UGH.
You remind me of this guy, carefully explaining how mainland China is "surprisingly capitalist," since you don't have a right to social services in, say, Beijing, unless you live there, but housing is very expensive. (The funny bit is, he explains how he finally realized how he was programmed in school to be a Democrat. I won't tell him how far he has to go; I'd be worried he'd give up.)
liberalism
Orwell's phrase, "oligarchical collectivism," has a lot more to do with America's current economic system than classical Liberalism. The Left tried to push "Progressivism" once "Communism" proved too poisonous, then they dropped it after they smeared it with eugenics and other radical politics, and called themselves "liberals" to cover up their crimes. They poisoned that word enough that Hillary went back to "Progressivism" for 2016, then Biden abandoned even that for a "conservative," old-style Democrat veneer.
The common wisdom holds that “both parties” have to appeal to the extremes during the primary and then move to the center for the general election. To the contrary, both parties run for office as conservatives. Once they have fooled the voters and are safely in office, Republicans sometimes double-cross the voters. Democrats always do. ― Ann Coulter
capitalism
"Capitalism" was a word made up by Marx, probably from the French word for "the feeling of being well-capitalized," capitalisme. (Of course he named it after fee-fees.) But no one in 19th C. America or Britain would have called themselves "capitalists."
Another fee-fee smear word is "individualism." (Almost anything ending in -ism is capable of being used as a content-free smear.) Given the lust for collectivism on the Left, I'm not surprised none of them seem worried about surrendering their minds to the government, that "name for those things we all do together." Obviously, it's a matter of degree, but if America was anything before the New Deal, it was "familyist": if you were dead broke, the usual first option was to send you back to your family for them to put you back on your feet.
"Thou shalt not repeat fake quotes with faker attributions." ― Moses
There was no interest on our profilers’ part in doing investigation of massive voter fraud. They felt it was so obvious and the current work being done by citizens and published on hard-to-find blogs was state-of-the-art and no further investigations would find much more. Their comments were striking because they said the data easily available showed the election fraud patterns had two very alarming characteristics: It was not the first time this was tried, and it will be performed again, at scale, in the next election.
Sobering beyond belief.
Just remember: many of those "conspiracy theories" are in fact pushed by other conspirators to create dissension.
If you want to read two books on the Kennedy assassination, I strongly recommend:
- Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner, 2003. Amazon, Barnes & Noble
- Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism by James Piereson, 2007. Amazon, Barnes & Noble
The first book is, in effect, the biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, showing you how he was definitely the only man in Dallas with the means, motive and opportunity to shoot Kennedy, and who was also ID'ed on the scene by witnesses.
The second book shows you how the first conspiracy theory about JFK's death was promulgated by Jackie Kennedy and The New York Times within 24 hours of the shooting.
against female video-game designers suspected of feminist leanings
Jesus Christ, Joe McCarthy is freakin' immortal. McCarthy and HUAC went after current (and former) members of the foreign-controlled CPUSA, not people who read The Communist Manifesto and thought, "heh, cool." That is a huge distinction, and one lost on Ms Garvin (who deserves the honorific due to his stellar and unthinking efforts on behalf of feminism), since almost all of the "gamers are dead" movement were avowed feminist activists.
"Forgery" simply means being copied from something else
That's plagiarism.
it does not mean a fabrication or inherently false.
That is exactly what it means. A forged check is an attempt to drain someone else's bank account. A Vermeer forgery is a painting designed to cash in on Vermeer's reputation, by imitating his style, by imitating his subject matter, by using the paints and canvases he used, by aging the painting. "Forgery" is identity theft.
Let's turn this around:
Being a dedicated Americanist (i.e., a person who wants to undo the New Deal, and then institute new, capitalist reforms that work far better and are less intrusive), I want to destroy the reputation of leading Democrats. To destroy them on health care, I have the following:
- In 1992, Hillary touted "single-payer" health care. Unlike the UK or CA NHS systems, doctors are not directly employed by the government, but all would be paid by the govt, so the distinction is moot.
- In 1994, Billary was rewarded with a total rout in Congress by the GOP.
- Obama was to the "public option" (AKA single-payer in slow motion) what Thomas Jefferson was to emancipation, offering more promises of it the further he was re-election or any political power. In Aug 2008, it was in his platform one, two. Even Politifact noted it: one, two.
