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Sam Rockwell had a surprise cameo in White Lotus this week. The clip above is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, but the funniness was outweighed by how shocked I was at how good this guy looks. I said “he’s gotta be 52, and he looks like that?” I looked it up and that nigga be 56 years old.

I understand of course that movie stars have access to all sorts of health things, but frankly, I’m not really convinced that much of this is out of the reach of a normal middle class person. It’s possible he’s had plastic surgery, but if he did it was just a neck lift, which is not something that carries risk of turning into a monster, and it isn’t very expensive either.

He could also be on TRT, I can’t really tell without seeing him with his shirt off. (He’s wearing a tightish t-shirt and doesn’t have indications that he’s on any kind of serious dose if he is on it.)

But most of the reasons a man is going to look like that at 56 is simply that he’s taken care of himself, primarily through diet and fitness. I’ve really been thinking a lot about this lately, what with my fast. I broke my fast today with some juice and a disgusting overcooked vegetable soup. (I read a whole lot about refeeding syndrome, and I’m following all of the protocols.)

I’ve more or less completely stopped smoking in favor of Zyn. (I’m not quitting nicotine, it’s just not worth it, no matter what the benefits are. I’ve done it before. It’s not worth it. But it’s the smoke that’s the health issue, not the nicotine. Even RFK does Zyn.)

I’m also going to continue an “alcohol fast” for the rest of Lent, and just see how that goes. I might stop drinking so much. I am not joining the AA cult, which I think is evil and just destroys people’s lives, but I might well become a “bottle of wine with dinner a couple times a week” type of guy. I’m not committing to that. Alcohol has been a big part of my life since I was a teenager, and it’s been a big part of my work for the last 12 years. In some ways, it is my best friend, and I don’t think we should abandon our friends. But it’s something I’m seriously considering cutting back on significantly.

I’m also not doing any more bodybuilding at all. A couple years ago, I could have actually competed for squat champ. I was only 73 kilos, so I’m not saying I’d have the highest squat, but my body weight to squat weight was pretty incredible. I obviously lost about .5 kg (1 pound) a day during the fast, so I’m going to gain some weight back, but I think I’m going to seriously analyze what I want my weight to be, and it should probably be lower than 73. I still think strength training is very good, but I’ve decided it’s really unhealthy to increase your weight in order to increase your strength.

A good portion of the readership are millennials, now staring down middle age, and I think we should all be looking at the disgusting bulbous boomers and realizing that we don’t have to become that. We can have dignity and look good well into middle age, if we so choose. People did this all throughout history, so we shouldn’t look at the fact that boomers are the old people we are looking at and assume that we are just going to become disgusting blobs of goo like they did. We can be strong and healthy into our fifties and beyond if we make good and responsible decisions.

White Lotus 3

This might be the worst season of White Lotus, even though it has my favorite actor, Walton Goggins. But even if it is the worst season, it is still so much better than anything else created in the last decade. And it might not be the worst. I need to see how the ending unfolds to really make any kind of judgement on it. I think I reviewed the first two seasons on here, and I will do it again for this season, but not until it’s over.

With shows I want to watch (which is very rare these days), I usually wait until it is over before I start watching it, so I can watch one episode a day or whatever. But I was excited about White Lotus (especially because I know all these locations in Thailand), and started the “episode per week” thing. I don’t think this is the way the show is meant to be watched and it is probably giving me a worse impression than I would have watching it all together. Waiting a week for a setup episode can leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Maybe, it necessarily has to be the worst season, because Tanya is dead. But I don’t think it is bad at all, and I think the fact I don’t really even have an indication of who is going to die is an indicator of quality. Obviously, we all make guesses when watching the show, but I can go through all of the options and I don’t see any as more likely than any of the others.

Anyway, I’ll post a real review when it’s over in a couple weeks.

(Republished from The Daily Stormer by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Old Prude says:

    Hair, bro. It’s all about the hair. I used to be beautiful, then male pattern baldness set in. Now, like Dwight Yoakham, I like hats.

    • Agree: bj0311
  2. That video is disgusting. Is the whole show like that? Why would you watch that garbage?

    • Disagree: Half Norwegian
    • Replies: @Godly3982
  3. I always figured AA as black and a Fed.

    • LOL: QCIC
    • Replies: @Trinity
  4. I did the potato hack for 2 weeks. It’s insightful to as how one relates to food. More or less quitting smoking is the same as not quitting. Alcohol is a wonderful servant but a horrible master. My experience is that once it becomes master it will never again allow itself to become servant. Maybe you will have better luck than me.

