Ah, Monday, our dreaded enemy, we meet again. And this Monday is a rather odd one, given the weather outside – it started off horribly, but now appears to be looking really rather decent. I spent much of the weekend sleeping – honestly, I needed the rest, I was exhausted after working on a very annoying and not particularly interesting assignment, which fortunately will be the last of its kind.

Also, yesterday, just as I was about to walk into the gym, I saw a spider the size of a quarter drop off its silk strand onto the ground right in front of me, while its companion scrambled to get back up above the doorway. Damn if that didn’t freak me the f**k out – as I may have mentioned before, I ABSOLUTELY HATE SPIDERS. (Didn’t stop me from lifting heavy shit, but it definitely creeped me out.)

Still and all, it’s Monday, which means that we have the usual array of time-wasting nonsense lined up for you. For this week, we reach WAY back through time to the original Battlestar Galactica series, which I’ve never seen, and which I have to say looks REALLY lame by the standards of the present day. But, by the standards of the 1970s, it was probably really great – and it had Dirk Benedict in it, which automatically means that it was great.

Is anyone among you able to take Lloyd Bridges seriously? Reason I ask is because I grew up watching Hot Shots! Part Deux, which I recently downloaded and re-watched, and which was and remains every bit as idiotically hilarious as I remember from my childhood. So it is VERY difficult for me to keep a straight face when watching that guy do whatever he does.

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Dawn of Battle

The Male Brain has some great stuff for us this week, starting with Ryan George and Julie Nolke doing their sarcastic Millennial-hipster thing:

More from Ryan George:

Moving on to the serious stuff – Academy of Ideas explains why abandoning God leads to Him abandoning you:

The Bible gives us this lesson over, and over, and over again – whenever men abandon God, He leaves them to their own madness to teach them a very terrible lesson. If you prefer the Old Testament, read through Ecclesiastes, but the New Testament has everything you need to know on the subject in Romans 1:21-32. It’s just that simple. The path of nations that abandon God is that of ruin and destruction – only by turning back to Him, can they avoid this fate.

In a similar way, men who abandon God are left to figure out the basics of morality and decency on their own – and men cannot do this, because any moral code invented by men can easily be undermined by men. You need something outside of men to provide a basic moral standard. When you have no such standard, you have mere madness.

Wisecrack explains why bosses just refuse to acknowledge the harsh realities of white-collar work:

It’s true. We just don’t need to be in the office very much – not even in banking or consulting. The sooner that we all recognise this fact, and accept that office work is increasingly a thing of the past, the better off we will all be.

Cracked decides to chase a rabbit really far down the hole with respect to gender-swapping in a beloved children’s classic:

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Burning Down the House of the Devil Mouse

LRFotS Randale6 has a bunch of hilarious, and terrifying, cartoons for us from Flashgitz about the sheer scummy evil awfulness of the House of the Devil Mouse:

What if Disney bought Dragonball Z?:

One more, guaranteed to creep you the F**K out:

The guys behind those cartoons are equal parts awesome and crazy.

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Poli-ticking Off

Mark Dice gets serious for a bit and explains how we managed to let Clown World become real:

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China Uncensored goes straight-up crazy with respect to whether or not the USSA should support Taiwanese independence:

I get that Americans dislike China. I don’t like them either. But let’s get real about things here. The USSA CANNOT defend Taiwan. The Chinese cannot take it back just yet – they need more landing craft and heavy lift aircraft to do it. Right now, they are between 6 and 18 months away from getting enough “stuff” to launch an invasion. And they will take HEAVY losses assaulting the Taiwanese coast – remember, unlike the Russian military, the Chinese have a totally untested army, navy, and air force, and the PLA’s actual combat record is absolutely piss-poor.

None of that means that the USSA or Taiwan can do much to stop China if it decides to invade. The Chinese already have everything they need to sink any aircraft carrier that gets within sniffing distance of their coastline.

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Дед Сварилвый Говорит!

Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about the sheer amount of fakery and butthurt (the word sounds hilarious in his accent) on the part of the Western powers with respect to their total failures in the Banderastan War:

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It’s All Greek To Us

The dynamic duo of The Duran continue to churn out videos on a daily basis, of excellent quality. Alexander Mercouris may have the vision of a mole-rat, but his analysis of the military and economic situation is always superb:

His good friend and colleauge Alex Christoforou analyses the call between diversity-hire Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, and the actually diverse, and actually competent, Russian MinDef Sergey Shoigu:

And their joint programme on The Duran did an excellent long livestream with Gonzalo Lira about the Banderite situation:

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Righteous Rantery

Paul Ramsey reviews a movie about massive election fraud in the USSA in 2020:

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The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey wades deep into the debate about viral existence:

I’d say it’s important to ask some hard questions about the core tenets of virology. The evidence that HIV causes AIDS, is actually pretty thin on the ground, and we still have to see hard evidence that anyone has actually isolated, identified, and sequenced SARS-CoV-2 as a unique and unusual virus.

