Things Are Starting to Move Right Along.

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A short while ago, I pointed out that unfettered immigration would lead to unrest. Since then, unrest has started to pick up in places like France, and particularly in Ireland, where things exploded after a piece of filth attacked children with a knife.

In light of this, I’ll go ahead and offer my opinion on the matter, and I’ll keep it brief, because that would suffice.

I don’t have a knack for seeing the future. I didn’t need it because I could already see the tension that was there. In this environment, all that’s needed for things to move along in a hurry is for someone to do something incredibly stupid, which will cause people to react in a way that expresses the tension.

Right now, the left is blaming the right for the public’s reaction, when in reality, the left bears the blame for what is the natural and expected outcomes of their policies.

The left believed that they could retire easier in spite of falling birth rates by inviting immigrants into their country with the idea that they could be put to work, and feed into the Social Security scheme. Such an idea is damnably idiotic. The outcome is that these very same immigrants have largely gone on welfare, turning into a drain on the system, rather than contributing. Worse yet, many of them turned out to be criminals on the run, some are human traffickers working for cartels, and some have brought a culture with them that is absolutely incompatible with a civil society.

As it turns out, assuming good intentions can be dangerously naive.

I’m not really worried that the political right is going to capitalize on recent trends, and gain institutional power with the support of a common population who would be more interested in leaders that more closely mirror their values. At this point, it’s all but a certainty. What’s worrisome is that those who assume authority will tend towards extremes in their positions. The right would do well to remember their own virtues regarding limited government and personal liberties, and know that the immigration crisis can be reversed in a responsible manner.

Having said that, it’s obvious that the responsible way to go about it involves mass deportations. The left will scream bloody murder over it, and bang their pots and pans together. They’re free to make their noise. But after decades of getting their way with minimal resistance, to not have their way would be something for them to get accustomed to.

The left has a bad habit of attempting to disassociate their policy positions from the consequences of those positions, even when the consequences are so obvious that any reasonable person could see them coming. To see such belligerent foolishness would be almost rewarding, if it weren’t the common population who pays the price.

In any case, it remains that one of the most rewarding things about basic observation of reality is seeing things play out predictably. And I hope you’re ready, because this is going to be quite a show.

There’s something screwy going on in the K-pop community.

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The Hindustan Times reported a story which alleged that a few K-pop idols are receiving backlash for enjoying a “dark anime” with “pedophilic content”. The anime in question is Made In Abyss, an adventure anime wherein a girl and a robotic boy explore a gigantic chasm, navigating its dangerous ecosystems in a quest to reach its bottom.

The Hindustan Times can be blamed for burying the lede, as the real story that led to the controversy would be the cancel culture of the K-pop community, and it turns out that much of its community is pretty toxic.

One might imagine that a collective appreciation for K-pop would bring the K-pop community together, but what we instead see is a toxicity among fans who divide themselves into factions based on their preferences for K-pop artists.

Personally, I’m glad that it’s the K-pop brand of tribalist bullshit that’s keeping these clowns occupied, because if they got into either sports or religion, they’d probably cause some riots.

The K-pop tribalism is so toxic that some fans will actually dig into the social media activity of the other tribe’s K-pop artist of choice to find anything that can be held against them. Pretty much cancel culture per se.

It so happens that this time, the K-pop artists under scrutiny are Soobin, Woozi, and Taeyong for liking Made In Abyss, an exquisite anime with developed characters, excellent worldbuilding, a heavily-favored soundtrack, and a tone that indicates that it takes its viewers seriously. The problem is, the anime is sometimes accused of promoting pedophilia by people who aren’t mature enough for the anime.

It’s disturbing enough that the toxicity of the K-pop community has reached the point that fans are willing to drag K-pop idols enjoyed by another K-pop faction down by making them out to be pariahs, it’s even worse when they are willing to drag down anime communities that weren’t even involved to begin with, and don’t deserve the negative attention that they might end up getting.

Being one who enjoys Pokémon, I can point out that, while there has been some amount of toxicity in the community, much of it came from bad actors who were quickly recognized, and the Pokémon community has mostly resisted dividing up into factions. If you can avoid certain bad influencers, you’ll generally have no problem avoiding drama in the Pokémon community.

That being my point of reference, from my perspective, the state of the K-pop community is surprising and horrifying. I didn’t have much interest in K-pop to begin with, but with the pervasiveness of toxicity and cancel culture within its community, I have no problem keeping my distance.

I suppose some might expect that I’d defend Made In Abyss from accusations that it somehow promotes pedophilia. The fact is, I really don’t have to. For one thing, I’ll refer to this flowchart that I like sharing:

One of the things I like about the Made In Abyss community is that when someone attempts to describe it to someone who hasn’t seen it, they might bring up some of its more extreme elements in an effort to warn someone that they’re there. But in doing so, they might make it sound like some hyper-edgelord anime that it’s actually not. While it’s true that there are some disturbing scenes, they don’t make up the majority of the anime’s runtime, but instead serves to make the point that there is a connotation of danger for the protagonists.

While it’s true that there are brief instances of nudity, no sex acts were committed, and the scenes played out naturally. Anyone who holds these brief scenes against the whole of the anime are failing to evaluate it from a position of honest criticism. One may even get the idea that they haven’t actually watched it.

But in any case, Made In Abyss was made for grownups, and it’s obvious that much of the K-pop community is way too young to watch anime like Made In Abyss.

And what’s more, when someone can be rightly described as smug and closed-minded, I don’t really mind that they don’t enjoy the same things that I do. As I’d have it, I’d prefer that such people were not in my own community.

