SJW's Everywhere! Even in Alternate History!

You never know where you're going to find delicate SJW snowflakes. I'm still surprised when they pop up in unexpected places, though by now I shouldn't be. Half the team that does this blog has an oddball interest in alternate history science fiction, the sort of thing Harry Turtledove writes, and a classical example of which is The Man in the High Castle [link].  This has led him to have another blog, Ifnicity [link], all about alternate history.

There's an alternate history discussion forum on the net at "Alternate History Dot Com" [link]. And he finally got around to registering there to participate in some of the discussions. After registering, one of the first threads he came across was the question, "Are there any right wingers anywhere!?." (meaning on the forum) Some people had answered already, saying they were conservatives, talking about right-wingers as a different classification than conservatives, stuff like that, mostly very mild. So he answered the question this way:

Neither "right-winger" nor "conservative" has widely agreed-upon definitions. Both terms should be defined whenever they're used, especially in forums like this, that include people of many different places and with very different experiences. Me, you can call Alt-Right (I was Alt-Right before Hillary popularized the phrase) or "libertarian nationalist" (google it) in that I believe in libertarian principles about the way the Founding Fathers did, and that I think the nation-state is the best guardian of these principles and its inhabitants. Another way to look at it is that I'm the sort of Goldwater "conservative" that was the default conservative before the Trotskyites left the Democratic party, joined the Republican party, and began calling themselves "neoconservatives."

And guess what happened next? One of the SJW's on the forum wrote:

Oh look it's a brand new member starting off by announcing he's a racist.

Banned.

And I naturally expected this just to be the reaction of one of the more childish members, but no, I received an email right away, reading:

[Y]ou have been permanently banned in response to your message Are there any right wingers anywhere!?.

Whoa! Amazing that they, or anybody else, can find "racism" in that paragraph I wrote. Maybe you can enlighten me. Is it the Alt-Right part? Reference to "libertarian nationalist" or maybe even the "Founding Fathers"? The identification as a "Goldwater conservative"? Or the Trotsky part? Maybe it's just the black-and-white thinking Turtledove refers to in the quibcag. If you're not a politically-correct SJW "I'm with her" Hillary worshipper, you must be an evil racist-sexist-homophobe-Islamophobe Nazi. No grays there.

Well, if any of you are interested in alternate history, and join that forum, for God's sake don't mention to them that you ever voted for or supported anybody but the most orthodox of leftist Democrats. Better yet, go to Ifnicity [link] and do your alternate-history discussing there. http://www.alternatehistory.com is a cybernetic "safe place," I suppose.
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Quibcag: Since this is about thinking, I used Yuki Nagato of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu)  to illustrate it, because she looks very brainy and very cute at the same time.

Anthony Bourdain on "Blame" for Losing the Election

I like Anthony Bourdain as he appears on his TV shows, and within certain parameters he's wise and worth listening to on matters other than chefing and eating. And the interview below indicates that he's somewhat wiser on political matters than I thought he was. Not that much wiser, but he demonstrates a wisdom that a few Democrats are catching on to these days — that sneering at and dumping on working-class Americans isn't the best way to get them to vote for you.

Where his wisdom breaks down, of course, is his unspoken assumption that we'd be better off if the Democrats had won. The East Coast  bubble he talks about, he also mainly lives in, despite his forays into the actual America, and it doesn't quite permit him to entertain the notion that a conservative populist or a populist conservative or whatever you want to call Trump is a much better choice for President than Hillary or any other Democrat I can think of since Andrew Jackson.

And he also doesn't seem to have considered that what might or might not be good for him and his East Coast liberal friends is not necessarily good for the flyover folks he's talking about. He just kind of assumes that the political nonsense Democrats specialize in is somehow beneficial for some guy in Tennessee or North Dakota. It's not. While the wealthy type Anthony shmoozes with are, well, wealthy enough to avoid almost all of the fallout of Democratic policies, the rest of us are not. Mostly, we can't insulate our kids from integrated schools where, at best, the children of illegals slow the curriculum down or stop it entirely so that our kids fall behind, or, at worst, Black kids slow the curriculum way down and make the place as dangerous as a Chicago neighborhood. And we do have to pay taxes so that the families of the kids get generous welfare benefits. Anthony's pals do, too, but they're wealthy, so it's not nearly as much of a hardship for them. Also, we have a harder time finding jobs, because, as Trump says, they've been sent overseas, and what jobs we can find have their wages depressed by cheap illegal labor. The smug wealthy liberals, of course, don't need such jobs. And most of us working-class types don't benefit from constant wars overseas, which the Democrats think are necessary and cool, and which Trump wants to hold to a minimum. The working-class, you see, supplies the cannon fodder, while the East Coasters somehow manage to avoid military service.

And we don't really like the idea of laws that require that men who think, or pretend they think, that they're women, are permitted to hang out in ladies' rooms or in ladies' showers. We really prefer that our womenfolk not be endangered or even grossed out that way. And then there's the gun thing. Anthony's crowd feel much safer in general, because they tend to live in gated communities where the cops show up immediately when called. This makes them safer in case of a break-in, and break-ins much less likely because the breaker-ins know the cops would show up quick.

Anthony marks himself as an East Coast liberal himself, when he says below:

"When we deny them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn, and treat them with contempt, we do no one any good."

Anthony Bourdain should ask himself, why are their views different, and if they have legitimacy, maybe he should consider that they damn well may be right, or at least a lot closer to the truth than the trendy enthusiasms of those East Coast liberals, who flit from BLM to transgenders in restrooms to God only knows what next like so many butterflies. We flyover folks are less impulsive and more reliable. Anthony needs to do another show with Ted Nugent, and listen more carefully this time.

Well, I could go on and on in the same vein. Anthony gets it, partly. But judge for yourself. Here's an article about his interview in Reason in the Daily Mail [link]:

Anthony Bourdain eviscerates ‘privileged Eastern liberals' for ‘utter contempt’ of working-class Americans

• The star of CNN's Parts Unknown spoke about the presidential election in an interview with Reason 
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• Bourdain blamed Trump's election on 'privileged Eastern liberals' like himself who speak with disdain about working-class Americans 
• He said the labeling of these God-fearing Americans as 'morons and rubes is largely responsible for the up swell of rage and contempt'  
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By Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com

Anthony Bourdain says East Coast liberals like himself are the reason why Donald Trump got elected. 

