UnoriginalMind posted:

Similarly, Alexander Pushkin, who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet of all time if not the greatest Russian writer. Wikipedia says his great-grandfather was brought over from Africa, so that makes him 1/4 of African descent, right? I never read him, but a professor of mine specialized in his work and mentioned that his heritage was pretty well known and people often made fun of his lips. In response, he dueled people all the time.

Goodness, an important part of western culture being influenced by Africa?! UNSPEAKABLE.

bartlebyshop posted:

More high quality thinking from a leading light of the Dark Enlightenment.

Sharkie posted:

Yes. All this poo poo is rooted in misogyny as much as racism.

bartlebyshop posted:

Behold.

Choice quotes:

Jack Gladney posted:

Kid brother trailing along behind begging to be part of the gang.

Who's Aurini's fat friend who films himself in the tub?

Pulsedragon posted:

So I hate to be the guy who always links the Aurini videos but


His most recent one is where he addresses the criticisms about the fact that he looks like a loving idiot.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

I like how reactos simultaneously believe

1: We are in a puritanical society that hates joy and that won't let them have any fun

2: We are in a disgusting decadent hedonistic society that allows too much

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

I was wondering the other day, just how much of the Dark Enlightenment is tied to Silicon Valley psychopath software engineer and venture capitalist types?

The Vosgian Beast posted:

I like how the Dark Enlightenment love making charts and graphs for themselves, and none of them ever clarify anything.

RagnarokAngel posted:

There's a forum called /r/Redpillwomen which is basically for women who buy into that stuff. It's like a social experiment in stockholm syndrome.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Um, dude, that's not BDSM. It's not a kayfabe kink thing. It's a group of men who believe they need to spank/beat their wives to bring them together as a family. They're very adamant about the fact that it is NOT SEXUAL . Whether or not you believe them, they are very serious about it.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

The women buy into it too, they both agree to the woman's "place" and the man's "place" in disciplining her. It has nothing to do with the BDSM community for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is BDSM's valuing of safewords and consent.

InediblePenguin posted:

that page you linked explicitly says that by marrying somebody you've just given consent forever. that outdated concept that lead to the idea that you can't get raped if you're married. just because they said "safe and consensual" at one point doesn't mean they are actually using the words to mean what they're supposed to mean to society at large

Darth Walrus posted:

Do bear in mind that many subgenres of sci-fi have their own distinct politics. 'Space fantasy' like Star Wars borrows heavily from the fantasy politics mentioned above (obviously) with a sci-fi veneer painted over it, and mil-SF (military sci-fi) is notorious for circling around (and sometimes diving right into) overt fascist apologia. A particularly infamous example would be Tom Kratman's 'A Watch on the Rhine', where heroic Waffen-SS were resurrected to fight aliens.

Darth Walrus posted:

Similarly, everything Kratman's ever written makes the fact that he managed to become a lieutenant colonel in the US military more and more horrifying.

Small Frozen Thing posted:

It is absolutely not a strawman. The Sword of Truth books Chocula mentioned feature a scene in which the protagonist righteously massacres a horde of "evil pacifists" for blocking his way to the villain, who is an evil Pseudo-Asian Communist. Him realizing the pacifists are evil for rejecting violence is considered an epiphany about objective morality. The books are completely in earnest.

Polybius91 posted:

I had a run-in not too long ago with someone that, while they not full-on DE (they were a self-professed communist), had the same weird admiration for autocracy and same conviction that democracy was a failed experiment. I made the mistake of arguing with them, and these were the main points that came up:

-They were in favor of a strong social safety net, so I mentioned that most of the countries with those (included Scandinavia, Japan, Germany, France, the UK) were democracies. He said something to the effect of "Are they? Cuba isn't a democracy." and said that Japan and Germany didn't count because "their economies are due to collapse any day."

-He brought up China as an example of superior governance, using the recent passing of their GDP over the US's as evidence. I brought up the Foxconn factory suicides, and he said that those were "exaggerated by the media, and Foxconn workers actually had a lower suicide rate than the Chinese population in general." I also mentioned the horrible air and the buildings that weren't likely to last more than 20 years, which he waved off with a vague "China is actually working on fixing those."

-As an elaboration of the previous, he said that the problem with democracy was that "all the arguments create deadlock and nothing gets done." This was the reason he gave for the the US's economy fell behind China's.

-He claimed that it didn't make any sense to point out the USSR's gulags, because the U.S.'s high incarceration rate and terrible treatment of its prisoners didn't make it any better.

-I mentioned that autocracies often were plagued by hilarious wastes of taxpayer money, such as dictators' inauguration ceremonies that cost the entire nation's GDP. He said democracies weren't any better because they often wasted the taxpayers' money on military boondoggles such as the F35.

-The subject of food insecurity came up. When I pointed out that, for all their faults, democracies tend to have much higher food security and much lower starvation rates for their people (even the US), he claimed that the data was unreliable because it was pulled from American governmental agencies.

I just... holy poo poo. How can someone have so many left-wing sympathies (he's made his outrage over American police brutality very plain, I should add) and still support the forms of government that machine gun people like him?

Spoilers Below posted:

In May's defense, he was also a favorite of Albert Einstein:


From what little I know about his work, he always tried to portray Native Americans sympathetically, and Hitler seemed to have missed May's messages about world peace and tolerance for other races. He hosed up as much as one would expect for a white dude writing in the latter half of the 1800s, especially when it came to what we see today as pejorative terms for ethnic groups, but he was head and shoulders above his contemporaries otherwise.

neonnoodle posted:

Look let's all agree it's the reptoids.