Finally, it can be pointed out that we live in a world where trafficking of actual, living human children is a real problem. When someone throws themselves into a tizzy because a fictional character, a literal piece of merchandise, may be doing something sexual, they are expressing some misplaced priorities.

Bin Laden and the Algorithmic Manipulators

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Before we get into this, I’m curious how many of you had “leftists voice agreement with Osama Bin Laden” on your bingo card for 2023. It’s understandable if you didn’t, but what a year this is turning out to be.

In the year 2002, Osama Bin Laden, the very same Bin Laden that ran the terror network Al Qaeda, had issued a letter titled, A Letter to America, wherein he laid out his rationale for the 9/11 terror attacks.

I, for one, am skeptical that Bin Laden actually authored the letter, as he had initially steadfastly denied being involved in the attacks, and each of the hijackers actually attended the Al Quds mosque in Hamburg, Germany, which was never shut down, as far as I could tell.

In the letter, Bin Laden pointed out that there was no such thing as innocent civilians in the U.S.’s democracy, pointing out that his violent actions were a reaction to the policy positions of representatives that civilians voted into office. He voiced such an opposition to U.S. policy that it sounded suspiciously like it was intended to feed into a casus belli for further American intervention. Hopefully it’s understandable why I’m skeptical.

The letter had been published by British news outlet The Guardian, who took it down when a recent spate of TikTok videos appeared expressing surprise at the contents of the letter, with some expressing agreement with Bin Laden’s sentiments, saying that they’ve had their preconceived notions challenged, and encouraging their viewers to also read the letter.

Normally, I’d embed at least one example of such a video here, but I’m not doing that this time, for a reason that I’ll get into later on in this post.

When it comes to a letter from Osama Bin Laden, I’m curious what people were expecting. Did they expect something like five paragraphs of hand-wringing and mustache-twirling, proceeded by cartoon-villain cackling? The guy had a following, and he had a following for a reason: he was able to justify his positions, even if through faulty reasoning, and he did so in such a way that would have been considered convincing to those who lacked the ability to comprehend true evil, or at least those who would be dumb enough to fall for his arguments.

People with bad positions are usually able to justify their positions. Take the flat-earthers, for example. People know that flat-earthers are wrong. However, they take for granted that flat-earthers are wrong. So when they get into a debate with one, they imagine that it will be a piece-of-cake slam dunk victory. But then the debate begins, and the flat-earther runs circles around them, because they know how the game is played, they have rhetorical deceit down to a science, they came prepared with arguments that most people are not prepared for, and they themselves came prepared for the arguments and rebuttals that they could reasonably expect. The result is that a typical, middle-of-the-road thinker is left to kick dust on the way home, knowing that he lost a debate to a flat-earther.

While we’re at it, I’m curious as to what people think is in Hitler’s Mein Kampf. While it’s true that much of it is a hateful tirade made to appeal to one with an external locus of control, it’s also a political manifesto that would have been considered encouraging to a German who would have felt downtrodden in Hitler’s time.

Evil people are able to justify their wickedness, even if their reasoning is deeply flawed. To them, what most would see as wicked may be what they see as justifiable, or even banal.

By way of another example, there’s also the manifesto of Ted Kazynski, the person who is popularly known as the Unabomber. When his manifesto was published, the expectation would have understandably been the ramblings of a deluded psychopath who believed that the moon followed him as he walked around. As it turns out, he made some points about society that many people considered valid.

Returning to Bin Laden, I wonder how many people out there have forgotten that he was a religious zealot, whose own religion is pretty-much everything that a stereotypical leftist pretends that Christianity is. Bin Laden was an Islamist, who wanted to implement Sharia in the west.

The following is a few of Bin Laden’s policy positions:

  • Executing gays,
  • Normalizing slavery (and no, I’m not kidding),
  • Outlawing bacon,
  • Outlawing grown-up beverages,
  • Outlawing non-religious music,
  • A functionally-retarded banking system that’s somehow supposed to run without interest,
  • Normalizing pederasty, which has been legal in Afghanistan for decades,
  • State-sponsorship of a cult that discourages the pursuit of anything outside of itself,
  • That science is not allowed to question, among other things, that the earth is flat,
  • A judicial system that’s so capricious that tyrants are needed to maintain order,
  • That the testimony of a woman is either 1/2 or 1/4 that of a man in courts of law.

There’s a lot more. And a bunch of simpletons are impressed with this guy?

Now, let’s get into the reason why I’m not leaving a video embed in this post. Personally, I doubt that these people actually believe what they’re saying. The fact is, the TikTok algorithm boosts what gets plenty of engagement, and what’s rage-inducing (such as police-brutality videos) tend to get more attention. I suspect that these are just people who know how the game is played, and are attempting to farm the algorithm for views. I don’t want to give them a signal boost, because I don’t want them to have more attention.

But even if they don’t believe it, they still have followings that may take their words for it. And that’s how attempts to game an algorithm can have potentially harmful outcomes. We’ve already seen how videos of police brutality have inspired looting and rioting. Now, there are social media influencers out to make a quick buck who don’t care about the long-term social damage that can occur as a result of algorithmic manipulation.

But if the social media influencers were sincere, then there’s no telling how they’ll react when they get around to reading something that’s actually reasonable, such as the basic philosophical underpinnings of Libertarianism, or that of Austrian economics.

To get to the heart of the matter, however eloquent that his justifications could have possibly been, it still remains that Osama Bin Laden was a murderous nutjob who hid behind his religion, which played a significant role in motivating him to become the killer he ended up becoming.

