(02-22-2017 02:12 PM)Samseau Wrote: Also for all the guys who say the right has "no platform"...
What do you think 4chan and 8chan are? These sites are massive and draw insane traffic. The strict free speech makes it a natural home for the right.
4chan: 6.4 million visits a day, estimated worth 661 million. http://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/4chan.org/
8chan: 94K visits a day, estimated 2.3 million. http://www.worthofweb.com/website-value/8ch.net/
The fact is our side is massive, but it's shunned from the institutions. 4chan represents the plebeian masses while 8chan is the elite vanguard of the right. The growth of both of these sites is strong. As long as they remain I'd say the right always has a platform for speech. It just lacks a way to make money.
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(02-22-2017 02:48 PM)nomadbrah Wrote: Most Americans under 30 don't watch TV anymore.
(02-22-2017 06:21 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:(02-22-2017 04:43 PM)Irenicus Wrote: Why would they fix something that is not broken?
'The Hummingbirds' flamed out with their second album a year later, because Grunge had hit and they look liked the Wiggles. REM lost 8 million of their 'new' fans by their following album, and entered a period of increasingly-diminishing returns ever after.
This is just how the process works. Everyone is faced with a choice to abandon their original audience in terms of wider popularity. If Breitbart chooses to go the 'day-glo retards acting like toddlers' route, that's their choice. I'll find something else to read.
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As a digression on art and mass appeal in general, my take on this is that we're long past the concept of a Monoculture with Mass Appeal for All. Netflix - as toxic as the staff is - recognises Niche is now king, hence "Dear White People" and reviving Cult Shows. In a time of Universal Blandness, it is working your own unique niche with your own original voice, rough edges and all, that is more likely to appeal to a loyal, committed audience of people rather than being interchangeable with everyone else. This loyal, committed audience will spend money on your work - the mass market will download it for free.
This is why I end up taking some unfashionable roads with my music: I'm not concerned with what's popular but by following where the art is leading, and 'fashion' is transient anyway: what's currently-trendy (used to) sound really dated even a few years later, until the great stagnation of popular art hit in the late 2000's. What I can be is uniquely-me, and if consumers want more of it, I'm their only source. Contrast with modern culture, where the same 5 production teams are writing for Beyonce, Katy Perry, Rhianna, Madonna, etc.
I've noticed I fell into a working pattern of determining whether a song was 'good' by this rule: could anyone else have written this? Of course, this means a large part of the population is going to respond with "What the fuck is this?" but those people who do get it are going to lovingly-embrace it: "This is exactly what was missing in my life."
Quote:Milo Yiannopoulos 'threw a hissy fit about his hair and makeup before press conference where he resigned from Breitbart'
Quote:Sources claim the controversial 'super villain of the internet' wanted his image right before the press conference.
One told the New York Post: 'He was stressing out about hair and makeup. He was also trying to get a doctor to give him a B12 shot.'
(02-22-2017 09:29 PM)puckerman Wrote: Milo comes off badly in the press conference. He is blaming the left far too much. This kind of press conference will only encourage them. Meanwhile, it doesn't embolden his own allies.
There are some topics that you just have to avoid nowadays because the media will twist your comments no matter what you say. This was one of them.
His apology brings back memories of when the Dixie Chicks apologized back in 2003 after they said they were embarrassed to be from the state as Bush.
Quote: How a 16-year-old took down Milo
Julia closely follows political news from her home in Canada, with a deep interest in American politics. She has been particularly alarmed by the recent rise of Yiannopoulos and others like him. So as soon as she heard Yiannopoulos would speak at CPAC, she was appalled.
Then an old moment popped in her head. She remembered hearing an obscure podcast, the Drunken Peasants, in which Yiannopoulos, responding to a video by YouTube pundit Kevin Logan, defended the idea of “13-year-olds” having sex with “older men,” arguing that child molestation provided a “sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship” for teenagers.
Her memory was right. She found the July 2016 clip.
She didn’t think she’d have much luck spreading the news herself with her small Twitter following, so she contacted a conservative outlet to get the story out. She figured a liberal outlet would have less credibility among CPAC followers.
She landed on the previously not-very-well-known conservative blog Reagan Battalion, which, after a bit of back and forth, tweeted out the video — leading not just to CPAC canceling Yiannopoulos’s speech, but to Simon & Schuster pulling his already controversial book deal and his resignation from Breitbart.
Quote:Consider CPAC’s position: They thought they would get away with inviting someone as inflammatory as Yiannopoulos, despite his past bigoted remarks. In doing this, they were pushing the boundaries of the acceptable — potentially letting a hateful man speak in detail about his ideas on a mainstream conservative stage, supposedly in the defense of free speech.
Then it all backfired. And CPAC, along with Yiannopoulos’s publishers and Breitbart, disowned him.
