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This is why conservatives keep ending up with the alt-right

January 3, 2019 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x

Regressive leftists love to godwin-attack conservatives and libertarians. It’s mostly unjustified attacks, but there’s an element of truth to the liberal talking point that conservatives and centrists end up with fascist ideas. One reason that it looks like conservatives agree with fascists is because they’re both right wing and they have some goals in common. Fascists are very skilled at playing on these commonalities to get the support of conservatives. Immigration has been a tool used by fascists to reach conservatives for years. Regressives have used it to smear anyone who disagrees with their immigration views. This is where we get to an important point about the damage the regressive left does by persistently throwing around accusations of racism and Godwin’s Law. When conservatives are repeatedly godwin’d for their political views, any accusation of racism or fascism starts to lose it’s meaning. When dialog shuts down with conservatives, it makes them more likely to be manipulated by fascists.

Centrists contribute toward right wing agendas through their constant one-sided bashing of the left. Up until about 2014, centrists were ardent progressives who defended marginalized people and rallied against the Christian fundamentalist boogeyman. They mocked left wing fringe groups that held more extreme views then they did, but overall they were progressive. Things started to change after 2010 once the fringe groups started forming large communities online and attracting support from more mainstream leftists and turning into cults. The average social justice warrior has very little political power, but their connection with the mainstream left who don’t heavily value the Constitution and who have spent the past few decades ramming through undemocratic legislation and turning the Supreme Court into their Politburo lends apparent validity to SJW conspiracy theories. The centrists went into overdrive against the regressive left even though stereotypical SJWs are only a very small minority of kooks. Centrists have latched onto SJWs as a boogeyman that is out to ruin video games and discriminate against white men. Affirmative action has resulted in discrimination, so they’re partially right but they act like shitheads about it and use it to justify regressive right political views. Centrists almost exclusively target the left for ridicule, even though there is plenty of cringe among the right and center. The torrent of anti left wing sentiment feeds directly into right wing political views. Even if someone starts out as a center leftist and genuinely believes that’s what they are, they can very easily fall down a rabbit hole laughing at SJWs and end up preparing to bro-fist with Neo Nazis the way the Americans bro-fisted with the Soviets.

Alternative Liberals, Centerism, Conservatives, Culture, Fascism, Internet Culture, Neckbeards, Politics, Racism, Social Justice Warriors

Digital Ocean now has separation for different projects

November 6, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x

The VM hosting service Digital Ocean started offering separation for hosting resources into different projects. This is a feature I wanted to see for a long time because I host many different servers for different purposes and different people. Digital Ocean has gone a step above just separating cloud servers and they allow projects to have all of their self contained resources. This makes it much easier to manage servers, domain names using Digital Ocean’s name servers, firewalls and any other components needed for a project. Before this feature all hosting resources were combined together and it could be hard to keep track of resources for different projects when you had multiple projects you manage and you host projects for other people.

When Digital Ocean added this feature I created multiple projects for each of things I’m doing on Digital Ocean including the various projects that I’m hosting for other people. This is a very exciting feature that I’ve been waiting for since I started using the service several years ago. They’ve done a good job adding features since then but this is one of the best that I’ve seen so far. The other best feature they added recently was doubling the server resources and now their minimum $5 plan includes 1GB of memory making it useful for any non-intensive hosting project.

This is not a paid promotion. This is my thought.

Internet Culture, Programming, Technology

Anti SJWs are NPCs

October 16, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x

NPC theory perfectly explains why anti SJWs act the way they do. For anyone who isn’t already familiar, there is a theory that some people aren’t actually real people organic bots that act like the real thing and are indistinguishable from real people. The difference is that they lack any sense of self awareness and they don’t experience things in the traditional sense. In a way they’re like super advanced chat bots; the bots themselves don’t think and neither do NPCs. They only simulate human awareness.

Anti-SJWs show clear evidence of being pre-programmed. They’re like NPCs in video games that constantly repeat the same few lines every time you see them. They don’t learn from experience and instead repeat the same few talking points. No matter how obvious it’s brought to their attention that they’re in the wrong, they’ll always reject facts and continue repeating their own assertions. Whenever they detect women in a video game, without fail they’ll immediately attribute the detection to supposed SJW agendas and begin railing against it regardless of the context or what the actual reason was. When confronted with facts, NPCs will refute the facts by any means necessary and continue with their assertions. Any responses given by anti-SJWs are very predictable and they’ve been frequently refuted yet programmed responses continue. The extent to which anti-SJWs will continue arguing their assertions in the face of overwhelming evidence with limited responses proves that they’re NPCs.

Alternative Liberals, Centerism, Gaming, Internet Culture, Neckbeards, Politics, Satire, Social Justice Warriors

Rags went off about muh historical accuracy without the slightest sense of self awareness

June 21, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x

I started watching part of his video about Battlefield V to see how incredibly cringeworthy it would be. I only watched part of it because I don’t feel like listening to an angry virgin rant about something no reasonable person cares about. His incredibly strained, uptight and stressed voice gives away the obvious fact that he’s never so much as even touched a girl, if his hatred of women wasn’t enough to give it away. Rags seems to have very effeminate speech patterns that are common among boys who live with their parents, which make it all the more ironic when he goes off calling people cucks. Look in the fucking mirror dude. There’s a sample subject that feminist and SJW feminization of boys is creating a pandemic of whiny incels. That should be proof I’m not an SJW because I realize I’m sharing a viewpoint with them here.

