Quote: (12-29-2016 07:53 AM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
Enigma:
Calmly and politely, since I'm under a warning:
Why wouldn't you reply in a calm and polite manner?
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I wasn't engaging in deliberate-obfuscation re: Forney. I called them both out at the time, and later called out Forney when he started going Race Realist in his podcast, which pained me to do so, because I think he's a damn good writer and journalist and I want to see him get his demons under control because I think he's got some potentially-sold works ahead as he matures. If he could channel his anger into some serious gym work, his natural sarcasm has great game potential.
Fair enough point.
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But we're left in the bizarre situation where Mike is disavowing Baked Alaska for saying 'Kike' whilst not disavowing Forney for saying 'Nigger'. What constitutes protected classes in the Alt-Lite?
It's only bizarre when taken out of context.
First of all, Mike's regularly given a platform to not only to the Alt-Right but to a literal neo-Nazi who has a swastika tattoo on their chest (weev/Andrew Aurenheimer) -- and even included him in Silenced.
He doesn't "protect" Jews.
He cut ties with an employee who was bringing unnecessary drama to a $90,000 event that Mike was on the line for, after said employee had been warned multiple times, when they had already lost one venue and Richard Spencer had already been banned from the new venue.
The logical progression here is, "Mike has always defended people with controversial views, he went against that in a situation with extenuating circumstances, therefore the extenuating circumstances were the cause".
I can understand the point about Mike not firing BA gracefully enough, but I simply can't wrap my head around how people think that he had no grounds to fire him.
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As for Mike, we simply observe and process information differently. I never assume people with a product to sell or a brand to promote are exactly as they appear.
I don't assume anyone is exactly as they appear, whether they're selling something or not. In fact, I would assume that almost nobody is exactly as they appear.
Nearly everyone tries to portray themselves in a better light, even to themselves. Wouldn't you say that's a pretty common concept in psychology?
And how many threads and posts are there on this forum about trying to portray an inexact version of ourselves, whether it's lying about our age, our height, how long we're in a city, where we're from, etc.?
On the other hand, there's a huge portion of Mike's social life is out there for public scrutiny. More so than pretty much anyone on this forum. That's a fact.
I'm sure there are things he's fudged the details about, but then again so does pretty much every other human being.
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If you can take him and his apparent altruism at face value, so be it
Mike's only charged for a tiny fraction of the content he's provided. That's an objective fact.
Whether you want to call that altruism is up to you. Shunning money and doing everything solely out of the goodness of your heart is not a right-leaning philosophy, and it's not a belief I ascribe to.
But I do know that there are many men in this community who have found tremendous value in Mike's work, in exchange for very little money on an individual basis. Even if you bought every product Mike's put out, it'd be like $100 total.
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but there's enough people on the left, middle and right of the political spectrum who despise him for there to be a lot of information out there.
This could be said about Trump, Roosh, and pretty much any other man of influence. What successful man doesn't have haters, especially controversial ones?
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Much like Milo, the moment Gamergate stopped being useful, he dropped it. But after months of this, you start to notice a pattern.
Gamergate ended. And Mike still mentions it anytime it's relevant. He's made at least a handful of tweets about it just in the past week or so.
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Yep, we have been using the left's tactics against them. That's been going on for at least a year now. Trump does it, Mike does it, Roosh does it, many members of this forum do it.
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And lately, I've been wondering if that's all technology is really offering us - the ability to be lesser men. My sister recently observed Satan was the 'prince of the power of the air' so is it any wonder so much toxicity comes through us via the internet? My reply was: "It seems to encourage toxicity. It's a fundamental result of social media design."
Good observation.
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Obviously, your mileage may vary, due to the differences in how you observe and process information. I can't help with that, which is why I doubt the power of the Alt Right due to considering possible theories that we've all played out a pre-scripted scenario in this election because I've been hugely-surprised that Trump's win was ever allowed to happen.
Okay, so you didn't think Trump could win, then when he won, you thought it was pre-scripted. But if he lost, you'd also have taken that as confirmation of your theory.
Do you see the problem here?
Zelcorpion makes the same claims all the time, and they could very well be correct. But I just don't see the point in subscribing to such a nihilistic world view, especially when it's almost impossible to confirm or deny. Heck, at least you'll have an answer to religious questions when you die.
Since you brought up people's mental health, do you think it's mentally healthy or the sign of a greater man to believe the entire world is against you and you have no chance of influencing it?
And to go back to your original comment that I disagreed with, you said that the Alt-Right had no impact and it was the left and media's failures that got Trump elected.
Now you're essentially saying that they election was pre-scripted and nothing mattered. Of course the Alt-Right didn't have an impact if no one had an impact.
In a world where Hillary's corruption, mass immigration, corrupt media, etc. were major factors, the Alt-Right (and Cernovich) definitely made an impact. How much is up for debate, but it seems pretty clear that they did have some form of influence.