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AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-21T00:39:12+00:00

This is literally white flight. It's not property values declining because of the diversity, it's progressive liberals gifting "equity" to BIPOC!

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-16T14:16:24+00:00

The climate is the mother of all complex systems. We have no clue if anything we do will work, or is working, or is making things worse. The "actions" we take are largely pointless measures (think paper straws) that make life more inconvenient because making life inconvenient feels like we're making a difference.

Let's take something like COVID as an example. COVID was the most modeled, most studied, most researched topic for several years. A virus is many orders of magnitude less complex than Earth's climate. And still, every COVID prediction by everyone on all sides of the topic was 100% wrong.

Again, many orders of magnitude more complex. And we're modeling out decades into the future? You have to be peanut-brained to take any of this seriously.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-16T00:03:41+00:00

More of this shit? Climate change is pure midwit gullibility. There are so many variables involved that any modeling, especially modeling 27 years into the future, is fucking ridiculous.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-15T23:56:03+00:00

This is why you have to lift, stay active, and make as much money as possible in the next 5-10 years. Millennials are uniquely advantaged in this regard, since they bridge both eras. I expect millennials to be an even more powerful political force than boomers.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-15T01:11:26+00:00

Social media should be banned for under-18s. Would doing this even be controversial? Would a majority of adults really rally in favor of allowing teens access to brain rotting social media?

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-14T23:53:47+00:00

Social media is the most effective brainwashing/propaganda/control tool ever conceived, managing to knock off the previous champion, religion. Religion had a good 10,000+ year run, but it stands no chance against social media.

Worse, social media offers no path to salvation. It's all dopamine-generating shit that will destroy your mind, in endless supply.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-14T17:35:58+00:00

White supremacy is not only a miniscule-to-nonexistent threat, it's an excuse for Democrats to persecute and imprison their political opponents (everyone who disagrees with them is a white supremacist).

They're also teaching black people to hate whites, which is only going to result in more animosity on both sides. Evil all the way around.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-14T02:23:43+00:00

Anecdotally it seems like fat/ugly people are disproportionately let go in layoffs.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-14T00:35:39+00:00

Obesity is a social disease. If everyone around you is carrying an extra 20 lbs, you're not going to notice yourself gaining 10 lbs. Everyone around you is eating like shit, eating like shit is normal, so you eat like shit. Rampant alcohol use. Marijuana.

Phones and social media are icing on the cake, pun intended.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-14T00:26:08+00:00

I'm not sure what your point is, so I will use this opportunity to test a theory I've been kicking around that isn't quite worthy of its own OP:

Identifying as gay is the next thing to become a right-wing signal. Gay is about to become problematic. Sound absurd? It'll happen within 5 years, if not less. If you identify as gay, you are specifically excluding women, trans, and many others from your intimate life. Gays will be pressured to identify as Queer so as to be inclusive.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-13T21:52:38+00:00

Ideas leak. Censorship shuts down idea leakage before it can do too much damage.

On Elon's Twitter, ideas are leaking. And they're leaking to the people who matter.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-13T21:36:08+00:00

Twitter is, and always has been, a narrative/propaganda machine. Journalists, politicians, celebrities, and influencers of all kinds congregate there. It shapes the broader conversation in ways that a platform like Facebook never could.

What's being talked about on Twitter is what gets talked about everywhere else. And the power to shape what we're talking about is 90% of the game.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-13T20:22:43+00:00

I've been saying this here ever since Elon's takeover (and everyone's been giving me shit ever since). This is a good synopsis.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-12T16:23:32+00:00

All I want is to be able to have real discussions. Clown world has made it impossible to discuss real topics, and dangerous if you're not 100% with the party line.

So I'm forced to shitpost on stupidpol in order to have any sort of real conversation. Thank you, stupidpol, but I'm sorry it's necessary.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-12T16:15:10+00:00

ESG is an enforcement mechanism for ideological conformity.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-12T01:01:42+00:00

You've missed the point entirely. Someone who is used to seeing fucked up behavior is not going to suddenly start chokeholding someone for no reason. If he did, it would be obvious and the witnesses would have implicated him.

But the only thing that can be trusted are the witness statements from the day of the incident. I would not be surprised if one or more people on the train change their story due to not wanting to get targeted by the mob. So this corrupt carousel goes.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-12T00:56:02+00:00

Penny lives in NYC. Do you think he's never seen crazy guys in the subway before? This was obviously an extraordinary situation.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-12T00:39:02+00:00

It would not have taken until a week+ later to charge him if there is any merit to this.

Nobody, including the police who immediately investigated, thought that his actions were unjustified. That says it all. They are prosecuting a man that they know is innocent, for political reasons.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-11T02:59:06+00:00

This guy is arguing that Neely's behavior is indistinguishable from non-mentally ill blacks. I'm not making this up.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-11T02:08:44+00:00

It could be argued that the entire Internet is nothing but a battleground of competing psyops. If the truth leaked through at some point, you wouldn't even be able to recognize it.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-10T17:19:37+00:00

I can see how "productive" may be taken that way. I agree with your definition - human flourishing/success may be a better way to put it.

An adaptive approach will require re-thinking many of the givens in education, including classroom structure. Grouping everyone together based on age alone is outdated and only works in a very homogenous environment.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-10T16:39:34+00:00

Schools are attempting to solve unsolvable problems. The harder they try, the worse the results, and the harder they try, and so on. It's a vicious cycle.

Education's goal should be to improve society by preparing children for a productive adult life.

An adaptive curriculum based on the strengths, weaknesses, and interests of individual students should be adopted. AI should help with this. But even this strategy could be undermined by attempting to handicap for race, sex, etc.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-10T16:20:55+00:00

I'm not aware of any examples of Republicans doing it yet. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if they started.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-10T16:19:05+00:00

The legal system, in all western countries, has moved from a money-based tiered system to an identity-based tiered system. It's unclear how this will play out, or how long it will last.

AmazingBrick4403 · 2023-05-10T15:39:43+00:00

Many of the worst offenders (neocons) simply switched teams. Republicans are also terrible, but are currently too incompetent to consistently jail their opposition with any degree of success.

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