The part that really stood out as showing how un-self aware Rags is was when he ranted at the “inaccuracy” of including women in World War II. It’s not inaccurate but depending on the situation he has a point. I will admit that I do find the inclusion of white women in World War II games to be very off-putting and it does break immersion, sometimes more then other things. Slavic women are technically white but it’s not like anyone really cared about that, especially during World War II. Rags couldn’t be satisfied with his first complaint and had to drive on stating that previous World War II and World War I games were historically accurate and included an example that is so objectively wrong that he is either dishonest, mentally ill or doesn’t even play these games. He tried to say World War II games don’t include holographic sights when Call of Duty World War II in 2017 included sights that are functionally identical and Battlefield 1 in 2016 included functionally similar sights in World War I. As for his claim about historical accuracy, Battlefield 1 includes late war and experimental sub machine guns as entry level weapons that are available to every player and covers the battlefields of Europe with fully semi automatic rifles. Battlefield 1942 included German soldiers running around Britain with StG-44s in 1940. If that isn’t a giant fuck you to immersion and historical accuracy then I don’t know what should qualify.

One last blow to the arguments of shrieking neckbeards was the game Silent Storm from 2003. It allowed the player to create a female character from any country and included female NPCs that could be added to the player’s squad. I originally only used men and Soviet women in my squad for muh immersion but after I saw other immersion breaking characteristics of the game I stopped caring as much. At one point I was equipping my Soviet female character with a silenced sub machine gun and she said “I bet you are giving me this because I am a woman.” I laughed and then realized what would happen if they made a game like this today. If an incel had a female character say that to them, it would trigger them worse then SJWs when Trump was elected. Back in 2003, there wasn’t this level of outrage over wimminz in video games. Only a year later Call of Duty included a playable female character in their campaign, and no one freaked out. Of course, it was in the Soviet Union and it made sense.

I don’t even like SJWs but I still recognize this bullshit for what it is. I understand what makes the regressive left regressive, and it is because of their tone, accusations and how they force things on people. At the same time, people do want to be progressive and include women in games because it’s popular right now. Most people can put that in perspective and no one is forcing incel soyboys to play video games they don’t like. It is honestly jarring to see non Soviet women in a World War II game, and it does break immersion more then technical inconsistencies like the time period a map takes place in and the weapons that are available. It’s not a huge problem either and I was able to adapt when Call of Duty World at War allowed the Japanese to use Soviet weapons because the classes weren’t specific to each country. My honest opinion is that non Soviet women don’t belong in World War II games. However, I can articulate that clearly and it’s not just a manifestation of latent sexism. I can also put it in perspective and I understand why some games allow women from all countries. In Call of Duty World War II it’s because the character you create is used regardless of what country you play as. Even if one were to make a female Red Army soldier, that same character would be used in every army in the game. The level of outrage and incoherence that these nerds get themselves to is proof of their true feelings.

Feminism, Gender, Internet Culture, Neckbeards, Politics, Slavs, Social Justice Warriors

Stop getting offended on behalf of other races

April 30, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x

Being a Slav is a good experience for what it’s like to be black. It’s usually a reminder of what it’s like to experience frequent racism, but now I’m learning what it’s like to be part of a marginalized group and constantly SJWs virtue signal and get triggered over stupid shit on your behalf that does nothing but make a mockery out of legitimate problems. I went through the same experience that black people go through when they have to watch SJWs virtue signal and reduce serious issues to a punchline during the incident with Count Dankula. I probably wouldn’t be associated with someone who is an edgelord, but I’m not offended by someone making jokes about the Holocaust.

I found this meme that shows a Nazi turning on a gas chamber with a transparent window in the door where meme creators inserts a character from whatever group they hate. A very rough estimate of 35 million Slavs were murdered by the Nazis, yet I’m not triggered by this meme. These fuckers need to lighten up. Stop getting offended on behalf of other races because they don’t need you to speak for them and you’re the one who is being racist by treating other racists like snowflakes.

Fascism, Internet Culture, Politics, Racism, Slavs, Social Justice Warriors

This shit with Count Dankula

April 26, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x

I am not a “supporter” of Count Dankula in any way. His comedy style, from the limited quantity I have seen, seems to appeal to a very low denominator. None of it is anything that should be illegal. The conviction and verdict for the “crime” he committed were certifiable. Anyone who is that easily offended needs to seek professional help in order to help them deal with the stress. This is serious because there’s no reason why the video Count Dankula made should cause anyone but a Holocaust survivor so much distress.

