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This is what Scott Alexander actually believes is a fair portrayal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1F5mSEpK5w
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Jesus poo poo I just heard Paul Bloom approvingly cite Scott.
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Cingulate posted:Is that a Milo avatar!? If the guy has any actual beliefs outside of hucksterism, he's done a real good job of hiding the evidence.
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Question on HN: “… why does the order you do your math in have to be a part of your identity?”quote:Mostly that some of us have had very poor experiences with them while trying to mind our own business. It's like living next to a cult's compound, and therefore having more concrete bad experiences with them than someone in the next city.
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Dec 15, 2016 22:00
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Please stop slapfighting before I go Oprah with sixers.
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holy moly god drat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhrYY3ocQ5o
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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DeusExMachinima posted:holy moly god drat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhrYY3ocQ5o
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What did Vince Vaughn do, anyway?
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Dec 16, 2016 06:34
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Scott Alexander: now with bad opinions about government.
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Dec 16, 2016 13:52
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John Big Booty posted:Well, look on the left. It's totally real person Ron Swanson. From Esquire, before the election: quote:I think unfortunately, for the democratic process, there's no logical or sane or moral choice to be made other than voting for Hillary Clinton. But I also think that if she were not a woman, we would not be in this boat. I think the election would be over already. And that's another sad thing, that a large reason there's so much anger and mistrust of her is because people are very reluctant to see the patriarchy topple. I am incredibly excited that the glass ceiling will be shattered. I mean, we've had our first black president and we'll probably have our first woman president. And of course we're going to go kicking and screaming as a nation into that, we would have it no other way. At the end of the day, we're all a bunch of big babies. But what an exciting accomplishment.
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pookel posted:Wonder if they've ever read anything Nick Offerman has said about politics when he's not being Ron Swanson. Oh good I was worried Nick Offerman had some bad opinions and I was going to have to add him to my list of "people I think are funny despite being terrible otherwise"
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John Big Booty posted:Well, look on the left. It's totally real person Ron Swanson. Also... Vince Vaughn??
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Dec 16, 2016 19:01
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Curvature of Earth posted:Scott Alexander: now with bad opinions about government. I am always amazed at how readily people buy the "spending the Soviet Union into bankruptcy" line.
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CrazyLittle posted:Also... Vince Vaughn??
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Reductress: Why I Stopped Calling Them the ‘Alt-Right’ and Started Calling Them ‘My Brother’s Friends’quote:When we use the name “alt-right,” we acknowledge the legitimacy of their ideas as a new political faction, instead of what it always has been: my brother’s dumbass friends being racist fuckers. Saying “alt-right” distances the situation, making it seem like a valid political system we must respect. In truth, it’s just Pete, Jack, and Carson getting drunk on Bud Light, feeling insecure about their romantic or job prospects, and trying to make themselves feel big by talking about “real America.” By calling them my brother’s friends, I am undermining their power and talking about them on my terms.
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pookel posted:Wonder if they've ever read anything Nick Offerman has said about politics when he's not being Ron Swanson Probably goes even faster just playing every scene Donna talks in.
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I still feel shocked whenever I come across DE/internet alt-right/"grey tribe younglings" stuff in places other than this thread, but it's becoming more and more normalized. Even my leftist US friends from Berkley commented on Scott's "Crying Wolf" discussion of Trump. Still, for now I feel a shiver whenever I see an indication of Overton window shift-indicating semi-mainstream discussions of these people. This includes Brian Leiter's blog about "Still Crying Wolf": http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2016/12/crying-wolf-about-trump.html Leiter posted:Several readers have pointed out this piece trying to debunk the idea that Trump is a white supremacist, a racist, an anti-gay bigot, etc. The author limits the evidence considered to events during the campaign, ignoring longer-term evidence of Trump's "casual racism" (as I originally called it), but if you read on, he doesn't really deny the causal racism. But I agree that Trump is not ideologically committed to white supremacy, let alone anti-semitism or anti-gay bigotry etc.: this is partly because, as Chomsky remarked, he has no discernible ideology at all, being too ignorant and shallow to have such commitments. Unfortunately, he has now surrounded himself with some ideologically (meaning, religiously) committed anti-gay bigots, and perhaps worse. But the author does make one very good point, that is worth quoting: For reference, Leiter's blog has been the most-read philosophy blog since forever and has for the past month mostly consisted of him being extremely upset about you know what and calling people neo nazis.
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Curvature of Earth posted:Scott Alexander: now with bad opinions about government. And here he was a week ago with some bad ideas about history. In which he proves civilization actually is in decline, especially if you define civilization as barbarism. I think he displays some of his reactionary undercoat, too, with his conception of history that seems about as shallow as Sargon or random DE dweeb or 15 year old. Like, I don't think Spartan > Crusader > Frontiersman > Office Worker is really a string of orange-to-orange comparisons and is a remarkably stupid way to make an argument about historical trends, even for Scott Alexander. Maybe he has dumbed himself down by over-empathizing with stupid bigots all the time.
