Category Archives: Lightning Round

Lightning Round – 2015/07/15

The delta perspective on dating: part 1 and part 2.

How to act when you’re fired.

Monkey politics and political entrepreneurship.
Related: Building an organizational ladder.
Related: Thoughts on creating an antiversity.

It’s time to kill conservatism.

Notes on our war: Never give up.

Status and deviancy.
Related: They stripped marriage of its sacredness.
Related book review: Death of the Family.
Related: Gawker keeping track of who stopped clapping first.
Related: Russia unveils ‘straight flag’.

The difference between a totalitarian and an authoritarian.

Non-discriminatory lending. Read Handle’s comment as well.

They drove you from the cities, now they want to drive you from the suburbs.
Related: The banlieuification of Chicago.
Related: Some history of neighbourhood destruction.

Embracing race.
Related: The praxoleogy of privilege.

Economists fail at basic math on open borders.

The density divide.

Innovation propaganda.

Share your pedoteacher links.

Anti-Dem with some anecdotes of a friend.

Public choice+.

NRx schism.

On the noble lie.

Working for protection from “hostile environment” firings.

Frazzled.

Walmart, the hoodrat hatchery.

The Benedict Option: the parallel society.

What Bonald’s blog is for.

SCOTUS and the love of Jesus, part 2.

Roissy points out the horrors of the Christian adoption scene.

Disrespecting the respectable.
Related: Young, male, and single: The gender imbalance.
Related: Revenge of the lost boys.
Related: Why would someone intervene to prevent a shitlib from being culturally enriched?

The playa’s paradise.

Weev: Misogyny and Ellen Pao.
Related: Pao is gone from Reddit.

UK: Marriage and children are legal slavery.

Sexual liberalism consuming itself.

Marines: Accountability is abuse.

Female singers and the sexual market.

World War V starts rolling.

Crime and IQ negatively linked. Surprising.

How to ruin batgirl.

The social media shaming of Pax Dickinson.

Time for European Jews to find safety in Israel.

Dissecting Politifact’s smear of Trump.

The bias of Wikipedia.

Microsoft fires local and hires global.

The NYT lies (surprising).

A brainstorm with Wright is upcoming.

Planned Parenthood sells baby parts.

Dune: 50 years on.

SCIENCE!: Ice age on the way.

The Greeks surrender to the Euros.

https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/614003599220322304

H/T: SDA, NBS

Lightning Round – 2015/07/08

Time for secession.
Related: Putin supports Texas secession.
Related: Americans see the confederate flag as a symbol of Southern pride, not racism.

On white genocide.

It’s not a conscious conspiracy.

The Harvard Crimson’s support for the Khmer Rouge.

A tale of two ancestor myths.

Greece runs out of others people’s money.
Related: Greece votes against the Euro-deal.
Related: The EU doubles-down in Greece.

Accounting, economics, and capitalism.

Jayman with a large post on HBD.
Related: National merit.

Computers be racist.

Why rightests should troll.

Disgust and biocognition.

An analysis of Back to the Future.

A really good overview of the Benedict Option.
Related: In the world, but orthogonal to it.

SCOTUS and Christ.
Related: Be a bigot.
Related: It’s the same war.
Related: State silences bakers and fines them 135k.
Related: Will is being a bigot. #LoveWins.
Related: Only 45% of gay “marriages” are monogamous.
Related: The ratchet wastes no time: Man applies for marriage license to marry second wife.

Christian culture’s antipathy towards fathers.

On submission.

Beware relationship gurus.

Women choosing travel over family.

Grerp reviews two documentaries on porn.

Never cave to social media.

What Tim Hunt “said” was all a lie.

Stamping out sexism in science.

Reddit Revolt.

On Randi Harper. Part 2.

Transpregnancy.

Trump gets more popular as businesses cut ties.

Hillary does something right.

On Adam Kotsko.

Takei calls Thomas a clown in blackface.