Now, the indoctrinators of the political left are looking on in horror as the very children that they indoctrinated went on to side with terrorists like Al Qaeda and Hamas, simply because those terrorist organizations have been using similar rhetoric to justify themselves. And now said indoctrinators are losing control of the very generation with which they had hoped to usher in a revolution, and are losing control of them to a bunch of religious fanatics who are far more hateful than even themselves.

I can think of no better way to fight back than to make it known why their new ideology is not worth fighting for. Just because it’s obvious to me why this is the case doesn’t mean that everyone can be reasoned with.

If it turns out that the letter actually was a U.S. psy-op, the consequences might almost be funny. Except not quite.

Is Chris Chan’s Diet Killing Him?

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A couple days ago, Chris Chan complained of feeling “a bit woozy at times” on X, with his friends attributing this to his diet.

Here’s what he had to say:

#TF2AnalysisAnarchy reminded me of the 6-2-1 (Convention) Rule years ago. That was a common practice with me, in general, which aided me in weight loss.

But in recent days, my Body has been feeling a bit woozy at times. My friends made me realize that I could be eating more, especially considering how tall I am. So, I’m readjusting my meal plan for filling breakfast/brunch and dinner, while enjoying Fruits and/or Salad at lunch or snackage throughout the day.

Okay then, let’s see how Chris Chan has been eating fruits, by looking at a fruit salad that he shared weeks ago. And let me know whether this could contribute to his woozy feeling:

Okay, this looks like the beginning of a fruit salad. There’s a diversity of fruit there, with diced apple, strawberries, banana, and what looks like a peeled tangerine. As long as he doesn’t somehow ruin it, there’s nothing to object to, at all.

But he’s not done yet. To him, nature’s candy is not sweet enough, he has to add additional candy to taste:

He ruined it. First, with a mound of whipped cream and a literal chocolate bar. Sure, it’s just a small square, but it’s even more sugar.

But then, he adds maraschino cherries. They may be cherries, but they’re swimming in sweeteners such as sugar or high fructose corn syrup! No wonder the guy is woozy, he thinks that this is the kind of meal that’s so healthy, that he can snap pictures of it to show off as an example of his better judgment to the world!

Chris Chan handles his diet the same way he handles Biblical law keeping: lackadaisically. Here’s what he has to say about that:

I am thankful for the 6-2-1 Rule, but as a guideline like the Bible, we are meant to keep it as a guideline in our minds, souls and hearts and think outside of that in common sense for ourselves, respectively.

If you’re wondering what the “6-2-1 Rule” is, so was I. I looked it up, and apparently, it’s a furry convention guideline that recommends 6 hours of sleep, 2 meals a day, and one shower a day. But like many rules, Chris Chan regards it as a “guideline”, similar to how he regards other rules, including the ones found in the Bible.

Apparently, to him the Ten Commandments are more like the Ten Suggestions, in that he follows them when it’s nice and convenient, but considers them something to ignore in favor of his own personal dictates of common sense.

This person is claiming to be the Messiah?

The situational ethics crowd is about as scary as those who insist that Biblical law keeping has been done away with, but they have no idea. Biblical law includes the Ten Commandments, and they say that you’re not to murder, steal, or bear false witness. Which of these things would they object to happening to them?

Chris Chan has a problem that many Americans do: he has received almost nothing in the way of dietary education, and only has vague notions of what is healthy to go on. That’s a problem when the rules of diet and nutrition are such that, if you break them and are ignorant of it, the consequences of breaking those rules still apply to you.

No, I don’t claim to be perfect in this regard. When I was in my twenties, I usually had a big ol’ heaping plate of pasta for dinner, reasoning that that was healthy enough. While it’s true that there was some nutritional benefit to be had, I was consuming a monster pile of calories nearly every evening, which was only offset by the fact that I was highly physically active, walking miles on most days.

After college, I returned to that for a short while. But as my means improved, I decided to figure a few things out about my diet.

Because we have technology that can help us with our diets, why not use it? I use an app to track my caloric intake. What’s more, I got a kitchen scale to help measure out my portions. I also did a lot of research on what foods can have what benefits for me.

Here’s an example of what breakfast can look like for me:

The Grapenuts and milk are consumed together as a cereal. As for the fruit, they are blended together with water, a scoop of protein shake, a couple scoops of powdered collagen, and the “Daily Fiber” is a psyllium husk supplement like Metamucil. The result is a super-tasty and super-healthy breakfast smoothie. The fruit volume can vary, but this is what reasonably fits in my blender.

In addition to this, I’ll often have some black coffee (zero calories), as well as supplements such as vitamin D, creatine, and perhaps even some fish oil, and maybe some other supplements.

Thanks to a diet like this, I actually feel better now than when I was in my twenties, and perhaps ever have. And if you wish to copy me, now you have an idea of what I’ve been having for breakfast, lately.

If you still have doubts as to Chris Chan’s state of mind, he closes out his statement with the following:

Every religion and scripture is a piece of the Bigger Truth; they combine in all to form that, in a way. But Meditation and Connection with the Cosmos, Akashic Records and Alpha/Omega Point well beyond our Universe’s and Timeline’s Core and Matrix puts further insights and revelations into all of us to really understand ourselves and the truths and to put them to Good use with Light Power and Righteous Paths. ⚡️💙⚡️

Though he claims to have access to the comprehensive compendium of events and thoughts in all the history of the universe, Chris Chan still doesn’t know how to eat right.

