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[benjipwns]

what you banned for

[Propagandhim]

Don't these goofs complain that affirmative action unfairly selects for unearned merit of lower IQ individuals into academia.  Now, that goes out the window when trying to explain IQ differences among races within academia when norming for education level?


Wait, why am I getting absorbed into this bullshit

[PogiJones]

"Not a good fit for this forum."

Got that ban right after I sent Evilore a polite PM asking him to re-open one of my threads.

[TVC15]

Lol you guys are so bored you’re reading neoreich.

[benjipwns]

I'm half expecting to click on there and find a 40 page debate over the existence of a God where everyones posts are being fisked to hell and back

[Propagandhim]

"Not a good fit for this forum."

Got that ban right after I sent Evilore a polite PM asking him to re-open one of my threads.

 

A worse fit than JordanN

[railGUN]

No one is being paid $100,000 a year to just sit around and do nothing.

*looks at Twitch*

 

[Lonewulfeus]

Try your local library.

thanks a lot shosta, setting me up for a burn

Like he ever leaves the house

[railGUN]

This motherfucker went from shaking hands with Obama, to this...

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/trump-defends-pelosi-and-calls-out-aoc-omar-justice-democrats.1492537/

 

[Kara]

Try your local library.

thanks a lot shosta, setting me up for a burn

You liked his post.

[BisMarckie]

Lol you guys are so bored you’re reading neoreich.

FACT CHECK: It is not boring to get educated on state of the art scientific breakthroughs on IQ studies.

[shosta]

Try your local library.

thanks a lot shosta, setting me up for a burn

DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!

[Lonewulfeus]

"Not a good fit for this forum."

Got that ban right after I sent Evilore a polite PM asking him to re-open one of my threads.

Appeal to his new Nazi nature with your shared love of fascist pigs cops.

[BisMarckie]

ENCOURAGE HIM

[BisMarckie]

GET FILLER UNBANNED

[kingv]

I mean, unless you have a poll that outright says the majority of white and black americans just do not care about education, I'm finding this "cultural" defense to be highly suspect.

It's basically telling me that no other racial groups are motivated to do something, yet no one applies this logic when we talk of athletes. Does proof exist that the reason we don't see more Asians in the NBA is because they all came out and said "we don't want to train hard and do it"? I would not use that as absolute proof for why blacks do better in sports because everyone else just doesn't care.

White Americans not being motivated to the same levels as Asians also reeks of the same sort of bias. Look at the many inventions and tech progress that came out of the U.S since it was founded. That's not exactly a country or culture that didn't value studying before Asians arrived and manage to quickly outpace them in a few years.

When people say "culture" you are just using it as a mask for for the 80/20 split for discusing intelligence. We see a high correlation in all groups the higher IQ they are, the more economic success they all achieve.

I am certain the Black CEO cares just as much as education as the next White CEO or Asian CEO. Or Just as how the Asian basketball player cares more about playing sports than being a scientist like the next Black and White Basketball player.

Unless you believe they're all bored and wished they found another job instead?

wow, you're from Canada and you've never heard of Harvard graduate and NBA CHAMPION JEREMY LIN?!?

"And thus concludes my thesis - "It's Da Winter Babay!  IT TOO DAYUM COOLD BABAY!", on why black people have a genetic predisposition to play hockey poorly."

JordanN, get the fuck out of my classroom

Kunta Kinte never skied!

[Propagandhim]

This motherfucker went from shaking hands with Obama, to this...

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/trump-defends-pelosi-and-calls-out-aoc-omar-justice-democrats.1492537/

 

It's good to finally see Trump defending a POC

[benjipwns]

Try your local library.

thanks a lot shosta, setting me up for a burn

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DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM!

at you capturing it so the fire is animated

[Lonewulfeus]

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-started-watching-listening-joe-rogan.128799/

I have heard his name a lot here on Era and some other places.

ResetEra signal boosting a known racist and misogynist

[Jansen]

Oh Jesus, I shoulda read the whole list before I posted. It got much worse.

You don't think The Last Samurai is a perfect movie?

Can't believe anyone would love that white Saviour TRASH

[kingv]

https://twitter.com/shinobi602/status/1149376647822364672

"The Last Samurai"

 

At least he comes across his shit taste honestly.

[benjipwns]

He’s the worst embodiment of capital “O” objectivism and both-sidism.

[BisMarckie]

Only good movie in that list is Dumb & Dumber

[BisMarckie]

What‘s worse being a capital-O Objectivist or a capital-g Gamer?

