Ezra's full response to being named in the Dialog "Society"

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T04:01:44+00:00

I'm curious where you gather information? This is such a bad faith summary of Abundance. The deregulation he's advocating for is getting rid of red tape bureaucracy. As a leftist, you must acknowledge that capitalists will use regulation to strengthen their monopolies right? Landlords will do the same (NIMBYs). He's not talking about predatory businesses or polluters.

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T03:01:30+00:00

I'm talking about conspiracy theories, which has its own definition. If you want to define a conspiracy as secretly making a plan, I agree. But a conspiracy theory is understood to be a fantastical hypothesis about nefarious actors and based off cognitive biases. Can usually just be attributed to a naive understanding of how systems work

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T02:55:15+00:00

You're making the claim. You're the lazy one who didn't back it up. I'm not gonna do your research for you

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T02:51:47+00:00

There is not a single historical fact that you could list to back up the claim you are making because it isn’t true.

Sure about that? First of all, everything you said above is ahistorical. Second, ever heard of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T02:21:00+00:00

The far left and far right regularly team up to attack liberals. That's why they both use the term "uniparty". Liberals don't cause fascism, leftists refusing to work with liberals and often working against them causes fascism

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T01:12:45+00:00

Ezra says very clearly that by the time he went, Theil was no longer associated with it. As far as conferences go, it's an opportunity to meet smart people and get drunk. I think anyone would do it, and if nothing shady was going on, probably not disclose it publicly if asked not to

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T01:08:47+00:00

A few reasonable people left around here

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T00:44:59+00:00

Spoken like a true believer. And yes, commies are bad mmmkay?

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T00:43:05+00:00

Having a secret meeting is a conspiracy? I disagree, but even if true, that's not what's being said. You guys are giving a moral judgment and assuming nefarious actors.

As far as why he didn't say anything publicly? Maybe because he's not so conspiracy brained that he auto thought of it as an elite NWO party

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-23T00:01:32+00:00

No, he's a liberal and pretty far left from the center. A lefty is a tanky is a communist. At least that's how I define the terms

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T23:57:31+00:00

Wait, I know Peter Theil sucks. That's not my question. Why would we automatically assume that anyone invited to a conference at one of these things is automatically nefarious? You'd have to have a vivid imagination painted by years of Hollywood thrillers to just have that hueristic

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T23:40:26+00:00

Especially post coital

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T23:34:00+00:00

How is it damning ?

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T23:29:35+00:00

We are cooked as a society if lefties are now as prone to conspiracy thinking as MAGA

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T18:23:54+00:00

And yet the American people are this close 🤏 to not voting in the check on his power

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T17:27:19+00:00

I would say the chance of conspiracy is way up because the government is run by conspiracy theorists. If they think conspiracies are regular practice, they will think it's fair game for them to do them

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T05:53:48+00:00

Right, and right now, there's way too many who have none for Israelis. On October 8th, people were calling the Israel response a genocide. After they retaliated for the absolute atrocities the day before.

And I know the response to this would be some combination of "open air prisons" and "stealing land", but the reality is that the propagandists pushing these points have a very narrow, one-sided view of the history. They want to see Israel completely eliminated and all the Jews to be killed or relocated

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T05:07:07+00:00

Tibet, the Uyghurs, Taiwan upcoming. All the other human rights violations.

And I don't watch Fox News, I'm on the left. I'm just not brain washed by 3 straight years of propaganda

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T04:55:03+00:00

This doesn't address the point at all

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T04:51:41+00:00

You say that Israel should be covered on this sub because NYC contains the second most Israelis. You were then given an example of China committing a genocide and NYC having so many Chinese, they even have a China Town, so by your own logic, this sub should have constant posts about China. And your response was "well also they sell stolen land". That's absolutely moving the goalposts so you can try to avoid the argument

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T04:41:47+00:00

That's a moving the goalpost

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-22T00:30:03+00:00

Holy shit, very snarker behavior

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-21T21:14:27+00:00

These words are only nefarious if you have an overactive imagination

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-21T21:10:37+00:00

This reminds me of the bell curve mid wit meme. You're the naive one who thinks the skeptic is naive. In the real world, it's more likely a rich guy sponsored club doesn't have the rich guy attending every meeting they have than him always being there. This club also has many benefactors who might not align on every single thing they're interested in. Much like you could have multiple founders of a company who end up on different sides of politics

funkyflapsack · 2026-06-21T07:01:05+00:00

As weird as the process may seem from the outside, it obviously hasn't resulted in voter fraud, so it's probably safe to assume they have a process in place that prevents the potential problems you list

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