CITAP: Muhammad Part 2

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Khadija was certainly a very interesting woman. She was a wealthy businesswoman, which is already unusual for her time and place. But what’s more, she was the wealthiest businesswoman in Arabia during her time. So, it stands to reason that she’d know an opportunity when she saw one.

It would appear that the marriage between Muhammad and Khadija was a happy one, though there was an age difference between them. As Muhammad would demonstrate later, age was just a number to him.

Khadija was wealthy and supportive, a combination of attributes which likely played an important role in Muhammad’s influence in his early years claiming to be a prophet.

Prior to this, Muhammad frequently went to caves to pray, which was probably not unusual. But one day, things would change.

Muhammad had his first vision when he was 40. According to Muhammad, while he was praying in a cave, he was visited by an angel who wrestled him to the ground, sat on his chest, and forced him to read from a scroll. Problem was, Muhammad was illiterate, and therefore couldn’t read. This ordeal occurred two more times, before Muhammad got up and ran from the cave.

Now, does repeatedly wrestling a man to the ground and forcing him to do something that he didn’t know how to do seem angelic? Probably not, so it was understandable that Muhammad was terrified that he might have been demon possessed, and ran home scared out of his mind, and hid under sheets.

It seems obvious that Muhammad fell asleep while praying, and had a nightmare. It’s not unusual for dreams to have elements that are culturally significant to the dreamer, including dreams that are religious in nature for those who are religious. While dreams are not fully understood, they are generally considered to be subconscious representations of one’s subliminal fears and desires. What’s more, the theme of having one’s chest pressed upon is common in those experiencing night terrors.

But would a man in 7th century Arabia be expected to know that? In Muhammad’s case, no. So he thought that he had demons. At a later point, he would assert that it was an angel that he saw, when he claimed to be a prophet and therefore would have something to gain from presenting it as such.

Khadija, being supportive, tried reassuring Muhammad. She got creative about it. One of the things she did was she started stripping and sitting down close to Muhammad, reasoning that if the spirit that Muhammad saw gave the couple privacy, it would be an angel rather than a demon. Thus, as she progressively removed her clothing and drew close to Muhammad, she asked him whether he still saw the spirit. Eventually, at some point during her routine, he said that he no longer saw it.

However, the sight of the elderly woman’s striptease apparently didn’t reassure Muhammad. However, Khadija had one more trick up her sleeve. She would take Muhammad to the only Christian in town, a blind man named Waraqa, for a phony endorsement. Muhammad described his dream to Waraqa, after which, Waraqa told Muhammad that it meant that he would be a great prophet like Moses.

For those unfamiliar with the Bible: Waraqa lied.

I suspect that Khadija had paid or otherwise incentivized Waraqa into making the endorsement. But days after making it, Waraqa died.

There’s a reason why Khadija went to great lengths to reassure her husband: he was suicidal. Since the cave vision, Muhammad had considered suicide, and had nearly attempted it more than once.

It’s not an unusual belief that the Biblical prophets were hesitant about their callings. However, Muhammad really leaned into that. It would be years after the cave vision that he finally started preaching.

When he did, the themes were perdition in the form of hell fire, in an apparent effort to scare up some believers. He would go on and on about the kinds of graphically-described punishments that await those who didn’t become one of his followers.

But while Muhammad had numerous listeners, for a while, he was scant on followers. It was as though people showed up just to hear a schizophrenic man ramble about hell because it amused them.

But Muhammad did have one follower: his own wife, Khadija.

Khadija was likely aware that her husband’s prophethood was all a hoax. After all, it was her who tried to reassure her husband with a visit Waraqa, which may have been a collaborative ruse on their parts. Even if Muhammad’s prophethood originated from the imagination of Waraqa, Khadija likely just went along with it with the businesswoman side of herself seeing the potential profit from a prophet ploy. And because the towns pantheon was a scam that benefitted the Quraysh, it’s easy to see where she would’ve gotten the idea from.

Speaking of, the Quraysh didn’t object to Muhammad’s preaching, even as his monotheism challenged their own polytheism. Mecca was already visited by people from monotheistic religions, so they had an established history of tolerance. Besides, as they saw it, if Muhammad started preaching, that meant more religion in town, which they saw as the town’s main business.

After a while, Muhammad gained a convert, Ali. But his conversation didn’t inspire much confidence, as he was described as having the widest waist in town, and the skinniest legs. Comically unfit.

Initially, Muhammad won followers at a snail’s pace. Rather than appealing to a sense of purpose and value, like many leaders do, Muhammad tried to scare up some followers with graphic descriptions of hell. Normally, threatening people into your religion doesn’t work unless you have force to back it up. But let’s not read that far ahead, just yet.

The Quraysh didn’t like that Muhammad was regularly committing blasphemy against every god in their pantheon except one, but they didn’t seem upset enough to do anything about it. This was odd, considering that one might expect a people, particularly their priests, to get upset that someone was bad-mouthing their religion.

Among Muhammad’s claims was that the three daughters of the pantheon, Al Lat, Manat, and Al Uzza, were black girls. Because Muhammad was racist, he probably saw this as a way to bring them down. He also said that they were clothing-challenged. If he were to take a trip to Greece, he would’ve met a number of people who wouldn’t have cared.

What did upset the Quraysh was Muhammad’s claim that their ancestors were burning in hell because they weren’t Muslims, members of Muhammad’s religion. For the Quraysh, this was intolerable. To make the optics worse, Muhammad himself was Qurayshi. His own disregard for his own ancestors only made him look worse.

But as Muhammad gained more followers, he could afford to become more belligerent. And though his affluent uncle, Abu Talib, disagreed with much of what Muhammad taught, Muhammad nonetheless enjoyed the protection that came with association with him.

It all started with Khadija, an elderly wife who, in comforting her younger husband who had a nightmare, decided to take Muhammad to Waraqa, who gave him a fake endorsement of prophethood. She herself was a bit of an anomaly, a wealthy businesswoman in a male-dominated society. However, she was not long out of the grave, and would therefore not live to see just how many women would be shackled by reason of her own religion, a religion that some have gone as far as to say that she had converted her husband to.

