Since we're talking a bit about limited hangout websites, here's one definition: A limited hangout website will solve old crimes and finger dead criminals as a distraction from the monstrous crime in progress. That's Unz Review to a T!
I was there when you were being attacked. Commenters asserted that you were a communist, that you were not in Africa, that your way of living was akin to panhandling, that you wrote about losers, and that you were a moon landing denialist. It appeared to be done mostly by people who didn't normally comment on your threads. Perhaps Unz does attract belligerent, angry people with a litany of pet peeves, more than other sites, but it also has some very thoughtful and knowledgeable contributors.
I tend to read above my level of understanding so that down the road in a few years I might get it. My formal education ended at 10
th grade as I just lost interest in what was offered. After that, I just read books that caught my interest. I didn't hardly write anything till puters came to be, but still hardly.
You reminded me, with your style of writing, of the books that I had enjoyed, so I latched onto your articles instead of textbook Ron's.
I don't mind writing. I giggle at my own stuff till I hit the post button. Then it is all anxiety while I think of countless ways I can be interpreted. I think I should go back and see if someone replied, but that's going to make my anxiety worse! Some of these commenters can see right through anything! Or, at the very least, make others believe they can!
So as a compromise, I sometimes do go back, and sometimes I don't much like a president, or perhaps a white pussy!
That thought spurs me to think I am no pussy, I hang out with bears and shit in the bush. I even shot some when raided. These guys probably work in an office.
Go back!
No! I don't want to do that!
So I understand Linh. You're a lot braver than I am!
Of whatever nationality or color, at least 90% of the people I meet in real life are decent and civil, and I've always enjoyed people's company, though as a writer, I also know how to be alone. The assholes at Unz, though, are barbaric in ways that are hard to fathom, and I talked about this to some new friends the other day in Vung Tau. These were white guys from the USA, Canada, Australia and Denmark. There has been a shift for the worse in the USA, and it's been deliberately engineered. This savage and cowardly rage solves nothing, and Unz is part of the problem.
When in comes to the Jewjab, Albert Bourla, Klaus Schwab and insane lockdowns that destroy millions of lives, Ron Unz himself sounds like a paid intelligence troll.
I agree that Unz may well be in bed with the culprits that want to change America into a place that is more easily managed and more secure for them. Having us fight each other keeps their involvement hidden while we self- destruct. Derogatory labels brought forth by some out of anger is not a healing process. The whole world seems to be run by psychos whose empathy has been removed, if it was ever there to begin with. Once you attain power, you start feeling superior, which then tends to manifest as narcissism. Ron ridiculed anyone who got their information from videos as stupid, till he himself was interviewed by Red Ice and you would think by the sound of him that he had just saved the world!
I don't post there anymore. I hardly ever did, as I was out of my league anyway. I drop by every once and awhile to see if there is something I want to read, and that's about it. I don't know if assholes are made there or if it's assholes that go there. One can certainly find those prone to caustic remarks on just about any site, but perhaps the most narcissistic and insufferable find a home with some of the writers at Unz. Or some are just agents sent there. There definitely seems to be a war on to mess up your mind, body, and spirit. So yes, it is a good idea to stay away from places that you find that may be up to just that.
Commenting under one’s own name usually has the effect of moderating the writer’s tone to that which would usually be used in face to face conversation.
The egregious examples you’ve selected from UR all use pseudonyms and go to emphasise the bravery of a wide spectrum of writers such as yourself, who call out insidiously evil group behaviour for what it is and do so under their own name - sometimes at great financial cost.
Thanks for your vivid description of life in a bustling Vietnamese town. With cocks crowing in garage yards and tiny roof gardens providing spices and edible plants, rainwater collection in pails and solar panels on rooftops it’s funny to think that people can live so off the grid whilst residing in the middle of it. No acreage living on a country estate here…!
Coincidentally Google Maps’ street photos near your hotel in Vung Tau mirror your description of a people that finds enjoyment in company, rather than in ‘splendid isolation’. By which I mean that all the faces are visibly recognisable rather than being pixelated into NPC’s as is the case elsewhere in the world.