    • Replies: @ThreeCranes
  5. My dad looks only that old at 67. Your shock is a little amusing. Do men just age faster in america or something? What the hell are you people doing to yourselves that rockwell’s face is considered amazingly young.

    • Agree: Sharonbaron, Felpudinho
  6. bj0311 says:

    I came back from Iraq at 45 with these bags under my eyes that age me 15 years, but my wife loves me anyway. The amazing thing is it not the looks it is the look that counts with women. Dress well gentlemen, carry yourself proudly, and the ladies will throw themselves at you–it is so funny. ZZ Top was right.

  7. Bert says:

    It’s genetics. I had and still have it. You don’t.

    • Replies: @theronin
  8. Chaskinss says:

    Most USians age like milk. It’s their horrific diet, US empire “foods”, and endless stress.

    • Replies: @Rich
  9. @Old Prude

    My bald spot is towards the back of my head, so if I grow my hair a bit and slick it back, it’s not an obvious comb-over. You get sunburn quickly where I live, so no skinhead.

    • Replies: @Che Guava
  10. Linus says:

    I recently completed a two-day complete fast, in part for Lent, in part in inspiration from AA. I was shooting for three days but stopped at two. Here are my observations on my fast:

    – I wasn’t really hunger, per se, the whole time, up until the moment I decided I was going to eat – then I became almost angry hungry.
    – I had a headache all the second day. First day I was fine.
    – slept OK but kinda ‘hot sleeping’ so not as restful as usual.
    – prayed with much greater intensity. I completed the rosary in a seeming snap.
    – no sex drive whatsoever.
    – low energy on day two, kinda like in a trance, yet still able to read and think fine.
    – Diminished recent memory
    – First day was fine, but second day I had overall slower pace, slower speech than usual. Nothing huge, just noticeable.

    Anyway, two days is small potatoes compared to AA’s 2-week fast, but thought I would share. It was an interesting experiment, with actual spiritual rewards. But I had to stop early because I had to take care of my kids on day 3, and thought it would be selfish to continue.

  11. QCIC says:

    Anglin needs some food, he’s hallucinating. Longing to be like Rockwell in any respect is strange.

    The description in the monologue sounded like a decent rendition of the Bruce Jenner autogynephilia schtick. Gross and weird.

    • Agree: BrooLidd
  12. Anonymous[396] • Disclaimer says:
    @Old Prude

    Hair, bro. It’s all about the hair. I used to be beautiful, then male pattern baldness set in. Now, like Dwight Yoakham, I like hats.

    That’s part of it. Also, Hollywood sets have great makeup artist and hair people to make actors look much better on film.

    Here’s a picture of Rockwell 3 years ago off the set, with no makeup and hair (they add things like Toppik to thicken hair):

    He’s also on the short side (5ft 7 ½ according to celebheights.com) which helps you age slower.

    Here he is with his 5ft 8 ½ girlfriend Leslie Bibb

    All of that aside, a lot of men after 40’s let themselves go and when they are in their 50’s they develop wrinkles and bad skin. Exercise, healthy diet, and hydration (water, water, water) can mitigate these two things. So can good genetics but that is out of someone’s control.

    I googled “56-year old man” and found two examples of 56-years olds:

    https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/postandcourier.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/39/7396b5da-c3aa-11e6-911b-ff2754009f8c/5854139428485.image.jpg

    Exercise, healthy diet, and drinking lots of water— along with good grooming!— could’ve made this guys look much better. But if you have a baseline that looks like this, it would be hard to find the motivation to do the work required to drop body fat and develop muscularity (which in turn transforms the face) or even do proper grooming.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    , @Chaskinss
  13. Anonymous[280] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous

    Also, minimize sunlight or sun damage (apply sunscreen when out under the sun). People don’t appreciate how much accumulated damage comes from UV exposure.

    They have moisturizer with sunscreen that everyone should apply when out under the sun for hours.

    • Disagree: Half Norwegian
  14. @Jim Richard

    A fine book: The Thirsty Muse, on boozing, that I found insightful and well written. You should be able to find it at your local library or at Amazon.

    “To those who harbor the notion that heavy drinking fosters creativity, this forceful, sobering study will serve as an antidote. Dardis profiles four alcoholic American writers: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and O’Neill. He argues that the first three burned themselves out before they had fully tapped their creative potential, a decline which the author, a professor at New York’s John Jay College, links decisively to booze…”

    Your Muse won’t tolerate being dragged through the wreck you make of your personal life. Why should she? She will abandon you for one who spares her your foul temper and careening from one extreme to the other, as alcoholics are prone to do.

