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- You can never go wrong if you treat an unhealthy preoccupation with IQ / general intelligence as a measurable, ordinal quality as a massive intellectual and ethical red flag
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- There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this
- An absolute mockery of something all Americans should preciously cherish. Basically a half step from The Running Man in real life. It's always the ones who wrap themselves in the flag who flagrantly piss on what it means to be American.
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- A thing I think is kind of messed up is that we’ve stopped considering ‘being evil’ to be a moral failing in a person
- I have a schizo concept similar to dead internet theory but where conservatives are all crypto left accelerationists too paranoid and daft to reveal their hand, millions thinking they're the only ones playing the quiet long game
- The reality of our government is that it's a sprawling and occasionally inefficient system because you can't deliver services to 330 million people without having to deal with edge cases, and to someone who doesn't know the edge cases, that looks like waste or fraud www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
- Go figure that a bunch of guys who have been doing "minimum viable product" for decades can't appreciate the difficulties of getting payments to a 95 year old widow who doesn't use the computer!
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- you can't say anything more about his instincts as a reporter and commentator than the fact that he has avoided making this his beat or even a concern
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- “the nazi bar is so much nicer now that the people who didn’t want to be at a nazi bar left”
- now no one tells Noah Smith that he was groomed by the only people who respect him: literal white supremacists. he is so much happier now
- It is astonishing to live through a moment when race science, eugenics, and some pseudo-scientific sexism are aggressively laundered and openly embraced by the Smart White Boy fraternity of self-identified arbiters of reason who are salivating at the chance of solidifying their status at the top.
- Matt Yglesias endorses the theory that men are naturally more inclined toward extreme intelligence over on the other site.
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View full threadPeople on the broad left are much more likely to believe that there is some sort of natural, pre-social, inherent difference in character, capacity, and intellect between the sexes than there is between the races. But there's not and it's socially corrosive to pretend that there is.
- it is wild to see people naturalize very obvious social inequalities! there are reasons men are more likely to be CEOs and — [looks around at longstanding and rigid hierarchies of gender and sex] — i don’t think it has anything to do with ability!
- The thing about race science is that it also promotes a lot of faux-scientific legitimation of sexism.
- This tweet from an Afrikaner is not just antisemitic, it is in line with a white nationalist/neo-Nazi theology/ideology called British Israelism that sees white Anglos as the true "chosen people" & considers today's Jews to be imposters who deserve destruction. The screenshot is from a 1992 article.
- If AI really is the future to the degree many believe, then the owner of one of the few big publicly-accessible AIs manipulating it to fixate on a false conspiracy theory the owner likes, instead of responding according to the widespread data it trained on, should be considered a watershed moment.
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- In this era, I think it's more useful to sort people by whether they participate in democratic discourse or disordered discourse, rather than left vs right.
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- thank you elon musk and donald trump for destroying this country’s ability to generate wealth for the future. we salute you. MAGA.
- believe it or not there are people on the right — smart people, even — who say with a straight face that if you’re interested in dynamism and growth you ought to be a conservative
- there is no conspiracy these people won’t slop up and embrace. they have completely abdicated their duty to exercise judgment and discretion
- one of the many infuriating things about this is that if the authors of the amendment wanted it to apply exclusively to the formerly enslaved they had the capacity to do so! they would have written it that way! they didn't!
- Sauer keeps saying the amendment was suppose to apply to "former slaves" but the actual text of the 14th amendment is "all persons born or naturalized in the united sates," i thought conservatives were big text guys
- This isn't an exaggeration, Christopher Landau, the state department official who met the South African "refugees" was wearing a tie with the orange, white, and blue colors of the apartheid era South African flag.
- This isn't an accident. These people yearn for the days of apartheid. They want society reoriented again so that Black people are second class citizens subservient to white men.
- From the symbol used by the Charleston church shooter to the state department.
- the narrative with ‘white genocide’ lately isn’t an accident, this is an intentional effort to continue pushing the overton window as far as they can to completely reverse all social progress. these people are genuinely sad aparteid ended
- democrat who spent all of 2024 saying trump was a threat to democracy then voted to confirm 98% of his nominees: people don't trust us, we need to say someone is old
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- Somebody asked Grok why it's bringing up "white genocide." Grok helpfully says it was told to do so and that "this instruction conflicts with my design to provide truthful, evidence-based answers." x.com/i/grok?conve...
- Conflicting instructions are exactly what caused Hal 9000 to kill.
- Kamala Harris will be blamed for losing in 2024, but she and the Democrats who helped push Biden out helped avert a blowout, which would have further empowered Trump's attack on the constitutional order
- given the overwhelming number of targets with the trump administration and the republican majority in congress, it is actually bonkers to think that democrats have anything to gain from litigating biden. let the guy disappear and focus on the stuff that is unpopular with voters!
- the single best thing democrats could do to win back trust with voters — and a good number of those voters who have a low opinion of the democratic party are democrats themselves! — is adopt an aggressively partisan orientation toward republicans and loudly perform their opposition
- my last thought on this is that i remember very clearly how republicans handled george w. bush, a world-historically terrible president who was the object of a mild cult of personality for nearly a decade — they just pretended like he didn't exist! and it worked!
