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@JacobAShell Someone who hates whitey doesn’t feel the need to concretely articulate their hatred with philosophical consistency and academic rigor. You’re imagining a scholarly Marxist as your interlocutor, while your respondents are talking about the proles.

A lot of replies and qrts to this question I asked--some from some rather big accounts--are saying some version of "left wing academics logically needed it to be the case that prehistoric peoples were peaceful so that academia could then credibly present violence itself as an invention of Capitalism/the West." Well, I dont see how this explantion (for why there's been an academic taboo against the idea of the Indo-European invasions) could be right. On this idea that the motivation is to make "the West" look bad: very hardcore Marxist historians and anthropologists have certainly known about the Mongols, ancient militant Indian, Persian and Chinese kingdoms, and so forth. The idea that Marxists are just "West-bashers" is not right. Marx spoke negatively of the "Asiatic Mode of Production," Wittfogel updated this into the concept of "Oriental Despotism", James C. Scott called it the "padi-state" which for him is the same villain...these are Marxian ideas, and they all present historical Asian kingdoms as overcentralized, oppressive, and violent. On this idea that left wing academics want it to be the case that "capitalism" is the cause of all violence: well most academics who talk a lot about "capitalism" are Marxists, and Marxists define capitalism in rather narrow historical terms, as something post-1400 AD more or less. No Marxist historian would say that the ancient Spartans were "capitalists"...yet you expect me to believe that Marxists, and that left wing historians in general, don't know that Spartans were warlike? Another type of reply I'm getting is that a certain "Rousseauian" academic needs it to be the case that humans were peaceful "noble savages" in our prehistory, and everything bad comes from civilization itself (regardless of whether the civ is Western, Asian, Meso-American, etc). Fine, maybe the Rousseauians psychologically need to believe this. But then why would this translate into creating a taboo around the Indo-European invasions of Europe? Why not say, instead, that the Old (pre-IE) Europeans were the "noble savages," the creators of all the best prehistoric cave art and so forth, and then these cruel, violent, artless Steppe invaders came into Old Europe and ruined everything (in fact, isn't this what Gimbutas says)? Seems like the more appealing explanatory formula if you're an ideological Rousseauian. If that's your ideology, you should actually want it to be the case that the IE invasions are true, and you should dislike the taboo that Reich was complaining about. But many repliers to me are assuming that Rousseauians were big taboo propagators that Reich and others were forced to appease. There's another flavor of response I'm getting, which thinks the taboo has something to do with immigration policy. Well the chronology here is puzzling. The taboo is 1960s onward, and we've gone through various immigration policies between then and now. It's also just not clear why pro-immigration intellectuals would be so interested in revising this prehistory to turn invaders into peaceful immigrants, but would not be interested in doing the same for colonization stories during modern/written history, where instead what predominates is the Howard Zinn framework presenting colonists as bloodthirsty maniacs. Columbus is "violent berserker" but ancient Yamnaya are "peaceful horse traders" -- why? Even from a propaganda POV, I don't see the value of presenting things in this way. Frankly, after hundreds of replies to my original question, I feel I'm no closer to the right answer...which actually may be that the Nazis believed in the IE ("Aryan") invasions of Europe, and the later taboo was simply an overreaction against that. And if that's the explanation, then this overreaction was a completely arbitrary one, since the Nazis also believed in stuff like rockets and being nice to dogs and building dams, and the post-war US/UK/French/Soviets also liked these things and created no taboos around them. But sometimes taboos are arbitrary, and perhaps that's what happened in this case.

@ai_sentience @RichardDawkins All of this is downstream of denying the Imago Dei.

the point @RichardDawkins is making is: if Claude can code/do philosophy/engage in conversation and is not conscious and a human with late stage dementia who can't speak is "conscious" then the definition of "conscious" is broken and fundamentally useless which is obvious

@codetaur Christ is King. No man can artifice life in the image of God.

your "claude number" is the version of claude required to peel you off from reality. yes, it's funny that richard dawkins' claude number is only 4.7, but you have one too. maybe it's 12. but maybe its 4.8.

@JacobAShell @xwanyex More narrowly it’s Hobbes vs. Rousseau. Are people “basically good”? There’s a spiritual element to what we call Marxism that is broader than Marx himself. It’s why he was able to sympathize with the French Revolution. They spiritually must believe man has the capacity for utopia

But Marxists have a historically contained definition of capitalism. The Mongols and Spartans and so forth were “not capitalism”—and this is according to Marxists. Youre claiming that Marxists dont believe the Mongols and Spartans were warlike? Cmon, something in this line of explanation (you and 100s others are saying something like this) doesnt make sense