There hasn’t been another woman like her.

Muhammad would certainly miss her. And by “miss”, I mean “replace”. Muhammad would remarry. But his second wife, Sauda, wouldn’t remain to Muhammad’s liking. She got fat. Which Muhammad eventually would too, which his increasing wealth would allow. But that didn’t matter as much to Muhammad as the fact that Sauda was fat.

Sauda agreed to surrender some of her marital privileges in exchange for allowing her to remain married. So yeah, Muhammad threatened to divorce one of his wives because she got fat.

To get a little into Muhammad’s family life, by the time Muhammad died, he had a total of 26 wives, with as many as 11 at a time. This is in excess of the Islamic limit of 4 wives per male, but Muhammad manufactured a special revelation granting himself, and only himself, an exception. This was in addition to the number of sex slaves Muhammad had, which he placed no limit on, for himself or other males.

One might imagine the sheer number of babies that Muhammad had. One. Just one. A daughter by the name of Fatima.

In the ancient world, some considered it an indignity to have only daughters. And worse for Muhammad, it was only one, after having a total of 26 wives.

Some of the indignity that was against Muhammad was self-inflicted, by reason of one of his teachings. While on a raid, Muhammad told his men not to worry about coitus-interruptus as they were going about raping, saying that Allah had already determined every human being who would ever be born. So, does this mean that Allah decided that his favorite prophet only got one child, a daughter?

It’s clear that the problem wasn’t on some collective infertility on the the parts of Muhammad’s wives. It seemed the problem was with Muhammad. He had impotence. And he was so insecure about it that he ordered his wives to wear full-body coverings, fearing that other men might take his wives away.

That’s right: the whole reason why Muslim women cover themselves all over as they go outside was because one insecure man had difficulty getting it up.

Returning to the point in the story where we left off, Sauda was not Muhammad’s favorite wife. That would be Aisha. The one who was 6 years old when Muhammad married her, and was 9 when the marriage was consummated. Because they used lunar years without intercalary months, she may have been slightly younger than that.

Not only did Muhammad enjoy his time with her, he claimed to have received revelations during that time. In which they were engaged in intimacy. That vomiting sound you just heard was probably you.

So far, this series has depicted Muhammad in such a negative light, that you might guess that much of it was made up. But the biographies of Muhammad confirm that he did these very things. But why would the official Islamic materials depict Muhammad so negatively?

Perhaps they were authored by hostile sources.

For centuries, the Islamic materials, including the Quran, were transmitted orally. It wasn’t until after Persia was conquered that they decided to collect all the verbal accounts that made up the life of Muhammad, and his Quran. The Persians were probably a little salty about having been conquered by Muslims, which would have motivated them to present Islam and Mohammed as negatively as they could get away with.

It is foolish to go centuries with the primary form of information retention and transmission being verbal and through memory. To illustrate this point, you might remember the children’s game of telephone. It has children sitting in a semi-circle. Something is whispered into the ear of the child on one end. That child then whispers what they heard into the ear of the next kid. This continues, until the kid on the other end has something whispered to them, after which, the child says what they heard.

Usually, what the child says is far different from what the first child had whispered to them.

Now, imagine that game being played over the course of centuries, over many miles, participated in by many different tribes, before the decision was made to finally compile what was being said in writing.

It’s quite possible that the Muhammad that really was was far different from the Muhammad that Islam teaches about, or simply didn’t exist. If that was the case, then Islam is wrong about Muhammad. But if the Islamic sources are right about Muhammad, then Muhammad was demented. Either one is not great for Islam.

So, who are we criticizing, today? Whether real or imagined, that would be the Muhammad that Muslims believe in. Because that’s the Muhammad whose religion is destroying the world today, and if not fought back against, it will wipe out humanity.

More to come.

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Criticizing Islam To A Pulp: Muhammad

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Normally, when you hear that someone is a child molester, you couldn’t think worse of him.

Such people are among the worst criminals, to the point that even other prisoners can’t stand their company. You might even be skeptical of the claim, because it sounds like the kind of thing a person would say if they wanted to make a person look as bad as possible, in as few words as possible.

But if you were to first hear that a person was a murderer, a rapist, a torturer, committed genocide, practiced sorcery, made many, many false prophecies, committed treason, broke promises, plundered the defenseless, called for assassinations (which were then carried out)…

…And on, and on, and on…

…If you were to finally hear that he was also a child molester, you might say, “Oh, that figures. Considering everything else he did, is that really a surprise?”

The topic of this article was a human being who was so bad, that it makes me wish I could talk to the first human being, Adam, so I could ask him, “Why did you do it? If you didn’t eat that fruit, none of this would have happened.”

The topic would be the only prophet of the Islamic religion: Muhammad.

There is a certain danger that comes with criticizing anything Islamic. It’s not that the limp-wristed simps who carry water for Islam will call you a racist or a bigot. We’re past the point of caring whether anyone calls anyone such things, anyway. The real danger is that Muslims might straight-up try to murder you. Because when you’re not well suited to reason, then violence is probably more your thing.

And yet, it’s got to be done. After all, Islam is not worth believing in, and should therefore be subjected to the ridicule it merits, so the low-IQ among us who might otherwise gravitate towards it would know not to, even if for self-preservation.

Thus, I’m making fun of the only prophet who cared to share that he had erectile dysfunction, not just for having the condition, but also so fewer people might view the floppy rapist as an exemplar of human conduct.

I intend to criticize Islam to a pulp. And what better place to start than the one man around whom the entire religion revolves?

To get started, let’s go back to before he was even born.

To set the stage, Bedouin Arabia was a difficult place to live in. The resources in the Arabian desert were so scarce that people devoted much of their time and energy into surviving, rather than developing artistically, philosophically, or scientifically.

When conflicts broke out, they often resolved by simple reason of the fact that there were few resources for a prolonged conflict. Because the stakes were so high, tribesmen often made decisions which favored their tribes in particular, rather than Arabians in general, which resulted in a certain apathy for outsiders which persists among their descendents today, and among those who practice the religion that arose from their midst.

