Where have you gone, Ronald Unzio, ...


Posted On: Friday - February 26th 2021 7:10PM MST
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... our nation turns its Panicky eyes to you... Wu Hu Flu....

I would normally put this caveat or disclaimer at the bottom in a footnote, but this time it's important to me that the reader read this part first:

The Unz Review website has been my 2nd favorite for the last 3 years or so. (#1 is Peak Stupidity of course!) I mean that more to indicate which site I spend more entertaining time on, not especially which site in the world has the most truthful material. For the unz site, which is one of only 4 on our blogroll, I spend more time on it by a long shot over any other site but right here.

Some controversial material from the publisher Ron Unz himself:



Unz.com is an extremely well-working site, made by a very intelligent guy who's done more than his share of software work. I know some commenters here don't agree, but the commenting system is my favorite of any other I've seen in functionality (yes, of course it beats hell out of PS in that sense).

The Unz Review does a tremendous service in the name of the truth, or the search for it, anyway, in archiving loads of writer's older work, links to videos, and entire books. This is material that could and probably would, the way things are going, get lost. I use "get lost" here not in the passive sense, but as in the woke American society purposefully losing them!

I admire Ron Unz for being a truly stand-up guy in regards to publishing lots of material that most others are scared to publish. Not only that, but, even for the material below - the Kung Flu PanicFest - Mr. Unz will continue publishing work by writers who are 180 degrees off from his opinions. We know his opinions both from his own (usually very long) articles and from his occasional comments in the various threads. (He moderates very lightly, with exceptions for rare bouts.)

Note the titles of the Ron Unz-authored articles shown above, just a small sampling of hundreds, taken from a screen-shot I made in summer '18*. Yeah, they're controversial, as are most of the articles/columns by the dozens, or maybe near 100, writers on the blog. Now that you've noted those 3 titles, I'll get to my point which is my perplexity about the mind of this guy, right now, during this life-changing Kung Flu PanicFest.

As I wrote already, this PanicFest is no exception for Mr. Unz on his policy of letting all sides chime in. I see Ron Unz’s opinions as very open-minded, but most open-minded when the opinion is anti-Americans (note that’s plural) in any way at all. He’ll believe any weird shit that makes Americans look like the worst people in the world. I don’t get that, but that's not my beef here.

What I find amazing is that with all his highly-researched journalism on all sorts of cover-ups, false narratives, and schemes in American history, Ron Unz does not see the one right in front of his face happening RIGHT NOW. Instead, what does he do? With purely circumstantial evidence, he comes up with the big conspiracy that the American military or Deep State created the Kung Flu, infected the Chinese via a sports team that “just happened” to be in Wuhan. He's written a dozen or more posts or so on this conspiracy theory of his, to be found among his own articles here**.

I mean, it ain’t like there’s not been a lot of back-and-forth travel to China and that Wuhan isn't a big-ass city even for China. What also “just happened”‘ to be in Wuhan was one of just a handful of high-level infectious disease labs, finished less than 2 years before the virus. Apparently, Mr. Unz’s conspirators were smart enough to create the disease and infect China but not to foresee that the disease could spread around the world, including America, via, I dunno, New York City or somewheres?? BTW, it's not like I'm even completely sure that Ron Unz is wrong in this. It's just that his fixation about the origin of the Kung Flu is distracting him from any analysis of the PanicFest itself.

My point about Ron Unz is that his talent and efforts are being wasted on the conspiracy stuff. We have this huge nation-destroying (or accelerant of it, at least) PanicFest going on.

It involves the Lyin’ Press, though not as a conspiracy – they are too stupid for that. It involve government officials at the high Federal level, State level, etc. It involves medical professionals of all sorts, giving all sorts of conflicting important “expert” advice. There’s a load of money involved, with incentives for it to continue and disincentives for people that don’t accept the panic. It involves a great increase in the Police State/Totalitarianism in this country and others.

