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Millenniyule 2020 (12-14-20)

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Luke Ford

00:00 Losing friends while streaming
03:00 Bill Barr resigns
19:00 Millenial Woes says I made a nasty video about him
32:30 What’s Next for Trump Voters Who Believe the Election Was Stolen?, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/trump-voters-stolen-election.html
43:00 Andrew Gelman: 100 Stories of Causal Inference
51:00 When does peer review make no damn sense?, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2016/02/01/peer-review-make-no-damn-sense/
1:03:00 PORNHUB CANCELLED by VISA and MASTERCARD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znUMjWdUzDY
1:05:00 Naked Yoga on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcNT_Ze4mck
1:10:00 Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform, https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content
1:41:30 Multiple bowl hypothesis with Dooovid
1:45:00 Z-Man LIVE on corporatism and what it means for America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3CEoY_dgHs
1:48:20 Z-Man: Working families for Democrats are neither working nor families
1:54:00 Sportsmax
2:03:00 MILLENIYULE 2020: TRAD NEW’S PICK OF THE MILLENNI-YULES, https://trad-news.blogspot.com/2020/12/2020-pick-of-millenni-yules.html
2:03:00 Millennial Woes apologizes for WWII, https://youtu.be/YjvZDkia6kE?t=2011
2:05:30 A new approach to nationalism
2:07:10 Success is a good thing.
2:09:20 DANGERFIELD – ANOTHER “PATRIOTIC ALTERNATIVE” DEGENERATE, https://www.bitchute.com/video/gXMgbMT7PQtJ/
2:14:50 JF REVEALS HOW HE GOT NICK FUENTES BANNED FROM YOUTUBE
2:26:40 JF Gariepy blames Jews for starting WWII, https://archive.org/details/181029garapeylyingaboutthejewsstartingwwiifromnowdeletedyoutubevideo
MILLENNIAL WOES DESTROYS OWN BRAND BY GOING 1488, https://trad-news.blogspot.com/2019/01/millennial-woes-destroys-own-brand-by.html

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A Place For You (12-8-20)

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Luke Ford

00:00 Dooovid joins
21:00 Partners in Torah Charles Moscowitz and Dooovid on the 2020 Election, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UV3MBLulj4
24:00 Rambam’s Ninth Principle, https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Orthodox-Theology-Reappraised-Civilization/dp/1906764239
49:00 The Jewish origins of Christianity
52:00 ‘Galactic Federation’ of aliens is working with the U.S. and Israel, a former security chief says, https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2020/12/8/22163374/galactic-federation-aliens-israel-us
1:00:00 From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=135630
1:02:00 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, http://me-pedia.org/wiki/Edward_Shorter
1:05:00 Edward Shorter: Fifty Shades of Female Desire, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-everyone-became-depressed/201507/where-does-desire-come
1:11:00 The end of the Trump era has the cable news wars heating up, https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/media/cable-news-wars-cnn-fox-reliable-sources/index.html
1:18:45 Unpopular Opinions, Part 138: State-to-State Malarkey, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP-IL6N6XLQ
1:23:20 Unlearn Your Pain. Freeing Your Body From Chronic Pain with Howard Schubiner MD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMlP9aCvp1A
1:35:40 The Great Reset will be the ‘segue from the pandemic’
1:41:00 The Places That Had the Biggest Swings Toward and Against Trump, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/upshot/trump-election-vote-shift.html
1:44:30 Alex Jones: Should Trump declare martial law?
1:46:30 Matt Parrott, Matt Heimbach on white nationalism, https://www.bitchute.com/video/sZhXgro354NL/
1:50:00 A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=135655
1:56:30 Chelsea Handler – the poor goy’s Sarah Silverman
1:59:30 Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness, https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Fixers-Psychiatrys-Troubled-Biology/dp/0393071227
2:03:00 JF Gariepy: Major Texas Lawsuit – This Is The One!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3BD84E2Vw
2:05:40 Ramzpaul says QAnon is stupid, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLvd0_ZNJ0I
2:11:00 Christianity and the Jewish Agenda | Know More News LIVE w/ Christopher Jon Bjerknes & E. Michael Jones, https://dlive.tv/Know_More_News
2:18:00 Who is Christopher Jon Bjerknes? https://canarymission.org/individual/Christopher_Jon_Bjerknes

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A Place For You (12-7-20)

