Parker McRae

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@PhilKlay @rich_greenwald Everything stated is incorrect

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

I’ve always admired many things about Jordan Peterson, particularly Maps of Meaning and his initial rise to fame taking on the woke insanity. I was pleasantly surprised that he complimented the three of us from the debate on JRE. That’s about as good as I could expect from a Daily Wire employee.

I was a bit surprised at his take on keeping the “psychopaths” away. Now, I’m just a non expert comic who’s neva beeeeeen, but it seems sloppy for a clinical psychologist to just throw out a mass diagnosis like this.

He mentioned the groypers as falling into this category. I certainly have my issues with them and I can count on their leader to trash me anytime I’m making waves but this just seemed incredibly unfair. The groypers are guilty of being immature and saying mean things about Jews on Twitter and while I don’t like that, I wouldn’t think it rises to the level of such a claim.

If we are truly interested in calling out psychopathy, why not start with the people dropping bombs on babies and advocating more? How about the people signing bombs that are on their way to do just that? How about the people who have advocated for the last five catastrophic wars and despite being wrong about all of them are advocating for the next.

Why not have one standard and apply it across the board?

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@seanrcallaghan @Citizen010101 @martyrmade “A negotiated settlement” where British troops just happen to be in a foreign country, involved in their conflict, after their former PM destroyed peace talks, and if they get attacked we should start WW3. Got it totally reasonable!

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@seanrcallaghan @Citizen010101 @martyrmade Wow not just Europe but the Middle East too, and even with the recent developments in Syria you still say that.

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@seanrcallaghan @Citizen010101 @martyrmade Morons like you are gonna get us all killed

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

American politicians are a bloody freak show.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The irony of Vivek's post is that his wrong analysis of how American culture is broken illustrates in itself how American culture is broken.

I mean, how out-of-touch must one be to think people will embrace a vision where childhood must be optimized for corporate success, with less sleepovers, hanging out and fun (what he calls "mediocrity") in favor of shareholder-value-maximizing "excellence"?

Especially when addressing Americans who have seen their lives destroyed en-masse by the same corporate priorities that produced this vision of "excellence". The average American family isn't choosing between math tutoring and sleepovers - they're choosing between paying for basic necessities while both parents work multiple jobs.

His examples unwittingly prove the opposite of his point: shows that he describes as corrupting American culture (Friends, Boy Meets World, Family Matters, etc.) celebrate friendship, family, and community values - exactly what the US has lost in their rush to optimize everything for economic output and create an hyperindividualistic and consumerist society. That's probably why they're popular: they reflect a lost world that people aspire to go back to.

He mentions China as the motivating factor here, because apparently the solution to avoid having their "asses handed to us by China" is more capitalism, treating people even more like cogs who must compete in "the global market for technical talent."

That doesn't only betray a misunderstanding of what Americans want but also of China. China themselves largely hate the extreme competitiveness of their system: the people hate it and the government hates it, they all want to move away from it (hence the government banning the tutoring industry). And in any case this isn't what made China rise - China rose with a largely uneducated population, as mass university-level education is a very recent phenomenon there.

No, I'm convinced that China, at a very fundamental level, rose so unprecedentedly fast for the very reason that it is one of the very few countries in the world which culture wasn't completely denaturalized by the sort of neoliberal dystopia that Vivek seems to idealize. In China's socialist system the market doesn't trump all, individualism doesn't reign supreme and, at a broader level, they still stay faithful to many of the ancestral values that have sustained their civilization for thousands of years. That's the culture that underpins it all and makes it work, not the fact that Chinese kids do too much homework.

All in all, this is what makes this debate so revealing: Vivek, in trying to diagnose America's problems, has instead unwittingly illustrated them. The belief that every human activity must be justified by its contribution to GDP, that collective bonds are mere distractions from the pursuit of "excellence," and that the solution to the problems created by predatory capitalism is, somehow, more predatory capitalism.

[John Michael Greer @JMGreerWriter]

All the people who are shrieking about Trump could have rendered him completely powerless by the simple act of putting pressure on their representatives to do something significant about the plight of the working class in the US. It would have been the simplest thing in the world: once the Democrats realized they had to change course to keep on appealing to their own base, they’d have done it.

Nor was it ever any kind of secret what the real issues were. But the class bigotry of the Trump-haters was so deeply ingrained that they couldn’t even let themselves think of that.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

A man filming from his window captured the moment when Israeli forces who had injured a child with a sniper drone launched an airstrike on the site after people ran to his rescue. Imagine being scared to run to the rescue of an injured child because you could be killed for it.

That's the kind of nightmare Palestinians are facing in Gaza. One where a child injured by a flying robot could be being used as bait to draw rescuers to the scene in order to bomb them. One where people have to watch their family members burn alive right in front of them. One where they have to listen to their disabled loved one get ripped apart by dogs in the next room while they're held at gunpoint by Israeli soldiers. One where they have to watch everything they've ever known incinerated all around them while the world watches and yawns.

Fuck you if you're going along with this. Fuck you if you're ignoring this. Fuck you if you're trying to stop other people from opposing this. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Lots of giddiness about the mass remote explosion attack across Lebanon today. I’m sure the kids who witnessed limbs getting randomly blown off in grocery stores will appreciate the technological sophistication of the attack. They’ll grow into huge admirers of Israel and the US

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@battleforeurope 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@IneluctableQuak Might be trying to be a little too cute.

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@Fio_edwards NATO is the engine of “human progress” at the moment. Maybe we need to rethink some things.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Online right-wing media guys: Sure, we may have just gleefully participated in stoking one of the dumbest moral panics of all time to Own the Campus Protesters and Own the Dems, but the bill Congress passed in direct response to the panic we stoked may have gone slightly too far

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@CJHopkins_Z23 @LeoBitcoinBloom The masks are pathetic, but didn’t you defend Judith Butler when she made a valid point about Gaza, and people criticized her for her past positions? These people would have wanted you in a camp, but right now the police are being sicced on them for protesting foreign policy.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Again, if you really believe that Nazi Germany is the correct analog for what's going on at American college campuses right now, you've proven that you're either too hysterical to competently function in society, or too much of a propagandist to be tolerated in society

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@SwannMarcus89 An yet the liberal cultural views and decades of neoliberal policies that Joe Biden supports, and has supported for some time are taking us exactly toward some sort of “cyberpunk transhumanism���.

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@Johnnybeesknees @caitoz @AThinksAloud …….have a “moral superiority complex”, than there may be no hope.

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@Johnnybeesknees @caitoz @AThinksAloud The bigger problem is that she tried to portray Caitlin as some sort jihadist apologist, by taking a screenshot of a few lines. And if speaking out against women, children, and the elderly being bombed indiscriminately after being confined in a prison for decades means you…….

[Parker McRae @Newchip2]

@Johnnybeesknees @caitoz @AThinksAloud She said she’s correct about her motives, after she said that A absolutely lied about the contents of the article, as well as why she chose to screenshot instead of quote tweet it.