Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
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Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
10hr ago
I was very meh on Absolution. Don't know why, but it just didn't do much for me.
I loved the Lensmen books as a kid. May have to give them a reread one of these days.
I did not much like Red Mars. I find KSR dry as dust.
Cormac McCarthy is very hit-or-miss for me. No Country For Old Men is fantastic, and Blood Meridian is one of my favorite books ever. But I have not much liked any of his other books, and I really disliked The Road. It was written like "Literary author thinks he's invented the post-apocalyptic novel."
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
10hr ago
Gods, Brandon Sanderson fans.
"Angsty teen gets superpowers" may not be literally all his characters, but it's present in almost all his books (and if it's not "teen" it's "young adult").
A more accurate description of every one of his books would be "Hero who refuses to bend his/her principles figures out exploits in the magic system to p0wn opponents."
I've read about a dozen Sanderson novels, and at this point I'm pretty much done with him. He usually starts a series with a great premise and interesting characters, and by book two or three I am sick of hitting Every Single Sanderson Trope by the numbers.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
15hr ago
You're only a rightist inasmuch as you're Catholic. You have historically progressive views about women's rights and you're not racist or antisemitic enough.
On the other hand... Catholic.
Sorry, you're up against the wall too.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
16hr ago
There is a difference between, say, responding to a post about Jan 6 with "What about the BLM riots?" (or vice versa) which is annoying whataboutism, and writing a post completely devoid of argument beyond "You suck."
Responding to the latter with "No, you" or "Nuh uh" is indeed juvenile, but there isn't really much else to respond with. The point is such posts should not be written because there is nothing to engage with.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
1d ago
Is it possible to share space with people who have evil, objectively incorrect viewpoints?
That's for you to decide. But since people who you believe have "evil, objectively incorrect viewpoints" are allowed to share space here, you will have to do so if you want to post here. And you can't just assert that they're evil and objectively incorrect. You have to actually engage with the specific things you think they are wrong about. Not just "Leftists wrong and bad about everything," which is a meaningless and uninteresting statement.
in which case the only purpose of discussion is to make it known that there is such a thing as objective reality
Cool. There is such a thing as objective reality. I daresay almost everyone, including leftists, agrees with that.
This is why when 'affirmative action' type choices are made to platform leftist voices here
We allow anyone to post here, if that's what you mean. Otherwise, this is another meaningless claim.
If the purpose of discourse is to arrive, together, at convergent notions of objective reality in the face of the vast impulse towards fiction and willful delusion, then when do you reject that which is demonstrably evil?
All you're doing is talking in vague generalities.
Write something more interesting.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
1d ago
But you're not contesting any particular point I'm making
You aren't making any particular point.
merely enacting your authority upon me rather than allowing votes to do their job.
If you just want updoots, you can post about how much you hate your outgroup.
Moderators try to keep every discussion from devolving into "I hate my outgroup!"
The socially constructed nature of reality is an interesting topic.
Sure.
Maybe no one has engaged with it yet
You certainly haven't.
If you're burned out on the culture war topics such that you're policing this as low effort, then maybe that's a you problem.
No, the problem is that you literally are not making an argument. All you're saying is "Leftists bad, we must repeat this so everyone remembers leftists are bad."
Need I remind you, leftists are allowed to post here. We don't have many, but they are around. And if they rolled in to say "We need to remind people that the right is fascist and hates puppies and rainbows. This needs to be repeated so people don't forget that the right is evil," well, they're going to get the same treatment.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
1d ago
You're either a troll or you just have a very poor model of what a discussion forum is for. If everyone here agreed with you, there'd be nothing to discuss, and if you have something to say that not everyone agrees with, you'll have to actually defend your position, not just say "I object!" or "You lie!"
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
1d ago
I'm not sure if this is a more interesting post
Not really.
You're just reiterating what you said in the post you're complaining about being modded.
"Boo hiss" is not the substance of the culture war, it's just the soundtrack. Yes, we all hate our enemies. We all enjoy booing them. But if you have nothing more to say than "But, see, leftists really are that bad! They are just the worst! We should boo them!" then...
Okay. And? The people who agree with you will clap and bark like seals. The people who don't will get angry (which you also enjoy). But what is your point? That your enemies are just so bad that there isn't even any point talking about how and why they're bad?
You won't find much sympathy here for leftism. Even the most "liberal" members of the Motte (myself included) are at best the sort of heterodox classical liberal that leftists today call fascists and rightists still promise to put up against the wall with all the progressives. It's rare we have someone truly of the left who sticks around. So maybe it feels comfy for you just say "Leftists-- fucking suck! Amirite?" But that's not really what this place is for.
