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Terror House Magazine is nearing its seven-month anniversary and is continuing to light the literary world on fire. Our enemies’ attempts to shut us down have backfired hilariously, with our traffic growing exponentially since September; it’s no exaggeration to say that we’re one of the most-read literary magazines in the world. Submissions continue to flow in at a steady pace, to the point where we’re now scheduling into the new year. Most importantly, Terror House Press will be launching in the near future.

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How Feminism is Conquering the Third World

This is a guest post by James Maverick.

There is a war going on in the developing world. It’s not your typical war with tanks, guns, and ammo. It’s a war for the people’s hearts and minds. While there are lots of things attempting to do just that, feminism, as usual, is trying to colonize the local cultures.

Take Brazil, for instance. The country recently had a presidential election. It was won by Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing candidate, a sort of Brazilian Trump if you will.

As expected, he was heavily opposed by lots of different factions, ranging from environmentalists to liberals to—you guessed it—feminists.

Leading up to the election, there was a popular video that was circulating on the Brazilian interwebs. The video has over 1.5 million views and in it, a female journalist is screaming “O que é isso” (What is this?) repeatedly, while the future president is seen in the background trying his best to ignore her and continue his press conference.

This video was the rallying cry by the liberals in order to discredit Mr. Bolsonaro, but it seemed to have achieved the complete opposite: it galvanized the conservatives and even the young people (who are traditionally liberal), making his presidential victory all but assured.

In many ways, Brazil is an interesting country to experience a sort of a feminist backlash. It’s not a Western country like the U.S., Australia, or Denmark, so feminism isn’t exactly something that’s automatically accepted. Instead, it’s a Latin country with traditional values where liberal ideas such as feminism have always been met with deep suspicion.

One reason that feminism has become at the forefront of the battle of old traditional values and new liberal values is due to the expansive reach of Western media.

Influential Western publicans such as the New York Times never seem to miss the opportunity to pour gasoline on the fire by talking about women’s oppression and how they’re second-class citizens in their own country.

In Brazil, it doesn’t take much effort to affect Brazilian women emotionally and make them feel like they’re oppressed by the “evil” men.

After all, Brazil is one of the most sexualized countries on the planet. The women are extremely friendly and open, although I wouldn’t say particularly easy. Still, merely the fact that they’re perceived all over the world as easy is enough to create a backlash.

Ideologies like feminism nicely connect with these feelings of being unworthy and provide a rallying cry for this backlash. The formula is simple: some, but not all, women are unhappy because they’re treated as sexualized objects, so feminism must be the answer.

To be fair, not all women feel this way. Just like anywhere else, including the U.S., the birthplace of feminism, there are women who don’t need feminism to feel complete.

When I lived in Rio de Janeiro, I met plenty of women who indeed enjoyed feeling like women. Yes, even with guys constantly approaching them and asking them out and all that other sexual stuff.

Most of them didn’t think much of it; they were women after all. And part of being a woman is receiving attention from men. If the attention is unsolicited, a woman can simply ignore it. If it’s welcomed, a woman can reciprocate.

From Ukraine with Love

Another country that’s in the middle of similar cultural turmoil is Ukraine, my homeland and where I’m living now.

Ukraine has always been a country without a cohesive identity. In order to understand why, it really helps to view it as two countries: one with more traditional, Eastern European values and closely aligned with Russia, with the other against all that.

Ukraine is also linguistically divided; the Western part speaks mostly Ukrainian while the Eastern part speaks predominantly Russian.

Thus it’s no surprise that this lack of cohesive identity gives makes the country ripe for various types of propaganda and brainwashing, with feminism being at the forefront.

We’ve all seen this movie before. The Western institutions such as liberal media and various observers swoop in. They can’t help but notice “inequality.” The can’t help but see the women “oppressed” by men. They can’t help but see great injustice being perpetrated everywhere they look.

They have to see injustice. It’s their job. And so everywhere they look, injustice is exactly what they see.

So how do you find this injustice? How do you make the world “fair” again for the weaker sex?

The answer, as you’re probably already suspecting, is feminism. Never mind that women’s rights are enshrined in the Ukrainian constitution just like any other European country, and there’s not a single woman in this country that can’t do something that a man can do. On a legal level, true equality has been achieved.

But even with all these first-world advancements, some women still believe or feel that their rights are being infringed upon.

Of course, as is the case in Brazil, not all women feel this way. I have met countless women in Ukraine who shake their heads at feminism, believing that it’s aimed at “weaker” women who haven’t found success in life and need an ideology to make them feel whole.

There’s definitely some truth to that. A woman who’s strong, capable, successful and knows how to attract a great man doesn’t need to search for an ideology that reinforces her anger at the world.

But even a woman who’s not particularly strong or successful, but one that doesn’t take everything personally and one that believes the solutions to her problems lie within her, will not seek salvation in some external ideology.

It seems that Ukraine isn’t an easy target for Western ideologies as feminists had initially thought. They underestimated the country that fought countless wars, lived under various oppressive regimes, and waged several revolutions in its long and painful history.

What’s in Store for the Future?

Brazil and Ukraine aren’t the only countries at the forefront of this ideological battleground, but they’re definitely the most notable ones.

The theory goes that if Brazil falls, the rest of Latin America will soon follow; if Ukraine falls, Russia isn’t too far behind (although many have greatly underestimated Russia’s strong patriotic and nationalistic mood, which form a strong barrier to Western influence).

Although many traditionalists are pessimistic about what’s happening in their own countries and abroad, I remain optimistic. I don’t expect countries like Brazil, Ukraine, Colombia, or Romania to become the next Australia or the U.K.

