Category Archives: Lightning Round

Lightning Round – 2013/12/04

The importance of faith and hope for men.
Related: The burdens of leadership.
Related: The difference between thug and alpha is the environment.

Leadership, submission, and the neoreactionary social order.
Related: The value of feminine virtue, part 1.
Related: Against backleading.
Science: Women controlling their emotions makes a marriage happier.

Feminism is dead.

Aurini resurrects a classic from the Solomon blog.

The road to greatness begins now.

When did it become acceptable to shame being a man?
Related: Heterophobia.
Related: Is humanity becoming androgynous?
Related: The rise of the mangina.

On male competition.
Related: Life isn’t personal.
Related: Women controlling their insecurities.
Related: Embracing rejection.

How Roosh stood up to the mob and won.
Related: How Victor make $10k/month blogging.

Martel on the difficulty of following your own advice.
Related: Only take advice from those who have done what you want to do.

A good essay on the history of divorce in the US. No fault divorce might not have been as drastic a change as previously thought. Has a little bit on the puritans, the enlightenment, and the interaction of elites and the masses for the reactionaries as well.

Waiting for sex and waiting for marriage: the evangelical dilemma.

Christians teaching wives to collect their 30 pieces of silver.
Related: Focus on the family advising women on how to divorce rape their husbands.
Related: Someone dislikes the manosphere a lot. The comments are rather amusing.
Related: Empath responds.

Divorcee complains that open marriages are threatening serial marriage.
Related: The trap of the “pro-marriage” professional divorcee writer.
Related: Almost a third of married women haven’t found Mr. Right.

Single motherhood is hazardous to children.

Danny answers “where have all the good men gone?”

A great read: The cult of political correctness.
Related: Saving SF from strong female characters, part 5.

Leap examines leftist thinking.

The case for vulgarity.

Porn use is due to the feminization of men.
Related: Women, Jesse Stone, and porn.

Kathleen Hannah: Do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do feminist.
Related: Why feminists are ugly.

Rhetoric: Ben Franklin and the Socratic method.

Gift game.

Alternatives to marriage.

People can accurately perceive men’s intelligence, but not women’s.
Related: Sex differences are hardwired. Related.

New Moldbug: He absolutely shreds the TechCunch article and other anti-reactionary talk.
Related: Another article on the neoreaction; we’re creepy. A&G respond.
Related: Amos & Gromar respond to a criticism of neoreaction.
Related: It looks like North Korea is going to be the Cathedral’s meme.

Thinkinglike a neoreactionary: part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7.

Moldbug e-books.

The path to Legionnairre: series introduction. A neoraectionary bootcamp. Looking forward to this series.

Conquest’s second law; why do organizations become leftist?
Related: Default liberalism and the liberal advance.

Anti-anti-reactionary FAQ: war and democide.

Conscription, unity, and immigration.

The need for neologisms in conservatism.
Related: Polymaths and monopaths.

Trust in the US is declining.
Related: A little more boomer hate.

The pretense of powerlessness.
The true colour of liberalism.

8 reasons democracy doesn’t work.

The cult of neoreaction.
Related: Working with disinformation in our map.

The microscopic differences between socialist and liberal in Seattle.

The Cathedral in action: CNN edition.
Related: CNN turns from news to reality TV.

Personality goes beyond the soul.

Traditionalism is also for protestants.

Schism against heresy.

7 things Roosh learned from his viral article.

Manosphere wisdom about texting your ONS’ goes mainstream.
Related: Men confident in their relationships text less; women text more.

A woman experiences equality; doesn’t like it.

A story of women and degeneration.

Maladjusted feminist killjoys at the holidays.

RAF women gets £100000 for being forced to march like men. Yes, women really do belong in the military.

The case against female education.

Obesity is more dangerous than anorexia.

Science: Casual sex and negative mental health outcomes.
Related: Women regret past sexual encounters; men wish they had more of them.

Naomi Wolf is quotes the Bible and advocates hair coverings while decrying porn.

Slut-shaming: sure to make a girl psychotic.

EW on Goldie Blox.
Related: It seems I’m not the only one criticizing Goldie Blox.

The states as girls.

British racist totalitarianism has reached new heights. (The principal’s e-mail).
Related: Normal vaisyas are beginning to gain racial consciousness. This will not end well.
Related: Just another hate crime hoax.
Related: GLP with a decent quote from Chomsky.

Iceland and Shanghai do well the PISA; the US does not. Slate ignores the obvious.

Your kids won’t make you happy.

A town without big corporations.

By ceding the spiritual to women, we allow it to be feminized.
Related: The church’s overemphasis of joy.

The misinterpretation of Matthew 5:27-28.

How the spirit of inquiry is being suppressed in the West.
Related: Science fraud.

A decent life for decent people and the purpose of public schooling.

Personal responsibility, passive voice, and the lower classes.

“Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world.”

It might be time to start hanging IRS agents.
Related: American taxpayers are fools.

A tactic that works against liberals.

The decline in jobs and make-work.

News editors regarding Obama: “We must accept that we, the press, have been enablers.”
Related: Obama describes himself as “not a particularly ideological person.”

SC to hear case on Obamacare persecution of religious.

Obamacare as an Orwellian information collection system.
Related: The Chinese may be controlling your Obamacare data.

The Chinese rich are fleeing. Big news on the horizon?

Sweden, immigration, and rape.

