Best political commentary & opinion books according to redditors
We found 57 Reddit comments discussing the best political commentary & opinion books. We ranked the 30 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
http://www.amazon.com/Neckbeard-Uprising-Mr-T-Kirk/product-reviews/1482338769/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=byRankDescending
> 5.0 out of 5 stars Such brave insight!, March 27, 2013
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> After consuming my daily provided intake of orange-dusted snacks and Mountain Dew, I always like going online and reading about the true Amerikkkan society that our brainwashing capitalist media doesn't cover (I'm looking at you Faux News). Mr. Kirk, known by his YouTube pen name TheAmazingAtheist, delivers brave insight on the corrupt state of affairs in the United States and the facade that the Christian Right carry over all of our affairs. His message, as encapsulated within this novel, delivers a brave and euphoric message that has indeed proven controversial to the nation. Only these brave media warriors in the blogosphere can say what really goes down in the Western World; it is only with the help of nonreligious middle class white teenage boys that we can hope to educate the masses on how other demographics are the true causes of our problems. As a whole, I am enlightened by this book; not because of some phony critic's blessing, but because of, T.J Kirk's intelligence.
lulz.
http://www.amazon.com/Neckbeard-Uprising-Mr-T-Kirk/dp/1482338769 I just cringed a mighty cringe.
In this case it's more of a problem with Noah Berlatsky. The guy is an extremely prolific nutjob.
The article describes him as
>the author most recently of "Chattering Class War: Punching Pundits from Brooks to Breitbart and Chait to Chapo."
That book is hysterical. https://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Class-War-Punching-Breitbart-ebook/dp/B079P8N8MF if you want to take a quick look. It's literally a series of screeds about how every pundit he can think of is a problematic nazi. The preface begins "This book is a collection of occasional columns written mostly to tell various pundits that they suck and are wrong". The guy is an absolute lolcow on twitter known for nuclear hot takes and blocking literally everyone. I am not kidding when I say that I have seen interviews get completely derailed when his name comes up, because people would rather spend a few minutes to make fun of him than talk about about whatever they're supposed to be focusing on. Just look at how happy they are that they get to talk about their favorite lolcow in public. One is PERSONALLY OFFENDED that she hasn't gotten blocked yet and the other is blocked without having ever interacted with him (an incredibly common occurance, everyone with a twitter should go find out if they're blocked yet, I know I am.) Just searching @nberlat blocked will yield thousands upon thousands of people upset and amused by this rite of passage.
This is the guy who, in response to some incel running people over in Toronto, wrote a piece in NBC telling everyone he was a virgin until 27. The dude was only 3 years away from becoming wizard and basically on the road to being an incel, saying "my virginity was a source of substantial anxiety, unhappiness and self-loathing."
Search KiA for "Berlatsky" and you'll see that this particular ideologue enjoys ranting about us pretty regularly. One of the more recent ones that got under my skin was http://archive.is/2rOsU mostly because I got WAYYY too deep into Evergreen and the piece was just... let's move on.
Long story short, it's less of a problem with the Post and more of a problem with literally any publication that will let this lunatic continue his autistic screeching. And even if they DID choose to stop publishing his pieces, he'd just write and self-publish another book.
And yes, I did write all of this up because I also can't help but get derailed into telling people about one of my favorite lolcows.
Edit: While looking at his book again, I was reminded of this: http://archive.is/cPS3N
>Everyone Tell Jonathan Chait to Shut Up by Noah Berlatsky
> Last summer, I wrote a piece for the Atlantic in which I argued that Orange Is the New Black (OITNB)fails to effectively critique prison as an institution because prison as an institution in the United States is directed mostly at men, and OITNB presents prison as bad because it victimizes women. The piece went semi-viral as a hate read, and was widely denounced. Jezebel wrote an article with the very Jezebel title “Writer Doesn’t Understand Why Show About Women’s Prison Has So Few Men.” Music critic Brandon Soderberg called me as a “clueless cracker pedant” on Twitter. Folks I liked and respected told me in no uncertain terms that what I had written was unfeminist and generally awful. There was a massive comment thread with people lining up to tell me I was stupid and should shut up. The left, the damn left, in all its insular self-righteousness, would not tolerate brave dissent such as mine.