If ever there were a big story that could rival that of WWI and WWII being instigated by certain people or the people behind the implementation of Communism in Russia, who shot JFK (or JR, for that matter) or. any one of Ron’s areas of historical research that many appreciate, woudn’t this Kung Flu PanicFest be it? Yet, Mr. Unz is so into his “who started it?” conspiracy theory instead. I’m just wondering if that’s just an anti-Americans and pro-Chinese attitude coming though. Be that as it may, this is the biggest story of the century, with huge amounts of political implications. Wake up, Ron Unz! This is happening NOW, Ron, Right Here, Right Now (Unfortunately, it's not as bright a happening as the fall of the Commies in Europe, the subject of that Jesus Jones' song).


PS: Why pick on poor Ron Unz? OK, he's not exactly poor, first of all. There are plenty of Americans that ought to be high-profile opinion-leaders for the Anti-Panic side. Ron Unz coulda' been a contender. We could use a guy like him on our side, not in his current capacity as a source of another anti-all-things-American conspiracy theorist.



* I was searching for images for this post, and I found this one already uploaded. It works fine for this post.

** I didn't link directly to the posts, not because of any animosity about it, but just because he's got lots of other work there. You'll have to scan through anything with a title containing "China", "Wuhan", "Ft. Dietrik" (don't ask), and/or "COVID".

Comments:
Moderator
Wednesday - March 3rd 2021 8:55AM MST
PS: That's good info. Thanks again, Adam.
Adam Smith
Tuesday - March 2nd 2021 3:18PM MST
PS: Good afternoon Mr. Moderator...

"Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich" pretty well sums up every election in my lifetime. I'd rather vote for Vermin Supreme.

Yeah, the wordpress info was for Mr. Hail, yet I mostly directed the comment to you. I guess that comment was for both of you. I'd hate to see either of your websites memoryholed.

Contract shmontract. If godaddy reneges you can always use a swiss (or some other offshore) hosting company. Domain seizure/revocation seems highly unlikely in your case. Domain seizure is "usually" reserved for websites dealing in counterfeit goods. Even thepiratebay.org is still online. (So is nigger.net. Nigger.miami and nigger.boston are available through namecheap but interestingly they're unavailable through godaddy.)

There is that precedent with the hyphens...

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/06/business/new-domain-addresses-are-revoked-by-internet-name-panel.html

But...

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-is-not-the-internet-content-police

"ICANN cannot be put in the position of requiring suspension of domain names on the basis of allegations of blasphemy, hate speech, holocaust denial, political organizing, full or partial nudity or a host of other content that may be illegal somewhere in the world."

That seems encouraging, but...

"From June 2010 to late January 2014 the government has seized a total of 2,713 domain names and as of December 2013, the ICE government banners on seized domain names have been viewed more than 122 million times."

https://www.wired.com/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/us-authorities-seize-domain-names/335067/

"More than 1 million copyright-infringing website domain names selling counterfeit automotive parts, electrical components, personal care items and other fake goods were criminally and civilly seized in the 2018 through the combined efforts of law-enforcement agencies across the world, high-profile industry representatives and anti-counterfeiting associations."

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/over-million-websites-seized-global-operation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/02/28/imagine-if-dhs-doj-and-nypd-just-seized-your-website-without-any-warning-and-by-mistake/?sh=2be3acc6269b

Maybe one day we'll have to rely on the dark web and tor to share our wrongthink? 'til then...

I'm gonna party like it's 1984


Moderator
Tuesday - March 2nd 2021 6:00AM MST
PS: Adam - 2 things: Thank you for the funny dig re: Gallup Polling. After that 45 minutes (recorded in that post) that was an almost complete waste of time, yeah, I LUV me some of that polling. Man, I wish I'd put that SouthPark "Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich" in that post. I'll keep in mind ... (will finish "Learnin' with Vernon" during lunch - thanks!)

