Gather around, The Atlantic is talking about how Democrats can be more manly.

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Okay, this is rich. The Atlantic published an article trying to sell the Democratic party as a place where manly men can belong.

And if you think I’m being overly sardonic in my use of the phrase, “manly men”, their article is literally titled, The Return of the Democratic Manly Man.

There’s the first mistake, by the way. They can’t return to a quality that they didn’t have.

The splash image is that of an unshaven man in plaid whose default expression is a cold scowl, as seen through a rear view mirror with a fuzzy die, which does a lot to confirm the suspicion that leftism’s perspective of manliness as being insufferable hasn’t much changed.

Apparently manliness is when you always look ready to punch someone in the mouth.

Before getting into this, I’ll first state that my expectation that leftism believes that manliness is when your purse is made of leather instead of linen. Also, I expect that they believe that manliness is expressed through what they eat, even though they make fun of where their food comes from, because living out real virtue is hard.

Now, for the opening.

Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland…

There it is. It didn’t take them long to get to the food. By the way, no, you don’t get to ruin the Reuben sandwich.

“There’s nothing wrong with being masculine,” Poindexter told me. It’s okay, he said, to be “a manly man.”

It’s okay to realize what the right has understood all along. Of course. But notice how, when a leftist says it, it’s considered a controversial statement that requires an explanation.

Poindexter’s own manliness credentials are fully in order.

“Hey guys, I’m manly. So you can totally believe what I have to say about manliness. Did I forget to say how manly I am, today?”

Does anyone really take this seriously?

The 46-year-old started working in a machine shop as a teenager and spent years hauling furniture across the country before finding stability as a union ironworker.

I’m going to risk sounding like a dick here, but when a forty-something says that they’ve “spent years” doing a real job since their teens, this implied that they haven’t spent the whole two-and-a-half decades since their teens working. Maybe they did, but we know how this sounds, especially coming from someone left of center.

He drives a Ram Big Horn pickup truck and built, with his buddy turned campaign manager, a shed in his backyard.

“My buddy is so manly, because he bought a pickup truck, and he helped build a shed.”

Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with pickup trucks, or building a shed. But pointing to the truck as a credential is just pathetic. And men build sheds, not to impress people, but because it’s work to get done.

The article goes on to explain how the Democratic party has been failing among men (and at this point, it should be obvious that Democrats are The Atlantic’s intended audience), and how a candidate’s superficial show of manliness could somehow win a few over.

“It’s all vibes,” he said. “The Democrats have catered too much to, you know, the softer side,” he said. “We should be well-rounded people. We should be tough when we need to be. We should be soft when we need to be.”

There’s a reason why that kind of flexibility of mind is more characteristic of the right. It’s because the right knows that not every situation is the same, and some situations require a different paradigm.

The left, on the other hand, tends to attempt to resolve matters with a distinctly feminine approach. This is why the leftist state tends to focus more on providence on the part of the state to requite people’s needs, rather than any approach that might be economically expedient. It’s why the left tends to be more emotional in it’s language, calling it’s opponents fascists and Nazis, rather than describing them with values that they actually hold. Like women, leftists tend more towards the subject than the object.

See the part up above where Poindexter says “It’s all vibes,”? What that means is he doesn’t get it. When you’re a leader, there’s too much at stake to make decisions based on things like synchronicities, feelings, or even vibes. Leaders should act on none of that bullshit. Real problems demand real perspective, and ascribing value to “vibes” is not it.

As the article continues into strategies for harvesting male votes for political influence, it should be evident that the likes of Poindexter and his fellow Democrats don’t have a sincere belief in the virtues of manliness, they simply see men as a demographic to win over in an effort to consolidate political power to themselves, and upon having succeeded in this, they’ll no doubt go right back to pushing homosexuality onto our children and letting biological males compete in women’s sports, all while they can’t even explain what a woman is.

But in the meantime, they’re going to presume to tell us what manliness is.

A couple of months ago, I got a call from a party operative who pitched a story on the Democrats’ effort to “win back the manosphere.” The operative ran through a list of a half dozen candidates in key House districts who “are engaging culturally in male spaces”—a bit of gobbledygook that I took to mean “manly men,” or perhaps “guy’s guys,” but that also reflects the sort of anthropological distance that points to the depth of the party’s problem. After all, an ironworker probably wouldn’t describe himself as “engaging culturally in male spaces.”

It really doesn’t help them when they explain manliness as being something that they struggle to comprehend. Most men don’t see themselves as putting effort into “engaging culturally in male spaces.” It’s just something that they do. I don’t feel imposter syndrome every time I go to work. I imagine that that’s how it is with most people.

One thing that can be handed to the article is that it does mention the jobs of the Democrats who are attempting to win male votes, which is a nod to the tendency of men to ask each other what they do for a living, as our perspective of a person tends to be heavily influenced by their contributions to society. But in the context of this article, it comes off as tokenism.