Surrounding empires had little reason to invade, as the desert’s scant resources wouldn’t have been worth the bloodshed. Thus, the Arabians prior to Islam were not integrated into a larger empire, and thus couldn’t more directly benefit from their developments.

There were a few trade routes going through Arabia. But the land was so hostile that many travelers have opted to make their trips around Arabia, rather than through it.

The people of the desert, the Arabs, were generally polytheistic, and there were numerous pantheons located in populated areas in the desert. Among these cities was Mecca, which housed the Kaaba. Because trade routes intersected by Mecca, it was a popular stop for people of many religions, which would eventually result in Muhammad having access to a lot of material which he would plagiarize.

The Kaaba venerated about 360 deities, the chief of which was the masculine moon deity, Allah. Each of these deities was represented by a rock idol, with Allah’s rock idol being a black stone, which possibly fell from space.

Muhammad would claim that the reason why Allah’s stone was black was because it was touched by menstruating women. If the rock is contaminated, then isn’t it a problem that it’s been touched by many millions of Muslims? Also, it would be bad news for Muslims if that rock became a vector of a contagious disease.

Mecca was inhabited by the Quraysh tribe, among which was Muhammad’s grandfather, who was the custodian of the Kaaba.

One day, he said something stupid. Because he was afraid that he might lose an upcoming battle, he prayed for victory. But in that prayer, he made a promise: that if he won, and if he had a tenth son, he would offer his son as a sacrifice at the Kaaba.

The battle ended in victory, but Muhammad’s granddaddy wouldn’t have to worry about his promise unless he actually had a tenth son.

Which he did. And that son was the one who would help conceive the worst prophet in the history of the universe.

But rather than give up his son, Big Mo’s grandpap sought a way out. And it was decided that arrows would be cast for the boy, until the arrows favored him, with an offering of at least one camel in his place. Each time they were against him, the offering of camels increased. Presumably, the odds of each cast was basically a coin flip, equal chance for each.

Except, the arrows were against the boy, ten times in a row. To get an idea of just how rare this is, try flipping heads on coin flips ten times in a row. Or better yet, don’t. The odds of getting heads ten times in a row is 1 in 1024.

Imagine what it was like to be the boy who was watching in horror as he was condemned to death, over and over again, during a practice which was intended to make it possible to spare his life. He probably thought that Allah wanted him dead.

When the time came to finally slaughter the camels, the priests did nothing to forbid any wild beast from eating them by reason of how many camels were slaughtered.

Muhammad’s granddaddy was so happy that his boy was saved that he married his boy to the daughter of a chief of another tribe. Which was actually kind of a big deal, because such marriages were usually made to strengthen treaties. But because it was an arranged marriage, love probably had little to do with it.

Now that that spectacle is over, the next part is pretty sad. Muhammad had a sucky childhood, which probably went a long way in making him into the asshole he ended up becoming. But we’re talking about a child molester who committed lots of other horrendous crimes, so let’s not trick ourselves into feeling bad for him.

Muhammad never got to meet his dad. While his mother was still carrying him, Muhammad’s dad died while out on a trip. Seems like Allah didn’t do much to keep him alive after the feast of camels.

It seems like being the grandson of the Kaaba’s custodian and the grandson of a tribal chief didn’t count for much in Mecca, because Muhammad’s mom was in such poverty that she put her son up for adoption. And of the batch of kids that Muhammad was a part of, he was the one selected last. And the wet nurse who selected him already had a child, and couldn’t produce enough milk for two children.

Thus, the infant Muhammad had to spend many nights crying himself to sleep in hunger.

Though I’m criticizing Islam to a pulp, it’s not all funny. Believe me, it’s not all funny.

According to Muhammad, a significant event occurred when he was a child while he was out playing with the other children. As he was doing this, he was allegedly visited by a couple angels, who wrestled him to the ground and tore his chest open. This understandably terrified the other children, who ran away screaming to adults that Muhammad had just been murdered.

But these angels were surgeons, and their deal was that Muhammad had a small black speck of malice in his heart, which they had to open him up to get out. And having found it, they sealed the boy back up, leaving only a small mark on his chest.

Apparently, these angelic surgeons didn’t know what they were doing, because according to Muhammad, two more angelic surgeons would visit Muhammad as an adult, and they would perform the same surgery for the same purpose.

Considering the crimes that Muhammad would go on to commit, I’m surprised that Muhammad didn’t sue them for malpractice.

It might not surprise you to find out that it didn’t happen that way. It’s more likely that he had a seizure while out playing. His adoptive wet nurse took Muhammad back to his mother, saying that she believed that Muhammad had a demon, and that she didn’t have the money to care for him if the same thing were to happen again.

Then Muhammad’s mom died while he was a few years old. Which is another one of those things which isn’t funny.

For years, Muhammad would pinball from one relative to another, including a brief stint with an old relative who was so fond of little Muhammad, that he would pet him while they were sitting on his bed. Certainly creepy. But he would soon die too, leaving the boy to move on to the next relative.

To have bounced from one caretaker to another must have been traumatizing for the little boy, especially considering that some of them died. This likely played a huge role in how Muhammad would value interpersonal relationships. And with all the death that surrounded Muhammad, some Meccans might have developed the belief that the boy was cursed.

In time, Muhammad would finally settle into a more permanent abode, with his uncle, Abu Talib.

Under the care of Abu Talib, Muhammad’s life immensely improved. Abu Talib was influential, and relatively affluent. He would train the boy in his camel herding business, which likely resulted in Muhammad being immensely more respected as a contributing member of the community.

When he was 25, Muhammad caught the attention of a wealthy businesswoman by the name of Khadija. She was 15 years his senior, but that didn’t discourage her from becoming Muhammad’s cougar. An intergenerational marriage isn’t necessarily wrong, but it probably played a role in his thinking with his later marriages, with a far greater age difference with at least one of them.

Khadija was afraid that her dad would object. With her marriage to Muhammad hinging on his approval, the couple hatched a plan: to ply Khadija’s dad with alcohol, then have him give his blessing when he was drunk.

It’s kinda odd that the religion which Muhammad would later invent would disallow grown-up drinks, considering that without them, Muhammad would have been cranking it solo.

