Ramblings

Our country is on the cusp of a massive shift in power and culture.  The endgame is not certain, but war is on the horizon now.  Whether this truly is a massive war or fades out much like the previous horseman of pestilence did, that remains to be seen.

At some point, we lost our way.  Our nation decided to upend all of its core values because of some farcical notions of freedom and liberty.

We have freedom now.  Freedom from children.  Freedom from reason.  Freedom from faith.  Freedom from God.

But we don’t have the freedom to say what we want.  I guess technically we do, but the consequences of that freedom makes us prisoners.  And when we try to break out, the consequences could leave us without a voice or without a means to sustain ourselves.

We have the freedom to practice sodomy at our leisure.  We can murder children, provided they aren’t breathing air yet.  We can watch all the pornography we want.

And we have forgotten that we die to sin, that we died to sin, and that we are trapped in sin.  That when the Founding Fathers spoke of freedom, many of them spoke in terms of freedom from sin because that was their background.  Like it or not, they were Christian men.  Sure, we could squabble over their various individual beliefs, but at the end of the day, this nation was founded on British identity, Christian belief, and Greco-Roman philosophy.

Now we have abandoned it all in favor of madness, irrationality, and insanity.  Those of us who wish to return to reason cling to a piece of paper that was abandoned long ago, by a tyrant with a stupidly tall hat.  I mean, seriously, do you think Lincoln would have left office after second term if he hadn’t been shot in the head?

Objectively, ever since this nation has achieved loser immigration standards, women’s suffrage, so-called “equal rights”, abortion rights, gay rights, gay marriage, porn as free speech, and free trade are we really better off?  Is your life really better now that you can see tons of naked women online?  Has so-called diversity really enriched your life?  How’s that no-fault divorce working out for you now that you’ve ditched your husband?  Are you really happy with it all now?

Our churches talk of oppression and racism as great evils, neither of which are even mentioned in the Bible, let along considered a sin.  Heck, by modern standards, Jesus, Peter, and Paul were all racists and misogynists.  But please, do continue to allow women to teach men on how to behave in the church.

I guess I am just tired of all this bullshit.  The whole world wants me dead, wants my boys to be girls, wants my wife to be unhappy and unhealthy, and they all get angry when I tell them no.  Like I’m the asshole because I want to live and protect my family as I see fit.

And everywhere I turn, I see no support, just more bullshit.  Even the right-wing is full of garbage and nonsense.  It’s like nobody can be bothered to listen to God.

Then again, I’m not alone in that last part but I feel like I’m the only one who is at least trying to attain the wisdom I need to maintain my sanity and dignity.

The president recently said that people like me are incapable of being happy.  And while I don’t actively seek out happiness, I could be a lot happier if I wasn’t being forced to grin and bear it all.

Fisking Scott Lively’s Open Letter to Andrew Torba

Recently, Andrew Torba released a book outlining his idea of the philosophy of Christian Nationalism.  While I have not read his work yet, I read an article written by Scott Lively about it and I had a few problems with it.  So, in the spirit of Larry Correia, I’m going to fisk it.  Pastor Lively’s words will be in italics and my responses will be in bold.

Dear Brother Andrew. I am a Hebraic-oriented evangelical Christian attorney, pastor and historian who has devoted my entire adult life in Christ to Christian social, cultural and political activism. I bought your book "Christian Nationalism" to support the mission of Gab Social and want to offer you some constructive criticism.

So far, he’s off to a good start, but I’m wary of the “constructive criticism” phrase.  That term doesn’t usually mean anything constructive when it comes to Internet writings, but I’ll give Pastor Lively the benefit of the doubt since I don’t think he’s delving into 4Chan or Kiwi Farms.

At the outset, I want to commend you for your courage and vision in taking on the powers and principalities of the present age by working to break the chains of censorship and suppression of free speech, particularly of the biblically informed views that so powerfully contradict the secular humanist dogma of our Marxist would-be masters. They are the true enemies of "Judeo-Christian" civilization, and of course I choose that phrase intentionally to respectfully contradict your well-intentioned but misguided representation of its meaning and purpose relative to our national identity and heritage.

I see what the aforementioned “constructive criticism” was targeting.  He’s not really happy with Torba making a distinction between Christianity and modern Judaism.  The problem that Scott Lively seems to have is that he probably doesn’t understand where the ideas of secular humanist dogma and Marxism came from.  Here’s a hint: none of these ideas originated from European Christian scholars.

I will also add that I am both a member of Gab and a vehement defender of your right to address the distinctions between Judaism and Christianity. I do not consider you an anti-Semite and in fact believe that the secularized ethnic Jews working to destroy your work are actually far more anti-Semitic than they claim you are in that they deny and/or defy the Torah, whereas you worship and revere its Author.

It is said that the Talmud permits what the Torah forbids and this is certainly true in your statement about “secularized ethnic Jews”.  However, many of these “secular Jews” claim that abortion is a sacred rite for Judaism and have problem posting this stance on Twitter and calling anyone who opposes them “anti-Semitic”.

Also, I’m sure Andrew Torba is happy to know that you don’t consider him an anti-Semite.  Governor Greg Abbott of Texas would disagree with you.

What defines a "Semite" (Shemite) if not Yahweh-worship? It certainly can't be an ethnic connection to Shem (or Abraham or even Jacob), which virtually all humanity now shares because of genetic diffusion over millennia. No, it must be the practice of true Judaism, whose terms are defined by the Torah and Tanach (Old Testament Scripture), NOT the Talmud (commentaries on the Scripture by various Hebrew scholars with widely divergent views, values and validity).

Respectfully sir, I disagree with your statement.  Very few, if any, modern Jews practice solely what we call the “Old Testament” and, in fact, many use the Talmudic text far more often than what is found in the Torah.  And while I do regard that different sects probably have different versions of the Talmud, that doesn’t matter.  Talmudic texts are their primary source of their religion these days and these texts are incompatible with Christianity and Western philosophy in general.

Indeed, Judaism itself is as factional as Christianity but on a smaller scale, only because it's so much smaller in numbers. Jews are not just doctrinally divided, but notoriously so! As the famous old joke goes, "Ask two Jews, get three opinions." Thus, to cite the view of any Talmudic "sage" as representative of all Jews or Judaism itself (as you did on page 56) is as intellectually dishonest as an anti-Christian Jew or Secular Humanist cherry-picking from the collective works of Christian scholars to define all Christianity.

Not everyone has the time or patience to sit down and go through all the various doctrinal differences between the different sects of Judaism or Christianity for that matter.  However, both religions hold very basic core values.  For Christianity, you need look no further than the Apostle’s Creed as a statement of fundamental faith.  Modern Judaism rejects the Apostle’s Creed outright.  It is literally a religion that built around the rejection of Jesus as the Christ, or Messiah.

Which is an odd thing, if you think about it.  There are sects of Islam which have reverence for Jesus, not as God’s Son, but as a prophet in the same vein as their prophet Muhammad.  Most of other religions are built around the idea of revering a spiritual or divine entity.  But Judaism seems hell-bent on flatly rejecting Jesus, along with the Satanists and the secularists.

You begin Chapter 4, "This is Not a 'Judeo-Christian' Movement," asserting that "Christianity and Judaism are totally distinct, incompatible, and irreconcilable religions." In one essential sense that is true because, as you emphasize, Judaism denies that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. BUT, unlike all the other people groups of the world that also deny Christ (including all the secular factions in our diverse MAGA and populist/conservative movements whom you rightfully seem very comfortable collaborating with), true Torah-faithful Jews believe in a Messiah who will do all that things that Christians anticipate Jesus Christ will do on His second coming. They simply "missed the bus" on Jesus/Yeshua during His first advent (by God's own plan), but remain standing in line for the next one, which Romans 11 tells us they will catch, when (as God adds in Zechariah 12:10) "I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced [and] mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son."

