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@Krull53835798 @RichardHanania Buddy, the list of idiots, snake oil salesmen, nuts and straight up evil men that Rogan continues to repeatedly platform is long. Idk why you thought Rogan sees through literally any of them.

@RichardHanania Why did he have him back on? I know he’s got his Blindspot, but I thought he figured out that Weinstein was full of Ish. This is madness, after all the stuff he has said on this show, he has him back on.

Imagine your conspiracy theories being so scattered brain that Joe Rogan has to keep you on track.

@jrysana @RichardHanania @beffjezos @razibkhan You have an invisible, intangible teletubby living in your small intestine, do you deny this?

@RichardHanania @beffjezos @razibkhan Illegal immigrants vote illegally overwhelmingly for the Democrat party every single election, do you deny this?

@beffjezos @razibkhan What the hell are you talking about sanctity of elections? Your brain is still captured by racist rightoids.

@renatoparedon @corsaren I remember you losers promising this on election night, lol. You won’t do shit. Just go to a ren faire, larper.

@corsaren Correct. This is why the Right should not commit the same mistake and actually go through the extinction of their enemies upon victory.

There is a common pejorative attack on rwers, hinted at here, which boils down to “they’re just bitter that their liberal friends think they’re scum.” And sure, there is something very funny and self-defeating about “owning the libs to get them to like you”. Moreover, the typical response pattern is often full of vice-signaling, commons-plundering, and all manner of “I don’t care if this hurts me, just so long as it hurts you more” behavior that simply validates those same negative labels to which they so strongly object. It’s childish. It’s grotesque. It’s counterproductive and negative-sum. It is ignobility at its most ignoble. And perhaps most of all, it’s just plain embarrassing. HOWEVER. I think that the widespread appeal of this reactionary behavior ought to serve as a damning indictment of the overall “theory of change” that the 2010s woke movement represented. The theory that, if you leverage cultural power to shun, shame, and banish wrongthink from the domain of acceptable discourse, that this will somehow engender a form of lasting moral and ideological victory—that by making certain viewpoints unacceptable, you would make them unthinkable. This theory of change, misguided as it was to begin with, culminated in a mass cultural backlash, the first and second term of Donald Trump, and a reactionary movement so hellbent on revenge that they have willingly destroyed an immense amount of valuable institutional capital just for the chance to inflict a similar degree of anguish upon what they see as their oppressors. By any reasonable metric, this must be considered an abject failure. This failure should have been foreseeable. In a political system in which everyone’s vote is equal and private, and a new media landscape that eschews top-down enforcement of norms, instead rewarding self-radicalizing echo chambers and simclusters, this strategy is predictably disastrous. Ideologies which are not allowed to participate the light of open debate will merely fester in the dark. Ancient societies that committed wholesale massacre of the defeated, brutal as they were, at least understood this simple principle: if you want lasting victory, your enemies must either be captured, convinced (i.e., integrated), or killed. Silence is not an option. They will not go quietly into that good night. Slaves without shackles will always revolt once they locate the power to do so, and in doing so they will rarely take care to maintain the prudent constructs of their former masters. They will simply burn it all to the ground. My current theory of politics is that the #1 problem with our system today is the hollowing out of the conservative movement. In a way, the memetic power of wokeness did succeed in vanquishing traditional conservative ideas from the domain of elite discourse. But if conservative ideas are universally treated as vile, stupid, and evil, then the only men who will remain to champion them will be those who embrace such labels. And in the absence of a Reagan or Friedman or Romney to root for, the shunned masses will search for salvation in men like Trump. If they cannot see themselves in Captain America, they will simply embrace Homelander.

@ultra_quiet @corsaren Do what yourselves? This is delusion. And a confirmation that it IS in fact ideology. There’s zero pragmatism in the cult, who changes espoused beliefs with each new Truth Social diatribe. Do WHAT yourselves? No new wars? Investigate Epstein? Lower grocery prices? DO WHAT?

@corsaren I'm glad for the attempt, but this still shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what MAGA is. It's not a ideological movement. It's pragmatic. It's not about revenge, except that the best form of revenge is to win. It's about acceptance. "Hate us, then. We'll do it ourselves".

