The Other McCain

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FMJRA 2.0: All My Bloggy Friends Have Settled Down

Posted on | August 8, 2015 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Feminist Tumblr: Don’t Even Ask
Living In Anglo-America

An Honest Feminist on Tumblr
The Daley Gator
Regular Right Guy

Why Does Obama Hate Your Babies?
First Street Journal
The Pirate’s Cove
Regular Right Guy

FMJRA 2.0: Woke Up This Morning
The Pirate’s Cove
BlurBrain

Rule 5 Sunday: Moe Windows Mascots? Yes, Please!
Animal Magnetism
Regular Right Guy
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
Proof Positive

Memphis Manhunt for Cop Killer
First Street Journal
Regular Right Guy

Feminists Are Raping Journalism
Regular Right Guy

In The Mailbox: 08.04.15
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox, 08.06.15
Regular Right Guy
Proof Positive

Perhaps @Twitter @Support Can Explain Why My @rsmccain Account Is Locked
Constantinople Not Istanbul

Top linker this week:

  1.  Regular Right Guy (6)

If you’re linking us from Blogspot, or WordPress has developed an unreeasonable hate for your trackbacks, please send me an e-mail on Friday listing your links and what article here at The Other McCain you’re linking to. I can tell from occasional searching that there’s plenty of you out there linking, and I’d sure like to give you credit for it – and who knows, maybe spread a little traffic your way?


That’s How They Do It In Dixie

Category: FMJRA Award

Why I Got Suspended

Posted on | August 8, 2015 | 74 Comments

 

In March, Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg (@srhbutts) was the subject of a 1,200-word article I wrote, “Fake #GamerGate Victims,” and I did what I routinely do with my articles: Promoted it on Twitter with a quote and a photo. Another day, another dollar — routine work — and I scarcely gave it another thought until this morning.

Yesterday, I was locked out of my Twitter account for 12 hours. The notification didn’t explain why this had happened, but when I logged on this morning, I was instructed to delete one Tweet:

 

Holy Hell! You’re telling me that I was prevented from using my Twitter account for 12 hours — effectively the whole day — because of something I tweeted five months ago? This is insane!

Click here to see how many Twitter users have applied the word “pedophile” to Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg. Am I to believe that all of those accounts will also be suspended and required to delete their tweets about him/her? If so, does this mean that Twitter is engaged in protecting Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg from the consequences of his/her own irresponsible folly?

Nicholas/Sarah tried to shut down funding for the website 8chan.net, which had supported #GamerGate, by falsely accusing them of hosting child pornography.  However, he/she failed to anticipate the reaction, i.e., that the people he/she had attacked would figure out who he/she actually was, connect the dots, and expose Nicholas/Sarah’s unsavory background. It appears that “Sarah” had been something of a nuisance in various online forums circa 2006/2007, allegedly engaging in discussions about pedophilia and sex with dogs.

One of these discussions was about lowering the age of consent to 12, and Sarah said someone who had “a positive, fulfilling, non-abusive sexual relationship with an adult as a child are more likely to realize such relationships are not inherently abusive, and be more likely to admit they’re attracted to kids.” Sarah said that while “most people aren’t ready at 12,” this is not “a valid reason to outlaw sex at said age.” Sarah asserted that “most people” don’t understand “childhood sexuality,” because it doesn’t involve “full-blown intercourse” and therefore it is “inherently less dangerous and virtually impossible to lead to pregnancy, etc.” Sarah said “childhood sex play” is “nothing harmful” and that “what’s harmful is society pretending children are asexual.”

Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet jury, I am not here today as a prosecutor. The question before you today is not whether Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg has peculiar or dangerous sexual proclivities. No crime is alleged against him/her, and if you wish to hire Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg as your babysitter, that’s your choice. This is not relevant to the case at hand, because I am not here today as a prosecuting attorney, but rather am here to defend the First Amendment right to free speech. This is a right that belongs equally to Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg as it does to me or you, but you see that Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg is determined to deprive others of their right to speak the truth.

Our system of justice protects citizens against harassment and defamation. Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg says he/she was wrongfully “doxxed” — her personal information published online in order to make her a target of illegal harassment — and, if so, this could be a federal crime subject to prosecution. (The Justice Department has prosecuted someone who engaged in such harassment against me.) Yet you, ladies and gentlemen of the Internet jury, can see as well as I can why Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg had inspired such hatred. He/she had attempted to deprive the proprietors of 8chan.net of their right to free speech and had falsely accused them of a very serious crime in an attempt to cut off their funding or otherwise drive their site offline. Whether or not you or I approve of the content at 8chan.net is irrelevant to this case, in the same way it is irrelevant whether Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg is sexually attracted to children. To the best of my knowledge, he/she never said that he/she had any such attraction, but rather Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg was merely saying that having sex with children isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You probably disagree with that as much as I disagree with it, but we wouldn’t be here today discussing this matter were it not for the fact that Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg used an Internet alias, “Sarah Butts,” in a Twitter campaign against 8chan.net.