Okay, you are way off base here.  There is a lot of rationalization for what should to obvious to you, a learned man of Christ.

First of all, they didn’t simply miss the bus.  We are told in Acts that the Jews outright persecuted the Christians and even chased them down in the Gentile towns and had them persecuted there as well.  In fact, there is very little persecution from the Gentiles in the book of Acts until Paul preaches in Ephesus, but that persecution had more to do with money than religion.

They didn’t miss the bus.  They literally tried to run it off the road.

As for your reference to Romans 11, you misinterpret it completely.  Paul does not say that the Jews will come back to the fold and recognize Jesus as the Messiah sent by God, but merely relates that such a thing would be a wondrous thing to behold.  Indeed, Paul writes in verse 12, “Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!”

As for the verse you cited in Zechariah, God could very well be only referring to the disciples of Jesus.  This does not necessarily mean all the Jews everywhere.

You and I presumably share all or most of what would be considered the most fundamental tenets of the Christian faith, and many non-essential doctrines too. But we differ strongly on "supersessionism" (replacement theology) which you defend as the justification for your personal theology. Importantly, what you have laid out in "Christian Nationalism" is your personal theology, which does not represent Christianity as a whole, but only one slate of views among the constellation of denominations. That's not a problem insofar as you admit it and don't attempt to impose your interpretations on non-essentials as dogma on the rest of Christendom.

I’m not going to completely presume what Andrew Torba’s personal theology is, but I’m going to state the Christian Nationalism isn’t a theology.  It is a political movement that emphasizes Christianity and nationalism, or rather, one that honors both God and country alongside fellow countrymen.  And yes, the Captive Christians in the United States are well aware of that Christian Nationalism isn’t the overarching dogma of Christianity in the United States.  Yet.

The flaw in your analysis of supersessionism (page 57) is the appeal to tradition (one of the classic fallacies of formal logic). Whenever we justify ourselves by church tradition instead of the Bible itself, we depart from sound Holy Spirit guidance to tenuous worldly humanism – the common error behind Roman Catholicism's self-authorizing "Magisterium" theory and Talmudic Judaism's self-authorizing "Revered Sages" club. Correcting that error in Christendom was the implicit premise of the Reformation, but unfortunately, the reformers failed to reform numerous extra-biblical human-created doctrines in Protestantism, including the RCC's dramatic changes to God's holiday calendar, the presumed right of the church to enforce dogma through murder (e.g. Calvin's execution of Michael Servetus), and a severe Greco-Roman cultural bias in interpreting Scripture that differs markedly from the Hebraic cultural perspective of the Apostles and the Prophets.

The Protestant Reformation started because the Catholic Church clung to power over Truth.  Martin Luthor’s theses were written to declare that the Catholic Church was in error with regard to the salvation of Jesus where they were essentially commanding people to buy their way into heaven.  This is a very basic overview of the situation though.

In truth, you have to look at the Great Schism and the Protestant Reformation in a similar vein to the Tower of Babel and the division of Israel under Rehoboam, Solomon’s son.  In all these cases, the institutions God established became large and prideful, which resulted in God dividing them in order to humble the proud and to ensure that His Truth was firmly established.

Many of those human-created doctrines were quickly jettisoned as Protestantism splintered into numerous factions, such as Presbyterianism, which made the world-changing quantum shift from the top-down ecclesiastical power-pyramid exemplified by the papacy (and Anglicanism) to bottom-up self governance authorized by the "priesthood of all believers" and organized like the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15. THAT is the deepest foundation-stone of America and of the modern movement for constitutionalism (foreshadowed by the Magna Carta in 1215, heavily influenced by Jews).

Okay, I suspected you were stretching your reasoning with that last bit about the Magna Carta, so I went and read the article you cited.  From what I can gather, the Jews in England were inflicting heavy debts on the English people, including requiring the children of the debtors to pay.  This all parallels what we are experiencing in this day and age with student loans, mortgages, credit cards, etc.  But that’s a whole other topic.

The “heavy influence” the Jews had on the Magna Carta was really because of their greed.  The clause cited basically prevented them from collecting debts from the children of debtors.

It is fascinating to see modern Jews take credit for the Magna Carta when their greatest influence was inflicting excessive lending on the populace.  Your last statement was incredibly dishonest at best.

The process of getting from Scottish Presbyterianism to the Pilgrim Separatism of the Plymouth Colony was also heavily influenced by Christian-Jewish cross-pollination. Indeed, I know from my studies of this, that there would never have been a U.S. Constitution or the populist overthrow of the Western monarchies if not for the 16th and 17th century Hebraic Movement in Holland and Great Britain. And that is why America is and has always been "Judeo-Christian." It has nothing to do with how many Jews were active in the physical founding of America, or how Christian-centric the first state constitutions were; it is simply an honest acknowledgment of the Jews' role in nudging Christians back to their first-century heritage that made America possible: a shared intellectual property right, if you will, like co-authors of a book or a scientific theory.

The US Constitution was the result of Enlightenment philosophers, none of whom were Jewish as far as I know.

And your use of the term “Judeo-Christian” tells me that you do not even know the origin of that phrase.  Look it up and know that modern Judeo-Christians are not allowed the right of return to Israel, unlike literally all other Jews, even those Jews convicted of pedophilia.

Lastly, you asserted on page 61, "It is impossible to overstate the importance of the historic cataclysm that was the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D." Sorry, it not only IS possible, but you have done it. If that post-millennial doctrine were true, the real proof would have been unmistakable over the next thousand years, especially the end, but of course, it didn't look at all like the Millennial Kingdom of prophecy – because Christ's earthly kingdom, while very near, has not yet begun. You would know that if you studied the Bible from the literal Hebraic perspective, but you don't, and that's your right within the bounds of Christian liberty.

The Hedraic perspective of the New Testament isn’t one that I think many Christians would agree with.  And Revelations is merely prophecy, one that cannot be interpreted until the events described in that book have happened, much like the prophecies of Isaiah and Daniel.  Stop trying to fit the prophecies into a box.

Remember, Jesus was condemned to death by the High Priest because He said, “destroy this temple and I will rebuild it in three days”.  All the Jewish leaders present thought He was referring to the physical temple, not the His Body.  After all, Jesus did say that His kingdom was not of this world and the end of Revelation makes it clear that God will make the Earth His kingdom again.  How He does this is something we can only speculate on, which is a futile effort at best.

My point with the prior paragraph is to illustrate that factionalism will be the death-knell to any attempt to build unity on a theological foundation, which is why the founders and subsequent Christian generations chose the broadest possible platform – Bible-based Yahweh-honoring monotheism (exemplified in our national motto, "In God We Trust") – and not any flavor of Christian sectarianism (which led to many serious conflicts among the denominations in our early days as a nation and thus a ban on establishing state "religions" – meaning "denominations" – in the "Establishment Clause" of our constitution.)

And which unity do you desire Pastor Lively?  Because the Catholics demand that all Protestants come back to their church, while ignoring the Orthodox who regard themselves as the first and true church, Catholics be damned.  Meanwhile, the various Protestant denominations bicker over minor doctrinal differences that really don’t matter.

And yet, at the end of the day, all denominations praise Him.  We all worship and pray and do good works in His Name.

So at the end of the day, do we need unity?  From my perspective, Satan demands that humanity be united.  But God divides us constantly ever since the Tower of Babel incident.  Indeed, even Jesus Himself said that he did not come to unite us but to divide us against each other.  Not necessarily in war or conflict but simply to keep us from growing too big and too proud.

I don't expect you to change your theology based on one letter from me, but I do hope you will reconsider your gratuitous exclusionary rhetoric regarding our spiritual cousins in the House of Judah, treating at least the many who share our cultural values and all-important Creationist paradigm with the same basic respect and camaraderie you show to atheists in the MAGA and conservative movements. And I offer my assistance in making this necessary course correction if you care to accept it.

The House of Judah are not our spiritual cousins.  This much can be seen in how they treat us.  They have been behind all the subversive movements in the United States, starting with communism, gay rights, pornography, abortion, women’s rights, civil rights, and so many other damaging societal ills, it is getting hard to keep track of all of them.  Their fruits are death, perversion, and subversion.

You cannot judge a group by its ideology but by its fruits, after all.

Objectively, has this nation gotten better in the past 6 decades or so?  We cannot isolate the decay of the United States to a single cause, but a multitude of causes, many of which seem to have the same racial/religious identity rearing its head just inside the shadows.  From scientific materialism, to the elevation of psychology over spiritual healing to the destruction of the family, all of these things can be traced to some prominent Jewish thinker or pundit.  We know this because they like to brag about it.  It’s how Julius Rosenberg got caught, after all.

If you don’t believe me, then look no further than the current Biden administration.  You may want to note how many Jews are Cabinet members, which I think is a first for a Presidential administration.

Christian Nationalism is not a theology or a dogma, it is a movement to try and reclaim Western civilizations back into the hands of the Christian nationals whose ancestors founded and built these lands before the parasitic money-lenders, whom Jesus Himself whipped thousands of years ago, came to us.

Let me end this fisking with a question: we all regard the Jews as God’s Chosen people, but what exactly were they chosen for?  If you cannot answer that simple question honestly and make the proper logical inference from it, then you are a fool in the Biblical sense.

A Hypothetical Convention of States

I read an article where 19 states expressed interest in holding a convention of states, which is something in the Constitution where all the states send representatives to a massive convention and change the US Constitution, usually by adding amendments to it and bypassing Congress to do so.

I know that such a thing will probably never happen since many state officials are perfectly happy with the status quo and are looking to gain Federal office so they won’t rock that boat.  Unless it’s Epstein’s boat.

But, in the interest of dreaming, I have the following suggestions for amendments to the Constitution that may give us all some semblance of sanity back to the Federal government.  In general, I don’t believe we really need to expand the existing rights as outlined in the Constitution, just reinforce them with some more clearly outlined repercussions for violating those rights.

• The Balanced Budget Amendment.  It’s an old relic from the 1990s, but it’s something that needs to be passed.  Add a provision that requires Congress to pass a budget each year and if they do not, then the Federal government is not funded and every contractor and federal employee is out of a job.  That includes all “necessary” functions like Congressional staffers and the military.
• Create term limits for Congress.  Limit it to 12 years total for both the House and the Senate.  Therefore, a single person cannot serve in Congress for more than 12 years.
• Repeal the 17th Amendment and place the elections of Senators back into the hands of the State Legislatures.
• Change representation in the House to represent only eligible voters.  And require that there be one representative per 30,000 eligible voters.  That proportion may be a bit high, so I’d be fine with it going to in 10,000, so let’s make 30,000 the max.
• Require that all laws passed by Congress have at least a 3/5 majority in both houses and eliminate the Presidential veto.  Checks and balances was a stupid concept.
• Require that all laws passed by Congress expire in two years.  Congress can vote to renew said laws, but this makes it so that should a new party take control, it is much easier to eliminate bad laws passed by previous conventions.
• Require that all treaties ratified by the Senate expire in 6 years and must be reconsidered.  Treaties in general have been a huge loophole around the Constitution and very little has been done to stop this.  Also, this eliminates the possibility of getting caught up in entangling alliances.
• Limit Presidential authority to only what is explicitly granted to him by Congress and the Constitution.  Explicitly state that States can ignore presidential orders if they violate this standard without consequence.
• Give term limits to Federal Judges.  They can only serve a maximum of 15 years on any Federal bench.
• Limit the scope of judicial authority to only settling disputes between states and between states and the Federal government.
• Strengthen the 10th Amendment by explicitly stating that the State government can arrest, detain, and imprison any Federal official acting outside the explicit powers granted to the Federal government by the US Constitution.
• Give the States the ability to impeach and remove any elected Federal official by having a plurality of Governors call for impeachment hearings outside of Congress.  There needs to be additional methods for removing bad politicians.
• Require that the States purge their voter rolls each year and have their citizens re-register.  Right now, the Federal government prevents this because of racism.
• Limit voters to any natural-born US citizen over the age of 18.  Legalized citizens cannot vote, but any children they have who are natural-born citizens can vote.
• Require that all lending done to US citizens be completely forgiven once the debtor dies.  The lender cannot collect what is owed from the left over assets of the debtor.  Those assets belong to their children, not the lender.
• Limit all loans to US citizens to last no more than 10 years.  Once 10 years are up, the debt is forgiven and the debtor can no longer collect the debt or any interest.  Congress cannot tax the debt difference as income either.
• Interest rates for all loans are determined solely by a plurality in the House of Representatives.  They are not established by the free market lest the free market fall into a greed spiral that we see today.
• Copyrights should be owned by individual citizens, not institutions or corporations.  Once said citizen dies, the copyright falls into public domain.  Patents should be held in the same regard.  Trademarks can be owned by companies and corporations.
• Repeal the 16th Amendment and require that the Federal government acquires tax revenue from either sales tax or International tariffs.

That’s about all the autism I can muster for this article.  I very much doubt any of these ideas will enter the public consciousness, let alone be seriously considered for the US Constitution.  I am not, after all, a prominent scholar or expert in these matters.

But maybe some random person will see it and when this country falls apart because our Satanic overlords decide to go to war with the entire world, they can rebuild what’s left with these ideas in mind.

The Honks Heard Round the World

It appears that Prime Minister Justice Trudeau of Canada is a complete and utter moron.

This isn't liable, by the way.  He's got the leadership qualities of a coward and an idiot.  Klaus Schwab and Fidel Castro must be squirming right now, though probably for different reasons at this point.

And why do I say this with confidence?

For the simple reason that PM Blackyface has managed to piss off nearly every trucker in Canada and the USA to the point that they are all protesting in Ottawa.

In wintertime.  In Canada.

You see, when the Lefties protest for climate change, saving black criminals, or whatever other communist nonsense they desire, they tend to do it when it's warm.  You'll notice this with nearly every major mostly peaceful protest that has occurred in the last decade or so.

People don't like standing in cold weather.  It sucks.  We'd rather be inside our homes enjoying video games, television, the Internet, books, or board games.

But somehow, this failed actor (or a successful actor?) has managed to make people so mad with his insane anti-freedom policies, that people would rather spend their days and nights outside honking their truck horns and blocking traffic.

And at the first sight of trouble, Castro Jr. claimed he had COVID and fled to an undisclosed bunker.  In a saner time, this usually meant that he is no longer the PM of anything.  Because when the king flees the city, it's not longer the king's city.

Then, he had the gall to show his face on television and declare that the truckers were racist.  I mean, I doubt he said that exactly, but that's what he was clearly implying.  He should have done it in blackface.  It would have had a bigger impact on his support base.

Maybe he could've gotten a police officer to put his knee on his neck while he did so.

The takeaway we should all have from this protest is that there are more of us than there are of them.  And by "them", I mean the managers and enforcers of Globohomo, Inc. led by George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Satan, and the up-and-coming Xi the Pooh (yes, China is trying to take over Globohomo, not shut it down).

So if you want your rights and you want freedom again, you need to fight.  And the fight need not be violent.  It could be as simple as volunteering your time to poll watch to staging a worker's protest where trash is cleaned up and horns echo through the night.

Our enemies are cowards and were only allowed to get this far because good people would rather have their bread and circuses.

But the bread is running out and the circuses are nothing but Woke trash.

Made Up Sins

 There are a lot of made-up sins nowadays.  Many of which are made up so that wicked people can "virtue-signal" like a Pharisee trying to pray his way into Heaven.

