Wank Dad 2: Electric Wankaloo

[EchoRin]

30 minutes?! This better be funny 

[Joe Molotov]

I can tell by the thumbnail that it won't be.

[EchoRin]

I'm 12 minutes in. It's pretty good so far

Edit:

Pastor and exorcism stuff is always so scummy. But what the hell is the Jim Baker Show? 

[VomKriege]

I'm 12 minutes in. It's pretty good so far

Edit:

Pastor and exorcism stuff is always so scummy. But what the hell is the Jim Baker Show? 

He was a televangelist riding high on Prosperity Gospel drivel, got caught embezzling funds (shocking, I know), went to jail. Reinvented himself as an apocalyptic televangelist pushing survival crisis products to preppers. IIRC.

[Joe Molotov]

Don't forget the rape!

[EchoRin]

Man. Reading that guys wiki. How can any honest Christian watch him in, and I'm kinda annoyed of the term, good faith? By anybody's standards this man is repulsive.

[jakefromstatefarm]

How can any honest Christian watch him in, and I'm kinda annoyed of the term, good faith?

lmao. you new to this?

[Momo]

Man. Reading that guys wiki. How can any honest Christian watch him in, and I'm kinda annoyed of the term, good faith? By anybody's standards this man is repulsive.

I mean its religion, how many religious figures have banged kids or been a gay homophobe or fucks people's wives on the side? Religion is about power and having a congregation willing to cover your ass for a lot of these fucks

[Great Rumbler]

I'm 12 minutes in. It's pretty good so far

Edit:

Pastor and exorcism stuff is always so scummy. But what the hell is the Jim Baker Show? 

He was a televangelist riding high on Prosperity Gospel drivel, got caught embezzling funds (shocking, I know), went to jail. Reinvented himself as an apocalyptic televangelist pushing survival crisis products to preppers. IIRC.

Alan Dershowitz was his parole attorney.

[EchoRin]

How can any honest Christian watch him in, and I'm kinda annoyed of the term, good faith?

lmao. you new to this?

I mean no. But to rebound so well. It is what it is.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/LitAnscombe/status/1170007426583683076

god i hope this was deliberate

Further research revealed that Mr. Glynn represented himself as a Ph.D. psychologist to several academic institutions (academic fraud), and under those credentials he published over 40 articles in 15 different publication outlets in 2019 alone (journalistic fraud).

omg it's even better

In 2016 Skeptic magazine published an article on “Guns and Games: The Relationship Between Violent Video Games and Gun Crimes in America” (Vol. 21, No. 1) by John Anthony Glynn, who identified himself as a Ph.D. psychologist and as a professor of psychology. After that initial publication he began emailing me regularly (120 times this past year), pitching stories on a variety of topics, including the evolutionary origins of humor, online gaming, cybercrime, masculinity, political correctness, social credits and privacy, dopamine, and suicide. In one email he clarified that he earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Hertfordshire in England. In another email he claimed “I am head of behavioral science at a medical school, XUSOM” (Xavier University School of Medicine in Aruba, an island off the coast of Venezuela), on the pretense of inviting me to speak there. More recently, he told me that he was applying for a professorship of psychology at the American University of Bahrain, Manama, for which he asked me to be a reference. On April 13, 2019 he told me that he got the job. On April 25, however, I received an email that should have set off my skeptical alarms more than it did, in which he asked to borrow money after, he said, Xavier Medical School “is a fraud, pure and simple; it lacks knowledgeable faculty, basic facilities” and he was never paid, but that he would pay me back upon his new professorship at the American University of Bahrain.

I declined to lend him money, but felt a twinge of empathy for him, so I kept the communication channels open. Perhaps I should have taken a cue from an August 20, 2019 email where he inquired if I had… “Any interest in another piece discussing the proliferation of experts who actually lack expertise?”

[benjipwns]

When he pitched the last article we published by him on suicide, Glynn assured me “As a psychologist, I would of course handle such a piece with care.”