Ukraine turns to Russia and China.

On Syria.

Our declining rate of technological progress.

Pilgrim socialism and the thanksgiving story.
Related: Thanksgiving, then and now.

Is it any wonder the American empire has been declining when this is how they treat their allies.

On historically-illiterate atheists.

The treason of unions during WW2.

In a mathematically literate world

Amazon charts vs. stock price.

Banghazi: Krugman’s best-case scenario.

I never noticed this before, but Slate actually publishes the time it takes to read an article on the side bar. Most are in the 1-2M range. You can tell the level of intellectual quality they’re shooting for.

I regret not cheating on my boyfriend. Cosmo really is trash.

The scam of black Friday “deals”.

(H/T: SDA, GLP, Vulture, HBD Chick, RamzPaul, Borepatch)

Lightning Round – 2013/11/27

7 ways the red pill will improve your life.

Neoreaction gets a negative write-up in TechCrunch.
Related: Return of Kings gets a write-up in the Daily Mail, Huffpo, and International Business Times.
Related: The eye of Sauron.
Related: How not to contain neoreaction.
Related: So that’s what they think of us.
Related: On neoreaction going mainstream.
Related: James Taranto and the manosphere.
Related: 5 things I learned about women.
Related: Linking Tuthmosis’ article and Asimov.

Comment of the week: “The only power women have ever had over men are sex and shaming language. They surrendered the sex card years ago. And they’ve upped the shaming to such a degree that now it just makes them sound retarded.”

Congratulations to Victor on his success.

Lewis described this process as undulation.

Use fewer words.
Related: Rhetoric and game.

Why you should never date a girl with an eating disorder.

Be the man in your marriage.
Related: Your wife is not the boss; don’t call her that.
Related: On trust in marriage.

Wife test: domesticity.

Vox’s time management strategies.

Spengler’s universal laws.

Changing your environment.

Strategy guide to life.

Lessons from a year of sobriety.

A bachelor’s guide to buying a home: 4 years ago, this would have been useful.

Why men are withdrawing from courtship and how women should respond.
Related: Longer means less.

The conundrum of male SMV and marriage.
Related: The female conundrum.
Related: Compassion fatigue for men who want to complain.
Related: How to change your man.

The singles map: singles are mostly men when young; women when old.

A reminder to not let the manosphere be feminized.

“Christian” women are sometimes the strongest argument against marriage.
Related: God doesn’t allow for divorce in the case of unhappiness.
Related: Some more churchian teaching on marriage.
Related: Hehe.
Related: Some marriage advice from our divorcee. Hehe.
Related: Conservative women eager to take on the feminist label.
Related: 36 things I wish someone told me about divorce.

Fat shaming also requires weight loss support.

Rape culture doesn’t exist.
Related: How to avoid a false rape accusation. Don’t sex sluts?
Related: Girls lying about abuse.

Rhetoric for engaging leftists.
Related: Why the left will call us trolls.
Related: Know the lefties by their fruits.
Related: The destruction principle.
Related: The liberal is incapable of distinguishing truism and paradox.
Related: The small, but important, distinction that libearlism’s goal is not destroying all that is good.
Related: The definition of liberalism.

Cane with two posts on how conservatives should help each other.

How to look at the world like a neoreactionary. Part 2.

Reaction, neoreaction, and material conditions.

The history of the left.

The king’s liberty.
Related: Response to Anti-Reactionary FAQ: Austria.
Related: BBC for monarchy.

The theory of demotist singularity.
Related: Obamacare and the demotist singularity whirlpool.

Multiculturalism is a leftist tactic, not a belief.

The problem of finding fulfillment in your job.

Diversity-backing researchers learn diversity doesn’t work.
Related: 3 reasons diversity doesn’t work.

Black privilege.

3-step cure for the knockout game.
Related: What you are supposed to think about the knockout game.

The holocaust, eugenic effects, and the oddness of its visibility.

Big Media: The messenger is the method.

An explanation of separation of church and state.

The 9/11 memorial and the death of the American empire.

Tell me I’m a good man.

More on the right turning away from cops.

In defence of gentrification.

Social games like this are something I just don’t comprehend. It would never even have occurred to me that someone would do something like this.

Men’s height and sexual selection.

In praise of self-loathing.

Roissy with some links.

Delivering death blows to feminists.

What feminism is.

SSM has a list of some crazy feminist thoughts on hook-ups.
Rhetoric: the stripline.

The lifelong virgin cocktease.

The effect of one on the herd.

Society can’t afford educated women.
Related: The modern corporate harem.

Saving SF from strong female characters. Part 2. Part 3. Related.
Related: The failure of the Bechdale test.
Related: Women destroy SF. Related.

Science: A hot wife leads to a happier marriage.

A possible reason women oppose the death penalty: they are attracted to the murderers.

Fat acceptance in the wild.

Artifical birth control is ineffective for fatties. Hmmm… is this fatshaming?

Movember is sexist, racist, and transphobic. I think I might join in next year.
Related: Micro-aggressions.
Related: PB&J sandwiches are raciss.

Slut-shaming enforced mainly by women.

Violating the three rules of sexual harassment in the comics industry.

The self-destructiveness of homosexuals

Filial responsibility laws: I did not know of this.
Related: Ignore your parents. My parents are solid; they wouldn’t do this.

Study: Small schools are better.