In a new interview with Reason, the famous chef, author and host of CNN's Parts Unknown eviscerated the left for their condescension of working-class America.

'The utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America as ridiculous and morons and rubes is largely responsible for the up swell of rage and contempt and desire to pull down the temple that we're seeing now,' Bourdain said.

Having spent a lot of time in flyover country, Bourdain said blue-collar Americans aren't all that different from Democrats concentrated in major cities. 

Instead of picking apart issues we disagree on, Bourdain said we should be looking for common ground.

'I've spent a lot of time in gun-country, God-fearing America. There are a hell of a lot of nice people out there, who are doing what everyone else in this world is trying to do: the best they can to get by, and take care of themselves and the people they love. 

'When we deny them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn, and treat them with contempt, we do no one any good.' 

Read the rest here:

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4077172/Anthony-Bourdain-eviscerates-privileged-Eastern-liberals-utter-contempt-working-class-Americans.html#ixzz4UXp2hZdC

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Quibcag: This is Ayumu Nishizawa from Hayate the Combat Butler (ハヤテのごとく! Hayate no Gotoku!). Since Anthony Bourdain is a chef, and is always eating stuff on his shows, I picked a picture of her enjoying some kind of Japanese treat.

Staking Out a Position

A guest post by Joshua Sinistar, explaining the current behavior of the left, from the cuckiest Republican to the most infantile college student to President Buckwheat himself:
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Little kids always throw a tantrum before their parents get home. They're not afraid Trump is an extremist or that he's a neo-nazi. They're afraid he'll be reasonable and do what their fake messianic bozo couldn't. Govern. The Left is all about power. Shiftless lazy dumb mother fuckers always crave power. God knows nobody wants to listen to these assholes whine. Power gets them something they'll never get naturally being shiftless lazy assholes that they are. Attention. They cannot get our respect, but they'll burn this shit down until you listen to them whine.
Men with big boy pants are coming. Expect a big to do with chimp-outs and protests and sit-ins. They can't do the governing thing, but they can make a mess before Big Daddy gets home.

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Bonus points for identifying the guy in the graphic. Hint: He's a historical hero.

Friends don't let friends settle in the West Bank

The title is a joke, of course. Friends are what people have, not countries. This post was touched off by some talking head on Fox News repeating the "Putin isn't our friend" cliché, which has now been said by everybody, it seems, from Harry Reid to John Bolton to maybe even Hillary herself. Trivially true, of course. Putin isn't the "friend" of any country, except maybe his own, in a figurative sense. No person is the friend of a country, and no country is the friend of anybody or anything, people or other countries, or planets, or galaxies. It's somewhat a matter of proportion. Putin can't be France's friend any more that a mite on your eyelash can be the friend of the guy who lives next door to you.

What countries have is allies and enemies, and those classifications can change very fast. Put another way, as in the quibcag, "Countries can't be ‘friends’ with one another, because in order to do, so, they'd have to put the interests of their ‘friends’ ahead of their own, at least sometimes, which is suicidal behavior on their part, because countries are sovereign and therefore don't live in meta-countries with laws and safety nets to ensure the survival and well-being of their constituent countries." And if they do have anything like that, they're member states in an empire which is a whole nother thing.

And this is also significant with regard to the "friend" meme about Israel, and also the "our greatest "ally" one. Lord Palmerston is famous for the quote in the quibcag that is usually paraphrased as "Nations have no permanent friends, only permanent interests." or something of the sort. I used his actual words in the quibcag, which aren't quite as pithy, but have the virtue of being what he actually said. And when it comes to Israel as an "ally," do we have some kind of treaty with them that requires us to come to each other's aid in case of war? If there is, I don't know anything about it. Actually, Israel is more like a brother-in-law who keeps "borrowing" your money, and asking you to accompany him on his walks around town to deter people he's pissed off from punching him. That, and he reads your mail and listens in on your telephone conversations, and when you criticize anything at all that he does, or even raise an eyebrow when he does them, he sets up a wail that you're "bashing" him and "hate" him, and that you're an anti-brother-in-law-ite. Oh, and he beats his wife (your wife is the Israel lobby and he's her brother and his wife is the Palestinians) and everybody talks about it except for you, and you don't talk about it because your wife might get mad. Israel isn't our friend. Neither is Bibi.

And some talking head on Fox News just said again that "Israel is our friend."

I've always sympathized with the Palestinians, and when I say always, I mean since before the '67 war. I remember after that, hearing American Jews swagger about with pride at the toughness of Israeli forces, while as for our Vietnam war, they were either indifferent to it, or downright hateful towards this country because of it. Pretty clear to me what country was "their country," and it pissed me off then and still does now. As for the Palestinians, they are screwed over big time. One maddening absurdity is that American Christians, many of them, support Israel when they push Palestinian Christians around. Maybe they don't know there are Palestinian Christians. They're 6% of Palestine, if anybody cares. The fact that Palestinians, as a collective nation, seem to be crazy, isn't all that relevant, since Israel has treated them horribly for the last 68 years, probably long before they became crazy. And, of course, Israel itself, as a collective Jewish nation, is also crazy. Just look where they decided to set up housekeeping when they could have gone to Madagascar or Alaska. Crazy.

I have no problem with our having Israel as an ally (but let's get that treaty drafted and signed, okay?), but I have a big problem with dual citizenship, with the US and Israel or with the US and any other country. If you become a citizen of Israel, or Taiwan, or Paraguay, you automatically renounce your US citizenship. Simple as that.

And isn't it interesting that, despite all this, the Obama administration is playing scorched earth, burning the fields and poisoning all the wells before the Stormtrumpers move in, throwing Russian diplomats out of the country for no discernible reason, and giving Israel a reason to have a hissy-fit. (If John Kerry gave a speech about me, I'd have a hissy-fit, no matter what he said.) I wonder if any administration in history ever tried this hard to create needless problems for the next administration.

