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You see he turned right three times so that means he actually went left.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Attacking Democrats from the left is not right wing and it's really aggravating how many people don't understand horseshoe theory He is not attacking Democrats from the left he was literally doing paid propaganda for Elon Musk to pretend conservatives were being oppressed by Twitter and is now ranting about how tiny transhumanism cults are the real threat and Republicans have no power
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Piell posted:Every point is somehow dumber than the last and it started incredibly stupidly Oh, gently caress off, Matt.
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Mar 30, 2024 19:54
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Whether or not you once had some good points from the left is immaterial when you've spent the last several years tonguing the assholes of the alt right. He's pretty much just one of them now.
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Mar 30, 2024 22:07
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I mean how long did he spend from 2021-now pushing ivermectin? I think he legit believes a lot of that poo poo now.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Attacking Democrats from the left is not right wing and it's really aggravating how many people don't understand horseshoe theory The fact that someone can read what tabbi just wrote and consider him on the left kinda proves horseshoe theory
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Mar 30, 2024 22:37
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taibbi mentally reads like a person who could make a solid living off of right wing grift but he just does this for free out of some kind a main character syndrome
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Taibbi’s conversion is 100% because he got called out for writing misogynistic bullshit in the early 2000s and rather than conduct any introspection and maybe change and grow from it, he decided that Cancel Culture is 100000000% the biggest threat to anyone ever and that anyone who opposes left cancel culture must be a hero. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1CX0QB/ Like, read how Taibbi assigns “power” in that interview and it’s not the corporations or the ultra-rich he railed against previously, it’s “schools” and “universities” and “newspapers”: i.e., the students and journalists who are the stereotypical userbase of Tiwtter and who called him out for writing lovely sexual harassment fantasies. Edit: to Staluigi’s point, it’s why he acts like he has main character syndrome: because he sees being called out for being a lovely person as a direct and dangerous threat to himself and so he’s on Team MAGA not because he thinks he can grift, but because they’re not going to cancel him, and so he’ll twist his logic however he needs to justify to himself that he’s on a moral crusade. skeleton warrior fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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It feels similar to like how with GG, everything is the US' fault because the government came after him. So Russia is OK because they are opposed to the US, etc.
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Mar 31, 2024 00:46
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It's a problem for a lot of left-ish male journalists who came up in the early aughts. They were right about one thing - the horror show of the American imperial war machine and the post-9/11 surveillance state it enabled - but then when people called them out for having lovely opinions about things like race and gender, they ran screaming into the arms of the right wing where they could keep talking about the Bell Curve.
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Fighting Trousers posted:It's a problem for a lot of left-ish male journalists who came up in the early aughts. They were right about one thing - the horror show of the American imperial war machine and the post-9/11 surveillance state it enabled - but then when people called them out for having lovely opinions about things like race and gender, they ran screaming into the arms of the right wing where they could keep talking about the Bell Curve. Yeah you see this often enough even around here, anyone who critical of the US is our friend no matter how horrible they are, it's a dangerous path that leads you people to supporting the worst shitheads.
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You must be talking about Andrew “Race Science is Real” Sullivan. The world of “black and white” mentality only leads to someone losing it. They have no sense of really thinking through situations and ideologies. They only have, “my thoughts are the only ones that are right”.
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You don't even need some interview to see what a piece of poo poo Taibbi is now. The man, in his mewling whining to Elon Musk to talk to him again, released private IMs where he openly states to Musk he has run interference and buried information he found on Musk to instead focus on the twitter files as Elon wanted it to be written to attack democrats and The Left for free. He's openly unmasked himself as a shill who gladly eats the poo poo of the alt-right as long as it means he gets something cushy in return.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:You must be talking about Andrew “Race Science is Real” Sullivan. The last i heard of Andrew Sullivan was after he was brought on to a panel specifically and obviously to be the guy who says dumb evil poo poo and gets roundly mocked and torn to shreds, and he did it because he literally too dumb to pass up the opportunity to be the loving punching bag, and he got tore up, then went to his blog to type out how heh, i didn't really get owned, heh, if you just think about it intellectually, just taking a private victory lap! Not owned club right here comments are disabled
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I think the next one to go down this path is Nate Silver. He gets really angry about people who go against “misinformation”.
