The only true and righteous thing any anarcho-Communist has ever said is that liberals rightly get the bullet, too.
It started with the Cold War, where Palestine (and the Arab world at large) was generally supported by the Soviets while Israel was at least theoretically supposed to be in America's corner (in practice, they pursued their own interests). Got bad enough that there was at least one major direct confrontation between the Israeli Air Force & Soviet fighters helping out the Egyptians, which the Israelis won. Also, enough Jews wanted to GTFO of the Soviet Union and were banned from doing so until cracks started emerging in the 1970s that a term had to be invented for it, 'refusenik'.
The Soviets had plenty of interest in propagating pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel propaganda back then while the American establishment was firmly aligned with Jews in general: Democrats have pretty much always counted them as a key supporting demographic since FDR's day because they're urban and on-average educated immigrants or the descendants of immigrants with a socialistic bent, while in the Republican Party Jewish neocons were able to sideline actual American nationalists like the John Birch Society with the help of shabbos goyim like the Buckleys. (I think it's noteworthy that no matter how hard Republicans suck up to American Jews, as a voting bloc they have literally never once voted in the majority for the GOP, not even for theoretically universally popular candidates like Eisenhower or Reagan.) Since both parties' establishments were staunch supporters of Israel and this status quo has only begun to be challenged very recently, it was only natural that anti-Israeli forces were going to be anti-American by nature as well.
Post-Cold War and more relevant to the younger generations like the lunatic in that video above, it's just a case of rootless blood-red Western Jews' golem slipping the leash and turning on them. Only one thing can happen when you do your damndest over several generations to turn your students into frothing-at-the-mouth Red Guard wannabees with a programmed murderous hatred of anything that smacks of 'colonialism' or 'whiteness', while Cousin Akiva on the other side of the world is busy building settlements and displacing the brown(er) locals.
Slavery? Hearing what this cunt has to say, I'm starting to think the Reconstruction/Jim Crow-era white Southerners who believed in the necessity of lynching random niggers from time to time to remind the rest of their place were on to something. Maybe their kind does need to be constantly kept scared shitless, genuinely oppressed into the dirt and ripped into bloody shreds in a public spectacle the moment they put a toe out of line for the rest of us to be able to enjoy a civilized society - else they'll gladly do the same to you, except they won't be able to keep the lights on & the plumbing working.
That's something that has always weirded me out. Super-blue districts send partisan zealots like Maxine Waters to represent them, but super-red ones send blatant turncoats like Crenshaw and Kevin McCarthy - snakes who absolutely can't wait to stab their supposed constituents in the back, again and again and again. It even extends to the Senate seats, states which are supposed to be strongly to hyper-conservative like Texas or South Dakota are represented in the upper chamber by McConnell proteges like John Cornyn & John Thune instead. If the Democrats ever have a similar problem at least their 'problematic' Senator comes from a state where them not marching in lockstep with the turbo-progs makes sense, like Manchin from WV. What gives?
Japan needs Otoya Yamaguchi's reincarnation now more than ever.
Pity that this didn't happen on St. Patrick's Day, wish the globalist snake had resigned just three days ago.
For this Saint Patrick's Day I went and did some looking into the 17th-century Irish Confederation that fought Cromwell. Everyone knows the Irish lost and got genocided in the end, but what the Confederacy and its armies were like is a much more obscure topic.
Turns out a small group of Irish historical reenactors made a short film more than a decade ago, centered on Confederate troops reacting to the sack of Drogheda by the Roundhead army called 'The Flag.' And for tabletop wargamers, this ancient blogger painstakingly researched the Confederates' war banners and reproduced them for his own use from 2008-12: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Fittingly they're chock full of Latin mottos and Catholic imagery which would've shocked & appalled the Irishmen's adversaries. I particularly like the one that literally just depicts an Irish knight torching John Calvin's book (both the Puritans and the Scots Covenanters were Calvinists) and proclaims 'THUS HERESIES PERISH', very blunt & to the point.
I mostly remember RedState for being a battleground between pro-Trump and never-Trump voices on their staff back during the 2016 election, which eventually resulted in the former winning and purging the latter shortly before election day (they then fucked off to neocon sites such as Bill Kristol-sponsored The Bulwark and Erick Erickson's The Resurgent). In more recent months & years, when I take a look at their front page I've sometimes seen dueling articles between pro-Ukraine and anti-Ukraine writers.