>Or at least, that’s the conclusion I would come to if I were Jonathan Chait. Chait has written a long article for New York magazine in which he bemoaned the return of political correctness and the toxic culture of the left.....
Here we have a completely factually accurate description of nberlat writing a fucking dumb article, going viral for being a fucking moron, getting widely publicly mocked for his retarded views (including by the furthest left fringes in Gawker's feminist blog and on twitter)... and then taking a left turn and pointing at the evil right-wing boogeymen including GamerGate and free speech activists. He also runs down many of the groups of people that think he's a complete nutter and should probably keep his mouth shut instead of subjecting us all to his latest screeches (protip: it's literally everyone). All-in-all it's a great read and I highly encourage it. A truly remarkable self-own. I think it's clearly in his top 10 and I'm glad he included it in the first section of his book, fully reproduced in the free sample that Amazon gives you.
> This is an outright lie from Rebel.
The book is called "Stop Notley": https://www.amazon.ca/Stop-Notley-Case-Throwing-Out/dp/0995016860
The sign says "Stop Notley.com Buy the book" - thank you for the link to a pic.
https://www.stopnotley.com/ advertises.....gasp the book!
The law says books are exempt under the laws governing pre-election advertising.
You are utterly dishonest about this, especially so saying this is an "outright lie".
It's only $20 on Amazon.
Let's support local publishers and authors.
To be fair, he is very self-aware... he makes no apologies for being a neckbeard and even wrote a book about it.
I'd recommend the following book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arguing-Independence-Evidence-Wicked-Issues/dp/1908373334
I honestly don't know how she can say this with a straight face. This actually makes me more angry because not only are they unwilling to acknowledge and remedy the issue, they're now also insulting our intelligence. Can someone please send her a copy of this book please?
P.S Where's Leslie Riddoch these days by the way? Is one pro-indy voice one too many? Funny how you don't have a problem inviting Nigel Farage onto the channel!
I read it. It's a short book that disgusts you with every page - these are not the people I want influencing government. I strongly recommend everyone read it - especially National supporters: among other things, it documents an attempt from an extremist right-wing faction to hijack the party and drag it further and further to the extreme.
The media coverage has focussed on juicy "allegations" which do not do the book justice, and give Key single things which he can deny and then make blatantly untrue statements like "Hager's claims are dissolving before his eyes".
If you're not sure that you want to read it, try the free Kindle sample: http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Politics-poisoning-political-environment-ebook/dp/B00MP7GKZU
> "coup", I thought it was a process described at brazilian's constitution
Again: get out of your social networks and go read some fucking books on it because there are plenty of them already.
Here, I can even recommend some of them to you:
A radiografia do golpe
A elite do atraso: da escravidão à lava-jato
O estado pós-democrático
Por que gritamos golpe? Para entender o impeachment e a crise política no Brasil
Now, have a good reading because you have some catch up to do.
EDIT: Oh, and I forgot the very good Brasil em fúria: democracia, política e direito, that was written by brazilian judges and attorneys. It denounces how absurd was the whole process against President Dilma.
Let's start with what you're right about. Yes Frenworld has a founding userbase that is tied to 4chan. There's really no hiding this because Apu Apustanja is a meme that emerged out of 4chan culture.
You're also correct that 'fren' doesn't necessarily mean alt right and/or white nationalist. Fren means tolerant, understanding, sympathetic, of white identitarian politics. Indentitarian politics is related to protecting Europeans and European Americans from replacement migration and anti natalism as well as a host of other threats. It is NOT a violent ideology. The naivety and innocence of Apu is attempting to express that. Apu is not trying to subvert and convert children. Apu is really an avatar of white suffering and whites that are starting to commit mass suicide as they become deeply affected by the increasing volume of anti white rhetoric in the news, entertainment and academia. This anti whiteness creates enormous self hate and a lost sense of identity and community. You don't need to embrace a more defined political orientation like the alt right to feel scared and confused about white demographic decline and anti whiteness. This is an excellent book about the topic.
https://www.amazon.com/Born-Guilty-Compensation-Subject-Retaliation/dp/1727631625/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=no+white+guilt+born&qid=1557075966&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr
There are also lots of Jewish groups terrified of white demographic decline because whites are keeping Israel afloat and are a major engine of civilized life which Jewish people enjoy very much.
