31 August 2017

Antifa: A Lived Experience


Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
This will be a “lived experience” — or as we used to call it, an anecdote. As such it is not “evidence”, but rather indicative. A break in the monolithic characterization by the mainstream that “Anti-fa” is somehow “good” or that their violence is just a few “bad apples”. To applaud anti-fa because they claim to oppose Nazism, is a bit like applauding the Nazis because they also rounded up Jehova Witnesses, or even better, if they had renamed themselves “Anti-Jehova Witnesses”. Liking something for what they oppose is suicidal. It is what something is for that matters.
I was a punk in the 1980s. Dead Kennedys, CRASS, Reagan Youth, False Prophets, TSOL, MDC, etc. A homeless street punk for a couple of years, followed by your typical spate of lower class jobs until about 1993 when I decided that getting a real job wasn’t selling out so much as enabling myself to indulge my passions. I sired my first child in 1995, which made all the other stuff moot. This was all in Portland, Oregon.
The reason I bored you with that little biography was to explain that I know a little bit about Anti-fa.
As an aside, the original slogan, as sung by MDC was “No War, No KKK, No Fascist USA”. Interesting what was changed, isn’t it? They could have made it four parts and kept the Rhyme, but instead they eliminated their opposition to War. I also want to point out that MDC has a song that illustrates the Antifa method for identifying Nazis (check out “John Wayne was a Nazi”). MDC was a great Homocore band, but the illusion broke when I realized that their meth addiction & tendency to steal cars might mean that the police’s attention on their behavior was not unjustified.
Back on topic, even back in the 1980s, Antifa was a violent collection of lame-ass losers. They have only become bolder and bolder as we continue to ignore them.
To be totally honest, I am unsure which came first to Portland, Anti-fa or the Neo-Nazi Skinheads. I do know that both were present in 1987.
Now, the primary representatives of the antifa, at that time, in Portland, were two groups, “Skins Committed Against Racism” and “Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice”. SCAR was in Portland prior to SHARP. As you might guess it was very hard to tell the difference between Antifa Skins and Neo-Nazi Skins. This was made even more difficult by the simple fact that the membership between the two groups kept revolving. Brutus Skinhead would get in a fight with his mates and go join the opposing side for a bit, then after getting in a fight with them, he would move back.
I vividly remember sitting outside the Multnomah Library one evening when a car rolled up. Five skinheads and one skin-bitch (that is what the females called themselves) rolled up looking to jump someone.
Fortunately, they were antifa and I was wearing my Dead Kennedys “Nazi Punks F*** Off” shirt. Even they couldn’t rationalize me as being a Nazi. Unfortunately, a friend of mind was not so lucky, and they pitched him through a plate glass window. Evidently, a skinny goth-punk street kid with a tri-fin just had to be a nazi (he wasn’t).
The Nazi’s and the Anti-Fa were, as was typical at the time, attacking third parties, mainly because both the Nazis and the Antifa travel in packs, and neither were too fond of anything less than 6-to-1 odds.
During the 1990s, both sides had started to broaden their base. You couldn’t avoid Nazis or Antifa just by avoiding people with shaved heads. However, something interesting did happen. The Nazis cut back on the random attacks. After the Mulugeta Seraw case, violence committed by Nazi skinheads in Portland started to decline.
However, Antifa continued. They would start riots against Republicans, call in bomb threats to venues daring to allow a gay brit to play guitar, threaten violence to the fans of those musicians (I admit that most of my information post-1995 is music related), and similar.
So, yeah, don’t tell me how Antifa are misunderstood. Don’t tell me that this is something new. Don’t tell me that they aren’t violent. Antifa has been engaging in this behavior for decades. It is just the modern mindset that emboldens them to be even more blatant.
Antifa are a cancerous, violent assortment of misfits that will be lined up and disposed of should their desired Communist utopia occur — just as has always happened to any anarchists who have ever worked with any communist revolution. Sure, they may be in the second list, but they will be rounded up and eliminated. Red Anarchism was one of the reasons why I stopped being an Anarchist.
Anyway, that is my story.
Truth is found in the Rubble of Falsehood
Love is the law, love under will
References/Citations
SCAR was probably a local independent group, I cannot find anything on them.SHARPMulugeta SerawNote, the article is incorrect, they were not officially affiliated with WAR, and as I recall they were friends with, but not members of, East Side White Pride
“No War, No KKK, No Fascist USA”: MDC - Born to DieThe 2016 version with the new lyrics
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SHARP & Anti-SHARP logos (from Wikipedia)Design by: Williamcaseyhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Intro/Outro Music is from the Free Music Archive.
Borrowed without their knowledge for non-commercial purposes.
There opinions are their own and the use of their music should not be taken as agreeing with my positions or even as awareness that I even exist.
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26 August 2017

Thelemic Ethics and Rights (Video + Script)


Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Update
  • I believe I mentioned this last video, but
  • I am changing my ending track. I am tired of getting an automated copyright flag, disputing it with the Creative Commons license, and then having them approve some and disapprove others. Annoying.
    • The New Track is “The Charon” by Keosz from the “Entity EP”.
    • My Opening is still “Chant of Night Blades” by Kai Engel form the “Deathless: The Renaissance” album.
    • Links are below.
    • My use should not be taken as endorsement of my content by either artist.
  • I went to Enoshima yesterday
    • Honored Benzaiten and The Dragon God. I also stopped by a Shingon Temple, but there was no fire so I didn’t stay long.
    • It was hot and muggy, but the discomfort will fade away and I will treasure the memory.
  • My favorite Japanese gods are Inari, Benzaiten, Kannon, Jizo, and Tenjin.
So on with the video
  • Thelema is an individualistic philosophy.
  • Thelema borrows heavily from Nietzsche.
  • Thelema also borrows heavily from various spiritual and religious practices from around the world
  • Finally, it also borrows from Science, both Soft and Hard.
    • Please see my video on Thelema and the Scientific Method.
  • Thelema positions itself as the inheritor of the past ages of mankind.
    • Rather than being post-modern, it attempts to inject a meaning and purpose back into life.
    • The influence of the Christian/Modern age cannot be undone, nor should it.
    • Those who seek to undo time are delusional
    • Also, those who seek to continue on the path of modernity to post-modernity are lost, directionless, and adrift.
    • This can be seen in the fractious and unrealistic behaviors of the more extreme elements of society
    • The seeds of modernity sown by Christianity have their natural culmination in behaviors of the SJW crowd.
    • Water flows downhill. Going back would merely return us to where we are today. This is the path of least resistance.
    • Thelema is resistance. A fight against the Spirit of Gravity. An upheaval which will divert the river onto a new path.
  • Which brings us to the topic of this video.
    • The highest state of Overcoming is knowing one’s will. This typically involves work, discipline, and time.
    • One’s Will is the summation of one’s being. So how should one act until one achieves knowledge of their will?
    • Also, what if it is not one’s will to seek one’s will. Not everyone is meant to be a magician, hermit, or priest.
    • How should the Baker and the Banker act?
  • Crowley penned three documents which are helpful in this regard.
    • Liber OZ sub figura LXXVII
    • Liber Libræ sub figura XXX
    • And an essay titled “Duty”
    • These documents form a basis for a Thelemic Society
Liber OZ sub figura LXXVII was written by Crowley to explain the “Rights of Man” in simple words of one syllable.
  • It should be born in mind that this was written back when Man was still commonly used to refer to all humans of both sexes
  • I’ve actually had some morons try to tell me that they didn’t apply to women (usually feminists)
Liber OZ is divided into 5 sections
  1. Moral
  2. Bodily
  3. Mental
  4. Sexual
  5. And the right to Resist Tyranny
The title contains the mark of the beast in the seven pointed star (associated with Babalon) & several quotes from Liber AL.
  • The symbolism of the graphic is rather obvious and outside the scope of this video. 
  • Also, the I will also set aside discussion of the verses. 
    • I’ll include a link to the commentary of Liber AL for those interested.
So let us move on to the enumerated Rights. They are pretty straightforward, so comment will be minimal.
  • 1) Man has the right to live by his own law—to live in the way that he wills to do: to work as he will: to play as he will: to rest as he will: to die when and how he will.
  • 2) Man has the right to eat what he will: to drink what he will: to dwell where he will: to move as he will on the face of the earth.
  • 3) Man has the right to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.
  • These first three points pretty much cover all the basics for the life of a true Anarch or Autarch. Note that this is specific to the individual. No one else has to like it. And except for the last two items of section two, no one else is necessarily involved. If I choose to dwell in another persons house, or choose to move through another persons property, this may cause conflict. We will deal with that in section five.
  • 4) Man has the right to love as he will:—“take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where, and with whom ye will.” —AL. I. 51
  • This often involves another person. As indicated, will tends to have a special meaning in Thelema (which itself is a word indicating Will). 
  • I will quote a small portion of Crowley’s commentary on this verse: “But he should not injure himself and his right aforesaid; acts invasive of another individual's equal rights are implicitly self-aggressions. A thief can hardly complain on theoretical grounds if he is himself robbed. Such acts as rape, and the assault or seduction of infants, may therefore be justly regarded as offences against the Law of Liberty, and repressed in the interests of that Law.” (New Comment)
  • I recommend reading the whole thing.
  • 5) Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.
  • This is the most controversial of our rights. This is where the Will is so important. Is what you are trying to do important enough to kill? If I deem it is my will to dwell in your house, and you seek to stop me, then by section five, I have the right to kill you. However, in section one, you have the right to die when and how you will. Thus, you have the right to kill me. It can get complicated. Crowley added some more considerations in “Duty”. 
  • However, we can also look at this as a form of the “Mandate of Heaven” (ala Confucius). The fact of there being a conflict is indicative of having lost the “Mandate of Heaven”, or, in Thelema, of one party not being in accord with their Will.
  • This can easily go down a Theological rabbit hole, so suffice to say, no one wants to live where we are in constant danger of being killed, so this should probably be viewed as something to be reserved for an extreme case.
Liber Libræ sub figura XXX is an official instruction of the A.’.A.’.
  • As such, it has a much more spiritual and occult tone.
  • I will skip over much of it and only point out parts that would be of use to the layman
  • The full text can be found in the link provided in the comments.
The title gives an indication of the tone of the work.
  • Libræ refers to the astrological sign of Libra, the Scales
  • XXX is the number for the Hebrew letter Lamed, which refers to an “Ox Goad”
    • The Goad is used to keep the beast moving in the proper direction, that is to guide it in the proper direction
    • Lamed is also attributed, in the Hermetic Qabalah, to Libra
  • Thus the book (Liber means “book”) is meant to guide the aspirant in the proper path, that of balance.
  • Liber Libræ is also referred to as “The Book of Balance”.
So, some of the relevant portions
  • 0. Learn first — Oh thou who aspirest unto our ancient Order! — that Equilibrium is the basis of the Work. If thou thyself hast not a sure foundation, whereon wilt thou stand to direct the forces of Nature?
  • 5. Yet, oh aspirant, let thy victories bring thee not Vanity, for with increase of Knowledge should come increase of Wisdom. He who knoweth little, thinketh he knoweth much; but he who knoweth much hath learned his own ignorance. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool, than of him.
  • 6. Be not hasty to condemn others; how knowest thou that in their place, thou couldest have resisted the temptation? And even were it so, why shouldst thou despise one who is weaker than thyself?
  • 9. A man is what he maketh himself within the limits fixed by his inherited destiny; he is a part of mankind; his actions affect not only what he calleth himself, but also the whole universe.
  • 10. Worship and neglect not, the physical body which is thy temporary connection with the outer and material world. Therefore let thy mental Equilibrium be above disturbance by material events; strengthen and control the animal passions, discipline the emotions and the reason, nourish the Higher Aspirations.
  • 11. Do good unto others for its own sake, not for reward, not for gratitude from them, not for sympathy. If thou art generous, thou wilt not long for thine ears to be tickled by expressions of gratitude.
