The Vosgian Beast posted:

The problem is that they're an SA spinoff so they'd get really obnoxious about it.

GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:

[citation needed]

Tesseraction posted:

I believe he's asking where you got the idea that 'mean spirited' meant the arithmetic mean or 'common pleb' - I suppose because the historic etymology is somewhat cloudy.

For the record, the adjective 'mean' to mean (heh) cruel, spiteful, etc. supposedly comes from the Old English gemǣne, from the same root as the Germanic gemein (common). Basically the idea that commoners were petty and small-minded, unlike the noble class.

Tesseraction posted:

Oh I was basically agreeing with you, just saying that while it's not the arithmetic mean, it does indeed come from 'common'

Twerkteam Pizza posted:

I think lowtax and fart are the only two people I follow on twitter

I'm never on twitter

Woolie Wool posted:

The early Germanics were less barbarous than popular history (heavily informed by Roman propaganda, which was little more factual about Germanics than Hans-Hermann Hoppe is about black people)--they had writing, kings, governments, and nations. However, they happened to be occupying land that Rome wanted, so the Romans invented racist nonsense to justify stealing it from them and selling them into slavery.

Hey, that sounds familiar...

Woolie Wool posted:

Actually, they did, but the Romans didn't have diseases that could kill 90% of the German population like whites did in the Americas, so they ended up losing a shitload of troops to German ambushes and gave up.

divabot posted:

The whole Sartre essay that I quoted some of above. Holy poo poo, it's completely about our alt-right friends, in 1946.

Marcus Aurelius posted:

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill. But I, because I have seen that the nature of good is the right, and of ill the wrong, and that the nature of the man himself who does wrong is akin to my own..., I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. To work against one another therefore is to oppose Nature, and to be vexed with another or to turn away from him is to tend to antagonism.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

https://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1996/5-may96/wilson05.html

ate all the Oreos posted:

Someone's reply to that Nyd tweet made me suddenly vaguely remember this funny thing someone made a year ago and I spent like 10 solid minutes trying to figure out the correct combination of google keywords to find it so even though it has nothing to do with anything I'm gonna foist it on this thread to make it feel like it was worth it

http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/126993307991/quoms-the-best-ever-bitcoin-cannabis-drone

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Cingulate posted:

You're living in a bubble. In the real world, your president-elect is Donald Trump.

Improbable Lobster posted:

I'm not reading this but I appreciate you posting

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?

Tesseraction posted:

but the system in Scandinavia works and has executed infinitely less innocent victims than the American system.

Tesseraction posted:

Depends how you interpret - I was suggesting a ratio of 0 innocent victims of the Scandinavian system to <x> of the American system. The absolute value is undoubtedly a finite number but my point was that the Scandinavian system will produce 0 in perpetuity, thus causing an endlessly changing ratio (assuming neither system changes). Hence my X system v Y system being 'less' (implying ratio) instead of 'fewer' (implying numerical comparison).

Pope Guilty posted:

His "welfare czar" is the author of The Bell Curve, because Scott's a loving Nazi.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

failing forward posted:

That is a word salad with zero nutritional value. That is an iceberg wedge. That is ice with celery leaves. He is not saying anything. I think I am going crazy. He's doing the thing he is complaining about. I-- I--

Silver2195 posted:

I'm not really comfortable with morally condemning people based on their aesthetic tastes, to be honest.

Race Realists posted:

goddrat benghazi is having the most glorious meltdown

Ravenfood posted:

Same. Personally I thought it was fun to try to figure out something about an author when he swings wildly between revolutionary ancap moon colonies that require unprecedented AI power to "function", an ode to fascist militarism, and an exploration of free love communes and a new religion. Comparing and contrasting those is pretty great, and I'm not sure that Heinlein was ever 100% endorsing any of the societies he lays out in any of those books.

BobHoward posted:

One of the main lecturers is a likely authorial self insert and, even so, he's pretty fun. By all accounts, Heinlein prided himself on writing well, and he knew enough about the craft to avoid being a Rand.