Having done a bit more digging, they seem to be a site that tolerates debate & rivaling viewpoints as long as those viewpoints remain broadly right-wing and nobody goes so far as to support the Democrats, which IIRC was the tipping point that precipitated the purge of the Never-Trump RINOs in 2016. Interesting place to be for a conservative website, I suppose. Hard to say whether that's true of their view on gaming too since Morse seems like the only guy who talks about vidya at all on the entire site - if there are any Walsh-types on board, they're keeping it to themselves so far. Then again Morse is apparently a senior editor on there, which may be a good sign depending on the sincerity of his views of gaming.
Final note, it turns out RedState has actually been around longer than the Daily Wire (founded in 2004 vs. 2015) and they're owned by Salem Media Group, a Christian conservative media conglomerate that's been around since the 1970s but has seemingly always had ambivalent relations with the Buckley-Reagan-Bush 'fusionist'/neocon consensus which dominated the American right wing until Trump. Actually all their websites (Townhall, PJ Media, Hot Air - they got rid of Allahpundit a few years ago) have been turning increasingly overtly unfriendly towards the Republican establishment alongside RedState since the mid-2010s, and RedState was also the first site to break the financial scandal that decisively forced Ronna McDaniel out of the RNC. Frankly if these trends continue, I'd rather these guys be the future of the conservative media sphere than more of Fox and the DW.
At a glance this Brandon Morse guy does at least seem more genuinely interested in gaming news: a look through his history of published articles brings me stuff indicating a much more consistent approval of games, disapproval of censorship even on moralistic grounds, and support for gamers, like this article about Stellar Blade and how there's nothing wrong with Eve's sexiness or this one from last November shitting on Alan Wa/oke II. And he does outright describe Matt Walsh's take to be completely wrong very early on in the above linked article. Perhaps we're starting to see tension in the online conservative media sphere between dinosaurs like the Daily Wire and more tech-friendly, forward-looking young guard types?
Anyone more familiar with Brandon Morse and RedState, please do help me fill in the gaps of my knowledge re: how real & reliable they are, at least in comparison to blatant opportunists and fake & gay neocons like Walsh and the Daily Wire.
I'd like to think that's just some pablum he's spouting to appease moderate normie sorts, who seem to be the deciding element in the district where he's running. A guy who was purged for his conservative politics should certainly know better and AFAIK he's never been shy about his conservative beliefs before and after being fired from Bungie over it (indeed, sticking to his guns most probably was what cost him his old job in the first place). He's also at least mildly attuned to the culture war, I remember him posting about boycotting Gilette and going over to Dollar Shave Club instead a few years ago when the furor over that toxic masculinity ad was still fresh.
Gotta keep in mind his district is very purple, presently held by a Democrat and the last few elections there were decided by thin margins. It's very much not an R+20 district where he can afford to reveal his power level in full, go 'yes the Democrats are evil parasites who are ruining this country on purpose and I would love to skin them alive on livestream' and still romp to victory.
For the younger users: O'Donnell used to be the big music guy at Bungie from 1999-2014 (IIRC), most famously composing the soundtrack of the Halo series and Destiny. However, he was suddenly fired 'without cause' in his words a decade ago and Bungie further went out of their way to try to financially screw him over. In hindsight, it's very hard to not assume that he was purged as part of the drive to homogenize politics across gaming studios which was kicking into high gear in the early-to-mid-2010s, as he was (and is) an outspoken conservative.
Well, now he's running for the Republican nomination in NV's 3rd Congressional district. At a glance it seems like a competitive swing district; it was last held by the GOP in 2018, more recently won by non-landslide margins by the Democrat Susie Lee, and presently rated with a Partisan Voting Index of D+1. So probably (hopefully) not insurmountable for O'Donnell if he takes the Republican nomination.
Between this, Sweet Baby Inc. Streisanding itself by trying to suppress that Steam curator, and Maya Kramer re-emerging as a Sweet Baby consultant, it sure feels like I've seen an unusual number of gaming-related blasts from the past in the last few weeks.
Edit: Also, here's O'Donnell's official campaign website.
The Japanese already had to deal with their own version of autogenocidal CRT before it was cool, 'Anti-Japaneseism' in the 1970s.
Oliver Cromwell's genocide of the Irish was merely his second worst atrocity, his real first one was inviting the Tribe back into Britain for the first time in 350 years.
