Oh hey, speaking of

Tlaloc, the rain god

That's the god that demanded crying child sacrifices. But there's no need to take my word for it, as a contemporary (Bernardino de Sahagun, author of the General History of the Things of New Spain which is pretty much our best contemporary source on Aztec practices) recorded...

And there they left the children known as "human paper streamers," those who had two cowlicks of hair, whose day signs were favorable. They were sought everywhere; they were paid for. It was said: "They are indeed most precious debt-payments. [The Tlaloque] gladly receive them; they want them. Thus they are well content; thus there is indeed contentment." Thus with them the rains were sought, rain was asked....

And all [the sacrifices] went [to the places of sacrifice] with their head-bands. They were crammed with precious feathers; they had sprays of precious feathers. Their greenstone necklaces went with them; they went provided with necklaces -- they went provided with greenstone bracelets. They had their faces liquid rubber painted; their faces were painted with liquid rubber; their faces were spotted with a paste of amaranth seeds. And there were their rubber sandals; their rubber sandals went with them. They all went honored; they were all adorned, they were ornamented with all the valuable things which went with them. They gave them paper wings, they were of paper; they each had paper wings. In litters were they carried; they went housed in precious feathers, there where each of them customarily went. They went sounding flutes for them.

There was much compassion. They made one weep; they loosed one's weeping; they made one sad for them; there was sighing for them...

And if the children went crying, if their tears kept flowing, if their tears kept falling, it was said, it was stated: "It will surely rain." Their tears signified rain. Therefore there was contentment; therefore one's heart was at rest. Thus they said: "Verily, already the rains will set in; verily, already we shall be rained on."

I say, thank God these demonic deities were crushed and their barbaric cults annihilated - if this be 'theocide', it's probably the single most justified case in history. I consider the eradication of the native Aztec religion to be one of the most heroic achievements, if not the most heroic, of the Spanish Empire & one of the finest pieces of evidence that no, colonialism wasn't all bad and sometimes (in the Aztecs' case, further evidenced by the speed and eagerness with which their local rivals joined the Spanish to annihilate them) the natives weren't any sort of noble savages but in fact complete monsters who absolutely had it coming.

I think it's safe to guess that if they're gonna pull anyone's heart out on a pyramid, it will be exclusively straight white men, and straight white women after they run out of those. Maybe they'll flay any white kids who don't like the new curriculum after first driving them to tears, too.

Lmao, they could've at least tried to find an alternative to the Aztecs (who, incidentally, did not rule any land near California - they were based in central Mexico). Those guys' neighbors preferred colonial Spanish rule to theirs to the extent of actively helping Cortes wipe their horrific blight of a civilization from the face of the earth, because they were fucking sick and tired of the Aztecs raiding them to collect human sacrifices all the time.

And then many of said neighbors, such as the Tlaxcalans (who still exist today BTW), were actually treated pretty well by Spain, certainly far better than they had been under Aztec hegemony. Seriously, the Spanish made the Tlaxcalans into honored vassals and the Tlaxcalans in turn served their new kings as loyal auxiliaries in wars against other Mesoamerican peoples hostile to Spain, such as the Chichimeca.

Correct. If anything, basically everything got worse between the end of the Middle Ages and the mid-19th century (which was when things really started to pick up for the human race again with the Belle Epoque, massive advances in medical technology & such). Just a few things off the top of my head...

• Living standards in general declined. For example, in Britain enclosure further squished the agrarian poor by taking what little common land they had free access to and handing it off to landlords, while the Dissolution of the Monasteries turned those monasteries' dependents into hordes of 'sturdy beggars' who contributed to growing social instability. More generally, this was the period in which public hygiene became noticeably far worse as bathing fell out of fashion following the Black Death - Polish plaits were not known to be a problem in the Middle Ages, after all.

