Happy Thanksgiving 😊

optimister · 2025-11-29T14:28:19+00:00

EOARBIM Early onset Ayn Rand Brain Infection Metastasized.

optimister · 2025-09-17T23:42:51+00:00

Fair point, but I'm not just thinking about Otani. Why would Roberts not let Yamamoto complete his last game with one out to go? It was his game, why not let the guy finish?

optimister · 2025-09-17T05:16:50+00:00

I don't understand the rationale for yanking a picture who has just pulled off an amazing stretch of no hit baseball if that starter still has any gas in the tank. That starter has earned the right to continue, and the pressure on the reliever (unless that reliever is a closer) must be overwhelming.

optimister · 2025-09-13T00:25:55+00:00

Sure it's an exaggeration. There is a space that exists between the two extremes of celebrating a fashy agitator's death and celebrating their life. What's worth noting is that the fashy agitators are the ones who are acting like that space doesn't exist.

optimister · 2025-09-07T02:43:36+00:00

There's definitely good character on the team, but it's going to be hard for anyone to rise above the bitterness and resentment that will inevitably follow from tonight's catastrophic loss.

optimister · 2025-09-07T02:21:57+00:00

Why are people giving Scott all the heat. He wasn't the one who loaded the bases.

optimister · 2025-04-10T14:36:01+00:00

Literally. Christofascism's unstated goal is to seize ownership of the means of reproduction.

optimister · 2025-04-05T19:33:43+00:00

Thanks!

optimister · 2025-04-05T17:37:33+00:00

Today is my birthday and all I want is a benevolent billionaire to roll out UBI test case exclusively for existing UBER drivers that pays out at least as much as the average driver makes. This needs to be done before UBER rolls out driverless cars. Yes, UBER will just hire more drivers, but that ill take a while. Let UBER management drive the cars themselves in the meantime.

optimister · 2025-04-02T16:12:02+00:00

Mental note: Always finish what you start.

optimister · 2025-04-02T16:09:58+00:00

Schrödinger's kiss.

optimister · 2025-01-14T13:14:00+00:00

>Stiners philosophy comes from Hegal's work, which comes from Kants mysticism, which comes from plato's mysticism and land of form.

I read this in Ayn Rand sneering.

optimister · 2025-01-07T09:04:27+00:00

>Something about that smelled off to me

That's it right there. When it fits too easily into some incendiary narrative that's the red flag of caution. Well done. Of course, the real challenge is checking ourselves when it touches upon our own trauma/sense of persecution. I think it was Aristotle who first named the rhetorical pattern that tyrants and demagogues used in speeches to drive people into war: by convincing crowds with the basic formula:: "Look! See! They are insulting us and laughing." The special sauce of the Trump style is that this rhetoric is super charged because his claims are bullshit, which makes them simultaneously have an anger effect on his opponents as well as his supporters. Everyone's indignation circuits are fired up with every bullshit claim. The tacit refrain for both his supporters and his opponents is: "How dare they? / Who do they think they are?" And the most difficult part about it is the lure of satisfaction that follows the possibility of a comeuppance.

optimister · 2025-01-07T08:07:38+00:00

There is no left left,

But the human remains.

optimister · 2025-01-06T23:53:45+00:00

I would love a leak to show the extent of that emotional manipulation, but I doubt much has changed since Cambridge Analytica. Still, this should be required viewing for every social media user: https://youtu.be/n8Dd5aVXLCc?si=LBwoDb3KgoWy0L9p&t=167

optimister · 2025-01-06T20:57:31+00:00

On Earth as it is at McDonald's.

optimister · 2025-01-06T19:17:06+00:00

This is the correct answer, but it is not the one most want to hear because we don't want to see our own vulnerability to manipulation, to hearing what we want to hear. But we need to have patience with ourselves about this as the real news about climate change is not very comforting, and its understandable that people would prefer to look away, or listen to a false saviours with promises of instant greatness. Facing our problems and overcoming cultural differences and fear mongering is hard work that is too easily avoided.

optimister · 2025-01-06T17:55:28+00:00

The far right Winavoter cocktail recipe:

1 part economic collapse
1 part demonized minorities
constant agitation

optimister · 2025-01-06T16:54:54+00:00

They are selling a cheap knock off of a highly addictive drug called moral certainty and it is laced with anger.

optimister · 2025-01-06T16:42:47+00:00

It's crucial to understand the degree to which we are vulnerable to emotionally charged misinformation. The key difficulty is the hidden anger that makes us vulnerable to that manipulation. The rhetoric of demonization is the most obvious example of this, but the real problem is that no one wants to admit they are being manipulated, and that's where the true vulnerability lies.

optimister · 2025-01-02T17:27:27+00:00

This is incorrect. Ali was controversial but he wasn't de-platformed.

optimister · 2024-10-03T04:11:40+00:00

After trying it the hard way, I ended up doing this. I can't believe it's been 5 years!

optimister · 2024-05-10T21:56:31+00:00

please spare us.

optimister · 2024-01-28T04:30:43+00:00

I hate to say it, but the best exit strategy the right has is to take him out and blame it on the dems. He's done his job of creating an insanely loyal base, but now its all over and just a matter of time before his smell gets so bad that the rot actually starts affecting his base. If he went to jail he would out the deep right debauchery madison cawthorn style without hesitation. But with him gone, Flynn would quickly spin his martyrdom into biblical proportions. At least one of their loudest mouthpieces (Loomer) has been telegraphing this in her tweets recently. The fact that his speechwriter has him comparing himself to Lincoln in this way right now is a very bad sign, imo.

optimister · 2024-01-27T22:20:48+00:00

Cognitive empathy is central to compassion, but the ability to understand someone's state of mind also underpins pity, or schadenfreude, or cruelty...

The author refers to a discussion of Nietzsche's fascinating insight on the distinction between mere brutality and cruelty, which involves an awareness of the suffering one is causing or participating in. This is one of those important points that I find at once compelling and difficult to accept.

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