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when Kanye said "i keep it 300 like the romans", it was actually a reference to the roman numeral CCC, which stands for cartesian closed categories, whose internal logic is simply typed lambda calculus. casual listeners largely missed this

@slurplebrained time to book the London ticket

I got into UK politics because I wanted to draw comparisons. I wanted to become more worldly. I wanted to learn from them Now my timeline is mostly this

@ShadowyZephyr @Ancapta transgenderism is good just like transracialism

@Ancapta @qualiascript y'all are both wrong tbh

Something very misogynistic about the idea that womanhood is just something you can choose to adopt, like it's a joke, as if women aren't marginalized and suffering due to men like us all over the globe

@Ancapta im a homosexual

@qualiascript oh you're just an incel LMAO

@Ancapta because second wave feminism is a dead meme and women are systemically advantaged in every way in western society

@qualiascript why is it "bullshit"

@hkozachkov @TossitRambles @tracewoodgrains it's not even that it's an unreasonable demand per se, to be tribal is to be human and i cannot fault anyone for putting their kin first but my kin is the WEIRD world, and its biggest threat is the "Civil Rights" regime and the gradual turn towards a neo-feudal millet system

Not trying to pick a fight here, but this is a baffling thread. This entire thing casually presupposes treating these individuals not as countrymen first but as members of a racial affinity group. Respectfully: No. The more that this is accepted as a natural and neutral frame in this country, the more over it is. To my last breath I will reject this critical collectivist first step of treating these fellow citizens as a blob with racial interests. It's a destructive and counterproductive way of thinking about and talking about things and using it is a choice. It doesn't matter if some large fraction of ostensibly members of the affinity group *want* to be treated this way--it is still bad for this country and for all the people in it, including those demanding to be viewed this way. We should continue fighting it. When my coethnics want to be treated as Jews first and Americans second, that is also extremely bad and shouldn't be accepted as the natural framing of any topic. I understand the tendency--and I reject it. (Also, this thread also seems to conflate *caring* with *performance of caring*. Which are we talking about? If it's the first, then it's pretty insulting to assume that your audience doesn't already care about the individuals in question. But if it's the second, how is that not a demand for pandering?)

I'm sympathetic to classically liberal views of race, but people in my broad camp tend to simply lament that black Americans, by and large, are not persuaded rather than asking why not. Why did socialists win black support? because they cared in a way classical liberals did not

i don't like being seen as "highly intelligent" because it always feels like it somehow leads to "you're so smart, how come you cant do X" and it's like, i just can't ok?

I am founding a new political ideology. a sort of third path forward. not right, not left, but really really really far right

@greegle_mudzone i mean in my case street criminals, thugs and highly impulsive people are just in my out-group, and i don't really care if it's like 95% associated with low IQ, but it's not the IQ itself that is what i have a problem with, but the empirical anti-social behavior they display

@qualiascript There is a qualitative change around 100-110 whereafter the tensions that arise are less likely to be violent. The annoyance that the 150 feels when surrounded by 120's isn't characterized by physical threat.

the IQ obsession among midwits is always so entertaining to me. they behave like middle schoolers who discovered they can say "fuck"

@greegle_mudzone thats fair, but its not like the 150 guy (i dont think im at that level to be clear) is unaware of the existence of the <100's, or in denial about it. it's more so that it would just be needlessly "punching down", which you quickly learn is really frowned upon socially

@qualiascript Not just professionally, also casually. I'm somewhere around 115, maybe 120 max. I've worked service jobs, manual labour. You do get tired of dealing with people who can't tie their shoes or juggle hypotheticals. Then it stings when the illuminated look down on, outperform you.

@wylfcen surely depends on how you define "racism" right? assigning moral valence to biodiversity is itself an unfalsifiable claim

It’s funny that anti-racists have ironclad faith in what is basically an unfalsifiable social science theory.

the most annoying part about burnout recovery for me is that it just sorta shifts my personality towards the worse my brain is still geared towards threat detection, which makes me more defensive and negative than i usually am

@atlanticesque lots of confusion in the cross-British cultural context with "Asian grooming gangs"

Indian people seem to think that when white Americans say "Asian people" we might be including them This is not so

@adastroworld i remember we argued about something once, idk what it was, but from what i remember the answer is yes

Poll: would you describe me as “intelligent”? Context in replies

@thewreathwright like cool, we're all tech bros, autistic, adhd, heterodox libs, we all are high-decoupling about social norms and high-agency. i get it, it's very cool and smart. too bad we're also homo sapiens who have lizard-brain desires for genuine connection and authenticity this is denying

@thewreathwright im not going to dignify the "larping as a normie" thing with an answer. you keep talking about discursive norms, yet you immediately take my claim of "it's good to disconnect sometimes" as a mere larp. it's just all so tiring at this point, the whole tpot performativity layer

i get told im "part of tpot" but shit like "consensual waterboarding" is just baffling to me like this makes me feel like a well-adjusted normie by comparison, what's the point of "touching grass" if you're still performing transgressiveness? where is the off-switch?

@TossitRambles @urbit i still dont know what urbit does, and at this point i assume it's a big prank

@urbit your time has come