Talk about Trump's latest shenanigans on X or whether we should be bombing Venezuelan drug boats. Talk about housing, about demographic change, about whether we can coexist with Muslims or blacks, or whether we should try. Talk about 4X games and how woke game devs ruined your childhood. Talk about woodworking or the real estate trends and housing policies in your home town. Talk about China, or AI, or the Brown university shooting, or whether we should be sympathetic to Israel or Palestinians. Talk about science fiction novels and the latest Hugo disasters. Talk about why you're a Mormon or a Catholic or an atheist. Talk about why Indians are suddenly the bete noire of the Internet or whether the Bondi beach shooting was a repudiation or vindication of gun control laws. Talk about how hard it is to date or what's wrong with gender relations. Talk about sports or martial arts or programming or music. Talk about any damn thing in the world, even god-fucking-help-me The Jews!
These are all topics with plenty of culture war valence.
what is there to say, politically, that is worthwhile beyond "I must reproach that which is needing reproach"?
People say a lot here, every day, that is more worthwhile than that. Or at least it's worthwhile if you think there is any point to the Motte at all (and if you don't, then why are you here?)
How long have you been here? Pretty long, I'd wager. I am absolutely certain you're someone who was permabanned in the past, probably for being unable to post anything but how much you hate leftists. I'm not going to ban you for this post just like I didn't ban you for your previous one, but if you have yet to figure out what else is worthwhile to say, then why are you here? There is a lot more going in the world than "Wokes lying about stuff, and I object!"
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
1d ago
Seconding @100ProofToolBooth that this post has many characteristics of AI writing, and looks to me significantly different from your usual writing style.
As we've said, it's not against the rules to use AI to help you write (because we could be wrong, and can never prove it) but come on, people. Most of us would rather read your own error-ridden shady thoughts, typos and all, than your rough draft sanded off by an LLM.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
1d ago
I feel so little empathy toward people whose entire careers have been working for someone else and who suddenly feel betrayed by their employers or afraid of being fired.
Your livelihood is dependent on profiting from a temporary exploit whereby you can make money by unleashing AI slop at scale. When your boom times end (as all such temporary grifts do when everyone gets in on the game and antibodies develop) expect no one to feel empathy toward you. Rather than building a career or connections or creating something of value, you spent your time maximizing your own payoff with the "defect" button.
You seem very proud of this.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
1d ago
One of my oddest encounters in Korea was in a small agricultural city in the boonies, where I was often the first Westerner anyone had met. Some girl I'd just met started going off on how she'd learned that Jews controlled everything in the West and were trying to control the world. She was really vehement about it, too! I asked where she heard this, and she just said "Everyone knows this," and I asked if she'd ever met a Jew or really knew what a Jew was, and of course she hadn't. Really odd, but I guess ZOG really is global!
If Easterners don't care about Jews so much, I wonder what their equivalent minority is.
Other Asians.
There are Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, etc., who don't like Westerners, but that's nothing compared to their animosity for each other.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5d ago
I've seen this claim too, but I don't remember ever seeing it before Rowling became a bete noire and people were trying to pin antisemitism and racism et al on her.
I once got lectured by a Jewish person that "lizard people" (i.e., the myth about secret aliens controlling the world) is an antisemitic meme. And I'm like... do you really want to insist on that association?
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5d ago
You know, usually I appreciate you pushing back against the righties here, but this is weak.
The argument is not that high-paying and prestigious positions are now stacked against white men (although even if it was "just" those positions, how is that comforting?). The argument is that there are industry-wide trends in this direction.
Speaking as someone closer to those lower-level positions you mentioned, I can say that the government and many private companies definitely (at least until 2024) had "diversity" as a major element in hiring and promotion decisions, and to some degree still do. Does that mean a white guy had no shot at a budget analyst or a Civil Engineer II position? No, but it meant if you were competing against a "diverse" candidate, everyone knew who would get preferential consideration. It's not like it's an automatic "the black guy gets the job," we just all know in some departments that there is a certain Way Things Are...
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5d ago
I mean, ideally I'd like everyone to abandon tribal identity and self-interest. I just do not agree with SS that Jews doing it is more harmful to me than anyone else.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5d ago
Yes. If a Jew hires only Jews, I would expect him to be sued for discrimination. But the fact that a lot of Jews rise to elite ranks doesn't require more than the usual amount of networking between people who know each other (we talk a lot here about Jews and Indians helping each other network, but I've seen Mormons, Catholics, and evangelicals do the same thing), and Jewish success being disproportionate for reasons we've also discussed.