In 2018, 56.4% of new recruits were categorized as white. In 2023, that number had fallen to 44%. During that same five-year period, Black recruits have gone from 20% to 24% of the pool, and Hispanic recruits have risen from 17% to 24%, with both groups seeing largely flat recruiting totals but increasing as a percentage of incoming soldiers as white recruiting has fallen.
It sounds as though blacks & Latinos have indeed been comprising a bigger % of the new recruits, but only because the white men's % has been going down, not because any more of them are actually enlisting than in previous years.
IOW, despite everything - all the pandering, hype around a more diverse military, and whatever material benefits they're offering to the 'POCs' who they have determined to be America's future - the US military is still less successful at actually recruiting hoodrats & illegals with no prospects in life than the Western Roman Empire was at recruiting barbarian foederati.
Kaleb of Aksum would be a better choice, unfortunately the accomplishment which made him the most based black man to ever live is also the reason why Hollywood won't touch his story with a 40 ft pole.
It reeks of Gnosticism. The same set of beliefs - the idea that we're all godly blank slates, but reality from civilized societies down to our very bodies is an oppressive construct built to keep us trapped and suppress our godhood and thus should be dismantled, complete with the same extensions like 'give all your shit to and mindlessly obey the dictates of the elite who have attained gnosis whether they be called Perfecti or The Party or The Experts™', 'men can be women and vice-versa' and 'abortion is fantastic actually, in fact bringing new life into this world is the real sin since you're just trapping more souls in this hell called earth' - keep cropping up, age after age.
The Rousseau-Marx pipeline and all that has spewed forth from it might have completely secularized the worldview and rejected older Gnostic ideas of a religious bent like there being a 'true' goddess called Sophia around, but the core fundamentals are still there. If anything, they've been abandoning any pretense to hard materialism and reverting to the pseudo-religious woo with purposefully built-in, even celebrated, inconsistency and hypocrisy out the ass since Cultural Marxism was articulated by Gramsci, refined by the likes of the Frankfurt School, and entered total ascendancy on the Western left with the 1960s New Left, Paulo Freire's critical theory solidifying in 1970 and the postmodernist crowd while the Soviet Union crumbled.
And the answer to their madness never changes, either: 'kill them all and let God sort them out'.
Always have, always will. Part of TPTB's long-running campaign to domesticate the native populations of the West was to lull them into thinking violence is uncivilized anathema to the political process and never to be considered when it's really its fundamental core, and to stick to voting & meekly protesting within the confines of the rigged system while they're being trampled underfoot.
America hasn't been a Protestant nation, or any sort of Christian nation, for a very long time. Doubtless a good deal longer than anyone on this board's been alive, myself certainly included. And in that extremely brief (by macrohistorical standards) window of time when it was, the fractious nature of Protestantism - with every different sect's religious worldview inevitably influencing their secular considerations - rendered full national unity inherently impossible in the long term. Yeah, it was fine for the first few decades when the Puritan-descended Yankees constituting the Federalist Party were just bickering about the viability of centrally-directed national development schemes with the Episcopalian, Cavalier-descended Democrat-Republicans, but obviously all that went tits up the instant the question of slavery ceased to be a merely academic discussion and one side started spawning William Garrisons & John Browns while the other pumped out John Calhouns & George Fitzhughs before the Founding Fathers were even all dead. (The decidedly non-Protestant Founding Father Charles Carroll, a slaveowner himself, lived long enough to witness Garrison's publishing of The Liberator for the first time.)
The attempt to found the nation on a marriage of multiple strands of Protestantism (Washington's Episcopalianism, Adams' Unitarian Congregationalism, etc.) with Enlightenment-era concepts of liberal individualism, minimal government & the promotion of free enterprise was worth the shot, but there's no denying that it comprehensively failed and the country they had in mind replaced with one more alien to their sensibilities than even Louis XIV's France would have been to an Egyptian farmer from Narmer's day within about 80-160 years. Depending on whether you consider the point where this Founders' vision was obliterated to be the Civil War, the ascent of the original Progressives and creation of the Federal Reserve, or the New Deal of course.