Gun control is Yankee prejudice.
Related: The double-standard on violence.
Related: The gun control crowd creates game where you re-enact the Sandy Hook massacre.

Socialism in action: coming soon to a country near you.

Mammon allows no other gods before it.

The abuse of civil forfeiture.

Missionary dating: to the extreme!

A bank deposit is an unsecured loan to the bank.

Greece: Half of new HIV cases are self-inflicted to receive government benefits.

Hezbollah fears more suicide attacks. I’m sure there’s irony here somewhere.

Congo: The alliance of NGO’s, mining corps, and kleptocrats against the Tutsis.

Antidepressant use on the rise. Iceland at a 50% usage rate.

Employment statistics were faked.
Related: How British authorities skew crime stats.

Krugman is still failing.

Free health care zone” proposal.
Related: How Obamacare is destroying the working class.

GM forced to recall 19k cars because a sticker may peel.

Cracked does not like that man has natural biases.

“The ordinary man trusts Rob Ford because Rob Ford knows he is not clever enough to run other people’s lives. He cannot even run his own. John Tory, by contrast, isn’t clever enough to know that no matter how clever you think you are, you can never be clever enough to run anyone’s life but your own.”

(H/T: SDA, Maggie’s Farm, Dalrock, GLP, Smallest Minority)

Lightning Round – 2013/11/20

Advice to those struggling in the faith.

“Christianity is not about acceptance. It is not about tolerance. It is about separating the wheat from the chaff and dividing the sheep from the goats. In his own words, Jesus makes it perfectly clear that he did not come to bring peace. He is, in fact, the dividing factor.”
Related: Christians are required to be dicks.

Are women attracted to evil? And the righteous alpha.

Of love and lust.

If you stopped something, would anyone care?

ABlack spade (cards) recommends LARPing.

The discounting of lived male experience.

Vox with some marriage advice.
Related: Badger responds.
Related: Rules for fighting.

Feminists are bad at economics.

Why do feminists think women are only good for sex? What else of value does a feminist contribute?

A failure of leadership in churches concerning women and home-making.
Related: A disgusting pedestalization of women.

You’re likely to get a lot less sex in marriage than you desire.

Backleading is unattractive.

Women: keep your hair long if you want to attract a guy.
Related: Zhai2nan2 has a great suggestion.

Rebellion as deadly threat.

Black-knighting: mutual rape.

Man’s attraction is stable, woman’s is dynamic.

Calling women ma’am.

A letter about someone I once knew.

The decline of the cultural foundation.

The rumblings of discontent and our future.

Heaven on earth.

Does Europe have more hope than the US?
Related: A bit more on immigration in Europe and the US.

Neoreaction in the Daily Caller. Good on Bryce.
Related: Outsideness is weirded out.

Radish knocks it out of the park on democracy and intellectuals.

Anti-anti-reactionary FAQ: Sluts.

Why do so many liberals want the government to behave like a plantation owner?

You can never know where the edge is, for unexpected equilibrium forces may arise.

Neoreactionary economics.

Democracy as warfare.

The problem with “we need religion”.

My take: All right-thinking, orthodox Christians should work together in our war. Our differences are petty compared to the what our common foes wish to unleash.

America should treat its young better.

On Alger Hiss.

Conservatives are turning against cops.

Stupid U.
Related: Explaining the college bubble.

They have this at my work, but it is entirely optional. I don’t donate and dislike the United Way because my first year working I used the workplace campaign to donate to World Vision and a local Christian soup kitchen and the UW took about 10% off for administrative costs. I do still go to the pizza and chili fundraisers. Also, it is horribly inefficient as the amount of time (ie. government salary dollars) and resources spent on this campaign far outweigh the meager amounts they do fund-raise.

Advice for media interviews.

Hazing is good.

An interesting Augustine quote to ponder.

A Watsoning in Denmark.

Why the left hates Tom Kratman.

Thank you Military.”

France, ADHD, and school shootings.

Police your institutions or the leftists will overtake them.

HR women discriminating against pretty women.
Related: Abolish HR

Gays can now enjoy the wonders of the alimony system.

If you can’t get them from the front, take them from behind.

You can really tell the demographic Obama is reaching out to with Obamacare.
Related: Roissy comments.
Related: A little more Obamacare schaedenfreude.

Death panels may be the only ethically justifiable aspect of Obamacare.

The 97% consensus “factoid” is false.

Kerry O’Brien, Walter Forrest, Dermot Lynott, and Michael Daly are publishing bad science.

16 things foreigners couldn’t believe about America.

Slate makes one of the best anti-food stamp arguments I’ve read in a while.

For the Canucks: Trudeau’s greatest hits.

(H/T: SDA, Foseti,

Lightning Round – 2013/11/13

A shorter one today. I have some new responsibilities at work which may decrease the reading I do, leading to shorter LR’s in the future.

18 things every 18-year-old should know. Don’t agree with every one of them, but it’s mostly excellent advice.

Stop searching for secrets to success; take action.
Related: How to get everything you want.
Related: Where to find motivation.

Women, value, and praise.

Female beauty is a gift from God, appreciate it; have standards.

Stoics and romance.

Post-scarcity and the sexual marketplace.
Related: Crowding out the private sector husband.

The new script is nothing like the old script.
Related: Our society knows nothing of marriage.

Female divorce calculator. The women I want to marry would have a 7% risk; not bad.