Let’s end this with a quote from a far more sensible man:

The production of artificial food as a means for causing an increase of the human mass naturally suggests itself, but a direct attempt of this kind to provide nourishment does not appear to me rational, at least not for the present. Whether we could thrive on such food is very doubtful. We are the result of ages of continuous adaptation, and we cannot radically change without unforeseen and, in all probability, disastrous consequences. So uncertain an experiment should not be tried.

Nikola Tesla

The GODCULT Complex of MamaMax

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Is this the face of fighting child abuse?

I was a legacy subscriber of MamaMax on YouTube, from back when his channel was funny, but then I dropped off when he started commentating on bad hentai. Since then, the algorithm itself seldom floated any of his stuff to me.

However, that changed today, after happening upon a new offering, which was when I discovered that he now goes by a new handle, GODCULT. And not only that, he reiterated his cause, which is to encourage vigilante activity, outing child predators.

While the cause of stopping child predators is something I don’t object to, there are problems with having someone like GODCULT being the one to champion the cause. And I don’t just mean because of his hentai commentary.

For those who are interested, the video is embedded below. Watching it is helpful for establishing the context of my critique, but is not completely necessary. It’s about 25 minutes long.

GODCULT spends much of the video answering critics who have left him comments. Many of them are legacy subscribers who would agree that his new super-serious content is not what they subscribed to, and GODCULT takes them to task for not being on board with the change of his channel’s focus.

Reminiscent of the days of Maddox, to cherry pick comments that you can easily answer is highly expedient to expressing your intellectual superiority. Also of note is that he altered his voice in an obvious effort to be taken seriously, which is a nice throwback to “We are Anonymous, we are legion!”

But what’s especially disturbing is that GODCULT presumes to psychoanalyze these critics, as if to suggest that criticism of his channel’s new direction indicates a sort of permissiveness of child abuse. Whether he’s explicit in this implication, it’s easy to hear in his tone.

If one were to turn the psychoanalytic eye back on GODCULT, it would be plain to see that he derives pleasure from expressing superiority over other people. Of course, this would be difficult to reconcile with a culture that has a distaste for abusive relationships. Except, when that same appetite for domination is expressed against those who are abusive, it becomes easier to justify. When answering his critics, it’s plain to see that his deep, booming voice disguise is intended to intimidate. Whether his intention to protect children is sincere or not, it’s evidently a convenient outlet with which he could play the intellectual tyrant, fulfilling his own appetite for domination.

As explained by GODCULT, he has spun a dystopian fictional narrative of a future time in which child abuse is normalized. Because GODCULT is of the opinion that fictitious depictions indicate the sensibilities of the authors, GODCULT shouldn’t consider it scandalous to say that this indicates a sincere belief that humanity, if left on its current course, would normalize pedophilia within years.

I have my doubts. As of this typing, child abuse is highly illegal. It tends to carry a harsh prison sentence. What’s more, anyone in prison for child abuse is usually singled out for abuse by other prisoners, because even ordinary criminals can’t stand their presence. What’s more, child molesters tend to be harassed anywhere that their reputation follows them, which is usually everywhere, considering that they’re usually required to submit to a registry that would indicate where they live. Most people can’t stand the company of child molesters.

Considering all this, I think it should be understandable why I would be skeptical of the idea that child abuse would be normalized anytime soon. Having said that, I’m aware that QAnon would differ on the matter, why they would differ, and the kind of information that they habitually limit themselves to and how it informs their worldview.

While it was a throwaway line near the start of his video, we can bring attention to his calling out of Japanese media for sometimes sexualizing minors. Which would make Japanese media like most media one can find anywhere in the world. While it’s true that Japanese media has a relatively high occurrence rate of humor that would be considered insensitive to victims of sexual abuse, it’s also true that a person doesn’t have to consume media that they don’t want to. And, in any case, Japan enjoys low crime rates in spite of how racy some its media can be. It’s almost as though media is not strongly indicative of cultural norms, right MamaMax, reviewer of bad hentai?

Because we’re sensible adults, we should know that any fictitious depictions of crime does not equate to a desire on the part of the authors to commit such crimes, nor does the consumption of such media indicate such desires from consumers. Otherwise, we could assume some pretty nasty things about the people who play games from the Mortal Kombat and Grand Theft Auto series’.

Having been through all that, as much of a problem as child abuse is, there are better things we can do about it than using our positions as influencers to recruit your viewers as vigilantes. Vigilantism is counterproductive. There has been many a case where a predator has actually gotten off because some vigilante bozo disrupted an investigation in progress.

If child abuse is occurring, you notify law enforcement. Unless the crime is in progress in your physical presence, that is the extent of what you can do to be helpful. Even if you want to do more, in informing law enforcement you’ve accomplished everything you could do to be helpful. Let the police do their jobs, they actually do want to stop these guys.

Having said this, I have a suspicion that in the event that GODCULT discovers this page, he might distort my criticisms of his approach as being adversarial towards efforts to stop child abuse, similar to how he answered his critics.

Still, GODCULT has a freedom to further whatever cause that he may wish to, so long as he can do so lawfully. And if he can rescue at least one person in so doing, then this would make it easier for him to avoid confronting his own methods for how counterproductive they may be.

I know I may be laboring the point by bringing this up again, but vigilantism is usually counterproductive, as it has the potential to disrupt investigations that are the job of law enforcement, resulting in people who commit crimes getting off scot free. Don’t want child molesters to get away with it? Then don’t be dumb.