Spoiler alert: you're going to Hell.

Well, hopefully not, but so many people are Hellbound these days.  Then again, it's probably not too different from history.

In any case, our Godless, wicked culture has duped the vast majority of people into believing that various activities and thoughts are evil when they are, in fact, neutral or even beneficial to a God-fearing Christian.

Racism

Racism is probably one of the most overused and least understood terms in our culture today.  I would argue, in fact, that it literally means nothing.  It's a nonsense word used by people who don't like what other people are saying.

It's basically the modern equivalent of calling someone an idiot.  To illustrate, in The Dispossessed, the anarchist world would use the term "profiteer" as an insult, but it literally meant that I don't like you.

Here's the thing: if you ask ten random people what racism means, you will get ten different answers, with the only similarity being something about bigotry.

The truth is, there is no such thing as racism and it was an invented evil by a certain (((minority group))) in order to allow them to gain access to the upper echelons of power.

They've succeeded, as far as I can tell.

Homophobia

Another dog-whistle term used to make people accept pedophilia.  Don't believe me?  The so-called "gay rights movement" has stated from the beginning that they wanted to remove all age of consent laws.

Basically, if you are considered "homophobic", you simply have an aversion to perverted sexual activities, mainly those that involve two guys.

The main reason that gays don't want the age of consent laws is that they know that sexual attraction is largely developed in children during early puberty.  If they can get a boy to associate sex with an older man instead of a woman their own age, then they can make him into a Sodomite for life.

By and large, people have disgust for things that aren't natural.  This insult is nothing more than a psyop used against normal people to make them feel bad for hating Sodomy.

Transphobia

Same as homophobia but I should note that the Trans-movement is the logical end of the feminist movement.

Because if men and women are equal, then men can be women and women can be men in every sense of the term, down to biological differences.

Sexism

This is largely a term to target men who believe that women should fulfill their natural function in life.  In other words, men who believe that women should be protected, bear children, take care of said children, and manage the household are evil.

These days, this term means nothing like the others.  It's really just a term unhappy women use to attack people who are more successful than them.  Because envy is the primary sin of women.

Anti-Semitism

Not content with the term "racism", the Jews have managed to create their own term for it that specifically targets them.  Probably because Jews are both an exclusive race and an exclusive religion.

In truth, an anti-Semite is merely a person who Jews don't like.

Like Jesus.

Seriously, check out how this term is used by various Jewish organizations and dumb politicians.  There's no massive movement to ban Jews from the USA.  Not yet, anyway.  There are murmurs, though, and because many major Jewish groups are behaving like anti-American morons, those murmurs will become loud roars soon enough.

Islamophobia

This one was entirely made up post-9/11 in order to prevent people from getting rid of potential threats to their lives.  I know most Muslims are decent people, blah, blah, blah, but at the same time, you don't see anyone accusing the Saudis of being Christophobic for banning Bibles from their country.

I remember that a week after the 9/11 attacks, we had Donald Rumsfeld airing a PSA about how we shouldn't blame all Muslims for the attacks and that we shouldn't oppress them.

Hatred

Saying that hatred is a sin is just plain stupid.  Hatred, for those who don't know, is an aversion of evil.  God hates the wicked and their wicked acts.

God hated what Sodom and Gomorrah were doing to random travelers.  He hated it so much that he wiped them off the face of the map.  This wasn't an act of "love" but one of rejection.

In truth, Hatred is a rejection of the opposing forces to God's Will.  You can have unnatural or perverted hatred, like any other emotion, but hatred itself serves a key purpose in this world steeped in sin.

In the end, when Jesus comes, we won't need it anymore.  But for now, hate what is evil.

Unfortunately, our leaders and our churches have, by and large, been duped by wicked wizards weaving word spells in our midst.  They are evil-doers who are making up fake sins so as to distract us from the very real sins they are committing.

They have all of us confused and left unable to properly combat them.

Break their spells by rejecting their premises.  While nothing I have listed is a virtue, none of them are sins either.

Be bold and courageous.  Don't look for conflict, but when confronted speak the truth.

The Nexus Mods Drama

Recently there was a lot of drama in the Skyrim (and Fallout 4, but whatever) modding community.  Nexus Mods, the largest site to host mods for over one thousands games decided to change their policy regarding mod hosting.  The site, you see, hosts game modifications, or mods, made by user so that other users can download them and install them on their game to enhance it.  They even provide tools that make this process easier for users of their more popular games to mod.

The service they provide is free to use.  They do have the ability to use premium subscriptions, which really just give users faster download speeds.  But other than that, users can download and upload their mods for free, provided they don’t violate certain terms of service (pornographic mods, mods that contain seriously morally reprehensible content like child exploitation, etc.).  Essentially, Nexus Mods is hosting people’s content at this expense and banking on a small fraction of its user base to subscribe to their site in order to cover their expenses.

About a month ago, they announced a change in their hosting policy.  They wanted to be able to provide users with a mod list ability so that users could create packages that allowed other users to enjoy a list of mods that they themselves have installed.  Basically, if you play games heavily modded, this allowed other users to get your current mod list and download it and enjoy a similar playthrough.  With this change, they had to make a hard decision and that was to keep mods from being completely deleted.

At face value, this doesn’t seem like a big deal.  Mod creators could still archive their mods and thus keep them from being publicly listed.  So what’s the problem?

Well, some mod creators felt that their work was no longer theirs as a result.  And this is understandable.  After all, if you don’t have the ability to remove your own content, do you really own it at this point?

This is where property rights become a bit messy and not so clear cut.  Because while it could be argued that the mod creator owns the mods he or she creates, Nexus Mods is the platform that is hosting it and they are ones who are footing the bill for hosting it.  If anything, this change adds costs to Nexus Mods in that they now have to maintain data storage that they previously didn’t have to do.

In any case, it’s a tough call to make.  Sure, an artist owns the painting he makes but if he doesn’t own the studio who hosted his painting for free, do they not get to dictate how and when it gets displayed?  On the other hand, shouldn’t a platform respect the wishes of a creator to some degree?

There is no easy answer here.  I would argue that Nexus Mods has been more than fair to creators for years now and that this policy change really isn’t a huge deal.  There have been many times in the past where beloved mods have been wiped from the Internet for various reasons.

On the other hand, I do understand that mod creators put time, effort, and love into their creations.  And if, for whatever reason, they decide to not share it anymore, then they should have some form of creative control.

This whole fiasco also highlights a problem with the Internet as a whole.  A ton of services online are essentially free.  Because of this, most users do not have any stake in what they produce online.  Social Media companies, for example, are able to get away with a lot of customer abuse because most users are paying them for their services.  Once money starts changing hands between the producers and the hosts, then you start to have more cohesive contracts and more consumer protection laws apply.

As it stands, there have been a few people who left Nexus Mods because of this.  They were allowed to have their content deleted from the site.  I don’t fault them or condemn them for their decision, even though I do disagree with them.  And I do understand why Nexus Mods made their own policy changes, which is actually something I think they should have done much earlier.

In any case, what’s done is done and the aftermath of the change actually wasn’t that bad.  Nearly all mod content remains as most mod creators are perfectly fine with their content to continue to be hosted, even if they archive it.  And until the Nexus Mods owners decided to start charging mod creators for hosting, there really isn’t much mod creators can say about how their content is hosted on a site they use for free.

Realitor Seeks to Steal from Property Owner, Owner Portrayed as Neo-Nazi

Freedom of Speech is truly dead in the United States:

Top Montana Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Tuesday warned neo-Nazis they would find "no safe haven" for a rally that could include guns planned for next month in a mountain town where white nationalists have threatened Jewish residents.

The lawmakers include both Democrats and U.S. Representative Ryan Zinke, recently picked by Republican President-elect Donald Trump to be interior secretary.