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Luke Ford

00:00 Free speech online and Section 230, JF Gariepy vs Richard Spencer
16:00 Voter fraud, https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/07/no-the-georgia-vote-counting-video-was-not-debunked-not-even-close/
31:30 Trump touts misleading video as ‘proof’ of Georgia voter fraud, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/07/trump-touts-misleading-video-proof-georgia-voter-fraud/
35:00 The rights of Englishmen
1:35:30 Curating absentee ballots
1:38:00 Matt Parrott, Matt Heimbach, https://www.bitchute.com/video/ySJulrlodEDw/
1:42:00 Why Matt Heimbach joined Light Upon Light with a former jihadi, https://www.lightuponlight.online/about/
2:02:00 Republicans are hit the hardest as coronavirus spreads among elected leaders, https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/12/03/coronavirus-hits-republican-elected-officials-hardest/6413673002/
2:09:40 Tim Pool is bald
2:11:00 Null (owner of Kiwi Farms): Section 230, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IFPpwNYzqA
2:12:00 Nick Fuentes is ill-informed about Section 230
2:16:00 The Irresponsibility of Giuliani, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/the-irresponsibility-of-giuliani/
2:17:00 Reforming the EC is not the Same as Overturning it, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/reforming-the-ec-is-not-the-same-as-overturning-it/
2:18:00 Republicans are the party of grievance, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/party-of-grievance/
2:22:20 Tucker Carlson on China’s people at the top of America2:42:00 Black skepticism of vaccines is the white man’s fault
2:44:00 Trump wants to tell us about space aliens

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A Place For You (12-6-20)

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Luke Ford

00:00 Overcoming loneliness
01:00 Somatic tracking, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhUvC5h-LEQ
10:00 A Jewish doctor who treated a patient with Nazi tattoos says the pandemic has tested his compassion
20:00 California lockdown, https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-bar-owner-rips-garcetti-newsom-over-double-standard-on-outdoor-dining
26:00 China is America’s number one national security threat
28:00 Voter fraud, https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-interview/#comment-4323931

Trump is Who We Thought He Was

Kraken me Up

The Court Failures Continue to Mount

Sunday’s Forum

Speaking of Numbers

More Nonsense About the Election

Team Trump loses in PA Again

On Faux Analysis of Biden’s Win

57:40 Fahrenheit 230 (Richard Spencer, JF Gariepy), https://www.bitchute.com/video/3w5mVdhiOD5A/
1:19:20 Millennial Woes: “I thought I would just stay on the dole forever.”, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9tjgu6lXT4ofFrbzzXO0Q
1:21:00 Jordan Peterson and his daughter hold breath for 90 seconds, meditate
1:55:00 Cashin’ in on Stop the Steal
1:59:00 Government based on “science”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQQlN9r8ho
2:03:30 This Might Hurt (2019 documentary)
2:08:00 Dr. Howard Schubiner, https://www.unlearnyourpain.com/
2:11:00 Breakthrough with Healing Chronic Pain | Howard Schubiner | Talks at Google, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VyH1laOd2M

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The Best Lack All Conviction

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Luke Ford

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/07/no-slouch/
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/939561949/opinion-reading-william-butler-yeats-100-years-later

Happy 100th anniversary to the poem that every writer needs to know

00:00 Nick Fuentes goes off on Ann Coulter
14:00 CNBC shouting match over lockdowns
15:00 Should health be your #1 priority?
24:00 PUBLISHER YOUTUBE FULLY TO BLAME FOR LIVESTREAM MURDER OF WOMAN
28:00 Alison Armstrong on the different ways the sexes feel safe
29:00 Productivity vs connection
39:00 What should we do questions
51:30 The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/07/no-slouch/
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/939561949/opinion-reading-william-butler-yeats-100-years-later

Happy 100th anniversary to the poem that every writer needs to know

56:20 Cigar Stream #62: Donald Trump and the Boxsetization of Politics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psslb8Hu_g0
1:01:00 Melissa Carone, Trump’s wacky blonde witness in MI, https://heavy.com/news/melissa-carone/
1:10:00 The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats – line-by-line poem analysis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF33N6DDUh0
1:25:00 Yale prof on Yeats, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LYarbQDrcQ
2:17:00 Bill Burr on bachelorhood
2:28:00 Strike & Mike
2:34:00 Why Abigail Shrier Took on the Transgender Craze Amongst Teenage Girls

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DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT POLITICS (12-11-20)

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Luke Ford

https://www.unz.com/isteve/personality-profiles-of-rival-movies-such-as-forrest-gump-and-pulp-fiction/
https://www.unz.com/isteve/are-we-what-we-watch/

Are We What We Watch?

https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-psychology-of-movies/
https://www.truity.com/test/big-five-personality-test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=53222

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The Texas Lawsuit and the Age of Dreampolitik

