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Merdifex posted:Actually, Mass Effect 3 is bad because of Cultural Marxism. gently caress, I'm submitting an awful link of the day post for this. Just, holy poo poo. This is beautiful
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:...isn't biodeterminism kind of a modern day fallacy? No it's just a belief that happens to be empirically wrong.
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Oct 23, 2015 16:45
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Jack Gladney posted:IQ correlates with having a good life in such a way that it it is in some ways (all ways?) an artifact of having good health, a good education, and good opportunities. There is no nature and no nurture, but just endless byzantine interactions between the two. Closest I've seen to anyone articulating my own view.
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Asking which is more significant to someone's personality, nature or nurture, is like asking which is more significant to a rectangle's area, width or height.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Speaking of science, let's learn how to be an IQ obsessed helicopter parent http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mhk/experiences_in_applying_the_biodeterminists_guide/ I like the bit where they decide the baby doesn't need toothpaste because they're not a poor Mexican family
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Merdifex posted:Actually, Mass Effect 3 is bad because of Cultural Marxism. You see when Captain Kirk does romance literally constantly it's cool and for guys but when I have to play the character who does the romance it's icky and evil cultural marxism because girls are icky and gross!
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Oct 23, 2015 17:27
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:You see when Captain Kirk does romance literally constantly it's cool and for guys but when I have to play the character who does the romance it's icky and evil cultural marxism because girls are icky and gross!
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Munin posted:At this point it's not much different from arguing that the Soviet Union wasn't really true to communist philosophy. It would be correct but also rather futile. DStecks posted:Asking which is more significant to someone's personality, nature or nurture, is like asking which is more significant to a rectangle's area, width or height. ArchangeI posted:So everyone believes it without any proof? Personality, at least, would seem to me to be far more influenced by surrounding culture. ArchangeI posted:I'm probably missing something, but what you said reads as "Arabs can't democracy and never will" and/or "Blacks are just stupid and violent and will never improve". Cingulate has a new favorite as of 18:23 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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Calico Heart posted:It seems like the show finally embraced what it was long destined to be and is now the covert SA Gamergate thread Onmi posted:Yes but the majority of those people with access to a twitter and tumblr account use to draw or write or masturbate to high anime drawings of Kyle and Stan loving. It's why you see some jumping through 100 hoops to go "No no they're actually using this to attack people who are against PC culture" That was a literal thing that happened after the first episode.  i could've swore this dude was in the GG thread BornAPoorBlkChild has a new favorite as of 18:19 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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Oct 23, 2015 18:15
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What's he referring to with the Age of Ultron thing?
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In the movie Black Widow refers to herself as a monster because she was sterilized in the past, some folks took to Whedon's twitter about it and he has since closed it. its apparently proof of evil sjw cultural marxism sexism doesn't exist if its not aimed towards (straight) white males racism doesn't exist if its not aimed towards white males remember this, goons BornAPoorBlkChild has a new favorite as of 18:29 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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Race Realists posted:In the movie Black Widow refers to herself as a monster because she was sterilized in the past, some folks took to Whedon's twitter about it and he has since closed it. I thought The Cathedral hates Whedon because he makes movies where faceless vaguely middle-eastern hordes are mowed down by proud heroic aryan-American smart weapons while the single woman allowed on set is there purely to be fetishized. Or maybe just because he makes very bad movies.
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Oct 23, 2015 18:33
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Cingulate posted:That's a good metaphor, especially as it allows zero room for metaphysical stuff like free choice. I chuckled
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Oct 23, 2015 18:35
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Race Realists posted:
Yeah, this is pretty much equivalent to those GG conspiracy charts. "This person doesn't agree with me, they must be a GG nazi misogynist". I'm sure it's terrible that people were mean to you in that thread, but I think you've gotta face reality instead of hiding yourself from it.
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Oct 23, 2015 18:44
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Cingulate posted:I'm too stupid for this.
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Oct 23, 2015 18:48
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Yeah, this is pretty much equivalent to those GG conspiracy charts. "This person doesn't agree with me, they must be a GG nazi misogynist". wouldn't say GGers are nazis (besides like... this one dude i came across on twitter), but ok!
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Oct 23, 2015 18:54
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Race Realists posted:In the movie Black Widow refers to herself as a monster because she was sterilized in the past, some folks took to Whedon's twitter about it and he has since closed it. Whedon was harassed off of twitter, and that sort of harassment isn't cool. These two things aren't mutually exclusive. For some reason people think they are.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Whedon writes stupid and sexist things into his movies. I wasn't agreeing with it at all, i just know certain reactionaries/GGers/AntiSJWers/whoever the gently caress else goes after people who're against the political opinions of the internet nerd hivemind use this as proof of cultural marxism evil sjw menace and usually lump people with left leaning opinions in with the harassers BornAPoorBlkChild has a new favorite as of 19:04 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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Oct 23, 2015 19:02
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Didn't he explicitly say it wasn't feminists that made him delete his Twitter?
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If what the contemporary reaction is afraid of is no longer e.g. a violent uprising of the proletariat, the massacre of bankers, and the beginning of a classless, nationless, godless age, but just that some chubby dude with a creepy foot fetish doesn't feel welcome to post on Twitter anymore, that should be a cause for concern on the left. It seems we missed a critical window somewhen between 1900 and 1990.
