@Fair_and_Biased @TuckerCarlson Critical Jew Theory is the original Critical Theory.
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Rob Rosenbaum
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Rob Rosenbaum
@robnormal
All philosophy is footnotes to Karl Popper.
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We need to talk about what @TuckerCarlson did with the book of Esther.
He took a story about the intended genocide of Jews and God’s provision to save them & put it through his new lens.
He entirely inverted & reframed their self-defense against attackers as “genocide.”
Then he cast doubt on the book’s inclusion in the Bible at all.
Tucker’s hatred of the Jews seems to be so complete that he rejects God’s story about their defense and survival to make them the villains.
He claims the Persians were killed “for being Persian.”
He spirituality sides with Haman.
It’s the same thing he’s doing with current attacks on the Jews, as well.
The Calvin Coolidge Project@TheCalvinCooli1
🚨Report: Tucker Carlson says The Book of Esther is the most controversial book in the Bible for a long time He says Martin Luther thought it shouldn't have been included in the Bible He claims The Story of Esther is about the “genocide of 75k Persians” x.com/AThinksAloud/s…
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@DavidDeutschOxf I had similar thoughts, but I'd want to see what else the book asks such questions about. My own history books contained things like racist cartoons, and would often ask us to "discuss."
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@robnormal @theisabelb @grok Cf. "A website says 'The Jews are responsible for all wars'. Do you agree?"
Asking them whether they agree is not a get-out-of-lying-free card for teachers.
Some of those dots are demonstrable falsehoods forced on students under colour of authority.
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Teenagers are sharing photos of their AP U.S. Government textbooks, and the sheer amount of indoctrination is wildly disturbing.
Apparently, Barack Obama is ideologically a right wing authoritarian.
Hillary Clinton and George W Bush are entirely indistinguishable politically.
Donald Trump is of course virtually the same as Hitler.
@tedcruz is apparently more radically authoritarian than Fidel Castro AND Joseph Stalin..??!!??
@Linda_McMahon — can we expedite some major changes to American public education?
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Getting some fun pushback, so let's flip it:
Imagine a kid with a passion for an approved topic, say, chemistry. How will she be served by chemistry class, and school in general?
Answer: She'll be an annoyance to her teacher and classmates, class will move glacially slow and with miniscule depth. If she's lucky, the teacher will let her use class time for her own purposes. If she's really lucky, the teacher will work with her after school.
This isn't a point about gifted-and-talented programs, it's a more general point about not only the inability for school to support passions, but their inherent hostility toward them.
Aaron Stupple@astupple
Interesting that school talent shows nearly always display talents not honed in school.
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@politicalmath @DoctoNoisewater What you're saying isn't wrong, you're just morally inferior for saying it.
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@DoctoNoisewater What is your sense of the partisan makeup on Reddit?
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These right wingers are just the biggest fucking snowflakes. Always a victim.
PoIiMath@politicalmath
The partisan lean on Reddit is much worse than this. I guess an ecosystem is only "broken" when the red side can be heard
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@theisabelb Very shocking. @grok is this some fringe publication not representative of what ordinary schools are teaching?
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Rob Rosenbaum retweetledi
"Portal to the rest of the Internet" is key. For years, this site was the front page of a morning paper whose articles were spread all over the web. That isn't *gone*, but management now tries to suppress it & replace it with..."Gunther Eagleman"? "Wall Street Apes"? Come on.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
It can't be *that* hard to create a version of Twitter/X that removes some of the groupthink but still promotes high-quality engagement and content. And is a portal to the rest of the internet rather than a closed ecosystem, always one of the good things about pre-Elon Twitter.
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Before Sunrise is unwatchable because it's so good. It's such a beautiful encapsulation of young iPhoneless love, shot on analog film, a nineties time machine of a mysterious Europe that no longer exists, you feel like you are dying as you watch it.
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@shevereshtus If they're upset by what the Talmud contains, imagine their reaction if they ever hear about the internet.
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I’m always amazed at how confident people who have never even seen a tractate of Talmud in their life feel like they know what’s inside.
⚫️ Black Myth 🔥@Dr_Beeg_Yoshi
@shevereshtus @DogTrainDavid @aidenfknrich Yeah I’ve never physically opened a book that was said to be created in Babylon. What is there to learn from a book that’s having debates about why non Jewish people should be treated as cattle? And Jewish men should be able to have sex with non Jewish children?
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I’ve never had less interest in large swaths of elite culture.
For a while I thought I might miss out on something if I wasn’t paying attention, but, no, all this stuff can be safely ignored.
The New Yorker@NewYorker
In an interview with Andrew Marantz, the novelist and poet Ben Lerner discusses how smartphones “charge the air around us,” what fiction can record that a transcript can’t, and why the book is also a handheld device. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/bvN4bC
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@webdevMason There's no other way to do it. The principles have to be second nature.
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Honestly I think it just rubs them the wrong way that we're obviously doing global hegemony on vibes
Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷@Arrogance_0024
Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.
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"There's no inner self" was setup for this. In 2010, Jaron Lanier prophetically said,
"If you can have a conversation with a simulated person presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you've let your sense of personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you?"
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
I'm calling it. AGI is already here – it's just not evenly distributed yet.
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@ConceptualJames That's the Marxism connection. Both philosophies hold that only material conditions matter, and beliefs are just a facade.
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One of the most interesting features of "Libertarian" thought is their complete incapacity to understand that highly religious people, even in ersatz religions and especially in cults, really believe their beliefs and will live and die by them, no matter what.
Martha Bueno@BuenoForMiami
This war is stupid - as are the rest of the conflicts our government engages in. We should be trading products and ideas and increasing the standard of living around the world instead of destroying civilizations. It’s so shortsighted and evil.
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@politicalmath That said, there is the problem that the technical knowledge produced by scientific civilization can be used by unscientific anti-civilization, as with Iran building a nuclear weapon. In that way, Churchill's quote is spot-on.
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@politicalmath If so, he was equally applying scare quotes to love, peace, pity, and mercy, and I have no idea what he's even saying.
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@gummibear737 >fight authoritarianism head-on
Since Trump took office, how much aid has been send Ukraine's way? This is the same guy that made military aid contingent on doing him personal political favors.
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It’s crucial that all of us in the West never forget how thin the veneer of civilization truly is
Western civilization is built on the tenets of classical liberalism…but it’s precisely these values we live by that make us vulnerable to those who do not reciprocate our tolerance
Tim Soret@timsoret
As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side. You save your pilots no matter the cost. You send humans to the moon. You fight authoritarianism head-on. It's truly inspiring. We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.
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@gummibear737 Classical liberals are not suicidal pacifists. We understand that our way of life needs defending. By force, if necessary.
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@politicalmath Maybe. I've read Lewis on the topic, and he had no trouble distinguishing honest science from self-deceptive, agenda-driven "science," which he rightly decried.
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