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Merdifex
May 13, 2015

by Shine

Heresiarch posted:

If the alternative is the meandering self-important bullshit on his blog then let's stick with the one-liners because they're just as easily ignored but take up less storage.

https://twitter.com/graaaaaagh/status/638177411905884160

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Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

I can not click that, and yet I know it's still taking up less room on a server somewhere.

Terrible Opinions
Oct 18, 2013



Asclepius Hot Rod posted:

Oh. My. That accent is...god awful! Since the trans-Atlantic accent is practically dead in the US and only heard in old movies and radio shows, he had to CHOOSE to speak that way. Such an enlightened individual indeed!

His love of Rome and the fact that he is a lawyer reminds me of someone who posted in the Roman/Greek Ask/Tell thread several years ago. Dude was convinced that the "Old Ways" were superior to modern life and that he would have been an aristocrat under the old Roman system. I wonder if they are the same person.
Funny thing is that even when it was commoner the Mid-Atlantic accent was fake. It was intentionally cultivated by idiot rich people to seperate themselves form teh filthy poors.

Pussy Cartel
Jun 26, 2011



Lipstick Apathy
Mid-Atlantic accents still crop up naturally today! Mostly in the children of Anglophone expatriates. So it's not all snobby rich idiots. :eng101:

I should know, I had one when I was a kid, and still have vestiges of it today.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

I prefer to call it white genocide, but yeah, that's a fair and accurate summary of what I believe.

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


Pussy Cartel posted:

Mid-Atlantic accents still crop up naturally today! Mostly in the children of Anglophone expatriates. So it's not all snobby rich idiots. :eng101:

I should know, I had one when I was a kid, and still have vestiges of it today.

A proper mid-Atlantic accent is based on a form of RP that is several decades out of date and sounds ridiculous to modern British ears so you probably never had one.

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

i literally just blocked that insufferable poo poo moments ago

in other news, i think it's hilarious how conservatism has managed to worm its way into nerddom

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Race Realists posted:

i literally just blocked that insufferable poo poo moments ago

in other news, i think it's hilarious how conservatism has managed to worm its way into nerddom

It was how nerds got to be uncool in the first place.

Now we just get to be uncool out-of-touch losers again.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Race Realists posted:

i literally just blocked that insufferable poo poo moments ago

in other news, i think it's hilarious how conservatism has managed to worm its way into nerddom

It was always there, this is just a particularly noxious outburst.

Merdifex
May 13, 2015

by Shine
http://mitrailleuse.net/2015/10/10/social-class-in-america-the-inequality-we-ignore/

This is a shittastic article, but this part is great:

quote:

With the neoliberal GOP moving leftward on social issues and the Democrats losing their economic populism, we are left with two brands of big-government quasi-libertarianism: one for the dwindling middle class, and one for the gentry and their expanding class of dependents.

Guess which party is which.

http://mitrailleuse.net/2014/09/03/towards-a-neoreactionary-aesthetic/

This article is also a sight to behold:

quote:

The phallic form itself is emblematic of Exit. That which pierces the heavens comes to a point; it elongates, it thrusts, it penetrates through barriers, even the firmaments themselves. While not beautiful in and of themselves, skyscrapers have a quality of Exit to them morphologically. The flying-machine, the rocket, the ship, the car, all of these present aspects of the aesthetic of Exit. Exit is masculine, transcendent and impregnated with distance. Exit is aggression, conquest, domination; but it is also exploration, discovery and adventure. It is the begetter.

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012
over the last past month alone i've blocked two conservative bronies

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Merdifex posted:

http://mitrailleuse.net/2015/10/10/social-class-in-america-the-inequality-we-ignore/

This is a shittastic article, but this part is great:


Guess which party is which.

http://mitrailleuse.net/2014/09/03/towards-a-neoreactionary-aesthetic/

This article is also a sight to behold:

I am okay with reactos flying off to a mars colony and leaving us all alone.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Why the hell would conservatives be attracted to the whole pony thing? I've seen that crazy 'my little national socialist pony' or whatever and I just don't get why they want those two things to mix.

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
A new generation of nerds who grew up in houses where every TV was blaring FOX 24/7, antisocial mutants who were neglected by their parents and so found a surrogate in /b/ and /pol/. This might explain the baleful rise of the NrX Nerd.

It's hard out there for a conservative brony.

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

uber_stoat posted:

It's hard out there for a conservative brony.

thought about posting that but nah

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Merdifex posted:

http://mitrailleuse.net/2015/10/10/social-class-in-america-the-inequality-we-ignore/

This is a shittastic article, but this part is great:


Guess which party is which.

http://mitrailleuse.net/2014/09/03/towards-a-neoreactionary-aesthetic/

This article is also a sight to behold:

So is there neoreactionary "art" in which to find this aesthetic? Pulp sci-fi or super mario or something?

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Jack Gladney posted:

So is there neoreactionary "art" in which to find this aesthetic? Pulp sci-fi or super mario or something?