Made In Abyss Theory: Riko, the Song of Hariyomari, and the Time Trap

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(This theory may contain spoilers for the Made In Abyss manga up to chapter 66.)

The next story arc for Made In Abyss is developing, and I wanted to go ahead and share an idea of what I think might be about to happen next, based on the hints that we’ve been given so far. This fan theory concerns Riko, the Song of Hariyomari, and the identity of the so-called Priestess that has been mentioned by characters such as Tepaste and Nishagora.

First, about the Song of Hariyomari. According to the narrative, the Song of Hariyomari is a song passed along by the children of Orth, and is said to contain a message relevant to White Whistles, the legends among cave raiders, and may even contain a hint on how to advance to the 7th layer.

Earlier in the story, Nanachi is seen reading a book to her friend, Mitty. It would later be known to the reader that the verse that was read came from the Song of Hariyomari. This would happen when Riko’s party happens upon an emperorshell in the 6th layer, and the party recalls Nanachi having read the verse.

We also see at the Tumble Tavern that Habolg overhears a conversation between Cravagli and Tepaste, and then asks Jiruo whether he’s familiar with the song. Later, while on a joint expedition, Habolg happens upon a discovery which causes him to question whether Cravagli intended to somehow bring a fable to life.

The song is also known to the White Whistle, Srajo the Obscure, who is on the trail of the Priestess. Srajo teaches much of the song to Riko after determining that Riko is someone she could trust.

Next, the Priestess. We’re not given much information about this mysterious personage, aside from that it’s a person who interprets omens from the abyss, and it is said that she’s the one to have authored the Song of Hariyomari. Tepaste and Cravagli are somehow connected to the Priestess, but it’s not clear how. When Nishagora discovers Riko’s party, she sets eyes on Riko’s white whistle, and exclaims that she’s found the Priestess’s clan. However, Tepaste says that she never met the group.

According to Srajo, her party, Hail Hex, is in pursuit of the Priestess, who she says is trapped between the 6th and 7th layers, unable to advance. Because the strains of ascension in those layers are deadly, that’s a bad place to be stuck.

Where we left off, Riko’s party was on the verge of a joint expedition into the 7th layer alongside Hail Hex. While Riko is concerned with reaching the bottom, readers are suspicious of the motives of Srajo, who probably hasn’t given up her pursuit of the Priestess.

Having established all that, I think we’re about ready to get into some speculation. So here’s what I think might be going on: I suspect that the Priestess may be Riko herself, who also wrote the Song of Hariyomari.

On the surface, this seems impossible. After all, at the outset of the arc, Hail Hex is already in pursuit of the Priestess, whose cadre already includes Cravagli and Tepaste. So, how can it be that someone who just entered the 6th layer can be the same person who’s already being pursued between the 6th and 7th layers?

Much earlier in the story, Ozen the Immovable explained the time dilation, which causes time to move differently in the deeper layers, to the point that a person can spend weeks in the abyss while months pass on the surface.

It could be that the time dilation is more like a time warp which becomes more evident in the deeper layers. One could ask how Ozen would be unaware of this, but remember that most cave raiders cannot ascend from the 6th layer, due to the strains at that level. Thus, it’s reasonable to expect that if there was a time warp, it might go unreported, even if the people caught within were to notice it, at all.

Notice how, shortly after Riko’s party meets her, Nishagora comments on how time behaves around Riko’s party. Depending on translation, she could say that time “flies”, or “stabilizes”, or something to the latter effect. I have my doubts that Nishagora was merely commenting on how Riko and friends are “fun to be around”, as the party responded with confused expressions, to which she replies that it’s okay that they don’t know, and that she’s bad at explaining things, anyhow.

What I suspect is about to happen is that Riko will be presented with the opportunity to become the new Priestess, to replace the previous one, with the ability to interpret omens facilitated by her connection to the abyss (remember her dream about Mitty?). Perhaps the whole reason why Bondrewd crafted Prushka into Riko’s white whistle was because he believed that Riko could facilitate the “dawn” of the next thousand years. Perhaps when Bondrewd went to Iruburu, he gave instructions on how to embellish Riko’s white whistle, which Nishagora would then recognize.

But, if we know Riko, she doesn’t care about any of that, she just wants to adventure to the bottom, where she expects to meet her mother, or whoever might be waiting for her. Thus, Riko would decline, and insist on continuing her adventure.

Of course, this would be greatly upsetting to the cadre of cave raiders who carefully conspired over the course of years to groom Riko to be the next Priestess, which might include the likes of Bondrewd the Novel! And the one closest to Riko to give pursuit would be Srajo the Obscure!

But, there would be a problem. During the pursuit, Riko would be caught in a time loop, with Srajo’s party continually on her trail, and by the time she realizes it, it’s too late!

So, Riko needs to come up with a plan. Otherwise, she and her friends will be pursued by Hail Hex forever! Obviously, fighting them would be out of the question, as Nishagora alone would be too much to handle, and there’s no telling what Yataramaru and the twins are capable of.

However, Riko gets an idea: she could send a warning to herself in the past, one that could be passed along over the course of centuries and make it back to herself. It’s said that the Song of Hariyomari contains a clue on how to advance to the 7th layer, which is supposedly about the point where the Priestess is stuck.

Therefore, Riko completes the cycle by composing the Song of Hariyomari, and passing it along in the hopes that it would be heard by her younger self!

