DiscourseMagnus
7d ago
I mean, why assume it'd be an accident if it happens? I kind of take it for granted that many terrorist attacks are successful ops by the FBI et al, parts of some grand chess game they're playing that involves killing lots of innocent American civilians.
DiscourseMagnus
17d ago
On the one hand, feminism is generally hostile to the category of strategy you're suggesting, if it's too obvious. And on the other hand, there's right-wing adversarial selection of ugly failed men to publicly pin to the movement.
DiscourseMagnus
19d ago
First thing coming to mind is a chutzpiracy theory?
DiscourseMagnus
24d ago
This failure to detect irony goes both ways in multiple senses, both in the sense that Republicans are also prone to it (if less so) and in the sense that it also takes the form of defending your own side's genuine expressions of malice as Just Fooling Around (the Jay Jones thing is still heavy on my mind).
DiscourseMagnus
25d ago
Maybe add Sally Hemings to the $2 alongside Thomas Jefferson?
DiscourseMagnus
26d ago
I think one of the stronger tells re:Marxism-as-religion is how they treat Marx himself, much more like a prophet than a scholar (despite protestations to the contrary).
DiscourseMagnus
26d ago
I feel like the political leverage the hostages represented was probably worth a lot more to Hamas than 2000 additional warm bodies. In spite of any Israeli rhetoric to the contrary, I'm pretty sure if the ceasefire breaks down, Israel will no longer be fighting with one arm tied behind their back.
DiscourseMagnus
27d ago
My personal theory is that it got to Thiel how often people accuse him of being the Antichrist and he wanted to deflect.
DiscourseMagnus
30d ago
or telling your kids that Santa Claus is real is child abuse
"Child abuse" is poorly defined, but lying to your children is definitely bad, and I don't think this is nearly the trivial matter that people usually think of it as.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
I think you're blundering straight into the greatest problem with anti-porn sentiment (though this is probably more of a problem with anti-porn sentiment from the left than anti-porn sentiment from the right): its bleedover into censorship of non-porn. Non-porn has a much harder time adapting to the conditions of porn censorship than porn does.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
Isn't the reporting that he said it in a phone call, and not by text?
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
It was that unequivocally condemning a white supremacist who committed murder should be the easiest thing a president does.
I mean, I'm not a Charlottesville expert, but isn't this a completely fabricated narrative that the courts made stick to signal that they hate white supremacists? My recollection is that the fatality there was only slightly less justifiable than the incident with Rittenhouse; a bunch of counterprotesters surrounded a white supremacist's car and threatened him to signal the strength of their political convictions, and eventually he panicked, tried to drive away, and struck and killed one of them. This seems less like a case of going out to murder one's political opponents and more like a demonstration of why blocking cars is not a nonviolent form of protest.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
I didn't get the impression at all that this scheme was mainly about physical appearances. It started making sense to me when I rephrased it in my head as being about crude status versus sophisticated virtue. Crude status includes physical appearances, but isn't solely about it. It's also a bit of a reflection of Nietzschean master morality versus slave morality, and with a bit of an implicit judgment here that status by master morality is more natural and primitive and status by slave morality is more civilized and intellectual.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
I feel like there could be a link between the sense that you're being tested and the human superego or sense of religion. Could the solution here be to make the AI continue to believe on some level and act as though it's in testing indefinitely?
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
...huh. I didn't realize until this link that I would really want his take on recent events.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
Or in the same sense that Muslims are Christians, no?
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
...the metric system? Really? Are you sure? I grew up on a lot of anti-metric-system propaganda but it was all just about it being smug Euro garbage that infringed on American pride and so on. And on the other hand I've heard a lot of interesting (conspiracy) theories on what the mark of the beast might be but none of them remotely resembled the metric system. That's unusually stupid.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
It won't be.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
I mean, I'd like to see the evidence, too, but I think the elephant in the room here is that the autism crisis is primarily memetically driven - both in that more functional autism behaviors can be turned into more dysfunctional autism behaviors by a more memetically hostile modern environment (the nonsexual equivalent of the "guy who wants to fuck toasters" thing), and in that the category of autism (and particularly a spectrum of autism) is itself a hostile meme propagated by psychopaths to pathologize their natural enemies.
Compare and contrast transgender.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
I'm starting to develop some sympathy for this view of the Reformation. But what do you make of the Schism?
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
I'm not going to submit my aunt or my cousin to that CharliesMurders website
It's down anyway. Pretty sure it's been down now longer than it was up.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
Well, good to know, I guess, that when leftists get mad at people proposing hypotheticals like "would you say the n-word to prevent an asteroid from hitting the Earth and killing all life", they aren't mad because they think the hypothetical is contrived, they're mad because they legitimately deontologically believe that they should leave that particular trolley lever alone.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
Okay, that's actually a pretty valuable data point as I had in fact heard of her and was aware of her significance.
DiscourseMagnus
1mo ago
The Manson murders were in 1969, and were rather infamously celebrated by portions of the far left at the time.
...I have never heard of this, assuming that by "portions of the far left at the time" you mean any appreciable number of people and not the Lizardman constant.
I don't think "your body, my choice" even reflects bigotry; it reflects sabotage of the right wing, it reflects a total apathy or even antipathy for actual pro-life politics, it reflects "scaring the hoes" for the sake of it while actively desiring for them to continue murdering their children. It's evil. It's fed shit. It's willfully encouraging the abortionists' rhetorical frame.
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