Not cool.

Friends don't call friends 'genetic aberrations', especially if said friend has problems with body image, self-esteem and depression.
I understand that my point of view is misguided if not logically incomprehensible. But perhaps looking into what I actually believe in at a little more than face value is required before calling me 'a fucking moron'.

The fact that you pretty much stalked my internet personae to try and out me to all my friends and family as a miscreant doesn't put you in my good books either. I thought you were a nice person; guess I was wrong.

There's a reason I don't put my political beliefs in public IRL and it is because I knew I would get hate and misunderstanding. I regard Facebook as my personal life; and I keep my personal and internet lives seperate.

Thank you for ruining my day.

EDIT: Well I guess this post doesn't matter since you don't consider me a friend anymore. My trust in people has subsequently dropped a few notches.

SOPA, and the countdown to the end of free speech on the internet.

For those who are yet to hear about SOPA (also known as Protect-IP), do visit this handy site here.
The corporate crusade against piracy is pointless, and still a waste of funds. All it does is inconvenience the legitimate consumer, while doing nothing to curb piracy. Another recent example of this is in the first patch for Skyrim, which did nothing to inconvenience the pirates (who weren't running the game through Steam) but did stop users who had bought the game from playing it if they had downloaded a mod to increase the RAM usage of the game.
As it stands, corporations and governments are slowly whittling down our freedoms in the hopes that it may result in more cash in their pockets. The war on piracy is just another crusade which cannot be won and will only end in outrage.

Do promote the aforementioned website. The more people that know about this, the more that can act against it. And while this bill only affects the US, its passing will mean a domino effect of more countries passing similar laws.

Otto Skozeny is the man.

Otto Skorzeny is the fucking man.

Look at that fucking smug smile.


(I hope this is the first Google result for 'Otto Skorzeny is the man' now.

Disclaimer: Otto Skorzeny is not the man. Christoph Waltz is the man.)

Paranoia? Or excitement?

The betrayal of a secret document a friend sent to me has now been posted on 4chanarchive.

By this, I am referring to The Prophecy of the Lords, the shittiest piece of shit I have ever read, which I posted on /lit/ one day in hopes that the users of 4chan might find it amusing, or alternatively tear out their eyes in a confusing mix of anger and sadness.

I would probably have gotten away with it, too, if the aforementioned thread doesn't link to this very blog. A few people I know in real life probably read 4chanarchive, and it's likely that at least one person from the forum involved does too. So what is likely to happen is that the author of this dreck will be notified that I posted his shit all over the internet. If I'm lucky, he'll have a good laugh. If not, he'll be very, very angry.

Furthermore, if the aforementioned people I know somehow link this blog to me, it might result in quite a shitstorm.

A paranoid person would put their blog on private. I did for a few moments, then noticed that an anon had posted a comment on the post linked in the thread. So I've decided to leave the blog public and see what kind of traffic I get. Doubtless I'll draw in some haters, anyway. If nothing happens, well, at least the experience was interesting.

By the way, the guy who posted in that thread claiming to be the author is not the actual author.
I have, however, agreed to look at an animation project the real author is doing (you can see where this is going), perhaps as a sort of penance for not finishing proofreading this, perhaps because I want to see whether he has actually improved, perhaps because I am a masochist.

This was his comment on The Prophecy of the Lords:

That one was my first time, quite a few years ago since writing now. Looking back at it, I do feel kind of ashamed. But i've made sure to work out the kinks for this one, and for safety measures, hired a proof reader (friend from university).

So I was banned from TGWTG.

This actually happened a few weeks ago, but since I am a lazy fucktard I am yet to write about it until now.

I signed up for TGWTG Forums some time ago and promptly forgot about it.

I signed up as 'ThatNaziDog'. That was my first mistake. Why did I do that? It was a stupid thought experiment. I wanted to be provocative.

I posted a few times some months later and was generally not treated too badly. I did make an enemy though: dagan. All this guy seems to do is complain. He earned my ire after this post, in which he makes the lovely assumption that disliking Schindler's List (I hate it for being pretentious, emotionless drivel, not because of its subject matter) makes me a racialist and a Holocaust revisionist, of which I am neither. Good to see you're thinking with your head there, dagan!

My second mistake was posting in this topic. All of my posts have since been deleted (that'll be explained later) but my first foray into this topic was basically outing my incredibly racist grandfather, but included a line which threw everyone off: "I'm not a fan of jews, for various reasons."
Shit hit the fan.