  • 12. Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil. Act passionately; think rationally; be Thyself.
  • 15. Nevertheless have the greatest self-respect, and to that end sin not against thyself. The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
So, the target for this is for “newbies” — people who are joining the group. Just in case it isn’t obvious, these are people who are not yet aware (or fully aware) of their Will. This is a general instruction meant to guide people along the path to become Thelemites.
  • The general themes are toward restraint, to avoid false vanity, to respect and honor oneself, to do things for their own sake.
  • I want to bring special attention to items 12 & 15.
    • We can see these in modern politics. Calls for unbalanced mercy are routinely made in Identity Politics, Migration Policy, etc
    • Failure to practice unbalanced mercy are met with equally unbalanced severity, as can be seen by anti-fa, BAMN, etc
    • As an aside, the terms mercy and severity refer to the right and left pillars of the Hermetic Qabalah (I am unsure if they are also in the original Jewish Qabalah).
    • Thelema, being a Middle Path tradition (as is the original Buddhism), exhorts us to follow the Middle Pillar (aka Aaron’s Rod).
    • 15 makes an allusion to the unpardonable sin of Christianity (there is only one). Which is to sin against the Holy Spirit. As we are all gods, we are holy spirits, thus the only unpardonable sin is to sin against one’s self.
    • Obviously, any harm to ourselves cannot be forgiven, as that harms effects are everlasting, but we can overcome by ceasing to sin against ourselves.
    • The nature of this sin against ourselves? “Knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices”.
    • If only the entire world ran on that principle.
  • Again, this work is pretty straightforward, and I think most of my commentary would be redundant repetition of the obvious.
With this we have pretty much covered the individual. We will move into the final work, “Duty”.
The best I can find for dating “Duty” is circa 1921. The manuscript is not dated and it was not printed during his lifetime. However, it does show Crowley’s thoughts on how Thelema would be applied to a broader context.
While several unofficial versions appeared from 1978 through 1994, the OTO published an official version in 1998.
  • The linked version below is to the OTO website.
  • Duty is divided into four parts.
  • Part A covers one’s Duty to oneself. This holds a theme similar to the prior two works.
  • Part B covers one’s Duty to other individual men and women. These are:
    • To seek union/interaction with others for mutual development
    • To avoid interfering with another’s will
    • If two wills do come into conflict, to battle as brothers. Conflict of this type is a form of Dialectic.
    • To, if it is one’s Will, instruct others who ask or to instruct those who are about to infringe on one’s will.
    • To recognize the divinity in others, just as one recognizes it in oneself.
  • Part C covers one’s Duty to mankind.
    • This is to establish the law of Thelema.
    • This Law being a Law of Liberty, the aim of the legislature must be to secure the amplest freedom for each individual in the state, eschewing the presumptuous assumption that any given positive ideal is worthy to be obtained.
    • Crime is also viewed as interference with the Will of another.
    • And here is my guiding principle: “The rule is quite simple. He who violated any right declares magically that it does not exist; therefore it no longer does so, for him.
    • Those who kill declare that they have no right to live. Those who steal declare that they have no right to private property. Those who interfere with another’s Freedom of Speech declare that they have no right to speak.
  • Part D covers one’s Duty to all other beings and things.
    • This is summed up by applying the Law of Thelema to everything.
    • For those who want something a little more concrete, “It is a violation of the Law of Thelema to abuse the natural qualities of any animal or object by diverting it from its proper function, as determined by consideration of its history and structure.
    • Essentially, treat yourself and the world with respect.
    • Clear-cutting the forest violates the integrity of the forest and its biodiversity. Logging does not, so long as what is taken is necessary and sustainable. Coercive behavior towards your fellow man is unacceptable. Really, most of the sane aspects of conservative and liberal practical ideology are all predicated on this simple principle.
Duty delineates a Thelemic Society.
  • The purpose of a Thelemic Society is to enable its members to accomplish their wills
  • The individual is paramount.
  • However, the individual does not exist in isolation.
  • The individual belongs to a network of relations which, if properly established, serve to enhance and define the individual.
  • Since we define our universe via our perceptions, when we deny another some right, we are declaring its invalidity.
  • We cannot demand a right that we have declared invalid by virtue of denying it to another.
  • If you attempt to deny me a right, e.g. my right to physical integrity, you exclude yourself from my consideration of you on that right.
  • E.g. if you try to hit me, I can hit you back.
Alright, so what does all this mean? I’ll attempt to synthesize these works. This is my interpretation. I will undoubtedly integrate knowledge from other works, both Thelemic and non, into this. I will endeavor to attribute them all appropriately.
It is important to remember that Thelema is about the will. Its purpose is to assist you in manifesting your will. However, it may very well be that it is some people’s will to not explicitly know their will — and this is fine. Existence is pure joy, so as long as what you are doing is filling you with joy, we can infer that you are doing your will. Librae and Duty are geared toward people who have not yet attained knowledge of their will.
My key take-away for interpersonal relations is that you deny yourself any right that you deny to another. The murderer has no right to life. The Thief has no right to enjoy the fruits of their labor — especially property. The person who would remove another’s right to speak has no right to free speech. It is actually very simple. I know I have been harping on this theme, but it is something that I believe in passionately.
Now, what about OZ? What about those who have come to understand their own wills. This is a common enough concept, rife throughout religion and philosophy. The Stoic Sage, the Taoist Sage, the Confucian Superior Man, the Christian “Saved” (at least in some conceptions), and (I would argue) Nietzsche’s Ubermensch exist in an exalted state where the common rules do not apply. They are not, however, free from physics or its spiritual equivalent. OZ specifically exists for these people, and it can be summed up as “You have the right to do your will and destroy those who would prevent it”.
Now, it may be your will to travel a path that will result in conflict. That does not mean that it is your will to win that conflict. Your will may be to conflict with another will and from that dialectical conflict, a proper path will emerge. Crowley does advise caution. He tells us that, while it may be our will to descend a cliff, it may not be our will to do so by stepping over the edge and plummeting to our death.
Many of these topics are elaborated in Magick Without Tears, a work Crowley completed just prior to his death.
  • It generally represents his final thoughts on a topic
  • In some cases, this represents a contradiction of earlier positions
  • A classic example argued in Thelemic Circles is whether Thelema is a religion.
    • To sum up, our system is a religion just so far as a religion means an enthusiastic putting-together of a series of doctrines, no one of which must in any way clash with Science or Magick.
    • Call it a new religion, then, if it so please your Gracious Majesty; but I confess that I fail to see what you will have gained by so doing, and I feel bound to add that you might easily cause a great deal of misunderstanding, and work a rather stupid kind of mischief.
    • The word does not occur in The Book of the Law.
    • MWT: XXXI: Religion–Is Thelema a "New Religion"?
So, yeah, I hope this was informativeTruth is found in the rubble of falsehood
Love is the law, love under will.

