Wank Dad 2: Electric Wankaloo

[Rufus]

A takedown of a Malcolm Gladwell piece seems fitting enough for the thread:

https://twitter.com/davelevitan/status/1082668393512267776 (yeah, it's a thread)

[Mandark]

Gladwell wrote that piece where Vivek Ranadive is portrayed as a maverick genius for having his daughter's basketball team run a full court press. I read that and didn't make the connection that it was the same guy who bought the Kings until stories leaked about him wanting them to play 4-on-5 defense.

Also I just wondered what Philippe Rushton was up to, since this resurgence in race science should be right up his alley, and it turns out he died in 2012. hahaha

[benjipwns]

I'm sure someone has brought this up, but I was always confused why when that story came out nobody seemed to think the opposing team wouldn't just leave back a defender ala hockey/soccer/etc., especially to potentially front the pass. Instead all the writers seemed to be arguing about the advantage of an extra man on offense, which I think would be less of a problem of having an unguarded man shooting and more of not being able to as easily box out the fifth player. Teams already have plenty of experience guarding possessions with a single weak side man in a zone and two or more offensive players not even involved in it.

edit: Actually, perhaps ironically, a center like Boogie gives you arguably the same advantage as that 4-on-5 scheme if he doesn't have to run block to block but instead plays outside. That's why the Bucks can play five out with Brook Lopez, or why Channing Frye is still in the league.

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[curly]

I'm sure someone has brought this up, but I was always confused why when that story came out nobody seemed to think the opposing team wouldn't just leave back a defender ala hockey/soccer/etc., especially to potentially front the pass. Instead all the writers seemed to be arguing about the advantage of an extra man on offense, which I think would be less of a problem of having an unguarded man shooting and more of not being able to as easily box out the fifth player. Teams already have plenty of experience guarding possessions with a single weak side man in a zone and two or more offensive players not even involved in it.

edit: Actually, perhaps ironically, a center like Boogie gives you arguably the same advantage as that 4-on-5 scheme if he doesn't have to run block to block but instead plays outside. That's why the Bucks can play five out with Brook Lopez, or why Channing Frye is still in the league.

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Now I'm having flashbacks to when I used to check up on Dave Berri's blog, where every post was some variation of "Conventional wisdom says that Joel Przybilla is an unremarkable player. This shows that everybody involved in decision-making in the NBA is an idiot, because he has the highest Wins Produced since Dennis Rodman and has single-handedly won 15 games this season."

[benjipwns]

I never understood why WoW didn't see how obvious it was they were overweighting (offensive) rebounds.

BoxScoreGeeks has never bothered, even with all their tweaks, to fix their inability to project future wins within a sensible MoE with it.

edit: here's some peak-Joel for ya: https://www.boxscoregeeks.com/players?sort=wins_produced&direction=desc&season=2008

[Mandark]

I'm sure someone has brought this up, but I was always confused why when that story came out nobody seemed to think the opposing team wouldn't just leave back a defender ala hockey/soccer/etc., especially to potentially front the pass.

Everybody said this!

[benjipwns]

k

[benjipwns]

huh

After the story was written, it was published and run on Forbes.com at 9:00 a.m. ET on October 23rd. However, after the NBA complained about the content of Berri’s story to his editors, the story was removed from Forbes’ website shortly after noon on the same day. No one at Forbes edited the piece before it was published, according to Berri.

Berri and Forbes have since parted ways after the article was taken down and not re-run. The two parties were unable to come to an agreement over republishing the story and how it could be further improved and edited for publication.

“The article was removed because it failed to meet Forbes’ strict editorial standards for accuracy and fairness,” Forbes said in a statement to WNBAInsidr. “Specifically, the contributor intentionally omitted facts and context from an authoritative source that would have undermined his thesis. As a result, David Berri was removed as a Forbes contributor.” Berri told WNBAInsidr that the editor at Forbes failed to indicate to him which specific claims made by Berri undermined his argument and what changes needed to be made. Berri said that he asked his editor to make specific changes, and the editor refused.

[Mandark]

[benjipwns]

excellent :mrburns

[Mandark]

This thread's dredging up some internet names I hadn't thought about in a minute.

It's like when I was reading about the Angry Puppies thing and finally realized that "Theodore Beale" was really just Vox Day.

[benjipwns]

 

[agrajag]

trim your nails benji, jeez. It's like nothing Daddy P says is getting through to you.

[BIONIC]

Is this now the catch-all thread for all the shitheads that use the phrase “the marketplace of ideas” unironically? 

