From Lion: Libertarians are wrong about taxation: Libertarians say that taxation is “theft.” But as I’ve shown, REALLY rich people voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a 3 to 1 margin. Even though it was well known that there would be higher taxes under Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. People don’t vote for… Continue reading Taxation, Libertarianism, and Wealth

Things have been kinda slow in the alt-right-o-sphere. The alt-light is here to stay because so as long as they make money, they have no reason to go away. I don’t begrudge their success though. It’s a different business model than the alt-right. The alt-right needs a catalyst to keep going. IN 2014, it was… Continue reading Updating old posts

A 2013 article on accelerationism: The Accelerate Manifesto: The Core Assumptions of Accelerationism 3. Capitalism has begun to constrain the productive forces of technology, or at least, direct them towards needlessly narrow ends. Patent wars and idea monopolisation are contemporary phenomena that point to both capital’s need to move beyond competition, and capital’s increasingly retrograde… Continue reading Neoliberalism and Capitalism

From David Brooks How We Are Ruining America: The educated class has built an ever more intricate net to cradle us in and ease everyone else out. It’s not really the prices that ensure 80 percent of your co-shoppers at Whole Foods are, comfortingly, also college grads; it’s the cultural codes. Status rules are partly… Continue reading IQ, Education, and Upward Mobility

New Trump emails Read the Emails on Donald Trump Jr.’s Russia Meeting: Good morning Emin just called and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information… Continue reading Trump Jr. Email Recap: Not Much to be Worried About

Jordan Peterson in which he “destroys Post-Modernism & Marxism once and for all” In the video Peterson discusses how postmodernism implies infinite interpretations, and that the failure of postmodernism is failure to realize that there only a finite number of interpretations. To recap, postmodernism is: -a literary and art style -a ‘condition’ -a form of… Continue reading Postmodernism: It’s about Facts, not Values

From Slate Star Codex: Against Murderism This was a fairly labyrinthine article, necessitating a belated response owing to the complexity of the matter. Second, by this definition, many racist things would be good. Suppose some tyrant wants to kill the ten million richest white people, then redistribute their things to black people. This would certainly… Continue reading Murderism and Racism

The Great Disappointment was the reaction that followed Baptist preacher William Miller’s proclamations that Jesus Christ would return to the Earth in 1844, what he called the Advent. There is a similar disappointment among the far-right regarding Trump not delivering on his campaign promises. It’s turning out be the Star Wars prequel equivalent of a… Continue reading More Commanding and Less Managing