As a non-denominational leftist, liberalism is poison and leads to fascism without intervention. So yeah this tracks

If we’re framing this as a breakup, david won the breakup.

For the sake of a yudzillion dust specks, what’s another castle?

post begins with Atlas Shrugged excerpt

ah fuck guess I'm reading this one.

69 minute read

at least there's that.

Not saying good morning because you are homophobic: ✋😔

Not saying good morning because you avoid human interaction in general: ☝️😊

Something I’d like to investigate is this very right-wing phenomenon of defending granular “freedoms,” like saying slurs in public with strangers, or not wearing a mask during a pandemic etc.

The easy explanation as to why they do this so often is that the boot rwers lack the intellectual capacity to reason about what “freedom” really means and how it’s not a matter of being able to do whatever small atomic action that their overlords, the tie rwers, tell them is important. The thing getting in my way of believing this easy explanation is that it’s kind of heartbreaking to think people can be that stupid.

RE: boot and tie terminology: see here

Trying to stoke fear of bureaucracy is classic annoying libertarian huckster AKA yud energy

Reading the article is like seeing a guy at a party pick up a guitar, announce he’s going to play wonderwall, but for whatever reason he starts holding the guitar like a trumpet, blowing on the headstock and everything. There’s no indication that this is a joke. A crowd forms and they love it, tunelessly and arrhythmically chanting “wonder wall! Wonder wall!” Over and over. It’s not even part of the song. You see him later making out in a puddle, people still chanting “wonder wall!” at the puddle. Your only recourse is to set the couch on fire and leave.

Not a huge distance to travel from Bayesian reasoning to Stochastic terrorism

That being said, I think the article conflates a bit "rationalists", "effective altruists" and "longtermists". I'm pretty sure the boundaries between the groups are very blurry, but I guess for reasons of fairness one should still make an attempt to distinguish them.

A rationalist, an effective altruist, and a longtermist walk into a bar. He says, "ouch."

Brown also kept a private collection of “bad books,” as one of those former staffers described them, that he would only share with someone he thought was likely to be on the same ideological page.

Having a hard time thinking about what books could have been in this collection. You could say it’s my struggle.

More like you say they’re T-800 prototypes, and I go in and see TI-84s.