2020 Winners and Losers?
Losers: Donald Trump fans.
People can’t tell the difference between reality and hyper-reality.
One of the promises of the World Wide Web was that smaller publishers could compete with the bigger publishers.
The New York Times used to have a massive physical infrastructure: huge buildings full of massive presses, printing ink on paper, and a network of planes, trains, and automobiles that distributed the newspaper throughout the world – the “last mile” often depending on young boys on bicycles.
Now, anyone can throw up a WordPress website and with the right photographs, it looks just like NYTimes.com.
It was a running joke in the early years of the WWW and Social Media when people would post articles from TheOnion thinking they were “real.”
I witnessed such things many times over the years. During the early Trump campaign one Conserva-boomer I knew spent weeks sending articles like these:
Malia Obama Arrested Again, Complete Media Blackout.
Now this man was in some ways highly intelligent – give him a math problem and he’ll do it in his sleep. But he couldn’t tell ironic sarcasm from emotive sincerity if his life depended on it. He was, in the parlance, “an aspie.”
So once he spend a day posting a “Fake News” story from some generic website about how Donald Trump, the first week in office, had arrested all of the top Hollywood actors for drug use and sex crimes – but the New York Times wouldn’t cover it.
He wanted it to be true – he loved the idea of those snooty liberals having those sex and drugs Hollywood parties taken down a notch.
Of course the New York Times itself publishes “fake news” constantly – but it typically has a believability threshold. But this guy – his Aspberger’s Syndrome preventing him from basic judgements about human behavior – could not distinguish between the New York Times printing Judith Miller’s Israeli propaganda about Iraqi “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and a Fake News Tabloid site telling him exactly what he wanted to hear.
What he wanted to hear? Donald Trump finally taking down those arrogant Hollyweird LIE-berals! Perhaps Donald Trump was present for the arrests himself, with his personal Bible opened to Two Corinthians, his favorite chapter.
So I’m willing to call a loser:
Any of the tens of thousands of political writers who used the term “God-Emperor” to describe Donald Trump, the celebrity game show host and President.
VoxDay’s people are in full fantasy mode now.
Lin Wood says something crazy, like how Mike Pence is going to be arrested and tried for treason and executed by firing squad. So the VoxDay people try to come up with competitive fantasy scenarios to figure out why this is all part of Trump’s “4-D Chess” and if you disagree, you are a “blackpiller” who “doesn’t trust the plan” and a concern troll.
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/01/thats-oddly-specific.html
Look around you.
Many of the #QAnon types dropped out a week after the election, knowing that Trump had lost – whether he lost honestly or crookedly, it doesn’t matter.
Even seemingly respectable websites like Counter-Currents were all on board with the idea that Donald Trump was a “serious reformer” that “really tried” to stop immigration but was stymied by the “Deep State.” Those of us who said, from the very beginning, “Trump is completely full of shit, he’s a liar and he is in the pay of Likud” were trashed by the respectable types as being “conspiracy theorists.”
Oddly, saying “Trump is full of shit and a liar and a con artist” is a “conspiracy theory.” But saying “Trump is an honest reformer that means what he says but was prevented from doing anything by Obama’s Muslim Deep State (remember, CIA director Brennan had ‘coverted to Islam’)” is NOT a “conspiracy theory.”
I don’t see how Gateway Pundit or the #QAnon websites like ConservativeTreehouse don’t take down their websites in shame, but that is not how Grift works. Perhaps the story will now be “Donald Trump, Shadow President” taking down the “fake President Biden.” Some of the “Trad Catholics” do this, Ratzinger is still the “real Pope” and Francis is the “Jesuit Black Pope.” Faith healers don’t stop grifting in shame, they just move on seamlessly to a new version of the grift. Didn’t get healed? You didn’t pray hard enough.
The GOP grift will smoothly transition to Josh Hawley, another 100% owned asset of Likud who is willing to throw out “populist” bullshit to get elected. Hawley is the Anglo version of Little Marco Rubio, but less charismatic and less gay.
I have no problem hating on Boomers – my parents weren’t boomers, they were of the previous generation. But Boomers didn’t grow up with the Internet, thus these are the types that fall for “phishing links,” Facebook catfishing, fake lottery scams, and “Fake News” because it’s all on the computer screen and the subtle language differences are too subtle for them to pick up.
Do you know much money has been made from lonely boomer men by fake dating websites?
I have personally seen this in action. I helped a friend of a friend fix his computer, and his friend showed me his “online girlfriend” which was literally a generic set of pictures of what I assumed was a Vietnamese prostitute and a very simple “chatbot” script.