Apparently, despite my username and avatar of Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth, everyone assumed that I wasn't a Nazi and was making a joke or something. Okay.
So I was asked a lot of questions. I answered them all politely and went out of my way to stress that: no I am not a racialist, or a white supremacist, I'm not even white; I'm not a historical revisionist, I accept that the Holocaust happened, that it was a black mark on history and I'm not proud of it, but all regimes have done terrible things and they have almost all been forgiven; no, I am not wishing for the extermination of the Jews, I keep forgetting they are a racial group and dislike them as a religious group instead; the reasons for this are many and varied; and that there IS a difference between racism and racialism, which half of the people there completely ignored.

Then Zeden came in, completely misinterpreted half of my posts and decided to regard my argument as inferior due to my political stance. Okay. I answered him too.

Then the mod came in and decided to ignore every single one of my posts, assume that because I associate myself as a national socialist that makes me a white nationalist holocaust denier, flamed me to high hell, contradicted herself, decided that my beliefs were "evil and destructive ... [and] degrade the public caliber of this private forum", then promptly deleted all of my posts and then banned me after I made another acknowledging that while I don't agree with the decision, I accept that I am not wanted.

Red Leaves concluded, in a topic about racism where others have acknowledged their own prejudices, that anyone who is a racist will be banned.

tl;dr I was banned from TGWTG for being a nazi, no questions asked, all posts deleted.

I cannot think of any other ideology towards which this is a regular occurence across the internet.

Israeli soldiers attack aid flotilla

Israel should rot in hell and all the Zionists can go with it.

Although I haven't posted much about it here, I am fairly passionate about the Gaza situation, but this is the first thing to happen this year which has really made me angry instead of just downright depressed.

As you may or may not know, Israel has put up a blockade in Gaza, preventing many materials from entering or leaving the country. They say this blockade is to prevent violence and terrorism in Gaza, but basic materials such as foodstuffs, coffee and construction materials are also prohibited. Construction in Gaza, or expansion on a property, is prohibited without a permit. Israel only gives out a few permits, and seldom to Gazans due to bias in the system. Forgoing the roles and building without a permit can result in your house being steamrolled (by bulldozers shipped to Israel from Australia) or taken by the IDF.

The situation angered some Europeans so much that they put together some materials and went off on a flotilla to give them to Gaza. Unfortunately, the IDF caught up and opened fire with machine guns and gas grenades, despite the flotilla having raised a white flag, and the ship being in international waters, outside of IDF jurisdiction (although at current Israel plans to expand its maritime claims to 70km from its current 20km from shore). At current, 16 are dead and 30 wounded, all civilians. The IDF claims that they were attacked with knives, but it's clear that they are either lying or taking the civilians' frightened acts of self-defense and using them as an excuse to kill.

There is really nothing I can say about this that isn't already apparent. How can people stand back and ignore these atrocities happening, or claim that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism?
As a state, Israel has no right to exist, and it is time that someone stage an intervention to stop the holocaust in Gaza. Unfortunately the US' staunch defense of Israel would make large-scale action difficult, so it is up to small organisations - such as those shot dead today in international waters - to spread awareness and help the people of Palestine break free from their oppression.

In Defense of: Nuclear Power

This is gonna be the first in a series of me defending things.

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

I've actually already gotten into this subject before, briefly, but this'll be my first comprehensive post about it.

So, as you all probably know, Australia has tonnes of uranium lying around that isn't being used. Some of it is being exported but for the most part it's stuck underground because nobody wants to use it.

The truth is that nuclear power is far safer and more efficient than fossil fuels. Almost 80% of France's energy is produced with nuclear power. The sheer amount of energy produced in a single reaction is far more than that from burning that weight of fissile material as coal.

The main fear that people have is that nuclear power is unstable and will cause accidents, often citing Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. These accidents are few and far between, and have only happened because the proper safety measures were breached or not followed (the workers at Chernobyl on that day were in breach of over fifty safety rules). In the Chernobyl case, the reactor tried to shut itself down multiple times but it was overriden by the overzealous workers. Nuclear power plants, especially these days, have a plethora of safety measures in place to ensure that leaks and breaches do not occur. Furthermore, there have been many more accidents occuring from coal or oil plants, due in part to the incredible flammability of fossil fuels and the large amounts in place in such plants.

Another problem that people seem to have with nuclear power is nuclear waste. Due to the vast amount of energy that can be harnessed with nuclear power, nuclear waste is very small. Also, the majority of radioactive waste is low-level radiation which has a very short half-life. This type of radiation is also found naturally occuring in the earth's crust and in clothing and paper. Thus it does not pose a threat to human health. However, intermediate- and high-level radioactive waste is produced in nuclear plants which must be treated and isolated until radioactive decay ensures it is safe to handle, or transformed into a non-toxic form. Amazingly, Australia has already produced a material called Synroc which has proven most effective in neutralising nuclear waste.

Some people also object to uranium being exported or transported (I talked about uranium mining earlier, so you can just read that one instead).

tl;dr nuclear power is fucking awesome and better for the environment