Complexity
Ethnoracial Fact Facing is complicated. Ethnoracial Fact Facing makes thousands of often well-reasoned distinctions. Many individuals cannot or do not understand variance and other Ethnoracial Fact Facing concepts. It is easier, though wrong, to take the tribal position: Everyone outside the tribe should be considered enemies until proven otherwise. It is also easier, though unethical, to take the cultural Marxian position: assume everyone is the same, except blacks and Muslims and other allies, who are superior--and nonwealthy whites, who are inferior. Complicated, accurate economic ideas also face hurdles. Economics is relevant to EFF because wealthy multiculturalists with simple economic ideas keep increasing their power and destructiveness.
Influence
Cultural Marxism controls all major Western institutions, especially schools, churches, corporations, governments, and mass media. Japan and a few poor countries may be the only countries on earth not riddled with cultural Marxism and its allies. Even China, Taiwan, and South Korea are filling with variations of cultural Marxism. Almost every wealthy person supports cultural Marxism and their influence is anything but benign.
Misguided shame
Thanks to number two, whites feel irrational, unethical shame for believing anything other than cultural Marxism.
Nazism
Thanks to the ruthlessness of Hitler and cultural Marxism, multiculturalists are able to fool individuals into thinking anything that is not multicultural is some form of crypto Nazism, guilt by non association. The mass media almost never tells us what most non multiculturalists actually believe. The media chants the irrelevant slurs N*zi, r*cist, b*got, and f*r right at EFF.
Moral universalism
Multiculturalists claim the title of moral universalists, though multiculturalists support antiwhite totalitarianism. Even many race realists falsely claim multiculturalists are moral universalists.
Numbers
Western Europeans and their descendents are a plummeting share of the world's population.
Genes and cultures
Most whites are genetically and culturally predisposed to xenocentrism. They regard any all white group as creepy, though whites see nothing wrong with all nonwhite groups. Whites, especially wealthy whites, massively harm other whites in ways they do not harm nonwhites.
Legalized bribery
Wealthy multiculturalists can bribe almost any policy into existence. Worse, most individuals tolerate or support legalized bribery.
Stealth
Multiculturalists are playing the long game. They work to annihilate whites over many generations. Whites ignore gradually escalating evils until it is too late. Belief in the importance of future generations has been subtly indoctrinated out of whites.
Coalitions
Multiculturalists have indoctrinated all major nonwhite groups into being antiwhite. Even nonwhites ethically similar to whites, having little in common with blacks and Muslims, support antiwhite tyranny. Nonwhite rulers in the West incite antiwhite, mutually destructive conflicts with China and Russia, probably because rulers do not identify with nonwealthy whites and view whites as a disposable subspecies.
Hedonism.
Duties seem odious, hedonism fun and easy, though in the long-run, hedonism leaves us empty and unhappy.
Vision
Many ethnoracial fact facers have difficulty articulating ethical alternative societies. Few ethnoracial fact facers are policy experts. Few, if any, have play money to create alternative societies. Many withdraw to their own lives and families. Many are wary of anyone who disagrees with them on almost any political issue. Ethnoracial Fact Facing will need to overcome mutual hostility over minor issues. Ethnoracial Fact Facers need to agree to live harmoniously with each other despite differences on nonmulticultural issues. Bad policies on other issues come and go, but destruction by multiculturalism is permanent.
Friday, January 15, 2016
Contradictions in Action
A big contradiction in people working to criminalize speech: they never seek to arrest themselves. They claim individuals should be arrested for speech they imagine intolerant and harmful to social cohesion, yet they and their allies are the most intolerant and destructive people on earth. So why aren't they arresting themselves? The absence of cognitive dissonance boggles the mind.
Over 70,000 individuals signed an internet petition to have Katie Hopkins arrested, yet Google searches reveal Ms. Hopkins has been called c*nt, b*tch, and dozens of other slurs thousands of times. Why aren't the guardians of "tolerance" and "social cohesion" seeking to have Ms. Hopkins' critics arrested for abusive ad hominem attacks? (Note: I know almost nothing about Ms. Hopkins or what she said or what kind of person she is. I'm here to defend consistency and free speech, things every ethical person should do.)
