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Jingoism cannot replace competence

Jingoism cannot replace competence

Former Task Unit Bruiser commander Jocko Willink put out a video recently in which he pretended to be the Commander in Chief of America, and framed a hypothetical correct and proper response to the catastrophe in Afghanistan: View this post on Instagram A post shared...
Didactic Mind, Ep. 82: End of Empire

Didactic Mind, Ep. 82: End of Empire

The Didactic Mind podcast is back to something approaching a sort-of-regular schedule again, and this week’s episode is all about the sudden and quite dramatic collapse of America’s failed Syracuse Expedition in Afghanistan. I talk about the roots of its...
Popcorn time

Popcorn time

If you attempted to access the website of Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Vox Day the Most Merciless and Terrible, you will undoubtedly have noticed the graphic above when you land on his page. Special thanks to reader and friend JohnC911 for bringing...
Didactic Mind, Ep. 82: End of Empire

Guest appearance on the JJ Podcast

This Sunday I spoke with an old friend and longtime reader, JohnC911. He had asked me to make another guest appearance on his podcast, and I was of course very happy to oblige. We spoke for about 2hrs on a wide variety of topics, and honestly we probably could have...
Didactic Mind, Ep. 82: End of Empire

Didactic Mind, Ep 81: There Is No Running

The Didactic Mind podcast is BACK!!! And for this week’s episode – the first in 2 months – I have a highly relevant series of topics lined up to discuss, including: What it is like to have the Coof, or something like it;How to confront the lies of...
Train CrossShit, lose wars

Train CrossShit, lose wars

I’ve been banging on for a while now about how the US military couldn’t win so much as an egg-and-spoon race at this point, much less an actual shooting war with China or, especially, Russia. Few, if any, of my readers disagree with me – including...
What a man-made daemon looks like

What a man-made daemon looks like

That picture there is of a mentally ill homosexual Brazilian man named Rodrigo Alves, who gained considerable notoriety as the “Human Ken Doll” and spent over $800K on various surgeries. Those surgeries include repeated rhinoplasties that have destroyed...
Browse like it’s 1996

Browse like it’s 1996

Our good buddy The Male Brain sent over a rather interesting article from the tech world a couple of weeks ago, about a company that seeks to bring back old-school Netscape Navigator-style all-in-one internet suites: What goes around comes around. In fact, the 1990s...
Armed and fabulous

Armed and fabulous

Does anyone remember a hilarious low-budget 90s comedy film called Down Periscope, starring Kelsey Grammer and Lauren Holly? I do – quite well, actually. It’s a funny, if inconsistent and somewhat badly acted, film: The trailer is actually almost as funny...
Christian Nationalism is the solution

Christian Nationalism is the solution

Our good friend Dawn Pine sent me a video a couple of weeks ago in which Richard Grannon breaks down a video about the Marxist strategy to break the West by attacking the culture. It is well worth watching in full, to understand the strategy, its consequences, and how...