AliasZed

Certified Ephemeral Creature. Not everything is everything. Pave a path for the saints.

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@justalexoki It’s okay. We will call you a faggot until you improve <3

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@ThomBrady5 I thought it was theorized that he was like a fed or a lib/neocon plant a while ago. I kinda dismissed it at first, but every time he comes up again it just makes that possibility more and more plausible. He’s probably in too deep to stop being controlled opposition at this point

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

I will no longer be debating Lindsay Clancy supporters. I will just be posting this video in reply to any of them.

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@Slatzism Damn, the competitive transphobes really can’t come close to the raw natural talent being displayed here. There’s so many layers to this, it’s a true piece of transphobic art

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

I don't think people really understand the fight between Paul Graham and Palmer Luckey which played out this week. To the general public, from a casual perspective, it seemed like two rich guys getting in a heated, impulsive debate on Twitter, dragging out for days.

It's not.

Paul is worth ~$2.5 billion. Palmer is worth ~$5 billion. Nothing these guys do is impulsive. They've been sitting on this for years. They were arguing in private for months, maybe years, before Palmer decided this week was the correct window of opportunity to make a public attack.

Paul Graham is one of the intellectual fulcrum points of Silicon Valley. He funds everyone. He sets the tone. He shapes the agenda. Entry-level professionals mimic his style, his worldview, his mannerisms, the way Paul talks. Everyone parrots his beliefs and policies and essays, as chameleon strivers who are trying to get ahead and climb the social ladder.

All of Silicon Valley revolves around a handful of key figures, and Paul Graham was (perceived as) one of the intellectual titans who the entire industry orbited as sycophants.

Palmer challenged all that.

Paul is an elite, Palmer is an elite, and Palmer Luckey chose to publicly challenge the status quo; the elite consensus; the perceived legitimacy of incumbent elits and their institutions.

And he did this for a reason: Palmer is aiming to take the role of Paul Graham, of being the new intellectual godfather of Silicon Valley, based around a new set of ideas: reindustrialization, patriotism, protectionism... rather than America as a deracinated cosmopolitan economic zone to be strip-mined by Third World foreigners.

It's much bigger than a Twitter argument. Palmer was publicly demonstrating that the Emperor had no clothes, and that he was strong enough to MOG Paul Graham and get away with it, while other Silicon Valley tech workers would be terrified of making an enemy who could suffocate future business ventures and block potential funding.

Palmer Luckey is the face of a new military-industrialist consensus which is seeking to hire American workers for American jobs, to build factories and weapons at home, to remilitarize and reindustrialize, to get away from asset inflation and FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) as a sterile, parasitic rent-seeking economic system.

That's the subtext for all of this. It's a public signal of a rising counterelite challenging a stagnant, ossified status quo which can no longer justify or defend their own claim to power.

[🔞Deborah @DeborahLoaf]

jellyfish: ay yo get off my head !!🪼

crab: 67!!!67!!!!!!!!!🦀

[wanye @xwanyex]

Nothing is ever going back to “normal.” The main thing that’s going to happen for the rest of your life and for the lives of our children is that we’re going to be fighting about multiculturalism. Every piece of data that comes out will basically have an underlying demographic story. Every fight will be either explicitly or secretly a multiculturalism fight.

This is what you wanted. It’s never going back to the way it was.

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@negafops Unfathomably based, holy

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@justalexoki Tbh this is mainly an offshoot issue of making things “for children”. Most people don’t know how to talk about God/religion like adults bc they grew up with the child version.
Similar to “kid foods” vs “adult foods”. They’ll have a harder time liking it if they don’t get it young

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@justalexoki Yes, please post your foreskin. The people want to see

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@justalexoki While the end result can be called misanthropic, I think a better way to describe them would be like narrow-visioned since most of them just straight up lack the imagination to think past whatever propaganda lines they get fed (for both pro- and anti-ai people).

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@stonetoss The feature is often “my current phone is nearly a decade old and falling apart”

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@justalexoki You know how when people give vague answers to “What music do you like listening to?” And they always say something like “I listen to everything except (country/rap)”? Clearly, one of those was a lie.
Also, rap was always bolstered by leftwing status structures (crumbling atm)

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@robinhanson Can you clarify what you mean by “Prestige of X”? I assume it’s about valuing the high status of/societal structures which support a given X, but I am not entirely sure.

[wanye @xwanyex]

People who couldn’t say two meaningful things about evolution with a gun to their head really eat this stuff up

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@kitten_beloved Just tell them it’s supposed to be a fun activity to encourage kids to read books they like. Like a “bonus points” activity the school gives out to kids who like reading. Bonus points are nice to have but not necessary, so they shouldn’t stress about it if they don’t need them

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@ZyMazza This is the best anti-eugenics angle I’ve come across. Very ripe for discussion, so thanks for spreading it around!
My argument against it is that some traits (ie. diabetes, mental health risk) are explicitly maladaptive, so removing those will be healthier in the long run

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@justalexoki You love women? What? You gonna suck some cock tonight too, gayboy?

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@areheon My fave lil guy is Rotom. Feels kinda weird having him be literally everyone’s phone gadget slave now, but I’ve loved him ever since I found him in an abandoned mansion as a kid and had no clue wtf was going on <3
Rest of my top 3 are Togekiss and Shaymin

[AliasZed @Alias_Zed04]

@DrewVento Brother he didn’t even do 9/11. Are we encouraging each other to take credit for other’s actions to feel fulfilled now?