(Part 2) Best politics & government books according to redditors

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We found 413 Reddit comments discussing the best politics & government books. We ranked the 174 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

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Top Reddit comments about Specific Topics in Politics & Government:

u/TychaBrahe · 33 pointsr/bestoflegaladvice
u/keks4kicks · 33 pointsr/The_Donald

oh geez! thank you! lol...no one ever says that. they usually say "Mind your own business bitch!" but if you'd like to read more about what I've done, I wrote a book about it here. theres a kindle version for a lot less too. but it works as a guide for how to use FOIA too. I'm working on a shorter guide to FOIA right now actually! Just for people like you who want to get involved! https://www.amazon.com/Shut-Up-Bizarre-Library-Amendment/dp/1533382336/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491526787&sr=8-1&keywords=shut+up+the+bizarre+war

u/Shia_LaMovieBeouf · 30 pointsr/todayilearned

Yeah! He's full of them. He actually wrote a book on the moral implications of spying. It's made all the more interesting due to the fact that he's a devout Catholic.

https://www.amazon.com/Fair-Play-Moral-Dilemmas-Spying/dp/1597971537


u/Jithrop · 23 pointsr/QuotesPorn

He also published a pamphlet claiming that the Civil Rights movement was a "Tool of Communist Deception". Seriously.

u/Violet_Nightshade · 16 pointsr/BestOfOutrageCulture

About the writer, a woman called Megan Fox:

>Megan Fox is a freelance reporter, columnist, and author of two books, Fighting for My Children's Future, a PJ Media compilation about the benefits of homeschooling, and Shut Up! The Bizarre War that One Public Library Waged Against the First Amendment, about the harrowing lengths government bodies will take to silence public criticism.

On a tangential note, I have a friend who's most likely in her forties who says that she was homeschooled from somewhere in elementary till high school graduation. The side effects of such an upbringing, according to her, resulted in underdeveloped and crippled interpersonal skills, which in turn led to a few conflicts with some of her ex-friends.

Also, thanks to her upbringing, she was homophobic before she snapped out of that was of thinking.

I just hope she's doing fine right now. Trump's administration has a way of screwing many people over.

u/purpleolive · 16 pointsr/CombatFootage

I haven't read too many books about the subject, but one that I really like is 'Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001', by Steve Coll. It's incredibly illuminating and a fascinating read.

Robert Pape's 'Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It' is also one of my favorites.

u/2012ronpaul2012 · 10 pointsr/conspiracy
u/-Dali-Llama- · 9 pointsr/Scotland

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!

u/kbless · 8 pointsr/soccer
u/JackGetsIt · 7 pointsr/AgainstHateSubreddits

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 = Enthnostate

Yes. 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.

u/prismjism · 6 pointsr/conspiracy

Not nearly as academic and much more tinfoil hat donning than Klein's work, but Paul Joseph Watson's Order Out of Chaos sounds more along the vein you were mentioning. He's a contributor to Alex Jones, so take it with a grain of salt. But interesting read, nonetheless.

u/vacaroiu · 6 pointsr/Romania

StAtUl PaRaLeL

edit: autorul, Basil Coronakis, e fondatorul New Europe și un apropiat al lui Dan Voiculescu.

u/yourmansconnect · 4 pointsr/worldnews

Sorry I yelled I'm hungover, and i just realized I responded to the wrong person I'm an idiot

Start here

Continue here

Give this a once over

I'm sure there's a ton of good reads, I enjoyed this book , but I'm sure someone else can point you in a right direction

Nvm I'm going back to sleep

u/Critton · 4 pointsr/QuotesPorn

I'm sure the French Frenchman is correct but it's also a simple google to see OP is wrong. and OP's translation is the exact title of a book.... [Nice try, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.] (http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Right-When-Government-Wrong/dp/B00A16SG4U)

u/skillfire87 · 3 pointsr/Austin

In the run up to the election, Donald Trump repeatedly referred to this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Clintons-War-Women-Robert-Morrow/dp/152264248X

It was written by none other than the conspiracy kook Robert Morrow https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/25/travis-county-gop-set-try-oust-morrow/ and Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Trump political "dirty trickster" Roger Stone.