  15. Che Guava says:

    I recall Sam Rockwell in two films, Galaxy Quest, where he played well, and, I forget the English title, it was ‘Man Entrapped by the Moon’ in Japanese. That was an exceptionally good film performance, especially since he was mainly playing opposite himself. It can only be done, excepting if talented identical twins are at hand, on film, not on stage.

    Suppose that I’ve seen him in a few other roles.

    Is Sam Rockwell very short? Didn’t get that impression.

    • Agree: Dr. Rock
    • Replies: @Australia Infelix
  16. Che Guava says:
    @James of Africa

    The best (or worst) comb-over I ever saw was on Tokyo subway about twenty years ago.

    The man had grown his hair very long at the back, applied black dye (just about everyone older here does, man or woman), then swept some of the hair from the back of his skull forward, to cover his head, and used some kind of hair gel to achieve a kind of reverse rockabilly ducktail over his forehead.

    It looked so strange.

    • LOL: James of Africa
    • Replies: @James of Africa
  17. conatus says:

    Walter Goggins was great on Justified as the necky crime boss.
    He is great in this clip also where he is just open mouthed uncomprehending agog over this autogynephila shit.
    “I wanna be a girl and get fucked”??? Huh????

    Steve Sailer has talked about autogynephilia a lot in his pieces over the years. He had some classmate at MBA school who dominated the shit out of everybody and 20 years later this guy decided to be a woman?
    Huh?
    I have read where Ray Blanchard himself(the autogynephilia discoverer)was quoted as saying, in his experience 75% of men who want to be women are autogynephiliacs. It is not some thing akin to ‘I was born a slave and I want to be free’ as in ‘I was born a man but i want to be a woman’
    No it is a sex fetish.

    ‘Autogynephilia’ should be the vocabulary word of the day for sophomores in high school.

  18. @don't care

    Booze. Our folks love their beer and whiskey. I’m in my mid 50s and if the subject of age comes up I am always floored when I am talking to a guy who is 45 and looks to my Dads age. I’ve figured out over the years that more often than not when I see someone who looks too old for their age the one commonality is drinking.

  19. @Che Guava

    Sometimes I suspect that YouTube is trolling me with some of their suggested video:

    Video Link

    • LOL: nokangaroos
    • Replies: @Trinity
    , @Che Guava
    , @Anonymous
  20. BobbyToo says:

    Congrats on completing the fast A. Very inspiring to many of us.

    The very sad thing about Alcoholics Anonymous is that as Holden Caulfield said in The Catcher In the Rye; “People Will Always Ruin Everything for You”.

    The big book of A.A., is an amazing SPIRITUAL work and very American. But…, the human ego ruins everything. Alcohol Anonymous has become ritualized and ceremonialized. It has become all about a competition to see who can stay sober the longest instead of a personal, spiritual path. It’s sheer madness and there is very little chance of talking any sense into any of these people who partake in it.

    A spiritual quest can be very hard and painful at times. But sitting in some meeting bragging that you haven’t had a beer in 3 years, 11 months, 7 weeks, 3 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 32 seconds, is a lot easier and it feeds the now even dumber, dumbed down persons ego. Thus they preach; “keep your mouth shut and go to a meeting.” He, or she who has the most time sober gets power, girls, business deals… at the meetings and it was never about the meetings in the first place. Then on and on the madness goes.

    I smoked one, or two cigarettes a day for years and years and considered myself lucky to be able to do that. I recently stopped, I say stopped since I might do it again. I miss that morning cigarette! However in general, I have a lot more energy now and the pluses of not smoking at all, very much outweigh smoking (I think).

    Been doing the Omad eating regimen for a long time. Sometimes a hard boiled egg for breakfast, or a small piece of very healthy bread with butter in the morning but rarely. Looking into doing dry fasting.

    I always have a beer, no more than 12 oz., with a shot, or two of bourbon which I sip with dinner. I occasionally stop for a week, or so but I don’t think I ever will completely.

    Looking good and staying in shape is all about putting in the effort. I’m in my 50s now. Still weigh about 150lbs., at 5’8”, still have lots of hair. It’s all about putting in the effort. Don’t ever listen to what society tells you. Listen to what you want and your heart.

    Look at Mick Jagger. At 81, he’s still running around with his 37 year old wife. Watch videos of the Stones playing live just a few years ago, how the hell could he run around like that at 78 years old?! He was asked about it and he said that “life is what you make of it”.