Two of my former graduate students, and now professors, who also conduct research for Skeptic, became curious about Mr. Glynn’s credentials. They began by simply checking to see if Glynn was a professor of psychology at the American University of Bahrain (archive). Since the university wasn’t even open (it is supposed to open this Fall), that didn’t look promising, and his prior claimed professorship as the head of behavioral science at the Xavier University School of Medicine in Aruba was, by his own admission, a bust.

[benjipwns]

I shared these documents with my associates and within an hour they sent a URL to a site (archive) that can produce that exact same diploma within minutes

https://diplomamarket.com/how-university-of-hertfordshire-fake-certificate-can-keep-you-out-of-trouble/

 

[benjipwns]

I sent this letter to Glynn and asked “What is going on here?” He replied: “I am sorry, Michael. I never meant any harm. However, I’m no fraud.” I asked for further clarification: “Did you or did you not attend the University of Hertfordshire? Did you fake that diploma? Please give me the full story now of what is really happening.” Glynn then confessed:

Michael, I deceived you. But please know that I never plagiarized any essay. Also, although I have taught at university, I have never, ever practiced as a psychologist. Never! And I never will. I worked in Korea, but at a language school, not university.

This was followed by a plea to keep the matter private.

Someone who would lie to this extent could be lying about not plagiarizing his work, so we ran the four Skeptic articles through the Turnitin plagiarism program. The results were negative; that is, he does not appear to have plagiarized the articles we published.

The most egregious of the trove was an article Mr. Glynn wrote for Standpoint (June 26, 2019) titled “Overrated: PhDs” (archive), in which, with (in hindsight) ironic mockery, he proclaims:

Is it worth pursuing a PhD? Sometimes, yes. If you wish to carve out a meaningful career in academia, a PhD is a must. However, if academia is not for you, think very carefully before signing up. After years of toil working towards a PhD in clinical psychology, I have been lucky enough to find a secure lecturing job.

you so fucking got got

lol at all the comments praising Schermer and Skeptic for catching this

[Rufus]

Is there a more boring and dispassionately passionate/worried dude than Eric Weinstein?

I've bookmarked this for tomorrow while I play PoE:


So I'm definitely more boring.

[Rufus]

American Thinker has resolved this by simply removing all references to his PhD.

SAD.

Honest, in a way.

Dr. Shermer,

Had Mr. Glynn not lied from the start, would you publish his articles? If yes, then why remove them? Just put a note at the beginning of the articles that the author fabricated his academic credentials but the article passed editorial review.

If you want to punish Mr. Glynn, wouldn’t the shame be enough? Or you could sue him for fraud. Had Hitler published the theory of relativity, we would still teach it in universities but history would still judge him as a mass murderer.

[benjipwns]

Because I'm sensing a trend...
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/09/06/breitbart-claims-progressive-scalp-reason-predictably-draws-wrongest-possible-conclusion/

So Breitbart has taken a leftist scalp.

They discovered tweets by Dr. Jamie R. Riley, University of Alabama’s assistant vice president and dean of students, that show [shocked face::gasp] that a leftwing university educrat holds doctrinaire woke leftwing beliefs.

In my opinion, people holding that kind of philosophy should not be allowed within a thousand or so miles of any educational institution because his callous, privileged bigotry is going to be evident any time he has to deal with a white student or a conflict between a black student and a student of any other race or when he has to interact with campus police, particularly when either the cop or the student is white and the other isn’t. That said, there is nothing terribly exotic about his point of view in progressive circles. The New York Times has hired opinion writers with much worse on their Twitter timeline .

But, for whatever reason, Breitbart hit the sweet spot here and within 24-hours an embedded educrat was able to devote more time to fine tuning his bigotry:

Jackson Fuentes, press secretary for the UA Student Government Association, confirmed at 4:15 p.m. that Riley is no longer working at the University.

Robbie Soave at Reason takes it from there:

Many pundits on the right constantly inveigh against cancel culture: the drive to shame, punish, and ultimately destroy people for having said something trivially offensive at some point. Comedian Dave Chapelle torched cancel culture in his recent Netflix special, and conservatives applauded. The clip of Chapelle scornfully imitating cancellers has been all over right-leaning media for the last two weeks.