Neither Putin nor Netanyahu is an idiot, so Trump should be able to soothe the hurt feelings pretty easily, since it's obvious to both of them what Obama is up to. Not that they both won't try to use the situation to their own advantage. I would. Trump would.

Speaking of Russia, I'm with Trump, and I want to work with Russia, as a formal or informal ally, to stabilize the Middle East. A good idea, right? Better than deliberately creating chaos, as our Presidents have been doing since 1989. But Paul Craig Roberts warns Russia here [link] that if they get too close to us, they might lose an eye.

And, finally, Vox Day warns the "Israel is our friend" basket of naifs that some Israelis definitely are anything but friends [link]:

Anti-Christian hate crime

Israeli parliamentarian destroys the New Testament and declares that Christianity "belongs in the garbage can of history".

MK Michael Ben Ari (National Union), a member of the Israeli parliament tore up a copy of the New Testament and threw it in the trash, an act that was apparently caught on camera. Ben Ari and several other Knesset members received by mail on Monday a copy of the New Testament, sent by the Bible Society in Israel, an organization that distributes religious books.

In the letter sent with the book, director of the Christian organization Victor Kalisher wrote that the new edition “sheds light on the Holy Scriptures and helps understand them."

“We hope the book will help you and illuminate your way,” Kalisher furter wrote.

However, while most MK's chose to ignore the book or return it to its sender, the rightist lawmaker chose to term the book a "provocation," tore it up into shreds and then threw it out.

“This abominable book (the New Testament) galvanized the murder of millions of Jews during the Inquisition and during auto da fe instances,” Ben Ari said adding that “Sending the book to MK's is a provocation. There is no doubt that this book and all it represents belongs in the garbage can of history.”

Imagine the outrage if a U.S. Congressman tore up a copy of the Talmud and denounced Judaism on camera.

There is no such thing as Judeo-Christianity. It does not exist. There are no "Judeo-Christian values", any more than there are "Islamo-Christian" or "Hindu-Shinto" values.

What many naive Christians need to understand is that many Jews absolutely hate Christians and Christianity. Such Jews are neither our friends nor our allies, but our overt enemies.

That does not mean that all Jews are enemies of Christianity. It doesn't even mean that most of them are. It simply means that they are a distinct people with their own distinct interests, a nation who should neither be favored nor trusted on the sole basis of their religious or ethnic identity. And like everyone else, Jews should be judged as individuals, on the basis of their individual statements and actions.

As for Israel, the USA should support it to the extent it is in American interests to do so. As a regional power in the volatile Middle East, Israel is much more useful to Americans as an ally than as an enemy. But Christians nevertheless need to understand that many Israelis, including some Israeli political leaders, are their open and avowed enemy.

Now, I realize there are more than a few Jews and Christians alike who would prefer to bury all signs of this Jewish enmity for Christians and Christianity for one reason or another. This is understandable, and it may even be well-intentioned. But if you are inclined to knowingly keep the deceived in the dark, I think you really need to ask yourself whom you are serving in that regard.

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Quibcag: Two allies, at least for now, Japan and the US, symbolized in the first quibcag by the girls from Hetalia: Axis Powers (Axis Powers ヘタリア). In the second, the girls from Nichijou (日常) demonstrate friendship. And the third is the Israeli girl, also from Hetalia: Axis Powers (Axis Powers ヘタリア).

Trump Derangement Syndrome

Most of the neocons have been slapped into line (or are pretending that they have) if only because they fear being run out of the Republican party and not being able to get back in all that easily. You don't hear much "neverTrump" from most of them now. I think George Will and other pencil-necked ideologues are holding out. But as for Democrats and liberals in general, they are deeply deranged about the Trump victory, and the only word for their general reaction is "tantrum."

One thing they're deep into is projection. You know, where you accuse your opponent of doing what you do yourself. They of course accuse Trump of being a warmonger, when everything he's said about cooperating with Russia and changing our policy of overthrowing every stable government in the Middle East says the opposite. They've seized on his policy of modernizing our nuclear arsenal as proof that he wants to start a nuclear war. Which means several Presidents who have done such modernizing must have been wanting to start a nuclear war.

Of course, it's the crazy old lady, Hillary, who either wants to start a nuclear war with Russia with her no-fly zone [link], or is nutty enough that she doesn't realize that such a policy would very likely have that result. She's nutty enough, after all, to think, or at least say, that Putin has a "personal beef" with her. As though she's that significant. In actual fact, Hillary is the dangerous warmonger, Trump is the peacemaker. And in a more general way of putting it, Hillary is an interventionist on principle, while Trump's attitude seems to be that intervention is a last resort. That's in keeping with his realist/pragmatic non-ideological persona.

And an aside. When I say non-ideological, I don't mean without principle, as some use the term. Trump's principles seem to be those associated with simple patriotism and basic human decency, with a little humility thrown in, which is more of a "guide to life" than an ideology. The trouble with ideologies is that people tend to warp reality to fit them, rather than modify their ideology to fit reality. That last, humility, doesn't sound like what is said about Trump, but look at it this way. Other politicians, like Hillary and Obama and Bush, etc., know what is good for everybody in the world, which is why they're eager to send armies to enforce their bright ideas. Trump isn't that way, and seems to be concerned with what's good for his own country, and those things are obvious things that anybody could agree about — keeping jobs here, making advantageous trade agreements, being very careful about immigration, and avoiding wasting money and lives on that interventionism again.

And of course the lefties are raising hell about how many millionaires and billionaires are in Trump's cabinet. No hell was raised when Hillary was peddling influence to Wall Street by accepting payment for speeches at what seems to amount to several hundred dollars a word. If the left is upset about a Trump cabinet officer being a millionaire, you'd think they'd raise an eyebrow, at least, about how the Clintons got to be millionaires. Hint: it wasn't by building hotels, or building anything, for that matter. It was by having money handed to them for dubious reasons.