When a message must be passed along verbally with minimal distortion, music is an excellent way of doing this. If you’re familiar with the game of Telephone, you know that the phrase whispered into the ear of the first kid in line is usually way different from what the last child hears, then announces. Riko, being a child herself, is likely familiar with this game, and likely also realizes that people tend to be much better at remembering messages that are in the form of music.

And the message was transmitted so effectively, that it became known to orphans in Orth, and was even known to adults like Cravagli. Even Nanachi was seen reading the song to Mitty. These hint to Riko’s plan (if it is her plan) so far being a resounding success!

So, would this plan be enough to save Riko, and allow her to escape? Will this even be anywhere close to how events might play out?

I don’t know. But I’m looking forward to seeing what happens in the next chapter!

The Left and Dialectical Thinking

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A normal, healthy mind supposes that if there are two mutually-exclusive viewpoints, then they cannot both be correct.

For example, if a normal thinker were to be presented with the two statements, “racism is wrong” and “discrimination against whites is okay”, they would perceive an irreconcilable contradiction, and understand that both statements cannot be true.

The use of “if-therefore” statements to determine what follows with axioms as the basis is logical thinking.

You might have noticed that many leftists hold the statements “racism is wrong” and “discrimination against whites is okay” to be simultaneously true. In the mind of a logical thinker, this is vexing, because to them, both statements cannot simultaneously be true.

So, why? Why do so many leftists hold to such a blatant and irreconcilable ideological contradiction? How can such a thing possibly make sense?

And the answer is, it doesn’t. Yet, leftists still hold such contradictory viewpoints due to what’s called dialectical thinking.

So, what is dialectical thinking? As relates to leftism and the related Marxist philosophies surrounding it, dialectical thinking involves the synthesis of conflicting ideas to form a new idea.

Consider how the typical leftist handles the two contradictory statements in the example above. They are told that “racism is wrong”, and “discrimination against whites is okay”, and they are told that, in order to be a good leftist, they need to hold both statements as simultaneously true.

A healthy mind would consider such a political ideology to be complete mushuganah, reject it out of hand, and perhaps even treat it to the sound ridicule it richly merits. However, people who are in cults are seldom of sound mind. They want to fit in, and they’re determined to do so, no matter how hard they have to force the square peg through the round hole.

So, to the end of winning headpats from their ideological superiors, leftists must somehow reconcile the statements, “racism is wrong”, and “discrimination against whites is okay”. But how?

As most of us know, to exercise discrimination on the basis of one’s race, such as in cases where a person is white, is racism per se. Considering this, to the end of reconciling the two contradictory statements, it’s plain to see that the leftist’s main obstacle would be the definition of racism.

So, what is the intellectually-confused leftist to do? That’s easy: just change the definition of racism to exclude discrimination against whites.

Obviously, a sound mind would not make such an exception. But, again, we’re talking about cultists. So, not only will they make the exception, they’ll attempt to justify it in an attempt to silence their conscience, which is probably screaming in agony. Knowing this, it’s easy to see why they continually point to the past crime of slavery as justification for their own Halal form of discrimination, while ignoring the fact that slavery was also practiced by nearly every culture to ever exist.

When you understand dialectical thinking, you understand why leftists are as prone as they are to simultaneously holding contradictory viewpoints.

The example above was not arbitrary, by the way. It was selected to help you understand why the word “racism” has gone from a word with a definition to a leftist snarl word that is used to describe people that disagree with them. Leftists use the word “fascist” in the same sense, while simultaneously engaging in collective action to the end of furthering Marxist economics. Unironically.

As I’ve pointed out before, if language is being used that evokes an emotional reaction, while bypassing your better judgement, you might be in a cult.

Dialectical thinking itself is a memetic holdover of Gnosticism, which had a particular influence on Marxism (remember that many Marxist cults were at one point religious in nature). Early in its history, Christianity recognized Gnosticism as a heresy, and dealt with it accordingly, before Christianity went on to become the world’s most popular religion. When you understand this, it’s easy to see why many Gnostics have a problem with Christianity, and that the dialectical thinkers on the left are fighting someone else’s battles for them.

As much as I’d like to ask whether I helped you to make sense of leftist thinking, we must admit that it still doesn’t make sense. Even so, it can be said that when you know about dialectical thinking, you’re in a better position to comprehend the senselessness of leftist thinking, including why they are in a constant state of redefining themselves, and why they embrace contradictions that more reasonable people would not.

The Trannifesto Has Leaked. Here’s What It Says.

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The Trannifesto, the final writings of Audrey Hale, the Covenant school shooter, has just been leaked through Steven Crowder’s website, louderwithcrowder.com. The guy is a true patriot, please pay his site a visit.

The shooting, committed by a transgender person (who was in reality a woman), occurred over 8 months ago. Though law enforcement had obtained the shooter’s final writings, its release to the public has been repeatedly delayed, with perhaps no plans to release it, at all.

As has been stated previously, the Trannifesto is not so much a manifesto as it is a set of journal entries.

If you’re as skeptical as me, you might wonder whether the pages were a scam made by someone abusing AI. I ran the images through an AI detector, and the likelihood of the images being AI generated was 2.1%, 3.8%, and 34.2%, according to Illuminarty.ai. So by the looks of it, these are legit.

Now, let’s give these a look, and I’ll give my opinion.

I’ll say first of all that Audrey Hale sucked fuck at handwriting. Also, nothing conveys a psycho middle-school mindset quite like doodles of guns shooting at targets in a margin of a page. And then there’s scrawling out “DARK ABYSS DEATH DAY” as the title of the entry, as if to drive home the teen angst that she was way too old for.