• Wars got way bigger and more destructive. Contrary to popular imagination, medieval armies weren't mobs of peasant draftees with pitchforks around a chivalric core but instead quite small and professional, comprised of knights & men-at-arms who fought while their serfs tilled the fields; for example Bouvines, one of the most famous and decisive battles of medieval Europe, saw fewer than 10k combatants on both sides. Mass conscription only became a thing in early modernity, resulting in armies that acted like locust hordes on the countryside & any civilian unlucky enough to be living in their way in-between slaughtering each other in battles whose scale dwarfed medieval engagements.

• Societal disruption on a mass scale. You had the Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the fall of the English monarchy and consequent rise of Whig parliamentarism in Great Britain, continental monarchs going in the other direction and becoming absolutists, the Enlightenment and the age of revolutions, and that's just in Europe. Obviously, many indigenous societies in the Americas were utterly mangled or completely wiped out as the age of colonialism got going. China got pretty thoroughly wrecked by the Manchu conquest, and so on.

At this point, when anyone argues that the Middle Ages were the worst period in human history, my eyes roll into the back of my head and my default assumption is that they're either a Romeboo (as Petrarch and Edward Gibbon were) or indoctrinated into the cult of modernism/postmodernism, and thus unlikely to have a view of pre-1900 history that isn't deeply rooted in (and goes deeper than) what pop-culture has to say about it.

I can't think of any stronger proof for the existence of the incel-to-tranny pipeline than the threats being highlighted on the Superstraight sub. Those psychotic and lurid rape/murder fantasies, usually involving choking the Superstraight fellow in question with their girldicks from what I can see, being posted sound are very reminiscent of the unhinged shit genuine incels (by which I'm referring not to 'wizards' or anti-feminists in general obviously, but true psychos like Marjan Siklic) spout whenever they're questioned or denied what they want.

Which makes a ton of sense if a lot of today's trannies, perhaps the majority even, are in fact creeps who think that declaring themselves women and posing in skirts & thigh-high socks = a special card with which they can extort sex from girls and validation from everyone else in general, on pain of being declared transphobic. Imagine going to all that trouble and then said girls not only rebuff your repulsive advances anyway, but turn your own rhetoric back on you? They're already raging headcases, no wonder Superstraight would piss them off so much - it's a way for people to render their self-inflicted humiliation & erectile dysfunction/castration totally pointless.

And to think this guy was supposed to be an improvement over MacKay...

A few days ago I started up new games in two of the classic non-Warscape engine Total Wars, Rome 1 and Medieval 2, with new mods that came out fairly recently: Restitutor Orbis (a Crisis of the 3rd Century mod that had been in the works for more than 10 years) and Tsardoms Total War (a 14th century Balkan mod), respectively.

You're correct when it comes to the Muslim world in general, but to my own surprise, this is actually not tolerated (and the intolerance enforced by death) by the Salafis and other extremist sects. The Taliban took their own ban on the Afghan tradition of bacha bazi (the 'dancing boys'/underage male sex slaves) and killed anyone practicing it. It was unironically a major reason as to why the Taliban even gained power in the first place - Afghan civilians getting sick of warlord gangs kidnapping their sons for their bosses' fun, and conseuquently enlisting with or otherwise aiding the Taliban against those depraved warlords.

The practice has only been making a comeback in recent decades because, as that infamous Vice documentary (back when they still had any reporters who were worth a damn) recorded, the same warlords the Taliban had nearly crushed returned to power as part of the new Western-backed government and US troops are being ordered to turn a blind eye to their proclivities.

Islam is right about homosexuality

Sounds like America could use a hell of a lot more 'white resistance' then.

I'd like to think that's just a troll or even an epic false flag, but what this PetuniaProudlock is saying is largely indistinguishable from the words of a number of contemporary RL Jews who seem awfully determined to make all the goyim gradually hate them & their people, so...

That's true. Red China's already proven you can win a war on drugs: in the span of a decade (the '50s) they resolved China's longstanding opium problem by simply forcing all known users (about ten million people) into rehab, shooting anyone who exited rehab & relapsed later, shooting all dealers on sight, burning the poppies and forcing their replacement with other crops, and indefinitely jailing/shooting anyone who complained about any or all of the above. The Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos, Thailand) didn't become a leader in global opium production until all of China's drug lords, producers & traders had to haul ass down there after the Chinese Civil War.

