Absoluto
19d ago
Walt has a lot of patience with Tracing.
Tracing chill the fuck out dude
Just an example; “you’re like a communist who still praises Mao”. Walt doesn’t praise Hitler, does he? Nobody expects soft democratic socialists to feel shame about their prior opinions about the bourgeoisie.
Absoluto
6d ago
Why would you think that? Do you think a mass conversion happened that was initially unopposed by their local brothers? Do you think that rates of intermarriage were as high as between Goy Slavs?
He took a lot of liberty with that here. He’s also being very emotional while saying this.
And yeah, maybe if Hitler did come up the Mao analogy would have been better.
Absoluto
1mo ago
But are we really supposed to be content by saying that those species who survive are alive and reproduce, while those that went extinct don't reproduce anymore?
Yes? When reality is so simple, just accept it. Why do you desire theoretical complexity when it’s unnecessary?
Jesse is also a hypocrite when it comes to hate speech against whites. A couple of episodes ago he was faced with the example of Saira Rao, who called Zionists “bloodthirsty” in one tweet, but rails endlessly about whites. He sputtered out nonsense trying to justify why her real sin was crypto-antisemitism but overt anti white tweets are kosher. Groups that are scared get priority over groups that aren’t his. His principles have their limits. Katie is much more of a freethinker.
Episode 192: 00:17:00
Absoluto
3mo ago
Dems haven’t gotten tired of screaming over nothing yet, ergo, there is still some screaming left for them to do.
Absoluto
6mo ago
The most charitable read here is that Musk thinks Wikipedia deserves less money, not no money, and, like, ok Elon, I think you deserve less money and if you don't care about that opinion, why should they?
Musk isn’t running a charity. If Redditors want to convince companies that launching satellites on SpaceX rockets into space is a bad deal financially, they can make that argument.
Absoluto
4mo ago
A Jewish American manager just forbade our European office from doing a Secret Santa precisely because Christianity might offend people who don’t celebrate Christmas.
Absoluto
5mo ago
What if you were executed at gitmo that would be so crazy
Is actually a good response, what is she actually getting at with this question? It’s just a hard question and no clear lesson at the end of it. Shit, can my disgust reaction of child sex come into conflict with my desire for a child to be happy before death? woah dude that’s wild.
I really don’t see what moral discovery she’s made. How about you ask me what I would do if this story happened to someone else and how I would react to hearing about it? The answer is “I would feel sad for their difficult situation in which I am epistemically paralyzed to help or judge”. That’s my answer, Aella, this isn’t philosophy, this is “would you rather fuck your dad or your mom”, and casually throwing this on twitter is probably inspiring a bunch of similar behaviour amongst impressionable young adults.
Absoluto
4mo ago
Nah, there being an ocean of half-believers makes it easier for people to leap to total belief. It’s easier to compare your virtue against a hypocrite than a total alien.
Yes but it doesn’t make it a tautology. A corollary isn’t any less true because it trivially follows from something else, and yet given the truth value of what the corollary follows, you also have “no choice but to accept it”.
For example, just because you explain survivor bias and how the jets that actually return are the ones that survive, you don’t actually take an issue with the “tautological nature”. The explanation is pointing at a gap in your understanding of logical consequences, which aren’t by any means a tautology. The same thing is happening here, natural selection must occur given certain conditions, and Darwin’s gift is forcing you to see the logical necessity.
Absoluto
1mo ago
It’s not a tautology when viewed from a human scale perspective of time. It is hard for humans to imagine when wondering why organisms look the way they do all the potential descendants of the organisms that didn’t survive.
From gods eye perspective, I agree, it is obvious that natural selection happens. There is no logical alternative, you cannot not accept it.
(Poor poetic execution of an idea) His justification for Jewish particularism is their trauma, but also they are a group he conveniently belongs too. His feelings that “it’s creepy” are entirely subjective, and he’s granting his own group special status based on it.
Humans don’t typically have moral systems(and the ones that do do not operate on that system 99% of the time), and applying Philosophy-as-a-sport doesn’t make them suddenly bad people. Humans have a huge number of values which become inconsistent in specific scenarios, and Aella’s question is all heat and no light. Professional and dignified philosophers have demonstrated the same much more tactfully in the past, why did she not do the same? It’s molesting neurotypical people’s brains, and she is smart enough to know that(I recognize she says she doesn’t “get” why people don’t like these questions, I think she’s lying). This appears to me as an egoistic and irresponsible display of her social position. The normies are smart to know when they are being fucked with.
Doesn’t feel like that on the ground. Polish people are Shreks, their support for LGBT can be understood as “do whatever you want out of my swamp”, have all the negative rights you want, such that Im not expected to grant you positive freedom. Polish people react to rumours of LGBT flags in Western courthouses, schools, and libraries with a shock that chooses between “this is terrible” and “this is so terrible it must be PIS Stalinist propaganda to scare me away from the west”.
Absoluto
3mo ago
Ok sure, I’ll respect that, but for your consideration this was an invitation to gush out a motivation. I meant it less as an authentic idea and more as an explanation of the emotional motivation that I feel is at work here.
Absoluto
4mo ago
How can you say that when you’ve already failed at colonizing your own country while on easy mode?
Your fantasies are entirely dependant on the fertile ground that exists in the west.
Absoluto
4mo ago
No bites at $50 for one big ass chair.
Really!! This is hard to swallow. I would do so and I’m very comfortable.
Absoluto
5mo ago
You’re not that Indian guy who moved to London and then had a lengthy post about noblesse oblige are you?
Absoluto
5mo ago
I’d like to suggest that for historical explanations we use their pronouns at the time, then change after the transition comes in the story.
Absoluto
5mo ago
However westereners have made sex completely and utterly profane to the point of total ignominy. I want them to experience the logical consequences of their professed belief system, and I want them to expeirence these consequences good and hard.
Seems strange that you are siding with Aella in this, considering she is not the one experiencing the lesson learning for the sin she is committing worse than her audience.
Absoluto
1yr ago
I imagine they aren’t too concerned because their solutions to mental health are largely outside the acceptable purview of policy. If enforcing people make culturally Christian choices to live a wholesome mentally stable life free of vice is intolerable to the secular Center left, to a conservative politician their hands are tied.
“Don’t make me pay for your sex drugs and rock and roll if you want them so bad” essentially.
Have you read the scifi novel Blindsight? Gave me a similar feeling
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