Wank Dad 2: Electric Wankaloo

[curly]

Robinson's pretty good when he's staying away from the void of screaming insanity that is Democratic Party internal politics.

His take on contemporary architecture is radioactively bad

[shosta]

I keep getting the house fire argument about all lives matter. So none of them know about a Duncan Lemp.

Really tempted to just start shitposting on FB. If you post a Thomas Sowell or Glenn Loury they just don't process it.

-2 points 2 days ago

I'm becoming well aware BLM reflects more of a just black lives matter rather than a black lives matter too mentality.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1272649283796258816

[Transhuman]

It's like watching a school bully pick on an incel. From what I was able to see of Gutfeld from a quick youtube search, he shouldn't be throwing stones on the topic of who is and isn't a talentless performer, good christ.

[Oblivion]

A couple weeks ago everyone made fun of him for his views on marx which was funny. I got to see pictures of all his leopard print suits

people also got real mad at him for his (admittedly kind of bad) takedown of zizek

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/shafieikeyvan/status/1272724172385460225

[benjipwns]

It's like watching a school bully pick on an incel. From what I was able to see of Gutfeld from a quick youtube search, he shouldn't be throwing stones on the topic of who is and isn't a talentless performer, good christ.

Greg is talentless but he's right about Crowder completely, at least as to his appearances on Red Eye, which was on at 3AM and leaned towards "comedy" over anything else. Crowder would always claim and hide behind "comedian" then never do comedy, just boring punditry. Conservative pundits/news people would do comedy better than Crowder would. This argument with Schumer is the one he's referencing and a perfect example of what Crowder would do every time he came on the show:


Schumer apologizes because she had been on the show for years so knew what its style was about and Crowder was always more tantalized by being on Fox News thinking it was Hannity or something. Another time he tried to debate abortion with another comedian (and probably Imogen) on a 3AM "comedy" show. Greg and Bill were constantly having to throw him lifelines to try and bail him out and he'd never get it. He was a bad guest then and he still sucks, even worse, he's Canadian.

[Transhuman]

So is the greatest comedian of all time.

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Crowder is so shit it almost evens out though

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[benjipwns]

fan art:

[Mandark]

Robinson's pretty good when he's staying away from the void of screaming insanity that is Democratic Party internal politics.

His take on contemporary architecture is radioactively bad

And like a couple hours after I posted this he told someone on twitter that the Bell Curve was "painstakingly" researched. 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1272887413858275338

At least he's passed just the flu, bro phase.

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1272887413858275338

At least he's passed just the flu, bro phase.

It still always comes back to the flu.

The actual death counts for the last six flu seasons have ranged from 3,448 to 15,620. The CDC numbers are generated by multiplying flu death counts by various coefficients, which are based on certain assumptions (I don't think they usually get as high as 80,000 anyway).

So an apples to apples comparison is 3,448 to 15,620 flu deaths without shutdowns, mitigation, and closures vs. 118,520 COVID-19 deaths and counting with shutdowns, mitigation, and closures. 

[Madrun Badrun]

You don't actually need to argue why he is wrong in this thread. 

[VomKriege]

How are we wrapping back to "the flu tho" arguments as we're about to hit 120k dead and cases and hospitalizations are spiking in all the states that opened the earliest and most aggressively

They painted themselves into a corner and there's nowhere to escape to than repeat the lie enough.
They could admit they were wrong, but you know...

[Oblivion]

Robinson's pretty good when he's staying away from the void of screaming insanity that is Democratic Party internal politics.

His take on contemporary architecture is radioactively bad

And like a couple hours after I posted this he told someone on twitter that the Bell Curve was "painstakingly" researched. 

he wrote a whole article destroying charles murray. i don't think he supports the bell curve.

[Mandark]

He doesn't support it, he was trying to make some kind of point about how something can be rigorous from a technical standpoint and still be deeply flawed and using it as an example.

By all accounts TBC isn't "painstakingly researched" though, so I'd rather he not concede that point.

[Oblivion]

ah gotcha.

[shosta]

Listening to Charlie Kirk talk to Mark Levin:

"Rousseau was the gateway to Marx... and Plato was the gateway to Rousseau."

link pls i need some humour at work

finally found a vid, thank you Liz Bruenig

https://twitter.com/njhochman/status/1272733117120278528

[BisMarckie]

Listening to Charlie Kirk talk to Mark Levin:

"Rousseau was the gateway to Marx... and Plato was the gateway to Rousseau."

link pls i need some humour at work

finally found a vid, thank you Liz Bruenig

https://twitter.com/njhochman/status/1272733117120278528

I recently read an essay by Ernst Fraenkel, he spent like half of his time dunking on Rousseau for being a totalitarian loon and being the inspiration for fascist philiosophy 

[Mandark]

About a week ago I made a post that referenced Charlie Kirk but I was blanking on his name.

So I googled "conservative tiny face" and he was in all the first 10 results.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Listening to Charlie Kirk talk to Mark Levin:

"Rousseau was the gateway to Marx... and Plato was the gateway to Rousseau."

link pls i need some humour at work

finally found a vid, thank you Liz Bruenig

https://twitter.com/njhochman/status/1272733117120278528

Plato also argued against the nuclear family

 

[BisMarckie]

That Platon is called the bastardized Latin "Plato" in the Anglosphere is just a further sign of your cultural degeneracy.