Secondly, I assumed you were giving those links for Mr. Hail. Yeah, I back up things on a local drive and an external hard drive. My site's problems would come only if it go big - Go Daddy could go woke and cancel the URL (who cares about some contract) or even that DNS disconnect such as VDare has been worried about, can happen. Not everyone can remember or record "Hey it's not www.peakstupidity.com now, it's some 20-digit code.
Moderator
Tuesday - March 2nd 2021 5:50AM MST
PS: Mr. Hail, betting on the wrong horse is one way to look at it. I would add to that, that Mr. Unz's very strong anti-all-things-American attitude is a big part of it, IMO. The theory about the virus coming from Fort Dietrick, being spread by the sports team on purpose, whatever, even it it's true, is to me, not any bigger a story than the whole Government/Media PanicFest and its destruction of the economy and way of life.

This has been going on for a year, right under Ron Unz's nose, and he even had 10 or 20 very civil commenters (for the most part, I'm counting myself, haha, but I suppose not that "Je Suis Omar Marteen" guy) trying to help him see what's going on. We know he read some of our comments, as his rants back showed us.

Mr. Unz really wanted his "The Americans did it!" story to be the most important thing about this 'Rona deal. It wouldn't be, even if true. Think about it, if we found out this had been done on purpose by the CCP vs. a screw-up in Q/A at the lab or just your normal bat-eating problems, would that change very much the huge story of this LOCKDOWN and face-masking and other loss-of-liberties story?
Hail
Tuesday - March 2nd 2021 5:10AM MST
PS

RE: Mr.Anon satirizing Ron Unz (circa 2025?)

"I never paid much attention to the Corona Virus, busy as I was at the time with various software projects, but I am surprised to find out that..............."

LOL. This is great for how true it is. With a few words different (obviously he did, technically "pay attention to the Corona Virus"), we can imagine him literally writing this, maybe even as soon as 2021. It became his m.o. in the 2010s to use this template: "I believed the media and regime consensus, but they deceived me, here's how..."

The template completely failed in 2020, with Unz failing to appreciate something right in front of him in early 2020 and mid 2020. So he was back into his own long-established pattern again of believing media consensus uncritically, at least as of the Early Peak Panic period, March/April 2020. American Pravda!

So Unz bet on the wrong horse. Forgivable). Doubling down again and again on the losing horse is much less forgivable for someone who claims to know how to pick the right horses.

Blaming other observers at the horse-track, including many of his friends and well-wishers, for his horse continuing to lose doesn't help. Eventually allowing his critics at the track to speak who point out his horse's negatives and weaknesses is the best we got (i.e., Unz publishing Anti-Panic authors) but is a poor substitute for Unz cutting losses, severing emotional ties to this losing horse, and putting strong bets on the winning horse. (The winning horse is the Anti-Panic side, with winning defined as who has the actually correct arguments in the horse-racing metaphor.)
Moderator
Sunday - February 28th 2021 3:59PM MST
PS: Mr. Anon, I had to laugh at your take on Mr. Unz there, though it's usually "my extremely important software projects." Hey, he does a great job, it is important work that he does, but that kind of bragging doesn't sit well. He acts like his life is more important than that of the people he doesn't know and that he is condescending to get involved in these "silly" conversations.

I watched your video from the Los Angeles school district - sickening. The problem with the Book of Revelation is that these people were describing things that they could not imagine other than from these visions. "Beasts with four faces .." etc. There are people that try to interpret it for us, but I dunno... We listened to a guy named David Pawson, who's dead now, who did a whole series. He knows his history and geography. They got that "Mark of the Beast" bit right, so that's why I am trying to learn more.

Mr. Anon
Sunday - February 28th 2021 2:22PM MST
PS

"You all still think this is about dealing with a virus?"