I wonder why the general building signage that’s visible in the photos is solely in the Latin alphabet. The Thais have their alphabet and the Cambodians theirs but did the Vietnamese not have their own alphabet characters before the Latin characters were introduced by Europeans?
China colonized Vietnam from 111BC until 938AD, when it was finally evicted by Ngo Quyen. All literate Vietnamese until the 20th century knew Chinese, although Vietnam also had his own script, based on Chinese.
Modern Vietnamese writing was first developed by several Portuguese priests, most notably Francisco de Pina (1585-1625), António Barbosa (1594-1647) and Gaspar do Amaral (1592-1646). Alexandre de Rhodes (1593-1660), though, made the biggest contribution with his Vietnamese/Portuguese/Latin dictionary [Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum] of 1651. Though born in Avignon, Rhodes was a converted Jew whose family came from Aragon, Spain. These priests' only aim was to help other priests learn Vietnamese so they could convert the Vietnamese. Their system, though, was so logical and easy to learn, it was adopted in the 20th century as the national script.
confucius was among the earliest to write down this sentiment - his 2nd thought: "The Master said: “Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places?"
Spent some time the other day checking out Vung Tau on the internet. Incredible looking place. Your pics really capture the spirit. I especially like the picture of the Buddha off in the distance. Something about "things off in the distance" that fascinate me. Right now (4 am local), I can hear a train whistle that's more than 2 miles away. Something hypnotic about it or maybe I've just gone off the deep end.
Apparently, we have a Vietnamese Suns fan on the local website. Goes by the handle "Anh hung ban Phim"....Keyboard Hero ?
Was out walking the other day (been beautiful in PHX lately) and noticed about half the young people I saw were wearing masks. Sad.
Like Springer, Unz abets boorishness without being a lout himself. Notice that the commenters there are almost exclusively white men. Women and nonwhites are routinely shouted down. Search for any racial slur at Unz to see how commonly it's used gratuitously.
Not all of us who comment on Unz.com have our minds in the gutter, Linh. I comment on both TUR and your substack, and am happy to pay for each.. As an old white man myself, I hope you don't hold that against me.
I have nothing against white men, or black, brown or yellow men and women, etc. I have nothing against anybody for who they are. I do have serious problems with a website that encourages asshole behavior in the name of free speech. Like Jerry Springer, Unz wants whites to behave as badly as possible while pretending to fight for them, but with the Covid vaccine issue, he reveals his true color by mocking those who simply raise questions about this monstrous Jewish crime.
P.S. A limited hangout website needs sane and legitimate writers and readers to pull it off, so yes, there are writers and commenters there worth reading, but I, for one, don't need to go there, for its main purpose is to muddy the water and steer readers away from this monstrous crime in progress. Common Dreams and CounterPunch are similarly useless, and I wrote for them at one time too.
Jews are expert at sowing racial divisions. I used to think the racial slurs against me at Unz were glitches, then I realized I was there to provoke such asshole behavior. Unz needed me for that, and no, Unz doesn't allow all comments. He blocks those that make him look particularly foolish. If you call him a kike, though, that's fine, because that merely reinforces the image of whites he wants to project.
Yes, I have called him out a few times and on at least one occasion experienced censorship. My comment was respectful and considered and included some data and sourced. Instead of an answer, I got censored.
I also had the feeling you were bait for the uglies, as are others like Anglin in a different way. The pile on which seemed to accompany your articles there was unique in it's personal nature and insults though. I went to bat for you a few times, but felt it was a waste of time. Like trying to lower the tide with a bucket.
Common Dreams lost me years ago. The pig headedness of Ron's obsession with his imagined coup regarding the origins of the virus, despite the fact this was never even in question for many and the refusal to acknowledge the damning evidence of the harmful death shots, of the true perps who also happen to be "rich" white men, drove me away in its own right too.
Unz and Sailer are both villainous Pied Pipers, positioned to shepherd so-called "white nationalists" deep within the fold of the "global pandemic" narrative. Unz's effete and lame "attack-on-China-blowback" theory is an engineered narrative variant, tailor-made to appeal to the contrarian mentality of the site's followers, without deviating from the official narrative in any material respect.