"We say to those few who seek to publicize anti-Semitic views that they shall find no safe haven here," Zinke wrote in an open letter also signed by Democratic Montana Governor Steve Bullock, U.S. senators Republican Steve Daines and Democrat Jon Tester, and Republican Attorney General Tim Fox.

Neo-Nazis plan to march in January in the mountain ski town of Whitefish in Montana's remote and rugged northwestern reaches. The march is to support the mother of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer. Sherry Spencer is facing pressure from community members to sell a building she owns in Whitefish because of its ties to her son and disavow her son's beliefs.

So let’s see here:

• Richard Spencer is considered an anti-Semite because he thinks white people are great and should be allowed to continue to exist.
• His mother owns property in Whitefish, Montana.
• She is currently being pressured to sell a building she owns, by a Jewish realitor no less, because of her son’s beliefs.
• A bunch of people wish to show support of her and are painted as “neo-Nazis”, despite no real context of what the group actually believes.

I don’t buy any of it.  I don’t buy that the protestors are “neo-Nazis”.  I don’t buy that they made anti-Semitic statements other than simply highlighting the race of the people who are running Spencer’s mother off her land.

This is a land grab, pure and simple.  Some lousy bitch saw a way to acquire property she wants on the cheap and decided to harass her over her son’s beliefs.

I guess this isn’t too surprising from Reuters though.  They long ago decided to shove communism down our throats and never bothered to investigate the truth.

Contrasting Atheists

Man is not a naturally rational being but a rationalizing one, to paraphrase the character of Lazarus Long.  Despite being the fictional contemplations of a fictional character, it is a true observation.

Rational thought is often a product of irrational beliefs among intelligent men.  And there is no group more adept at avoiding this fundamental principle than atheists and other assorted skeptics.

It never ceases to amaze me the logical gymnastics atheists do in order to justify their non-belief in God.  Or the supernatural.  Or their worship of science.  Or their need for evidence.

However, there are plenty of atheists who are willing to recognize this fundamental truth and seek out the truth, regardless of where it takes them.  In contrast, there are atheists who would deny reality itself if reality showed them the dead rising up to meet Jesus Himself.

The latter group I would describe as “entertainers” while the former I would describe as “philosophers”.

The entertainers tend to push for their worldview of atheism to their detriment.  They push for the elimination of God from cultural discourse.

And they have largely succeeded for the most part.  Discussing the Gospel with others is now taboo and considered, among other things, homophobic.

The philosophers, on the other hand, tend to favor actual logic and evidence.  Unfortunately, they forget that man is not a naturally rational animal and so they tend to have little impact on culture.  This is because many people are simply too low-IQ to really understand the implications of what they are talking about.

Most people like to cling to their irrational beliefs, which is not necessarily a bad thing, even if you are able to articulate clearly why said beliefs are utter bullshit.

I’ve heard, for example, that Muhammad’s original holy city was not Mecca, but Petra.  Unfortunately, I doubt any Muslim gives a damn about this assertion.  And they’d probably kill you if you brought it up in one of their own countries.

It is an interesting contrast though, to see how we have two very different types of atheist groups, one which seems to adhere to fantasies like communism and genetic equality while others use their reason and the evidence before to come to practical conclusions.

Of course, both of them fall into the irrational beliefs trap, it’s just that the entertainers do so more than the philosophers and end up looking like bigger fools instead of rational actors.

The Reason For The Alt-Right

Presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton addressed a rapidly growing segment of the conservative movement last week, known as the Alternative Right or Alt-Right.  As predicted by many, this speech did nothing to dismay Alt-Right followers.  Instead, it merely strengthened them and gave them legitimacy on the national stage.

I won’t go into what the Alt-Right generally believes in, as I think Vox Day does this well, but I will highlight that many mainstream conservatives are opposed to the idea, largely because it is viewed as racist by the communists.

I’ve always found it fascinating that conservatives will bend over backwards to prove they aren’t racists, from funding liquor and strip clubs for blacks to granting amnesty for Mexican invaders all the while calling the Left the real racists.

So far, gay marriage has been made legal via Supreme Court mandate and transsexual bathroom usage is now a national issue.  More than likely the latter will be put up before the Supreme Court, which a long and proud history of ignoring basic science (see Nix v. Hedden as an example).  The result will probably be that there are 200 human genders and that all businesses must create bathrooms for all of them.  They have a tendency to engage in magic thinking, after all.

Moreover, the greatest sin of all time, murder, has been legalized in the US, provided the doomed human being is present in his mother’s womb.  The conservative movement has made zero headway in this issue but for some reason always trout it out during an important election cycle.

The Alt-Right is merely a response to these failures and a retooling of tactics to use against the communists.  It is a refution of the old, vague conservative ideas which seem to grow more moderate as the decades drone on.  The communists lost the Cold War.  It appears that they’ve won the propaganda war.

What the Alt-Right recognizes is that the communists only have the political equivalent of shit tests, applies political Game theory to them, and turns those tests into a win.  Being called a racist means nothing to them.  Homophobic?  Nah, they’re just pedophiles.  Misogynistic?  What’s wrong with wanting women to be happier at home?

I would like to note too that Donald Trump is not Alt-Right.  In fact, the only political ideology which Trump ascribes to is himself.  I have no illusions about who he is.  But when he took Megyn Kelly to task when the supposed conservative blond brought up the “War on Women” idea to him, he cleaned her clock.

If nothing else, it highlights the kind of attitude that the Alt-Right has.  Having observed many prominant people on the Alt-Right, I can say that they are not afraid of the charges of racist, sexism, or “homophobia” and instead of trying to prove themselves to their ideological enemies, instead focus on attacking them.

Ultimately, the mainstream conservative movement better embrace the Alt-Right or get out of their way.  Because if you aren’t with them, you’re against them.

Here's Another Group of Guys Who Deserve to be Tossed Out of Helicopters

First listen to some of the following video, courtesy of the TheBechtloff, which is a debate between Matt Forney and Beardson Beardly:

Okay, I lied, it wasn't a debate. There were no logic, reason, or rational thinking coming from Beardson. Instead, we had a total and complete loser who has to lie about everything yelling at Matt Forney for not being Beardson Beardly.

That is really what the debate boils down to. You have a man who is so jealous of another man's modest success in an increasingly popular political movement looking to knock him down a notch. In other words, Beardson Beardly suffers from a vice primarily afflicting women: Envy.

Any average, normal person would listen to that dialog and view Beardson as a reprehensible dirtbag who produces no entertainment value. He has to instead troll and verbally attack others who have done a better job than him and when he is called to account, he instead behaves like a child. Because he never matured beyond the teenage years.

Don't believe anything Beardson says about himself. Within the video itself, he contradicts himself and he doesn't care. Don't bother to tweet at him or debate him or others like him. There is no point because narcissists like him feed off attention.

The best way to deal with such men is to simply ignore them. Don't acknowledge, don't talk to them, and don't believe a damn thing they say. They are degenerates who celebrate the destruction of others with no regard to themselves.

If they were in ISIS controlled territories, they would be tossed off of rooftops, not for being homosexual, but for being themselves. There is a reason that disobedient children in ancient Israel were stoned to death. Beardson represents why.

I Lost a (Facebook) Friend

So I received the following private message a couple of days ago on my personal Facebook account:

I put up with a lot in my news feed. I have friends all over the political and theological spectrum (here and on Twitter). Your posts are far and away the most consistently arrogant, absurdly-broad, and seemingly-hateful. I get the sense you don't care what I think, and that's fine. I care deeply about you and your family, but I'm choosing not to follow you on Facebook anymore.

I have had this acquaintance for some time now (I don’t consider most Facebook “friends” to be actual friends, just people I know).  He is a pastor, but that is all I will say about him on my blog.