What I expect is that Ellison was inevitably going to hire some strongly pro-Israel, which made it highly probable it would be someone Jewish.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5d ago
Right, I don't disagree that rich Jews tend to stick together. I am not surprised Ellison hired a Jew. Obviously if he explicitly stated "I'm not considering any non-Jews" that would be illegal, but--he probably would consider a small handful of non-Jews.
In your Norwegian example, I would find the choice of a Norwegian unsurprising, and while I guess if I were in the industry I'd grumble about it, I wouldn't be overly exercised about it if non-Norwegians weren't being shut out.
Unless, of course, I subscribe to some dark conspiracy theory that, since the cold dark days of å dra på viking, Norwegians have been ever raiding and warring against Europeans and to this day seeking to undermine the purity of Anglo-Saxon stock.
Then maybe I'd be obsessed with posting about Da Noorse.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5d ago
Jews are the ones correctly interpreting these things in both cases. The Harry Potter goblins were a representation of Jews written by a Gentile.
There's a certain strain of leftist that strains to attach antisemitism to Rowling, but her depiction of goblins was straight out of folklore, not Rowling expressing her covert Jew-hatred. Or are you going to adopt the leftist frame that akshually, goblins were metaphors for Jews even in the Dark Ages?
(No, they were not. Metaphors for many other things, but not Jews.)
The Grinch and Scrooge are metaphors for Jews written by Christians telling a story of their Conversion to Christianity through Christmas.
... have you even read Dickens or Doctor Seuss?
Is your theory that every gentile who writes about an ugly, greedy monster is actually writing about Jews, even if subconsciously? That says more about you than some hypothetical ur-Jew floating in the collective gentile consciousness.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5d ago
I have complained myself, as a former Free Press subscriber, about Bari Weiss's editorial direction. You are not wrong that she obviously sees herself as a defender of Jewish and Israeli interests (and she equates the two when it's convenient and differentiates when it's not). That said:
Either you insist Weiss's career was propelled by her merit and IQ, or you acknowledge that her most important credential that earned her station was being a Jew connected to other Jews who was perceived as the best fit for pivoting the network to steer the national narrative in favor of Jews.
Your problem, as someone more obsessed with Jews than Jews are, is that you seek simple and totalizing answers ("Jews!") to everything.
Certainly when looking for a new CBS editor in chief, Ellison was going to pick someone with pro-Israel credentials, and almost certainly someone Jewish. But he was also looking for someone aligned with the new (Trump) regime yet not in obvious bootlicking way. Weiss's Free Press had over the past few years earned a reputation for delivering good journalism that was critical of liberal orthodoxy and "wokeness" (i.e., had a bit of a following on the right) without being an outright MAGA publication. And putting Weiss in charge after her unceremonious ejection (technically she resigned, but) from the NYT was putting a thumb right in the eye of people both Ellison and Weiss despised.
So the answer is yes, Jews, but that's not the whole story. You would hardly expect Ellison to put a pro-Palestinian leftist in charge, would you? That actually excludes a pretty good chunk of the media elite. Weiss was probably on the short list for a number of reasons, Jewish being just one of them.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
5d ago
No, they're mostly about getting laid, but there's a veneer of relationship-seeking.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
6d ago
I don't have to imagine, I see the mod queue. And I would never want to be a woman on modern dating apps. (For that matter, neither would I want to be a man on modern dating apps.)
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
6d ago
and IMO is why politics must be restricted to only men
I am always amused at the creative ways obsessives wedge their weird obsessions into every thread.
As for Fuentes- if there is ever someone about whom accusations of being a closet case were believable, it's him. But there is a certain category of straight dude who really, truly hates women and resents that he's sexually attracted to them (and really resents that he needs their permission to stick his dick in them).
Fuentes obviously possesses a seething hatred of women, not just a tradcon belief that they should stay in their assigned roles (and not vote), but he seems to be viscerally disgusted by females. That's either a guy frantically trying to compensate for his sublimated lust for dick, or a guy who has a pathological level of misogyny--either way, someone whose own desires repulse him.
The notion that Fuentes is actually keeping a secret harem is some serious copium.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
6d ago
Yes, I am aware that crushedoranges was not literally threatening to shoot BC in the foot. If I said I would like to come to your house and punch you in the face as a "rhetorical flourish," you'd be the first to report it.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
6d ago
Yes, I know you're being sarcastic, but don't test "How close can I get to actually threatening people?"
He got beat up pretty hard by fans for being a Mormon. He did the grovel and "I'm learning" ritual and promised to put some gay characters in his books, which he did, but he handles them about as well as he handles romance. He just can't take the Mormon out of the Cosmere.
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