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[From “The Importance of GamerGate”]

The Billionaire Psycho reminds us of “the most important event you are not allowed to discuss”:

GamerGate is maybe the most important event of the past 20 years which never receives mainstream media coverage[…]

As an Original GamerGater, I can testify that Lomez’s history, while welcome, is almost certainly going to be incomplete and missing some very important details. I’m 99 percent confident that he doesn’t even know who GamerGater #1 is[…]
This doesn’t mean his chronicle of the public history and his analysis of the public events and the observable consequences won’t be accurate, but he isn’t going to be able to understand the hows and whys of what happened because he isn’t talking to anyone who was actually there[…]
And the Billionaire Psycho is correct to point out that what is now obvious today[…]the total disinterest of the international corpocracy in things like customers, revenue, and profit, were first exposed to the public by GamerGate[…]
Former Ford CEO Mark Fields openly acknowledged that the industry charged ahead with massive EV investments, overlooking what consumers actually wanted. Fields, who led Ford from 2014 to 2017, pointed out the misstep during a discussion on the rapid buildup of EV production. “Over the last couple of years, the automakers really went full bore in putting in capacity for EVs,” he said. This aggressive push came without enough thought to buyer preferences, leaving companies like Ford and GM facing unexpected market realities

Now the corporate games industry is dying, although the indy game development community hasn’t been this healthy or this profitable since id Software was putting out shareware and Fenris Wolf was developing technology showcases for Artist, Creative, and Intel. And while GamerGate didn’t fix the problem, it did accomplish the very important task of diagnosing it

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[From “A Lesson from Spain”]

The Nationalist Right in Spain was divided into two camps. One of them read the Republican Left correctly. One of them didn’t:

There were two schools of thought on the Spanish Right in the lead-up to the civil war: Accidentalism and Catastrophism. Accidentalists believed that the serious issues facing the Spanish Republic were not baked into the institution itself, but rather an accident that could be attributed to the early Marxist bent of the first government[…]Conservatives could and would steer the ship in the right direction once they peacefully won political power[…]and formed a government capable of addressing the Right’s concerns regarding government attacks on the Church and private property[…]
The second group believed the Republic was a catastrophe from the start, and that there could be no saving the Republic from itself[…]The Left would never recognize any non-Leftist government, no matter how much they claimed to uphold the rule of law, because the problem was not with the Republic’s legalistic procedures but rather with the fact that the entire system was merely a facade to facilitate a Socialist and eventually Communist state that would permanently exclude Conservatives from power
These two camps were largely united in their politics but divided in how to engage in politics. One pursued reform, while the other waited for an opportunity to overthrow the system itself once enough of the Right realized that there would be no voting their way out of this mess

Most American Republicans are still Accidentalists. And like their Spanish forebears, they are both a) wrong and b) irrelevant. If even an American rump state is to survive the eventual breakup of the USA, it will be the Catastrophists who will be running the show

Fortunately for Americans, Trump is increasingly showing signs of having embraced Catastrophism

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[From “A New Standard of Nothing”]

It’s been reported that the unprecedented meeting of all of the US military’s generals and admirals was to inform them of the end of the Diversity and Inclusion era in the US military. Also, no fat troops

Hegseth told the military leaders he’s rolling out 10 new directives involving physical fitness, new grooming requirements and a return to “the highest male standard” for combat positions. He slammed what he said were “fat troops” and added “it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the world. It’s a bad look”

Even by Trump administration standards, this is nothing and less than nothing. The funny thing is that the Defense Secretary didn’t even make the smallest significant gesture, which would have been to ban women and foreigners from the US military

No doubt the Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and Turkish generals are quaking with fear

Checkmate, Putin

UPDATE: Just to be clear, I very much doubt this is the actual purpose of the meeting. But it is the nominal one that has been reported

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[From “Mailvox: The World We Lost”]

Request to the GenX crowd — what is your best anecdote or memory or description of “how things used to be”? The before time, that we millennials and younger have no memory of

The entire suburban 20-house neighborhood of 20-30 children between the ages of 5-11 playing outside, all day, every Saturday during the school year and every weekday too during the summers. My favorite was the huge Capture the Flag games the older kids would organize sometimes in the evenings after dinner. We’d play until it got too dark to be able to see very well, then everyone would go home[…]
The freedom and sense of community was entirely different than today. Many of the neighborhoods look more or less the same from the outside, but since the mid-1990s, one no longer sees large packs of kids playing outside together[…]
And if you want conclusive evidence that immigrants to America will never, ever, understand the world of the 1950s-1980s that we lost, consider the perspective of one immigrant from Portugal who still doesn’t know what we’re talking about despite having spent most of her adult life in the USA

Well, excuse me, I lived in a village growing up. And while I miss some things, sometimes, if you think for a little very Odd kid it was an ideal environment, you’re out of your ever loving mind. In fact, it wasn’t an ideal environment for anyone, judging by the epic fights and factions. Because people in point of fact had very little in common, and were together by utter necessity, which means that the group enforced absolute conformity and you couldn’t escape

Whoever said anything about poor rural villages full of inbred Iberian peasants? That was never our world and it certainly isn’t the loss that we’re lamenting. These days of diversity and immigration are most certainly not “the good new days” in the eyes of any genuine American

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[From “What a Difference 10 Years Makes”]

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Pic 1: women holding a “Refugees Welcome” banner
Pic 2: pic of a tweet by Ada Lluch: “I think I speak in the name of all European women when I say we no longer feel safe in our streets

Men, it's time to protect us”

When people ask “how can you believe that women shouldn’t have the right to vote,” I don’t equivocate, retreat, or attempt to qualify my position on the subject. I simply ask them how it is possible for them to believe, with more than 100 years of evidence available, that extending the franchise to women has improved any society in any way anywhere on the planet

In a reasonable and rational world, men and women would agree that some fundamental assumptions were incorrect, some very serious mistakes were made, and men would protect women by not permitting them any direct involvement in macro-level societal decisions. But this is not that world. We live in an irrational, unreasonable, and stupid one

So, most women will have to protect themselves from the inevitable consequences of their personal decisions and political preferences. That should prove to be an interesting challenge. One certainly wonders what point they’ll have reached in another ten years