Pardon that last sentence. I copied and pasted a post I made at isteve because I though it might be of interest here. Clearly that last bit was meant for the isteve audience, not this one.
Mr. Anon
Sunday - February 28th 2021 2:20PM MST
PS

Introducing the Los Angeles Unified School District Daily Pass

https://lausd.wistia.com/medias/fil2ny4jfb?fbclid=IwAR15P2Cq6bQjIotia5MIXiwYULlS4Chy043gDKx5NRAw7wyO_nVrKq5N0Es?wtime=0

Courtesy of Microsoft. And check out the name of the Microsoft stooge they trot out to introduce this abomination…………Eran Meggido.

Meggido! (Look it up)

I’m an athiest, and even I’m starting to believe the Book of Revelations.

You all still think this is about dealing with a virus?

BTW, I found this via Revolver News, with a hat-tip to comedian and SNL-alum, Rob Schneider, who appears to be a real mensch.

https://twitter.com/RobSchneider?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Mr. Anon
Sunday - February 28th 2021 2:16PM MST
PS

A few years from now, if any of these dissident websites are even permitted to exist (doubtful, in my view), I wouldn't be surprised to see a column by Mr. Unz over at his review that begins: "I never paid much attention to the Corona Virus, busy as I was at the time with various software projects, but I am surprised to find out that..............."

Nothing against Ron Unz, by the way. His website is great - invaluable, actually - it is a great resource. And he has been a stalwart supporter of free speech and free inquiry. He is certainly entitled to his opinions and I am grateful to him that he thinks that other people are entitled to theirs as well.
MBlanc46
Sunday - February 28th 2021 9:13AM MST
PS DK: I like the one at Real Clear Politics. It keeps threads together, unlike Unz’s, but allows you to collapse them to allow one to see only first-level posts. Also, it doesn’t have his Stalinist limits on posts per hour, or the number of likes. I realize those are arbitrary restrictions and not intrinsic to the architecture, but I find them off-putting. It’s the quality of the commenters, including some who show up here, that draws me to Unz comments, despite the system.
MBlanc46
Sunday - February 28th 2021 9:07AM MST
PS DK: I like the one over at Real Clear Politics. It keeps threads together, unlike Unz’s, but you can collapse them in order to see just first-order posts.
Moderator
Saturday - February 27th 2021 8:18PM MST
PS: Alarmist, early on, Mr. Unz would didn't even want to read anything from anyone who didn't think millions are gonna die! Yeah, even though he'd rant at you and he did threaten twice to start moderating people based on these civil opinions, it was pretty much just temper tantrums.

As far as I know, MikeAtMikeDotMike was the only one that he got his comments curtailed, to aa big degree too, as he told us on the HailToYou blog. He is now Mike Tre (and the less said about that the better!)

From the headlines, I see clearly that PC Roberts is strongly anti-panic. However, he turned into a Socialist some time when I wasn't looking, so I'm just done with him.

I hope Ron Unz gets even more clued in and makes this PanicFest a crusade of his somehow... wishful thinking, probably...
The Alarmist
Saturday - February 27th 2021 3:13PM MST
PS

In the early days of Kung Flu, Ron blocked a couple of my comments challenging his panic-fest, even though I admitted it was indeed a bit more vicious than a bad flu season.

Lately he’s do e something of a 180 (probably a 60 at this point), as he hasn’t blocked but has engaged in a couple rounds before going silent when I hit with a point or two he couldn’t refute.

Given how provocative many of the commenters get, it is admirable that he runs the comment moderation with a relatively light touch.

Another interesting turn is Paul Craig Roberts’ 180 (probably a 120 at this point) on the Kung Flu. It’s interesting to see how some opinion leaders grow where other media-charlatan “opinion leaders” simply bang their drums louder.
Adam Smith
Saturday - February 27th 2021 2:57PM MST
PS: Good afternoon Mr. Moderator...

Thank you for your kind words. It's a good idea to keep some current backups and make new ones on a regular basis. You can store them on a local hard drive. If you're dealing with important information, you should keep a second copy of your backup files in a second physical location like a second hard drive or a thumbdrive.

