Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
7hr ago
The sheer outlandishness of the claims is a factor as well. Bro makes Leo in Catch Me If You Can look like a punk. For God's sake, he was a time-traveling, long distance running cyborg Rainman with 3 kinds of gigacancer! This is amplified further by how breathtakingly gullible and stupid it makes all the credentialed people who believed him seem.
Basically, the story is a lot more fun than "Academic #3475 faked a data set".
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
21hr ago
I'll straight up rec Atlas Shrugged. One of my favorite books. If it helps, think of it like a fantasy novel where the premise is "Capitalism is 100% correct both morally and practically", and then instead of the usual 95% action mixed with 5% crappy "What is Evil?", AS is 5%/95% the other way around. Same with the protagonists; they're not realistic people, they're hash functions defining her philosophy. Tremendous technical accomplishment, even if you disagree with the validity of the premises.
I also straight up enjoyed the writing. I bought it with the explicit intention of writing a critique and found myself enthralled. I want to say it's very Russian, but I don't actually have a broad enough experience base to make the claim with certainty.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
22hr ago
Which countries are you thinking of? The big ones the US hears about are UK/Germany, and they both seem harsher on natives committing speechcrime, such as liking a meme or calling a violent criminal a mean name, than immigrants committing gang rape. Is it the Netherlands that keeps convicting that right-wing politician for saying unpleasant but true things about Islam?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
Do not celebrate misery.
Save that for the dead man's living supporters.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Polling suggests most Americans think like I do, and support bans with exceptions rather than unrestricted abortion.
Bans with exceptions are the popular, median position. I suspect it's probably something like an intensive activist core pushing as far as possible, and politicians (who may or may not share the fervor) granting the win because no one bothers to read the text of bills. It's easy to spin positively and almost trivial with a compliant media. We had plenty of disingenuous articles about purported tragedies resulting from post-Dobbs bans. I would predict that even if it happened, we would never see an article about a woman getting a 7-9 month abortion because it interfered with Coachella from any outlet further left than Fox News.
I know. Calling them breathtakingly gullible and stupid is one of those fun insult "conclusions" where any defense just makes it so much worse.
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