SteveKirk
2yr ago
I just checked, there's a rationalwiki thread that catches all the Gerard discussion. Someone posted TW's article already, but the thread is kinda dead.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I always go and check the original source before linking them to people. It helps (somewhat) with instant dismissal as enemy propaganda, but you know how certain types of people manage to ignore and forget any evidence you present to them, so you're forced to prove the same thing over and over again.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Huh, I've never tried doing real cardio with zyn. Does it raise your heart rate a lot? Do you use the 6mgs?
SteveKirk
2yr ago
At least you'll already be running when people yell "are those level IV plates?"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
This is that "nothing was ever good" thing you see all the time on Twitter, isn't it? The outright denial that there was ever a time when things were better in any way, that all the problems caused by recent policies always existed, and all evidence to the contrary is a Reactionary Fascist Myth.
That's because you try to pretend that the things she documents aren't happening, and want any excuse to dismiss the evidence in front of you.
TW's trick was a godsend for "head in the sand" libs.
TW knows about the propaganda war, but has very different objectives to you. Much harder to balance ones too: he needs enough Progress for surrogate gaybies, but not too much that white gay guys can't get the good lawyer jobs.
That's why his targets range from LoTT to FAA-DEI. He can be useful to you guys, at least at the moment while your enemies threaten him more than you do.
Long term, of course, his brand of manipulation isn't compatible with your goals. But you don't need to be mean publicly, even if you know he'd eventually do an expose to get you fired (or you'd put him on the last train to Journawitz, depending on the breaks)
SteveKirk
2yr ago
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Have you worked on getting this compilation published by Reliable Sources and into the hands of the enemies Gerard has made on Wikipedia? Assuming there are any left who haven't been banned.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
If the last decade of Rationalism taught us nothing else, it was yet another reminder that very intelligent people are just better at adapting to social incentives by rationalizing themselves into insanity...
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I've started to think that very often they literally don't know what they're saying. I've listened quietly to some arguments where a leftist started responding with party line chanting, and when I talk to them privately about it a month later they act surprised and embarrassed at having their words quoted back to them.
I've literally heard them say "I would never say that" about things they literally posted in print in 2020.
Been trying to write a post about it without explicitly saying "I'm not sure my opponents are conscious human beings"
This is one reason "combining housing with aggressive anti-vagrant policing" might actually work.
The first places to start it get to keep all the fixable workers while pushing the dregs out, while holdout cities have to deal with an increasing burden of irredeemables.
In the end San Francisco would be overrun by every fentanyl zombie in the country. (Then we build the San Bruno Wall and blow up the bridges.)
SteveKirk
2yr ago
"self-euthanasia" is a very niche position on the left, while having Medical Professionals prescribe MAID is now universally supported.
It seems strange to support one but not the other, until you consider it in terms of "rugged individuals making individual choices" vs "creeping bureaucratization of every aspect of human life from birth to death"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
That sounds awful, glad you seem to have mostly gotten over it. Hope no one else in the house picked it back up from you?
Glad you didn't have to deal with that wretched coughing. I wonder if the new strains gotten weaker at that.
Btw, does every house have a Japanese room? It's pretty rare for modern construction to have more than one, right? Outside of guest houses and such anyway.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
You didn't ask me, but I'd try watching one clip of Fallen Shadow. 95% chance instant filtering will sate your curiosity permanently.
Downside: 5% chance your soul is lost forever.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
The amazing part is that it doesn't have to be sincere at all. Clinton went back on his word and now backs things ten times more insane than what he denounced in the 90s. But they refuse to do it even as a tactic, because it doesn't give the same sadistic thrill as gaslighting.
I guess that's principled in a way.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Yeah, getting sponsor block and downvotes back was my biggest reason for dropping Newpipe for reVanced (except for downloads)
Go for it, just find the persxn's bluesky account and practice all of this week's shibboleths. Getting good at taqiyya is the most important job skill a white man can have, because God knows being good at the work doesn't help when 80% of applicants are pre-screened solely by DEI departments.
If it helps, you have my permission to call me your boyfriend from Canada/not from Canada. But camping up the gay is probably a bad idea now that white gays are mostly considered potential traitors and wreckers.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Wow. That is really good. I tend to download rather than stream music, since I'm often working well out of range of my Wi-Fi network (and have a $10/mo limited data phone plan), but that's great for music discovery around the house.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Got a link? I need to keep that one handy. Not that linking it will ever do anything but trigger the "it's not happening" -> "and they deserve it" shift
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I just put YouTube reVanced on my new phone, haven't tried the music-specific one yet. Works amazingly well, and of course has background play and no ads.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
It's often not that. Many of these guys are already married. They're not failures, they're just tired of only being valued for the things they do rather than what they are
So I recently noticed that my state has quietly removed the word "mother" from every official documentation I've seen, replacing it with "birthing parent" or some other euphemism. Iirc Colorado has already switched its language the same way, as have most Dem-run states.
Wasn't it only a few months ago we were told this was an insane conspiracy theory and only a few weirdos would ever try to abolish "mother"? Now it's been done so neatly and without fuss or any sign of resistance. Things that only last year would have sounded like insane paranoid delusions just... Happen with unanimous support.
What is there to even say? The insanity keeps coming so fast they hardly need to gaslight you any more. Has anyone here been "corrected" for saying the M-word yet?
I've totally lost touch with almost everyone who got fired for not getting jabbed (a lot of them were basically migratory workers or ready to retire and leave this blue hellstate anyway). Are people still so single-issue about it?
Maybe that's the wrong way to put it... The whole thing just fed into my existing partisanship along with all the other 2020 insanity. I can't imagine picking out the vax as the One Thing that radicalized me about that year. Aren't lockdowns just as big an issue?
Kind of a shocking reminder of Scott's old "different worlds" essay (which, holy fuck, has a David Gerard quote in it, talk about bubbles)
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