TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
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TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7hr ago
Elizabeth Warren is not Barack Obama, and it wasn't just a throw-away line, it was an expression of a core belief that ideas matter more than actions. A belief that continues to shape Democratic party policy and campaign strategy.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7hr ago
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
10hr ago
No, this is why The Democrats are so afraid of a contested convention. The would-be technocrats know that thier preferred policies (Socialism, Globalism, LGBTQism, Degrowth, Et Al) are deeply unpopular with the electorate which is why they have to rig thier primaries and are constantly appealing to emotion and identity politics in thier party messaging rather than expressing any sort of positive vision.
Meanwhile the GOP's willingness to let the voters choose the candidate is the only reason Trump was on the ballot in the first place.
I get that sneering at populists is whole reason you made this alt account, but this is hilariously out of touch even for you.
MAGA is not "failing" to reign Trump in. MAGA is cheering him on because he is following through on his campaign promises. He is pursuing thier objectives.
MAGA is not Trump. MAGA became the rallying cry of a Tea Party that is done asking politely and has now adopted an attitude position of "Fuck it, we ball". Trump is the avatar of that attitude. The guy who will actually say "Fuck you, we did in fact build that" on behalf of all the construction workers, architects, structural engineers, real-estate developers, Et Al. who did in fact build that, and are fed up with crime, inflation, and constantly being lectured by idiot wordcels about race, gender, and whatever else is on the menu this week.
I know it's an unpopular position but again I urge theMotte to consider the possibility that Trump (and Trump-voters) know what they are doing.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
2d ago
I wish I could find a link but I remember back in one of the SSC.com link/open threads a user who worked at JPL actually broke down the logistics of establishing a permanent moon base complete with links relevant NASA studies, and comparisons to the support requirements of Amundson-Scott at the south pole.
As i recall the numbers were absurd but not completely outside the realm of possibility. IE 100 Saturn Five launches a year for 3 years to build a colony that would be functionally self-sustaining.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
5d ago
I think you're ascribing a level of competence not in evidence.
I feel like it's another one of those midwit bell-curve memes. The low information take is that if you're going to peddle propoganda/bullshit, at least make it a Studio Ghibli meme. The "midwit" take is that as very serious people thinking seriously about serious topics you (the public) need to take our ideas very seriously. Meanwhile, the the high info take is that engaging seriously with propoganda/bullshit is a waste of time but Studio Ghibli memes are fun.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6d ago
It's just dumb, and displays a gross ignorance/lack of understanding of algorithmic behavior.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
6d ago
What little technical discussion i caught was in "not even wrong" territory.
ZorbaTHut and TracingWoodgrains were(are?) both long time dramanauts and I am reasonably confident that there are at least two others. That's a minimum of two, possibly as many as four or more, out of a population of ten admins. Greater than 20% is a "significant percentage" if you ask me.
CCing @SteveAgain
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
Risen indeed!
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
If "misinformation" leads to accurate predictions is it really "mis" information?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
They are not intended to follow from eachother, they are two independent statements of fact intended to corroborate the claim made in the subsequent paragraph.
My understanding is that the mod team has a lot of overlap with folks from rDrama. The Motte's underlying code is a fork of rDrama's.
Which "side" the mod team is on is whatever side that rDrama is on, which is less about left or right and more about a cultural aesthetic. Gay/Trans/Furry PC-Gamer Master-Race rise up. A metastasization of whatever was going on with Hot Topic in the late 00s.
A key feature of this culture is antipathy towards "normies" and anyone else who isn’t in on the joke. Both the extant left and right have factions within them that are at war with the "default" culturally christian, 2.5 kids and a dog view of middle America and it is with those factions that the culture of rDrama (and by extension theMotte) sides. The side that thinks that TracingWoodgrains trolling LibsOfTikTok was just chef's kiss is the side that the moderators of theMotte are on.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
Speaking of noticing things they don't want you to notice, its kind of funny how "patriot front" fell off the map around the same time DOGE and Kash Patel started cleaning house.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
"Uncontroversial" my ass
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
You're forgetting that jews are not actually people in this context.
Ive said this before but i think it bears repeating. Any definition of the "online right" that excludes the various Limbaugh and Brietbart succesors who comprise the core of the Tea-Party/MAGA movement, the Rogan-listening Bar-stool bros, and the crunchy-con/trad-cath homesteaders is excluding the vast majority of the online right by volume and is thus unfit for purpose.
What you are describing is not a "novel development" it is an intra-tribal squabble.
There is always the option to fall on your sword.
Maybe, but my point is more that the the kind of guy who listens to Rogan and might have voted voted for Bernie in 2016 is likely to have a strong negative reaction to the rape of young women and strangulation of toddlers even if said women and toddlers are jews.
The Democrats went out of thier way to alienate as many people as they could, and are now struggling to understand why they are unpopular.
Stuff like this is a large part of why i stopped trying to discuss AI and Machine Learning with people outside the industry.
The conversation has become saturated with idiots, grifters, and pseudo religious nonsense. While I would love to tackle the big philosophical questions about the differences between algorithmic vs agentic behavior and what it means for our theories of intelligence and free will, or discuss the nuances and trade-offs of different technical approaches, these are not the the questions that Cowen, Yudkowsky, Alexander, or anyone else in thier respective circles seem interested in exploring.
Chad Truman vs cuck (((Oppenheimer))). Nobody in Hiroshima cares who built the bomb, they care that it was dropped.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
13d ago
This might might be a compelling argument if MAGA opinion on Tarriffs didn't run the gamut from "ambivalent" to "positive". In cases where Trump's stated preferences did go against those of the base, (EG school choice or, as @The_Nybbler observes, vaccine mandates) the preferences of the base appear to have won out.
In any case the fact that he at least seems to be taking the base's concerns about thier wages, jobs, contract-bids, Et Al. being undermined by foriegn labor (be it Chinese slave camps, or illegal immigrants) earns him a fair amount of good-will. He at least pretends to care, instead of dismissing those concerns out of hand.
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