I very much agree that cancel culture is bad. (In fact, it’s one of the main themes of my book.) But as long as the right is perfectly willing to enforce its own version of political correctness, it is difficult to to believe that they really agree in principle that you shouldn’t do this kind of thing. If you only defend the cancelled when you agree with them, then you’re not actually against cancelling. You’re just protecting your tribe.

Conservatives, please condemn Breitbart for this hit job and demand the immediate reinstatement of James Riley.

Ummm, no. Not just no thanks, but no f***ing thanks at all.

In this case, you can even–without having a “first class mind”–easily hold, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, these two opposing thoughts.

On the one hand, we should all deplore the “cancel culture.” It is corrosive of civil society and it forces you to limit social contacts to people who are pretty like-minded because you have to be attuned to the fact that there is no such thing as a progressive who will not burn you down if you say an unguarded word. On a personal level, I’ve slowly removed from my social circle anyone whose politics I distrust because the risk of being around them is simply too great.

...

Soave presents us with a false dichotomy. We can either actively work against a outlet that is (mostly) an ally to try to get a rabid, frothing leftist bigot reinstated. Or we’re hypocrites. That’s simply bullsh**.

The real issue is more analogous to the standoff between the US (that would be us) and the USSR (that would be their fellow travelers who masquerade as Americans today). The US was beset throughout the Cold War with people who claimed we should engage in unilateral nuclear disarmament because that would show the we really had no ill intent. I mean, if we didn’t intend to use nukes on the USSR then we really didn’t need several thousand of them, did we? (Bizarrely enough, you hear the same cretins and their philosophical descendants making the same argument about why the DPRK should not be expected to give up its nukes.) Under Reagan we were scolded that if we build better nukes (the neutron bomb) and developed SDI then we would be hypocrites. It didn’t take a genius to see that a) building nukes and SDI was necessary for our survival and b) holding them did not compromise our principles.

...

So long as this kind of thing is permitted and rewarded, then we on the right have a very binary choice to make. We either unilaterally disarm and follow the lead of the “muh principles” gang, or we fight fire with fire.

To make matters worse, we have people who don’t really have our best interests at heart lecturing us on how we’re violating our principles by defending ourselves.

Sorry, that dog ain’t going to hunt. We’re wise to that game. A couple of years ago a writer going by the nom de guerre Warden at Ace of Spades laid it out perfectly:

There’s a frustrating game that the left plays with conservatives. It’s an Alinksy tactic called, “Make them live up to their values.” Now, living up to one’s values isn’t a bad thing, but setting high standards ultimately means that you’ll sometimes fall short.

The left loves to exploit these shortcomings–every Christian who falls short of perfection is a hypocrite; the social values candidate you voted for just got arrested for drunk driving. Haha, everything you believe and advocate is now discredited.

...

They’re the fucking bullies. The left, with their smears, their witch hunts, their slanders, their insults, their riots, their violence, and their weaponizing of the federal bureaucracy.

There aren’t any rules anymore because the left only applies them one way. And in doing so, they’ve left what once was a civil compact between the two parties in smoldering ruins.

I have no personal investment in Donald Trump. He is a tool to punish the left and roll back their ill-gotten gains, no more and no less. If he succeeds even partially in those two things, then I’ll consider his election a win.

Further, I no longer have any investment in any particular political values, save one: The rules created by the left will be applied to the left as equally and punitively as they have applied them to the right. And when they beg for mercy, I’ll begin to reconsider. Or maybe not. Because fuck these people.

This new philosophy has freed me of more emotional angst that I can describe. Literally nothing the left says or does matters to me anymore. I don’t care about their tantrums. I don’t care about their accusations. I don’t care if they say Trump is lying. I don’t care if Trump is lying.

They created this Frankenstein. They own it. I am free of all obligation. I will never play defense again. I will attack, attack, attack, attack using their own tactics against them until they learn their lesson.

What I will not do is let them play my values against me ever again. I don’t need to prove that I’m better than them. I already know it.

