Wild & Crazy Videos From 2018 II

Baked Alaska Goes Hollywood (4-16-18):

Fatherhood – A Panel Discussion (5-3-18)

Matt Forney Interview (5-6-18)

I Ran So Far Away, I Just Ran (5-7-18)

A Convert To Orthodox Judaism Talks With A Lutheran Pastor (5-14-18)

Kebab Shop (5-16-18)

The Bronze Age Mindset (6-22-18):

Hotep Jesus, Hotep Nation & Alt Blacks (6-3-18):

Kevin Michael Grace Book Club: Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Skin in the Game (6-8-18):

Greg Cochran Interview (5-25-18)

Kevin Michael Grace Returns (5-28-18)

Kevin Michael Grace Interview (5-17-18)

Patrick Little, Kevin Michael Grace, Tom Kawczynski (June 1, 2018)

Parsha Korach (Numbers 16–18) 6-10-18:

Kevin Michael Grace Vs Lexi Transexual (CV Vitolo-Haddad) 5-24-18:

#7: 6-11-18 Kevin Michael Grace: Witchcraft in Hollywood: Real or Not?:

#11 6-18-18 Kevin Michael Grace On The World Cup, Marijuana Legalization:

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Wild & Crazy Videos From 2018

Torah Talk: Parasha Balak (Num. 22 – 25) 7-2-17:

Analyzing Kevin MacDonald’s ‘Culture Of Critique’ (4-17-18):

The Friend-Enemy Distinction (4-23-18):

Vice & Consequence (4-26-18)

Styxhexenhammer666 Interview (4-29-18):

Schools Impose Diversity & More | TPS #2 with Luke Ford (4-30-18)

Post-Game – Schools Impose Diversity (4-30-18)

Jewstreaming: Jews & The Right (6-18-18)

Lack Of Power – That Was Our Dilemma (4-12-18):

Frame Game On The Ashkenazi Discussion Style (4-11-18)

Halsey English On The JQ (4-15-18)

I May Not Get There With You (4-14-18)

Rage & Resentment In Right-Wing Politics (4-12-18):

Mike Enoch, Eric Striker Critique The Nathan Cofnas Critique Of KMAC’s Culture Of Critique (3-22-18):

Here are some of my better posts:

* My Rules For Life (5-7-23)
* Pittsburgh Jews Praised For Faith As They Double Down On Left-Wing Activism (4-23-23)
* Dennis Prager: ‘The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen’ (4-20-23)
* Could it happen here? (4-20-23)
* Dennis Prager: ‘Could It Happen Here? It Is Happening Here.’ (4-9-23)
* News is a stress test (3-15-23)
* LA First Impressions After Nearly Three Months Down Under (1-26-23)
* The Bright Side Of Fame (1-24-23)
* What Should You Expect From The News? (1-21-23)
* The New Fascism (1-2-23)
* Should You Interview Nazis? (12-27-22)
* Overthrowing The System (12-7-22)
* Travel Clarifies (11-12-22)
* Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives) (10-23-22)
* Wired: The High Cost of Living Your Life Online (10-3-22)
* The Nihilism of Illness (8-16-22)
* Dearly Beloved (7-30-22)
* NYT: How Streaming Stars Pay the Price of Online Fame (7-29-22)
* How The News Differs From Reality (7-28-22)
* Rabbis & Rapists: A New Novel Exposes California Judaism (7-9-22)
* Death Be Not Proud – A Celebration of the Life & Work Of Musicologist Robert M. Stevenson (7-1-22)
* Is The Washington Post Hinting That Cassidy Hutchinson Was Sleeping With Mark Meadows? (6-29-22)
* When Did Intellectuals Stop Supporting The Free Market Of Ideas? (5-29-22)
* Vouch Nationalism (5-28-22)
* American Fear (5-22-22)
* Blacks Ride Free (5-22-22)
* When Your Options In Life Dwindle (5-22-22)
* Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? (1-4-22)
* Translating Inspiration Into Perspiration (11-25-21)
* Running Towards My New Life (11-21-21)
* Like Many Right-Wing Pundits, Dennis Prager Has Been Consistently Awful With Regard To Covid
* How did the American Right react to Covid? (8-12-21)
* HBO’s Small Town News & That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ (8-3-21)
* Dennis Prager Biography
* My Dennis Prager story
* Antonio Villaraigosa (2007)

