Post: #26

New Left Review: You can read only article per issue (the first one), but it will always be high quality. Browse former issues.
http://www.newleftreview.org/

Counterpunch: I like this American newsletter.
http://www.counterpunch.org/

Post: #27

You should look here for interesting articles.
I'm already subscribed.

Post: #28

http://www.thecommentator.com/

Politics, probably a bit Britain-centric for you, but there's enough on American issues to keep you there.

Post: #29

Robin Hanson's Overcoming Bias — hands down the best blog on the Internet. Completely changed the way I view the world. Many well-reasoned contrarian views, especially on signalling, and an excellent source of quotes and one-liners.

The Last Psychiatrist — psychiatrist's views on the society, mostly about the pervasive narcissism but don't miss his interpretations of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and the story of Narcissus

I found those two insights — about signalling and omnipresent narcissism — particularly enlightening. Including finally understanding what narcissism really is and how it's not about looking in the mirror.

Roissy — obviously.

Post: #30

(05-09-2012 01:19 PM)Luvianka Wrote:  What Does It Mean?
Yes, I know there are many theories and stories about who Sorcha Faal is. Yes, I know that her reports, which are supposed to be assembled from leaked Russian military intelligence documents, while convincing, have many non proved sides. However, take the time to, at least once a week, scroll down the ‘World News Now’ and the ‘Insight Into Today’s News’ sections. They both contain a selection of the most interesting articles from countless sources.
http://whatdoesitmean.com/
If you have never read one of Sorcha Faal’s reports, check these two out in order to understand what I am talking about:
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1554.htm
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1571.htm

Are you serious?

Quote:Obama Plan For World War III Stuns Russia

Obama Plan To Massacre Americans Chills Russia

Russia Orders Obama: Tell World About Aliens, Or We Will

Obama Regime Orders Computer Genius Aaron Swartz Suicided

Obama Drug Cartel Moves To Destroy Jewish Gun Empire In US

Post: #31

bump, what do smart guys on here read.

Post: #32

(05-11-2012 03:31 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  I love New York Times in general, even though some of the gender articles might be feminist-biased (but what media isn't today?) and myopic in the classic sense of not understanding the sexual market, it's still lots and lots of fine writing in general.

I used to like NYT until they put a 10 article limit a month on their website. They lost me.

Post: #33

My favorites
http://www.returnofkings.com
http://www.rooshvforum.com
http://www.rooshv.com

I don't know if any of you have heard of them but it's pretty solid stuff.

Post: #34

The only other web forum I visit daily is The Otherground.

Lots of fascinating conversations and quality articles:

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/

Post: #35

(02-01-2013 04:09 PM)thatGuy Wrote:  Robin Hanson's Overcoming Bias — hands down the best blog on the Internet. Completely changed the way I view the world. Many well-reasoned contrarian views, especially on signalling, and an excellent source of quotes and one-liners.

The Last Psychiatrist — psychiatrist's views on the society, mostly about the pervasive narcissism but don't miss his interpretations of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and the story of Narcissus

I found those two insights — about signalling and omnipresent narcissism — particularly enlightening. Including finally understanding what narcissism really is and how it's not about looking in the mirror.

Roissy — obviously.

I'll have to check out that overcoming bias blog.

And I will second the last psychiatrist, some of that stuff is very eye opening.

Chaos and Pain has some pretty good articles if you like to read about lifting culture.

Post: #36

Slashdot - http://www.slashdot.org
The articles are not quite as interesting as the comments, which are definitely worth reading. Sometimes, even red-pill stuff appears for divorce/dating related articles.

Early Retirement Extreme - http://earlyretirementextreme.com/
It's interesting, but focused too much on frugality and how to disconnect from society with a networth of $500k to live on $15k/year in perpetuity. I think Mark Cuban's approach to using the $500k to take your shot in life is much better than just trying to live frugally forever after reaching $500k, but it's good for getting to that initial $500k or whatever target you are going for.