If anyone reading this doesn’t already know what happened, Count Dankula was convicted of making a video where he trained his girlfriend’s dog to make Nazi salutes whenever he said “Gas the Jews.” As someone who is part of a race that was murdered in the tens of millions by the Nazis, I think the joke is slightly funny. I wouldn’t normally watch videos like that because they’re usually juvenile, but that doesn’t mean they should be illegal. I don’t need to be patronized by regressive pseudo-marxists getting offended on my behalf.

One reason why this whole incident is truly infuriating is because there are real pseudo-psychopathic people online who need to be put in prison for their online actions. These include people who post personal information to direct online hate mobs against their victims to get them fired or even to bully them into suicide. Such campaigns can lead to identity theft and life long financial ruin. Instead, law enforcement is directing their efforts and prosecuting people for being offensive in a terrible miscarriage of online justice.

Centerism, Culture, Fascism, Feminism, Internet Culture, Neckbeards, Politics, Racism, Slavs, Social Justice Warriors

SJWs hate white people so much I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve been infiltrated by false flag racists

January 7, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x

The liberal left has been known for over a decade for trying to make white people feel guilty over racism and it was annoying. Now they’ve taken the level of racism and hatred of white people to such an extreme degree that it seems like they’re actually trying to promote white nationalism by making white people feel like victims. Marxist leaders are actually morally bankrupt enough to fan the flames of racism and have innocent non-whites murdered in racial violence to provoke a counter blow-back. Of course there could just be deep cover white nationalists hiding out in the SJW movements that want to spew as much anti white racism as possible to fuel a sense of white persecution that will turn into a white uprising. This is what makes the regressive left regressive. They’ve been on a hard downward spiral in recent years of becoming more extreme and alienating everyone possible from their movement.

Internet Culture, Racism, Social Justice Warriors

An opinion on Yankee Marshal’s meltdown on Iraq Veteran

December 31, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x

Several weeks ago from the time this was written, The Yankee Marshal started having a semi coherent meltdown against Iraq Veteran 8888 one Youtube where he accused Iraq Veteran of taking money from the NRA to promote them and posting paid promotions for guns without disclosing that. I could have missed other videos where Yankee Marshal talks more about this because he didn’t have much of an argument, or there’s just no reason to think that those accusations are true. I don’t know if Iraq Veteran is being paid to promote the NRA, but if he is I hope he has disclosed this in a way that it can be easily found.

I like both channels and I don’t have a side that I want to pick, and it seems like Yankee Marshal has just been a total prick. I’m not going to let Iraq Veteran off easy though. He made a video after the accusations where he was rightfully angry at the accusations and I’m very sympathetic to whatever he went through on social media because of it. From what I saw, I don’t think Yankee Marshal is out on a warpath to bring down Iraq Veteran, which is good. I don’t know if any accusations are true and I’m assuming they aren’t. However, in that video Iraq Veteran said that he has never told anyone to join the NRA, which is not true. I’ve seen plenty of his videos where he encouraged it. His reason is that the NRA is our largest voice and so we should support them even though they’re run by scumbags. My position on the NRA has changed since they sold out their members with the bump stock bill. I only have a minor sticking point with Iraq Veteran and Yankee Marshal’s actions were unacceptable.

I will continue to watch both channels, assuming that Yankee Marshal doesn’t decide to go out in a blaze of glory on some foolish Internet warpath.

Guns, Internet Culture, Youtube Gun Community

Certbot from Let’s Encrypt is making it easier to secure criminal websites

July 18, 2017 Leave a Comment Written by r3d_f0x

This article points out an apparent vulnerability with the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority for requesting free SSL encryption certificates. The process of securing websites is automated by using their Certbot application that automatically installs certificates and configures web servers when a new site is added. FOXDEV uses this service. The asserted vulnerability with LE certificates is the ability to get a certificate for a phishing or scam website. This isn’t a true vulnerability and LE isn’t giving criminals much more then they had before.

When a criminal orders a free SSL certificate from LE to use for a website, all they’re getting is an encryption certificate from a trusted authority that won’t alert browsers. It displays a green padlock in the browser, but this is a problem with user behavior, not a problem with the service itself. The problem can come up if a criminal makes a sub domain like this to use for a scam site: user-authentication.paypal.com.4433.service.example.com or paypal.com.4433.service.example.com. It appears to be a subdomain of paypal.com. Sub domains like this have already been in use by criminals to make websites look legitimate by including a real domain within a sub domain. These domains can be used with unencrypted websites. Most websites have been unencrypted until recently. Before LE was available, criminals could still buy a certificate from one of the authorities. They could even buy a wild card certificate and make an unlimited number of fraudulent sub domains. The only advantage that criminals have now is the ability to request certificates for free. Since they could still buy a wild card certificate before, this isn’t much of an advantage.

The solution to this problem is in reeducating user behavior. Big businesses have bragged on their websites about the security of their websites and directed users to look for the padlock icon to verify that the site they were accessing was real. Even before LE, any criminal could have bought a certificate for a fraudulent domain and used it to generate the same padlock icon. We need to educate users that HTTPS only encrypts their access and they still need to verify the last levels of the domain properly.

Internet Culture, Security, Technology, Vulnerabilities, Web encryption