Vlogs:

* WP: In wake of Ralph Yarl shooting, Black teens face fear and resignation (4-23-23)
* If I Am Right About Life, Then I Have No Importance (4-17-23)
* The Lowdown On Right-Wing Influencers (4-14-23)
* Examining Hero Systems & Conservative Claims Of Cultural Oppression (4-2-23)
* Why I No Longer Listen To Dennis Prager (4-2-23)
* It is more adaptive to be sheep than an individualist (3-19-23)
* How come we can’t have nice things? (1-25-23)
* Australian Fatalism v American Exuberance (1-28-23)
* It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (1-12-23)
* Analyzing Christian Nationalism (1-12-23)
* Dissident Critiques Of Christian Nationalism (1-12-23)
* The woke, the true and the sacred (12-30-22)
* Do You Optimize For Truth? (12-29-22)
* Ideas That Changed My Life (12-28-22)
* The Game: Undercover in the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (12-28-22)
* Christianity as an Identity (11-28-22)
* Day 12 Down Under – Life on the Island Prison (11-15-22)
* Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives) (10-23-22)
* People Never Say What They Mean (10-21-22)
* Kanye West and the Rise of Christian Nationalism (10-20-22)
* Kanye West is not a Political Philosopher (10-19-22)
* Two Live Jews Discuss The Rise Of Christian Nationalism (10-6-22)
* What If Social Media & Universities Prohibited Christ Denial? (9-22-22)
* Fordy’s Great Leap Forward In Moral Thinking Begins Now (9-21-22)
* A voice and character analysis of Alt Right livestreamers (9-19-22)
* The Ballad of Richard Spencer (9-18-22)
* How do we spread multi-culturalism to uncontacted peoples? (9-4-22)
* Pain, Fear, Stigma: What People Who Survived Monkeypox Want You to Know (8-31-22)
* Dearly Beloved (8-1-22)
* TRS Exposed (7-28-22)
* Dispelling The Ugly Myths About Orthodox Judaism (7-10-22)
* The Sinister Path (6-27-22)
* The Monster Inside (6-19-22)
* Biodiversity Crisis Drives Eradication Campaign Against Super-Predators (6-10-22)
* Where can marginalized losers get self-esteem? (6-3-22)”>
* What Unites Opposition To Nationalism? Disdain For Individual Dignity (6-1-22)
* The Media Are The Lapdogs Of The Experts (5-31-22)
* The Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas (5-29-22)
* A Solution To Social Media Censorship (5-27-22)
* Can you change your personality? (5-22-22)
* I Want To Break Free (5-21-22)
* How Do Republicans Build A Counter-Elite? (5-19-22)
* Should we bring souls out of hiding? What’s our right level of visibility and responsibility? (5-19-22)
* Don’t trust anyone under 25 (5-13-22)
* What’s The Purpose Of Politics? (5-12-22)
Competing for your attention — Baked Alaska declares himself innocent (5-11-22)
* Fame and Friends (5-10-22)
* Please Respect My Rebrand: The Mia, Nick & Richard Story (5-10-22)
* My chat room is not a public toilet (5-9-22)
* What if cults and livestreams are our only hope? (5-1-22)
* Only the Lonely (5-1-22)
* Why Do Entrepreneurs Embrace Woo-Woo Ideas? (4-19-22)
* The Alt Right Hagadah (4-14-22)
* Checking out of the national project (4-14-22)
* Teal Swan – The Suicide Catalyst (4-13-22)
* Tucker Carlson Talks To Amy Wax About Saving Western Civilization (4-11-22)
* Ordinary World (4-7-22)
* The Flight 93 Election Reconsidered (4-3-22)
* How Did Russia Vs Ukraine Become A Battle Of Good & Evil? (3-31-22)
* Historian Matthew Ghobrial On Russia Vs Ukraine (3-29-22)
* Will Smith, Chris Rock and the downward spiral of the dissidents (3-28-22)
* The Energy Stars (3-20-22)
* Putin Seems Disrespectful Of Human Rights, Bro (3-1-22)
* What is Fascism? (2-20-22)
* Dr. Fordy Will See You Now: Be Quiet And Accept Reality (2-9-22)
* Saturday Night Right: Joe Rogan’s apology, the rise and fall of internet blood sports (2-5-22)
* Deconstructing Holocaust Denial With Graduate Student Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill (1-22-22)
* Living by principles in an unfair world (1-25-22)
* The One Study That Changed JF Gariepy’s View On Vaccines (1-2-22)
* The Lies We Tell Ourselves: How to Face the Truth, Accept Yourself, and Create a Better Life (12-31-21)
* Walkabout Guru: Decoding Joe Rogan, Jocko Willink & Life After Youtube (12-29-21)
* The magic key vs the situational key (12-28-21)
* Self-verification theory (12-24-21)
* Shabbat on Christmas (12-26-21)
* Why Are Americans Bowling Alone While Aussies Bowl Together? (12-7-21)
* Sometimes You Need Less Faith (11-19-21)
* The Structure and the Situation (11-8-21)
* America is not a hell hole – the hole is in your soul (10-18-21)
* How talk radio makes people worse (10-18-21)
* What are the spiritual lessons of Covid? (10-7-21)
* Pompous Luke (9-27-21)
* It’s easy to dismiss information you don’t understand (9-3-21)
* You can’t pray your way out of a problem you behaved your way in to (9-3-21)
* Greg Cochran interview (5-25-18)
* Post-Game – Schools Impose Diversity (4-30-18)
* Schools Impose Diversity & More | TPS #2 with Luke Ford (4-30-18)
* Styxhexenhammer666 Interview (4-29-18)
* Vice & Consequence (4-26-18)
* The Friend-Enemy Distinction (4-23-18)
* Analyzing Kevin MacDonald’s ‘Culture Of Critique’ (4-17-18)
* Halsey English On The JQ (4-15-18)
* I May Not Get There With You (4-14-18)
* Lack Of Power – That Was Our Dilemma (4-12-18)
* Rage & Resentment In Right-Wing Politics (4-12-18)
* Frame Game On The Ashkenazi Discussion Style (4-11-18)
* Mike Enoch, Eric Striker Critique The Nathan Cofnas Critique Of KMAC’s Culture Of Critique (3-22-18)
* Torah Talk: Parasha Balak (Num. 22 – 25) 7-2-17