20 August 2017

Free Speech, Charlottesville, Antifa, Trump (+ Update) (Grab Bag #2) [Video Script]


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Well, it looks like the planned video is taking longer than I thought.
  • It is a look at ethics and rights within the Thelemic system
  • It will focus on OZ, Libræ, and Duty
  • I may need to break it up into multiple parts.
This is a little semi-ranty video on
  • Free Speech
  • Charlottesville
  • Trump’s speech on Charlottesville
  • I also pour some hate on antifa
First an update
  • The actual Navy stuff I am in Japan to do will be starting tomorrow.
  • This will undoubtedly impact my free time.
  • Yesterday, Saturday, I went to Yokohama to try and find some CDs
    • Musashi (六三四): Japanese progressive/folk metal band
    • Fushitsusha (不失者): Experimental Japanese rock band
    • Zeni Geva (ゼニゲバ): prog-rock, hardcore, heavy metal and noise-rock
    • Yōsei Teikoku (妖精帝國): Heavy/Goth/Symphonic Metal + EBM, darkwave, neoclassical, ethereal + Goth
  • Finding a CD for my son, who wanted something called “Bump of Chicken” was pretty straight forward.
  • Three separate shops and I only found the Yōsei Teikoku
    • However, I did find an interesting CD with the Crass logo on it. Guso Drop (偶想Drop)
    • I snagged it because I wanted to see what they were doing to my precious childhood memories.
    • I also found a first pressing CD of Current 93’s Dawn. I wonder if it has the original version of Great Black Time.
    • The original made extensive use of a sample from Barry McGuire’s Eve of Destruction.
    • This was removed in subsequent releases, I assume for copyright reasons.
    • Then there are two Japanese psychedelic rock albums: Acid Mother’s Temple & Subvert Blaze
    • Finally, a Japanese Metal Album (it was under Death Metal): Onmyo-za (陰陽座)
  • While looking up the links for these artists, I discovered that Zeni Geva has a Bandcamp. Of course it only has one album on it.
  • Also, I’ve changed my Ending song. Despite it being “Free Music” under the Creative Commons, it kept getting flagged.
    • Sometimes they would release the claim after I submitted the proof, but sometimes not.
    • I am way to lazy to repeat the same actions over and over.
    • So, While I liked Ami Deng’s “A Strange Community”, I am tired of dealing with the hassle of using it.
Anyway, now that I’ve established my music nerd bonafides, Let us move on.
There has been a lot of talk about what is and what isn’t free speech.
  • This is bullshit.
  • People trying to limit anyone else’s ability to speak is against free speech.
  • Those who say we should not tolerate intolerance are stupid.
  • You are being intolerant. You aren’t protecting society, you are just a coward.
  • The people censoring Nazis are less than Nazis.
  • They are hypocrites afraid to admit their own little authoritarian urges
  • The little black Hitlers and Stalins infesting their hearts.
This is one of the few absolutes. Either you support free speech, no matter what is being said, or you do not. There is no middle ground.
That being said, I am already tired of Charlottesville.
However, one of the interesting tidbits was how one of the antifa (or whatever) protesters described the accident
  • He specifically stated that the car slowed down than accelerated into the crowd.
  • Then there are the reports after the guy’s initial capture about it possibly not having been on purpose.
  • Add to this the reports, with suggestive video evidence, that the guys car had been hit with a bat.
    • Suggestive because the actual strike is not shown. The camera dips right before the cracking sound.
  • This would support a narrative that the guy slowed down for the protesters
    • Then his car was hit by antifa and he freaked trying to escape.
    • This reaction on his part makes sense given the events of the day and the history of antifa
  • Not that I am saying that this is what happened, but it is important to keep an open mind.
This is where I put in the obligatory “I am not a racist” disclaimer.
  • Trust me. I view racism as pure laziness. If I hate you, it is because of you, not your race, sex, or gender.
  • I agree with Evola’s distaste for concepts of racial purity. An arbitrary line was drawn and all mixing after that point is deemed “bad”. That is just dumb
  • I also agree with Evola’s concept that the idea is the true Fatherland. Those who share in the idea are the citizens of my state.
    • Trust me, most white people don’t make it either.
I am also going to point out that Antifa (and their related ilk) are some of the worst examples of troglodytes masquerading as humans on this planet.
  • They are worthless for anything but bashing heads
  • Even then, they have a distressing tendency to bash the wrong heads
  • They are the Marxist Lumpen-proletariat: 
    • identifies the class of outcast, degenerated and submerged elements that make up a section of the population of industrial centers" which include "beggars, prostitutes, gangsters, racketeers, swindlers, petty criminals, tramps, chronic unemployed or unemployables, persons who have been cast out by industry, and all sorts of declassed, degraded or degenerated elements."
  • Stalin eventually had to purge them because they were too worthless for the communist society they thought they wanted
    • Not being suitable for work, they could not contribute to the state
    • Being prone to degeneracy and violence, they were a disruption to an ordered society
    • One of the few things I agree with Communism about is that the antifa need to be rounded up and shot.
Anyway, I want to say that I was truly shocked by Trump’s clear and nuanced speech regarding the violence. While it was amusing to hear “alt-Left” rather than Antifa, I do suppose it is more inclusive.
Also, the article criticizing the use of the term “Alt-Left” is bullshit. The ADL guy says it is inorganic, then goes on to specify its organic use and development.
Are people really so stupid that they cannot see this for what it is: obfuscation, lies, and propaganda?
So yeah, I hope this can tide you over until I finish working on the Thelemic Rights and Ethics script.
  • Free Speech, you either support it or you don’t
  • Don’t pretend you are censoring others to preserve our freedoms.
  • You aren’t.
  • Antifa are, and always have been, worthless cowards.
  • It is almost worth having Communism imposed just so these (so-called) “people” would be rounded up and shot.
Truth is found in the rubble of falsehood
LITLLUW

Sources, Citations & Notes
Bands referenced:Musashi (六三四)
Fushitsusha (不失者)
Zeni Geva (ゼニゲバ)
Zeni Geva Bandcamp
Yōsei Teikoku (妖精帝國)
Bump of Chicken
Crass (best Punk Band ever)
Guso Drop (偶想Drop)
Current 93
Acid Mothers Temple
Subvert Blaze
Onmyo-za (陰陽座)

Non-Music:Lumpenproletariat
Antifa: Who Does Antifa Actually Attack?
Trump’s Speech
Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language

Attributions:Music is from the Free Music Archive.Borrowed without their knowledge for non-commercial purposes.There opinions are their own and the use of their music should not be taken as agreeing with my positions or even as awareness that I even exist.

Opening:Kai Engel
Chant Of Night Blades
Deathless: The Renaissance
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14 August 2017

Charlottesville, Reverse Racism, Privilege, Feelings over Facts (Grab Bag #1)




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This is just a grab bag of thoughts and ideas that I have neither the inclination nor time to flesh into stand alone videos.
  • I may do more of these. I keep a list of topics and some just never gain the momentum to become full videos
  • I’ll try to cull them periodically.
  • I’ll comment on 
    • Charlottesville, 
    • The use of violence in protests, 
    • “Reverse Racism” and the “Prejudice+Power” equation
    • Privilege
    • And, Feelings over fact
First, the update
  • Still in Japan.
  • It is overcast and rainy, so the temperature is tolerable.
  • I am from Oregon, so I am content with rain and overcast skies.