Thumbdrives are a cheap yet reliable way to store backups. If you don't subject your flashdrive to too many write cycles (or leave it on top of the microwave) it will be readable for many years. They are cheap so it's good practice to use a new one for important info. Also, use a good name brand flashdrive, there are some shoddy Chinese counterfeits in the world.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sandisk-8GB-16GB-32GB-64GB-128GB-Cruzer-Blade-Thumb-Drives-Bulk-Flash-Drives-lot/324352386173

If someone is going to write anything "controversial" on wordpress.com, they run the risk of being censored...

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/

Fortunately wordpress backups look pretty straight forward.

https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-backups/

There are also services that can do your backups for you.

https://blogvault.net/

As you've mentioned, Mr. Hail could get a url and a webhost to avoid potential wordpress censorship.

https://www.bluehost.com/special/wordpress#get-started-with-bluehost
https://www.dreamhost.com/wordpress/shared-wp-hosting/
https://www.bluehost.com/help/article/install-wordpress
https://www.bluehost.com/help/article/migrating-an-existing-wordpress-com-site
https://www.bluehost.com/help/article/wordpress-manual-migration

Obviously, there are other options besides wordpress, but I linked to information for migrating a wordpress based website because that is what Mr. Hail is currently using.

I hope you have a nice rest of the weekend.


Dieter Kief
Saturday - February 27th 2021 2:09PM MST
PS - MBlanc46 - would you know of a better comment system than Ron Unz'? I'm curious.
Adam Smith
Saturday - February 27th 2021 11:49AM MST
PS: Good afternoon everyone...

"One of the sources of my long interest in proportional-representation election systems (some variation of "Party A gets 3% of votes = Party A gets 3% of seats") is that in such a system someone like Ron Unz could get elected to office...whereas in the US voting system as we know it, someone like Unz is just totally locked-out."

The current systems exclude candidates like Ron Unz.

I now how Achmed Luvs the Gallup Poll...

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/au8oNaVHUHw?color=white&autoplay=1&rel=0

It seems like no matter what election system a country chooses, the people always end up with Kentucky Lobster...

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NfjsoTT7AXM?color=white&autoplay=1&rel=0


MBlanc46
Saturday - February 27th 2021 10:11AM MST
PS Yeah, Mr Unz has never met a wackazany conspiracy theory that he doesn’t like. I hadn’t noticed the particular one that you refer to, because I determined quite some time ago that his long (and I mean loooong), complex articles aren’t worth my time. But a thousand thousand thanks to him for giving a platform to Steve Sailer (pbuh), Audacious Epigone, Paul Kersey, James Thompson, and many others. And also for attracting what must be the highest IQ, best informed group of commenters on a general-interest internet site. (Even though I find his comments system clunky and frustrating.) And, last but not least, for directing me to the blog that must be on the shortlist for most-devilishly-cleverly-named blog.
Moderator
Saturday - February 27th 2021 9:29AM MST
PS: Regarding your latter comments, thank you for conglomerating some of the discussion in your comments to here. I meant to put up top that this is a 2nd post based on stuff in your comments, but I already had one big disclaimer(?) at the top and didn't want to make this post so long.

I'm glad to have a repository, as unorganized as it is, of these discussions. I save my dBase very often. You are under the mercy of WordPress. Our commenter Adam Smith could have some good advice for you on how to handle this.

One way, of course, is to get your own URL, get some blog software, and pay for hosting. BTW, that blog software could still be WordPress, but I avoided that just wondering if they would be able to somehow have influence somehow. If you need some advice, I'd be glad to write in under some posts of yours. I can't speak for Mr. Smith, but the guy knows his shit.
Moderator
Saturday - February 27th 2021 9:24AM MST
PS: Mr. Hail, regarding your earliest comment here, yeah, I think that was the term, "Flu Hoaxer". Mr. Unz called me a "random right-wing ranter" twice I think. I just can't remember if that was under the big arguments with him about the Kung Flu or something earlier.

