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Elon Musk #conspiracy

I'll probably get hate mail, but I think he's right to a certain degree. Marx was first and foremost a believer in dialectical materialism. Dialectical materialism states that there is a natural progression of the economic mode of production. He was thus pretty certain that capitalism was better than any economic system that came before it. He simply theorized about how the next economic mode of production might be attained and what it looked like.

So yeah. Marx was indeed a capitalist.

As for the book he wrote about capitalism? I'm not sure about you, but a division between the owners of the means of production and everyone else where the one owning the means of production is disproportionately advantaged compared to anyone else doesn't seem like a positive assessment of capitalism. Hell, he even thought it would inevitably end because it was an extremely unstable system, but if that's further proof that Marx was a capitalist then be my guest.

I admit I'm disappointed.

PM_ME_SPONGEBOBMEMES #racist

@Keithinc

I remember a biology teacher I used to have in the 3rd-4th grade who said to us that life was all about reproduction, heavily implying that women would fuck someone with better genes once they could. He even went into details about reproductive mechanisms in male animals and how they stop this behavior from occurring. When I told about this to other teachers and my parents they went absolutely nuts.

So yeah. If such a guy can become a teacher I wouldn't be suprised that a racist could become one either.

Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) and László Toroczkai #wingnut #racist

If we're Lucky, this party is what we need so that Jobbik gets less votes, but that means that Orban is likely going to keep being in power. So…

Is it perverse to wish that Hungary is hit with a banking crisis again? The last time it happened Hungarian voters shifted from the MZSP to Fidesz.

Bully Boys #racist #psycho #conspiracy

Andrea Hardie aka Janet Bloomfield aka JudgyBitch #sexist

Imperioratorex Caprae #homophobia

Martin Luther King also said that the moderates were as bad as the real racists. As in that defending people with racist views is as bad as holding racist views yourself. While I have no doubt that he'd say that LGB rights and civil rights are two completely different things (in that civil rights is fighting for actual rights while LGB rights is a fringe movement trying to legalize paraphilia) he's definitely not the example you'd hold as "not going aggro on the people who hated him". He did the exact opposite.

@ChrisBP747

I'm well aware of the paradox and I think it's fucking moronic. If you're intolerant towards intolerance you're being intolerant and you'll be perceived as such. Since people will perceive you as being intolerant those who are intolerant will come up with a tolerant image and paint you as intolerant. Therefore, being intolerant towards intolerance only makes people approve of the very intolerance you're trying to fight.

I think fictional Jesus said it best when he said "if someone hits you, turn the other cheek.". Don't like it when a company manager or your local baker says homophobic things? Well, don't buy their products. Don't like it when a politician says homophobic things. Well, say so openly, make it public, tell why it's wrong and stimulate people not to vote for him, but the moment you waste your time trying to avenge them all the blame will fall on you and you'll have shot your own message.

In hindsight though, I realize that the above is probably impossible to follow in some circumstances, because it'd be biting the hand that feeds you. I think of Russia, where a supermajority are saying that gays ought not to be tolerated in a tolerant society. Not sure what I'd do in that case either. Perhaps suicide?

Sub-Sero #fundie #conspiracy

Concerned-father2 #sexist #racist

but whites really are the most racist

I'll be honest. I don't get this.

If you say that all white people are racist you're saying that your race is better because it's not racist, but the fact that you're saying that your race is better than another is in itself a racist act. If what you say is true and all white people are worse because they are racist, we must assume that it is false because the one saying it is himself being racist. The above statement can thus only be false. Therefore, either not all white people are racist or a race can't be better than another on account of being more or less racist. Why then are you so blatantly contradicting yourself?

Monarchieliga #wingnut #fundie

@Bastethotep

I think that they wanted to use the word "tithe". As in that a tithe is immediately added to the treasury of the church.

The Fundamental Fundie #fundie #dunning-kruger

When it comes to accounting for logic, critical thinking, and reasoning, atheists/naturalists swing and miss every single time. Consciousness and self-awareness are immaterial, as are individual human thought and emotions like empathy and love.
God deniers claim that these things are all the products of chemical reactions

*sigh*
Atheism is a claim about the existence of God. It's not a claim about how the mind works. You're not arguing against atheism. You're arguing against behaviorism and you don't even have a proper position to speak of. Your position could be dualist or even idealist and panpsychist.

but if that were true, then there would be no distinct individual human thought nor would there be any distinct intrinsic human value.

Why not? If we accept that thinking is a purely physico-chemical process it doesn't follow that thinking doesn't exist. Hell, considering we've already made AI capable of solving complex problems through the coordination of specific physico-chemical processes it doesn't seem a that out of place idea.