In the grand scheme of things, the Evangelical/Moral Majority attempt at a revival in the Reagan years was not some Great Awakening but a final frantic (and failed, very quickly at that) attempt at salvaging that which was already lost while the likes of Falwell and Robertson were still teenagers at their oldest. IIRC neither were even alive for the Modernist-Fundamentalist split in the 1920s, and then the poor bastards couldn't even overturn the ban on voluntary school prayer or reopen an opportunity to stave off baby-killing on a state level. When society crumbles and it's time to rebuild on the ashes, it's only natural to seek stronger materials for the foundation and structure - materials that have been proven to last millennia rather than less than two centuries - even if you intend to reuse as much of the old design as possible.
A legitimate ruler dictating the correct Christian orthodoxy and belief is how the core precepts of Christianity which Catholics, the Orthodox, most Protestants and varying numbers of Oriental Orthodox churches agree on came to be. For example the Trinity became a foundational pillar of Christian doctrine across many borders & creeds because Constantine the Great called the Council of Nicaea to debate it, then came down on the side of the Trinitarian faction. Every one of the other ecumenical councils considered legitimate & binding by the various Christian sects were called & their results enforced by the Emperors, who were regarded as the overall head of the Church between Constantine and Irene (when the Pope started going his own way while most of the other Pentarchs had fallen to the growing power of Islam).
Some level of state/worldly influence on the church is always inevitable, it comes with the territory of living in a fallen world & necessarily having to interact with secular society even if one becomes a monk (or a Protestant, Cromwell's Protectorate was hardly inclined toward religious freedom and the early US had established churches at the state level for decades - Massachusetts' lasted until 1833 for instance). The post-Constantine state church of the Roman Empire didn't do too badly (if anything it was probably the most trustworthy institution and the one most directly helpful to people at a time when the bureaucracy was rotten to the core, the army was made up increasingly of barbarians and the Senate couldn't make a single correct decision for an entire century) and the Byzantine theory of symphonia or state-church equality & complementarianism held up well when put into practice.
No, the real problem now is with the quality of the leaders. We have no Constantines today, only Caracallas and Honoriuses. And as can be seen here, we certainly have no Pope Urban II or Pius V but a Clement V, John XXII or Alexander VI come again.
Varies from hobby to hobby I'd say. As far as gaming goes, I think the infection really got going around the time of the Great Recession. Among other things Sark started up Feminist Frequency in 2009 and Tropes vs. Women in 2011, Bioware's last non-totally-pozzed games were from that time period (DAO - 2009 and ME2 - 2010), and the purge of known conservatives from gaming picked up steam not long after IIRC (ex. Martin O'Donnell, the original composer for Halo and an outspoken conservative, was drummed out around 2013-14).
Can't remember where exactly (it may have been KF) but I read a theory that Sarkeesian might've been the tip of the spear for Larry Fink et al. to sink the claws of ESG into vidya around the time of the Recession and try to puppeteer it into just another vector for prog agitprop. Knowing the results and how Feminist Frequency persisted for so long despite struggling to gain even 1k views on most of their videos for ages before finally shuttering for good only very recently (perhaps the ESG bux finally ran dry?), I'd believe it now.
I would imagine the rot must've set in much earlier with movies & comic books, if only because they were already mainstream entertainment mediums well before gaming really broke into the mainstream.
Nice to know that the DarthMod guy found commercial success with his own strategy games.
As far as early modern Total Wars go, I remember someone made a pretty good looking American Civil War mod for Napoleon TW (IIRC). There was a neat little trailer for one of their later releases, showing the 54th Massachusetts USCT battling Confederate cavalry & infantry set to the music of the final battle from the Matthew Broderick & Denzel Washington movie Glory (ironically they weren't storming Fort Wagner in that trailer, instead it looked like a field battle in a forest meadow and called to mind one of the earlier skirmishes from that film).
I mostly just really, REALLY miss the insane moddability of the first couple Total War games. LOTR: TW and Fourth Age Total War for RTW I and Divide and Conquer for M2TW remain the best Lord of the Rings strategy games I've played and even more fun than Battle for Middle-earth, which itself was already pretty awesome. The switch to the Warscape engine from Empire onward really tanked the modding scene (and probably hugely contributed to the death of sites like the .Org and TW Center which used to be the franchise's main modding nexuses), people are still trying but they can't quite measure up to the sheer ambition & variety of the mods for ye olde pre-Warscape Total Wars IMO.
Very true. I've heard that despite being the origin of as many as 75-80% of new recruits, military families have been doing their part to help the recruitment crisis along & telling their young men to stay well away from the armed forces. Here's hoping they keep that up.