  • Went to Shinjuku yesterday and scored a Kannon statue
    • If I priced it correctly on the web, I got it for a great price 
    • About ⅖ of the listed prices on line.
    • Then again, it could be a cheap knock off and I was taken for a ride.
  • This video will be on Vid.Me and YouTube.
  • The script will be on Minds and Blogger.
I was going to let some music play in the background, but it seems that audacity and Google Play don’t play well together. Or the internet just decided to be cranky at that exact moment.

Also, let me apologize for the background noise, the dehydrator/aircon is noisier than I would wish. I tried to remove it with Audacity, but a little remains.

Hard to be sympathetic toward hurt Antifa. According to a CNN article, dated August 13th, the deceased was part of the demonstration (not a random bystander as initially stated). I am not saying she deserved to die, nor am I saying I support the person who drove a car into a crowd of people.


However, the antifa tactics seem to have worked better than normal. A technique that I have seen in action since the 80s, and which I understand to derive from classic Marxist strategy (vis-a-vis the use of violence). Essentially, any protest has three sides. The “Marxists”, the Enemies of the “Marxists”, and the peaceful protesters. Typically, the “Marxists” position themselves so that the peaceful protesters are between them and the enemy. They will then provoke their enemy who will have to go through the peaceful protesters. This radicalizes them into the “Marxist” camp.

Antifa seems to have gotten complacent over the years. After decades of being able to attack whomever they want without repercussion, people have started fighting back. Sadly, it seems to have been escalated by one individual far beyond what antifa expected.

To summarize the timeline
  • Antifa swarms against people suspected of wrongthink, like the nazi skinheads, they tended to attack in groups against individuals.
  • Recently, the people being targeted have started using techniques to defend themselves (shields, squad tactics)
  • Then, antifa seemed to also have shields (though they were more a mob than a squad)
  • Then a guy drives a car into a massed horde of antifa
I can only anticipate more violence.

On another topic, there is no such thing as “Reverse Racism”, “Reverse Sexism”, etc. The use of “reverse” serves no other purpose than to legitimize bigotry. Just call it what it is.

Likewise, the formulation of Racism/Sexism = Prejudice + Power, in addition to being a way for various power brokers to maintain relevancy, also serves to dismiss, discredit, and justify bigotry. Further, it serves as a warning. In no way should we allow these people to have power. They have as much as admitted that the only difference between them and a Klan lynch-mob is the fact that they are powerless.

It is stupid to expect people to accept, or work toward, their own destruction. If you are working toward your own destruction, then you are stupid. Any “white” person eagerly looking forward to the extinction of the “white” race is stupid.

And on a related topic, can someone explain to me what is wrong with privilege? The basic framing is that privilege is somehow “bad”. What we call privilege is the summation of people working hard to provide their children with a better future. I hope and pray that I have managed to give my children greater privilege compared to what I had. They only know what spam tastes like because I’ve mad Hawaiian food. We always had money for Xmas. I have never “whipped” them for misbehavior. I tried to emphasize learning, questioning, and self-reliance.

Now, to inject a little “Social Darwinism” (as technique, rather than justification), our society values certain traits. Those who conform to those traits succeed. Those who have a longer history of modeling those traits have greater privilege. Those who came later would obviously have less privilege, since they have had less time to amass the cultural capital which becomes privilege.

If you don’t like the values promoted by a society, you would need to change them. This would necessitate figuring out what those values actually are (see my earlier video “On Reality”). The SJW crowd wants to change the system — which is fair, so do I — but fail to analyze the values and thus waste their time in moral outrage and contradictory impulses. I believe it was Delsol who commented on how modern man is terrified of certainty.

However, and this is another thing the SJWs miss, you aren’t eliminating privilege, you are merely replacing the method by which one gains privilege. It should go without saying that they are actually trying to impose a system by which they amass privilege.

I don’t mean to rail against the SJWs so much, but it is like they were created to exemplify everything I despise about modern society.

So, I just want to tell all of them, “Your feelings are shit.”

Every atrocity, whether it be the Inquisition, the genocidal and treacherous dealings with the Native Americans, the Reign of Terror, the Holocaust, the Stalinist Purges, the Maoist purges, the Cambodian Killing fields, etc, etc — all of these came from listening to feelings rather than facts.
Or are you going to argue that these things are actions based on cold, logical, and dispassionate facts?
Bigotry is based on feelings. All your cries to prioritize feelings over facts do is render you incapable of critical examination. You become more easily manipulated toward atrocity.

I repeat, “Your feelings are shit”.

So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this. One interesting tidbit, the Google stuff has made me look at all of the alternatives out there. I was worried I would have to become a goat-herding mystic living in a cave just to avoid the pernicious encroachment of our liberties.

I suppose the takeaways would be:
  • Charlottesville sucks, but shouldn’t have been a surprise
  • The regressives are right when they say “Reverse Racism” isn’t a thing, but for all the wrong reasons
  • Prejudice + Power is the clearest argument against granting equal rights that could be promoted
  • Privilege is inevitable
  • Your feelings are shit.
Truth is found in the rubble of falsehood
LITLLUW

12 August 2017

On Reality (Video, Notes, and Comments)