Yeah, who cares . . . the election is over. But, the documentary is still worth watching to get some perspective on what happened (the Republican Party got hijacked). "Get Me Roger Stone" on Netflix.

u/lurkervon · 3 pointsr/ussoccer

I enjoyed the book How Soccer Explains the World book for the anecdotes on different teams

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/pics

Yep. And the same people reclassified the blacks as "African-American, whites as "Caucasian"(?), old people as "senior citizens", handicapped as "disabled" and then "differently abled", etc etc

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Police-Pressure-Restrict-Students/dp/0375414827

u/DaveChild · 3 pointsr/ukpolitics

The reviews are great:

> Deserves 0 [stars] but unfortunately not possible. What a load of utter nonsense! It's beyond my comprehension how this got published! It is based on pure fiction and has only one place: in the trash because that's what it is!

u/MasterCookSwag · 3 pointsr/investing
u/CQME · 2 pointsr/NeutralPolitics

> The comment you're responding to was in no way personal or inappropriate. The "you" was very generic.

If you keep reading, it becomes clear the opposite is true. The person very much meant it to be a personal reference. The person directly addresses me and equates his/her usage of the word 'you' in other instances as also direct addresses.

>Being harassed is not.

There was no harassment in this instance. Harassment, sexual assault, groping, etc, are not the issue here, because none such occurred. The issue is an ethics investigation.

edit:

>To my knowledge (based only on her Wikipedia entry, so I may be wrong) her nude appearance in Playboy was not until several years after the events in question anyway.

I'm going to go with this being enough to corroborate my argument, regardless of lack of nude photos.

u/Umm234 · 2 pointsr/politics

Yeah, sometimes.

Intelligence matters

Is a book by a Dem senator about GW Bush's failures around 9/11.

A side note I picked up is that the senator was working on the Patriot Act in the 90's w/Clinton Admin because of Embassy bombings by Bin Laden and Oklahoma City wasn't some instant conspiracy by Cheney and Satan after they set up 9/11.

I don't agree with it[e-surveillance] all, but , usually these people just think they are protecting us and we do need some secrets.

u/Greycinders · 2 pointsr/civ

FYI in spycraft, generally the spies are called “officers”, and the people they recruit (to spy on their behalf) are the “agents”. A “double-agent” would describe an agent that has been re-recruited by the other side. So in the recent case it was a Russian officer who defected. There’s an interesting [book] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1597971537/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_jQ.RAbHMWQANE) about this topic.

u/MarioneTTe-Doll · 2 pointsr/reddit.com

Let's use a few example quotes from his book on employee rights and fair pay:

> The idea that the social do-gooder can legislate a system which forces industry to pay men and women by comparable worth standards boggles the mind and further destroys our competitiveness in a world economy.

Later on, he states:

> Employee rights are said to be valid when employers pressure
employees into sexual activity. Why don't they quit once the so-called
harassment starts? Obviously the morals of the harasser cannot be defended, but how can the harassee escape some responsibility for the problem? Seeking protection under civil rights legislation is hardly acceptable. If force was clearly used, that is another story, but pressure and submission is hardly an example of a violation of one's employment rights.

Elsewhere in his book, he states:

> The concept of equal pay for equal work is not only an impossible
task, it can only be accomplished with the total rejection of the idea
of the voluntary contract.

Shortly after that paragraph:

> The idea that a businessman must hire anyone and is prevented from firing anyone for any reason he chooses and in the name of rights is a clear indication that the basic concept of a free society has been lost.

These alone would be enough of a reason for me to vote against him.

u/zenmasterzen3 · 2 pointsr/OneY

There's a trascript of the news report here:

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/fbi_lawsuit_update_part_5.htm

Dr John Hall has written two books on it:

https://www.amazon.com/New-Breed-Satellite-Terrorism/dp/1606939440
https://www.amazon.com/dp/163135552X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2/187-7908440-5923711?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=RW7QZNC3K9Y986WGT9HN&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1944687702&pf_rd_i=1606939440

Some of the victims have had MRI scans showing implants (to aid the stalking process) which emitted RF and were removed. Despite this hard physical evidence of illegal experimentation, this phenomenon is dismissed as mental illness.

