Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
I am actively attempting to deradicalize myself. I dislike puritanism and intolerance. DM me if you want my Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
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Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Yes, thank you! I want more things like that.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I don't know why there isn't some mechanism for individual investors to invest in an artistic project like a film or play in exchange for a cut of the net profit equivalent to the proportion of the budget that the investment covered.
In the classic movie (and musical adaptation of) The Producers, this mechanism exists, and random old ladies can partake in it, not just rich people with connections. Today, we have Kickstarter, which offers rewards, but not potential return on investment.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Oh, I stopped believing the Bible to be true when I was 10, but I continued to believe in God because I thought the complexity of life implied a designer. I think that's what they used to call deism.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Thank you so much. I wish I had more to say than that, but you have been a huge help.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
It's not that nature is cruel, but rather, that it's nonsensically cruel that's gotten to me. The artifacts that come from evolution truly being random.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I mean, sure, it can exist outside time. But I thought the multiverse was just a trope in fiction, like time travel.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I've been agnostic, rather than atheist, for most of my life. My argument was that life is too complex, especially with how organs work, for there not to be someone planning it. I guess the best word for my beliefs would be deist, but I only learned the term recently.
Anyway, I just read an essay by Yudkowsky and I'm now convinced there is almost certainly no God. This depresses me because I want there to be a God.. which is to say, an unmoved mover at the beginning of time that is sentient. The idea that something at the beginning of time was unaffected by the rules of cause and effect is still plausible to me, but is there any reason left to assume it was sapient? I'd appreciate help with this, because I want to convince myself there may be a God.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I got some very intrigued responses, so my goal was accomplished. It hadn't occurred to me that conventional childhood bullying is still around. But as I just said in another comment: what does it look like now? I was targeted because people thought I was gay, but I realize now that that was just their way of articulating that I was autistic. Using sexuality as an excuse isn't kosher anymore, and I doubt kids are politically aware enough to think of calling each other Nazis or chuds.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
That makes sense. I don't even know what kind of bullying kids do these days. I haven't been bullied by classmates in a school environment since.. the 2010-2011 school year, before the Great Awokening.
If kids can't call each other fags or retards anymore, what do they say?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
For the first time in my life, I'm starting to think we need childhood bullying. I am continually astonished by the cruelty of other people, often practiced under the pretense of standing up to bullies. It's like these people don't actually know what it's like to be on the other end. If they did, wouldn't they be more sympathetic?
So, what if we need childhood bullying to prevent adulthood bullying? Perhaps people need to learn at a young age how it feels to be a victim so they don't become the victimizer as an adult?
Of course, maybe being mistreated doesn't cause people to sympathize with others who are mistreated. But I've never seen anyone make this argument, at least prescriptively, so I figured I should, so I can see how people would argue against it.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Is the specific version of code-davinci-002 mentioned in this article available to the public yet? Could I pay for access to it?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
You're taking the term more literally than I do. I guess I could call these people sheep, then? Maybe lemmings?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Then there'd be no reason to use it as a pejorative. They wouldn't be guilty of any moral failing, and so criticizing them would be unfair.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
An NPC is someone who does not question their own beliefs or make any effort to be less biased than they are by default. Below a certain IQ threshold, this is because they can't think at that level, but above that threshold, it's because they're too prideful to risk being wrong or too cowardly to risk having a socially unacceptable opinion. This is why I feel far greater animosity towards college-educated wokescolds more than I do ghetto blacks and latinos. Ghetto minorities are told they're a victim, and they don't know how to question it, so they don't. But triple digit IQ leftists of all races should know better. (I'd at least say the black ones were motivated by self-interest if Fox News and Turning Point weren't chomping at the bit to hire Based Blacks.)
Upon reading my above explanation, I realize that the ghetto archetype does fall under my definition of NPC, but I wish to emphasize that it is unethical to use NPC as a pejorative unless you're referring to those who are smart enough to think and choose not to. And to be clear, nobody is obligated to educate themselves. Ignorance is fine. The problem is stubbornly insisting that a popular explanation is the correct one and that people who disagree with it are ignorant or malicious without understanding the thing yourself!
