• UlyssesT [he/him]
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    20 hours 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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      20 hours 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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        20 hours 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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          17 hours 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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            10 hours 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.