Yet this guy was convinced that he had some sort of “personal relationship” – an “online romance” if you will – with someone who didn’t even exist. He failed the Turing test and couldn’t tell he was dealing with a simple computer program, not an actual person.
You want to know why the Right always loses?
It is because the Right has no institutions and is led by bad people.
Introducing the Swine Right:
Imagine some smart college kid watching all this. On one hand, he sees The World League of Whores and Sodomites, but on the other fanged IQ90 swine who would gladly conscript him and have him die in trenches for a cause such as the glory of our national being, while their cousins are making millions selling weapons to the state. Some of them are lucky enough to be raised in an intellectually healthy environment and to see a possible alternative to progressive madness.
However, a lot of them are simply not. If you’re a bookish guy from the countryside and came to the capital as a talented STEM student, there’s quite a large possibility that your new college friends are much nicer and much more intelligent than your village chief, parish priest or your high school history professor.
As I detailed in Deconstructing Right-Wing Propaganda, right-wing propagandists have a “sponsorship” relationship with their patrons.
This isn’t even really my observation – this is something that Trotsky said – and surprisingly, America has actually accepted Trotskyism as the official doctrine – or at least, they have accepted Charlie Manson’s insane version of Trotskyism called “Helter Skelter.”
You see, Black Lives Matter will kill all the white people but only we good whites will be left to rule, as blacks can’t actually run things. “We” are either “White Allies” or more likely, “Zionist Jews.”
Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug, is sponsored by Peter Thiel and “just happens” to spend all his time kissing the asses of people like … Peter Thiel.
Really, sucking up to the boss is an American tradition, and right-wingers do this.
Part of the reason is that Right-wingers have no institutions because the Left did the “long march through the institutions” and American right-wingers are all Ayn Randroids thinking they are Heroic Individuals who learn this one trick to take down the libtards.
So here’s a terrible thought for ya – from the perspective of a young man in Eastern Europe who wants peace, prosperity and order, the rule of the Cathedral might be a healthy alternative to the powers surrounding him. As long as a significant part of the Right acts like the above mentioned Swine, the Left will be even more than secure in it’s picture of intellectual and moral superiority.
What is a #Cuckservative? July 15, 2015 by alfredwclark
https://sceptremag.com/2017/11/22/eastern-europe-and-the-swine-right/
Dear Right-Wingers, please get your head out of your ass.
Which is better?
The Traditional Catholic priest, in a small village, that thunders against Sodomites while putting his hands down the altar boy’s pants? Or the LGBT college professor who is gay married to his boyfriend?
The limited government Conservative politician who funnels money directly to the Defense Contractors who pay for his campaign while lecturing about small government? Or the liberal passing welfare policies that help his constituents?
The Right is right when it comes to things like “natural hierarchy.” But here’s the thing:
Mother Nature is a Bitch. Just because something is “natural” it doesn’t make it right.
This is something that everyone except for right-wingers learn in grade school.
Remember Huck Finn’s dad? Patriarchy is natural, and it can been good. But Huck Finn was justified in hating his father and trying to escape from him.
Why is it that most right-wingers speak like Master Morality Lions, but live like Slave Morality Lambs? It’s actually the Liberals who are the Lions and the Conservatives who are the Lambs, whining that their babies are eaten by the wolves.
I don’t have any solution, except a personal one. I refuse to listen to the Swine Right and I get a certain enjoyment from trashing them online. I love to “punch right.”
But this is serious business. The Neo-Liberals in Silicon Valley are literally genocidal and their technocracy will destroy human freedom and eventually all human life itself. We need allies to take down Silicon Valley.
It’s just that The Right – a bunch of swine; brutish, nasty, evil, dumb, and dishonest – are not even allies.
“Dear Right-Wingers, please get your head out of your ass.
“Which is better?
“The Traditional Catholic priest, in a small village, that thunders against Sodomites while putting his hands down the altar boy’s pants? Or the LGBT college professor who is gay married to his boyfriend?”
You’ve presented a variation of the “traitors versus enemies” false choice. Neither is true.
A man can believe one man is Pope and another the usurper, yet remain Protestant. A man can also recognize that pederasty is common among papists, rare among Seventh Day Adventists, conclude from Christian scripture that it’s not a feature of Christianity, yet still know that Seventh Day Adventists preach against meat erroneously.
You know friends fooled by online scams. I know men conned by foreign women face-to-face over decades. Given how much marriage law has changed since 1965 (that’s not a legal reference, it’s a generational date), any married man is inherently a sucker.