    Lift two days a week and boxing one day a week. Sometimes I switch that up. Boxing is amazing guys! Recently took it up. It’s all about building stamina. And when you get good and start landing hard punches, man, that feels gggreat!

    • Replies: @Linus
  21. Trinity says:
    @James of Africa

    Just use shoe polish like Steven Seagal

  22. Che Guava says:
    @James of Africa

    That is funny, like a commercial in Robocop, but it’s real?

    • Replies: @James of Africa
  23. Anonymous[366] • Disclaimer says:
    @James of Africa

    Funny harassing “paint your bald-spot?’ call to Larry King 😂

    Video Link

    • LOL: James of Africa
  24. But it’s the smoke that’s the health issue, not the nicotine. Even RFK does Zyn.

    Nicotine contracts capillaries and elevates blood pressure. It is a small effect but if you are going to get obsessive about your physical condition you will eventually locate this as the lowest hanging remaining fruit to grab on to for dear life. At some point (Jack Lalanne didn’t hit this point until after 90 y. o.) obsessive compulsive disorder will go anywhere.

  25. Chaskinss says:
    @Anonymous

    Is that a USian–the geezer looks so old-must be the USA-in look

  26. Rich says:
    @Chaskinss

    What’s with that weird “USians” I keep seeing people on this site using? Is it supposed to be an insult? Are you just not aware the term is “Americans”? My first thought is you guys are talking about Asian-Americans. It’s not clever or funny. Just dopey.

  27. good luck with that, i guess. i’m already well on my way to michael shannon.

    rockwell is a dope actor, though. three billboards was “chef’s kiss” and he actually made george w funny in vice. white lotus just looks like a yuppie murder mystery…though i find it hard to resist anything with coolidge in it.

    as for any post-boomer “generations”, just wait until the various dumb fuck diets of the JREtards catch up with them. it’s gonna be hilarious seeing the shitty US medical system strain under the weight of thousands of idiots who took health advice from jordan peterson and his stupid cunt daughter.

  28. Dr. Rock says:

    If you haven’t seen it, “Moon” is a great Sam Rockwell movie.

  29. twerp says:

    This series on the fast has been excellent.

    bottle of wine with dinner a couple times a week

    Even that’s a lot, honestly.

    • Disagree: JPS
  30. Angharad says:

    Andrew – Sam Rockwell has appeared in tons of things. He’s a very good looking man at any age. The fact that you picked this clip, where he’s seated the entire time and the lighting is very dark and you really can’t see him very well – this is VERY sus.

    You need to examine your mental and emotional health.

  31. @Che Guava

    I remember similar spray-on hair infomercials from 90’s television, it was dead serious. “Call now, and we will include this special offer….”

    Video Link

    A 90’s song that seems to be about selfhelp, infomercials, scientology, etc. “Here’s how to order!”
    The 90’s were already very weird despite no internet or social media.

    • Replies: @Che Guava
  32. Dennis Dale says: • Website

    Stand by for the shrill cacophony–“fed!”; “degenerate!”; “how can you watch that shit?”. I’ve never watched the show but the monologue was fairly jarring. If it’s presented in an intelligent context and not there merely to “shock” (is that even possible now?) it’s actually quite subversive, portraying an instance of decadent autogynephilia contrary to fashionable convention.

    But the dull half of your audience here is incapable of figuring that out. Like the character in American Psycho, they’re only capable of disgust. Not even a very well-informed disgust. Bateman is actually way ahead of them. But their predictable screeching reminds of something that used to happen when I was young, that curiously doesn’t seem to happen any more. At night when a siren, say from a fire truck, went off all the dogs within earshot would start howling miserably. Why doesn’t that happen any more? Have dogs made the adjustment? I recall a Mexican saying, in that earnest, simple way of theirs, that the dogs thought it was the devil (literally, he meant). I think that’s what’s happening with our shrill children here. Don’t hate on me guys, I love you. But your impotent howling will not stop the fire. And I must admit, when your shrieking stops I will be saddened to see you’ve made the adjustment to a wretched condition.

  33. anonymust says:
    @Trinity

    In the town where I was born lived a man….
    that dressed quite well and normally, suit tie etc.
    But the look was topped off with a kind of sculpted “Elvis quiff” made from black shoe polish!
    One could see rivulets of blueish black colour trickling down from it…
    he was known as “Cherry Blossom”
    after the popular brand of shoe polish sold in the UK.
    His sad end came when he was found dead sitting waiting for a train,
    the cause of death? sepsis, from years of wearing a shoe polish syrup
    The polish having seeped into his skull over the years,
    eventually polished him off!

