As I've written in the past, I'm a bit skeptical of the alpha-beta-omega paradigm popular amongst HBDers and gamists. Their definition of "alpha" seems to be a man who is capable of sleeping with a lot of sluts, whereas in biology and political science that term is used to describe the highest-ranked individual of a group (the leader). By the HBD/PUA definition, Adolf Hitler, despite his charisma and leadership abilities, was a beta or omega because he slept with few women in his lifetime. Yet, a gangsta who has four "bitches," but exists on the fringes of society without a job or education is an alpha.
My skepticism was assuaged today, when Barrack Obama demonstrated that is is quite possible to be both a beta by the HBDer/PUA definition and an alpha by the traditional definition. Obama and Bill Clinton were at a press conference regarding the tax "compromise" and Obama dodged the reporters with this exchange (video here):
Obama: "Here's what I'll say, I've been keeping the First Lady waiting for about half an hour, so I'm gonna take off."
Clinton (laughing): "I don't want to make her mad - please go."
(h/t: W.F. Price of The Spearhead)
Monday, December 13, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Why I Support Extending Unemployment Benefits
Despite my libertarian beliefs, I think it's clear that even libertarians should support the extension of unemployment benefits. This article from MSNBC notes the dreadful impact not extending those benefits would have on the economy (bolding is mine):
Additionally, Congress should hire little boys to wander around towns and break windows. True, shopkeepers would have to pay to replace them, but just think of all the money that would be spent on windowmakers and glaziers. They would have to hire many more employees to keep up with the increasing demand for their services and they would have more money to spend, creating even more jobs. Our high unemployment rate would fall dramatically!
The [Council of Economic Advisers]’s report, which details how a failure to extend the aid would affect people on a state-by-state level, says nearly seven million Americans could lose coverage by the end of next year and that 600,000 jobs are at stake. Goolsbee contended the gross domestic product would be six-tenths of a percent point lower in December of next year if the benefits are not extended, slowing the nation's recovery from the worst recession since the Great Depression.In order to preserve the GDP and prevent the loss of even more jobs, Congress must act quickly to take money from people who create jobs and give it to people who do not have jobs. Poorer people spend more of their money than rich people (who would just do socially irresponsible things like save or invest their money), so if we simply give poor and unemployed people more money, they will spend their way out of our recession.
According to an earlier report by the National Employment Law Project, some two million workers nationally could lose benefits in December if they are not extended, an estimate the CEA also uses. The U.S. Joint Economic Committee estimates failure to extend the benefits program "would drain the economy of $80 billion in purchasing power and result in the loss of over one million jobs over the next year."
Additionally, Congress should hire little boys to wander around towns and break windows. True, shopkeepers would have to pay to replace them, but just think of all the money that would be spent on windowmakers and glaziers. They would have to hire many more employees to keep up with the increasing demand for their services and they would have more money to spend, creating even more jobs. Our high unemployment rate would fall dramatically!
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Monday, November 29, 2010
The Thousand Year Reich Comes to an End
Paleocons and white nationalists are taking note of a demographic prediction that places 2066 as the year in which whites in Britain will be a minority. It couldn't happen to a more deserving nation.
The media portrays the English as a refined people, but they are nothing more than well-dressed barbarians who spent the last thousand years conquering as much as the world as they could - from their medieval Celtic neighbors to modern Iraq. Imperialism, which greatly contributed to nonwhite grievances and liberal self-hatred of Western civilization while doing nothing to civilize the Third World, was enthusiastically embraced by England.
In addition to imperialism, the English enthusiastically embraced every form of feminism, multiculturalism, and racial egalitarianism. Political correctness has replaced the Church of England as the state religion. The English have progressed from arresting heretics to those who utter hate speech.
England isn't worth saving. Paleocons, race realists, white nationalists, and HBDers should focus on the nation that is.
The media portrays the English as a refined people, but they are nothing more than well-dressed barbarians who spent the last thousand years conquering as much as the world as they could - from their medieval Celtic neighbors to modern Iraq. Imperialism, which greatly contributed to nonwhite grievances and liberal self-hatred of Western civilization while doing nothing to civilize the Third World, was enthusiastically embraced by England.
In addition to imperialism, the English enthusiastically embraced every form of feminism, multiculturalism, and racial egalitarianism. Political correctness has replaced the Church of England as the state religion. The English have progressed from arresting heretics to those who utter hate speech.
England isn't worth saving. Paleocons, race realists, white nationalists, and HBDers should focus on the nation that is.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Spot the Difference, Part III (NSFW)
Over at The Spearhead, WF Price writes about a Ukrainian feminist group called FEMEN, which consists of young feminist women who protest - oftentimes topless. There is a lot that could be said about their antics and the state of modern feminism, but overall Ukrainian men should consider themselves lucky. As illustrated below, it could worse.