The establishments demonize any public figure for any trivial association almost anyone slurred as a "white supr*mecist," yet sees nothing wrong with almost every public figure being devoted to antiwhite supremecism.
Over 70,000 individuals signed an internet petition to have Katie Hopkins arrested, yet Google searches reveal Ms. Hopkins has been called c*nt, b*tch, and dozens of other slurs thousands of times. Why aren't the guardians of "tolerance" and "social cohesion" seeking to have Ms. Hopkins' critics arrested for abusive ad hominem attacks? (Note: I know almost nothing about Ms. Hopkins or what she said or what kind of person she is. I'm here to defend consistency and free speech, things every ethical person should do.)
The establishments demonize any public figure for any trivial association almost anyone slurred as a "white supr*mecist," yet sees nothing wrong with almost every public figure being devoted to antiwhite supremecism.
Egoism and Multiculturalism
At first glance, it seems odd that individuals devoted to psychological egoism (selfishness) would also be devoted to cultural Marxism.
But cultural Marxism is egoism dominated, not moral universalism dominated.
Cultural Marxism makes labor cheaper and redistributes income to the top through mass migration and divide-and-screw strategies. Cultural Marxism assists globalism, which destroys democracy, helps tax avoidance, and also redistributes to the top. Cultural Marxism allows powerful individuals to imagine themselves as ethically superior, viewing themselves as cosmopolitan masters of the universe while heaping contempt on ordinary citizens for imagined parochialism. Since actual ethics does not matter to ruling groups, ruling groups remain oblivious to massive harms caused by cultural Marxism to ordinary citizens.
Equalities that benefit ruling groups (flat taxes and equality of movement, for example) are treated as absolute rules. Equalities that benefit ordinary citizens (equality of free association) are ignored or demonized.
But cultural Marxism is egoism dominated, not moral universalism dominated.
Cultural Marxism makes labor cheaper and redistributes income to the top through mass migration and divide-and-screw strategies. Cultural Marxism assists globalism, which destroys democracy, helps tax avoidance, and also redistributes to the top. Cultural Marxism allows powerful individuals to imagine themselves as ethically superior, viewing themselves as cosmopolitan masters of the universe while heaping contempt on ordinary citizens for imagined parochialism. Since actual ethics does not matter to ruling groups, ruling groups remain oblivious to massive harms caused by cultural Marxism to ordinary citizens.
Equalities that benefit ruling groups (flat taxes and equality of movement, for example) are treated as absolute rules. Equalities that benefit ordinary citizens (equality of free association) are ignored or demonized.
Spectrum of Fallacies
The idea of a one dimensional political spectrum is utterly inaccurate. Contemporary democrats, republicans, and libertarians are not centrist, moderate, center left, or center right. Contemporary democrats support conservatism on economic issues, a mixture of Marxism and neoconservatism in foreign policies and religious issues, cultural Marxism on ethnoracial issues. Republicans and libertarians in practice are not much different except for endorsing more neoconservatism and economic conservatism. None of the above makes them good or somewhere near some imaginary middle. A better term for the major political parties is triple totalitarianism--militarism, robber baronism, plus cultural Marxism. Is it anywhere near as bad as Mao's China, North Korea, the Soviet Union, or Hitler's Germany. No. But soft totalitarianism is not centrism.
Third Wayers subscribe to the faulty idea that if it were not for Republican obstructionism and rotten ideas, democrats would do right things. We saw in 2009 and 2010, when democrats controlled the federal government, that democrats were an ethical disaster (not as bad as Republicans but still a disaster). In case anyone forgot, the main democratic pushes in 2009 and 2010:
1. escalating the quagmire in Afghanistan (apparently so democrats would appear tough).
2. tokenistic financial reforms.
3. reappointing the disastrous Ben Bernanke.
4. not punishing financiers.
5. bailing out financiers for their financial crimes.
6. letting the super rich get away with almost all manner of crimes.
