• btbt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Jordan Peterson couldn’t even help Jordan Peterson in sorting out his life

  • aizakkuuu [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I've literally never heard of any of this guy's advice. All I've heard about him is that he's a pseudo-intellectual with a smug audience.

    • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Honestly I feel like he really got popular for coming out against respecting trans peoples pronouns back in like 2015/6 or whenever and all the self help shit is just a crypto excuse to Stan him for his reactionary views.

    • Rem [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      The only stuff of his that has any validity is the most rote self-help stuff you could find anywhere else when you get to the substance of it. He's just good at framing it in a way that scratches the chud itch for their actions to be noble and heroic.

      All his other rhetoric of course is batshit protect western culture stuff, and that blend made him nice and popular among right wing failkids.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, his self help stuff is what the faculty at any university hands our during orientation. Saying it was valuable was always a justification for liking him when the reality is his popularity is solely due to his transphobic stances.

        • panopticon [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          He's also a rabid anti communist and spreader of settler colonialist apologia, in addition to denying global warming and lying all of the god damn time

          • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah, he's generally very reactionary. I'm sure his right wing views more broadly are the reason for his popularity with a certain subset of people, personally the only IRL JP fan I know is a preppy rich kid. I more meant that I think his transphobic views were his initial launch into "stardom".

            • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              I mean that's literally true, he got famous for being extremely mad about laws that punish you for harassing trans people with the wrong pronouns

    • HoldDear [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Conscientiousness - plan the life you'd like to have. You get to have what you want and what would be good for you. What would that be? You need direction. It is direction that produces primary positive emotion. If you need positive emotion to get through life (which you do, because you can't even move without positive emotion, positive emotion is a good bulwark against terror and pain) if you need those things you need direction, you need a goal, you need a value structure.

      Disagreeable men won't do anything they don't want to do. They just say, "up yours. I'll go home and play video games," and "why should I work for you? I'll just go have fun. I'll do my own thing." If you take the men who are like that and say, "What do you want? You can have what you want, but you have to figure out what it is." So they write down what they want and they think, "Oh, hey, that might be worth having, so maybe I'll put some effort into it." Responsibility. That's what gives life meaning. Lift a load. Then you can tolerate yourself.

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Samantha’s assessment is more spot on than she realizes, except part time father as in clueless, inept, completely unable to connect, and tries too hard to be cool

  • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Preacher: Put your faith in God and all of your woes will lessen!

    Lobsters: Fuck off, I don't believe in that shit.

    Also Lobsters:

    • RowPin [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is why every graph showing secularism increasing over time is implicitly misleading.

      • evilgiraffemonkey [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        "God is dead; but given the way people are, there may still for millennia be caves in which they show his shadow." -Nietszche,

  • Shrek
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    3 years ago

    deleted by creator

  • pluggd [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    ops, astroturf and artificial amplification, everywhere