I’m absolutely not surprised that Audrey’s broken, defective mind could not perceive that there is such a thing as an innocent person, which was evidenced by her choice of targets. What does surprise me is how far back that Audrey contemplated the crimes that she ended up committing, which goes at least as far back as the summer of 2021, when her plotting was nearly discovered.

Audrey Hale’s crimes were not a crime of passion, they were deliberate.

Audrey planned out her final crimes meticulously, planning out her last day alive down to the minute. One might wonder what was covered by the sticky note, and based on the marks that are showing, it looks like part of the sentence, “Spend time w/ stuffed animals and possessions” was obscured. So yeah, in her last day alive, right before committing mass murder, a psychopath prioritized spending time with her toys.

This entry, dated the previous month, gives a window into the mind of the killer, and tells us what motivated her. It was basically a racist and classist tirade packed with expletives and ranting about what she perceived as indications of wealth and status.

It pretty much comes down to Hale hating a bunch of children whose parents worked hard to ensure that their children had a brighter future, and hating their parents for having things that they either worked or taken on debt for. Like many of Hale’s ilk, hers was a highly superficial perspective that assumed that disparity in outcome must necessarily be a product of factors that she felt she could rightly resent another for.

It’s obvious why there was such hesitation to release this to the public, because it’s an indictment against the political ideology which, when taken to its extreme, would motivate a sick individual to lash out in the way that Audrey did.

I’ve often heard it asked what it is that motivates mass killers. After all, the targets are seldom someone that the killers knew personally. The reason why mass killers try to end as many lives as possible is because their target is society. They want to cause as much damage to society as possible. Oftentimes, it’s because the killer supposed that society has failed them.

By reason of Hale’s transgender identity, it’s reasonable to infer that she wasn’t in touch with reality. Such a person would certainly be considered a vulnerable individual, prone to manipulation. Thus, when Hale was presented with the idea that a difference in outcome is intrinsically related one’s immutable characteristics, combined with Hale’s lack of empathy, and her belief that children are valid targets, together with the ease with which Hale could be manipulated, it becomes easier to see why she could be influenced to commit murder.

As disturbing as all this is, what’s particularly disturbing is that much of her hatred was directed towards children. She hated them for their race, and she hated them because the decisions that their parents made were to the end of ensuring that those children would have a bright future ahead of them. This is no reason to hate anyone, for one thing, because a person’s race is something that they cannot control, but also because to ensure a brighter future for one’s own children is one of the strongest driving motivations for one to work hard in today’s world. That Hale could bring herself to hate someone for these reasons goes to show just how damaged her mind was.

Because Audrey Hale was once a student at the same school where she would eventually die a murderer, it’s hard to say that she was motivated by envy of what other children had. But it seems apparent that she was motivated by racism, and I think it would be interesting to find out from whom her racist ideas came from.

As disturbing as all this is, it gets worse in context. While Audrey Hale’s thinking is aberrant, it’s far more common than it should be, to the point that it’s all but guaranteed that the tragedy that it resulted in will happen again.

And with her thinking being fed into by academia, the pharmaceutical industry, banking cartels, the Biden administration, and more, it’s not so much a question of whether it will happen again, but when and where.

The Enemy Is Ideologically Motivated. How Do You Fight Back?

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I’ve said before that if you don’t address the real problem, don’t expect a real solution.

When you have an enemy, you could fight them. But if you don’t address the problem right at the heart of what motivates them, then it’s a conflict that might never end. Therefore, to the end of securing a lasting victory, it’s best to know what motivates your enemy, so you can strike their motivations, and eliminate them as a threat.

When it comes to Islamists such as Hamas, they made it easy by straight up telling us what their motives are. They are doing what they’re doing because of their religion, and what they believe their prophet wanted them to do.

Thus, to the end of eliminating them as a threat, the most productive course of action would be learn about their religion from a critical perspective, with the intention of learning how to convince them that their religion is not worth killing anyone over. And not just them, but make it widely known the fallacies of their ideology.

If a person has come to the point that they believe that paradise awaits them for jihad, they are probably lost, and therefore would only be fit to meet the end that an enemy combatant would. It’s hard to think of what else to do with them.

However, if the general public were to become aware of how ridiculous their brand of mysticism is, the less likely that they’ll be able to replenish their numbers from among the more ignorant among us, and the violent bands of miscreants will diminish.

As suggestions for reading to this end, I can recommend the following:
WikiIslam: http://wikiislam.github.io/wiki/Main_Page.html
The Religion of Peace: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Prophet of Doom: http://prophetofdoom.net/

Of these, I can suggest WikiIslam, as it has lots of information that can be searched by topic (such as slavery, jihad, or women). The Religion of Peace focuses on current events. If you’re up for a deep dive, Prophet of Doom provides a chronological account of the life of Mohammad, Islam’s only prophet. Even if you disagree with the author’s religious perspectives, when it comes to Islam, he has a high amount of insight.

Remember: When you tell the truth, you take power away from those who profit off of lies.

The Takiyya Factor

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The recent bombing of a Christian hospital in the West Bank has resulted in a controversy, as Hamas has blamed Israel for the bombing.

Watching the controversy unfold has been fascinating, as details came out that show that matters may be far different from what Hamas has claimed.

For one thing, the hospital has not been bombed. It wasn’t even damaged. The bomb went off in a parking lot. The death toll of about 500 may have been exaggerated. What’s more, it’s looking likely that Israel is not responsible for the bombing, but it’s becoming increasingly evident that the bomb was an attempt on the part of Hamas to launch a rocket, which backfired.

