• chungusamonugs [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Haha cool not like transness or assigned at birth gender non-conformance have been documented since the inception of written history or anything.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Even if such concepts were somehow new, why is King Bazinga, Rocket Jesus of the Future, Herald of the Singularity(tm) brought to you by Le Epic X The Everything App, so fucking afraid of concepts that are different and new to him? billionaire-tears bridget-pride-stay-mad

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        1 month ago

        Remember when the Bazingas of the 90s were talking about complete bodily autonomy and the shattering of human gender, sex, and species? Pepperidge farm remembers.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          I was there for the "Extropian" movement of the 90s. While there was a superficial promise of "become nanobot swarms that can do and become anything!" Feverish power fantasies involved, I think over time (much like Reddit New Atheism in general) they started skidding their heels on extrapolations on ideas that were too unfamiliar to themselves and started getting more reactive, crusty, and entrenched in how the fantastical "singularity(tm)" future was supposed to look like.

          Ultimately it became "pre-nukes Fallout, but with immortality and more superpowers." grillman

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            1 month ago

            Yeah, me too, at least the tail end. I remember them kicking the openly fash out (The Prometheans, I think) and immediately falling back into fascist thinking.

            One of the things that made me step away was how incredibly shocked and averse they were to anything that implied that a non-western culture could wield these technologies.

            I especially remember how Michael Anisimov went from "everyone is a Jupiter Brain" to "Socially Conservative uploading" to "I'm an open nazi"

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              1 month ago

              For me, the end of my interest and association with "futurology" was when the conferences themselves got overtly bought out by tech companies and starting having blatant military presence as well.

              There was this occult blood ritual of sorts involving a new kind of "chipping" during the last one I attended, with a lot of ceremony and crowd enthusiasm. Between that and all the boots waiting around to recruit new credulous bazingas, I was done.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              1 month ago

              I especially remember how Michael Anisimov went from "everyone is a Jupiter Brain" to "Socially Conservative uploading" to "I'm an open nazi"

              I'm still disgusted that so many less-scratched liberals made so many excuses for Nick Land's drug-powered cyber-nazi fever dreams, too.

              • Mardoniush [she/her]
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                1 month ago

                After a century of "Dumb Nietzsche" philosophers they fall for the dumbest of them, a guy so stupid that if he wasn't obfuscating it by name dropping Baudrillard would make Ayn Rand look like an intellectual titan

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  1 month ago

                  They already decided that they were the Very Smartists, I mean "Rationalists," that are "Less Wrong" than the rest of us mortal rabble, so of course whatever their "grey tribe" leaders decide is the "greyest" non-ideological ideology is the one that's the most Very Smart, Rational, and the Least Wrong.

                  That just so happens to be the guy into drug-powered cyber-nazi fever dreams. no-mouth-must-scream hitler-detector

                  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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                    1 month ago

                    Oh man, I just saw a post by Big Yud and he literally states that people who heavily disagree with him are either stupid or insane and frankly that's the sort of thing that gets you a bolt of lightning from the gods for hubris

                    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                      1 month ago

                      For some bewildering reason, Ross Scott of Accursed Farms and Freeman's Mind actually gave Big Yud a platform to talk about his Dark Enlightenment power fantasies and he had the patience of a saint considering how much Big Yud was jerking himself off the entire time.

      • buckykat [none/use name]
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        1 month ago

        I bet you can guess exactly how many words are in his reason for worrying so much about ability to procreate

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Yes, including the child grooming/pedophile allegations. There's short films for elementary school kids from the 1950s where they talk about health issues. One of those movies is about child predators and how they are also known as "homosexuals." The video warns children to avoid homosexuals because they will get kidnapped and murdered. You could find the whole series on YouTube a few years ago, along with what to do should your school be hit by a nuclear bomb.

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    He's projecting his weird ass child producing ideology onto other people.

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    your entire Epstein Eugenics Ideology relies on IVF you limp-dicked kkkracker

  • kristina [she/her]
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    1 month ago

    when a mfer doesnt know what a conglomerate of recessive genes and epigenetic factors are

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    The Apartheid blood-emerald failson's breeding fetish continues to demand a worldwide audience. hitler-detector

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Musk has a little tapeworm inside of him that makes him think of all social phenomena in terms of breeding. He thinks that when sociologists talk about reproduction of this or that, they actually mean literal mating.

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    1 month ago

    Like all Musk content, this is boringly unoriginal. Same thing’s been said about gay people for decades if not longer. It’s giving conservative uncle at Thanksgiving. You know he heard it somewhere and thought it sounded quippy, but the source doesn’t really matter because he’s gonna say it like he thought of it either way.

  • neo [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Musk: mind-bendingly stupid. Succinct summary.