7. austerity: a miniscule stimulus, a fraction of the six percent of GDP required to make up for the shortfall in demand.
8. the "grand bargain," cuts to retirement programs and even more austerity.
9. ever more cultural Marxism.
10. maintaining Bush's policies on civil liberties.
11. globalism.
Sure, the democrats did good things on numerous minor issues, issues where no unethical, powerful interest would make major sacrifices, issues with a fraction of the importance compared to the big issues. But on all the big issues, the democrats did wrong things.
Democrats conveniently forgot most of the things democratic voters thought they were voting for.
Democrats work to redistribute income to the top. President Obama has presided over a massive increase in inequality, worse than some Republican presidents. But democrats do not redistribute to the top in all the ways republicans do. Democrats will not push for massive tax cuts for the rich because doing so would send huge numbers of democratic voters to third party. Instead, democrats redistribute to the top using subtle and indirect methods:
1. letting the rich and others devoted to rent seeking get away with crimes.
2. maintaining high levels of unemployment, so workers have less bargaining power.
3. tolerating legalized bribery and other forms of legalized corruption.
Some democratic politicians may not even be consciously aware of the consequences of democratic actions. As Democrats pursue pro rich ideas and cash flows in, it becomes easy to regard well-reasoned reforms as "risky" and "dangerous extremism."
Third Wayers subscribe to the faulty idea that if it were not for Republican obstructionism and rotten ideas, democrats would do right things. We saw in 2009 and 2010, when democrats controlled the federal government, that democrats were an ethical disaster (not as bad as Republicans but still a disaster). In case anyone forgot, the main democratic pushes in 2009 and 2010:
1. escalating the quagmire in Afghanistan (apparently so democrats would appear tough).
2. tokenistic financial reforms.
3. reappointing the disastrous Ben Bernanke.
4. not punishing financiers.
5. bailing out financiers for their financial crimes.
6. letting the super rich get away with almost all manner of crimes.
7. austerity: a miniscule stimulus, a fraction of the six percent of GDP required to make up for the shortfall in demand.
8. the "grand bargain," cuts to retirement programs and even more austerity.
9. ever more cultural Marxism.
10. maintaining Bush's policies on civil liberties.
11. globalism.
Sure, the democrats did good things on numerous minor issues, issues where no unethical, powerful interest would make major sacrifices, issues with a fraction of the importance compared to the big issues. But on all the big issues, the democrats did wrong things.
Democrats conveniently forgot most of the things democratic voters thought they were voting for.
Democrats work to redistribute income to the top. President Obama has presided over a massive increase in inequality, worse than some Republican presidents. But democrats do not redistribute to the top in all the ways republicans do. Democrats will not push for massive tax cuts for the rich because doing so would send huge numbers of democratic voters to third party. Instead, democrats redistribute to the top using subtle and indirect methods:
1. letting the rich and others devoted to rent seeking get away with crimes.
2. maintaining high levels of unemployment, so workers have less bargaining power.
3. tolerating legalized bribery and other forms of legalized corruption.
Some democratic politicians may not even be consciously aware of the consequences of democratic actions. As Democrats pursue pro rich ideas and cash flows in, it becomes easy to regard well-reasoned reforms as "risky" and "dangerous extremism."