A defence of duty sex.

On ethno-nationalism.

Potential approximations of neoreaction.

This history of the nations of North America reads awfully like neoreactionary history.

The primacy of scripture: Ballista recommends I use scripture alone.
Related: Protestantism, Catholicism, and the Bible.

Satanism in the church.

Reality fails the Bechdal test.

The lie of “feminism is believing men and women deserve equal rights.”

Gender equality measures “work”.

“Men do not need a “movement”. Men do not need to “go their own way”. Men like women need truth.”

Is paternity fraud worse than rape?

Why women oppose prostitution.

Orson Scott Card’s interview answer.

The new rules of engagement.
Related: Helena Kincaid demands free stuff.
Related: TV is evil.

The difference between totalitarianism and our modern petty authoritarianism is the totalitarians assumed you would become a man, our authoritarians assume you will remain a boy.

The failure of conservatism.

The wages of socialism. Coming soon to a country near you.

More indoctrination in the common core.

Minimum wage destroys the black working class.

The success of Zimbabwe.

On right-wing authoritarianism.

An experiment on the racism of liberals.

The left pursues solidarity over truth.
Related: Remember, the barbarians hate the very concept of beauty.

Is the Flynn effect due to life becoming more like an IQ test?

(H/T: SDA)

Lightning Round – 2013/11/06

Science and game: flirting trumps looks. Great post.

The female fear of male standards.
Related: The loser mentality of the left.

Submission and corrupted authority.
Related: “Why do modern women try to use sex to secure commitment from men?”

On gender constructs.
Related: Why sluttiness is unattractive.

Victim-predators.

Testing a wife: is she a good worker?

Micro- and macro-game.

Social Pathologist thinks the Cathedral is lining up for a major attack on the manosphere.

Even old women hate gammas.

As outside, so inside: you can judge a book by its cover.

7th century BC poet on women.
Related: An African folk tale.

Good advice on ripping off restaurants and credit card companies. I do both.

Two books by John Durant that look worth reading.

20 signs he’s a player.

Where have all the good women gone?
Related; Women’s worst enemies are other women.

Savages and the post-civilized world.

The end of the grey middle.

Making neoreaction simple.
Related: The conceptual tools of neoreaction.

Anti-anti-reactionary FAQ: ever-leftward movement.
Related: The anti-anti-reactionary FAQ: freedom and monarchy.

The neoreactionary racial litmus test. I do rather like Sowell myself.

The shibboleth threat.

Entryism and apostolic succession.

Orson Scott Card on the SFWA.

Hitting the left where it hurts.
Related: Punch back twice as hard. Don’t support the left.

Rumblings of the Catholic right.

Tradition and broadway.

3 possible reasons for leftist behaviour.

Rollo, Susan Walsh, and SMV.
Related: Some more on Walsh’s errors. And some more.

Things seem to be going well for Chad.
Related: He’s voting no longer.

A letter to millenials.

How Alger Hiss explains the Tea Party.

Leftist propaganda in Toronto.

The pull of Harvard.

Another story of life in liberal academia.

The degeneration of language.

Week of praise: Zooey Deschanel.

Vaccines are racist.

The pro-Vietnam war hard hat riots.

Women should not be held responsible for their actions after drinking.
Related: Fixing rape culture in 3 easy steps.

Looks like the MRA’s are getting some support from feminists.

Feminism: Marriage for me but not for thee.
Related: More from Tracy Clarke-Flory, where she becomes an unfeminist bridezilla.
Related: Hehe… Talk of feminist weddings. Feminists are funny.

Slate XX feminist engages in beard shaming. I love the hypocrisy of feminists.

How feminism undermined itself.

Gamers, Anita Sarkeesian, and narcissism.

Study: Paid maternity leave doesn’t work.

Murdering grandma does not reduce health care costs.

Canada has lotteries for a family doctor. I have a family doctor I haven’t seen in 5 years; I usually just use a drop-in if I need. The only reason I got to sign up was because I phoned the clinic the first hour on opening day.

DC Court of Appeals strikes down birth control mandate.

A small list of Obama’s lies and abuses.
Related: The NYT covers for Obama.
Related: It is now acceptable for the president to directly influence journalists. Wonder what the reaction would be if his name was Nixon?

Whitehouse pressuring insurance insiders who speak about ACA.

““Can’t you email it to me?” Alice asked. We’re not set up for that, the Obamacare operator replied.” Everything you need to know about government in one sentence.

Matt Walsh becomes a liberal.

Your Brahmin superiors lecturing you on your mode of transport.

How are you enjoying the ice-free Arctic.

The stupidity of forcing your parenting strategies on others.

Rules of writing: the four elements of a novel.

 

(H/T: GLP, Instapundit, SDA,

Lightning Round – 2013/10/30

Shattering the delusion; a must-read for Christian men. I’ve come to a similar conclusion in the last year.

SMV is real; the data supports Rollo’s chart.
Related: The deeper economics of the sexual marketplace.

The single father deficit crisis. Related.

Related: Defeating the demon of entitlement.

Rollo on NAWALT.

See a woman how she sees herself.
Related: Using “good girl”.
Related: Sadly, shallow communication is where I am the most weak.

A follow-up to the Daily Beast article of last week.

Wives and denial of sex in marriage.
Related: Lazy housewives.
Related: The love and caring of submission.
Related: Bored housewives: women need struggle.

