love that my options for who owns WB is a middling slop factory that wants to optimize Citizen Kane for people watching it while taking a shit and the world's largest private donor to the IDF who wants to turn CNN into a 24/7 Israeli-Trump informercial. Freedom to choose babyeee

Why do we need to pit two bad bitches against each other

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China is absolutely spanking us

Substack weirdo: We must build a rigid hierarchy where everyone is locked into the role for which their biology innately suits them. Most will be slaves, and the brilliant shall rule as gods [Chud who thinks he’s 135 IQ]: oh HELL yeah brother [Chud who tested 90]: hold on now,

Tbh this is a huge reason why so many people are so enamored with IQ; they all imagine themselves to be in the top 5%. If you actually made everyone get an IQ test, support for IQ-race-realism style politics would crater instantly.

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It is an open secret that multicultural conviviality is quite basic and common across large swathes of Anglo-America. That is why there is such a determined effort to propagandize against it.

As it turns out, nostalgia about the time when I was in *my* early 20s is entirely reasonable and accurate, unlike other nostalgia-slop. What an interesting coincidence.

it’s too late: i have already portrayed you as scheming eunuch quentin tarantino and myself as unruffled chad paul dano

I’ve always been pretty skeptical of IQ’s validity—as a measure of intelligence, anyway, not as a measure of test-taking ability, which it’s quite good for—but I took a test this year and it *really* validated my skepticism. It just means you’re good at tests!

“IQ is the most well-supported construct in psychology” is a nonsense phrase IQ is a measurement system. It’s like saying “Fahrenheit is well-supported.” Does he mean reliability? IQ is certainly reliable—the same person will get very similar scores across time & different

I don’t think that’s true lol. But certainly leftists are more averse to both racism and pedophilia than the Right is, so maybe the relative degrees of abhorrence are making this unclear for you.

These guys are always like “we need to go back to the justice of medieval kings, when things were really good and crime was low”

“Why are you running for office when you could be overthrowing the state?” as if these are equally feasible objectives, is a false dichotomy most often peddled by people who aren’t really doing much.

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No matter what you do, you’ll always be insufficiently radical, or too radical, for some other leftist, even if that person isn’t doing anything substantive at all. But particularly if you do something seen as insufficiently radical

Status quo bias has a lot of weird consequences and this is definitely one of them, and I think it comes into play quite often on the left; if you just sit on your butt and post, you’ll get yelled at way less than if you go *do* literally anything.

Obviously Bad Empanada is a grifting moron who just needs to generate controversy for his streaming career, but there is a common human cognitive bias at work here, where “doing something trivial” tends to be judged much more harshly than “doing nothing.”

We’ve played 56 minutes of absolutely dogshit football, but they keep fumbling the ball back to us on their own 4-yard-line

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Negative polarization is the sole hope of the trans community at this point, and the Trump admin is really doing their best to put people back in our camp

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