I was a little shocked by his direct message.  To be honest, usually when I stop following people, I just stop following them, either on Twitter or Facebook.  I don’t make a big fuss about it nor do I send them a message as to why.  There’s no point to it.

But what sent him over the edge?  I wasn’t sure but I did have a slight argument with him a few days before.  It started when I shared this story about the shooting death of LaVoy Finicum.  He commented on my Facebook share (because my Twitter posts go to Facebook as well) the following:

You sure about that?

Now, keep in mind that I had shared the article.  I didn’t say that I believed the eyewitness, just shared the report of what she said (later video evidence seems to support her claim by the way).  What he was doing was accusing me of taking the witness’ account as genuine.

I knew what he was doing as I’ve encountered such nonsense in the past so I responded to him with the following:

Were you there?

This was basically me asking him if he knew more than me.  You see, he was challenging me directly and my knowledge only extended to the article I shared.

He responded with:

Nope. You?

I knew the answer he was going to give.  Of course he wasn’t there, but at the same time, he was trying to discredit another person’s writing by demanding to know if I was there.  So I followed up with the this:

Did I say I was? I am merely repeating what eyewitnesses claim here.

So maybe you asked the wrong question initially. Maybe you should be asking is if the eyewitness is lying, which is what you are implying.

So I’m challenging him here.  I want him to admit that he doesn’t believe the story, not shoot the messenger.  He does not disappoint:

Well this one is lying, or the other eyewitnesses are lying. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable anyway…it's possible none of them are willfully lying--maybe somebody's memory is wrong. But how do we even know who the real eyewitness are?

Remember, this person is a Christian pastor.  He has just stated that eyewitness testimony is “notoriously unreliable”.  Does anyone see the problem here?

Doesn’t his whole religion and profession rest on eyewitness testimony?

So we have a pastor who has doubled down on his assertion that someone is lying by basically rejecting the Good News as unreliable.

Yes, I am aware that this is a leap of logic, and I will credit his assertion as being unintentional, but that is where his line of logic ends: a rejection of Christianity.

I finally followed up with this:

I don't know about that. God said you needed two or three eyewitnesses in order for someone to be put to death. He seemed to believe it was reliable.

The Bible verse I am referring to is Deuteronomy 17:6.  I didn’t get a response after that.

I think the lesson here is that even if someone is not a Social Justice Warrior, and I don’t believe this person is one, you still find their tactics all over the place.  People always lie, they always double down, and they always project.  I admit that I am guilty of such things myself but I am at least self-aware enough to mitigate much of that.

We live is a world where people are different.  We have different opinions and no one really ever thinks alike.  It is something that mature adults must accept in order to function normally in a society, especially in this modern age of social media.

I understand why he rejected me. Understand that I make no apologies for what I post and if it is nasty or mean-spirited, I don’t care.

I made a lot of posts following that one but I think I angered him with the above exchange.  And if he is angry in a way that prevents him from being a pastor, then perhaps he should unfriend me.

But at the same time, he didn’t need to send me a message.  Just stop following me and be done with it.

Bacon on the Doorway

An incident that was entirely predictable:

A man with a machete vandalized a Brevard County mosque and left pork at the front door of the building, according to police.

The Islamic Society of Central Florida’s Masjid Al-Munin at 1011 South Washington Avenue in Titusville was vandalized Friday night, police said.

Officers said several cameras, lights and windows were broken and bacon was left near the front door of the mosque. Pork is prohibited in Islam, a faith followed by 1.6 billion people  worldwide.

Surveillance video shows a man entering the mosque carport around 11 p.m. Friday and pulling out a machete to damage the mosque, police said.

Point number 1: bacon is not pork.  But anything from a pig is considered unclean.  The author of this article is ignorant of both meat and theology while simultaneously trying to shame people.

Point number 2: this action was entirely predictable because the Federal government refuses to do what it should be doing in order stop Muslim terrorists from coming to the US and shooting up office parties.

Point number 3: this crime may have been committed by a Muslim in order to gain sympathy for Muslims in the United States.  While it is not the likely scenario, it certainly is a possibility considering that Muslim activists take pages from communists when pushing their agenda.

Point number 4: I do not condone this crime.  But if it was perpetrated by anti-Muslim reasons, I completely understand it.

Grievances

Our current crop of Western leaders have pretty much failed the average citizen.  I say “failed” in the sense that they have made promises which they cannot deliver on and continue to implement policies which are detrimental to their own people.

In the mean time, they prop up foreigners and declare that anyone who disagrees with them to be racist because that is the greatest crime a person can commit.  And if you are a white male, you are guilty of it unless you are sucking the fungus-ridden big toe of the cultural elite.  In which case, you’re on probation and if you deviate from the ever-changing narrative, you will be sent to prison.

Meanwhile in the US, we have record numbers of people on food stamps.  Literally tens of millions in a country with only 310 million people.  That would be considered shameful by any standard of virtue you use, but our leaders hold this up as a point of pride.  We are feeding hungry people after all.  Not starving people, just people who are hungry and who don’t make too much money.  And don’t get me started on the junk food that qualifies in contrast to the healthy food which doesn’t.

Then there’s the Affordable Medical Care Act or Obamacare as it is commonly known.  Apparently, some people, less than those on food stamps right now, had trouble paying for health insurance.  And for the sake of those poor people, we passed a law which states you are breaking the law if you don’t have health insurance.

Makes sense, right?

On top of that, we have a government which seems hell bent on keeping good, strong laborers here in the States on welfare while allowing the foreign equivalent of trailer park trash to come to this country and clean their toilets.  Bearing in mind that being a janitor in a government building requires a security clearance, something I doubt any foreigner could legally pass, it boggles the mind that there haven’t been 20 9/11s in the past decade.

Meanwhile our entertainment culture seems to constantly push the narrative of deviancy and degeneracy in our faces.  Now, I don’t care if you’re a man and you like to pleasure four different men at once.  At the same time, I don’t need to see a fucking parade about it.  And neither does most of the country.  Seriously, whenever gay marriage was put on the ballot as a referendum vote, the average citizen voted against it, even in California.

But no, the courts said they know better than the average citizen in a country that is supposedly run as a democracy.  Except when the elite don’t like the outcome.

We have a group of leaders who are more concerned with getting non-violent criminals raped while at the same time telling all white men in college campuses that they are rapists and should be expelled for feelbads.  We have 20% of our unborn children murdered for the sake of convenience while at the same time saying that born members of a certain race are more important than anyone else.

And we have a church culture who refuses to even address the issues of divorce but will spend eight months coming up with a two-page statement of human sexuality with regards to sexual deviancy.

And you wonder why I’m an angry white man.  The problem is that the priorities of our government, our culture, and our leaders are inverted and are dooming us to societal and civilizational collapse.  We don’t respect human life, we don’t respect private property, and we don’t respect the democratic process.

The Societal Cancer

Human life is sacred.  At least that is the reality of the created world we live in.

But that doesn’t seem to matter all that much to Americans these days.  Sure, we have an organization whose sole existence is to murder unborn children, harvest their organs, and sell them to other organizations for research and other culinary delights.

Meanwhile, some old lion gets shot by some dentist while he is on African safari and the whole community of Twitter, YouTube, and many others could not be more outraged.  A beast that would have never done anything other than make his various wives hunt for him while he devoured the choice part of the animal letting his own cubs starve as they watched him eat.  And then he’ll insist on sex later.

Seriously, a male lion is literally everything that the Left hates about the male sex in humans, but in lions it’s noble and majestic.

I don’t give a damn about Cecil.  I care more about the children who are murdered so that their mothers can relieve themselves of the shame of banging an irresponsible man-child.  I care more about the men and women who are murdered by the criminal negligence of some asshole behind the wheel of a car.  I care more about that two year boy in the UK who was beaten, raped, and murdered by a couple of older kids, both of whom should be executed for their heinous crime.