By the way, if you’re unemployed and someone asks you what you do for a living, you can try calling yourself a Cyber-Simulated Warfare Specialist, and see how long it takes them to figure out that that means that you play video games. Marxist policies have made the economy rough; a sense of humor goes a long way.

By the way, the article mentions Graham Platner as an example of a manly candidate. You know, the guy who had a literal Nazi symbol tattooed right on his very chest.

I actually had no idea that the skull he was tattooed with was a Nazi symbol. But for as many times as I’ve been called a Nazi, I’m ignorant as to what their symbols are, aside from the obvious ones. But the left seems to know what they are.

Like the time when a Republican had a stage designed for him that was shaped like a Nazi glyph, but the Republican had no idea until it was pointed out to him. But, as it turns out, the stage was designed by a leftist who was a world-class troll.

At some point, I might just find a leftist to tell me just what all these symbols are.

I did a CTRL+F in the article just now, and found that Hasan Piker wasn’t even mentioned. That’s sad, considering how hard he tries. I guess you have to do better than being featured spread-eagle on the cover of GQ to be the left’s exemplar of manliness.

Centering a campaign on authenticity can fall flat in other ways. There’s nothing more cringey than a candidate trying too hard to be a man (or woman) of the people. “You really can’t fake it,”

As unintentionally funny as this article may be, that doesn’t mean that they can’t sometimes be right. Even if you struggle to explain what manliness is, most know it when they see it, and can generally see the difference between a uniform and a costume in that regard.

But, in the context of an article about political strategy, don’t their words sound like a confession? It’s already established that they author is writing about manliness as something that they struggle with. So then, what can they do about it besides fake it?

The article gives many examples of the left’s brushes with manliness, as well as failures. One would think that the article would get funnier at that point, but no. Much of its funniness was unintentional, and as it often goes with such articles, there came a point when it fizzled out.

The article subtly suggest what they really have to do in an effort to get more manliness on their side in just a little time:

“All I can do is what my life experience has shown me, just getting out and talking with folks—shaking a man’s hand, looking him in the eyes, and saying, ‘Hey, I want to fight for you. I don’t care if you’re Republican; I want to make sure you put food on the table for your family too.’”

“And,” Poindexter concluded, “I hope I can get through to enough of them to win.”

That is to look for manliness where it is, on the right. Sure, they can try to cultivate it among their own. But it’s an uphill battle, and they don’t have much time.

Much of the rest of the article is about Poindexter, but I don’t much care, so I’m going to skip.

As I pointed out already, manliness is something that’s difficult to explain, but a person tends to understand it when they see it. The left’s struggle with manliness comes from the fact that they have an intrinsic femininity in their nature, as I’ve also pointed out. And with the left seeing feminine traits as closer to the ideal in everyone, not just women, I don’t have much expectation that the left will solve their identity crisis any time soon. If most of them don’t even consider it a crisis, would they?

But if it’s baby steps they want, they can try maining as Zhongli in Genshin Impact.

While manliness can be difficult to explain, I can at least try. Manliness is not a style choice, nor is it the food you eat. And it’s certainly not a line of merchandise. Manliness has been cultivated through the ages based on what’s practical for survival on the part of men. That’s why it’s not going anywhere. Despite the efforts of any weirdos who attempt to redefine it, there will always be real virtue that is conductive to survival.

When you know this, it’s easy to see why true manliness tends towards success.

The left struggles when it comes to manliness, and it has been especially so since the left’s chique alliance with Marxism. Marxism appeals to the less successful among us, often by reason of a lack of virtue conductive to success. But, for one reason or another, they cannot comprehend their own shortcomings. Thus, to the have-nots, the haves are a mystery. And due to Marxism, the difference between them has been filled with resentment.

As long as the left has Marxism, it will always lack true virtue, and thus it will lack true manliness. If the left were to drop Marxism, they may gain the respect of some men, but it will lose the interest of the have-nots that they’ve worked so hard to court.

The reason why the left is not manly is because the left has deliberately courted the resentful failures, and in do doing, the manly have felt alienated by them. Thus, if one were to seek out those who are strong, tough, adaptable, and adroit, the productive and the problem solvers, one would find the lions share of them on the right. The few who would be on the left seem to understand how out of place that they themselves really are.

If the left were to become manly, they would become fundamentally different to the point of no longer resembling themselves as they are today. And if it weren’t for the political capital that might motivate them, probably none of them would want to do it.

Sony Screws the Pooch

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I’ll preface this by admitting that I don’t really know how to run a multinational media empire. But if you want to run one that upsets consumers over and over again, all while maintaining an extremely negative public image, look to Sony for an example.

You probably already know what this is about, considering the next-level backlash that Sony is facing: It’s their decision to discontinue physical installments for PS5 games as of January 2028.