Warhammer 40k. I'm not even joking; 40k is one of those things that may've started out as a joke but by now it's full of fans who will tell you everything the crazy fascist humans do is justified and that they're 'awesome' for being such.

ArchangeI
Jul 15, 2010

Night10194 posted:

Why the hell would conservatives be attracted to the whole pony thing? I've seen that crazy 'my little national socialist pony' or whatever and I just don't get why they want those two things to mix.

Bronies have this really weird thing where they shoehorn MLP into literally everything they do. They write gigantic fanfics about Ponies in Fallout, too, having to jump through hoops just to make the idea of a pony firing a gun work. It can not be rationally explained, it just is. It's not conservatives being attracted to MLP for some weird reason, it is a Bronie who skews right for whatever reason doing what a Bronie does.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

ArchangeI posted:

Bronies have this really weird thing where they shoehorn MLP into literally everything they do. They write gigantic fanfics about Ponies in Fallout, too, having to jump through hoops just to make the idea of a pony firing a gun work. It can not be rationally explained, it just is. It's not conservatives being attracted to MLP for some weird reason, it is a Bronie who skews right for whatever reason doing what a Bronie does.

It's like furries for 2015.

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

Heresiarch posted:

There is literally nothing that I can safely enjoy without the threat of it being also being misinterpreted by idiots.

MyCurrentFeelingsOnSouthPark.txt

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


Night10194 posted:

Warhammer 40k. I'm not even joking; 40k is one of those things that may've started out as a joke but by now it's full of fans who will tell you everything the crazy fascist humans do is justified and that they're 'awesome' for being such.

I should start charging y'all royalties for recycling things I said six pages ago.

I still like the Orks for being the last vestige of genuine self-awareness in 40k.

Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 21:42 on Oct 14, 2015

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Race Realists posted:

MyCurrentFeelingsOnSouthPark.txt

There's nothing to enjoy in South Park so I fail to see the problem here.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
I think they mostly enjoy most of the same poo poo other nerds do, but they read reacto messages into it.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Night10194 posted:

Warhammer 40k. I'm not even joking; 40k is one of those things that may've started out as a joke but by now it's full of fans who will tell you everything the crazy fascist humans do is justified and that they're 'awesome' for being such.

No one I've seen on the nets ever likes the Inquisitors who are basically the parody of self inserts. They do whatever they want get alot of power in doing so and inevitably cause things to go tits up in their 'pragmatism' that causes every other faction to clean up the mess.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

uber_stoat posted:

A new generation of nerds who grew up in houses where every TV was blaring FOX 24/7, antisocial mutants who were neglected by their parents and so found a surrogate in /b/ and /pol/. This might explain the baleful rise of the NrX Nerd.

It's hard out there for a conservative brony.

I see the new alt-right as a natural result of the current generation growing up with the anonymity of imageboards and their whole shock-for-shock's-sake culture and extreme ideas about free speech being free from consequences, etc. I mean I grew up in /b/ too and right up until I left the site I leaned pretty heavily libertarian because /b/ seemed like some kind of fight-club-esque pulling back the veil of civil society and extreme libertarianism kinda extends from that idea. I then grew up and reconsidered my position on lovely ideas, but a lot of people didn't.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

I seriously wonder if they would even manage to hide their slimeball attitudes once they enter the political sphere or would they let it all fly out.

Curvature of Earth
Sep 9, 2011

Projected cost of
invading Canada:
$900

Merdifex posted:

http://mitrailleuse.net/2014/09/03/towards-a-neoreactionary-aesthetic/

This article is also a sight to behold:

quote:

That which pierces the heavens comes to a point; it elongates, it thrusts, it penetrates through barriers, even the firmaments themselves.


Gurren Lagann is not a documentary.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
I guess it's the mirror universe doppelganger to this piece of poo poo. http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/manifesto-of-the-committee-to-abolish-outer-space/

Count Chocula
Dec 25, 2011

WE HAVE TO CONTROL OUR ENVIRONMENT
IF YOU SEE ME POSTING OUTSIDE OF THE AUSPOL THREAD PLEASE TELL ME THAT I'M MISSED AND TO START POSTING AGAIN
I like TNI's prose and that article is a nice corrective to the massive Elon Musk fellatio about how he Will settle Mars that I just read: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html

Merdifex posted:

http://mitrailleuse.net/2015/10/10/social-class-in-america-the-inequality-we-ignore/

This is a shittastic article, but this part is great:


Guess which party is which.

http://mitrailleuse.net/2014/09/03/towards-a-neoreactionary-aesthetic/

This article is also a sight to behold:

I don't agree with any NrX political views but like the Futurists I long for an art that glorifies the works of humanity and our inginuity. I was in a poetry workshop that visited a nuclear research facility and I was the only one uplifted by the beautiful machines on display instead of writing horrified Luddite screeds. But I'm sure art that glorifies steel and glass and science already exists; most art does. And I'm sure ' NrX art' will be terrible because nerds have no sense of aesthetics. But i appreciate the idea.