  34. “Actors” aka “Entertainers”

    The vast majority of these people are so far removed from the real everyday life of average American working man/woman, it’s not even funny.

    Same with the majority of Sports and Music stars.

    A huge reality check is long overdue. Jew Hollyweird and the ” professional sports” industry needs to be brought back down to Earth.

    • Agree: BobbyToo, Sulu, Sharonbaron
  35. Oh Gawd not another Hollywood Minute from Anglin.

    Anglin watches more “couples shows” like White Lotus than actual married men.

  36. They gotta give us more than this.

  37. @Rich

    Yeah, it’s done by edgy retards who hate America (and live somewhere way worse)

    I’m not American and call out a lot of the bad stuff about America, but this is just retards with an inferiority complex

  38. Never heard of Sam Rockwell and the White Lotus, but if Anglin wants to emulate him, and he’s a positive role model, I’m happy for him. I just asked AI what the White Lotus is and it told me it’s a series on the TV. No wonder I’ve never heard of either Sam Rockwell or the White Lotus, as I don’t watch the TV.

    Now that Anglin is making moves to clean up his physical health, he should get rid of his TV permanently and the benefits to his mental health will be surprising to him. Start reading good books either in physical form or on the computer.

  39. Anon slim says:

    Oh I thought this was a bronze aged pervert thirst post.

  40. Godly3982 says:
    @theRealHun

    Millennials love their goyslop shows. They love it even more than boomers. They can’t put down the remote.
    Even supposedly “red-pilled” ones like Anglin is fully aware that he’s watching jewish subversive propaganda and will choose to watch it anyways. It’s like a pacifier for them. If they can’t figure out a way to justify it, they’ll just claim they are doing it “ironically” (whatever that means)

    • Agree: TKK
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    , @John Johnson
  41. Anonymous[350] • Disclaimer says:
    @Godly3982

    they’ll just claim they are doing it “ironically” (whatever that means)

    I’ve been wondering what that means for 18 years.

    • Replies: @Matthew Kelly
  42. Mac_ says:

    Good points on reflecting health focus. Smoking is mitigated by using natural tobacco, and light filters, also I use a tar blocker filter. Not doing the vape thing.

    On alcohol, generally isn’t good, but for those who take up the cudgel or pen or other tools against the vile, a little here or there could seem a few hour break.

    As Anglin mentions having imbibed while also writing, a similar one-off here. Around a decade or twelve years ago was posting comment on a stie will just note as ‘bn’, and was drinking a ‘kombucha’ because it was ‘probiotic’, and found myself cranking off a short smart ass poem, which at that time I was all about ‘exposing the jews’, and, unfortunately and unintentially making a mess affecting other commenter’s works, but back to point, the thing was unexpectedly funny, which after hitting ‘send’ to post, I realized the ‘warm fuzzy’ feel and looked for and saw the alcohol content.

    If I remember right, the post earned me a listing/thrashing on fstdt, or maybe it was another.

    In any event, good article reminders on clearing the toxic and getting basic.

    Would echo others on water, spring is best, and if use any sort of filtered water, should add some himilayan sea salt. Also remember to get enough magnesium.

  43. Abraham S says:

    You aren’t going to make to 50 so don’t worry about it. You are also headed to the lake of fire for your hatred of Blacks, Indians and others. There are so many wonderful Christians among the groups of people that you hate and you are an abomination in the eyes of God.

  44. Linus says:
    @BobbyToo

    Very nice comment. I have often wondering about ‘minimal smokers’. I used to smoke maybe one cigarette a week, for years. Then I would drop it altogether for a year, and then go back and have some more. I kinda liked smoking – relaxing, fun, and I could actually feel the drug effects tingling through my body, which I guess indicates my low level of usage. But I was always nagged about the ill effects. Could such low usage really be all that bad? The doctor, of course, would just say that it was obviously awful and to stop – but this was just a rote answer. Could not the ill effects (mainly cancer, I guess) be due to the additives? So I started growing my own tobacco, which was surprisingly easy to do once the seeds germinate. Yet I gave it all up years ago, because I still fear the cancer, and I have children and don’t want to leave them early. Still, I wish that there was real research on the effects of ‘minimal smokers’.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  45. BobbyToo says:

    I think the effects of smoking might all be over blown Linus. I’ve always had this theory that the powers that be don’t want folks to smoke because when you smoke, you tend to think about things.