But in case you’ve never heard of Sony, they’d be the company which suggested that gamers work more hours so they could afford a PS3. They also recalled every one of their laptop batteries because they explode. They’re also the company who made MediaGo, which stores huge thumbnails for files offsite, so you’ll see those thumbnails on a new device which doesn’t have those files. They’re also the company which made their gaming portable with a disk drive, wrecking its battery life. Or there’s the time when Sony attempted to justify installing rootkits on people’s devices by saying that most people don’t know what a rootkit is.

Now, in an age where media companies want you to spend on licenses rather than ownership, Sony wants their Playstation games to be all digital. They want you to own nothing, not even the disk the games come on, all while being the central hub for all the media which you purchased the licenses for.

What really surprises me about this is that Sony has fans. As in, legit fanboys who, upon hearing the news, were ready to defend Sony in their latest decision, presumably after getting up, looking in the mirror, and saying “How is this guy in front of me going to be a free shill for a media empire, today?”

Those fans are doing their own part to make sure that Sony doesn’t get any better. After all, if sales for their hardware is still measured in the tens of millions, is there much expectation that they’re going to improve?

I know that games these days are becoming more data intensive, and physical data storage is becoming more expensive. Thus, for game companies to develop a preference for digital downloads is easy to understand. But what’s really irksome about how Sony is handling this is how they’re abruptly going full-tilt on digital downloads, all while putting words in our mouths by suggesting that the change represents changing preferences, as though gamers who primarily download the games they play didn’t want a physical alternative for those who want it.

If you’ve read some of my other gaming articles, you might get the idea that I’m a Nintendo fan. I think that sounds accurate. And being a Nintendo fan is easy, for a simple reason: the games are fun. Which is the whole point of video games.

A Sony fan is probably vexed that there are as many Nintendo fans as there are, and that Nintendo’s Switch system has been beating the pants off the Playstation brand. It’s probably a mystery to them why a game system with nearly decade-old tablet technology has pushed Nintendo back to the point of being market leader, while Sony and Microsoft are pushing for photorealistic graphics on expensive hardware.

Nintendo fans have figured something out. That’s that a game can be entertaining, well-made, interesting, accessible, and even a masterpiece, and it doesn’t have to be photorealistic to do it.

Breath of the Wild was considered the greatest game of the previous generation, an honor it arguably shares with its sequel, Tears of the Kingdom. It accomplished this with relatively-simple cel-shaded graphics. It didn’t devour space on a Blu-ray, nor did it need a supercomputer to run. Nintendo makes games fun to play, and they understand that that’s the point.

It also helps that Nintendo cares about their public image.

The ironic thing about all this is that Sony turned the Playstation brand into a household name by embracing optical media, while Nintendo insisted on cartridges. Since then, Nintendo decided to use optical media, but has then decided to primarily use game cards (a form of cartridge), and is back to being market leader, while Sony’s decision to ditch optical media (and physical media on the whole) may have destroyed the Playstation brand.

At this point, if you’re a gamer, the way to go is with a gaming PC, even with RAM as expensive as it is. And if you can wait for data centers to decide that they’ve had enough, prices on RAM are likely to plummet as the market determines the price of what may be overproduced. But even as it is, you can build a gaming PC that outperforms the Steam console for the same money. And it will be a sweeter deal when RAM becomes cheaper.

In fact, LinusTechTips has already built a gaming PC that demolishes the Gabe Cube:

Microsoft seems to be looking for a graceful way for Xbox to fail out, and now Sony is being disgraceful with how they’re looking to discontinue physical media.

So, the best configuration seems to be gaming PC plus Nintendo Switch 2 (if you care about Nintendo exclusives).

The UK is not a safe country.

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If you’re currently visiting the UK, consider leaving, quick. If you’re planning a trip, consider canceling it. It’s not a safe country. Hasn’t been for decades. And things might get a little rough over there in the coming days.

British politician Rupert Lowe has just published The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://x.com/i/status/2066873370239537189

I didn’t read it, yet. But I did become aware of some of the data points. That alone had me depressed to the point that I didn’t want to do much of anything.

As many as 250,000 British girls were victimized. And that’s a conservative estimate. I was aware of the grooming gangs. I wasn’t aware that they were so pervasive.

The offenders were predominantly Muslim, and were heavily Pakistani. Around 90% of offenders were Muslim.

Law enforcement was lax in dealing with the problem, because they were afraid of being called ‘racist’. Social workers who reported abuses faced retaliation, from the state itself.

And there’s more. Much more. Just going by what I’ve heard, it just gets worse and worse.

I think that the UK is likely to riot. That’s one of the reasons why I say that the country isn’t safe. The Henry Nowak demonstrations are likely to be small compared to what’s to come.

The other reason why I say that the UK isn’t safe is because it’s own police force and government has been looking the other way as criminal migrants have been raping hundreds of thousands of their own daughters, and it’s been going on for decades. Does that sound like a safe place to be?

If the British aren’t angry at their own government, I’d lose a lot of respect for them.

It’s so much worse than we thought.

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In light of the guilty verdict of Vikrum Digwa, there has been interest in the release of the bodycam footage of the wrongful arrest of Henry Nowak.

