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You are a thousand years before you and you are a thousand years after you.

Katılım Nisan 2023
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Fractal
Fractal@harmaceutics·
@ssphinxe Good Twitter posters are adapted to a very different discursive enviroment from TikTok, because the former allows for text-heavy long-form content that can't compete in the latter. Not that they couldn't do well there, but they'd have to make a lot of adjustments.
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sφinx@ssphinxe·
If good X posters migrated to TikTok (*and were attractive) they would instantly dominate its "intellectual" side. The quality of discourse and takes is kindergarden level. They're still explaining who Epicurus was
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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@alpecneretos Did he? I don't recall any of Partisan's takes containing as much venom towards women as the median ASIF post.
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Fractal@harmaceutics·
The take in question isn't even wrong. But every once in a while you see some bottom feeder regurgitate stuff like "Maybe it's the Nerds that are bad and the Jocks that are good!" and act like it's a revolutionary breakthrough instead of the existing consensus.
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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@HaeckelGroyper In this framework, nationalism is related but distinct malady from state-worship, and in Moldbugland neither exists as a significant force.
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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@HaeckelGroyper Not quite. Early Moldbug believed democracies try to impose state-worship because it's a successful strategy under such conditions; a monarchy where power isn't dependent on popular electoral support wouldn't "need" state-worship.
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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@FemBias Not happening in ten billion years. Feminism can only be dismantled by the same means by which it was imposed, which is state power.
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Female Bias@FemBias·
The damage inflicted by feminism over three generations cannot be undone within a single one. Above all, feminists must first acknowledge their guilt and accept their share of responsibility. Yet our society is already failing at this very first step.
꧁aleksa꧂@alasky__

Almost every woman over 30 I’ve spoken to in the past few years feels some version of the same thing: feminism has failed us somewhere along the way, and made men increasingly passive, hesitant, and unwilling to take initiative. How do we course-correct from here?

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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@alpecneretos Makes sense. I'd still expect two peoples who speak the same language or at least a very similar one to feel some kinship with each other.
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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@alpecneretos Would you say it's more wrong than considering (Anglo-)Americans to be British?
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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@koomerdotwav Maybe that's part of it, but let's not pretend things like this weren't discussed before Thirdworldification went in full swing.
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Octavian 🇪🇺@posta_octavian·
One reason why conservatives (and right wingers) hate Hegel is that the entire conservative intellectual sphere is all about one-upping each other with increasingly absurd and obscure points in history where everything supposedly went wrong. The rightoids love this stuff because it LOOKS like an explanation for where everything comes from, it's comforting and demystifies the world for them, so the cattle are very impressed when Dyer blames it all on nominalism, Peterson on postmodernism, Prager U on Marxism, Irvin Babbitt on Rousseau, etc. But seeing ideas as necessary answers to problems and contradictions of their time, as part of the historical development of thought, as Hegel did, makes it impossible to participate in this absurd race to the bottom. Nominalism was simply an attempt to answer the problem of universals, which was a real problem which needed a real answer. You cannot expect people to just stop thinking or to stop looking for answers at some arbitrary moment I'm time because you don't like what they come up with to solve contradictions or problems. A proper right winger is someone like Otto von Bismarck. Did he like German nationalism? No. But he made it subservient to Prussian interests and tamed it. Did he like liberalism? No, but he knew he couldn't pretend it wasn't an important force in society and managed them through parliament and mass enfranchisement. Did he like socialism? No, but he knew it responded to the misery of the working classes so he introduced social welfare, etc. He was successful because he recognised that these ideas have their necessary existence. Rather than try to fight them as these aberrations that shouldn't, he mastered them.
Defiant Ghost@TheDefiantGhost

Jay Dyer on Tucker Carlson: How Medieval Philosophy Nominalism created modern transgender ideology: “Nominalism is the idea that there are only names to things, not essences. So there’s no human nature. No dog nature. The ancient world believed things have real essences. Words described metaphysical reality. Occam started denying that. It influenced Luther. Then Hume, Kant, the Enlightenment… If things don’t have essences, then they don’t have genders objectively — everything is just a name. So I can just name myself he, him, Zer, Z. That’s the logical train from medieval philosophy to postmodern gender ideology. It flies in the face of lived experience. You basically have to be indoctrinated to believe it.”

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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@Manulisten Today I learned that Massa is the studio that made Ongezellig and not a reference to how black slaves pronounced "master".
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Manulisten 🌊⛈️@Manulisten·
Day 18 of starving myself until Massa announces the continuation of Ongezellig
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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@M__Fromage The usual explanation is that women are more gratuitously cruel online because they don't have to worry about the possibility of phyiscal retaliation the way they do IRL.
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Monsieur Souris@M__Fromage·
The cruelty of women is mostly seen online, in the wanton desire to treat guys confessing interest as infragile and deserving of public shaming, I wager these posts have created more incels than physical in person rejections.
Monsieur Souris@M__Fromage

If women stop "cruelly" rejecting men then is the problem solved? Let's say they stop rejecting men entirely, does the mere "yes" necessarly entail something leading all the way up to reproduction that isn't abusive to children?

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Aidan Simardone@AidanSimardone·
Europeans want African minerals, African oil, African cocoa, African coffee, African labor, but they don't want Africans
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Fractal@harmaceutics·
@Gnihcres I do this with almost everything I buy.
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His Nibs, Yungmun@Gnihcres·
Perfectly good people. A White family owned business. But every time you buy alcohol you’re offering a little insight into your life to whoever happens to be watching. Which doesn’t sit right with me.
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His Nibs, Yungmun@Gnihcres·
I’m rotating liquor stores because the fellows at the one by my house are becoming too chummy with me.
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