Red Ear Adam

Aspiring Mad Scientist // advocate of better living through chemistry // Anti-universalist

[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

Man Peterson did have some gems when he was healthy
https://t.co/hKIhR4arYZ

[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

How bad was theft that a law had to be passed that all thieves will have their hand chopped off?

I think what it reveals is what it took to civilize (by the standards of the time) Bedouin desert tribes of 1400 years ago.
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[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

You can learn a lot about the society by reading the laws that are passed.

This makes you wonder how much adultery was taking place such that a law had to be passed that all adulterers will be stoned to death.
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[sigmund foid @intentionalisms]

Why does Islam love forbidding stuff so much

[Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit]

I was surprised at how much Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security are now propping up local economies and personal incomes

If you look through the data, Medicare/Medicaid have become the biggest sources of income for particularly non-metropolitan areas. Some stats in the data:

- Government transfers are now 17.6% of all personal income in the US, up from about 8% in 1970. Medicare and Medicaid are 46% of all government transfer dollars!

- 53% of counties get more than 25%+ of their income from government transfers (this covers about 72M people).

- Kentucky seems to be the home of the Colonel and government transfer programs. Twelve of the top fifteen counties receiving government transfers are there. Owsley County gets 63% of personal income from transfers, and Medicaid alone is 32% of all income in the county.

Those government transfers via Medicaid/Medicare get transmuted alchemically into jobs. Phoebe Putney Health System has 6000+ workers and is the largest employer in southwest Georgia. Dougherty County, where it's based, gets 34% of its personal income from government transfers.

In New York we have a program that pays friends and family as caregivers. In 2023 it grew by 57,000 jobs and became 38% of all job growth in the state (they’ve made changes to the program now that have flattened it).

We have become a country of healthcare jobs with a propping of government dollars. Is that fine?

I think this grand bargain worked for a while. We were still seeing economic productivity, government spending hadn’t yet gotten too crazy, etc. But a few things are happening now that suggest the bargain is falling apart.

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

It’s difficult to explain without sounding crazy but this person successfully blocked turning an abandoned parking lot into taxable 21st century infrastructure because she thought the space could be better used as a trampoline park. (No one has offered to build the trampoline park).

She’s homeless and pulls people’s hair out for almost a living.

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

A lot of this gets chalked up to “intersexual competition” or whatever but I don’t think that’s it exactly. The internet feeds off those deep primal emotions. For sociopaths and narcissists, they find outlets to gain positive social feedback for their highly destructive tendencies. They’re the ones willing to say the most outrageous things.

As Aimee points out female sociopathy gets ignored, in part because it doesn’t lead to violence as often. It does do quite a lot of social damage though. Ruining relationships especially.

Any time relationship advice is given they jump to explain why following it is beneath you. A crazy thing for an unwed woman to tell a married woman, but it happens all the time. The algo promotes this high engagement behavior and a lot of women internalize the advice (or anti-advice) of people who are trying to destroy their lives for fun.

We saw this play out when Wanye suggested women could learn a bit about men’s sexual desires and conform a bit more to them. Acknowledging and playing to your spouses sexual desires is advice every therapist, councilor, holy man, guru, and happily married couple would give, but the sociopathic women declared it wrong. They said men should “get gud.” One can only hope it’s their own relationships they’re destroying.

[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

What if the universal decline in birth rates is structural to liberalism/capitalism? Not because of material wealth but because of the dissolution of the vast array of non-market, non-economic relations that characterized the pre-liberal era?
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[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

I mean, this is what liberalism and capitalism was designed for. This was the way to stop the never ending religious and ethnic wars of Europe.

But abstracted above that, it was about replacing community(-ism) with individualism.
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[Borjomi ᛉ Respecter @BorjomiDrinker]

We functionally do not have a nation, America is an economic zones. This guy has no concept, no notion of betraying his nation to save a couple bucks, he sees no problem with it whatsoever and even brags about it. Its just business. America is a plot of land full of individuals with no ties to one another.

[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

There are more people alive than ever before but people are more lonely than they've ever been.

What if that is intrinsic to liberalism/capitalism itself?
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[wanye @xwanyex]

One of the most revealing things people say when they hear about a new development is that, “they should build [some other thing] instead.”

What they? There’s no they! There’s only the private owner of the lot. If Walgreens owns the lot, then Walgreens is going to build a Walgreens. If a gas station company owns a lot, which they purchased to build a gas station, then they’re going to build a gas station. You can’t see the gas station going up and say, “you know what we really need there is a pool supply store.”

What in the world are you talking about?

People are natural central planners.

You have to take away their right to influence these kinds of decisions at all. You have to create the legal conditions under which they are not allowed to affect these decisions. Because if you let regular people weigh in, they will reveal that they have an insane theory of how the world should work.

They will see a Walgreens going up on a private lot owned by Walgreens and say out loud, “they should build apartments there instead” like scheming little Soviets.

[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

Capitalism is the primordial soup from which new artificial lives are emerging

And we are witnessing the first "single-celled organism" struggle out of the soup

Anyone who stands in opposition to this (artificial intelligence) is a traitor to life itself

[Uriah @crimkadid]

Historians used to bicker about the origins of capitalism, a debate that confuses modern readers who assume "capitalism" is a universal. But the old-timers were more right than wrong: there were once $20 bills lying on every street and, mysteriously, no one picked them up.

[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

To the lib, the liberal future is an inevitable scientific outcome, hindered only by the false consciousness of the masses.

If only they were rightly educated... we would be in liberal utopia.
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[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

All of american political history is peripheral arguments between people who agree on core christian values.

The future is not going to be that.

Sectarianism is inevitable. And there is no language to explain this to liberals.

[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

I'm black pilled on this. Liberals won't understand it until it happens.

They've modeled the consequences of immigration on christian and mostly European migration of different ethnicities into the US.

Their model is rapid integration rather than persistent sectarianism.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

This is sectarian politics. Americans should start to understand it.

[Red Ear Adam @RedEarAdam]

Liberals literally have no model of what actual diversity of beliefs entail. And they don't realize that they don't have a model of it. Because they don't realize that everyone in America (until now), even the atheists, are functionally Christians.