Pongalh
1d ago
Low income people saving money must look like idiots to a guy like Yud making 600k a year (?) and thinking it's all going to hell soon
Pongalh
2d ago
No, that's not enough to make him a lefty. It makes him just a liberal, though right-liberal, and the right is moving away from liberalism, albeit still split. The left are mostly not liberals - in fact have not been liberals for longer - and don't want him.
Pongalh
2d ago
"It's not a real thing. Never has been."
But it can be approximated. In some times and places it's more real than others.
Pongalh
4d ago
But the rationalists combine sexual urges with UMC constraint. It's "calculated intemperance." Rational license.
Pongalh
5d ago
Misanthropic probably means doesn't yuck it up with a random person while waiting in line for a movie, or, not as gregarious as a car salesman.
Pongalh
5d ago
Uh, are you under the impression that there are internet-rationalist leaders sleeping with Aella? As far as I know Aella is just a normal prostitute/internet-celebrity who happens to also be interested in LessWrong stuff and do internet surveys.
Yea. This is easy to do when you're not in a particular scene. Like, I imagine Dan Baltic, Dasha/Anna, Geoff Shullenberger and anyone else I can think of who lives in NYC as hanging out with each other a lot. Because I'm not there to see they don't, but I see their tweets and know where they generally reside.
Pongalh
6d ago
If you've been jailed for offensive statements and not already employed, what are your prospects going forward?
Pongalh
6d ago
If you spend time in jail, how is that not awful for your job prospects. Are mugshots not searchable in the UK?
Pongalh
6d ago
And it's not only progressives who are eager to inflate stories of elite white male misbehavior. Apolitical middle- and upper-class readers/viewers find it more interesting too. For reasons of it being more naturally compelling to see people like yourself.
Pongalh
8d ago
"if the Iranian regime collapses."
Had a back and forth with "Lion of the Blogosphere" on X, he in favor the war. We agreed on this point about the regime, but I claimed the fallout would be even more refugees flooding into Europe. He responded, "that's Europe's problem." Incredible.
Pongalh
10d ago
I couldn't have imagined Israel/Palestine becoming huge in the US back in the 2000s. That was very much a European lefty thing to care about. One of those ways in which European politics influenced the US, not the other way around (BLM in Germany, etc.) You could say shifting views on free speech by the left in the US is another way.
Apart from politics, US music being so electronic-sounding now is another Euro>US trend. European radio in the 90s was far more dancey than American radio, which was full of rap and rock.
Pongalh
16d ago
Nope, not a bit. I'm in Sacramento, California. I think your milieu might be much more successful than average? This list of problems is pretty banal. Alot of us shop mainly at the Dollar Store, etc.
It's kind of odd I'm even privy to a forum like this but not UMC or on the way.
Pongalh
17d ago
My apartment complex gate stops working constantly. My car's undercarriage keeps dragging on the ground and I have to keep it up with rope. My basic Android phone can't set reminders accurately. Speech to text is randomly capitalizing stuff I then have to correct. A delivery driver the other day couldn't find an apartment in my complex and I was unable to help him. He kept wandering around...
I just see normie problems persisting and I'm supposed to be fearful or at least anxious about post-scarcity and a lack of meaning? The UMC creative and knowledge worker is surrounded by seamless efficiency and can actually ponder some potential problem of life being much too comfortable and bereft of purpose. The rest of us are gleeful AI dilettantes who still have to left with our legs, not our backs.
Pongalh
20d ago
Makes me wonder if some black Americans took up a nation-building exercise in West Africa, if it would be racist criticize that. Unless you're black.
Pongalh
20d ago
Ah. They seem to punch above their weight in the discourse, so it seems higher. Especially if you're in a college town. It's ambient.
Pongalh
20d ago
I've heard plain old white evangelicals and people with names like Mike Huckabee referred to as Zionists too. They refer to themselves as such. This cohort was huge in the 2000s but since seems to have become contested territory, with some breaking toward Tucker and Fuentes. That leaves increasingly only Jews left. And this too gets dicey because left-wing Jews have only become more strongly anti-Zionist. When a left-wing Jew calls a right-wing Jew Zionist, is that also anti-semitic? (If so, are they a self-hating Jew, like an Uncle Tom?)
Pongalh
23d ago
Ah ok, so that encompasses way more than Aella. But who? If Aella is Jem/Barbie, who are the Holograms/the Rockers?
Pongalh
29d ago
I live near Section 8 housing and from what I can tell all the mothers are already stay-at-home. Stay-in-the-front-yard, even, when the weather is nice.
Pongalh
1mo ago
Well, socialists believe those rich people are absconding with resources that don't belong to them. It's not just some demand that people near and far must all conform.
Pongalh
1mo ago
Cofnas was hoping to win over the credentialed progressives, avoiding the populist right. It was imperative. That seems further away than ever now, to say the least. Though many more of them are aware of his existence. That's like, a necessary first step.
Pongalh
1mo ago
As Cofnas put it in his interview with Benjamin Boyce, did Cambridge really expect Arday to not be found out for 31 more years? (Up until retirement age.)
The answer appears to be absolutely, yes.
Pongalh
1mo ago
I can never prove it but I suspect that obsession with Epstein and everyone around him getting a comeuppance has more do with the plebs not being invited to the party. So f**k em all, ya know? And let Zeus, who demands a modicum or respect for even beggars, sort 'em out. (Yes I just Odyssey last night.)
It's surely a tiny fraction. But still, relative to other scenes, which have zero who've made it with Aella, that's something.
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