And they naturally accuse Trump of all the -phobias, from Islamo to homo to trans. Not Russophobia, though. That's what Hillary seems to have. I guess that's okay, though, because Russians are White. And half of them are male. And the vast majority of them are heterosexuals. So that's enough to earn Hillary's enmity all by itself. And while they don't have a -phobia word for it, Trump is also alleged to hate Blacks and Mexicans and other minorities. I think I know why. When a Black thug robs a store and attacks a cop and gets himself killed, Obama snarkily puts the White cop down and sends a Presidential representative to the thug's funeral. Since Trump is on record as supporting cops, the lefties of course fear that he'll continue to do so, and won't even praise the Trayvons and other Dindus or tearfully mourn their heroic deaths. Therefore, by liberal logic, he's a fascist. Or even a Nazi.

Justin Raimondo explores this new disease. This is from the Los Angles Times [link].
Do you suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Justin Raimondo

The country is in the throes of a major epidemic, with no known cure and some pretty scary symptoms. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, and it’s rapidly spreading from the point of origin – the political class – to the population at large.

In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect’s every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world.

Trump set up a single phone call with Taiwan’s president, and suddenly TDS patients were insisting that our “One China” policy was no more. But the reality is that telephonic communication isn’t the same thing as official diplomatic recognition. Besides, in their eagerness to highlight Trump’s alleged recklessness, the president-elect’s critics misunderstand our policy. “One China” means that we don’t recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country or China’s sovereignty over Taiwan. We’ve never considered Taiwan a mere province, and the Taiwan Relations Act obligates us to defend the island against attack.

The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim’s vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of hyperbole. Politico recently ran a piece that noted Trump’s supposedly unprecedented decision to continue using his private security force, which provoked former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin to tweet: “A predictable move for a kleptocratic authoritarian who wants to operate outside the bounds of law and basic ethical standards. Even more troubling, he may use the force's lack of government oversight & presidential veneer to carry-out extralegal acts of force.”

It’s quite a stretch to suggest that a desire to keep trusted lieutenants is actually a sinister plot to create a version of the brownshirts, but such illogical leaps are the pathway to the next stage of TDS: a state of constant hysteria.

Especially when discussing Trump’s views on immigration, hysterical TDS victims assume there’s no difference between the president-elect’s rhetoric (get out!) and his proposed policy (deporting known criminals who are in this country illegally). As Reince Priebus, Trump’s chief of staff, put it: “He’s not calling for mass deportation. He said, ‘No, only people who have committed crimes.’ And then only until all of that is taken care of will we look at what we are going to do next.”

As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. Despite Trump’s expressed desire to “work something out” for the so-called Dreamers – those brought here as very young children – Trump’s critics continue to harp on this issue. Immigration advocate Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, who has a very bad case of TDS, inadvertently revealed this mind set when he said: “Before anyone falls into the trap of believing that Trump is ‘softening’ on immigration, they should remember that we’ve seen this movie before.”

A movie, eh?

In the advanced stages of the disease, the afflicted lose touch with reality. Opinion is unmoored from fact. Life resembles a dark fairy tale in which the villain – Trump – is an amalgam of all the worst tyrants in history, past and present, while the heroes –Trump’s critics – are akin to the resistance fighters of World War II.

TDS victims routinely compare Trump to Hitler: Time magazine ran an opinion piece that asked “Just how similar is Donald Trump to Hitler?” The answer: “The comparison between Hitler and Trump is so poignant” because “both men represent their personal character as the antidote to all social and political problems.”


Since Hitler has been dead for more than 70 years, though, victims may feel the need for a more potent bogeyman, a tyrant with more currency. And they’ve found one in Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they insist ordered a hacking campaign to help Trump win the election.

The other day, Tucker Carlson of Fox News interviewed TDS-riddled Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank). Carlson asked for evidence that Putin’s alleged machinations had any effect on the election. Unable to come up with a coherent answer, Schiff morphed into J. Edgar Hoover: “You're carrying water for the Kremlin,” he said, “you're going to have to move your show to ‘Russia Today.’”

If you ask a TDS victim what might help them feel better, they’ll use the word “normalize.” As in, we mustn’t “normalize” Trump. What they’re really saying is that normal means of dealing with him aren’t enough. Which raises the question: If he’s another Hitler, if he’s in league with Putin, then why is assassination out of the question? Poke a TDS victim and you’ll find they don’t think that “solution” is out of the question at all.

This is the final stage of the TDS epidemic: violence against a democratically elected leader. Unless a cure for TDS is found, this is where we are headed.

Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com and the author of “Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement.”

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Quibcag: This is Ayuko Oka (丘 歩子 Oka Ayuko), from Mysterious Girlfriend X (謎の彼女X. Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu). I added the hammer and sickle.

And a Merry Odinmas to You!

There's a lot more to Christmas than religion. Indeed, even within the bounds of religion, there's a lot more to Christmas than Christianity. Surely we all know by now that a lot of the elements of Christmas have their origin in pre-Christian religion. But I didn't realize, somehow, that there's more to Santa Claus than a morphing of a 4th-century saint. Specifically, I'd never heard of the Odin connection described in the quibcag and in the Jim Goad essay below.

But it's a strangely satisfying thought. It's certainly true that a great deal of what we White Europeans are has its roots in our pre-Christian past. Our customs and moral sensibilities are not, as most people suppose, a result of Christianity. It sort of worked the other way — Christianity modified itself by absorbing into itself much of our old culture.

But Jim Goad has a lot more to say about Christianity, Christmas, and Santa Claus than that. It all starts with the startling notion that Santa Claus could be anything other than White. I guess that's a permissible thought, now that Stan Lee and all have converted Nick Fury and Heimdall into Africans.  But Jim isn't having any:

Santa Claus: Still White

by Jim Goad 

Although Santa Claus doesn’t exist, I am nevertheless convinced that he is white. I take it as a matter of faith that he is as white as his beard and as white as the polar ice caps. As a pale male of exclusively Northern European descent, I also choose to believe that Santa Claus is a man—a heterosexual man who enjoys giving Mrs. Claus a right good rogering from time to time.

Aisha Harris would disagree. Aisha is a blogger for slate.com. She shares a first name with the girl who was married to Muhammad at age six and consummated their marriage at the unripened age of nine—while Ol’ Mo was 53—but I didn’t see this fact mentioned in the article that set off a diarrheal blast of news coverage last week.

