professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
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professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
15d ago
A high-trust world would be singularly susceptible to fraud, since people needn't be on their guard at all.
Ricky Gervais even made an obnoxious movie about that.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
19d ago
Given there seems to be a decently common strain of progressivism that's pro-abortion and anti-gene-editing, for many people no, the calculus would be the same.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
19d ago
Why wouldn't they survive? Would they succumb to the temptation to be vitriolic and disingenuous too easily, too?
ChrisPrattAlphaRaptr comes to mind. While he gets a little hot under the collar sometimes, certainly I won't cast the first stone for someone getting frustrated, he's never been such a slimeball as Darwin or seethingly hateful as Turok. I think it's quite easy to avoid the particular issues those two represent; it's that the kinds of leftist-progressive types that aren't exceedingly combative don't enjoy playing defense all the time.
The Schism exists back on reddit, the policies are only slightly stricter than here, it's derived from the same Scott-reading social milieu, and it has all of ten regular commenters, in a good month. It has one regular troll now on a yearly cycle of suspensions. Whatever makes The Motte appealing to most of the people here doesn't seem to exist to the left of the motte.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
19d ago
"Liberalism in the way it was meant 200 years ago" is pretty common here, and yes Christian values are part of that because they're significant rootstock of the project.
"Liberalism as used by David French to describe Ketanji Brown Jackson" is not, and is unrelated to the first definition, despite being more common in the common discourse.
Alas! Language evolves.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
19d ago
This burning hatred for any left-of center commenter is embarassing.
Unfortunate feedback loop gets generated that the most obnoxiously combative are most likely to stick around, until you get Turoks that everyone hates and provide no positive comments, and after that point anyone even vaguely associated gets tarred with the same brush.
Extremely difficult to undo at this stage.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
19d ago
Smoked canned oysters aren't bad but they're not nearly as good as fresh with a little mignonette. Even more fun is finding a decent oyster bar to sample a few varieties and compare the merroir.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
19d ago
It's a massive implicit value judgement like the egregious slimeball that successfully argued Just Mayo as in "justice" is acceptable.
I don't care about calling pea-protein-derived spread "mayo." I do care about abusing multiple definitions of the word "just" in misleading ways, and someone should regularly egg Josh Tetrick's house for this offense against language and decency.
"Just" go ahead and label it "we're the good guys, neener neener."
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
19d ago
I suppose most people would be uncomfortable with something they pattern match to open proud racism.
That's the catch, people don't pattern match their own proud racism to "racism"
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
19d ago
t's completely reasonable for white solidarity to be seen as more of a threat than other races' ingroup preferences
They're also outnumber 10:1 on the global scale. It's not at all reasonable for it to be seen as more of a threat.
And seeing only one kind of racial solidarity as unacceptable is A) illiberal and B) corrosive to multicultural societies.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
20d ago
nerdy utilitarian blogs.
The newest crop of utilitarians and adjacent on Substack are much worse than the old crop of the Good Scott era. Alas!
This particular post is high on assumption and light on rigor. It received outrage.
Someone on Twitter suggested Bentham is a psyop to make utilitariains look worse, and while I think it was a joke, it's more or less right. Anyone that believes bees suffer 7% as intensely as humans is a lost cause and should be ignored, only paid attention to the extent you should discourage others from paying any attention.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
20d ago
people at issue are dead (or at any rate no longer relevant)
From upthread, just in case you missed it:
Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell to have voted for the 1986 amnesty earlier in their careers
Also
you can't read the minds of people today based on dirty tricks pulled - consciously or otherwise - by their geriatric forebears half a century prior, even if the current scions are nominally waving the same flag.
Does that mean we can put any discussion of reparation to rest too because there's no such thing as group responsibility for past sins so long as you run the clock long enough?
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
21d ago
Probably even that's just because I read here less and archive much less than I did 3 years ago
Same here, I haven't been around The Motte as much as in the old days. Reading still, usually around the monthly QC collections, but commenting less.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
26d ago
Given how jhanas and tulpas get far more rat/postrat attention, the wiccan-coding acting as preventative strikes me as particularly accurate.
professorgerm
You shall love your crooked neighbor, with your crooked heart
26d ago
less data on more boring and commonplace topics
Aella is an outrage baiter extraordinaire, yes.
those don't seem to inspire this sort of permanent rent-free mental residency that compels people to start raging about her in a thread about someone else whose only commonalities are blogging and being on Onlyfans
Is there really that much overlap between Substack and Onlyfans? The two nickels connections shouldn't be that surprising.
What examples would it take to clear the bar? Like what categories of behavior or cultural positioning or what have you? Cultural measures?
I'm not saying Coil is correct, I think it's useful to prod at what people would take as evidence.
Good luck! The dream of the 90s is alive
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