In #GamerGate Battle, Feminists Predictably Resort to Totalitarian Tactics

Posted on | November 23, 2014 | 52 Comments

Randi Harper (@freebsdgirl) is an unattractive woman with blue hair who is into (a) video games and (b) totalitarian ideology. In the 21st century, where “harassment” has been re-defined to mean “expressing disagreement with a feminist,” Harper decided to create a blacklist of Twitter users who support the #GamerGate project:

In a sign of how frenzied, panicky and intolerant the games industry establishment has become over the legitimate concerns of ordinary gamers, the International Game Developers’ Association branded some 10,425 Twitter accounts, including those of journalists, as harassment “offenders” in a humiliatingly ill-conceived attempt to provide a “blocking tool” to its members.
The blocking tool, which has been widely mocked online for its lack of sophistication and “blanket ban” approach, was assembled by Randi Harper, a persistent online agitator. The tool prevents users from seeing not only the tweets of users Harper has decided are implicated in harassment, but also many accounts who simply follow those users, by blocking a list of thousands of users with the use of an automated “bot.” . . .
Dozens of innocent developers, journalists and even some feminist critics have been caught in the tool’s exceptionally wide net, thanks to whom they follow on Twitter. Prominent internet personality and YouTuber Total Biscuit noted this weekend the absurdity of an international trade body accepting unfit-for-purpose software and capricious, arbitrary “harassment” clarifications by an independent developer who is hardly non-partisan in the ongoing GamerGate controversy. . . .
In the best traditions of far-Left feminist activists, Harper has also spuriously accused GamerGate supporters such as lawyer Mike Cernovich of “rape threats.” . . .

Read the whole thing by Milo Yiannopoulos at Breitbart.com.

This mass-blocking of Twitter accounts is the latest attempt by so-called “Social Justice Warriors” to extend the hegemonic influence of “progressive” ideology to include the video game industry. If I were a lawyer for any developer blocked by Harper in this IGDA list, I’d be drafting a carefully worded letter informing the IGDA of the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act. It’s one thing for “social justice” goon squads to mau-mau their targets on college campuses. IGDA blacklisting businesses in the private sector? See you in court.

Category: Culture, Feminism, Progressivism

FMJRA 2.0: Sold Me Down The River

Posted on | November 22, 2014 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday
Average Bubba
Batshit Crazy News
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

‘I Suffer From Oppression’
Batshit Crazy News
The Camp of the Saints
The DaleyGator
Gay Patriot
Regular Right Guy

‘Got Issues? Lube! Lube! Lube!’
The Pirate’s Cove
Regular Right Guy

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short (Interstellar Remix)
Batshit Crazy News

No Prison for Lesbian Teacher, 24, Accused of Raping 17-Year-Old Girl
Batshit Crazy News

New Word: “Grubado”
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.17.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.18.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.19.14
Batshit Crazy News
The Camp of the Saints
A View from the Beach

In The Mailbox: 11.20.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

LIVE AT ~~FIVE~~EIGHT: 11.21.14
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Reconciled to Servitude
Regular Right Guy
Law Of Markets
Ed Driscoll

Report: Two Black Panther Terrorists Arrested in Ferguson Bomb Plot

Posted on | November 22, 2014 | 62 Comments

The deadly momentum of the hate machine made this inevitable:

Two men suspected of buying explosives they planned to detonate during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, once a grand jury decides the Michael Brown case, were arrested on Friday and charged with federal firearms offenses, a law enforcement official told Reuters.
Word of the arrests, reported by a number of media outlets Friday, came ahead of the grand jury’s widely anticipated decision on whether the white police officer who fatally shot Brown, an unarmed black teenager, should be indicted on criminal charges. . . .
[T]wo men described as reputed members of a militant group called the New Black Panther Party, were arrested in the St. Louis area in an FBI sting operation.
As initially reported by CBS News, the men were suspected of acquiring explosives for pipe bombs that they planned to set off during protests in Ferguson, according to the official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the case.
The official said the two men are the same pair named in a newly unsealed federal indictment returned on Nov. 19 charging Brandon Orlando Baldwin and Olajuwon Davis with purchasing two pistols from a firearms dealer under false pretenses.
Both men were arraigned on Friday in federal court, the law enforcement source said.

Having survived the 1960s and ’70s, I never thought American society would regress backward to that era of chaos and despair.

Hope and Change . . .

Category: Crime, Fear. Loathing., Missouri, Racism, Terrorism

Is Salon Saying That Rep. Paul Ryan Is A Time Traveller?