The essay was called “Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore,” and forgive me if I think it’s a wee bit uppity for Aisha to presume she has the authority to make such declarations. Aisha writes of the shame and pain and confusion and heartache she’d experience every holiday season when she walked out into the Scary Big White World and was ruthlessly confronted with “pale” Santas who had “skin as pink as bubble gum.” Aisha failed to note that if she were still living in her ancestral homeland, she likely wouldn’t be concerned with such trifles. Back in those non-wintry climes, she might even know what horseflies taste like.

The language Aisha uses in her article to deride Santa’s commonly understood physiognomy would likely raise the hackles of microaggression-sniffing progressive watchdogs were they applied to anyone else besides white men. Harris called Santa “melanin-deficient,” a “fat old white man,” an “old white male,” and a “fat white guy”:

…I propose that America abandon Santa-as-fat-old-white-man and create a new symbol of Christmas cheer. From here on out, Santa Claus should be a penguin….That’s right: a penguin….Why, you ask? For one thing, making Santa Claus an animal rather than an old white male could spare millions of nonwhite kids the insecurity and shame that I remember from childhood.

A young black-and-white penguin, you say? Preferably one that would likely morph into a young hermaphroditic rainbow-colored penguin? And then a young human in a hermaphroditic rainbow-colored penguin costume because the animal-rights activists complained? I don’t like where this is headed at all, Aisha. Not one tiny little bit. You get a lump of coal from me this Christmas.

(Read the rest HERE.)
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This is a reprint from 2013
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Matt Bailey adds to all this:
"Odin, Jesus, they both piss off Leftists. And that's the REAL meaning of the season."

Glaivester Strikes Again!

In response to this. From Glaivester's site here: http://glaivester.blogspot.com

This, of course, is exactly what is going on. And there's more than one reason for it. At the top, of course, is the simple fact that White countries, by and large, are better places to live than nonWhite countries, so there's tremendous pressure from people from other countries to move to them. Add to the general desirability of White countries the fact that most of them seem to be willing to put immigrants straight onto welfare, and you get even more pressure, from would-be immigrants who are rather less desirable than most, precisely because they want to come to our countries and get freebies. Some such, like the late perpetrator of the Berlin massacre, are considerably worse than undesirable, but our politicians, like Merkel, are still determined to invited them in and put them on welfare benefits and wait till they go on murder sprees.

That, of course, is the second reason. Politicians who let the immigrants in. They may be stupid or evil or both. I heard Merkel described as basically stupid, because she thinks her Lutheran faith requires her to allow Muslim terrorists and ordinary Muslim criminals into Germany so they can kill and rape and wreck the country. This is called "compassion" by idiots who don't know the meaning of the word. A better word is "ethnomasochism." That should be pretty self-explanatory. It means being masochistic on behalf of your own ethnic group. In the sort of cases we're talking about, it means, say Swedes working hard to wipe out their own people by bringing in immigrants as unSwedish as possible, preferably low-IQ types from the MidEast and Africa, encouraging them to reproduce with generous welfare benefits, and talking your own people into intermarriage with them to create people who are neither fish nor fowl, and manifestly not Swedes. A generation or two of that, and it's the death knell for Sweden. A country like the US, from sheer size, will last longer, but the doom will be on us too, if we go that route.

Another reason is the encouragement — let's stick with Sweden as an example — by nonSwedes already present of yet more nonSwedish immigration. The motivation for this is obvious on one level — they'll be happier with more of their own kind to hang out with. One remembers the odious Khizr Khan who did the self-righteous speech at the Democratic convention. He has devoted his life, it seems, to greasing the skids to get more Muslims, and therefore more terrorists, into the United states. [link]
This would seem to apply to any group that has been allowed into White countries. When they reach a certain critical mass, they produce a subgroup that specializes in trying to get more of them in.

And then, alas, we have Jews. Throughout the White world, Jews have been at the forefront of the open borders, let anybody in, especially let nonWhites in, movement. When asked, representatives of such groups say that because Jews have been persecuted, they're very sensitive to the suffering of others, and therefore they do whatever they can to bring suffering foreigners into Germany, the US, the UK, and all other White countries. Other Jews have pointed out that such movements are motivated by the desire to repress the ethnic core of White countries, and replace it with a hodgepodge of ethnicities, on the theory that if Sweden remains 90% Swedish, one day the Swedes might all get together and give the Jews a hard time. But if Sweden is a mix of ethnicities such unity would be very unlikely.  This is insane, of course, because Swedes, who are excruciatingly tolerant, just might decide to give Jews a hard time because of the efforts of some Jews to destroy the Swedish people.

Finally we have hate. Real hate, not the leftist accusation of hate whenever anybody disagrees with them. I'm talking about the hate that many Muslim immigrants have for the people who give them refuge. Terrorists, they're usually called, but some are just ordinary murderers and rapists who have no particular ideology. They just hate these Germans, or Swedes, or Americans, and think up ways to hurt them. And it's not just Muslims, of course. In the US, we've suffered killing sprees by all kinds of immigrants, legal and illegal [link]. The hate is from the immigrants themselves, from White social justice warriors who hate themselves, their parents, and the rest of us even more, from that certain group of Jews, and from anybody and everybody whose life is shaped by political correctness. Time to turn all this around.

And Glaivester adds:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of my readers.

I believe that on Election Day 2016, God gave this country a reprieve. But we do not want to waste it. As a Christian, I believe that we are under judgment, and that this reprieve ought to be viewed as a chance to further spread the gospel and to work to strengthen and edify others who are already saved. If you are a Christian, find a good, Christ-centered, bible-centered church. If you already have one, see what you can do to volunteer to help the church's mission. Also work to help missionaries around the world and in this country, either through your church, or through organizations you trust (Advancing Native Missions and Association of Baptists for World Evangelism are two I use).

Also, on a more secular level, we must continue to support organizations and websites like VDARE, American Renaissance, NumbersUSA, and Gab. We cannot assume that we can rest easy. Our enemies are rebuilding their forces as they did after the humiliating amnesty defeat in 2007. This time, we have to (a) keep building the grassroots that got Trump into office, and (b) go on the offensive.

