Ends and Memes

Ends and Memes

Vox Day posted on the value of rhetoric [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-importance-of-rhetoric.html], and in the comments, someone brought up that for “If You Were Positive About Your Body You Would Take better Care of It” you should have a sexy nurse. And Vox obliged (above). So of course people started in about how it should bereal nurses and not strippers, how one guy’s wife reacted “but a stripper? No class!”, a stupid picture of a fit woman mountain climbing, etc. I’ll admit I jump…

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Warning and Educating Our Enemies

Warning and Educating Our Enemies

As Vox Day recently pointed out [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/04/boycottstarbucks.html], “conservatives” love toinstruct our enemy, better yet, warn them off because, hey,this time we’ll enforce consequences, if you keep this up. Yeah. Look, I actually respect what Crowder does with his “change my mind” segments, but he’s doing more than just instructing liberals on how awful the left really is – he’s staking out moral ground behind enemy lines, raising the morale of other right wingers, an…

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Ringo on ConCarolinas

Ringo on ConCarolinas

Welp. So much for considering Con Carolina. [http://archive.is/mRkP1] Thanks, assholes. If anyone protesting his invitation, hands down the biggest draw there, thinks that NOT inviting NYT bestselling authors, or pissing on his fans, will ever make them relevant, and that’s assuming they haven’t further stoked our hate for petty tyrants such as those, well… They just opened up some more airflow and added some more fuel to the fires. The link above is to an archive page to minimize Facebook tra…

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It's Just an Illusion.

I was, and to a degree, still am, a huge fan of the Mark E Rodgers Samurai Cat [https://infogalactic.com/info/Samurai_Cat] books. It was a series of books about a ronin cat out to avenge the death of his lord, his wayward nephew, and their misadventures. Each one spoofed various genres, usually lovingly. Conan, Lord of the Rings, Arthurian Legend, Star Wars. And Stephen King. Oh, gods, yes, Stephen King. All too kindly IMO, but there it is. So, in the midst of taking apart the entirety of the…

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No Spoilers?

No Spoilers?

Bradford Walker discusses using spoilers as a method to avoid wasting time on crap [https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-spoiler-as-screening-system.html] . > In many cases, the summaries are sufficiently thorough that I can discuss the work in question with people who’ve consumed it and not miss a beat. (This is a reliable tell regarding the work in question, and often of its fandom.) Letting others talk has done far more to tell me that I was right to go with the spoiler and skip…

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