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  • UPDATE: INTERVIEW WITH COUNTER-CURRENTS Doing an Interview with Counter-Currents

    UPDATE: INTERVIEW WITH COUNTER-CURRENTS

    Doing an Interview with Counter-Currents tonight. They have an interesting topic they want to cover. it ought to be fun. I’ll post how it goes. And let you know when it comes out. πŸ™‚

    Hugs all.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-23 14:25:00 UTC

  • IS PLAYING THE WORLD FOR SUCKERS (OBAMA MOSTLY)

    http://theweek.com/articles/560256/time-real-iran-playing-world-suckersIRAN IS PLAYING THE WORLD FOR SUCKERS (OBAMA MOSTLY)


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-23 13:04:00 UTC

  • CHARLTON ON LEFTIST AS PRIVILEGE

    http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2015/06/successful-leftism-is-product-of-status.htmlBRUCE CHARLTON ON LEFTIST AS PRIVILEGE


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-23 10:37:00 UTC

  • RUSSIAN POLYLOGIA —“I am endlessly fascinated by the Russian invocation of naz

    RUSSIAN POLYLOGIA

    —“I am endlessly fascinated by the Russian invocation of nazi past as ever-urgently still extant, while at the same time arguing that the Holodomor – the Russian genocide in Ukraine – was a long time ago.”—

    Very Strange People: Intellectual consistency is a foreign concept.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-23 07:18:00 UTC

  • TRUST IS NOT A SENTIMENTAL CULTURAL ATTRIBUTE (worth repeating) —“Trust is not

    TRUST IS NOT A SENTIMENTAL CULTURAL ATTRIBUTE

    (worth repeating)

    —“Trust is not sentimental value. It is a measure of the complexity of economic and social relations that can be constructed given the transaction costs that impede them.”—

    Put that in your repertoire and smoke it. πŸ˜‰


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-23 06:08:00 UTC

  • EXAMPLE OF GOING OVER THE TOP. πŸ™‚ But this is what it takes to combat the Russia

    EXAMPLE OF GOING OVER THE TOP. πŸ™‚

    But this is what it takes to combat the Russian Troll Army

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    —“So you’re engaging in rhetorical fallacy by stating that I was not referring to Russian government with the collection: “Mongols, Muscovites,Turks, Tatars.”?

    You have spent too much time with Russians. Lying is so natural to you, that you don’t know how to speak without relying upon it. Or, (as it appears) are you simply unable to hold more than one sentence worth of content in your short term memory?

    My grandmother would have said that it’s because you masturbate too much, but I suspect that it’s both environmental, cultural and genetic. Next holiday, ask your parents (if you know them) to apologize to you for not doing a better job of mate selection. Their offspring appears to be not only morally, but logically, and conceptually challenged.

    Now, where were we?

    Oh. Yes, I was saying that we Russia is a depraved degenerate low trust, politically incompetent failed civilization that has adopted the steppe culture of the Mongols Tatars Turks and Muslims, and as such has the economic potential Pakistan without oil revenues to bribe everyone into submission. And that Ukrainians, who are culturally and ethnically European, want to be free of expansionary Russian despotism and its pervasive corruption and poverty.

    That’s where we were. Yes.

    πŸ™‚

    (thus endeth the lesson) “—


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-23 05:02:00 UTC

  • (reverse-trolling ant-russian rant) That’s why I have time to hang out with you

    (reverse-trolling ant-russian rant)

    That’s why I have time to hang out with you Munchkins for the practical purpose of teaching other people how to counter Russian propaganda constructed on lies and false moral equivalency. πŸ˜‰ I mean, if you’re talking Russia, it’s pretty hard to find target with a greater record of incompetence. So I feel a little like John Stewart making fun of Bush. It’s too easy. Too much material: The white people who failed (again, and again, and again).

    You wanna keep attacking me (ad hominem fallacy), and it’s ok. I understand that you’re unable to defend Russia rationally, and have to attack me personally. Only people who would engage in false moral equivalency would resort to personal attacks as a means of avoiding the reality of the country that they’re defending.

    But you’re unable to see what’s sitting in front of you. I’m doing exactly what I said I was doing, for exactly the reasons I said. Which is why it doesn’t make sense to you. You can’t imagine someone would spend his time on such a thing. And no one would, unless it was for illustrative purposes.

    Russia is a sick country with a sick populace, and none of us cares as long as that sick country doesn’t try to usual tactic of creating nationalism to cover for its sickness by attacking neighbors. This is the technique used by idiots who lack the competence to run their countries competitively. And that is what Russia does: distract from the local troubles by creating an external demon that does not exist.

    The west’s strategy is to create successful consumer capitalist economies that are constrained from ill actions by the value of international trade. This forces human rights, and prosperity into the world.

    Now, it may be true that the west overextended this approach in the belief that all civilizations (even Islam) are capable of development. And it may be true that the west foolishly advocates democracy rather than consumer capitalism and human rights regardless of means of political organization. And it may be true that the Americans talk about the carrot (use democracy to select the government of your choice) without the stick (if you choose a government that violates the international goal of peaceful commercial cooperation then we will punish you very, very harshly for choosing that government). But that does not distract from the fact that a the general direction that the west has taken the world is to consumer capitalism and human rights. And has dragged humanity out of ignorance poverty and totalitarianism kicking and screaming.

