The Real Ben Garrison

@johnmsteele @SunWeatherMan What do you mean it popped? Nova?

@SunWeatherMan 20 years is generous in my estimate, the nearest coreward star popped 2 years ago and is less than 16 ly away. Our system is already encountering the wave front...

You don't get it. The magnetic field is about 20 years from reversal and half the planet is going to die. "Sir this is a supercuts"

@unlimited_ls How is that second degree murder?

🚨JUST IN: Man who pointed a gun at a one-year-old child and said "it’s time to die" while "high on mushrooms" before shooting and killing his father, pleads guilty to second-degree murder Tamarius Blair Davis, 27, walked up to a patio on Ocean Drive and shot 21-year-old Dustin Wakefield Wakefield, who was visiting Miami from Colorado with his family, was killed while trying to protect his 1-year-old son during the attack Davis told police he was high on mushrooms A witness said he appeared to be dancing over the victim’s body right after the shooting

@justalexoki It's incredible watching the snark that comes from midwits who don't understand.

@hollowearthterf No. I just hate implausible hypotheticals, as they go against what a hypothetical means. It's also clearly pointed towards my own dispossesion of things I believe were meant to be mine.

Americans are allergic to the idea of luck, they have to believe everything they have they earned or were born deserving of because they’re special

@VivaldiVril Then push force return of masculinity. Who's pushing against it, though? You have to deal with that, first.

At the core of the marriage crisis is a masculinity crisis, which itself is a maturity crisis, a deficit of seriousness, and emotional and physical skill. Everyone wants to live in an advanced, high-trust society. No one wants to be part of the human machinery that holds it up.

@StefanMolyneux Stefan, I've always thought your view of reversion to the mean was lacking. They don't fall the the mean of the race, they fall to the mean of the families.

Do you understand immigration? Let us say that you import the top ten thousand tallest Chinese people – what will the height of their children be in 3-4 generations?

@xwanyex "But what if they did come out a pot roast? Wouldn't that be an interesting and insightful situation?"

If you put all the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies in the oven and bake for 15 minutes, then whatever else you want to say about the subjective experience of the cookies, it’s not luck that they didn’t come out a pot roast

@atlaz_chugged @xwanyex "What if everything about you and your birth were completely different?" Then you wouldn't be you.

@xwanyex Lmao what is this cope, man? Just be consistent. If you can “reject the premise” of the “what if you were born different” question on the grounds that you weren’t, consistency demands accepting that the response “but i did eat breakfast” is a premise rejection by the same logic.

You can tell that the “breakfast question” green text really got to a lot of people, because they’re dying for an opportunity to turn it around on their enemies, not to refute it, but to harness its power

@CalOccupied @SlumRNA_Dog This guy has great facial structure and blue eyes, though. They guy in OP was no where near that attractive.

@SlumRNA_Dog Women ovulated over this mugshot of Jeremy Meeks years ago. Guy was a certified piece of shit. And then of course Ted Bundy who got double credit for being a good looking serial killer. Women aren’t rational creatures.

My wife was watching this documentary last night and it is a really good case study on how once a guy gets to be like a 9.10 and 6’5” women’s frontal lobes sort of shut down and they revert to a childlike-state and stop being able to think critically at all.

@dannycantalk Hypotheticals are real plausible scenarios.

How would you feel if you couldn't understand hypotheticals?

@justalexoki No. You can imagine what they're going through or thinking, though.

so it all just comes down to basic empathy i guess. can you imagine being someone else or not? "i couldn't be someone else" sure whatever, but can you imagine it?

@TrueSlazac Having breakfast is some you can do. Being you and born in a random person's body from a random tribe in a random place is not. It simply wouldn't be you.

“What if you were born in Sudan” “But I was born in America” “I know, it’s a hypothetical, how would you feel if you were born in Sudan” “But that’s impossible, I was born in America”

@Smirkley "What if you were born a dog or cow?"

Rewrite: Are liberals all secretly religious? There are hypotheticals that sounds meaningful but aren’t. “Imagine you were born Sudanese.” “Imagine if you were a vicious killer.” “imagine if you were a cow.” These feel like fine thought experiments but they’re not because the “I” doing the imagining has been completely replaced. “What if you were born in the 1800s” is probably just as impossible as being born Sudanese, but it’s a valid thought experiment. It works because I’m still in it. I have the same genome and brain but just different circumstances. The instrument is constant. I’m still here. That’s the actual test. Circumstances can vary as much as you like, era, wealth, location, whether I ate breakfast. The same “I” survives and is still doing the reasoning. But if you swap the fucking genome and brain, the “I” in the sentence no longer refers to me. The subject has been replaced but grammar pretends otherwise. This means the thought experiment hasn’t put me in someone else’s shoes. It’s put someone else in the sentence where I used to be, and then asked me to draw conclusions about justice or empathy based on that person’s simulated preferences.