On the proper division of housework.

HUS goes off the rails in her criticism of the SMV graph.
Related: HUS goes further off the rail in regards to rape stats.
Related: A bit more on Susan’s intelelctual failure.
Related: Man, Susan has taken a lot of criticism this week.

Jack Donovan on the 20/20 piece, the KKK, and Salon.

Basic girl game: how to land and keep a boyfriend.

Defining tradcon feminism: Theory, Principles,

The insane anti-female ideology of modern feminism.
Related: Pope Pius XI on women.

Courting, marriage, and busting rates. If she’s not happy with a very basic ring, she’s not worth marrying.

Women are either equal or they aren’t.

Can stupid, young women be held accountable?

A good post on the victim culture of the “rape culture” movement.

Now that is cynical.

Fecundophobia.

On modesty.

Maybe I should use less foul language here? “Evil words for evil things”, but is that just self-justification for using degenerate language? Hmmm…

I wonder how long until some of these divorced men start murdering the judges?

On being friends with women.

ABlack spade (cards)’s story.
Related: Francis’ journey.

Dicipres returns after a couple months to advocate spanking your wife.

“It is the OBLIGATION of any man who wants to better civilization by promoting intellectual endeavours, learning and civilized behaviour to ALSO be attractive to women.”

The distinction between the good of groups and of individuals.

Neoreaction research priorities
Related: Questions.

The underlying problem of the anti-reaction FAQ.
Related: The decline frame.
Related: In response to claims concerning Chang Hsien-chong
Related: Jim on crime against the anti-reactionary FAQ.
Related: The problem of measuring the decline.

Neoreaction is anti-utopian.

Monarchy, Schelling points, and Japan.

The necessity of propaganda.

Democracy is rule by idiots who vote for things that sound good to them at the time.”

Brian Leiter, philosopher and Brahmin paragon, wants to lock you up.

Defectives deserve death.

Why have major technological changes stopped since the 1960s?

A bleak view of the church’s immediate future.

The iron laws of pedagogy.

Half of newborns will see their parents split by 15.
Related: A divorced friend or relative greatly increases odds of divorce.

How to fight the welfare bums.

Looking forward to our future of eating beans.

America Inc. and the trouble with Texas.
Related: A book review and a good discussion of immigration.
Related: Immigration and female coders.

Race, crime, and the creation of banlieus in America.

The outrages of public school are not a failing; they’re the goal.

The curse of the middle class: the ambiguity of status.

The pill and the doctrine of double effect.

Hehe… Steve Sailer with a great little quip.

Secular theism.

25 reasons for Trinitarian scepticism.

Against ADHD.

Advice for preppers.

“The whole purpose of politics and hence of government is to reward failure, if people succeed and prosper, the they don’t need government. Politicians* promise unearned rewards, and the more vicious ones promise to penalise success. Some set out to penalise success and promise reward to those who set them on their way.”

The seen and unseen in Sweden. I noticed similar in Norway; a pizza was about $30-40 and a McD’s cheeseburger meal was about $10.

The problem of the 40-hour work week.

The government wants to start tracking your car, at some point.

Armed citizen prevents mass shooting.

Wow… That’s one awesome 10-year-old.

Pepper-spraying cop awarded $38k in damages.

Gays: the creation of a voting bloc.

A great post on healthcare.
Related: Obama knowingly lied about people not losing their insurance. I’m surprised.
Related: Once more, those in pain must suffer to protect the failures from themselves.

Just another example of the institutionalized lies of the left.

France: A warning on the self-limiting nature of government.

Why should banks be able to blame the victims of identity thefts for the banks’ errors?

The philosophical failure of modern science.
Related: Science has lost its way.

The changing politics of public sector pensions.

Food stamp enrollment increased by 70%.

(H/T: Phantom Soapbox, Rex, CC, Foseti, Instapundit)

Lightning Round – 2013/10/23

It’s your fault.
Related: The minimalist’s guide to being rich.
Related: The great hamster wheel.

Generation Fucked Over.
Related: Why kids today don’t have it easy.
Related: A failure of parenting.

The quest for truth.
Related: Why man needs his myths.

r/K selection and master-slave morality.

A rant against rants against church rants.

ABC would lie (read the comments) about the manosphere? Colour me shocked.
Related: CC on the article.
Related: The article is a pre-planned hatchet job on the MRM and manosphere.
Related: JB thinks it will be a train wreck.
Related: Matt Forney on his interview.
Related: It’s a hit piece, but it will still grow us.
Related: Roissy with his take.
Related: Private Man’s take.
Related: Kid Strangelove with a liberal take.
Related: Dr. Illusion’s take.
Related: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
Related: ABC, 20/20 and the Manosphere: the real story.
Related: Is Sarah Figalora guilty of journalistic fraud?
Realted: Are Alyssa Pry and Alexa Valiente Guilty of Journalistic Fraud?
Related: This cracked me up. Hilarious.
Related: Dr. Illusion on the piece.

Some more mainstream coverage of the manosphere. Never heard of this Hembling person though.
Related: SSM is picked up by Amanda Marcotte. We’re nearing the big time.

The truth of manosphere community beliefs.

Having both parents, father and mother, matters.

SSM would rather be owned by her husband than the state.