If you think the Government is unlikely to hire private detectives (to avoid doing it themselves and hence be subject to FOIA - think Hillary and her email server) to stalk and rape women, look at official history where they raped children and fed them radioactive oatmeal:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/americas-deep-dark-secret/

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_MKUltra

u/Rob1bureau · 1 pointr/MilitaryPorn

The journalist (Marc Ambinder) who first reported that ACE was the new cover name for Delta (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/delta-force-gets-a-name-change/64310/) later said that ACE is some kind of intelligence/support unit working often for JSOC (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DNL3686/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb -- no preview available AFAIK).

u/notrab · 1 pointr/exmormon

It's really boring to read but you can get it from the title of his pamphlet.
"Civil rights, tool of communist deception"

http://www.amazon.com/Civil-rights-tool-communist-deception/dp/B0007FRU42#

u/rrggrr · 1 pointr/Intelligence

CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture

This book goes a long way toward hilariously debunking Snowden's view. The CIA appears to be just as flawed as the rest one would expect of a government entity.

u/scg30 · 1 pointr/soccer

Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football and Those Feet: A Sensual History of English Football by David Winner were both very well-written and enjoyable reads.

I personally didn't care very much for Franklin Foer's How Football Explains The World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, just found it to be a bit glib in its characterization of the game in different parts of the world, and somewhat reductive in its treatment of specific clubs and their supporters.

Also, I haven't read Soccernomics myself, but have heard/read many rave reviews so that's probably a good bet as many ITT have already mentioned it.

u/tocano · 1 pointr/antiwar

I haven't heard much from Dr. Pape since youtube videos of several of his presentations starting proliferating around 2010. I've been wanting to hear, 5 years later, if the conclusions from his - books regarding the motivations of suicide terrorists still hold true with ISIS as they did al Qaeda years earlier.

I am also curious about his views on Libya now. He was interviewed weeks after the multi-national intervention in Libya had begun and he listed it as an example, a precedent, of "healthy" intervention. There's a comment on that video that asks several important questions:

> So my question(s) for Dr. Pape -

  • Do you still see the Libyan intervention as a successful "healthy" intervention precedent or do you wish to recant or change your view of the interventions in Libya expressed in this video?
  • And if not "healthy", then do you, in retrospect, believe that the intervention itself was ill-advised?
  • Or do you simply believe that certain (unforeseeable) events occurred after the intervention that led to the current mess?

  • And if [it was unforeseeable events], what events and how would you have tried to avoid them?

u/Jahaangle · 1 pointr/worldnews

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

u/cocopopsreddit · 1 pointr/worldnews

you seem to be blaming islam for suicide vests, when in fact the united states foreign policy is far more responsible.

http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Fuse-Explosion-Suicide-Terrorism/dp/0226645657#customerReviews

you'd do well to read this book.

the us taxpayer has funded more terrorists, and is responsible for more deaths than islam ever has and you've disregarded all evidence of that as "playing the blame game". as such you are not a rational person and therefore there's no point in continuing to talk to you.

all the best.

ps. if you want to find out more about how your drones actually operate you should also look up "double tap drone strikes" because despite the sense I get that you think most muslims deserve to be killed for their religion(you rationalise the killing of innocent muslims by drones saying they are in a war zone, who declared war?)... i think you appreciate that drones are killing innocent people - and what that means morally.

u/kirkdict · 1 pointr/craftofintelligence

This is an excellent overview, thanks. For those interested in the serious study of this subject, Olson's Fair Play and To Catch a Spy rank among the best books on intelligence I have ever read. The notes and bibliographies alone are worth the price.

u/2legit2fart · 1 pointr/politics

That's because Al Franken actually treats women with respect and the media is conveniently leaving out the career history of his accuser.