Here's an interesting article about a sub group of jews that support white nationalism.
http://www.amerika.org/politics/interview-with-jonathan-stern/
> Frenler = Hitler
Yes you are correct about this. It's a reference to Hitler or non descriptor pro white leader.
> Nosefren = Jew
Yes this means jew or a deceptive fren.
> Frenworld = r/frenworld sometimes America/alt-right community as a whole
This one varies but again the alt right is only part of the picture. There's a large community of reactionaries, trad Catholics, pagans, neo confederates, ancaps, hoppeans, truthers, they all fall into the what I like to refer to as the 'dissident right'. The alt right is a movement that started around 2011 and attempted to norm on some of the dissident right ideas. The alt right was pioneering in their use of pathos (emotion driven content) as well as art, dress, sub culture to spread their ideas. The alt right doesn't expressly endorse national socialism. Nat socs do operate in the alt right but not everyone who labels themselves alt right believes in national socialism or fascism. The absolute best write up I can give you on the alt right is this one.
https://dailystormer.name/a-normies-guide-to-the-alt-right/
It's getting a bit dated and the alt right has gone through some changes but it's an excellent source of information from one of the core influencers in the alt right. It's important to remember that the alt right is a leaderless movement. Anytime they try to manifest themselves into real political parties they are heavily suppressed by both political parties, media, corporations, silicon valley, churches and antifa.
> Frenostate = E
nthnostateYes. This is accurate. Keep in mind though very very few in the dissident community want to physically/violently removed non whites to achieve the ethnostate. Here's a good video of an ethnostate proposal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At-dSFL4Bs8
Ben Shapiro is probably more radical in his views about removing minority ethnic groups than the alt right.
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2003/08/27/transfer-is-not-a-dirty-word-n976781
> Bop = Shoot (occasionally means downvote)
I wouldn't say this means shoot. It just means get out you're not welcome.
> Honk/Honker/Clown = alt-right LGBTQ people.. Maybe..
This is where I wanted to correct you. It took me a while to analyze and figure out what was going on with the clown meme. The clown is mainly three things. First is a mask that alt right/dissident people have to wear. If you believe in race realism, a white ethnostate, anti homosexuality, jewish power, white genocide, it's REALLY difficult to talk to people and make friends IRL so you're forced to basically lie in every interaction you have with people. Lots of people of European origins are high trust people and are uncomfortable lying. Especially men who value direct communication.
The clown is also a symbol for people that have gone through several phases of depression to a weird type of half cope half acceptance. It starts with nihilism, depression, and ends with laughing at the travesty. Clowns try to troll and have fun as society collapses (which is something the fren community dissuades). This is partially related to accelerationism but that's a much more complicated topic that is outside the scope of our discussion. Lastly the clown represents conditioning/indoctrination to be sexually promiscuous to an extreme degree and therefore excepting of the leftist sexual and political agenda. So for example using pornography is participating in clown world. Dating a transexual is participating in clown world. The clown also represents hopelessness.
So you might be wondering where LGBT comes in. Well that's related to clownworld which is a term for immorality, consumerism, and unabashed pro homosexuality prevalent in the modern industrial world. Many within the dissident community crave traditional moral communities. There was a short lived meme campaign called white sharia where the alt right joked about praising and co-opting sharia law because it kept female hypergamy and homosexuality suppressed. Again this was a short lived meme and was not universally embraced.
If you're curious about more of the issues I've discussed here I highly recommend the q and a on this website.
rightrealist.com
There are also a lot of helpful images that give a more accurate and unbiased understanding of the complicated subgroups and ideas floating around the dissident right ecosystem.
http://rightrealist.com/images/oc/Spectrum.png
http://rightrealist.com/images/altright/AltRightSupportDiagram.jpg
The sidebar of r/debatealtright is also informative.