For that to happen, there needs to be a rapid rise in the standard of living. After all, regardless of how you look at it, feminism is a luxury. All these ideologies can’t take root in societies that barely generate enough wealth to feed and shelter its people. That’s why you’ll never see feminism take root in most African countries, except for maybe the richest one: South Africa.

That is also why, for the most part, feminism and similar ideologies will be more receptive where they originally originated: the rich Western world, particularly the Anglo-Saxon world. And even there, it risks biting off more than it can chew, as witnessed by the current #MeToo movement.

James blogs at Maverick Traveler.

The Real Right Returns is a Must-Read on Modern Politics

You can’t really appreciate some books until you get to know the author. The Real Right Returns: A Handbook for the True Opposition by Daniel Friberg is one of those books.

When I read the first edition of the book nearly three years ago, after Friberg thoughtfully sent me a review copy, all I really knew about the man was that he was the CEO of Arktos, which I only vaguely knew about through reputation. I’d never even had a conversation with the man until he’d solicited me to write for Arktos’ now-defunct website Right On a few months before that. I gave the book a good review, stating that it was worth reading but lacking in substance.

In that time, I’ve not only become good friends with Friberg, I’ve slept at his apartment, gone winging with him in bars, and even spoken at one of his conferences. I even had him autograph my copy of his book (soon to be a collector’s item due to the boners in the intro). Friberg is a man who is generous and loyal, standing by his friends even when throwing under the bus would benefit him and helping them to succeed to the best of his abilities.

It’s because of this that I can approach the recently-released second edition of The Real Right Returns with a different eye. This version of the book includes a large number of corrections and additions, as well as a new intro by Arktos Editor-in-Chief John Bruce Leonard. While I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it feels like an entirely new book, the changes to The Real Right Returns make it both more substantial and more concise, and thus make it more than worth buying if you missed it the first time around.

Meet the New Right, Same as the Old Right?

While it seems strange to talk about a book’s intro as one of its selling points, Leonard’s intro to the new edition of The Real Right Returns does a good job of easing the reader into the currents of Friberg’s thought. The philosophical underpinnings of many of Arktos’ authors are not well-known among many American or English-speaking readers—I certainly was not aware of them when I read the first edition of Friberg’s book—and Leonard does a stellar job of summing them up:

There is thus nothing melioristic nor pollyannish about Friberg’s hope. His hope is rather identical to the awareness that a man is endowed with certain powers; that those powers have effect or can have effect on the world surrounding; that so long as one lives and breathes, with one’s powers intact, one can influence and affect the world, and bring about or encourage the ends that one seeks therein; and finally that no limit can be assigned to the potential sphere of these powers, prior to their activation. For no man among us has ever weighed the balance of the world, to learn the extent of our strength as against that of our enemies; nor could any man ever do as much even hypothetically. The limits of our powers are proved in their attempt; they make themselves known only in the act itself: “In the Beginning was the Deed.” Then the one thing totally incumbent upon us, the single absolutely binding imperative in this our battle, is to make trial of these powers through the right employment of principle, and to manfully face the fires that crop up around us without gratuitously supposing that they are unconquerable.

From there, the layout of the book is similar to the first edition, albeit with many corrections and additions. One of Friberg’s biggest contributions to right-wing discourse is pointing out why the right has consistently failed to keep the left from eating away at society: their near-total ignorance of metapolitics, defined as the cultural values and trends that influence politics:

Metapolitics can be defined as the process of disseminating and anchoring a particular set of cultural ideas, attitudes, and values in a society, which eventually leads to deeper political change. This work need not — and perhaps should not — be linked to any particular party or programme. The point is ultimately to redefine the conditions under which politics is conceived, which the European cultural Left has pushed to the extreme. The metapolitical chokehold that political correctness has over Western Europe stems from the consistent cultivation — or rather misuse — of this strategy. Only by understanding this tool, countering its misuse, and rechanneling it to serve our own ends can we overcome the miserable situation that our continent is in.

While American readers may not recognize the word “metapolitics”—and to be fair, I thought it was a ridiculous neologism when I first read it, in large part because “meta” has been disastrously misused by many left-wing academics—Friberg’s definition of it mirrors Andrew Breitbart’s contention that “politics is downstream from culture.” Political changes that are happening today are the product of cultural changes that happened years ago.

For example, the sudden fixation on gay rights in the Western world is not sui generis, but came about due to years of deliberate cultural subversion by the left. Millennials, the “gayest generation,” were raised on 1990’s TV shows like Will and Grace and Sex and the City that depicted homosexuals as sassy shopping pals instead of the empty, narcissistic pederasts they actually are. The power that Hollywood has in shaping peoples’ minds is immense—just look at how many young leftists take their inspiration from Harry Potter or Star Wars, for Christ’s sake—and by depicting homosexuality as positive for society, an entire generation was brainwashed into thinking that you’re committing a human rights violation if you don’t bake the fucking cake, you bigot.

Friberg zeroes in on the right’s metapolitical failures as one of the biggest causes of their political failures. Particularly in the U.S., the right abandoned culture to leftist control for the longest time due to their penny-pinching attitudes. Leftists are perfectly willing to throw money at unprofitable causes or leave money on the table in order to advance their goals: look at the “rural purge” in American TV back in the 1970’s or the constant deplatforming of figures like Roosh or Alex Jones even when their products make money for Silicon Valley. However, right-wingers refuse to fund culture (or defund the left when they have the ability) because of their childlike belief in the “free market”:

But metapolitics does not simply undermine and deconstruct; it creates, encourages, inspires, and illuminates. Taken in its totality, our metapolitics aims to set an authentic Right in motion; a force which is growing in strength through our own alternative media channels, as well as through gaps in the establishment’s censored channels. Once it reaches critical mass, this force will live its own unstoppable life, broadening the narrow confines of public discourse in a revolutionary manner and paving the way for a European renaissance: a successive, irresistible social transformation which will restore dignity, strength, and beauty to Europe.