Public schools in Seattle giving 6th graders IUD’s without parent’s permission.

UK schools can confiscate “unhealthy” lunches.

World War B in Cracked.

Some SF history.

H/T: SDA, CC

Lightning Round – 2015/07/01

The delta perspective: responsibility.

New Blog: No Quarter Asked/No Quarter Given.
New NRx podcast: Caligula’s Council.

The organic state, not social engineering.

Truth is enough to rescue the West.

The power dynamics of patriarchy.

Free speech is being killed. Signal and keep up.

It’s time we let the South go.
Related: Confederate flag bans: corporate action or censorship?
Related: Apple removes Civil War games.

We support diversity and equality. Current events.
Related: Packing up and going home.
Related: When cads are the defenders of sexual mores. Related.
Related: Thank you googlers.
Related: A pinch on incense.
Related: Don’t be the first to stop clapping.
Related: Opposing gay marriage already worse than illegal.

Why hypergamy is dysgenic.
Related: Sex and disgust.

Adjusting the connotation of white privilege.
Related: How to escape the age of mass delusion.

The media fomentation of a race war.
Related: The guerilla race war the media covers up.
Related: Manipulating stats to make whites look evil.
Related: The behaviour of the slithery reptile.
Related: How the MSM would have responded had Roof been black.
Related: When will moderates learn they’ll smear you anyway.

A variety of musings from Anti-Dem. He should split these up into shorter posts.

Intelligence matters.

How white supremacy developed into the diversity agenda.

Leftism is a product of status and wealth.

Traditionalism vs rationalism.

Reality is a social construct.

The other is but a foil for the self.

NRx lessons from Scout camp.

Sociology as an inverse weather vane.

On American hyperinflation.

Mike has posted up historic economic information on: the ancient world, WW2, Europe vs China, China (1000-1800), and ancient Greece.

A review of Mad Max.

The Church needs more tribalism.

Episcopalian rot.

How to get men to go to church.

Dalrock with some wage gap data and analysis.

Unexpected consequences: bottled water edition.

Sluts and prudes.

Even the NYT notices the insanity of affirmative consent.

You can’t escape SJW’s, Go edition.

How the SJW response to the Tor boycott reveals their hypocrisy.

The gay Jew confederate.

How the feds asked me to rat out commenters.

How the rangerette’s plan to succeed.

Iceland engaged in massive fiscal austerity in the recovery.

The nonsense of the Obamacare ruling. Scalia’s dissent.

Maybe there’s hope for the kids. #ThanksMichelleObama.

Korea and the Talmud.

Is special ed racist?

Science is not a reliable guide.

The moderate is the man who only shoots at his own side.

Unexpected consequences: bottled water edition.

MAOA-2 gene linked to violence.

Image recognition ANNs.

H/T: NBS, SDA, Isegoria, Thinking Housewife, SSC

Lightning Round – 2015/06/24

The delta perspective: responsibility.

Patriarchy and fatherhood.

The virtues of eros.

A note on marriage.

Public speech is a bad idea.

Neoreaction and powertalk.

Good laws are few.

A racial Fort Sumter.
Related: Who radicalized Dylann Roof?
Related: Roof’s manifesto.
Related: Predictions of Dylann Storm Roof.

Manipulating the news for fun.

Yes, you are a racist.
Related: Believing that the best qualified should get the job is a microaggression.

The uselessness of libertarians. Read the comments.

Transracial and the wrong side of now.
Related: Nothing is real.

The value of place.

Hail to the tyrant.

Trump for prez.

Abusing democracy.

The biology of slavery.

#Elfbrand.

Next up: World War Polyamory (WWP2?).

St. Benedict at RoK.

Glenn Beck’s Disneyworld.

Luis Guiterrez is a traitor.

Delusion and deterrence.
Related: Silence or be silenced.

