Odds and Ends, 8/10/20

Various items.

Mike Mentzer.

Comments about the video:

Quantum Potential

I like how Mike says "morons to the far left and geniuses to the far right". Classic commentary from the mind behind the scenes of bulking and hulking.

marren lacy

The Left is the home of morons.... i have always known this to be true!

Mentzer indeed says "morons to the far left and geniuses to the far right".  He also refers to “Negroes.”  Listen from 12:50-13:15.  Unfortunately, Mentzer was a Randian objectivist.

By the way, Mentzer’s views on HIT seem to make sense to me.  People with great genetic potential can gain with any system, but ordinary people, and particularly the genetically less gifted, likely need approaches more similar to HIT. That’s for prioritizing muscular development, but with a secondary benefit of strength increases, as you do progressive overload over time. However, for maximal strength development, prioritizing strength, with muscular development secondary, you would do multiple sets of low reps with a heavy weight.  

More Mentzer:

And it's also true that there's a lot of homosexual hustling going on. It's been going on since the inception of bodybuilding in the early part of the century. It appears that there's a faction of homosexuals who find bodybuilders irresistible and are willing to pay them considerable sums of money for sexual favors. I know a number of bodybuilders who have done this, too, but for obvious reasons I'm not going to reveal their names.

The Mannerbund!

Mentzer and the Negroid:

How central a role does genetics figure in bodybuilding? The answer is, perhaps, best illustrated in the following anecdote. Invariably, during the question and answer portion of every seminar that I've ever conducted, a skeptic will ask, "But, Mr. Mentzer, if Heavy Duty training is truly the one valid, scientific approach to training, how do you account for the success of men like Arnold and Lee Haney?" To which, my stock reply is, "If you wanted to learn the most effective method for developing an optimum suntan, would you ask someone of negroid heritage?" The point being, of course, that while there are those born with the best tan possible (negroid), others swelter on beaches in the summer to obtain a moderate skin burnishing, and yet others will never tan, i.e., albinos.

Come now, according to Der Movement, Bulgarians and Gypsies are one and the same!

Of relevance to this, see this older post.

A beautiful online comment from the execrable Counter-Currents (CC) site:

Andy

Posted August 7, 2020 at 10:05 am | Permalink

CC has been falling since a couple of years, and now we can say that’s finished: intellectual masturbation about obscure topics, book reviews of texts no one care about, and clever articles about musical albums of Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift. Even false flag operations and controlled opposition sites have better content than this shite.

The reason the jews and their lackeys are winning is not because they are better, but because the ones fighting [sic, lol] them are just cowards, hobbysts, kooks, and fags.

The jews won, the White race is pretty much finished, and it deserved. If a people is not willing to do what has to be done in order to secure its existence and future for his children then it deserves nothing more than death.

Hail Andy!  What else to expect when Johnson feuds with and alienates his best writers?  Hey, Andy, I’ve been saying here for a long time that Counter-Currents eventually will slide into Majority Rights-like irrelevance.  Not for a while though – just like the USA is taking a long time to collapse, as it spends the political-social-economic-moral-technical-military capital built up by past generations, so has Counter-Currents a long way to fall from the heights it had when quality people wrote for it, as opposed to the current crop of immature jackasses.  Plus, Johnson possess considerable affirmative action protections for “choosing the right ancestors.”  But give it time. It seems on the surface that Counter-Currents is riding high.  But the rot is already there, and eventual collapse is baked into the cake, absent some sort of radical change in direction.

Yockey vs. the ethnonationalists (from Imperium):

But the greatest opposition of all has not yet been named, the conflict which will take up all the others into itself. This is the battle of the Idea of the Unity of the West against the nationalism of the 19th century. Here stand opposed the ideas of Empire and petty-stateism, large-space thinking and political provincialism. Here find themselves opposed the miserable collection of yesterday-patriots and the custodians of the Future. The yesterday-nationalists are nothing but the puppets of the extra-European forces who conquer Europe by dividing it. To the enemies of Europe, there must be no rapprochement, no understanding, no union of the old units of Europe into a new unit, capable of carrying on 20th century politics.

The battle against the ethnonationalist filth, against the petty nationalists, may well be a defining battle of the Right.

See this:

Derbyshire’s entire argument boils down to this thesis: “Yes, miscegenation is bad, but only a small number of people are doing it, so it’s fine for me to do it. And if you have a problem with that, then come over to my house and I’ll punch you in the face.”

Of interest (emphasis added):

Codreanu had an enduring influence in Italy. His views and style were attested to have influenced the controversial Traditionalist philosopher and racial theorist Julius Evola. Evola himself met with Codreanu on one occasion, and, in the words of his friend, the writer and historian Mircea Eliade, was "dazzled".[141] Reportedly, the visit had been arranged by Eliade and philosopher Vasile Lovinescu, both of whom sympathized with the Iron Guard.[142] Their guest later wrote that the Iron Guard founder was: "one of the worthiest and spiritually best oriented figures that I ever met in the nationalist movements of the time."[143] According to De Felice, Codreanu has also become a main reference point for the Italian neofascist groups, alongside Evola and the ideologues of Nazism. He argues that this phenomenon, which tends to shadow references to Italian Fascism itself, is owed to Mussolini's failures in setting up "a true fascist state", and to the subsequent need of finding other role models.[144] Evola's disciple and prominent neofascist activist Franco Freda published several of Codreanu's essays at his Edizioni di Ar,[145] while their follower Claudio Mutti was noted for his pro-Legionary rhetoric.[146]

Laugh at this:

When people in the Dissident Right think about Sweden…

They get intractable priapisms.

…we often think of a country at the pinnacle of anti-white propaganda and anarcho-tyranny. 

But I thought that they were all hardy individualists?

Nevertheless, Swedish culture has had a great influence on my life…

The life spent in Eastern Europe, being a Danish Roosh.

…from the music I listen to each day to the furniture I fall asleep on each night. 

I suppose milady makes him sleep on the couch a lot.  Who can blame her?

Furthermore, much of our fascination and modern-day perception of the Vikings comes from…

Your sweaty fetishism.

As ethnic nationalists…

We live in other people’s nations and take their women.

…we can learn a few things from these Swedish artists to form a collective identity…

Collective?  I thought that the Swedes were all highly individualist high trust northern hunter gatherers?

After college, I worked as an inventory manager at IKEA. 

With an eye out for the Eastern European ladies.

It made me mad…

So he held his breath, stomped his feet, and counted to ten.  After that, mommy gave him a cookie.

We must remind our people that they are the descendants of warriors and adventurers. From the spartan and the gladiator, to the Cossacks and the Vikings…

Any reason that “spartan” is not capitalized but “Vikings” is?  Sort of like “white” vs. “Black?”

…we are a race of heroes. 

Heroically writing that deer are “cute.”  Wield your battleaxe!

All I can say is that when I went to the Scandza Forum in Stockholm, I met Swedish people that were just like me. They looked like me, talked like me, and had the same concerns and goals as me. 

Except that they lived in Sweden and were not doing “Bang East Europe.”

Yet if Barbara Lerner Spectre has taught us anything, it is that white Europeans have not yet learned to unify as a racial group. 

Racial?  I thought you guys were ethnonationalists?