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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting thisā¦)
TIL Richard fucking Hanania is a Rationalist, at least according to this excrescence from LW
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tKhbDBkstMJuBv7jg/three-months-in-evaluating-three-rationalist-cases-for-trump
Yeah Iām sure trying to dictate to Harvard who they can hire and what courses they can teach is not leading to a ādraconian censorship regimeā
[1] to be clear this is attributed to Richard Ngo, not Hanania
To summarize that blog post and the three āRationalist cases for Trumpā that it points to: āWe made up a Trump to like and a bunch of Democrats to get mad atā.
āLied during the pandemicā wait what? Did LW do a 180 on covid, or is this a āthey gave advice without knowing everything that was later shown wrong?ā Because that is quite a dumb thing to say, also calling that leftwing is nuts. And last, did they memoryhole that Scott lied about the pandemic? He said people should stop smoking because it helped with covid. Not because he had proof, just because he thought it would be good if less people smoked.
E: oops wrong person.
E2: 100 upvotes, the conspiracy weird far right people have taken over.
Yeah, the whole āthey lied!ā nonsense is deeply frustrating. People simultaneously want experts to be responsive and provide information immediately but have no tolerance for āas best we now knowā or āgiven the current circumstancesā advice. You canāt simultaneously get the most recent cutting-edge information and only get whatās been long-settled and validated.
Thing is, you can legit criticize Fauci for his bad communication on masking in the early days of COVID! But itās not gonna land b/c the anti-mask/vax/etc crowd also hate Fauci for the most deranged reasons
Yeah but there is a gulf of difference between, he communicated badly and he lied
When exactly did that āleft-wing monocultureā flex its muscles? During Trump 1.0? During the first two years of the Biden administration, when leftists and progressives were criticizing that administration every day for not doing enough on, well, anything? During the second half of the Biden administration, when Republicans controlled the House and leftist criticism of the administration, um, did not grow quiet?
I also want to know what this ādraconian censorship regimeā is in Europe, because it isnāt like theyāre falling over themselves to take care of trans people or immigrants. Unless heās supporting the freedom to blatantly lie in order to incite violence against minorities.
You still canāt be an outright Nazi without people getting mad at you. Obviously unacceptable.