In spite of all the evidence that’s adding up that goes against the Hamas narrative, their sympathizers have flown into a frenzy, storming embassies, and Hamas leadership has called for yet another “day of rage” to be observed around the world, with a clear implication of blind idiocy that’s on brand for that particular faction.

How Hamas handles truth is yet another illustration for why the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas is yet another manifestation of an ongoing clash of cultures and civilizations that are totally incompatible with one another.

As a disclaimer, I’ll point out now that the purpose of this post is to inform and increase understanding. Sometimes, achieving this requires pointing to matters that may be uncomfortable to consider. This can sometimes be necessary to get to the truth of a matter.

To get started, let’s consider how Christianity views lying. It’s impermissible. The Bible tells us that liars will have no place in the kingdom of Heaven. God Himself is incapable of lying, doing so would be against His nature. Lies are considered by Christians to be beneath the dignity of God. Christians are so firmly against lying that, if given the option to tell a lie that could save someone’s life, they’d still worry about whether it was the right thing to do.

The Islamic religion, which is the religion of Hamas, handles lying differently.

In the Islamic religion, there is a concept called taqiyya. The word itself literally means “prudence” or “fear”, but has come to refer to “feigning unbelief”, or more broadly, it’s considered to be “divine lying”.

Basically, in the Islamic religion, it is considered permissible to tell a lie if that lie were to further the cause of the Islamic religion, such as it’s expansion.

In practice, Muslims have used taqiyya to appear to be Christian, even going as far as undergoing the Christian practice of baptism, while concealing their sincere belief as a Muslim. Others have used the concept to deny that certain practices are Islamic if those practices are against the sensibilities of their host society.

There’s an enormous and fatal problem with the concept of taqiyya. That being, the concept of a god that considers it acceptable to lie should be horrifying to you. After all, if that god tells you that it’s permissible to lie, how do you know that that god isn’t lying to you?

Such a god may tell you that doing something would guarantee your entry into heaven, when the act might be so immoral that the person who does so might instead go straight to hell!

Like with the concept of the “suicide bomb”, where a Muslim attempts to ensure that they’ll die in battle, because they want those 72 virgins. They’d be little aware that the Islamic prophet Mohammad was so opposed to suicide that he wrote a passage ridiculing a Muslim man who committed suicide, but that’s beside the point. We all know that murder is immoral. Of course, even murder can be forgiven. But suppose that murder is a person’s final act, and they didn’t seek or want forgiveness. A suicide bomb would ensure that, for the killer, this would be the case.

Returning to my point, if a god tells you how to stay out of hell, but they say that lying is permitted, how do you know that you can trust anything that that god says? After all, they said that lying is okay, so they might be lying to you!

Knowing what Hamas believes about taqiyya, or lying, consider the choice that Hamas is faced with. On the one hand, they could admit that one of their rockets misfired, destroying a parking lot, and in so doing they inspire less confidence on the global stage. On the other hand, they could say that a nearby hospital was destroyed, killing hundreds, blame Israel, and call for Islamic militants the world over to lash out in furtherance of their cause.

It looks like they’ve already made their choice. And with the Islamic practice of taqiyya, most of what they say can be counted on to be self-serving.

Now, here’s where it gets really uncomfortable. Once you know about Islamic taqiyya, when you’re speaking with a Muslim about their religion, it’s possible that they may be lying to you. It’s possible that they believe what they’re telling you, but they themselves may have been lied to. In any case, it’s likely that you can’t take their word for it, as much of what Muslims say about their religion is curated to serve the religion’s interests.

As sobering as that may be in consideration of your interactions with Muslims, the implications are much worse for Muslims themselves. After all, in line with the point I made above, you can never trust a god who tells you that lying is permissible. What’s more, in their religion, they’re not so much concerned with what they say, but with the sincerity with which they say it.

For example, one can convert to Islam at the drop of a hat by reciting the shahada with sincerity, the shahada being a specific phrase that expresses monotheism and Mohammad’s prophethood. But the problem is, how does anyone but the speaker have an awareness of a person’s sincerity?

What’s more, in the Islamic religion, it’s considered an unpardonable sin to ascribe companions to the Islamic god, Allah, whom Muslims suppose is the same as the Christian God. If someone says that they are a Christian, they are saying that Jesus is the Son of God. How are Muslims sure that their god would forgive them for saying something that he said he would not pardon them for saying? Does the doctrine of taqiyya extend to some phrases and not others? And if sincerity is taken into consideration, how is another Muslim within earshot to know whether someone is being sincere?

These are questions that become all the more sobering when you consider that the religion that practices taqiyya wishes to bring about a worldwide theocratic empire. If the foundation of a society is a lie, the expectation is that society cannot thrive in the long term, which most of the Islamic world certainly hasn’t, where only a few people have prospered, while most people live in abject destitution. What’s more, the world would be a dark place if everyone practiced a religion whose priesthood simply cannot be trusted.

As much as one might like to think that the Israel/Hamas conflict is something that doesn’t affect them, and they can simply ignore, the fact is, it’s another manifestation of a clash of cultures and civilizations that are incompatible, and is already being fought in the U.S. and Europe, whether you realize it or not. Hamas is just one arm of a continuing struggle to bring about a change in society and a change in virtues, right down to every society’s very foundations. As flawed as western civilization may be, humanity is still yet to come up with anything better with its own thinking, and is certainly worth defending.

But if it’s just the truth of any matter that interests you, then your interests certainly don’t align with Hamas.