@renatoparedon @SpectoCustodes @corsaren Yes. The side with no national power whatsoever is “abusing” you. Not the architects of Jan 6th. Not Epstein’s buddy. Not the “no new wars” war-starter. Not the people who promised cheaper groceries. It is, somehow, the lame duck dem normies.

@SpectoCustodes @corsaren You don`t understand that you are the abusive asshole who must be dealt with.

@TobyOnnist5 @SpectoCustodes @corsaren Brother if you don’t recognize that the bulk of popular right wing discourse revolves around trans people and a celebration of Trump’s dumbest, most hateful rhetoric then you’ve got your hands over your eyes.

@SpectoCustodes @corsaren It’s this fever dream fantasy gaslighting misrepresentation of your opponents that makes you so insufferable

@jaytjaytx @corsaren I’m not sure what you disagree with in the OP. You’re who he’s talking about (albeit a standard deviation more intelligent than the avg). You’re not wrong re: the sins of the elite. But you’re dangerously wrong about burning everything. Hence, why everything is worse now.

This is a good post, and I appreciate you expressing your thoughts. This ideological chasm you're describing is not conservative vs liberal, democrat vs republican, or anything like that. It's Institutional Elitism vs Populism. The same energy that culminated in Mr. Trump's election also powered Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders. You may be surprised that many of Trump's voters were former Bernie supporters. It wasn't the populists who burned all existing institutional capital. They did it to themselves. From rampant online censorship to people and events reported for maximum emotional impact, every institution became deeply corrupted by more and more absurd ideology. An ideology championed by our supposed intellectual elites. We tried Romney, remember? "Binders full of women" became a slur, somehow. Populists didn't cause the replicability crisis. Populists didn't cause Ivy League colleges to discriminate against Whites and Asians. Populists didn't turn every single piece of media into the 'Two Minutes Hate.' People aren't mad because they identified with Homelander, they're mad because a genuinely terrifying villain played by an incredible actor was reduced to yet another ideological smear. Yes, this is petty. All of this would have been dismissed as 'lol the coasts are insane,' but the damage this ideology did is too visceral and real to ignore forever. Populism isn't a long-term solution. It's a diagnostic, short-term, loose coalition that doesn't come with answers. I don't know how to get NATO to pull their head out of their ass or how to get manufacturing back stateside. I don't know how to fix the problem of terrible morale in our youth (I'd provide polls as evidence, but 2016 showed us what polls are worth.) What I do know is that the people leading this country have brought us to a world where "it's okay to be White" is an irredeemably racist thought, worthy of losing your job. And those people - and their institutions - need to be burned to the ground.

@adam_aerosol @corsaren A hint? Genuinely curious.

@corsaren "This theory of change, misguided..." There was no theorizing. The behaviours you are describing are not the product of some kind of theory. I don't think I'm allowed to say what the real cause of this behaviour is in a thread of this politeness, but you should think about it.

@corsaren One of those once-or-twice-a-year tweets that feels slightly ahead of everyone else in correctness and description. I love when someone puts into words thoughts I myself have had only in abstract.👍

@meta_x_ai @Noahpinion “Relentless attack from Dems led to arms of Trump” is the one metric. Fuck tech, how bout everything else? And Trump 1 wasn’t good. It was a mess kept in check. Capped off by an attempted coup.

@SaintGrimace @Noahpinion What one metric? Trump is a high class moron surrounded by sycophantic losers. Trump 1.0 -- Good Trump 2.0 -- Disaster of Epic proportions permanently damaging GOP, Capitalism, Free Markets and his own brand. GOP will take years to recover from Trump

If Trump kicking the Tech Right in the nuts doesn't put an end to the Tech Right, I don't know what would

@meta_x_ai @Noahpinion Why would you vote according to this one metric alone? You give that little of a shit about your country and other people?

There was never Tech Right per se. What happened was the relentless attack on Tech by Progressives/Democrats and Tech ran from that into the arms of Trump. Trump has already driven those same people (E.g Me) to someone else. We are just looking for someone sane (Marco, Shapiro). But we also know the parties will once again choose partisan hacks in their primaries. So, we just have to pick lesser of the two evils

@johnnyboy24770 @Nayberryk @tradslvt @CivGame Ironic since low IQ anti-semitism on X is literally the haven of low human capital. You people define the white side of LHC.