But it is a huge leap to go from that point, to arguing that viruses in general don’t exist.

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Gonzalo LIra, aka Coach Red Pill, has some words of wisdom to offer the crypto bros who have lost their shirts as a result of the latest crash:

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Warriors of Faith

The Dizzle tackles the abortion issue from a Biblical perspective:

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Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms continues to unpack the origins of the Dome of the Rock with his good friend Mel from Sneaker’s Corner:

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Al-Fadi from CIRA International states bluntly that Muslims are pagans of the worst kind:

That sounds absolutely incendiary – until you realise that most of Islam’s practices are, in fact, pagan in origin:

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Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined points out some of the severe flaws with Darwinian arguments:

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Manly Men of Manliness

Terrence Popp offers an uncensored and unfiltered take on the whole abortion issue:

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Joker from Better Bachelor simply cannot stop laughing at the modren wammenz’s inability to do the basics:

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Burn Paedowood to the Ground

Midnight’s Edge thought that Doctor Strange 2 was absolutely terrible, and Andre explains why:

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Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock cannot contain his glee about the whirlwind that the House of the Devil Mouse is now reaping:

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Gary from Nerdrotic didn’t like Doctor Strange 2 either:

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The Drinker drunkenly shoves his oar into that whole mess:

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Ryan Kinel points out that, despite Amazog’s best efforts, everyone still hates The Lhurrd of the Rangs:

Putting out the old LoTR books with new LotRRoP covers? Wow. Even by Amazog’s low standards, that is an amazing level of dipshittery.

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Reading Too Much Into Things

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and concerns the nature of scorpion venom – warning, the picture will freak you out if you are terrified of spiders and giant clawed arachnid nightmares (like I am):

Scorpions sting more than 1 million people a year and kill more than 3000. Usually, the victims don’t know what kind of scorpion nabbed them, so doctors have to guess about the best way to treat these stings.

A scorpion’s toxin can cause everything from intense pain and numbness to muscle spasms, drooling, and an irregular heartbeat. Sedatives can help with muscle spasms, and medication can treat the pain. In some cases, doctors administer costly antivenom, but it can cause vomiting, fever, and rashes. And, despite treatment, some stings can still be deadly, especially if the victim has an allergic reaction. “Scorpions are a huge medical issue across the globe,” Fry says.

In the new study, Kevin Healy, an ecologist at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and colleagues combed the scientific literature for data on the body and claw size, claw and tail shape, and toxicity of as many of the 2500 species of scorpions as possible. Though in the end they analyzed only 36 species, those covered the gamut, from the walnut-size Mexican scorpion (Centruroides noxius) to the rock scorpion (Hadogenes granulatu), which is five times as big.

The rock scorpion’s venom is a mild irritant, whereas venom from a few of the tinier scorpions can send their victims into shock, the researchers found. Scorpions with slender pinchers were also on the deadlier side, they determined. The pattern of smaller scorpions being more dangerous likely applies across all species, the team reported last month in Toxins.

Look, when it comes to scorpions, there is only ONE kind that I actually like:

I suppose the ancient siege weapons that the Romans used also count as likeable and badass – as long as you’re the one using the scorpion, not the one getting hit by one.

As for the eight-legged nightmare fuel that is an actual scorpion, well, I hate those little blighters, and I think that the only appropriate reaction to one is to toast it with a flamethrower. A REALLY F***ING BIG FLAMETHROWER.

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Your long read of the week is from LRFotS Randale6, and concerns the nature of the “Armchair Philosopher”, which our friend notes is essentially something of a Gamma with wisdom and some degree of self-awareness (though not enough of it):

Now days, the pejorative label, “Armchair Philosopher”, is often used to discredit or disparage any person expressing their own off-the-cuff philosophy (discovered and formulated by the person who is expressing it), so as to recast such views as unfounded, unscientific, or untrue heresay. However, although the methods of an armchair philosopher are different from those of an empirical scientist, they can complement each other to produce new insights or explain obscure truths.

When considering the historical development of the empirical sciences, armchair philosophers and theorizers have played an important foundational role in formulating original theories that have explained perplexing observations. These theories were then tested more rigorously with further scientific investigation, and the findings became the basis of a new field of science.