Because Mecca was situated by a 4-way trade route intersection, Muhammad would have had the opportunity to meet many different people with many different religious ideas that he could later plagiarize. Some would even travel to the Kaaba to worship, even if their respective religions would have prohibited such idolatry. Such hypocrisy likely influenced Muhammad’s perspective on religion. Particularly, whether it would be acceptable to compromise where he stood to benefit.

Perhaps the most profound such meeting would have been with Zayd, a Yemeni whose religion was Hanifism. His ideas probably impressed upon Muhammad more strongly than any other traveler he had seen, as many elements of Zayd’s Hanifism would later make it into Muhammad’s Islam.

If you’ve never heard of Hanifism, here’s a brief rundown: it was a religion that claimed to be Abrahamic, but wasn’t strongly similar to Judaism or Christianity. They probably didn’t even concern themselves much with what the Scriptures may have said. They were monotheistic, honoring a god named Al Rahman. They also tended to be highly judgemental towards those outside their own faith, particularly towards Jews and Christians, who they referred to with phrases similar to “those against whom Al Rahman is indignant” (likely in an attempt to maintain plausible deniability in the event they are called out for it).

In fact, Hanif prayers were often recitals made in rhyming prose, and among them is a prayer repeated several times in one prayer, several times a day. Which, in that sense, sounds exactly like the Islamic prayer.

When Muhammad met Zayd, Muhammad was carrying some meat from an offering he made at the Kaaba. Zayd was hungry, so Muhammad offered him some meat to eat, but Zayd refused upon learning that the meat was previously offered to an idol (which is consistent with Abrahamic religions). Muhammad was impressed by this, and learned about Hanifism from him.

Interestingly, the name that Muhammad would use for his own god when he would later begin his own religion in Mecca was Al Rahman, the name of the Hanif god. It would appear as though when Muhammad made up his own religion, he might have partially converted to Hanifism. It wouldn’t be until his later exile to Medina that Muhammad would primary use the name Allah when referring to his own god.

While Muhammad had acquired religious ideas from many different religious sources, that alone wouldn’t spawn the religious ideology that would condemn billions. However, it was after the chance meeting with the Hanif that would come the spark that would light the fire that would destroy many.

END OF PART ONE.

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NYC’s Wham Episode

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The financial capital of the world has just elected a Muslim socialist mayor, less than two-and-a-half decades after both World Trade Center towers were destroyed by a bunch of Muslims.

I know that people have a knack for not learning a damned thing, but come the fuck on.

But wow, what an intersection of mass-murdering ideologies, huh? Muslim and socialist, both at the same time. Imagine the aura of death that comes off of that guy.

I thought that it was legally not allowed for a person to hold office in the United States if they identified as a Communist, in the interest of national security. But it seems they can get around this by instead claiming to be socialist, which is basically identical.

The left practicing equivocation? Imagine my shock!

New York City voters, with the help of a huge number of voters who resided in the city for less than ten years, has just voted in Democrat Zohran Mamdani, who in a recent interview avoided condemning the phrase “globalize the intifada”.

If you’re wondering what “the intifada” is, that’s the repeated bombing of mass transportation, and other terror attacks, in Israel. Mamdani avoided directly condemning that, rather than flat out calling the intifada wrong, like any sane man who knows what that is, especially when presented with the prospect of globalizing that bullshit.

So now, the country is split between those who want to speedrun the destruction of western civilization, and those who want to save them from themselves. Or at least save everyone else from them.

To be honest, I’m starting to lose interest in saving stupidity from itself, and am leaning more in favor of rendering the stupid incapable of causing further harm.

One way of going about it is rendering those who receive public assistance in the form of programs like SNAP ineligible to vote for a few years after the last date in which they receive the assistance. But Democrats would get in the way, considering their obvious incentives to keep people on the public dole.

The “more free stuff for losers” vote is huge.

Best thing that can happen over the next few years is for the damage that Mamdani does to NYC is minimal, which is unlikely considering socialism’s extensive track record of causing immense casualties, before New Yorkers decide “we tried, let’s move on to something that actually works”.

But I’m not betting on it, because stupid people avoid learning their lessons with more passion than they avoid AIDS. And because I’ve worked in grocery and retail longer than what’s good for my mental health, I know that there’s a fuck-ton of stupidity out there.

The Imperius Curse

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Mad-Eye Moody, a character from Harry Potter, demonstrating the imperius curse in a classroom setting

One of the reasons people like to imagine themselves in a fantasy setting is because they imagine that their understanding of the setting would give them an advantage. They would be fantasizing about being more in control than they would be in the real world.

What they often miss is that the rules of the fantasy world would usually be in addition to the rules of the real world, in any sense that the rules of the fantasy world don’t negate the rules of the real world.

For example, in Harry Potter, the Wizarding world exists in secret, with most normal humans being entirely unaware of the secret society that would exist in their midst. Thus, it’s reasonable to assume that the basic laws of physics and sociology remain intact. And the fact that these rules would remain intact is very relevant, as it would mean that the introduction of a parallel Wizarding society would actually make the world far more complex!

To get right to my point, those who would wish that the wizard world was real might like to imagine that they’d be more successful in such a world, but they generally wouldn’t be. After all, if they would struggle in a world that’s already as complex as it is, why would they do any better if more complexity was added?

Consider the Free Palestine movement, which might seem like an anomaly. How did that happen? Why were so many young people tricked into siding with a known terrorist organization with genocidal aspirations, convinced that they’re fighting against genocide in so doing? On the surface, it doesn’t seem to make any sense.

Considering the changing nature of information media, one might imagine that it would be the responsibility of the public school system to teach students about how to recognize propaganda, deceptive rhetoric, and information warfare on social media. In other words, Defense Against the Dark Arts.

But that’s not happening. But why?

For one thing, the left has long succeeded in co-opting the public education system, which they use to propagandize young people. That on it’s own would render it self-defeating for them to teach children how to recognize propaganda and deceptive rhetoric.

But what’s more, the left also propagandizes young people through social media, which they had sweeping control of until Elon Musk purchased Twitter just recently. Even now, the left still controls much of social media, and heavily trusted information sites such as Wikipedia.