I really don't mind the nice alliterative insult that much, but I resent that the guy skims through comments (there could be high-digit thousands per day on his whole site) and then thinks he's got you pegged.

I will say that the nutcase named "FB", a very smart, but totally unhinged guy, got told off by Ron Unz, after FB had been bringing up some completely BS history regarding millions of American having starved in the Great Depression 1.0. Mr. Unz really does try to look for the truth, but the world is so big, he doesn't have time to get all of it. Plus, yeah, I think he doesn't leave the house much ...
Moderator
Saturday - February 27th 2021 9:19AM MST
PS:Good "Idiocracy"-based rant, Mr. Sure. Yes, Dr. Fraudski wants us to wash our hands hourly too in water, like from the toilet.

BTW, Not Sure, I've read a number of times from Mr. Unz (in comments and I think in a post or two of his) that he thinks the Woke crowd will not come for him and his site because they are scared of him. I wish I could believe that, but ...

He says that the Lyin' Press media just make a conscious effort to ignore him instead of trying to fight with him.

He is one strange bird, but we really could use more people like Ron Unz, occasional nasty comments directed at the "flu hoaxers" notwithstanding.
Moderator
Saturday - February 27th 2021 9:15AM MST
PS: Gwen, I am very glad SOMEONE appreciated my whole combo of "Dog Day Afternoon"" and "The Pink Panther" (I don't know which one of the PP that was from)!! I thought that was one of my funniest comments in YEARS, YEARS I tell you. It fell pretty flat, though, so you never do know. I know one thing - I can put that up here on Peak Stupidity. It needs a little work in my head though.
Dieter Kief
Saturday - February 27th 2021 3:18AM MST
PS - Mr. Moderator LOL - this remark about Ron Unz is hilarious and quite funny too

"He’ll believe any weird shit that makes Americans look like the worst people in the world. I don’t get that, but that's not my beef here."

My comment: Yep, he is in some weird kind of way unredeemed, Ron Unz; since it would be child's play to reformulate this sentence in psychoanalytical terms (he grew up withoput a father, even though this guy was (and is?) well known), I will not do it (I hint at David Guterson's great (and funny!) novel Ed King here once again, though).

May I add that Ron Unz might be a tad spergy too?

And oh yes - my feelings about the comment section of the site Unz.com are exactly the same as yours! (I too do spend quite some time there - - -).
Hail
Friday - February 26th 2021 10:57PM MST
PS

(cont.)
Comments on Ron Unz' role in the Corona-Panic social phenomenon:

I wrote:
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https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/why-the-lack-of-high-profile-cheerleaders-for-the-anti-panic-side-corona-as-social-phenomenon-mystery/#comment-47461

RE: Peak Stupidity ("Mr. Unz’s conspirators were smart enough to create the disease and infect China but not to foresee that the disease could spread around the world, including America")

In retrospect, “the virus was artificially created AND is being used as a weapon” family of theories must be seen as the conspiracy-auxiliary to the Pro-Panic side. (There was a time, early on, that the Pro-Panic side was dominated by that type of person, before its rapid ascent.)

I recall someone writing under the name Metallic-Man, one year ago, whom for some reason Unz published, was sure it was a bio-attack (and he knew because he had worked on a secret US UFO project, or something).

A lot of things weren’t known when these early theories were tossed into the discourse like slime into a swimming pool. For one, the start-dates of spread push ever backward, first in late 2019, then sometimes towards mid-2019 in Europe. In Spain, they found at least one case of the virus dating to March/April 2019. If true, that changes a lot. There was also an unprecedented spike in flu cases in Australia and New Zealand in mid-2019 (their winter). It is really tempting to assign the Southern Hemisphere Flu Spike of mis-2019 partly to Wuhan-Corona, triggering seasonally.