It was a much more brutal and thorough process than say, what Duterte had been doing in the Philippines, but it worked. Of course, we know the Chinese are pumping drugs into other people's countries now, but God help you if you so much as try to take it within their borders - one of the bigger and more understated historical ironies of the present day, I believe.

But of course, the methods the Chicoms used to 'win' their war on opium (and which are still in use elsewhere in Asia, Indonesia for example carried out the high-profile executions of a bunch of Australian drug smugglers in 2015, and the majority of executions in Singapore this past decade were for drug-related offenses as well; lethally anti-drug attitudes are hardly uncommon throughout East & Southeast Asia in general) are unconscionable for a modern liberal democracy with all its social permissiveness, so yeah.

Nothing ironic about that, Baen prides itself on publishing quality works regardless of ideology - hence why it's associated with hard-right authors and literature, because it's one of the few (and ever fewer) publishing houses that will touch them with a 10 ft pole these days instead of simply refusing them on grounds of 'reee right wing stuff icky propaganda'. When he was still alive, Jim Baen had the integrity to engage authors whose politics he didn't like in honest debate, published their works anyway if they were of actually good quality, and made lifelong friends that way.

I'm sure Sanford's followers won't be pleased to know that Eric Flint, author of the excellent 1632 books and unironic Trotskyist & union organizer (who to his credit was brave enough to walk the walk, almost getting killed by the mafia for opposing their infiltration into the Teamsters and by the Klan for trying to organize multiracial unions in Alabama back in the 60s-70s), was a personal friend of Jim Baen himself and is now defending Baen Books and bluntly calling Sanford a liar & coward.

No need, I already learned more than I ever cared to know about the bottomless depths of their seething hatred from their reaction to Thatcher's death.

RIP to the man who helped get the alt-media ball rolling back when the MSM was still unquestionably dominant and its narratives regularly went unchallenged.

Context: Baen Books, the single biggest anti-woke scifi and fantasy publishing house I can think of (ex. among others, they print the works of Tom Kratman, which would make the eyes of anyone ideologically left of Hugues de Payens bleed), is being accused of basically nurturing right-wing terrorists by the otherwise-obscure nobody Jason Sanford. It basically boils down to some hotheads fedposting in a little too much detail on their forum, which has a reputation for laissez-faire moderation and being host to primarily hard-right views (in addition to obviously being a place to interact with professional & amateur authors being published by Baen).

So far, Baen has shut down said forum. It's uncertain whether this will be temporary or not, but it almost certainly isn't going to be the end of this mess now that Social Justice has once again smelled blood in the water.

Sanford's accusations

Official response from Baen's publisher, Toni Weisskopf

It is hard to think what would really happen if most of the rank and file in the military ever goes woke.

If they drink the Kool-Aid of an ideology which so fervently fetishizes weakness & victimization, and is so prone to infighting, as contemporary intersectional leftism? I think the answer to that's quite easy, actually. Think more 470s Rome than the 1940s USSR: entire divisions comprised of ethnic groups that hate the country they serve and are expressly loyal to their race's interests, unable to fight as a coherent force against any outside enemy and (far from being effective at suppressing unrest) more likely to start civil wars, between themselves if nobody else as black and Latino (for example, you can also substitute 'female and Muslim' or any other conceivable combination) interests start clashing.

No doubt this will greatly benefit outside barbarians, in today's case, the likes of Red China and Latin America.

Funny you should mention the Satanic panic. I've lost all faith in the mainstream narrative that it was entirely a load of bullshit since the FBI declassified its findings on the Finders cult and the existence of actual tunnels under the infamous McMartin preschool, just as claimed by the kids in that case.

Suffice to say, since 2015 or so I haven't exactly been inclined to take our betters in law enforcement & the press at their word about more and more things, and these revelations amounted to another huge nail in that particular coffin.

