pookel posted:

Yeah, he claims to be liberal but is alt-right-adjacent, and he is the Slate Star Codex blogger.
Scott Adams writes Dilbert and has terrible opinions.
There's a third Scott A. who also has terrible opinions, but I can't remember who he is specifically.

Jack Gladney posted:

He's the guy who said he should get a concubine because he was a sad nerd as a kid and the feminists tried to explain misogyny then instead of coddling him like they should have. Also that either the Ecole Polytechnique shooter or the Santa Barbara killer was justified because those bitches wouldn't put out for a nerd. He teaches at MIT, right?

AbysmalPeptoBismol posted:

Hillary Clinton was talking about the Alt-Right when she said half of Trump's supporters were a "basket of deplorables" right?
Or was she talking about the other deplorable people that have rallied to his banner? It's hard to keep straight which group of his supporters falls under what descriptor these days. Especially since the internet started leaking into the public sphere, what with the whole Alt Right being talked about by network news anchors.

MC Nietzche posted:

Look at this poo poo:

https://twitter.com/rabite/status/775506596759736320

A not-smallish part of me hopes Aurenheimer dies in a cage like an animal.

GunnerJ posted:

How does PZ Meyers fit into this?

GunnerJ posted:

What

Peztopiary posted:

Well, y'all have bigger dicks, are more physically powerful, and winning the centuries long clash of races that has been whites dominating blacks. Those are pretty much the three things nearest and dearest (aside from racism) to a racist's heart, and their own belief system requires them to be losing (which is how they explain that they are losing, if we were all racists obviously we'd be winning).

divabot posted:

the stations of the crass

ate all the Oreos posted:

No you see Trump is actually an energy being created by the metaphysical interaction of SJW's on the political morphogenetic field and is in fact a being made of pure anti-feminism particles

ate all the Oreos posted:

Also I don't remember anyone in this thread ever even hinting or joking about doxing rev, did that actually happen?

Race Realists posted:

really wish you stopid libtards would stop projecting your racism. they dont hate blacks or think they're inferior at all

they just, dont want to be around them is all

cuz they bring down property values [insert crime statistics followed with scientific racism here]


EDIT: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/783347230245736448

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Who are these people and why on earth should anyone care

Lottery of Babylon posted:

I do have direct evidence from personal experience that cruising for a gang bang from males that are low status in the ostensible male hierarchy is alarmingly common behavior among hot chicks

Terrible Opinions posted:

It's Vox Day not white though. Isn't he one of those minorities who think they're an acception somehow.

sleeptalker posted:

They only need to reach the layer where anime is real.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Looooll those guys managed to get people from actual academia to pay attention to them for five seconds and they loudly whined about how evil leftist academia was for criticizing them, and then said people STOPPED paying attention to them and they started whining about how evil leftist academia was for not criticizing them http://rightlyconsidered.org/2016/10/11/the-futile-beyond-the-pale-strategy/

gentle pete posted:

If you’re a “Nazi Fur,” you’ve probably heard multiple times that, congratulations, you too would be gassed by the Fuehrer. I think I’ve heard this line like a dozen times. Most of the people who say this are what I like to call “victims of public education”; people with a vulgar-level of history who, for some reason, seem to think they know everything about The Third Reich. But even people who aught to know better, such as folks on the alt-right, sometimes still buy into the ‘Madison Avenue’ image of Hitler gassing people willy-nilly and ordering groups of people killed off simply because.

Are there a lot of mentally ill people in the Furry fandom? Yes, there certainly are. I don’t think that’s a secret to anyone. These people do need treatment, in my opinion, and in the Third Reich, some of them would simply be put to sleep for good or placed in a concentration camp until they straightened themselves out. But it’s a huge logical leap to assume that the Fuehrer would therefore categorize all Furries as ‘mentally ill.’ That’s not really thinking, that’s just “animating” Hitler to make yourself feel like the moral majority.

ate all the Oreos posted:

By "japan's great authors" I assume he means "The guy who draws tentacle hentai mangas that are so good they bring a tear to my eye"

eschaton posted:

The only song that mentions where I grew up is by Tom Waits.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/severnayazemlya/153606228403

It turns out the secret justification here was that John Darnielle interacted with some ex-LF weird twitter people once.

quote:

my Hot Take is that leftists hate lw so much bc it's one of the only places where cool people still believe in ~traditional ~liberal values like "intellectual open mindedness" and "things are generally getting better"

Fututor Magnus posted:

What do you expect when the last word you say in class before dropping out is "Moldbug" and you skip classes you think aren't racist and sexist enough?

Avenging_Mikon posted:

Ah, not sure where I got that idea then. Something new to read!

Cingulate posted:

Is that a Milo avatar!?
IIRC he was hoping for Trump to destroy the US. I wonder how he secretly feels about the Bush 3.0 Trump is currently mutating into.

OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

My favourite is 'solve everything about urban housing'

quote:

I once attended a public talk Yglesias gave on housing policy to promote on his (62-page) book The Rent Is Too drat High. Yglesias was placed in conversation with Yale Law School professor Robert Ellickson, a bona fide expert on housing and zoning with approximately four decades of experience in the field. Goodness knows why anyone thought to pair the two up, as Ellickson is notoriously grumpy and does not suffer fools with much equanimity. The discussion was one of the most satisfying I have seen. Ellickson clearly had no idea who Yglesias was, and took pleasure in ripping Yglesias’ pamphlet to shreds for its basic economic ignorance. Ellickson practically pondered aloud why a frivolous 20-something blogger was being treated as an expert on housing, pointing out the numerous ways in which Yglesias’ arguments were flimsy and ill-considered.

But watching Ellickson flay Yglesias, I was most struck by the fact that Yglesias was completely unfazed. Far from being ashamed at his humiliating defeat, Yglesias did not even seem to acknowledge that he was even being defeated or humiliated. He didn’t attempt to defend himself. He just… kept talking, as if the numerous arguments that had been made proving him wrong simply didn’t exist.

GlassElephant posted:

Want to paste it here?

Fututor Magnus posted:

lowtax won't release that info, rightfully so I think. in any case, I think most people realize that the people who spend on redtext avatars are usually a lot crazier than the recipients.

Josef bugman posted:

Both are loving tiny groups of people, why is this person so concerned by this?

Improbable Lobster posted:

Neon Noodle posted:

I just spent a fair amount of time going through that person's tweets and I am so confused. They used to be reactionary but now they are a Maoist nonbinary transperson? Does this involve tumblr somehow

ate all the Oreos posted:

I don't know, I can definitely think of some people I've met who volunteer specifically to support their self-image of "good person" while not actually being a good person. You can tell because they'll whip it out as their equivalent of a black friend in arguments

divabot posted:

Oh, Yudkowsky's Arbital team has finally given up on it, except Yudkowsky's still using it as his serious writing platform. So the front page is now a "coming soon" for the planned microblogging platform.

quote:

It seems that while you haven't achieved your full goals, you have created a system that Eliezer is happy with, which is of non-zero value in itself (or, depending on what you think of MIRI, the AI alignment problem etc., of very large value).