Do you really think that the left is going to teach young people how to defend themselves against propaganda, deceptive rhetoric, and information warfare when they themselves do these very same things to young people? If these people were to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, they’d just occupy the student’s time with gender theory.

Like in The Deathly Hallows, the Death Eaters are still running many of the major institutions. Would they teach anyone how to defeat them?

As a result, you see many young people today with no defense against information warfare. Thus, when Hamas realized that they can take to social media to convince American children to take up the fight on their behalf, they encountered little to no resistance as they did just that.

And now, the left is divided against itself by reason of their pro-Hamas faction. And the mainstream left doesn’t seem to have a clue what they can do about it. Except maybe employ antisemitic dog whistles in an effort to avoid alienating a substantial portion of their electorate, ignoring the irony that they once accused the right of the same.

Such is the damaging effect of the imperius curse.

There is a problem. But thankfully, there is a solution, and it’s relatively simple: begin to teach people to recognize propaganda, deceptive rhetoric, and information warfare.

The real-life Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Researching propaganda is fun by itself. A fascinating topic would be how Edward Bernays tricked many people into buying products like cigarettes by convincing them that professionals thought it was a good idea.

Learning about deceptive rhetoric would involve learning about the various fallacies that dishonest people hope you’ll ignore. A huge one is equivocation, which the left has wielded to unfortunately great success.

Information warfare would be a broader subject, and would involve learning how people on news media and social media might be trying to manipulate them. It’s important to understand how framing can be used to omit context, changing the potential interpretation of a given piece of media, such as short-form video. Also, knowing that not everyone who speaks your language is from your country helps immensely in avoiding foreign manipulation.

And you’re better off learning about these things, because the people who would put you under mind control do know all about them, and benefit from ignorance to them.

But if the Wizarding world of Harry Potter was real, there would be many young wizards out there who wouldn’t be handling things as well as they might like to imagine.

Is Xbox losing out of consoles?

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When it was announced that Halo was coming to Playstation, it didn’t really come as a shock. We’ve been seeing it coming for weeks. What’s more, the news comes weeks after Microsoft announced their new pricing for Game Pass, which faced immense backlash for how high the price was for what was offered in return, and was an obvious attempt to keep the Xbox financially steady.

And through it all, there have been rumors going around of retail outlets no longer stocking Xbox consoles, though it seems that may have been a bit exaggerated.

But still, it seems as though Microsoft is quietly looking for ways to allow Xbox to fail out of the console war, while keeping Xbox alive as a brand. The first not-so-subtle hint was with the “This is an Xbox” ad campaign, which touted the ability of non-Xbox hardware to play Xbox games, which kinda renders an Xbox system itself superfluous.

People are speaking of the console wars as though they’re over, but that’s technically not true, as Sony and Nintendo are still in the race. But the two are so different from one another that they aren’t much seen as direct competitors.

But what’s potentially vexing is that old media, particularly news outlets, might take the Xbox failing out to mean that no one is interested in consoles anymore, even though Playstation 5 has an install base in the tens of millions, and the new Switch 2 is still flying off shelves.

While this can be chalked up to old media being out of touch, the likely reason why corporate media would use Xbox as a bellwether for interest in consoles is because the American company Microsoft is more likely to be a corporate sponsor than Japanese companies such as Sony or Nintendo. It’s another example of the world making more sense when you factor in incentives.

Yet, in the history of video games, a bias against Japanese companies is sadly relevant. When video games were invented, they were an American invention. And for a long while, the American company Atari was the market leader. However, a bunch of poor business decisions on the part of Atari had led to a crash in the video game market, and it was the Japanese company Nintendo, and later the Japanese company Sega, who would step up to the plate.

However, the timing wasn’t altogether great for Nintendo, as Japanese companies, particularly those that made electronics, were widely regarded with suspicion by American lawmakers. The reason? The Japanese economy was thriving, particularly due to Japanese electronics, to the point of Japan briefly becoming the world’s number 2 economy. And there was concern that Japan could have unseated the U.S. as the world’s dominant economy.

This turned out to not be the case. But at the time, it got to the point that American lawmakers expressed their displeasure by publicly destroying Japanese consumer electronics. They also accused Nintendo of price fixing, an accusation which was repeated by the corporate information media, even though the accusation had no weight to it.

By now, you could probably guess it was Democrats.

It was into this environment that Sony came along with their Playstation, further cementing the console market for the Japanese.

By the time Microsoft came along with their Xbox, it was a valid question whether an American company could thrive in a market which was dominated by the Japanese. And, as it turns out, they were able to carve out a niche, for a while. Except in Japan, where Xbox consoles basically just participated.

As far as my opinion of the Xbox goes, it depends on which of their consoles we’re talking about. The first one didn’t interest me. For one thing, it didn’t really have much to play, and while it was consensus that Halo was a great game, it seemed like people said so just because so many other people said so. Microsoft put a lot into Xbox’s X-treme brand image, including partnerships with Mountain Dew and Taco Bell. Coming from any other brand, the cringe would be unreal. But because it’s Microsoft we’re talking about here, the “hello fellow children” vibes were off the charts.

It was against our own better judgment that the original Xbox outsold the GameCube, even if just barely. People really will fall for shallow marketing.

When Microsoft made the Xbox 360, it actually seemed respectable. I still didn’t get one. Putting aside what Nintendo made, which you would go for if you’re a fan of what they do, Microsoft was up against the PS3. Microsoft didn’t do much to differentiate the 360 from the PS3, the latter of which seemed a better choice, even if from the perspective of finding an established brand safer. Also, as much as we picked on the PS3 back in the day, after the slim model was made, it became a great system.

Then there’s Xbox One. It had a great controller, which I’ve used to play PC games up until recently. That’s about it.

And that brings us to the current Xbox consoles, the Xbox Series X/S. I kept forgetting that those ones even existed. Even when talking about video games, it just hardly comes up, even as Xbox failing out of consoles is topical.

As choices, we have Nintendo, who delights us with imaginative interactive worlds and novel hardware features, and we have Sony, whose console is a multimedia powerhouse. Compared to them, Microsoft with their Xbox Series systems are about as fun as an ESG score.