Be ready to hear the British teen’s name a lot more. Because it’s worse than we thought. Much worse.

If one were to hear the events of the footage described to them, a person might think that they were hearing the plot of a Monty Python skit. A difference being that Monty Python would not have been so crass.

A British teenager had been stabbed multiple times by a Sikh, who was permitted to carry a blade contrary to British law by reason of religious exemption.

The Sikh and his family then called the police, and lied to them about the teen saying something racially insensitive about them, knowing that this was just what they had to say to get the police to side with them. The police, being hyper-trained to over-respond to racism, exhibited a callous disregard for the teen that was bleeding to death, expressing disbelief that the teen had been stabbed, even as he pleaded for help.

The police then cuffed the teen, even as the color drained from his hands due to blood loss, and the last words that he heard were his rights recited to him by a callously indifferent officer.

As though it couldn’t get any worse, outside the bodycam footage, the Sikh tortured and taunted the teen for 10 minutes, in recording that was so disturbing that it was not played in court. This was all over the teen asking whether the Sikh was a “bad man”, because he was carrying a knife contrary to British law, while being recorded. The teen had no idea that his close encounter with a different culture would play out with that culture proving just how incompatible it is with the civilized world.

The Sikh murderer and liar was eventually arrested for his crime, by the way. But he was not cuffed during his arrest. It might even be that the killer was not cuffed, at all. In fact, the killer and sadistic tormentor was allowed to get something to eat by the arresting officers, before he was taken to the station.

I did manage to learn some history, in spite of the efforts of the education system. Going on what I had learned, an event like this is absolutely unprecedented. Unless you can tell me of one point in history where an authority figure expressed such misplaced outgroup empathy that favored an invasive ethnic group at the expense of an indigenous person, with the authority figure belonging to the same indigenous group.

As far as I know, such treachery is absolutely unheard of.

In light of this travesty, the people of the UK started to protest, and they started to riot. Yes, really. Caucasian people actually found their nerve. During these events, among the slogans chanted by the demonstrators was “I can’t breathe”, which was among Henry Nowak’s last words.

If those words sound familiar, that’s because they were also among the last words of George Floyd, a drug addict who died of a drug overdose while being arrested for attempting to buy a banana with a counterfeit $20 bill. In spite of the exonerating evidence, the arresting officer continues to serve a prison sentence for the death of the drug addict, all because the legal hold he used looked mean.

The death of George Floyd resulted in riots across the US. But if the rioters were being completely honest, they did not care about George Floyd, they simply used a popular lie about his death as a pretext for the mayhem that they had an appetite for.

And for leftists the world over, it was a pretext for the performative self-flagellation that they themselves have an appetite for. Even those as far away as the UK took a knee in honor of the fallen career criminal.

During the demonstrations for Henry Nowak, the protestors demanded that the officers present take a knee for Nowak, just as officers had done for career criminal George Floyd. They did not do that. But what officers did do was attack protestors, which should not be a surprise, because attacking their own people is what they have been trained to do.

If one were to ask me what I think might happen next, I’d be honestly surprised that anyone would care, for one thing. If my prescience were better, I would have made some different choices.

But, to be honest, I really don’t know. Not only was the arrest footage bafflingly worse than I could have anticipated, it’s also a bit of a surprise that the British reacted as angrily as they did.

Because, when it comes down to it, they, like whites in general, are way too nice. The British are highly civilized. And when people are highly civil, less civilized people will view that as an invitation to push the limits of what they can get away with.

It’s an interesting thing that the British authorities have betrayed their own people in favor of foreign invaders, because the British used to punish treason as a capital offense. And it makes sense why they did. After all, if a person’s heart turned towards the destruction of their own people, whom they should naturally have affection for, then they have become so warped and defective that there is no expectation that they could ever be rehabilitated. What could society be expected to do with such a person? What value could come from a person so bereft of virtue?

But now, it would seem as though the British system has turned against the British people. It would seem as though the solution would be a reworking of British policing, which would ideally be performed in a non-belligerent manner. But with people as angry as they are, it might not happen that way. As civil as the British are, it would seem that they may have reached a breaking point.

Like I said, the British are civil, to the point that other people are too comfortable with pushing them to their limits. The dangerous thing about that is that, when it comes to nice people, those limits are not clearly defined, and when exceeded, the backlash tends to be intense.

The world is not ready for the angry British.

The influencer-sphere has an energy drink crisis.

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I’ll say first of all that this is not a sponsored post. I see a problem in the influencer-sphere which has to do with products that they sponsor to supplement their income, and I’m presenting a solution to that problem, bringing attention to a better product.

Now, I wouldn’t have a problem with influencers marketing powdered energy dtinks if those energy drinks weren’t weren’t largely dubious products. But that’s a problem thst exists.

And I’m looking right at G Fuel, and more recently, Gamer Supps.