[benjipwns]

I've only watched one episode of his show, I think it was posted in some thread here, it was some area 51 guy, I wasn't impressed the whole thing was so full of BS, he was very poor at questioning any of it... and started talking a lot of dumb stuff out of his imagination later on, it made me uncomfortable

[Jansen]

I enjoy him. I wouldn't say he's a genius or smart, but he's pragmatic. Stopped listening on youtube while signed in because I was sick of getting suggestions for videos featuring people I had no interest in listening to.



Conversing with someone doesn't mean you agree and support them.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-started-watching-listening-joe-rogan.128799/#post-22716577

[Lonewulfeus]

FernandoRocker has to be a troll right?

[TVC15]

I've only watched one episode of his show, I think it was posted in some thread here, it was some area 51 guy, I wasn't impressed the whole thing was so full of BS, he was very poor at questioning any of it... and started talking a lot of dumb stuff out of his imagination later on, it made me uncomfortable

“it made me uncomfortable”

[Boredfrom]

FernandoRocker has to be a troll right?

Nah, he is just incredible stupid and needy.

[benjipwns]

Threads on Joe Rogan's podcast invariably go poorly and produce low quality discussion, and we do not believe this one will be any different.

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[railGUN]

Pathetic.

Oh shit top of page... what do I do? Post some porn or something? Fuck, mods halp.

 

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[benjipwns]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Objectivism/comments/8r26nv/joe_rogan_doesnt_like_ayn_rand/

Rogan had Dave Rubin on and Dave brought up Ayn Rand (by suggesting Joe ask Yaron Brook to be a guest). It seems to me that Ruben has been persuaded by Yaron ever since having him as a guest on his show (Rubin Report). If I didn't know any better I'd say Dave has been totally converted over to Objectivism from the way their conversation sounded on JRE. Anyway, Joe gave the Gordon Geko Greed response to Ayn Rand and I don't recall Dave's counter, I just remember my heart sank. I don't get the greed speech scene in Wall Street argument against Objectivism. I saw that movie once many years ago and have no recollection of the context and full meaning of Geko monologue.

Thoughts?

Of course he doesn't. Joe is constantly going on about how everything is relative, principles are meaningless, that the key in life is to "destroy your ego" through pharmacological experiences, to get in touch with your pineal gland, etc. In other words, his very surface understanding of philosophy is to set you things in exactly inverse of what at least the surface understanding of Rand is. And of course this means he thinks that it would be in your interest, or benefit the ego, to go engage in self-indulgence and predation on others.

I think Rogan is pretty ignorant of Rand's philosophy. It sounded like he was going off of what he had heard of Rand/Objectivism. I highly doubt he has read Atlas Shrugged.

he's just doing what everyone does - arguing against the straw man version of Rand, not the actual nuanced ideology

IMHO Joe is not nearly intelligent as he initially comes off to be. I also believe he is personally biased either for or against guests based on factors I do not understand (maybe subconsciously observed competence or unconsciousness bias). He held zero nuance in regard to the immigrant situation when talking to Duncan Trussell. He just kept raging about the children being separated from there parents..... I ASK What if those kids do not belong to those parents?

What if we should not accept any one putting their child at such a risk? This includes people who are citizens of all races ( I hope somebody would take my child from me if I planned to smuggle them 100+ miles through poor countries and mountainous desert terrain). This is a recent example. Despite people's personal opinions on this matter folks are waking up and starting to crave nuance.

Joe also flip flops on smaller yet relevant issues that ( for me) add up to a picture that is out of focus. EXAMPLE Joe always talks about personal motivation when more conservative guests are on and tends to sympathize with social programs when a more liberal guest is on.

Joe is a comedian/podcaster/martial artist...hardly an intellect....

(I know he always says this himself, but I think he often forgets)

If anybody wants more examples of Joe lacking nuance or of him contradicting himself I would love to research this.

Joe also lives/works in and around L.A. so keep his target audience in mind when judging him.

Rogan shapes a lot of anti-establishment, alt-lite minds, much the way Stern shaped anti-establishment leftists decades ago.

Difference is Rogan is VERY influanceable and that makes him volatile in front of his largish, class-diverse audience.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-started-watching-listening-joe-rogan.128799/#post-22716639

Threads on Joe Rogan's podcast invariably go poorly and produce low quality discussion, and we do not believe this one will be any different.

Are you sure it’s the topic and not your members? 

