Goodbye Forever...Hopefully

So when making the usual browse through the HBD blogosphere I came across OneSTDV's blog and how he is quitting blogging. The very first sentence immediately popped out at me.

"I started this blog almost exactly two years ago because I was sickened by the mainstream PC-addled discourse."

Yes, two years ago and if you look at his archives you'll notice, more or less, he's had a post every day for the last two years. So why would anyone so committed to blogging on HBD issues suddenly give it up? The two most prominent reasons that I can think of are, 1) can no longer blog (due to lack of access), or 2) Realized the futility of what he is doing. I think the second is precisely reason.

Most people that are extremely committed to something do not all the sudden give it up. In reality, I think he realized how much a waste of time HBD blogging was and realized there are better things to do.

To help illustrate my point,

"But it can't give you meaning in life. Writing a blog or justifiably grousing about the latest liberal inanity does not satiate one's soul. It doesn't make you excited to get up in the morning. It doesn't make you feel alive. It can't compare to meeting a pretty girl, upping your max bench press after months of training, or having your father genuinely tell you he's proud of you."

Sounds like there is a little bit of existential angst in there too. I take this section of his paragraph as more or less admitting HBD blogging was rather useless in the grand scheme of things.

The next paragraph he also realizes something else,...

"In the past few months, I've lamented the growing pessimism of the Alt-Right, especially the fags in the Manosphere who wax hysterical about marriage..."

I think this is the realization that these two spheres are more connected than they are separate and the reactionary pessimism and in some cases straight up hostile bitterness grew too much for him.

"I've completely failed in doing anything that would bring something besides standard, but ultimately vapid success. If we find happiness not in the cubicle, but in our homes, amongst friends, then I'm not on the right path."

Perhaps this is an admission of a deficient social and maybe romantic life. It's also a realization that working and HBD blogging aren't cutting it.

"Basically, I'm just worn out, in part due to blogging itself and in part due to some things that have happened in my real life recently. This has nothing to do with getting caught (I've never told anyone about this blog)..."

I would assume if he got caught he would never admit this was what happened. After all, I think to admit that he got caught and must now stop blogging is saying that he's embarrassed about his views. 

"And finally I really have no clue why I've attracted even one hater. I guess if you countenance a traditional America dictated by the founding principles and people, then you're an incorrigible and reprehensible racist. ... So I never cared about the dumbasses, and really, besides maybe two liberal interlopers, every single hater has been literally stupid or mentally disturbed. The Internet is full of idiots who like to puff out their chests. Of course, I understood why I'd attract some of these individuals, but it still perplexes me a little."

He has no clue why he has attracted one hater? I don't know what he means by hater though. In his view a hater might equal a critic. I mean, let's do a little review...we'll call it OneSTDV's greatest hits.

"Thus, infant formula allows liberals to once again subvert the natural order (though, as always, there are negative consequences) and the family which underpins our societal stability."

Every time a mother or father uses baby formula they are promoting the collapse of western civilization. Of course, formula has been used for over 50 years so I guess this "prediction" is a 500 year one.

Another good one,

"Turns out a girl who makes a show of being a role model for young girls is already riding the carousel barely out of 10th grade.

That would be the birth control Seasonique."

Ah, yes, the great reasoning of it necessarily follows that if she's on birth control then she's promiscuous.

"We're [America] not the recipients of a Manifest Destiny or the singular arbiters of the good; we're [America] merely a base and selfish brand name unworthy of its exalted status."

Again the classic, "It's manifest destiny we are God's Warriors." As I wrote in the post when I originally addressed it, America is a country, or nation state, and similarly it has interests and goals, like others, that are sometimes questionable morally. To think we are some blessed nation that's been ordained by God to be the "singular arbiters of good" is rather bizarre.

These are just some of the "lol wut" material of OneSTDV if you want more just read any blog post of his.

So now the question is, will this leave of absence be permanent or not?

As I stated earlier, if this is a realization of how much a waste of time HBD blogging is, then yes, it will be permanent or semi-permanent. Semi-permanent means he'll eventually come back but only blog very infrequently. Maybe one a month, or once every two months...something like that.

Either way, I say good riddance.

EDIT: Wow, a long 'I Quit' post only to be back four days later. At least this reaffirms the kid is a joke. I'll admit though, he trolled me good though.

Ron Paul

An HBDer wrote this about Ron Paul,

"Ron Paul announced that he is running for president. He has no chance of winning even the Republican nomination because he lacks gravitas. One blogger wrote yesterday that he sounds like an “angry constipated chicken.” That’s not the image of someone who can win a national election."

I don't think it is necessarily his lack of 'gravitas' that dooms him as a candidate. Instead it's the fact that he's a libertarian, even though he's a cultural conservative, and most republicans are not libertarians. Similarly most people in the country are not libertarians either.

Edit: After looking more at Ron Paul's positions on issues I've realized that he's not really a libertarian. His rhetoric and talking points come off as libertarian, but his writings and what not do not seem consistent with libertarian principles. A better description of Paul is a constitutionalist conservative.