NRO's The Corner: Rolling Bile, Spit, and Gnash Thread

remember: i ~lived~ with an actual PUA. wait, tho, he was greek, and voted for obama. hmmm. he was also only 22, which is actually kinda young for the sort of bitter resentment that is necessary for being a PUA. he just wanted to get laid. i think the dudes that ~live the lifestyle~ are older, and hate women.

just checked roissy's blog again -- cant read it w/ any frequency or it starts to make me seriously nauseas -- but who tf can treat relationships purely thru power dynamics? so incredibly weird & depressing.

PUA theories and the "race realist" conservatives both rely on evo-psych pseudoscience

there was one unintentionally hilarious article on Alternative Right where Derb used Two and a Half Men as evidence of the PUA worldview

Christ I thought that Taki shithead had died a few years ago :-/ Sorry, Americans.

Corner comments on the tax cut deal are blowing my mind:

Obama is rolling the GOP over. It's the Stockholm syndrome...The GOP is held hostage and wants to please its captor, the radical left in charge of Congress and Obama.

This so-called tax cut is a terrible idea. It isn't a tax cut, it just provides political cover for Obama and the left, and we extract nothing...nothing...for supporting it.

Call his bluff and raise him. Real tax cuts...reinstitute Bush era tax rates and cut them by 15% across the board. Immediate freeze on all spending and a 15% cut for non military expenses. As for medicare, increase patient responsibility

...nahh, that would mean stem cell transplants for spines and gonads for the GOP...they just want to please their captor, Obama.

I know this kind of goes without saying but that is the most fiscally retarded thing I have ever read in my life.

lol check out the blurbs on Kevin Williamson's socialism book

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/254540/response-peter-wehner-pepfar-john-derbyshire

The comments!

I do deny that colonialism hurt Africa while helping Europe. In fact, I think the truth is exactly the opposite. Colonialism as an economic theory is wrong--it costs more than it produces. Likewise, the idea that Europe is prosperous because it stole natural resources from others is unsupported by the evidence.

I'm not sure it's "occidental genius," at least if that term is understood to mean native intelligence. But different systems do produce different results. At the risk of oversimplifying, Europe became prosperous because it's social institutions (by at least the 14th Century, anyway) rewarded belayed gratification, education, and investment. The same thing was true of Islamic civilization, back when Islamic civilization was wealthy and successful. It has never been true of sub-saharan Africa, and sub-saharan Africa has never been anything but poor.

And this is why colonialism has been a benefit to Africa--though not so much as it has, for example, to India. Take a moment to consider how well various countries are doing at becoming wealthy. The correlation to the length of time they had British troops sitting on them is striking.

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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/254633/f-you-music-industry-dennis-prager

The third nominee is an ode to New York City, “Empire State of Mind,” performed by black rapper Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, and which also contains the N-word. It is worth recalling that when white radio-show host Laura Schlesinger used this word solely in order to condemn its use in inner-city black life, society’s elite poured such wrath on her that it forced many of her sponsors to abandon her, and she decided to leave radio. But when Jay-Z uses it, he is rewarded with the nomination for the highest award in the music industry.

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But when Jay-Z does it, he is rewarded with a spot on Kanye West's latest single "Monster."

somehow that guy missed out on the whole controversy of jay slipping in lines about selling coke

gotta admit: he did better transcriptions than that rap book that just dropped

And this is why colonialism has been a benefit to Africa--though not so much as it has, for example, to India. Take a moment to consider how well various countries are doing at becoming wealthy. The correlation to the length of time they had British troops sitting on them is striking.

― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Wednesday, December 8, 2010 5:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Man, if only the Brits had the Philippines instead huh?

err sorry for the potentially misunderstood quotation there

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dennis "hongro" prager

wow

not nro but

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/08/27/their-guy-vs-our-guy/

haha read the comments-- there actually was a picture of him w/ his kid that actually got removed

LOOK HOW MANLY PUTIN IS WHY CANT OUR PRESIDENT STOP BEING A PUSSY AND ACT LIKE THIS GUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo&feature=player_embedded

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Putin should be every mans role model but in this messed up society we have lil wayne and justin gayberlake as our role models.

timbergay wouldve been better imo

Or justin biebergayke. Also no lil gayne? Weird post.

What about Kangay West?

