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Though the New Left became a thing in the 1960s, it was particularly effective in ending the old Democratic Party as such, aside from the Scoop Jackson wing which didn't last for long. E.g. from the 2nd paragraph of Sander's Wikipedia page:

> [He] attended Brooklyn College before graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964. While a student he was an active protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement.

I learned this in great detail because I came of political age between the first and second successful election of Nixon, and by the mid-1970s was wondering, what happened to the country I thought I was growing up in? How did it all turn to shit?

> A decade later Ronald Reagan and extreme conservative deregulation policies took over America.

Ha ha ha ha. Really should learn your history there, for example, it was Carter and people like Ted Kennedy who started the end of the Civil Aeronautics Board and Interstate Commerce Commission, freeing airlines, railroads, and most important trucking from the total regulation regime of the Feds. Of course, Carter didn't end the Nixon Wage and Price Control regime's total regulation of liquid fuel production and distribution, the 1970s "Energy Crisis" magically disappeared when Reagan did that as soon as he assumed office.

Seriously, my father build a tank farm of 55 gallon barrels of gasoline because of the insane policies we watched and read about every day where D.C. bureaucrats directed where every gallon of gasoline and diesel fuel went, but it wasn't needed because they weren't the modern sort, they made sure farming regions in the heartland never ran out.

You might find Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets enlightening, especially at the Congressional level, especially with taxes, this operates more as an extortion racket than anything ideological. If you continue to think that's not the case with Obama's "Green" policies, then read Peter Schweizer's latest book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, turns out a lot of Obama's friends made out like bandits with "smash and grab" tactics, he smashed industries, they bought shared of them very cheaply. What was the nation thinking when they made a Chicago politican president?!?!?!!!???

> I'm not even sure where to start sorting myself (and my place!) out

Peterson won't tell you exactly how to clean up your place but many people have had good luck with Marie Kondo to get in the right mindset for that. Maybe that's a good place to start in the meantime. There's even a frikkin manga version because why not (which I may or may not have ordered a second ago >.>).

It most likely won't tell you anything you haven't heard before but sometimes it can help to hear it in the right words for it to finally click. There are also free 'cliffnotes' on peoples blogs if you look for it, but I think it loses its impact that way.

Other than that I can recommend Bite-sized Philosophy if you don't have the time to listen to Peterson's complete lectures.

This won't give you the same structured approach as the Self-Authoring Suite, the idea is more to keep yourself surrounded with the ideas and concepts that Peterson promotes. I'm the kind of person that has to be surrounded by a new idea constantly and hear it again and again for it to completely sink in, perhaps this will help you too.

This puts me in mind of a quote from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged;

>"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get It straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

>Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

More recently a book called Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent illustrated from the viewpoint of modern attorneys what Rand proposed as a philosopher. By the way, for those that object to Rand as a 'right winger' (or whatever), note that Three Felonies is written by civil libertarians in good standing Harvey Silverglate(1) and Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz.

Well, they were in good standing, except they stayed liberals while the Left moved on from them...

(1) You may know him as one of the founders of FIRE.

> there's a strong case that a lot of the postmodernist bullshit could be easily countered by a strong religious identity

AMEN TO THAT.

> the most optimal balances of personal freedom vs controlling the worst aspects of human behavior

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You need the two most definitive books that outline GamerGate, the lead up to today's problems, how to crush the SJW and how to win.

Vox Day, SJWs always lie.

SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police (The Laws of Social Justice Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014GMBUR4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vUaQBb1J635SS

Then

SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating the Thought Police (The Laws of Social Justice Book 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075BGGKLG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_WUaQBb5CMGKYP

> Antarctic Press :D my 3rd most frequently purchased comics publisher after Slave Labor Graphics and Dark Horse! mainly just the odd issue of Fred Perry's Gold Digger but mainly their How to Draw Manga books.

Didn't realize they were the How to Draw Manga book guys. Have a ton of them.

I remember back in the day the guy behind "Listening to 11.975Mhz" had a page up on them. He uh... wasn't a fan. He suggested instead an actual book on Figure Drawing / Anatomy -- Jack Hamm's was specifically suggested and a book by Stan Lee on how old school, pre-diversity hire retards Marvel did comicing -- How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.

I love Jonathan Haidt. His book "The Righteous Mind" is, I think, one of the most important books written in the past century and should be required reading for all high-schoolers and then read again yearly for anyone going into the social sciences or humanities.

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> You just tried to claim the Obama admin isn't Obama

I didn't try to claim it. I stated what an administration is. The president is not the administration. If you can't figure that out, well: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1420659685/

> I have no idea why people can't admit they're wrong.

I think that's something you have to ask yourself.

> I have no idea what it is with Trump and why the type of person he attracts is just clueless and capable of gold medal caliber mental gymnastics.

I wasn't even the one who started the discussion about Trump...

