I heard some whoppers:
:galaxy-brain: "I have studied every religion. They are all parts of the same universal truth... except Boodyhizzim." (yes he pronounced Buddhism as Boodyhizzim.)
:wojak-nooo: "I am so sick of poor people dominating gaming. Developers are forced to make weaker games with worse graphics because the poor need to be catered do. My rig is top of the line and nothing uses its full potential."
:frothingfash: "Being gay is a choice. Gay men aren't just d---------s, they're lazy because men always want to get laid and it's easier to fuck men."
My mother has asserted to me multiple times that the British public votes to retain the monarchy every year because it's a democratic institution.
Kind of basic, but all of my coworkers believe they'll someday run the company and it won't just be the owner's son.
My old boss who worked in a field to offer social services to recently released prisoners believed that all prisoners should be castrated. She would also tell me certain words in English were inherently male or female and men could be made more docile by changing their vocabulary to more feminine words. One time she told me Obama was born in Saudi Arabia.
The most brainwormed thing I've ever heard is my coworker's proposal for a perfect society that he explained to me over several months. It would involve every single person in their own enclosed environment they're not allowed to leave. All their needs are supplied to them through an AI mastermind that no living person is allowed to reprogram or control. He said this is important because humans can't be trusted. No physical interaction between people is allowed. All reproduction is done through artificial insemination. The only time two people interact is when one person is accused of some kind of crime. He never specified what a crime would be, but whatever. When a crime occurs, you and your peers are put onto some kind of zoom call and discuss the crime like a trial. Then a vote occurs throughout the whole community and if the suspect is found guilty, they're incinerated immediately. If not found guilty, every person in the nearby area is given a camera feed into their life pod thing for the next 3 months. Also this guy idolized Ted Kaczynski
That's not even Lib or Chud brained, I think that guy is legitimately mentally deranged.
Yeah what the Fuck
apropos of nothing, but is there a high concentration of lead or industrial waste in your area?
I live and grew up in east Texas, so yes to those and also more. Also very intense car culture and benzene clouds floating around
:cowboy-cri:
if people aren't interacting in any way what crimes can there possibly be :thinking-about-it:
my best guess would be any sort of attempt to escape your pod or refusing to do the daily rituals he wanted people assigned to (like a pledge of allegiance to the super computer was one of them)
The :panopticon: isn't real, it can't hurt you.
standing behind me
:knife-threat: :panopticon: :knife-threat:
Of course we have a panopticon emoji.
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like, all of it or something specifically?
i'm learning from y'all that I might be surrounded by an above average amount of complete fish brained reactionaries and everything just sounds the same to me now
It literally got worse until it ended lol
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I told him one time that his perfect society sounded like a 1970s dystopia film like Soylent Green and he responded positively that movie is what inspired him
I've ran into a lot of people that thought "The Running Man" would be a great idea in real life, and "pay for itself." :agony-minion:
Lmao.
Something is wrong with Americans
Wow what the fuck.
I give you 2:1 odds that he left out a detail that, if included, would make it clear that this society is actually an elaborate fetish fantasy.
http://gunshowcomic.com/471
this is legitimately insane and probably the result of some sort of extreme paranoia
This would actually be a very popular take in capital-R "rationalist" circles, or at least be debated as if it isn't fucking horrifying and is instead an interesting proposal. :agony-4horsemen:
Turning your society into a game of Paranoia to own the libs?
Remember citizens, the Computer is your friend :1984:
Clones in Paranoia have way more freedom than that, hell, mutants have more freedom.
Honestly is life under capitalism not a game of Paranoia?
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way to completely miss the point of ted's body of work, jesus christ.
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That last one hits different
The Machine Stops
Holy shit, maybe this is where he got the idea. Like this is uncanny how similar it is.
i suspect he may have been taking the piss if he's really a fan of uncle ted. but also a lot of too-online neoreactionaries have this bizarre relationship with "modernity" where they view it as the death spiral of humanity and still want to accelerate it (i haven't read Land's Fanged Noumena but i'm pretty sure this is what it's about).
I knew this person for 2 years, so if he was just doing a bit, it was extremely committed and he never broke character. He also wasn't online at all. But maybe that was part of the bit too. I don't know.
ok so there are languages where words have arbitrary genders, English is not one of them, and there is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis so who knows, it might work. Better than castration at least.