Couple of days late but when your ideology is so pure, you can’t connect The Thing to The Consequences of The Thing. The solution? Monetize the rot!

Check quotes and replies for quality sneers (and more sneerable content)

Add the linked post to the growing number of reasons why I’m more and more sympathetic to Holocaust denial laws

recent examples like the CCP’s suppression of information related to the origins of COVID feel more salient and relevant.

…is that an oblique ‘lab leak’ reference? Pay no attention to how its proponents overlap extensively with the politicians, pundits and institutions that told us (rather, lied to us) Iraq had WMDs!

Jimmy Concepts casually acknowledges being a useful idiot (or useful not-quite-an-idiot?) for the absolute worst people out there

How many of those people on the list were either Jeffrey Epstein buddies or a recipient of Thielbux

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Thing is, you can legit criticize Fauci for his bad communication on masking in the early days of COVID! But it’s not gonna land b/c the anti-mask/vax/etc crowd also hate Fauci for the most deranged reasons

Word of advice to the press: Stop 👏 giving 👏 natalists 👏 free 👏 platforms 👏

Do any of these rats have even the slightest inkling that all the programs they attack as ‘DEI’ or w/e amount to window dressing to stave off much more substantial reorganization of our society? …Bueller?

We should aim for better elites

Why not a world with zero elites buddy

This post reminded me to ask: what’s the over-under on Moldy skipping out on child support?

Check out the unhinged classism from one of the lesser figures who’s popped up here from time-to-time (with an added bonus shout-out to Ayn Rand further down the thread)

Dem pundits go on media tour to hawk their latest rehash of supply-side econ - and decide to break bread with infamous anti-woke “ex” race realist Richard Hanania

A quick sample of people rushing to defend this:

• Some guy with the same last name as a former Google CEO who keeps spamming the same article about IQ
• Our good friend Tracy

Reminds me of this gem from Ezra a few years back about the politics of fear (buddy, you bought into the politics of fear with your support for the Iraq War)

I’m sure Dieworkwear would love to roast this LWer

I am releasing this post under a pseudonym, because I really don’t know how much talking about this topic with my real name and face might hurt my future interactions with the rationalist community. It might turn out to have zero effect, but I dunno maybe the Manifest people and Lightcone would kind of dislike me or something.

For a community dedicated to free and open discourse (lol) it’s a great sign the author is afraid to publish under their real name lest they face consequences