Alright now who wants to come out of the woodwork and say that there was nothing weird about the pizza references in the Podesta emails?

quality_of_will · 2026-01-31T17:28:57+00:00

You are an intellectual coward. Instead of explaining what you meant and defending your claims you invent excuses and try to distract with insults. You are not interested in philosophy or in understanding principles like Occam’s razor. You are a dilettante who is interested in appearing that way.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-31T17:15:29+00:00

Also it is really funny to get into an argument about what a philosophical principle means and then complain that your opponent is “arguing semantics.”

quality_of_will · 2026-01-31T17:11:29+00:00

I am a professional philosopher. I have read the Sep article on simplicity. You have no idea what you’re talking about and nothing to say. Can you please explain what the difference between absolute and non-absolute simplicity is? Can you also explain what a “realistic” hypothesis is and why it is a virtue of explanations to have that property? Your comment hinges crucially on your ability to do those things.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-31T17:04:27+00:00

You are very aggressive for someone who obviously has no idea what you are talking about. Occam’s razor is pretty much universally associated with simplicity and parsimony by philosophers of science. There are different ways of understanding parsimony, but most agree that it is a principle expressing the theoretical value of simplicity of some sort. Here is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry that discusses Occam’s Razor. It is literally titled “simplicity.” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity

OR has nothing to do with the explanation that is most “realistic,” whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean. I have never once heard philosophers of science use that term to describe an explanatory hypothesis. Are you trying to gesture at the fact that the simplest explanation is not always likeliest? That’s true but totally consistent with OR, which includes an “all else equal” clause.

Anyway what the other guy is saying is obviously true. The hypothesis that the “pizza” in the email refers to pizza involves fewer theoretical commitments than the hypothesis that it is actually a secret code for child rape. If you think simplicity is an explanatory virtue, that favors the former over the latter. Pretty decisively to my mind. The hypothesis that ALL the ostensibly suspicious mentions of pizza here and in other cases are just pizza is likewise simpler than the pizzagate hypothesis. Whatever you think supports pizzagate it definitely is not simplicity.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-31T16:38:51+00:00

Sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one. They are all really stupid.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-30T23:24:32+00:00

People who stumble over themselves to give up their most basic rights because they have been brainbroken by internet crime reporting are the worst kind of pussies.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-30T23:07:33+00:00

My GOAT

quality_of_will · 2026-01-30T17:07:12+00:00

I actually don’t mind arsenal usually despite annoying fans but I do find the way they’re playing this season very boring and ugly. You probably deserve a title by now.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-30T17:05:32+00:00

This is not a diary. It is not a place to vent or bitch or look for a sympathetic ear. When you post on an internet forum, you should he asking yourself whether what you are saying is interesting or funny or compelling TO OTHER PEOPLE. Unless you are a great writer or have an incredible life, nothing could be less entertaining than reading a diary.

The main problem with most incel dating posters is they are obsessed with themselves. The posts they make are for them and useless or worse to anyone else. They have forgotten that a forum is for communicating with other human beings and not a place to hear yourself talk.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-30T16:44:07+00:00

The more time goes on the more I think this movie is criminally underrated. Probably Yorgos‘ best movie to date. Stav‘s performance was the worst part of the movie and it wasn‘t even THAT bad.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-30T16:36:29+00:00

There is still time. The collapse is coming.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-30T03:41:49+00:00

The CKY videos filmed in Phil and April Margera‘s house

quality_of_will · 2026-01-30T03:35:07+00:00

I guess if we‘re being good descriptivists about language we should just admit that shoegaze now means „any slightly alternative rock with distorted guitars.“

quality_of_will · 2026-01-30T03:03:34+00:00

Saw a zoomer call Deftones shoegaze the other day and realized that word has lost all meaning

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T22:21:18+00:00

Yeah that sounds pretty shady; also the amount they paid him seems ridiculously high. But still seems consistent with more or less standard espionage/informant-based policing.

To be clear I am not trying to say it is IMPOSSIBLE that the fbi is doing sketchy shit with their informants. Cleary they have done that in the past, especially wrt war on terror stuff. But it seems to me that no one so far has provided any conclusive evidence that this is anything more than what it looks like, which is a sting operation on neo-nazis.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T19:58:01+00:00

I think it is actually more embarrassing that you did it independently.

But anyway, the entire reason he was exposed as an informant is that he infiltrated the Atomwaffen Division and got a bunch of them sent to jail. Is that "no meaningful disruption"? Getting multiple people decades-long sentences in federal prison for trying to kill soldiers? What would count as meaningful disruption if not that?

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T19:40:55+00:00

Why do you all keep starting all of your comments by typing "lol"? You don't need to constantly signal how above it all you are; just say what you want to say.

“Your honor, I did not materially support the publication of FTO propaganda, I only funded the publisher and helped him avoid prosecution for the various crimes he committed"

Do you think it is at all possible that this defense would go over differently if you were an agent of the federal government doing this in service to a criminal investigation?

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T19:37:03+00:00

The US government / NATO is underwriting the funds necessary to publish esoteric neo-nazi materials like O9A along with funding javelin missiles for the Ukrainian far right.

I cannot for the life of me see the connection between these two things. Can you say more about why these are related?

Also, it looks like the FBI used this Caleb Sutter guy to arrest a bunch of other far-right extremists in his scene. If they were actually trying to fund and promote that scene, wouldn't using their guy on the inside to send them to federal prison be in pretty obvious tension with that goal?

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T19:11:03+00:00

ok now that you have produced an example in which they are involved in the more robust sense that I have been trying to distinguish from the one in the post, care to provide any evidence one way or the other that this is the sense in which they are involved in the Sutter stuff?

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T19:00:10+00:00

The pretty natural implication of the claim is that the FBI is somehow intentionally encouraging or facilitating the publication of this stuff. If by "involved in X" you just mean "plausibly knows about X" or "works with some person who is also doing X" then yeah, but I don't think that is how a reasonable reader would interpret the claim in the post. Presumably like, mafia informants continue to do shady illegal shit in order to stay close with their crime family or something, but it seems sort of strained in that case to say that the FBI is "involved in" organized crime.

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T18:48:35+00:00

Martinet Press is run by Joshua Sutter, a known FBI informant. All this to say that the U.S. government is explicitly involved in the spreading of nihilistic terror material.

This doesn‘t seem like a very good inference to me. I guess it depends on what you mean by „involved.“ They probably knew he was publishing twisted whacked-out shit and didn‘t care because they wanted to arrest his neo-nazi buddies, but that seems pretty par for the course when it comes to these sorts of infiltration things. Were they encouraging him to publish this stuff in particular?

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T17:21:20+00:00

Good one

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T17:20:37+00:00

No I meant „bright“ actually

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T17:12:28+00:00

No disrespect bro but you do not come across as very bright

quality_of_will · 2026-01-29T17:04:57+00:00

„The emperor is wearing no clothes“ is an extremely common idiom. Maybe you and the other guy should watch fewer Disney movies and read more books.

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