Terrence de Kat

Retired entrepreneur, international investor, NOC monkey & BOFH. Founder of Monks & the Open Internet Foundation. CompSci PhD, MTh & BPsy (psychopathologist).

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

We can only hope @elonmusk buys the Star Trek IP (ALL of it, not 85%), and puts a real fan like @SethMcFarlane_ in control of it.

Come on Elon! You rescued Twitter, you can do it for Star Trek as well!

It's not like ST has no cultural influence, and it especially meshes well with getting people excited for space. TOS and TNG did this for two generations!

I can dream, right?

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

Leading the show with Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry Report published today. The details are impossible to ignore for anyone with a heart

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

Yes, and that's complete bullshit.

Maybe on the point that they both don't agree that the messiah has come, but otherwise...

And surely there's no political angle to this at all, right?

And, yes, in history most genocides (by number) have definitely been committed in the name of some god. But, the vast majority in the name of pagan gods, some we know of today, some long forgotten.

But, the genocides that claimed the most lives, that'd be communism/atheism, and the difference isn't even close.

I would wager that communism has killed more people than all people killed in the name of religion in all of history combined (whether you include the Nazi's in that or not). It's a completely different scale.

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@TaniaSchell @ireallyhateyou Also, I'm curious, can you list some of what you consider beautiful traditions and passed down wisdom in the context of Islam?

Because, what may have existed in the past (what incidentally usually is overstated), was almost all destroyed by Muslims themselves.

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

Yes, othering can be based on almost everything.

However, othering based on immutable characteristics is something completely different than doing it based on ideology, which I was doing (not based on religion, as Islam is, but based on Islamism, which is a fascist totalitarian political ideology).

And yes, people that routinely (including, but not limited to),

1) rape and torture joung boys and girls (Afghanistan),

2) slaughter adults and then rape and auction off their children (ISIS to Yazidi's),

3) call for the genocide of the entire Jewish people, and literally put that at the start of their official charter they released themselves, as well as practise slavery, rape as a weapon of war, torture, and other war crimes (Hamas),

4) equate infidels to livestock to which a Muslim may do anything he wishes, like: sell, rape, torture (UK, Choudary and other clerics).

The above behaviour is clearly legitimised by the Q'ran and Hadith.

The Rotherham, Oxfordshire, etc. rape gangs didn't just think of this themselves, and they exclusively targeted many thousands, if not tens of thousands, ethnically (white) British and Sikh girls (ie. infidels) as young as 9 years old.

People doing this *are* savages, and should definitely be deligitimised and subjugated or killed.

Which every civilised country is actually doing by justifiably killing them (ISIS, Hamas), and, putting them in prison (Choudary).

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

Also, I can imagine a unicorn as well as a Griffon. Just becausr you can imagine something doesn't mean it exist.

Can you provide any evidence that such a thing ever happened, and even if it has happened; that such an objection was taken even the slightest bit seriously so that the rapist(s) got punished (rather that the commander executed)?

Seems unlikely, since Hamas condones rape of infidels since the Q'ran and Hadith explicitly do.

It's the same reason ISIS held sex slave auctions for captured Yazidi girls and women. That is all clearly sanctioned by religious leaders both in the middle East and in the west because it's clearly spelled out as Allah's will.

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@ally_eh @CollinRugg Yes, she would have been more alive had she been stabbed in the neck instead, like that girl on public transit :) Wait... Oh no, nevermind :(

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

He also got the US astronauts off the ISS. So, yeah, I'm sure he got paid for that.

SpaceX is a private for-profit company, so that seems obvious.

And, he makes starlink available in disaster zones around the world, whether it is the US after a hurricane, or conflict zones like Ukraine and Iran.

That's all fraud. Especially when contrasted with what you have done with your life, I assume?

Lastly, yes that's me in my profile picture. I'm not sure what you mean with translucent here, how does that connect to white?

Does that mean that the extreme of black people is opaque?

In any case, thanks for clarifying you're the simplest form of racist. Those for whom ethnicity is too complex a concept and they only consider the most superficial: skin color alone.

Though I get a very dark tan very fast from the sun. Courtesy of my Indonesian skin. How would that fit in your model I wonder?

I guess you deal with that the same way as the fact that @elonmusk is literally an African-American, despite him also being "pale as shit" :)

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@oddkoffee @TheCriticalDri2 @elonmusk @SethMcFarlane_ Which means what?

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@Suzierizzo1 What are you talking about. We need this in Europe, like yesterday!