@Nayberryk @tradslvt @CivGame I agree, it is declining human capital. That said the entire studio declined on numerous metrics including the project leads, corporate management, even the devs themselves who worked on older titles. Cannot all be explained by material factors

.@CivGame i hate your quotes so much. i spent an hour researching this one because it was stupid enough to warrant it, and it turns out mogens jallberg is some guy that posted coal on a forum in the 90s. i hate you who the fuck is mogens jallberg

@Verissimus55 @JezCorden Confidently calling other people retards about a thing you’re wrong about. Nothing like Twitter, baby.

This is horrifying lol.

@CaiusReborn @SeeRacists “Cope harder” brother it’s YOUR dumbass little buddy in prison lmao. You’re literally crying while telling other people to cope. Unbelievable the IQ of the online right.

@SeeRacists Video recording of him being attacked. Self defense. Cope harder

🚨 Courthouse shooter — Chud the builder had body armor, rifle, shotgun, and a ticket to Istanbul before shooting man outside court He had his bond reduced to $1 million after detectives found body armor, multiple firearms, ammunition, and an airline ticket to Istanbul in his possession following a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse. The victim was at the courthouse for a child support hearing at the time of the shooting. Eatherly now faces charges including attempted murder and employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. Was he planning a mass shooting? 🤔

@FamineXv @hasanthehun Bot ass reply

@hasanthehun Yea, see the problem with this is EVERYONE IS DOING IT, so it needs to be across the board. Can't get mad trump is doing the same thing dem's have been doing for years lol

highway robbery

@JamesCostopoul1 @RichardHanania Trump was found guilty of crimes. He has committed much more crimes than that and it is a stain on this country that Garland dragged his feet. Also you wrote “his supporters” instead of “cultists who committed treason” you fucking retard.

@RichardHanania Um, wasn't it the Biden Justice Department that tried to imprison Donald Trump and did imprison many of his supporters? Isn't it Democrats who want to expand the Supreme Court in order to seize power? One could go on, but you get the idea.

He’s talking about Democrats. Democrats are the ones who want to imprison their enemies. No, seriously. This is what he says. It’s hard to think of a dumber way to be right wing.

@KRandall4505 @MissVioletShade Jesus Christ this is the dumbest comment I’ve read in weeks that’s saying something.

@SaintGrimace @MissVioletShade Bungie hasn’t made the last half of the halo games You tried tho

Joe Ziegler's Marathon blog post is MEATY with LOADS to unpack. For me, I am excited there is talks of Season 5 and beyond, but a big point of contention... PvE. Yes, the game needs it to bring more players in and I am 100% on board. BUT, Bungie has a big task on their hand CONVERTING these PvE players to the PvP activities and most importantly... the end game. At the rate by which the player health pool is right now, splitting the player base even more could be really really bad. The matches and queue times for the other playlists would be more unbearable than they are now. If Bungie can figure out how to draw the magic out of the PvE player, and make them engage in other content, it could be fantastic. But if the PvE players stick strictly to their PvE experience well... the rest of us are cooked. Time will tell. 🐛

@JaySage756 @notAyker Yes. I’m up against literal hell spawn whenever I run cryo.

@notAyker once you hit level 80-100 the matchmaking in this game becomes nothing short of suffering. i love this game to death and had the absolute best time prior to level 80. anything after that is struggling.

genuinely having the worst time doing solo compiler the pool of players i run into is the literal worst

@KRandall4505 @MissVioletShade Ah yes, Halo, the looter shooter

@MissVioletShade Marathon should’ve never been an extraction shooter and the she/hers at bungie are morons for thinking it was a good idea Bungie makes looter shooters its what they’re good at

@Geechygeech @MissVioletShade Your RL friends are idiots with dogshit taste.

@MissVioletShade Not convinced people aren’t playing it because there’s no PVE mode tbh. In my RL friends chat (all gamers, and we usually like the same games), they all say stuff like “graphics looks shit” and “I hate the blocky models” etc. The game simply didn’t appeal to them at face value.