This is the summer I am losing my PhD weight. Perhaps I should track my progress online to keep myself motivated. Starting weight “T minus ...” whatever I have managed at that point.

my wife and I have some downtime tonight, so why not waste it streaming a video game! https://youtu.be/T1-a9IJ87zE

For the first time in my career as a "Video-Essayist, I am genuinely feeling some admiration for that modern phenomenon "The Game Streamer". I am really at a loss at how you play a competitive video game to win, and also answer questions from the chat. Maybe if this wasn't after a long day of work and taking care of a child. Still...

I think you might be misunderstanding the issue. Open discussion is not the same thing as public spectacle designed to convince an audience that it is participating in Democracy. The point of a discussion is to show that public leaders or public intellectuals (I hate that term) in question are either considerate enough to take objections on board or confident enough to risk their ideas in open confrontation. In other words, people would prefer Aristocrats who hold public court to calmly hear the concerns of their subjects over late-stage paranoid and grasping Democracies lapsing into performative struggle sessions and public denouncements. People warmed to the right when it was obvious the left was uninterested in any non-performative discussion with a predetermined conclusion. This is not because there is some Democratic "public will" or "marketplace of ideas" that ultimately decides the victor in a conversation, it is because the openness to discussion demonstrates the health of the political discourse.

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America First has ended. See you all tomorrow

I don't want to open the "plebs versus Aristocrats debate, but can someone parse this video for Don's actual recommendations. I watched the whole thing, and I honestly honestly don't know what Don is recommending that his audience do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj-s03INTMk

Get ready for the climate lockdowns

I do respect Muslims. But my message to Muslims is for them to be the LIONS they claim to be. Fight us at our strongest. I am happy to have a theological debate on equal footing. I am happy to have a cultural exchange at a time of STRENGTH. But if this is an attempt to exploit a moment of weakness, if this an attempt to take advantage of perfidious elites and demographic change to increase your own prospects at a moment of weakness, if this a move to cooperate with demonic forces that YOU KNOW will / do undermine your own faith just as they seek to exploit the West, then I am not going to treat these interactions with respect. Lions are treated like lions, vultures like vultures.

I have only listened to 20 minutes of this. But this has to be one of the most humiliating dismantling in internet history. Destiny gets on with the number one go-to professor of Vaush-and-Co, asks basic questions that everyone from the non-communist side asks, the response is nothing but obfuscating rambling and an attempt to pull academic rank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcA5szcnESY

According to this retard ''stopping the system'' amounts to creating a movement which has single handily been responsible for seeing young men sent to jail for planning murders and fucking up so monumentality they're dragged out on a monthly basis so the system can justify yet more laws and terror legislation against political dissidents.

A movement which supposedly defines itself by excellence and elitism is supposed to rally behind every moron with a banner who's seeing young men dragged off to prison.

To fuck up to this degree means either you're too thick to be doing or this or you're just a creation of the state to achieve a predetermined outcome.

Being angry and talking about bloodlust fantasy revenge scenarios is similarly the prattle of the loser and moron because, sorry, but you're in the position of weakness not strength.

You run your fucking mouth off and you, and the good people who follow you, get crushed like ants for no good reason.
Too many good lads are now in jail because of these spastics and it needs calling out

https://t.me/thomassewell/1457

This graffiti in our local playground was probably supposed to make some poignant political point. A little bleak don’t you think?

With Nick Fuentes now being placed on a no-fly list we enter the territory of ''Create your own.....intelligence service??''

The ''Create your own...'' meme is interesting because in each case, whether free speech or ways to engage in financial transactions, they all, always, amount to appealing to the ''rights'' we're supposed to have under liberal democracy as we understood it.

Given that we no longer have these rights then we have to ask ourselves what it is exactly we're living under.

Just filed this FOIA request for public records regarding no-fly list status of Jan. 6 rally attendees and specific info on targeting of Nick Fuentes, Lauren Witzke, and America First-ers: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/no-fly-list-status-of-jan-6-protestrally-attendees-transportation-security-administration-111720/

"And Just like that, as mysteriously as he arrived, he was gone."

Weight loss is currently at T-9, which is easiest 10 pounds I have ever lost in my life. I feel much better, probably because this is the weight that my body WANTS to be at. Further weight loss will be difficult. Still a long way if I want to get to pre-PhD level T-20 or pre-back-injury cross-fit T-35.