So, what is the future of Xbox? Who knows? Even if it’s hard to imagine them attempting with another console, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t going to do so, anyway. Remember that Microsoft is the company that got rich, not by making something innovative, but because Bill Gates thought like a lawyer and got a big idea from Xerox. As they are now, Microsoft has a lot more money than sense, and there’s no telling just how much more investors are willing to put up with.

I might have made this comparison before, but Xbox is kind of like that guy who stays seated at a poker table for a long time, not because he’s any good at it (because he’s not), but because he approached the table with an immense pile of chips, and the intermittent victory allows him to convince himself to remain around for just a little while more.

When a Halo game was announced for Playstation, it was as though that poker player started to think he was playing Go Fish, and he let another player take the best card in his hand.

Another truck driving illegal immigrant has caused more fatalities.

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When it comes to this kind of thing, someone usually asks “are we sick of this yet?” But at this point, the answer is obvious. Yes, we are sick of this.

An illegal immigrant who was employed as a truck driver was driving under the influence in the state of California. He approached an intersection at full speed, without slowing down, rear-ending multiple vehicles, killing multiple people in the process, and injuring a few others.

We have dash cam footage of the incident, which follows.

Content Warning: Snuff film.

The first car that was struck crumpled as fast as an aluminum can under a giant piston. It almost seemed as though it vanished from existence as the truck continued into the next truck in front of it. The poor people inside probably had no idea who or what turned them into boiling strawberry jam.

The driver of the commercial truck, the one person who did not deserve to survive, somehow actually did, in spite of the flaming wreckage that he caused.

Here is the loser, Jashanpreet Singh:

Singh was an illegal immigrant who was apprehended by the Biden administration in 2022. Apparently, they apprehend him for no  reason in particular, because they just released him back into the United States.

Yes, the inside of the United States, after he was apprehended, and it was determined that he should not be here.

“What’s that, Jashanpreet? Your hobbies are commercial truck driving and drinking booze, preferably at the same time? I’m going to pretend that I didn’t hear that. Now go on, you skamp! Right back into our country with you, so you can go on to do whatever the hell it is that you’ll end up doing!”

But instead of cleaning toilets for less than a living wage, Jashanpreet went on to commit multiple vehicular homicides.

Fast fact about driving in India: They do not have the same road rules that we have over here. In India, driving is basically a Battle Royale.

As you may remember, it was only about two months ago that another Indian driver caused a fatal accident when attempting an illegal U-turn in the state of Florida. That driver, named Harjinder Singh, was previously detained for deportation in 2019, but was allowed to stay simply because he was afraid to return to his home country.

Because no one that the left cares about was killed in either incident, they’re going to go right on pretending that there isn’t a problem.

Again, the question isn’t “are we sick of this yet?” Because yes, we are sick of it. The question is, “Are we going to do something about it?” Because until we do, it’s not going to make a difference whether we’ve learned our lesson, because until we send home the people who aren’t supposed to be here, we can expect people to continue getting killed by those very same illegal immigrants who don’t respect our laws or cultures.

For that to be more obvious, more people have to die. We shouldn’t want that, but the people who we take issue with just don’t care. And that’s exactly why they shouldn’t determine policy.

Can we really expect any better out of those who consent to the violent deaths of those who might oppose them?

Joshua Jahn: Remembered For Failure

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Today’s subject of ridicule is so inept, that I don’t even know where to begin. I hope that doesn’t mean that his ineptitude is contagious. Though if I’m experiencing the symptoms of my own ineptitude, there’s no need to panic, because caffeine usually helps with that. Also, I couldn’t fail as hard as the ass clown in question if I tried.

Who is he? The attempted “Anti ICE” sniper, Joshua Jahn.

Wow, he’s got the “sits in the back row playing on his MacBook” look down. A spokesman for the University of Texas stated that someone with his name and date of birth briefly attended a decade ago, so it seems he was a one-semester kid, which is consistent with the “the lights are on but nobody’s home” look on his dumb face.

So, what did he do? Notice how I called him the attempted “Anti ICE” sniper above? That wasn’t an accident, because he failed unbelievably fucking hard.

Because people like him try to make a name for themselves, I’m going to do what I have fun doing and take away his name, and replace it with a derisive nickname. The new name for his gravestone is Dim Shot.

Now, Dim Shot is not one of those snipers from your grand-daddy’s generation, he’s one of those new-fangled snipers who would write his entire manifesto on his shell casings if he had the space or the skill. But he didn’t, so he had to settle for writing “ANTI ICE” on just one of the shell casings, in all caps, and just wrote the rest down on notebook paper.

The gun that killed people was an 8mm bolt action rifle which Dim Shot purchased legally in August. The gun was taken into custody.

On Wednesday, September 24, 2025, Dim Shot positioned himself on a rooftop near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office. As ICE agents were unloading detainees from a vehicle, Dim Shot opened fire upon the ICE agents.

Reportedly he had intended to maximize the damage to the ICE facility, and to its personnel. But just because he was trying, doesn’t mean he knew how. Dim Shot had completely missed ICE agents, and had instead hit detainees, killing one and injuring two.

You know, the very people he was attempting to fight for.

Dim Shot then fired off one last shot, and once again, he missed completely, unless the target was his own face. In which case, he finally managed to not completely fail at something.

Supposedly, Dim Shot did his research beforehand. Which I would have imagined would have involved cranking it to cartoon ponies between looking up ICE facility locations and their hours of operations, but it seems he downloaded a list of ICE facilities, and searched apps that tracked ICE agents, which have been promoted by leftists who deliberately endangered federal agents in so doing.

Also, he looked up video of the murder of Charlie Kirk. Apparently, he admired the handiwork of a furry-adjacent terrorist who got tired of beating off on his own, so he found a male in a dress to do it for him. The left has some shitty heroes.

You ready for the chilling words of a terrorist, straight from his manifesto? Actually, a shitty-ass note he left behind? Fear:

“Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?”

Slow clap. The slowest fucking clap. Ain’t no clap slow enough, or sarcastic enough. Dim Shot was so effective at fucking over the people he set out to serve, he may as well have worked in government. At least he would have been paid to fail so hard.

