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TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
From the best fanfic ever:

Harry Potter Becomes a Communist posted:

"Les Wright learned about the methods of rationality from a Muggle professor named Michael Verres," explained Quirrell sexistly. "Professor Verres was a nice guy who was put in the friendzone by your Aunt Petunia when she accused him of stalking her. It was actually her fault. If she had just been more attractive and confident, she probably would have married him. Women, am I right?"

"NO, YOU loving SEXIST MISOGYNIST!" I screamed in the feminist voice of all the women driven out of gaming by loving GAMERGATE.

"Imagine if your Aunt Petunia did marry Michael Verres," said Quirrell wistfully in a stupid bourgeois way. "You would have been very different when you arrived at Hogwarts. I imagine you would have been a charmingly self-righteous child prodigy who plays cruel pranks on your classmates by snapping your fingers, but it'd be okay because you'd be doing it with such a brilliant flair and that's what really matters. Also, you would only be friends with worthwhile people like Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy, ignoring the people who have no reason to exist like Ron Weasley."

quote:

"I would like for you and your friends here to be among the smart people who matter," Quirrell told us bourgeoisly in a sardonic voice of intellectual elitism. "We can only speculate as to what it would have been like if I'd been possessed by Les Wright when I taught you in your first year. Just imagine if you had been raised by Michael Verres and I taught you while being possessed by Les Wright. That would have resulted in a flawlessly intelligent story deserving of the Hugo Award. As it is, I have to work with you after your mind has already been polluted by bad ideas. Fortunately, the fact that you abandoned Dumbledore's libertarianism in favor of communism indicates a willingness on your part to change ideologies."

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The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Hate Fibration posted:

Who is this person, other than a crazy man who pretends to not know what NRx stands for?

Spazzle
Jul 5, 2003


I love how we have so many new euphemisms for "unemployable douchebag".

Toph Bei Fong
Feb 29, 2008



MizPiz posted:

John Brown is always a good goto.

He did get this badass mural painted of him at the Kansas State Capitol



https://kansassampler.org/8wonders/8wondersofkansas-view.php?id=30

Curvature of Earth
Sep 9, 2011

Projected cost of
invading Canada:
$900

Spazzle posted:

The Vosgian Beast posted:


I love how we have so many new euphemisms for "unemployable douchebag".

He's not even using the word right. Freelance does not mean "sit on your rear end and churn out material hoping to make a buck off it". It means that you get paid to work on specific projects with various people.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

Don't like it? well...


It's amazing how many questions this answers.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Curvature of Earth posted:

I love how we have so many new euphemisms for "unemployable douchebag".

He's not even using the word right. Freelance does not mean "sit on your rear end and churn out material hoping to make a buck off it". It means that you get paid to work on specific projects with various people.
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The Daily Caller lets him write articles sometimes.

I don't think he's broken into Taki's Mag yet.

Hate Fibration
Apr 8, 2013

FLÄSHYN!

Backpfeifengesicht incarnate.

For something infinitely more terrifying, click here.

When someone from the Cato Institute is calling you a crazy racist-fascist, you have gone seriously overboard.

Hate Fibration has a new favorite as of 18:23 on Aug 31, 2015

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

John Brown was the right kind of lunatic because the only problem with him is that he didn't kill enough people.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
So edgy, I just got tetanus

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


quote:

The happier the man, the more stupid he is. The more a person enjoys his life, the more superficial his personality. The retard always has a smile on his face no matter what. The better a fellow’s spirits, the more he is possessed by alien beings. Just as the most disgusting woman always laughs the loudest, so the most obtuse man will always be the most outgoing. The slave always greets you with a smile and a kind word.

What.

Cingulate
Oct 23, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
This is actually exactly how I was thinking when I entered puberty.

God I was such a dipshit.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Let me paraphrase:

I don't have a personality and I'm terrified of people realising that, so I'll justify my lack of interesting qualities by claiming people that have friends are bad, dumb, and wrong.

Cingulate posted:

This is actually exactly how I was thinking when I entered puberty.

God I was such a dipshit.

Yes, but unlike this man, you then grew up. Take pride in that, because if the poo poo posted in this thread is anything to go by, there are a fuckton of people who didn't.

Ellie Crabcakes
Feb 1, 2008

Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

Curvature of Earth
Sep 9, 2011

Projected cost of
invading Canada:
$900

Big whiny baby blog posted:

I have suffered the torment of multiculturalism each and every day that I have been alive; I had to suffer through this hell of diversity my entire life.

Someone show this man H.P. Lovecraft. I think he'd love the idea of other races being eldritch abominations.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013


edge

E D G E

Seriously though that's so edgy. I didn't even think of that when I had no friends.

Merdifex
May 13, 2015

by Shine
This guy, Nydwracu, and all other racist right-wing morons have the same background story they like to give out. SJWs / Cathedral / New Englanders didn't like their racism so they devoted their lives to complaining and writing racist screeds on their blogs. It's not even a good excuse for being a worthless bag of poo poo.

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006



You don't understand me, man, I'm like, too deep for you, I've seen like, the cake is like, a lie, and poo poo, and everything sucks and poo poo, and that's why I cut myself...but not enough to actually draw blood, my parents would kill me.
:qqsay:

Shouldn't this guy be off writing fan fiction where Shadow the Hedgehog has sex with Chester Bennington or something?

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Curvature of Earth posted:

Someone show this man H.P. Lovecraft. I think he'd love the idea of other races being eldritch abominations.

Zero chance he doesn't have a compendium of all the man's works on his bookshelf. Zero.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

Gone Phishing


The Vosgian Beast posted:

Zero chance he doesn't have a compendium of all the man's works on his bookshelf. Zero.