It was this anti-free-speech campaign, part of a “Social Justice Warrior” (SJW) battle against #GamerGate, which (a) made “Sarah Butts” a public figure, and (b) inspired the question, “Who is ‘Sarah Butts’?”

Perhaps it is not necessary for me to explain to you, ladies and gentlemen of the Internet jury, why it is generally a bad idea to use an online alias to engage in such attacks. An ordinary person may take for granted their right to protect their privacy through the use of an online pseudonym. However, such an alias is unlikely to withstand the kind of hostile scrutiny a person attracts when they try to silence someone else, which is what “Sarah Butts” was trying to do to 8chan.net.

None of this was of interest to me. I had only occasionally written about the #GamerGate controversy, and knew nothing about 8chan.net. That peripheral Internet spat probably never would have come to my attention, except that Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg decided to pose as a heroic martyr and invite the world to his/her pity party:

I Set Out To Expose A Hate Movement In Gaming
— So They Set Out To Destroy My Life

Oh, right: Climb up on the cross, you pathetic troll. Parade your victimhood for your feminist “sisters” and claim that what has been discovered about you is “heinous lies” and “defamation.”

You don’t fool me, Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg.

You did a DARVO — Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender — a common tactic of sociopaths when they are accused of wrongdoing. Deny the accusation, attack the accuser and pretend that you, the offender, are actually the victim. Create sympathy for yourself by pretending that you have been unjustly accused, and impugn the integrity of those who seek to hold you responsible for your actions. Try to hide the evidence of your wrongdoing, and attempt to silence those who call attention to that evidence, so that five months after I mentioned you on Twitter, I’m hit with a 12-hour suspension? You chose poorly. There is such a thing as a “Streisand Effect,” wherein your efforts to conceal a fact has the opposite result, creating unwelcome publicity for that which you had hoped to hide. If the allegations others have made about your past behavior are “heinous lies” and “defamation,” wouldn’t it be easy to prove that these things are false? Was there a case a mistaken identity? Are you, Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg, the same Sarah who wrote so enthusiastically about “childhood sexuality”? If so, were your statements about having “a positive, fulfilling, non-abusive sexual relationship with an adult as a child” based upon your own personal experience?

Really, Ms. Nyberg, since your claims of social-justice martyrdom were published at Ravishly.com and at Huffington Post Women — attacking #GamerGate as a “hate movement” — perhaps the editors of those sites would be interested in your explanation of what you (allegedly) wrote about pedophilia in 2006/2007. Certainly, if you wrote an article explaining what inspired you to write that “childhood sex play” is “nothing harmful,” many people might be interested to read it. However, you refuse even to acknowledge your authorship of those comments, leaving us to suspect that you wish to avoid discussing your opinions on this subject. In fact, the effort to suppress this information about you, Nicholas Edwin “Sarah” Nyberg, led to me being locked out of my Twitter account five months after I called attention to it.

So run along now, you creepy freakshow. Go tell all your foolish friends how that big, mean right-wing “transmisogynist” is harassing you. Climb up on your cross again, and do everything you can to silence everybody who tells the truth about you. Go ahead. Try your smokescreening and deflection and every other sociopathic defense mechanism in your repertoire in an attempt to explain to your foolish friends why you don’t really need to explain what you wrote about “childhood sexuality.” Try every little evil trick in your evil little book, because there will be an Army of Davids to keep telling the truth about you, and no matter how far you run, you can never hide from the truth. Selah.





 

Light it up, my friends. Light it up like the Fourth of July.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In Praise Of Erick Erickson For Curb-Kicking A Discourteous Cur

Posted on | August 8, 2015 | 280 Comments

by Smitty

Ol’ EE is taking some Twitter heat for the following act =>
I Have Disinvited Donald Trump to the RedState Gathering.
This blog is in staunch support of Erick on the point. The Presidential election is what amounts to the world’s most painful job interview. For a Chief Executive. Name another Chief Executive whom you’d expect to hear making even oblique menstrual remarks in any context. That CEO would be gonzo in a New York second, and the firm’s stock would be thrashed as every Social Justice Warrior in the Racism Industrial Complex arsenal arrived in a simultaneous time-on-top strike.