Posted on | November 22, 2014 | 46 Comments

by Smitty

There is so much buildup on Elias Isquith’s chin that he’s kind of incoherent (emphasis mine):

While there are no doubt many changes ideologues like Ryan would like to see the CBO make, reports indicate that the main reason GOPers want to install a right-wing hack as its chief is in order to make the agency integrate “dynamic scoring” more fully into its estimations. “Dynamic scoring,” for those who don’t know, is a phrase conservatives like to use to give a tenet of their anti-tax religion — lower taxes lead to more revenue! — an intellectual gloss. More importantly, dynamic scoring is generally the special sauce right-wing “wonks” put into their projections in order to claim that massively cutting taxes on the rich won’t lead to fiscal ruin. Remember the absurd claim that Bush’s tax cuts wouldn’t explode deficits? Thank dynamic scoring for that.

So this proposed idea of Ryan’s (the only guy I’ve ever heard of even trying to propose a way to balance the budget) appears to have gone back in time and exploded deficits. Such is the power of cheeseheads! Or maybe Isquith could have explained it all better. But wait:

Yes, this is where “Grubergate,” the most recent of the GOP’s seemingly endless supply of manufactured outrages, comes in. If you’re not familiar with this tempest in a teapot, I recommend you catch up by reading my colleague Joan Walsh. But for our purposes here, all you need to know is that Republicans have been devoting a ton of energy toward making MIT’s Jonathan Gruber’s admission, that the White House designed Obamacare with the likely political ramifications of the CBO score in mind, equivalent to the 18-minute gap in the Nixon tapes.

Did you get that, everyone? Grüberdammerung is like an 18 minute tape gap, or something.

PREACH, @JonahNRO, PREACH. pic.twitter.com/FybBOpu2un

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 21, 2014

You, Elias Isquith, deserve some award for useful idiocy.

Category: Media Bias

Sequels And Weirdness

Posted on | November 21, 2014 | 6 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

This week has been all about sequels, which in this particular instance is a Good Thing, because all of these sequels are pretty good stuff. We’ll start with Larry Correia’s Spellbound, the bridge novel between Hard Magic and Warbound, and as such it explains a lot of what’s going on in the early stages of the latter. It has an odd feel to it, with a healthy helping of X Files-like government conspiracy action added to the usual problems with the Imperium, and a not terribly positive view of FDR, which may be an additional point in its favor for some folks. Recommended, just like the rest of the Grimnoir trilogy.

Oddly similar to the Grimnoir trilogy are the sequels to James Schmitz’ classic young adult SF novel, The Witches of Karres. For those of you who missed this one, it’s a madcap adventure involving hapless spaceship captain Pausert from the dull, boring world of Nikkeldepain, who finds himself saddled with three sisters in a foreign port – and worse yet, they’re all from the mysterious (and proscribed!) world of Karres, notorious home of witches who can manipulate klatha powers in various magical ways. Before he can say “Sheewash what?” he finds himself with a shipload of questionable passengers, a cargohold full of useless junk, and a course into the extremely dangerous Chaladoor. Wild adventure and a fair amount of comedy ensues. Well, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer took a swing at writing a sequel, The Wizard of Karres, in which Captain Pausert and his two remaining charges, Goth and the Leewit, wind up running off to join the circus while scraping up funds to fix their damaged ship. Moon, Flint and Freer do a good job imitating Schmitz’s style, and The Warlock of Karres winds up being that rare beast, a decent sequel. The same is true for the second sequel, The Sorceress of Karres, in which a girl and some events from Pausert’s childhood return to haunt his present. Will his growing klatha abilities, added to those of Goth and the Leewit get him out of trouble this time?

The reason I maintain that the Karres novels are similar to the Grimnoir trilogy is that they share a similar plot: small band of super-powered heroes goes up against mysterious and powerful enemies in a battle to save humanity. The stages are different, the characters are different, but I think if you like Schmitz’s novel you’re probably going to like Correia’s, and vice versa – though given the unsparing description of violence in the Grimnoir trilogy, you might want to give a likely young person a copy of The Witches of Karres instead.