What I find funny about that one is that Unz got near-zero mileage out of his lame theory, even among his diehard audience. I think his resentment at the general rejection of what he believed to be an expert piece of disinfo design accounts for his uncharacteristically vulgar and pugnacious attacks against the commentariat there, which have now become commonplace for him.
But returning to my basic thesis: Unz and Sailer are long-positioned disinfo agents who were "cashed in" with the "pandemic" narrative, after building a reputation and following on dissenting on mainstream narratives. This is similar to how Alex Jones got "cashed in" for the Trump presidential campaign, when for the first time Jones becamea devoted partisan political advocate, after building his whole career up to that point on consistently antiestablishment rabble-rousing. In 2016, when Jones started supporting the candidacy of obvious planted-actor-puppet Trump, I knew instantly something was deeply wrong, and that it had all been a set-up. Similarly, in early 2020, when Sailer started promoting panic-buying and "self-isolation" because of a "disease"...at first I thought he was completely out of his mind. Since I don't watch TeeVee I had no idea that that was the prevailing mainstream narrative. But as soon as I heard that same narrative---that of pure unmitigated insanity---from my coworkers at the office, I realize I had been had.
Yes, I had to give up commenting on the UNZ site and only once in a while click on it to see if anything worthwhile is up. A couple of writers hosted there are worth reading. Even Anglin sometimes. He can't help himself either though, regularly feeding the eels. The tone of the site is very much set by some of the lowest lifeforms to be included in the term "White men" As a "white man" myself, I felt superfluous making a considered comment and too often couldn't just ignore it when bumping into some stinking, obnoxious vomit masquerading as a comment.
The Unz comment section about broke my sanity. It's so much nicer here Linh. The tone and tenor are much more respectful.
I'm a middling aged white dude who thinks he's ok with the world about half the time and simply have no energy for organized "white identity". It's exhausting. I'd rather focus on simpler pursuits.
Whites have interests they should protect, but they defeat themselves by calling people niggers and gooks, which Unz encourages them to do. International readers who stray into UR are aghast at the beastly behavior often on display there.
Since whites routinely turn friends into enemies at Unz Review, it's about the worst vehicle for white interests. It is a sick joke, really. UR is often akin to a KKK rally with an unhooded Jew as grand wizard!
Watching this ugly and impotent spectacle, all enemies of whites can't help but laugh.
Jim Goad, a Philly native was my introduction to "alternative media" via Taki's Magazine about ten years aga. The Redneck Manifesto got me here I suppose.
I was listening to NPR's Democracy Now in the barracks after deployment in late 2011 and remember thinking something like, "Uhh, bullshit. This is fishy..."
Takimag led to Unz and the "alt right" and yaddyeeyaddaa.
It's been a strange intellectual ride. I just keep reading.
I'm exhausted with analysis and political commentary.
It was the literary tone of your writing that got me here. Much appreciated Linh!
Of course, I love reading Linh too. But one lone writer can't be compared with a large online magazine which produces many new articles, from many different writers, seven days a week. I pick and choose those articles which strike my fancy, and comment if I think I can add something to the conversation. Sorry to hear that TUR's comment section, just about broke your sanity. Just a thought, but maybe you paid too much attention to ignorant commenters who messed with your mental health. You could have just read the articles you liked and bypassed all the comments.
I don't disagree. Unz introduced me to Postcards, Pepe Escobar, Philip Giraldi, The Saker and I'm grateful for these voices. I'm can be an obsessive along with a propensity for addiction. Unz was like checking in on a tabloid after multiple years. I don't look upon it with rancor, it just wasn't a healthy fit. Thank you for your comment. Glad we're both here!
If a commenter on Unz disagreed with John Johnson, Wizard of Oz,ron ,raches, that would be telling, and a handful of others, then I liked that commenter no matter how crude or rude he was. They're up there with the Trailer Trash Boys in my book. Respect!
Hi everybody,
Since we're talking a bit about limited hangout websites, here's one definition: A limited hangout website will solve old crimes and finger dead criminals as a distraction from the monstrous crime in progress. That's Unz Review to a T!