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Healthy foods Versus Unhealthy Foods: a Short Guide
After reading various studies, I conclude:
Bad:
fructose, including high calorie fruits (grapes, mangos among many, many)
sugar substitutes
fat substitutes
other sugars
processed meats
trans fats
other junk carbs (bread, rice)
high-calorie vegetables (cooked potatoes)
red meat
foods with emulsifiers (mayo)
Good:
white meat
beans
lentils
textured vegetable protein
some vegetable oils
wheat bran
oat bran
hummus
low sugar, low calorie vegetables
other high fiber, low sugar foods
other high protein, low sugar foods
most spices
Bad:
fructose, including high calorie fruits (grapes, mangos among many, many)
sugar substitutes
fat substitutes
other sugars
processed meats
trans fats
other junk carbs (bread, rice)
high-calorie vegetables (cooked potatoes)
red meat
foods with emulsifiers (mayo)
Good:
white meat
beans
lentils
textured vegetable protein
some vegetable oils
wheat bran
oat bran
hummus
low sugar, low calorie vegetables
other high fiber, low sugar foods
other high protein, low sugar foods
most spices
Worst Political Websites I Can Recall Seeing
Worse and Worser:
Saudiembassy.net, Reddit, Free Republic, Weekly Standard, NYT, NR, Cato, BBC, AEI, Alternet, Al Jezerra, WSJ, Wapo, Commentary, Real Clear Politics, The Nation, Real Clear World, GOP.com, Fox, CNN, Salon, Slate, MSNBC, Drudge, Democrats.org, Stormfront, TNR, Wsws.org, Rushlimbaugh.com, Fair.org, Heritage, Spectator.org, Dickmorris.com, Littlegreenfootballs, Feministing, Newsweek, SPLC, Russiatoday.com, Loonwatch, Young Turks, Daily Stormer, Georgewbush.com, Kremlin.ru, China.org.cn, alarabiya.net, Time, Common Dreams, Pjorourke.com, Victors Message Board, Zimbabwetourism.net, Cair.com, The Thinking Housewife
Care to add more?
Saudiembassy.net, Reddit, Free Republic, Weekly Standard, NYT, NR, Cato, BBC, AEI, Alternet, Al Jezerra, WSJ, Wapo, Commentary, Real Clear Politics, The Nation, Real Clear World, GOP.com, Fox, CNN, Salon, Slate, MSNBC, Drudge, Democrats.org, Stormfront, TNR, Wsws.org, Rushlimbaugh.com, Fair.org, Heritage, Spectator.org, Dickmorris.com, Littlegreenfootballs, Feministing, Newsweek, SPLC, Russiatoday.com, Loonwatch, Young Turks, Daily Stormer, Georgewbush.com, Kremlin.ru, China.org.cn, alarabiya.net, Time, Common Dreams, Pjorourke.com, Victors Message Board, Zimbabwetourism.net, Cair.com, The Thinking Housewife
Care to add more?
It's the Trap
Almost every attempted reform in occupied, nondemocratic Western countries results in the following:
A: getting you demonized and otherwise harmed by the ruling groups, and their totalitarian mixtures of Randism, neoconservatism, third wayism, and biocultural Marxism, thus failing to reform.
B: being ignored
Thus, the few reforms that occur are tokenistic for propaganda purposes or remote, where almost no one around the ruling groups has an interest--for example, the marine sanctuaries created by Bush and Obama around territories. The Bush marine sanctuary appears to be the only thing Bush did right during his entire time in power.
That's why we must organize and form our own separate communities.
A: getting you demonized and otherwise harmed by the ruling groups, and their totalitarian mixtures of Randism, neoconservatism, third wayism, and biocultural Marxism, thus failing to reform.
B: being ignored
Thus, the few reforms that occur are tokenistic for propaganda purposes or remote, where almost no one around the ruling groups has an interest--for example, the marine sanctuaries created by Bush and Obama around territories. The Bush marine sanctuary appears to be the only thing Bush did right during his entire time in power.
That's why we must organize and form our own separate communities.
Documentaries
Some rough grades for documentaries I watched in the past decade, graded and ranked mostly on entertainment value or inspirational value, not ethical accuracy.