If you’re an organization like CPAC looking at all of this, it will probably make you think twice about giving someone like Yiannopoulos a platform. Maybe these reactionaries really are a dangerous kind of breed of conservatism, and they should be treated as such.
The Canadian teenager said she hopes this is the lesson conservatives draw from the Yiannopoulos debacle. And more broadly, she hopes that her actions will push groups like CPAC to stand up for traditionally conservative values instead of embracing provocative figures just because they attack the left.
“You shouldn’t have to feel intimidated to stand up for what you believe in,” she said. “Hopefully they’ll realize that you can’t keep being this reactionary movement — if you can even call it that. You can’t just keep looking for enemies to attack and pointing the finger. Eventually, you have to stand up for something.”
Quote:Milo Yiannopoulos Told Not to Speak of “Pizzagate” During Miami University Lecture
by Tyler Durden
Dec 7, 2016 2:45 AM
Submitted by Joseph Jankowski of PlanetFreeWill.com
During the introduction to his lecture at Miami University on Monday, Breitbart News journalist and technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos informed the crowd that he was unable to address the highly controversial topic of “Pizzagate” because he had received phone calls from Washington D.C. that told him “not yet.” “We are going to talk this evening about a few things that are close to my heart,” Milo told his audience. “Although, I have one announcement to make which is that sadly when I announced I was going to be speaking about Pizzagate this evening, I got a number of phone calls with Washington D.C. area codes saying ‘not yet.'”
For those unfamiliar, Pizzagate is a wildly-popular conspiracy theory that centers around leaked emails from former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta that some believe contain pedophilic lingo. “Pizzagate subreddit was started by a group of Trump-supporting internet sleuths who were attempting to use WikiLeaks’ leaked Podesta emails to connect the Clintons and John Podesta to the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein,” Zero Hedge wrote of Pizzagate. “That said, when the Podesta emails failed to reveal a “smoking gun” linkage, the sleuths instead turned their focus to mulitple “pizza” references in Podesta’s emails which then led to the speculation that those “pizza” references must be code for something far more sinister.” The Washington Post says the “Pizzagate” sleuths are convinced that the “secret headquarters of a child sex-trafficking ring run by Hillary Clinton and members of her inner circle” is located in the basement of a Washington D.C. pizza shop called Comet Ping Pong Pizzeria.
Yiannopoulos put out a flyer for his Miami speech on Monday afternoon which advertised that he would be addressing the conspiracy theory. “I can tell you with no ego, this will be my finest show,” Milo wrote on his Facebook page.
It is currently unknown who called Milo and told him not to discuss the Pizzagate controversy but it might have something to do with the incident that occurred on Sunday when a man walked into Comet Ping Pong with a gun. The man told police he had come to the restaurant to “self-investigate” the “Pizzagate” conspiracy. Reports claim that Comet Ping Pong’s owner, James Alefantis, and his employees have been victims of continuous harassment from those exploring the theory that connects the pizza shop to child sex-trafficking. Surrounding businesses have also said that they have been targeted by believers in the conspiracy theory. While many of the sleuths say that their research as led them to believe that “Pizzagate” is real and not just some wild theory, there are some people who believe it has gone too far and now has become dangerous.
(02-26-2017 04:21 PM)911 Wrote: I've only gone back two pages on this thread, just wanted to say that it's good to have this guy out of circulation. The Right has to be upright, or it's totally useless.
The one good thing out of this fiasco is that with this guy and with George Takei, the ties between homosexual culture and pedophilia have been highlighted.
(02-26-2017 04:21 PM)911 Wrote: I've only gone back two pages on this thread, just wanted to say that it's good to have this guy out of circulation. The Right has to be upright, or it's totally useless.
The one good thing out of this fiasco is that with this guy and with George Takei, the ties between homosexual culture and pedophilia have been highlighted.
(02-26-2017 04:55 PM)uncledick Wrote:(02-26-2017 04:21 PM)911 Wrote: I've only gone back two pages on this thread, just wanted to say that it's good to have this guy out of circulation. The Right has to be upright, or it's totally useless.
The one good thing out of this fiasco is that with this guy and with George Takei, the ties between homosexual culture and pedophilia have been highlighted.
Advice the right has followed for five decades. Look at where its got us, in some pseudo brave new world freak show where deviants rule and continue to lead us, our lands and our souls to complete destruction.
I'll take one Milo over ten Shapiro's or ten Walsh's any day, the neocon and religious right's strategies and "principles" are utterly exhausted, if they ever were strategies and principles to begin with (they weren't).
The right has only found any semblance of balls and actual principles through the figures of the new right and the tactics they employ. The old right (Globalist stooges the lot of 'em) is filled with self-flagellation and weak kneed pussies that bend over at the slightest whiff of Marxist schlong.
My personal thoughts to all religious or straight and narrow conservatives who think Milo is not pure enough for this crusade.