Last on the reading list this week: Philip K. Dick’s Clans of the Alphane Moon, which involves an Earth colony populated by escapees from a mental hospital. The colonists have sorted themselves out into clans based on their particular psychiatric problems, and regard the advent of Earth’s psychiatrists as an invasion to be resisted. Meanwhile, CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf is being divorced by his wife Mary, a crack marriage counselor who is shipping out to the Alphane colony – but not before strong-arming Chuck into a writing job for TV comedian Bunny Hentman. Also involved in this mess is Chuck’s neighbor, telepathic Ganymedan slime mold Lord Running Clam, and of course Chuck’s fellow agents at the CIA. Chuck seizes on the chance to pilot a simulacrum to Alphane and thus revenge himself on Mary (who has taken him to the cleaners in the divorce) by killing her and making it look like a sim malfunction. Like so many of Dick’s work, this is weirdness on stilts, with outrageous coincidences, stupid assumptions by the characters, and hidden motivations all combining to send the characters caroming off each other until they finally reach a bizarre, yet logical conclusion. If this is the sort of SF you enjoy, then this will probably be a good book for you.

Category: Books

Reconciled to Servitude

Posted on | November 21, 2014 | 77 Comments

“Nor does the sexual promiscuity of Brave New World seem so very distant. There are already certain American cities in which the number of divorces is equal to the number of marriages. In a few years, no doubt, marriage licenses will be sold like dog licenses, good for a period of twelve months, with no law against changing dogs or keeping more than one animal at a time. As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.”
— Aldous Huxley, 1946

That passage was quoted by a commenter in reaction to an earlier post about a typical specimen of 21st-century “education,” and I thought it deserved its own post. What Huxley was describing is how sexual promiscuity — a life lived in pursuit of meaningless thrills — is ultimately incompatible with liberty. Thrill-seekers claim to be liberated when they are in fact enslaved by their own passions.

Heedless of basic decency, lacking self-respect and sturdy discipline, the sexual slave requires a master — someone to tell him what to do, and to provide for him what the slave is incapable of providing for himself, including a sense of purpose in life. To be a good servant — “Life is good! Vote Democrat!” — gives the slave pleasure. And he pursues his own pleasure, having gained “the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio.”

Dopehead daydreamers are everywhere now. One sometimes encounters them online, ranting furiously about “social justice.”

Attention Parents: If your kid is an SJW with an anime avatar using "heteronormative" on Twitter … Well, grandchildren are overrated, eh?

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 18, 2014

It’s important to remember that, although these people exist in real life — that is to say, there are actual human beings running those batshit crazy troll accounts — they are as altogether artificial in their politics as they are in their online personas. They themselves have never done a goddamned thing for “social justice.” They simply enjoy mouthing these slogans about “oppression” and “patriarchy,” etc., because posing as Our Moral Superiors is an emotional compensation for their own obscurity and worthlessness.

They are the Nowhere People — rootless, without loyalty to family, community or religious tradition, and thus “free” to create for themselves imagined identities and idiosyncratic belief systems. Although they usually think of themselves as unique individuals, they are really sheep in a herd, predictable and therefore ultimately boring. Any politics, as long as it’s not conservative politics; any religion as long as it’s not Christian religion; any sexuality as long as it’s not normal sexuality. One notices that the Nowhere People are seldom husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. Idle narcissism is incompatible with the dutiful commitments of marriage and motherhood.

This afternoon I encountered Nissa on Twitter as @cuntxmuffin_ — nice handle, Nissa — when she trolled into my timeline. Why was she trolling me? I don’t know, but her Twitter profile lists her interests as “feminism, cross stitching, true crime, horror & iced coffee,” and links to her Tumblr page entitled, “I Only Exist Because I Dream.” What does she dream of? Oh, the horrors of transphobic bigotry, the joys of tattoos and nose rings. And what kind of life has she led?

I’m originally from Massachusetts and lived a good portion of my life in Nebraska; but I’ve lived in south Texas for five shitty years now. I’m moving to San Antonio soon tho, so lets be friends if you live there.
I’m 19 but I like to think i’m an old lady at heart.
I like cross stitching, coffee, feminism, knitting, girls, sometimes boys, beards and booty, cats, baseball, laying in my bed, and true crime. I’m a second year college student studying criminal justice.
Tell me some cool secrets and lets be friends
Party on, dudes

OK, so the 19-year-old bisexual feminist college student decided, randomly, that we needed her to lecture us about U.S. history.

@WaynesterAtl @rsmccain @SissyWillis Ah yes, this is such an American mentality. steal while others aren't paying attention.

— nissa ? ?•?• ??? (@cuntxmuffin_) November 21, 2014

@WaynesterAtl i'm ignorant? You're trying to justify slaughtering a whole group of people and stealing their land by

— nissa ? ?•?• ??? (@cuntxmuffin_) November 21, 2014

@WaynesterAtl saying "they were all trying to kill one another anyways!"

— nissa ? ?•?• ??? (@cuntxmuffin_) November 21, 2014

The Nowhere People, living in the Brave New World. There is no point in arguing with these creatures, who are evidently content to remain ignorant. They are reconciled to their own servitude.