Exit Through the Gift Shop: A
Give Up Tomorrow: A
Harlan County, USA: A-
Power Trip: A-
The King of Kong: A-
American Dream: A-
Gates of Heaven: B+
The Boys of H Company: B+
Occupation Dreamland: B+
Never Forget to Lie: B+
Under Our Skin: B+
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion: B+
The Cove: B+
Untitled lost battalion documentary (available almost nowhere): B+
Buck: B+
Paradise Lost: B+
Happy People: B+
Armadillo: B+
Casino Jack: B+
Hearts of Darkness: B+
Tales from the Script: B+
Tragedy of Bataan: B
Brother's Keeper: B
Nova B-29: Frozen in Time: B
The Yes Men: B
World War II in HD: B
Capturing the Friedmans: B
Client 9: B
Korea: The Forgotten War: B
Being Elmo: B
Religulous: B
Hearts and Minds: B
Little Dieter Needs to Fly: B
Out of Sight: B
Floored: B
Scared Straight! (worthless anti-crime tactic but amusing documentary): B
Anne Frank Remembered: B
We Stand Alone Together: B
Why We Fight (Frank Capra version): B
Scrappers: B-
Blossoms of Fire: B-
Secrets of the Dead: Irish Escape: B-
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii: B-
Super Size Me: B-
The Tillman Story: B-
Devil's Playground: B-
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: B-
The Farmer’s Wife: B-
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years: B-
The Korean War: Fire and Ice: B-
Best Boy: B-
Roger and Me: B-
The War Tapes: B-
A Perfect Candidate: B-
Limelight (starts slow but gets bizarre towards the end): C+
Fahrenheit 9/11: C
Atomic Cafe (seemed better in the 80s before nuclear irony became a cliche): C-
Nanook of the North: D+
Bill Cunningham New York (people thinking banal thoughts are profound): D+
Bukowski: Born Into This (ditto above): D+
Wordplay: D+
Capitalism: a Love Story: D+
Mugabe and the White African (quixotic waste of time in a toothless court): D+
Hell And Back Again: D+
Restrepo (nothing insightful not seen or heard before): D+
Prodigal Sons (two siblings complaining about each other): D+
American Movie (grating and boring character): D
Crumb (another grating and boring character): D
Body of War: D
A Film Unfinished: D
Korea: The Unknown War: D
Knocking: D
Capturing Reality: D
Grey Gardens: D-
Enlighten Up: D-
The World at War: D-
China: A Century of Revolution (Marxian propaganda): D-
Guns, Germs, and Steel: D-
The Fog of War (terrible moral reasoning by both McNamara and the filmmaker): D-
Elephant in the Living Room (The box cover describes the main character as big hearted. He's not.): F
The War by Ken Burns: F
Note that I did not pay Hollywood a dime for any of them. I obtained them from the library.
Exit Through the Gift Shop: A
Give Up Tomorrow: A
Harlan County, USA: A-
Power Trip: A-
The King of Kong: A-
American Dream: A-
Gates of Heaven: B+
The Boys of H Company: B+
Occupation Dreamland: B+
Never Forget to Lie: B+
Under Our Skin: B+
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion: B+
The Cove: B+
Untitled lost battalion documentary (available almost nowhere): B+
Buck: B+
Paradise Lost: B+
Happy People: B+
Armadillo: B+
Casino Jack: B+
Hearts of Darkness: B+
Tales from the Script: B+
Tragedy of Bataan: B
Brother's Keeper: B
Nova B-29: Frozen in Time: B
The Yes Men: B
World War II in HD: B
Capturing the Friedmans: B
Client 9: B
Korea: The Forgotten War: B
Being Elmo: B
Religulous: B
Hearts and Minds: B
Little Dieter Needs to Fly: B
Out of Sight: B
Floored: B
Scared Straight! (worthless anti-crime tactic but amusing documentary): B
Anne Frank Remembered: B
We Stand Alone Together: B
Why We Fight (Frank Capra version): B
Scrappers: B-
Blossoms of Fire: B-
Secrets of the Dead: Irish Escape: B-
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii: B-
Super Size Me: B-
The Tillman Story: B-
Devil's Playground: B-
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: B-
The Farmer’s Wife: B-
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years: B-
The Korean War: Fire and Ice: B-
Best Boy: B-
Roger and Me: B-
The War Tapes: B-
A Perfect Candidate: B-
Limelight (starts slow but gets bizarre towards the end): C+
Fahrenheit 9/11: C
Atomic Cafe (seemed better in the 80s before nuclear irony became a cliche): C-
Nanook of the North: D+
Bill Cunningham New York (people thinking banal thoughts are profound): D+
Bukowski: Born Into This (ditto above): D+
Wordplay: D+
Capitalism: a Love Story: D+
Mugabe and the White African (quixotic waste of time in a toothless court): D+
Hell And Back Again: D+
Restrepo (nothing insightful not seen or heard before): D+
Prodigal Sons (two siblings complaining about each other): D+
American Movie (grating and boring character): D
Crumb (another grating and boring character): D
Body of War: D
A Film Unfinished: D
Korea: The Unknown War: D
Knocking: D
Capturing Reality: D
Grey Gardens: D-
Enlighten Up: D-
The World at War: D-
China: A Century of Revolution (Marxian propaganda): D-
Guns, Germs, and Steel: D-
The Fog of War (terrible moral reasoning by both McNamara and the filmmaker): D-
Elephant in the Living Room (The box cover describes the main character as big hearted. He's not.): F
The War by Ken Burns: F
Note that I did not pay Hollywood a dime for any of them. I obtained them from the library.