The Real Right Returns seeks to resuscitate the right-wing from its post-World War II stupor, to strip it of neocon and libertarian pretensions and return it to the only sustainable basis on which it can function: blood and soil. Defense of the community, the family, and the nation against not only external threats, but internal ones. The bomb-bearing Muslim rapefugee is not nearly as dangerous as the gift-bearing gay rights activist, for it is the moral turpitude introduced by the latter that paves the way for the predations of the former:

Gramsci came to a similar conclusion regarding culture. As he saw it, the exercise of political power rested on consensus rather than force. As a consequence, the state governed not because most people lived in fear of its repressive capabilities, but rather because it adopted ideas, meaning an ideology which saturated society as a whole. This gave its actions legitimacy and granted them the appearance of something ‘natural.’

Friberg’s other major point—insofar as it separates him from the majority of right-wing political authors—is that he addresses the Woman Question. Steadfastly ignored by the braindead Boomers who’ve dominated rightist discourse for the longest time, The Real Right Returns devotes some of its length to issues of feminism and sexual relationships in our Tinderfied era, in the chapter “Brief Advice on Gender Roles”:

The result of all this is the emergence of confused gender identities; a society where young men achieve less and less in education, suffer from completely irrational insecurities and even have reduced testosterone levels — far lower than has been normal since they began to be measured.

While not earthshattering, merely acknowledging this issue puts Friberg a notch above his contemporaries.

Not Sick of Winning

Revisiting The Real Right Returns nearly three years after I first read it, the book retains a freshness that most political writing lacks. This is in part because the trends that Friberg derides are still tearing our societies apart, though their progress has been slowed by the rise of right-wing populism across Europe and North America. However, Friberg’s dissection of metapolitics gives his book longevity beyond the changing headlines, and John Bruce Leonard’s introduction to the new edition helps make the book’s ideas easier to digest.

The bottom line is that The Real Right Returns is well worth your time, a metapolitical masterpiece that sums up the problems of modern society and even provides some decent practical advice. While I don’t know how valuable the second edition will be to those who’ve already purchased the first one, the changes made definitely improve the quality of Friberg’s prose and ideas.

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Smart and SeXy is an Incisive Look at the Differences Between Men and Women

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If you’re a regular reader of Return of Kings or other dissident right websites, I don’t need to explain to you why feminism is a bad ideology. It’s scientifically unsound, personally abhorrent, and goes against every tenet of natural law and social organization. However, while we may know deep down that feminism is bad public policy, where are the facts showing this? Where are the studies and reports that will convince the “citation needed” crowd?

Fortunately, we no longer need to do our own research into this subject, because Roderick Kaine has done it for us.

Smart and SeXy, released recently by venerable dissident right publishing house Arktos, is a thorough compendium of scientific research debunking feminism. Kaine, a neoreactionary blogger also known as “Atavisionary,” has done yeoman’s work into not only examining the differences between men and women, but explaining how these differences make feminism not only wrong, but insane.

While much of Smart and SeXy’s content may seem like old hat for many ROK readers, Kaine’s exhaustive research and meticulous citations make the book a must-read for anyone who wants some solid data to back up their arguments. Additionally, the book is also a good read for newbies due to its breadth of facts and neutral, even-handed tone.

Just the Facts, Ma’am

Smart and SeXy is structured in a logical fashion, focusing on hard statistics and science initially, before opening up into more esoteric and opinion-based content. Kaine frames the introductory chapters by dissecting the popular claim that women lag behind men in various metrics due to widespread discrimination, often defined as the “patriarchy.” Kaine explains that scientific research consistently shows that differences between men and women are rooted in physiology rather than social conditioning, comparing patriarchy theory to Lysenkoism in its near-total lack of factual grounding:

Moving in the controversial direction of studying gender differences in intelligence, no doubt, would thus be professionally untenable for a Psychologist even if they wanted to. The former president of Harvard, Lawrence Summers, was on the receiving end of a great deal of hatred for just suggesting the possibility that men and women might have innate aptitude differences even though such ideas are robustly supported empirically. The entire world revealed their spite for truth in its response to his honest inquiry, which ultimately forced him to resign from Harvard and later prevented him from being appointed chairmen of the Federal Reserve despite being the better candidate. Nancy Hopkins, a “biologist” who no doubt achieved her position through affirmative action rather than raw skill, notably allowed her emotions to overwhelm her during his talk and walked out. She bleated “I felt I was going to be sick. My heart was pounding and my breath was shallow.” Her excessive sentiments are notable as a female stereotype which in this case has the ring of truth. If she hadn’t walked out she “would have either blacked out or thrown up,” she quaveringly mused. All this is strangely reminiscent of the emotional fainting trope in older movies. That she has the audacity to claim to be a biologist is astounding.

Kaine’s tone through the book can best be described as “edgy academic,” explaining the facts with little fuss. While fans of more polemical prose might find his style dry at times, his detached attitude helps bolster the credibility of Smart and SeXy by giving the book a neutral tone. People who are on the fence when it comes to gender issues could easily have their thinking changed by Kaine’s approach. Despite this, he still manages to slip in a zinger every now and then, keeping the book from getting dull.