19th century Paraguay was a fucked up place, man. Besides this policy of mandatory mixed marriage, their dictators ended up fighting a suicidal war against Brazil, Argentina & Uruguay all at the same time (as the comic also references) quite literally to the last man: it's estimated that 70-90% of the male Paraguayan population died as a result.

Deus Ex was right again.

I think it just comes down to a mix of narcissism, including projecting themselves and their thoughts unto others; not being able to clearly differentiate between reality & fantasy; and not being able to separate politics from anything in general. Sane, healthy and non-narcissistic people are able to empathize with characters who don't look like them or think the exact same opinions they do most or all of the time. They're also sufficiently grown-up to know that reading Mein Kampf will not automatically turn you into a jackbooted goosestepping stormtrooper nor that reading Das Kapital will turn you into a frothing Internationale-singing commissar.

SJWs, on the other hand, assume that anything less than a saintly depiction of characters whose identities & beliefs they identify with, and anything less than an unrelentingly negative depiction of characters whose identities & beliefs they identify as inherently evil & wrongthink, are personal attacks on their own identity & beliefs, and must mean the author him/herself is an evil bigot. They can't comprehend that fiction doesn't have to be political all the time nor can they separate the artist from his or her work, and they also tend to be so emotionally unstable that they constantly crave validation & asspats (even from fiction) - so it's no surprise that they're not able to write compelling characters or appreciate them any more than Jack Chick could've written or appreciated a good Catholic.

treat people like children

Well, that is how SJWs want to be treated: as spoiled, self-absorbed, overgrown brats occupying their 'rightful' place as the center of the universe and whose every demand must be catered to by everyone else no matter how arbitrary, ridiculous and out-of-place they might be. Anyone who won't entertain them at best bores them, at worst (and far more often) must obviously be a mean bullying enemy out to oppress them.

As far as I'm concerned, demanding 'representation' because you can't identify with, draw inspiration from, or otherwise respect the (real life!) people in the story and their struggles until & unless their identity mirrors yours is a sign of insanely unhealthy narcissism and betrays a lack of empathy for anyone outside the in-group you've placed yourself in (regardless of whether or not you actually fit in it, ex. troons among women or Shaun King types among blacks).

Do the previous mods sincerely believe the admins aren't aware of & didn't approve of the hostile takeover? T_D's mod team learned this lesson long ago. They should just encourage wholesale migration to their .win instead of trying to retake control on Reddit, considering that site's rotten like a fish - from the head on down.

Well, I expect the ruthless totalitarianism will help a great deal. America probably wouldn't have the problems it does now if it had responded to the Weather Underground by harvesting their organs & nailing their heads to their doors as a warning to other wannabe militants instead of letting them freely fester and even worm their way into positions in academia & politics, and if its response to urban black riots had been to deport the ghettos' populations to concentration camps in the Mojave Desert instead of appeasing & making excuses for them.

This. China is just following the Soviet model of Communist evolution in broad strokes. They had the 'let radical degenerates run rampant to destroy as much of the old as possible' phase already - the Cultural Revolution - just as the USSR under Lenin decriminalized all sorts of degenerate faggotry (including, but certainly not limited to, homosexuality itself) and launched its own cultural (including sexual) revolution against everything Tsarist, Orthodox and Russian.

But after a point, those useful idiots will outlive their usefulness, and a Stalin figure will step in to annihilate them and restore some traditional structure because they have the brains to realize that all that deconstructive, antisocial shit is inherently unsustainable & will rot their fiefdom from the inside out if not extirpated ASAP. Hence why homosexuality, promiscuity, and degeneracy in general wound up being outlawed again, condemned as mental disorders and 'bourgeois decadence', and anyone who was into that stuff was slammed as a lunatic and/or thrall of the decayed, immoral capitalist West. Red China crushed its Red Guards long ago, just as Stalin crushed the Old Bolsheviks who were actually into all those perversions for their own sake and not as a useful bludgeon against Tsarism.

And the CCP of today is nothing if not an entire cabal of Stalins.