Mostly First Person Books Rated and Ranked
I've been reading oral histories and other up close books in recent years. The Internet is better for macro issues these days than books. I've rated and ranked books below in rough order of interest they generated in my soul, not historical accuracy or other attributes. The most worthwhile works are difficult to find.
Death March by Donald Knox: A
Harder than Hardscrabble by Thad Sitton: A-
This Is Paradise by Hyok Kang: A-
The Black Devil Brigade by Joseph Springer (starts slow): A-
If You Survive by George Wilson: B+
Easy Company Soldier by Don Malarkey: B+
The Korean War: Pusan to Chosin by Donald Knox: B+
Hey, Mac, Where You Been? by Henry Berry: B+
No Bugles, No Drums by Rudy Tomedi: B+
You'll Die in Singapore by Charles McCormack: B+
Foot Soldier by Roscoe C. Blunt: B+
Indestructible by John R. Bruning (entertaining but fictionalized dialog): B+
The Scars of a Soldier by Vernon Heppe (starts slow): B+
Everything We Had by Al Santoli: B+
Nam by Mark Baker: B+
Bataan Uncensored by Ernest Miller: B+
The Last Battle Station by Duane Schultz B+
Comfort Women Speak by Sangmie Choi Schellstede and Soon Mi Yu (not much text, mostly photos): B+
Into the Rising Sun by Patrick O'Donnell: B+
The Brave Japanese by Kenneth Harrison: B+
House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger: B+
Where Away by George Sessions Perry and Isabel Leighton (starts slow): B+
The Naked Island by Russell Braddon: B
Once a Hussar by Ray Ellis: B
Medic! by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin B
Bataan and Beyond by John S. Coleman: B
Visions from a Foxhole by William A. Foley, Jr: B
Crossing the Line by Alvin Kernan: B
Witness by Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar: B
Gig by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, Sabin C. Streeter: B
On the Front Lines by John Ellis: B
Guests of the Emperor by Linda Goetz Holmes: B
Voices from D-Day by Jonathan Bastable: B
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by William Guarnere and Edward Heffron: B
Beyond Valor by Patrick O'Donnell: B
Sappers in the Wire by Keith W. Nolan: B
Voices of the Pacific by Adam Makos: B
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich: B
Company Commander by Charles MacDonald (starts slow): B
American Involvement in the Filipino Resistance Movement by L.S. Schmidt (monograph): B
To Bear Any Burden by Al Santoli: B-
Roll Me Over by Ray Gantter (more self-contradictions and political fallacies than usual): B-
Abandoned on Bataan by Oliver "Red" Allen: B-
Our War Was Different by Albert Hemingway: B-
The Dyess Story by Ed Dyess: B-
Strange Ground: An Oral History Of Americans In Vietnam by Harry Maurer: B-
The Outpost War (Volume 1) by Lee Ballenger: C+
The Korean War: Uncertain Victory by Donald Knox: C+
Armageddon by Clive Ponting C+
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides: C+
War Stories of the Infantry by Michael Green and James D. Brown: C+
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand: C+
Working by Studs Terkel: C
Bat 21 by William C. Anderson: C
The "Good" War by Studs Terkel: C-
Five Years to Freedom by James N. Rowe (too long): D+
They Fought Alone by John Keats (mostly a novel): D
American Sniper by Chris Kyle: D
Rage in Singapore by David George Plotkin (mostly a novel): D
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer: D-
The War by Ken Burns: D-
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff (verbose and boring): F
These books contain many false claims, ad hominem attacks, small sample fallacies, one-sided arguments, appeals to tradition, and other logical failings. In other words, the accuracy of these books differs little from books by people paid by taxpayers to be historians.