Linh
Hi all,
Holding my nose, I just went into Unz for a quick search, and below are some recent results. They do go on and on:
Open Thread 184: Russia/Ukraine
Karlin Community • April 15, 2022 • 100 Words • 837 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "songbird" at April 15, 2022 12:14 PM • 500 Words
... moved away from essentialist words - Nigger and (and the formerly very...
Open Thread 184: Russia/Ukraine
Karlin Community • April 14, 2022 • 100 Words • 837 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "silviosilver" at April 14, 2022 8:54 PM • 200 Words
... originally proffered it, it was "nigger thy neighbor," which is a...
Mariupol: 1000 Gay Satanic Terrorists Surrender in a Single Day
Andrew Anglin • April 14, 2022 • 1,100 Words • 276 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "GKWillie" at April 13, 2022 5:37 PM
Ok niggers, break time's over. The adults are having a conversation. That cotton's not going to pick itself.
California Punches the Tar Baby
Jared Taylor • April 11, 2022 • 1,500 Words • 226 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "Anonymous" at April 11, 2022 7:13 AM
It's as true and demonstrable as any universal mathematical axiom: Systemic kikery equals systemic niggerism squared.
California Punches the Tar Baby
Jared Taylor • April 11, 2022 • 1,500 Words • 226 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "Anonymous" at April 11, 2022 12:52 PM • 100 Words
... Barack Obama is just another nigger. State of California proclaims that...
Sit Back and Watch Europe Commit Suicide
Pepe Escobar • April 11, 2022 • 1,600 Words • 380 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "Dave Bowman" at April 11, 2022 1:46 PM • 200 Words
... will also be under-40's niggers, whilst the vast statistical majority...
Getting Away with Rape
Brittany Smith • April 11, 2022 • 2,100 Words • 67 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "Dr. Robert Morgan" at April 11, 2022 5:03 PM • 300 Words
... been ridden by a hundred niggers to become the star she...
California Punches the Tar Baby
Jared Taylor • April 11, 2022 • 1,500 Words • 226 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "GKWillie" at April 11, 2022 6:59 PM
Meaningless word salad/blizzard of bullshit. STFU nigger.
Sit Back and Watch Europe Commit Suicide
Pepe Escobar • April 9, 2022 • 1,600 Words • 380 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "Gaylord of the German Gaylands" at April 9, 2022 5:36 AM • 100 Words
... been more greedy than you niggers, whose chieftains made fortunes by...
Sit Back and Watch Europe Commit Suicide
Pepe Escobar • April 9, 2022 • 1,600 Words • 380 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "Dick O\'Toole" at April 9, 2022 9:18 AM • 100 Words
... Snoop and Dr Dre said "Niggers dont give a fuck"
Getting Away with Rape
Brittany Smith • April 6, 2022 • 2,100 Words • 67 Comments • Reply
• Comment by "Dr. Robert Morgan" at April 6, 2022 12:31 AM • 400 Words
... for the outcome as the niggers themselves. That makes you, Rosie... course. Among white women, riding nigger cock is a fashion statement...
I was there when you were being attacked. Commenters asserted that you were a communist, that you were not in Africa, that your way of living was akin to panhandling, that you wrote about losers, and that you were a moon landing denialist. It appeared to be done mostly by people who didn't normally comment on your threads. Perhaps Unz does attract belligerent, angry people with a litany of pet peeves, more than other sites, but it also has some very thoughtful and knowledgeable contributors.
I tend to read above my level of understanding so that down the road in a few years I might get it. My formal education ended at 10
th grade as I just lost interest in what was offered. After that, I just read books that caught my interest. I didn't hardly write anything till puters came to be, but still hardly.
You reminded me, with your style of writing, of the books that I had enjoyed, so I latched onto your articles instead of textbook Ron's.
I don't mind writing. I giggle at my own stuff till I hit the post button. Then it is all anxiety while I think of countless ways I can be interpreted. I think I should go back and see if someone replied, but that's going to make my anxiety worse! Some of these commenters can see right through anything! Or, at the very least, make others believe they can!