From these initial chapters, Kaine moves to a point-by-point discussion of various gender-related subjects and the relevant science involving them. These include obvious points such as gender disparities in IQ to more obscure ones such as autism and its greater prevalence in men: indeed, the chapter “Autism and the Extreme Male Brain” is one of Smart and SeXy’s standouts. Another pair of chapters analyze the evidence for “hypergamy,” the oft-ballyhooed manosphere term for the female tendency to date up:

Studies have found that mothers, and not fathers, are the main influence on daughter’s sexuality. Mothers talk much more to their daughters about sex than any other parent-child interaction on the subject. In so far as fathers talked to their daughters about the topic, there was no influence on sexual behavior, whereas the greater a mother talked with her daughter, the later she began having sex. Again, female influence leads to lower rates of promiscuity.

The final chapters of the book are where Kaine moves from the realm of pure factual discussion to an analysis of feminism’s effects on government policy and society. Kaine explains why feminism is economic and cultural insanity, pointing out how wealth redistribution to women (in the form of welfare programs such as TANF, combined with the fact that women pay less taxes on average than men) amounts to a mass “cuckolding” of Western men. Kaine singles out Obamacare as a recent example of this, pointing out how socialized medicine primarily benefits women at the expense of taxpaying men:

The recent introduction of the “affordable” health care act also acts as a wealth transfer from working age men to women. Men go to the doctor and need medical care much less frequently than women. Before the new health care law, insurers were able to adjust prices based on gender to reflect actual costs. No more. Now men and women cannot be charged differently based on actual medical care use and single men are even required to pay for personal coverage which can only benefit women, such as maternity coverage. The result is that healthcare costs for young men have increased substantially more than for women of all ages. The average increase was 56% for men compared to 4% for women though in specific areas the average increase for young men has been as high as 200%. Car insurance shows the opposite pattern where men are made to pay more due to their greater likelihood of getting into catastrophic crashes (women are more likely to have an accident, but those are usually minor). Unsurprisingly, there has been no attempt to enforce “equality” in this situation.

Feminism isn’t merely a fringe ideology: it’s a societal cancer that is dragging down economic growth, slowing scientific progress, and driving a wedge between men and women. Fortunately, in “The Extinction of Feminism” and a number of other concluding chapters, Kaine points out that feminism has ensured its own destruction by breeding a generation of women ill-suited to the pressures of life in late-capitalist society.

At every turn, Kaine’s claims about feminism and gender differences are assiduously backed up with citations, a sprawling mass of endnotes pointing the reader towards the countless sources he used in composing the book. For more skeptical readers who demand hard proof of everything, Smart and SeXy’s endnotes are one of the most valuable portions of the book, showing that anti-feminists’ claims are rooted in solid science and economics.

Taming the Shrews

Where I dispute Kaine is in his confidence that feminism will eat itself. It’s true that feminism—or “white feminism,” as it’s now being termed by racial grievance-mongers—is slowly being ejected from the Coalition of the Fringes that is the modern left. One only needs to look at the popularity of attacks on “BBQ Beckys,” “Permit Patties” and other leftist white women who call the police on black people for minor criminal infractions. This change has been happening for some time and will accelerate as Western countries become increasingly non-white, as minorities have little sympathy for “manspreading” and other white girl problems.

However, these attacks come at a time when white women are at the peak of their power. A combination of male thirst and technologically-induced social retardation have made it possible for even plain or unattractive women to attain unearned status. Any marginally attractive woman can open a Tinder or Instagram account and have her head gassed up by numerous orbiters pledging to suck farts out of her ass, swelling her head and making her believe she’s a supermodel. As Delicious Tacos commented recently, the female wall no longer exists, and until it returns, women will never feel the consequences of their dissolute lifestyles. Add in such things as #MeToo and it looks like feminism won’t be going down without a fight.

Having said this, the current social paradigm is one that cannot last, and Smart and SeXy is a thorough and detailed explanation as to why. Roderick Kaine’s book is one of the absolute best on the subject of feminism and the sexes, whether you’re a veteran manospherian looking for some debate ammunition or a normie who wants to know what the fuss is all about. I heartily recommend Smart and SeXy as a one-stop shop for anti-feminist talking points, backed up by solid science and economics.

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The Latest Entries from Terror House Magazine

As I announced two weeks ago, Terror House Magazine will soon be expanding into Terror House Press, with Andy Nowicki’s novel Heart Killer as one of our first products. I’m hard at work getting that ready as well as dealing with other issues in my personal life, so for now, here are the ten best submissions that Terror House has published in the past month:

“The Last Will and Testament of Philip Alan Dennison“: A short story by Benjamin Welton about a man’s posthumous murder confession.
“The Damned Beautiful“: A dystopian short story by T.J. Martinell about a world in which beautiful women are forced to wear burkas in order to avoid offending fat and ugly women.
“Was Her Resting?“: A tragic short story by Kirk Forlatt about a man, his dog, and a robbery.
“Hostess Cherry Pies“: A comic short story by Pete Able about a man’s struggle with alcohol and heroin addiction in Philadelphia.
“Frank and Liz“: A short story by A.R. Bender about a man who falls in love with a manipulative woman and loses everything he has in the process.
“Fetish“: A short story by Benjamin Welton about a woman’s attempt to cope with her husband’s disgusting sexual fetish.
“Helené Brooks“: A short story by Edward Shaw about a young man in 1950’s San Francisco and his run-in with a mysterious older woman.
“Sugar-Plum Fearless“: A comic short story by Soren James about a detective, his dwarf neighbor, and a dead transsexual hooker.
“Letters from a Heartbroken Pervert: Fucking Angela Merkel, Considered“: In this installment from Letters from a Heartbroken Pervert, Nameless Writer relays the results of an experiment designed to test Angela Merkel’s attractiveness.
“NEET, Part 1“: The first part of Terror House Editor-at-Large Calvin Westra’s novella NEET, about an unemployed young man who is mercilessly bullied by a monster made out of cans.