Join the culture war, boycott Tor.
Related: Moshe Feder calls his customers idiots.
Related: A suspicious pattern of Tor book buyers.
Related: Someday, SJW idiocy will stop be amusing.
Related: The broad-spectrum SJW attack.

Americans have lost confidence in everything.

JP Morgan, celebrate homosexuality or else.

A good idea: make debt principles payments tax deductible.

The price of delayed parenthood.

Male birth control on the way.

3D printing.

Crew resource management.

Amtrak employees works 40-hour days.

Fiction and strategy.
Related: Which is worse, GoT or the culture that watches it.

Tomorrowland.

The war on comedy.

A Greek bank holiday.

Moral reasoning and self-driving cars.

H/T: SDA, Isegoria

Lightning Round – 2015/06/17

NAACP leader outed as white.
Related: Woman denounced for being transracial.
Related: Godfrey Elfwick in USA Today, the BBC (img), and Yahoo News for his #wrongskin trend.
Related: #Wrongskin links.

What are SJW’s?

In defence of evo-psych.

Puppet master Soros.

Social tech and anarcho-tyranny.

Problems with the Puritan thesis. A response.

The pensioner and the aristocrat.

Small government.

Mainstream IQ science.
Related: Smart fractions.
Related: Children of uneducated parents don’t go to college.

The real student crisis.

Your emotions are calculated.

Innovation propaganda.

Concern troll detection.

On Chuck’s banishment.

Social media: judge, jury, and executioner.

Strange Loop: When even Slate thinks you’ve gone too far. Related.

The hatreds of the left.

The empire’s man in Brooklyn.

Degentrification.
Related: Not your pool.
Related: The actual story is different from the official version.
Related: Baltimore: Arrests are down, crime is up.

NYPD chief tells the truth.

Non-discriminatory lending.

The story of Tina Nash and modern poverty. Jim comments.

Utilitarianism is clever stories for disguised evil.

A bit on the Indo-Europeans.

Word fetishes.

Property taxes: sovereign usury?

Big government working with homosexual organizations to punish Christians.

Christians mistaking alphahood for virtue.

You teach people how to treat you.

Customs of intersexual interactions.

The delta perspective.

Man is raped by woman, then expelled for sexual assault.

Old-school scientist on lab girls. Related.
Related: Nobel scientist says women take things personally, women take it personally.
Related: Hung out to dry. Never apologize, never resign.

British government warns of delaying child-bearing due to spiralling IVF costs.

The OPM leak.

Tor continues to attacking customers.
Related: The difference between Puppies and anti-Puppies.
Related: We are real people. More. More. Related.
Related: Pushing closer to war with Tor.

Geeks, mops, and sociopaths: the birth of cool.

Reddit is dying. An alternative.

The PhD lottery.

America’s obesity hits record highs. More.

Why Wintery Knight has an alias.

Scott Alexander is too racist and right-wing.

Trannies make up about 0.007% to 0.029% of the population.

Bill Maher: Liberals are killing comedy.

Hulkamania could ruin Gawker.

Waifus in Forbes.

H/T: SDA,

Lightning Round – 2015/06/10

Anglo-Americanism.

Moldbug has been banned from a tech conference. More.
Related: Stop oppressing us, the lynch mob cries.
Related: Yarvin is only the beginning.
Related: Some comments.
Related: A list of StrangeLoop sponsors.
Related: Boston, Comstock, and puritanism.

The purpose of absurdity.
Related: More on absurdity.
Related: More Chinese wisdom.

Neoreaction, state, and taxes.

Gazing into the Kali Yuga. Part 2.
Related: Cat lady culture.

City and small-town life.
Related: When did healthy communities become illegal?

Rehabilitating the slippery slope.

Socio-civilizational short circuits.

The expansion of anarcho-tyranny.
Related: The 100 most dangerous cities.
Related: Goodbye Sweden.

The war on cash.
Related: Coming confiscations of your bank deposits.
Related: No exit options.

Replacing the schooling pattern.
Related: Against college degree requirements.
Related: The revolution is eating its own.