    I live in Brooklyn. When I’m in Manhattan, especially during the day, I see people outside of office buildings smoking and talking to other people. That’s happened to me. When I used to work in an office in Manhattan, I would take a cigarette break and even if I was alone, if there were other people outside the office smoking when I went outside, we would all tend to congregate; you know, nod to each other, chat, and chat about all kinds of stuff.

    The powers that be don’t want that. They don’t want people thinking, and talking to each other. That might seem a bit far-fetched, but after the crackdown on cigarette smoking everywhere some years ago, I think it’s part of it.

    I definitely feel physically better when I don’t smoke, so, I will continue to abstain for a while. You might as well also. But if you, or I start again, hey, we can always stop again and then again, we don’t smoke all that much to begin with anyway 🙂

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  46. @Rich

    Spanish speakers can use estadounidense as an adjective to mean American. (I believe it translates literally as “a state of being uniquely dense.”)

    • Thanks: Badger Down
    • Replies: @Badger Down
  47. Americano, OTOH, means espresso diluted with water—a way of making coffee which NO ONE in the United States does. Ever .

    • Replies: @Rich
  48. Lights! Get professional help, splurge on lights, look so young! And five pounds thinner!
    Look at that scene you posted. Someone should get an Oscar for that lighting.

  49. @Sorel McRae

    Brits call them USers. “That’s ALL they DO!”
    4% of world population consuming 25% of the stuff.
    Look at that footprint!

  50. Anonymous[350] • Disclaimer says:
    @BobbyToo

    The quality of conversation among people gathered to smoke has never been what I’d call thoughtful. Even if they’re chatting about election fraud or race this is just trivial griping from peasants with no power to change anything. It’s unreasonable to believe the elites are scared of that. There really has to be a better reason than that for the war on tobacco, and please, nobody reply to this with some bro-science about testosterone…

    When did millions of peasants juiced up on T ever pose a threat to the powers that be, for that matter? Maybe centuries ago but not since then.

  51. BrooLidd says:
    @don't care

    If you’re British the difference is the climate. Little sun equals baby skin.

    • Replies: @don't care
  52. @Che Guava

    It’s just Moon in English.

    • Thanks: Che Guava
  53. @BrooLidd

    If you’re British

    Now now… there’s no need for insults.

    • LOL: BrooLidd
  54. Rich says:
    @Sorel McRae

    Except I hablo espanol and I’ve worked with hundreds of Hispanics over the years, and none of them call Americans estudounidense. Apparently, only spaghetti armed Euro-trash and their weak minded college boy followers who think they sound clever use these weird terms. I wasn’t sure if it was just ignorance that was causing it, or stupidity. Now I know.

  55. Che Guava says:
    @James of Africa

    The Internet existed, just that it was mainly restricted to technologists and scientists, tech. and science students or former students, and a few computer fans who managed to get an account, and system administrators were absolutely opposed to use for profit at least until the mid-nineties. I was very young, but as a tech. student, had an account.

    Then the morons started flooding in. Also, the big commercial players such as Google really ran a massive swindle. All of the long-haul transfer infrastructure was and is paid for by
    states (from taxes) and telecomms subscribers. Google et al. got and still get to use it all for free.

    I think that at least My Space existed before the year 2000.

    Fidonet was an interesting model, too. Some projects are trying to make something similar within TCP/IP.

    • Agree: James of Africa
  56. @Anonymous

    Use it in a sentence: “I shoot heroin on a daily basis, but I do it ironically, so it’s all good.”

    • Replies: @Dennis Dale
  57. @Godly3982

    Even supposedly “red-pilled” ones like Anglin is fully aware that he’s watching jewish subversive propaganda and will choose to watch it anyways. It’s like a pacifier for them. If they can’t figure out a way to justify it, they’ll just claim they are doing it “ironically” (whatever that means)

    The show is written by a degenerate homosexual whose dad was an Evangelical speechwriter:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_White_(filmmaker)

    It’s a show aimed at bored suburbanites so they have something edgy to talk about at the watercooler.

    OMG THE SCENE WITH TEH BUTSECS!!!! WAZ SO GROSS GONNA WATCH IT TOMORROW!!

    They love it even more than boomers.

    I’m not sure that is possible. Boomers can watch an insane amount of television.

    • Replies: @tamberlint
  58. @John Johnson

    Of all the minute voices sighing in the wind, these were chosen for media production.

    We can see that Mike White’s first two producer credits were both formative fiction projects. One of the titles is especially suggestive, and a quick look at its credits reveals a mother lode of what are now marquee names, before and behind the camera.