The best narrative to fit the facts we have now looks like low-level global circulation throughout most of calendar-year 2019 but only causing a real hit in some southern-hemisphere spots due to seasonal mechanism. Pretty widely seeded around the world by, say, US Thanksgiving 2019. Some of the elevated flu levels reported in late 2019 were probably Wuhan-Corona. A big breakout in March 2020 (late season), then disappeared almost totally with the good-weather months of mid-2020, then returned seasonally again. This is mundane flu-virus activity; the difference is this time we zoomed in on it and became obsessed with tracking it.

As Dr. Wodarg warned early in the Panic, coronaviruses tend to have late-season peaks. “What you are seeing in Italy is flu season.” Basically that was right. The “sudden breakout,” as it was shown on screens across the globe, seems to have been just plain wrong, a mega-artifact of the war-propaganda-level media “coverage” and of testing, the giant mobilization to “track and fight Covid.” It all amounts to almost a mirage.

With this in mind, there is just no need for “Evil America created the virus to attack Noble China” or vice versa or any kind of related theory.
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(End of re-posting comments. Phew! -- If the commissars ever come for my site and its contents ever become difficult to find maybe via archived copies if at all, or the whims of fate of rehosting, and if PEAK STUPIDITY survives longer, these comments at least will survive.)

(Related: About late 2017 to 2018 google began de-ranking me and normal traffic flow of people cruising in fell by more than half, which has held since then. An immediate fall-off. But no ban.)
Hail
Friday - February 26th 2021 10:54PM MST
PS

(cont.) Comments on Ron Unz' role in the Corona-Panic social phenomenon:


The honorable editor-in-chief of PEAK STUPIDITY wrote (reply to the previous comment):
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https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/why-the-lack-of-high-profile-cheerleaders-for-the-anti-panic-side-corona-as-social-phenomenon-mystery/#comment-47459

Regarding the strange bird Ron Unz: There’s definitely something to be said for getting lots of page views. I admire him for putting up lots of articles that are completely against his opinion regarding lots of things. This PanicFest is no exception for him on that. I see Ron Unz’s opinions as very open-minded, but most open-minded when the opinion is anti-Americans (note that’s plural) in any way at all. He’ll believe any weird s__t that makes Americans look like the worst people in the world. I don’t get that.

What I find amazing is that with all his highly-researched journalism on all sorts of cover-ups, false narratives, and schemes in American history, Ron Unz does not see the one right in front of his face happening RIGHT NOW. Instead, what does he do? With purely circumstantial evidence, he comes up with the big conspiracy that the American military or Deep State created the Kung Flu, infected the Chinese via a sports team that “just happened” to be in Wuhan. Oh, how weird! I mean, it ain’t like there’s been a lot of back-and-forth travel to China and that Wuhan is a big-a*s city even for China. What also “just happened”‘ to be in Wuhan was one of just a handful of high-level infectious disease labs, finished less than 2 years before the virus.

Mr. Unz’s conspirators were smart enough to create the disease and infect China but not to foresee that the disease could spread around the world, including America, via, I dunno, New York City or somewheres??

PS: Ron Unz doesn’t believe the moon hoax guy (though, hilariously, he’s got a “moon hoax” CATEGORY, cause I guess that one doesn’t fit in too many other categories). He wrote me a friendly reply comment back regarding that stuff, before he realized, from skimming a few of my comments, that I’m a “random rightwing ranter”.**

** I LUV the alliteration, mind you, and don’t feel that insulted. My problem with Mr. Unz having written to me like this, is that he just skims comments and made this determination of my political views as a know-it-all. He can’t possibly read all the comments – they may be in the higher-digit thousands a day. I can’t blame him for not knowing who I am. As you all probably remember, the guy got on an anti-hoaxer kick that was basically dismissing as crazy anyone who DIDN’T worry about MILLIONS of deaths coming.

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Hail
Friday - February 26th 2021 10:52PM MST
PS

(cont.)