Jews are beginning to feel threatened.

Spandrell says to leave Twitter.

A theory of social technology.
Related: Patching the holes of monarchy with social technology.

The circle of equity.

The reality no one wants to admit about Heroin addiction.

Murray on the Albion’s Seeds hypothesis.

The concept of psychopathy makes you weak.
Related: How to spot a psychopath.
Related: Is psychopathy an anti-concept? Laurel says no.

The double-standards of leftist moral outrage and the Duggars.

An odd study on teen pregnancy.

A boomer marriage of convenience. Heh.

A review of Bryce’s book.

Babel.

Navigating hopelessness and despair.

The devil’s own and pride.

Lies and righteousness.

 Moose writes a short story: Interesting idea but he needs more practice with fiction.

On Dr. Harley’s marriage destroying advice.

80% of women lie every day.

Feminists: Never happy even when they get what they want, comic book edition.

Questioning what to do when a business partner turns on you.
Related: Thinking of opening up RP/SP against Tor itself.
Related: An apology from Tom Doherty. Not accepted.
Related: The rules of the game.

#GG gets FCC guidelines for reviewing put in place. Not sure what I think of this.

It’s racist to expect teachers to be literate.

Sailer with some observations on McDonald’s 70’s ads to blacks.

Baltimore wanted less policing, got it. Homicide rates spike.

Diet Coke story probably fake. How surprising.

The replacement of Science with marketing research.

Why Krugman is a Keynesian.
Related: Yglesias tells the truth on taxes.

Both Slate Star Codex and Captain Capitalism mentioned at Cracked in a silly article.

Seems there’s been more plane crashes than normal.

Tobacco does not cause 400,000 deaths a year.

H/T: AG, NBS, SSC, Land

Lightning Round – 2015/06/02

Don’t worry, despair. More.
Related: There will be no big event.
Related: Taleb refutes Pinker on war.

The Benedict Option.

A short argument for traditions.

A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

The victimocracy.

Conquest’s Second Law.

Genetic failure.
Related: Are women without children failures?
Related: On young women who don’t want children.
Related: A divorced woman tells of the reality behind her happy lies.

On functional institutions.

Glanton quits Social Matter.

Expropriation and elite insecurity.

A comic on agency.

Half of science is wrong. An underestimate?
Related: The unreliability of science.
Related: Science magazine is not science.

When public policy meets elementary biology.

The moron elite.
Related: Re-educating the education.

The electoral addiction.
Related: The Athenians wanted democracy and got it good and hard.

The shape of censorship.
Related: Twister, a secure Twitter clone.

There is no solution to diversity.

Cargo cult liberalism.

Those old, effective, competent racists.

New Blog: American Identitaire. Tactical consideration.

Why thrust agency on those who neither want nor have it?

Why little countries become big symbols.

The end of the student loan bubble.

A review of Sarah Perry’s book: Every Cradle is a Grave.

A pill divided.

Calling writers: Irrational wiki.

Cuckalodeon.

Moral ambiguity.

On worship.

Vox answers some questions on Christianity and homosexuality.
Related: Gays and HIV.

The Anglican Church suffers the fruits of apostasy.

Sexual libertinism and trust.

Respectful submission.

On troublesome mother-in-laws. More. Related.

The mental health of women.

#GiveYourMoneyToWomen.

The non-profit tweeconomy.

Chuck C Johnson suspended from Twitter.

Transabled go mainstream. The ride never slows.

The end of the National Review. Related.

Top down patriotism.

The real reason for the anti-tobacco crusade.

The negative sum game of publishing and demographics.
Related: A lesson in opportunity costs in publishing.

Vox responds to Eric Flint and Mercedes Lackey.

Silk Road creator sentenced to life. More.

How to turn a liberal hipster into a capitalist tyrant in one evening.

More on AI risk.

A right-winger’s adventures in welfareland.