2million dollar blog - http://www.2millionblog.com/
Guy attempts to amass 2 million in networth within twenty years from entering the rat race, despite being married with a child, on the premise that he could live off the 2 million forever with a 100k/year lifestyle in perpetuity. Fascinating reading, especially since it looks like he will make the goal earlier than anticipated.

Post: #37

http://themalesofgames.blogspot.no/
I think this will become one. Since it is basically the MRA in gaming. Lots of nice pictures too. Not sure how whiney it will be though so I have to read more into it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/
When I was more conservative this used to be my favorite conservative site, due to the quality of the posts. They really got into they why things happened and political theories as well.

http://thepeoplescube.com/
Great satire website and the guy is excellent at making propaganda.

http://www.badmovies.org/
I have a weird thing for horrible movies. This details lots of movies that are so bad that they are good. The way he review the movies is hilarious.

Post: #38

(05-17-2012 06:51 AM)Hawk Wrote:  Counterpunch: I like this American newsletter.
http://www.counterpunch.org/

I used to like reading Counterpunch because of their excellent foreign policy articles and traditional leftist (not contemporary SJW-leftist) viewpoints, but they seem have taken a dive in quality after the latest donation drive and went full SJW. Consider this sophomoric anti-Trump hit piece:

Quote:On the Devil, Trump and Getting Schlonged

by Edgar Rivera Colón

Donald Trump reminds me of ethnographer Jose E. Limon’s portrait of the Devil in South Texas. He — Satan is always a man –appears when sectors of the population feel threatened by the brutal machinations of the capitalist modernity gone wild. In his book, Dancing with the Devil: Society and Poetics in Mexican American South Texas, Limon collected stories from his Mexican/[email protected] informants of the Devil appearing at cantinas throughout South Texas during weekend dances. This particular Tejano avatar of the Prince of Lies was inevitably described as handsome, nicely attired, a good dancer, well endowed, a favorite of the ladies, and a man’s man, a real Chingon.

Enter Donald Trump into the media-managed US presidential campaign stage replete with candidates: lifelong opportunists who are elite, white, right, and uptight. Cruz and Rubio are the anemic browning of that template and not much more than that. The Devil or Donald Trump vamps on white working and middle-income fear and insecurity and revels in displaying the shit-stained undergarments of the political and media elite who have been the principle cheerleaders of destroying the economics arrangements that after World War Two produced one of the largest middle-classes in the history of the world.

The Devil and Donald Trump delight in the putatively “lower” regions of human anatomy: fecal materials, menstrual blood, penises, vaginas, etc. In fact, the economic policies of the elites in this country are creating the naked conditions that bare these bottom matters. Reality TV is the pixelated comedic opera of these deadly arrangements: the winners, the losers, the wannabes, and the aides-de-camp populate this engrossing universe of tropes and half-truths.

Another name for the Devil is Lucifer — the one who carries the light. Trump’s evil genius is that he sheds light on the actual existing system of choosing presidents and how media elites consolidate their power. His vulgarity is key to scandalizing the media elites’ upper middle-class sensibilities which never seem to extend to the criminality of the corporate lobbyist-fed political oligarchy that runs this country. Their horror rings false in the ears of the many — the non-credentialed rabble. Trump’s assertion that he would be happy to kill some journalists massages the homicidal anger that is just under the skins of many who attend his rallies and sympathize with his revanchist, populist message.

Now, let’s talk about schlongs. There is nothing wrong with schlongs or getting schlonged. Well, it does depend on whose schlong it is and the sophistication of the schlonging, I would argue, but that is another story for another day. What Trump did in his probably off-the-cuff remark was to blow a very powerful dog whistle: the matronly moralist, Hilary Clinton, was scholnged by a Black man. Consider the racist, sexist, and misogynistic registers that are mobilized by such a throw away line.