So-called “right wing conservatives” publicly earn national ridicule hourly. Yet what qualifies these men to be “conservative?” What have they conserved? “All have sinned…” doesn’t adequately describe these “conservatives.” Sure, your buddy with the fake asian girlfriend may be a fool, but how is leeching income from another man wise?
My brother will call me a “useful idiot” because I don’t believe Russians intentionally shot down a civilian passenger jet over a conflict zone. What he doesn’t understand is that I will interpret every global incident which could lead to the mortal conscription of my son in a way which precludes American intervention. Are Uighurs persecuted in western China? No. Is Russia hacking America? No.
Did Biden win the Presidential election? No.
Sometimes, what is true isn’t relevant. Sure, we must what is true and what is true, or at least what is true, but we must SAY what needs to be true for truth to prevail.
So, given the false choice between a secretly pederast scoutmaster and BSA-approved peder… ahem, scoutmaster, a man will choose the secret pederast, because in a community where a man must hide his pederasty, you may still expunge the pederast, whereas in a community which “tolerates” pederasts, you’re obliged to thank him for sodomizing your son.
Love your kooks: they’re kooks.
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Thank goodness I’m not a right winger!
Jan 6th: They push Trump through or it is the end of the GOP. That is the meaning. That is why I will be there. The birth of something new.
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Love the Beck Turd Ferguson tee shirt. That’s gold, Ponyboy.
Off topic, I’m guessing that’s not you who writes sarcastic replies in the comment section of the MSM Canadian national news paper The Globe and Mail. Someone is using your very same Get Smart avatar pic and seems to be doing a bad impression of your writing style.
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@Lyon
I have legitimate stalkers. One guy on AltRight.com used my Get Smart avatar and called himself “TsicarRetspih.” When I said something he changed his avatar to the remake of Get Smart. Another guy on Disqus had two – count ’em, TWO – accounts impersonating me, on websites I’ve never visited.
Another guy – who had his own multiple registered websites – took entire articles of mine, did a “search and replace” to change various nouns to something else, and posted them as his own articles.
One took an entire post I wrote about the TYP and changed the names to Heavy Metal bands in an – admittedly – hilarious troll about how Metal bands were “racist.”
There is a guy who I never approve who literally just posts strings of personal insults – exactly like Antifa do to that Vietnamese journalist in Portland who documents Antifa.
There is a guy that I an only assume started reading me ten years ago, when he was a teenager, who is now an adult and still posts my stuff.
Apparently something I write resonates with someone, but hardly in the “I like this writer” kind of way, more like “I’m a mentally ill stalker and will impersonate this guy on the Internet” kind of way.
I’ve also had multiple women write me personal emails about their reactions to my spanking stories. Some of them pretend to be very angry with me, and others just admit the stories turn them on and how “wet” they make them. One was even a semi-professional erotica writer!
It’s all very weird to me.
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Yeah, that’s all pretty weird. The world is a hot mess. I’ve run out of comments on it. Amen vs Awoman in Congress … it’s like a mad dream.
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no, there’s a Jew-wise, White hardRight that isn’t a mob of grifting hypocrites. There aren’t many of us, though, and we can’t do much until the day the Jewbuck dies and there’s no more debt-financed (((grift))) to buy off the rest of the so-called “Right” as well as most Whites.
then, we might make a critical threshhold-like difference, like that extra molecule in a chemical-filled test tube that triggers a violent reaction. A charismatic leader would also be good….but I don’t see anyone on the event horizon just now. Both together can get us from this….
to this….
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Quicksilver is a classic of its own sort, but for prophetic thunder nothing beats Hamilton Camp’s original. https://youtu.be/ROfmXgZ2GMQ
Camp was a pretty interesting guy, a rare non-Jew among the “folk” movement (tho he was British, same thing I guess), became an actor specializing in oddball bit parts (from “2nd Room Clerk” in the Graduate to a Ferengi on Star Trek). Oh, and the song of course is all about 9/11, though written in 1964. https://www.jmeshel.com/156-hamilton-camp-pride-of-man/
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Not so fast…. this just in… Media declares Cuomo the Orange Mussolini, “just as bad as Trump”. So I guess there really is no difference btw the parties. In other news, Oceania still at war with EastAsia.
“The Intercept, one of the preeminent far-left publications in the left, redoubled its attacks on the NY governor (who has successfully fended off a stream of progressive challengers over the years) accusing him of using the pandemic to “consolidate power.” “If you want to know what “Trumpism without Trump” looks like, well, then the answer is it looks a lot like Andrew Cuomo.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cuomo-flip-flops-threatens-fine-hospitals-not-meeting-covid-vaccination-targets
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