Pell at Cracked again: 6 Things you Learn Getting Paid to Troll.

The death of newspapers.

Autistic boy discovered to be a physics genius after removal from public school.

H/T: Land

Lightning Round – 2015/05/27

Circumstance follows virtue.
Related: Why we even lift. I need to get back to this.

Towards a sustainable life culture.

Retreating from complexity.

Rationalism, the Allais Paradox, and scam vulnerability.

Some ruminations on Kipling.

Monarchy and existential risk.
Related: AI researchers on AI risk.

The great decoupling.

Why mass surveillance?

Why the right must out-radicalize the left.

After economic leftism.

Understanding the Balkans in 60 seconds. Macedonia.
Related: What’s happening in the Ukraine.

Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia capitulate to illegals.

Millennials aren’t going to make it.

A story of divorce to illustrate modern family problems.

Irish LARPing.

Reading the classics without trigger warnings.

Waco was exactly like Ferguson until it wasn’t.

A review of the rise of the Benedict Option.

Contemporary liberalism is a suicide cult not a religion.
Related: Social justice as a sacrament.

I think some Anglican priests are in need of a hanging.

Seems Roosh and r/TRP are fighting. Some comments.
Related: Rollo comments.

The friendzone.
Related: The  consolation prize.
Related: Useless friendships.

Men don’t matter to SJW’s.

The Atlantic on jerkboy charisma.

An analysis of the thirst.

Anti-feminist culture-jamming.

Bitter feminist professor decries that her colleagues chase co-eds rather than her. Some amusement to be had.

Sweden: 15-year-old man falsely accused of rape gets fined for slander for proving his innocence.

Science: Most traits are 49% genetic and 51% environmental.

SJW delenda est.
Related: There can be no peace with the anti-Puppies.
Related: The Streissand effect and the Puppies.
Related: The inability to comprehend of the SJW’s.
Related: The three options for the rival slates.
Related: Anti-puppies start gaming Amazon reviews.
Related: More silliness from the anti-Puppies.
Related: Just another SJW lie about the Puppies for the pile. More.
Related: SJW’s are losing the war on nerds.

Who Jewish billionaires are backing for 2016.

Racial segregation in liberal NYC private school.

On Hillary Clinton.

Asians suing Harvard for discrimination. Diversity camp crumbles.

Giving up on civilized standards in Californian schools.

Pro-gay “marriage” study retracted for using fake data.

Ferguson protestors protesting for not getting their cash for protesting.

Derbyshire on Bill Nye.

Reddit CEO wants to start cracking down on “harassment”.

More on California’s water crisis.

H/T: SSC, TRS, SDA

Lightning Round – 2015/05/20

Intermittent fasting.

The temptation of MGTOW.
Related: What MGTOW is.

Evaluating a potential wife.
Related: Understanding population models.

Courtly love as proto-homosexuality.
Related: Abnormal sexuality in ****.
Related: Homosexuality in 300.

Mike tries to dox SoBL and does other weird things. Post coming on Friday on issue.
Related: Building a network of trust.
Related: A storify of Mike’s meltdown.

Mike’s not a leader, but this shows why Mike should still be read: Neoreactionary accomplishments.

The modern world in a nutshell.

Ethnic cleansing in the US.
Related: Ethnic cleansing in American cities.
Related: Gentrification methods in New York.
Related: On self-hating gentrifiers.

The need for secession.
Related: States are larger than people realize.

Sailer rips apart Chetty’s analysis. Related chart.
Related: Sailer examines more and more info.

Progressive situational dominance.

Baselines for vice and virtue.

Sacrifice manufactures society.

Proposal: Social Matter for the sciences.

When did the US give up on itself?

An article on eugenics making the rounds.

Musings on sex and selection.

 Stopping people smuggling.

Austria-Hungary and identity politics.

SWPL imperialism.

A response to Rationalwiki on race.
Related: Wikipedia in action, SJW control.
Related: White-washing history at Wikipedia.
Related: Twitter’s racial hypocrisy.