Count Chocula has a new favorite as of 23:51 on Oct 14, 2015

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


The Vosgian Beast posted:

I guess it's the mirror universe doppelganger to this piece of poo poo. http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/manifesto-of-the-committee-to-abolish-outer-space/

Exploring a lifeless planet outside of the habitable zone of the solar system and building a few tiny domes on it to house our delicate meat sacks is exactly the same thing "discovering" a continent with 75 million people on it and killing almost all of them. Stop this horrific pillage of nothing from nobody. I mean trying to live on Mars permanently is indeed pretty dumb, but evil? :confused:

E: it gets even better. The Spanish destroyed their own economy and sank their own dreams of global empire by mismanaging their resource extraction regime on purpose, because by "overturning the economy" would hurt the peasants. Sticking it to the poors was totally worth ruining the future of the empire and giving the hated Protestants of England the chance to unseat them as the preeminent world power and spend the next 400 years defaming and humiliating them. Yeah, sure.

Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 23:59 on Oct 14, 2015

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



Count Chocula posted:

I don't agree with any NrX political views but like the Futurists I long for an art that glorifies the works of humanity and our inginuity. I was in a poetry workshop that visited a nuclear research facility and I was the only one uplifted by the beautiful machines on display instead of writing horrified Luddite screeds. But I'm sure art that glorifies steel and glass and science already exists; most art does. And I'm sure ' NrX art' will be terrible because nerds have no sense of aesthetics. But i appreciate the idea.
I think it's a product of our educational system honestly; all the efforts to channel STEM people towards, basically, professional preparation (and the defunding of arts programs at lower levels) means that cultural expressions aren't really coming from those folks.

Woolie Wool posted:

Exploring a lifeless planet outside of the habitable zone of the solar system and building a few tiny domes on it to house our delicate meat sacks is exactly the same thing "discovering" a continent with 75 million people on it and killing almost all of them. Stop this horrific pillage of nothing from nobody. I mean trying to live on Mars permanently is indeed pretty dumb, but evil? :confused:
There does seem to be a common pop-culture "we're just, like, a disease, man; why should we spread and ruin other places too?" which I think isn't just folks quoting a movie.

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


The ending is one of the most breathtaking explosions of adolescent stupidity I have ever seen. "No! I refuse to believe in all the things we have learned since Copernicus! If I don't believe in facts we can make them not real! We can resurrect dead, discredited mythologies through the power of bullheaded intransigence! gently caress YOU DAD!"

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Woolie Wool posted:

Exploring a lifeless planet outside of the habitable zone of the solar system and building a few tiny domes on it to house our delicate meat sacks is exactly the same thing "discovering" a continent with 75 million people on it and killing almost all of them. Stop this horrific pillage of nothing from nobody. I mean trying to live on Mars permanently is indeed pretty dumb, but evil? :confused:

E: it gets even better. The Spanish destroyed their own economy and sank their own dreams of global empire by mismanaging their resource extraction regime on purpose, because by "overturning the economy" would hurt the peasants. Sticking it to the poors was totally worth ruining the future of the empire and giving the hated Protestants of England the chance to unseat them as the preeminent world power and spend the next 400 years defaming and humiliating them. Yeah, sure.

Sam Kriss is a pseudointellectual who buries his lack of a clue under heaps of overwritten prose. He gets away with it because he largely hates the same things other people do.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
Basically he's constantly in a semi-ironic "Adorno writing about Jazz" state.

GIANT OUIJA BOARD
Aug 22, 2011

177 Years of Your Dick
All
Night
Non
Stop

Merdifex posted:

Exit is masculine [...] and impregnated

:crossarms:

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.

Night10194 posted:

Warhammer 40k. I'm not even joking; 40k is one of those things that may've started out as a joke but by now it's full of fans who will tell you everything the crazy fascist humans do is justified and that they're 'awesome' for being such.

Orks exist as a deflating mechanism against that sort of poo poo. Your fascist godman just got pantsed by a football hooligan mushroom.

Woolie Wool posted:

I should start charging y'all royalties for recycling things I said six pages ago.

I still like the Orks for being the last vestige of genuine self-awareness in 40k.

THe zombie Egyptian robots are now literally self aware (Both in-game and OOC) and ~sassy.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
Meanwhile, in Ted Bundy-land

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
"Due to my experience of being alone in life I get to laugh at the dumb unfuckable whores as we all burn. Hail Satan"

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
Someone please change the title to "PYF Dark Enlightenment Thinker: My mother has shades of SJW. Specifically, radfem."

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Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006



The masculine penetrating power of erotic fanfiction.

E: I wonder if Mencius Moldbug has ever written erotic fiction. I bet it would read like The Thirty-Six Lessons of Vivec if Michael Kirkbride were a Nazi.

Woolie Wool has a new favorite as of 02:43 on Oct 15, 2015

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