Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
existing class of kook - hooks into the Zizians
do these kooks follow single inheritance or multiple inheritance rules? Iām a bit more worried about the latter
lol, multiple
how do you reckon? not sure I directly see the overlap (and while admittedly I havenāt gotten to dive full depth on the zizians, the bits I did get to so far struck me as what would happen if adolescent spock became a logical extremist)
I was struck by the outright āhey weāve got cult campā kitted out in whatever-the-fuck theyāve done to (one of the strands of?) buddhism while also pitching this on-surface as āpeople are cyborgs nowā
although it did remind me of how much buddhist and related reading+pondering I saw in the postrat scenes, and now Iām wondering if thatās a thing that I missed in others of this before
Buddhist thinking has always been a big undercurrent (at least compared to the rest of the western world) in the hacker/computer science world, so doesnt have to come from anything LW related.
so thereās a whole network of specifically Thiel-associated SF tech guys who are into particular churches
itās above-baseline among the tpots (at least relative to other areas Iāve observed it)
Compared to the hacker baseline that is odd indeed.