They did, but I will only truly feel satisfaction over their demise when they're finally officially shuttered for good.
I can scarcely fathom the delusional arrogance it must take to assume that after the absolute woke onslaught of just the last decade alone, the Summer of Love, COVID lockdowns & vax mandates, the ongoing imprisonment and torture of the J6 boomers, etc. the elite can just offer up some good old-fashioned ads harkening back to better days (which they destroyed in the first place) and the demographics they've been shitting on, killing, suppressing and trying to replace will just go 'well OK then, all is forgiven'. Or that a couple of token concessions can win back their allegiance, as if for example Musk allowing people to name the Jew and call for the lynching of niggers on X which (while I'm sure it would be funny) will persuade the 'hillbillies' whose heritage & very existence those Jews have been demonizing and allowing the aforementioned niggers to brutalize without consequence for ages to come rushing back. Sheeit, it hasn't even been a month since they melted down the Charlottesville Lee statue, has it?
Hell, I can't even think of any actual concessions the globohomo regime could realistically make at this point that would actually be good enough to convince that white Christian male patriot demographic they need so badly that they are totally 100% sincere about changing for the better and you can trust them now, bros.
Well, maybe if Fed's board of governors get offered up as scapegoats for the economic crises of the past decades and are publicly executed on livestream.
And if Blackrock's houses, Bill Gates' farms, etc. get seized and parceled out to new enlistees as their enlistment bonus, entirely free of charge and unbound from mortgaging.
And if the border is closed, legal streams of immigration frozen indefinitely and efforts are made to round up every illegal alien in the country, so that they may be presented with the options of either expulsion or being machine-gunned on the spot.
And if Tim Wise, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, etc. get burned to death atop a pyre comprised of intersectional anti-racist works while the corpse of Noel Ignatiev, among others, is exhumed, cremated and the ashes fired out of cannons in the general direction of Israel.
And if feminist harridans and e-thots alike were subjected to a public walk of shame from one end of the country to another while all their works are burned in public squares, fags burn on the pyres with their own degenerate works, no-fault divorce outlawed and birth control banned as a public hazard.
And if chimpouts can once more be punished by the police loosing dogs & firehoses on the perpetrators at the minimum, or at maximum the NYT and Washington Post being forced to praise and publish celebratory postcards of whites having taken care of the evildoers themselves and digging trophies out of the latter's hanged and burnt corpses like in the old days.
And if the Ten Commandments stand proudly next to courthouses, while groups like ACLU and the Freedom From Religion Foundation are buried under endless investigations, red tape and taxes until they dissolve, and the likes of Piss Christ's creator are assassinated only for their killers to never even be investigated.
And if Muslims committing terror attacks or Jews trying to subvert and undermine Christianity is answered with sanctioned pogroms, wherein Christians are allowed to destroy their communities and seize their lives & property. Etc, etc, you get the idea.
But you know what the chances TPTB will grant meaningful concessions like anything halfway to these are? Less than zero. They will resolve to hold on to Briseis even as their diverse armies falter before Ivan's and Wong's and Ismail's defense of the walls of the new Troy. A pity then they'll find that, as the article notes, Patroclus' death won't be enough to motivate the American Achilles to fight for long; or at all, considering their most likely Patroclus today won't be the good ol' soldier-boy's best buddy and cousin but probably one of the hive cities which are symbolic of everything wrong with America today. If another 9/11 hits NYC or a nuke goes off in LA (or even a mid-sized metropolis like say, Seattle) tomorrow, I expect the chuds of Wyoming or Alabama to cheer, and rightly so - the regime will have only vaporized their enemies with such a false flag.
Well and good. Stay in that fucking tent, chuds. Until about five minutes ago your overlord was boasting that Private Tyrone, Sergeant Shaniqua, Lieutenant Pablo and Brigadier-General Blackmoon (she/her) were oh so superior to you stale white males; let them prove that superiority now. And on the bright side, the more of these people get killed or maimed by Ismail's IEDs, Ivan's artillery or Wong's drones abroad, the easier things will be for you when the shooting starts at home.
If you're into strategy games then definitely Rome: Total War (I), the 2004 original, as well as Medieval II Total War from 2007. Aside from the base games themselves they have so, so many mods as well (helps that the old engine is more moddable, especially map-wise, than the new engine used by the series since Empire), including some which are being worked on even today.