Gay-Z, Brad Gaysley, and Matt Gaymon

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/255789/socialism-v-liberalism-v-communism-jonah-goldberg

communism, socialism, fascism, social democracy and liberalism: all branches of the same thing!

this jonah column is like reading a jekkyl and hyde version of the table is the table

http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2010/12/29/as_gay_becomes_bourgeois/page/full/

Libertarian pragmatist

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You're up early!

i'm going to sleep in a second here

By the way, according to a recent study, "Modern Family" is the No. 1 sitcom among Republicans (and the third show overall behind Glenn Beck and "The Amazing Race") but not even in the top 15 among Democrats, who prefer darker shows like Showtime's "Dexter," about a serial killer trying to balance work and family between murders.

Lovely sentence!

Mother Nature vs. Nanny
December 29, 2010 10:29 A.M.
By Charlotte Hays

The blizzard is definitely a force for conservatism, and not only because it has had the global-warming crowd scrambling for explanations. The blizzard reveals something basic: Liberals in government want to tell us what to eat, counsel us about how and when to die, and in general attempt to engineer our lives. But when reality knocks, they can’t do the basic stuff such as clearing the streets so that newborns don’t die in bloody apartment-building lobbies. Mayor Bloomberg may be receiving an unfair amount of criticism for his lackluster performance in coping with Mother Nature, given the almost unprecedented nature of the storm, but the unplowed city streets provide a metaphor for the nanny state: It can order us to do anything, but it can’t take care of the basic obligations of government.

"shitty things that happen are a force for conservatism, because conservatism is about more shitty things happening to people"

wtf

i srsly don't understand this level of stupidity

it just seems like conservatism in the form it has survived in in America is about an aesthetic preference for suffering, which, really?

Conservatism requires silent suffering, which heaven will reward.

i hate reading stuff like that because there is just SO MUCH WRONG with it i dont even know where to start, like which category of wrongness do i begin to attack there, the actual facts that shes getting wrong or the bizarre philosophical suppositions or?

somewhere along the line conservatism became in essence a kind of willful assholism that is basically absent of any real beliefs except that you're smarter than everyone else. it's like a political framework derived from bad stand up comedy.

modern conservatism is a performance art. but that example isn't even a very good performance.

i hate reading stuff like that because there is just SO MUCH WRONG with it i dont even know where to start, like which category of wrongness do i begin to attack there, the actual facts that shes getting wrong or the bizarre philosophical suppositions or?

― max, Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:46 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, that, too, like i was about to get all mad at how dumb blizzards=no global warming is, except that turned out not even to be her main rong point!

The comments are, as usual, edifying.

i think modern conservatism is basically post-politics, if that makes sense. it's not about understanding the world or reacting to suffering, it's about reacting to all these other people who have already tried to do that. it's really rare and weird when you read a right-winger assessing the world or a problem in itself, rather than just making an argument about liberals.

so it goes, liberalism tries to do something about suffering >>> liberalism is evil >>> let's root for suffering

i just feel like when i'm reading modern conservatives (which i don't do that often, tbf), their prose tends to dilate at the moments where they're describing suffering? like, they enjoy the idea of how it feels to suffer? like, that's really where they live? which is so fucking crazy i can't even.

That paragraph is the single most stupid thing I've read this year.

it just seems like conservatism in the form it has survived in in America...

we get it like that over here as well.

well one could see it as an immune response to suffering too. it's sorta psychically distressing to be white and privileged and be shown suffering or to fear the ethical or compassionate response it might elicit.

but even with, say, buckley standing athwart history there's a sense of irony, a performance. it's like once the foundations are gone and we're "modern" then one can only be conservative ironically...but that ironic/performance aspect seems to be lost and replaced with a weird reverse utopianism implicit in that blizzard comment.

i mean, i think it's an immune response to suffering, too, and it's often accompanied by "those people over there should suffer because it will strengthen character", but there seems to be kind of an imaginative yearning for suffering in the absence of real suffering or something? i should probably find an example of this, huh?

Off topic guys, but relevant.

So glad I knew, while reading, how it turned out! Had I not known of the outcome, this would have been a frightening story. The pieces fell into place for us freedom lovers, but the authors give us an immense appreciation of the fact that the odds of defeating Great Britain were overwhelmingly not in our favor.