SSRIs will go down as a bigger catastrophe than the lead pipes in the Roman Empire.
Numbing our women and ruining their lives.
Do not start these meds and do not let your wives or children start these meds.
I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.
We’ve been fed a lie.
We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.
Insulting someone is not a crime, and criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships.
This is Orwellian, and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this lunacy.
Chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin developed a process to achieve peak performance in any craft or career. He’s applied it to the world of investing, professional sports, science and more. The MIQ Process. It is not a quick fix, but rather a rewiring of your default settings.
🚨 LEAVITT: "When you're flying on an airplane with your loved ones, do you pray that your plane lands safely? Or do you pray that your pilot has a certain skin color? I think we all know the answer to that question. Like the President said yesterday, it's common sense."
🚨 ELON MUSK ON MEAT CONSUMPTION CONTRIBUTING TO GLOBAL WARMING
ELON: "Animals will not make any difference to global warming. It's irrelevant. None. Zero. It's bullshit. Nothing. You'll get people pushing to avoid meat, maybe there's a financial interest, maybe ideological, but it wont make any difference to global warming or CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. It's irrelevant. I want to be super clear about this. You won't even be able to measure it, that's how irrelevant it is. It's unmeasurable."
JD Vance tells Rogan that conservatives have higher testosterone, which is maybe why Democrats want everyone to be fat and out of shape.
Within one minute, you get so much that’s wrong with the right: Social Darwinism combined with pretending to be a champion of the lower class masses, and conspiratorial thinking along with plausible deniability.
Of course, if you pointed out that conservatives are fatter than liberals, Vance would say how dare you, evil elites looking down on us regular Americans. This is why people vote Trump!
It’s like the IQ thing. Conservatives become the low IQ party at the same time they become obsessed with calling their opponents low IQ. They’re the party of old fat people who talk like they’re the real champions of vigor and youth.
The conspiratorial aspect here is another interesting angle. Vance seems like he’s joking, but Rogan’s reaction makes me think that he believes there’s something to this theory. I bet if you pressed Vance on this he would say he was kidding, but being in a right-wing subculture where they believe any conspiracy theory that’s thrown out there allows one to gain points with this crowd while maintaining plausible deniability. Vance knows this subculture, and he plays this game well.
Vance is often referred to as the “smarter” version of Trumpism. But making Trump smarter isn't better. It leads to an even more insidious and just as intellectually hollow way of engaging with the world.
Insult your opponents in the nastiest terms possible, even dress it up as “science,” but also be hypersensitive to all criticism going in the other direction. Play to conspiracy theories, which your followers can believe are true while you can maintain plausible deniability. Then say you’re joking, and be declared the smart version of whatever conservatives happen to be doing, when you are the one who helped make them so dumb in the first place.