(And are the SJW knives coming out for The Donald? That should tell you something about the farce underway.)

One can defend Trump’s anti-Political Correctness stance. Political Correctness is just a variation on the theme of authoritarianism. And American irreverence is something this blog holds very, very dear. Irreverence is the spice of liberty.

But that’s not the same thing as boorishness. Hating aristocracy and the decadence it implies is not barbarism. Just because we’re not kissing Her Majesty’s ring doesn’t mean we’re embracing the sort of crudeness that doesn’t pass muster in church. That irreverence is like spice in the food: a little dab’ll do ya. And it’s hard to remove. So, less is more.

Trump seems the same sort of triumph of style over substance that Barack Obama himself has proven to be. Where are Trump’s substantive policy ideas? The Donald sure appears to be a provocateur, operating in GOP territory and saying outlandish things so that the Democrat base can say: “See? Look what those conservatives tolerate.”

No. Donald: it’s not too late to grow up. You’ve been an affluent, spoiled, vaguely teenage lout for many decades. We need a President, not Sideshow Donald.

Thanks to Erick Erickson for being the Adult in the Room.

Update: Darleen (and co-blogger Jeff on Twitter), are most decidedly NOT in agreement with me on this. I see their point, but stand by Erick on this. Babysitting Trump is not my idea of a good time. Red State is certainly not the GOP. To say that Red State’s actions are those of the GOP is to conflate them, in my opinion.

Category: Red State, Republicans

In The Mailbox: 08.07.15

Posted on | August 7, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy Hiroshima Day!
Da Tech Guy: Megyn Kelly, Donald Trump, and Equality
Louder With Crowder: Carly Fiorina Goes Full Honey Badger On SJW Feminists
Doug Powers: Notorious Right-Wing Extremist Chuck Schumer Announces Opposition To Obama’s Iran Deal
Twitchy: Compare And Contrast Ratings For GOP Debate, Jon Stewart’s Final Show
Shark Tank: Carly Fiorina Overall Winner Of First GOP Debate


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Krauthammer Pans Trump’s Performance In First GOP Debate
American Thinker: Obama And The Flippancy Of Fools
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Redeemers By Ace Atkins
Conservatives4Palin: Leftists Use #BlackLivesMatter To Exploit Blacks, Again
Don Surber: Russ Feingold, The Anti-PAC Man With A PAC
Joe For America: Another Illegal Obama DREAMer Confesses To Torture, Murder Of Young American Girl
JustOneMinute: David Brooks Does Not Foresee Peace For Our Time
Pamela Geller: Italy – Muslim Immigrants Gang Rape, Beat Head Of Reception Center, Destroy Facility, Attack Workers
Protein Wisdom: Carly Fiorina Confuzzles Chris Mathews
Shot In The Dark: Ramsey County Social Services Declines To Indict
STUMP: Public Pensions Earnings Season – How Are The Assets Doing?
The Gateway Pundit: Is Fox News The Biggest Debate Loser?
The Jawa Report: Saudi Arabia Suffers Huge Vagina Shortage
The Lonely Conservative: War On Women? All Female Job Gains Since 2007 Went To Foreigners
This Ain’t Hell: Showdown In Priest River, Idaho
Weasel Zippers: Iran Refusing UN Inspectors Access To Nuke Scientists
Megan McArdle: Donald Trump – The New Ron Paul?
Mark Steyn: Prince Jeb The Unready


Seeking Major Tom

Category: Linkagery

Friday FictionPoetry: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | August 7, 2015 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Darleen offered a thoughtful mood set to music, and I’ll reply with a bit of verse:

Your life’s a book, brief or dense
And though we live in the present tense
Parts boring, or all suspsense
We cannot change the pacing

No, time’s the same for rich or poor
Until the pages are no more
And none remain to keep a score
Past end to which we’re racing

Prayerfully ponder passing page
Focus on love; forget the rage
In orchestra pit or on the stage
Look past the pain you’re facing

And when the final day is here
We’re scored by amount of cheer
We have brought, and also tear
We’ve dried–while end we’re chasing

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Please Follow @SexTroubleBook

Posted on | August 7, 2015 | 15 Comments

When @Twitter locked me out of @rsmccain today, this inspired me to do something I’ve needed to do for a while, namely create a Twitter account to promote my book Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature. As regular readers know, I’m now working on a revised and expanded second edition, which I plan to publish later this month. Maybe I’ll include something about this story:

A lesbian couple faked a hate crime that left their home a pile of charred rubble at their Venore, Tenn., property in 2010, local reports said.
An insurance company caught on to the ruse months after the blaze and accused Carol Ann and Laura Stutte of perpetuating a hoax and blaming the fire on their neighbor, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
A federal jury ruled in favor of the insurance company’s belief that the couple spray-painted an anti-gay slur on their own garage to spin the fire as a hate crime based on their sexual orientation.