His accuser appeared in Playboy in 1996 and 2011, and you can (try to) order copies from third-party sellers on Amazon.

u/diogenesbarrel · 1 pointr/pics

>It is anti-Semitic, partly because it's very traditional anti-Semitic bile to say that Jews are Marxists, but also because you are making it an issue. Why did you feel the need to bring it up?

The truth is anti-semitic? Why should I not bring that up, your Socialist/PC censorship doesn't allow it?

>Also, as an aside, the strangely specific yet content-free term "Cultural Marxism" appears over 600 times in Norwegian right-wing terrorist, Anders Breivik's "manifesto".

How much "Marxism" and "Socialism" do you want to see in the speeches and books of the greatest murderers in History, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc?

>For your information, I'm studying political science to a high academic level

You're part of the problem then.

http://www.amazon.com/Brainwashed-Universities-Indoctrinate-Americas-Youth/dp/0785261486

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Police-Pressure-Restrict-Students/dp/0375414827

http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Superstition-Academic-Quarrels-Science/dp/0801857074







u/abednego8 · 1 pointr/todayilearned

I read a good book about JSOC here. You should be proud. Sounds like it would be a bad idea to get in a bar fight with one of these guys.

u/nudelete · 1 pointr/Nudelete

>All questions Roger Stone addressed in his live AMA now have typed out answers in the thread. During the AMA the typist fell behind but now all the questions Stone tackledduring the AMA have full answers.
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> Mr. Stone's /r/The_Donald AMA.
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Full video AMA courtesy of Infowars.
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> Highlights from Stone AMA.
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>#Reminder that Infowars Editor at Large, Paul Joseph Watson will be here next Thursday, June 2nd for an AMA at 7PM EST. Streamed live via Infowars.
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>His articles have been featured hundreds of times on the Drudge Report and he has appeared as a guest on numerous popular radio shows, television broadcasts, and podcasts, Including RT, Coast to Coast AM, Louder With Crowder and Stefan Molyneux. He's also author of the 2003 book, Order out of Chaos.
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u/FrontpageWatch · 1 pointr/longtail

>All questions Roger Stone addressed in his live AMA now have typed out answers in the thread. During the AMA the typist fell behind but now all the questions Stone tackledduring the AMA have full answers.
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> Mr. Stone's /r/The_Donald AMA.
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Full video AMA courtesy of Infowars.
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> Highlights from Stone AMA.
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>#Reminder that Infowars Editor at Large, Paul Joseph Watson will be here next Thursday, June 2nd for an AMA at 7PM EST. Streamed live via Infowars.
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>His articles have been featured hundreds of times on the Drudge Report and he has appeared as a guest on numerous popular radio shows, television broadcasts, and podcasts, Including RT, Coast to Coast AM, Louder With Crowder and Stefan Molyneux. He's also author of the 2003 book, Order out of Chaos.
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Paul's Twitter
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u/geerab · 1 pointr/TargetedEnergyWeapons

Three mods is enough. This sub is not active enough to need more than that. We get maybe 1-2 top level posts per day.

They are TIs, to call them mentally ill is to be blind to facts and to side with the perps. When a majority of T.I.s voice concern about these symptoms, you listen not denigrate. I'm not gonna let this sub lose it's way because you want to be blind to facts. Shape up.

As for references, https://www.amazon.com/New-Breed-Satellite-Terrorism/dp/1606939440 (Voices are mentioned in the Amazon description), https://www.facebook.com/GuineaPigscontrol/posts/cia-us-department-of-defense-mind-control-will-destroy-humanitymind-control-tech/10153286004994909/ (Bryan Tew) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA8SJI7jKYs&list=PLmIU4C5KgG3VEHR878MA8cb6z2ClDS9sy&index=30&t=0s (Transcription on the side of the video)

As I have said, asking for more data is fine, banning something outright based on your (wrong) opinion is stupid. Please stop calling victims of V2K and Synthetic Telepathy mentally ill as well. It's rude and dismissive.

u/ssieradzki · 1 pointr/atheism

There is a book I read freshman year of college called The Language Police that talks a lot about the same issue, but in school textbooks

Its a very good read and id suggest it

http://www.amazon.com/The-Language-Police-Pressure-Restrict/dp/0375414827