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I kinda feel for Silver because polling science is undergoing a sea change and that's gotta be tough to come to terms with
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Piell posted:Every point is somehow dumber than the last and it started incredibly stupidly It's true, we should be very worried about the power and influence wielded by Yuval Harari, a (quickly googles) Israeli professor from Jerusalem who we've totally all heard of and who's ideas are so well known it would be foolish of me to summarize them because, as I said, we all totally know who he is.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Attacking Democrats from the left is not right wing and it's really aggravating how many people don't understand horseshoe theory
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Angry Salami posted:It's true, we should be very worried about the power and influence wielded by Yuval Harari, a (quickly googles) Israeli professor from Jerusalem who we've totally all heard of and who's ideas are so well known it would be foolish of me to summarize them because, as I said, we all totally know who he is. Harari is one of Alex Jones's current crop of supposed globalist masterminds, and Taibbi ran cover along with Glenn Greenwald for a fawning puffumentary on Jones ("Alex's War") back in 2022, so it's not surprising he's absorbed some of that horseshit.. Captain_Maclaine fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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I don't know if this counts as media exactly but I stumbled upon another crank apocalyptic belief in the comment section of the Soundgarden music video Black Hole Sun. I guess during the eclipse there's going to be the Rapture and those left behind will develop demon face syndrome (apparently a real and scary condition where you see people with a monster face). Idk, it all goes down on April 8th so keep an eye out for black hole demons
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Mantis42 posted:I don't know if this counts as media exactly but I stumbled upon another crank apocalyptic belief in the comment section of the Soundgarden music video Black Hole Sun. I guess during the eclipse there's going to be the Rapture and those left behind will develop demon face syndrome (apparently a real and scary condition where you see people with a monster face). Idk, it all goes down on April 8th so keep an eye out for black hole demons Yeah, my family on that side of the political aisle wanted to meet up for the eclipse, then suddenly canceled because they were "afraid" of the eclipse. So that's fun.
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Angry Salami posted:It's true, we should be very worried about the power and influence wielded by Yuval Harari, a (quickly googles) Israeli professor from Jerusalem who we've totally all heard of and who's ideas are so well known it would be foolish of me to summarize them because, as I said, we all totally know who he is. May anyone explain to me why Harari is suddenly getting the ire of the left? He's a gay jewish pop-historian that's relatively... normal?
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Gucci Loafers posted:May anyone explain to me why Harari is suddenly getting the ire of the left? He's a gay jewish pop-historian that's relatively... normal? Is he getting the ire of the left? I've literally never heard of him other than Taibbi mentioning him and Taibbi isn't on the left, and a quick Twitter search pretty much only brings up that and Alex Jones types screaming at the (((Globalist))) WEF coming to make you eat bugs in terms of complaints
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Gucci Loafers posted:May anyone explain to me why Harari is suddenly getting the ire of the left? He's a gay jewish pop-historian that's relatively... normal? Yeah I've not heard any actual left criticism on him, it's mostly just Infowars-esque Great Replacement/depopulation nonsense. Maybe you could work up some socialist critique if you wanted as he has spoken at the World Economic Forum, but what he's actually said and done is emphatically not why Jones, Taibbi et al go after him.
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Is this like ‘we got bored of talking about Soros all the time so we found some other random Jewish guy we can complain about’
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He's popular with Silicon Valley techno-religious types so he might get side-eyed by leftists because of that but I'm unaware of any specific critiques
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If I saw a leftist saying they hate Harari without expounding on why, I'd assume it's to do with him being an Israeli liberal of the "Israelis and Palestinians must live side-by-side in mutual respect for each others' traumas and errors" variety, who immediately after 10/7 was among the broader Israeli left making statements about how the international left's failure to condemn the Hamas attack was a profound betrayal of human decency.
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Dirk the Average posted:Yeah, my family on that side of the political aisle wanted to meet up for the eclipse, then suddenly canceled because they were "afraid" of the eclipse. So that's fun. I love how people have talked themselves into believing literal Bronze Age superstitions about celestial phenomena, but I think it's worth noting one important point: this could never actually happen to ancient peoples, because they didn't understand eclipses and therefore couldn't predict them ahead of time. And to be fair, seeing the Sun get blocked out with no idea what's going on, would be sort of scary! But we know exactly how and why and when these things happen now. It can't be an omen if you can predict it! That's against the whole point of omens!
