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Post by Farmduck on Sept 9, 2017 17:38:17 GMT 10
Just an update for those who like a good rant but aren't afflicted by YouTube addiction: - tankies descend on Xexizy to denounce his recent denunciation of Stalinism - Kraut and Tea returns from self-imposed hiatus to deliver his "ultimate takedown of Alt-Right" and fails miserably over his understanding of the use of r/K selection theory - cult leader Stefan Molyneux continues attempts to tie race realism into his Ancap theory - I presume someone has already asked the Dear Leader how an ethnostate could be maintained without the existence of the state, to which I presume he would have replied, "Not an argument!" - Dave Rubin walks back his atheism. Some commentators have suggested that, given his guest roster and audience base, his atheism may have been constricting the shekel flow to his channel. Ah, Dave! Driving Centrism to its ultimate conclusion where vapidity struggles with vacuity to hold the big stage. My favourite dig was Billy Bong calling Dave a "Porch Atheist." - In reaction to their declining YT revenues, many "libertarians" are now calling for Government action to regulate Google and YT. I hope my brain never gets that damaged. Black Pigeon even said that if anyone was contemplating commenting that Google was a private company, they could F*** Off! This is the wannabe intellectual equivalent of "Well it's my bat and ball so ....." - ...and lastly, speaking of "back from the dead," somebody made a video about prominent nose-picking advocate, Laurie Penny. What was it about? I don't know, I didn't watch it because it was about Laurie Penny. Come on, Laurie, use the whole fist! PS: YT burn of the week, Mauritian Struggle on Armoured Skeptic™: "I won't say I don't like him but if I wanted to kill myself I would jump off the top of his ego down to his IQ."
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Post by Farmduck on Sept 11, 2017 20:51:04 GMT 10
I just watched this video by Cogent Canine where he comments on a livestream featuring Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux. For those not familiar with the cast of thousands who make up the YT commentariat, Stefan Molyneux is the self-appointed leader of the cult of Molyneuxism. He is/was an actor, a self-titled philosopher, owner of Free Domain Radio in Canada, writer, general life guru and advocate of Anarcho-Capitalism. Lauren Southern is a political commentator who focusses on stories about herself - Lauren with Antifa, Lauren helping some Euro ethno-nationalists prevent immigrants from leaving Africa in boats, Lauren turning up at some feminist protest to protest against feminism, etc. She asked Molyneux a simple question which needed only a Yes or No answer and Stefan's brain exploded. "In Stefan's An-Cap Paradise, should you be allowed to sell heroin to a 5-year-old?" Now if you are familiar with Molyneux's Libertarian and An-Cap ravings this question should require no thought at all: Yes! of course you should be allowed to sell heroin to a 5-year-old because any other answer would involve some external perversion of the free market and would require some institution or organisation to enforce the prohibition, a definite No-No in Molynistan. Even more so, the maintenance of this organ of coercion would require some form of popular contribution and, like a good An-Cap, Molyneux has repeatedly told us that taxation is theft. His answer: 5 minutes of squirming, dodging the question, attempting to change the subject, attempting to add extra dimensions to the question - like "Compared to what?" - and he still couldn't come up with a Yes or No answer. Ironic that he has just released his latest book "The Art of the Argument."
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Post by Farmduck on Sept 26, 2017 3:03:12 GMT 10
The free-speech advocates of YouTube are sucking and blowing at the same time again:
Google, a private business, fires James Damore for his free speech in the workplace and that's bad but NFL clubs, also private businesses, should fire players for exercising their free "speech" in the workplace. Because reasons. The players are using their employer-provided platform and exposure to express their personal beliefs and that's bad but Donald Trump, in using his employer-provided platform and exposure to abuse them, is within his rights to exercise free speech.
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Post by Farmduck on Oct 28, 2017 23:44:32 GMT 10
I'm not up to date about all the latest YT dramas but there have been a couple of interesting ones lately. The Candace Owen/Red Pill Black story where Candace, after unsuccessfully attempting to use a Kickstarter campaign to establish a doxxing site, Social Autopsy, seems to have re-invented herself as a dreaded Alt-Centrist, or radical fundamentalist Centrist or whatever name they are using for themselves these days. (I'm old so I remember when these people were just called conservatives or right-wing reactionaries.) After being denounced for her doxxing site, which even encouraged users to identify minors for using "hate speech," "bullying" or "harassment" online by nearly every YT creator who knew about it, Candace has returned 6 months later as Red Pill Black, conservative gladiator in the culture war.
Naturally her YT profile has exploded since her metamorphosis. Who, in the Alt-Centre, doesn't like an attractive young black woman spouting the usual mindless grab-bag of Fox News talking points. In fact she has even appeared on the Watters show on Fox as well as on Infowars and the Dave Rubin show. Her channel statistics are astounding: On 17 August 2017 she had 1,800 subs. By 23 October, she had reached 147,000 and she picked up 10,000 subs on one day in September.