There was one published on Amazon written by a guy that nobody had heard of. I don't think anyone on either side really cared.

https://www.amazon.ca/Understanding-Gamergate-Sarkeesian-Justice-Warriors-ebook/dp/B00VU7QZF6

SJWs Always Double Down - coming in October to Amazon. :)

Have you read the Good Word? It got translated into weeb recently.

The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385524315/

Ooooooooh. One more for the list.

I started reading this a while ago, but haven't finished. It's an interesting exploration of the "other side" of campaign finance reform: the corporations who want money out of politics because they're tired of feeling extorted by politicians.

Now, that's really surprising to us, but apparently the history of campaign finance reform actually began with efforts from the private sector to stop being shaken down for money by Tammany Hall/Gilded Age types.

The point of the book is not to portray corporations as powerless victims (they're certainly complicit), but to shed light on a part of the issue that most people usually don't know about. In a way it actually gave me a bit of hope to think that there are private sector entities who are tired of feeling obligated to finance campaigns or fall behind their competitors, and would like to exit the money game in politics.

Grayson is so ignorant of European history and knows so little of how Hitler rose to power that he doesn't understand how this exact kind of "beat the fascists wherever you encounter them" rhetoric, and the resultant breakdown of civil discourse and democratic compromise, was instrumental to Nazi success.

Read a fucking book, Nate. Specifically this book. Yes, I know it has a picture of Hitler on the cover, but try to power through your mental breakdown and read it anyway.

I am reading this book right now and it is also draws a pretty bleak picture and shows this has been going on for 40 odd years.

> Wehret den Anfängen ;)

Way too late for that I am afraid.

Sounds a lot like the arguments in The Righteous Mind, which I highly recommend if you haven't read already.

Here's this one, don't worry about this book being written by a neutral author/stance. Since Brianna Wu gave the book a one-star: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Gamergate-Sarkeesian-Justice-Warriors-ebook/dp/B00VU7QZF6?keywords=gamergate&qid=1537737320&sr=8-5&ref=sr_1_5

> even at the cost of denying the mother agency and bodily autonomy

We Westerners are apparently okay with locking children into prisons for 9 years (12 years, 9 out of 12 months) when they could pick up the same skills in less time with less "formal" schooling. We also work for many months to pay taxes before we make enough to take home. You'll need to come up with a better excuse.

This "lost autonomy" is only from the date when the woman becomes aware of her condition, the loss is pretty much limited to, "you'll be a bit fat for a while, then lose most of it all at once."

Most anti-abortionists would gladly make birth control free to all women in exchange for the elimination of abortion. But for some, abortion at 8 months is preferable to them wondering what happened to the child they gave away. Gotta preserve that autonomy somehow.

BTW: A (very funny) discussion of open adoption was given by Dan Savage of all people.

This book, it seems:

https://www.amazon.com/Antifa-Anti-Fascist-Handbook-Mark-Bray/dp/1612197035/

Time for you to go read this: Rules for radicals

The Forsaken also deals with this for much of the book, and has a bunch of additional stuff that Razorfist might not be aware of/didn't cover.

except for you know, the one child policy, abortion debates, materity/paternity leave, tax breaks for dependents, hundreds of articles on declining birth rates across tons of countries, and the very foundation of evolutionary development. Sure there isnt as much to teach exactly but our very genetic foundation is to reproduce or to help offspring develop to the point they can reproduced.

Why dont you read The Selfish Gene
https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Popular-Science/dp/0192860925

Get yourself a copy of the book The Feminist Lie, which is written specifically to counter feminist talking points with an exhaustive number of citations.

>> I didn't try to claim it. I stated what an administration is. The president is not the administration. If you can't figure that out, well: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1420659685/

The current president's administration is very much "him" and he runs it dude, this is what I'm saying. The point is, Trump very clearly accused Obama of this and you aren't being intellectually honest if you don't think that.

>> I think that's something you have to ask yourself.

Except I'm not the one that was wrong here, and I've proven that. Your defense is some serious mental gymnastics where you try to claim Trump wasn't accusing Obama when he was very clearly was.

>> I wasn't even the one who started the discussion about Trump...

And that isn;t relevant, because you tried to defend his blatant lying and claim they were not lies.

I think it's important, at times like these, that we recognize the good stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatterpoint

https://www.amazon.com/Traitor-Star-Wars-Jedi-Order/dp/034542865X

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Luke_Skywalker_and_the_Shadows_of_Mindor

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_III:_Revenge_of_the_Sith_(novel)

The Thrawn Trilogy isn't bad too, but those above four are stand-out, literary quality pieces among a sea of mediocrity that is the Star Wars expanded universe.

hate to pull this out but: http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Practical-Primer-Realistic/dp/0679721134
they are pissed #gamergate is not falling to their tactics and even co-opting them!
it's glorious watching these people crash and burn!

https://www.amazon.com/Feminist-Lie-Never-About-Equality-ebook/dp/B071SG95CN
didn't take gamergate, the consequences of feminism alone push people to make the case against them.
The consequences of feminism becoming toxic are readily apparent all around us. From mattress girl to the barren feminist women of merkels europe opening the door to invasion for rather sick reasons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXrjaOLqH2g
Its become a problem impossible to ignore, its no longer just annoying, its becoming destructive to western civilization.

