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Try The Gulag Archipelago. Can't recommend that book highly enough. The abridged version is the most palatable, but here is the full text of all three books for free if you don't mind reading in HTML.

Jordan Peterson talks about these ideas a lot, and about post-modernism/cultural Marxism and his clashes with the far-left. The Soviet Union is a huge topic of study for him and he touches on it a lot in his lecture. This one might be a decent place to start. It's quite a rabbit hole, but his YouTube channel is brilliant.

It's also important for you to read the works that are being criticized and understand how they led to these phenomenon. Marxists.org is a great resource with a huge library of writing. Try Lenin's The State and Revolution to get a primer on the kind of thought which went into executing Marxism in the founding of the Soviet Union.

Good luck.

Buy this awesome book. Cut out the pages and wallpaper the corner. The beauty is that it's full of some pretty broad, some hardcore, some kinky, very sexual images but it's extremely inclusive of the spectrum of butch, femme, race, body types, age, even disabilities. So, now they are backed into your lovely lesbian plastered corner. "What do you have against black butch lesbian sexuality?? Are you a gender-norm enforcing homophobic racist woman hater??!! Are you disempowing these strong beautiful women embracing and enjoying their bodies?" It would at least be very entertaining. (Also, quite frankly, I own it and the book is just smoking hot.)

If you want a good start on the feeling of Buddhism from a textual level, I'd start with Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen. It's about as straightforward as you can get, covers the history and the basics of Buddhist thought and is pretty thorough.

If you are more interested in Buddhism from a personal perspective, read literally anything by Pema Chodron or Thich Nhat Hanh. Especially Thich Nhat Hanh. He is one of the leading thinkers of these times, and beautifully eloquent.

In fact if you're going to, start with The Heart of Understanding. Its short (60 pages), beautifully profound and powerfully motivating.

Did you just try to cite Jonah Goldberg on fascism/nazism, someone that has been ripped to shreds by actual experts, a man with no clue what he's talking about?

Paxton shreds him here:

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/122231

> The best description of how Nazism fits on the Left-Right spectrum is probably that given by Jonah Goldberg: Nazism, like Italian Fascism, Spanish Francoism and Soviet Communism, is a heresy of Socialism.

Nazism was an extreme form of ANTI-socialism. Why exactly is it you think the only 2 fascist movements that came into power were put there by conservatives.

From the third Reich trilogy:

> To many readers of the newspapers that reported Hitler’s appointment, the jubilation of the brownshirts must have appeared exaggerated. The key feature of the new government, symbolized by the participation of the Steel Helmets in the march-past, was surely the heavy numerical domination of the conservatives. ‘No nationalistic, no revolutionary government, although it carries Hitler’s name’, confided a Czech diplomat based in Berlin to his diary: ‘No Third Reich, hardly even a 2½.’25 A more alarmist note was sounded by the French ambassador, André François-Poncet. The perceptive diplomat noted that the conservatives were right to expect Hitler to agree to their programme of ‘the crushing of the left, the purging of the bureaucracy, the assimilation of Prussia and the Reich, the reorganization of the army, the re-establishment of military service’. They had put Hitler into the Chancellery in order to discredit him, he observed; ‘they have believed themselves to be very ingenious, ridding themselves of the wolf by introducing him into the sheepfold.’

Or:

> Many other middle-class occupations felt their economic and social position was under threat during the Weimar Republic. White-collar workers lost their jobs, or feared that they might, as banks and finance houses got into difficulties. Tourist agents, restaurants, retailing, mail-order firms, a huge variety of employers in the service sector ran into trouble as people’s purchasing power declined. The Nazi Party, now equipped with its elaborate structure of specialist subdivisions, saw this, and began to direct its appeal to the professional and propertied middle classes. All of this was anathema to those Nazis who, like Otto Strasser, brother of the Party organizer Gregor, continued to emphasize the ‘socialist’ aspect of National Socialism and felt that Hitler was betraying their ideals. Angered by the support given by Otto Strasser and his publishing house to left-wing causes such as strikes, Hitler summoned the leading men in the Party to a meeting in April 1930 and ranted against Strasser’s views. As a way of trying to neutralize Otto Strasser’s influence, he now appointed Goebbels Reich Propaganda Leader of the Party. But, to Goebbels’s annoyance, Hitler repeatedly postponed decisive action, hoping that Otto Strasser’s propaganda apparatus would still be of some use in the regional elections that took place in June 1930. Only after this, and Strasser’s publication of an unflattering account of his row with Hitler earlier in the year, did he decide to purge the party of Otto Strasser and his supporters, who pre-empted this move by resigning on 4 July 1930. The split was a serious one. Observers held their breath to see if the Party would survive this exodus of its left wing. But things had changed markedly from the days when Goebbels and his friends had revived the Party in the Ruhr with socialist slogans. The dissidents’ departure revealed that Strasser and his ideas had little support within the Party; even his brother Gregor disowned him. Otto Strasser vanished from serious politics, to spend the rest of his life in Germany, and, later, in exile, dreaming up small, sectarian organizations to propagate his views to tiny audiences of the like-minded.

> Having shed the last vestiges of ‘socialism’, Hitler now moved to build more bridges to the conservative right. In the autumn of 1931 he joined with the Nationalists in the so-called ‘Harzburg Front’, producing a joint declaration with Hugenberg at Bad Harzburg on 11 October stating their readiness to join together in ruling Prussia and the Reich.

I'd highly suggest you avoid reading anything written by Goldberg, the man is historically illiterate and is laughed at by actual experts.

I'd suggest the third reich trilogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Reich_Trilogy

Anatomy of fascism by paxton:

https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Fascism-Robert-Paxton/dp/1400033918

Or Gregors nazism:

https://www.amazon.com/Nazism-Oxford-Readers-Neil-Gregor/dp/0192892819

And a bit more, from the end of the third reich trilogy:

> The Nazi propaganda effort, therefore, mainly won over people who were already inclined to identify with the values the Party claimed to represent, and who simply saw the Nazis as a more effective and more energetic vehicle than the bourgeois parties for putting them into effect. Many historians have argued that these values were essentially pre-industrial, or pre-modern. Yet this argument rests on a simplistic equation of democracy with modernity. The voters who flocked to the polls in support of Hitler, the stormtroopers who gave up their evenings to beat up Communists, Social Democrats, and Jews, the Party activists who spent their free time at rallies and demonstrations - none of these were sacrificing themselves to restore a lost past. On the contrary, they were inspired by a vague yet powerful vision of the future, a future in which class antagonisms and party-political squabbles would be overcome, aristocratic privilege of the kind represented by the hated figure of Papen removed, technology, communications media and every modern invention harnessed in the cause of the ‘people’, and a resurgent national will expressed through the sovereignty not of a traditional hereditary monarch or an entrenched social elite but of a charismatic leader who had come from nowhere, served as a lowly corporal in the First World War and constantly harped upon his populist credentials as a man of the people. The Nazis declared that they would scrape away foreign and alien encrustations on the German body politic, ridding the country of Communism, Marxism, ‘Jewish’ liberalism, cultural Bolshevism, feminism, sexual libertinism, cosmopolitanism, the economic and power-political burdens imposed by Britain and France in 1919, ‘Western’ democracy and much else. They would lay bare the true Germany. This was not a specific historical Germany of any particular date or constitution, but a mythical Germany that would recover its timeless racial soul from the alienation it had suffered under the Weimar Republic. Such a vision did not involve just looking back, or forward, but both.