Fake anti-lesbian hate crimes, like campus rape hoaxes, are part of how the Left dishonestly exploits sympathy for women, relying on liberal media’s lack of skepticism toward any narrative that portrays white heterosexual Christian males as oppressors. Dishonest activists know that dishonest journalists will amplify these hoax stories, because blind loyalty to the Democrat Party unites them in promoting a false narrative that benefits their partisan agenda. Understood in this context, feminism has nothing to do with improving the well-being of women, but is instead simply part of the overall Cultural Marxist strategy to destroy constitutional liberty by scapegoating those who oppose the Left.

Only women, ethnic minorities, non-Christians and homosexuals are recognized by the Left as having “rights,” a term the Left understands as entitlement — a “right” to favorable treatment from the government, at the expense of demonized classes who have no such rights because they are said to be “privileged” by systems of social oppression. This worldview has been taught in schools, colleges and universities for the past 20 or 30 years. These attitudes are also promoted by both the entertainment industry and the news media, so that few Americans under age 40 are able to think beyond the constraints of Cultural Marxism (otherwise known as “political correctness”). Anyone who questions the Left’s ideas is accused of hate and bigotry — sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. — and by this method of character assassination, critics are excluded from participation in academia, journalism, politics or any other field where the intelligentsia’s influence is decisive.

Am I angry about this? Honestly, I’m more angry that other conservatives aren’t as angry about it as I am.

Radical feminism could be defeated if so many people weren’t afraid of being considered “sexist” for speaking out against it. If conservatives would pay attention to the Culture War, and focus on the weakest link — i.e., the blatant dishonesty of feminism’s claims of “oppression” — we could blow a hole in the Left’s agenda big enough to drive a truck through. If you’re a praying person, pray that people will wake up to this situation. while there is still any hope at all.

Please follow @SexTroubleBook on Twitter.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Roger Simon: That Fluid On Your Desk May Have Once Been Coffee

Posted on | August 7, 2015 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Roger Simon at PJ Media offers three reasons Trump won’t go independent.

3. Trump doesn’t like to lose — and he would.

Recalls a mildly vulgar joke (to which the title alludes). I’ll quote the setup:

The auditor said, “Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, Which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I’m not sure the IRS finds that believable.”
“I’m a great gambler, and I can prove it,” says Grandpa. “How about a demonstration?”
The auditor thinks for a moment and said, “Okay. Go ahead.”

You can totally bet your bippy that Her Majesty would cast The Donald as the new Perot, and he’d lose with a smile on his face. Allow me to speculate as to why:

  • Her Majesty has substantial dirt on The Donald.
  • The Donald has substantial animus against the GOP.
  • Her Majesty would offer The Donald some plumb position in Her Privy Counsel (formerly known as the Cabinet).

Summarizing: I was entertained by The Donald last night at the debate in Ohio. I found his unabashed willingness to mention profit highly refreshing (even as he probably energizes Her Majesty’s Commie base thereby). And, if the GOP is so asinine as to let JEB buy the nomination, I’ll play this idiotic game right with The Donald.

No mas Bush!

via Instapundit

Category: Republicans

Perhaps @Twitter @Support Can Explain Why My @rsmccain Account Is Locked

Posted on | August 7, 2015 | 29 Comments

I was scarcely on Twitter yesterday because I was doing research for my Sex Trouble series, but this morning I received notification that I am locked out of my account @rsmccain and I won’t be able to unlock it for 12 hours. There was no explanation given, but probably some enemies — feminists, maybe? Neal Rauhauser’s friends, maybe? — have falsely accused me of “harassment.” Yet the fact is I’ve been using Twitter since 2009 and have myself frequently been a target of harassment that Twitter has seldom done anything to prevent.

In fact, false accusations of online “harassment” (which have become a standard tactic of the Left) are a deliberate form of harassment used against the Left’s opponents. Critics of feminism, especially, are not permitted to engage feminists on Twitter, because the silencing of opposition is necessary to their success: Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.

Anyway, my friends should ask @Twitter @Support what this is about, because they didn’t bother explaining it to me.

Please buy my book, help promote it to others and don’t forget the Five Most Important Words in the English Language:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

 

 

 

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