But this really isn’t about me out-caring the people of the Left.  That is easy to do because communists, more than anything, desire power through emotional persuasion, not any kind of reasonable dialectic or even strong rhetoric.

They don’t regard human life as sacred because they openly reject the truth of God.  Even Muslims have at least some semblance of the sacredness of human life.  At least when it comes to their own.

But these yahoos have no regard for beauty, truth, or what is right, proper, and good.  They regard these things as tools of the patriarchy or as vehicles for racism.

An idiot on twitter (who I have blocked because he’s an idiot) did some grandstanding with me a week ago when he tried to make it look like I didn’t want to talk about race.  Basically, he showed a picture of a lynching and said it was racist.  I retorted that it was murder and press him to tell which was the worse crime.

I received no reply.

That is how these loonies think.  They are the MPs who ignore the freshly dead and raped hooker and instead arrest the innocent soldier for desertion while letting the sociopathic soldier go free.  They are not people you can reason with and they are not people you want to associate with.

If you cannot regard human life as sacred and instead belief animals are better than humans, you are a bestial and a fool.  You are a parasite on civilized society and have no business participating in it.

Do us all a favor and exile yourself from the West.  Go live in these countries where people are supposedly impoverished because of straight white cismales for some reason and don’t bother coming back.

You are a cancer on society.  If you do not leave soon, the backlash will result in severe societal chemotherapy following the surgical removal of the collective tumor that is Social Justice.

Bomb Threat in DC Against #GamerGate; Women and Minorities Most Affected

In case you haven’t heard, a bomb threat was made against a bar in downtown Washington D.C.  Fortunately, it was fake and nobody was hurt, least of all the ghost of Ted Kennedy (that chill in your butt crack is him ladies), but it was a little alarming.

Why was a bomb threat made against the bar?  Because there a hate group in attendance: the dreaded #GamerGate supporters who want to oppress women and minorities by pushing for ethics in gaming journalism.

In attendance at the impromptu event, were Christina Hoff Summers, a feminist Democrat, and Milo Yiannopoulos, a writer for Breitbart and professional gay man.  Reports indicate that Christina Hoff Summers left shortly after the bar was evacuated to parts unknown (probably to go home) while Milo himself left to get laid.

There is an indication that Arthur Chu, famous Salon writer and former Jeopardy champion, incited the bomb threat by raising Hell about the #GamerGate gathering.  Because freedom of association is not a right in the United States.  Despite it being in the fucking Constitution you trivia hack.

Full disclosure: the author of this piece was not at the bar in question, but fully supports #GamerGate because Social Justice Warriors are living pieces of crap and because video games don’t need to be preachy.

Anyway, it is amazing to me what lengths SJWs will go to in order to stop their opponents.  From sending death threats to pulling fire alarms to pushing for bomb threats.  These folks are modern communists, of the same breed as the ones who followed Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution (started primarily because Mao Zedong was bored as Hell with actually leading the country he conquered and because he had been deposed for starving 30 million people to death).

To understand these people, you merely need to think of all the shit you were indoctrinated with in government school about racial oppression, human sexuality, and gender equality (short summary: white man evil!) and think of the pathetic moron who listened to it all whole-heartedly.

Despite many of them being white, middle to upper-middle class human beings with lots of time on their hands, they believe themselves to be an oppressed minority.  Or are champions of it.  Or are warriors for them.

You know, like Karl Marx, the champion of the working class.  He was such a champion of them that he flatly rejected their unions and kept a slave maid/sex slave around with him for his entire life.

Arthur Quizboy should be wary of what he is doing.  His actions only serve to make those on the fence side with #GamerGate as they see what a shit-bag he really is.  Now, I’m not saying that the bomb threat was made by Quizboy, but since #GamerGate is collectively responsible for all the death threats against the anti-GG folks, I’m holding him responsible for this.

In the mainstream press, however, there is silence.  Because the narrative of a peaceful gathering of an anti-communist group being disrupted by a bomb threat in our nation’s capital is not newsworthy.  But deflated footballs are.

Oh, and apparently ISIS has a hit list of American citizens.  But that’s not important because FOOTBALL!!!!

On Valve’s Monetization of Steam Workshop

Yesterday, Valve announced that they have set up a pay wall for video game modifications (or mods) on their Steam Workshop service.  What this essentially means is that mod authors can charge money for their work and will receive 25% of the proceeds while Valve and the video game company will receive 75%.  They started this service with Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a popular game for mod authors.

As of right now, there are 18 mods for Skyrim behind the pay wall.  There will probably be more in the future, especially if this service does very well.

When I first found out about this, I was outraged and upset.  Now that I’ve had a night to sleep on it and think it over, I have a different perspective from when I started.

First of all, we have to understand that Skyrim has had three paid DLC packs that were released to PC and console.  Two of them were game expansions with new stories, content, and extra features that expanded the experience of playing the game.  They called Dawnguard and Dragonborn, and both cost $20 on release.  The other one was a simple package that allowed the player to construct custom homes in certain areas of the game title Hearthfire.  This one cost $5.

So, based on the DLC scales, we have a better idea of what a mod might cost for Skyrim.  If the mod adds a ton of new content, it is probably worth at least $10.  There are a good number of mods that are like this, two popular ones being Wyrmstooth and Falskaar.  Both of these mods featured a new land, new characters, new gameplay, and loads of new content.

As a gamer and not a mod author, I would have paid for both mods.  They are fantastic additions to your gaming experience.

There are other mods that add survival to the game, like needing to eat, drink, sleep, or survive the cold harsh climate of Skyrim.  These are immersion mods and they are mods that add a element to gameplay that allows you plan out your adventure rather than a generic go to a location and kill the bandits or monsters.  Many of these are probably work less than $5 if they are good.

I think at the end of the day, I’m not for or against mod authors wanting to monetize their work.  They won’t make a living doing it, if anything they’ll just make some extra cash.  At the same time, though, I understand the desire to get paid for the amount of work you put into something like this, especially if it is a lot of free time away from your regular job.

There has been a lot of angry comments directed at this new service.  I understand where it comes from.  Many of the mods that are posted, especially the more popular ones, are mods that were previously free and now are gamers are being charged for upgraded versions.  I get it.  You have a good mod and the mod author just made it better.  But you have to pay for it.  And that sucks.

But don’t through angry comments around.  There’s no point.  Just remove any endorsement you’ve made and remove that mod from you mod profile (unless you are already playing with it, in which case don’t remove it since it will break your game).

Also, keep in mind that most mod authors who posted paid content did so with many of their mods still available for free.  And those are pretty good mods that these authors could be making money on.

Look, I am not going to buy a whole lot of Skyrim mods.  I will probably just pay for a couple of decent ones and leave the rest alone, considering that my mods have reached an upper limit.  But I am not going to go out and do it right away.  After all, you can add mods to your play through, but you can’t remove them (and upgrading is also risky depending on the changes).

In any case, I do see a positive side to this in that we could see a rise in DLC-sized mods like the official ones released by Bethesda.

In my case, we shall have to wait and see what this new service does to the mod community.  My guess is that it will have little impact overall and may fizzle out within a year.

Delusional or Just Plain Idiotic?

Here’s some fun with twitter morons:

It starts with Space Bunny stating that overpopulation is a myth and this guy responds:

@Spacebunnyday @TRVdante @voxday @JesseBHolmes pic.twitter.com/JPM3mx2z3P

— Ambika Padmalochana (@AmbikaPadmaloch) April 6, 2015

I go on and make this comment:

@Spacebunnyday @AmbikaPadmaloch @TRVdante @voxday Do these population people even factor in the amount of land humanity actually occupies?