If love is just a chemical reaction, then the meaning and definition of love becomes redundant.

It wouldn't. Love is after all a psychological condition and not a chemical one. Even if several chemical reactions were to explain what love is it wouldn't make love a useless term in a psychological sense.

God deniers know God exists, but suppress that truth in unrighteousness. It's like being in a pool and holding down a large beach ball under the water. It takes a physical, and mental, effort to suppress God's truth.

Ah yeah. Bulverism. A true classic.

EmmaRoseheart #moonbat

Given that fascism often thrives on the idea that there's an external threat preventing people from harmoniously living together and that that sort of plot is prevalent in fiction generally he may have somewhat of a point. Still, it's not like subversions, aversions and deconstructions of that idea haven't been done. And singling out SF/F for that isn't productive. Any writer can make such a plot. Genre writer or not.

Monarchieliga #wingnut #fundie

While the Middle Ages did see secular politics in practice under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, the academic field was wholly scholastic and therefore Christian in nature.

This is obviously at odds with:

Restoration of the Imperial German Church

* Only the baptised may be vassals and subjects

(Note: This notably excludes some Protestant groups.)
and

* Restoration of freedom of mind, thought and speech via the establishment of a strict censorship office that is part of the Imperial Church

I don't think that they want the Holy Roman Empire. What they want is Saudi Arabia.

Monarchieliga #wingnut #fundie

Here come the royalists. Because you still need to have those even after they've fallen out of favor for more than 100 years, being dethroned by the Action Française, which in itself would later be dethroned by the Front National. I'm not the sort of man to defend democracy as of yet, but the idea of being governed by a single person who is unaccountable to literally anyone sounds really stupid. I get that Thomas Hobbes defended this with secular arguments and I've yet to read Leviathan (I am rereading Plato's Republic right now), but I can't help but think that they wanted to defend order and tradition at the cost of basic human decency. A bit like the conservatives right now.

Definition des hl. Tomas
Wenn aber die ungerechte Regierung von vielen geführt wird, so heißt das Demokratie, das ist Volksherrschaft, in der die breite Masse die Reichen durch die Macht Ihrer Überzahl unterdrückt. Dann wird das ganze Volk wie ein einziger Tyrann sein.

He also said that a king who was a tyrant was no king and could be overthrown. So it's less Saudi Arabia and more of a weird cross between Turkey and Jordan. Knowing what you're advocating I can't help but think that your usage of Aquinas to get your point accross is pretty disingenuous.

Ludwig Gabriel de Bonald
I will not cease to repeat: France as a republic would be the end of monarchic Europe and republican Europe would be the end of civilisation, of religion, of politics, the end of society, the end of everything.

Two ultra-royalists go into a bar.
One says to the other: "And how was your trip to Saudi Arabia?"
The other replies: "Fantastic. It has everything you could ever want of a country. An absolute monarch that only answers to God. Church and state are one entity. The media is severely controlled by the government and it can't spread opinions against the monarcht. Blasphemy is punishable with death. And most importantly, it has none of that democracy and enlightenment bullshit that is plaguing modern countries."
Then the one speaks again: "Is there anything you didn't like about this country?"
The other replies: "There's something that I didn't like indeed. And that is that the country is not Catholic."

But seriously, if you consider an ultra-royalist to be role model for society you are clearly sick in the head.

@Bastethotep
Apparantly he developed a set of social theories that formed a cornerstone for French sociology. So I guess it wasn't all bad.

And how in the hell did you manage to find a German royalist wiki? You'd think that it would be a radically unpopular opinion in Germany because the main German royalist party of the Weimar Republic decided to disband themselves and become part of the NSDAP. But no. This exists! Is this what Bavaria is advocating for right now or what?

@kuyohashi
I think what he meant is that Lincoln was pro-democracy. Not that he was a member of the democratic party per se.

Incel Party #quack

Karina Baha #ableist

master and slave morality

You keep using the word I don't think you know what it means.

@ChrisBP747

Master-slave morality is actually a somewhat useful framework for understanding morality. Hell, we'd probably not have the term "ressentiment" if Nietzsche did not postulate this framework.

Incel Wiki #sexist

In all honesty I think that quite a few incels are closet zoophiles who are projecting. I mean, hell, outside of people like me, who the hell even wants to think about women who fuck dogs?

Incel Party #quack

To create a political party in Belgium you need to have the following things:
- A list of candidates.
- An act mentioning the letterword of your party.
- Signatures for the above act from a certain amount of voters or deputies or members of parliament.

