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when I asked him if jewish people in WWII concentration camps were just choosing to be unhappy he was like yes

oof.

that whole strain of "it's only in your mind" motherfuckers who just outright disregard varieties of concrete evidence.... whether from biochemically-etc originated body- and being-related problems all the way through things like the example you gave.. I've had to deal with a couple of them myself (my can of brainworms include some choice seasonal unfun things) and good god do I often want to boop them on the nose

I was wondering why the name Kevin Roose sounded familiar and ah, right

okay a lot of that is good and all, but here's the flipside: a lot of these fuckwits outright prey on naïve curiousity. it is one of their biggest feeders for taking in people who don't yet know any better

and that's kinda the point. broadly I agree with you, but curiousity is/can be a dangerous thing

(also the reason I asked was the framing of one of your statements, so: Rationalism, big-R specifically. congratulations on learning about some of the worst people around)

I..... have to ask: are you actually aware of what the hell the context is of the things that you're commenting about?

I’m not suggesting which ideas are right and wrong, or which he would accept or reject

you: thinks one is doing this with care and finesse

nobody:

everyone else: 🤨

ah, figures. certainly does have more slatescott sauce on it

unhandsome jack

every so often, gear techs involved with filming interviews can do silently heroic things

I don't know if this is a case of that, but given the skin shine from reflections, whoever set this up wasn't trying overly hard to make him look good. good on 'em

holy fuck this is incredible

reminds me: earlier today I saw a toot reflecting on "it's not radical to have $x. the american right have just dragged it so far away that gov doing it's job is now radical". topical

they're in a weird place - not always egregiously terrible in the immediate-eyeroll sense, but every so often some soar icarus-like to flagrant insensibility

(and this has happened enough times that I treat it a bit 🤨)

it’s certainly the vector from which I’d first heard about that term, but hadn’t realized balaji shillrinivasan was original enough to have come up with that himself

“and that was just the casual sunday”