More comments on Ron Unz' role in the Corona-Panic social phenomenon:

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I wrote:
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https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/why-the-lack-of-high-profile-cheerleaders-for-the-anti-panic-side-corona-as-social-phenomenon-mystery/#comment-47448

RE: Peak Stupidity (“I do care that this vaccine is causing people like iSteve to lighten up on their states of panic quite a bit”)

I continue to be interested in why specific people fell on the Pro-Panic side.

With Ron Unz himself I think he has a habit of wanting to pump up his opinion-and-commentary webzine and sometimes indulges in “yellow journalism” (the Moon Hoax guy comes to mind). For Anatoly “Sino-Triumphalism” Karlin, I understand why he did it for other reasons.

Steve Sailer, I understand less. Thought Experiment: How would Sailer, confronted with the Corona-Panic social phenomenon, have responded at the following ages: Age 18; Age 28; Age 38; Age 48. (Actually had turned 62 weeks before the Panic began, Jan. 2020.)

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Hail
Friday - February 26th 2021 10:51PM MST
PS

A lot of the content in this post I notice is drawn from ongoing running commentary not just on Ron Unz' role in the gorilla-in-the-teahouse issue that I like to call the Corona-Panic.

Apologies for length --- but allow me to re-post some recent relevant comments from several days ago:

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Dieter Kief wrote:

(https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/why-the-lack-of-high-profile-cheerleaders-for-the-anti-panic-side-corona-as-social-phenomenon-mystery/#comment-47475)

"Ron Unz lacks a bit of common sense at times."

This comment also contains good insights on why Steve Sailer came down on the Pro-Panicside.

(cont.)
Hail
Friday - February 26th 2021 10:38PM MST
PS

I, too, am forever grateful to Ron Unz for his efforts.

One of the sources of my long interest in proportional-representation election systems (some variation of "Party A gets 3% of votes = Party A gets 3% of seats") is that in such a system someone like Ron Unz could get elected to office...whereas in the US voting system as we know it, someone like Unz is just totally locked-out.

Now that you raise the issue of Mr. Unz's falling on the Pro-Panic side last year (and digging in), I similarly wonder what he would have done were he actually in government at the time -- rather than running a dissident webzine -- when the Panic hit. I'm thinking he might have opposed Lockdowns from the beginning.

Alas of course back he was not in government. He was just a Silicon Valley multimillionaire(?) running a dissident webzine anchored by Steve Sailer and others, which attracted ne of the best-quality commentariats anywhere.

And when the early Corona-Panic clouds began to form on the horizon, Unz felt -- and in no small part because of the persona he'd created via the UNZ REVIEW -- that he needed to give voice to leading dissidents on any issue ("conspiracy theorists"?). Back in January and February 2020, these were members of the Pro-Panic side in its early form. Ron Unz then got stuck in this mode for a while including personally attacking Anti-Panic people ("Nutty Flu Hoaxers," wasn't it?), though never AFAIK actually deleting their comments.

It was a strange kind of triumph for Unz when the early bet he had placed on the extreme arguments of the Pro-Panic side (generally) *appeared to* be "proven right" when the Panic went mainstream in March 2020. For a man whose stock-in-trade has for years now been giving voice to dissident narratives, this seemed a major vindication. "See? We told you this new virus would be a big deal!" So I think that was also an emotional-psychological trap. Come to this of it, I believe this could apply to the great iSteve as well.
Not Sure
Friday - February 26th 2021 9:51PM MST
PS He'll be deplatformed for questioning the Jonestown Kool-Aid cult of the Branch Covidians!
Wrongthink is thoughtcrime, comrade.
Put on 50 masks to leave your Beer Flu because Dr. Fraudski loves you.
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Forward! Yes we can.
Gwen
Friday - February 26th 2021 8:55PM MST
PS Apologies for the off topic, but I just caught comment regarding dog walkers at Unz, and I fell off the chair laughing at this:

"Oh, and Labs, because they are known to get Stockholm Syndrome when they get kidnapped."

We have a female German Shepherd and a male Lab. Guess who the alpha "male" is? LOL!!
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