If you’ve been paying attention to the emerging vangaurd of Substack, you’ve been paying attention to The Convict. I first came across J. Coleman after his Great Denazification of Clarence Wilhelm Spangle, the most annoying nazi trollbot this side of The Atlantic. This is how it all went down. As the janitors of The Atlantic tried to force Substack to censor innocent people by claiming we had a nazi problem, they did little to actually fix it.
The Convict fixed it swiftly, asking Spangle to fight him in person by sending this pathetic larper his literal address. The trollbot was too cowardly to meet The Convict’s Challenge and blocked him like the bitch that he was. Spangle was no Spengler, and the West was declining for everyone. So, after Spangle was metaphorically beaten down by The Convict, I knew I had to feature him at The Cultural Futurist. After all, what Jewish dissident industrial musician doesn’t like a good denazification with some cold hard beats? Today, I present you with The Convict’s personal code of honor. This is The Convict Code.
Where I came up, becoming a Convict was the modern-day criminal equivalency to achieving knighthood. Few men were able to answer to that title and if you did, you took it very seriously. There was code that you could never deviate from without losing your status.
While The Convict Code was your life, your religion, there was no stone tablet listing commandments. Part of it was understanding it naturally without bullet points. If what a convict is needed to be explained to you, you weren’t one.
This is my attempt to explain The Convict Code to those who aren’t convicts.
1: No snitching
Everyone knows this one. In fact, it's probably the only one that a citizen can list off. It’s a cornerstone because what it really means is knowing who and what you are. No matter your beef with another man, it is still us vs them (authority) before all else.
2: Do not stand for a man who won't stand for himself
You're not doing him any favors by stepping in like Capt SavaHo.
He'll just be labeled a punk, and you've made things worse by basically announcing that he's property. They take their first steps on their own or not at all.
3: Your word is everything
When you speak on something, it better be perceived as a magical spell conjuring reality. "I spoke on it" is more powerful than laws, morality and God himself. To not act on any single thing you've said makes everything else you speak worthless.
4: Don't start anything you won't finish
Do not even raise your voice to another man if you aren't ready to kill or die over that disagreement. To be taken seriously, everyone else has to know that you don't have a line. Few things go that far. However, the option must be available.
5: Never drag another man's name secretly
You will never whisper or gossip negatively about another man. Whatever problem you have with him, you say it to him directly and to be heard by everyone else or you don't say it at all. Anything else makes you a coward.
6: Handle your own business
All of your problems belong to you alone. You will not obligate another man to step in with or for you, nor will you judge any of them should they choose not to do so on their own. Be grateful for when they decide to step up with you and you're not owed.
7: Respect is earned not owed
Most men enter with a clean slate, and how you're treated is determined by your actions alone. You'll be tested, but that is not a statement of who you are, but rather the other men learning. You are measured by your worst moments, not your best.
8: You have to fight
It's actually more important that you try than if you can. Men are more interested in your courage than skill and strength. The latter two can be built up, but not if you have a weak heart. We know that anyone can get whooped on, but only cowards submit.
9: Only dirt belongs to you
The only things that belong to you and you alone are the things that are incriminating. Convicts share prosperity with each other. You'd give the last you have of something to another Convict who needs it and he'll do the same for you. Brothers over things.
10: It's just business
The Code comes before anyone. Even for a man who you'd fight and die for, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. If he steps outside, you step on him. It may break your heart, but The Code is king. It's not personal and there can be no exceptions.
This article is the perfect example of my point when I'd go rounds with the Censorship-Poofs about why the solution is going straight at the problem, not complaining to Substack. People are now discussing how pathetic he is openly. Writing articles and notes about "Nazis" while never confronteding them, like the Atlantic did, is nothing but gossiping. Deplatforming them would accomplish nothing except making people curious about what they're saying that's so wrong. But if you step on them, break them down in front of God and man, then everyone witnesses their weakness and no one listens to or follows losers. That's how you address a threat permanently. Censorship makes them mysterious but a public execution makes them impotent.
So, pretty much the code the rest of us, or rather most of us, forgot?