Gentlemancer

youtu.be/YhbsOWfyJwM?si… Listen to my shitty DJ mix.

@raginglonerx @malmesburyman Yeah I agree both can be funny. This is still my all time favorite from a Logo tweet a few years ago.

@Gentlemancer @malmesburyman Exactly, ideally the semantics are different despite the identical syntax. Those are the best applications of the mid curve meme. It still works though, if the right side comes around to the same conclusion with the same meaning as the left side to express retardmaxxing.

You can always tell when a midwit is trying to make this meme because they have the tails say the exact same thing, word-for-word. They don’t understand where they are situated on the curve, that they are part of the mass, who repeat what everyone else around them is saying.

@raginglonerx @malmesburyman It works best when the text is the same but the referent changes to recapitulate the center's observation too, but still comes around to the initial declaration.

@malmesburyman I disagree, the tail texts need to be same. However they need to be very short, for left side out of ignorance for the right side out of wisdom. The midwit has to be the long text to express over thinking.

@phyonx Narcissus did not even recognize himself in the pool. Clav is, I think, closer to Pygmalion.

If anything, he's the opposite of Narcissus. Narcissus thought he was already perfect. Clav thinks he can always mog more, that is, dominace over others. In the same way, a billionaire isn't earning money to buy things. He isn't becoming more attractive to attract women.

@phyonx The argument hinges on "this is just a picture so don't get offended," which lolicons deploy, but images must be assumed to be equivalent to or preceding actions, so for his argument to carry he'd have to actually dig up the grave, which he will not do, because he's gay.

The difference is a body is the leftover material of a real person, not a concept or abstraction, while a drawing is purely conceptual with no link to a real being other than similar attributes.

@viperwave If lolis are based on actual dead children who were killed for the production I think it's a perfectly fine argument but that's not quite the world we live in, barring a few outlier artists probably.

@viperwave Is the equivalence that this is just an image and he hasn't actually done anything? That's pretty directly analogous to the average incel gooning to lolicon. Kind of defeats his argument. The only "drawing" they should be engaging in now is a duel with pistols.

How do you respond without sounding mad?

@FakeTaxedBrass If you don't actually do it you're a faggot coward btw. You have to actually do the thing for the equivalence of an image with an action to carry.

"It's just a drawing!" Compelling argument! I'm digging up your brother and turning him into a chair.

Trads: People are addicted to hustle and grind, what they need to do is fuck their wives and create children. Tech bros: We're building technology that will allow everyone to stay home and fuck their wives, create children. Trads: This is the end for the human soul.

@viperwave I think it has acquired an unfair reputation, should be understood as a character action game, RE recapitulating DMC and later Mikami (God Hand/Vanquish). It completes the circuit from small time local police to World Police that 4 started. youtube.com/watch?v=7bUyKT…

@Gentlemancer Its certainly a videogame.

Watched a friend play Resident Evil 0 and I am really impressed that someone built an entire game around the experience of trying to take a TV up a flight of stairs with another person.

@KM3D3 I'm interested in how it would be figured out though. The current system is already abused. Potential junctures for abuse like falsifying IQ tests could be an issue, but welfare graduation based on quantity rather than quality of offspring is already a negative externality.

@Gentlemancer @minordissent Meh. IMHO universal means universal. Stipulations lead to abuse. We will figure out the rest.

UBI advocacy stems from the naïveté and solipsism that because *I* am a deeply creative latent producer who is oppressed by my wagee job and would actualize my creative potential if only i could have my basic needs met, this must be true for everyone. Its not. First of all, it’s not even true for these “creatives”. If you aren’t creation maxxing while waging, you wont do it under luxury communism either. Creative work is extremely taxxing and your wage job isn’t actually that hard. The problem is your neuroticism and lack of discipline, not your job. All your necessities being provided for will only make you weaker and gayer such that you’ll make up some new bullshit to get overwhelmed by and then cope by playing video games all day. But worse because you won’t even have “at least i did *something* productive today”, which will magnify your depression. Second, luxury communism already exists for the bottom 20% of the population. All their food, housing, etc is completely covered by the state. Entire generations of people who haven’t worked a job in their lives. Do they go on to produce beautiful art and build companies? Or do they go on to get high and kill each other? The truth is that we are close enough to UBI today that most of the people who will ever become great artists and inventors are already going to do it, and as we get closer all that will happen is the people incapable of anything more than wage slavery (most people) will simply become dysfunctional parasites.

@miltonappl3 This description could equally apply to isekai anime.

If god was female she would have told us

@minordissent @KM3D3 It seems like a fine opportunity to discuss UBI in exchange for low fertility among undesirable, low IQ populations and more help aimed at high IQ demos. Many issues could be solved this way. High IQ black people could be getting the majority of assistance with family planning.

@KM3D3 if UBIcels must become HBDchads to defeat my arguments against UBI, that is an ever bigger W on my part IMO.

Paglia is one of those people who horseshoe theoried all the way around from feminism to compassionate misogyny.

@47fucb4r8c69323 Reminds me of an infographic I made to explain elite circulation to a friend.

I had no clue it was this good. And you're bearish lmfao

@drydenwtbrown YES, please, eugenics now. We can start with limiting welfare graduations to one child.

UBI goes to high time preference individuals today, but more than that, we need to reorganize society into a culturally distinct hierarchy aligned around the pursuit of virtue, as all ancient societies were.

It comes down to: Romanticism = Europe is the world Modernism = Europe + Africa is the world Postmodernism = Europe + Africa + Asia is the world Metamodernism = Europe + Africa + Asia + North America is the world

What is your proposed alternative? If people cannot produce value in the market, they will not earn income, and will starve without non-market income.