You’ve probably heard of G Fuel, because it’s one of the most heavily marketed products in the universe. And it’s aggressive marketing approach is genius. They make it easy for social media influencers to recieve kickbacks through affiliate links, ensuring that many millions of gamers will hear about their caffeinated powder by reason of the influencers that they already enjoy, and they acquire the use of licensed characters to further enhance their product’s appeal.

Because, don’t you feel like Naruto in sage mode when you’re hopped up on caffeine?

But if you turn the bright, pretty packaging around, and you know how to read, you’ll be less than impressed. Like many in the supplement space, ingredients have unspecified daily values. This c as n he a problem, because your typical consumer of products with anime characters on them isn’t expected to know the minimum effective dose of l-citrulline malate, or even what it does.

By the way, it’s 2 grams per dose, 3 times a day, according to Examine.com. That comes to 6 grams a day. That’s 12 times as much as what’s in a scoop of G Fuel.

L-citrulline malate is taken for cardiovascular health, or erectile dysfunction. But before you get too excited and start drinking G Fuel to get boners, to get the equivalent of the minimum effective dose from G Fuel, you’d also be drinking 1.68 grams of caffeine, which would be over 4 times the maximum safe dose for adults who aren’t sensitive to caffeine. Don’t fucking do that.

Most of the rest of the active ingredients are at a more acceptable range, but probably still below the minimum effective dose. But one potentially problematic ingredient is vitamin B6, an overabundance of which in it’s synthetic form can cause nerve damage, a problem that’s rare in it’s natural form. The dose of artificial B6 in a scoop of G Fuel is far from what it would take to cause issues. But if you drink it, you may want to be aware of the presence of artificial B6 from other sources, such as multivitamins, because that can add up in a hurry.

Then there’s Gamer Supps.

You could probably guess why, but that’s the “Overall Pick” of the results for Gamer Supps on Amazon. But don’t get too excited.

Gamer Supps is to G Fuel what Wuthering Waves is to Genshin Impact. A vocal few pretend that it’s better, but it’s a blatant imitation.

The marketing approach is similar, in that the product is promoted by influencers who use affiliate links. The use of licensed characters is more limited, but that’s probably going to change as the brand picks up more momentum.

But turn the canister around, and you’ll be left with more questions than answers:

If you would drink Gamer Supps, your trust is misplaced. Gamer Supps is among supplements which hide ingredient amounts behind “propietary blends”.

A common practice among energy drink powders is to “pixie dust” active ingredients. This involves putting in a tiny fraction of the minimum effective dose, just so they can say that they included the ingredients. This is basically like using the ingredients label itself as part of their marketing. And it’s far more effective when the targeted consumers are largely unaware how much they have to take of a supplement before they can realistically expect to see a benefit.

How much coenzyme q10 is in Gamer Supps? Who knows? They’re hiding that important information behind a proprietary formula.

But, it gets worse. Their proprietary nootropic blend amounts to 154,000 mcg (micrograms) per scoop. This seems impressive, because 154,000 is a big, impressive-looking number. Until you know what a microgram is.

A microgram (mcg) is 1/1000 of a milligram (mg), or 1/1,000,000 of a gram (g). If Gamer Supps had the same amount of caffeine as G Fuel, then 140,000 of those micrograms would be taken up by the caffeine, leaving 14 mg for the rest of the blend.

If you’re still considering Gamer Supps, consider this, instead: buy a canister of sugar-free Kool-Aid. Mix a little with some water, then use it to wash down a caffeine pill. It’s basically the same thing.

And if you like anime characters, then print up a picture of Konata Izumi or the character of your choice, then tape it to the canister.

That way, the hypothetical audience who see how your streamer studio is decked out will have no doubt the kind of 1337 gamer you are.

I did say that I have a solution, that being a better product. After all, it’s one thing if all that one does is complain about a problem, like so many clout farmers who love the sound of their own voice complaining. It’s better when a solution to the problem is presented. And in this case, I have two. And I’ll start with this one:

Sneak is not crap. Let’s get right into why:

The label tells us what the active ingredients are, and how much of each is in each serving. The l-tyrosine, l-taurine, and l-theanine are around the minimum effective dose, and there’s still plenty of caffeine. The choline bitartrate and l-carnitine tartrate are well below the minimum effective dose, but I’m not concerned about them.

What’s also great is that we don’t get slammified by 4167% of the daily allowance of vitamin B12, as though we don’t eat food. How does the body even process that much B12? Sounds like paying to have expensive urine.

If there’s one drawback that I can think of with Sneak, it’s that you’d have to buy it. And at about $45 per tub, that’s going to be more difficult to do. But hey, it’s generally worth paying a bit more to get a quality product. Besides, I like the flavors I’ve tried so far. And of them, I can recommend Rocket Pop and Tropikilla.

To throw this out there, it’s cool how the label on the canister is textured. If it’s going to be priced like a premium product, it can feel like one.