Death March by Donald Knox: A
Harder than Hardscrabble by Thad Sitton: A-
This Is Paradise by Hyok Kang: A-
The Black Devil Brigade by Joseph Springer (starts slow): A-
If You Survive by George Wilson: B+
Easy Company Soldier by Don Malarkey: B+
The Korean War: Pusan to Chosin by Donald Knox: B+
Hey, Mac, Where You Been? by Henry Berry: B+
No Bugles, No Drums by Rudy Tomedi: B+
You'll Die in Singapore by Charles McCormack: B+
Foot Soldier by Roscoe C. Blunt: B+
Indestructible by John R. Bruning (entertaining but fictionalized dialog): B+
The Scars of a Soldier by Vernon Heppe (starts slow): B+
Everything We Had by Al Santoli: B+
Nam by Mark Baker: B+
Bataan Uncensored by Ernest Miller: B+
The Last Battle Station by Duane Schultz B+
Comfort Women Speak by Sangmie Choi Schellstede and Soon Mi Yu (not much text, mostly photos): B+
Into the Rising Sun by Patrick O'Donnell: B+
The Brave Japanese by Kenneth Harrison: B+
House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger: B+
Where Away by George Sessions Perry and Isabel Leighton (starts slow): B+
The Naked Island by Russell Braddon: B
Once a Hussar by Ray Ellis: B
Medic! by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin B
Bataan and Beyond by John S. Coleman: B
Visions from a Foxhole by William A. Foley, Jr: B
Crossing the Line by Alvin Kernan: B
Witness by Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar: B
Gig by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, Sabin C. Streeter: B
On the Front Lines by John Ellis: B
Guests of the Emperor by Linda Goetz Holmes: B
Voices from D-Day by Jonathan Bastable: B
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by William Guarnere and Edward Heffron: B
Beyond Valor by Patrick O'Donnell: B
Sappers in the Wire by Keith W. Nolan: B
Voices of the Pacific by Adam Makos: B
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich: B
Company Commander by Charles MacDonald (starts slow): B
American Involvement in the Filipino Resistance Movement by L.S. Schmidt (monograph): B
To Bear Any Burden by Al Santoli: B-
Roll Me Over by Ray Gantter (more self-contradictions and political fallacies than usual): B-
Abandoned on Bataan by Oliver "Red" Allen: B-
Our War Was Different by Albert Hemingway: B-
The Dyess Story by Ed Dyess: B-
Strange Ground: An Oral History Of Americans In Vietnam by Harry Maurer: B-
The Outpost War (Volume 1) by Lee Ballenger: C+
The Korean War: Uncertain Victory by Donald Knox: C+
Armageddon by Clive Ponting C+
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides: C+
War Stories of the Infantry by Michael Green and James D. Brown: C+
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand: C+
Working by Studs Terkel: C
Bat 21 by William C. Anderson: C
The "Good" War by Studs Terkel: C-
Five Years to Freedom by James N. Rowe (too long): D+
They Fought Alone by John Keats (mostly a novel): D
American Sniper by Chris Kyle: D
Rage in Singapore by David George Plotkin (mostly a novel): D
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer: D-
The War by Ken Burns: D-
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff (verbose and boring): F
These books contain many false claims, ad hominem attacks, small sample fallacies, one-sided arguments, appeals to tradition, and other logical failings. In other words, the accuracy of these books differs little from books by people paid by taxpayers to be historians.
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