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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
I think some people are from hell
Here is the worst thing I didnāt have to read today from a transhumanist:
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Bonus round:
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Okay, I mean, thereās no indication as to how youād achieve this, but yes, community help and cheap rent are absolutely a good ideal to aim atā¦
Aaaand youāre a cartoon villain. What the absolute fuck.
just want to make sure this is on the record
those suggestions (from the deranged OP) are basically segregationist: āyou take all the poor, you give them their own little world [and then theyāre no longer here, where we have to look at them]ā. thereās a long track record of awful enterprises that have been done with that spirit. they carry names like Apartheid, ghetto, etc.
(there are occasionally serious well-meaning suggestions on how to provision for the poor and unfortunate in ways that allow improving lives, but those donāt tend to handwave the details, and never (afaict) involve the āmake them go over thereā step)
Holy shit every one of those was like getting ounched in the head from a completely random direction
iāve seen some of these takes coming from libertarians, but never from a single person
This is the kind of take a libertarian makes, and then goes āwell nobody debates me on this so my logic is solidā. While he isnāt noticing that people are just avoiding the conversation all together, as nobody wants to roll in that mud with him.
The UR example of these kinds of bad takes is the book āDefending the Undefendableā, a dumb book I have ranted about before.
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So in addition to normal libertarian drivel like daydreaming about being a slaveowner or such, this reminds me of an incident when certain libertarian org found that they have an actual dogfucker in their ranks (kompromat in polish) https://web.archive.org/web/20161206144701/https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/20957439/mirki-neuropa-moze-was-to-zainteresuje-na-zdjeciu-/
so that āwhat if dog consents thoā is not exactly a hypothetical question
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