@benjaminchambers
dipshit dilettante | og sjw | wokescold | apprentice of the cathedral | acolyte of cthulhu | partisan of the unpopular front | game theoretic moralist | free market communist | evangelist for anarchy | antistemlord aktion | mtm dysphoric | he/him/his
It's wild how there are at least 20-30 people in the Trump administration who are each,, somehow, the most contemptible person you've ever seen in your life. Just an M.C. Escher staircase of loathsomeness.
The goal *is* the wasteland-ification of much of MENA so that Israel and the Emirates can rule over rubble.
today's rampant nihilism reminds me of what conservatives have long warned would happen in a world without god or tradition, but its precisely conservatives who are embracing runaway nihilism because they lost the argument to liberals
The thing about slavery is that you have to capture people if you want them to become your slaves. You don't put out an ad for slaves on the internet and have them text you, sign a contract, and then show up at the airport to get on a plane and become your slave. Laborers in the UAE are not slaves.
I think it’s an open argument which is the more immediate threat to human life: climate change or that people everywhere are becoming less and less familiar with object reality.
He wants to commit war crimes for the sheer thrill of committing war crimes with impunity, the same way Musk and DOGE wanted to dismantle USAID for the sheer thrill of hurting vulnerable people in third-world countries.
There's a certain class of person who thinks moral injunctions are just made up games of civility that you can violate freely to "make a point." Today it's goat fucking, tomorrow it could be beating toddlers to death with hammers. It's all just a signaling game for these folks.
"Fascists just don't care about economics."
evil. it's ok to call evil people evil. in fact it is necessary
Not one of these ghouls knows a trans kid, understands anything about the actual circumstances or humanity of trans kids, or gives a shit. To them, trans kids play a purely symbolic role: they are a Weak Other that can be abused as form of collective self-soothing. So fucking gross.
It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.
I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.
"Why are there so many right-wing sex offenders"
Hmmm yeah I wonder how the ideology that considers women and children to be property and violent sexual dominance to be the pinnacle of masculine action could do this
Just cravenly slavish Toadies. We can't even call these people leaders in the slightest sense. They're henchmen, if that.
My conviction that the cat on the chair next to me has some sort of subjective interiority, however different from mine it might be, is not materially affected by her inability to summarize Tolstoy or solve LSAT logic problems.
Assuming that’s right, though, it implies that whatever neurological structures consciousness supervenes on are evolutionarily independent of and prior to those responsible for linguistic symbol manipulation and higher abstract reasoning.
Good thread. LLMs are like taking the brain's memory storage and retrieval unit, digitizing it, and exposing it to absolute scads of data. But it's still that one narrow function of the brain. Claude has no anxiety because anxiety sits upstream of hormones, emotions, and fight-or-flight instinct
I mean, this has been repeated ad nauseum, but it's literally the basis of the "are we the baddies" sketch
Platner as the nominee in Maine would make it harder for national Democrats to tear into this fucking guy.
No Nazi shit.
Stop fucking around.
this is not incidental!
to be a liberal/pluralist of any kind requires accepting that other people will see things differently than you do and that you have no sanctified monopoly on the One Truth.
this is what illiberals hate about liberalism. it’s the starting point for many.
a high modernist military plus diplomatic statecraft *enabled* a postmodern media spectacle of total victory, but these clowns think you can skip the first part and just meme it into existence
actually i think that this is a dark inversion of The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. The fact it could be a media spectacle was a consequence of US technical supremacy, plus relatively limited objectives, plus international buy in which meant it was incredibly one-sided
it's kind of wild that a bunch of ppl rushed to blame Israel for the grade school bombing that now appears to have been the US, and largely tracks to the way ppl like to view Israel as the main demonic force, absent which the US would be clean and pure. also, everything is very depressing.
I wonder how many years from now there will be classes taught in higher ed about the language part of the MAGA cult. So many new words and alternative meanings of existing words. True cult behavior.
The Trump regime's assault on the English language keeps making me think of this old Twilight Zone episode.
rightoids are degenerates born of decadence, underground man-children who exist only to trigger the lib
That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion." www.cato.org/blog/embarra...
Weird that all the Maverick Free Thinkers and iconoclasts have the most parochial ancient and fearful opinions imaginable
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/joe-...
I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed
I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now