reason and rationality failed somehow, and where I part ways with their thought. I also see more Hobbes than Rousseau. The way I see it is that there were seve...

Hey Aneris, your post was a bit non-responsive to mine, but I don't mind as I always enjoy reading what you say ;) Just some points that strike me randomly:- [...]it’s Homo Economicus and other such fantasies. Or that humans were “free” and that freedom is above everything. I don’t know how people c...

I've just had notion, just floating it by you guys. OK, so there have been various attempts to redraw the "political spectrum", there's the famous "cross" one, and a few others, but while they're useful and thought provoking, they're ultimately unsatisfactory because everyone instinctively feels tha...

Social Justice, USA, who would disagree? Lady Gaga with her real costume, on a real stage, and yet it's uncanny. Can't put my finger on it. Like Lady Gaga who just happened to pick this costume, and the team who came up with the slogan "Stronger Together", I just happened to pick some font and just...

We need to stop the senseless killing of sabre tooth tigers and triceratops! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSs7rbXqQgQ I'm always ambivalent about Mark Dice, I mean he's a bit of a nutjob himself, but boy does he do some sharp and funny videos. I guess it's a case of someone immersed in one ideol...

Who else is enjoying "The great triggering of 2016"? I'm literally shaking with laughter. This kind of unhinged ideological obsession is exactly what ordinary folks needed to see. We've all seen it in the way these people talk and the content of what they say, now everyone gets a chance to see it i...

Hopefully this works :/

fuck, never linked a tweet before, anyway it's about a kid who voted for trump in a mock school election, and his mum throws him out on the porch, the poor kid's crying is heart-wrenching.

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Why so serious?

I'm reminded of this:-

Or perhaps this:-

Thunderous broadside from Kraut & Tea:-

Watch the vid. He made those comments during the rep. Primary to gain maximum coverage over his rivals. It worked. The same with the Mexican rape comments. Those things kept him front and center as his competitors faded. What we witnessed was a master gamesman. He took the best the political class ...

Speaking of socialists and socialism. I get the impression from some conservatives that their distrust for atheists stems from their belief that as we lack a belief in god we tend to deify the state instead - leading inevitably to socialism. Well yeah, it's pretty obvious that for many on the Left,...

I think part of the over reaction we are seeing from the regressive po-mo types is that this is for many of them, the first pres. election that they have lost. Coupled with a "she is a shoe in" conditioning from the MSN and we have melt down! Wow, excellent point, never thought of that but it's sur...

Is there an easy, quick fix to those issues? I don't think so. Trump has to face them, but Clinton would have had to face them, too. Did she have any idea? If so, why didn't we hear any of it? I think low taxes will go a long way to solving a lot of problems, it will release a tremendous amount of ...

It just suddenly struck me why #gamergate was the beginning of the end for the SJWs (along with what you guys were doing vs. Atheism+, and a few other loci of resistance roundabout the same time). Games are usually set in virtual worlds that are designed to immerse you so that you take the virtual ...

Ever wondered what life must be like for the unlucky offspring of an SJW? Some Shakesville commenter gave a glimpse into what that must be like... austxgal an hour ago She is classy and amazing and I am more devastated after her speech than I was before. :( My boys (7 & 10) slept with us last night...

It just suddenly struck me why #gamergate was the beginning of the end for the SJWs (along with what you guys were doing vs. Atheism+, and a few other loci of resistance roundabout the same time). Games are usually set in virtual worlds that are designed to immerse you so that you take the virtual o...

That wasn't at all a divisive little poison lull was it? She went out on what she made her bones on, identity politics.She didn't learn a damn thing. Contrast what she said to the gracious speech he made. Not just that, but the way she didn't even give her devoted followers who had given their all ...

Actually, if I were to try and boil it down to as succinct a nugget as possible, it was two things, one specific to her and the other general to the Left at the moment:-

1) A swingeing sense of entitlement;
2) lack of compassion.

Donald Trump Never come Down dance, 3 hour version! Someone in the comments asks if there's a 4 year version :lol: I'm sorry, but what with all the delicious, salty tears, plus the evidence of some glimmer of understanding upthread coming from places like the Guardian and Corbyn, I'm getting a bit d...

So I saw a lot of Clinton ads on local tv this year. Zero policy, nearly zero positive messages. Almost every one of them was just bascily these awful Trump soundbites and shit like "our children are watching". Trump ran very few ads. They didn't offer any policy either but they were all about lift...

There's some spin that it's a victory for white supremacy, and I bet you any money that the black and hispanic votes will have shifted surprisingly some degree towards Trump - but of course that will be "internalized racism." When will they ever learn. My biggest fear is that it will take a few mor...

There's some spin that it's a victory for white supremacy, and I bet you any money that the black and hispanic votes will have shifted surprisingly some degree towards Trump - but of course that will be "internalized racism."

When will they ever learn.

The reason I was pretty confident was because I kept an eye on his rallies and gigantic crowds, and compared them with Clinton's meager crowds. It was always fairly clear to me that there was a tremendous amount of enthusiasm on account of his positive message for the future (whether that was warran...

This seems appropriate at this point:-

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