In a stunning exhibition of the Dunning-Kruger effect, Dim Shot attributed his plan to his own genius mind:

“Yes, it was just me and my brain,”

And what a brain it was. I can just imagine scientists lining up to study what of it was left.

Now, ABC News wanted to pass on to us that Dim Shot liked playing video games, like anyone outside of the Amish community. Hey thanks ABC News, we care. Among the games that Dim Shot sucked at were Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Rust. Not the same Rust where [joke redacted so Alec Baldwin doesn’t sue].

He also had a Reddit account, with which he expressed interest in smoking marijuana. And now we know where he got his strategic mind, and how his aim got so sharp.

In closing, he sucked.

Feminists have the opportunity to congratulate Japan’s first ever Female Prime Minister!

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Sanae Takaichi

Japan has just officially confirmed a freshly elected Prime Minister. And what’s more, she’s the first ever women to hold the position in Japan’s history!

Now, if you’re wondering why feminists aren’t celebrating, it’s because they don’t actually want women to succeed, they’re just political grifters.

Senae Takaichi is a member of Japan’s Liberal Democratic party. Upon hearing the party name, one in the west might assume that she’s on the left. Not really, because Japan’s Liberal Democratic party is basically similar to the west’s conservatives. She is a predecessor of fellow party member and former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in 2022.

Yet another conservative that was assassinated. This really needs to stop happening.

Senae is largely considered to be Japan’s Donald Trump. She has opposed mass migration into Japan, which was intended to bring in cheap labor to help offset the effects of Japan’s aging population. She is considered to be bombastic by Japanese standards, and was previously an avid motorcyclist and heavy metal drummer. Yes, seriously.

It’s pretty clear that Takaichi’s election is the latest expression in a growing global trend that resists mass migration, particularly from cultures that don’t have much respect for the host culture, with some migrants expressing a clear desire to supplant the host culture.

It was only within the last couple days that Ireland had exploded into riots (“the language of the unheard”, right leftists?) because it was discovered that an Islamic migrant, who should have earlier been deported, had raped a 10-year-old special needs girl who wandered too close to the migrant hotel that he was staying at.

Leftists have long called the right sexist, which generally isn’t true, though there are those on the right who can rightly be described as such. But from what we see with the election of Takaichi, conservatives as a whole don’t care whether a woman is their leader, as long as she has their values.

Western leftists are probably going to be especially vexed at Takaichi’s election, particularly the ones who claim a particular kinship with the Japanese, due to popular misconceptions that leftists peddle about Japanese culture because Japan is far enough across the ocean to avoid scrutiny so leftists could avoid being called out for their lies.

The fact is, the prevailing sentiment in Japan is that Japan is for the Japanese. It’s to the point that Japan doesn’t just have nationalists, they have ultra-nationalists. And if a western nationalist were to hear them speak, they’d probably tell them that they need to take it from a 10 to a 4.

As much as I like Japan, as I see it, the Japanese don’t have a obligation to give me a home there if I were to decide I wanted to live there. But if I did, I would leverage my job experience, college education, lack of criminal record, and that I have no desire to change Japan’s culture. I suspect that the typical leftist might have an issue with at least one of those data points. But no, I don’t suspect that one could successfully leverage with their taste anime, or their favorite Pokémon. Even if your favorite being Raichu indicates great taste.

And even if someone were to move there, that wouldn’t make a person Japanese. In fact, unless a person is genetically Japanese, they just won’t be considered Japanese, ever. There are families of Koreans who have lived in Japan for generations, and while they’re residents, they’re still not Japanese.

Now, you can settle down with a Japanese spouse. A traditional Japanese thinker might object or at least be begrudging about it, but that’s generally allowed. But you still wouldn’t be Japanese. Your kid would be, but they’d probably get picked on by the other Japanese kids.

I don’t bring all this up to discourage or put anyone in a negative light, but just to give a realistic idea of what life in Japan would be like for a foreigner.

As I see it, Japan has a distinct cultural identity, and they have a right to defend it from cultures which have a proven track record of behaving belligerently towards other cultures.

Muslims. Muslims are the biggest threat to civility. Naturally, a people as heavily civilized as the Japanese would recognize Islam as a problem.

To any leftists reading this: Please don’t shoot her.

The Irish are angrier than usual.

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Things are popping in Ireland. Lotsa splodies. People are not very happy. It’s a mess and all that.

Let’s get into why the Irish are more pissed than usual. Actually, let’s see whether you can guess, before reading on.

Were you able to guess that it’s because of a Muslim migrant? Did you guess that it involved the rape of a little girl? If so, you probably didn’t think it was much of a guess. And if you want a prize, too bad. No one gets a prize for getting the free space on a bingo card.

The Irish broke out into protests that quickly turned violent in and around Ireland’s capital of Dublin, and particularly outside of the migrant hotel that housed the migrant.

The phrase “migrant hotel” shouldn’t even be in the vernacular. Those just shouldn’t exist.

The Irish aren’t just pissed because a child was violated by a migrant, but also because the choice was made back in March that he should be deported. But he remained in the country anyway, so the crime should not have even happened. And even after it did, the Irish government decided to continue housing the migrant at a migrant hotel at taxpayer expense, and fund his legal defense, also at taxpayer expense.

I’m pissed, and I’m all the way over here.

Now, if you thought that the Summer of Love riots after George Floyd’s overdose death were bad, the Irish are close to outdoing them in just a few hours. In that time, they have set fires, including to at least one police vehicle, and in at least one case, protesters have succeeded in driving back police in riot gear. A new water cannon was deployed, but reportedly not yet utilized.

The riots are about what you would expect from a people with a history of fighting tooth and nail in entirely hopeless wars of defense.

Notice how the left isn’t giving this any attention, despite its potential to be used as an example of right-wing violence? That’s because this is the kind of thing they’re afraid of. If the people with grievances over their heritage being given away to those with no love for it were to find out that they’re not alone, then the right could end up growing to something more than a controlled token opposition.