HBD: know thyself.

The making of a communist.

Pope Francis’ coziness with commies.

Falling dominoes.

Atheism and nihilism.

A tale of modern courtship.
Related: The bitter harvest of feminism.

Congressmen protecting themselves from harassment charges is discrimination.

University student accused of harassment for waiting for an appointment.

University of Virginia sues Rolling Stone for false rape story. Related.

Emma Sulkowiscz, alleged false rape accuser, carried her mattress to graduation.

Vice on Aaron Clarey’s “boycott”, which is going big. Some unintentional amusement.

The difference between SJW’s and Puppies.
Related: A history of the Sad Puppies.
Related: The conflict underlying the SF ideological wars.
Related: SJW’s turn on GRRM.
Related: Conservatives more excluded than women in Hugos.
Related: Where it started.

Officer punished for anime reaction pic.
Related: Anime is racist.

High IQ exclusion.

Pre-modern life expectancy.

When lefty businesses meet taxes.

The Greek canary.

Why streetcars died.

White privilege in the National Post.

Just in case you forgot: the media lies.

H/T: CC, Wright, TRP, SDA

Lightning Round – 2015/05/13

Boundaries and saying no.

Aesthetics week closes out: Function and beauty.
Related: Banksy and the generational decay of modern art.
Related: From where art springs.
Related: Beauty and subversion.

Dark enlightenment, theory and practice.
Related: Focus on the demoralizing the progressive bourgeoisie.
Related: The Benedict option.

Mere reaction.

The weak Galt hypothesis.

The intelligence industry has been privatized.

Realism and ritual.

On the UK election. More.

Setting the frame.

Jacobin dreams.

Whole Foods and the decline.

Vox accidentally prints the truth on Russo-American relations.
Related: A Russian understands America.
Related: A summary can’t do this justice: read this.
Related: Putin is America’s creation.

The new antiquarianism tries to explain Baltimore. Related.
Related: A conversation with a Nigerian cabbie.
Related: Study finds black mayors hand out government spoils to other blacks.

A time for men.
Related: Cultural room to destroy.

Free vs hate speech is a who/whom question.

Egalitarianism: Functional families create unfair advantages.
Related: Egalitarianism ruins everything.

Freedom and the family crisis.
Related: Divorce and the pressures on men and women.
Related: If we care about poverty we should encourage marriage.

In defence of marriage.
Related: On marital consent.

Trust, leadership, and submission.
Related: How servant leadership is twisted.

Most Christians just don’t get it.
Related: A conversation with a blue-pilled churchian.

Why Paul wrote about women not speaking in church.

Feminism: The alphas won, everybody else lost.

What is neomasculinity?
Related: The Guardian: Boys are a mess.
Related: 10 harmful things mothers do to ruin their sons.

The faith militant.

Praying against temptation.

Is non-nihilist atheism possible? Response.
Related: The atheist morality debate continues. More. Even more.
Related: Lewis’ take.
Related: The need for the divine commander, but not divine command.

Why kids hate nerds and how school is a prison.

You can’t offer a truce to SJWs. Nope.
Related: What the Rabid Puppies are fighting for.
Related: A quick history of the Hugos and the Puppy campaigns.

SJW’s invading open source software.

Vox Day outlines his views on women, violence, and Malala Yousafzai for the particularly stupid.

Remember what I’ve said before: to liberals such as Yglesias, good regulation are those that increase government power at no personal cost, bad regulations are those that personally inconvenience a liberal.

The case for natural stupidity.

Kentucky CPS kidnaps 10 children.

Wind farm company sued for breaking into and destroying someone’s house.

Student failed for not affirming anti-Christian humanism.

Solving the California water crisis.

California failing to make all students above average.

Science: Only 39% of psychology’s studies are reproducible.

Some skeletons from Arthur Chu’s internet past.

H/T: SDA, SSC, Isegoria