So that is what we need to do going into the New Year - consolidate the victories we have, stay vigilant, and look to start regaining lost ground in the war to preserve America; keep looking to God for guidance and keep working to do his will. Above all, do not assume we have finished the job by getting Trump elected. The battle is never over in this age. I could go into more detail, I'm sure, but that's enough for now.

That is all.

And I agree completely

The Jesus Gambit

First, thanks to Matt Bailey [link] for sending this graphic in. The message is clear and accurate. Pay no attention to the Jesus gambit. For one thing, it is a relatively new idea that Christians should destroy themselves for the benefit of non-Christians. For centuries and centuries, it was unquestioned that a Christian's duty was to defend himself and other Christians against others who waged war against Christianity — Muslims in particular, and non-Christians in general.

In short, the idea that Christians have a duty to welcome Muslims into Christian countries is God-damned nonsense, and I use "God-damned" in it's literal, not vulgar, sense. And this especially applies to the clergy, from the Pope to the most rarified Unitarian, who have twisted Christianity into some kind of suicide cult. One very popular manifestation of the cult among our churches is their ethnomasochistic urge to bring in anybody and everybody from the Third World, Christian or Muslim or whatever, and feed them and take care of them and then turn them loose to do as they will. If you belong to a church like that, make them stop or leave the church. I'm sure you can find a saner one to attend. No. For centuries, all Christians, Popes, monks, Kings, peasants, all fought Muslims, and did not invite them to immigrate. Our ancestors would have considered that bewilderingly insane.

Speaking of bewilderingly insane, I heard a talking head on Fox News of all places ask an interviewee if Angela Merkel was partly to blame for the Berlin atrocity. It amazes me that the question was even formulated. Of course she's to blame, and more than partly. She's so much to blame that if German law permits, she should be removed from office and convicted of being an accessory to murder. It's all the more serious because she plans to welcome more murderers into Germany. Now, I heard another talking head explaining all this, by pointing out that Merkel's father was a Lutheran minister, and she learned her ethnomasochism from him, as he was one of those Christians who believe that we should sacrifice our lives for the welfare of those who are not Christians. I suppose there's something to that, but it's also true that she was brought up as a communist in communist East Germany and was a member of the  Free German Youth (FDJ). And she's never, as far as I know, repudiated communism, so she's one of those repulsive types who've done the thesis-antithesis-synthesis thing with Christianity and communism. This is often called liberation theology.

So don't let them pull the Jesus gambit on you. Remind them that it was Christians who fought in the Crusades, and that John III Sobieski never said that Islam was a religion of peace.*
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*I have a theory as to where this nonsense meme that Islam is a religion of peace came from. The way the Arabic language works is that the basic root word consists of three consonants, and that whereas most languages derive words from other words with prefixes and suffixes, as in English walk, walker, walked, walking, walks, Arabic stuffs vowels (and sometimes another consonant) here and there around the three-consonant root for the same reason. From Wikipedia [link]:

From a single root k-t-b, numerous words can be formed by applying different patterns:

• katabtu 'I wrote'
• kattabtu 'I had (something) written'
• kātabtu 'I corresponded (with someone)'"
• aktabtu 'I dictated'
• iktatabtu 'I subscribed'
• takātabnā 'we corresponded with each other'
• aktubu 'I write'
• ukattibu 'I have (something) written'
• ukātibu 'I correspond (with someone)'
• uktibu 'I dictate'
• aktatibu 'I subscribe'
• natakātabu 'we correspond each other'
• kutiba 'it was written'
• uktiba 'it was dictated'"
• maktūb 'written'
• muktab 'dictated'
• kitāb 'book'
• kutub 'books'
• kātib 'writer'
• kuttāb 'writers'
• maktab 'desk, office'
• maktabah 'library, bookshop'

Now, the word Islam has the s-l-m root, and itself means "submission," one supposes, to Allah. But it can form the word salām سلام, which means "peace." That is, peace in the sense of having submitted to Allah so there is no need to struggle. So, if you're vaguely aware of all this, it sort of makes sense to say Islam is sort of a religion of peace, because its name is related to the word for peace.

What Libertarianism Is

Most libertarians have it back-asswards. You don't impose libertarian principles on a society and sit back and watch it turn into a libertarian society, because it won't. Libertarian principles appear in a given society, maybe, when it has evolved from barbarism into a high-trust culture that leans towards individualism and keeps collectivism in its place. In all of human history, this seems to have happened exactly once, in Western Europe, especially in Britain, and attaining its most unadulterated libertarian system in the British colonies in North America. This wasn't a case of anybody thinking up libertarianism and trying to talk everybody else into it. It was a case of libertarianism evolving into existence and laws, essays, constitutions, etc., being written to acknowledge it.

So never mind Gary Johnson. Our libertarianism will be used, not blathered about in theory, and Trump will do the using. And the protecting of it. A genuine libertarian society, you see, has to be stable or it's libertarian only temporarily, that is, in effect, not libertarian.

For example, a libertarian society has to protect itself by not letting millions of non-libertarians swamp the country. That simple logic seems to be beyond the powers of most doctrinaire libertarians but plain as a pikestaff to the practical libertarian, Donald  Trump. If you doubt this, consider: If say, Hillary Clinton were to let in six million "Syrians" would we be a more libertarian country than if Donald Trump kept them out? The answer is obvious.

And if libertarianism has any meaning in practical terms, such meaning is forever connected to the ideology of the Alt-Right. Here's the kicker (keker?): without the Alt-Right, libertarianism is meaningless at best and counterproductive at worst.  And here's what Vox Day [link] has to say about that:

Understanding the Alt-Right

This is a pretty good exploration of the conceptual thinking underlying the 16 Points of the Alt-Right:

Otto von Bismark described politics as the art of the possible. Instead of listening to his advice, 20th century political theorists became idealistic, utopian, and mechanistic. It would treat a given variable as independent from the rest of the equation, when in fact it was webbed to the rest of society through a network of feedback mechanisms. “If we could only tweak this one thing, while everything else remains constant, we would be able to create a more perfect world.” The law of unforeseen consequences followed from this, leading to a great deal of misery and destruction.