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Decoding Dennis Prager (5-29-23)

01:00 Decoding Dennis Prager, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=148127
12:30 If you let go of old wounds, you don’t need gurus
1:34:40 DTG: Interview with Renée DiResta: Online Ecosystems, Disinformation, & Censorship Debates, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/interview-with-renee-diresta-online-ecosystems-disinformation-censorship-debates
2:10:00 Dennis realized that his instincts are the same as the Torah’s instincts
2:16:40 John J. Mearsheimer on Ukraine

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Supporting Ukraine Is A Bigger Blunder Than Invading Iraq

In a speech uploaded to Youtube May 23, 2023, John J. Mearsheimer says supporting Ukraine against Russia is a much worse mistake than invading Iraq in 2003. “We committed a colossal blunder and I find it hard to see how we get out of this mess. It just looks like it goes on and on. When you start thinking about the consequences just for European-Russian relations moving forward. Talk about Nordstream. The Russians are going to be interfering in European politics, looking for cleavages and trying to exploit them. The Russians will look for cleavages in the trans-Atlantic relationship and trying to exploit those. We will be going to great lengths to undermine Russia economically and politically. They will be trying to wreck Ukraine and we will be trying to save Ukraine. Where does this end? We’ll all be dead and this will still be going on. There’s no deal, whether they bring in the Chinese or the Indians or someone from outer space.”

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‘Yes, We Should Call Them Imperialists’

Paul Gottfried wrote July 19, 2018:

Neoconservatives like Max Boot are fooling themselves if they think imposing ‘values’ on the rest of the world isn’t a matter of empire.