    On the one hand we have a positive influence that makes mistakes (the west) and a negative influence that can’t do anything right at all (Russia), who has a “black-thumb” when it comes to government (everything it touches gets worse).

    Ukraine has had enough of “Russia’s Black Thumb”. We will take the problem of democracy in the midst of prosperity, rather than the problem of Russian corruption in the midst of poverty. That’s not a very hard decision to make. The west is naive but prosperous and fixable. Russia is a collection of hopeless corrupt incompetence that has murdered tens of millions of its own, and untold numbers of its neighbors, and set eastern Europe behind by the centuries it will take to recover.

    I don’t hate anyone. I just state the facts. I love mankind, that’s why I want to save as many as possible from the sick and evil people we call ‘Russians’.

    Cheers.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-23 02:51:00 UTC

  • I don’t confuse anything. Or rather, I may occasionally experience confusion, bu

    I don’t confuse anything. Or rather, I may occasionally experience confusion, but in this case I can demonstrate my lack of confusion by means of explanatory power: Simple facts: Trust = Economic Velocity = Available Consumption. Trust is not sentimental value. It is a measure of the complexity of economic and social relations that can be constructed given the transaction costs that impede them. 50% of the Russian economy is dependent upon oil, and NOT dependent upon Russian norms (“character”). If the economy were dependent upon Russian “character” then the standard of living would return to pre-war levels, and Russians would live as do the Muslims and Mongols whose norms they inherited..

    And this is why I’m criticizing your moral equivalency: because you are trying equate things that are not equal. Russia is just another Mongolian, Tatar or Muslim nation with the trappings of Christendom, the trappings of an economy, and the trappings of culture.

    Russians are a negative influence on the world and are responsible for more death, suffering, and impoverishment than any government other than Mao’s. Eastern Europe must be free of Mongols, muscovites, Turks, Tatars, and other steppe tribes who would bring their low trust, low economic velocity, to the people of the west. Eastern Europe is European. Muscovites are Mongols and Tatars. Think like and act like Muslims, Mongols and Tatars: steppe and desert people.

    Ukraine needs to restore its heritage as a European, not Mongolian/Tatar/muscovite slave pit for despotic rule.

    The world is a better place without Russians in it. “Go home.”


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-23 01:58:00 UTC

  • So here is the process I use to research (attack) opposing positions. THE SUSTAI

    So here is the process I use to research (attack) opposing positions.

    THE SUSTAINED ATTACK

    Your opponent will never agree with you. Your objective is to educated him through repetition, and to eliminate his means of obtaining confirmation, signals, and status from his conceptual peers.

    Construct a criticism, and a solution. (libertarianism or Russian involvement in Ukraine)

    Look for comment streams with elaborate but rhetorically weak arguments. (rothbarianism or russian moral equivalency).

    Watch for a few weeks so that you understand the general arguments that they make. (haunt blogs and fb pages)

    Create an aggressive, full frontal attack, in order to draw attention and fire. use loaded language, framed language, every thing possible to inflame the audience.

    Use their attacks on you as opportunities to repeat the central argument.

    Never show anger. Treat them as ‘cute’. Stick to the facts. Repeat the central argument.

    They will try to rally. Try to shame. Try to ridicule. Try ad hominems. Try straw men. And every other fallacy.

    Answer every single person who responds by showing their fallacy, then close by repeating the central argument. The purpose of responding is to repeat the central argument and show that they are dishonest in debate.

    At this point, after two to five days, you have already succeeded in controlling the discourse, and eliminating the sense of comfort, familiarity and safety that they have on the forum, but now, you want to defeat your enemy completely.

    So keep up the attack, and make fresh ones, until they bring in their ‘best’, who will undoubtedly have confidence that he can defeat you. This individual will seek status by showing his dominance. If you defeat this individual you defeat the ‘team’.

    At this point, the others will largely drop out except for cheers from the peanut gallery. You now have control of the discourse.

    Now that you have someone who can actually conduct a debate rather than rally, shame, ridicule, and throw fallacies, agree with his true and empirically stated points, and repeat the central argument.

    Keep this up until you exhaust him.

    At this point you have killed the venue as a means of self-reinforcing justification, and yo have probably repeated your central argument a hundred times. And it is now part of their conceptual vernacular.

    They will eventually try to ban you. At which point if you have conducted yourself with humor, rather than personal attacks, you can argue that they can’t defend their ideas, repeat the central position.

    YOU JUST HAVE TO WORK AT IT PATIENTLY.

    It’s a yeoman’s labor. But it works. You can accomplish by repetition what you can not accomplish by persuasion.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-23 01:07:00 UTC

  • WELL I GUESS THAT MAKES ME A REACTIONARY –β€œThe Purpose of Reactionary Politics

    WELL I GUESS THAT MAKES ME A REACTIONARY

    –β€œThe Purpose of Reactionary Politics is to End Politics”–

    –Michael Anissimov

    That’s the first definition that is a concrete criteria.

    #NRx


    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-22 23:56:00 UTC