Of course. He's a try hard nerd. But what are the chances he actually read any of them?

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Dostoyevsky posted:

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

I think this guy missed part of that sentence.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Tiberius Thyben posted:

Of course. He's a try hard nerd. But what are the chances he actually read any of them?

Pretty good. It's not like it's War and Peace or something.

Merdifex
May 13, 2015

by Shine
Racists these days seemingly prefer to read and tout Tom Wolfe, if nydwracu is anything to go by.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Merdifex posted:

Racists these days seemingly prefer to read and tout Tom Wolfe, if nydwracu is anything to go by.

I am somehow not surprised.

Still kind of sad about Chesterton though.

Merdifex
May 13, 2015

by Shine
In case you didn't believe that neoreaction is the only rational political ideology, here's a helpful chart to break it down:

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

Gone Phishing


Merdifex posted:

In case you didn't believe that neoreaction is the only rational political ideology, here's a helpful chart to break it down:



Did they seriously use a diagram to represent the political spectrum with the visible light spectrum on it, but not put it the right way for it to represent the political spectrum?

Tiberius Thyben has a new favorite as of 03:26 on Sep 1, 2015

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Tiberius Thyben posted:

Did they seriously use a diagram to represent the political spectrum with the visible light spectrum on it, but not put it the right way for it to represent the political spectrum?

It's probably just a gay joke.

Merdifex
May 13, 2015

by Shine

Tiberius Thyben posted:

Did they seriously use a diagram to represent the political spectrum with the visible light spectrum on it, but not put it the right way for it to represent the political spectrum?

I don't know. But the point apparently is that "rational thinking" is way to the right, but distinctly separate from the Republican platform (Cuckservatism.)

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

Don't like it? well...

Merdifex posted:

In case you didn't believe that neoreaction is the only rational political ideology, here's a helpful chart to break it down:



I'm trying to understand this chart and failing

Is it that "true" rationality is taking things from the entire political spectrum?

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Merdifex posted:

In case you didn't believe that neoreaction is the only rational political ideology, here's a helpful chart to break it down:



This is an edited version of a similar graph.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

Gone Phishing


Dr Pepper posted:

I'm trying to understand this chart and failing

Is it that "true" rationality is taking things from the entire political spectrum?

It's more that "true" rationality exists beyond the spectrum of capitalism and left wing socialism. As a sort of "Third Position", if you will.

Merdifex
May 13, 2015

by Shine

The Vosgian Beast posted:

This is an edited version of a similar graph.

I know, some neoreactionary on tumblr edited it to this ideal version. (That's why it looks like crap, not that the original looked any better.)

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


Dr Pepper posted:

I'm trying to understand this chart and failing

Is it that "true" rationality is taking things from the entire political spectrum?

This is an edit of an earlier version where "rational thinking" was in the middle with Democrats and Republicans on either side and the "crazy zones" that just happen to resemble gay pride flags at the ends. I think it was one of Scott Alexander's pitiful attempts to paint himself as a moderate above petty politics.

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Woolie Wool posted:

This is an edit of an earlier version where "rational thinking" was in the middle with Democrats and Republicans on either side and the "crazy zones" that just happen to resemble gay pride flags at the ends. I think it was one of Scott Alexander's pitiful attempts to paint himself as a moderate above petty politics.

It actually comes from this political cartoon by Tim Urban, and the point being made in context seems somewhat more complicated that "the truth is in the middle": http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/the-battle-to-lose-independent-vote.html

Peztopiary
Mar 16, 2009

by exmarx
Look at this poo poo.

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Silver2195 posted:

It actually comes from this political cartoon by Tim Urban, and the point being made in context seems somewhat more complicated that "the truth is in the middle": http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/the-battle-to-lose-independent-vote.html

gently caress you, Randall Munroe, for making people think that this kind of thing is even vaguely acceptable as a means of presentation.

At least xkcd is usually short.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Silver2195 posted:

It actually comes from this political cartoon by Tim Urban, and the point being made in context seems somewhat more complicated that "the truth is in the middle": http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/the-battle-to-lose-independent-vote.html

Vox recently had an article criticizing tech nerd above-the-fight/actually partisian view of politics centering on Urban - http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9214015/tech-nerds-politics

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

I can't decide if I do or don't want what happened to Burning Man to happen to the Gathering of the Juggalos.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

The happier the man, the more stupid he is. The more a person enjoys his life, the more superficial his personality. The retard always has a smile on his face no matter what. The better a fellow’s spirits, the more he is possessed by alien beings. Just as the most disgusting woman always laughs the loudest, so the most obtuse man will always be the most outgoing. The slave always greets you with a smile and a kind word.

This sort of "stupid person saying what they think smart people say" is why I wish Boyd Rice had just made unlistenable deafening noise music and never opened his mouth on any other subject. Or made other sorts of music where he talks, e.g. Music, Martinis and Misanthropy is all like this. What can I say, it was actual effort to edgelord before the Internet hit big.

Heresiarch posted:

gently caress you, Randall Munroe, for making people think that this kind of thing is even vaguely acceptable as a means of presentation.
At least xkcd is usually short.

DOES NOBODY EVEN REMEMBER MATT FEAZEL AND CYNICALMAN ANY MORE

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Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

divabot posted:

DOES NOBODY EVEN REMEMBER MATT FEAZEL AND CYNICALMAN ANY MORE

I actually own a Feazell sketch I got from him at a con in '92-ish. The difference between Feazell's stuff and something like xkcd is pretty substantial.

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