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Planet Fitness for the Mind™
Monterey Peninsula College

[Robert @kuvertone]

@Chudfish14921 reminds me of this

[MPC @MPCForum]

@BWNort @TheChroNikler Obviously the solution is to not watch any of this idiot's midwit boomer-tier movies.

[MPC @MPCForum]

Now, here is my deep cut on UFOs:

The best way to look at modern UFO mythology and "government is hiding aliens" stuff is as paranoid fantasy resulting from psychic dislocation. It is a consequence of declines in belonging and sacrality along with sharp increases in solitude and consumerism. This leaves people feeling dislocated, unattached, without context.  It is similar to derealization-depersonalization, which schizophrenics experience as things, people, and even parts of themselves being dead or provoking no emotion in them.

While schizophrenics experience a breakdown in mental processes, most people experience a milder form of this, sometimes triggered by ideas of emptiness which are strangely attractive to them. This is a result of decline in belonging, emotional connectedness, combined with near-constant exposure to a hallucinatory and endless media environment that overwhelms the physical inputs that normally ground us. The physical world is one of physical boundaries and complete involvement with others. However we increasingly spend our lives in the disconnected, inconsistent, and ever-changing stimulation of cognition that provokes emotional responses without any real world context. Your mind is involved in controlled but stochastic hallucinations for much of your waking life. You watch a fabricated entertainment or listen to mood-altering music and feel sad, or angry, or excited, or happy (or, these days, mostly bored).

Past generations didn't live in a world that was physically and emotionally disconnected, with a media apparatus that presents more fantasy in a year than in the entire preceding human history. They didn't experience lifelike visual fantasy which invades their understanding of reality. They weren't employed to spend much of their time curating an unreal digital world.

People at the margins have schizophrenia-like breakdowns.  Their experience of reality is completely blurred into media fantasy. Further from the margins people malfunction in small ways, such as driving down the freeway in a two ton vehicle glued to a phone, or looking dumbly at the world as though it is a media image being presented to them. The brain can no longer always tell the difference. AI will push it even further. We did not evolve for this environment and are poorly equipped to function within it in healthy ways.

[MPC @MPCForum]

This turd has boomer-bait written all over it, and the average audience member will have an AARP card. UFO and Roswell and alien mythology is entirely boomerthink. It got started shortly after they were born and petered out in the 90s when boomers became too busy making sure they would leave nothing behind to their children other than a wrecked and depleted world. Now that boomers are near death they want a big crescendo to tell the world their dumb fantasies based on crappy 50s sci-fi are actually, literally real.

They of course do not want reconciliation with the God they rejected, and they do not want to share their hoarded wealth with others. They want to fade into a childish fantasy where extraterrestrial gods relieve them of any duty they had to others. That is why the "government coverup" angle has made a resurgence in the past decade. Then boomers can say they were the Chosen Generation, this all happened to them, and all those Outer Limits episodes were truer than true.

Guess what, boomers?  You're still dying alone and unloved.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Steven Spielberg says his new movie, Disclosure Day, about aliens will have Christians and people of faith second-guessing their own religion.

Spielberg says the movie will take the position of the Church.

"Is God our God only on this planet, or is God a God for every system where there's civilization?"

"That would mess up a lot of people."

[MPC @MPCForum]

Finally, someone comes forward with a real solution to this world's problems.

[Anna Khachiyan @annakhachiyan]

People laugh but this will be a major epidemic in just a decade or two, unlocking new galaxy brain tiers of mental illness and granting final legitimacy to the assisted suicide industry

[Anna Khachiyan @annakhachiyan]

People laugh but this will be a major epidemic in just a decade or two, unlocking new galaxy brain tiers of mental illness and granting final legitimacy to the assisted suicide industry

[MPC @MPCForum]

@ExplodingBoner @EuropeanRevolt @captive_dreamer @vanhanenist I'm still struggling to get people to understand the Moly is completely cracked up and none of his child rearing advice should be taken seriously. I guess he got spanked one too many times.

[MPC @MPCForum]

Libs used to glibly say that the purpose of education was to "learn how to think", therefore they didn't need to memorize dates or do homework. This itself is a window into the farcically confused lib mind. But in truth all they use education for is to regurgitate approved texts that are several times removed from real experience and then receive a credential of dubious value. Self-education, as the liberal understands it, is to uncritically consume entertainment (cartoons) and wikipedia articles so that a uniform liberal viewpoint can be regurgitated on demand, humiliating the hapless and "media illiterate" right winger.

They literally believe watching Criterion movies makes them better people. They LITERALLY believe this. It's amazing.

[Chudfish @Chudfish14921]

The average normie leftist thinks that they are highly politically informed thanks to movies. When they go to the movies, they think they are learning

[Chudfish @Chudfish14921]

The average normie leftist thinks that they are highly politically informed thanks to movies. When they go to the movies, they think they are learning

[MPC @MPCForum]

@ElwoodFlorian Note that the same people who flinch at the concept of corporal punishment think nothing of putting inmates into solitary confinement--which is known to cause serious brain damage. It says a lot about the perverse timidity of modern society.

[MPC @MPCForum]

Useful point on this is that Sam Hyde's upbringing was firmly upper middle class--he and his parents lived in an affluent area and Sam's public behavior has always implied a UMC upbringing. His views on corporal punishment are a strong tell for this. UMCs are pretty much universally opposed to physical punishment of any kind, including the occasional spanking, which they're convinced will turn their kids into emotionally harmed psychopaths. They can't tell the difference between actual physical abuse and physical discipline like spanking, used sparingly and to reinforce a sense of consequence for dangerous behavior.

Spanking for not eating his broccoli? Probably excessive and futile. But spanking for doing something that could bring serious harm to another child or to himself? Probably warranted.

Ironically Sam cites a bunch of social science to the effect that spanking is harmful, but these studies are worth less than the paper they're printed on. This is due to problems like study sample, definitional issues with corporal punishment, conflation of emotional and verbal abuse with physical abuse, and researcher bias.  It's simply an area of life that does not lend itself to this type of scientific study because each case must be put in its own precise context.

Meanwhile, looking at child and adolescent behavior today, it is very difficult to conclude that the decline in corporal punishment has produced better behaved offspring. Liberal parenting which consists of negotiation/multiple choice outcomes ("eat your peas and you can have your iPad") leaves children feeling unparented and unprotected. One of the forgotten benefits of parental discipline that includes corporal punishment is that it reassures the child that he lives in a world of order and in which he has a strong protector. The parent who relies only on words and unwonted application of "the rules" cannot bestow this sense of safety. (There are many ways to reinforce this aside from discipline, but liberals tend not to do any of them because they themselves have a neurotic relationship with authority.)

It is commonly observed that parents who are weak (i.e. follow fashionable liberal dictates) often have unruly children, precisely because their children feel a compulsion to test their boundaries to find out how unsafe they are. It is as though they are unconsciously aware that a weak parent cannot protect them, and they must therefore become more aggressive themselves to compensate. This is also implicated in cases of disrespect and open defiance--corporal punishment here is futile precisely because the symptoms already indicate the child does not feel protected by a weak or variable parent, therefore punishment will only increase his feelings of insecurity.

Then there's the fact that corporal punishment has been far and away more demonized than a much greater parental failing: emotional and verbal abuse. (It just so happens that mothers are frequently a source for these, because women lack the ability to strongly lead and tend to be purely reactive to disobedience.) Studies on corporal punishment mix up the data, ignoring the fact that frequent corporal punishment is likely accompanied by either neglectful parenting or a short emotional fuse. Any kind of chaos in the home will also produce the same sort of insecurity, as will parental passivity and a domineering mother.

"Spanking lowers IQ" is where it gets truly eye-rolling. It's basically science fiction for liberals (who "don't believe in" IQ, except when they need to insult non-liberals). Dude, you're just noticing that white people have been gulled by social science majors into completely folding because "the science" says everyone in human history was wrong until 1970.