Recently she has been the subject of at least 10 videos questioning her sincerity, given her amazing 180° political turn. At the same time she has been strongly defended by Paul Joseph "Conservatism is the new punk" Watson, one of Alex Jones' running dogs. (While I'm on this point I'm reminded of the recent video where Alex was waving a piece of paper which he claimed to be a leaked document "from one of his CIA informants" about Hillary or Uranium One or something. (It's Alex Jones, so specifics have never mattered before. Why start now?) Watson, on a video link, kept avoiding eye contact, seemingly trying to keep his mouth shut so he wouldn't blurt out, "Please don't make me appear to agree with you on this horseshit."
Anyway, if you're interested in following the Candace Owens/Red Pill Black story, check the videos by Critical Condition, Tree of Logic and a couple of others.
The other story is Mouthy Buddha and his alleged descent into, and awakening from Race Realism, Alt-Right, White Ethno-Nationalism, whatever you want to call it. Pick your euphemism. Nobody calls themselves a Nazi these days, they just agree with 95% of the policies but "that doesn't make them fascists or anything." I'm not going into any great detail here. I'm trying to write a longer essay on how to deal with the Race Realists and part of that strategy is precision in language. It's this lack of precision in language which defeats so much of the Skeptic™ Community or, at least, the laziest sector, the Anti-Fem, Anti-SJW, pwnage sector. I'm also trying to write an essay on the sort of precise language we need to use to progress beyond the state of anti-stuff to stating a positive agenda.
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Post by Farmduck on Nov 10, 2017 16:21:24 GMT 10
Ladies and Gentlemen!!! Here comes our main bout! Direct from the bowels of Alt-Centrism The ultimate Black v White smackdown!!! Featuring Candace (Red Pill Black) Owens and Blaire White!!! Your referee Dave "the Classical Liberal" Rubin I haven't watched the whole thing. This is just a brief critique by someone else. The whole thing probably went over an hour. My brain started crying after about 2 minutes.
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 6, 2017 4:11:40 GMT 10
Social media are cutting their own throats. With their willingness to ban anything and everything, Twitter banned the New York Times World account for "hate speech" after it tweeted a story about Justin Trudeau apologising to the indigenous people of Labrador and Newfoundland. Here was the entire text of the Tweet: " Left out of an apology a decade ago, native people in Newfoundland and Labrador get an apology from Justin Trudeau nyti.ms/2zAoGd6 2:37 PM - Nov 25, 2017 Twitter's new policy on banning accounts will come into effect on 18 December when they will start banning people based on any and all activity, whether on Twitter or not.
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 6, 2017 4:37:32 GMT 10
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 9, 2017 20:09:53 GMT 10
The battle between Kraut and Tea and the Race Realists drags on. It's an interesting debate although the drama surrounding it is getting tiresome. For me the central issues are:
- Can we tolerate science denial if the science gives us an unpalatable answer? - Should racial science be a central factor in social planning?
I'll start with the second question first. If science could demonstrate that particular ethnic groups were substantially lower in intelligence or had some medical conditions which would affect their ability to contribute to a society, what should we do about it? Well, we already know the answer. Before the invention of the polio vaccine we regularly had thousands of polio victims who ended up with a range of permanent disabilities. We didn't euthanase them. Every day we have people born with disabilities like Downe Syndrome or Foetal Alcohol Syndrome but we don't euthanase them and we don't establish apartheid states to separate "them" from "us."
Of course the hot button issue is IQ. Firstly, consider the "Flynn Effect." Here's the simple definition from Wikipedia:
What this means is that all our societies, from the roads to the sewerage plants to the basic telecommunication systems to our systems of Government and business were all constructed by people who probably had lower IQs than we do. To me, this suggests that even if an entire ethnic group had lower IQs than an existing dominant population, there's no reason to assume their inability to contribute to a society. We should also remember that even Race Realists only claim IQ to be 75-80% heritable so the lower-IQ populations will improve with access to better education.
Another issue related to IQ is the distribution within any ethnic or racial population. 50% of white people have IQs which are average or below average so we end up with white people well below the African average and well below the Asian average. If IQ was a central convincing reason to separate black society from white society, wouldn't it be an equally compelling reason to separate the dumbest white people from the rest?
As for the first question, is science denial acceptable? No, never. I don't accept it in relation to religious mythology. I don't accept it in relation to climate change. When science tells us about the correlation between Jamaican sprinters and the prevalence of fast-twitch fibres in muscles we don't denounce it as racist, although it shows a clear genetic superiority in one area.
