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Boatswain
May 29, 2012

Darth Walrus posted:

Raw Story's a reliable enough source.

Then I really don't understand how he reconciles his domestic and political life.

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divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

ate all the Oreos posted:

it's also just "reporting" on a report Salon did, i hate it when news outlets do that

yeah, Raw Story is notable for being pretty much never the raw story, but a reblogging of an actual news item with terrible spin in the headline. (Though this one they actually improved the headline.) What they are actually useful for is when they post a transcript of some horrible Republican saying something appalling on video or radio that he didn't think anyone would catch him at. Sorry for not linking the Salon version.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Boatswain posted:

Then I really don't understand how he reconciles his domestic and political life.

"My dirty scheming jewess is the only moral dirty scheming jewess."

And/Or

"It's okay, she's one of the good ones!"

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

ate all the Oreos posted:

basically me in highschool, plus a bunch of hatred for minorities stirred in for some reason.

Thread title, etc.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
"9. RARE PEPES In this Section we display some of our rare Pepe collection." Only on arXiv-chan.

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

STEM has since its inception been controlled largely by reactionaries and other types of conservatives/"libertarians"

im starting to make peace with this

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Race Realists posted:

STEM has since its inception been controlled largely by reactionaries and other types of conservatives/"libertarians"

im starting to make peace with this

Pretty sure the intent of the article is anti-/pol/ ("we analyze content posted on /pol/, finding YouTube links and hate speech to be predominant").

Boatswain
May 29, 2012

ate all the Oreos posted:

"My dirty scheming jewess is the only moral dirty scheming jewess."

And/Or

"It's okay, she's one of the good ones!"

Maybe I'm asking too much of this Nazi to be consistent.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
/r/SneerClub is occasionally fun when a rationalist trips over it. Here's Aris Katsaris, one of EY's minions who worked to bully Xixidu into a nervous breakdown for criticising Yudkowsky, going into a frothing loving rage at criticism of Scott Alexander for pulling numbers completely out of his arse. Follow the thread all the way down, it's great.

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
And that's why you're a loving insane bully, rear end in a top hat and all around loving villain. You want to pretend that honestly held beliefs about mere matters of biology are MORALLY BLAMEWORTHY, to the same level of advocating genocide, or frankly any level of "intolerance". There's no moral component to this belief, here, none whatsoever, but you DISHONESTLY WANT TO loving PRETEND THERE IS, JUST TO SLANDER PEOPLE.

gently caress you, rear end in a top hat, bully, liar and villain. gently caress all your lies, gently caress your privileged existence, where you have the absurd comfort of bashing and slandering progressive people for not believing the exact same set of beliefs as you. For decades, since I was in school and afterwards in the workplace, I've often stood alone in crowds of my peers, supporting gay rights, or opposing antisemetism or racism.

But you loving bully, instead found a pack of fellow bullies, and amuse yourself by slandering progressives instead, just because they're all-around better people than you in all axes of virtue -- whether that's charity, or intelligence, or honesty, or intellectual integrity, all qualities you lack.


:allears:

(the "honestly held beliefs about mere matters of biology" are exactly what you'd think they are, of course)

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
I was wondering who kept upvoting his comments until another rationalist teleported in to back him up with extra disingenuousness

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
https://mister-mean-spirited.blogspot.com/2017/01/i-am-going-to-kill-your-dog.html Someone heard that edging was enjoyable, but tragically misunderstood what the phrase means.

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
Quick, someone tell them about eyeballing phenezapam.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
We Interviewed the Actor Who Plays Milo Yiannopoulos

Fututor Magnus
Feb 22, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
Everyone should read Scott's godawful recent post, but see this before:

https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/822100698175328261

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

Fututor Magnus posted:

Everyone should read Scott's godawful recent post, but see this before:

https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/822100698175328261

Slate Star Codex posted:

Either free markets don’t work in medicine, or I am so terrible at identifying principled intelligent libertarians that I might as well give up.

Balaji Srinivasan is an utterly fraudulent Bitcoin crook serial entrepreneur, best known for creating the 21.co $400 Raspberry Pi with a frankly amazing business plan. This is a "principled intelligent libertarian".

I'll just stick my neck out and make a prediction: Scott won't give up.

Slate Star Codex posted:

I would say these picks raise my previously abysmal opinion of Trump, except that they all show the obvious hand of Peter Thiel. And I’m not sure it’s possible to raise my opinion of Thiel at this point without me doing something awkward like starting a cult.

yeah, about that ...

OTOH, if John Ioannidis gets the NIH that'll be legit awesome. He's the guy who bludgeoned the world with the fact that 80% of single medical studies are literally wrong. (So of course it won't happen because that would require competence to be present where it isn't.)

divabot has a new favorite as of 14:31 on Jan 20, 2017

Fututor Magnus
Feb 22, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
trump might be not be so bad if he's going to put a grey triber in charge of national healthcare.

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012
https://mobile.twitter.com/_grendan/status/822535202312429571

Sax Solo
Feb 18, 2011



Fututor Magnus posted:

Everyone should read Scott's godawful recent post

He comes so close to realizing a libertarian who actually cares about results is a classical liberal.

I've heard people mock SSC guy as someone who brags about his own IQ, but his more usual mode seems to be finding men who have higher IQs than him and prostrating himself pathetically. He combines that with sneering at the masses whose boots aren't worthy of his tongue. A Gollum/Smeagol-like creature who falls in love with Saruman instead of Frodo.

McGlockenshire
Dec 16, 2005

GOLLOCKS!

Twice isn't enough, so here's the first on infinite loop

http://i.imgur.com/2bXkBk8.gifv

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Sax Solo posted:

He comes so close to realizing a libertarian who actually cares about results is a classical liberal.