Now, for the other solution. It’s coffee. Yep, just ordinary black coffee. Coffee’s main nootropic ingredient is caffeine. And of the ingredients in energy drinks, caffeine is the most heavily-studied, and the most proven. Most other active ingredients tend to have negligible effect in comparison, especially at doses typical for such drinks.

And it’s cost-effective. Coffee is cheap, and one cup has around 100 mg of caffeine (though results vary). So, a cup and a half would take you to about the same place as a scoop of Gamer Supps. Or maybe beyond, depending on what’s actually going on with their sketchy proprietary blend.

So, there you go. In a world where marketers are trying to push caffeinated powder at you through social media influencers in an effort to override your better judgment, there is a powdered energy drink that deserves more attention than it gets. Also, there’s coffee, the scientific discovery that expedited many subsequent scientific discoveries.

Though we call them “energy drinks”, unless they have calories, they don’t actually supply energy, they just make a person feel that way by making them feel more alert and focused. That’s why many of the ingredients used in energy drinks are also used in pre-workout powders, and are used in fitness enthusiast stacks. Considering that even the nomenclature can be misleading, it’s not much surprise that there are misconceptions in the world of supplements.

The fact that influencers and cartoon characters are used to market to people who don’t know what they’re drinking doesn’t help.

They literally want a concentration camp.

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Now’s a great time to see how the left is doing:

That far along, huh? I thought we had more time.

From San Antonio Current:

“She’ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking,” Galindo wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend, referring to herself in the third person. “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.”

When someone says that that’s her intended policy, go ahead and believe her, because most people who fantasize about such things would usually keep it to themselves.

It’s already a massive red flag that a politician declares her policy positions via Instagram. And the fact that she refers to herself in the third person is characteristic of a random lunatic who raves at random pedestrians in a city square.

But all that is eclipsed by the fact that she wants to repurpose a government building into a concentration camp for imprisoning enforcers of immigration law, and those who believe Jews should have their own little country, while falsely accusing them of pedophilia as a pretext for having them neutered.

That sounds like the kind of thing that a shrill, college-aged leftist would pretend that Trump said, because they want to make him look as bad as possible, and has no motherfucking idea how to pull their punches to make a lie sound remotely believable.

But Maureen Galindo, a Democrat running for Congress, said it as her own policy position.

Over the past week, Galindo has accused her runoff opponent — former Bexar County Public Information Officer Johnny Garcia — of participating in a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by billionaire zionist Jews.

She crazy. That’s end-stage TikTok brain rot. That’s the kind of shit where, once you believe it, the belief itself configures prions into your brain, and it’s just a matter of time until you lose all motor function, and die due to inability to sleep.

Even so, in comments to the Current and other media outlets, Galindo maintained she only has an issue with zionists, or those advocating for the existence of a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland, rather than Jews in general.

There it is. The classic leftist equivocation. This time, she’s trying to avoid being branded as “antisemitic”, because that’s a word which sounds bad, and is only for use against bad people. So she explains that she opposes something that Jews generally happen to desire. Then, when she does go after the Jews she hates, she can make the claim of not actually hating them.

If anyone falls for that, the world must be a confusing place for them.

Indeed, mainstream Democrats have drifted away from Galindo as she ramped up her rhetoric.

Please do. Because damn.

To give you an idea of just how far Maureen Galindo has gone, consider the fact that AOC thinks she has taken it too far:

Think about what it means when, next to Maureen Galindo, AOC sounds like the voice of reason.

If you don’t picture Maureen Galindo’s thinking taking root in American politics, consider the following:

Twenty-seven percent. That’s the percentage of Democrats who, when presented with an opportunity to vote for Maureen Galindo, decided to do so.

I’ve pointed out before that as leftists continue to lose the culture war, some of them will feel threatened, particularly the dead-enders who invested too much into their political ideology, and that they may interpret the changing flow of the era as a threat to respond to with violence.

The fact that the left is becoming increasingly extreme in their violence and their rhetoric goes to show that they’re not handling losing well.

Now, there’s a leftist running for office who is openly calling for a concentration camp with compulsory sterilization. And while it’s true that she’s being condemned, even within her own party, what’s concerning is that her rhetoric is not instantly disqualifying, and that she could come away with as much as 27% of her party’s vote where she was on the ballot, which is way too much.

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Game Journalists Aren’t the Real Problem, Anymore.

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There’s another gaming controversy involving game journalists, which is being treated as yet another attempt to relive GamerGate.

And while the GamerGate days may be fond memories for some people, if we’re being completely honest here, game journalists just aren’t taken seriously by anyone, anymore. They burned any trust that they had in the original GamerGate by siding against gamers themselves. And prior to that, they’ve long had the problem of pandering to advertisers.

In this connected age, when it comes to game opinions, people trust their peers more than game journos. I’d rather hear the opinions of my peers, whom I can relate to, rather than those of professional journalists who are acting on obvious incentives, and therefore cannot be trusted to be genuine.