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Update
  • In Japan
    • Haven’t had time to do much more than film people on the street from my balcony
    • Samsung S8+
  • Trying to figure out how to unobtrusively use my phone to take videos as I walk around. No one seems to have a lanyard for a cell phone…
  • These videos are being posted on Vid.Me and YouTube
  • Also, anything that could be said on the Google Memo has been stated quite well by the article “The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond” (link below)
  • And, Black Pidgeon Speaks just uploaded a hilarious video regarding the Chinese tourists busted for Sieg Heiling outside the Reichstag.
    • If only they had been raping children instead, they would have gotten a free pass, just as many refugees have. Link Below.
  • On with the show
[TKK Excerpt]
I do believe in an actual objective reality.
  • However, do to the mediating force of our senses, we cannot actually apprehend this reality
  • However, I feel that a strong basis for postulating its existence can be drawn from the various commonalities of experience.
    • We all apprehend the sun, we can experience its light and warmth directly.
    • We can observe its effects on plants, animals, etc.
    • There is some objective truth which we interpret as the sun
Sadly, it is not just the senses interposing themselves between us and objective reality
  • Our minds puts forth a filter which sifts through the sensory input
  • This filters prioritizes and interprets phenomenon.
  • Now I admit that I find Metaphysics confusing
    • Sadly, for me, Metaphysics is very important in this schema.
    • “being as such”, or rather our conception of it colors our understanding of “reality”
Our metaphysics give rise to our values
  • Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that our values derive from the metaphysical interpretation of objective reality.
  • Sadly, few people examine the values they hold
  • Fewer people look at the metaphysical constructs which give form to those values
    • And yes, Heidegger is also confusing.
  • I doubt anyone has looked at pure objective reality freed from the forms given it by our values and metaphysics. 
OK, so if people do not look at their values or examine their metaphysics, how are these values made available to them?
  • There are two expressions of socio-cultural values
    • Art
    • Religion
  • Now I am using some special definitions for these terms, so I will clarify.
  • Art covers  all creative endeavors: music, painting, sculpture, poetry, video
    • One could argue that sex and procreation are also art
    • Art is a primal expression of socio-cultural values
      • Even degraded as it often is in the modern age
      • Early medieval art was ugly because it reflected the Early Christian view that the world was corrupt
      • Likewise many modern artworks are ugly to reflect a similar antipathy to the world as it is.
      • Our liking of a piece of art is often dependent on how it reflects the internalized values we hold.
  • Religion covers all ideologies that govern the relationship of the self and not-self.
    • Those things which give us a place in the world
    • Those things which define the I’s relationship to the not-I.
    • So, yes, in this sense, Atheism is Religion
    • So is Science
Below Religion is the manifestation of the Political
  • Religion tends to focus on the relationship of the self to the eternal
  • Politics is focused on the temporal.
    • One’s conception of the eternal will color one’s perceptions of the temporal.
  • However, with the death of god, the center which anchored human society was broken.
  • This has created some hybrid ideologies, such as Humanism, Communism, or Fascism.
  • This also explains the cultish behavior of various SJWs and Groups like BAMN, Anti-fa, or Wobblies.
  • As opiates are synthetic endorphins, so are these ideologies a synthetic “religion”.
  • And just like heroin destroys the mind and body, so do these ideologies destroy the mind and soul.
    • But I digress
Now we finally get to Morals, which are the practical application of your values, religious beliefs, and political structures.
  • For example, the moral belief that murder is bad derives from a value that holds human life as important, a religious injunction (e.g. Do not murder), and political laws (e.g. the criminalization of homicide).
This whole process can be summed by Chapter 38 of the Tao Teh Ching
  • The Tao Teh Ching is my second favorite set of Scripture.
  • Translation by Derek Lin from Taoism.net
    • Therefore, the Tao is lost, and then virtue
    • Virtue is lost, and then benevolence
    • Benevolence is lost, and then righteousness
    • Righteousness is lost, and then etiquette
    • Those who have etiquette
    • are a thin shell of loyalty and sincerity
    • And the beginning of chaos
  • Modern society operates on a level far from “Reality”
  • To be fair, this problem has been around for, at least, the 4th century BCE
    • Even I don’t posit that the Modern Age started that far back.
While I have explained these in a linear fashion, it should be noted that they are actually reciprocal. Things lower provide feedback to those higher. Those parallel feed into each other. It is all actually very dynamic. Religion defines the avenues of science and science validates or invalidates religion. God didn’t die of old age, Science killed him, and into the void flew a multitude of similar, but competing, ideologies.
What benefit does this knowledge/structure/System give us.
  • Well we can see what trumps what and what influences what.
  • It allows us to analyze our own system of beliefs
  • To understand where these beliefs came from.
One of the biggest problems I see with modern social movements is their inability to understand what they are promoting.
  • They are generally working at the level of morals with occasional bumps into Politics.
  • They do not examine (and many do not even acknowledge) what I have termed the Religious elements.
  • They conflate their morals with Values
    • This can be seen by the contradictory impulses that both support and oppose any given value.
    • They say they value equality, but posit unequal treatment of various group
    • They say they value women, but support groups who oppress women
    • They say they value pacifism, but continually vote for warmongers
    • They say they value certain ethnic groups, but promote policies that destroy those same groups.
  • A simple analysis of their behavior through the system I have outlined, and an understanding of the hierarchical nature of these items would bring a level of sanity and clarity to our social interactions.
So, to sum up.
  • Reality exists, but none of us can actually apprehend it objectively.
  • Reality is mediated through a series of layers which reciprocally influence each other.
  • Our values are expressed in our art and “religion”.
  • The lowest of these is morality.
    • I sneer at the good person, those who can, do, those who can’t console themselves with how moral they are.
    • [Crass Clip]
  • Only by examining these layers can we come to understand what we are doing
  • Only by understanding what we are doing can we eliminate contradictory impulses
  • Only by eliminating contradictory impulses can we succeed in implementing the values we actually hold.
  • Further, an understanding of all of this is necessary to apply reason and chart a path to maximize our individual freedom and garner success for our beliefs.
  • This illustrates some of what Crowley meant by “A Devil With Unity Would Be A God”.
As a side note:
  • The occultist works with Art and Religion to manifest their Values.
  • Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. (AC, MTP)
Truth is found in the Rubble of Falsehood
LITLLUW
Earlier blog post on this topic
Google Memo:Google’s Ideological Echo ChamberThe Google Memo: Four Scientists RespondNo, the Google manifesto isn’t sexist or anti-diversity. It’s science
Black Pigeon Speaks:https://vid.me/88Xq8
Derek Lin’s Tao Teh Ching: http://taoism.net/tao/tao-te-ching-online-translation/ (Note: This moved from it’s prior location)
Samples:My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Nervous XiansCrass - Berkertex Bribe
Opening:Kai EngelChant Of Night BladesDeathless: The RenaissanceLicense
Ending:Ami DengA Strange CommunityHukamLicense

04 August 2017

On Hate Speech (Video & Script)



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Update:

  • This is probably the last video I will put up before I fly to Japan
  • Two Channels I have been enjoying lately are:
    • Dr Layman
    • Zarathrustra’s Serpent
    • The two of them have managed to cover various topics I was planning on taking on
    • They have also done it as well, or better, than I would have.
    • I am not saying I agree with all of their positions, but if I only interacted with those who agreed with me on everything,
      • I would never grow
      • And I would be very, very lonely… 


[Orwell.Hate Truthspeakers]
There is a trend, pushed by authoritarians, mostly from the left (currently anyway) to "deplatform" Hate Speech.