So as a compromise, I sometimes do go back, and sometimes I don't much like a president, or perhaps a white pussy!
That thought spurs me to think I am no pussy, I hang out with bears and shit in the bush. I even shot some when raided. These guys probably work in an office.
Go back!
No! I don't want to do that!
So I understand Linh. You're a lot braver than I am!
Hi uddr,
Of whatever nationality or color, at least 90% of the people I meet in real life are decent and civil, and I've always enjoyed people's company, though as a writer, I also know how to be alone. The assholes at Unz, though, are barbaric in ways that are hard to fathom, and I talked about this to some new friends the other day in Vung Tau. These were white guys from the USA, Canada, Australia and Denmark. There has been a shift for the worse in the USA, and it's been deliberately engineered. This savage and cowardly rage solves nothing, and Unz is part of the problem.
Linh
The comment section of Unz is crawling with paid intelligence trolls. I’m about 99% sure of this.
When in comes to the Jewjab, Albert Bourla, Klaus Schwab and insane lockdowns that destroy millions of lives, Ron Unz himself sounds like a paid intelligence troll.
I agree that Unz may well be in bed with the culprits that want to change America into a place that is more easily managed and more secure for them. Having us fight each other keeps their involvement hidden while we self- destruct. Derogatory labels brought forth by some out of anger is not a healing process. The whole world seems to be run by psychos whose empathy has been removed, if it was ever there to begin with. Once you attain power, you start feeling superior, which then tends to manifest as narcissism. Ron ridiculed anyone who got their information from videos as stupid, till he himself was interviewed by Red Ice and you would think by the sound of him that he had just saved the world!
I don't post there anymore. I hardly ever did, as I was out of my league anyway. I drop by every once and awhile to see if there is something I want to read, and that's about it. I don't know if assholes are made there or if it's assholes that go there. One can certainly find those prone to caustic remarks on just about any site, but perhaps the most narcissistic and insufferable find a home with some of the writers at Unz. Or some are just agents sent there. There definitely seems to be a war on to mess up your mind, body, and spirit. So yes, it is a good idea to stay away from places that you find that may be up to just that.
Commenting under one’s own name usually has the effect of moderating the writer’s tone to that which would usually be used in face to face conversation.
The egregious examples you’ve selected from UR all use pseudonyms and go to emphasise the bravery of a wide spectrum of writers such as yourself, who call out insidiously evil group behaviour for what it is and do so under their own name - sometimes at great financial cost.
Hi everyone,
Here's the latest from Teacher Mike in Shanghai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teGnCHFIBpY
Linh
Thanks for your vivid description of life in a bustling Vietnamese town. With cocks crowing in garage yards and tiny roof gardens providing spices and edible plants, rainwater collection in pails and solar panels on rooftops it’s funny to think that people can live so off the grid whilst residing in the middle of it. No acreage living on a country estate here…!
Coincidentally Google Maps’ street photos near your hotel in Vung Tau mirror your description of a people that finds enjoyment in company, rather than in ‘splendid isolation’. By which I mean that all the faces are visibly recognisable rather than being pixelated into NPC’s as is the case elsewhere in the world.
I wonder why the general building signage that’s visible in the photos is solely in the Latin alphabet. The Thais have their alphabet and the Cambodians theirs but did the Vietnamese not have their own alphabet characters before the Latin characters were introduced by Europeans?
Hi Jon,
China colonized Vietnam from 111BC until 938AD, when it was finally evicted by Ngo Quyen. All literate Vietnamese until the 20th century knew Chinese, although Vietnam also had his own script, based on Chinese.
Modern Vietnamese writing was first developed by several Portuguese priests, most notably Francisco de Pina (1585-1625), António Barbosa (1594-1647) and Gaspar do Amaral (1592-1646). Alexandre de Rhodes (1593-1660), though, made the biggest contribution with his Vietnamese/Portuguese/Latin dictionary [Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum] of 1651. Though born in Avignon, Rhodes was a converted Jew whose family came from Aragon, Spain. These priests' only aim was to help other priests learn Vietnamese so they could convert the Vietnamese. Their system, though, was so logical and easy to learn, it was adopted in the 20th century as the national script.