In addition, be sure to check out Gregory Yelnish’s “The Elves and the Witch” and Daniel Hammarberg’s “Alcohol Drought,” the winners of our Best of the Month Awards for July and August 2018, respectively.

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Three Benefits of Eating Beef Jerky

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As far as snacks go, beef jerky has come a long way. From a greasy gas station indulgence reserved primarily for desperate travelers, it has come into its own as a healthy and nutritious food. In contrast to the cheap, mass-produced brands of the past, modern brands are made with superior meat and avoid using toxic ingredients that harm your health.

American-made beef jerky brands such as Steve’s Jerky are designed to be both delicious and healthy, with all-natural ingredients and adherence to federal regulations. Here are three benefits of eating beef jerky that you might not have considered.

1. Lean Protein

Unlike most meat products, jerky has most of its fat and moisture removed during the cooking process. This results in a final product that is 97 percent fat-free and features nothing but nutrition. The average brand features 15 grams of protein per serving size or more, making it a valuable source of this important nutrient.

2. Convenience

Most meats need to be cooked before eating, which is time-consuming and also impractical if you’re on the move. Jerky, on the other hand, can be consumed right out of the bag, allowing you to eat it anywhere. This is why it has become a popular snack for hikers, bodybuilders, and other people who engage in strenuous physical activity. If you’re constantly on the go, jerky is a good, healthy alternative to other types of finger foods.

3. Longevity

Foods that are healthy, such as fruits and vegetables, tend to have a shorter shelf life than processed foods such as chips, which deters some people from buying them. In contrast, jerky is designed to last much longer than other types of meat products, meaning that if you store it properly, you can continue to enjoy it long after you’ve bought it. This makes it a good food to have for emergency situations due to its long-lasting nature.

How to Identify Good Beef Jerky

Now that you know how jerky can benefit your health, you need to know how to distinguish good products from bad ones. Mass-produced brands often contain toxins and preservatives that destroy its nutritional content, harm the human body, or both. How can you identify good-quality jerky that will help rather than hinder you?

The first quality of good jerky is that it’s made in the U.S. Brands made in the U.S. are required to adhere to stricter health and production standards than ones made in developing countries. Make sure that the brand in question is actually made in the U.S., as many companies will try to skirt the line by saying that the product was “packaged” in the U.S., indicating that the meat itself was made elsewhere. Authentic American brands should clearly say “Made in the U.S.A.” on their labels and nothing else.

The other thing you need to look for is the quality of ingredients. Specifically, you should only buy jerky that has all-natural ingredients. Many brands like to cut corners by using artificial ingredients that are less expensive than all-natural ones. These ingredients, such as brominated vegetable oil, have been shown to damage humans’ health when consumed. Because of this, any brand that does not use all-natural ingredients is one that you should avoid, even if it’s cheaper than the competition.

Additionally, look out for brands that use artificial preservatives. While jerky is pretty long-lasting on its own, many cheaper manufacturers like to include artificial preservatives that lengthen its sell-by date. These preservatives have been linked to cancer and other health maladies, so you’ll want to avoid eating products that include them. Always read the label so you know what’s in your food.

While brands that meet these requirements tend to be more expensive than the competition, you can’t afford to skimp out when it comes to your health. As the saying goes, “Buy cheap, pay twice.” If you choose cheap brands, you’ll pay the price in the form of health problems later on in life. It’s worth it to pay the extra price for an all-natural product that is good for you.

The Steve’s Jerky Difference

If you’re looking for a healthy, all-natural, all-American brand that fits all the above requirements, Steve’s Jerky fits the bill.

Steve’s Jerky is a homemade brand based in Cajun country in Louisiana. Unlike mass-manufactured brands, Steve makes all of his product by hand, using a special Cajun recipe that gives it a unique taste. Steve uses no artificial preservatives or ingredients; instead, he uses all-natural ingredients for the best possible product. And of course, Steve’s Jerky is a 100 percent U.S.A. product.

All of this guarantees that Steve’s Jerky is one of the best brands you can buy. It’s also inexpensive compared to other top-shelf brands, with each five-ounce pack retailing for $10. Additionally, if you order three or more packs, shipping is free.

The Best Jerky Out There

Beef jerky is not a subject most people think about too deeply: they just buy it and eat it. However, if chosen correctly, this snack can be a massive asset to your life. Good-quality brands can be not only delicious, but a good source of vitamins and minerals, a good bug-out snack for bad times, or a great way to stay energized when you’re away from the kitchen. However, a bad brand can lead to health problems both small and large later on in life.

If you enjoy beef jerky, you owe it to yourself to do your research and find a brand that’s both nutritious and delicious. All-American brands like Steve’s Jerky are the best way for you to get your fix in a way that is both tasty and beneficial to your health. By researching brands before you buy, you can be assured of getting the best possible product, ensuring you’ll have a good, long-lasting product that will keep you energized, healthy, and performing at your best.

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How to Avoid Toxins in Your Beef Jerky

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Beef jerky is a popular and well-known snack, and for good reason. Jerky is not only tasty, it’s a nutritious supplement to your diet, containing protein, iron, and other nutrients. It also keeps for a long time, unlike other forms of meat, making it a useful snack for hiking trips, for emergency situations, or other tough situations.