[Clip: Gate Rory : Are you stupid]

The steps to winning any battle are: [Yukio Mishima]
1) Know yourself
2) Know your Enemy

Why would you not want people with opposing viewpoints to freely express themselves?[Massey. Authority as Truth-Truth as Authority]
I want to know who my enemies are
I want to know who I can trust to have my back and who will step away (or worse thrust a dagger into my back)

The Regressive Left seems to feel that if they deplatform these people, their opinions will go away [Consensus = Bliss.jpg]
  • This is so incredibly stupid that I barely know where to start.
  • Obviously, if unchallenged the ideas will never change.
    • Further, you cannot challenge their ideas if you do not know what they are
    • The best you can do is straw man their arguments, which will never convince anyone
      • The phrase “Preaching to the Choir” comes to mind
  • The main way in which we can change or mold opinions is through Dialectic [McDonalds vs Sanders]
    • I am not an expert on Hegel or Marx, so I will  explain what I mean by the term
    • You have two ideas that are in opposition (either to a lesser or greater degree)
    • These ideas meet in the glory of battle
    • The Stronger idea will win
  • Now I admit to some assumptions [Truth vs Lies.jpg]
    • First is that ideas closer to Truth (ie, the actual nature of reality) are stronger than ideas in opposition to the truth.
      • This can be expressed via the biblical parable of the house built on sand (Matthew 7:24-27)
        •  Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. (KJV)
      • The idea is that things in accordance with the fundamental nature of reality are “built upon a rock”. 
    • My Second assumption is that both parties have similar logical and emotive capabilities. [If Someone doesn't Value Evidence]
      • This one is actually harder for me to justify, but I hold that in aggregate, the groups should be roughly similar in their capability to use logic (whether they elect to do so or not)
      • And that emotive arguments will be equally impassioned by each sides commitment to their ideals.
      • The flaw in this is that the person holding the lesser truth is either missing facts or is not utilizing logic.
      • In that case, their position deserves to die
  • Anyway, If we accept these two premises, then it should be obvious that the dialectic process will move us closer to the truth

We should also point out that “deplatforming” will not stop them from spreading their ideas. [Orwell - Political Speech]
  • Sure, it will allow you to indoctrinate those who feel security in adhering to what appears to be the dominant (or only) narrative
  • However, you will cloak the alternative opinion in the aura of mystery, making it counter-cultural and rebellious
    • Watson is right when he says “Conservatism is the NEW Counter-Culture”
    • And, since they are deplatformed, there are no coherent arguments against what they are actually preaching.

So, we have to ask, why do some people try to deplatform other people? [O Sensei - Wise win before fighting]
  • One reason could be the realization (if even on a subconscious level) of the divorce between their idea and reality
    • They realize that they do not have any facts to support their position and do not wish to risk having their emotive arguments undermined
    • This cognitive dissonance between what they believe and what reality is telling them is painful so they seek to avoid it.
      • Whenever the Regressive Left tells you they are offended or that your words are violence, this is what they are referring to
      • Ludovici, in his book The Child: An Adult’s Problem, discusses this as the conflict between the Pleasure Principle and the Principle of Reality.
      • Essentially, their behavior is just a childish tantrum.
  • Another reason could a general contempt for all other beings. [Hitler. People Don't think]
    • The regressive left seems to feel that other people are generally incapable of thought
    • They feel that they know the truth and that other people are just to primitive to grasp it
    • Further, they feel that the opposing ideas are just to seductive
      • They tell people that they are special and deserve to “oppress” other people.
      • And that other people will fail to critically examine these ideas and be swayed to their service.
    • Simply put, this is all projection on their part.
      • In a rare bout of subconscious self-reflection, they realize that they are like this
      • Since they feel they are more enlightened, they assume everyone else has their flaws but to a greater degree.

As you can see, the desire to deplatform of censor opposing opinions comes from feelings of Fear and Weakness [I am Friedrich Nietzsche und I approve of this message]
  • If you disagree, please feel free to comment with logical alternative possibilities.
  • The feelings of Fear and Weakness derive from the feelings of ressentiment (ala Nietzsche & Kierkegaard)
  • People who believe they are right have no reason to fear opposing viewpoints
  • Now some attempt to argue that the arguments have been made before and “resolved”
    • This is funny to me
    • Isn’t it a tenet of modern thought that we should re-examine and critique pre-existing convictions?
    • They show their religious roots with their belief that it is good butcher everyone’s sacred cows but their own.

So, to all those who wish to censor,
[Rory Clip]

Yes, Rory, I think they are. Heaven help us all.

To sum up: [Voltaire. Who Rules - don't crit]
  • Censorship, or “deplatforming”, is an ultimately self-defeating strategy
  • It manifests the herd morality’s predilection for ressentiment
  • This can be seen in its reactions based on fear and weakness
  • It is also a way to hide from uncertainty & doubt by eliminating the cognitive dissonance which spurs us forward
  • It is stagnating since new forms cannot arise from the process of dialectic
  • Dialectic is the process of annihilating two opposing ideas to see a new idea arise
    • An idea which is closer to the truth

As I have mentioned, I am about to fly off to Japan. [if i agreed with you]
  • It is unlikely I will be able to post another video before I leave.
  • My next planned video is on “Reality”
  • You may have noticed that I referred to it repeatedly in this video
  • Perhaps it would be a good idea to let you know what I mean by the term.

Truth is found in the rubble of falsehood.
LITLLUW

References:
Channels:

Rory Mercury:
From Episode 8 of Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri
Actual Clip taken from
Gate: Rory Mercury amazing speech Episode 8

Bible:

Ludovici:

Conservatism is the NEW Counter-Culture

03 August 2017

Analysis: To the Cis Person angrily sharing news of the Trump transgender military ban



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I have several streams of information.

  • Many are news from various political perspectives
  • Another is Medium, which is basically an unfiltered op-ed site.


For some reason, Medium decided that I would be interested in an article titled [IMG 1]

  • To the cis person angrily sharing news of the Trump transgender military ban
  • By Angela Dumlao
  • While I will provide the link below
  • Do not harass or otherwise attack this person
  • It won’t do any good
  • It will probably make things worse

The article starts out with

  • Hi. If you’re a cisgender person angrily sharing the news about Trump’s ban of transgender people in the military, consider the following.  
  • First off, note the audience. Why do the SJWs focus on other people rather than their own?
    • Seldom, if ever, do they try to improve their own group
    • Neither do they talk impartially about a topic and let the chips fall where they may
    • Rather they take a classic in-group/out-group position of moral rectitude and certainty
      • Everything my tribe does is good
      • From my position as good, I have the right to preach to you on how to correct your “evil”.
  • Second, note the assumptions of proper moral behavior
    • It is implied that the virtue signaling of outrage is proper
    • And that you should be (naturally ) outraged by the ban
  • Finally, note that whatever you are doing, it isn’t enough
    • This establishes the moral superiority of the writer’s in-group
    • It is also an indicator of the post-Christian orientation of the SJW ideology
      • The concept of original sin has been identified with being “cisgender”
      • As an aside, you’ll find that “sinner” has been replaced with “racist”, “sexist”, or “*-phobic”.
      • Christians classified everything they hated as “satanic influence”. The left categorizes it as mental illness.
  • That was a lot of unpacking for one sentence
    • It’s good to find that I can get some use from my Humanities degree.