    How does Hollywood prosecute its narratives? Is there coherent coordination and long-range strategy? Does anyone have insight.

    ————
    I have encountered several families where the man fathered children and then decamped for another man. Not convinced it’s possible to cure the homosexual tendency, but neither am I likely to be persuaded that chastity within marriage leads to death.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_White

    After their marriage, White [Senior] admitted to his wife that he had always been attracted to men. He embarked on a long process of attempted cures for his homosexuality, including psychotherapy, prayer, electroconvulsive therapy, and exorcism. None of these techniques changed his attraction to men, and after he attempted suicide, he and his wife agreed to an amicable divorce. His son Mike is bisexual.

    In 1984, White began dating Gary Nixon. In 1994, White wrote his autobiography, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay And Christian In America, which detailed his former career in the Religious Right and his struggle coming to terms with his sexuality. His ex-wife wrote the foreword to this book. His latest book, Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells To Deny Gay Equality was released in hardback as Religion Gone Bad: Hidden Dangers from the Christian Right.

    After coming out, White transferred his clergy credentials to the gay-affirming Metropolitan Community Church.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  59. @Linus

    Yet I gave it all up years ago, because I still fear the cancer, and I have children and don’t want to leave them early. Still, I wish that there was real research on the effects of ‘minimal smokers’.

    I scarcely remember some research suggesting that the risk was pretty low if you exercised.

    Quite a few guys around here do a vape / light smoker combo. People in India probably inhale more pollution.

  60. @tamberlint

    I have encountered several families where the man fathered children and then decamped for another man. Not convinced it’s possible to cure the homosexual tendency, but neither am I likely to be persuaded that chastity within marriage leads to death.

    I have said many times that if homosexuality is genetic then pressuring gays to marry women will pass the genes.

    Gays use churches for cover in middle America. I started reading about the problem when I suspected a closeted gay who after many years slipped up with a few comments. We assumed he was single and overworked but it turned out that he was gay. It is a red flag for a straight man to spend excessive hours at the church. They use that dedication to not just avoid their home life but also interactions with other men that might detect them. The church provides them with the excuse of being too busy for a football game or fishing trip. The “gay conversion” organizations are aware of this and other red flags. They can actually immediately identify gays but still maintain it is a moral choice.

    After their marriage, White [Senior] admitted to his wife that he had always been attracted to men. He embarked on a long process of attempted cures for his homosexuality, including psychotherapy, prayer, electroconvulsive therapy, and exorcism. None of these techniques changed his attraction to men, and after he attempted suicide, he and his wife agreed to an amicable divorce. His son Mike is bisexual.

    Pray away the gay is not working. His son was raised in an Evangelical environment and is just as gay as the dad. That guy is not bisexual. That is a queer who pretends to understand straight men.

  61. @Trinity

    Ole’ Steven is not entirely bad, polished hair and all:

    Video Link

    • LOL: Trinity
  62. Dennis Dale says: • Website
    @Matthew Kelly

    Actually this only demonstrates how silly your position is. Taking in information is different. Think of a thoroughly gullible person. He watches something like that clip and he takes it literally. He probably doesn’t understand, so he looks to others if he can to see what he should think of it, what it means. A more intelligent person sees the subtext and things such as, yes, irony and has a better understanding. Information or art is not a drug that has the same physical effect on its various users.

    Now I don’t defend the faux-ironic pose, it’s usually just a way to defend a guilty pleasure by pretending one has it mastered–to use your analogy, the ironist-hipster is the addict who could “quit any time.” But the notion one is powerless before the presentation, that we are all as children before it, is not for me. There is adult fare and there is children’s fare. There should probably be a similar male/female segregation as well. But I’m not ready to demand all art be wholesome kitsch just yet. Honestly I’d rather go without art at all than to live in the world you guys demand.

    But that’s the thing here. This is all just purity-signaling. “I’m better than you because my disgust is more finely tuned.” Many such cases. It’s interesting how it’s the precise inverse of the decadent/liberal pose, which is “I’m superior because I have no disgust or capacity to be shocked.”

  63. theronin says:
    @Bert

    Genetics has nothing to do with it. I like Denzel Washington’s quote from “Man On Fire” – “there’s no such thing as toughness; there’s trained or untrained.” I did Ironman triathlons from my early 40’s to mid 50’s and still do endurance swimming in my early 60’s. My brother doesn’t have this endurance instinct and despite being two years younger than me, he looks 6-8 years older.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
    , @Bert
  64. Truth says:

    Well Old Sport, you’re going to be a spitting image of Lew Rockwell at 56. That’s not the worst thing in the world.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  65. What did I just watch.
    Why would anyone post this madness?
    Just gross

  66. Chaskinss says:
    @Rich

    Reality is difficult for USians.