In fact, the foundations for the eventual professionalization of psychology and the social science disciplines can be traced to ‘armchair scholars’ of the nineteenth century. The basic theories for the “hard” sciences originated from ‘armchair scholars’ of the eighteenth century. The scientific method itself was spawned from the ‘armchair philosophies’ and resulting communications (thanks to the printing press) of several polymaths of the seventeenth century.

It could very well be possible that the Armchair Philosophers authoring and commenting on Red Pill blogs could become the founding fathers of a new scientific field of Intersexual Dynamics or Sexual Metaphysics, or the like. Many of their theories are already being scientifically examined by experts in Sociology.

We should note that even wised-up Gammas are still Gammas, which means that they are far too self-involved and in love with their own Grand Unified Theories about the world to realise that they aren’t actually all that smart. They also have a decided inability to adjust their worldviews to changing data.

Gamma gonna Gamma. It’s really just that simple. Guys with Gamma tendencies CAN break out of them and become better, and they SHOULD do so. It is hard work and requires constant attention to detail, self-awareness, and a fundamental desire to change. But it can be done. And, while it is hard work, it is considerably less difficult than a Gamma might be inclined to believe.

Eventually, you might just end up travelling overseas, dating and settling down with a beautiful girl, and living life on your own terms. But the typical Gamma – even an AP Gamma – has to be willing to put in the work first.

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Linkage is good for you:

• Col. Douglas Macgregor wrote a superb piece in The American Conservative about the real dangers of Polish involvement in the Banderastan War – it will end in disaster for the Poles, and lend yet more truth to the “Dumb Pollack” jokes;
• Olga Sukharevskaya explains that Banderastan has a long and deeply dishonourable tradition of torture, murder, rape, and all manner of horrid behaviour, which nobody in the West wants to admit anymore;
• The Bulgarians have somehow contrived an arrangement to get US LNG at lower prices than Russian pipeline gas, which defies basic economics and common sense – though we shouldn’t rule out heavy US subsidies in all of this;
• Foreign mercenaries went to Banderastan with the intention of killing “snow niggers” on a safari trip, and ended up finding out that Russians actually know a thing or ten about fighting in combined-arms warfare;
• Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan is deeply sceptical of claims by the neoclowns and Brandonites that America is somehow going to stay out of the Banderite Crisis;
• Mike Whitney tears apart a number of very severe and stupid fallacies with respect to the origins of the Banderastan War;
• Phillip Giraldi notes that there is very little difference between the neoclowns and neolibs in terms of their stupidity, ignorance, and avarice;
• Consumer inflation in the USA is the worst in two generations, maybe more – and that is if you believe the official figures, which are absolutely fake in every way;
• The great Dr. Ron Paul wonders why the Left is so scared of Brolon – I do not believe that Elon Musk is in any way a saviour of free speech or capitalism, but I will admit that he is pissing off all the right people, on this one issue;
• Mark Middleton, a former “close associate” of the Clintons, has died – and, as always, we’re gonna call it now, HE DID NOT KILL HIMSELF;
• While we’re on that sort of subject, a Russian billionaire somehow died of toad poisoning, which is definitely right up there in terms of weird headlines;
• Bill Gates caught the Kung Flu last week, which resulted in absolutely raging and quite painful week-long schadenboners among the shitlord class;
• One of the stars of Doctor Strange 2 shows exactly why Paedowood needs to be nuked – apparently she was involved in some sort of paedophile thing with her much older martial arts master of a husband;
• A footballer was fired after farting in a locker room – given the reaction, we can only assume that he’d eaten some Taco Bell chalupas beforehand;

And some more from Dawn Pine:

• A guy’s wife had sex with their plumber to settle a bill, which probably means that she forgot the price that she will pay with her soul for that transaction – the husband should just dump her ass immediately;
• The Babylon Bee continues to report all of the news before it happens – their latest piece on Brandon is an absolute howler and well worth reading;
• A Black and possibly gay “Scottish” actor (by way of Rwanda) is going to be the next Doctor Who – he may (or may not) be a good actor, but can we PLEASE stop with this racial diversity nonsense already?;
• The Limeys complain constantly about how their political parties are basically indistinguishable from each other, especially when it comes to breaking lockdown rules to have a bit of a party with their peers;
• Here’s why you don’t mess with Israeli kibbutzim – a guy was sitting on his porch sipping tea with his wife when a Palestinian tried to infiltrate the settlement, so he grabbed his M16 and shot the guy;
• The Russian space chief tells Brolon to knock it off with the Starlink nonsense – Brolon’s response to the issue was actually pretty chilled out and quite funny;
• Judith Bergman – a political analyst, not a military one – points out that even as Brandon works to actively demilitarise the West by throwing arms at the Black Hole of Banderastan, the Chinese are securing their own borders;
• We’ve got a “Woman of the Year” candidate here for sure – a mother-of-EIGHT who puts her husband FIRST, and therefore has a VERY happy marriage (and, undoubtedly, a robust and healthy sex life);

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MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!