Amos & Gromar expertly dissect the lies of feminist slut culture. Young women, read this.
Related: How feminism self-perpetuates; today’s slut, tomorrow’s spinsters. I think #7 is by far the most telling of the list.
Related: The pyrrhic victory of a Tuesday night bang.
Related: The math of feminism and marriage.

The rise of the Renegade Alpha.

How to escalate with women 101.

Why Ace fears strong, independent women.

The dictatorship of the crazy woman.
Related: Vox advises men on how to deal with crazy.
Related: Another little lesson about divorce.
Related: Women are the threat to marriage.

The utter worthlessness of feminists displayed.

Women whine because they’re sensitive to others perceptions.

Female privilege.

JB is moving to aVfM.

Rollo defends his SMV graph.
Related: A woman shouldn’t try to know her number.

The wages of female education in Japan and Singapore.
Related: Welcome to Japan: our future, today.

Rape culture vultures.
Related: “Rape” is ex post facto regret.
Related: The modern definition of rape.
Related: Racist Sandra Foehl continues to help destroy falsely accused man’s life.

Liberal feminist: Best rape prevention is for women to stop getting wasted.
Related: Alcohol-related rape is the only crime for which liberals desire harsher penalties rather than prevention.

Women wear make-up to advertise their fertility.

Laid gets chicks qualifying to him with #FatShamingWeek.
Related: Why fat shaming is unnecessary.

Evil cupcakes are sexists who prey on young women.

A bit on sexbots.

Fiat everything.

An anti-reactionary FAQ; the first rational, comprehensive objection to the neoreaction. It’s very well done and will take a good while to unpack.
Related: Michael writes off a quick response.
Related: Bryce has a response on sluttiness.

On the other end of the spectrum: what the hell is a dark neoreactionary?
Related: Why lie when the truth should be sufficient.

Reactionaries and neoreactionaries.

The casual cruelty of the Brahmin overclass.

A new Moldbuggian class.

Sanctimonious Fnargl.

Leap on voting laws. Seems like he might start leaning towards monarchy soon.

An excerpt on revolution.

Atheism can’t be practised.

The new use of old churches.

Arm the world.

The future depends on libraries.

Scientistry and seamless transitions.
Related: Be careful of trusting experts.
Related: The failure of modern science.

Pseudohistory.

Food security and poverty aren’t the issue; tradition is.
Related: Poor people aren’t really poor.
Related: If you want to prevent starvation, shoot a socialist.

If I were in charge of welfare

72 hours without EBT.
Related: Obama’s stormtroopers are being summoned.

They are coming for you.

Why Obama doesn’t matter.

Potemkin parliament.
Related: The re-iterated game of chicken.

Bipartisanship sucks.
Related: A shameful episode.

The country is finding out what’s in the Obamacare bill. This bill is cutting a huge swath through the middle class. Guess the Brahmins have finally been able to stick it to the Vaisyas nice and hard.
Related: Canada has death panels and ‘that’s a good thing’.
Related: Surgery caps in Canada. Something else for Yanks to look forward to.
Related: Obama vows to exempt himself from Obamacare.
Related: Obamacare offers voter registration. Might as well get the parasites right from the host.
Related: Daily K-os is learning what’s in the bill.

The government really is the only thing all leftists belong to.

Another housing bubble in the making?

Democrats and public school teachers send their kids to private school.

Yale professor surprised to find Tea Party scientifically literate because he doesn’t know any.

The nuttiness of Salon.

Dogs are great.

The inevitable zombie apocalypse.

Some ideas on reparations.

Pirates are complaining about being treated as such.

Roundabouts and social capital.

Asians and cheating.
Related: Stupid U and faking the GPA.

Modern sugar consumption. (Although the 765g and 4.3lbs factoids seem contradictory).

A possible video game crash in the near future?

Little girls like to know they’re pretty; in a decent society their father would reassure them. In our society, they must turn to strangers on the internet.

The hypocrisy of liberals once again illustrated:
Emily Bazelon, Oct. 15, 5:39 PM: Charging two female teenagers for bullying someone to death is wrong. Blame the parents.
Emily Bazelon, Oct. 15, 9:35 PM: It’s good to charge two male teenagers for drunken sex. What parents?
Remember: Males are always to blame, females are never to blame.

(H/T: Instapundit, Foseti, SDA, On the Rock, Isegoria, CC)

Lightning Round 2013/10/16

#FatShamingWeek ends. #AnorexiaShamingWeek fails to gain traction.
Related: A round-up on the success.
Related: Top 14 tweets from #FatShamingWeek. None of mine.
Related: Your forefathers would be ashamed of your physical condition.
Related: Atheists are fat.
Related: A fat tax proposal.
Related: Fat gays are shamed as well.
Related: I feel almost guilty over how much I laughed over this.

Amos and Gromar post their 26 theses. Great stuff.

Joseph did not man up.

On wifely submission.
Related: SSM on submission.
Related: Cane on where submission ends. I think he has the right of it.
Related: A heart-warming story of strength and submission.

New Blog: Die Gallantly. Some good stuff; he seems to concentrate on finances and productivity.

Matt Forney has the last laugh.
Related: Judgy Bitch makes actual legitimate criticisms of Matt’s infamous insecurity piece.
Related: Feminist lies about Roosh’s book. Surprising.

Every man has a breaking point.

There’s not enough time to do everything you want.

Elevating romantic love above real love.