However, not all beef jerky is created equal. Many store-brand varieties of jerky are poorly-made, featuring hormones, additives, and other junk substances that lower the nutritional content of the beef and make it unhealthy. Many jerky manufacturers also don’t know how to make jerky properly, resulting in meat that is too dry or otherwise lacking in flavor.

If you enjoy beef jerky, you need a brand that is both nutritious and tasty. Steve’s Jerky is a homemade brand of jerky distinguished by its unique flavor and nutritious content. Steeped in the cuisine of Acadiana, Steve’s Jerky is not only delicious, it’s free of the various additives and poisons that are found in store-brand jerky. If you’re looking for a beef jerky that is both healthy and tasty, Steve’s Jerky is worth checking out.

The Poisons in Your Beef Jerky

Many consumers are vaguely aware of the substances that American agribusiness uses in meat, and beef jerky is no exception to their practices. For example, many brands of beef jerky contain hormones that were injected into the cows prior to slaughter to make them grow faster. Jerky made from grain-fed beef is often high in melengestrol, zeranol, trenbolone, and other substances that have been shown to have adverse effects on the human body. Zeranol, for example, has been linked to cancer in humans.

Monosodium glutanate, or MSG, is another common additive in store-brand jerky. MSG has recently become a cause for concern among health-conscious consumers due to its links to obesity, inflammation, and diabetes in those who consume it. A number of people who consume MSG also report suffering from what is known by researchers as the “MSG Complex,” which consists of sweating, numbness, headaches, heart palpitations, chest pain, and a number of other painful symptoms. Scientists have begun recommending that people cut MSG out of their diet as much as possible, which is difficult to do if you consume mainstream beef jerky brands.

Another common ingredient in store-brand jerky is brominated vegetable oil, or BVO. Originally developed as a flame retardant, consumption of BVO has been linked to fatigue, memory loss, and other forms of brain damage. To make matters worse, BVO accumulates in fatty tissues when consumed, making it difficult for the body to get rid of it, and it also has an adverse affect on birds and other wild animals. BVO’s toxic nature is so severe that the European Union, Japan, and several other countries have banned it as a food additive, though it is currently still legal in the U.S.

Finally, one of the most notorious ingredients in store-brand jerky is liquid smoke, the substance used to artificially give jerky its smoky flavor. Liquid smoke is often used to disguise the fact that most store-brand jerky uses low-quality meat, fooling your taste buds into thinking the jerky is better than it actually is. More seriously, liquid smoke has been shown to have carcinogenic effects. Even worse, consumption of liquid smoke has also been shown to cause cellular damage comparable to chemotherapy drugs.

This isn’t even getting into other additives such as nitrites that have even more deleterious effects on the human body. Many jerky brands are also made from the same fabled “pink slime” used to manufacture McDonald’s products, cobbled together from bones, blood vessels, nerves, and other nutritionally worthless (and just plain disgusting) parts of the animal.

The simple truth is that the average bag of beef jerky is a Frankenstein’s monster of a food, assembled from meat byproducts and larded up with artificial preservatives that have adverse effects on the body. It’s because of all this that you want to stay away from store-brand jerky. Your health is too precious to gamble on cheap, toxic meat.

The Steve’s Jerky Difference

Steve’s Jerky is distinguished in part by its hometown touch and healthy nature. Steve is an experienced Louisiana chef who has perfected his jerky recipe over years of experimentation. His jerky uses a secret blend of spices and herbs for a memorable Cajun flavor.

Even more importantly, Steve’s Jerky is free of the toxic additives and substances found in store-brand jerky. Each bag of Steve’s Jerky is cooked and packed by Steve himself, with a human touch that store-brand jerky simply doesn’t have. He doesn’t use liquid smoke, brominated vegetable oil, or any other poisonous substances that cause cancer, diabetes, or obesity. With Steve’s Jerky, you’re guaranteed to get a delicious bag of beef jerky that is also good for you.

Steve is also known for responsive customer service and low prices. One five ounce pack of Steve’s Jerky is only $10. Shipping is $5, but if you buy three or more bags, shipping is free. Steve’s Jerky isn’t a faceless corporate outlet: it’s a one-man small business, and Steve works hard to ensure his customers get the best beef jerky out there.

Choose Your Jerky Wisely

Beef jerky has remained a popular snack for its convenience, taste, longevity, and nutritional content. However, eating store-brand jerky runs the risk of making you sick or increasing your likelihood of developing cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening ailments. As with so much of the food sold in stores these days, you need to be extremely careful of what brands and products you consume.

Steve’s Jerky is one of the few beef jerky brands that is free of these artificial additives. With Steve’s Jerky, you’re assured of getting a product that is not only delicious, but is good for you as well. Steve’s unique Louisiana recipe and commitment to quality make Steve’s Jerky strongly recommended for anyone who wants a nutritious and delicious brand of beef jerky.

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Official Statement: I Disavow the Alt-Right, Unite the Right 2, and Jason Kessler

Next month, disgraced political activist Jason Kessler will be holding “Unite the Right 2,” a follow-up to his disastrous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year. Unite the Right resulted in the deaths of three people and injuries to countless more, and it also unleashed a wave of digital censorship and deplatforming that was unprecedented in the history of the Internet. As a direct result of Unite the Right, numerous dissident right individuals and organizations—many of whom did not participate in the event—were banned from Twitter, Facebook, PayPal, and countless other platforms and services.

I don’t know Kessler’s reasons for wanting to hold a second rally and I don’t care. The events of Charlottesville should have convinced anyone with half a brain that goon marches accomplish nothing other than getting people maimed, injured, doxed, and ruined by the left. One participant in Unite the Right even committed suicide due to the constant harassment he was getting from antifa and the media.