[Joe Molotov]

Sounds like the platonic ideal....



....is anything but.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/1273012304695746562

Dave Rubin is Dave Rubin.

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1273088613534904320

Blacks ANNIHILATED by Whites & Logic

[benjipwns]

I'm not up to date on what the CBC has actually accomplished that's not been pre-existing Democratic priorities in general but they're a minority within what's often been a minority since 1994. Not exactly the easiest position to pass legislation from. I would think Bill could relate more.

[benjipwns]

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200616/14390744730/no-google-didnt-demonetize-federalist.shtml

So, earlier today, NBC reported that Google had "banned" two well known websites from its ad platform, namely The Federalist and Zero Hedge. The story was a bit confusing. To be clear, both of those sites are awful and frequently post unmitigated garbage, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. But, it turns out the story was highly misleading, though it will almost certainly be used to push the false narrative that the big internet companies are engaged in "anti-conservative bias" in moderation practices. But that's wrong. Indeed, it appears what happened is exactly what Google has done to us in the past, in saying that because of certain comments people put on our stories, they were pulling any Google ads from appearing on that page. Now we've explained why this is a dumb policy, that only encourages bad comments on sites to try to demonetize them, but it's not got anything to do with "anti-conservative bias." Also, it's just pulling ads from a single page, not across the board.

Oh,

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/creedfangirl/status/1271802463629332482

[Mandark]

[Tripon]

Tim Pool turning into outright reactionary troll is pretty funny to watch in real time.

[Mandark]

He's trying to pull the "it was a joke!" parachute cord, but it only works as irony if you take the opposite side of the issue as him.

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[Pissy F Benny]

You sat back and did nothing while some japester pulled off my beanie!

[Madrun Badrun]

This was good

https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1273209625198956545

Ezra Klein embracing the non aggression principle

[Mandark]

I actually appreciate the sentiment and what he's trying to reach for.

However, I sort of think OSHA should have its own tanks.

[shosta]

It is the truest radicalism, destabilizing to societies built on transaction and domination because it inverts their workings, lays bare their weaknesses, dissolves their core ethic.

This quote alone woefully underestimates the deep cruelty of American society.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/mischief_more/status/1272346066696970242

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1273346972926132225
 

[Mandark]

From the author of:

https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1122269282539274240

and

https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/989535565895864320

and

https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1262573314888925186

[Joe Molotov]

Slaves who agreed to be salves

It’s a different word that highlights its lower moral culpability.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1273292427940544518

https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1273293191194836993
https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1273303723586932738
https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1273360519706152960

[Mandark]

Slaves who agreed to be salves

It’s a different word that highlights its lower moral culpability.

[curly]

Slaves who agreed to be salves

I know it's lame to care about Harry Potter's politics but it's pretty crazy that the house elves just loved being slaves

[Mandark]

There's a whole plotline where Hermione wants to free them and IIRC the gist is that she's being a scoldy outsider who doesn't understand the culture and it's basically there for comic relief.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1273759365242195968

[Mandark]

Tri, what is your understanding of this thread?

I'm genuinely curious.

[shosta]

funny twitter shid

[shosta]

sometimes I wonder if tripon is just strapped to a chair and forced to read Twitter all day A Clockwork Orange style and posting all the tweets is just a cry for help

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1273746195215716357

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1273292427940544518

https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1273293191194836993
https://twitter.com/Theophite/status/1273303723586932738
https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1273360519706152960

Mr. President send Airforce 1 to pick up this Hero 

[Oblivion]

starting to think taibbi defending the honor of chuds wasn't a one time thing:

https://twitter.com/RehabSwitching/status/1273980796999794689

[jakefromstatefarm]

imagine getting triggered by this guy

[VomKriege]

Seen on BillyMitchy's Fred :
https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1274008856847355909

Two years ago :
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todd-starnes-its-time-to-make-a-shocking-confession-about-chick-fil-a

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

I have been on Rising several times, and I have found it to be a refreshingly original show. It has the look and tone of cable news, but is more substantive, and features guests and stories that are excluded from the mainstream networks.

I concur with most of what Ball and Enjeti write, and just as when I watch Rising, I find myself on board with 95 percent of what Ball says and about 80 percent of what Enjeti says.

imagine being a vindictive idiot toward someone who hedges their criticism of your work this much. almost like what they’re really offended at is that someone’s bothering to be a principled lefty. the retreat into ad hominem speaks volumes

[Mandark]

Taibbi accusing someone else of writing a long, overwrought, hyperbolic article in response to a small amount of criticism.

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

a long, overwrought article

this is the best part. its like...10 paragraphs . and nathan robinson isnt exactly james joyce

[Mandark]

Taibbi's got terminal Poster's Disease at this point.

Eventually his entire political philosophy will just be that he's not mad, and in fact he's laughing right now.

[Oblivion]

the best part is that both taibbi and saagar are mad that nathan dared to compare him to trump, a guy that saagar, you know, actually supports   

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canadian-right-wing-extremism-online-1.5617710

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/nikoCSFB/status/1274087345793482753

https://twitter.com/Potato_sb/status/1274088887044972547

fauci was james the whole time