The Devil has no boundaries since his desires are as capacious as the drunken erotics that make cantinas and populist rallies cathartic spaces for those who feel dispossessed and reeling from a dignity-robbing economic system. The horror that the media and political elites emote at Trump’s pyrotechnics only consolidate his base. The Devil is working overtime these days. Trump is riding his fiery wake as far as he can.

Hillary Clinton will probably win in 2016, but Trumpism may become a fixture in US political discourse and that will have damaging consequences. God, I miss Charlie Daniels. Well, we still have Jack Daniels to soothe our political nerves and to fend off the Devil that has no need for details, just the fire of hatred and the brimstone of popular despair. That’s a stiff drink to swallow. Stiff indeed.

Edgar Rivera Colón Ph.D., a cultural anthropologist, teaches at Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Program.

Goes to show how little degrees and titles actually mean in real life, when this "PhD" writes like an angry teenager.

Also, lol at Roosh recommending Rolling Stone, GQ, and New York Times Magazine. How things have changed...

Post: #39

Fitness legend Clarence Bass' homepage

http://www.cbass.com

Post: #40

Scott Alexander's blog has some interesting articles on social justice, politics, and science.

His article on the liberal/conservative in-group/out-group phenomenon offers an interesting framework on why liberals seem so eager to treat members of their supposed in-group worse than members of their supposed out-group.

I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup:

Quote:And today we have an almost unprecedented situation.

We have a lot of people – like the Emperor – boasting of being able to tolerate everyone from every outgroup they can imagine, loving the outgroup, writing long paeans to how great the outgroup is, staying up at night fretting that somebody else might not like the outgroup enough.

And we have those same people absolutely ripping into their in-groups – straight, white, male, hetero, cis, American, whatever – talking day in and day out to anyone who will listen about how terrible their in-group is, how it is responsible for all evils, how something needs to be done about it, how they’re ashamed to be associated with it at all.

This is really surprising. It’s a total reversal of everything we know about human psychology up to this point. No one did any genetic engineering. No one passed out weird glowing pills in the public schools. And yet suddenly we get an entire group of people who conspicuously love their outgroups, the outer the better, and gain status by talking about how terrible their own groups are.

What is going on here?

[...]

Compare the Nazis to the German Jews and to the Japanese. The Nazis were very similar to the German Jews: they looked the same, spoke the same language, came from a similar culture. The Nazis were totally different from the Japanese: different race, different language, vast cultural gap. But although one could imagine certain situations in which the Nazis treated the Japanese as an outgroup, in practice they got along pretty well. Heck, the Nazis were actually moderately friendly with the Chinese, even when they were technically at war. Meanwhile, the conflict between the Nazis and the German Jews – some of whom didn’t even realize they were anything other than German until they checked their grandparents’ birth certificate – is the stuff of history and nightmares. Any theory of outgroupishness that naively assumes the Nazis’ natural outgroup is Japanese or Chinese people will be totally inadequate.

And this isn’t a weird exception. Freud spoke of the narcissism of small differences, saying that “it is precisely communities with adjoining territories, and related to each other in other ways as well, who are engaged in constant feuds and ridiculing each other”. Nazis and German Jews. Northern Irish Protestants and Northern Irish Catholics. Hutus and Tutsis. South African whites and South African blacks. Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs. Anyone in the former Yugoslavia and anyone else in the former Yugoslavia.

[...]

In other words, outgroups may be the people who look exactly like you, and scary foreigner types can become the in-group on a moment’s notice when it seems convenient.

Post: #41

(05-09-2012 08:20 AM)Roosh Wrote:  I'm talking more about long, analytic articles for good evening reading.

anncoulter.com

Post: #42

Ribbon Farm
-Pretty well known on the forum I think. The Gervais Principle has it's own thread somewhere

Hacker News
-Y Combinator's news feed.

I also want to mention that I fucking hate The New Yorker.