Category: Culture

No Prison for Lesbian Teacher, 24, Accused of Raping 17-Year-Old Girl

Posted on | November 21, 2014 | 36 Comments

The victim in the case doesn’t want her molester to go to prison, probably because that would be “hate” or something:

Prison time appears doubtful for a former Clearfield (Utah) High School teacher accused of making unwanted sexual advances on a student in January 2013.
Judge Brent West convened privately with prosecuting and defense attorneys twice [Oct. 29] in 2nd District Court before deciding to postpone Gaile Supp’s sentencing to Nov. 19 at 9 a.m. He told Supp he doesn’t anticipate she will be sentenced to prison.
“Clearly everyone is on board that no prison time should be spent,” West said. “The question is … how much jail time.”
Supp was charged with object rape, a first-degree felony, in April 2013 for allegedly committing a sexual act on an unwilling 17-year-old female student at her West Haven home three months earlier. In September, Supp pleaded guilty to an amended charge of sexual battery, a third-degree felony.
Supp and her attorney, Camille Neider, submitted a statement in support of a guilty plea on Sept. 3 that also was signed by West and Weber County Deputy Attorney Letitia Toombs. Prosecutors agreed in writing to recommend in favor of probation for Supp, recommend against prison and stay neutral on the issue of jail time.
The alleged victim is opposed to any jail time for Supp, according to the document.
Prosecutors also agreed not to require Supp to register as a sex offender or undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation. They noted Supp will be eligible to have her conviction expunged if she qualifies for that benefit after her sentencing.
Supp agreed in the document not to fight the revocation of her teaching license in Utah.

What exactly went on in this incident?

The student told police she went to Supp’s West Haven home in early January to get help with homework. Instead, her teacher showed her a sexually explicit movie and sexually assaulted her, according to a probable cause statement.
The student reported to police she told Supp she didn’t want the sexual advances, court documents state.

A lesbian teacher having sex with her student? This is just another random coincidence. There can’t possibly be a pattern here, right?

Michelle Smith White.

High school dance teacher Michelle Smith White, 37, of Durham, N.C., was charged in October with having sex with a 16-year-old female student. Police said White had the student’s name and initials tattooed on her body.

Sabrina Epps.

Dance teacher Sabrina Epps, 19, was arrested in October after police say she admitted having lesbian sex with a 14-year-old girl who was a student at the Tennessee studio where Epps taught.

Amanda Feenstra.

Dance teacher Amanda Feenstra, 30, was sentenced to probation in October after she pleaded guilty to having lesbian sex with a 17-year-old student at the Texas high school where Feenstra taught.

Rebecca Diebolt.

California teacher Rebecca Eileen Diebolt, 35, was arrested in June after a woman told police that she and Diebolt had a four-year sexual relationship that began in 2004, when the victim was 15 and Diebolt was her language arts teacher and swim/water polo coach.

Nichol Marie Phelps.

Dance teacher Nichol Marie Phelps, 30, was sentenced to prison in June after she pleaded guilty to having lesbian sex with a 15-year-old student at the Florida academy where Phelps taught.

Left to right: Nicole Wooten, Tonya Drueppel, Andrea Cardosa.

Andrea Michelle Cardosa, 40, was charged with 16 felony counts in February after two former female students accused her of sexually molesting them. One accuser said Cardosa started having sex with her when she was only 12.
Tonya Drueppel was arrested in January on charges that she had sex with a middle-school girl beginning in October 2012, when the victim was 13.
Nicole Wooten was arrested in February 2013 on charges that she had sex with a girl in 2005 and 2006, when the victim was a 12-year-old eighth-grader.
Kelly O’Rourke, 42, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in October 2013 for having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
Sarah Blessing, 28, was convicted in 2010 of having sex with a 17-year-old Catholic school girl who was on a swim team Blessing coached.
Jaymee Wallace, 30, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2007 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl who was her student at a Florida high school.

Does anybody know where school teachers get the idea that teenage girls are all uncontrollably lusting for lesbian sex?

Because I have no idea. None at all.

What’s that word, Andrew?

"Culture matters. As Andrew Breitbart liked to say, politics is downstream of culture." — @SarahPalinUSA, July 2013 http://t.co/ZFjNEco5RB

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 3, 2014

Ah, yes, “culture.” Our culture has been corrupted by an intellectual elite, teaching “doctrines of devils.” And while Hollywood and academia are busy perverting the minds of America’s youth, conservatives are obsessively focused on Obama. We’re losing that war, too.