Right now, the Trump administration has made numerous strides towards achieving nationalist goals, from mass deportation of illegal aliens to a travel ban against several Muslim countries to wiping out the ability of public employees’ unions to fundraise for Democrats. The Democratic Party is tearing itself apart due to conflict between its neoliberal and socialist wings, and many leftists are beginning to realize that the prophesied “Blue Wave” in this year’s midterm elections isn’t going to happen.

The only thing an event like Unite the Right 2 can do is jeopardize all of this.

Because the city of Charlottesville denied Kessler a permit—since they understandably don’t want neo-Nazis and communists constantly brawling in their streets—he’s choosing to hold Unite the Right 2 in Washington, D.C., a city where Hillary Clinton won 91 percent of the vote in 2016 and where the mayor and city council are all Democrats. Far-left groups like Smash Racism D.C. and the Democratic Socialists of America are given free reign by D.C. police to terrorize and harass their political opponents, up to and including administration officials like Senior Advisor Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Having visited D.C. numerous times over the years, I know how dangerous a place it can be for dissident right-wingers.

There is no way that Unite the Right 2 won’t descend into violence, and this violence will be used by the left to justify further reprisals against the right. The fake news media will attempt to pin blame for the event on President Trump and Silicon Valley entities will use it to ban, censor, and deplatform more people. Indeed, if you’re feeling paranoid, you could argue that Kessler is doing all this on purpose with the intent of damaging American nationalism.

I did not participate in or support the first Unite the Right rally, partly because I had disassociated from the alt-right two months before the rally happened, and partly because Richard Spencer and other leaders of the alt-right had made it clear that I was not welcome in their movement. I’ve increasingly come to believe that Spencer’s refusal to allow me to join his now-dead site AltRight.com was divine intervention, God sparing me from the destruction I would have faced had I continued down that road.

Therefore, I hereby disavow the alt-right, Jason Kessler, and Unite the Right 2.

I have no connections to Kessler (aside from having interviewed him in my capacity as a journalist), do not support what he is doing, and do not wish to be associated with him in any way. I hold no ill will against him or anyone involved in Unite the Right 2, but I believe the event is foolish, shortsighted, and will do nothing but give ammunition to the left while painting nationalists in the worst possible light. I oppose all political violence and hope Unite the Right 2 does not descend into chaos like the first rally did, though I’m not holding my breath. I condemn anyone and everyone associated with Jason Kessler and his rally.

This will likely be my only public statement on this matter.

Thoughts on Turning 30

Last Friday was my 30th birthday. It came and went inauspiciously, as I spent the bulk of it on a crummy Soviet train sitting next to a retard who kept fondling his Hungarian girlfriend. The party came later.

I’ve never been a big fan of birthdays, not because I’m afraid of aging, but because I don’t think aging is an accomplishment. Wow, you survived another orbit around the sun. Big whoop. Last year was the first time in years that I threw a proper birthday party at my home (as opposed to just meeting up with my friends at a bar), and it was partly motivated by the fact that I had a large-enough (and centrally-located) apartment to throw a party in.

Even now, I don’t really feel like I’ve passed some major milestone. I’ve always been an “old soul,” lacking the exuberant, boneheaded energy of youth. An ex-girlfriend once described me as “20 going on 40,” and when I wrote the blog In Mala Fide nearly a decade ago (!), many readers assumed I was in my forties due to the “verisimilitude” of my writing style. Granted, I did dumb and crazy stuff when I was younger, but my actions were tempered by a calmness and perspective that most young men lack. Maybe it was because I spent my teenage years reading instead of getting laid.

That said, as I’ve gotten older, I have changed some of my habits. For example, I used to drink constantly; now I only have a beer or two when I’m out with friends. I used to pound a couple of beers or glasses of wine before recording my podcast; now I do live shows completely sober. Part of this is due to the fact that my body can no longer shrug off the effects of heavy drinking; if I wake up with a hangover, I’m useless the rest of the day. However, I’ve also been surrounded by alcoholics my entire life and I’ve resolved to not end up like them.

Other changes are more subtle. I now strive to wake up early in the morning instead of sleeping in, I’ve traded gluttony for fitness with a pair of kettlebells, and I’ve focused my dating life towards wifely women instead of dissolute good-time girls. My writing focus has gone from politics to literature as I work to build the greatest book publisher and literary magazine on the Internet, and my style has gone from outrageous trolling to more subtle shivs.

A friend once told me a story of how a Catholic priest told her that life was like having a ball and chain around your leg steadily pulling you towards death. She thought the story was morbid, but as I grow older, I can see where the priest was coming from. As I age, I can feel time passing faster, as each year seems shorter than the last. I don’t have any health problems—indeed, I’d say I’m in pretty good health considering that I’m overweight—but mortality is increasingly at the back of my mind.

I’ve also watched myself and my friends age out of hipness. Back around the turn of the decade, blogging was the main means that people like me reached our audiences. What my friends and I call the “Manosphere Class of ’10” (bloggers like Roosh, Roissy etc.) were movers and shakers back during the height of the Obama years, triggering lefties and cucks left and right. But in 2018, the younger half of the millennials (mistakenly called “Generation Z” even though GenZ doesn’t begin until 2004, going by The Fourth Turning) have moved onto to YouTube streams and Twitter shitposting, with a new wave of figures like Nick Fuentes and Reviewbrah who are perfectly tailored to that medium. While I do my own live streams, I’m a dinosaur compared to these guys, and I don’t expect to be able to outpace them.