> The conservatives who levered Hitler into power shared a good deal of this vision. They really did look back with nostalgia to the past, and yearn for the restoration of the Hohenzollern monarchy and the Bismarckian Reich. But these were to be restored in a form purged of what they saw as the unwise concessions that had been made to democracy. In their vision of the future, everyone was to know their place, and the working classes especially were to be kept where they belonged, out of the political decision-making process altogether. But this vision cannot really be seen as pre-industrial or pre-modern, either. It was shared in large measure, for one thing, by many of the big industrialists who did so much to undermine Weimar democracy, and by many modern, technocratic military officers whose ambition was to launch a modern war with the kind of advanced military equipment that the Treaty of Versailles forbade them to deploy. Like other people at other times and in other places, the conservatives, as much as Hitler, manipulated and rearranged the past to suit their own present purposes. They cannot be reduced to expressions of ‘pre-industrial’ social groups. Many of them, from capitalist Junker landlords looking for new markets, to small retailers and white-collar workers whose means of support had not even existed before industrialization, were as much modern as they were traditional.123 It was these congruities in vision that persuaded men like Papen, Schleicher and Hindenburg that it would be worth legitimizing their rule by co-opting the mass movement of the Nazi Party into a coalition government whose aim was to erect an authoritarian state on the ruins of the Weimar Republic.

Went through the comments and I'm gonna shed some light on the whole "cotton pillows is bad for black hair" thing.

I'm a Black woman who wraps her hair up in silk or satin wraps EVERY night after I treat my scalp to a good massage and treat my hair to some oils and shea butter. The reason why I do this is because my hair is natural - as in no relaxers, texturizers or anything that will alter the natural curl pattern of my hair. Cotton is notorious for drawing the moisture out of hair and your hair can easily get snagged in the multitudes of fibers that exist with pillow cases made with 100% cotton. Hair matting, dryess, and the all too notorious "naps" will form if we don't wrap our heads every night or lay on silk or satin pillows.

His approach to it was so fucking outlandish I cracked up, but yeah, that's the reason why we do it, so that we can look good as fuck in the morning and not have to do so much work so we can just get washed and go.


Edit: For those who want to give this a shot an see a difference: How to tie a du-rag properly. or purchase a Silk sleep cap on Amazon Or check in the hair accessories aisle of Wal-mart or your local store that sells hair care products. I also suggest you to clean/change your pillowcases if you use a lot of products in your hair and I highly suggest the use of also silk or satin pillowcases. Follow the care tag on it and it'll hold up. Good luck on your hair-ventures, you fucking shitlords. <3

Ok I don't know which comment to reply to, because everyone has the same issue, but here's what worked awesome for me!

Pill Bottle Timer Cap

I mean all it does is start a timer every time it's been opened. The cool guy top doesn't fit my Rx bottles, but they come with a bottle that fits it anyways. It's honestly super dope. I once took a double dose of Adderall because I forgot that I'd just taken it mere moments before. Yikes. never again.

I got mine over a year ago, and the time has just started to fade. But apparently you can replace it with just a regular ol' watch battery.

Okie dokie, let's have a looksie here just for fun.
According to Wikipedia,
>Melanin is produced by the oxidation of the amino acid tyrosine, followed by polymerization.

Fair enough, let's trust our dear friend WackoPed today.

Now if you head on over to Amazon.com or whatever you prefer you can find "Tanning pills" which contain
>[a] synergized blend of 2000mg of L-Tyrosine, a natural occurring amino acid

Woohoo! Tyrosine in the pills is used to make melatonin! Awesome! Now with 2000mg(or 2g) of Tyrosine, used in the body to synthesise melatonin one could assume each pill would be around $706 in addition to a little more for gelatin in the capsules and other addatives.

List price: $24.95
60 capsules per package, giving us a grand total of about 42 US cents per capsule.

Now I don't know about you guys, but last time I checked my privilege I also checked how numbers work and found out that $0.42 is actually less than $706

Now obviously POCs don't lie, so what could cause this disparity? Anyone willing to clarify?

https://www.amazon.com/Commandments-Six-Disc-Limited-Blu-ray-Combo/dp/B004IK30OQ

Look what I bought just yesterday at FYE (for only $20) :D.

Edit: Lookie what I found XD

1.0 out of 5 starsgood but fake

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Its a good movie, for the fact that a white man is playing a black man and black people...hollywood did a good job keeping blacks from being YHWH true people

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Not only that, they used an actor to portray Moses instead of hiring the real Moses to appear in the film. I felt cheated.......