So no, we’re not going to criticize Breitbart on this. No, we’re not going to demand that this Riley character be reinstated. No, we’re not going to defend figures on the left from suffering the same consequences anyone on the right would suffer under similar circumstances. Yes, we are going to do whatever we can to burn down anyone on the left who looks even vaguely vulnerable. And when y’all get tired of this tit-for-tat bullsh**, let us know and we can talk about next steps, but for right now it is strictly #NewRules, baby.

yes, of course I looked at the comments, spoilered for your protection you weak kneed leftist babies

riderdan • 6 hours ago • edited
I'm very fond of the New Effing Rules, Baby! line.

If we were fighting against people with any moral or ethical standards beyond their monomaniacal drive towards a totalitarian state, I might be willing to cut them some slack. But we all know what every leftist wants: a country that sends conservatives to reeducation camps or literally to the ovens. This is no exaggeration, as those who are no longer our countrymen prove on an almost daily basis with their actual, physical violence.

You don't negotiate with cancer.

gbenton • 3 hours ago • edited
The difference these halfwits don't understand is the left is not legitmate any longer as a political entity in this country. They want to destroy this country and promote Marxism which is completely antithetical to our Constitution. The only reason they still exist as a party is because of corruption in the media and brainwashing of our kids through schools and the culture war.

The 'right' stands for the Constitution, therefore America. The left is the enemy, therefore, whatever they stand for is wrong for America. So in this case, Breitbart claimed a scalp by exposing the enemy and he was forced out.

That's NOT cancel culture. When the left cancels someone, it's for reasons that are only of important to the left's sick ideology. This assclown lost his job because he's a hateful bigot and part of the problem. That's an undeniably good thing (unless you're a moron Never Trumper or libertarian, who I'm convinced basically are sleeper cells for the Marxists as all their preferred policies and actions all do one thing: help the left).

The proper stance toward the left is WAR. Their party must be destroyed as they want us dead or enslaved. Far as I'm concerned, if jobs and elections is all they lose, they should consider themselves lucky after what they collectively have done (and want to do).

NormWilson • 2 hours ago
Many, if not most, of you are too young to remember.
We lost Korea, we lost Vietnam, we lost and are still losing in Iraq and Afghanistan for one reason and one reason only, we fought by our rules and our opponents had no rules, I'm a Viet nam era vet and I will not lose for that reason again.

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Related Content: Post I probably should have put here: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=44608.msg2698564#msg2698564

[Rufus]

Because I'm sensing a trend...
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/09/06/breitbart-claims-progressive-scalp-reason-predictably-draws-wrongest-possible-conclusion/

The Tweet at the end blindsided me.

https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1020423532969279489

[Rufus]

I literally can't even imagine how fucking dull this must be.

Starts off amazing. From Fridman listing Joe Rogan as a public intellectual, to Weinstein claiming Tom Lehrer records inoculate children against "later malware". High hopes for this one.

[curly]

https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1170028863251984384

probably got posted somewhere already but fucking hell this exchange

[naff]

Is there a more boring and dispassionately passionate/worried dude than Eric Weinstein?

I've bookmarked this for tomorrow while I play PoE:


So I'm definitely more boring.

I literally can't even imagine how fucking dull this must be.

It's like a shit caricature from an awkward Tim and Eric sketch that drags on for an hour

[Rufus]

Don't know what that means, but it was disappointing in the end. At least I understand Weinstein's grievances more. Didn't know he has a big beef with string theory not going anywhere.
They don't waste any time on IDW topics. Small mercies.

Fridman though is just a gushing fan throughout. Always deferential, rarely asking for clarification. "Beautifully put" had me groaning by the third time he said it. Comes off as though he's appreciating the rethoric more than the thoughts.
He's also got an interview with George Hotz (aka geohot) which is much better, for the simple fact that he's not as starstruck by him. Hotz is a (entertaining) madman.

[Nintex]

[Momo]

filler get in here

[agrajag]

wank dads: deplatforming doesn't work

Milo: I'm a broke ass bitch

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59n99q/milo-yiannopoulos-says-hes-broke

[Crash Dummy]

he's also whinging about amazon not stocking enough or any copies of his book 
https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1171074102314110977

[Yeti]

 

[VomKriege]

It's all fun and games until it's not pretend suppression anymore.

