https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1506095895577870341?s=21

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    One of the reasons I despise libs is because of people like Sam Harris who envisions a future where America would try to stop a Middle Eastern country from getting nuclear weapons....with nuclear weapons. Never mind that America has extremely powerful conventional weaponry, this guy goes to the genocide option first. He makes sure to tell us about how he sees it as being a tragedy, but that he sees it as a necessity.

    One of the few things making libs only marginally better than reactionary chuds is that chuds would go for the nuclear option sans any threat, merely as punishment for the attacks of unaffiliated terrorists.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Sam Harris has said many quackish and stupid things in his dubious career as a self described "scientist" that has never published a peer-reviewed scientific paper and used his family fortune to assign himself a PhD that he uses to peddle his books and merch.

      One of the worst things he ever said was "there is more scientific advancement in a single New York zip code than in the entirety of Islamic history." One is a location, one is a measure of time. If we're going to combine those, how many seconds of that New York zip code's "scientific advancement?" How many years focused on that location? It's such a remarkably "not even wrong" level of stupid that it hurts thinking about it.