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Dec 16, 2016 21:53
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Scott Alexander posted:I mean, really. If, like Nietszche, your thing is the BRUTE STRENGTH of the valiant warrior, do you think that the modern office worker has exactly as much valiant warrior spirit as the 19th century frontiersman? What a dummy. What is it about Nietzsche that causes him to be brought up by people who've never read his works?
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divabot posted:Reductress: Why I Stopped Calling Them the ‘Alt-Right’ and Started Calling Them ‘My Brother’s Friends’ Okay but just calling them white nationalists goes a hell of a lot further towards that goal.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Okay but just calling them white nationalists goes a hell of a lot further towards that goal. Reductress is a rarely-funny cross between Jezebel and the Onion; most likely this is just a joke that didn't land.
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:What a dummy. What is it about Nietzsche that causes him to be brought up by people who've never read his works? He's been maligned and deliberately misinterpreted by fascists since publication. Is it any wonder that fascist-aligned (excuse me, alt-right adjacent) people would continue the trend?
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:What a dummy. What is it about Nietzsche that causes him to be brought up by people who've never read his works?
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:What a dummy. What is it about Nietzsche that causes him to be brought up by people who've never read his works? I mean you could argue that the Zulu forces that defeated the British at the battle of Isandlwana in 1879 were closer to that ideal than General Wellington was decades prior in 1815 at Waterloo but OOPS BROUGHT NON-WHITE PEOPLE INTO IT FORGET I SAID ANYTHING HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I am always amazed at how readily people buy the "spending the Soviet Union into bankruptcy" line. I read an article recently about the actual cause (where by actual I mean that the article made a decent case for it, and I haven't figured out a reason to believe otherwise): a mini peak oil event. The USSR's economy (and that of their satellite states) depended on the USSR's oil and gas production. (Part of this article was simply pointing out that over the long term 20th century economies performed roughly based on how much energy they could produce and/or steal and then consume in industrially productive ways, not political ideology etc.) The USSR went through a few decades of not investing in oil exploration or upgrades for the capital equipment in their existing fields, and began to exhaust a bunch of fields in the 80s. The resulting shortages were deadly for their economy. The depressing thing about this is of course that western economies are doing the same ostrich act, but the fall may be harder because we've been more proactive about avoiding oil shortages in the near term. The extra depressing thing is electing Trump, who believes that one of the two excellent reasons to try to figure out how to live without burning fossil fuels is a Chinese conspiracy. We need national (and global) leadership which wants to do Apollo Project II: gently caress SHELL (AND MAKE THEM PAY FOR IT), we get idiot fascism instead. We're all doomed. 
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BobHoward posted:I read an article recently about the actual cause (where by actual I mean that the article made a decent case for it, and I haven't figured out a reason to believe otherwise): a mini peak oil event. The USSR's economy (and that of their satellite states) depended on the USSR's oil and gas production. (Part of this article was simply pointing out that over the long term 20th century economies performed roughly based on how much energy they could produce and/or steal and then consume in industrially productive ways, not political ideology etc.) The USSR went through a few decades of not investing in oil exploration or upgrades for the capital equipment in their existing fields, and began to exhaust a bunch of fields in the 80s. The resulting shortages were deadly for their economy. lmao owned commies
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Good think that can never happen anywhere else, ever.
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New HBombGuy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahuj1B0ow4U
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Christ why cant he stop loving jiggling around
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 Six months ago, though… 
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Verily I Shat posted:Christ why cant he stop loving jiggling around Nervous twitch developed by a textbook buthisface. Edit: put a polandball or whatever thing on his face and he's practically a one-man Chuck Tingle cover. Pounded in the Butt by my Lack of Self Worth. Frogfingers has a new favorite as of 09:00 on Dec 20, 2016 |
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https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/811316084653572096 https://twitter.com/thefinalbiscuit/status/811313981889662976
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Dec 20, 2016 22:17
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This is a beautiful thing MUH CENSORSHIPS OF PEOPLE NOT ALLOWING ME TO CONTROL EVERYTHING OF THEM
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Dec 20, 2016 22:19
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That's loving hilarious given the IM RATIONAL contingent on Youtube has been up in arms over abusive DMCA takedowns.
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McGlockenshire posted:That's loving hilarious given the IM RATIONAL contingent on Youtube has been up in arms over abusive DMCA takedowns. You don't get it, he hurt my feelings and made me look bad! 
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Dec 20, 2016 23:17
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The only moral DMCA takedown is my DMCA takedown
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https://twitter.com/ad_captandum/status/810428348887420928 https://twitter.com/susanbgoldberg/status/809484938517053440
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Isn't NatGeo now a Rupert Murdoch gig? When your cries of "Cultural Marxism!" are targeted at Murdoch...
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Grace Baiting posted:The only moral DMCA takedown is my DMCA takedown I really thought the golden one was a transwoman, based on the video's preview image. Boy howdy was I in for a shock when I clicked the thing. Jigglypuff was unwatchable, however, and I went on to other things.
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