Christian Eriksson

I don't wear sweatpants in public. XY.

[Herr Husis @HerrHusis]

Svensk debatt år 2070:

”Wallahi, handen på koranen yäni, du e fett keff maggan. Riktig orre, riktig sån keff gäri. Din politik är chok keff”

”Lyssna yäni, de du som e keff. Du sån riktig råtta mannen, mammas död. Ett ord till yäni och mina grabbar kommer japp dig.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Reality has become more bizarre than parody!

Also, employment discrimination is illegal, so they are breaking the law.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

I had a conversation with a friend this week about how we all become captured by culture wars.

We can call it The Culture War’s Shiny Object Cycle.

Here is how it goes:

1. Some woke news story hits the press.

-“Cats suffer from racial discrimination or screwing in lightbulbs needs to be recognised as a valid sexual kink or something.”

2. The Right Wing antibody response activates.

-“Look at how insane these people are. *Matt Walsh quote tweets the article and calls it obnoxious* This is the problem with our convenient, decadent, TikTok society.”

3. This reaction causes the story to gain infinitely more traction than it ever would have done by signal boosting the original fringe-scenario into a much bigger event.
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4. The Left Wing counter-response activates.

-“Right wingers lose their minds over one woman with a particularly dark cat. The Daily Wire has meltdown over insignificant troll article.”

-In times where the original story is less insane, this includes a defence of the original article too. “Cats actually CAN experience trauma, minimising this is the REAL problem.”

5. The Right Wing re-reaction kicks into gear.

-“Apparently I’m insane for pushing back against Cat Trauma. See this is the problem, if we don’t stand our ground, these blue haired idiots will take over the country.”

6. Finally, the Touch Grass Meta-Reactionaries steam in.

-“The real issue is people talking about this issue. Look at how silly this whole thing is. It’s time to check out of the culture war. We should reconnect with what really matters. You should move onto the ranch next to Ryan Holiday and hammer fence posts into the ground for the rest of time.”

This cycle is banal.

It’s excruciatingly repetitive.

So why does it sustain our attention if basically every discussion follows the same cycle?

Because each story is sprinkled with just enough novelty to give it the illusion that this is a new, different event.

Which legitimates the pushback… “We’ve not seen THIS Trans Flag with People Who Suffer From A Gluten Intolerance included in it before.”

It’s like a 20th season of Lost where they’re back on an island for the 7th time and need to escape, but THIS TIME IT’S WINTER.

The Culture War’s Shiny Object Cycle does my head in.

It does my head in because I get captured by it.

I see a bank rewriting classic fairy tales into a boss-bitch remake called Fairer Tales: Princesses Doing It For Themselves and think “this is fucking dumb, where’s Douglas Murray, I need him to decimate this idea with me.”

It’s cathartic.

Calling out insane ideas written by idiots is so compelling and fun and easy to do that it’s like being a cocaine addict with Pablo Escobar as a next door neighbour.

The memes of production are whirring at maximum RPM and we’re all caught in the vortex.

It was Douglas who reminded me why I’m getting so exasperated with this cycle.

It is a distraction.

A distraction from our attention being focussed on things which are actually meaningful.

Not just meaningful in a “will you remember this when you’re dead”-way.

But in a “there’s other issues that are more important to talk about”-way too.

There’s entire American cities with fentanyl epidemics.

80% of suicides of people aged 18 to 24 are men.

I want to hear Peterson talk about dealing with finding meaning in a world stripped of all its guard rails.

I want Taleb to be writing about applying complex maths to simple life problems.

Many of the smartest people on the planet have had their attention captured arguing about whether men are men and women are women or not over the last few years.

And even more of the normal ones too.

All of our collective minds are held hostage by an endless cycle of shiny objects that aggravate both sides and makes them feel righteous for standing their ground.

I think this is a bottomless pit.

I don’t think it’s going to stop.

I will almost certainly bring up stories like these in future.

But I’m gonna try hard to focus more on stuff that matters in 50 years, not just in 50 minutes.

And probably so should you.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

During the Munich conference I was asked why I am so gloomy. Well, somebody has to tell it like it is, so here’s how it is: Things are not going well. 🧵

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I'm talking to Tucker Carlson on podcast soon. If you have any questions / topic suggestions please let me know.

Yes, we'll talk about Putin, Navalny, his Russia trip, and many other topics.