An organic, holistic approach is needed – one which doesn’t shy away from hard truths – while avoiding the fallacy of world building. Castles in the sky have no place in adult discourse or political debates, and should be shunned by anyone who wishes to be taken seriously. I have no idea if the Alt Right will remain a viable movement, or if it will be taken over by aggressive, subversive interests, but whatever happens to the label itself, Vox Days’ points remain a good starting point for creating a new political understanding of the world which is eminently practical, and capable of leading us away from the brink of societal collapse.

1. The Alt Right is of the political right in both the American and the European sense of the term. Socialists are not Alt Right. Progressives are not Alt Right. Liberals are not Alt Right. Communists, Marxists, Marxians, cultural Marxists, and neocons are not Alt Right.

Neocons are best understood as Neo-Trotskyists, the dialectical response to Neo-Liberal Democrats, whose inevitable synthesis is Globalist Stalinism under the influence of figures such as George Soros.

2. The Alt Right is an ALTERNATIVE to the mainstream conservative movement in the USA that is nominally encapsulated by Russel Kirk’s 10 Conservative Principles, but in reality has devolved towards progressivism. It is also an alternative to libertarianism.

Libertarianism is an effect, not a cause, of a well ordered society.

Obviously, I'll be providing a considerably more in-depth treatment in time, but in the meantime, this is a productive continuation of the discourse.

You'll notice that the media, which is nominally eager to push forward all things Alt-Right, has avoided even mentioning the 16 Points like the plague, although they have been more broadly accepted by many across the Right than most of the figures and concepts they have attempted to elevate. That is because the 16 Points are eminently reasonable, obviously rational, and intrinsically sound, and therefore are not at all amenable to the media's false narrative.

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That's what Vox Day wrote. A commenter on his site, "Some Dude," in addition to the quote on the second quibcag, wrote this:

How the west deals with the Jewish Question has always befuddled Western nations for centuries. Give them equal rights under the law - they use their verbal IQ to take over. Discriminate and pogrom - they start organising Bolshevik Revolution or using their agents in more powerful nations to flatten you and your bros. Hitler thought he could send them to Madagascar. Stalin to Siberia. Both eventually fell upon the Final Solution scenario after much disturbance and got removed. You can't have a functioning nationalist government of the (white) people, with jews around because (a) many jews don't see themselves as whites (b) owe loyalty to Israel (c) have a significantly different neuro profile to whites without intermarriage - higher IQ, lower affective empathy, schiz>autist. Its a very tough problem in political philosophy. Spain, Russia and the Germanic states have three wildly different approaches. Did Spain get the best deal? Jews contribute a lot to science and industry as well. Obviously creating a homeland for them doesn't help, even with the billion in tribute and fighting their wars. Tough cookie game theory problem. I'm sure someone somewhere has written a parasite-host modelling paper. Stationary bandit, of a different race. In the end, if the bandit isn't the same race as the servile farmer, history shows they are always expelled, eventually.

He says other interesting things as well. Go there and read the comments.

--------------Quibcag: Illustrated by Sera Masumi of Detective Conan (Meitantei Conan  名探偵コナ). Conan, AKA Meitantei Conan (名探偵コナン), who thinks forwards, not backwards.  The second is illustrated by Haruhi of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu) , and a random cartoon of TR that I found on the net.

The White Civil War

Well, coincidences abound, and I find that Chateau Heartiste [link] has also been blogging about the White Civil War alluded to in my last post, the point being that there are two factions — those of us who want the White race and Western Civilization to survive, regenerate, and prosper, and those of us who want the opposite, an insane leap onto a funeral pyre. The latter have been in charge for quite some time, and are going to continue to be in charge of a great many thing, because the "long march through the institutions" (Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen) [link] has mostly already taken place and we'll need to have a counter-march ASAP.

Before it comes up, yes, many on the enemy side aren't White by the more narrow definitions, and are Jewish or of some other caucasian-but-not-White group, arguably, like Arabs or Persians or Armenians. However, the bulk of the enemy consists of unarguably White people who just can't stand being White and think the rest of us should agonize about it, too, while bleating about the authenticity and deep virtues of Dindus and their allies.

In a way, such people are far more despicable than those of ambiguous race because they carry suicidal tendencies like some kind of virus.

And now, to Chateau Heartiste:

The White War

December 12, 2016 by CH

The best way to think about America, now and historically, is as the battleground between rival White factions, with nonwhites and women as shock troops ordered to exploit, respectively, White men’s racial guilt and their white knightery.

One faction — the Runaway Universalists (RU) Whites — is engaged in biological warfare against the Fuck You (FU) Whites, via open borders to the third world.

This is not a recent invention. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the RU Whites (back then, Yankees of Quaker and Puritan blood) opened the borders to non-Anglo ethnic European immigration, seeking the same goal: defeat of their cousin FUs (loosely organized under the later umbrella term “WASP” for Anglo-Germanics, but including Southern and Appalachian Whites of Scots-Irish descent).

The RU Whites won a surrender and a temporary peace with the FU Whites in America’s first Civil War, but the ethnic faults and schisms persist, and have deepened since then, despite decades of “Diversity is our strength” propaganda.

Special bonus quibcag!

The end game is the same: hot war. But RU Whites know they can’t win a shooting Civil War 2 now. So their strategy is demographic displacement. This is the strategic undercurrent that will strand a true “White nationalism” political platform from achieving social significance.

The White War pitting RU White ethnics against FU White ethnics will necessarily confine any emergent WN movement to within the FU White sphere of influence, as White Nationalism is inherently a defensive posture against memetic and cultural attack by the RU Whites.

In the latter half of the 20th Century and to the present day, the psychological lethality of the RU Whites’ anti-White subversion propaganda was amplified by a tacit alliance with various nonWhite and MENA-White tribes, most notably the Jews. This alliance has facilitated a rapid and nearly uncontested march through the American institutions by the RU Whites (or more specifically by their wealthy sponsors), who had won, until 2016 the Year of the Meme Wars, absolute power over shaping public opinion, news, entertainment, reeducation, and federal government legislation.

