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"A morality is valuable to the extent that it proposes to us that we put ourselves at risk."
Georges Bataille, ON NIETZSCHE
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Alexander Boyd
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Alexander Boyd
@AlexanderJBoyd
Literary/Critical theorist. Writing on Nietzsche, Deleuze, the Baroque.
Lincoln, UK Beigetreten Temmuz 2020
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Gentrification is another one of those words that has been stretched beyond all meaning.
Individual persons do not gentrify an area by moving into it. That's not what it means.
vo@vanillaopinions
so what is the solution then
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@TuttReal @AngletonOrchids Tucker strikes me as the voice of American WASP old money interests. Probably independently wealthy, so he can go against the grain of political-media patronage networks.
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Tucker says things the left can't say but which resemble something true. This sends the illusion that he is a populist, neither right nor left. But he will always fall in line with the Republicans. The recent Joe Kent rollout somehow coinciding with him allegedly being tapped by the CIA was so obviously orchestrated.
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I am once again saying to anyone on “the left” with a soft spot for Tuckkker: you’re ngmi.
Decensored News@decensorednews
Tucker Carlson says Trump “probably couldn't pick a more credible person” to make a deal with the Iranians than JD Vance because Vance is “honest” and has a suitable “moral rectitude.”
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Finished Theroux's Manosphere doc.
Not much to add to the discourse. I think Marx had this whole phenomenon pegged with the lumpenproletariat.
An interesting element though is just how multiracial and, dare I say it, cosmopolitan the manosphere is.
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Solving this problem is a big part of what tech companies are for now.
Gabrielle Blair@designmom
Bunkers are so dumb. The only power these idiots have is money. If the dollar and society collapses, necessitating a move into the bunker, they would no longer have any power or leverage with which to defend their pathetic bunker.
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@Al_Perring @drumm_colin Even if you know someone else to this extent, you still may not have the skill (power) to do anything with that knowledge.
If one has that power and the other does not the relationship is asymmetrical, arguably unethical.
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@Al_Perring @drumm_colin Very few social interactions carry the potential for emotional harm for me.
I'm talking about a vulnerability where you each know in meticulous detail the contours of the other's selfhood, the points of leverage and weakness. Very few relationships involve that kind of intimacy.
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Suspect many mistake what I mean by "power." I don't mean force or violence - nearly the opposite. Real power is almost entirely held in reserve. It's pure potential. That means that real power can be incredibly gentle.
drumm colin (lexington)@drumm_colin
What makes sex sexy is that it's an open ended negotiation of a power relationship that hasn't yet been fully decided about where exactly things will settle. That's also why it's difficult to maintain excitement in long term relationships where the settling has already occurred.
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@drumm_colin If you've been in a relationship long enough and you're thoughtful and perceptive enough, you'll have been through many moments were you *could* cause serious emotional harm but choose not to, and instead use your power to nurture and heal (at short-term cost to your ego).
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@drumm_colin This is just how strong permanent bonds are made, people who don't understand this are either dullards or avoidant.
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Parents who want to spend more time with their kids - have you considered that this would be bad for them, and that they're just fine without you?
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We seem to have collectively decided that children 'need' constant supervision.
Some say kids should spend less time with their parents.
I'm more extreme. I think most people make terrible parents, and kids should spend *as little time as possible* with them.
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@PrinceVogel Completely intentional on his part as well, purposefully warding off certain kinds of readers.
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What a terrible reader of Nietzsche. Many otherwise interesting philosophers just get absolutely torpedoed reading him, he flusters people relentlessly. The barest hint he endorses something naughty perfectly deflects from the most sensitive parts of his work
Girardism@Girardism
“Nietzsche's only error, a properly Luciferian error (in the sense of ‘bringer of light’), was to have chosen violence against the innocent truth of the victim, a truth that Nietzsche himself was the only one to glimpse, in contrast with the blind positivism of all the atheist ethnologists and the Christians themselves. To understand that the twentieth century and its genocides, far from killing Christianity, make its truth all the more dazzling, you just have to read Nietzsche from the proper angle and to situate all the disasters caused by our Dionysian and sacrificial choices along the axis of his writings, the first of those disasters being the madness that was getting ready to swoop down on the thinker himself — a madness every bit as significant as the political madness and historical insanity [as in Nazism] that followed.” — René Girard
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There is a valuable lesson to be learned here— people with very little impulse control end up limited to a certain subset of jobs while people who can learn to understand social norms of their environment & have self control can advance further. Children see this as “being fake”
Real Post Folder@RealPostFolder
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@drumm_colin I think this is also a problem in employment/recruitment. The internet has proven abysmally inefficient at "connecting" people, and has if anything pushed an increased reliance on older forms of social proof.
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So if we want to make things better we need to fight context collapse and build habitat and try to tend a little garden and promote thicker and more robust ecologies of human interaction
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Very Graeber-brained take but I think one big thing driving hostility in the heterosexuality meta is that the apps create a complete context vacuum. It's frustrating and depressing to try to be attractive outside your context. Pointless even. While having a rich context is hot
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Yes. There's no such thing as a long-term labour shortage.
Labour pool faced with a choice between dangerous skilled work vs. safe non-skilled work at similar pay will move to the the latter. Not rocket science.
Alpaca Capital@Alpaca_Capital
How much does it pay? Genuinely asking. My experience from the US (where I grew up) is people pound the table about skills shortages and when you ask what they’re paying, it’s equivalent to working at Walmart in a no-skill job.
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@residentadviser Appears to be substantially written by AI. Amazing what some will do for a bit of cash and notoriety. What a fraud.
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It’s a grift. He’s just says rightwing NPC stuff. And if I was Douglas Murray, I’d be pissed off with the bear plagiarism .
andy twelves@andytwelves
EXC: .@GoodwinMJ’s new book “Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity” is out now, and I’m only 5 chapters in and have found a huge amount of what appears to be false quotes and basic misinterpretations of data, that appear to be AI hallucinations. Matthew, can you explain the claims you made in the book that I’ve outlined in the below thread?
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I believe this happens to be the topic of Alex Karp's doctoral thesis.
Political jargon is a species of "antisocial" behaviour. You've been a victim of it when it spills into the mainstream and you hear words like "woke" and "incel" thrown around in everyday life.
Alexander Boyd@AlexanderJBoyd
Non-mainstream politics, whether left or right, are not encountered as structures of ideas and feelings that one could cogently describe and critique, but as inchoate events involving weird antisocial behaviours that are self-evidently threatening.
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Non-mainstream politics, whether left or right, are not encountered as structures of ideas and feelings that one could cogently describe and critique, but as inchoate events involving weird antisocial behaviours that are self-evidently threatening.
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It's also quite accurate.
Going into professional spaces, including in education, after a decade in universities you quickly realise that the average person rarely encounters politics that are truly 'against the grain' and aren't in the habit of evaluating distinct ideologies.
Will Solfiac@willsolfiac
There's this very specific TV style when they think they're imparting a moral lesson. The concerned, no-nonsense multiracial state employees. The use of plausible language that doesn't really work ('kicked off 4chan for an anti-small boats video', 'undocumented').
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