Because it suggests that violence and greed are not products of capitalism

Someone once observed that in any conflict, leftists will always side with whichever demographic causes the most social harm. This creates a hierarchy, with White men (the primary civilization-builders) at the bottom, and third-world Muslims at the top. Here's why how this works. In a healthy society, people who build civilization are revered, and people who cause social harm are despised. And there is a hierarchy that runs in the opposite order, with respect and resources going to those who serve civilization. This creates a natural opportunity for power-hungry subversives. They can recruit each layer of this hierarchy by exploiting their resentment against those above them. All they must do is frame their merit-based status as unearned "privilege". White women were recruited to leftism by stoking their resentment of White men, and promising elevation above them. What the White women were not told is that they would be placed beneath everyone else. Often literally. Black people were recruited by exploiting their resentment of Whites... but they weren't told that every benefit they received would eventually be taken away and given to third world immigrants. Homosexuals were promised elevation above the "breeders" (because children are needed for civilization, and sodomy is not), but no one told them that the trannies would rule over them. And no one told the trannies that Muslim community would be allowed to segregate and oppress them far more brutally than the most ardent of White bigots. The most brutal irony of all is that all of these groups who are recruited to fight for leftism end up far more brutally oppressed that they ever were by mainstream prosocial White society. Because natural civilizational hierarchies are based on contribution. There's a certain amount of prejudice which exists because people can reason inductively, but if you are a mixed race lesbian engineer who can actually who build useful shit, then it's at least possible for people to eventually overcome their surprise, and break you off a nice house in the suburbs and some forbearance wherein people don't really talk about the real relationship between you and your "roommate". Under leftism inverted hierarchies, you have no such chance. Sure, during the transitional phase you'll be elevated for being a mixed-race lesbian, regardless of whether you can do anything useful or not. But then, the Muslims will be allowed to throw you off a roof when it's time to pander to them, in turn. This White (or White-passing) woman probably voted straight democrat and cheered for "MeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeToo", to avenge her resentment against White men in general. She probably never dreamed that she would, in turn, not only be thrown under the bus, but that she would be targeted by the precise same weapons her sisters were given to unseat White men with. And @jk_rowling found out in vivid, larger-than-life detail what happens to White feminists when the left has a new darling to cater to, who can be used to unravel some still-intact piece of civilization. You see, by the early 21st century, the left had no more use for White feminists, because everything the left wanted to use them to destroy was already destroyed. Women were already spending their twenties and thirties on cubicle jobs and abortions, instead of marriages and children. The workforce was already doubled, and the price of labor had already crashed. Fertility rates were already dropping, and people were already marrying late, or never. It was time to recruit a new wrecking ball, to turn against some other corner of the edifice of order, and the price of that was easy to pay... just confiscate everything you once gave them, and give it to the trannies instead. The actual bodies of the White feminists (as well as all other women, and their daughters), could be used again, sold out to third world men who want to rape them, all by simply turning a blind eye. And the best perk of all of this is that they'll still vote for you. Because reversing course requires admitting a mistake.

Bluesky is like if QAnon was exactly like what the people on Bluesky thought QAnon was.

@RufusKnoppers @nonstopbrocock TBF Aang spent 100 of those years in an ice burg.

@No1MarmadukeFan @nonstopbrocock Tbf that was 270 years before Aaangs birth

pretty funny bit

@ChristianHeiens Don’t see why it can’t be a multi factor problem. If you provide an economic incentive to have children out of wedlock for welfare benefits, having children out of wedlock is a spiritual problem, but we shouldn’t incentivize it economically.

South Korea already has much more than that. It has longer parental leave, universal early childcare, monthly child allowances, infant cash payments, paternity leave, maternity leave, and child tax credits. And here’s what’s happened to the county’s birthrate. The idea that birth rates are cratering because we don’t have enough welfare/redistribution programs is absurd. People don’t want kids because they constitute an imposition on one’s life, and we live in an age where all “impositions on life” are treated like a type of tyranny to escape from, not something to celebrate and cherish. The collapsing birth rate is better understood as a spiritual crisis, not an economic one. If money was the thing holding back people from having kids, the US and South Korea would have Niger’s birth rate and Niger would be recording 0 births per woman.

@DBZYuYuYasha @xwanyex All white men under the age of 39 have been wronged by DEI, so you’d better get started righting the wrongs against them right now.

@xwanyex 200 years of oppression. 60 years of privilege. Sure, that balances out. 🙄

There was some tweet the other day that was like, “we can’t pretend any longer that they aren’t coming for Black people” and then as evidence listed attacks on DEI, the elimination of affirmative action, and this latest Supreme Court ruling on voting rights. You’ll see criticisms of welfare or section 8 or rent control included in these complaints. Every single one of these things is a special handout that disproportionately benefits, advantages, and favors black Americans. There really is no truer political aphorism from the last 15 years than, “when you are used to privilege, equality looks like an oppression.

Some mad lad in the UK has the opportunity to make the funniest graffiti in history about now.

赤毛のアンが好き🍀

@mariotwtconfess Daisy would be their big sister and boss them around. youtu.be/f80DcU5D6IE?si…

"I think they should lean more into Daisy being a meaner/badass version of Peach, I think she would be a good counterpart like how Wario and Waluigi are"

ピーチ姫🍑 映画も楽しみに待機中です✨

@CovfefeAnon That New York was the setting that made Dirty Harry an American cultural icon, and the liberals of the day called Eastwood a fascist for portraying the character.

"Jumping head first into a running wood chipper is perfectly safe - the statistics tell you that no one was killed this way over the last decade" People shifted their behavior in response to the "reforms" of people like Matt Yglesias who then pretend that measuring the "crime rate" tells you something useful "Did you know that last year zero people were eaten by the lions at the Bronx Zoo? Therefore it is perfectly safe to jump into the lion enclosure"

Fishermen with dark hair gotta stop falling in love with Merfolk it always turns out bad.

Aslan Yeah Boi's the White Witch But It's Perfectly Cut:

I will be chatting "Creature Tech" by Doug TenNapel on "Monitor Duty" with M.R. Rhys, Twitless, and Cartoonicus. There may be more surprise guests! youtube.com/watch?v=AD4usa…

Fun “East Meets West” movie recommendation. Surprisingly few films have run with the premise of a samurai and cowboy teaming up.

Since we're being forced to do more Hasan Piker discourse, I just need you to watch the greatest Hasan video ever published. Featuring: "Fuck you old lady. Shut the fuck up you stupid fucking idiotic old lady." "Suck my dick old lady." "God damn. Yo, fuck this refugee!"