I hope this has been helpful. Let me know if you have any questions.
The Amazing Athiest is simply preparing for the Neckbeard Uprising.
You don't have a worthless degree. You have a liberal arts degree. Read In Defense of a Liberal Education if you don't know how to articulate the value of that degree. You should take at least a couple of years to experience the working world, and think about what your next best step is. Nothing is more pathetic than a second year law student who is $100,000 in debt and hates all their classes.
Source: Lawyer who went to law school in her thirties and loved every minute of it.
Well he did write a book called Neckbeard Uprising so he definitely self-identifies with the tribe.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde -- an introduction to libertarian socialism, a foreign topic to most people ("isn't that, like, an oxymoron?") but pretty rewarding and interesting once you get into it.
If you care about current events (and this one is highly important), you can read about what's going on in Rojava, in Northern Syria. To understand the character of what they're doing there and their social revolution you can read Murray Bookchin and Abdullah Ocalan. They've both written a lot but it doesn't take much to understand the gist of their ideas and, more importantly, how they're being applied right now in Rojava. Democratic confederalism is the name of the specific system at work in Rojava.
Books I can recommend that have to do with the above:
A Small Key Can Open A Large Door: Rojava Revolution
Rojava: An Alternative to Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islamism in the Middle East
To Dare Imagining: Rojava Revolution
Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan
Most everything on this list
War and Peace in Kurdistan
Democratic Confederalism
Obviously that's a fairly dense list. You don't have to read all those. But I do suggest you at least look into Rojava and the ideology behind it on a basic level, as in my opinion it's one of the most important developments in the world right now and it's fascinating to see the application of democratic confederalism, autonomous self-organization, ethnic and religious plurality, and women's liberation on such an impressive scale.
On the topic of movies, it just so happens that there are a number of Rojava documentaries which might help you gain a basic understanding of what it's like there. You can find plenty by looking up "Rojava documentary". Here's a good one. This is the most recent, I believe.
Good studies!
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E-book edition: http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Politics-poisoning-political-environment-ebook/dp/B00MP7GKZU
I wouldn't expect the Warehouse to stock anything more serious than the latest ghost-written All-Black autobiography on special for Father's Day.
Are they going to burn Kindles too?
I know. Liberal Networks never cover this stuff.
 
Fox never covered this. But keep on watching that propaganda.
 
Liberals. Moderates. Conservatives have mentioned this. Actually most of the things you presume "liberals" never mention is because you've never actually watched any progressive or liberal networks or news.
Maybe you should pay attention and get your nose out of Fox and Friends.
Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America's Students
By Andrew Pollack, father of Meadow, who died in the Parkland shootings. I read a lot about the policy failures that allowed Parkland to happen at the time, and was mad as hell no one was talking about those, and instead everything was about that twerp David Hogg and more pushing for gun rights infringements. Andrew Pollack has written the book on what needed to be discussed at the time.
“The Broward Promise”, which was one of the big policy failures, was used as a model nationwide by the Obama Administration. There’s a national discussion and policy remediation that needs to happen on this still.
False
relevant
Who do I believe?
Something tells me you'd like this book!
> there is no eBook available.