Not that I really want to. I’ve always been a writer first and foremost, with everything else I do—podcasts, videos, livestreams—secondary at best. I’ll always have an audience for what I do, even if it isn’t the largest, and I’m going to keep writing no matter what happens. And frankly, having a large audience is more of a curse than a blessing these days, given how many mega-popular dissident right figures have imploded in the past year. I’m always going to be here even as tastes change and fads fade.

By the time you read this, I’ll be on another train heading somewhere else in Eastern Europe. It’s not a bad life.

How Alaska Chaga Tea Can Help You Get Off Coffee and Sugar

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Most everyone reading this uses caffeine or another stimulant in order to get them through the day. From coffee to tea to energy drinks, stimulants are an essential part of modern-day living. However, many traditional caffeinated drinks are actually quite bad for you due to sugar and other additives that make you fat and impact your health in other ways.

If you’re looking to get off coffee and sugar, there’s an alternative that is healthier and less expensive: Alaska chaga tea. Made from chaga mushrooms harvested in Alaska, chaga tea from Alaska Chaga is superior to coffee and other similar drinks, as it contains vital nutrients that aid heart, liver, and immune system health. As such, I highly recommend it for anyone who is looking for a healthy, sustainable pick-me-up in the morning.

The Problem with Coffee

Studies have shown that caffeine and other stimulants function as nootropics, improving brain function and conveying other benefits. However, many caffeinated drinks are unhealthy and bad for you. For example, energy drinks and sodas contain high fructose corn syrup and other junk ingredients that can cause you to gain weight and experience energy crashes. Many coffee brands have similar problems.

Many caffeinated drinks are also expensive. While a $5 coffee from Starbucks or a $3 Full Throttle may not seem too expensive, these small costs add up over time. For example, I used to drink one energy drink a day. At a cost of $2.99 per drink, I was spending around $90 a month just to give myself a buzz in the morning, money that I could have used for more productive things. I also once knew someone who would buy a 32-ounce cup of Dunkin Donuts every night, put it in the refrigerator, and heat it up in the microwave every morning.

Finally, many coffee and caffeinated drink brands are owned by corporations who enforce left-wing orthodoxy. By buying their products, you are giving money to your political adversaries. Even before Starbucks decided to turn their stores into homeless shelters, the company was a major supporter of LGBT causes, illegal aliens, and the Democratic Party. Why willingly fund your own displacement?

What is Alaska Chaga?

Chaga, also known as inonotus obliquus, is a type of mushroom common in North America, Russia, and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Usually found on birch trees, chaga mushrooms have been used as a folk remedy in Siberia and other northern lands for hundreds of years.

Chaga is a nutrient-rich mushroom, containing copious amounts of vitamins (A, B complex, C, D, E, and K), calcium, zinc, iron, fiber, and more. Alaska chaga has been shown to improve immune, liver, and heart health, as well as combat free radicals. It also plays a strong role in regulating blood sugar levels.

While chaga can be found in many areas of North America and Eurasia, it requires extremely cold temperatures in order to retain its valuable nutrients. For example, chaga harvested from the lower 48 states is inferior in quality due to warmer temperatures destroying the chaga’s nutrient content. Alaska chaga is the highest-quality chaga available.

The Alaska Chaga Difference

Alaska Chaga specializes in chaga tea products, harvested near Fairbanks, Alaska during the winter. Because of this, chaga from Alaska Chaga is not only rich in nutrients, it is free from the pollutants that are endemic in many parts of the U.S. and West. They sell a number of different tea products, including chaga chunks, chaga powder, and chaga tea bags, allowing you to make chaga tea however you want.

I highly recommend Alaska Chaga tea because it provides innumerable health benefits. Alaska Chaga doesn’t give you the sudden jolt of energy—followed by a debilitating crash—you experience after consuming a cup of coffee or energy drink. As a drink, it promotes heart and liver health and is an effective tool for weaning yourself off of sugar and coffee. Alaska Chaga tea is also flavorless, so you can add sugar or honey if you prefer your tea sweet. It can also be enjoyed as a hot beverage on a cold day or as an iced tea for the sweltering hot summer months.

Alaska Chaga tea is also free of caffeine, dairy, gluten, preservatives, and other superfluous junk additives that would otherwise impact its quality. If you’re sensitive to caffeine or the other ingredients often found in coffee and sugary caffeine drinks, Alaska Chaga is an ideal way to improve your heart, liver, and immune system health.

Alaska Chaga products are also very inexpensive relative to their value. In contrast to soy-filled lattes that run you $5 each, Alaska Chaga costs as little as $.50 per cup. Not only that, Alaska Chaga is a family-run business that supports right-wing, American values. Why give your money to a faceless, globalist corporation when you can support a small business that’s doing its part to keep America great?

Alaska Chaga Tea

A big part of breaking out of the unhealthy modern lifestyle isn’t just changing your beliefs, but changing your habits. It’s a cliche, but it’s the truth: you are what you eat (or drink). If you’re relying on gas station coffee or sugar-filled soy lattes, you’re hurting your physical and mental health. In order to bring your life in line with your values, you need to change the products you consume.

Alaska Chaga tea is one of the best ways to improve your day-to-day health. Not only does it lack the additives of sugary, caffeinated drinks, it’s packed with vital nutrients that will improve your heart, immune system, and liver. Alaska Chaga is also much less expensive than caffeinated drinks and is also created by a company that supports traditional American values.

Alaska Chaga can be purchased direct from the company’s website or from Amazon. International shipping is also available. If you want to quit drinking coffee or eating sugar and enhance your health at the same time, I can’t recommend Alaska Chaga tea enough.

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