[Propagandhim]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Objectivism/comments/8r26nv/joe_rogan_doesnt_like_ayn_rand/

Rogan had Dave Rubin on and Dave brought up Ayn Rand (by suggesting Joe ask Yaron Brook to be a guest). It seems to me that Ruben has been persuaded by Yaron ever since having him as a guest on his show (Rubin Report). If I didn't know any better I'd say Dave has been totally converted over to Objectivism from the way their conversation sounded on JRE. Anyway, Joe gave the Gordon Geko Greed response to Ayn Rand and I don't recall Dave's counter, I just remember my heart sank. I don't get the greed speech scene in Wall Street argument against Objectivism. I saw that movie once many years ago and have no recollection of the context and full meaning of Geko monologue.
 

This guy sounds like he's afraid of idea lifting
https://twitter.com/JoseNotAJay/status/1125281299969794049

[benjipwns]

Until Americans start to take meaningful stands against the bloat and corruption permeating through both parties in Washington, centrist Democrat presidents who do nothing and populist Republican presidents who drag the country towards oblivion are all they deserve.

How many warning signs is it going to take for meaningful action to occur? Kids getting shot up in schools hasn't done it. Kids getting ripped out of their parents hands and left to die in concentration camps hasn't done it. Cities getting flooded by storms or burnt to a crisp by runaway forest fires hasn't done it. Whites radicalizing in ugly demonstrations of hatred and intolerance towards blacks/latinos/gays of all stripes brazenly in public hasn't done it. Social media shining a big 'ole magnifying glass on it all hasn't done it.

Are we still pretending Mueller reading from the report he issued 4 months ago that nobody has seemingly bothered to read is going to amount to anything? Will that make people upset enough to do something that none of those earlier things has done? Of course it won't.

But hey, let's light some candles tonight and sing kumbaya for a couple hours tonight so we can all feel good about ourselves for "making a difference". (Oh yeah... that is something that's happening everywhere this evening but you wouldn't know it on Era.)

You don't control the house. The champions of the status quo and corporate America control the house. They won the house from the craven and corrupt Republicans by donning progressive clothing so they could get their votes and fundraising support. But that's not who they are. They were pretending.

You don't actually have representation in Washington... and you won't until you start actively primarying those entitled moderate centrists out of as many Democrat strongholds as possible. You have enemies in red and enemies in blue. The enemies in red who only live to enrich themselves and plunder must be stopped at all costs while the enemies in blue must be bent to the will of the American people. You do that via the primary process and by giving them as much power to govern (which is supposedly something they want to do - that's what they keep telling us anyhow) as possible.

[BisMarckie]

What makes this worse:
UberTag is Canadian

[benjipwns]

all democrats care about is keeping their jobs

huge if true

[benjipwns]

Coming from a guy that was taught to despise Malcolm X and the Black Power movement, they’ve never been proven more right than ever in this moment. I swear white liberals/centrists are almost as bad as conservatives and the far-right when it comes to expressing racism. At least the far-right is open about it.

I especially hate when Latinos are used as a prop for the pictures and magazine covers but kicked to the curb once it comes time to deliver on policy. I feel like the Dems deserve to lose 2020 if they keep this up and nominate a centrist. Not sorry.

Centrists Dems are not your friends. They are not allies to oppressed minority groups. They are the Boogies, they will stand there while minorities are caged and shot in the street and finger wag while you lay on the ground bleeding to death to be civil. They enjoy the status quo. They profit off the status quo. They aren’t hurt when the country moves to the right. They only do enough lip service to get votes and then hold their seats hostage under fear mongering. It’s the way it’s been for a very long time and look at how much we have regressed.

remember to vote!

[benjipwns]

I can't blame anyone for being pissed at Pelosi at this point. It's a shitshow. But y'all better sort this shit out before 2020 or the planet is literally doomed. So clean all this shit up. Starting with impeaching the president. Then we can talk about Twitter moderation.

Are the folks here contributing to the squad? I’m thinking about doing so now to AOC, Tlaib, and Omar. I’m not a rich man though. Maybe 5 bucks a piece monthly.

Huh. I assumed it was "Squawd" as a pun on Pocohontas plus chicks.

[benjipwns]

Are we allowed to donate to reps outside of our district? I've donated to AOC and I'd love to support the rest of the squad.

I think so? I think I’ve heard some of my podcast personalities in New York say they've given to Omar.

[BisMarckie]

Thinking that the planet is doomed because of Trump and that the US can singlehandedly stop climate change is American jingoism gone woke.

[benjipwns]

This has been Bliman's schtick for his entire tenure on this site. I honestly hope the mods have been monitoring because it is long past old. It isn't clever and is fairly transparent.

one of you about to lose your alt

[Propagandhim]

I can't blame anyone for being pissed at Pelosi at this point. It's a shitshow. But y'all better sort this shit out before 2020 or the planet is literally doomed. So clean all this shit up. Starting with impeaching the president. Then we can talk about Twitter moderation.