I meant to reply to this weeks ago, but I forgot. I just abandoned the bookmark. Well, better late than never.
I haven't seen God Bless America, but based on your description, the characters are meant to be relatable, not sympathetic. You're right that their grievances are meant to be shared by the audience, but we're not supposed to feel cathartic bliss when they take out our perceived enemies. We're supposed to feel discomfort that someone like us could be driven by their animosity, an animosity we also feel, to become something so much worse than what we are. This is how villain protagonists usually work. The tone could be dramatic, like Sweeney Todd, or comedic, like Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, but the protagonist is not supposed to be admirable in these stories.
OR SO I THOUGHT.
That was what I used to think, before the surge in political violence that happened in 2017. Now, I think what I just said only applies to stories without any politically loaded imagery.
For example, in the first season of Rick and Morty (which aired in 2014), Rick and Summer beat up a Neo-Nazi, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, and a guy who lets his dog defecate on neighbors' lawns. At the time, I thought the joke was that Rick, who's a bad person, was using violence to deal with petty grievances and encouraging his granddaughter to do the same. Then I saw a photo where an artist who works on the show wearing a "Fuck Racism, Punch Nazis" shirt (with a picture of Richard Spencer being punched) eating chicken nuggets (dipped in Schezuan sauce) with Dan Harmon and other members of the crew. Now I do wonder how much actual media that encourages violence gets made and isn't just hallucinated by ye olde soccer moms.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
She looks white. I don't think most Americans even know what a Sikh is.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
How many white racists even are there who would identify Nikki Haley as non-white?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
I oft-handedly mentioned that master's degree holders have a higher average IQ than bachelor's degree holders. My friend said "No, that's not true," and so I went to Google to prove my point. I have found random people pulling out numbers without citation, and I have found published papers and magazine articles showing average IQ by major, but not by degree level.
Anyone who can find a reliable source showing the difference in average IQ by level of post-HS educational attainment gets a hug.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Thank you for the links, and it's too bad that you dislike me.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Because I had a hard time imagining how the spider web thing would translate into him harming an actual child. They were very segregated in my mind, and my immediate revulsion towards anything that looks like cancel culture prevented my attempt to understand the steps involved in extrapolating harm from an abstract fetish.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
So.. what's it like in Haiti?
I just found out that their government collapsed. Because I've spent my whole life in America, I don't know what that means. Is it pure anarchy? Do gangs control various parts of the country and know to stay out of each other's turf?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Which is ironic because they're more likely to resent America. Anecdotally speaking. I'd have to see numbers to know for certain.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
But we don't want to discourage low IQ people from reproducing. We just don't want legally mandated racial discrimination via the disparate impact doctrine.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
2yr ago
Ooooh! I've only read the prequel trilogy novelizations. I didn't read any other EU stuff. Your pitch intrigues me, but my understanding is that specifics of how the Jedi order functioned and how it related to Anakin's fall weren't solidified until the prequel trilogy, and the New Jedi Order stuff predates it. Let me Google this..
Huh, they were published during the release period for Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Do the books directly reference the prequels?
You make a good point. But it's almost inconceivable to me that intelligent people would do things that provoke anti-Semitism when the anti-Semites literally say "You are making us anti-Semitic by doing this." Maybe they are as unwilling to believe that anti-Semites tell the truth about their own motivations as I am that the ADL tells the truth about theirs. Maybe their internal monologue is "Don't believe the anti-Semites, for they are using
Jewishgoyish trickery!"Look at that, I'm still speaking of the ADL as though it's a single mind and not a bunch of minds working together.
The logic of the anti-Semitic strongman ("we dislike you because you are censorious and hypocritical") is just so much more reasonable to me than that of the ADL activist weakmen ("they dislike us Just Because, and any explanation they give is a lie, Just Because") that I have to assume the latter is aware of the discrepancy on some level. Maybe I'm being insufficiently charitable to the latter, but that is how I perceive them.
As for the point you and others have made about how these people couldn't have cynical motivations without being caught, they could just be using coded language that only they understand, and refuse to let in anyone who says the quiet part out loud. Nobody ever says "get rid of cishet white men" they say "increase diversity". Nobody ever says "be racist", they say "be anti-racist". That sort of thing.
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