The recent article in NY Times about the self-identifying fascist Tony Hovater has caused extreme backlash among American liberals including half my Twitter feed. Where I live, Hovater's views would see him in jail, but this post isn't about that.
Nobody is questioning whether the article is accurate or whether it's written to the highest journalistic standards. So I guess the position the readers are expressing is that truth must not be reported if it causes harm to society. And in their view, portraying fascists as anything but monsters through and through humanizes them and lessens the need to fight against extreme nationalism. Some go as far as saying that the journalist painted a rosy portrait of a family who want to wipe out other races, although this accusation isn't supported by the article.
I don't agree that trying to understand the enemy is harmful to the fight. I also don't support suppressing the truth for any reason except it causing direct and immediate harm to human beings, and I don't believe this is the case here. Shushing the media is a slippery slope, and it is far too easy for censorship to be abused.
Still sick, so I can't work as much on the site as I would like to, but I have started cleaning up this place. Should have everything necessary up and running in a few days.
First, I decided to rename the review section into the recommended section. I used to review tons of bad movies back on my old site, but now that I'm writing original fiction, I can't bring myself to crap on other people's work even when it absolutely deserves this. So now I'll only be writing about stuff that I think is worth the time.
Fixed some things under the hood too.
*stubs toe on a piece of legacy code* You bleeding piece of beholder shit, I will kill you!
Oh, I didn't see you there.
It's November, and this means it's the best time for spring cleaning and readying this site for people who aren't me. Okay, maybe me finishing my novel is the real reason for getting around to upgrading this place, but whatever.
Welcome. Today I am going to teach you how to cook an all-natural plant-based comfort food that will make your friends on a diet run like vampires from a wooden stake shop. Strawberry jam.
You can cook cherry jam the same way and any other jam with minimum modifications (adjusting the amount of sugar depending on the sugar in the fruit and adding a bit of water to the mix if the fruit doesn't have enough water).
The algorithm:
The book is nearing completion which means it's time to start churning out content. For now, restored all the functionality to publish stuff on this site.
