Rudd-O.com

published Nov 13, 2008 , last modified Dec 30, 2022

A shill for truth. Defiant heresy on cultural matters. Free software, voluntaryism and cypherpunk. Established 1999.

Despite the intense desire of a few cultural Marxists to deny everyone else the use of the term — up to and including the deletion of the term from Wikipedia — cultural Marxism has had a decades-long history. Theconversation.com weighs in.

With deep apologies to my European friends... this is far too funny not to post.

...when the well-off 21st century Maoist yells at a senior Soviet Union exilee about how he should be thrown in a forced labor camp.

John A De Goes' response to the scandal manufactured by the SJW faction to suppress Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) from LambdaConf — and why his response is a win for actual heterogeneity and richness of thoughts, beliefs and ideas. Bravo!

If you hear a faint, or a loud, hum coming from the speakers connected to your Marantz preprocessor, here is the fix.

Sometimes you need to diagnose a particular problem with your stereo's setup, or your headphones, or the speakers of your laptop. Maybe one of the sides sounds louder than the other, maybe you think you have a blown tweeter, maybe it's the audio signal currently playing? Here's a trick to test that without reconnecting any cables or adding any hardware to your setup.

That thing which happens in every debate with a statist, and which every libertarian knows full well, is actually well-studied. It even has a name.

Wendy McElroy aptly summarizes the truth about the manipulative tactic known as Kafkatrapping, a term coined by Eric Raymond to describe that pattern of manipulation.

The differences -- racial, socioeconomic, gender -- get branded in people's brains way before they can even remember them. This is how.

$110 just so you can leave. That's ten to two hours of work for normal folks. A stern reminder of how you're not "free to leave".