[benjipwns]

That was etoliate's original vision and I'm staying true to it. Peterson's explosive popularity and Assi's inability to read just made him the premier Wank Dad.

[agrajag]

Is this now the catch-all thread for all the shitheads that use the phrase “the marketplace of ideas” unironically? 

I don't think there is a single person on the bore that uses marketplace of ideas unironically.

[benjipwns]

Oh man, how did this never make it into the canon:

There's a You Must Be This Tall To Ride rule about this stuff. You Must Be This Emotionally and Intellectually Mature To Ride the discussion roller coaster. [=- Proceed to emoji your rolleyes and newsfeed here -=]

[BIONIC]

Is this now the catch-all thread for all the shitheads that use the phrase “the marketplace of ideas” unironically? 

I don't think there is a single person on the bore that uses marketplace of ideas unironically.

I mean the “personalities” Benji keeps posting about, not my fellow Boritos.

[agrajag]

oh, in that case yes. It occasionally spills over to the Politics thread, to the chagrin of Debbie Downer Mandark.

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/muhmentions/status/1083107933003698179

[benjipwns]

I'd like to point out that Sargon literally e-mailed the Louis C.K. embassy.

[Mandark]

I'd like to point out that Sargon literally e-mailed the Louis C.K. embassy.

I don't get this gag.

[benjipwns]

There was a ResetERA.com thread about China doing some crappy authoritarian thing and someone posted "what can we do about it?" and the response was "e-mail the embassy."

They've had a large number of similar comments about how people need to post on someone's Facebook/Twitter about [X] and that was rolled into e-mail the embassy. Like one was about something Elizabeth Warren did and dude was all "people need to be telling her on Facebook."

edit: https://www.resetera.com/threads/reuters-tracking-chinas-muslim-gulag.84477/post-15568802

Criticism at world stage should be start. Email chinese embassy. Write in news paper national one.

[Mandark]

well I walked into that one

[benjipwns]

I just like that he thinks Louis C.K. personally copyright strikes YouTube videos or answers his public e-mail.

[Mandark]

Yeah, I was just going to point that out. I know it lists him personally as the claimant rather than a production company or whatever (makes sense, it's a live performance not being distributed otherwise), but what are the odds that the multi-millionaire comedian is sitting at home manually searching Youtube and filling out copyright strike forms?

It's like one step away from middle aged guys tweeting at the pictures posted by some generic Hot Girls Daily type account, as if they're speaking directly to Kylie Jenner or whoever.


edit: or a Canadian professor in the middle of a meat-filled fugue state challenging various quote accounts to a live debate.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I do sort of remember my personally lumping him in with the (often Canadian for some reason) Objectivist types, even though I don't think he's an Objectivist, that sees a whole "clash of civilizations" going on and argues that it's not a rights violation to murder people in countries with less rights than the United States/Canada because countries that have more freedom are justified to "liberate" less free countries. It was because he was saying some similar stuff about Muslim countries and Islam. Some other wank dad people like Sargon have occasionally expressed similar sentiments about people who live under Islam.

Wasn't something like this the official Ayn Rand Institute position?

[agrajag]

I'd like to point out that Sargon literally e-mailed the Louis C.K. embassy.

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Narrator:  Nobody understood that reference you weirdo.

Hello riotous, I would like to introduce you to Beni (not to be confused with the ResetERA video game sales insider)

[benjipwns]

I like to think Benji is locked in a padded room somewhere staring at a bank of computer screens that scroll resetera, neogaf, thebore, twitter posts, etc. past him 24 hours a day.   Every once in a while a keyboard emerges from the wall and he is allowed to type posts into the Bore for a few minutes at a time.   

pls no dox

[agrajag]

I like to think Benji is locked in a padded room somewhere staring at a bank of computer screens that scroll resetera, neogaf, thebore, twitter posts, etc. past him 24 hours a day.   Every once in a while a keyboard emerges from the wall and he is allowed to type posts into the Bore for a few minutes at a time.

he's like the alt-right Cypher from The Matrix

#Assireference

[agrajag]

"I don't even see the code. All I see is cuck, SJW, furry, transracial."

[Rufus]

[recursivelyenumerable]

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1082615305321570304

https://twitter.com/estnihil/status/1083381533787021312

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1082617226555990016

[curly]

do you think I am fucking stupid enough to not check Babylonian genetics?

newsfeed pls

[Mr Gilhaney]

my close family is currently going through genetic testing, due to a defect in my liver that they can't figure out. as a result, i've had to listen to my brother who is on this diet, arguing with the doctors there about what a great diet this is. the amount of times i've had to listen to his bullshit recently and just pray to god him or the doctor would give up. 