But if I can thank game journalists for just one thing, it’s for demonstrating to many millions of gamers exactly why they cannot trust the press. They’ve played an unwitting role in the “gamer to right-wing pipeline”. And they’ve done it well.

Before moving on to what I see as the real problem, I’ll first acknowledge the current controversy. A droll nostalgia game has gotten a suspiciously high number of perfect review scores from various publications, in spite of the fact that gamers themselves aren’t impressed with it.

The game is called Mixtape, and it stars teenagers in a pseudo-90s cultural environment. I’ve heard that it largely attempts to pander to a sense of nostalgia, but instead alienates players who actually were teenagers during that same era. The gameplay, from what I’ve heard, makes the game sound like a movie with interactive segments, those being minigames with a lack of fail-states.

I didn’t play it, and I’m not interested.

The game sounds insipid, and demeaning to true 90s kids. But for some reason, one gaming publication after another has given the pile a perfect score. Scores which, by the way, are usually reserved for games considered revolutionary, or masterpieces.

But, I didn’t care. And I wouldn’t have even noticed what game journalists were up to, if my own peers didn’t point it out.

At this point, it’s taken for granted that game journalists are trash. It is what it is.

As I see it, the real problem that game communities face is clout farmers.

If you’re wondering what a clout farmer is, that would be someone who trashes on something on social media, with the intention of drawing attention to themselves. Such a person tends to manifest in gaming communities as someone who continually dumps on a game, usually a new or popular installment of a franchise, in an attempt to seem smart or discerning with how negative they could be about the game in question.

The low-IQ among us tends to leave likes on the edgy thing that shits on something people like. But if you were to visit the clout farmer’s profile, you’d find one post after another, shitting on fun games that people like. It’s quite possible that they don’t like anything. Or maybe they do. I certainly don’t want to scroll through an entire account’s raw sewage just to see whether they can say anything positive about anything.

If you call them out on it, they’ll just accuse you of being on some kind of “toxic positivity” brigade, because they don’t like when people like things.

This has gotten to be an issue within the Pokémon community, to the point that those who actually play the game have said that they enjoy the games more when they don’t interact with the community. If the clout farmers were actually trolls out to destroy the community, this would mean that they’re succeeding.

But we have a weapon, and it’s been in our hands, the whole time: you block the bullshitters.

If an obvious clout farmer appears on your feed, here’s what you do (on X):

  • Click the vertical ellipses in the upper-right corner of their post,
  • Then, click the option to mute their account. You may be asked to confirm.

That’s it. Repeat as more obvious clout farmers appear. Then, enjoy your improved fandom!

While it’s true that game journos are still adversarial towards the very people they claim to write for, people today generally know to ignore them. Case in point: They’re insistent that GamerGate was a misogynistic harassment campaign, but there’s a strong likelihood that you know that that’s not the case.

The reason why clout farmers are the bigger issue is that they’re a problem particular to social media, which is still relatively new. And because gamers still haven’t universally learned to recognize and deal with them, clout farmers still succeed in infiltrating and dragging down gaming communities.

But now that you know how to eliminate them from your feed, you can do your part to reduce their influence. After all, it’s attention they seek, and you can deny them yours.

A Mosque was attacked, this time.

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It can be called a switch, if you want. But it was really just a matter of time.

A mosque in San Diego was attacked by two gunmen. Five are confirmed dead, including one of the Mosque’s security personnel, and both gunmen. The gunmen were in their teens, they apparently ended their own lives, and it would seem the attack was racially motivated, judging by materials left by the gunmen.

I’m ready for this to be all that we hear about from the Islamic world for the next couple decades. They can’t take it anywhere close to how they dish it out.

The Islamic world is famous for its sectarian violence, whether it Muslims versus other religions, or it’s Muslims against other Muslims which they consider infidels over a microscopic difference in doctrine.

It’s gotten to the point that Muslims are the most distrusted group in the civilized world. And that’s a dubious honor that’s well earned, what with Muslims going on shooting rampages, driving cars into Christmas markets, executing African Christians, suicide bombing bus stations, committing random knife attacks, hijacking planes for use as projectiles, raping women and children when presented with the opportunity…

…and on, and on, and on…

…All while acting as though they’re better than everyone else, and entitled to everything, including the land in which they are guests.

If anyone or any group is going to be a constant belligerent, it’s to be expected that they’ll come to find pushback.

Muslims need to realize that their religion isn’t worth surrendering their souls to. Islam drains the joy out of life, and for all that trouble, it can’t truly offer salvation, anyway.

Christianity is far superior. Not only does it offer a more joyful life, Christians actually get saved. All of them.

And if Muslims are finally going to start facing what they’ve been continually dishing out, then that’s all the more reason to leave Muhammad’s religion in the dustbin.

Besides, Muhammad predicted that a day of doom would occur within 500 years of his death. It’s been over 1400 years. What are Muslims clinging to?