>All I said is that there are stupid people who don't understand evolutionary biology. THAT'S IT. Now cut it out!

Easy there, no need to get upset.

>What are you even trying to get at? I know dogs are the same species. However, dogs have a wider range of phenotypic possibilities than humans do

My point was that just because you share the same race - doesn't mean that intelligence and physical attributes must stay equal.

For those who claim that IQ tests are biased against certain racial groups and that's why they keep getting lower scores, there are IQ tests like the Raven's Progressive Matrices which don't have any language and rely entirely on visual pattern recognition. It's simply finding patterns in visual shapes. Even then there is a marked difference between black and white IQ scores, not only in America but internationally as well, like in Africa between white and black engineering students:

Like it or not, behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology are also things. There are those who would prefer Pandora's Box not be opened too widely -- so one can, of course, select authoritative-seeming material which keeps the lid at a comfortable angle relative to one's ideological commitments. All I can do is encourage you to put the Marxism aside for a while, do your own due diligence -- perhaps read Nick Wades book yourself.

(Here's another review (pdf) you could look at.) There is also more relevant information here:
http://www.humanbiologicaldiversity.com/#Crime

Edit: some articles by Wade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/science/11hormone.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/science/26human.html?pagewanted=print

http://time.com/91081/what-science-says-about-race-and-genetics/

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9207821/the-genome-of-history/

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/weekinreview/12wade.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/us/gene-study-identifies-5-main-human-populations-linking-them-to-geography.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

+another1 for Zojirushi. That thing is awesome. Makes a perfect pot of rice the first time, every time.

As an aside, they also make other useful gadgets like thermoses, carafes, and these excellent insulated lunch jars. Food stays piping hot all day, and I don't have to fight to use the office microwave to warm up my soup.

It's a book.

"From the Back Cover:


Since it came on the air in 1997, Comedy Central's top-rated animated program, South Park, has been criticized for its crude, scatological humor and political insensitivity. However, the program also fearlessly wades into the morass of American political life as it tackles and satirizes all American sacred cows, including "political correctness," the value of celebrities, ideas about childhood, and the role of religion in American life. In the process, South Park raises provocative and timely questions about politics, identity, and the media's influence in shaping American thinking.

Taking South Park Seriously brings together scholars who explore the broader implications of South Park's immense popularity by examining the program's politics, aesthetics, and cultural impact. Topics covered include the pleasures of watching the show, South Park's relationship to other animated programs, and the program's representations of racial and ethnic minorities, the disabled, celebrities, children, religion, and education. This book will be of interest not only to communications and cultural studies scholars, but to anyone who has ever laughed along with Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny."

Looks pretty sane, to be honest.

In these politically correct times any explicit recognition of white achievement in certain areas of endeavor, of which jazz is one, is in danger of being taken as a backhanded attempt to denigrate black achievement. This is not the intent. Everyone deserves their due.

History clearly tells us that a distinct, significant, and creative white presence had existed in jazz from its early days and that black contemporaries were unhesitating in expressing mutual respect for Beiderbecke, Rollini, Teagarden, Mole, Trumbauer, Brown, Tough, Freeman, Russell, and numerous other white musicians. The true history of jazz is a depiction of cooperation, mutual admiration, cross-fertilization and the coming together all despite the segregation of the larger American society

Recommended reading

For those who enjoy reading, there is a book called Affirmative Action Around the World and it is a very interesting attempt at a non-biased review of the implications and effects of AA. I enjoyed it and it was a pretty good read, and/but there are a lot of statistics.

Jesus Christ... praise is a form of positive reinforcement. A behaviour is reinforced “encouraged” by definition from the praise which is the reward or recognition of performing said behaviour.

https://www.amazon.ca/Punished-Rewards-Trouble-Incentive-Praise/dp/0618001816

Keep reading.

the original book


the original Swedish film


the also amazing English remake (with Chloe Moretz!)

all are wonderful. i recommend reading/watching ASAP

So they're only $140, not $1400 like most hearing aids, but I use one and it works pretty well. My left eardrum hasn't recovered from its last rupture 3-4 years ago, so I can only wear one, but it makes a HUGE difference. I also feel it's good to have a $70 hearing aid as my first one so when I lose it/break it I won't be crushed.