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/saeen90_/status/1171145996161732608

[agrajag]

surprised Momo didn't post the 1.5 hour Pakman interview with Sam Harris

[Oblivion]

surprised Momo didn't post the 1.5 hour Pakman interview with Sam Harris

It it worth listening to?

[agrajag]

nah, Pakman basically let Harris ramble on unchallenged on all his usual straw men. It's a waste.

[Momo]

why would i post that lol

[Oblivion]

nah, Pakman basically let Harris ramble on unchallenged on all his usual straw men. It's a waste.

goddamn it

he did a great job with that idiot tim pool, so this is pretty disappointing

[agrajag]

why would i post that lol

cause you said you liked Pakman and I guessed maybe you like Harris

[agrajag]

nah, Pakman basically let Harris ramble on unchallenged on all his usual straw men. It's a waste.

goddamn it

he did a great job with that idiot tim pool, so this is pretty disappointing

cliffs notes:

the left is obsessed with idpol, Trump wasn't racist  when he told the squad to go home because they have funny names and he legitimately thought they were all foreign, lamented cancel culture and the backlash he received for giving Charles Murray a platform, claimed there's a fundamental difference between jihadists and white supremacist terrorists because white supremacists are mentally ill and "may have legitimate grievances "

all with almost no or very tepid pushback from Pakman.

[Momo]

why would i post that lol

cause you said you liked Pakman and I guessed maybe you like Harris

If I did like both (I dont) then why would I post in the political mockery thread?

[agrajag]

why would i post that lol

cause you said you liked Pakman and I guessed maybe you like Harris

If I did like both (I dont) then why would I post in the political mockery thread?

idk you post dumb stuff sometimes

[Momo]

why would i post that lol

cause you said you liked Pakman and I guessed maybe you like Harris

If I did like both (I dont) then why would I post in the political mockery thread?

idk you post dumb stuff sometimes

your face is dumb stuff

[Brehvolution]

My favorite part of the milo screed is how he shits on the 2000 people that still follows him there because they "don't buy his book or donate to him".

[Momo]

Is he being honest or gifting for more money by claiming to be poor? Don't care enough to look into it, but I'm assuming he's grifting

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1171251484576665600

[Great Rumbler]

"Alright, we gotta go..."

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1170862866468986880

this guy sure does tweet a lot

[EchoRin]

I don't understand. But then I'm a petty loser (and a Monster drinking Gamer) and he is a Harvard man.

[Joe Molotov]

Galaxy

[VomKriege]

I don't understand. But then I'm a petty loser (and a Monster drinking Gamer) and he is a Harvard man.

Sounds like a more refined version of the Vicsim / Crisis actor canard.

[Great Rumbler]

Well, we you really get down to it, can we say for sure that any of us actually exist?

[Nintex]

Cigar dads 

[Momo]

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1170862866468986880

this guy sure does tweet a lot

Galaxy

[agrajag]

Kurt Russell not looking so good these days

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1171838545272725504

https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1171839258618990593

[jakefromstatefarm]

Jesus, he’s 52?

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1170487160216047616

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1171095918986137600

 

[benjipwns]

"too bad Paris is no longer Paris, it's now infested with rats, graffiti, high crime, sexual assault, just to name a few"

I thought you said it's no longer Paris.

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/ayyy_vuh/status/1171192268511952897
https://twitter.com/Xenos_RIFS/status/1171351031780761602

[benjipwns]

Whites on the Left Coast and in New England are race traitors.

[Rufus]

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1171095918986137600

 

A group I don't count myself a part of doesn't (redundantly) shun me for questioning their orthodoxy, because they probably think me a heathen already, but a group I do count myself a part of... Hold on a minute!

In that interview I watched, he mentions that he feels constrained by 280 characters limits on Twitter, but I feel like he could have made his point better than this even with 140.

[Joe Molotov]

Whites on the Left Coast and in New England are race traitors.

They don’t care about protecting our important freedoms, like drinking a 72oz Big Gulp with a plastic straw.

[jakefromstatefarm]

I’ve never seen a Marxist use the word ‘legitimacy’ with any kind of unironic weight to it. I think it’s mostly viewed as a liberal shibboleth.