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Luke Ford

00:00 The Texas Lawsuit and the Age of Dreampolitik, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/opinion/sunday/trump-texas-election-lawsuit.html
02:00 Media buzz about four investigations into the Biden family
05:40 There are now currently at least 4 Federal Criminal Investigations into the Biden Family.
12:00 US Election 2020: Narratives, Plans and Sources of Information, https://rumble.com/vbu7tw-us-election-2020-narratives-plans-and-sources-of-information.html
32:10 Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc
35:00 When the revolution came for Amy Cuddy, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/when-the-revolution-came-for-amy-cuddy.html
40:00 Crossing the John Yoo line, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/05/24/handy_statistic/
41:00 Niall Ferguson, from scholar to hack, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2012/09/12/niall-ferguson-the-john-yoo-line-and-the-paradox-of-influence/
46:00 The Power of the “Power Pose”, https://slate.com/technology/2016/01/amy-cuddys-power-pose-research-is-the-latest-example-of-scientific-overreach.html
1:13:00 Major leak ‘exposes’ members and ‘lifts the lid’ on the Chinese Communist Party, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OumhrE6JV3A
1:31:00 Replicability Event – Professor Susan Fiske, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K7l-mZeuDg
1:34:20 Crimes against data, Professor Andrew Gelman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc1hkFC2c1E
1:36:00 Violent protests in Sacramento, https://twitter.com/SRodd_CPR/status/1337953801970466816
1:47:00 The winds have changed against professors Susan Fiske, Amy Cuddy, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2016/09/21/what-has-happened-down-here-is-the-winds-have-changed/
2:12:00 Hurricanes vs. Himmicanes, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/05/hurricanes-vs-himmicanes/
2:44:00 Baked Alaska arrested
2:48:00 Jacob Wohl says on #Killstream that Jews need more power
2:53:00 Jared Taylor on Joe Biden
2:57:30 Jared Taylor on #StopTheSteal
3:08:40 European-Americans

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Do Elites Hate Us And Want Us Dead?

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Luke Ford

00:00 Rational Reasons For Minimizing Envy & Scorn
07:00 Understanding Pain and Pain Treatments – the mind body connection
35:00 Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us (2011) by Susan Fiske
57:00 Gandalf joins
2:00:00 That Texas lawsuit buffoonery

Bud: “The idea that ‘elites hate us and want us die’ is a form of flattery. Elites don’t care enough about plebs to hate them. They just don’t care that they exist.”

Michael Tracey: “The low-grade brawlers in DC (and previously Portland) are just there to perform for the cameras; it’s a theatrical production, all about the self-gratification, and has no wider bearing on political reality in the United States.”

Bud: “I would argue all the antifa stuff and its coverage (andy ngo riot porn) adds up to nothing. It’s all performance and not real violence. Just morons/plebs brawling. In the iphone camera era, 99pct of all events are social media performance, attempt to get ‘viral.’ People are living content lives, tons of entertainment etc.”

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The Mind-Body Connection

Posted on December 12, 2020 by Luke Ford

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Rational Reasons For Minimizing Envy & Scorn

Posted on December 12, 2020 by Luke Ford

* It’s bad for your health.
* Envy creates feelings of shame, anger and rage and diminishes one’s sense of control.
* Envy occupies your mind in useless directions and saps inner resources that could be better deployed elsewhere.
* Envy makes you volatile and self-destructive, reducing your ability to like and trust yourself and others. Envy isolates you. Envy reduces your ability for human connection and receiving benefit from those connections (and nothing predicts happiness like the quality of one’s social ties). Envy and scorn reduce your ability to notice the humanity in others and thus it limits and distorts your understanding of reality. Envy reduces our ability to make positive contributions to others and to receive the same from them and thus it reduces our chances for happiness
* Nobody wants to admit to envy so it reduces your ability for integrity and transparency. Envy increases the gap between your reality and what you can publicly admit.
* Envy is exhausting and it makes us unhappy and fewer people want to hang with those who are miserable. Happy people are rarely envious and envious people are rarely happy.
* Every person I know full of envy is miserable. They’re usually an alcoholic or other type of addict.
* Envy kills one’s motivation to participate fully in life. Envy reduces your ability to get along with others and to compromise.
* Envy makes us hate ourselves.
* Envy distracts us from the gaping wounds in our life.
* I’ve never seen positive byproducts from people becoming more envious.
* Envy makes us feel one-down, hence more likely to be hyper vigilant, which is exhausting and unhealthy.
* Envy makes you cynical and reduces your ability to appreciate goodness and beauty and love.
* Envy makes you more likely to say things on social media and in real life that will hurt you and yours.
* Envy distorts our understanding.
* Envy increases our feeling of victimhood. Envy leads to conspiracy thinking, a sure mark of a loser
* We tend to think of people more successful than us as cold, which is a cognitive distortion of reality, and that people below us as are warm but incompetent, which is also a cognitive distortion.
* Envy leads you to deliberately harm others which provokes retaliation.
* Our fate is determined, in part, by our emotions, including envy.
* Your envy reduces the incentives for others to do great things for fear of being envied and hated by people like you, and lack of greatness hurts everyone.
* Envy promotes “Olympic-caliber emotional gymnastics to protect and promote our fragile selves.”
* Envy transmuted into inspiration can transform you (Susan Fiske). So why would you want to hold on to something that damages you when you can change it into something that serves you?
* Envy leads to impotence.
* Envy reduces our ability to learn from and about those we envy.

Professor Susan Fiske wrote in this 2011 book, Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us:

* envy damages close relationships that might otherwise provide an antidote to misery. Envy makes us feel inferior and probably prickly about receiving help or expressing gratitude.

* As it keeps the nervous system on alert, with downstream risk to the cardiovascular and immune systems, vigilance becomes costly. Low-status people incur the costs of vigilance for good reason. People are chronically watchful when their lives feel out of control. Indeed, this is the cost of being lower in the hierarchy and looking up all the time at those who control one’s fate. Consistent with this analysis, men’s social class predicts their heart disease risk; in pathbreaking work, Michael Marmot and his colleagues, surveying the Whitehall sample of British civil servants, show that the risk rises with the experience of not having enough control at work.115 Besides lack of control as a risk factor, negative emotions are implicated in this finding, because resentment, hostility, anxiety, hopelessness, and cynicism (emotions related to envy) underlie the harms wrought by loss of control.

* Both envy and scorn identify a gap between what we have and what someone else has.

* Emotions determine fates beyond the moment.

* Social isolation endangers health, threatening the immune system, cardiovascular system, and health habits.113 Negative emotions, including loneliness, may damage immune functioning by inflammatory processes often associated with cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, arthritis, type 2 diabetes, certain cancers, frailty, and functional decline.114 Social support helps people survive heart attacks.115 Social ties also correlate with longevity, even controlling for physical health, smoking, alcohol use, obesity, activity, class, age, life satisfaction, and health habits.116

* We are healthier and happier when we think that we know who we are and where we stand. Self-knowledge adapts us to navigate our days, from the minor level (“Do I wake up easily?” “Am I a good tennis player?”) to the major (“Do I get along well with my patchwork family?” “Do I reliably meet my work deadlines?”). Evolutionary psychologists argue that a self-concept serves our survival needs because it helps us not only in planning our own actions but also in coordinating with others.1 How could we know whom to join and whom to avoid without knowing who we are? How could we know what role to play when we do join others? How do we know what we can and cannot do if we do not compare our abilities to others? How well we get up, get by at tennis, get along with others, or get things done—all of these are relative judgments. Whether we should be the local alarm clock, tennis partner, family mediator, or group motivator depends on our abilities relative to those of others who are available.2 Other people serve as a reality check on our abilities (“I may be better than most people at getting up without an alarm clock, but I know where I stand relative to others as a tennis player, and it’s not good.”).

Having information allows us to predict what will happen, and that is a comfort. By and large, we do not like surprises, at least not the ones that come without party hats. Even more, we would like to be able to control what will happen, or at least understand the contingencies between what we do and what we get. We like to know about upcoming parties, raises, lay-offs, proposals, and babies; also, we prefer to have some say in these events. What is more, the illusion of information and control—as long as it is not too far from reality—matters more to us than its accuracy.3 That is, many of us tend to overestimate our own knowledge and influence, which reassures us that the world is not random and that what we do makes a difference. At a minimum, we like to believe that a trusted someone is in control, whether that someone is our president, our tech support, or our god. Indeed, some researchers suggest that our persistent religious beliefs stem from a need for at least vicarious control.4 Our motives for seeking prediction and control are among the most basic to our survival as social creatures.

* The opposite of dismissing someone is to merge with that person. Envy can transmute into inspiration. A superstar becomes a role model if two conditions are met. First, we must believe that we have the opportunity to follow the person’s success, and second, we must believe that talent can grow, that it is not fixed.

* Probably the most effective way to defuse envy is to become one with the other. If self and the enviable other overlap, the comparison evaporates. Close relationships researchers Art and Elaine Aron and their colleagues show that relationships thrive when people incorporate the other into the self.96 Overlapping the self with the other also facilitates empathy, of both the cognitive sort (understanding the other’s pain) and the emotional sort (feeling the other’s pain).

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