@srnorty @ArtemisConsort Hypothetical are thing that can happen, but didn't. You can't be you and born into some random other tribe persons body.

@ArtemisConsort You're gonna post this then soon afterwards post something claiming that stupid people can't grasp hypotheticals, and never see the irony.

What if Mt. Everest had been born a small hill in Tennessee? It’s so lucky it got to be a big mountain instead.

@MurrayHillGuy1 Get her to pay l, saying he'll pay her back, then escalate or bail.

My friend changed his Hinge job title from “Account Executive” (what he actually is) to “Founder at Fortune 500 company” as a joke Went from maybe 3 likes a week to 150+ matches in under a month Has a date tonight with a girl way out of his league He said he’s thinking about “coming clean” on the date I told him absolutely not What’s the move here?

@SpookdBlog I hope you mean none of them were prosecuted because you did the right thing to them.

Two of my sons were ambushed by bunches of black thugs One was in a back brace for 6 months The other was in the hospital for a year w 32 brain contusions The black tactic is to knock down a white kid & commence kicking/stomping on the victims head. None of the blacks were prosecuted

@BostonSatire I was alarmed by it not happening fast enough a decade ago.

Young men are radicalizing online at alarming rates. To understand the appeal of the manosphere, we interviewed a Yale grad at an oat-milk-only coffee shop in Newport who explained that what these men really need is to be called racist and sexist even more often

@jew4youtoo @PLPDinamarca @justalexoki Individuals don't actually exist. We are part of a whole.

@PLPDinamarca @justalexoki Collectivists are unable to comprehend the concept of being an individual. You can frame it from a purely scientific perspective if you want, but it's also a psychological and philosophical fact that we are individuals. We cannot take credit for our ancestors actions.

at least 100 replies here mention some variation of "ur not a soul who rolled a dice with what body to inhabit. you're you because of ur parents". where is this coming from? it's all too similar for it to be genuine. who started this idea? why?

@jew4youtoo @justalexoki When you understand the human organism you have to come to terms with being part of a whole, not an individual. We are only the continued living embodiment of our heritage, and part of a tribe. Existing by ourselves cannot come to happen without these things.

@justalexoki It stems from a collectivist mindset. That you are not an individual but instead equivalent to the ancestors that came before you. Any righteous action they took is yours, and any wicked action they took is also yours... Collectivists are retarded.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @justalexoki True. The soul and spirit are intertwined with DNA. Look at research on people who remember past lives and they are always in people of the same tribe. Blood carries the soul.

Put a 100 marbles in a jar, 14 blue marbles to represent the population of the West, and 86 red marbles to represent everyone else. If you draw a marble, blindly and at random, from the jar, you have a 14% chance of drawing a blue marble. This how @justalexoki sees the moment of conception. He thinks he is a random generic soul, fresh from the Well of Random Generic Souls, drawing a marble from the jar. 14% blue, 86% red. But you don't draw the marble. You are the marble. A blue marble only has a 14% chance of being selection in a random draw. But, in or out of the jar, a blue marble has a 100% chance of being blue. This is the Seagull Test, which is an inversion of the Breakfast Test. The Breakfast Test requires you to describe a hypothetical timeline where you skipped breakfast this morning, to prove you can imagine hypotheticals. The Seagull Test requires you to reject the question "What if you were a seagull?" as a nonsense question, to prove that you understand the difference between valid and nonsense hypotheticals. You can skip breakfast and still be you, but there is no version of you that can be a seagull, and no seagull that can, in any meaningful way, be you. To pass the Seagull Test, you must reject the question and refuse to answer, or, better yet, reframe the question so that it asks for the intended information in a coherent way, i.e. "What does it feel like to be a seagull?" Which is a very, very different question. I can, with good observational data and some intelligent speculation, possibly understand the thoughts and feelings of a Pakistani brick layer. But I cannot be one in any coherently possible universe, because I am, by definition, me. A blue marble.