And that’s one of the main reasons why I don’t believe that the ultra-wealthy political left is stoking this conflict on purpose as part of a Hegelian manipulation strategy. But if a person thought that, I’d understand why they would. What did the establishment left really think would happen when trafficking in legions of migrants from part of the world where the predominant religion thinks pederasty is okay, and that uncovered women in public are valid targets?

The reason why we have problems like this is because those with the most power to change society are isolated from the consequences of their own policies. They live in their own gated communities, not in cities or neighborhoods near migrant hotels which, in Ireland, have crime rates 30 times higher than what’s typical for most of Ireland.

The obvious thing that one would expect to happen did happen, and it was followed by the obvious response. But as of now, it’s still a developing story.

But it should be obvious that we’re only seeing the beginning of what’s to come. People are getting fed up with the stupid bullshit, including the import of those with no love for our society and culture.

If you’re someone who thought that the mass migration of Muslims was a good idea, you are an absolute moron. You have no capacity for being a positive asset to society. You should be disallowed from voting or otherwise influencing public policy, ever again.

If you bring people in from cultures that believe that its normal for people to do a certain thing, don’t be shocked when those people do that thing.

Let’s be realistic, here. I don’t expect any western politicians to change their policies. It’s fully expected of them to never admit that they were wrong, all while clinging to power for as long as possible, and even doubling down on the policies that are destroying culture and society, not only because they hate these things, but also to spite the people who they govern.

But something has got to give.

People don’t seem to comprehend just how significant it is that the hippie generation is about to pass away.

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Yesterday, when commenting on the makeup of the No Kings protest, I pointed out how the vast majority of those in attendance are aging boomers who are just a few years away from not voting anymore.

Since then, I got to thinking about why people joined the hippies, and why people go furry or trans, and as one thought led to another, I began seeing connections, and they seemed to hold up well when considering matters in the broad strokes of recent history.

The recent shooter of Charlie Kirk didn’t surprise anyone when it turned out that he was a leftist. But what was surprising is that he came from a Mormon family, though he turned against his family’s viewpoints, turning hard towards the left. What’s more, he was at least adjacent to the furry community, and was in a homosexual relationship.

Traditional thinking goes that people who are raised in a religious household will maintain said household’s religious beliefs into their adulthood. But in many cases, such as the case of Bulge Rat (Tyler Robinson), they turn against the culture they were raised in.

If you were to study certain communities, such as the trans community and other left-wing communities, you may notice an unusual number of people who grew up in religious households. And, not only that, the households tended to be strict to the point of suffocating the child’s individuality.

For example, Jews can be heavily legalistic, to the point that some refuse to keep beef and cheese in the same refrigerator. The Mormons tend to be strict in their own way. They tend to stock up on non-perishible food, in case the end-time tribulation were to begin tomorrow. I’ve heard of kids who weren’t allowed to watch cartoons or play sports during the Sabbath.

When these kids become old enough to decide for themselves, they often tend towards communities that permit them to express their individualities, sometimes towards communities that are extremely liberal. And whats more, they tend to harbor extreme resentment for their respective families, and for the religions which they saw as stifling their childhoods.

Now, consider the boomer generation, which gave us hippies. Do you suppose that they came from a religious background? I think that’s natural to guess. The generation that preceeded them saw two world wars, and the development of atomic weapons. Considering this, the WW2 generation would have likely believed that the world was about to end. That’s understandable considering that those two world wars saw the deployment of the worst weapons that were available at the time, and shortly afterwards, nuclear weapon stockpiles grew to the point that all of humanity could be wiped out multiple times.

In the face of such annihilation, it’s natural to expect people to lean into their religions. But as parents became overly strict, there would come to be a backlash.

It should be understood that not everyone in a generational group lives up to the stereotypes associated with their respective groups. I see people eschew these stereotypes all the time. But it seems as though the boomer generational group has a disproportionate amount of people who have a distaste for religion, Christianity in particular. In light of this, it’s easy to see why the boomers gave us hippies, and a disproportionate amount of them are sexual libertines.

Their influence on society is difficult to understate. It’s largely due to them that children in the western world today tend to be viewed as an inconvenience rather than a treasure. What’s more, you’d have to search pretty hard to find western made entertainment media which portrays marriage and family in a positive light.

As a consequence of the choices of boomer era liberals, families were broken, communities became more dangerous, societies more dysfunctional, and nations on the verge of falling apart. But while this is obvious to just about everyone else, the liberal boomers obstinately refuse to admit that they were wrong, because they don’t want to go anywhere close to admitting that their religious parents were right.

But what they’re refusing to admit, subsequent generations are learning, resulting in a shift to the right. This shift will become more pronounced as the hippie generation passes away. That is guaranteed.

For those who need to know, parents without a religion tend to be far worse than those with one, by a considerable amount. Not only do they view their children as an inconvenience, there is no moral check on their narcissism, and they’ll only grudgingly show kindness towards their children, usually because they feel an obligation (birthdays, Christmas, etc.). And go ahead and pity the child in such a household when it’s time to punish them. In corporal punishment, the parents tend to go ape shit, and outside of that, their tendency to run their household like a dictator becomes more pronounced.

It’s in light of the left’s tendency to oppose Christianity that their simultaneous advocacy for homosexuality and Islam is easier to comprehend. When left to its own devices, Muslims will kill gays, because they view homosexuality as a sin that merits capital punishment. Obviously, the groups involved cannot be reconciled in the long term. However, each has at least a slight opposition to Christianity.

If it sounds like leftism is a huge anti-Christian club, that’s because it pretty much is. Remember that the term “left” as relates to political affiliation goes back to enlightenment era France, where those who were more traditional and more pro-Christian tended to sit on the right side of the house of representatives, while those who opposed them tended to seat themselves to the left. The political battle that we see today is part of a war that’s been going on for centuries.

As I see it, though, the war might finally be coming to an end, and it looks like conservatives are definitely going to win. Not only is a hugely left-wing generation on the verge of passing away, they’ve shown the obvious outcomes of their experimental ideas, and have left an example that inspires disgust.

And if the hippies are seen in a negative light today, they are definitely not going to be viewed favorably by future generations who will view the record of them with hindsight.