Linh
"Canned tunes have clouded and crippled minds everywhere."
Yes, yes, and more yes along with canned narratives, sub-cultures and general reality.
Thank you for sharing more wonderful descriptions of your travels Linh.
Muzak pollution
confucius was among the earliest to write down this sentiment - his 2nd thought: "The Master said: “Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places?"
Great piece, Linh.
Go see if the Ukranian restaurant is still in business? We had Vareniki there once...
https://goo.gl/maps/fL8Y9MVx9iXhk5AEA
Linh
Spent some time the other day checking out Vung Tau on the internet. Incredible looking place. Your pics really capture the spirit. I especially like the picture of the Buddha off in the distance. Something about "things off in the distance" that fascinate me. Right now (4 am local), I can hear a train whistle that's more than 2 miles away. Something hypnotic about it or maybe I've just gone off the deep end.
Apparently, we have a Vietnamese Suns fan on the local website. Goes by the handle "Anh hung ban Phim"....Keyboard Hero ?
Was out walking the other day (been beautiful in PHX lately) and noticed about half the young people I saw were wearing masks. Sad.
Stay cool brah
Bill
Thanks again for a wonderful read. Please keep them coming! Curious as to why Ron Unz included with the boorish loudmouths!
Hi Peggy,
Like Springer, Unz abets boorishness without being a lout himself. Notice that the commenters there are almost exclusively white men. Women and nonwhites are routinely shouted down. Search for any racial slur at Unz to see how commonly it's used gratuitously.
Linh
Not all of us who comment on Unz.com have our minds in the gutter, Linh. I comment on both TUR and your substack, and am happy to pay for each.. As an old white man myself, I hope you don't hold that against me.
Hi Outsider,
I have nothing against white men, or black, brown or yellow men and women, etc. I have nothing against anybody for who they are. I do have serious problems with a website that encourages asshole behavior in the name of free speech. Like Jerry Springer, Unz wants whites to behave as badly as possible while pretending to fight for them, but with the Covid vaccine issue, he reveals his true color by mocking those who simply raise questions about this monstrous Jewish crime.
Linh
P.S. A limited hangout website needs sane and legitimate writers and readers to pull it off, so yes, there are writers and commenters there worth reading, but I, for one, don't need to go there, for its main purpose is to muddy the water and steer readers away from this monstrous crime in progress. Common Dreams and CounterPunch are similarly useless, and I wrote for them at one time too.
Jews are expert at sowing racial divisions. I used to think the racial slurs against me at Unz were glitches, then I realized I was there to provoke such asshole behavior. Unz needed me for that, and no, Unz doesn't allow all comments. He blocks those that make him look particularly foolish. If you call him a kike, though, that's fine, because that merely reinforces the image of whites he wants to project.
Yes, I have called him out a few times and on at least one occasion experienced censorship. My comment was respectful and considered and included some data and sourced. Instead of an answer, I got censored.
I also had the feeling you were bait for the uglies, as are others like Anglin in a different way. The pile on which seemed to accompany your articles there was unique in it's personal nature and insults though. I went to bat for you a few times, but felt it was a waste of time. Like trying to lower the tide with a bucket.
I've experienced that at TUR. He uses very select censorship with the designs you point out.
Common Dreams lost me years ago. The pig headedness of Ron's obsession with his imagined coup regarding the origins of the virus, despite the fact this was never even in question for many and the refusal to acknowledge the damning evidence of the harmful death shots, of the true perps who also happen to be "rich" white men, drove me away in its own right too.
Unz and Sailer are both villainous Pied Pipers, positioned to shepherd so-called "white nationalists" deep within the fold of the "global pandemic" narrative. Unz's effete and lame "attack-on-China-blowback" theory is an engineered narrative variant, tailor-made to appeal to the contrarian mentality of the site's followers, without deviating from the official narrative in any material respect.