The latest RU White assault on the FU Whites is their active promotion of miscegenation which, given recent CDC data, is successfully chipping away at the fortress inner walls protecting an organic American White fellow-feeling from complete dissolution into a deracinated favela of the soul.

In sum, it’s helpful to see the intraWhite War (or inter-ethnic White War) through the lens of abstraction versus intuition, and conjuration versus common sense. RU Whites value abstraction and use their cognitive skill set to conjure labyrinthine justifications for their airy, abstract principles that have increasingly become unmoored from reality. FU Whites favor intuition and rely on their earthy, tried-and-true common sense (aka gut instinct) to validate what they intuitively know to be true, and this reliance is what has made them particularly vulnerable to RU rhetorical attack. But to the FU Whites’ advantage the same reality that is leaving the RU Whites behind is bolstering the esprit de corps of the (till now) unspoken, and rapidly growing, FU White ranks. The FUs enjoy now a consolidation of determined purpose they haven’t had in a long while.

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In a follow-up post I will discuss the emergence of Trumperica as an unexpected setback for RU Whites, and outline a wartime strategy for FU Whites to defeat the RU Whites. The take-home lesson is this: We are at war, the White War, and the sooner you recognize that the quicker we can bring this interminable White self-annihilation campaign to an end.

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Quibcags: The first is illustrated by an anonymous girl I found on the net.  On the second, the girl in the shirt is Hinagiku from Hayate the Combat Butler (ハヤテのごとく! Hayate no Gotoku!). And of course it doesn't fit this post all that well, but it's a great quote and here it is for your viewing pleasure, and for you to spread around. As for the third, I found the girl here: http://www.theanimegallery.com/gallery/image:160896/anime-girls:crusader.

Another Clarification of the Alt-Right

Thrasymachus has this exactly right. Read his post which is is from here [link] and then I'll comment on it.
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A Key to Alt-Right Identity

Posted on August 31, 2016 by thrasymachus33308

Geez, two months? I have been busy a lot, but hopefully will find more time.

“What is the alt-right?” people are asking, including the alt-right themselves. Other say it’s a stupid question, or there is no qualification, or the only litmus test is being pro-white. I have another idea.

“No enemies to the left, no friends to the right” is a basic rule of leftism. And it’s a basic rule of Buckley conservatism, or neoconservatism, or cuck conservatism. All these movements police to the right.

Even alt-righters do it, sometimes by policing anti-semites, but usually by policing Nazis. Milo did this in his Breitbart essay, if only by dismissing them as mischievous young people looking to get a rise. RamZPaul does this more forcefully, and some others. I don’t keep track of all these people, there are too many.

I don’t have any enemies to the right. I don’t know who is to the right of me, really, but let’s say Nazis are. (Another way of dismissing Nazis is saying they are really leftists, which both Jonah Goldberg and Jim Donald do.)

I’m not a Nazi, and I don’t think German National Socialism is a good model for ethno-nationalism now. I don’t know if it was a good idea then, but hindsight is 20/20. I don’t think killing a bunch of people is optimal, but contrary to what parents and teachers say, “They started it!” is a perfectly valid argument.

However, if you are a Nazi, I don’t hold it against you. We can have a beer and talk about it.

I believe 9/11 was an Al Qaeda operation, not an Israeli one where explosives were planted. But if you do, I respect your take on things. I can’t say I know everything or have all the answers. I generally hold to the Puritan hypothesis. Jews aren’t the problem, but they are enthusiastic participants in the problem. But if you are hardline on the JQ, I don’t condemn you. I don’t believe violence is the answer, I believe that the system is prepared to deal with violence best of all, and poorly equipped to deal with principled resistance. But there are people who believe in violence, and I don’t condemn them.

The left got the right, and the center, to police themselves, which is much more effective than the left doing it. They have all kinds of rules which are flexibly defined as they see fit.

This is part of the problem, that started with Buckley, but also the “conservative” movement is just a big scam, and always has been. Some guy wrote on Politico how the Tea Party got hijacked by scam PACs that kept all the money. But ever since direct mail solicitation started in the 70’s, taking money from old people has been the main business of conservatives. Since talk radio got started in the 90’s, selling crap to Limbaugh and Levin listeners has been a big business. At least when Grandpa watches Fox, he gets to see some hot ass, and Grandma can’t get offended.

The alt-right is an attitude more than a philosophy or an ideology, and that attitude is “go f*** yourself, cuck-boy.”
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Okay? I find myself in close agreement with him on almost everything, though I may award a tad more credit to the Jews and a tad less to the Puritans than he does, but in principle I agree. What is meant by the "Puritan hypothesis" is that the suicidal leftist anti-Western hideousness we're going through is our own creation, produced by our Puritan element — you know, the bunch that likes to send missionaries all over the world to tell people how to live. The kind who take their Bible as some kind of instruction manual to cherry-pick for selflessly reforming the whole damn planet. The kind who end up being liberation theologians and tossing out the very basis of Western Civilization in the name of somehow bringing the benefits of same to the great unwashed. And when you start licking lepers' wounds, pretty soon you start electing lepers to public office and considering them your superior. And, insisting that the rest of us do the same. Never mind the twisted assertion that terrorists are somehow perverting Islam. What's perverted is twisting Christianity into just another leftist movement.

And he's right about no enemies to the right. I've being saying the same thing. When all to your right are your foes, that's simply proof that you're a leftist at heart whether you know it yourself or not. And his dismissal of the silly notion that Nazis are leftists is perfectly correct. Nazis are on the right, because whether you like their methods or not, they are supporters of Western Civilization, and the hatred of Western Civilization is the defining characteristic of the left. When you need help defending yourself from a Dindu or your way of life from "refugees," the Nazis will help you.

Thrasymachus knows what he's talking about. We just had an election where we deliberately forgot, for the most part, to "police our right," and we won the damn thing. Trump did just enough "repudiation" of  David Duke, etc., to confuse the enemy, but not enough to upset the coalition. Keep your powder dry and your fingers crossed.

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Quibcags: Number one is illustrated by Urabe of Mysterious Girlfriend X (謎の彼女X. Nazo no Kanojo Ekkusu)., and the second by Rika Shiguma of Haganai (はがない).