Do people fear romantic success more than failure?
Related: Humour: 5 ways you sabotage your love life.

Why millenials had to exist.

A guest post by Deti on the average American girl.
Related: Donal finds a story of warning.
Related: The parable of two fortunes.

Girl game for quiet girls.

Saving the family is fundamental to saving society.

What is to be done?
Related: The ground is moving.

The Last Psychiatrist with another great one on media. Also, this comment is one of the greatest examples of missing the point I have ever read.

The modern “right wing” exists to take the blame of the failings of the left.

A Brave New World glossary.

What if men disappeared?

A variety of manosphere-related studies.
Related: Divorce risk correlates with a wife’s share of household income.

Studies on low testosterone.

A snail mail experiment.

Under feminism women are less human.

Seven ways American women have replaced dad with government.

It’s only rape when the he doesn’t fall in love.
Related: Feminist hypocrisy on menstruation.
Related: The real sexual double standard. Hypocrisy from the left? Surprising.

Women who don’t get men.

Imagine the outcry if this were boys rating girls. The hypocrisy is astounding though: “When it does, that will be a different story.”

Quitting is leadership, if you’re a woman.

Erin Pizzy and the domestic violence industry.
Related: The delusion of women regarding DV.

It’s always funny watching feminists whine about threats of violence after they spent weeks threatening violence against Forney and #FatShamingWeek participants.

Get this: most people find work not meaningful, yet childcare meaningful. Why are feminists insisting on tearing women away from the latter to do the former?

Twitter: As typical white/Asian males build something; everybody else demands the fruits of success.

Female privilege.
Related: Privilege nonsense.

The stupidity of “Safety First!” and entitled parents.

The age neg.

Even at my most omega, I never would have even contemplated being this pathetic.
Related: GBFM with some more greatness buried in the comments.

Religiousity: Cooperation or reproduction.

On segregation.

Russian race riot.
Related: The rise of rape in Sweden.
Related: Sweden’s egalitarianism isn’t. Surprising.

Everything you need to know about feminism in one sentence: “I love (and hate) dating Russian men: The macho guys from my home country leave me torn between my feminist beliefs and my sexual desires.”

Front National in the lead.

Golden Dawn second most popular party in Greece.
Related: Greece may begin confiscating private assets.

The slow birth of American secessionism.

Police 3x as likely to murder you as concealed carry permit holders.

More NSA spying revelations.

US Army: Christians are a hate group. What happens when Christians stop joining the army?
Related: Are the recent military purges suspicious?

There will be no default (sadly).

The falling wages of American society.

EBT cards go down at Walmart. Turmoil in food stamp nation.
Related: EBT theft.

90 climate projections vs. reality.

Obamacare is not the law of the land.
Related: Obamacare website crashing because they don’t want you to know the cost.
Related: Obamacare was started as a throwaway line for a stump speech.

NPS goons remove trail water fountain handles

Making Indians suffer.
Related: The story of the state’s destruction of A&P.

Ashkenazi Jews may be Italians.

How to rename the Redskins.

The war on Halloween.

Animating women is hard because they have larger ranges of emotions.

Feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesian stole her game sources. Related video below:

(H/T: Phineas, SDA, Art of Man, InstapunditD&P, Will, CC)

Lightning Round – 2013/10/09

If you’re not reading Matt Forney’s Twitter feed, you’re missing one of the greatest things on the internet in a while. Also on Twitter, #FatShamingWeek.

Some good marriage game advice.
Related: Sometimes it’s the little things that matter.

Donal with a good analysis of romantic architecture.
Related: Cane on women and their number.

Chooser and chosen.

The myth of the PUA.
Related: Game and truth.
Related: The amoral symmetry between PUAs and prositutes.

Break down your ego.

Beauty is not subjective.

Chivalry is dead; women killed it.
Related: The evolution of the white knight.

The downfall of assortive mating.
Related: The rape of our culture: Marriage is supposed to be a bedrock, not a capstone.
Related: Some evidence women are using the government to supplant men.

Martel takes a break.

Choosing the best workout plan. Timely for me as I am beginning a workout plan and almost let the best be the enemy of the good.
Related: Six pack abs.

And people wonder why young men are angry and irresponsible?
Related: The real gender gap.

Is progress holding us back?

Answers to 10 objections to traditionalism and monarchism.
Related: A world of security.

You are comfortable, but you are alone.

Material conditions and mass psychology.
Related: When to appropriate progressive concepts.

The lies aren’t alright.

Churchill and communism.

The Cathedral has a branch in Canada as well.
Related: The stupidity and ignorance of the CBC.

McCarthy was right.

Roissy pulls out an insightful comment.

Do people even date anymore? Decent comments.

The war on Christians. Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world.

How far should churches go to appeal to men?
Related: The idol worship of Christian women.

Remember, it’s all about her.
Related: WRE: Mormon Edition.

More churchian marriage advice.
Related: Some more unbiblical, “Christian” teaching on marriage.

Womanly interests and frivolity.

What Francis shows Catholics about Catholics.

Titanic movies illustrate the decline.

How Oklahoma was settled in a day. This could not happen in our modern world.

Guess the KKK-infested county.

The soft trauma of standardized education.

The mainstream war on comments.

People are beginning to know what’s in the bill.
Related: Enforcing Obamacare. Possibly a hoax.

