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9hr ago
I second (seventh?) finding someone professionally equipped to talk to. Humans aren't built to handle that kind of thing alone. It's about getting out of your own head at least as much as any practical advice.
Can we stop using weasel words here?
I won't lie to make you feel better about yourself, no.
Watching "some human subpopulations process oxygen more efficiently" transition into "probably racist" was kind of funny. But as long as you keep that attitude, you and I are enemies.
At least this mess has been educational. Saul becoming Paul really is rare.
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2d ago
"Humans are also subject to evolution" was the general consensus on Wikipedia back in 2010. What trendy giveth, trendy taketh away. Normal people are not formal logicians.
Alas, still filing under "the people involved can't be trusted near anything important." There'll be others.
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4d ago
Normal people think italians are White. The social justice'd think everyone who isn't black is White. Racists think everyone who isn't White is black. And the other kind of social justice'd think White means "everyone who doesn't worship odin, but, like, in an anarcho-progressive way." Those are the most fun.
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8d ago
UPDATE: Arday has resigned from Cambridge.
Pity. I was hoping they'd promote him to dean.
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14d ago
Anne Frank turn her own family in to the Nazis after she learns what the Jews are planning to do to Palestine (only for Adolf Hitler to show up after the execution, revive the family, and come out as a trans woman
I never gave this thing a second thought after hearing about it, but that's actually pretty funny. Woke Jesus Hitler is very apropos.
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28d ago
You may not be interested in social maneuvering, but it's interested in you. You will be held accountable for the actions of others like you, you will face the consequences of their choices. You are your brother's keeper, whether you like it or not.
Act accordingly or suffer. That's all.
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1mo ago
(I do wish downvoters would remember that quote marks are for quoting other people... I heard that one quite recently too.)
With the caveat that it's more "why would we boo you when we can 'Pop. Goes. The Kirkoid!'"
(One doesn't usually "boo" vermin.)
But I quibble.
What does "cringe" even mean in this context?
That "ew kill it kill it kill it" feeling some people get when they see a bug in the bathroom.
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1mo ago
is not compatible with being an insignificant loser
"lol he's such a loser he totally deserved it" seems to be working well enough with the relevant people, empirically. How else?
That's because "Everyone I don't like is extremely dangerous and must be destroyed. But they're also, like, a total loser, man." is a general feature of human psychology.
(Very effective tactic too. Great way to get your lynch on when that needs doing. Justice, consequences, accountability, you know the drill.)
I would say progressive reforms are fairly responsible for what's about to happen to the online weirdos, and I can't see the elite being sad about it. Giving true believers on any side a voice is too inconvenient.
But the masses don't really like those guys in real life either, so count that as you will.
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1mo ago
The primary purpose of representation in literature is helping younger authors clear out the old wood. Everything else is various other people's mutually incompatible utopias. Some of them are socially stunted enough to believe they can actually get them.
Though hearing an old black lady scream "obscene!" as she was dragged off for being insufficiently progressive was genuinely entertaining. What will be, eh?
Yglesias explicitly does not
On historical grounds I conclude that Yglesias is closely aligned and simply lying about it.
(The only reason I don't say "totally aligned" is that even he and Klein can't possibly be stupid enough to throw themselves under the bus.)
The purpose of a man is protection, which is to say strength. If you aren't strong enough to provide, society will discard you. If you aren't strong enough (singly or in groups) to do anything, your feelings about that don't really matter.
Progressives say otherwise, but they still believe. Which is why almost all of them regard weak and weird men as rather subhuman. (While still practicing those social skills that also signify collective strength. It would be rude to say it. Which really should be obvious.)
(Working in finance or consulting if you can swing it is a "duh" though. Buy a nice house. Buy two.)
This isn't directly related, but - I'm always vaguely amused by this sort of language.
Of course, the Internet has done more to "have people with intellectual disability publicly visible" than this variety of activist ever will - and people's reactions haven't been positive, to say the least. Nor are the activists uncounted, or even uncommon, among that howling crowd.
And of course, they'll say "mental illness doesn't do that!" But they'd still very much like a ... let's say, "more permanent solution."
One can't imagine them ever being happy getting what they're asking for.
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2mo ago
That doesn't really seem compatible with all the extreme social justice stuff that is/was big quite recently.
I'd say it's more a hammer to move people who aren't "with it" in the "with it" direction.
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2mo ago
What value is there in an "Overmind" when every man is an agent in his own right?
Well, if they win we'll find out. And if they lose they'll be reduced to chunky salsa and I won't have to hear about it ever again. So either way really.
You couldn't say 'We're the good guys' and do bad-guy things.
You absolutely can! That's why this keeps happening. You just say "we're the good guys!" und zen you exterminate ze <insert totally-not-immutable characteristic here>. It's the easiest thing in the world. Everybody's doing it.
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2mo ago
"Prison abolition" has long meant "let my friends out, but we need somewhere to lock up my political enemies so keep the institution."
"It's bad when cops randomly kill people" has long been less popular than "it's bad when cops kill friends, good when they kill enemies." (With the caveat that most take "enemy" and "not person" as synonyms.)
His comment history is freely available and speaks for itself. Why bother pretending to discuss it one more time? We all know what people like that do with power, whatever nice words they say when they haven't got it yet. And whatever anyone else might be willing to say in public. If you prefer life to death, act accordingly.
"The Enlightenment Is Bad Actually (because I've forgotten 'community justice' just means the town lynching anyone who consensus has social guilt)" is intolerably annoying.
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