I Got My First Youtube Strike

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Luke Ford

That means I can’t livestream on that channel until September 30. My new livestream channel is here.

Friend A: “I [watched] a black mgtow livestream last night and I realized the magic key theory is real. These guys see black women like the AR sees Jews.”

Friend B:

I gained a lot of perspective last night watching that black stream. Helped me see what you’ve been trying to show about how the magic key is a pathetic thought… it’s like yeah maybe some Jews push garbage, but we have agency to do say no. Those black men were just whining about black women being hoes and it was so obvious to me that they a) had half a point and b) should have also considered their own shortcomings. To the extent that we/I have been latched onto blaming Jews only and not introspecting, that’s sad & pathetic! #CleanYourRoom

I can’t believe you get 3 months for one strike! I thought you got three strikes before a timeout. Wow. So draconian. Brutal.

I apologize for taking so long to come over the hump on the JQ. Part of it was the cloistered nature of things, and I think that’s why it clicked for me watching the blacks hash it out last night. I watched one of your old vids of you talking about KMac in 2008–you’ve been woke for so long, possibly from adolescence. It really is a turbulent ride getting woke from liberal white Methodism. I did my best.

Tbh, this shutting you down doesn’t make me less frustrated about the speech crackdown happening in our country… sigh. Can you appeal?

YouTube is now reminding me of certain fraternities that I didn’t join in college because I heard they made pledges get drunk and humiliate themselves, and although I wanted in to the club, I didn’t want to have to endure their dehumanizing rituals. So yeah, we have agency, but, it is annoying that that which is elite is so stupid.

Balder comments:

Ways to get around YouTube Censorship and avoid Strikes, especially for Live Streams

Do the Live Stream and finish it.

If you find the chat important, I think there are ways to integrate the chat into the video, while streaming as can be seen on may channels. You can also download the chat as a text file, there are various ways of doing this, there is a plug in for Chrome that will do this for you; you can save as a .srt file or a .txt file. I think YouTube even provides the owner of the channel with this possibility.

Then Download the video to your PC. Set risky streams immediately to private on YouTube, or delete them all together.

Upload the video file to a website you are hosting yourself, embed the video in a new post, you can use the free World Press or other free blog software on your website to use the blog format, but you can also produce static pages if you have a little knowledge of html etc. if you prefer.

If using the blog format you can use plug-ins to embed the video, but you could also offer the video as a direct download, which is even easier, but perhaps not as appealing to non techy users. In stead of using your self hosted website, you could also use some of the many free file repositories to serve the video.

If the visual aspect of the captured live stream is not important, or has no need for detail, you can compress the video before uploading to your website to save bandwidth and secure seamless display on the computers of the audience.

If using the blog format people can easily comment on the video, without interference from YouTube censors.

Take as small portion of the video or sanitize the whole video if you prefer, and re-upload to YouTube, to serve as a starting point for YouTube users, and use the YouTube listings and promotion that comes with it, while providing a link to your blog page where people can watch the original unedited video without fear of strikes and censorship.

Blog software also provides possibilities to notify subscribers via RSS.

While making things a bit more complicated this could be an important way of beginning to create more independent privately owned platforms, while keeping the advantages of super chats and monetization.

You could also have advertisements on your own blog to provide income.

The ideas presented above could be expanded, changed and improved in many ways to suit your purpose.

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Life Before & After 12 Step

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Luke Ford

Jeff says: We can base it around life before //after 12 step process.

Which areas do you/me still refuse to let God intervene.

Why would a person not allow god to intervene the results will be better.

Trying to heal internal separation by finding joy and applause through ego rolls (that is the actor running the show)

Discuss. When we place our life in gods hands what comes is better than we can plan. (My life story)

I’ve got loads more stuff re life after initial recovery.

Also discus Eric Berne psycologist who said until the alcoholic puts down the alcoholic drinking character and the recovery character he can not be considered sane.

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Parasha Pinchas (Num. 25-30)

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Luke Ford

Listen here and here.

Wikipedia: “Pinchas…is the 41st weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה‬, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the Book of Numbers. It tells of Pinchas’ killing of a couple, ending a plague, and of the daughters of Zelophehad’s successful plea for land rights.”

* Rabbinic commentator Kli Yachar places the blame on Israel for consorting with Moabite women, not on the Moabite women. The Israelites prostituted themselves to the Moabite chicks. If a man has an affair, it is not usually the case that a naked woman knocked on his door. He pursued somebody. (Dennis Prager)

* The Moabite women brought the Israelite men over to worship the Moabite gods because they believed more strongly in their gods than the Israelites believe in their God.