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Mantis42 posted:I guess during the eclipse there's going to be the Rapture and those left behind will develop demon face syndrome (apparently a real and scary condition where you see people with a monster face). It's an interesting one because it's actually not psychological. It's a visual-processing issue that screws with your ability to process faces.
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So did these dumbfucks just forget about the time the master dumbfuck stared into the sun during an eclipse? Like did the rapture not happen that time because their big savior man was president?
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The Lone Badger posted:It's an interesting one because it's actually not psychological. It's a visual-processing issue that screws with your ability to process faces. The real one has nothing to do with "monster" faces. People with the disability simply can't distinguish between faces at all, thus it appears that everyone has the same face. They learn to use other cues to distinguish between people. Like hair, piercings, height, build, clothing, voice, etc. What that has to do with an eclipse, I have no idea.
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Boris Galerkin posted:So did these dumbfucks just forget about the time the master dumbfuck stared into the sun during an eclipse? Like did the rapture not happen that time because their big savior man was president? We all looked at the sun before totality, even those of us in the path of totality, because of course we all wanted to see if there was a noticeable difference. Turns out that the warnings are right and you can't look directly at it until complete coverage.
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...! posted:The real one has nothing to do with "monster" faces. People with the disability simply can't distinguish between faces at all, thus it appears that everyone has the same face. They learn to use other cues to distinguish between people. Like hair, piercings, height, build, clothing, voice, etc. I'm thinking of this one https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(24)00136-3/abstract Prosopometamorphopsia, which is different to regular prosopagnosia.
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Not sure if it's a broadly reactionary thing or a just Twitter thing, but lately I've been reading a lot, and I mean a LOT of arguements about the genetic significance of intelligence (ie smarter people have smarter kids). Reactionaries are claiming that pushing back against this is a form of science denialism. Besides the obvious racist implications, it also paints a broad bioessentialist picture that conservatives frequently make about society-that various traits that you have and how you fit into society are virtually set in stone by birthright, be it intelligence, sex/gender, criminality, political values, etc. It all falls within very rigid binary definitions; you're either Black or White, smart or stupid, conservative or progressive. It's also probably why (online anyway) they're so fixated on Physiognomy. And in another example of "the contradictions are the point" these conservatives will simultaneously believe in this type of bioessentialism but also the idea that everyone is a detached unique individual entirely responsible for their own destiny. You have to bootstrap your way to success, but some people are just naturally superior to others! There's no substitute for 'hard work' aside from superior genetic lineage! Smart people are more moral than dumb people but you can't trust those ivy league eggheads who are implementing marxism in society!
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Of related interest I’ve got a big posting project over in SAL about how a literal nazi group got some especially heinous  enshrined at the National Academies:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3100175&pagenumber=674#post499866238 Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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If you haven't read it already read The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould. It goes into the extremely shady history of inherent/genetic "IQ" and the links to right wing educational and social policies. And Eugenics.
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Panfilo posted:Besides the obvious racist implications, it also paints a broad bioessentialist picture that conservatives frequently make about society-that various traits that you have and how you fit into society are virtually set in stone by birthright, be it intelligence, sex/gender, criminality, political values, etc. It all falls within very rigid binary definitions; you're either Black or White, smart or stupid, conservative or progressive. It's also probably why (online anyway) they're so fixated on Physiognomy.
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Servetus posted:If you haven't read it already read The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould. It goes into the extremely shady history of inherent/genetic "IQ" and the links to right wing educational and social policies. And Eugenics. also coming up as part of that posting project above is a reading list on the topic of ongoing white supremacist eugenics; mismeasure of man is near the top of that list.
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LOL, LMAO - Kyle Rittenhouse was too dumb for the Marines https://twitter.com/JoeKassabian/status/1775187855934914724
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FMguru posted:LOL, LMAO - Kyle Rittenhouse was too dumb for the Marines Caveat, marines are one of the few branches that meet their recruitment goals but their rejection rate is like 14%.
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