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 11, 2017 18:46:04 GMT 10
The current hero among certain sections of the internet - Skeptic™Community©, the radical centrists, the Alt-Centrists - is Lindsay Shepherd, the teaching assistant at Wilfred Laurier University in Ontario, who was called before a Party disciplinary committee and denounced for problematic positionality (presumably an insidious form of right deviationism.) Rather than accepting banishment to some maple syrup collective in Saskatchewan for a period of reflection and self-criticism, Shepherd recorded the trial and released it on the internet.
In the last month, Shepherd has appeared on all the big internet shows, the Rubin Report, some other one, the other one with that guy, and the Rubin Report. I'm not sure how she got to Dave Rubin's place in California. I guess she must have swum across the river to escape from the People's Soviet Socialist Republic of Ontario. Will she be granted political asylum in USA? Or will she be sent back, presumably straight to Room 101, where the political commissars of her university will attempt to deconstruct her troublesome situationality and rehabilitate her back into a correct mode of thinking?
Can she be salvaged? Or is her crime, showing a 5-minute clip from a TV Ontario current affairs show, so heinous that she will need to be executed, if only to spare her family the continuing humiliation of producing such a deviant? In fairness to her parents, they have already appeared on national TV and denounced themselves for their child-rearing failures. Both parents read and confessed to long lists of crimes against the State, including bourgeois deviationism, backsliding and revisionist thought. They currently await sentencing.
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 18, 2017 17:33:04 GMT 10
I was just posting something about the social media attempts to ban and block "hate speech" on another site. Every social grouping needs a central theme around which to coalesce. Maybe it's playing football, or joining a religion or protesting against tax increases. When that social group loses its raison d'etre, sometimes the only thing left to distinguish "us" is that we are "not them." People like Fox News or Milo Yiannopoulos or Nazis ultimately achieve their highest social function by being "not us" to the feminists and SJWs. If all the "not us" are silenced and banished from the public arena, the "we" would then be forced into introspection (well, more introspection than is normally tolerate within a group.)
As they sit in the wreckage of their own dismantled talking points they may discover that "we" no longer need to exist and that so much of our in-group appeal relied on "not them." So, what next?
It's all Yin and Yang. Ain't no Yin? Then we don't need no Yang.
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 19, 2017 22:49:08 GMT 10
I'm listening to an old Stardusk video where he questions the "cult" of Jordan Peterson. For the record, I thought Peterson's dismissal of MGTOW was petty and displayed a complete lack of knowledge on the subject or a refusal to engage with any of MGTOW's ideas. Stardusk seems to think that most of Peterson's fame derives from "rebels without a cause" looking for a guru. I'd partly agree with that although the percentage of his following that falls into that category is still up for debate, IMO.
Peterson deserved his early fame which came from Canada's Bill C16 and his observation that the law would effectively make some speech compulsory under pain of Government sanction. This is always a legitimate issue on which to speak out. His reputation was enhanced by the videos of him speaking with (or, at least. attempting to) the trans/gender queer mob at some Canadian University. He maintained a calm which was most admirable. I would have been screaming STFO and GTFO after the first minute and a half.
I think public intellectuals serve an important role in a society. We have all these Public Affairs/Politics/Social Issues type discussion programmes on TV and it's important to have a body of articulate critical thinkers capable of delivering insightful arguments and critiques, even if they just play devil's advocate. For that purpose I think Peterson serves a good role. We've seen him with Sam Harris, Gad Saad, Stefan Molyneux and others, expounding on a range of socially-relevant topics, including his specialty, Psychology.
I don't agree with much of what he says but I am glad he's out there.
PS: Here are some longer-form speakers I enjoy: Janice Fiamengo, Stardusk (Thinking Ape), Alison Tieman (Honey Badgers), Marcus (Groundwork for the Metaphysics of MGTOW), Alexander MGTOW,
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 20, 2017 0:18:16 GMT 10
I'm not going to go into the Kraut and Tea shitstorm - there's way too much material and I just don't care enough to bother. I'm just going to post a few links and you can chase it up for yourself if you want. You could try Braving Ruin or Jean Francois Gariepy's YT channels. I'm sure they will have plenty to say. Some further information has come to light. You notice there's a line separating the 3 columns on the left from the other columns. The three columns on the left are the people who were there at the time. The other people listed were invited to the Discord server and had joined at some time but they weren't there during this session and may never have been there. As I said, I don't care enough to go through and sort them out.
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 20, 2017 0:20:46 GMT 10
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 20, 2017 1:56:42 GMT 10
This is Hi, I Think I'm Real's video claiming he dindu nuffin: He's probably telling the truth although he does say something about how he thought it would be good to go on the Discord to talk to some "real" scientists. That's odd considering he's a University student.
Anyway, Kraut's channel is, literally, dead. Well, his channel's still there but all his videos have been deleted.
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Post by Farmduck on Dec 20, 2017 4:07:42 GMT 10
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