Unfortunately the government has not shut down.
Related: The shutdown is lawful, democratic government at its finest.

An open letter to Obama. Ouch.
Related: White House purposefully screws over veterans for political reasons.
Related: Blogging the shutdown.
Related: Park that receives no federal funding ordered shutdown.
Related: Punishing your enemies.
Related: Bureaucrats attempt to inflict unnecessary pain.
Related: Abuses in the name of the shutdown.
Related: Yet somehow the mall can be specially opened for immigration reform protesters. Shocking.
Related: McDonald’s employee paid $15/hr by unions to protest veterans.

Make gaming better by ruining it.

Roosh: matchmaker.

Stereotyping is a feature, not a bug.

Important lessons on rape for females.

As I’ve said before: the defining feature of current feminism is that women are devoid of agency.

Cheating, beating, and male privilege.

Feminist fascism starts young.
Related: Women regretting having feminist mothers.

Remember Tracy Clarke-Flory? She fantasized about being a stripper and now is banning her beta husband from going to a strip club.

Are liberals functionally retarded? How can someone not know the difference between hating the sin and hating the sinner?

Those poor holier-than-thou leftists. How can they  reconcile their ideology with their actions? (Notice the answer is self-segregate and white flight).

America declines; DC grows.

The price of delusion.

The New Republic implies Obama should shell congress.

(H/T: SDA, Instapundit, Tam)

Lightning Round – 2013/08/02

How winning is done.

Started using this: HabitRPG. Look like it might be a good self-improvement tool.

The Last Psychiatrist is back with a doozy: “Reducing yourself because you think it’s a show of solidarity is a straight up chick thing to do… only a woman would allow another person to reduce themselves in a show of support.”

The ten-year friendship heuristic.

Boys need to prove their manhood.
Related: Making a natural.

Rhetoric Lessons: Repackaging yourself.
Related: A bit more on negs: they are not insults.
Related: If it isn’t fun you aren’t doing it right.

Romance and the red pill.

Roosh makes a list of 10 books every man should read.
Related: Rollo has released his book. I’ll probably read/review it when it gets to Amazon.

Radish takes on feminism with excellent results.
Related: Defend civilization: slut-shame.
Related: Traditional gender roles beget more sex.

How a woman can get the guy.
Related: Timeless marriage advice for the young Christian woman.
Related: The paradox of hypergamy.
Related: New site: Women for Men.

The road to marriage: sammiches.
Related: Food=love. Beware any women unwilling to cook for you.

Female outliers: the part is subordinate to the whole.

The boyfriend/girlfriend culture.

Don Jon and pornography. Glenn’s take.

The stupidity of adolescence.

Discernment and the sexes.

The worthlessness of modern oaths.

The coming suicide epidemic.

The modernist denial of the other.

Moldbug’s Gentle Introduction is available in .pdf format. Read it if you haven’t. Also, wow, 269 pages. It didn’t’ seem that long when I was reading it on the blog.
Related: Some Moldbug quotes to ease you in.

Religion, eugenics, and evolution.

The fascism of “anti-fascists”.
Related: A coup d’etat in the works in Greece?

Original sin and anti-racism.
Related: A letter from a university TA forced to take “diversity training.”
Related: Black progressives call for the replacement of white Americans.

All non-consensual touch is sexual assault.
Related: The biggest challenge facing young women.
Related: Feminist catchphrase translator.

The cancerous corporate empire.

The disgusting view of the Cathedral toadies.
Related: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists, but they always win anyway.

A UoToronto professor not interested in teaching books by women; the lynch mob fires itself up in the comments.  A feminist who’s not a complete fascist responds.

The difference between conservative and liberal solidarity.

The fake shutdown confrontation.

Why many people believe government leaves them alone.

Karl Denniger drops out.

The face of the average women in different countries. (Germany, Sweden, and Netherlands win).

Even millionaire women are hypergamous.

Against the current pope.
Related: The pope’s personal beliefs are not the greatest concern.
Related: The old religion is gone.
Related: The provincialism of present papal politics.

For the Christians: Butt-prints in the Sand.

Feminism has taken over Christianity Today. Time to rename it: Progressivism Today.

A planned birth control proposal. I’ve become more opposed on a moral level to birth control over the last while, so I’m not sure what I think of this plan.

Hatemonger Kyla Garvey gets two firemen fired.

Bertie Brandes, writer for the Guardian and Vice UK, calls for illegal action against a private website. Let’s see if we can make her calls for illegal action get ranked for her name on Google. Also, this deluded woman, who writes for the Guardian of all places, fantasizes that she is the one raging against the machine. How warped a mind does it take to even consider that a remote possibility?

Homosexuals persecuting Christians in the Air Force. There is no gay agenda.

Putin deals with pirates.

Australia wins right to remain Australian.

Bearing arms is a basic human right (or would be if I believed in human rights).
Related: Women disarming America.
Related: Seems the women at Slate have a selective like of self-defence.
Related: The consequences of following the advice of the VP.

Some stupid pro-abortion arguments thrashed.

Right Wing Obamacare Myths DEBUNKED! Hehe…
Related: Obamacare: expectations and reality.
Related: Obamacare, punishing marriage.

Humour: 5 Ridiculous Myths about the Dark Ages.

Six castles that cost less than NYC apartments.

(H/T: Instapundit, Anissimov, SDA, Isegoria, vulture, Apricity)