- Obama, too, was rewarded with a rout in 2010. Even those Democrats facing the 2010 midterms were leery of single-payer.
- By 2016 and no longer up for re-election, Obama was again touting a "strong public option".
- Bernie Sanders wants "Medicare for All," which is just single-payer under another name.
Look at the links. These are all reputable sources (ha! Well, I suppose they were). All of the above is true.
Now, if I was a boring, normal person, I would just point out that every Democrat since 1992 has been cuckoo for single payer since forever, regardless of who you vote for. Bernie Bros who whine about Hillary (in between shooting up GOP congressmen) are really only whining that Hillary isn't deploying the Marines to force us all onto Medicare (and its massive, massive taxes) at gun point. And of course, BBs are racist, because they don't whine about Obama in the same way.
But, if I was a retarded freak, then I would forge something called, say, The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of the DNC, in which I would pack all the above evidence into words inserted into O'Billary Sander's mouths, and also say that fetuses are not sold for medical experiments, but actually ground into pâté, and that the Trump administration is about to bust Big Pâté, and that everyone should sit back, do nothing, and wait for the prophesied HYUGE REVEAL, instead of doing something insane like going out and getting politically involved.
Now do you see why we don't trust you?
Judging by his history, he's the television reviewer for Reason:
- He calls ST:Discovery "a throwback to the early days of Star Trek."
- He calls The L Word "ground-breaking" instead of a Sex and the City retread for dykes, or The Big Bang Theory, swapping out comedy for sexploitation.
- What the hell is this??
- He's old, not some dumb kid. He was apparently a newspaper reporter in 1979 Miami.
still gay but celibate.
"Celibacy" means unmarried. That's the vow a Catholic priest or monk/nun takes.
"Chaste" means to refrain from immoral or impure acts. Having sex with your lawful spouse is still being chaste. Of course, the Church does not consider him married, so...
Posting this for u/TheImpossible1 and his blood pressure.
Maybe Islam is right about women, but they seem to have their own White Knights. (From being exposed to white supremacy, no doubt.)
For movies, let me recommend Stalag 17 by Otto Preminger. Quite possibly the most realistic war movie ever made.
Daniel Keys Moran:
- Emerald Eyes: The story of the Castanaveras telepaths begins in Occupied America, more or less directly ruled by the Peace Keeping Force of the Unification government of Earth.
- The Long Run: Trent, the greatest thief in 2069 Occupied America, suspected of being a Castanaveras telepath, makes the longest, fastest getaway ever.
- The Last Dancer: 2076, the Tricentennial of (Occupied) America. The last of the Castanaveras telepaths discovers a lost origin of humanity.
Also:
- Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta. This play was the Animal House of Elizabethan England.
- Rudy Rucker: Software, Wetware, Freeware trilogy
- Frank Miller: The Dark Knight Returns. The Batman movie Hollywood is too terrified to make. And the movie of Sin City, while you're at it.
- Dave Sim: Cerebus the Aardvark
- Casablanca
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Godfather I & II
- Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
- Dangerous Liaisons
- John Boorman's Excalibur
- The Lion in Winter
- A Man for All Seasons
- A Bug's Life has the best villain of any Pixar story.
- David Lynch's Dune, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart
- Scorsese's Casino
- Michael Mann's Heat
- Suspiria, terrible ending, but pretty amazing up till then.
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- Local Hero
- Purple Rain
- Falling Down
- The Maxx
- American Beauty
- Fight Club
- Topsy-Turvy, most Victorian.
- Ouran High School Host Club, a surprising heart.
- Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken, an otaku gets married.
- KonoSuba
- Shin Gojira, best since the original.
- Gabriel DropOut, a slacker angel gets into trouble.
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, an utter paean to the virtues of domesticity.
- Youjo Senki, aka "The Saga of Tanya the Evil". Best war movie ever.
- Ishuzoku Reviewers, bawdy, un-P.C. sex farce.