* The Jewish tradition considers moral threats more serious than other threats. Thus, the Torah antipathy to Midianites is stronger than it is to the Egyptians.

* There’s a big difference between public and private sin.

* The only reason we know Pinchas did the right thing was that God announced that.

* JF loses patience with Emily Youcis, mutes her, before deleting the stream:

Emily keeps talking about nuking Africa. JF: “No, you can’t keep saying the n-word. You can’t keep talking about nuking various countries for fun.”

Emily: “I really tried, JF.”

Emily was texting during the stream because she was so frustrated.

* The feel good crowd who don’t care about building anything and accomplishing anything, but only want to act out against the rules and get banned because it feels heroic vs those (JF, Frame Game) creating change by working within the rules.

* My stay in your lane advice primarily applies to addicts aka those who habitually have bad judgment. Such advisement is unnecessary for the healthy.

* Are people who abide by Youtube’s rules part of the status quo? Not necessarily. America’s free speech status quo, for example, was overthrown by people such as the ADL working within the rules.

* All those women who set down rules on their partner not to publicly associate with the Alt Right — were they wrong?

* Steve Sailer writes: “It would be interesting to see an objective evaluation of what Presidential skills Trump has proven adept at and where he has proven weakest. Comments?”

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23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

Posted on June 29, 2018 by Luke Ford

From Amazon.com:

The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism uses twenty-three short essays (a few great examples: “There Is No Such Thing as a Free Market,” “The Washing Machine Has Changed the World More than the Internet Has”) to equip readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works, and doesn’t, while offering a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.

Praise for 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism:

“A lively, accessible and provocative book.”-Sunday Times (UK )

“Chang, befitting his position as an economics professor at Cambridge University, is engagingly thoughtful and opinionated at a much lower decibel level. ‘The “truths” peddled by free-market ideologues are based on lazy assumptions and blinkered visions,’ he charges.”-Time

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LAT: Aspiring rapper turns L.A. commute into nightmare

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Luke Ford

Los Angeles Times:

The worst qualities of Los Angeles — endless traffic and shameless self-promotion — collided in exasperating fashion Wednesday on the 110 Freeway in downtown.

It happened about 8 a.m. when a husky, shirtless man in underwear scaled an exit sign near 3rd Street, unfurled several banners and began vaping, dancing and shouting through a bullhorn as thousands of motorists looked on in various states of amusement, anger and resignation.

The spectacle shut down the freeway’s packed southbound lanes for roughly two hours and paralyzed much of traffic downtown as police officers and firefighters attempted to coax the man from his perilous perch.

By 10 a.m. officers had convinced the man to end his performance. He stood up facing the sign and did a backflip onto an enormous inflated cushion firefighters had placed below. As police escorted him away, he yelled to bystanders: “I love you all!”

Soon after, the man was booked on suspicion of delaying a police officer, trespassing on state property and failure to obey a regulatory sign. It was also revealed that the whole exercise was a publicity stunt.

Alexander Dunn, 29, an aspiring rapper who goes by the name Dephree, had been planning a big splash in advance of a music video that was supposed to come out Wednesday evening.

Footage of Dunn’s traffic sign antics will be featured in the video, according to his close friend and manager, King Graint.

Graint, who declined to give his actual name, told a Times reporter the act wasn’t all about self-promotion though. The performer also wanted to deliver a message about the environment.

“Dephree is truly, truly passionate about the environment,” Graint said. “He became a rapper and wanted to be a rapper to get a platform to talk about it.”

Among the banners Dunn hung from the sign were one that read “Fight pollution not each other,” and another that said “Give a hoot, don’t pollute.”

A third banner with graffiti-style writing simply had Dephree painted across it.

Initially, Dunn had wanted to scale a traffic sign at the intersection of Hollywood and Highland, but Graint said that was a non-starter.

“Dude there’s no way you’re going to fit,” he said he told Dunn. “You’re going to be too big. You’re going to break the thing.”

Then Graint was driving down the freeway and was struck with inspiration. The metaphor of shutting down the freeway — with all that smog —he said, was perfect.

Witnesses said Dunn was alternating between yelling about himself, love and God, and freestyle rapping. He also took breaks and would sit down and vape.

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