GrimWeeper5

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

It has worked excellently for the US as a global power. It has not worked out well for those invested in specific conceptions of what America is or what political life should be.

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

“How’s that working out for you” is the basis of all sanity, so it’s not surprising you have a problem with it.

Jefferson Davis’ perspective. Was he lazy too

[QuoProQuid @TNOQuoProQuid]

@nise_yoshimi this is our most foundational attribute, yes. there’s a reason so many of our folk heroes are showmen, hucksters, and charlatans

[People's Art of War @pplsartofwar]

Diplomacy 101:
Security of a settlement depends on the willingness of the parties to uphold it.

An agreement is observed only as long as both consider it in their interest.

Once perception of interest changes, the agreement becomes a scrap of paper.

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

Nah bro bullshit I don't have to concern myself with metis, institutional knowledge, or tacit understanding or compromise. I can just do things.

[netsky remix @iron_redux]

@MT_6226 Yep. No experience in the field and thus no actual understanding.

[MT @MT_6226]

There’s no gatekeeping. There’s literally no doctors who want to use this tech for themselves or their loved ones.

Here’s what’s going to happen. Normies will get this scan, and it will say things like “carcinoma cannot be ruled out,” and then they’ll badger their doctors for more CTs and MRIs, and they’ll say the same, and then they’ll get biopsies, all for something that turns out to be benign. Oh, and some of those biopsies will cause pneumothoraxes or perforated colons. What did you think “complications” meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

It’s fun to live in the Econ 101 world where evil rent-seekers are keeping you from your sci-fi tech. Unfortunately, that world is a fantasy, and there are good reasons why we don’t scan everything.

[Aleph @woke8yearold]

Fun fact: Confucian scholars compared George Washington to sage-kings of antiquity for voluntarily giving up power and not founding a dynasty. A passage by the Chinese scholar Xu Jiyu was inscribed on a stone placed in the Washington monument. Japanese visitors to America during the early Meiji restoration were also confused that descendants of Washington did not run the country. Washington had rizz

[βροτός @br0tos]

No one hates thinking more than those with intellectual pretensions. Their secret wish is for all those thoughts to be deposited effortlessly into their mind, and they will do anything in order to weasel their way out of thinking.

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

@br0tos Obviously, the degree of it and expression varies tremendously and in somewhat patterned ways based on circumstance, it declines, rises, morphs, and occasionally disappears.

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

@br0tos Patriarchy is something you can actually study as a human phenomeon and it isn't reducible to male physical power alone, but about male coalitions organizing their competition over sexual access to females into a legible form, and controlling what males are allowed to reproduce.

[βροτός @br0tos]

Military minorities coerce majorities all the time. Military power rests on complicated logistic chains, technology, industrial power, which isn't reductable to one head = one quantum of violence. That voting is a way to resolve conflict bloodlesly is a different claim.

[baazaa @baazaa9]

@williameijer i suspect it's associated with 'need for cognitive closure'.
imo there's an organisational equivalent which goes under a few names but is equally interesting (essentially orgs care more about internal coherence than external validity for analogous reasons individuals might).

[Frankenbyte @Dazzafrazz]

Truth often requires retrofitting the self around new information. That negotiation can be destabilizing, depending on what is being revealed. In many cases, denial is not merely ignorance. It is an unconscious ego-protection mechanism. Deny, deflect, accuse: these are common responses when someone cannot metabolize what is being shown to them.

[William Meijer @williameijer]

@Hitchslap1 I would say you should be 85% realistic and 15% delusionally optimistic because your thoughts create reality, but only so much at a time. In romantic contexts, increase the delusion; in organizational contexts, decrease the delusion

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

Really curious what women men would choose for leadership positions. Would it be Iron ladies or swimsuit models or some mix of both?

[Wie Dan🍃 @LudditeHacker]

Imagine a world where we gender segregate passive and active political participation. One gender can vote, the other can run for office. What would you rather have:

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

Potentially neither. Even then, having a true, or elaborate theory isn't what makes an idea stick. Instead, a program must meet the emotional, social, and career needs and aspirarions of those within it.

[Anti normiean @AntiNrx]

Moldbug and NRx have a well researched multi decade academic theory for what the hell went wrong with America, twitter posters dismiss all say criticism and say "it's fine nothing happened" who will be more relevant in 100 years?

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

People love having their wounds licked and their narratives repaired.

[Bizlet @bizlet7]

Why does anyone take this guy seriously?
It’s not feasible to take the strait for the purposes we want it for.
It’s asymmetric warfare.

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

@pashmr State growth and economic growth are fairly well paired in the 20th century.

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

Conservatism has historically identified itself with security, continuity, stability, and order, not freedom.

[Ego Supremacy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @pashmr]

@pegobry_en Italy is very much not representative of the West/ anglosphere. Obviously women vote for security over freedom.

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

Already knew we would inflict and take massive costs because of Korea. Our "credibility" was mostly in our own imaginations. What mattered was the messages we were actually sending and how our allies and enemies "really" interpreted them.

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

"Muh credibility" without being specific and empirical is just a form of mystical narcissism. "Credibility" exists in specific relationships and requires interpretation.

As an example, the Vietnam War actually worried America's allies in Europe and Asia, and the Chinese...

[Aleph @woke8yearold]

My hot take is that it’s more rational for a “superpower” not to destroy the global economy and harm itself over things it doesn’t care about merely to preserve nebulous izzat

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

Boomerslop.

"Ha ha gender studies students are lazy ha ha give me fries with that"

No they become professional activists and dedicate their lives to destroying your life and have 10X your commitment to winning politically.