You have none of those things because, let's face it, most incels simply aren't fit for politics. The closest we've yet to an incel politician is Nathan Larson and considering he lives in a country with FPTP voting and that he's never been a member of any of the 2 mainstream parties we can rule out that he'll ever be part of Congress, the Senate or even the House of representatives.

Stefan Molyneux #racist

The majority of murders in South Africa are still committed by blacks on blacks. Drawing attention to blacks murdering whites is disingenuous by sheer comparison. Hell, South Africa has an intentional homicide rate of 33,97 per 10000. This is the 10th highest in the world, but during apartheid that number was even higher. It is not controversial to say that apartheid policies were the reason for these murders and that South Africa is still experiencing the aftershocks of these policies. If we are to stop murder in any meaningful way, opposing racism seems like one of the best things we can do.

And I'd like to see you trying to live in an African savanna or jungle trying to find which plants are edible and trying to fend off and eat potential predators. In such an environment, having an IQ below even 70 doesn't seem like such a big deal anymore.

@Bastethotep
I really doubt that it was all sunshine and rainbows before colonization. Hell, as bad as most colonial masters were, they had at least some standards. When the Spanish crown found out that Christopher Colombus committed genocide in North America he was put on trial and imprisoned.

tyndale1964 #homophobia

The era of modern philosophy started a little over 100 years ago. That is when men decided that they didn’t need God for morality. They wanted to make their own morality. It failed.

A LITTLE OVER 100 YEARS ago??!! Already 250 years ago David Hume was saying that morality comes from our passions and Baron d'Holbach was sketching a morality that was consistent with his atheism. Have you been living under a rock or something? You're at least 150 years behind schedule.

Under post modern philosophy, everyone makes up their own rules. That is the era that we live in right now. Under post modern philosophy, everyone makes up their own rules. That is the era that we live in right now. Everyone can decide what is right and ok for themselves, and nobody can tell them that they’re wrong.... ....

Ah yeah, "post-modernism", the infamous philosophical boogeyman of the 21st century. If there's an opinion you don't like, just lump it as "the fault of post-modernism" and boom, suddenly everyone is on your side regardless of their position on the political spectrum.

But seriously, "everyone makes up their own rules" is a defining trait of existentialism. Hell, "Everyone can decide what is right and ok for themselves, and nobody can tell them that they’re wrong...." is a strawman of it. It's genuinely interesting that he wants to bash postmodernism but instead bashes on THE VERY THING POSTMODERNISM WAS REACTING AGAINST. This is up there with that "The counter-enlightenment starting with Kant" nonsense from Stephen Hicks.

ultra-royalist

I admit that I find it funny that a man that calls himself progressive and that defends eugenics named himself after a political group that was so reactionary that even the French king wanted nothing to do with them.

PolishMisanthrope #fundie

I think Nietzsche perfectly nails what incels are in this passage of "On the genealogy of morals":

The slave revolt in morality begins when the ressentiment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the ressentiment of those beings who are prevented from a genuine reaction, that is, something active, and who compensate for that with a merely imaginary vengeance.(9) Whereas all noble morality grows out of a triumphant affirmation of one’s own self, slave morality from the start says “No” to what is “outside,” “other,” “not itself.” And this ”No” is its creative act. This transformation of the glance which confers value—this necessary projection towards what is outer instead of back onto itself—that is inherent in ressentiment. In order to arise, slave morality always requires first an opposing world, a world outside itself. Psychologically speaking, it needs external stimuli in order to act at all—its action is basically reaction.

I remember hearing once that Nietzsche wrote in such a way that he could easily be misunderstood by people who he'd have hated. The above quote is pretty much proof of this.

@hydrolythe

Elon Musk #conspiracy

PM_ME_SPONGEBOBMEMES #racist

Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) and László Toroczkai #wingnut #racist

Bully Boys #racist #psycho #conspiracy

Andrea Hardie aka Janet Bloomfield aka JudgyBitch #sexist

Imperioratorex Caprae #homophobia

Sub-Sero #fundie #conspiracy

Concerned-father2 #sexist #racist

Monarchieliga #wingnut #fundie

The Fundamental Fundie #fundie #dunning-kruger

EmmaRoseheart #moonbat

Monarchieliga #wingnut #fundie

Monarchieliga #wingnut #fundie

Monarchieliga #wingnut #fundie

Incel Party #quack

Karina Baha #ableist

Incel Wiki #sexist

Incel Party #quack

Stefan Molyneux #racist

tyndale1964 #homophobia

Lawrence C Makin Snr #conspiracy #wingnut

Sen. Ted Cruz #conspiracy #ufo

Perkasa Malaysia #racist

ultra-royalist #wingnut

PolishMisanthrope #fundie