Pornographic Memory posted:

Does Justine Tunney have any kind of following, or did she just find this thread because it's like some of the really obscure cartoons from the political cartoons thread where somethingawful haters actually represent a majority of the fanbase at this point? You'd think a Google engineering ubermensch who dictated Occupy Wallstreet and shifts mountains of money with mere programming would have better things to do than read through and whine about random internet threads on passe websites.

Aerial Tollhouse posted:

I think they might be keeping Tunney around as a "look at how good we are, we don't fire you if you say stupid crap as long as you do good work, free speech!" kind of thing to make them seem like more friendly and desirable place to work. Meanwhile, let's look at another one of her essays


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Popular Thug Drink posted:

im descended from god

Hog Butcher posted:

I'm descended from William Wallace which is why I wield my oversized sword in a wild uncontrollable fashion.

Lowtax posted:

Somebody clue me in to who this person is and why people pay attention to the goofy rear end words they write.

Lowtax posted:

Somebody clue me in to who this person is and why people pay attention to the goofy rear end words they write.

ComradeCosmobot posted:

She thinks that the United States would be better off as a medieval kingdom ruled by the iron fist of King Eric Schmidt where the only law is that enforced by the Silicon Valley code samurai.

She is apparently one of a number of people who believe this. They call this the "Dark Enlightenment" because I guess everything is cooler when you make it "Dark", and apparently only Silicon Valley code samurai are smart enough to have been "enlightened" to this new feudalistic way of thinking.

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Blossoming on the Internet like a fetid rose, a mysterious new political movement has generated a serious and not un-terrifying critique of modern society. Its members are loud and growing in number, and they demand nothing less than the elimination of the democratic system. Mostly white, male and angry, they lie in wait for the imminent collapse of civilization.

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The many bloggers who constitute the movement style themselves as “Dark Lords of the Sith,” self-described fearless truth-tellers, who—mixing their cinematic metaphors—offer Matrix-evocative “red pills” of awakening in the form of sulfurous conclusions about the state of the world. Indeed, questioning the prevailing Western narrative is typically a Dark Enlightenment writer’s modus operandi, skewering the values of the liberal establishment.



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Is this fascism? Desire for genetically determined ruling classes, distrust of popular democratic reform, distaste for the aesthetic standards of mass culture, and nausea over the political correctness of modern life—the Dark Enlightenment does have all the markings of a true neo-fascist movement. It’s here that the dangers of the Dark Enlightenment are hard to dismiss.

I asked Land the fascism question, specifically. His response was illuminating: “The Dark Enlightenment is the only cultural space promising an intelligent discussion of fascism today. Even though this discussion remains very germinal, the best fascist and anti-fascist arguments are to be found within its environs.” But he adds, “Speaking entirely personally, I think the DE is the only coherent antidote to fascist thinking presently available.” While he didn’t articulate how an anti-democratic, racially charged, anti-modern, authoritarian political movement could be, in any way, anti-fascist, he’s a bright enough guy. I’m sure he has an answer.

DrProsek posted:

Statistically speaking, there is a non-insignificant chance that at least one person in this thread is related to Charlemagne, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and/or Genghis Khan, so being descended from some dude who managed to not lose land to Vikings isn't really all that impressive.

Lowtax posted:

Somebody clue me in to who this person is and why people pay attention to the goofy rear end words they write.

Main Paineframe posted:

Claims to be the "founder and leader of the Occupy movement" because she made the social media accounts and didn't let anyone else anywhere near them. Was hired by Google and now openly advocates that the US should be a enlightened dictatorship ruled by tech CEOs, particularly the CEO of Google, and other coder-kings. Also trans and referred to it as an example of her tendency of "living life in hard mode" or something like that. Is basically the walking personification of every stupid or vile opinion or behavior in Silicon Valley, and gets attention partially because she desperately seeks it out and partially because everything she says is so horrible that she's perfect to laugh at. Most of this thread is dedicated to discussing the stupid poo poo she and her "Dark Enlightenment" nutjob peers say.

ayn rand hand job posted:

The forums,need a new coder.

illrepute posted:

Try selling her some mangosteen.

Lowtax posted:

huh, why?

SedanChair posted:

She's unimportant. Probably 75% of the people in this thread could inflate their past associations to the point where they would instantly gain greater prominence than her...

Pope Guilty posted:

StandardVC10 posted:

There's using "thee," "didst," or "thou," in your tweet, and then there's using all three of them at once.

Warcabbit posted:

Well, not Charlemagne, but I am descended from his mother's favorite nephew, Berthalot, on my grandmother's side. (I know this because his grandson came over with William the Bastard, and then his descendants stayed in a town of 85 people for literally six hundred something years.)

On my father's side, I've got Stuart blood (Our William who came over was either the grandson of James II's daughter or the son of James II's granddaughter, I keep forgetting which way it goes), but the descent from this old high king who kidnapped a guy who later became a saint is a bit more entertaining to me.

It's entertaining to one-up some chinese people with - 'I have a hat that's older than your dynasty' is a phrase I've used once or twice. (And a pitchfork older than the Magna Carta)

It's even more fun to run into a distant cousin - I found out that someone I work with is a relative that separated from the family before we came to America. Both families have the same story about the time the Vikings tried to raid our castle back in 895 or so, with minor variations.

William Wallace was one of our neighbors after a famously bad incident involving Edward the Bruce and the English persuaded us to rapidly leave Ireland. (Dal Riata family - we go back and forth a lot. Generally after starting, and then losing a fight of some kind.)

Note: We did not lose the land to the Vikings, the castle wasn't finished so we lit it on fire with them inside. Lost everything we had, mind you.

Edit: I know all this because it was my grandfather's hobby for half his life, and then computer genealogical databases made it all trivial. But some of the stories are _fantastic._ Everyone should check out their ancestry, just to see if you can find the stupid stuff your family's gotten up to over the centuries.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

I can't wait until she gets fired from Google and swings to another obnoxious political ideology that suits her at the moment. When the tech world kicks dirt in her face she'll just go to the other extreme and fall in love with extreme agrarian socialism.

Mark my words, before you know it she'll be denouncing teachers, doctors, intellectuals and anyone who wears glasses while trying to get the Khmer Rouge back up off the ground.


Wow, you are toilet-bowl white!

Rhesus Pieces posted:

Wow, you are toilet-bowl white!

Pope Guilty posted:

BattleMaster posted:

I'm descended from nothing but farmers and soldiers; I also think that the practice of guillotining nobility is a practice that has merit and should be brought back.

Let's start with this one

StandardVC10 posted:

There's using "thee," "didst," or "thou," in your tweet, and then there's using all three of them at once.

BattleMaster posted:

I'm descended from nothing but farmers and soldiers; I also think that the practice of guillotining nobility is a practice that has merit and should be brought back.

Let's start with this one

your lovely eek posted:

Whenever a bedraggled Conchita Wurst lookalike shits themselves on an NYC subway car and raves about being the President, the other passengers move to a different car and pretend the disturbance doesn't exist. This may be prudent to remember given that Justine Tunney is literally the same thing.