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Oct 23, 2015 19:06
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Didn't he explicitly say it wasn't feminists that made him delete his Twitter? doesnt matter, whatever the angry libertarian nerd hivemind says, goes
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Didn't he explicitly say it wasn't feminists that made him delete his Twitter?
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Oct 23, 2015 19:07
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in alot of nerds minds sjw = feminist
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Race Realists posted:in alot of nerds minds sjw = feminist On the other hand, how do Skeleton Warriors even use iPhones? They don't have skin for touch ID. When Apple introduces that poo poo for Macbooks, they'll be hosed.
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Race Realists posted:lump people... in with the harassers Race Realists posted:doesnt matter, whatever the angry libertarian nerd hivemind says, goes  Proving South Park right is certainly some kind of achievement
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Cingulate posted:I'm too stupid for this. Also, the faceless hordes were Asian. (Seriously! I think there isn't a named Asian character, played by an Asian actor, of any kind in Firefly, despite its purported Chinese-dominant future.)
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:
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Nessus posted:Also, the faceless hordes were Asian. (Seriously! I think there isn't a named Asian character, played by an Asian actor, of any kind in Firefly, despite its purported Chinese-dominant future.) I'm okay with that; Chinese cultural dominance may live on after every ethnically Chinese person has died on the dying earth. And surely this isn't some form of conscious anti-asian racism.
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Cingulate posted:What would this mean? Even if it were true that feminists drove him off twitter, he'd gain nothing (net) from saying so. No, but from past interviews, I know Joss Whedon self-identifies as strongly feminist(whether that's valid is another matter). I sincerely doubt that he'd believe that even if he was politely-excusing his exit without blaming people.
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Merdifex posted:Actually, Mass Effect 3 is bad because of Cultural Marxism. Bioware has been putting lovely romance storylines into their games as far back as Baldur's Gate, long before "Cultural Marxism" was ever conceived by reactionary nerds. Baldur's Gate 2 even had mods to add more romantic interests to the game, and spoiler alert: those modders weren't women.
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Scott posted:
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Part of the telling offs involved making Hydra a good guy organization, as in "Yeah we're The Nazis all but in name" org. And then having Black Widow's Roma origins whitewashed. And the whole thing with killing off the concept of Wasp and clearing up Ant Man's legacy to the point of making sure she wasn't a meaningful character.
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Kunster posted:Part of the telling offs involved making Hydra a good guy organization, as in "Yeah we're The Nazis all but in name" org. And then having Black Widow's Roma origins whitewashed. And the whole thing with killing off the concept of Wasp and clearing up Ant Man's legacy to the point of making sure she wasn't a meaningful character.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Baldur's Gate 2 even had mods to add more romantic interests to the game, and spoiler alert: those modders weren't women. I used to be active in the Baldur's Gate 2 modding community and I can assure you that a great many of those modders were indeed women. There were several male modders who added romantic interests, but the split between male and female modders was at minimum fifty/fifty.
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Cythereal posted:I used to be active in the Baldur's Gate 2 modding community and I can assure you that a great many of those modders were indeed women. There were several male modders who added romantic interests, but the split between male and female modders was at minimum fifty/fifty. See? The False Equality of Cultural Marxism rears its blue-dyed head once again!
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In Baldur's Gate 2 a male main character had 3 options to romance. A female main character had one, and it was Anomen. Everything since has been penance.
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Cingulate posted:I have no idea what you're trying to say here. I think he heard the plot of Avengers 2 through a game of telephone, because Hydra are not the good guys, and Black Widow is not Romani. Presumably this is a confusion based on the weird-rear end aspect of two Romani people who are children of a literal holocaust survivor, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, working with the nazi villain organization. The Vosgian Beast has a new favorite as of 14:01 on Oct 24, 2015 |
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Yeah, that's more or less what happened. I do apologize for that.
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Cingulate posted:If what the contemporary reaction is afraid of is no longer e.g. a violent uprising of the proletariat, the massacre of bankers, and the beginning of a classless, nationless, godless age, but just that some chubby dude with a creepy foot fetish doesn't feel welcome to post on Twitter anymore, that should be a cause for concern on the left. It seems we missed a critical window somewhen between 1900 and 1990.
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Been reading a bit more atavisionary cause I could recognize the Mass Effect essay as outstandingly dumb even for the genre without even having played that video game. There is a similar Walking Dead piece, which has this perfect miniature of unreflected homophobia: why does the gay mafia intrude on my private space by making two guys kiss on TV programs I am watching? (Two chicks are okay though, men like that due to biology). But my favourite is from his attempt of a genealogy of egalitarianism: quote:The ancestor of egalitarianism is probably Martin Luther’s justification by faith alone The depth of ignorance and lack of education that is required for one to come to this conclusion is stunning. It's ignorance in depth, and ignorance in breadth - one must be ignorant of the Bible, of the extra-european origins of Western philosophy, of post-medieval developments in Western thought as precursors for modernity, of the entire enlightenment business from the reformation all the way through to the revolutions of the 18th century. The icing on this cake of ignorance is that it is these topics the man actually prides himself in. He views himself as a defender of Christian and Western values. At least Moldbug is wrong because he is insane, not because he doesn't read books.
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