Another ironic story out of the UK

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The UK pretty much sucks when it comes to free speech. They just fail, over and over again.

Tapping the sign:

This time, a V-Tuber in the UK was arrested for possession of her own drawings.

Your imagination likely went to one of two places: cartoons of Muhammad, or drawings of naked people. It’s the latter.

UK based V-Tuber Mimi Yanagi issued a public statement on X, letting her following know that she was out on bail after having been arrested for possession of her own drawings. Her electronic devices were seized, including the ones she used as a professional V-Tuber. What’s more, as per her bail conditions, she was to use an approved handle, may only post SFW content, and must be transparent with her content.

Because it’s British police we’re talking about here, I don’t feel inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. They probably saw an opportunity to score some sweet loot, and Mimi is probably not going to see it again.

“A Go Pro? Little Harry always wanted to be a streamer! A £3500 gaming rig? Guess who’s not spending on Christmas presents this year? LED illuminated mouse and keyboard? Yoink! Why’d she have two monitors? Now she’s got naught!”

Allegedly, the drawings contained characters which Mimi herself imagined, had the appearance of being childlike, and were of the rule 34 variety. In the UK, such images are illegal to produce, distribute, or even possess, even if the characters depicted are clearly fictitious.

This is one of those matters where, if you have a free speech perspective, you choose your words with care if you’re trying to avoid looking like some kind of creep. But considering that the whole matter was victimless, to arrest anyone over it is silly. Even if the art in question inspires an ick vibe for most people, it’s still just drawings.

But there’s an irony to this that can be pointed out. And you probably know what it is.

The UK has a problem with migrant Islamic rape gangs. And British police have infamously been looking the other way, for fear of being called racist.

In the graphic below, two are pictured. One traumatized a real-life British 12-year-old. The other drew pictures for herself and perhaps for other adults who were minding their own business in their own homes.

Can you guess which one got off without consequences, and which one got the legal equivalent of a spear tackle followed by a jackhammer slam?

If the UK wants anyone to take them seriously, they’d leave the poor woman be, and give her back all her devices. She harmed no one.

Then, they’d go after all the Islamic migrants who actually are victimizing little girls. Based on their behavior, one might think British police care more about the non-existent plight of fictional girls, than that of real girls from among their own people.

Stabbed teen cuffed by British police over racism allegation dies in custody

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Normally, when I comment on this sort of thing, I start off with the facts of the case, then go on a little rant. This time, I’m going to flip matters on its head, and start with a rant, then I’ll get into the story.

I’m getting sick of seeing people on my side of the culture war black-pilling just because their enemies have a plan, and the first steps have already been taken.

This is even the case when it comes to Islamic migrants, whose plan largely comes down to, “We’re going to walk right in, rape out of control, your government is going to give us housing and your money, then we’re going to implement Sharia law so your freedoms go bye bye and this becomes yet another graceless Islamic theocracy.”

Then the blackpillers collectively throw their hands up, as though the only expectation is that everyone who might otherwise resist will just get one one side and just take it up the wazoo.

The fact is, the idea of one’s own country turning into a place where their own daughters cannot safely walk down the street is not something that most people would be willing to tolerate. And when they find out that that’s what’s going on, they’re going to fight back, and they’re not going to give a shit whether anyone calls them racist.

There will be a time that the UK can look back on as the turning point, the point in time in which Brits can agree is when they’ve decided that they’re done being abused by migrants, the corrupt ruling class, and the TikTok-brained and their threats of calling them racist.

This story would be that turning point.

The irony is, the offender in this story wouldn’t be a Muslim. It would be a Sikh. But he still suffices as a figure for cultural incompatibility.

A 23-year-old Sikh man has been charged for the murder of an 18-year-old British student, using a Sikh ceremonial dagger.

While the murder is already sickening, the very fact that the murder was carried out using a religious implement could be more ironic. But, it gets worse.

While the murder was being carried out, the murderer, Vickrum Digwa, shouted “racism”.

Between the stabbing and the allegation of racism, can you guess which one British police responded to?

Too easy. The police cuffed the boy who was stabbed, even as he was bleeding out as a result of the attack. The killer’s mother took the weapon home with her. The 18-year-old died in police custody.

Yeah. That actually happened.

British police are already famously unreliable when it comes to any complaint of violence on the part of a minority. But they are aggressive in their pursuit of social media and speech wrongthink. It’s gotten to the point where the UK has received the dubious honor of being the global leader in arrests for online comments, greatly surpassing China and Russia.

The British have evidently become tired of the way things have been trending, as evidenced by the fact that the new right-wing Reform party has swept the recent British election, beating out all other parties, including the established Labor party, which lost seats. They also soundly defeated a new green party which pandered to constituents more sympathetic to Islam.

In fact, I’ve never seen a new party win as convincingly as the new Reform party. And they might perform even better, now that Brits are coming to realize that they’re not alone in their own country.

British police may be a farce, and some people may blackpill over that. But it’s not over until it’s over.