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@The_ChatMan @TheCriticalDri2 @elonmusk @SethMcFarlane_ @SethMacFarlane Thanks :)

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

Star Fleet is definitely socialist.

Socialism isn't inherently wrong, it's successfully practiced in any normal and functional family.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

This is also how *my* family operates. There's nothing fair about the division of labor, and with young kids it cannot be. And babies are at the extreme of the spectrum.

But, especially because it works so well in families, it seems it should be able to be expanded to larger groups.

That's why I can understand why socialism is so enticing to young people.

However, that simply doesn't work. Human empathy simply doesn't scale linearly.

Star Trek is fictional, so we can suspend our disbelief and assume we evolved in that respect. But, we realise it would never work in reality given human nature.

We suspend our disbelief for entertainment all the time.

But, a socialist, or otherwise collectivist, in real life is suspending disbelief about *reality*, which is properly called a delusion.

The former is not a problem, the latter leads to millions of dead people if allowed to fester.

We can also see it in the embarrassing display of mentally ill people LARPing that they are fighting Nazi's.

That would be hilarious, if it weren't so sad and didn't cost real human lives :(

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

That's stupid, both socialism (properly morphed to communism) and the Borg collective have one thing in common: they are completely leaderless.

Both Locutus of Borg & The Borg queen were merely spokespersons.

And, even if it were so, you imply the Democrat party is any better?

It doesn't even *have* a leader, unless you count the DNC and their donors, LOL!

It wouldn't surprise me if the DNC "installs" someone in the next elections again, regardless of the primaries. Just like Hillary and Kamala were.

While whining about democracy being under attack, of course.

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@The_ChatMan @TheCriticalDri2 @elonmusk @SethMcFarlane_ @SethMacFarlane An honor is too much man, what did I do to deserve it? :)

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@Bubblebathgirl What she's saying is that she has been unfairly undercutting her competition who don't rely on illegal workers, and now that she has to compete fairly she can't.

Boo hoo.

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@The_ChatMan @TheCriticalDri2 @elonmusk @SethMcFarlane_ @SethMacFarlane Oh, he has offered I believe, but the studios didn't want it.

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@TheTsengMao @TheCriticalDri2 @elonmusk @SethMcFarlane_ @TheOrville I thought it was awesome and more Star Trek than the new crap that wears the skin of it.

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

@Christopher_Yod @friendsofdoge @TheCriticalDri2 @elonmusk @SethMcFarlane_ It wasn't post-scarcity though. Replicator access is rationed and effectively controlled by the military, rather than a civil authority.

If you really pay attention, it's not actually a utopia either.

[Terrence de Kat @raphidae]

Yes, Dunning-Kruger got that one right.

However, notwithstanding Hanlon's razor, I think a good portion are malevolent rather than stupid.

The Democrat party is still just as full of white supremacists as in the past, the only thing that changed is that in the past they were proud to be the superior race, and now they feel guilty about it.

But, the belief that they *are* superior never went away.

That's also how they get to their delusion that they have the moral high ground. Since they know from their own lived experience that they are superior and therefore racist, they cannot imagine another white prison not believing the same, and thus not being racist.

So, if all white people are necessarily superior than black people, then whether any one white person is morally superior than another can only hinge on whether one feels guilty about this de facto superiority or not.

A white person that does not feel guilty about being superior must therefore necessarily be an unapologetic and proud racist.

That an obvious third option exists (namely that there are actually many white people that simply do not consider themselves superior to other people based on immutable characteristics at all, and therefore have nothing to feel guilty about) is not something that white leftists can imagine.

(Another good example of "confession through projection" @thevivafrei :)

Their subconscious will simply not let them even imagine such a white person, because the existence of even a single non-bigoted white person would confront them with a white person that is morally superior to them, which would lead to an identity crisis.

These white supremacists must be able to delude themselves into believing that their bigotry is at least offset by their guilt. Which they must publicly display, leading to the useless virtue signalling and (violent) lashing out to people "on behalf of marginalized groups" that we observe every day.

In their pseudo-religion/cult, they feel that this way they are somehow atoning for their original sin of being born white (aka superior).

The only alternative is that they confront that they are actually morally bankrupt bigots. But, being cowards, they will never do so.

See for instance: https://t.co/YIluaBcx0E

And I can recommend:

- The work of Jonathan Haidt on political differences.

- Various books of Thomas Sowell, especially "A conflict of visions", "Black Rednecks and White Liberals", as well as "Intellectuals and Race".