[Chang Frick @ChangFrick]

Vad förvånad jag är att en äcklig vit jävla medelklassfitta ska gnälla över att det görs försök att komma åt gängkriminalitet i förorten.

För det skiter den här jävla bolåneskökan i. Det är inte hennes medelklassiga snorungar som lär sig beckna knark i skolan. Det är inte hennes bil som brinner på parkeringen. Det är inte hon som tvingas gå hem med en klump i magen och oroa sig för dödsskjutningar runt hörnet.

Nä, det är viktigare för henne att signalera någon slags efterbliven ”antirasism”. Men nedan tweet handlar inte ett skit om att hon bryr sig om folk med annan hudfärg. Hon vill bara visa upp sin medelklassighet och markera status med spelad omtanke om invandrare.

För HADE hon på riktigt brytt sig skulle hon välkomna alla försök att vända utvecklingen. Men det är klart, klarar de med brun hudfärg att göra en klassresa då kanske hon själv får en till granne - och anledningen till att huset är överbelånat var ju inte för att man vill bo med mångkulturen.

Så istället fejkar man en omtanke, ställer sig på de kriminellas sida, och låter förorten vara en laglös jävla djurpark. Det är tydligen ”humant”, ”antirasistiskt” och ”rättvist”.

Fan vad jag hatar den här sortens obildade, korkade jävla ”vita medelklasskvinnor”. Skicka dom till arbetsläger, de bidrar med ta mig fan ingenting till samhället. Fattas bara att hon är en jävla HR-chef eller ”kommunikatör”.

Usch!

[Herr Husis @HerrHusis]

>året är 2030
>vi har vunnit
>du går in på ditt lokala coop
>maggan jobbar i kassan
>”haha var inte du statsminister?”
>”…….. var det bra så?”
>”behåll växeln”
>knäcker en celsius peach vibe”
>”….. vi har fucking vunnit”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

And he did

[Sean @personayesgrata]

Jag har sagt det förut och jag säger det igen. Om man vill ha en kunskaps- och evidensbaserad, skademinimerande narkotikapolitik till vänster är avkriminalisering + statligt monopol likt Systembolaget men för cannabis en självklar hållning.

Varför då? En tråd. 🧵

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

This scene in BEVERLY HILLS cop was improvised between Eddie Murphy and Bronson Pinchot. Some great ad-libbing.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

We tend to assume that people who are born poor and get rich will be more sympathetic to the plight of the poor than will those who are born rich and stay rich. But it's the other way around. https://t.co/4gPUV9l7gS

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cybertruck production line

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

#MarchAgainstAntisemitism

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

To those who say I bring "shame" to Arabs and Muslims,

It's not the psychopaths who rape women in Sweden who bring shame to Arabs and Muslims. It's not the terrorists who murder journalists in France who bring shame to Arabs and Muslims. It's not the maniacs who praise terrorists in the U.S. and the UK who bring shame to Arabs and Muslims. It's not the fascists who burn down embassies in Iraq who bring shame to Arabs and Muslims. It's not the psychos who kill their daughters and sisters for taking off the hijab who bring shame to Arabs and Muslims. It's not the beasts who hurls homosexuals off buildings who bring shame to Arabs and Muslims.

It's me typing on my keyboard or talking to the camera, telling Arabs and Muslims: "Our culture needs to change," and "Killing Jews is not okay," who brings shame to Arabs and Muslims.

Fascinating.

[Alice Teodorescu Måwe @alicemedce]

De återkommande demonstrationerna, de antisemitiska slagorden och manifestationerna för Hamas terror och nu igår en utbuad statsminister som hånas för att han fördömer attacken mot civila israeler. Sällan har det varit lika tydligt att Sverige förändrats i grunden. Det som sker är helt oacceptabelt och nu behöver politiken utan att darra på manschetten säga det uppenbara: den som vill leva i Sverige behöver omfamna våra värderingar annars finns massa länder med andra värderingar att välja på. Nog nu!

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

Watch as LTC (res.) Jonathan Conricus exposes the countless Hamas weapons IDF troops have uncovered in the Shifa Hospital's MRI building:

[Mustafa Panshiri @Panshiri_M]

Jag: nej till antisemitism

Två raketforskares reaktioner:

[Hanif Bali @hanifbali]

Jag skulle kunna koda ett script som i realtid blockar detta fenomen på 15 min och jag är på sin höjd medioker kodare.

Vad är skatteverkets jävla problem?