> the very nature of addressing the privileged upper class is addressing the power and privilege that their money and status grants them. It's inherently critical of neoliberal capitalism because of this.

Bullshit; money and power never enter into any approved privilege dynamic. If the did, Warren wouldn’t constantly be on the defensive from neolibs like Harris accusing her of pandering to racism by not mentioning race enough.

> You specifically left out the "class war" shit that gets the right so assblasted.

If you’re talking about conservatives, they’re the other side of the neolib coin. And again, neoliberalism loves to get proles fighting and then have the left hail it as the coming of the class war, this is what happens all the time, and it’s why Antifa believes they’re fighting the power by breaking a Starbucks window.

> another leftist movement in America sabotaged. Better uncritically blame people being mean

Yeah, the people being mean were the neolibs. They destroyed it with woke social progressivism. You subscribe to a morality that was invented to undermine genuine anger at elites and turn it into a squabble over race. That’s your side that did that.

> Trump voters are older fat fucks who make money as landlords or pool cleaning businesses.

Absolute bullshit; he won on the backs of angry disenfranchised laborers who were being displaced by literal slave labor from the south. The fat fucks vote GOP no matter what, not the people who came out to vote for him in ‘16.

> The real hard workers? The ones who know that shit is stupid and just want what's best for their family? We can work with that.

“We can work with the proles as long as they just shut up and admit that we’re morally better than them because we went to college and learned how privilege actually works, the dumb fucks.”

> how people being mean made everyone a Nazi

“Less and less attention was paid to defending the real needs of the working class, and finally political expediency made it seem undesirable to relieve the social or cultural miseries of the broad masses at all, for otherwise there was a risk that these masses, satisfied in their desires could no longer be used forever as docile shock troops.” -Hitler on nominally pro-labor progressives

He says, multiple times, in his book, that he would not have been able to get people to vote for him if the socdems hadn’t embraced this sort of unhelpful proletarian infighting. He literally brags about how lefty parties scorning the working class left a giant door for him to walk through. He says that if the bourgeoise wanted to defang the socdems, they’d treat the workers better, and laughs at them for being unable to realize that.

> Why weren't the small government conservatives put into camps?

They were. The Center party, a spineless nominally center-right party, was outlawed and its members forced to join the NSDAP on pain of prison, just like the socialists who were told it was the SA or jail.

Oh, and attempting to co-opt actual pro-worker movements as “SJW’s”, who are authoritarian neolibs, is sickening.

> a failure of the left is not justification to become a Nazi

I didn’t say it justified anything, I said it was a cause. No, it isn’t justified, but when people are treated badly, they lash out and run to the other end of the spectrum. This is just human nature; you have to deal with it.

> what the fuck is up with you guys acting like antifa is an organization or something?

Their official, designated handbook is literally given away by Amazon, they have cell leaders like Felarca, they have fucking sponsors. Just because a group is organized by cells to be harder to track doesn’t mean it isn’t unified or doesn’t follow an organizational philosophy.

> Where is their mission statement? How do they coordinate?

Read their book for details. I found it very interesting.

> Who is the Al-Baghdadi of antifa?

Movements don’t need singular leaders. Baghdadi dies tomorrow, ISIS will still exist. Their aims are set by the people who pay them, so that’s NGO’s, universities, other lefty groups, corporate sponsors like BK, etc.

> who's side were the "Jews will not replace us!" protesters on?

The Nazi side, I’d guess.

> 'm becoming a little concerned with the fact that you guys seem to think that white people like me becoming Nazi's is a natural reaction to anti-racism and progressive politics?

When people are treated badly, they respond by lashing out. Neoliberalism has fucked them. The left has hung them out to dry. They’re naturally gonna embrace nasty shit on the other side of the spectrum; I’m not saying this is good, but I’m saying it is happening.

Don't get me wrong, I don't support any "hate crime" or "hate speech" legislation, hence why I said it would almost be worth it. I just think it would be hilarious to see people like Jessica Valenti and Jess Philips and The Guardian charged with hate crimes. Trolls in the UK could have a field day (actually they already could, given current hate speech statutes; what are they waiting for?).

Ironically the epidemic of "misogyny" is mostly imaginary (at least in mainstream British culture), while the epidemic of misandry is mostly real. So who are the real trolls? You can read explicit anti-male "hate speech" on any given day in mainstream news publications, but feminists have to search far and wide (cat-calling, fat-shaming, attractive women in video games etc.) to find their misogyny boogeyman. Indeed according to some academics in Canada, misandry has now become institutionalized in the western world.

There is an argument to be made that making misandry illegal could force feminists to realize their own stupidity/solipsism/irrationality, and therefore put an end to hate think laws, but unfortunately I wouldn't bet on that. Due to aforementioned stupidity/solipsism/irrationality.