I feel one ear is worse than both ears. I have to always make sure to position myself/sit myself so everyone is on the same side of me wherever I go.


https://www.amazon.com/Britzgo-Amplifier-Rechargeable-BHA-1222-Generation/dp/B073DHFWLY

I struggle with this myself, and I have to fight every day to keep myself from slipping deeper into avoiding friends and people (if people invite you out, you'll probably have fun. Don't avoid it because you assume you won't.).

If therapy is too daunting, there are books that explain cognitive behavioral therapy techniques. I read this one and honestly it did more for me then therapy ever did. I need to go back to it because I've been slipping back into old habits, but it's helpful if you keep at it. Good luck.

There is a great Adam Curtis write up of Mark Singleton's book "yoga body" that heavily suggests that modern Yoga has as much to do with British Victorian 'physical culture' as it does with traditional yoga, was the result of an interaction between these cultures and was involved in the Indian struggle for independence, a basic summary.
>But the history of Yoga is just as convoluted and contorted as the positions its followers adopt. For much of the ideas behind it were initially born as attempts to morally reinvigorate the minds and bodies of those who ran British Empire. Those ideas then swept through India and became part of a nationalism that challenged Britain's rule. They then were sold back again to the west in a new form - linked to a mysticism that gave a purpose and meaning to a nostalgic post-imperial generation.
Today yoga has morphed once again. Much of the new age mysticism linked to it has fallen away, and in an age of intense individualism where people increasingly feel disempowered, the human body has become the last territory individuals feel they have control over. It is the Empire of One - and Yoga is the administrative system that controls it.


So fitness culture in the modern way we'd know it today, including bodybuilding, gymnastics, athletics etc began as "physical culture" and/or "muscular Christianity" in the late 19th century; because they thought that moral weakness or 'degeneracy' resulted from or was related to physical fitness, you could improve the moral character of people by improving their fitness (or something). A lot of this came from (idealized and sanitized for the time) ancient Greek culture, this is where the word gymnasium comes from and the celebration of physical perfection was a big deal (but was also a highly sexual thing in some parts). You can see it in the Olympic movement aswell as they were kind of part of the same diverse and global culture (but later on).

The inventor (or popularizer) of modern bodybuilding (and possessor of the most perfect male body) was a Pussian (I think what would be today east germany and/or west Poland) guy called Eugen Sandow, he said he was inspired by the Greek and roman statues etc and became a huge star globally with his bodybuilding movement that involved all kinds of spiritual stuff as well as gainz. After becoming popular in the UK, and the US, he went on a tour of India. Then a few years later the people picked up his ideas in india, including K. V Iyer who

>was very aware of the paradox - that Indians were using European ideas of physical exercise to challenge their European colonial masters. And at the end of the 1920s he took his theories of body-building that were based on Western models and fused them with the spiritual ideas of Yoga. The aim was to create what one of Iyer's closest collaborators called "A Physical Culture Religion" which deliberately had roots in India's ancient past. They called it "The Yogic School of Physical Culture".

This was also inspired by people like Genivive Stebbins, who is a somewhat similar and parallel figure to Sandow and one of the people responsible for modern gymnastics and dance, many of her exercises are similar to modern yoga poses. A (crappy) example of the difference I managed to find (from this review of 'yoga body' )
>The older Hatha Yoga manuals such as Hatha Yoga Pradipika (dating from 14th century) define postures such as sirsasana (headstand) and padmasana (lotus) - but there is no mention of any sun salutations - nor in any of the other old texts.

This was picked up by the new age movement and then we get modern Yoga. So most of the Yoga done around the world today, with lots of moves, is based as much on western Ideas as Indian ones.

They make really good gay porn books, that's what happens.

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I'm reading a story about a gay tiger football player dating a fox. I wonder if that's the 'love story like no other' they're looking for?

Somehow I doubt that's what they're looking for.