Recently while reading a book by an Israeli scholar named Yoram Hazony with the provocative title The Virtue of Nationalism, I encountered a distinction drawn by the late Charles Krauthammer between empire building and American global democratic hegemony. Like the editors of the Weekly Standard, for which he periodically wrote, Krauthammer believed it was unfair to describe what he wanted to see done, which was having the U.S. actively spread its own form of government throughout the world, as “imperialism.” After all, Krauthammer said, he and those who think like him “do not hunger for new territory,” which makes it wrong to accuse them of “imperialism.”

Hazony responds with the obvious answer that control can be imposed on the unwilling even if the empire builders are not overtly annexing territory. Meanwhile, other neoconservatives have given the game away by pushing their imperialist position a bit further than Krauthammer’s. Max Boot, for example, has been quite open in demanding “an American empire” built on ideological and military control even without outright annexation.

The question that occurred to me while reading Krauthammer’s proposal and Hazony’s response (which I suspect would have been more devastating had Hazony not been afraid of losing neoconservative friends and sponsors) is this one: how is this not imperialism?

Certainly the use of protectorates to increase the influence of Western powers in the non-Western world goes back a long time. As far back as the Peloponnesian War, rival Greek city-states tried to impose their constitutional arrangements on weaker Greek societies as a way of managing them politically. According to Xenophon, when the Athenians then surrendered to the Spartan commander Lysander in 403 BC, they had two conditions imposed on them: taking down their great wall (kathairein ta makra teixe) and installing a regime that looked like the Spartan one. This makes arguing that territory has to be annexed outright in order for it to become part of an American empire so utterly unconvincing.

One reason the views offered by Krauthammer and Boot did not elicit more widespread criticism—and have enjoyed enthusiastic favor among Republicans for decades, culminating in the oratorical wonders of George W. Bush—may have been the embrace of another neoconservative doctrine: “American exceptionalism.” The belief that the U.S. is a supremely good nation founded on universal principles has consequences that go well beyond electoral politics. Dennis Prager, a nationally syndicated talk radio host…extols American exceptionalism, which he says springs from American values.

Those values have “universal applicability,” according to Prager, and are “eminently exportable.” Glenn Beck has taken up the same theme of “American exceptionalism” as an exportable “idea”that is meant for everyone on the planet. The “ideas” or “values” in question are variously defined by the neoconservative media as “human rights,” “universal equality,” or just making sure everyone lives like us. Whatever it is, we are told that to withhold it from the rest of the human race would be uncharitable. Our efforts to bring it to others therefore cannot be dismissed as “imperialism” any more than the Spanish government of the 16th century thought it was doing wrong by forcing its religion on indigenous people in the Americas.

Although I’m hardly a fan of his political views, former president Barack Obama once said something that I thought was self-evident but that offended even members of his own party. According to Obama, “Americans believe they’re exceptional. But the Brits and Greeks believe they’re special too.” Obama was merely observing that it’s okay for others to believe they’re special, even if they’re not Americans imbued with “the idea.” Yet his statement was received with such uproar that he felt compelled to backtrack. Speaking later at West Point, he made it clear that “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.” This from someone whom Fox News assures us hated America and spent every minute of his presidency denying our greatness! (And, yes, I’ve heard the rejoinder to this: Obama was only pretending to believe in the creed he dutifully recited.)

It might be argued (and has been by neoconservatives many times) that the U.S. is both morally superior and less dangerous than ethnically defined societies because we advocate a “value” or “creed” that’s accessible to the entire human race. But this is hardly a recipe for peace as opposed to what Krauthammer called a “value-driven” relationship with the rest of the world. British journalist Douglas Murray, in his intended encomium Neoconservatism: Why We Need It, tries to praise his subjects but ends up describing a kind of global democratic jihadism. While Douglas admits that “socially, economically, and philosophically” neoconservatism differs from traditional conservatism, he insists that it’s something better. He commends neoconservatives for wishing to convert the world to “values.” Their primary goal, according to Murray, is the “erasing [of] tyrannies and [the] spreading [of] democracy,” an arduous task that requires “interventionism, nation-building, and many of the other difficulties that had long concerned traditional conservatives.”

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