Here's what I notice in the real world: fathers are the most important element in successful child rearing. Fathers who invest in their child's growth and maturity, who set a positive model for the child, and who provide consistent boundaries that ensure the child's feeling of security will almost invariably produce good sons and daughters. Fathers who are passive, variable, undisciplined, weak, or who allow a neurotic mother to interfere in the child's upbringing will always produce erratic results.

Liberals have used the spanking debate to get around all this; in effect it allows them to say, "I'm a good parent because I use my words instead of my hand." This is how liberals approach reality.

[Sam Hyde 🇺🇸 @wigger]

Hitting your kids is in the same category as circumcision, iPads, strict adherence to the CDC vaccine schedule---it is for Ns, goyim, and walmart pajama people. It lowers IQ (Straus, 1995), increases aggression (Gershoff, 2016), is less effective than a timeout, and requires escalation to keep working. The replies to articles like this are filled up with the Dumbest People Who Ever Existed saying "it worked for me" and then genuinely malicious and hateful morons dropping reaction gifs of like daffy duck swinging a belt

"EVERY STATE IN AMERICA ALLOWS YOU TO PHYSICALLY CORRECT YOUR CHILD. It's legal. It's fun. Bring it on." -- profile says: Cat Sanctuary Dad. Unyielding steel. Workouts, keto, cat chaos, anime rants. Godzilla, Gundam, Mazinger, Ultraman, classical art, manga.

If you hit your kids, you will create permanent emotional distance with the only person/people you could ever be that close to, not to mention sending them down the road of being as much of a lost fuckup loser as you are who will hit their own kids, or wont, but only after spending a decade figuring out why they reflexively apologize all the time.

[MPC @MPCForum]

@monkeyfella6969 "Just take away his iPad!" This is such a womanly take. Kids can handle a spanking or two. The world is going to administer several (but I guess that's what SSRIs are for now).

[MPC @MPCForum]

They understand punishment because it affects them directly and immediately, and they don't have to place themselves in another's position.

You wouldn't need to teach children not to touch a hot pan on a stove if you simply allowed them to touch it and get burned. They would quickly get the point, but the cost would be possibly serious injury.

Some behavior can be corrected verbally--but there are limits to that, and as children explore their world and test boundaries they sometimes need stronger correction.

[MPC @MPCForum]

@rightwingnutrs Agreed.

[MPC @MPCForum]

@JustinLesniews3 "Better get him on some drugs." An entire generation was screwed up like that.

[MPC @MPCForum]

Also you're confusing standard issue UMC with creative type UMC. Creatives overwhelmingly come from UMC/UC backgrounds because that's how they get early access to toys and training opportunities to give them a leg up, as well as the financial backing from parents who sigh while writing the checks.

Most UMC will not be on a creative track, but those that are look a lot like Sam.

[MPC @MPCForum]

Raised in affluent part of Connecticut (six figure median income). Went to expensive schools. Got a BFA in filmmaking. Main job while lining up comedy career was selling cars. Rumored to have had his school loans paid off by his inheritance. Has upscale tastes in clothes, cars, and is well-acquainted with UMC hipster culture. These are all tells for having a UMC upbringing.

Just the fact that he attended film and design schools tells you he wasn't from an ordinary middle class background. Those people tend to pursue more remunerative career paths like doctor, lawyer, MBA flunky, in part because their parents aren't going to fund a $200k theater kid extended summer camp larp.

He's obviously not a failson, in fact he's been massively successful in a career (entertainment) that has extremely high odds of failure. So high that only UMC/UC types have a serious chance of success in it. (See also the people who can afford to intern at startups while getting paid next to nothing. Mommy and Daddy are covering their bills.) Virtually all successful entertainment people have a similar background (the more lower/working class the affectation, the wealthier their parents were).

None of my critique of Sam's attitudes about childrearing is in any way a critique of his talent or skills, which are off the charts. He's actually an unusually successful UMC offspring in that he really didn't have the kind of networking advantages someone like a nepo baby has.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision.
That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there.
Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level.
Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline.
The case proceeded anyway.
The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence.
Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict.
An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status.

Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.