"In fact, a surprisingly large number of famously health-conscious celebrities are smokers.

"And of course, whenever the elites ban something for us but continue to widely participate themselves, we can easily conclude that something is up.

"While I would not make the claim that smoking is some sort of health elixir, it is certainly the case that there are some health benefits to it which have been vigorously downplayed.

"And frankly, the fact is, if smoking was as bad for us as the elites claim it is, they wouldn't be making it prohibitively expensive and banning it everywhere: they'd be heavily subsidising and encouraging it, because they are self-confessed depopulationists who are constantly trying to cull the herd."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-148486230#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20a,cull%20the%20herd.

BasedCon 2024!

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A sad story of love, of loss, and of the creation of potentially everlasting beauty.

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An update on the Based Book Sale. https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/more-than-1000-books-sold-so-far

"Professor Bruce Charlton, on his blog Charlton Teaching, has written extensively about the nature of evil. According to Charlton, there are three types of evil. Luciferic, Ahrimanic, and Sorathic."

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-strategy-of-evil

"Has the Left Lost the Plot?"
Dan Gainor, Bill Willingham, Blaine Pardoe, Morgan Newquist, and Lawrence Dailey on the BasedCon panel.

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BasedCon Panel 1: A Culture Without Books

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Based Con Panel: Trends in Fantasy
Is epic fantasy dying? How has the market been affected by big-name authors failing to finish their series? What explains the popularity of formulaic genres like LitRPG? Is there still a place for truly original fantasy?

Herman Hunter, L.S. King, Tony Andarian, Bill Willingham, Ann Margaret Lewis (mod.)

How to Get Your Ship Sunk

US Navy officers were caught putting a contraband Starlink satellite dish on their ship so they could stream TV and movies: Today’s Navy sailors are likely familiar with the jarring loss of internet connectivity that can come with a ship’s deployment. For a variety of reasons, including operational security, a crew’s internet access is regularly […]

https://voxday.net/2024/09/07/how-to-get-your-ship-sunk/

The Russian military is reportedly using a "human wave" assault strategy in its latest offensive, particularly near Vuhledar. This tactic, widely used in World War I, involves sending densely packed infantry units directly into enemy fire. Despite being under surveillance from reconnaissance drones and facing heavy artillery fire from Ukrainian forces, Russian troops continue to employ this method. Historically, such tactics have resulted in significant casualties for the attackers and are largely considered outdated given modern warfare technologies. The reasons behind Russia's choice of this strategy are yet to be fully understood!!
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The Trials of Torba

If you ever wondered why I was perfectly content to leave the Twitter-alternative space to Gab and keep SG a small and private service for our community instead of opening it to the world, this public letter from Andrew Torba should suffice to explain why. As I sit down to write this, a convincing forged […]

https://voxday.net/2024/09/07/the-trials-of-torba/

Where did H.G. Wells get his futuristic predictions?

H.G. Wells is lauded for his futuristic predictions of email, energy weapons, genetically engineered humans, and an international framework to control nations, like the United Nations. In "Men Like Gods" (1923), he wrote, "In Utopia, people do not talk together on the telephone except by previous arrangement," he writes. "A message is sent to the district where the recipient is known to be, and there it waits until they choose to tap their accumulated messages."

Herbert George Wells visited Bolshevik Russia three times. The photo above is from his 1921 book on Russia, captioned "Messrs. Lenin and Wells in Conversation." Wells was a communist, his fiction books such as 'War of the Worlds' are really describing the triumph of global socialist ideology. Like his murderous colleagues in Soviet Russia, he wanted to see a world government, as described in 'A Modern Utopia' (1905). He was a friend of feminist Margaret Sanger and active in the Marxist Fabian Society. The "History of the Fabian Society" (1916) mentions him with enthusiasm: "New Worlds for Old, published in 1908, whilst he was a member of the Fabian Executive, is perhaps the best recent book on English Socialism."

During the National Socialist period, Germans viewed him as a propagandist for the British secret service. This particular quote is a translated from Eugen Hadmovsky's "Propaganda und nationale Macht: Die Organisation der öffentlichen Meinung für die nationale Politik": "The English intellectuals worked hard under the leadership of Herbert George Wells, the popular novelist, trade unionist, and socialist, following the firm directives from the Propaganda Ministry headed by Lord Northcliffe. Müller-Freienfels wrote that Wells, in his reminiscences, said: “Those in England had carefully considered how best to reach the German mentality, and had agreed that we had to catch the Germans through their tendency towards speculative ideas; therefore, it was decided that the League of Nations was by far the best way. It was played up like a roman candle.” The enemy press completely cooperated with such propaganda. Significantly, the press chief (Lord Northcliffe) was a member of the Allied government, and conversely, the members of government considered it self-evident that the press should be a participant in decision making and in the center of discussion and debate. The foreign press portrayed us as having started the war, as war criminals, as protracting the war through our desire for world conquest, and as the final losers. This was done to strengthen their own militant posture and their alliance, and to prepare for a devastating peace. They worked towards a systematic weakening of our fighting force, and mobilized enemies of the German state as well as international fanatics in neutral nations and even in Germany itself to assist their cause. They were exceptionally clever in that they directed their propaganda against the Kaiser and General Ludendorff as the organizers of the war..." (Hadamovsky, 1933).

Basedcon Panel: Has Publishing Forgotten About Men?

Traditional publishers don't seem interested in selling books to men anymore. Is this because publishing is dominated by women, or perhaps because our culture is hostile to masculinity? Is it true that men don't like to read? Are men more difficult to market to? Are men's tastes more varied than women's, generally speaking? Is there an opportunity for indie authors/publishers to meet the demand for books that appeal to men?

Declan Finn,  Blaine Pardoe, Daniel Humphreys (mod.)

🇫🇷A historic French church, dating back to 1854 and having survived two World Wars, has tragically burnt to the ground. This latest incident adds to a troubling pattern of church fires across the West, raising concerns about the sustained attacks on Christianity. Many are questioning why these destructions continue to occur, with some attributing it to a greater evil at work.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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In 1663, the partial fossilised skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered in Germany. This is the “Magdeburg Unicorn”, one of the worst fossil reconstructions in human history