  67. @theronin

    Genetics has nothing to do with it. I like Denzel Washington’s quote from “Man On Fire” – “there’s no such thing as toughness; there’s trained or untrained.”

    That’s a Hollywood feel-good quote that is unfortunately not true.

    Some men are hopelessly weak and it has everything to do with genetics. If you had spent time around people in the military then you would know that some guys cannot just “man up” with some boot camp.

    It’s in fact a cruel attitude to assume that all kids can be toughened up into rough boys.

    It’s just not true. There are sissy boys that will be sissy boys and it doesn’t matter if you make them play football or do sit-ups. Christian America has a hard time with this reality. They double down and think their little Steward needs even more sports exposure or something. It’s complete cringe to see these kids in sports games. I feel bad for the kids because they know that their parents are disappointed.

  68. Anonymous[366] • Disclaimer says:
    @Truth

    Well Old Sport, you’re going to be a spitting image of Lew Rockwell at 56. That’s not the worst thing in the world.

    Or David French (who’s currently 56-years old):

    • Replies: @Truth
  69. Truth says:
    @Anonymous

    Yes but I meant that at 56 he is going to be the spitting image of 80 year old Lew.

  70. Bert says:
    @theronin

    Clearly, your personal example does not refute John Johnson’s critique, nor the experience of anyone who has been in high school physical education classes.

    Secondly, Anglin was referring primarily to facial appearance, which is of course the main aspect that people notice about a person. My face changed very little between the ages of 18 through 60. At 18, I could get into bars without showing an ID. At 65, my wife told me that I could get a 20 year old girlfriend. I took up a modified form of that challenge when I was 71 and continued for several years more.

    Finally, you share an average of 50% of your genes with your brother, but because of the vagaries of crossing-over and meiosis, you could be quite different than him genetically.

    AI Overview

    On average, full siblings share about 50% of their DNA, but the actual relatedness can vary, with a range of approximately 38% to 61%.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+frequency+distribution+of+relatedness+between+two+siblings%3F&sca_esv=2a2a93e8be91f013&sxsrf=AHTn8zqDqYCz1Olxi5oGMsK-vsIR3w9AmQ%3A1742970424818&source=hp&ei=OJ7jZ-utL5KrwbkPjaCyuA8&iflsig=ACkRmUkAAAAAZ-OsSE5pzAqbPEo2Jk3_98dqEfKPBu-g&ved=0ahUKEwjrqZfojqeMAxWSVTABHQ2QDPcQ4dUDCBo&uact=5&oq=what+is+the+frequency+distribution+of+relatedness+between+two+siblings%3F&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Ikd3aGF0IGlzIHRoZSBmcmVxdWVuY3kgZGlzdHJpYnV0aW9uIG9mIHJlbGF0ZWRuZXNzIGJldHdlZW4gdHdvIHNpYmxpbmdzPzIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRirAjIFECEYqwIyBRAhGJ8FSIDBAVAAWPW8AXACeACQAQCYAYECoAGIKqoBBzMzLjIxLjG4AQPIAQD4AQGYAjmgAsQtwgIEECMYJ8ICChAAGIAEGEMYigXCAgsQABiABBiRAhiKBcICChAjGIAEGCcYigXCAg0QABiABBhDGMkDGIoFwgIKEAAYgAQYFBiHAsICDRAAGIAEGLEDGBQYhwLCAggQABiABBixA8ICDhAAGIAEGLEDGIMBGIoFwgIFEAAYgATCAgYQABgWGB7CAgsQABiABBiGAxiKBcICCBAAGKIEGIkFwgIHECEYoAEYCpgDAJIHBzI4LjI4LjGgB8_AA7IHBzI2LjI4LjG4B7Mt&sclient=gws-wiz

  71. Ughhh… yea. Time to take a break bro. Homoerotic analysis is not your forte. Or, I mean it is, but it shouldn’t be.

  72. T Jackson says:

    Rockwell still has his hair and isn’t morbidly obese which accounts for 95% of looking younger.

    Also, that monologue does a good job of graphically describing how degenerate behavior progresses to ever increasing degeneracy. His character wasn’t defending it either but felt remorseful.

    Owen Benjamin commented that the scene was the degenerate narcissist desiring to have sex with himself.

    Very strange and interesting series tbh.

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