- Midway, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, A Bridge Too Far
- James Clavell's Shōgun (book or mini-series)
- Clive Barker, first three Books of Blood, Weaveworld, and the movies Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age
- Neal Stephenson et al. The Mongoliad
- Matt Groening, Life Is Hell
- Robert L. Aspirin, Another Fine Myth series
- Azumanga Daioh, manga or series
- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
- John Varley, Titan, Wizard, Demon series
- Anne McCaffery's Pern series
- Larry Correia, Monster Hunter International
- My Side Of The Mountain
- Anything by Niven and Pournelle
- Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (porn, but amazing porn)
- Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comic only)
- Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep, the Across Realtime series
- Michael Moorcock, The War Hound and the World's Pain
- John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Smiley's People
- Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
- Gore Vidal, Creation, an historical novel about a Persian diplomat in the reign of Darius
- Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
- Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveller
- James Branch Cabell, Jurgen
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, The First Edition 1855
- Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi and The Innocents Abroad
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light and the Chronicles of Amber (original pentology)
- Ryuta Amazume, Nana to Kaoru comic
- Gene Wolfe, Soldier of the Mist and There Are Doors
- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
- Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man and The Glass Key. Yes, the Coen brothers improved the plot for Miller's Crossing (replacing a Senator's daughter with a brother and sister pair of petty crooks), but the lack of attribution is just... pathetic.
- Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff
- R. F. Laird, The Boomer Bible (a devastating put-down of boomers)
- Aristophanes, The Complete Plays
- J. G. Ballard, The Day of Creation and The Unlimited Dream Company
- Josh Stanton, The Gnoll Credo
- Norman Spinrad, The Iron Dream, The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde, The Void Captain's Tale
- Leigh Brackett, The Jewel of Bas
- Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree
- Donna Tartt, The Secret History
- Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
- Steven Brust, To Reign in Hell
- Richard Adams, Watership Down
Only ever get the subs for the animes.
If you want fiction that isn't woke
I recommend Jeffro's Appendix N series.
http://www.castaliahouse.com/review-the-dying-earth-by-jack-vance/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-three-hearts-and-three-lions-by-poul-anderson/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-high-crusade-by-poul-anderson/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-eyes-of-the-overworld-by-jack-vance/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-a-princess-of-mars-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-jack-of-shadows-by-roger-zelazny/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-at-the-earths-core-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-pirates-of-venus-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-nine-princes-in-amber-by-roger-zelazny/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-coming-of-conan-the-cimmerian-by-robert-e-howard/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-creep-shadow-by-abraham-merritt/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-moon-pool-by-abraham-merritt/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-kothar-barbarian-swordsman-by-gardner-fox/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-changeling-earth-by-fred-saberhagen/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-face-in-the-frost-by-john-bellairs/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-dwellers-in-the-mirage-by-abraham-merritt/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-lest-darkness-fall-by-l-sprague-de-camp/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-blue-star-by-fletcher-pratt/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-kyrik-warlock-warrior-by-gardener-f-fox/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-berserker-by-fred-saberhagen/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-king-of-elflands-daughter-by-lord-dunsany/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-hieros-journey-by-sterling-lanier/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-star-mans-son-by-andre-norton/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-ill-met-in-lankhmar-by-fritz-leiber/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-complete-cthulhu-mythos-tales-by-h-p-lovecraft/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-broken-sword-by-poul-anderson/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-maker-of-worlds-by-philip-jose-farmer/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-sword-of-rhiannon-by-leigh-brackett/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-a-martian-odyssey-and-the-complete-planetary-series-by-stanley-grauman-weinbaum/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-jewel-in-the-skull-by-michael-moorcock/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-trail-of-cthulhu-by-august-derlath/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-swords-against-darkness-iii-edited-by-andrew-j-offut/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-carnelian-cube-by-l-sprague-de-camp-and-fletcher-pratt/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-warrior-of-worlds-end-by-lin-carter/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-shadow-people-by-margaret-st-clair/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-fallible-fiend-by-l-sprague-de-camp/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-stealer-of-souls-by-michael-moorcock/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-legion-of-space-by-jack-williamson/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-sign-of-the-labrys-by-margaret-st-clair/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-best-of-fredric-brown-edited-by-robert-bloch/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-stormbringer-by-michael-moorcock/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-battle-in-the-dawn-by-manly-wade-wellman/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-complete-compleat-enchanter-by-l-sprague-de-camp-and-fletcher-pratt/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/retrospective-the-hobbit-and-the-lord-of-the-rings-by-j-r-r-tolkien/
http://www.castaliahouse.com/appendix-n-matters/
BAH. Admitting that not every male is a "man's man," nor every female a "girly girl," is no more strange than saying, not every white person is a tight-assed scold or a racist cracker, nor every black person a soul sister or brotha.
Destroying sex roles for the 1% of the population who don't fit them exactly is madness.