What I find funny about that one is that Unz got near-zero mileage out of his lame theory, even among his diehard audience. I think his resentment at the general rejection of what he believed to be an expert piece of disinfo design accounts for his uncharacteristically vulgar and pugnacious attacks against the commentariat there, which have now become commonplace for him.
But returning to my basic thesis: Unz and Sailer are long-positioned disinfo agents who were "cashed in" with the "pandemic" narrative, after building a reputation and following on dissenting on mainstream narratives. This is similar to how Alex Jones got "cashed in" for the Trump presidential campaign, when for the first time Jones becamea devoted partisan political advocate, after building his whole career up to that point on consistently antiestablishment rabble-rousing. In 2016, when Jones started supporting the candidacy of obvious planted-actor-puppet Trump, I knew instantly something was deeply wrong, and that it had all been a set-up. Similarly, in early 2020, when Sailer started promoting panic-buying and "self-isolation" because of a "disease"...at first I thought he was completely out of his mind. Since I don't watch TeeVee I had no idea that that was the prevailing mainstream narrative. But as soon as I heard that same narrative---that of pure unmitigated insanity---from my coworkers at the office, I realize I had been had.
Yes, I had to give up commenting on the UNZ site and only once in a while click on it to see if anything worthwhile is up. A couple of writers hosted there are worth reading. Even Anglin sometimes. He can't help himself either though, regularly feeding the eels. The tone of the site is very much set by some of the lowest lifeforms to be included in the term "White men" As a "white man" myself, I felt superfluous making a considered comment and too often couldn't just ignore it when bumping into some stinking, obnoxious vomit masquerading as a comment.
The Unz comment section about broke my sanity. It's so much nicer here Linh. The tone and tenor are much more respectful.
I'm a middling aged white dude who thinks he's ok with the world about half the time and simply have no energy for organized "white identity". It's exhausting. I'd rather focus on simpler pursuits.
Hi Troy,
Whites have interests they should protect, but they defeat themselves by calling people niggers and gooks, which Unz encourages them to do. International readers who stray into UR are aghast at the beastly behavior often on display there.
Since whites routinely turn friends into enemies at Unz Review, it's about the worst vehicle for white interests. It is a sick joke, really. UR is often akin to a KKK rally with an unhooded Jew as grand wizard!
Watching this ugly and impotent spectacle, all enemies of whites can't help but laugh.
I address many of these issues here:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2021/09/are-angry-white-pussies-crypto-jews.html
Linh
Jim Goad, a Philly native was my introduction to "alternative media" via Taki's Magazine about ten years aga. The Redneck Manifesto got me here I suppose.
I was listening to NPR's Democracy Now in the barracks after deployment in late 2011 and remember thinking something like, "Uhh, bullshit. This is fishy..."
Takimag led to Unz and the "alt right" and yaddyeeyaddaa.
It's been a strange intellectual ride. I just keep reading.
I'm exhausted with analysis and political commentary.
It was the literary tone of your writing that got me here. Much appreciated Linh!
Hi Troy,
Of course, I love reading Linh too. But one lone writer can't be compared with a large online magazine which produces many new articles, from many different writers, seven days a week. I pick and choose those articles which strike my fancy, and comment if I think I can add something to the conversation. Sorry to hear that TUR's comment section, just about broke your sanity. Just a thought, but maybe you paid too much attention to ignorant commenters who messed with your mental health. You could have just read the articles you liked and bypassed all the comments.
I don't disagree. Unz introduced me to Postcards, Pepe Escobar, Philip Giraldi, The Saker and I'm grateful for these voices. I'm can be an obsessive along with a propensity for addiction. Unz was like checking in on a tabloid after multiple years. I don't look upon it with rancor, it just wasn't a healthy fit. Thank you for your comment. Glad we're both here!
If a commenter on Unz disagreed with John Johnson, Wizard of Oz,ron ,raches, that would be telling, and a handful of others, then I liked that commenter no matter how crude or rude he was. They're up there with the Trailer Trash Boys in my book. Respect!
Dang it. I need to refuckulate my comment. My inadvertent Rickyism trashed my witty heroes. I meant Trailer Park Boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdi1teXj06w