— Mark Fox (@swiftfoxmark2) April 6, 2015

Later, @AmbikaPadmaloch responds:

@AmbikaPadmaloch @Spacebunnyday @TRVdante @voxday You just showed a chart about population increase and cried "overpopulation"

— Mark Fox (@swiftfoxmark2) April 7, 2015

Of course, it gets better.  This person flat out denies ever stating that the graph has anything to do with overpopulation:

@swiftfoxmark2 i posted a graph, but the "crying overpopulation" part is all in your head @Spacebunnyday @TRVdante @voxday

— Ambika Padmalochana (@AmbikaPadmaloch) April 7, 2015

From there I just reiterate that Ambika Padmalochana was posting the graph in response to the original statement of overpopulation being a myth.  I know that the tweet did not literally cry “overpopulation” but any person with a low-triple digit IQ could easily infer that is exactly what this person was saying.

So either this person is stupid, or flat out lying.  Probably some combination of both.

In any case, it was amusing to see it.  Finally Ambika Padmalochana called me an idiot and demanded that I cite Space Bunny’s sources.

This is how the Unmen argue.  They aren’t even half as good and the fictional Unman from whom I derived the term.  They simply are incapable of admitting the truth even when it is staring them right in the face.

French Jews Meet the Leftist Moral Code

So a recent video was released of Jews in France being harassed while walking down the city streets in a similar fashion to the female reporter who was harassed in the streets of New York.  While I do not support the actions of the folks who harassed this person, I do have reservations about it.

Western society has this foolish notion that as long as we all live in the same area, everyone of different creeds, cultures, and races will get along nicely.  That civilization is merely a material construct and has nothing to do with the founding culture of said civilization.

In other words, the aristocratic elite who run the Western world (not necessarily the elected officials) believe that if you just expose barbarians to modern culture, they will modernize, give up old hatreds, and generally become productive members of society.

When that breaks down, they blame the lack of opportunities for work or racism for the violent and outright anti-social behavior of said groups.  You are hard pressed to find news reports that refer to the French shooters as “Islamic” or “Muslim” in many cases.

This is largely because of the Leftist moral code that is prevalent amongst the aristocrats.  They believe that minority groups are morally superior to majority groups because the majority groups are oppressive, nepotistic, and downright racist.  So no matter how many acts of violence or brutality are committed by these people, they are saints compared to the majority class of citizens.

Jews generally fall into the category of minority class since they tend to be perpetual sojourners in foreign lands.  I say this because right now there is literally a whole nation of prosperous Jewish people who are more than willing to accept the Jews scattered across the rest of the world right now into their country.  And the Jews who live in foreign countries tend to keep things within the tribe despite being a several generations immigrant.

This is not a criticism against Jewish people.  I am all for a group keeping their religious traditions and culture intact.  But if you are living in a foreign land when there is a country or countries who share your culture and religion, would it not be easier to live there?

Then again, I do understand why most minority groups are reluctant to leave.  They have roots.  There are more Jews in New York than in Israel right now.  I get it.

But Europe is not so accommodating.  Despite the best efforts of the Leftist world elite, most Europeans take nationalistic pride in their country and their culture.  The US is a toddler compared to the cultures there.  I would advise many non-French living in France, for example, to leave France.  The same goes for minority peoples in Germany, Italy, and England.  In the next few decades, things are going to get worse for you.

In the US, however, we will probably see the country break up into smaller countries.  The invaders have largely won and taken over.  Rural California is basically a third world hellhole much like the rural areas of Latin America.  And too many Hispanics are demanding the re-conquest of the southwestern US.

What will probably happen is you’ll see more and more minority groups assert their dominance in certain areas of the US while in Europe they will flee back to their home countries.  It won’t necessarily be a peaceful process either.

On the bright side, it will prove the futility of the Leftist Moral Code.

Stupid Watchdog Group

Now that the movie Fifty Shades of Grey is just around the corner, it is back in the news again.  Honestly, I couldn’t care less about it save for the media circus that is following it around.  This is a movie based on a book written by a woman.  It is the BSDM version of Twilight save the supernatural creatures.

Now some watchdog group (and it is just really easy to become one these days) called “Morality in Media” is complaining about the movie.  Their basic complaint is that the movie’s rating is to soft.  Here’s a brief overview of it:

“What the term ‘unusual’ does not account for is the coercion, sexual violence, female inequality, and BDSM themes from which the entire Fifty Shades plot is based,” the statement reads. “Such a vague evaluation puts viewers at risk, sending the message that humiliation is pleasurable and that torture should be sexually gratifying.”

So let’s read off the complaints.

First we have “coercion” in a movie.  Or rather, coercion of a female by a male into risky sex.  The underlying complaint here is that the main character is “raped” by the male who seeks her out.  She is unable to reject his sexual advances, despite even signing a non-disclosure agreement in order to engage in a sexual relationship with Mr. Grey.  So I guess the message is that women lack responsibility for their actions and moral agency.

Second we have “sexual violence” in the movie.  I know that BSDM is violent and it is definitely an extreme form of sexuality, but at the same time it is not rape or sexual assault.  The attempt by Morality in Media here is to say that BSDM is a form or rape.

Third we have “female inequality”.  At this point I am wondering why depictions of submissive women should be considered having a higher rating than ‘R’, but that’s just me.

And finally we have “BSDM themes”.  Never mind that there have been plenty of R-rated movies out there that depicted “BSDM themes” and never a peep from an organization that has been around since 1962.

Let’s compare all of that with the movie Gone Girl where a woman rapes a man after slitting his throat.  He is literally being raped while at the same time dying and seeing his murderer enjoy herself.  That sounds like sexual violence, coercion, female inequality (the other way), and BSDM themes to me.  But not a fucking peep from these hypocrites.

I don’t care for this movie really in that I am not interested in watching it.  If I wanted to watch a BSDM scene, it is a simple matter of looking up pornography online.  I don’t need a sappy romance drama to provide me with BSDM themed sexual encounters.

The best thing this non-profit could have done is kept their damn mouths shut.  The movie would come and go and nobody would have cared except a bunch of chicks in their low-20s who grew up on Twilight.  But I guess that isn’t their job.

The Game Continues

Looks like the Speaker of the House has wasted no time in making a deal with the devil:

The Speaker made clear that the American people’s top priority remains jobs and the economy.  He reminded the president that there are more than 40 House-passed jobs bills that represent a great place to start on immediate, bipartisan action to help create more private-sector jobs.  He has previously said that building the Keystone pipeline, restoring the 40-hour work week, encouraging our businesses to hire more veterans, and supporting innovative charter schools are examples of the types of common-sense solutions that offer a good starting point in January.

The Speaker warned that unilateral action by the president on executive amnesty will erase any chances of doing immigration reform and will also make it harder for Congress and the White House to work together successfully on other areas where there might otherwise be common ground.

President Obama has expressed interest in a position.  Speaker Boehner is exploiting this by telling him that they can work together or they can work against each other and no one will win.

This is how politics is played out.  If you have an idea or a vision, you will be exploited by other politicians so they can get their way.  It’s really that simple.

The fact is, Boehner wants to grant amnesty just as much as Obama does.  He just wants it to be a Republican victory, not a Democrat one.  He’ll settle for a bipartisan agreement, but only if Republicans are acknowledged in the process, which they rarely are when such agreements are made.

The sad fact is that all those illegals will be legalized and our culture will further erode under the weight of what is essentially Hispanic trailer trash (the middle class and rich of Latin America are staying right where they are).  This is because both party leaders want amnesty to be pushed through, for different reasons, but the end goal is the same.

Our government has little to no regard for what it means to be an American citizen.  They have devalued such a thing and continually look upon us with disdain and contempt.  They view the United States as an opportunity to pillage because they are unable to produce anything themselves.

And so the politics game continues.  Each side will pretend to care about it, but at the end of the day, it’s all about the deal.  And whatever deal is made, we come out on the losing side of it.