Next:
  • This is not a future hypothetical in which we need to protect people who want to be in the military.  
  • Actually, unless something new has come out, it is a future hypothetical as no guidance or policy changes have actually been promulgated to the military.
  • Even so, The first sentence is backwards. The purpose of the military is to protect us. 
    • I get what they are saying, but it rubs me raw to imply that the military are weak, emotionally unstable people needing protection.
  • There are trans military serving as we speak. 
  • Yes there are. While it may be implemented in the same way that the homosexual ban was implemented during WWII, staffing problems will probably mitigate any mass discharges.
  • There are trans veterans waking up to this news.
  • This sentence is problematic. (heh)
  • Of trans veterans, this only affects (possibly) those currently serving.
  • I have seen nothing to indicate that their veteran status would be changed or denied.
Now that the author has set up the requisite fear mongering, we move on to the meat of the sermon. 
  • Are you framing your posts with a call to protect trans people? Similar to #ProtectTransKids — while this means well, it also infantilizes the trans community. Stand with trans people. Support trans people who have been fighting for their rights. See the difference?
  • Strangely enough, I actually agree with part of this. As I mentioned in my video on “Goose & Gander”, most SJW activity infantilizes their targets.
  • De Benoist discusses the over use of the term “right” in his excellent little book, Beyond Human Rights.
  • However, it should be pointed out that Military Service is not a right.
    • Military service is an obligation and responsibility, not a right. It is something you give, not something given to you.
  • What do you do to support trans people? 
  • Note the implication that you should be supporting trans people
  • Not that there is anything wrong with supporting trans people
  • But I find the call for an in-group to demand out-group support of their in-group to the possible detriment of those out-group members own in-groups to be kind of insular and stupid
  •  I don’t need answers, but I want you to think about whether you:
  • Actively use peoples’ pronouns both when they’re around and not around. Do you correct other cis people when they misgender someone? Use their deadname?
  • This actually touches on a pet peeve of mine. You do not have pronouns. The language has pronouns. They do not belong to you and demanding other people accommodate your whims is childish.
  • Thelema tells me I am a God, Should I demand everyone refer to me as “my Lord”?
  • Further, I neither know nor care about your gender. I can only recognize the biological sex that you present. If you look like a woman, I will call you her/she. If a man, he/him.
  • I gave up on the TOPY-inspired E-Prime genderless pronouns back in the early 90s.
  • Dead name is just stupid. Oh my god, I am using the name by which I know &/or are accustomed to using
  • Oh my god, I am using the name on your birth certificate &/or Identification card.
  • The horrors are nigh unimaginable.
  • Do you intake media by trans people? TV? Books? Articles? Art? Music?
  • How would I know? Believe it or not, I “intake” media because I like it, not for moral reasons
  • What a sad world where you cannot enjoy something until after you’ve done research to verify that it meets a moral litmus test
  • I can think of one, but generally, I don’t ask people since it isn’t normally relevant to my enjoyment of the media.
  • Do you laugh at jokes like Trump being made up with makeup? 
  • I haven’t seen that one, but I do admit to laughing at Hitler in make-up [IMG Pink Hitler]. 
  • There is the man, all dolled up like Christ.
  • Do you realize this is transphobic? 
  • I think you are doing violence to the language. A phobia is a fear. This is called humor. It relies on the juxtaposition of incongruous ideas & images.
  • This is not funny because trans people are funny, it is funny because we can imagine the discomfort that the person depicted, or those of their idolaters, would feel.
  • With the Hitler image, we are laughing at the outrage neo-nazi’s feel at Hitler being depicted in such a way.
  • It actually doesn’t have anything to do with trans people.
  • Do you perpetuate the idea that trans women are really men, even in the most innocent, subtle way?
  • What does the phrase “really men” even mean? Are you perpetuating the idea that there is only one way to be a man?
  • If you mean “Do they biologically express the condition which is most similar to the male role in our sexually dimorphic species”? Well then yes.
  • Not that I spend a lot of time with it. It only really matters if we are having sex (I need to know where to put it) or trying to make children.
  • [IMG Hitler & Stalin] Yeah, just try to unsee this one.

  • Do you know about the epidemic of trans women of color being murdered in the U.S. and beyond? Do you share these articles? Do you sad react them? Do you avoid them?
  • Nope to all of them.
  • However, I have google.
  • There were 15 killed (HRC Website) this year
  • 2016 statistics puts the number of (self-identifying) Transgendered persons at a little over 800,000.
  • The CDC reports that there are 5 homicides per 100,000 people.
  • For the save of expediency, lets just double the half-year rate to 30.
  • That would put the number of deaths at under 4 per 100,000
  • Your epidemic is below the national average.
  • Your epidemic is actually a statement about how non trans people are being killed more than trans people.
  • You’ll pardon me if I decline your call to rectify this imbalance.
  • Realized that I ran the original numbers for the entire trans community, but I reran the numbers for and they show the same thing.
  • Do you actively use your privilege as a cis person to make the world better for your trans siblings?
  • My only sibling is no more.
  • Sibling, brother, sister, these are all societal roles that incur an obligation on both parties.
  • If you’ve treated me as a brother and I have treated you as family, then I will use any so-called privilege to our benefit.
  • Sadly, I come from a prole background, so my privilege is lacking.
  • I hope I have given my children some privilege by virtue of my accomplishments
The rest of the article goes on to say “Trump Sucks” but you can be better than him. With some more rhetorical flourishes that have been addressed already.

This came about because people seemed to like me talking about the pro-pedophilia site more than they like me talking about the factors causing such things
  • I’ll try to include these from time to time

My son told me that the video about pro-pedophilia was more popular because of his keen sensibilities.

I told him to go back to his room and play with his waifu.

Anyway, this article was chosen as indicative
  • When we encounter this crap, you need to analyze it like this
  • You need to ask
    • Who benefits
    • Are they practicing what they preach?
    • Are their facts correct?
    • How are they trying to sway you?
    • Is there really anything more than whining and guilt-tripping?

Truth is found in the rubble of falsehood
LITLLUW

Original Article:
https://medium.com/@callmethey/to-the-cis-person-angrily-sharing-news-of-the-trump-transgender-military-ban-441862263bd8

De Benoist:
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Human-Rights-Alain-Benoist/dp/1907166203

TOPY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thee_Temple_ov_Psychick_Youth

E-Prime:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
TOPY’s practice replaced all pronouns with “E” 

Phobia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobia

Dimorphism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism

Murder:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2017
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/How-Many-Adults-Identify-as-Transgender-in-the-United-States.pdf