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If you were to carve out a masculine chunk of the web outside of the manosphere, what would those sites be?

My short list:

http://sivers.org/blog
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog
http://www.testosteronepit.com/
https://twitter.com/Finn_Skovgaard

Post: #2

https://xenlogic.wordpress.com/

Post: #3

http://maddox.xmission.com/

Post: #4

http://www.zerohedge.com has a brutally realistic outlook.

I mostly read legal and industry blogs that are focused on specific topics that don't lend themselves to the broader gender and cultural zeitgeist. There are two I would not call "red pill," (and which would laugh off the categorization), but are run by people who acutely understand how upside down society has become in many respects, and how readily public servants, drunk on their own self-importance, will abuse the people they putatively serve:
http://www.popehat.com
http://www.apublicdefender.com

Post: #5

Goldismoney2.com

Post: #6

Also the high road

Post: #7

Forgot this guy: http://www.facebook.com/BenSwannRealityCheck

He's about as close to Red Pill as you'll get in the mainstream media.

Post: #8

All of John Derbyshire's "Dark Enlightenment" outlets.

Post: #9

alternative media i like this guy. hes not as crazy as Alex Jones and everything he does is backed by facts

http://www.corbettreport.com/

some videos i like that hes done:

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/10/...rug-trade/

http://www.corbettreport.com/the-last-wo...den-video/

http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-246...-clintons/

Post: #10

what's that entrepreneur called, Taki?
http://takimag.com

Post: #11

(03-05-2013 01:44 PM)bojangles Wrote:  what's that entrepreneur called, Taki?
http://takimag.com

Taki is a bona fide playboy. Used to read all his columns in The Spectator (UK) back in the day.

Post: #12

If you like Sivers you've probably heard of Paul Graham. I wouldn't call him Red Pill but he is an independent thinker. (He is also the founder of Hacker News which you have probably heard of as well.)

http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

Some highlights:

From What You'll Wish You'd Known (originally intended as a high school graduation speech)

Quote:And yet every May, speakers all over the country fire up the Standard Graduation Speech, the theme of which is: don't give up on your dreams. I know what they mean, but this is a bad way to put it, because it implies you're supposed to be bound by some plan you made early on. The computer world has a name for this: premature optimization. And it is synonymous with disaster. These speakers would do better to say simply, don't give up.

What they really mean is, don't get demoralized. Don't think that you can't do what other people can. And I agree you shouldn't underestimate your potential. People who've done great things tend to seem as if they were a race apart. And most biographies only exaggerate this illusion, partly due to the worshipful attitude biographers inevitably sink into, and partly because, knowing how the story ends, they can't help streamlining the plot till it seems like the subject's life was a matter of destiny, the mere unfolding of some innate genius. In fact I suspect if you had the sixteen year old Shakespeare or Einstein in school with you, they'd seem impressive, but not totally unlike your other friends.

Which is an uncomfortable thought. If they were just like us, then they had to work very hard to do what they did. And that's one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy. If these guys were able to do what they did only because of some magic Shakespeareness or Einsteinness, then it's not our fault if we can't do something as good.

What You Can't Say

Quote:Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all of us riding on it.

What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they're much more dangerous. Fashion is mistaken for good design; moral fashion is mistaken for good. Dressing oddly gets you laughed at. Violating moral fashions can get you fired, ostracized, imprisoned, or even killed.

...

What can't we say? One way to find these ideas is simply to look at things people do say, and get in trouble for. [2]

Of course, we're not just looking for things we can't say. We're looking for things we can't say that are true, or at least have enough chance of being true that the question should remain open. But many of the things people get in trouble for saying probably do make it over this second, lower threshold. No one gets in trouble for saying that 2 + 2 is 5, or that people in Pittsburgh are ten feet tall. Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.

If Galileo had said that people in Padua were ten feet tall, he would have been regarded as a harmless eccentric. Saying the earth orbited the sun was another matter. The church knew this would set people thinking.

How To Make Wealth

Quote:Wealth is what you want, not money. But if wealth is the important thing, why does everyone talk about making money? It is a kind of shorthand: money is a way of moving wealth, and in practice they are usually interchangeable. But they are not the same thing, and unless you plan to get rich by counterfeiting, talking about making money can make it harder to understand how to make money.

The Submarine

Quote:"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.

Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

Post: #13

Earth Clinic - A site Roosh introduced us to.

T-Nation

The Ludwig Von Mises Institute - Not afraid to call out economic and political bullshit

Fred On Everything - A red pill man from an older generation.

Post: #14

facebook.com/fasterbiggerweirder

Frank Yang - photographer/body builder/ philosopher

Not really red pill, but he's alpha as fuck and hilariously crazy, yet still intelligent for the most part

And of course Dan Carlin. Great podcasts
http://www.dancarlin.com/