[Mandark]

[agrajag]

 

[benjipwns]

Ignoring for the moment that Steve King's whole thing has been pretty obvious for a long time, I think that's actually pretty good of him to openly update an article from 2017 like that. Most of the Wank Dad would just memory hole it completely or dig in more. Shapiro sometimes seems like he's trying to be better than he has to be.

[agrajag]

Shapiro sometimes seems like he's trying to be better than he has to be.

 

[benjipwns]

I mean in that he actually does journalistic like things like this or firing really bad writers, he is often actually nice to people dunking on him on twitter and will play along, he will go on YouTube channels to poke fun at himself and the "this is epic" meme, is willing to debate/appear on non-positive-only sites, agreed with Sandy on the debate thing others were trying to start but said he was still open to a debate on her terms, etc.

Compare that to the rest of the Wank Dad and the conservative media in general who are completely humorless and don't even feign integrity. (edit: I don't think he's totally reversed his Trump position either like Tucker did) He clearly doesn't have to do these things and keep his fans. Hell, compare to a "comedian" in Steven Crowder and it seems like Shapiro is massively more comfortable with it all.

[benjipwns]

I mean in that he actually does journalistic like things like this or firing really bad writers, he is often actually nice to people dunking on him on twitter and will play along, he will go on YouTube channels to poke fun at himself and the "this is epic" meme, is willing to debate/appear on non-positive-only sites, agreed with Sandy on the debate thing others were trying to start but said he was still open to a debate on her terms, etc.

Compare that to the rest of the Wank Dad and the conservative media in general who are completely humorless and don't even feign integrity. He clearly doesn't have to do these things and keep his fans. Hell, compare to a "comedian" in Steven Crowder and it seems like Shapiro is massively more comfortable with it all.

wow why don't u marry him or bump ur love letter thread

[benjipwns]

basically what i'm saying is I MADE A GLORIOUS INTELLECTUAL BEN SHAPIRO THREAD ALREADY, DON'T HIDE HIS GLORY IN HERE

we won't be able to see him if all the rest of the Wank Dad's stand up front

[Mandark]

Shapiro very clearly wants to be the next in the Buckley/Safire/Will line of big time conservative public intellectuals, and probably thought that he would already be at that point by now.

Probably kills him inside that he has to keep shilling brain pills and crypto currency instead of taking the spot on the ideas festival circuit that is rightfully his.

[benjipwns]

Last time I saw a clip of him on a Fox show, maybe Tucker, you could see that doing a remote, while the other guest was in studio, was offensive to him.

[Mandark]

On a similar note, I had the problematic thought that if the libertarian gun girl would be a much bigger deal than she is if she were actually hot.

[agrajag]

You gotta love how the entire Rubin Report subreddit is nothing but people dunking on Dave Rubin. Take a look

https://www.reddit.com/r/daverubin/

[recursivelyenumerable]

https://twitter.com/AidanWalsh11/status/1085348036220469248

 

[CatsCatsCats]

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Yo pretty sure JPs gammy molested him, seems to make sense

[Nintex]

Shapiro reminds us that he's unfortunately not dead yet.
https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1086301380334272512

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/aiizavva/status/1074416805639266305



16:55-20:11

try not to choke up

[BisMarckie]

I expected a voiceover at the end of the first video telling me to donate for Poland.

Besides that, monoculture in Poland? Danzig or Breslau are just weird sounding Polish names. Lithuania? Never heard of it.

[BisMarckie]

This guy has clearly no idea about Poland. Communist architecture being left up to remid the people of the horrors of communism? No Pole worth his salt would tear down a perfectly functional building just to send some ideological message.

[benjipwns]

the music and the constantly swaying camera work just fucking kills me, he's not even in the frame for like twenty seconds at one point

[team filler]

[benjipwns]

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1089734219759304707

[benjipwns]

Peterson promoted this video against him:
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1089250376098947072


While the CBC apparently aired this documentary:

[BisMarckie]

did jordan peterson do anything in 2018 at all besides hanging out with dave rubin

[Kara]

A Discord I started posting in has a dedicated channel for shit posting but it's basically one for politics and there are some genuine Daddy P fans in it. They also have massive self own health issues like alcohol-induced gout under the age of 40.

[Brehvolution]

did jordan peterson do anything

fixed