paragon1 posted:

You are just aggressively worthless, aren't you?

Curvature of Earth posted:

Judging from their post history, 8-Bit Scholar is one of those cranks who swings between stringent ideological posts and "joke" posts as a defense mechanism. It lets them draw attention from their heavily-criticized sincere posts by burying them underneath a mountain of ironic shitposts. Unfortunately, 8-Bit isn't particularly good at it. I've seen this schtick before, and from much smarter people.

If you've been following the PYF Dark Enlightenment Thinker thread, then you're probably familiar with ClarkHat, a man who got booted from the well-regarded left-libertarian blog Popehat after he metamorphosed from stealth-conservative ancap into balls-out neoreactionary ancap. ClarkHat is a master of what 8-Bit's trying to do, and he's so good at mixing shitposting and politics that he comes across as this infuriatingly untouchable quasi-troll.

While I'm at it, ClarkHat is an anarcho-capitalist and absolutely on-topic for this thread. Here's a gallery of some his more remarkable tweets. Bonus: as a neoreactionary, he has no problem with violent revolution, and as you read through his tweets you'll notice he's practically salivating for the death of millions.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

thanks for telling us about your favorite posters

Sloppy Milkshake posted:

gently caress i meant to say "dealing WITH racism" please do not deal racism

paragon1 posted:

I tap two legacies of slavery, four racist policies, and sacrifice four Tough on Crime tokens to place Privatized Prison Labor on the field.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

I summon Al Sharpton.

I win.

mojo1701a posted:

Stinky_Pete posted:

Well I sure learned my lesson. Sorry I tried to engage you, 8BS. I'll be sure never to make the mistake of giving you attention again.

mojo1701a posted:

Anticheese posted:

Meanwhile, in PYF...

Golbez posted:

Poe's Law strikes again.

Goon Danton posted:

Something like that came up with Rothbard's review of the Bell Curve. He says it's data to prove "what everyone already knows" about race and intelligence. It's not enough that I'm right, or that it's obvious, it has to be that you already agree with me and are just lying about it.

Cerebral Bore posted:

I suppose that one strategy to paper over that you have no actual argument for your position is to insist that it must be self-evidently true. This would also explain how we ended up with Praxeology.

Who What Now posted:

Gary Johnson is pro private prisons, which are supporters of police states. He's also against LGBT rights.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

A friendly reminder to vote for Gary Johnson, a vote against government corruption and the police state.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

While he is in favor of private prisons, he opposes the war on drugs and the decriminalization of prostitution, which has in and of itself contributed to an unregulated, unhealthy and very cruel black market sex industry. Citation needed on the LGBT thing.

Cerebral Bore posted:

I suppose that one strategy to paper over that you have no actual argument for your position is to insist that it must be self-evidently true. This would also explain how we ended up with Praxeology.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

A friendly reminder to vote for Gary Johnson, a vote against government corruption and the police state.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

While he is in favor of private prisons, he opposes the war on drugs and the decriminalization of prostitution, which has in and of itself contributed to an unregulated, unhealthy and very cruel black market sex industry.

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Citation needed on the LGBT thing.

Goon Danton posted:

Private sector corruption is fine though.

White Coke posted:

If I could return to that great champion of libertarian principles, Hitler, for a second, was the Holocaust justified because the Jews had aggressed against the Aryan Race by trying to pollute their pure genetics by making them breed with lesser races, or was it justified because they had aggressed against Christendom when they murdered Jesus?

Stinky_Pete posted:

I'm gonna do my best to be nice here. Finding a comfortable intellectual position on race can be a long and difficult journey for some people, especially those of us who just don't see a lot of the systemic effects that prompt and prioritize the racial conversation.

It's easy to feel unfairly blamed for something that you never asked for and rarely see for yourself. With that in mind, I'd like to make a sincere effort at answering 8-bit Scholar's question, "What is race?" I want 8-bit Scholar to acknowledge that it's a nebulous concept and in some ways it's like asking, "What is art?"

A race is a pigeonhole according to physical attributes which separates members of a society, in ways directed by societal forces such as wealth, politics, academia, and art. The white/black distinction was used in early America and other colonies to keep serf-like white laborers in cooperation with a system which oppressed them to a lesser degree than black people. In the early 20th century, the "Iberian" race was evoked in order to exclude large populations of Irish and Italian immigrants from the White pigeonhole. In Britain the Romani and Eastern Europeans are excluded.



As Curvature said, the boundaries of the pigeonholes have changed over the centuries, but our culture has imbued our heads with these pigeonholes, and it's what we do about it that counts.

OwlFancier posted:

Ah yes, Ireland and Italy, two places reknowned for being parts of loving Iberia...

The gently caress is with racists and being super loving dumb?

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

According to the Libertarian Party platform, they condemn bigotry but think private organizations should be able to discriminate however much they want , i.e. they're perfectly fine enabling bigotry. You know, the standard Business Republican response for the last couple years. So take that as you will.

Also, not surprised that their very first core principle is Self-Owning.

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You don't oppose providing aid and support to people, you just oppose any and all effective means of doing so.

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

They're saying that the ancestors of the Irish and Italians are from the Iberian Peninsula not that Ireland and Italy are part of it. It's still dumb, made up bullshit, but not that dumb.

Who What Now posted:

His donors don't oppose them, and in fact they need those things to maximize profits for their prisons. Which means that he'll never actually work to decriminalize them, but rather he'll just continue to say that he will someday.
He's a well known proponent of letting the states decide, which means that he supports allowing states to strip LGBT people of their rights. It's hard to be more against LGBT rights than that.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

So he's not anti-LGBT he's pro-States Rights, good to know you're talking nonsense

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Private prison industry is tasteless, but I'll let it linger a fortnight if it means we stop locking up people for getting high.

Who What Now posted:

What would you call someone who supports the ability to take away someone's rights? States have no rights, by the way.

8-Bit Scholar posted:

So he's not anti-LGBT he's pro-States Rights, good to know you're talking nonsense

I believe Johnson wants a viable legal drug market more than his donors' wishes will warrant honoring. I certainly believe that Johnson will end the War on Drugs where Hillary Clinton will sit on her hands about it for four to eight years.

Private prison industry is tasteless, but I'll let it linger a fortnight if it means we stop locking up people for getting high.