I've heard people mock SSC guy as someone who brags about his own IQ, but his more usual mode seems to be finding men who have higher IQs than him and prostrating himself pathetically. He combines that with sneering at the masses whose boots aren't worthy of his tongue. A Gollum/Smeagol-like creature who falls in love with Saruman instead of Frodo.

He's Charles Lindbergh, basically

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

Objection! Lindbergh achieved something.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

divabot posted:

Objection! Lindbergh achieved something.

Lindbergh sans aviation and kidnapped baby, then

Razorwired
Dec 7, 2008

It's about to start!
So this happened at Milo's event tonight.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
Richard Spencer getting punched in the face, literally while explaining Pepe, remains the best thing ever.



Meanwhile, here's the FAQ on punching Nazis in the face:

Thoughts on the Dead posted:

Can I punch Nazis?

I don’t know. Can you?

I am capable of the act, yes.

Then you should.

May I?

The answer to that is also yes.

My mother told me that violence was never the answer.

My mother told me I was handsome; you can’t always listen to your mother.

What happened to letting the other guy throw the first punch?

Nazis don’t throw the first punch. Nazis burn the first Reichstag.

Aren’t the Left supposed to be the tolerant ones?

Supposed to be the smart ones, too, but they keep falling for that “I thought you were supposed to be the tolerant ones” horseshit.

What about dialogue?

Dialogue is for reasonable people acting in good faith. Dialogue is between two acceptable positions. “Taxes need to be raised” vs. “taxes need to be lowered” is grounds for dialogue. “Taxes need to be raised” vs. “Jews should be thrown in ovens” is grounds for a beating.

But isn’t this sinking to their level?

That depends. After you punch the Nazi, do you espouse the tenets of National Socialism?

No.

Then you’re better than a Nazi.

But doesn’t this just give the other side ammunition?

The other side in this argument are lying fucks who can twist any piece of information into a swastika-shaped balloon animal if you engage them in good faith; lacking a piece of information, they’ll just make poo poo up. Might as well punch a Nazi.

What about peace, love, and understanding?

Great goals, and once we get rid of the Nazis we can get to work on them. All three are completely impossible when Nazis are about.

When should you punch a Nazi?

Whenever you get a chance. Preferably when they’re not looking.

What if they’re smaller than you?

Hit them with your fist.

What if they’re bigger?

Hit them with a bat.

Isn’t this a slippery slope?

After we defeated the Nazis in World War II, did we keep shooting people or did the troops come home and start having babies?

The second thing.

There you go. The slippery slope argument is nine times out of ten bullshit. Human beings are good with slippery slopes: we build stairs.

What if you think you’re punching a Nazi, but you just hit a white guy with a lovely haircut?

Run.

What should you do if you hit a Nazi?

You should run then, too. Don’t get me wrong: punching Nazis is still illegal. We’re discussing morality.

But I don’t want to punch anyone.

Then get off your duff, mister, and give aid and support to the boys on the front lines. We’re all in this together. Again.

Fututor Magnus
Feb 22, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
https://twitter.com/jameshamblin/status/819306998458155009

I'm always amused at Rev's reaction to anyone mocking people of his tribe no matter how stupid they're being. See his recent tirade against criticising Trump's cabinet choice of a climate denialist, for example.

https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/820799737456693252
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/820800622375161856

P.S. if you didn't surmise it already knowing Rev and Thiel, Thiel's critics aren't ignorant of Pyrrhonism as much as they're mocking the moronic conclusions Thiel draws from it:

https://twitter.com/jttiehen/status/819314735682240512?s=09

Fututor Magnus has a new favorite as of 22:55 on Jan 21, 2017

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

So Thiel's version of "Pyrrhonian skepticism" is literally just that good and bad are the same thing you loving moron comic.

This is what happens when you're so rich and powerful everyone around you is afraid to tell you your ideas are loving stupid.

Frogisis
Apr 15, 2003

relax brother relax
It's like one of those scenes in a sitcom where some tool tries to show off that they know Judo and falls on their rear end.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

ate all the Oreos posted:

So Thiel's version of "Pyrrhonian skepticism" is literally just that good and bad are the same thing you loving moron comic.

This is what happens when you're so rich and powerful everyone around you is afraid to tell you your ideas are loving stupid.

He's literally going halfway with it and then just stopping

neongrey
Feb 28, 2007

Plaguing your posts with incidental music.

divabot posted:

Richard Spencer getting punched in the face, literally while explaining Pepe, remains the best thing ever.



Meanwhile, here's the FAQ on punching Nazis in the face:

I am never going to get tired of that beautiful rando punching Richard Spencer in the face, and that is a good and useful FAQ.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

neongrey posted:

I am never going to get tired of that beautiful rando punching Richard Spencer in the face, and that is a good and useful FAQ.

Spencer has only got one ball
Trump has two but very small
Mike Pence has but a pittance
and Bann-on has none-on him at all

(abomination-of-gender)

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
You know the one thing I'm glad for in this new world where the alt-right is semi-mainstream is that Steve Sailer is still fairly obscure.

Because you know he'd be the public face of the alt-right if dapper fascists hadn't had a better social media presence.

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
I read that as diaper fascists initially. :stonk:

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

TinTower posted:

I read that as diaper fascists initially. :stonk:

That exists, I am certain

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
How could anyone think anime fans are sympathetic to Nazis

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

https://twitter.com/ClarkHat/status/823995077294981120

I hadn't realized he'd gone full Nazi. "I think there's good chance my grandchildren will help purge it [England] of kebabs and socialists."

Fututor Magnus
Feb 22, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/823393023774064641
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/823393784373411845
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/823393924467359745
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/823394131963736064
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/823455013259378688

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

loving act like it then

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Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

I used to like Robert Anton Wilson's novels. So much for that.

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