GrimWeeper5

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

It's more interesting and revealing to figure out why they lost, and won, when they did.

[Thomas 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @MeathGuerilla]

Old Left (won nothing, got completely and utterly destroyed in the 1970s/80s) veneration is one of the absolute worst midwit contrarian shibboleths

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

This is not correct. Aggression is respected when it achieves impressive outcomes and effects and enforces legible boundaries. Chaotic aggression usually causes further avoidance and rejection.

Without legibility or a salient outcome, rejection or regulation ensues.

[꧁༒☬ 𝔾𝕒𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕝 ☬༒꧂ @Gabbrielxzn]

I just learned that if you are neurodivergent, the best way to get respect out of neurotypicals is by being aggressive and mean bc they perceive those type of ppl as high value & kindness as low value. Whereas neurodivergent ppl view kindness and empathy as high value and aggression as low value.

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

It is odd to assume Musk, the richest man in the world, who owns tremendous assets and has made his mark on history, does not care about power.

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

They care about power. He cares about freedom. They accuse him of caring about power. He only cares about freedom. Strangely, that’s just what they want.

Now, he has to win every election. They only have to win one. Good luck running a public company when under indictment

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

If Leftism historically occurs in many places, you should wonder why it recurs. Perhaps it's a kind of evil, or perhaps it serves a purpose. What function might your "Leftism" serve across the ages?

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

If you can’t evaluate a text about an issue you care about, however the text was generated, you care about an issue you don’t understand.

The thing we call “leftism” is found across history. Read Peter Oliver or Clarendon (Edward Hyde) and tell me he’s not dealing with leftism

[GrimWeeper5 @GWeeper5]

And we have to, because certain tensions are just parts of human life, inevitable variations on the same themes.

[Russell @theramblingfool]

The more you read, the more you realize modern discourse (less and less informed by reading) rejects the most powerful human advantage: generational transfer of knowledge.

So much "modern" debate has been litigated for centuries. We just rehash old arguments, often more crudely.

[MKUltraLincoln @MKUltraLincoln]

@fredsoda People don't really respect rawness as much in a modern peacetime frame work. Just how it is.

[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: