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@conor64 @SwipeWright Correct. If the graph was accurate the right side would be stretching outwardly nearly as hard as the left side is, leaving “me” much closer to “center”.

@SwipeWright To me, the right of today seems very different than the right of 2008.

My updated cartoon is unfortunately still relevant.

@HazelAppleyard This is fascinating because this is a dude who REALLY DOES WANT TO BE ON ESTROGEN. As a straight man I cannot imagine wanting to have sex with men or take estrogen. But this datapoint indicates to me that this isn’t a completely made up thing.

He’s saying the quiet part out loud. No one is surprised.

@Outstanden68 @robkhenderson A dude calls for spilling blood in the street, you’re the one who says that’s not murder, and somehow I am the illiterate one. You people are un-fucking believable.

@mat85339 @robkhenderson Oh no i'm not even sure how you typed these replies if you are that illiterate😂

These are the people telling you to go shoplifting as they sit in the comfort of their podcast studios and multi-million dollar homes. Incredible.

@Outstanden68 @robkhenderson And there it is: Killing vile capitalist landlords isn’t murder. You’re not mad because I was wrong about people waiting for tribal permission to start the purge. You’re mad because you heard the description and recognized yourself.

@mat85339 @robkhenderson yes Rock. Frustration with the vile capitalist pigs that horde our wealth at the top is not calling for someones murder. Do you know how free speech works? As an American am I not allowed to say "Pedophiles should be executed"? is that a call for murdering pedos?

@Outstanden68 @robkhenderson He doesn’t promote murder? What do you call this? x.com/EndWokeness/st…

@mat85339 @robkhenderson He does not promote murder. That's why I'm locking in on your ability to ignore the connection between civility and genocide. If he did advocate for murder Twitch would have banned him as they have when he has "heated gamer moments". It's not my fault you're take is so bitchmade

@Outstanden68 @robkhenderson If the “Twitch streamer” is worth listening to, and even celebrating, for “speaking out against genocide” then he’s equally worth criticizing for promoting murder. You’re too scatter brained to follow your own logic, dude.

@mat85339 @robkhenderson I'm angry at the Times for covering up the actions of our genocidal government. I'm disappointed in you, Rock, because you have no stake in the game but support their agenda in painting someone who HAS spoken out against genocide as dangerous when HE IS A TWITCH STREAMER!

@Outstanden68 @robkhenderson Are you as angry at NYT for interviewing the guy in the first place as you are at me for commenting on what it might tell us about the dude's followers?

@mat85339 @robkhenderson No Rock. I am making a point which you aren't refuting because you don't want to admit your priorities are fucked

@Outstanden68 @robkhenderson "You're only allowed to talk about the topics I want you to talk about."

@mat85339 @robkhenderson Yes Rock. I am talking about Israel-Gaza though because you are ignoring the fact that this is entirely manufactured outrage and there is real suffering happening in the world while you are worried about a twitch streamer.

@Outstanden68 @robkhenderson I'm not talking about Israel-Gaza. I'm talking about (a) January 6 rioters on the right, and (b) Hasan Piker who endorses murdering health insurance CEOs and landlords. Hasan is effectively giving his audience permission to begin the purge: x.com/EndWokeness/st…

@mat85339 @robkhenderson You're saying that civilization is not as "civilized" as you assumed it was and saying these audiences are waiting for a purge which is not true. However, there has been a genocide being perpetrated by the civilization that you just now think might not be so civil. You're a rock

@Outstanden68 @robkhenderson No, I don’t think individuals should carry out the purge.

@mat85339 @robkhenderson So it didn't change the calculus for you got it!

@Outstanden68 @robkhenderson I’m talking about individuals living in the west, not nation-states.

@mat85339 @robkhenderson Did a livestreamed genocide not break that illusion of civility for you?

@olivertraldi What you’re really talking about is right-wing anti-intellectualism vs left-wing pseudo-intellectualism.

When I say that left anti-intellectualism is more pernicious than right anti-intellectualism insofar as left anti-intellectuals disguise themselves as genuine intellectuals, it's people like this I have in mind.

@PanOfSeamen @soncharm @HistoryBoomer It’s called society. And the monetary aspect of society is called economics. That’s it.

@soncharm @HistoryBoomer So what one-word title do we use for it instead?

Why do Marxists call this "late-stage capitalism"? How do they know? This is the first time we've had capitalism. How can we know its life cycle? Maybe capitalism will go on for a thousand years! Maybe this is middle or even early-stage capitalism! Don't rush capitalism!

@soncharm @DeadManOnAStick @HistoryBoomer The propaganda has been so total, so effective, they have no clue just how thoroughly captivated they are.

@DeadManOnAStick @HistoryBoomer You sure?

@tracewoodgrains MAGA and Piker are making me think civilization’s civility is a thinner veneer than we admit. Apparently a lot of people are just waiting for their tribe to hand them a permission slip for The Purge.

it must be so cool to be a Marxist and know that whenever you have a psychopathic urge, someone else has already dressed the same urge up as Theory so you can celebrate murder and then call people rubes when they object

@mattyglesias He’s as fake as Trump. And he has direct access to the id of the outraged left just as Trump has to the outraged right.

It also all seems incredibly fake, like he’s a comfortable Twitch streamer and niche internet celebrity not an underground revolutionary. God forbid people in the audience don’t get that it’s all a joke and actually head out and do crimes.

I’m against shunning as a strategy and I think Democrats should appear on as many shows as possible, including Hasan Piker’s — but all of his takes on serious issues seem awfully dumb and I’m not sure I understand the determination to raise his prominence.

@jessesingal If you watch the interview the women giggle with glee at his casual outlaw chic transgressivity. They're the left-wing version of red-pilled 4channers.

oh man he's so cool and relatable

@sneed_emmanuel @charlesmurray Did he denounce the memo? Where was that? This is the last thing I recall Pinker saying about Damore, which seemed to be pretty supportive: youtube.com/watch?v=a2-JOI…

@charlesmurray Why did Pinker withdraw his support from the James Damore memo? Seems like pure self interest and wanting to be liked by liberals rather than "no I need to do this in order to continue using my position to subtly spread the truth". Pinker hasn't pushed any envelopes since then

It's just a realpolitik reality: The only HBD works that the left reads are ones by accepted liberals who tiptoe through the tulips. That's the reason Steve Pinker didn't deal candidly with the state of knowledge about race in The Blank Slate. The payoff was wide readership of his documentation of heritability for a wide variety of traits and for gene-related sex differences. Unlike Reich, Pinker did not unjustly diss other researchers by name, but the tiptoeing was for the same purpose in both cases. And I'm glad they did it for the same reason @jamespsychol is (albeit while continuing to be dismayed by Reich's covering his ass by throwing others under the bus).

@wesyang It seems clear that the university system is the source, and only government can shut off the spigot.

Every moronic left wing nostrum that can only result in failure is given a decade long runway before we acquire enough data to confirm that it was a failure and then meekly retreat until the next moronic nostrum to invest a decade of time and money in pursuing emerges. The urgent necessity that no one knows how to do is to shut down this pipeline before it can inflict a decade of further harm.