"White Heat"? that's totally my favorite klan porn site

Oh don't ask how I ended up looking at this page at 2am on a Wednesday:

http://www.whiteheat.org/viewtopic.php?t=1246&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=994eb26eca1e5606173cce3c49e5e607

some of you boys are being sought. 2 years ago.

Life is like a video game on its absolute hardest settings; everyone fails, except for a few who get by through dumb luck. Gotta kiss ass and parrot agendas to get grades out of your teachers (if you don't, if you have a spine, you're filtered out), gotta market yourself like a product to get into college (not a self-promoter? you're outta here). Ya gotta fight to get a job, fight to keep a job, and maybe the business fails anyway. All day, every day, people contrive to manipulate you out of your money; anything they can get away with is fair game in life's great hustle. They go on about high moral principles, but these are only ever smoke screens in front of 'whining for advantage'. Push your agenda by appealing to the common good, they used to teach that trick to the ancient Greeks, called it 'rhetoric'. Force and fraud, force and fraud. A hundred years ago people were fed up with this sort of world (known as 'liberalism') and thought a good war would be the solution to the weak-mindedness and moral decrepitude; unfortunately that didn't really work out either. But it might work next time.

Some day I'll be financially able to live on my own. Some day I'll be not 5 and have a regular sleep schedule.

The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."

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The working class tends to be socially conservative, religious, patriotic, militaristic, anti-intellectual, violent, macho, etc. The left-wing alliance of liberals with ethnic and unionized labor (or black civil rights) has always been uneasy. Workers want higher pay and shorter hours, they don't really share the liberal agenda at all. Most of white America feels victimized by liberalism, and Obama would not win if only whites could vote.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124541/posts

One of the most funny misinformed articles I've ever read. Just laugh at all the assumptions made.

Actually the unfortunate thing about Prop 8 is that much of the African American and Latino vote who is very energized by voting for Obama will vote yes for Prop 8. So if the right wing guys actually put it on the ballot to get the vote for McCain, then it kind of will backfire. Or maybe they knew that these people will be very enthusiastic for Obama and they will be able to push 8 through. No matter what it is a bitter sweet situation. And to think that it was all put together and financed by Mormons from Utah. Stop fucking with my State.

MPF chatline tonight as the election unfolds

That's not a conspiracy, it's how politics is played. Any government action redistributes massive amounts of wealth (between ethnic groups, generations, regions, industries), and that's all there is in this world, so you do whatever you can get away with. That's just how it is. Even if you're not like that, the people who are inevitably rise to the top.

I have some very sad, mad, bad news: they beat Tuba Man to death.

Prop. 8 just a trick by the McCain campaign to get the fundies into the polling booths?

It seems there has been a fundamental flaw in my model of reality, alas.

Have things gotten bad enough that people have to abandon ideology and start engaging with reality, at least for a little while? Will doing what works be the order of the day?

I tell you, people wake up from religion only to fall twice as hard into ideology. It's rotten stuff, stops a thinking mind as surely as anything.

Ideas do have consequences. They may be more powerful than vested interests in the sense that once they take hold they don't let go until they fail spectacularly, whereas interests can simply bargain, assimilate, and compromise. People do stupid things for ideas.

The system is not so bad. If laissez-faire fails, people vote in the govt, and if the govt mucks things up, people go laissez-faire. If things go south with one party in charge, we change parties. Maybe it's not 'rational' per se, but it provides incentives for both sides to behave. I suppose it's clear in these circumstances what we're obliged to do.

You make a good point. We have a good reason to hope the left will behave, though. Obama is not a prisoner of that 60's liberal ideology. It's this ideology that has made "liberal" a pejorative, but I think Obama's mandate in this election will come from pragmatic people in the center who want him to fix the economy, health care, education, infrastructure, etc, so he won't be beholden to the fringe left.

I think people voted for the right all these years in part because they were afraid of the left. Now it is inevitable that the power balance will swing, and everyone is hoping that the left is saner than it used to be if only because the right is demonstrably batty.

The left must abandon post-modernist denial of reality, 'open-minded' rejection of statistical reasoning and empiricism, tolerance for diversity in everything but thought (and the attendant brainwashing and ostracism), non-falsifiable witch-hunt accusations of 'racism', victim-hood politics (I was wronged historically, I am entitled to other people's wealth), conflation of cosmic justice with social justice, pushing of a hyper-sexual agenda to young children, anti-patriotism, social engineering, in short the whole 1960s radical vision.

We have been crippled by two competing radical visions: free-market fundamentalism and other faith-based imperatives, against relativist Freudian/Marxist orthodoxy. We have a chance to start over with Obama in office and the 1960s fanatics in retirement. Let's make sure it happens, and not wreck it with ideology and retribution.

Or may I suggest a burning cross?

It's a little dangerous to have a mask covering your face- be careful out there trick-or-treating. Maybe bring a flashlight or a torch or something.

I'm too lazy to make a real Halloween costume this year. So here's a mock-up:

Candy McCain has an obligation to his supporters to do anything in his power to win.

What surprises me is that every Republican sound-bite, every one-liner that they use about real America and treasonous blue states, just completely stopped working as of a week or two ago. They were always nonsense but no one ever said anything before.

Now it seems to me that America began in Massachusetts, so that would be the most American state, and following that New England in general, and places settled by the exodus from New England, namely the northern tier through Chicago to Seattle, and down to Pr0tland. You know, the Yankees.

Apparently, any time Palin says something stupid and the media calls her on it, it's just "gotcha journalism".

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/29/eveningnews/main4487826.shtml


You know who else likes gotcha journalism? Osama bin Hitler, that's who. And Barack Obama.

Two pretty awesome ideas for Obama's 30 min TV special from the blogs over at fivethirtyeight.com:

"My money is on a circa 1960's style christmas special extravaganza.

It's winter at the Chateau De Obama and... what's that we hear? A knock at the door? Well, who could that be?

Former Secretary of state Powell?! What are YOU doing here?!

"Oh, I just thought I'd drop by and wish you luck next Tuesday, Barrack."

And then they sing."

My pick is it starts with a closeup of Obama saying "You know, for the last year we've been hearing about nothing but the election. Most of you are probably sick of it; heck, I'm a little sick of it too by now. So America, my new policy proposal for tonight is this: why don't we take half an hour off, turn down the lights, put on some Al Green and some Earth, Wind, and Fire and just chill."

Then he pours himself a glass of Courvoisier and lights a blunt.

Being an imaginary American has given me a conjugate complex.

Jesse, my friend, let me tell you. I think it would be fun to do something on November 4th, but most of that day I will be very busy disenfranchising liberals and minorities, so I might all tuckered out by the time the polls close.

Fleeing from meteors!

And wearing a helmet, just in case.