IslamoNazi posted:

Assuming this lizard in a kippah is also a banker then only moderately devout. I don't think they can grow those sweet sideburn curls you need to be fully orthodox.

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

Reptoids can't be Jewish, they aren't kosher.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

What does that have to do with the Jews???

Loomer posted:

It Makes the Dutroux affair conspiracies alarmingly plausible. Dutroux was a belgian pedophile and child pornographer who claimed, throughout his trials and after, to have been involved in trafficking children for a Europe wide ring of elites. Hogwash! Only then it turns out there really was an elite ring of pedophiles in high places in England. And more and more keeps coming out. So the idea is now chillingly plausible.

Namarrgon posted:

Is it something about power that breeds pedophiles? Are pedophiles inherently more attracted to positions of power? Or is the percentage of pedophiles simply much higher in the population than I thought?

Sharkie posted:

Point conceded. But if you had read the book you'd know the proper response was to char a pointed stick until it hardens then track me across the plains. Looks like someone needs to take the red pill .

edit: Wait, wait wait. I thought females like red because it reminds them of the berries they gathered?

neonnoodle posted:

It's like rain on your wedding day.

Ronwayne posted:

Crossovers with the anti-vaxx movement?

grate deceiver posted:

Lollin at that tiny femininity completely disconected from the rest of the graph

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

But there was that episode of Star Trek: TNG where it totally worked and they thawed out some silly character actors!

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

We've detected brain cell activity way after blood stopped flowing to the brain so there's at least a tiny kernel of truth behind it but technology as it is will probably gently caress your poo poo up so bad you're basically banking on a magic future where the cost of repairing your cells is free because lol if they're gonna revive the older heads out of kindness or whatever, so again Star Trek needs to be viewed as a factual account of the future for any of this to work.

Also brain cells doing stuff in the brain after death freaks me the gently caress out

Political Whores posted:

If they were more honest with themselves they would realize they know this poo poo isn't any more effective than storing their organs in canopic jars for use in the next life, and that's why they don't just freeze themselves right now.

Ratoslov posted:

What kind of mad-man would do this sort of thing?

Merdifex posted:

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

I mean in this case there even is a "designer" - all of these logos are carefully crafted, deliberate marketing moves made by cold, soulless marketing departments in response to the news. It's just that "we live in a consumerist hellscape where everything with any meaning can and will be boiled down to a marketing campaign to promote airline tickets and clickbait garbage" is a much less sexy idea than some secret conspiracy to control these poor companies and therefore control the world or whatever.

MizPiz posted:

I feel terrible saying this, but any chance they aren't actually miscarriages?

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

"You see the Vulcans on Star Trek were so cool because they had emotions and learned to completely suppress them, not because they were void of them completely" - what a nerd thinks probably

Toph Bei Fong posted:

One of the little things I love about Aurini's videos is the Hunter S. Thompson biography in the background of a lot of his videos.



Thompson, as I'm sure most of your are aware, was a real man's man. He spent most of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s drunk or high (or both), and hosed around the country Speaking Truth while writing hilarious take downs of the various elites that were ruining the country. A libertarian who never compromised, never backed down, never gave up, whether he was mocking Nixon to his face, exposing the lies of the Clinton administration, of trashing the American Dream for the cocked up load of bull poo poo that it is, he was a man for all men to emulate.

The problem is, of course, that Aurini almost certainly hasn't read that particular biography. Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson by Thompson's former assistant Corey Seymour and Rolling Stone owner and editor-in-chief Jann S. Wenner is an oral biography compiled from interviews with everyone Thompson knew during his life, and is basically a huge take down of every myth, legend, or rumor that you've ever heard about him, leaving him looking like a gigantic, irresponsible, and sexist rear end in a top hat who people mostly tolerated because he wouldn't leave them alone and/or because he made them money. If it weren't written by two of his best friends, one might call it a hit piece. His writing might be fun, but the truth it wasn't.

I could understand if it was a copy of The Great Shark Hunt or Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, but this particular bio? It's difficult to imagine how someone could read about Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger calling Thompson a coward who hid in the trunk of his car rather than stand his ground when things got a little heavy, and later lied about having been in a big gang fight, and think "This is one of my heroes".

Curvature of Earth posted:

Actually, I think it's possible to have a good government without democracy. ahead. I've put far too much thought into this.

While NRx take "remove democracy" to mean "concentrate all power in the individual head of state", I go the other way: extend the conventions of the civil service that normally govern all the lower-level non-appointed workers up to the very top.

The civil service is actually more democratic than elected officials: you can't attend a family reunion without tripping over a dozen people who work in the government, be they secretaries, civil engineers, teachers, and so on. But you can go your whole life without ever meeting a single elected official.

Teachers have a drat good idea what methods for teaching kids work and don't work, and they know drat well what resources they need to do so. Remove elected officials from the picture and let those who are most qualified set policies. Same goes for civil engineers.

Oppression of minorities? (After all, traffic engineers did think it was a great idea to bulldoze predominantly black and poor neighborhoods to build the national highway system.) There are already a shitload of investigative, auditing, and regulatory departments and committees aimed at individual parts of the government. Give their enforcement powers actual teeth and let them do their job. We could also instate affirmative action, to the point of full-blown quotas. Forcing the government to accurately reflect the demographics of the people it's governing would go a long way towards fixing institutional prejudice.

Won't race/gender/religious/etc staffing quotas fill the government with incompetents? Actually, no. Provided they actually like their own jobs, the vast majority of people can be made competent by providing sufficient training and resources. The "best and brightest" make up a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the workforce. Providing the right conditions workers need to thrive in their jobs is vastly more important than hiring the best people.

There, I just put more thought into how a functional post-democracy government would work than dozens of wannabe monarchists.