http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Politics-poisoning-political-environment-ebook/dp/B00MP7GKZU/
reminder: if any of you really care about hot takes you'll preorder this book
https://www.amazon.com/Chattering-Class-War-Punching-Breitbart-ebook/dp/B079P8N8MF
http://www.amazon.com/Rothschild-une-banque-au-pouvoir/dp/2226243836
http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie/270814/rothschild-une-banque-au-coeur-du-pouvoir
Jose Antonio Entre amor y odio
https://www.amazon.es/Jos%C3%A9-Antonio-entre-odio-amor/dp/8494689932/ref=pd_sim_14_3/257-8644576-7901447?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=8494689932&pd_rd_r=bd34f623-3593-11e9-bf72-976580e05b8e&pd_rd_w=VCgc4&pd_rd_wg=OsLQc&pf_rd_p=c5e8da29-5841-4f7b-8c21-cf8ed834359e&pf_rd_r=195SA6EEAHD8VCR61VWF&psc=1&refRID=195SA6EEAHD8VCR61VWF
Falange de la sombra del fascio a la Revolución comunal.Una propuesta para los pueblos hispanos
https://www.amazon.es/FALANGE-revoluci%C3%B3n-comunal-propuesta-hispanos/dp/1793118906/ref=pd_aw_sbs_14_of_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1793118906&pd_rd_r=74765a11-9c2f-11e9-9cc8-259196c9e8d5&pd_rd_w=L8bxx&pd_rd_wg=Th1xE&pf_rd_p=5f05b608-de7d-4712-8446-0d151c93b5f8&pf_rd_r=57W4FWS9N964W0ZTSCJC&psc=1&refRID=FXZG0FZ6F5QZ0BCDQREC
https://www.amazon.com/Born-Guilty-Compensation-Subject-Retaliation/dp/1727631625
The first two pages are so euphoric I nearly threw up. DAE manchild and proud??
Mmmm
They also are promoting this stupid book which I guess is endorsed or published by Rebel Media
There is no such thing as 'free trade' or 'protectionism'. All trade agreements have a mix of both. For instance copyright is not free trade nor is intellectual property. Preventing dominant monopolies is a good idea but not 'free trade'.
A good balance needs to be struck along with institutions that are able to change with time and world events.
Tariffs do protect US businesses however and have received bad press due to the neoliberal/neocon subversion of the Republican party who have brainwashed people into acting against their own interests.
A good read on free trade/protectionism by Pat Buchanan, Vox Day recently plublished a debate in article format on exactly this topic so you might be able to find some good references in there and use it as a stepping stone for further research.
This is a good article favouring Trump's policies and mentioning other prominent sympathetic people. Richard McCormack one of the authors mentioned in that article wrote a good book exploring the decline of American manufacturing and the effect of free trade
Love it so much, I made it the cover of my first book! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00192MRPY/
It looks like this is the book he's talking about
http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Politics-poisoning-political-environment-ebook/dp/B00MP7GKZU
This book is a fantastic (from a Scottish slant) depiction of the BBC's dirty tricks over the years, it covers the Lockerbie bombing, Trump's golf course and other stories from the early 2000s.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Calling-How-Stole-Referendum-ebook/dp/B00XLAFIFI/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=london+calling+ponsonby&qid=1574618988&s=books&sr=1-1
https://www.amazon.com/Born-Guilty-Compensation-Subject-Retaliation/dp/1727631625/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=born+guilty&qid=1562861517&s=books&sr=1-1
I guess the truth is racist according to this article that is a shit fucking article.
> If someone is trying to learn IT or coding, why do they need to take history classes and biology classes and chemistry classes? They don't want or need them and yet they have to take them to qualify for aid. Most people that go to college these days go to obtain skills for a job, not for a well rounded education or to become an professor or educator.
I think this is somewhat anecdotal - they might not "want" to take these courses, but I would argue that the "need" is there. There are significant benefits to a well-rounded education. Skills-based education (IT, Engineering) doesn't really get into learning how to think, in the general sense, which is probably going to be significantly more important as technology becomes obsolete more and more quickly, or as jobs disappear due to things like increased automation.
I'm not arguing that liberal arts should be mandated - some people are autodidacts enough that this sort of learning how to learn would be unnecessary - they will do it on their own. But Fareed Zakaria wrote a book defending the liberal arts education, because there is currently a tendency to devalue things like an English or History degree over a STEM/Business degree, because those taught tangible "skills," instead of wishy-washy liberal arts intangibles.
As for financial aid - I'm split. I found tremendous value in my own liberal arts education, but if someone just wants to learn the core necessities for their career goal and get out, I think that's fine too.
https://www.amazon.com/Fue-Cuba-infiltracion-cubano-sovietica-Latinoamerica/dp/9500749173