The Neo-Tsar gave an excellent speech at the Victory Day parade on May 9th:

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Those Who Fail To Learn From History…

History lessons of the week are from Dawn Pine:

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Your Great Man of the Week is John Hancock, one of the great men of the Great Revolution that created what used to be the greatest country on Earth:

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HALO Nation

Some YouTwitter that I’d never heard of named zanny really enjoyed the HALO Infinite campaign:

And now let’s watch slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz doing his thing:

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For the Emperor of Mankind!

I think Randale6 is gonna enjoy this one:

Top-rated comment for this video:

“At this rate, by the time the entire Company is armored up, the Imperial Guard will have won the battle with 97% casualty rate”

Ayup.

Here is a rather simpler and faster version of the same thing:

Seriously, it’s a good thing that HALO SPARTANs don’t take that damn long to get armoured up and ready – and they can live inside of their suits for months, if not YEARS.

One more, this time about the Horus Heresy:

OK, one more, rooted in the real world here – Henry Cavill, aka Superman and Geralt of Rivia, is ONE OF US!:

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Battletech Battlelore

My buddy and fellow shitlord Last Redoubt sent me a video by people who take their Battletech lore REALLY seriously – I mean, really, really, REALLY seriously – that actually has a powerful and interesting message to deliver in the first half or so about weapons that are just “good enough”, as opposed to weapons that do literally everything:

Never mind that this is a fantasy universe with a literally bonkers amount of lore that you can spend YEARS delving into. The core message is very sensible and applies quite well in the present day.

Essentially, if you build for the weapons that you actually need, as opposed to the ones that you want, you end up with weapons that WORK. And that is rather more important in a war than a weapon that is hugely expensive and does everything in theory, but is too expensive and fragile to risk in real combat.

Such is the situation with the modren Turducken Plane, which is such an awful shitheap of a contraption that it threatens to bankrupt the US military once the money-printing machine in the USSA stops working. That stupid bloated thing is nothing more than a permanent jobs bank for the Military-Industrial Complex, and it has produced a weapon that cannot meet ANY of its original mission parameters.

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That’s Not Gone Well…

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

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Comedy hour:

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Pictionary, Pulchritude, Pew-Pews

We start with some pictures from our good friend, Dawn Pine:

Onward:

Which is why sensible people should be permitted, by law, to shoot Commies on sight.

Headlines of the week indicate that Floriduh Man thinks that alligators are pets:

Then again, they have mosquitoes the size of horses over there in the Everglades, so, y’know, go figure.

‘First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.’

Your “They’ll Never Find the Body” moment of the week:

Your “This Is NOT Gonna End Well” moment of the week:

Your “That Actually Makes Sense” moment of the week:

Your “Do Not Resuscitate” moment of the week:

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Animal Planet

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:

And finally your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:

That massive… thing is called a Caucasian Shepherd Dog (Кавказская Овчарка). I have seen one of them up close, that lives in the yard of a dacha in southern Moscow. The video simply does not do the growl and roar of that dog justice. The thing is the size of a bear and when it growls, you feel it in the pit of your stomach. The house itself had solid steel bars three inches wide and half an inch thick surrounding it – for the safety of outsiders, not the dog. That gives you some idea of just how strong and scary those things are.

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The Lords of Steel

Gym beast props this week go to Lewis Byng, who is literally just a kid, yet he’s pulling 400Kg:

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Donbas Doings

Before we get to the really heavy stuff, let’s take a moment to reflect on the Banderastan War, and listen to what the Russians think about the start of it all:

While we’re on the subject – here is a rather more modern Russian take on things:

The chorus says:

Donbas – is each one of us

Donbas – is you, it is me

Donbas – is our land, our victory

Donbas – is each one of us

Donbas – is you, it is me

Donbas – holds the traditions of our grandfathers

It sounds way better in Russian, trust me.

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Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods

#Metal

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Hot Totty

OK, here’s the bit that you’re actually interested in – the Instathot to get the week started. This here is Gigi Rossini (or Ginevra, apparently), age 26, originally from Milan, Italy, and now residing in the USSA. She does… stuff, involving TikTok and Instagram. This is a career nowadays, y’know. (This is also why I hate yoot.)

All right, show’s over, enough is enough, get back to work.

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