Are the folks here contributing to the squad? I’m thinking about doing so now to AOC, Tlaib, and Omar. I’m not a rich man though. Maybe 5 bucks a piece monthly.

Huh. I assumed it was "Squawd" as a pun on Pocohontas plus chicks.

Did Frank learn to "y'all" in Ireland or Redmond?  I like it.

[benjipwns]

one of my favorite threads is still the one where ResetERA.com wanted Trump to invade Brazil to stop them from potentially cutting a small part of the Amazon because Bolsonaro said he was open to it in an interview or something

especially the post talking about how the Amazon was our only global source of oxygen

[Propagandhim]

one of my favorite threads is still the one where ResetERA.com wanted Trump to invade Brazil to stop them from potentially cutting a small part of the Amazon because Bolsonaro said he was open to it in an interview or something

especially the post talking about how the Amazon was our only global source of oxygen

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jair-bolsonaro-launches-assault-on-amazon-rainforest-protections.90934/page-3#post-16497441

 

It would have consequences for the entire world, and I am not talking about humanity alone. 99% of the known species relay on oxygen to survive. Taking away the amazon forest which is one of the world main source away would require intervention much more than a war over oil.

[Kara]

What‘s worse being a capital-O Objectivist or a capital-g Gamer?

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jair-bolsonaro-launches-assault-on-amazon-rainforest-protections.90934/page-3#post-16497441

so many great posts

Couldnt the UN intertwine?

This is a war I am willing to support, at all cost.

There is no oil to get, no precious resources just air we need to survive.

Sorry, but the Amazon is too vitally important to the global ecosystem to let any one nation "do what they want" with it.

You can't offset the loss of the Amazon rainforest. It's the only damn thing keeping our heads above the water and they're just going to cut the whole thing down because they don't give a shit.

In the last few years we've proven we just don't deserve this planet. This guy is the latest in a long line of extraordinarily disappointing choices made by humanity, fueled by short term gain and selfishness.

We've spent so much time over the last seventy or eighty years trying to prevent humanity from wiping itself out with nuclear war yet, in the end, we're still killing ourselves and taking every other living thing on this planet with us...

What the fuck was all of this even for?

[shosta]

Couldnt the UN intertwine?

This is a war I am willing to support, at all cost.

There is no oil to get, no precious resources just air we need to survive.

[shosta]

Total Recall is maybe the best Arnold movie. Next best is True Lies.

[Kara]

Kindergarten Cop

[shosta]

  almost as bad as your post in Tasty's "Describe yourself in 4 movies" thread

[Kara]

Can't argue with that.

[shosta]

Tovarish - at the party meeting we discussed whether you were a class collaborator or not. The obsession with watches, and the private education, that was quite буржуазный indeed. However after we reviewed your taste in kino, there was no doubt about it: you are пролетариат.

Karakand... welcome to the revolution. 

[clothedmacuser]

Are we allowed to donate to reps outside of our district? I've donated to AOC and I'd love to support the rest of the squad.

I think so? I think I’ve heard some of my podcast personalities in New York say they've given to Omar.

Those podcast personalities are all head friends in his plural mind-share

[Kara]

Tovarish - at the party meeting we discussed whether you were a class collaborator or not. The obsession with watches, and the private education, that was quite буржуазный indeed. However after we reviewed your taste in kino, there was no doubt about it: you are пролетариат.

Karakand... welcome to the revolution. 

Bulova quoted Mao in advertisements.

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Thought I'd go for the "Che and Fidel liked the GMT Master" huh.

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Speaking of, would you believe that I made this meme?

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[shosta]

when did you make that? I hope it was years ago and you can't even remember the season

jeff foxworthy, that's gotta be like 2008

EDIT: wait, if it turns out you also like Jeff Foxworthy, that's gonna be something like a last straw for me 

[remy]

I’ll take the ban because lord knows there is no coherent moderation on this forum at this point.

This place would be better off if we just banned the 30 most frequent posters who flood this forum with the most mundane fucking garbage to fill the sad hole that would be their lives.

Mods: just nuke my account. I am done with this place
https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-would-vegeta-do-if-he-became-the-most-powerful.128783/#post-22716570
 That was the last straw? 

[Kara]

when did you make that? I hope it was years ago and you can't even remember the season

Last year.

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I had a whole line of "fixing memes and jokes by universalizing them" macros / memes.

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[Kara]

EDIT: wait, if it turns out you also like Jeff Foxworthy, that's gonna be something like a last straw for me 

I've also seen almost every Madea movie in the theater.

[Kara]

tfw when Larry the Cable Guy had a starring role in A Madea Christmas.