Ukrainian feminists:
(from FEMEN's Flickr account)
American feminists:
Ukrainian feminists:
(from FEMEN's Flickr account)
American feminists:
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Third World Immigration Brings Medieval Christianity to America
There probably isn't an institution more to blame for the Mexican deluge than the Catholic Church. There was a time in which the Catholic Church was one of the foremost defenders of Western Civilization, but that time has long since passed. Now, the Catholic Church cares only about increasing its numbers, usually by recruiting nonwhites (although the same can be said of virtually every Christian church in America - from those of liberal Methodists to conservative evengelicals). In the United States, the Catholic Church has effectively become an arm of the diversity industry, opposing laws cracking down on illegals, supporting amnesty, and pushing for more social(ist) programs to provide for America's imported lumpen. The current Völkerwanderung has impacted the Church's demographics - 32% of Catholics in 2008 were Hispanic, but only 20% were in 1990.
It's no secret that non-whites hold superstitious beliefs that Europeans shed during the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Serious belief in witchcraft is common in parts of Third World countries and when people from those places come to the United States, they bring their backwards practices to the United States with them (Santeria, practiced by Hispanics and black Caribbean immigrants, is a good example of this).
The Catholic Church is already starting to show a response to its influx of large numbers of superstitious people from areas where witchcraft and sorcery are taken seriously. Last weekend, as the New York times reported, American bishops met to deal with the increase in the number of exorcism requests. The article notes that many American Catholics, both laymen and priests, are skeptical of exorcisms, so why is there such a new, high, demand for them?
Diversity, of course:
It's no secret that non-whites hold superstitious beliefs that Europeans shed during the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Serious belief in witchcraft is common in parts of Third World countries and when people from those places come to the United States, they bring their backwards practices to the United States with them (Santeria, practiced by Hispanics and black Caribbean immigrants, is a good example of this).
The Catholic Church is already starting to show a response to its influx of large numbers of superstitious people from areas where witchcraft and sorcery are taken seriously. Last weekend, as the New York times reported, American bishops met to deal with the increase in the number of exorcism requests. The article notes that many American Catholics, both laymen and priests, are skeptical of exorcisms, so why is there such a new, high, demand for them?
Diversity, of course:
But [Fr. Richard Vega] said that there could eventually be a rising demand for exorcism because of the influx of Hispanic and African Catholics to the United States. People from those cultures, he said, are more attuned to the experience of the supernatural.Congratulations, bishops. Your love of nonwhite immigration, missions to Third World cesspools, and minority outreaches is transforming your church into a medieval cult that will end up as the butt of countless late night comedians' jokes. Another Western institution is being destroyed by diversity.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
I Hate Blogspot
I had written a long post containing various thoughts on the Republican victories in the midterms, then when I opened it to make some final edits, Blogger autosaved, deleted all of my text (the undo function was unresponsive), and then autosaved again.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Alcohol-Related Nanny State Stupidity in Michigan
Michigan's alcoholic beverage control commission recently banned the sale of alcoholic energy drinks, most prominently Four Loko, which is sold in 23.5 oz. cans that are 11% abv and contain as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. This was necessary since combining stimulants and depressants is dangerous according to the commission. Apparently there have been incidents in which retarded college students and future Darwin Award winners drank too much of it too quickly and were hospitalized (the caffeine masks the drunkenness so people inadvertently drink a lot more than they should and in some cases they drive, mistakenly believing they are sober). Rather than hold people who make stupid choices responsible for their actions, they decided to ban these drinks for everyone.
If the state is going to ban Four Loko, then will they ban Jaegermeister and Red Bull? Dropping a shot of Jaeger into a pint of Red Bull produces the wonderful drink known as a Jaegerbomb. Plenty of other alcoholic and caffeinated drinks mix well together. People have been drinking rum and coke since the early 1900s and Irish cream mixes well with coffee.
This won't stop anyone from mixing alcohol and caffeine - they can just do it themselves with a shot of vodka and a can of Mountain Dew. And it won't prevent anyone from dying of alcohol poisioning caused by overdrinking - college students are capable of doing that with pretty much anything that has alcohol in it. It's just another useless law that will have no effect other than to limit consumers' choices while gratifying a few fun-hating dinosaurs on a government commission.
If the state is going to ban Four Loko, then will they ban Jaegermeister and Red Bull? Dropping a shot of Jaeger into a pint of Red Bull produces the wonderful drink known as a Jaegerbomb. Plenty of other alcoholic and caffeinated drinks mix well together. People have been drinking rum and coke since the early 1900s and Irish cream mixes well with coffee.
This won't stop anyone from mixing alcohol and caffeine - they can just do it themselves with a shot of vodka and a can of Mountain Dew. And it won't prevent anyone from dying of alcohol poisioning caused by overdrinking - college students are capable of doing that with pretty much anything that has alcohol in it. It's just another useless law that will have no effect other than to limit consumers' choices while gratifying a few fun-hating dinosaurs on a government commission.
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alcohol,
Four Loko,
Michigan,
nanny state,
neo-Prohibition
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